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Excerpt from 2021–22 Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Catalog ACADEMIC AWARDS AND PRIZES / AREAS OF STUDY award to a Bryn Mawr or Haverford undergraduate working on Health. The award may be continued until the degrees are a project concerning development in a third world country or the obtained. Renewal applications will be sent to scholarship United States. (1989) recipients by the premedical adviser. (1948) The Katherine Stains Prize Fund in Classical Literature was The Hannah E. Longshore Memorial Medical Scholarship was established by Katherine Stains in memory of her parents, founded by Mrs. Rudolf Blankenburg in memory of her mother. Arthur and Katheryn Stains, and in honor of two excellent 20th- The Scholarship is awarded by a committee to students and century scholars of classical literature, Richmond Lattimore alumnae who have been accepted by a medical school. (1921) and Moses Hadas. The income from the fund is to be awarded The Jane V. Myers Medical Scholarship Fund was established annually as a prize to an undergraduate student for excellence by Mrs. Rudolf Blankenburg in memory of her aunt. The in Greek literature, either in the original or in translation. (1969) scholarship is awarded by a committee to students and The M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize is awarded annually to a alumnae who have been accepted by a medical school. (1921) member of the senior class for distinction in writing. The award The Harriet Judd Sartain Memorial Scholarship Fund was is made by the Department of English for either creative or founded by bequest under the will of Paul J. Sartain. The critical writing. It was established in memory of Miss Thomas by income from the fund is to establish a scholarship which is her niece, Millicent Carey McIntosh ’20. (1943) awarded by a committee to students and alumnae who have The Emma Osborn Thompson Prize in Geology was been accepted by a medical school. (1948) established by a bequest of Emma Osborn Thompson ’04. From the income of the bequest, a prize is to be awarded from to time to a student in Geology. (1963) AREAS OF STUDY The Laura van Straaten Fund was established by Thomas van Straaten and his daughter, Laura van Straaten ’90, in honor of Laura’s graduation. The fund supports a summer internship Definitions for a student working to advance the causes of civil rights, Major women’s rights or reproductive rights. (1990) In order to ensure that a student’s involves not The Esther Walker Award was founded by a bequest from simply exposure to many disciplines but also development of William John Walker in memory of his sister, Esther Walker some degree of mastery in at least one, a student must choose ’10. It is given from time to time to support the study of living a major subject at the end of the sophomore . With the conditions of African Americans. (1940) guidance of the major adviser, a student plans an appropriate The Anna Pell Wheeler Prize in Mathematics is awarded sequence of courses. The following is a list of major subjects: annually to an undergraduate on the recommendation of the Department of Mathematics. It was established by an Astronomy (Haverford College) anonymous gift in honor of Anna Pell Wheeler, Professor of Astrophysics (Haverford College

Mathematics from 1918 until her death in 1966. (1960) and Molecular Biology The Thomas Raeburn White Scholarships were established Chemistry by Amos and Dorothy Peaslee in honor of Thomas Raeburn Classical and Near Eastern White, Trustee of the College from 1907 until his death in 1959, Classical Culture and counsel to the College throughout these , and President Classical Languages Comparative Literature of the Trustees from 1956 to 1959. The income from the fund Computer Science is to be used for prizes to undergraduate students who plan to East Asian Languages and Cultures Economics study foreign languages abroad during the summer under the English (See Literatures in English) auspices of an approved program. (1964) Environmental Studies (Bi-Co Major) Fine Arts (Haverford College) The Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman Prize, established by the French and Francophone Studies Geology children of Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman ’48, is awarded German and German Studies Greek annually to the student judged to have submitted the most Growth and Structure of Cities outstanding short story. (1987) History of Art International Studies Scholarships for Medical Study Latin The following scholarships may be awarded to seniors or Linguistics (Tri-College Major) graduates of Bryn Mawr intending to study medicine, after their Linguistics and Languages (Tri-College Major) acceptance by a medical school in the United States. The health Literatures in English professions adviser will send applications for the scholarship Mathematics to medical school applicants during the spring preceding the Music (Haverford College) academic year in which the scholarship is to be held. (Bi-Co Major)

The Linda B. Lange Fund was founded by bequest under the Philosophy will of Linda B. Lange, A.B. 1903. The income from this fund Physics provides the Anna Howard Shaw Scholarship in Medicine and Political Science

Public Health, awarded to members of the graduating class or Psychology graduates of the College for the pursuit, during an uninterrupted Religion (Haverford College) succession of years, of studies leading to the degrees of M.D. Romance Languages and Doctor of Public Health or M.D. and Master of Public Russian

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Sociology Concentration Transnational Italian Studies The concentration, which is not required for the degree, is a Spanish cluster of classes that overlap the major and focus a student’s work on a specific area of interest: Minior and Sexuality Studies The minor typically consists of six courses, with specific (with a major in Anthropology, Classical and requirements determined by the department or program. A , or Geology) minor is not required for the degree. The following is a list Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Studies of subjects in which students may elect to minor. Minors in departments or programs that do not offer majors appear in Key to Course Letters italics. ANTH Anthropology

Africana Studies ARAB Arabic

Anthropology ARCH Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Astronomy (at Haverford) ARTA Arts in Education

Biology ARTD Dance

Chemistry ARTS Fine Arts

Child and Family Studies ARTT Theater Chinese ARTW Creative Writing

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology ASTR Astronomy

Classical Culture and Society BIOL Biology

Comparative Literature CHEM Chemistry

Computational Methods CITY Growth and Structure of Cities

Computer Science CMSC Computer Science

Creative Writing CNSE Chinese

Dance COML Comparative Literature

Data Science CSTS Classical Culture and Society

East Asian Languages and Cultures DSCI Data Science

Economics EALC East Asian Languages and Cultures

Education ECON Economics

Environmental Studies (Tri-Co minor) EDUC Education

Film Studies ENGL Literatures in English

French and Francophone Studies ENVS Environmental Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies FREN French and Francophone Studies

Geology GEOL Geology German and German Studies GERM German and German Studies

Greek GNST General Studies

Growth and Structure of Cities GREK Greek

Health Studies HART History of Art

History HEBR Hebrew and Judaic Studies

History of Art HIST History

International Studies HLTH Health Studies

Japanese INST International Studies

Latin ITAL Transnational Italian Studies

Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies INDT Independent Programs

Linguistics JNSE Japanese

Literatures in English LATN Latin

Mathematics LING Linguistics

Middle Eastern Studies MATH Mathematics

Museum Studies MEST Middle Eastern Studies

Music (at Haverford) MUSC Music

Neuroscience NEUR Neuroscience

Philosophy PHIL Philosophy

Physics PHYS Physics

Political Science POLS Political Science

Psychology PSYC Psychology

Russian RELG Religion

Sociology RUSS Russian

Spanish SOCL Sociology

Statistics (Haverford College) SPAN Spanish

Theater STAT Statistics

Transnational Italian Studies WRIT Writing Program Visual Studies (at Haverford)

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Key to Course Numbers DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS 001-099 These course numbers are used by only a few departments. They refer to introductory courses that are not counted towards the major. 100-199 Introductory courses. AFRICANA STUDIES 200-299 Introductory and intermediate-level courses 300-399 Advanced courses. The Bryn Mawr Africana Studies Program brings an 400-499 Special categories of work (e.g., 403 for a unit of international vantage to the study of Africa and its supervised work). diasporas. Drawing on analytical and affective perspectives from anthropology, dance, economics, history, literary studies, A semester course usually carries one unit of credit. Students languages, political science, religion, international studies, should check the course guide for unit listing. One unit equals the health sciences, education, the fine arts, studies, four semester or six quarter hours. A quarter course (or creative writing, and sociology, the Program focuses on Africa Focus course) carries 0.5 units. and peoples of African descent within the context of increasing globalization and dramatic cultural, economic, and political Key to Requirement Indicators change. We are also grounded in rigorous study of the past Quantitative and Mathematical Reasoning (QM): Indicates through competing historiographies and the use of science in courses that meet the requirement for work in QM. the creation and deployment of the construct of race. Quantitative Readiness (QR): Indicates courses that require In consortial relationship with Haverford College, Swarthmore quantitative readiness College, and the of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr offers Scientific Inquiry (SI): Indicates courses that meet the its students the opportunity to take a broad range of courses by requirement for work in SI. enrolling in courses offered by all participating institutions. The African Studies Center at Penn offers courses and specialized Critical Interpretation (CI): Indicates courses that meet the language training which our students utilize. (African language requirement for work in CI. courses should be used to satisfy the student’s foreign Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC): Indicates courses that meet the language requirement.) Moreover, Bryn Mawr students requirement for work CC. participate in study abroad programs offered in South Africa. Bryn Mawr and Haverford students may also participate in the Inquiry Into the Past (IP): Indicates courses that meet the Dalun Bi-Co Lagim Tehi Tuma Summer Fellowship Program in requirement for work in IP. Northern Ghana. Writing in the Major – Writing Intensive (WI): Indicates a course Students are encouraged to begin their work in the Africana that meets the requirement for writing in the Major Studies Program by taking any one of eight gateway courses: Writing in the Major – Writing Attentive (WA): Indicates a course “Introduction to African Civilizations” (HIST B102 or ICPR 101 that meets half of the requirement for writing in the Major at Haverford); “The Global Short Story” (ENGL B104); “Themes in the ” (REL H155); “Africa in the Neighboring College Courses World” (ANTH B202)’ “Afro-Futurisms” (ENGL B222); “The Atlantic World” (HIST B200); “Transnational Writing” (ENGL Selected Haverford College courses may be listed in this B283); or “Black America in Sociological Perspective” (SOCL catalog when applicable to Bryn Mawr programs. Consult the B299). The required gateway course provides students with Haverford catalog for full course descriptions. Students should an intellectual experience in multiple disciplines as well as the consult their deans or major advisers for information about foundations for subsequent courses in Africana Studies. The Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania and Villanova course should be completed by the end of the student’s junior University courses pertinent to their studies. Catalogs and year. course guides for Swarthmore are available through the Tri- Co Course Guide. Catalogs and course guides for Penn and Villanova are available through each institution’s website. Core and Affiliated Faculty Course Descriptions Michael Allen, Associate Provost and Professor of Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science Following the description are the name(s) of the instructor(s), and Co-Director of International Studies the College requirements that the course meets, if any, and information on cross-listing. Information on prerequisite courses Linda-Susan Beard, Associate Professor of English (on leave may be included in the descriptions or in the prefatory material semester I) on each department. Susanna Fioratta, Associate Professor of Anthropology (on At the time of this printing, the course offerings and descriptions leave semesters I and II) that follow were accurate. Whenever possible, courses that will Chloe Flower, Assistant Professor of English on the Helen Taft not be offered in the current year are so noted. There may be Manning Professorship in British History courses offered in the current year for which information was not available at the time of this catalog printing. For the most Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of up-to-date and complete information regarding course offerings, European History and Chair of History (on leave semester faculty, status, and college requirements, please consult BiONic II) at https://vbm.brynmawr.edu. Alessandro Giammei, Assistant Professor of Italian (on leave semesters I and II) Jennifer Harford-Vargas, Associate Professor of Literatures in 53 AFRICANA STUDIES

English and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and count gateway courses twice. Any additional gateway course Iberian Studies Program will count as a general elective. Lela Aisha Jones, Assistant Professor of Dance Five additional semester courses from at least two different departments and divisions are to be chosen from an annual Madhavi Kale, Professor of History (on leave semester I) Bryn Mawr-approved list of courses at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Penn, or Swarthmore, or by permission of the Bryn Mawr Haverford Education Program and Associate Dean for Global Africana Steering Committee. At least two of these courses Engagement have to be taken at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. One course Dee Matthews, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing from studying away may fulfill this requirement as well if the course is approved, in advance, by the Steering Committee. At Veronica Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co- least one of the additional courses should normally be at the Director of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 300-level. Units of Independent Study (403) may be used to

Program (on leave semester II) fulfill this requirement. Only two courses of these five Africana Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana Studies Studies courses may overlap with courses taken to fulfill and History and Co-Director of Health Studies (on leave requirements in the student’s major. semester II) Students are encouraged to organize their course work along C.C. McKee, Assistant Professor of History of Art one of several prototypical routes. Such model programs might feature: Mary Osirim, Professor of Sociology (on leave semesters I and II) • Regional or area studies; for example, focusing on blacks Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Senior Lecturer in French and in Latin America, the English-speaking Caribbean or North Francophone Studies America. Bethany Schneider, Associate Professor of Literatures in • Thematic emphases; for example, exploring class politics, English ethnic conflicts and/or economic development in West and East Africa. Monique Scott, Associate Professor of History of Art and Director of Museum Studies • Comparative emphases; for example, problems of development, governance, public health or family Piper Sledge, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of and gender. Gender and Sexuality Studies The student should indicate the proposed focus of the minor in Julien Suaudeau, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies writing at the time of registration for the minor. and Director of Film Studies The final requirement is a experience that Mecca Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English consolidates or synthesizes the student’s focus in the minor Michael Tratner, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of (e.g. a thematic or comparative emphasis). This constitutes a Literatures in English sixth course or its equivalent. This can be satisfied by taking a capstone course at the 300-level within the major or another Sharon Ullman, Professor of History field. If the department in which the student is majoring requires Chanelle Wilson, Assistant Professor of Education and Director a thesis, the Africana Studies requirement can be satisfied by of Africana Studies writing on a topic related to the minor that is approved by the student’s department. If the major department does not require Adam Williamson, Assistant Professor of Biology and Co- a thesis or the student does not choose to write a thesis, a Director of Health Studies seminar essay may be substituted written within the framework

Africana Librarians of a capstone course or as an independent study project. A copy of the thesis or the seminar essay will be retained in the Eric Pumroy Africana Studies . Arleen Zimmerle Students wishing to construct an independent major in Marianne Weldon Africana Studies should make a proposal to the Committee on Independent Majors. The Steering Committee will consult and Carrie Robbins advise students with such an interest. Students should begin exploring this possibility as early as possible. Minor Requirements Courses The requirements for a minor in Africana Studies are the following: ANTH B202 Africa in the World

One-semester gateway course: Introduction to African Not offered 2021-22 Civilizations (HIST B102 at Bryn Mawr or ICPR 101 at In this course, we will approach Africa with an emphasis on Haverford); “The Global Short Story” (ENGL B104 for first- the many interconnections that link the continent with the years and sophomores only); “Themes in Anthropology of rest of the world, through both time and space. Much popular Religion” (REL H155); “Africa in the World” (ANTH B202); talk about Africa in the U.S. is overwhelmingly negative-- “Afro-Futurisms” (ENGL B222); “The Atlantic World” (HIST focusing on poverty, , and failed states--and often B200); “Transnational Writing” (ENGL B283) or “Black American portrays Africa as something “other,” both different from and in Sociological Perspective” (SOCL B229). Students may not unrelated to the United States and the rest of the world. But

54 AFRICANA STUDIES such preconceptions blatantly overlook what we know about ARTD B141 African Diaspora: Beginning Technique historical and contemporary movements of people, ideas, Fall 2021 materials, and money around the globe. Rather than regarding Africa as separate or apart, in this course we will examine the The African Diaspora course cultivates a that centrality of African engagements with these global movements. centers global blackness, dance, live music, and movement Rather than attempting a of particular, bounded African culture. Embody living traditions from a selection of peoples “peoples” or “cultures,” we will explore complex issues and and countries including Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Brazil, and Cuba. processes through interconnected topics including colonial and Offered on a pass/fail basis only. postcolonial politics, urban , gender and sexuality, economic Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) networks, development, and transnational migration. We will Counts toward Africana Studies use these themes as guides for exploring larger, interlinked questions of social life in Africa and around the world. This ARTD B210 Sacred Activism: Dancing Altars, Radical course fulfills the BMC Anthropology major/minor ethnographic Moves area requirement. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) How do practices of embodiment, choreography, artistry, Counts toward Africana Studies performance, testifying, and witnessing guide us to transformative and liberation action in our ? This course ANTH B339 Migrants, Refugees, and Life Across Borders excavates the adornment of beings/bodies and the making of Not offered 2021-22 sacred spaces for embodied performance, introspection, and Borders are often taken for granted as natural divisions in the ceremonial dance. We will take up the notion of the being/ world, but they are actually the products of political, historical, body as an altar and the importance of costume and garb in and social processes. Border crossing is often framed as an setting the scene for activism, ritual, and staged offerings. aberration or even a crisis, but people have moved for as long The cognitive has gotten us here, what might continuums of as humans have existed. This course approaches borders believing in the being/body unveil? Expect to dance, move, from an anthropological perspective by foregrounding the write, discuss, create projects, and engage in a variety of experiences of the people who move across them. We explore textual and media resources. We will work individually and the interconnected categories of migrants and refugees to collectively for communal learning. The content for this course understand how people cross borders under different kinds will be steeped in the lives, cultures, and practices of black and of circumstances: some voluntary, others fleeing conflict or brown folks. This is a writing and dance attentive course. No persecution, and still others that seem to fall between these dance experience necessary, just courage to move. ideal types. We will critically examine how migrants and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) refugees are qualitatively described and quantitatively defined, Critical Interpretation (CI) as these discursive constructions often determine legal status Counts toward Africana Studies and reception in host countries, and also inform governmental and humanitarian responses. We will read a selection of ARTD B267 Diasporic Bodies, Continuous Revivals examining different kinds of migrant and Not offered 2021-22 refugee movements in Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, culminating in an extended case study of Africans in China. This dance theory, writing, and practice course takes marronage--the act of escaping from slavery in the Americas to Course does not meet an Approach create autonomous communities--as its model. It views Black Counts toward Africana Studies and African diasporic movement cultures and artistic practices Counts toward International Studies as forms of contemporary marronage, providing spaces of embodied activism, release, restoration, and revival. Students ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern will engage the body as an individual, intimate maroon site Archaeology and cultivate the embodied collective spaces that counter Spring 2022 oppressive systems. By connecting theory and practice, A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the ancient students will build individual and collective consciousness Near East and Egypt. through the resources of narrative, memoir, and nostalgia intertwined with guided movement sessions. We will also

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) utilize creative writing, film, and visual arts as components

Inquiry into the Past (IP) that enhance potential for deeper embodied engagement.

Counts toward Africana Studies This course is writing attentive and has required movement

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies assignments/presentations. A previous dance studies course or a course in a relevant discipline such as anthropology, ARTD B138 Hip Hop Lineages sociology, or history is strongly recommended but not required. Fall 2021 No dance experience is necessary, but a willingness to move is Hip Hop Lineages is a team-taught practice-based course, essential. exploring the embodied foundations of Hip Hop and its Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) expression as a global phenomenon. Offered on a pass/fail Counts toward Africana Studies basis only. Course does not meet an Approach ARTD B270 Diasporic Bodies, Citizenship, and Dance Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22

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Take a journey through citizenship, belonging and EDUC B200 Community Learning Collaborative: Practicing revolutions, guided by the lived experiences of prominent Partnership teachers, choreographers, and performers of traditional and Not offered 2021-22 contemporary dances of Black and African descent. Our theory and practice frameworks are grounded in the works of women Designed to be the first course for students interested in and LGBTQ+ scholars and dance artists navigating diasporic pursuing one of the options offered through the Education blackness, citizenship, and nationhood. We will centralize Program, this course is open to students exploring an interest the notion that Black Life is Tied to All Life, investigating in educational practice, theory, research, and policy. The course the significance of developing philosophies and practices asks how myriad people, groups, and fields have defined of integrity, as well as boundary-breaking transformations the purpose of education, and considers the implications when traversing dance/movement as a nomadic practice in of conflicting definitions for generating new, more just, and a globalized world. No dance experience is necessary, but a more inclusive modes of “doing school”. In collaboration with willingness to move is essential. practicing educators, students learn practical and philosophical approaches to experiential, community-engaged learning Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) across individual relationships and organizational contexts. Critical Interpretation (CI) Fieldwork in an area school or organization required Counts toward Africana Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARTD B348 Dance Ensemble: African Dance Forms Counts toward Africana Studies

Spring 2022 Counts toward Child and Family Studies Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant EDUC B260 Reconceptualizing Power in Education opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Not offered 2021-22 skills. Students audition for entrance into individual ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or The systematic critical exploration of the influence of power guest choreographers are rehearsed and performed in in education requires attention and re-conceptualization; this concert. Students are evaluated on their participation in course investigates the following question: how can power rehearsals, demonstration of commitment and openness to be redistributed to ensure equitable educational outcomes? the choreographic process, and achievement in performance. We will examine the production of transformative knowledge, Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and arguing the necessity for including creativity and multi- advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in at least one disciplinary collaboration in contemporary . Supporting technique class per is recommended. Students must students’ pursuit of a politics of resistance, subversion, commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal week and transformation will allow for the rethinking of traditional and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. education. We will also center the intersections between race, class, gender, sexuality, language, religion, citizenship status, Counts toward Africana Studie and geographic region, assessing their impact on teaching and learning. Weekly fieldwork required. ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Spring 2022 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Praxis Program A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the ancient Near East and Egypt. EDUC B266 Critical Issues in Urban Education Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of Counts toward Africana Studies urban education in contemporary America. We use as critical Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school systems; and restructuring and reform. CSTS B108 Roman Africa While we look at urban education nationally over several Spring 2022 decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students In 146 BCE, Rome conquered and destroyed the North investigate through documents and school placements. Weekly African city of Carthage, which had been its arch-enemy fieldwork in a school required. for generations, and occupied many of the Carthaginian Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) settlements in North Africa. But by the second and third Counts toward Africana Studies centuries CE, North Africa was one of the most prosperous Counts toward Child and Family Studies and cultured areas of the Roman Empire, and Carthage Counts toward Praxis Program (near modern Tunis) was one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean. This course will trace the relations between EDUC B282 Abolitionist Teaching for Education Revolution Rome and Carthage, looking at the history of their mutual Fall 2021 enmity, the extraordinary rise to prosperity of Roman North Africa, and the continued importance of the region even after This course will focus on the development of a critical the Vandal invasions of the fifth century. consciousness, utilizing abolitionist teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy, as tools for social Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) transformation and resistance. Postcolonial Theory and Critical Counts toward Africana Studies Race Theory will be utilized as lenses for understanding

56 AFRICANA STUDIES the impact of white supremacy in deeply rooted institutions. ENGL B216 Narrativity and Hip Hop Formal schooling is often perceived as a positive vestige Fall 2021 of colonization, yet traditional practices often continue a legacy of oppression, in different forms. Postcolonial Theory This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes provides a variety of methodological tools for the analysis in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive analysis of hip- of education and culture that are especially relevant in the hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual performance and visual art, age of globalization, necessitating the reconceptualization of we will consider how rappers and hip-hop artists from the citizenship. Critical Race Theory offers a set of tenets that can late twentieth century onward have used the form to extend, be used to contextualize subjugation and implement practices further, and complicate key concerns of literature in general, that amplify the voices of the marginalized. Afro-centrism and and African American and African Diaspora literature in Critical Black Feminism inform a revolutionized education, particular. We will explore key texts in hip hop from the late which can, and should, support students’ pursuit of a politics 1970s to the current moment. Reading these texts alongside of resistance, subversion, and transformation. Students will short fiction by writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, engage with novels, documentaries, historical texts, and Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Victor LaValle, Kiese Laymon, scholarly documents to explore US education as a case study. Ivelisse Rodriguez, Regina Bradley and others, we will Experiential trips to Afrocentric and non-traditional educational consider how themes of socioeconomic mobility, gender and spaces add depth to our work. In this course, we will consider sexuality, queer and feminist critique, and intersectional political the productive tensions between an explicit commitment to engagement animate artists’ narrative and poetic strategies ideas of emancipation and , and the postcolonial across and media. Written work will include regular in- concepts and paradigms which impact what is created in the class presentations, short creative assignments, three short achievement of education revolution. papers, and a final project. As a part of the Philly program, the course will take place in Center City, Philadelphia. Along with Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) course readings, we will engage directly with writers, artists, Critical Interpretation (CI) and events that help shape Philadelphia’s vibrant hip-hop and Counts toward Africana Studies literature scene. For additional information see the program’s website https://www.brynmawr.edu/philly-program EDUC B308 Inquiries into Black Study, Language Justice, and Education Critical Interpretation (CI)

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Growing out of the Lagim Tehi Tuma/”Thinking Together” program (LTT), the course will explore the implications for ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad education in realizing the significance of global Black liberation Not offered 2021-22 and Black Study/ies--particularly in relation to questions of the suppression and sustenance of language diversity and with This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural a focus, as well, on Pan-Africanism--by engaging with one and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined particular community as a touchstone for learning from and of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics forwarding culturally sustaining knowledge. Prerequisites: Two of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles courses, at least one in Education, with the second in Africana for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and Studies, Linguistics, Sociology, or Anthropology; or permission racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective of the instructor. experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, Course does not meet an Approach films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Counts toward Africana Studies Latinidad in the Americas. Counts toward Education Counts toward Praxis Program Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies ENGL B104 The Global Short Story Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Spring 2022 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Praxis Program The majority of the most provocative and interesting English- language literary production at the current moment hails from ENGL B222 “Afro-Futurism” African nations, India, Oceania and their diasporae throughout Not offered 2021-22 the world. A significant number of major international literary prizes have been awarded to members of these writing The study of “Afro-Futurism” is the cultural, artistic, and political communities who cross borders, continents, passport identities, exploration of African and diasporan visions and critiques of and traditions in their experiments with narration, place, politics, the past, and future. It presents worlds inflected by the and the creolization of English. The late Nigerian novelist and ancient conjurations of African forebears, chattel slaves, and memoirist Chinua Achebe said of the English language, in free African Americans from the 19th to the 21st century. The particular: “Do not be fooled by the fact that we may write in supranatural worlds of Afro-Futurism brings into sharp focus the English because we intend to do unheard of things with it.” laws of both and society. It has given birth to a revision of the science fiction and fantasy by writers such as Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Tomi Adeyeni, Critical Interpretation (CI) and Deji Bryce Olukotun. Prerequisites: Contemporary Counts toward Africana Studies enrollment in or completion of the Emily Balch Seminar, its Haverford equivalent, or College permission to bypass either.

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Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ENGL B239 African American Poetry Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Africana Studies This course explores the work of black poets in the Americas. ENGL B227 Writing Love in the African Diaspora Focusing on a range of poetic forms from the 18th century Not offered 2021-22 through the present, we will consider key questions that have animated the works of black poets in North America and the This course explores how various forms of love are imagined in Caribbean, and how they have used poetic strategy to engage contemporary writing of the African Diaspora. From parent-child these questions. How do black poets explore black political affections, to romance and marriage, to the closeness between and social life in various historical and geographical contexts? friends, “love” is a central theme in literature and a crucial part How do they use particular formal strategies (for example, of how we define humanity. Focusing on contemporary texts form poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, and experimental such as Justin Torres’s We the Animals, Mariama Bâ’s So Long modes) to interrogate notions of blackness? How do political a Letter, Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, Dee Rees’s Pariah, movements around gender, class, and sexuality factor in? Toni Morrison’s Love, and the works of poets and lyricists As we approach these questions, we will consider important including Yusef Komunyakaa, Warsan Shire, Messy Maya, critical conversations on African American poetry and poetics, and Cardi B, we will consider how various forms of intimacy examining how both well-known and underexplored poets are written and read in the African Diaspora. We will read use form to complicate blackness and imagine various forms these works alongside key short works from earlier moments of freedom. Our work will take us through several poetic in Afrodiasporic literature, as well as theoretical and critical genres and forms, including print works, performance poetry, texts in Diaspora feminism, sexuality studies, affect theory, and hip hop music, and digital media. Throughout our analysis, queer theory to consider several questions: What do literary we will consider how discourses on gender, sexuality, class, love relationships reveal about cultural notions of gender, national and transnational identity, and other engagements with sexuality, class, (dis)ability, embodiment and spirituality? How difference shape black poetic expression, both historically and are intimacy and human connection evoked differently through in our current moment. magic , experimentalism, and other Diasporic poetic and aesthetic techniques? What forms and media do black artists Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) use to evoke the love of place, nation and home? What visions Critical Interpretation (CI) of love do these black writers develop, and how do such visions Counts toward Africana Studies impact how freedom is imagined in Afrodiasporic literature? Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration English 262 is a topics course that allows for multiple themes to Not offered 2021-22 be taught. Each topic will have its own description and students may enroll for credit in the course as long as the topics vary. Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico border as an open wound and the border culture that arises Critical Interpretation (CI) from this fraught site as a third country. This course will Counts toward Africana Studies explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and ENGL B274 Ethnic Speculative Fiction between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for Not offered 2021-22 understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and This course will explore how Latina/os, Latin Americans, language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants African Americans, and Native Americas deploy speculative and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, environmental migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in what course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, Walidah Imarisha terms “visionary fiction.” Students will be art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights introduced to theoretical concepts such as intersectionality, and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and modernity/coloniality, Afrofuturism, marvelous realism, and aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine zombie capitalism that will help them unpack the critical work a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key accomplished by genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented we will probe the role that literature, comic , film, and migration. art can play in the struggle to build more radically egalitarian Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) societies, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can Critical Interpretation (CI) contribute to social justice. Counts toward Africana Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies poetic works by writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Ivelisse Rodriguez ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature and others, considering how themes of socioeconomic mobility, Not offered 2021-22 coming of age, gender performance, and intersectional political engagement, animate artists’ narrative and poetic strategies Taking into account the oral, written, aural, and visual forms across genre and media. of African “texts” over several thousand years, this course will explore literary production, intertextuality, translation, and Counts toward Africana Studies audience/critical reception. Representative works to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata and Mwindo epics, the ENGL B320 Black Feminist Literature plays of Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, the Muse Not offered 2021-22 of Forgiveness; and the work of Sembène Ousmane, Bessie This course explores contemporary black feminist literature and Head, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mariama Bâ, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi culture on a transnational stage. We will consider the works wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yvonne Vera, and of prominent, emerging, and underexplored black feminist others. writers from various African diaspora locations, including South Critical Interpretation (CI) Africa, West Africa, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Counts toward Africana Studies How do these writers engage with key currents in global black feminist politics, including understandings of gender, sexuality, ENGL B283 Transnational Writing class, nationality and colonialism? How do they complicate Not offered 2021-22 these discussions in their work? We will ground our exploration in close study of black feminist poetics--the specific formal and This course is a study in direct and indirect conversations creative choices that black feminist poets, fiction writers, visual between and among writers, eras, and continents involving artists, hip hop artists, webseries producers and others use narrative practitioners who may never have interacted in life or to examine gender end sexuality in their art. Paying particular letters, but whose works, nevertheless, “speak” to each other attention to the work of queer and LGBTI+ (, Gay, in intertextual exchanges. Almost all the works were originally Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex) artists, we will consider the written in English. The yoked works are in groupings of no more various meanings of t erms such as “black,” “feminist,” and than 5 to underscore and to intensify the dialogue and to allow “queer” in various parts of the African Diaspora. Our work will adequate time for discussion and written analysis. As Kenyan emphasize close analysis of black feminist writers’ works, as Ngugi wa Thiong’o observes in The Wizard of the Crow: well as collaborative exercises and invited in-class discussions

“Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.” with several contemporary black diasporic feminist artists Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) themselves. Requirements include two short papers, regular Critical Interpretation (CI) response papers, and a final project.

Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B307 Philadelphia Freedom: Slavery, Liberty, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Literature 1682-1899 Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B363 Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, a space of religious Spring 2022 diversity, the hotbed of the American Revolution, the first large A comprehensive study of Morrison’s narrative experiments “free” city north of the slave states, a major center of free in fiction, this course traces her entire oeuvre from “Recitatif” Black culture. In this course we will examine literature written to God Help the Child. We read the works in publication order in and about Philadelphia before the Civil War, exploring how with three main foci: Morrison-as-epistemologist questioning and why Philadelphians engaged questions of freedom and what it is that constitutes knowing and being known, Morrison- non-freedom. Beginning with William Penn and the colonial as-revisionary-teacher-of-reading-strategies, and Morrison in city, moving through the literatures of Revolution and the Civil intertextual dialogue with several oral and literary traditions. In

War, we will conclude with W. E. B. DuBois’ The Philadelphia addition to critical essays, students complete a “Pilate Project” - Negro. We will take two field trips to the city and students will a creative response to the works under study. be expected to pursue city-based research projects. Counts toward Africana Studies

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ENGL B316 Narrativity and Hip-Hop ENGL B374 African-American Childhoods

Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes This course explores the literatures of African-American in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive analysis of hip childhood from the late nineteenth century until the present . hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual performance and visual art, We will explore “classic” works of children’s literature by authors we will consider how rappers and hip-hop artists from the late such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn twentieth century onward have used the form to extend, further, Brooks, Ann Petry, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Hamilton, and complicate key concerns of literature in general, and Jacqueline Woodson, James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, June African American and African Diaspora literature in particular. Jordan, Angie Thomas and others-- alongside artifacts from We will explore key texts in hip hop from late 1970s to the a range of other spheres such as textbooks, chapbooks, and current moment, reading them alongside short fiction and

59 AFRICANA STUDIES the overall rise of a new child-centered periodical culture at FREN B224 Racisme et antiracisme en France the turn of the twentieth century. We will pay especial attention Fall 2021 to the ways in which the intertwined categories of literacy and property have shaped racialized notions of childhood in the Co-constructed with students, this course considers the United States. In addition to close textual analysis, we will genealogy of French racism as a socio-political construct and engage with major theoretical works in the field of childhood as a system of domination. We will analyze how racism “made and identity studies, while also investigating firsthand what can in France” was designed, theorized, and deployed, but we will be learned via the physical examination of children’s books held also study how its legacy is deconstructed and questioned in Bryn Mawr’s Ellery Yale Wood . by contemporary artists whose work focuses on the French colonial history. Art will be examined as a response to the Counts toward Africana Studies violence of racism and discrimination - a process by which creators find their agency, their voice, and their strength, ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature emancipating the person from the victimization framework. The Not offered 2021-22 class will be taught in French and will include interactions with South African texts from several language communities which the artists. anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by contemporary Critical Interpretation (CI) South African writers which explore the complexities of life in Inquiry into the Past (IP) “the new South Africa.” Several films emphasize the minefield Counts toward Africana Studies of post-apartheid reconciliation and accountability. Counts toward Africana Studies HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New Articulations ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural history Noting that the official colonial independence of most African museum played an important role in constructing and countries dates back only half a century, this course focuses on disseminating images of Africa to the public. The the fictive experiments of the most recent decade. A few highly history of museum representations of Africa and Africans controversial works from the 90’s serve as an introduction to reveals that exhibitions--both museum exhibitions and “living” very recent work. Most works are in English. To experience World’s Fair exhibitions-- has long been deeply embedded in depth as well as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from politics, including the persistent “othering” of African people as South Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the huge savages or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in the present” exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider how art in history and letters. are creating new constructions of Africa and how contemporary and conceptual artists are creating

Counts toward Africana Studies complex, challenging new ways of understanding African identities. FREN B208 La diversité dans le cinéma français contemporain Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Spring 2022 Counts toward Museum Studies Until the closing years of the 20th century, ethnic diversity Counts toward Visual Studies was virtually absent from French cinema. While Francophone directors from Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa debunked HART B326 Special Topics in Art of the Black Atlantic colonialism and neocolonialism in their films, minorities hardly Section 001 (Spring 2021): Performances/Black Personhood appeared on French screens. Movies were made by white filmmakers for a white audience. Since the 1980’s and the Not offered 2021-22 1990’s, minorities have become more visible in French films. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Are French Blacks and Arabs portrayed in French cinema beyond stereotypes, or are they still objects of a euro-centric Course does not meet an Approach gaze? Have minorities gained agency in storytelling, not just as Counts toward Africana Studies actors, but as directors? What is the national narrative at play HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations in the recent French films that focus on diversity? Is it still “us against them”, or has the new generation of French filmmakers Fall 2021 found a way to include the different components of French The course is designed to introduce students to the history of identity into a collective subject? From Bouchareb to Gomis, African and African Diaspora societies, cultures, and political from Kechiche to Benyamina and Jean-Baptiste, this course will economies. We will discuss the origins, state formation, map out the visual fault lines of the French self and examine external contacts, and the structural transformations and the prospects for a post-republican sense of community. Open continuities of African societies and cultures in the context to non-majors. There will be a weekly screening on Sunday, of the slave trade, colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, 7:00pm-9:00pm. urbanization, and westernization, as well as contemporary Critical Interpretation (CI) struggles over authority, autonomy, identity and access Counts toward Africana Studies to resources. Case studies will be drawn from across the Counts toward Film Studies continent. Critical Interpretation (CI)

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Inquiry into the Past (IP) The course analyzes the history of Africa in the last two Counts toward Africana Studies hundred years in the context of global political economy. We Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies will examine the major themes in modern African history, Counts toward International Studies including the 19th-century state formation, expansion, or restructuration; partition and resistance; colonial rule; HIST B156 The Long 1960s economic, social, political, religious, and cultural developments; Not offered 2021-22 nationalism; post-independence politics, economics, and society, as well as conflicts and the burden of disease. The The 1960s has had a powerful effect on recent US History. course will also introduce students to the sources and methods But what was it exactly? How long did it last? And what do we of African history. really mean when we say “The Sixties?” This term has become so potent and loaded for so many people from all sides of the Current topic description: The course deals with the continuities political spectrum that it’s almost impossible to separate fact and transformations of African societies and cultures in the from fiction; myth from memory. We are all the inheritors of this context of European colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, intense period in American history but our inheritance is neither urbanization, and westernization. Special attention will be paid simple nor entirely clear. Our task this semester is to try to pull to the options available to the Africans and the choices they apart the meaning as well as the legend and attempt to figure made in colonial situations and after independence. The course out what “The Sixties” is (and what it isn’t) and try to assess its will also introduce students to the sources and methods in long term impact on American society. history as well as to various historical interpretations of African history. Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward International Studies HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History Fall 2021 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. Not offered 2021-22 and the Americas came together to form an interconnected This is a topics course. Course content varies Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated system was created in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the Inquiry into the Past (IP) history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded Counts toward Africana Studies version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies history. Counts toward Museum Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B243 Topics: Atlantic Cultures Counts toward Africana Studies Section 001 (Spring 2022): Maroon Communities - New World Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Section 001 (Fall 2020): Maroon Societies Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Spring 2022 This is a topics course. Course content varies. HIST B212 Pirates, Travelers, and Natural Historians: 1492- 1750 Current topic description: The course explores the process of self-emancipation by slaves in the early modern Atlantic Not offered 2021-22 World. What was the nature of the communities that free blacks In the early modern period, conquistadors, missionaries, forged? What were their relationships to the empires from travelers, pirates, and natural historians wrote interesting which they had freed themselves? How was race constructed in texts in which they tried to integrate the New World into their the early modern period? Did conceptions of race change over existing frameworks of knowledge. This intellectual endeavor time? Through readings and discussion, we will investigate was an adjunct to the physical conquest of American space, the establishment of autonomous African settlements and and provides a framework though which we will explore cultures throughout the Americas, and examine the nature of the processes of imperial competition, state formation, and local autonomy within a strife-torn world of contending empires indigenous and African resistance to colonialism. and nation-states. Taking a comparative approach, we shall Inquiry into the Past (IP) examine developments in North America, South America, the

Counts toward Africana Studies Caribbean, and Brazil. Counts toward Environmental Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies HIST B236 African History since 1800 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Section 001 (Fall 2020): Africa since 1800 Section 001 (Fall 2021): Africa since 1800 HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas

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The course explores the confrontations, conquests and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies accommodations that formed the “ground-level” experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout the Americas. The course HIST B349 Topics in Comparative History is comparative in scope, examining events and structures in Section 001 (Fall 2021): European Competition/Indgns North, South and Central America, with particular attention paid to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous leadership Fall 2021 in the colonial world of the 18th century. This is a topics course. Topics vary. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Current topic description: Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Museum Studies HIST B337 Topics in African History HLTH B115 Introduction to Health Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics Fall 2021 Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics Section 001 (Fall 2020): Hist of Global Health Africa The multidisciplinary foundation for the health studies minor. Students will be introduced to theories and methods from the Fall 2021 life sciences, social sciences, and humanities and will learn to This is a topics course. Topics vary. apply them to problems of health and illness. Topics include Current topic description: In the recent decades, the world has epidemiological, public health, and biomedical perspectives experienced an increasing threat for public health from the on health and disease; social, behavioral, and environmental emerging infectious diseases that have provoked epidemics determinants of health; globalization of health issues; cultural and pandemics. The course will focus on the impact of representations of illness; health inequalities, social justice, and epidemics and pandemics on cities in Africa. We will discuss health as a human right. the issues of public health history, social and cultural history of Course does not meet an Approach disease as well as the issues of the history of medicine. We will Counts toward Africana Studies examine the histories of global initiatives to control disease in Counts toward Health Studies Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective (history, and social and biomedical sciences), using case studies from across the INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective continent. We will explore various themes, such as the anxiety Spring 2022 and panic caused by the disease outbreaks; the state, medical, and popular responses; the politics of disease control; the In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements conflicts of interests between the interests of commerce, public have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different health, and civil liberties; and the health disparities within cities. parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing We will focus on the colonial and postcolonial cities in Africa. systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings We will also explore the questions regarding the sources of have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this African history and their quality. class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands of these protest movements? What can we learn from the Counts toward Africana Studies grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South Counts toward Health Studies in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits Counts toward International Studies of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450-1800 about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical Not offered 2021-22 approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and This course explores the emergence, development, and action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and blackness, that popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to have been in place from the colonial period to the present. develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding Through the reading of primary and secondary sources, we popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students will explore various ways through which enslaved people will explore these questions through a series of case studies imagined freedom, personal rights, community membership, including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia and some of the paths they created in order to improve their and India. experiences and change the social order. In an attempt to have Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) a comparative approach, we will look at particular events and Counts toward Africana Studies circumstances that took place in few provinces in the Americas, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies course will also look at the methodological challenges of studying and writing history of people who in principle, were not INST B301 Politics of Aid and Humanitarianism allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will identify Spring 2022 and underscore the contribution that people of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, freedom, equality, and This course explores the relationship between humanitarian democracy. aid, politics and the legacy of colonialism. 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Palestine, Somalia, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Students taking the course for departmental credit will also read We will use these case studies to explore topics such as part of the readings in the original language, and produce three the militarization of aid and the politicization of emergency short response-papers in Italian in lieu of the Midterm. assistance. We will also be looking to non-traditional sources Course does not meet an Approach such as novels, films, NGO documents and congressional Counts toward Africana Studies hearings to gain insight from the perspectives of those Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies impacted by and/or shaping humanitarian policies and practices. Finally, we will examine the ways ‘non-Western’ PE(D) B111 Hip-Hop Lineages actors and humanitarian organizations are reshaping the field of humanitarianism and relationships across the Global South Fall 2021 more broadly. Students learn basic movements from hip-hop, funk, house, Counts toward Africana Studies breakin’ and other contemporary urban styles. The course Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies aims to expand the student’s dance skills while increasing Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies their knowledge of the history of hip-hop and providing a sophisticated understanding of the potential of hip hop as an art ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the and social form. This course is open to all levels of experience. Humanities (Full Semester, 2 PE Credits) Spring 2022 Counts toward Africana Studies

What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist POLS B350 Equalities and Inequalities in Politics and manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and Society films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In Not offered 2021-22 this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from The modern state rests on a claim of equality (of a certain different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender sort) between citizens. At the same time, modern societies and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece are marked by significant and increasing inequalities (of from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings various sorts). How should we regard the co-existence of to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will the claim of equality and the existence of inequalities? For discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and some, the existence of large-scale inequalities may be seen of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we not only as wholly consistent with the equality of citizens, but are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional an expected, natural, and proper outcome of that equality. in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. For others, the existence of significant inequalities marks a Critical Interpretation (CI) failure of the promise of equality among citizens. Beyond these Counts toward Africana Studies disagreements, people disagree about the significance of the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies distinction between citizens and non-citizens. What kinds of Counts toward Film Studies equalities, if any, that are not acceptable between citizens are acceptable between citizens and non-citizens? In this course, ITAL B312 Black, Queer, Jewish we shall explore such questions concerning the relationship between claims of equality and the existence of inequalities Not offered 2021-22 in modern societies. We will examine these various questions This seminar approaches the two most studied phases of at both an abstract level (reading essays of political theory Italian history, the Renaissance and the 20th century, by placing and philosophy) and in the context of particular problems of what we call ‘otherness’ at the center of the picture rather social policy. While the instructor will be largely responsible than at its supposed margins. The main aim is to challenge for assigning readings of the first sort, students will share the traditional accounts of Italian culture, and to look at pivotal responsibility for finding readings of the second. They will do events and phenomena (the rise of Humanism, the rise of this as part of their own semester-long research projects. This fascism, courtly culture, the two World Wars, 16th century art, course is open to all students who have the prerequisites. It futurism) from the point of view of black, queer, and Jewish also serves as a thesis prep course for political science senior protagonists, authors, and fictional characters. Our theoretical majors. Suggested Preparation: At least one course in political bedrock will be offered by modern and contemporary thinkers theory OR Political Science Senior OR consent of instructor. such as Fred Moten, Antonio Gramsci, Edie Segdwick, and Counts toward Africana Studies Hannah Arendt. Our primary sources will come from cultural epicenters of Renaissance, Baroque, and late Modern Italy, POLS B243 African and Caribbean Perspectives in World such as Leo X papal court, fascist Ferrara, 17th century Venice, Politics and colonial Libya. In class, we will adopt a trans-historical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective inspired by Fred Spring 2022 Moten’s work, which will serve as the poetic common ground This course makes African and Caribbean voices audible as for our investigations. Themes and issues will be analyzed they create or adopt visions of the world that explain their at the crossing of the two historical phases and of the three positions and challenges in world politics. Students learn topics in exam, and the material will include historical and analytical tools useful in understanding other parts of the theoretical analyses, narrative texts, poems, films, and visual world. Prerequisite: POLS 141 or 1 course in African or Latin art. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of American history. Italian is required, as readings will be in English translation. An Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) additional hour in Italian will be offered for departmental credits. Counts toward Africana Studies 63 AFRICANA STUDIES

SOCL B225 Women in Society covert modern forms of racial discrimination; and the role of Fall 2021 race in American politics. Prerequisite: at least one additional sociology course or permission of instructor. Course is not In 2015, the world’s female was 49.6 percent of the available to freshmen. total global population of 7.3 billion. According to the United

Nations, in absolute terms, there were 61,591,853 more men Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) than women. Yet, at the global scale, 124 countries have Inquiry into the Past (IP) more women than men. A great majority of these countries Counts toward Africana Studies are located in what scholars have recently been referring Counts toward Child and Family Studies to as the Global South - those countries known previously SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology of as developing countries. Although women outnumber their Deviance male counterparts in many Global South countries, however, these women endure difficulties that have worsened rather Not offered 2021-22 than improving. What social structures determine this gender An examination of non-normative and criminal viewed inequality in general and that of women of color in particular? from the standpoint of different theoretical perspectives on What are the main challenges women in the Global South deviance (e.g., social strain, anomie, functionalism, social face? How do these challenges differ based on nationality, disorganization, symbolic interaction, and Marxism) with class, ethnicity, skin color, gender identity, and other axes of particular emphasis on social construction and labeling oppression? What strategies have these women developed perspectives; and the role of subcultures, social movements to cope with the wide variety of challenges they contend with and social conflicts in changing the normative boundaries on a daily basis? These are some of the major questions that of society. Topics include robbery, homicide, Black inner city we will explore together in this class. In this course, the Global violence, sexual deviance, prostitution, white collar crime, drug South does not refer exclusively to a geographical location, and mental disorders. but rather to a set of institutional structures that generate disadvantages for all individuals and particularly for women Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and other minorities, regardless their geographical location in Counts toward Africana Studies the world. In other words, a significant segment of the Global Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies North’s population lives under the same precarious conditions SOCL B276 Making Sense of Race that are commonly believed as exclusive to the Global South. Simultaneously, there is a Global North embedded in the Global Fall 2021 South as well. In this context, we will see that the geographical What is the meaning of race in contemporary US and global division between the North and the South becomes futile when society? How are these meanings (re)produced, resisted, we seek to understand the dynamics of the “Western-centric/ and refused? What meanings might we desire or imagine as Christian-centric capitalist/patriarchal modern/colonial world- alternatives? In this course, we will approach these questions system” (Grosfoguel, 2012). In the first part of the course, through an array of sources while tracking our own thinking we will establish the theoretical foundations that will guide us about and experiences of raced-ness. Course material will throughout the rest of the semester. We will then turn to a wide survey sociological notions of the social construction of race, variety of case studies where we will examine, for instance, empirical studies of lived experiences of race, and creative the contemporary global division of labor, gendered violence fiction and non-fiction material intended to catalyze thinking in the form of feminicides, international migration, and global about alternative possibilities. tourism. The course’s final thematic section will be devoted to learning from the different feminisms (e.g. community feminism) Course does not meet an Approach emerging out of the Global South as well as the research Counts toward Africana Studies done in that region and its contribution to the development of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies a broader gender studies scholarship. In particular, we will pay SOCL B321 The Black American Intellectual Community close attention to resistance, solidarity, and social movements led by women. Examples will be drawn from Latin America, the Not offered 2021-22

Caribbean, the US, Asia, and Africa. This seminar explores an important but neglected subject in Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the study of race relations: the social role of the black American Counts toward Africana Studies intellectual community. Viewing black intellectuals from the Counts toward Child and Family Studies perspective of the sociology of knowledge, it examines the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies patterns of development and conflict in the black American Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies intellectual community, extending from the early 20th century to the early 21st century. It will examine the social and historical SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological Perspective contexts and influences that shaped their world views as they Not offered 2021-22 confronted the issues of racism, racial integration, black social problems, black culture, and black identity - issues that were This course presents sociological perspectives on various framed through rival and often antagonistic black ideological issues affecting black America as a historically unique minority movements: black nationalism, liberal civil rights activism, group in the United States: the legacy of slavery and the Jim communism, new left radicalism, political conservatism, and Crow era; the formation of urban black ghettos; the civil rights afro-centrism. Among the black intellectuals whose ideas reforms; the problems of poverty and unemployment; the and influence will be considered in the seminar: Booker T. problems of crime and other social problems; the problems of Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Alain Locke, criminal justice; the continuing significance of race; the varied James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay,

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Richard Wright, E. Franklin Frazier, Horace Cayton, Zora Neal or the examination of the significance of culture in the context Hurston, Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison, Kenneth Clark, James of social life. Baldwin, Harold Cruise, Bayard Rustin, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Major Requirements Malcom X, and Taneshi Coates. Requirements for the major are ANTH 101, 102, 303, 398, 399, Counts toward Africana Studies an ethnographic area course that focuses on the cultures of a single region, and four additional 200- or 300-level courses SOCL B322 Thinking with Trans: Theorizing Race and in anthropology. Students are encouraged to select courses Gender from each of four subfields of anthropology: archaeology, Not offered 2021-22 bioanthropology, linguistics or sociocultural. ANTH B303 fulfills In 2017, philosopher Rebecca Tuvel published an article in the major writing intensive requirement. the journal Hypatia outlining an argument for the existence Students may elect to do part of their work away from Bryn of transracialism. This article came on the tail end of a great Mawr. Courses that must be taken at Bryn Mawr include ANTH deal of controversy about the outing of NAACP leader, Rachel 101, 102, 303, 398 and 399. (ANTH 103 at Haverford may be Dolezal; a woman born to white parents who identifies as substituted for ANTH 102.) black. In this course we will examine the social construction of race and gender as well as critique the biological assumptions Minor Requirements that underpin both social structures. We will explore the theoretical power and pitfalls of the terms “transgender” and Requirements for a minor in anthropology are ANTH 101, 102, “transracial”- the similarities, differences, and tensions inherent 303, one ethnographic area course and two additional 200- or in questioning taken for granted social structures that are 300-level courses in anthropology. fundamental to social organization and personal identity. We will explore the theoretical context of the terms “transracial” and Honors “transgender,” the various arguments for and against identity Qualified students may earn departmental honors in their senior categories, and the lived experiences of individuals and groups year. Honors are based on the quality of the senior thesis who regularly transgress the boundaries of race and gender. (398, 399) and grade point average in courses taken for the Course does not meet an Approach anthropology major. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Concentration in Geoarchaeology The Department of Anthropology participates with Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Geology in offering a ANTHROPOLOGY concentration within the major in geoarchaeology.

Students may complete a major or a minor in Anthropology. Cooperation with Other Programs Within the major, students may complete a concentration in The Department of Anthropology actively participates and Geoarchaeology. regularly contributes to the minors in Africana Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Health Studies. In addition, Anthropology cross-lists several Faculty courses with Biology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Casey Barrier, Associate Professor of Anthropology German, Growth and Structure of Cities, History, Peace and Nicholas Carby Denning, Visiting Assistant Professor Conflict Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Anthropology at Bryn Mawr also works in close cooperation with our Aisha Chughtai, Laboratory Coordinator counterpart department at Haverford College. Susanna Fioratta, Associate Professor of Anthropology (on leave semesters I and II) Courses

Melissa Pashigian, Associate Professor of Anthropology ANTH B101 Introduction to Biological and Archaeological Justin Reamer, Laboratory Coordinator Anthropology Maja Seselj, Associate Professor of Anthropology on the Fall 2021 Clowes Professorship in Science and Public Policy An introduction to the place of humans in nature, evolutionary Amanda Weidman, Associate Professor and Chair of theory, living primates, the fossil record for human , Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Sciences human variation and the issue of race, and the archaeological investigation of culture change from the Old Stone Age to the Anthropology is a holistic study of the human condition in both rise of early agricultural societies in the Americas, Eurasia and the past and the present. The anthropological lens can bring Africa. In addition to the lecture/discussion classes, students into focus the social, cultural, biological and linguistic variations must select and sign up for one lab section. that characterize the diversity of humankind throughout time Inquiry into the Past (IP) and space. The frontiers of anthropology can encompass many Scientific Investigation (SI) directions: the search for early human fossils in Africa, the excavations of prehistoric societies and ancient civilizations, the ANTH B102 Introduction to analysis of language use and other expressive forms of culture, Fall 2021, Spring 2022

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This course will explore the basic principles and methods ANTH B207 Becoming Human: Evolutionary Perspectives of sociocultural anthropology. Through field research, on Human direct observation, and participation in a group’s daily life, Not offered 2021-22 sociocultural anthropologists examine the many ways that people organize their social institutions and cultural systems, Millions of years of evolution have shaped human anatomy, ranging from the dynamics of life in small-scale societies to the creating a unique bipedal ape with a very large . What transnational circulation of people, commodities, technologies can our bones, muscles, and tell us about our and ideas. Sociocultural anthropology examines how many evolutionary past? In this course you will learn about human of the categories we assume to be “natural,” such as , biology from an evolutionary perspective by considering gender, or race, are culturally and socially constructed. It humans as primates with a unique evolutionary trajectory. We examines how people’s perceptions, beliefs, values, and will consider both how humans are biologically unique and how actions are shaped by broader historical, economic, and our primate origins have shaped who we are today. Topics will political contexts. It is also a vital tool for understanding and include human and odontology, functional anatomy, critiquing imbalances of power in our contemporary world. energetics, , and diversity. Furthermore, we will Through a range of topically and geographically diverse explore current hypotheses and evidence regarding important course readings and films, and opportunities to practice questions in human origins and evolution, including whether ethnographic methodology, students will gain new analytical bipedalism is an efficient and effective form of locomotion, why and methodological tools for understanding cultural difference, human reproduction can be a difficult and dangerous process, social organization, and social change. and which modern day health issues are a result of a mismatch between our current lifestyles and our evolutionary . Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Child and Family Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Health Studies

ANTH B202 Africa in the World ANTH B208 Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 In this course, we will approach Africa with an emphasis on This course will be a survey of modern human biological the many interconnections that link the continent with the variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological and rest of the world, through both time and space. Much popular genetic variation in modern human and discuss the talk about Africa in the U.S. is overwhelmingly negative-- evolutionary explanations for the observed patterns. A major focusing on poverty, violence, and failed states--and often component of the class will be the discussion of the social portrays Africa as something “other,” both different from and implications of these patterns of biological variation, particularly unrelated to the United States and the rest of the world. But in the construction and application of the concept of race. such preconceptions blatantly overlook what we know about Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. historical and contemporary movements of people, ideas, Counts toward Health Studies materials, and money around the globe. Rather than regarding Africa as separate or apart, in this course we will examine the ANTH B209 Human Evolution: Debates in centrality of African engagements with these global movements. Rather than attempting a survey of particular, bounded African Not offered 2021-22 “peoples” or “cultures,” we will explore complex issues and processes through interconnected topics including colonial and This course explores the biological and cultural evolution of postcolonial politics, urban life, gender and sexuality, economic humans as viewed from the fossil and archaeological record, networks, development, and transnational migration. We will beginning with our earliest ancestors and continuing to the use these themes as guides for exploring larger, interlinked dispersal of modern humans around the globe. We will use questions of social life in Africa and around the world. This comparative, functional, and evolutionary anatomy to interpret course fulfills the BMC Anthropology major/minor ethnographic past and relationships among fossil hominins, as area requirement. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. well as their relationship to modern humans. Furthermore, we will use geology, archaeology, and paleoecology to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) reconstruct behavioral aspects of fossil hominins and their Counts toward Africana Studies environmental influences. Throughout the course, we will ANTH B204 North American Archaeology focus our discussions on major debates in paleoanthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. Not offered 2021-22 Scientific Investigation (SI) For millennia, the North American continent has been home to a vast diversity of Native Americans. From the initial migration ANTH B213 Anthropology of Food of big game hunters who spread throughout the continent Not offered 2021-22 more than 12,000 years ago, to the complex Pueblos of the Southwest and urban Cahokia in the East, there remains Food is part of the universal human experience. But everyday a rich archaeological record that reflects the ways of life of experiences of food also reveal much about human difference. these cultures. This course will introduce the culture history of What we eat is intimately connected with who we are, where North America as well as explanations for culture change and we belong, and how we see the world. In this course, we will diversification. use a socio-cultural perspective to explore how food helps us form families, national and religious communities, and other Inquiry into the Past (IP) 66 ANTHROPOLOGY groups. We will also consider how food may become a source powers. The third section investigates how Spanish colonial of inequality, a political symbol, and a subject of social discord. processes were shaped by cultural traditions in Mexico and Examining both practical and ideological meanings of food Peru. Specifically, this third section explores how cultural and taste, this course will address issues of identity, social structures and shifting alliances led to Spanish forces adapting difference, and cultural experience. and exacerbating these factors in their ultimately successful Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) conquests of each region. Readings are based mostly on Counts toward Child and Family Studies current literature and some sections. Assignments Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies include a comparative essay based on some aspect of empire (economic strategy, religious practices, hegemonic vs. ANTH B216 Transnational Movements Across the Americas militaristic conquests), various hands-on small projects and activities, and a final exam. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Globalization has enabled the movement of people, the Inquiry into the Past (IP) trade of goods, and the exchange of culture and ideas Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies but it has also created unprecedented problems such as inequality, exploitation, and environmental crisis. However, the ANTH B239 networks formed by globalization have also created exciting opportunities for activists to organize across borders, tackle Not offered 2021-22 issues of global concern, and develop creative solutions. This Life throughout much of the world today is saturated by forms course will introduce students to the study of transnational of media and media technologies: films, television, radio, social movements with a focus on the Americas. We will phones, the internet and social media. This course examines make use of ethnographic case studies, , media from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the and an interdisciplinary social science literature to examine impact of these various non-print media on social and political transnational movements on a variety of themes such life. We will also explore the distinctive properties of two media as: human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the phenomena specific to our time: reality TV and social media. environment, conservation, climate justice, the Throughout, we will be concerned with the constitutive power alter-globalization movement, and the rights of nature. Students of media at two levels: first, in the construction of subjectivity, will learn about the historical context of transnationalism, senses of self, and the production of affect; and second, in theories of social movement and collective action, the study collective social and political projects, such as building national of networks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and identity, consolidating or resisting state power, giving voice to the strategies mobilized by transnational actors to advocate indigenous claims, or creating alliances. on issues of social and environmental justice. Prerequisite: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Sophomore standing and up; or first years who have taken Anth Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies 102 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ANTH B241 Archaeologies of Gender Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Not offered 2021-22 ANTH B220 Theory and Method in Archaeology This course foregrounds gender as a structuring part of past lives and explores the construction of gender in archaeological Spring 2022 interpretations across time and space. We begin with an An examination of techniques and theories archaeologists use overview of how gender has been theorized in archaeology to transform archaeological data into statements about patterns as a discipline, including more recent theoretical approaches of prehistoric cultural behavior, and culture change. which incorporate feminist and queer theory. Drawing on case Theory development, hypothesis formulation, gathering of studies from diverse geographic locations and time periods, we archaeological data and their interpretation and evaluation are will consider how studies of gender can be practically applied discussed and illustrated by examples. Theoretical debates to archaeological investigations of labor, mortuary analysis, current in anthropological archaeology are reviewed and the space and landscape, and feasting and religious practices. This place of archaeology in the general field of anthropology is engendered perspective, which includes women, men, and discussed. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. nonbinary , promotes more nuanced understandings of Inquiry into the Past (IP) social complexity and diversity of past communities. Potential Counts toward Geoarchaeology topics to be considered include: theories of gender, non- binary genders and masculinities, mortuary analysis, labor ANTH B235 Comparative Colonialism in Latin America and technology, space and landscape, feasting and ritual, gender and hierarchies, and colonialism and transformation

Not offered 2021-22 of gendered identities. A running theme throughout this This course takes a comparative perspective to consider state course will consider who is responsible for the production of development in Central and South America through the early knowledge, if the concept of positivism is inherently male, and Spanish Colonial era. The course is divided into three sections: how we can build feminist and community ideals into scientific in the first third, students learn about the development of the investigations. Maya and the Wari, consider the cultural distinctions between Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the two states, and compare how each state set the stage for Inquiry into the Past (IP) the upcoming major imperial empires. The second section Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies studies how Aztec and Inka civilizations built upon (or not) existing infrastructures and religious traditions to become major

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ANTH B244 Global Perspectives on Early Farmers and focus of this course is the question of value: What are the Social Change power dynamics shaping our perception of the value of human Not offered 2021-22 labor, capital, and the things we consume everyday? Prereq: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Throughout most of human history our ancestors practiced lifestyles focused upon the gathering and hunting of wild plants Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and animals. Today, however, a globalized agricultural economy Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies supports a population of over seven billion individuals. This Counts toward International Studies course utilizes information produced by archaeologists around ANTH B254 Anthropology and Social Science Research the globe to examine this major historical transition while asking Methods big questions like: What impact did the adoption of agriculture have on communities in the past, and how did farming spread Fall 2021 to different world regions? We will also consider how the This course is designed for students interested in learning current farming system influences our own society. How does ethnographic and qualitative social science methods, and how farming still affect our lives today, and how will the history of to analyze qualitative results. Through hands on fieldwork, agricultural change shape our collective future? Counts toward students will learn and practice ethnographic field methods, Environmental Studies minor. for example, observation, , interviewing, Inquiry into the Past (IP) use of visual media and drawing, life stories, generating and Counts toward Environmental Studies analyzing data, and ways to productively transform qualitative data into contextual information. Ethics in ethnographic ANTH B246 The Everyday Life of Language: Field Research research will be a central theme, as will envisioning and in designing projects that protect human subjects. The purpose Not offered 2021-22 of this course is to provide anthropology majors and students in social sciences, humanities, as well as STEM majors with The goal of this course is to develop an awareness of how interests in multi-method research, an opportunity to learn language operates in various interactional and other (eg. ritual, methods in advance of their thesis proposal and research, performance, political) contexts that we commonly experience. Hanna Holborn Gray summer research, and other social The focus will be on gaining hands-on experience in doing science independent research opportunities during their linguistic anthropological data collection and analysis, and undergraduate experience, and post-graduation. putting the results of individual student projects together as part of initiating an ongoing, multi-year project. Topics that students Course does not meet an Approach explore ethnographically may include: language and gender; Counts toward Environmental Studies language, race and social indexicality; sociolinguistic variation; ANTH B259 The Creation of Early Complex Societies codeswitching; register and social stance; language and social media. Student research will involve ethnographic observation, Not offered 2021-22 audio-recording of spoken discourse, conducting interviews, In the last 10,000 years, humans around the world have and learning how to create a transcript to use as the basis transitioned from organizing themselves through small, for ethnographic analysis. Students will work in parallel on egalitarian social networks to living within large and socially individual projects cohering around a particular topic, and class complex societies. This archaeology course takes an time will be used to discuss the results and synthesize insights anthropological perspective to seek to understand the ways that that develop from bringing different ethnographic contexts human groups created these complex societies. We will explore together. For the praxis component of the course, students the archaeological evidence for the development of complexity will use the experience they have gained to generate ideas in the past, including the development of villages and early for components of a /high school language arts cities, the institutionalization of social and political-economic curriculum that incorporates linguistic anthropology concepts inequalities, and the rise of states and empires. Alongside and student-driven research on language. discussion of current theoretical ideas about complexity, the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) course will compare and contrast the evolutionary trajectories Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of complex societies in different world regions. Case studies will Counts toward Praxis Program emphasize the pre-Columbian histories of complex societies in the Americas as well as some of the early complex societies ANTH B250 Global Economies: Work, Money, and Value in of the Old World. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Everyday Life Latino Studies minor. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and

Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural (CC).

This course explores economic life from an anthropological Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) perspective. We will explore the social structures shaping Inquiry into the Past (IP) economies, labor, and consumption in diverse human cultures. ANTH B281 Language in Social Context Throughout we will examine the relation between global systems and local everyday life, between gender constructions Not offered 2021-22 and work structures, between what we produce and what we This course provides an introduction to the concepts and consume. We will explore emerging 21st century economies methods of linguistic anthropology, which can help us and how new technologies are changing the ways we think understand the role language plays in constructing identities, about labor. In addition, we will examine how traditional cultural creating social and political hierarchies, and shaping values are still shaping today’s global economies. The central understandings and experiences of the world. The course

68 ANTHROPOLOGY considers topics relevant to the everyday life of language in ANTH B294 Culture, Power, and Politics the U.S. context, including the relationship between language Not offered 2021-22 and gender, race, and socioeconomic inequality, and uses ethnographic materials from a variety of cultural contexts What do a country’s national politics have to do with culture? to explore three perspectives that are central to linguistic Likewise, how are politics hidden below the surface of our anthropology. These are: language, power, and the linguistic everyday social lives? This course explores questions like market: how different languages and the ways of speaking get these through anthropological approaches. Drawing on both associated with particular social groups and become valued classic and contemporary ethnographic studies from the U.S. or devalued; linguistic ideologies and semiotic processes: how and around the world, we will examine how social and cultural language as a system of signs becomes meaningful, to whom, frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. We will and in what ways; poetics and performance: how people “do investigate how people perceive the meanings and effects of things with words” and how the non-referential (sonic, poetic) the state; how nationalism and citizenship shape belonging on aspects of language matter. the one hand, and exclusion on the other; how understandings of gender, race, and difference converge with political action, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ideology, and power; and how politics infuse everyday spaces Critical Interpretation (CI) including schools, businesses, homes, and even the dinner table. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, H103 or permission of the ANTH B283 The Living Primates: Biology, Bones, and instructor. Behavior

Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course provides a comprehensive review of the order Counts toward International Studies Primates, focusing on morphology, biological adaptations, and behavioral diversity characterizing non-human primates. First, ANTH B301 Anthropology of Globalization we will investigate the morphological traits that characterize Not offered 2021-22 major primate groups, and their evolutionary history. As many primate taxa are endangered or vulnerable to extinction, This class explores globalization from an anthropological we will explore the approaches and challenges to primate perspective. With a focus on the social, cultural, and historical conservation. In the second half of the course, we will focus on aspects of global connections, we seek to understand how the primate socioecology, examining how different environments growing integration of different places and systems around influence primate distribution and social relationships. We the world shapes everyday life experience. Conversely, will then delve further into primate behavior and cognition, we also explore how individuals actively engage with, and examining interpersonal relationships, social dynamics, sometimes help shape, dynamic global processes. Questioning communication strategies, and learning modes. In doing this, assumptions that link globalization with worldwide cultural and we will address the questions concerning the recognition economic homogeneity, we will examine how gender, race, and definition of culture, self-awareness, and personhood class, and other structures of difference and inequality become among non-human primates using a comparative perspective. meaningful within a global systems of power. Working through Prerequisites: ANTH B101 or permission of the instructor a series of ethnographic analyses and conducting our own research, we will gain a better understanding of how people Course does not meet an Approach around the world experience and actively make “the global.” Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or permission of the ANTH B293 Extractive Violence and Environmental Justice instructor. Fall 2021 Counts toward International Studies This course will introduce students to the study of environmental justice and examine questions of race, ethnicity, ANTH B303 History of Anthropological Theory indigeneity, gender and inequality within the political Fall 2021 of extractive capitalism. Through ethnographic accounts, documentary film, graphic novels, photography and other A consideration of the history of anthropological theories and multimedia, we will examine case studies of environmental the discipline of anthropology as an academic discipline that justice, conflicts over resources, and the impacts of extractive seeks to understand and explain society and culture as its industries on indigenous and other frontline communities subjects of study. Several vantage points on the history of across the Global South and North. How does ecological anthropological theory are engaged to enact an historically toxicity manifest as a form of racialized violence deployed charged anthropology of a disciplinary history. Anthropological across post-colonial geographies? Why do hydrocarbons theories are considered not only as a series of models, produce “modern democracy” in some places and “petro- paradigms, or orientations, but as configurations of thought, despotism” in others? How do we make sense of our position technique, knowledge, and power that reflect the ever-changing in a global political ecology of extraction? This course relationships among the societies and cultures of the world. will unfold in three parts: the first will situate the problem of This course qualifies as completion of the writing requirement. environmental justice within the broader context of humans’ Prerequisite: ANTH B102/ANTH H103 and at least one impacts on global ; the second will examine the additional anthropology course at the 200 or 300 level. historical context of extractive capitalism; and the third will examine the problem of environmental justice as a legacy of ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction postcolonialism. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and up; Not offered 2021-22 Anth 102 recommended/suggested. This course will examine how power in everyday life shapes Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) reproductive behavior and how reproduction is culturally 69 ANTHROPOLOGY constructed. Through an examination of materials from different have been accompanied by renewed articulations of who cultures, this course will look at how often competing interests belongs in the “New India” and who doesn’t. In this context, within households, communities, states and institutions (at both caste, class, religious community, language, and gender the local and global levels) influence reproduction in society. have become crucial sites for claiming citizenship, articulating We will explore the political economy of reproduction cross- distinctions among people, and constructing senses of what culturally, how power and politics shape gendered reproductive and who can inhabit the public sphere. Using materials from behavior and how it is interpreted and used differently by different regions of India, our focus will be on how fine-grained persons, communities and institutions. Topics covered include ethnographic study can be a tool to examine the broader but are not limited to the politics of family planning, mothering/ dynamics of belonging and exclusion and its political and social parenting, abortion, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, fetal testing effects. This course fulfills the BMC Anthropology major/minor and biology and social policy in cross-cultural comparison. ethnographic area requirement. Prerequisite: ANTH 8102 (or ANTH H103) or permission of Course does not meet an Approach instructor. Haverford: Social Science (SO), Enrollment Cap: 15; Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Post Bacc Spaces: 2; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap Counts toward International Studies the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/ Concentration; Senior; Junior; Permission of Instructor. ANTH B331 Medical Anthro Seminar: Critical Thinking for Counts toward Child and Family Studies Critical Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Health Studies Advanced : Critical Thinking for Critical ANTH B316 Beyond : Gender, Performance and Times explores theoretical and applied frameworks used Popular Culture in South Asia in medical anthropology to tackle pressing problems in our world today. Coupled with topical subjects and ethnographic Not offered 2021-22 examples, this seminar will enable students to delve deeply into The countries of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, sub-specialization areas in the field of medical anthropology, Nepal, Sri Lanka) have produced vibrant and varied forms of including: global health inequalities, cross-border disease popular culture, including cinema, theatrical and other forms transmission, , science and technology studies, of performance, and sonic and visual culture. Using cinema ethnomedicine, cross-cultural /psychology, cross- and other audio-visual materials, this course will examine cultural bioethics, and ecological approaches to studying health media and performance as crucial sites for the construction and behavior, among others. No prior experience in medical and negotiation of gender ideologies and hierarchies in these anthropology is required. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or ANTH different national contexts. The issues we will explore include: H103, or permission of instructor. Sophomore standing and questions of agency, constraint, and identity in performance; higher. First year students who have taken Anth B102 or H103 the role of mass mediation in creating new masculinities and can also register for this class. femininities; and the relationship between popular culture and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies larger sociopolitical identities. Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies ANTH B339 Migrants, Refugees, and Life Across Borders Not offered 2021-22 ANTH B325 Mobility, Movement, and Migration in the Past Borders are often taken for granted as natural divisions in the Not offered 2021-22 world, but they are actually the products of political, historical, The movement of human social groups across landscapes, and social processes. Border crossing is often framed as an borders, and boundaries is a dominant feature of today’s world aberration or even a crisis, but people have moved for as long as well as of the recent historic past. Archaeological research as humans have existed. This course approaches borders has demonstrated that migration, movement, and mobility were from an anthropological perspective by foregrounding the also common features of human life in the more distant past. experiences of the people who move across them. We explore From examining cases of small-scale groups that were largely the interconnected categories of migrants and refugees to defined by constant movements across their social landscapes, understand how people cross borders under different kinds to the study of the spread of complex societies and early of circumstances: some voluntary, others fleeing conflict or political states, this course will consider the role of migration in persecution, and still others that seem to fall between these the formation, reproduction, and alteration of human societies. ideal types. We will critically examine how migrants and Attention will be paid to how archaeologists recognize and refugees are qualitatively described and quantitatively defined, study movement, as well as to how knowledge of the past as these discursive constructions often determine legal status contributes to a broader anthropological understanding of and reception in host countries, and also inform governmental human migration. Prerequisite: ANTH B101, or permission of and humanitarian responses. We will read a selection of instructor ethnographies examining different kinds of migrant and refugee movements in Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, ANTH B329 The politics of belonging and exclusion in culminating in an extended case study of Africans in China. India Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Africana Studies Since India’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, the Counts toward International Studies globalizing dynamics of cultural and economic liberalization

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ANTH B343 Human Growth and Development and Life social have broadened their understandings of the History past as a result of the spatial turn. Assignments will include Fall 2021 spatial analysis practica such as mobile survey and aerial survey via Google Earth and other GIS platforms. Students In this seminar we will examine various aspects of the human will be given the option of a creative Unessay or an Essay on life history pattern, highly unusual among mammals, from a a topic of their choosing as the final project. This project can comparative evolutionary perspective. First, we will survey the use numerous public datasets available online, or students fundamentals of life history theory, with an emphasis on primate can use their own data or some of my own in their projects. life histories and socioecological pressures that influence them. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and higher; or Anth 101 for Secondly, we will focus on unique aspects of human life history, first year students; or permission of instructor. including secondary altriciality of human infants, the inclusion of childhood and pubertal life stages in our pattern of growth Course does not meet an Approach and development, and the presence of a post-reproductive ANTH B352 Humans and Non-Humans life span. Finally, we will examine fossil evidence from the hominin lineage used in reconstructing the evolution of the Fall 2021 modern human life history pattern. Prerequisite: ANTH B101 or Anthropology is the study of humans, but the idea of the permission of instructor. “human” always implies the category of the “non-human.” Counts toward Child and Family Studies Humanity is defined in its relation to “non-humans”: ranging from tools and technology, to domesticated (and ANTH B345 Voices of the Dead: Seminar in undomesticated) animals, to agricultural crops, our local Spring 2022 ecologies, and the global environment. What does it mean to be human? What is the agency of non-humans in human worlds? Bioarchaeology is the study of human skeletal remains from Do forests think? Do dogs dream? What is the agency of a archaeological sites, with the goals of reconstructing the mountain? What are the rights of a river? What is the cultural lifeways of past peoples. In this course we will learn about significance of DNA? This course will trace Anthropological the methods used to reconstruct both individual lives and debates over the “human” and “non-human” in contexts ranging collective population histories, including human osteology, from Amerindian cosmology, to political ecology, and science , stable isotope analysis, mortuary analysis, and and technology studies. demography. We will study processes that leave their marks in/on bones and teeth, including behavioral features (such as Course does not meet an Approach occupation, inequality and social hierarchies, and interpersonal ANTH B354 Political Economy, Gender, Ethnicity and violence); ecological features (e.g., differences in landscape, Transformation in Vietnam diet, and naturally available resources); and biological features (e.g., growth and development, and physiological stress). This Fall 2021 exploration will be firmly rooted in the contemporary cross- Today, Vietnam is in the midst of dramatic social, economic cultural ethical and legal frameworks surrounding research and political changes brought about through a shift from a using human remains, from excavation to repatriation. central economy to a market/capitalist economy since the late Course does not meet an Approach 1980s. These changes have resulted in urbanization, a rise in consumption, changes in land use, movement of people, ANTH B346 Human Rights and Citizenship in Global environmental consequences of economic development, Perspective and shifts in social and economic relationships and cultural Spring 2022 practices as the country has moved from low income to middle income status. This course examines culture and society in This course examines the history of “decolonization.” In the Vietnam focusing largely on contemporary Vietnam, but with a 20th century, the global world order transformed from one view to continuities and historical precedent in past centuries. In organized around empires and imperial domination to one of this course, we will draw on anthropological studies of Vietnam, nation-states, self-determination, and human rights. In three as well as literature and historical studies. Relationships parts, this course will explore the history of colonization and between the individual, family, gender, ethnicity, community, imperialism; examine the historical significance and legacy land, and state will pervade the topics addressed in the of anti-colonial struggles, global decolonization in the 20th course, as will the importance of political economy, nation, and century, and the movement for human rights; as well as globalization. In addition to class seminar discussions, students investigate the significance of these legacies to contemporary will view documentary and fictional films about Vietnamese struggles over nationalism, migration, racial justice and culture. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or first citizenship. years with ANTH 102. Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies ANTH B349 Space, Landscape, and Environment Not offered 2021-22 ANTH B398 Senior Conference In this discussion-based seminar, students will become familiar Research design, proposal writing, research ethics, empirical with theories of space, place, and landscape, as well as research techniques and analysis of original material. interpretation and implementation of spatial analyses of social Class discussions of work in progress and oral and written science data. Students will learn how the concept of space presentations of the analysis and results of research are developed in social science, and how anthropologists and other important. A senior thesis proposal is the most significant

71 ANTHROPOLOGY writing experience in the seminar. Prerequisite: Senior as tools for studying historical and contemporary cities. Anthropology majors only. Topics include political-economic organization, conflict and social differentiation (class, ethnicity and gender), and ANTH B399 Senior Conference cultural production and representation. Philadelphia features Coding research notes, discussion of ongoing field work prominently in discussion, reading and exploration as do global and research. A senior’s thesis is the most significant writing metropolitan comparisons through papers involving fieldwork, experience in the seminar. Senior requirement. critical reading and planning/problem solving using qualitative and quantitative methods. ANTH B403 Supervised Work Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Independent work is usually open to junior and senior majors Inquiry into the Past (IP) who wish to work in a special area under the supervision of a member of the faculty and is subject to faculty time and interest. CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism Section 001 (Spring 2022): Cities Beyond Walls ANTH B415 Teaching Assistant Section 001 (Spring 2021): Colonial and Post Colonial Reflections ANTH B420 Praxis Fieldwork Seminar Spring 2022 This Praxis Fieldwork Seminar will provide an opportunity for hands-on work with the archaeological material and skeletal This is a topics course. Course content varies. remains from the 18th-19th century cemetery on Arch Street Current topic description: What happens after the city “ends?” in Old City Philadelphia, excavated and salvaged during Beyond physical or structural walls of governance, finance the summer of 2017. The materials are currently housed at and culture, what forms of peri-urban life do people create - several institutions in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, suburbs, squatter settlements, new or old enclaves? And what including the Mutter Museum, University of Pennsylvania, do these formations teach us about cities and regions? This University of Rutgers-Camden, and The College of New writing-intensive course uses a comparative case study method Jersey. Approximately 1-2 students will be able to work with to develop research and writing skills, drawing on materials material culture remains, and 4-5 will be able to work with from Hong Kong, Greater Buenos Aires, Greater Philadelphia skeletal remains. For students pursuing a geoarchaeology and Paris and its region. concentration, there may be possibilities for conducting soil sample and stable isotope analyses. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Praxis Program CITY B365 Topics: Techniques of the City ANTH B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Section 001 (Spring 2022): Making and Remaking Philadelphia Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are Section 001 (Spring 2021): New Urbanism and Its Discontents developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by Spring 2022 genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a This is a topics course. Course content varies. dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical Current topic description: This course explores how understanding gained through classroom study to work done in governance, politics, economics, planning, and community the broader community. and social action have shaped and continue to shape modern American cities, with a special focus on Philadelphia. Course Counts toward Praxis Program content will include; historical, academic, and popular texts. Students will have the opportunity to interact with guest ARCH B330 and Method speakers active in various aspects of Philadelphia’s urban Spring 2022 landscape. Students will also conduct independent research on topics of their choosing. For advanced majors but also open to A from the Renaissance to the present others by permission. with attention to the formation of theory and method. Counts toward Geoarchaeology GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Not offered 2021-22 BIOL B236 Evolution This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, Not offered 2021-22 psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. A lecture/discussion course on the development of evolutionary It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context biology. This course will cover the history of evolutionary theory, of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship population , molecular and developmental evolution, between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational , and phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi- week. lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural Scientific Investigation (SI) dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Ana Castillo, Sigmund Freud, CITY B185 Urban Culture and Society Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, Kurban Said, and Fall 2021 others. Examines techniques and questions of the social sciences

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Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) offers courses on the Middle East and North Africa in the Critical Interpretation (CI) departments of Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Counts toward International Studies Archaeology, Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, General Studies, History, History of Art, International HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Studies, and Political Science. Additionally, students can have a Fall 2021 concentration in Middle Eastern Studies. The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. Faculty and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the Grace Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of French manner in which an integrated system was created in the and Francophone Studies and Director of Middle Eastern

Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the Languages (on leave semester I) history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded Manar Darwish, Lecturer and Coordinator of Bi-Co Arabic version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American Program history. Farnaz Perry, Drill Instructor Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx College Foreign Language Requirement Counts toward International Studies Before the start of the senior year, each student must Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement by completing INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective two sequential semester-long courses in one language, Spring 2022 beginning at the level determined by their language placement. In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements A student who is prepared for advanced work may complete have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different the requirement instead with two advanced free-standing parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing semester-long courses in the foreign language(s) in which she systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings is proficient. have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands Courses of these protest movements? What can we learn from the ARAB B000 Arabic TA/Drill Sessions grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South Fall 2021, Spring 2022 in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits Arabic TA/Drill Sessions of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal ARAB B003 Second Year Modern Standard Arabic about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical Fall 2021 approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to the modern language. The course aims to increase students’ develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces will explore these questions through a series of case studies students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB H002 or and India. placement by instructor. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies ARAB B004 Second-Year Modern Standard Arabic Spring 2022 Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in ARABIC the modern language. The course aims to increase students’ expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced Arabic language instruction is offered through Tri-College grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces cooperation. Arabic 001 and 002 are taught at Haverford students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic College (ARAB H001 and H002 Introduction to Modern expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB B003 or Standard Arabic). Intermediate Arabic courses are taught placement. at Bryn Mawr (ARAB B003 and B004 Second-Year Modern Course does not meet an Approach Standard Arabic), and Advanced Arabic courses are available Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania through the Quaker Consortium. The teaching of Arabic is one ARAB B403 Independent Study important component of the three colleges’ efforts to increase the presence of the Middle East in their curricula. Bryn Mawr 73 ARTS: CREATIVE WRITING

ARTS sophomore year to submit a plan for the minor in order to ensure admission to the appropriate range of courses. Students may complete a minor in Creative Writing, Dance or Theater and may submit an application to major in Creative Concentration in Creative Writing Writing, Dance or Theater through the independent major English majors may elect a three-course concentration in program. Students may complete a major in Fine Arts or a Creative Writing as part of the English major program. Students major or minor in Music at Haverford College. English majors interested in the concentration must meet with the Creative may complete a concentration in Creative Writing. Writing Program director by the end of their sophomore year to submit a plan for the concentration and must also confirm the Courses in the arts are designed to prepare students who might concentration with the chair of the English Department. wish to pursue advanced training in their fields and are also for those who want to broaden their academic studies with work in the arts that is conducted at a serious and disciplined level. Courses

Courses are offered at introductory as well as advanced levels. ARTW B159 Introduction to Creative Writing Spring 2022 Faculty This course is for students who wish to experiment with three Madeline Cantor, Director and Term Professor of Dance genres of creative writing: short fiction, poetry and drama, and techniques specific to each of them. Priority will be given to Lauren Feldman, Visiting Assistant Professor interested first- and second-year students; additional spaces Lela Aisha Jones, Assistant Professor of Dance will be made available to upper-year students with little or no Mark Lord ,Theresa Helburn Chair of Drama, Director and experience in creative writing. Students will write or revise work Professor of Theater, (on leave semester II) every week; roughly four each will be devoted to short fiction, poetry, and drama. There will be individual conferences Maiko Matsushima, Visiting Assistant Professor with the instructor to discuss their progress and interests. Half Dee Matthews, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing of class time will be spent discussing student work and half will be spent discussing syllabus readings. Catharine Slusar, Associate Professor of Theater Critical Interpretation (CI) Daniel Torday, Professor and Director of Creative Writing (on leave semester II) ARTW B233 Writing for Radio and Podcast Not offered 2021-22 Creative Writing This course will explore the craft of writing for audio sources Courses in Creative Writing within the Arts Program are by focusing on the skills, process and techniques necessary designed for students who wish to develop their skills and to the generation and production of radio and podcast pieces. appreciation of creative writing in a variety of genres (poetry, Using the information-gathering tools of a journalist, the prose fiction and nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, etc.) and analytical tools of an essayist and the technical tools of a prose for those intending to pursue studies in creative writing at the writer, students will study contemporary and historical radio graduate level. Any English major may include one Creative and podcasts in the interest of creating their own pieces. The Writing course in the major plan. Students may pursue a minor central focus of the course will be weekly visits from current as described below. While there is no existing major in Creative radio writers, producers and on-air personalities, including local Writing, exceptionally well-qualified students with a GPA of and national NPR producers, commentators and reporters. 3.7 or higher in Creative Writing courses completed in the Critical Interpretation (CI) Tri-College curriculum may consider submitting an application Counts toward Creative Writing to major in Creative Writing through the Independent Major Counts toward Praxis Program Program after meeting with the Creative Writing Program director. When approved, the independent major in Creative ARTW B260 Writing Short Fiction I Writing may also be pursued as a double major with another Fall 2021, Spring 2022 academic major subject. An introduction to fiction writing, focusing on the short story. Minor Requirements Students will consider fundamental elements of fiction and the relationship of narrative structure, style, and content, Requirements for the minor in Creative Writing are six units of exploring these elements in their own work and in the assigned course work, generally including three beginning/intermediate readings in order to develop an understanding of the range courses in at least three different genres of creative writing of possibilities open to the fiction writer. Weekly readings (chosen from ARTW 159, 231, 236, 240, 251, 260, 261, 262, and writing exercises are designed to encourage students to 263, 264, 265, 266, 268, 269) and three electives, including explore the material and styles that most interest them, and at least one course at the 300 level (ARTW 360, 361, 362, to push their fiction to a new level of craft, so that over the 364, 366, 367, 371, 373, 382), allowing for advanced work in semester their writing becomes clearer, more controlled, and one or more genres of creative writing which are of particular more absorbing. interest to the student. The objective of the minor in Creative Writing is to provide both depth and range, through exposure Critical Interpretation (CI) to several genres of creative writing. Students should consult with the Creative Writing Program director by the end of their

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ARTW B261 Writing Poetry I stories that will be posted on the class blog, the English House

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In this course students will learn to “read like a writer,” while Critical Interpretation (CI) grappling with the work of accomplished poets, and providing ARTW B265 Creative Nonfiction substantive commentary on peers’ work. Through diverse readings, students will examine craft strategies at work in Fall 2021, Spring 2022 both formal and free verse poems, such as diction, metaphor, This course will explore the literary expressions of nonfiction imagery, lineation, metrical patterns, irony, and syntax. The writing by focusing on the skills, process and craft techniques course will cover shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) necessary to the generation and revision of literary nonfiction. as well as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, Using the information-gathering tools of a journalist, the etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying the literal analytical tools of an essayist and the technical tools of a fiction meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory description and writer, students will produce pieces that will incorporate both clear, compelling language) and the concealed meaning of a factual information and first person experience. Readings will text (e.g., through metaphor, imagery, meter, irony, and shifts include a broad group of writers ranging from E.B. White to in diction and syntax). By the end of the course, students will Anne Carson, George Orwell to David Foster Wallace, Joan have generated new material, shaped and revised draft poems, Didion to James Baldwin, among many others. and significantly grown as writers by experimenting with various aspects of craft. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) ARTW B266 Screenwriting

ARTW B262 Playwriting I Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art of storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: character, An introduction to playwriting through a combination of reading dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, sound. The course assignments, writing exercises, discussions about craft and focuses on the film adaptation; readings include novels, ultimately the creation of a complete one-act play. Students will screenplays, and short stories. Films adapted from the readings work to discover and develop their own unique voices as they will be screened. In the course of the semester, students will learn the technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short be expected to outline and complete the first act of an adapted writing assignments will complement each reading assignment. screenplay of their own. The final assignment will be to write an original one-act play. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Film Studies

ARTW B263 Writing Memoir I ARTW B267 Sentence Workshop Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical In our poetry courses we often spend ample time focusing on experience in writing about the events, places and people of line-level writing. But too often we skimp on sentence-level their own lives in the form of memoir. Emphasis will be placed writing in prose courses. This course aims to rectify that in on open-ended investigation into what we think we know (about slowing way down and focusing on a small quantity of prose, ourselves and others) and how we think we came to know very closely. Students will gain new skills on the sentence it. In addition to writing memoir of their own, and workshop level through reading some of our finest sentence writers, from discussions, students will also read and discuss works by Grace Paley and Toni Morrison to James Salter, Isaac Babel writers such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Freud, H.D., J.R. Ackerley, and Lydia Davis. We will workshop student work focusing Georges Perec, and more contemporary writing by writers such solely on the prose itself, and we will read important works on as Akeel Bilgrami, Elif Batuman, Emily Witt, Lawrence Jackson. language by Virginia Tufte, Brian Dillon and others. Although little mention will be made of the master narratives of

American memoir--Christian redemption, confession, captivity, Critical Interpretation (CI) and slavery--the class will consistently struggle to come to ARTW B269 Writing for Children terms with their foundational legacy in American life and letters. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) In this course, students have the opportunity to hone the craft ARTW B264 Long Form Journalism. of writing for children and young adults. Through reading, Not offered 2021-22 in-class discussion, peer review of student work, and private conferences with the instructor, we will examine the specific Students in this class will learn how to develop, report, write, requirements of the picture book, the middle-grade novel, edit and revise a variety of news stories, beginning with the and the young adult novel. This analytical study of classic basics of reporting and writing the news and advancing to and contemporary literature will inspire and inform students’ longer-form stories, including personality profiles, news features creative work in all aspects of storytelling, including character and trend stories, and concluding with point-of-view journalism development, plotting, world building, voice, tone, and the roles (columns, criticism, reported essays). The course will focus of illustration and page composition in story narration. heavily on work published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The

New York Times. Several working journalists will participate Critical Interpretation (CI) as guest speakers to explain their craft. Students will write

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ARTW B360 Writing Short Fiction II ARTW B365 Creative Nonfiction II Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 An exploration of approaches to writing short fiction designed to An exploration of approaches to writing personal essays and strengthen skills of experienced student writers as practitioners lyric essays designed to strengthen skills of experienced and critics. Requires writing at least five pages each week, student essayists as practitioners and critics. Requires writing workshopping student pieces, and reading texts ranging from at least five pages each week, workshopping student essays, realist stories to metafictional experiments and one-page and reading texts ranging from long personal essays to book- stories to the short novella, to explore how writers can work length essays, to explore how writers can work within the within tight confines. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B260 broader parameters of the long essay. Suggested Preparation: or work demonstrating equivalent expertise in writing short ARTW B265 or work demonstrating equivalent expertise in fiction. Students without the ARTW B260, must submit a writing personal and lyric essays. Students without the ARTW writing sample of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to the B265, must submit a writing sample of 10-15 pages in length Creative Writing Program during the preregistration period to be (nonfiction prose) to the Creative Writing Program during the considered for this course. preregistration period to be considered for this course. Course does not meet an Approach ARTW B361 Writing Poetry II Fall 2021 ARTW B367 Visual Poetics This course assumes that reading and writing are inextricably Spring 2022 linked, and that the only way to write intelligent and interesting Visual Poetics is an advanced poetry workshop in which we poetry is to read as much of it as possible. Writing assignments will discuss and write poetry that privileges the visual field as will be closely connected to syllabus reading, including an an essential element. The class will examine the development anthology prepared by the instructor, and may include working of experimental literary forms from visual to multimedia in forms such as ekphrastic poems (i.e. poems about works of poetics. We will utilize avant-garde techniques and consider visual art or sculpture), dramatic monologues, prose poems, the different representations of the visual poetic from Russian translations, imitations and parodies. Suggested Preparation: futurism to cinéma verité to digital poetry practices. Observation ARTW B261 or work demonstrating equivalent familiarity with and practice of the various visual mediums will allow critical the basic forms of poetry in English. For students without thinking around topics of hybridity, collaboration, form and ARTW B261, a writing sample of 5-7 poems must be submitted innovation in poetic craft. to the instructor to be considered for this course. ARTW B403 Supervised Work ARTW B362 Playwriting II The Department may offer special topics based on faculty Spring 2022 and student interests. Special Topic for Spring 2018: Students This course challenges students of playwriting to further with approved portfolios, who have taken Poetry 1 and 2, will develop their unique voices and improve their technical skills work with a member of the Creative Writing Program faculty in writing for the stage. We will examine how great playwrights on a semester-long chapbook project. As needed in the Spring captivate a live audience through their mastery of character, semester students who have had a Creative Writing Major story and structure. Through a combination of weekly reading approved through the Independent Major Program will work assignments, playwriting exercises, theater explorations, with a member of the Creative Writing Program faculty on artist-driven feedback, and discussions of craft, this class a semester-long 403 (Independent Study) as a final project will facilitate each student’s completion of an original, full- their senior year. Highly qualified Creative Writing minors length play. Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience and concentrators may petition the program to complete an in directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a work independent study, subject to the availability of faculty to sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students must complete supervise such projects. the Creative Writing preregistration questionnaire during preregistration to be considered for the course. ARTW B403 Supervised Work The Department may offer special topics based on faculty ARTW B364 Longer Fictional Forms and student interests. Special Topic for Spring 2018: Students Not offered 2021-22 with approved portfolios, who have taken Poetry 1 and 2, will An advanced workshop for students with a strong background work with a member of the Creative Writing Program faculty in fiction writing who want to write longer works: the long short on a semester-long chapbook project. As needed in the Spring story, novella and novel. Students will write intensively, and semester students who have had a Creative Writing Major complete a long story, novel or novella (or combination thereof) approved through the Independent Major Program will work totaling up to 20,000 words. Students will examine the craft with a member of the Creative Writing Program faculty on of their work and of published prose. Suggested Preparation: a semester-long 403 (Independent Study) as a final project ARTW B260 or proof of interest and ability. For students without their senior year. Highly qualified Creative Writing minors ARTW B260, students must submit a writing sample of 10-15 and concentrators may petition the program to complete an pages in length (prose fiction) to the Creative Writing Program independent study, subject to the availability of faculty to during the preregistration period to be considered for this supervise such projects. course. ARTW B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty 76 ARTS:CREATIVE WRITING / DANCE and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by primarily from our core academic curriculum and including: genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a ARTD 140 and one additional dance lecture/seminar course; dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned ARTD B142 and ARTD B242; one 0.5 technique course at the in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical intermediate or advanced level each semester after declaring understanding gained through classroom study to work done in the major. Participation in performance ensembles is highly the broader community. recommended. The major also requires attendance at a Counts toward Praxis Program prescribed number of performances/events, demonstration of basic writing competency in dance by taking two writing CHEM B125 Writing Science attentive course in Dance or an approved allied program or department, and a senior capstone experience. With the

Not offered 2021-22 advisor’s approval, two electives in the major may be selected How does scientific research make its way out of the lab? from allied Tri-College departments. Science translates from the laboratory and the field to journals In both the minor and the major, students may choose to written for the expert and is often translated again for more emphasize one aspect of the field, in consultation with the general audiences--appearing in venues such as Twitter, dance faculty regarding their course of study. newspapers, essays, and memoirs. This course will explore the many ways in which science is translated. Students will experiment with different structures and genres, with weekly readings and writing exercises designed to help them be Technique Courses and Performance clearer, livelier writers of science. This is a half-semester, half- Ensemble Courses credit course. The Dance Program offers a full range of dance instruction including courses in ballet, modern, jazz, West African, and Hip Hop, as well as techniques developed from other cultural Dance art and social forms such as flamenco, Classical Indian, Latin Dance is an art and an area of creative work as well as a social dance, and tap dance, among others. A ballet placement significant and enduring human behavior that can serve as a class is required for upper-level ballet courses. Performance core of creative and scholarly inquiry within the liberal arts. The ensembles, choreographed or re-staged by professional artists, Dance Program offers courses in progressive levels of ballet, are by audition and are given full concert support. The School modern and jazz, as well as a full range of courses in diverse Performance Project tours regional K-12 schools. Technique genres and various traditions. Students may also investigate courses ARTD 136-139, 141, 230-232, 330-331, and all dance the creative process in three levels of composition and ensembles are offered for academic credit; alternatively, all choreography courses. Performance opportunities available to technique courses and ensemble courses may be taken for students include the Spring Dance Concert, in which students credit (see both listings below). work with professional choreographers or reconstructors and perform in our main stage theater, and our School Performance Technique/Ensemble Courses for PE Credit Project, which travels to schools throughout the Philadelphia (check course guide for courses available region. The program’s lecture/seminar dance studies courses are designed to introduce students to dance as a vital area each semester) of academic inquiry, and include examinations of dance PE B101 Ballet: Beginning Technique theory, history and criticism, dance historiography, dance and PE B102 Ballet: Intermediate Technique embodied activism, and practical anatomy for dance. PE B103 Ballet: Advanced Technique Students can take single courses in dance, minor in dance, or complete a major through the independent major program. The PE B104 Ballet Workshop core academic curriculum for the dance minor or independent PE B105 Modern: Beginning Technique major in dance includes intermediate or advanced technique PE B106 Modern: Intermediate Technique courses, performance ensembles, dance composition, independent work, and courses in dance studies. PE B107 Modern: Advanced Technique PE B108 Jazz: Beginning Technique Minor Requirements PE B110 Jazz: Intermediate Technique Requirements for the dance minor are six units of coursework: three required (ARTD B140, B142 or B242, and two .5 credit PE B111 Hip Hop Technique studio courses: one must be selected from among the following PE B112 African Diaspora: Beginning Technique technique courses: 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, or any 200 or 300 PE B118 Movement Improvisation level technique course; the second .5 credit course must be a technique course at the 200 or 300 level or selected from PE B120 Intro to Flamenco among the following performance ensembles: 345-350); three PE B131 Tap: Learning and Performing approved electives; and attendance at a prescribed number of performances/events. With the advisor’s approval, one PE B145 Dance Ensemble: Modern elective in the minor may be selected from allied Tri-College PE B146 Dance Ensemble: Ballet departments. PE B147 Dance Ensemble: Jazz Independent Major in Dance Requirements PE B148 Dance Ensemble: West African The independent major requires eleven courses, drawn PE B149 Dance Ensemble: School Performance Project 77 ARTS: DANCE

PE B150 Dance Ensemble: Hip Hop Beginning level dance technique courses focus on introducing PE B195 Movement for Theater movement vocabulary, developing skills, and gaining an understanding of the form. Students must meet the attendance PE B196 Dance Composition Lab requirement, and complete three short writing assignments. PE B197 Directed Work in Dance Offered on a pass/fail basis only. Course does not meet an Approach Courses for Academic Credit ARTD B136 Modern: Beginning Technique ARTD B137 Ballet: Beginning Technique Fall 2021, Spring 2022 ARTD B137 Ballet: Beginning Technique Beginning level dance technique courses focus on introducing ARTD B138 Hip Hop Lineages movement vocabulary, developing skills, and gaining an ARTD B139 Movement as Freedom: Improv/Freestyle understanding of the form. Students must meet the attendance ARTD B140 Approaches to Dance: Themes and Perspectives requirement, and complete three short writing assignments. Offered on a pass/fail basis only. ARTD B142 Dance Composition: Process and Presence Course does not meet an Approach ARTD/ANTH B223 Anthropology of Dance ARTD B210 Sacred Activism: Dancing Altars, Radical Moves ARTD B138 Hip Hop Lineages ARTD B220 Screendance: Movement and the Camera Fall 2021 ARTD B225 Dancing Histories/Writing Dance Hip Hop Lineages is a team-taught practice-based course, exploring the embodied foundations of Hip Hop and its

ARTD B230 Modern: Intermediate Technique expression as a global phenomenon. Offered on a pass/fail ARTD B231 Ballet: Intermediate Technique basis only. ARTD B232 Jazz: Intermediate Technique Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Africana Studies ARTD B240 Dance History I: Roots of Western Theater Dance ARTD B241 Dance History II: A History of Contemporary ARTD B140 Approaches to Dance: Themes and Western Theater Dance Perspectives ARTD B242 Dance Composition: Elements and Craft Spring 2022 ARTD B245 Dance: Close Reading This course introduces students to dance as a multi-layered, significant and enduring human behavior that ranges from art ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body to play, from ritual to politics, and beyond. It engages students ARTD B265 Dance, Migration and Exile in the creative, critical, and conceptual processes that emerge ARTD B267 Diasporic Bodies, Continuous Revivals in response to the study of dance. It also explores the research potential that arises when other areas of academic inquiry, ARTD B270 Diasporic Bodies, Citizenship, and Dance including criticism, , history and philosophy, interact ARTD B280 Practical Anatomy: Muscles, Bones, Movement with dance and dance scholarship. Lectures, discussion, film, video, and guest speakers are included. ARTD/ANTH B310 Performing the City: Theorizing Bodies in Space Critical Interpretation (CI)

ARTD B330 Modern: Advanced Technique ARTD B141 African Diaspora: Beginning Technique ARTD B331 Ballet: Advanced Technique Fall 2021 ARTD B342 Advanced Choreography The African Diaspora course cultivates a community that ARTD B345 Dance Ensemble: Modern centers global blackness, dance, live music, and movement culture. Embody living traditions from a selection of peoples ARTD B346 Dance Ensemble: Ballet and countries including Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Brazil, and Cuba. ARTD B347 Dance Ensemble: Jazz Offered on a pass/fail basis only. ARTD B348 Dance Ensemble: African Dance Forms Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARTD B349 Dance Ensemble: School Performance Project Counts toward Africana Studies ARTD B350 Dance Ensemble: Hip Hop ARTD B142 Dance Composition: Process and Presence ARTD B400 Senior Project/Thesis Spring 2022 ARTD B403 Supervised Work This dance and movement composition course is open to ARTA B251/EDUC B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and movers of any kind, from any background, who want to explore Community Settings embodied creation as a part of their educational and/or life practice. It engages students in developing and structuring Courses movement ideas to build community with one another and the natural environment. This course will offer tools for developing ARTD B136 Modern: Beginning Technique creative problem-solving skills; exploring embodied approaches Fall 2021, Spring 2022 to observation, analysis, and communication; and investigating

78 ARTS: DANCE possibilities for collaboration. Students will be introduced embodiment; to understand the processes of historiography; to freestyle, cultural narratives, memoir, and other relevant and to prepare students to undertake their own historical resources as tools for researching and sketching choreographic research and scholarship. The course is designed to illustrate ideas. Movement exercises, viewing of live and filmed work, how our understanding of the past is dynamic and evolving and discussions will help to sharpen visual analysis and rather than fixed and static. Through critical engagement kinesthetic responses. The course includes journaling and with concert dance history’s canons, values, and ideological required readings and viewings but focuses primarily on weekly premises, Dancing Histories/Writing Dance emphasizes movement assignments. Concurrent participation in any Dance how history is written, questioned, and rewritten. A range of Program technique course, either for academic or PE credit, is concert/art dance genres across Europe, the US and Japan recommended. will be explored to exemplify how concert dance draws from Critical Interpretation (CI) both Western and non-Western dance forms and aesthetics. Moving from 16th century court ballet through 20th century ARTD B210 Sacred Activism: Dancing Altars, Radical modern and postmodern dance to international “contemporary” Moves stages, assigned readings will enable recognition of how dance scholars have employed national and transnational frameworks

Fall 2021 to write, and revise, dance histories. Students will develop a How do practices of embodiment, choreography, artistry, strong methodological framework that will allow them to grasp performance, testifying, and witnessing guide us to the significance of source material, the effects of cultural transformative and liberation action in our lives? This course competence and critical bias, and the ways in which the writing excavates the adornment of beings/bodies and the making of of history is a creative, political, and ideological process. sacred spaces for embodied performance, introspection, and Critical Interpretation (CI) ceremonial dance. We will take up the notion of the being/ Inquiry into the Past (IP) body as an altar and the importance of costume and garb in setting the scene for activism, ritual, and staged offerings. ARTD B230 Modern: Intermediate Technique The cognitive has gotten us here, what might continuums of believing in the being/body unveil? Expect to dance, move, Fall 2021, Spring 2022 write, discuss, create projects, and engage in a variety of Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on expanding textual and media resources. We will work individually and the movement vocabulary, on introducing movement phrases collectively for communal learning. The content for this course that are increasingly complex and rigorous, and on directing will be steeped in the lives, cultures, and practices of black and attention to dynamics and spatial ideas. Students will be brown folks. This is a writing and dance attentive course. No evaluated on their openness and commitment to the learning dance experience necessary, just courage to move. process, increased understanding of the technique, and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic progress Critical Interpretation (CI) and accomplishment. Preparation: two semesters of beginning

Counts toward Africana Studies level modern, or its equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Course does not meet an Approach ARTD B220 Screendance: Movement and the Camera Spring 2022 ARTD B231 Ballet: Intermediate Technique

This course is a practical introduction to Screendance for Fall 2021, Spring 2022 students interested in extending their experience or interest Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on in dance and movement into a new realm. Also known as expanding the movement vocabulary, on introducing movement dancefilm, cinedance, videodance and/or dance for the phrases that are increasingly complex and rigorous, and on camera, Screendance connects film (and filmmaking) with directing attention to dynamics and spatial ideas. Students dance (and dancemaking) in an evolving hybrid performative will be evaluated on their openness and commitment to the practice. For both the maker and audience, the inquiry is the learning process, increased understanding of the technique, adventure of discovering what the coming together of dance and demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic and screen can be. Screendance can be described as diverse, progress and accomplishment. Preparation: three semesters global, emergent, alive, active, trans-media, continually of beginning level ballet, or its equivalent, or permission of evolving. Through class screenings, exercises, readings and the instructor. First-semester first year students must take a discussion, students will learn approaches to combining dance placement class during customs week. and the moving image. Students will work alone and in small Course does not meet an Approach collaborative groups to create their own works integrating dance and video. Through creative projects, students will ARTD B232 Jazz: Intermediate Technique develop their own cinematic style and an increased proficiency with both filming and editing movement. Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on expanding Counts toward Film Studies the movement vocabulary, on introducing movement phrases that are increasingly complex and rigorous, and on directing ARTD B225 Dancing Histories/Writing Dance attention to dynamics and spatial ideas. Students will be evaluated on their openness and commitment to the learning Not offered 2021-22 process, increased understanding of the technique, and This course has three overlapping aims: to learn about concert demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic progress dance histories through historical sources, scholarship, and

79 ARTS: DANCE and accomplishment. Preparation: two semesters of beginning A previous dance lecture/seminar course or a course in a level jazz, or its equivalent, or permission of the instructor relevant discipline such as anthropology, sociology, or history is

Course does not meet an Approach recommended but not required. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARTD B242 Dance Composition: Elements and Craft Critical Interpretation (CI) Fall 2021 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

This dance composition course develops knowledge and ARTD B267 Diasporic Bodies, Continuous Revivals skill in the theory and craft of choreography. Basic elements of dancemaking such as space, timing, shaping, and Not offered 2021-22 relationship are explored and refined through structured and This dance theory, writing, and practice course takes open movement experiences. Attention is given to developing marronage--the act of escaping from slavery in the Americas to movement invention skills and compositional strategies; create autonomous communities--as its model. It views Black considering form and structure; investigating music, language, and African diasporic movement cultures and artistic practices images, and objects as sources; experimenting with group as forms of contemporary marronage, providing spaces of design; and broadening critical understanding of their own work embodied activism, release, restoration, and revival. Students and the work of others. Students will work on weekly solo and will engage the body as an individual, intimate maroon site group projects. Related viewing and reading will be assigned. and cultivate the embodied collective spaces that counter Concurrent participation in any Dance Program technique oppressive systems. By connecting theory and practice, course, either for credit or as an auditor, is recommended. students will build individual and collective consciousness Additional costs: In lieu of books, students may incur $10-30 in through the resources of narrative, memoir, and nostalgia performance ticket fees but may take advantage of free Tri-co intertwined with guided movement sessions. We will also performances. Course was previously taught at ARTD B144. utilize creative writing, film, and visual arts as components Critical Interpretation (CI) that enhance potential for deeper embodied engagement. This course is writing attentive and has required movement ARTD B245 Dance: Close Reading assignments/presentations. A previous dance studies course or a course in a relevant discipline such as anthropology,

Not offered 2021-22 sociology, or history is strongly recommended but not required. Students will engage in a close reading of dance, using live No dance experience is necessary, but a willingness to move is dance performances and events as primary texts. They will essential. set them in critical and historical contexts through readings in Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) dance criticism and theory, activities, discussion and media. Counts toward Africana Studies The class will take part in trips to live performances and events, selected from a range of genres, and will work through their ARTD B270 Diasporic Bodies, Citizenship, and Dance responses in discussion and writing. Requires attendance at performances and events, off-campus and on-campus. No Not offered 2021-22 dance experience necessary. In lieu of books students can Take a journey through citizenship, belonging and expect $30 - 50 in ticket expenses for the course. revolutions, guided by the lived experiences of prominent Critical Interpretation (CI) teachers, choreographers, and performers of traditional and Counts toward Praxis Program contemporary dances of Black and African descent. Our theory and practice frameworks are grounded in the works of women ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body: Dance and and LGBTQ+ scholars and dance artists navigating diasporic Power blackness, citizenship, and nationhood. We will centralize the notion that Black Life is Tied to All Life, investigating

Not offered 2021-22 the significance of developing philosophies and practices Artists, activists, politicos, regents, intellectuals, and just of integrity, as well as boundary-breaking transformations ordinary people have, throughout history and across cultures, when traversing dance/movement as a nomadic practice in used dance and performance to support political goals and a globalized world. No dance experience is necessary, but a ideologies or to perform social or cultural interventions in the willingness to move is essential. private and public spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) this course focuses on how dance is a useful medium for Critical Interpretation (CI) both embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices Counts toward Africana Studies of power, particularly with reference to gender, class, and ethnicity. Students will also investigate bodiedness as an ARTD B280 Practical Anatomy: Muscles, Bones, Movement active agent of social change and political action. Students will read excerpts from seminal and contemporary theory Fall 2021 of performing bodiedness, ethnicity, and gender, as well as KNOW THYSELF! This course is designed as a human from theoreticians, performers, and other practitioners more anatomy class for students interested in the application of specifically engaged with dance and performance. In addition to anatomy to physical activities including dance, sport, and literary, dance historical, anthropological and political texts, the movement in general. Students will learn musculoskeletal course includes media, guest lecturers, and introductory group anatomy, basic kinesiology, strengthening and stretching improvisation and performance exercises, however, no prior practices, and injury identification and management. Students training or experience in dance or performance is necessary. In will support theoretical knowledge with experiential movement lieu of books, readings will be posted on Moodle. Preparation: analysis in class. The goal of the course is to present a

80 ARTS: DANCE scientific basis that will aid in a greater understanding of how commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal week individual’s bodies are shaped and move, and how to achieve and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. greater efficiency of movement and desired performance outcomes. ARTD B346 Dance Ensemble: Ballet Course does not meet an Approach Spring 2022 Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant ARTD B330 Modern: Advanced Technique opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Fall 2021, Spring 2022 skills. Students audition for entrance into individual Advanced level technique courses continue to expand ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or movement vocabulary and to introduce increasingly guest choreographers are rehearsed and performed in challenging movement phrases and repertory. The advanced concert. Students are evaluated on their participation in modern course focuses on both intellectual and kinesthetic rehearsals, demonstration of commitment and openness to understanding of movement and command of technical the choreographic process, and achievement in performance. challenges and performance. Students will be evaluated on Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and their openness and commitment to the learning process, advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in at least one increased understanding of the technique, and demonstration technique class per week is recommended. Students must in class of their technical and stylistic progress and commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal week accomplishment. Preparation: three semesters of Modern: and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. Intermediate Technique, or its equivalent, or permission of the ARTD B347 Dance Ensemble: Jazz instructor. Fall 2021 ARTD B331 Ballet: Advanced Technique Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant Fall 2021, Spring 2022 opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Advanced level technique courses continue to expand skills. Students audition for entrance into individual movement vocabulary and to introduce increasingly challenging ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or movement phrases and repertory. The advanced ballet course guest choreographers are rehearsed and performed in focuses on both intellectual and kinesthetic understanding and concert. Students are evaluated on their participation in command of technical challenges and performance. The last rehearsals, demonstration of commitment and openness to half hour of the class is used for optional pointe or repertory the choreographic process, and achievement in performance. work with permission of the instructor. Students will be Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and evaluated on their openness and commitment to the learning advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in at least one process, increased understanding of the technique, and technique class per week is recommended. Students must demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic progress commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal week and accomplishment. Preparation: Minimum of three semesters and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. of intermediate level ballet, or its equivalent, or permission of ARTD B348 Dance Ensemble: African Dance Forms the instructor. Spring 2022 ARTD B342 Advanced Choreography Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant Fall 2021, Spring 2022 opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Independent study in choreography under the guidance of skills. Students audition for entrance into individual the instructor. Students are expected to produce one major ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or choreographic work and are responsible for all production guest choreographers are rehearsed and performed in considerations. Concurrent attendance in any level technique concert. Students are evaluated on their participation in course is recommended. Pre-requisite: ARTD B142: Dance rehearsals, demonstration of commitment and openness to Composition: Process and Presence and ARTD B242: Dance the choreographic process, and achievement in performance. Composition: Elements and Craft. Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in at least one ARTD B345 Dance Ensemble: Modern technique class per week is recommended. Students must commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal week

Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant Counts toward Africana Studies opportunities to develop dance technique and performance skills. Students audition for entrance into individual ARTD B349 Dance Ensemble: School Performance Project ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged from classic Spring 2022 or contemporary repertories are rehearsed and performed The School Performance Project is a community-focused in concert. Students are evaluated on their participation in project in which students learn a lecture-demonstration and rehearsals, demonstration of commitment and openness to a narrative dance work and tour this combined program to the choreographic process, and achievement in performance. schools in the Philadelphia area, reaching 1500 to 2000 Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and children per year. The course introduces these audiences to advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in at least one dance through a program of original choreography supported technique class per week is recommended. Students must by commissioned music and costuming. Interested students are

81 ARTS: DANCE expected to have some experience in a dance form or genre, and practice through observing, teaching, and reflecting on enthusiasm for performance, and an interest in education in arts practices in educational contexts. School or community and through the arts. Students are selected after an initial placement 4 hours a week. Preparation: At least an group meeting and movement session. Concurrent participation intermediate level of experience in an art form. This course in at least one technique class per week is recommended. counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater and towards a

ARTD B350 Dance Ensemble: Hip Hop major or minor in Education.

Spring 2022 Counts toward Praxis Program Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant ARTT B251 Fundamentals of Acting opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Fall 2021, Spring 2022 skills. Students audition for entrance into individual ensembles. Original works are choreographed by faculty or guest This studio course provides an introduction to the basic choreographers and performed in concert. Students are processes of acting to students of various experience levels. evaluated on their participation in rehearsals, demonstration We develop tools and a shared vocabulary using performance of commitment and openness to the choreographic process, exercises, games, improvisation and scene work. and achievement in performance. Preparation: This course is suitable for intermediate and advanced level dancers. Students PE(D) B103 Ballet: Advanced Technique must commit to the full semester and be available for rehearsal Fall 2021 week and performances in the Spring Dance Concert. Advanced level technique courses continue to expand ARTD B400 Senior Project/Thesis movement vocabulary and to introduce increasingly challenging movement phrases and repertory. Students are expected Majors develop, in consultation with a faculty advisor, a senior to incorporate dynamic and stylistic markers of the form capstone experience that will expand and deepen their work and to begin to develop an individual movement approach. and interests within the field of dance. This can range from These courses continue to focus on both the intellectual and a significant research or expository paper to a substantial kinesthetic understanding of technical challenges. Preparation: choreographic work that will be supported in a full studio three semesters of beginning level ballet, or its equivalent, or performance. Students who elect to do choreographic or permission of the instructor; incoming first year students must performance work must also submit a reflection paper. Work take a placement class during customs week, date and time begins in the fall semester and should be completed by the TBA. (Semester course, 2 PE credits) middle of the spring semester. PE(D) B108 Jazz: Beginning Technique ARTD B400 Senior Project/Thesis Fall 2021 Majors develop, in consultation with a faculty advisor, a senior capstone experience that will expand and deepen their work An introduction to the basic movement elements of jazz and interests within the field of dance. This can range from dance styles including the development of the necessary a significant research or expository paper to a substantial skills for moving dynamically through space, with rhythm and choreographic work that will be supported in a full studio expression. The course uses a variety of contemporary music performance. Students who elect to do choreographic or and focuses on both high and more subtle uses of performance work must also submit a reflection paper. Work movement. This course is open to all levels of experience. begins in the fall semester and should be completed by the (Semester course, 2 PE credits) middle of the spring semester. PE(D) B111 Hip-Hop Lineages ARTD B403 Supervised Work Fall 2021 Research in a particular topic of dance under the guidance of Students learn basic movements from hip-hop, funk, house, an instructor, resulting in a final paper or project. Permission of breakin’ and other contemporary urban styles. The course the instructor is required. aims to expand the student’s dance skills while increasing their knowledge of the history of hip-hop and providing a ARTD B403 Supervised Work sophisticated understanding of the potential of hip hop as an art Research in a particular topic of dance under the guidance of and social form. This course is open to all levels of experience. an instructor, resulting in a final paper or project. Permission of (Full Semester, 2 PE Credits) the instructor is required. Counts toward Africana Studies

ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and Community PE(D) B112 African Diaspora: Beginning Technique Settings Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course explores the movement and rhythms of African This is a Praxis II course intended for students who have Dance and aims to develop the necessary skills and deepen substantial experience in an art form and are interested the student’s kinesthetic, aesthetic and cultural awareness of in extending that experience into teaching and learning at the power of African dance forms. This course is open to all educational and community sites. Following an overview of levels of experience. (Semester Class, 2 PE Credits) the history of the arts in education, the course will investigate underlying theories and practices. The praxis component will PE(D) B113 Capoeira allow students to create a fluid relationship between theory Fall 2021

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Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that concert. This course is open to intermediate and advanced weaves intricate movements, mental and physical discipline, level dancers. fight, spirituality, and philosophy into a unique “game.” It is played in a circle incorporating music, song, dance, and ritual PE(D) B150 Dance Ensemble: Hip-hop as passed down from mestre (master, teacher) to student. Section 001 (Spring 2021): Hip Hop Students will learn the basic elements of Capoeira Angola

(including movement and music) and will be introduced to Not offered 2021-22 its history, rituals, and philosophy. (Semester Course, 2 PE Enrollment Criteria: By audition only. Dance ensembles are credits) designed to offer students significant opportunities to develop dance technique, particularly in relationship to dance as a PE(D) B120 Intro to Flamenco performance art. Students audition for entrance into individual Not offered 2021-22 ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged from classic Students learn the basic postures, rhythms, foot and hand or contemporary repertories are rehearsed and performed percussion that are central to Flamenco dance. (semester in concert. Students are evaluated on their participation course, 2 PE credits) in rehearsals, their demonstration of full commitment and openness to the choreographic and performance processes PE(D) B126 Rhythm and Style both in terms of attitude and technical practice, and their Not offered 2021-22 achieved level of performance. This course is open to Learn Tap and Flamenco in the same semester! Half a intermediate and advanced level dancers. Concurrent semester introduces street tap or hoofing, a uniquely American attendance in one technique class session a week is strongly and long-standing Philadelphia form of tap that focuses on recommended. Students must commit to the full semester and rhythms and sounds produced by the dancer’s taps. Half a be available for rehearsal week and two Spring Dance Concert semester introduces basic postures, rhythms, foot, and hand performances. (Semester course, 2 PE credits) percussion that are central to Flamenco dance. Both fun and energetic, these forms cultivate listening and rhythmic skills and PE(D) B195 Movement for Theater a sense of personal style. Shoes provided. (Semester Course, Fall 2021 2 PE Credits) Students must be performing in a faculty-directed Theater Program production that utilizes physical theatre techniques. PE(D) B129 The Gesture of Dance: Intro to Classical Indian/ This course can fulfill a total of two Physical Education credits Hula and Polynesian but not concurrently with taking it for academic credit. This Not offered 2021-22 course can fulfill up to a total of two Physical Education credits In every culture, human gesture is a means of conveying and cannot be repeated beyond that. Credit is approved stories or ideas, emotional states, or images from nature. This through faculty director at end of semester. course introduces students to two dance forms that value and incorporate beautiful and meaningful gestures, Classical Indian PE(D) B196 Dance Composition Lab dance and Polynesian Dance. Students will also learn basic Not offered 2021-22 postures, foot patterns, and both the slow and vigorous rhythms Students rehearse and perform in Dance Composition II that together comprise these dance forms.. (Semester course, student dance works. (Semester Class, 2 PE Credits) 2 PE credits) PE(D) B197 Directed Work in Dance PE(D) B131 Tap: Learning and Performing Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course can fulfill up to two Physical Education credits and During the first half of the course, students learn and review cannot be repeated. Permission of Dance Program Director is basic tap vocabulary. In the second half, students utilize the required. (Semester Course, 2 PE Credits) techniques they have acquired to prepare one or two short choreographed pieces with mixed level sections for an end-of- semester studio performance. Open to advanced beginners Theater through intermediate tap dancers. Preparation: minimum of one-half semester of tap or proficiency in basics of tap. The curricular portion of the Bryn Mawr and Haverford

(Semester Course, 2 PE Credits; Intermediate students may Colleges’ Theater Program focuses on the point of contact register for 2nd half only, for 1 PE credit) between creative and analytic work. Courses combine theory (reading and discussion of dramatic literature, history and PE(D) B145 Dance Ensemble: Modern criticism) and practical work (creative exercises, scene study and performance) to provide viable theater training within a Fall 2021 liberal-arts context. Dance ensembles are designed to offer students significant opportunities to develop dance technique and performance Minor Requirements skills. Students audition for entrance into individual Requirements for the minor in Theater are six units of course ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or guest work, three required (ARTT 150, 251 and 252) and three choreographers or works reconstructed/restaged from classic elective. Students must consult with the Theater faculty to or contemporary repertories are rehearsed and performed in ensure that the necessary areas in the field are covered.

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Students may submit an application to major in Theater through human behavior on stage. Various theoretical approaches the independent major program. to the task of developing a role are applied in workshop and scene study. Theater Performance ARTT B251 Fundamentals of Acting Numerous opportunities exist to act, direct, design and work in technical theater. In addition to the Theater Program’s Fall 2021, Spring 2022 mainstage productions, many student theater groups exist that This studio course provides an introduction to the basic are committed to musical theater, improvisation, community processes of acting to students of various experience levels. outreach, Shakespeare, film and video work, etc. Theater We develop tools and a shared vocabulary using performance Program productions are open to all races and genders. exercises, games, improvisation and scene work.

Courses ARTT B252 Fundamentals of Technical Theater

ARTT B150 Introduction to Theater Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 A practical, hands-on workshop in the creative process of turning a concept into a tangible, workable end through the An exploration of a wide range of dramatic works and history of physical execution of a design. Exploring new and traditional theater through research, analysis and discussion to develop methods of achieving a coherent synthesis of all areas of understanding and foundations for a theatrical production. technical production. Critical Interpretation (CI) ARTT B253 Performance Ensemble ARTT B234 Lighting Design Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 An intensive workshop in the methodologies and aesthetics This class is an introduction to the process of lighting design of theater performance, this course is open to students for the theatre. We will explore the steps and skills necessary with significant experience in performance. In collaboration to navigate the designer’s path from text to production. This with the director of theater, students will explore a range of course will focus on how to think about light, how light can performance techniques and styles in the context of rehearsing as a dramaturgical tool, and how we can communicate a performance project. Admission to the class is by audition or lighting ideas to our collaborators. permission of the instructor. The class is offered for a half-unit of credit. Course does not meet an Approach ARTT B254 Fundamentals of Theater Design ARTT B238 Stage Properties Section 001 (Fall 2020): Toy Theater Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 Stage properties is a varied discipline encompassing dozens of crafting/building challenges as well as textual analysis, An introduction to the creative process of visual design for historical and object research, cost estimation and planning, theater, exploring dramatic context and influence of cultural, design analysis, and, most of all, the ability to think critically social, and ideological forces on theater and examining and creatively about some of the performing arts’ weirdest practical applications of various technical elements such challenges. This class will be part lectures and demos by as scenery, costume, and lighting while emphasizing their the instructors, and a good part research, presentations, and aesthetic integration. hands-on design and building work by the students. We’ll Course does not meet an Approach explore a wide variety of construction and craft techniques as we learn about organizing, researching, acquiring, designing, ARTT B255 Fundamentals of Costume Design and building the objects required to create the worlds in which Spring 2022 the plays we read are set. This class will exercise students’ abilities to think creatively about unexpected and unusual Hands-on practical workshop on costume design for performing design issues and give them a chance to solve problems in arts; analysis of text, characters, movement, situations; an experiential way. This class is open to students studying historical and stylistic research; cultivation of initial concept both in-person here on campus and those who are studying through materialization and plotting to execution of design. remotely--lectures and demos will be presented both in person Course does not meet an Approach and digitally, and craft and building projects will generally be developed based on a student’s available resources, but, if ARTT B258 Intermediate Topics in Technical Theater needed, the instructors will help to source and send necessary Production tools and building materials to students who are off-campus. Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach This course is a deeper exploration of the process of technical ARTT B250 Twentieth-Century Theories of Acting theater production introduced in ARTT B252 - Fundamentals of Technical Theater Production. Through a combination of Not offered 2021-22 lecture, in-class and out-of-class analysis, and hands-on An introduction to 20th-century theories of acting emphasizing experience students will gain a more thorough understanding the intellectual, aesthetic, and sociopolitical factors surrounding of the processes of technical theatrical production. The course the emergence of each director’s approach to the study of focuses on five sections of technical production: basic technical

84 ARTS: THEATER drawing, advanced scenic construction techniques, electricity ARTT B356 Theater Of and After Samuel Beckett for the entertainment industry (lighting, sound, motors), basic Not offered 2021-22 rigging, and basic sound system design and execution. While mathematics is not the focus of the class, basic math and some An exploration of Beckett’s theater work conducted through algebra and trigonometry will be necessary. Prerequisite: ARTT both reading and practical exercises in performance B252 or Permission of Instructor techniques. Points of special interest include the monologue form of the early novels and its translation into theater, Course does not meet an Approach Beckett’s influences (particularly ) and collaborations, and the relationship between the texts of the major dramatic ARTT B265 Spaces of Possibility: Shakespeare and the works and the development of both modern and postmodern Classroom performance techniques. Section 001 (Fall 2020): Performing Shakespeare Section 001 (Spring 2021): Shakespeare in the Classroom ARTT B359 Directing for the Stage Section 001 (Spring 2022): Shakespeare in the Classroom Fall 2021 Spring 2022 A semiotic approach to the basic concepts and methods of Focused on creating and collaborating, this course examines stage direction. Topics explored through readings, discussion how we access Shakespeare and make Shakespeare and creative exercises include directorial concept, script accessible while working with 8th graders in Philadelphia. We analysis and research, stage composition and movement, and will work as performers, creators, directors, designers, mentors casting and actor coaching. Students rehearse and present and audience members. This course will be collaborative, three major scenes. Prerequisite: ARTT B251 (Fundamentals of sharing ideas and working as an ensemble comprised of Acting) or permission of instructor. college students and 8th graders. Prerequisite: ARTT B251 Fundamentals of Acting or permission of the instructor. ARTT B403 Supervised Work Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Research and work in a particular topic of theater under the guidance of an instructor. ARTT B332 The Actor Creates: Performance Studio in Generating Original Work ARTT B403 Supervised Work Not offered 2021-22 Research and work in a particular topic of theater under the guidance of an instructor. This course explores the actor as creator, inviting the performer to become a generative artist with agency to invent their own ARTT B430 Practicum in Stage Management work. Building on skills introduced in Fundamentals of Acting, we will introduce new methodologies of training to construct Over the semester, the student will attend all auditions, a framework in which students can approach making original rehearsals, and performances of the Bi-College Theater solo and group work. Students will use processes employing Program production, and will be responsible for managing all visual art, found dialogue, music, autobiography, and more. the details of same. With the guidance of a mentor and through Emphasizing guided, individual, and group collaboration, we reading and research, the student will learn to perform the will examine the role of the actor/creator through exercises many organizational and communications tasks involved in and readings that relate the actor’s creative process to an stage management. Students will be required to read a number understanding of self and the artist’s role in communities. of texts with the goal of understanding the vast scope of the Prerequisite: ARTT B251 (Fundamentals of Acting) job, the artistry and authority expected of a stage manager, the variations in styles of stage management, and the standard Counts toward Visual Studies procedures a student stage manager can incorporate into a college setting. Each student will be expected to keep a daily ARTT B351 Acting II journal of their experience--intellectual, artistic, and practical. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Scene Study The journal is their own and is meant to stimulate and deepen Fall 2021 their thinking about the process. This practicum requires that a student be willing to engage in the production process both as A continuation of the methods of inquiry in Fundamentals of an artist with an intellectual stake in the work and as an adult Acting, this course is structured as a series of project-based with a position of real authority in the group. The student will learning explorations in acting. Prerequisite: ARTT B251 be expected to use that authority while always remaining calm, (Fundamentals of Acting) or permission of instructor. polite, kind, and generous to the artists with whom they are working. Prerequisites: Prior academic work in theater and the ARTT B353 Advanced Performance Ensemble permission of the instructor Fall 2021, Spring 2022 ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and Community An advanced, intensive workshop in theater performance. Settings Students explore a range of performance techniques in the context of rehearsing a performance project, and participate in Not offered 2021-22 weekly seminars in which the aesthetic and theatrical principles This is a Praxis II course intended for students who have of the play and production will be developed and challenged. substantial experience in an art form and are interested The course may be repeated. Prerequisite: ARTT B253 or in extending that experience into teaching and learning at permission of the instructor. educational and community sites. Following an overview of the history of the arts in education, the course will investigate

85 ARTS: THEATER / ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS underlying theories and practices. The praxis component will in directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a work allow students to create a fluid relationship between theory sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students must complete and practice through observing, teaching, and reflecting on the Creative Writing preregistration questionnaire during arts practices in educational contexts. School or community preregistration to be considered for the course. placement 4 hours a week. Preparation: At least an intermediate level of experience in an art form. This course counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater and towards a ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS major or minor in Education.

Counts toward Praxis Program Faculty ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body: Dance and Suzanne Amador Kane, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Power Coordinator of Biochemistry and Not offered 2021-22 Ted Brzinski, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Artists, activists, politicos, regents, intellectuals, and just Daniel Grin, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy ordinary people have, throughout history and across cultures, Wynn Ho, Research Associate used dance and performance to support political goals and ideologies or to perform social or cultural interventions in the Andrea Lommen, Professor and Chair of Physics and private and public spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, Astronomy this course focuses on how dance is a useful medium for Karen Masters, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Director both embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices of Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center of power, particularly with reference to gender, class, and ethnicity. Students will also investigate bodiedness as an Bruce Partridge, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy active agent of social change and political action. Students Walter Smith, The Paul and Sally Bolgiano Professor of will read excerpts from seminal and contemporary theory Physics; Professor of Physics and Astronomy of performing bodiedness, ethnicity, and gender, as well as Paul Thorman, Physics Laboratory Instructor and Observatory from theoreticians, performers, and other practitioners more Coordinator specifically engaged with dance and performance. In addition to literary, dance historical, anthropological and political texts, the course includes media, guest lecturers, and introductory group Affiliated Faculty improvisation and performance exercises, however, no prior David Wonnacott, Professor and Chair of Computer Science training or experience in dance or performance is necessary. In lieu of books, readings will be posted on Moodle. Preparation: Astronomy and astrophysics apply physical principles to A previous dance lecture/seminar course or a course in a understand the properties of objects in space. The range of relevant discipline such as anthropology, sociology, or history is scales of phenomena to be investigated is vast—from neutron recommended but not required. stars the size of cities, to galaxies containing billions of stars, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) or even the entire Universe as a single system. The Haverford Critical Interpretation (CI) astronomy and astrophysics curricula are based on the study Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of these systems and of their evolution. Any study of astronomy and astrophysics is enriched by a firm understanding of the ARTW B262 Playwriting I physics underlying these phenomena, and as such astronomy and astrophysics majors share many similarities with physics. Not offered 2021-22 Our curriculum is shaped to provide a solid foundation in An introduction to playwriting through a combination of reading the basic principles of both astronomy and physics, an assignments, writing exercises, discussions about craft and understanding of the most recent developments in astronomy ultimately the creation of a complete one-act play. Students will and cosmology, and the inspiration to pursue further learning in work to discover and develop their own unique voices as they the sciences. learn the technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short Entry to either the astronomy or astrophysics major comprises writing assignments will complement each reading assignment. foundational courses in physics and mathematics during the The final assignment will be to write an original one-act play. first two years as well as ASTR 204 (typically taken in the Critical Interpretation (CI) sophomore year), which surveys all major areas of modern astrophysics. We also offer a number of more focused, upper ARTW B362 Playwriting II level courses on specific topics in astronomy and astrophysics, Spring 2022 including one on modern observational techniques. These courses usually reflect the research interests of our faculty. This course challenges students of playwriting to further develop their unique voices and improve their technical skills Student research is a vital part of both majors. Our faculty in writing for the stage. We will examine how great playwrights work at the cutting edge of modern astronomy and cosmology, captivate a live audience through their mastery of character, creating exceptional research opportunities for majors. Some of story and structure. Through a combination of weekly reading those opportunities are based on campus, within the College’s assignments, playwriting exercises, theater explorations, William J. Strawbridge Observatory, equipped with telescopes artist-driven feedback, and discussions of craft, this class and powerful computational facilities. Other opportunities lie off- will facilitate each student’s completion of an original, full- campus, and we also encourage students to apply for summer length play. Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience research experience in other departments (as well as our own).

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Learning Goals astrophysics, or to make use of their physics training for a wide range of other careers. The courses offered in the astronomy and astrophysics program address a variety of learning goals: • The astronomy major is appropriate for students who desire an in-depth education in astronomy that can be • Knowledge of the contents of the extraterrestrial universe, applied to a wide-range of career trajectories, but who including planets, stars, galaxies, and the large-scale do not necessarily intend to pursue graduate study in structure of the universe itself, and understanding the astronomy.

formation and evolution of all of these. Although a variety of pathways can lead to a major in the • Problem-solving skills: like physics, astronomy emphasizes department, we advise prospective astronomy or astrophysics the understanding the physical world in terms of majors to: physical laws, an endeavor that is validated by applying

these mathematical laws to a variety of astrophysical • study physics (PHYS H105 or PHYS H115 and PHYS phenomena and then solving the resulting mathematical H106, or PHYS H101 and PHYS H102, or Bryn Mawr

problem in order to verify the subsequent predictions with equivalents). beginning in their first year. observations. • enroll in ASTR204 and PHYS H213/PHYS H214 in their

• Constructing models: the construction of models to sophomore year. describe natural phenomena and astronomy represents For students with little or no prior computer programming the most creative aspect of any science. experience, and who do not intend to take CMSC105, we advise (but do not require) taking ASTR 104 / PHYS 104 in the

• Developing physical intuition: the ability to look at a first or second year. (Students who do well in this course can, if

complicated system and know what’s important. desired, go on to take CMSC107.)

• Computer programming: a cornerstone of modern Students may major in astronomy or astrophysics, but not both.

astronomy, from data analysis to modeling. Astrophysics majors may not double major in either physics or • Observing skills in using a variety of astronomical astronomy, nor can they minor in either physics or astronomy. instruments and techniques. Astronomy majors may pursue a double major or a minor in physics, however we encourage students considering that • Research experience, which involves: option to look more closely at being an astrophysics major. • confronting the unknown and tolerating its ambiguity. For either major, students may count courses taken outside

• generating new science with which to understand new the Quaker Consortium toward the major with advanced

observations. permission; typically two to three courses may be granted credit • analyzing data. in this way. Students interested in this option should discuss this point with their major/pre-major advisor in advance. • the art of scientific collaboration. • oral and written communication of new results. Major Requirements • designing new experiments/observations, and Astrophysics Major Requirements networking with other scientists to possibly generate new collaborative efforts. • PHYS H105 (or PHYS H115 or PHYS H101), PHYS H106 Haverford’s Institutional Learning Goals are available on the (or PHYS H102), PHYS H213, PHYS H214, PHYS H211 President’s website, at http://hav.to/learninggoals. (usually taken concurrently with PHYS H213). • Two mathematics courses; MATH H121 and all 200-level Curriculum or higher mathematics courses can be used to satisfy this requirement. Introductory Courses • ASTR H204 and any two 300-level astronomy courses. The department regularly offers courses that require no Majors can substitute 100-level Swarthmore astronomy prerequisites or prior experience in astronomy. These are seminars for 300-level astronomy courses. intended primarily for non-science students. • PHYS H302, PHYS H303, and PHYS H309. Major Programs • The Senior Seminar, PHYS H399F and PHYS H399I, Students can choose to major in either astronomy or including a talk and senior thesis on research conducted astrophysics. Both majors provide substantial training in by the student. This research can be undertaken in a quantitative reasoning and independent thinking through work 400-level research course with any member of the Physics in and out of the classroom. and Astronomy Department or by doing extracurricular research at Haverford or elsewhere, e.g., an approved

The department also offers a minor in astronomy. summer research internship at another institution. The • The astrophysics major is the same as a physics major, but thesis is to be written under the supervision of both the with an astronomical emphasis. This major is appropriate research advisor and a Haverford advisor if the research for students who wish to pursue the study of astronomy advisor is not a Haverford faculty member. with attention to the physical principles that underlie the Bryn Mawr equivalents may be substituted for the non- observed phenomena. The depth of the physics training astronomy courses. required for a degree in astrophysics will prepare students who wish to pursue graduate study in astronomy or

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Astronomy Major Requirements research during the summer before their senior year. The thesis thus requires students to engage in focused work, towards a

• PHYS H105 (or PHYS H101 or PHYS H115), PHYS H106 single goal, for a substantial time period. We aim for students to

(or PHYS H102), PHYS H213, PHYS H214. develop deep topical expertise in a single subfield of astronomy • Two mathematics courses; MATH H121 and all 200-level or astrophysics, and to develop technical expertise in one of the or higher mathematics courses can be used to satisfy this analysis techniques common to that field (often computational requirement. data analysis). • ASTR H204, four 300-level astronomy courses, one of Students learn to ask good questions of others and themselves, which may be replaced by an upper-level physics course. in pursuit of a deeper understanding of a previously unsolved Majors can substitute 100-level Swarthmore astronomy question about the natural world.

seminars for 300-level astronomy courses. Students are expected to place their senior research work in • PHYS H399F and PHYS H399I, which may be replaced the context of the scientific literature in their field of study, and by approved independent research either at Haverford or to present their results to an audience of professionals (for their elsewhere. thesis) and their peers (for the talk or poster). They are given training in searching and reading the scientific literature by • The Senior Seminar, PHYS H399F and PHYS H399I, each research supervisor, as well as specific materials through including a talk and senior thesis on research conducted the senior seminar course. by the student. This research can be undertaken in a 400-level research course with any member of the Physics More than is the case in any other undergraduate curricular and Astronomy Department or by doing extracurricular engagement, students must learn how to be independent research at Haverford or elsewhere, e.g., an approved and self-motivated to complete their thesis work. This style of summer research internship at another institution. The scientific inquiry also imbues a realistic sense of professional thesis is to be written under the supervision of both the scientific research in students and increases their grit. research advisor and a Haverford advisor if the research advisor is not a Haverford faculty member. Senior Project Assessment Bryn Mawr equivalents may be substituted for the non- Each senior’s thesis culminates in both a written and an oral astronomy courses. component. The written thesis is carefully read and evaluated by two faculty readers. Senior Project The thesis research itself is evaluated for (i) a demonstrated The senior project and requirements are the same for the understanding of the context and content of the research Astronomy major and the Astrophysics major: (including a review of the relevant scientific literature), (ii) independent problem solving and synthesis, and (iii) success in Coursework prior to the senior year provides students’ primary understanding the forward looking implications of the research. preparation for their thesis work. As outlined in our program’s educational goals, this coursework emphasizes: knowledge of The written and oral presentations of the research are the extraterrestrial universe, problem solving skills, constructing evaluated for (i) a clear and appropriate writing style and (ii) models, developing physical intuition, computer programming, well-curated and well-presented visual displays of the research observing skills, and research-like inquiry. Students also gain results. experience with oral and written communication of complex scientific topics in their introductory physics labs and in upper Requirements for Honors level coursework, including ASTR H341 (Observational All astronomy and astrophysics majors are regarded as Astronomy). During group research meetings, students provide candidates for honors. For both majors, the award of honors weekly oral reports to each other on their thesis progress and will be made in part on the basis of superior work in the receive ongoing support and instruction from faculty. departmental courses and in certain related courses. The To pull together the many elements that make up the senior award of honors will additionally be based on the senior thesis year, students are required to participate in a year-long seminar and talk. High honors carries the additional requirement of course, PHYS H399. At the approximately biweekly meetings, demonstrated originality in senior research. students and some departmental faculty gather around a table to discuss topics running the gamut from scientific ethics to Minor Requirements how to give a scientific talk or write a scientific research paper. • PHYS H105 (or PHYS H115 or PHYS H101); PHYS H106 Further details on this course are contained in the description of (or PHYS H102). senior year work in physics. • ASTR H204; one 300-level astronomy course. Minors may The most important part of the senior seminar remains the substitute a 100-level Swarthmore astronomy seminar for senior paper and the senior presentations. We assess students the 300-level astronomy course. by their performance on a short talk and the draft of the background section of their thesis during the fall semester, Concentrations and Interdisciplinary Minors a comprehensive talk or poster presentation in the spring Astronomy and astrophysics majors can pursue concentrations semester and a senior thesis written in the form of a scientific in scientific computing and education, while astrophysics paper. majors with interdisciplinary interests in biophysics may also Senior Project Learning Goals qualify for the biophysics concentration. The senior thesis project extends through at least an entire Each of these concentrations is described in its relevant section academic year, with many students starting their thesis of the Catalog.

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Special Programs equivalent; PHYS H105 or PHYS B121; Co-requisite(s): PHYS H106 or B201 Haverford is part of the KNAC eight-college consortium (https://astro.swarthmore.edu/knac) that provides research ASTR H304 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS (1.0 Credit) assistantships for a summer student exchange program, Division: Natural Science grants for student travel to outside observatories, and a yearly Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes symposium at which students present their research. An introduction to the methods and problems of computational Study Abroad physics, including matrix methods, ordinary differential equations, integration, eigensystems, Monte Carlo techniques, Astronomy and astrophysics majors can and do pursue studies Fourier analysis, and iterative methods. Course will include abroad. There are a number of programs, mostly in English- a substantial independent project. Crosslisted: Physics, speaking countries, that allow astronomy and astrophysics Astronomy, Computer Science Prerequisite(s): PHYS 213 or majors to continue and broaden their studies in the field while BMC PHYS 306 or instructor consent abroad. Majors may count courses taken abroad toward the major with advanced permission; typically two to three courses ASTR H341 ADVANCED TOPICS: OBSERVATIONAL may be granted credit in this way. Students interested in ASTRONOMY (1.0 Credit) studying abroad should discuss this point with their major/pre- major advisor in advance. Division: Natural Science Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes Facilities Observing projects that involve using a CCD camera on a See the departmental web page for a description of 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Projects include laboratories, equipment and other special facilities for this spectroscopy; variable star photometry; H-alpha imaging; program. imaging and photometry of galaxies and star clusters; instruction in the use of image processing software and Courses CCD camera operation. Students work in groups of two with minimal faculty supervision. Formal reports are required. ASTR H101 ASTRONOMICAL IDEAS (1.0 Credit) Prerequisite(s): ASTR H204

Division: Natural Science; Quantitative ASTR H344 ADVANCED TOPICS IN ASTROPHYSICS: Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes MULTI-WAVELENGTH ASTRONOMY (1.0 Credit) Fundamental concepts and observations of modern astronomy, Division: Natural Science such as the properties of planets, the birth and death of stars, Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes and the properties and evolution of the Universe. Not intended for students majoring in the physical sciences. This course will focus on the multiwavelength emission of celestial sources and bring the students in touch with the ASTR H104 TOPICS IN INTRO PROGRAMMING: PHYSICS technical capabilities of currently available telescopes. The AND ASTRONOMY (1.0 Credit) students will study a set of different sources, one source at a time, that are known to show multiwavelength emission. They Division: Natural Science; Quantitative will study each source at all wavelengths of the electromagnetic Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes spectrum, compare properties at different wavelengths and try Topics in Introductory Programming is designed to give to assign theoretical models to their observations. The students a general introduction to programming as related to data will actively discuss the observed discrepancies in class analysis across many fields. Students will be introduced to and draw conclusions about what is needed to answer open standard introductory programming imperative and object questions regarding the physics of a source. This class will oriented techniques as well as data structures necessary to also have active observations with the 16’’ optical telescope at create efficient and understandable algorithmic solutions to Haverford College as well as radio observations carried out with problems. This course satisfies the prerequisite for CMSC the 20-meter radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory to 107. Antirequisite(s): Students who have taken a semester of study the multiwavelength characteristics of celestial sources. college-level computer science (e.g.,CMSC105) or placed into Prerequisite: ASTR 204 CMSC107 are ineligible to take this course. It is intended for students with little or no background in computer programming. ASTR H351 TOPICS IN ASTROPHYSICS: GRAVITATIONAL This course is equivalent to CMSC 104. Enrollment by WAVES (0.5 Credit) permission only. Division: Natural Science Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes ASTR H204 INTRODUCTION TO ASTROPHYSICS (1.0 Credit) This course explores the new field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics from the low frequencies (in the polarization of Division: Natural Science the cosmic microwave background) to the high frequencies Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes that LIGO has discovered. In between, there is pulsar timing General introduction to astronomy including: the structure as a gravitational wave detector, and the planned space-based and evolution of stars; the properties and evolution of the detector LISA. We will discuss how these different detectors will system including planetary surfaces and atmospheres; work together to explore the relatively unexplored gravitational exoplanets; and observational projects using the Strawbridge wave universe. You will learn some of the basics of general Observatory telescopes. Prerequisite(s): MATH H118 or relativity. Crosslisted: PHYS. Pre-requisite(s): PHY213 and PHY214 or permission of the instructor.

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ASTR H352 TOPICS IN ASTROPHYSICS: EXTRAGALACTIC study that is not currently offered in the curriculum. In order to DATA SCIENCE (0.5 Credit) enroll, a student must have a faculty sponsor. Prerequisite(s):

Division: Natural Science Instructor consent Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes A 0.5 credit upper level astronomy/astrophysics elective, which BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR can be taken in series with the other 0.5 credit upper level Astro elective offered the same semester, or as a stand-alone course. BIOLOGY This class will cover the basics of modern extragalactic science (a review of our knowledge of the Milky Way and external Students may complete a major in Biochemistry and Molecular galaxies) alongside hands on projects involving data science/ Biology. Required courses are drawn principally from the statistical techniques used to investigate them. Assessment Biology and Chemistry Departments and those interested will be highly project based, with regular coding assignments in Biochemistry should consult both Biology and Chemistry (in python) done during class time, and guided reading of web pages. Students may double major in Biology and both current, and classic astrophysical literature. Students will Chemistry, but are not permitted to double major in Biology leave with an understanding of extragalactic astrophysics as and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or Chemistry and a modern data focused science. Crosslisted: PHYS. Pre- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. There is no minor in requisite(s): ASTR204 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Students majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology are not permitted to minor ASTR H353 TOPICS IN PHYSICS: SOFT MATTER PHYSICS in Biology or Chemistry. No more than two non-Tri-Co courses (0.5 Credit) may be counted towards the major. Division: Natural Science Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes Faculty This is a 1/2-credit, upper-level physics elective course which serves as an introduction to the physics of soft condensed Bárbara Bitarello, Assistant Professor of Biology matter (squishy stuff!), and will comprise a mixture of seminar- Sharon Burgmayer, W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry style discussions and chalk talk-like student presentations. Monica Chander, Associate Professor of Biology Seminar discussions will center around peer-reviewed literature and conference lecture recordings. Students will Gregory K. Davis, Associate Professor of Biology (on leave finish the course having developed general literacy with the semester II) core concepts in Soft Matter and an understanding of the Tamara Davis, Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology major challenges facing professional Soft Matter scientists. Crosslisted: ASTR. Pre-requisite(s): Math H121, at least two Karen F. Greif, Professor of Biology 200-level courses in physics and/or another natural science Yan Kung, Associate Professor of Chemistry Lottery Preference: Physics majors, astrophysics majors, astro Bill Malachowski, Professor of Chemistry majors and physics/astro minors, seniors, juniors. Lisa Watkins, Lecturer in Chemistry ASTR H354 TOPICS IN PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY: PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY THROUGH COMPUTATION (0.5 Credit) Adam Williamson, Assistant Professor of Biology and Co- Director of Health Studies Division: Natural Science; Quantitative Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major allows This class will introduce cosmological expansion, fluid dynamics the student to progress through a series of courses that of the homogeneous and perturbed universe, and stochastic emphasize understanding life at the molecular level and processes in the universe. Students will build computational utilize experimental approaches. Research can be a valuable problem-solving skills related to these concepts, coming to an experience for students considering graduate or professional understanding of how modern precision measurements of the studies or for those planning research or teaching careers. Any cosmic microwave background and density field unveil Biology or Chemistry professor may be selected as a research the of the universe, which includes mysterious adviser, and students are encouraged to consult departmental dark matter and dark-energy components. Crosslisted: ASTR. advisers for information on how to join research groups. Pre-requisite(s): Physics 213 Lottery Preference: Juniors and Students may begin conducting research at any point in their seniors in physics, astrophysics, and astronomy majors. undergraduate experience with the approval of a faculty member. ASTR H404 RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYSICS (1.0 Credit) With careful advanced planning a student may enroll in Study Division: Natural Science Abroad. Typically a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Intended for those students who choose to complete an major will select a one-semester program in an English- independent research project in astrophysics under the speaking country such as England, Wales or Australia; other supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Instructor programs are possible. consent Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ASTR H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) Requirements and Opportunities Division: Natural Science A student may qualify for an A. B. in Biochemistry and Intended for students who want to pursue some topic of

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Molecular Biology (BCMB) by completing courses in Biology Option 1: 2 semesters of Biology 400 or Chemistry 400, plus all and Chemistry with the following distribution. Students should requirements associated with the senior thesis. be mindful that some courses have pre-requisites. Students Option 2: Independent Study or Praxis on a biochemical topic interested in the BCMB major should complete CHEM 103/104 arranged by the student, plus all requirements associated with in their freshman year. Students should see the BCMB major the senior thesis. adviser if they believe they qualify for advanced placement. Option 3: An additional biochemically-related advanced elective Fundamental Courses at the 300-level or with a laboratory component. • Biology 110 Courses in Allied Fields • Chemistry 103 and 104 • Mathematics 101, 102 • Chemistry 211 and 212 • Mathematics 201 Major Writing Requirement In consultation with the major adviser, two courses must be selected from the courses listed below. Students who plan to Students will complete two writing-attentive laboratory courses undertake graduate or medical studies should consider taking before the end of their junior year. To satisfy this requirement, Physics. students typically select two courses from the following list: Biology 375, Biology 376, Chemistry 251 or Chemistry 252. • Physics 101, 102 or 121, 122 • Biology 111, 202, 236 Core Biochemistry Courses • Computer Science 109 or 113, 151 • Biology 375 OR Chemistry 242 and Chemistry 251 • Chemistry 377 Timetable for Meeting Requirements There are a variety of ways to meet the major requirements Advanced Biology and Chemistry Courses provided that 100 level courses in Chemistry are completed by • Biology 201 the end of the freshman year. Fundamental courses in Biology and Chemistry must be completed before the junior year. Either • Biology 376 Biology 375 OR Chemistry 242 and 251 must be completed • Chemistry 221 OR Chemistry 222 before the senior year. Note that Mathematics 201 is required as a pre-requisite for Chemistry 221 or 222. Two sample Advanced Electives on Biochemically programs are shown here; other curricular configurations are Related Topics possible. Two courses that provide depth and breadth are required Sample 1 and at least one must be at the 300 or 500 level OR have a laboratory component. • Freshman year: Chemistry 103, 104; Mathematics 101, 102 Suggested courses include, but are not limited to: • Sophomore year: Biology 110; Chemistry 211, 212;

• Biology 215 Mathematics 201

• Biology 216 • Junior year: Biology 201, 255; Chemistry 222, 242, • Biology 255 251; Physics 101, 102 • Biology 271 • Senior year: Biology 352, 376; Chemistry 377; Senior Experience • Biology 340 • Biology 352 Sample 2 • Chemistry 221 or 222 (if not used as a Core course) • Freshman year: Biology 110, 111; Chemistry 103, 104; Mathematics 101, 102 • Chemistry 231 • Sophomore year: Biology 201; Chemistry 211, 212; • Chemistry 331 Mathematics 201 • Chemistry 332 • Junior year: Biology 216, 375; Chemistry 222, 377; CMSC • Chemistry 345 110 • Chemistry 515 • Senior year: Biology 340, 376; Senior Experience Students are encouraged to consider suitable course offerings at Haverford and Swarthmore. All advanced elective choices Honors must be approved by the major adviser. Students seeking to complete the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major must complete two semesters of research Senior Experience (Option 1) or an approved independent study or praxis (Option Option 1 or Option 2 are required for Honors. 2) and have a GPA of 3.6 in all major and allied courses. Advanced Placement

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Students are instructed to follow the policies described by BIOL B111 Biological Exploration II individual departments. Spring 2022 Courses BIOL B111 is an introductory-level course designed to encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple CHEM B103 General Chemistry I levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and ecological. Each course will explore these areas of biology Fall 2021 through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory This is an introductory course in chemistry, open to students three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Spring with no previous chemistry experience. Topics include aqueous 2021: BIOL B111 will explore how adapt to their solutions and solubility; the electronic structure of and environments. Topics to be investigated include development, ; chemical reactions and energy; intermolecular physiology, , ecology (population, community forces. Examples discussed in lecture and laboratory include and ), and evolution. The laboratory portion of the applications of the material to environmental sciences, material course will explore the fundamentals of organismal biology science and biological chemistry. Lecture three hours, recitation through scientific research, with an emphasis on the scientific one hour and laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: process and experimental design. Topics include development, Quantitative Readiness Required. neurobiology, evolution, physiology, ecology, and . Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BIOL B201 Genetics CHEM B104 General Chemistry II Fall 2021 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Enriched Section This course focuses on the principles of genetics, including Section 001 (Spring 2022): Enriched Section classical genetics, population genetics and molecular genetics. Spring 2022 Topics to be covered include the genetic and molecular nature For students who have completed General Chemistry I or have of and phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene some previous work in chemistry. Topics include chemical identification, chromosome abnormalities, developmental kinetics; aqueous solutions and solubility; chemical equilibrium; genetics, genome editing and . Examples of genetic electrochemistry; thermochemistry. Examples discussed in analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms including lecture and laboratory workshop include nuclear chemistry, Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. Lecture three hours geochemistry, environmental sciences, material sciences and a week. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. biological chemistry. One section of the course is designed Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) for students considering a major in the sciences and takes Scientific Investigation (SI) an interdisciplinary approach to the course topics. Lecture Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory three hours a Counts toward Health Studies week. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a grade of at least 2.0 or permission of the instructor. BIOL B202 Neurobiology Quantitative Methods (QM) Fall 2021

Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) An introduction to the and its broad

Scientific Investigation (SI) contributions to function. The class will explore fundamentals of

Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology neural anatomy and signaling, sensory and motor processing and control, nervous system development and examples BIOL B110 Biological Exploration I of complex brain functions. Lecture three hours a week. Fall 2021 Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of BIOL B110 is an introductory-level course designed to instructor. encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple Scientific Investigation (SI) levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology populational. Each course will explore these areas of biology Counts toward Neuroscience through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Fall 2020: CHEM B211 Organic Chemistry I

BIOL B110 will explore the ways the central dogma of molecular Fall 2021 biology relates to the biochemical basis of human disease. The laboratory portion of the course will explore the fundamentals of An introduction to the basic concepts of organic chemistry, molecular and cellular biology through scientific research, with including acid-base principles; functional groups; alkane and an emphasis on scientific process and experimental design. cycloalkane structures; alkene reactions; alkynes; dienes and aromatic structures; substitution and elimination reactions;

Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) alcohol reactivity; and radical reactions. The laboratory course

Scientific Investigation (SI) introduces basic operations in the organic chemistry lab,

Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology spectroscopy, and reactions discussed in lecture. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 104 with a grade of at least 2.0.

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Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) human genetics. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111. Scientific Investigation (SI) BIOL 201 highly recommended. Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Quantitative Methods (QM) Scientific Investigation (SI) CHEM B212 Organic Chemistry II: Biological Organic Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chemistry Counts toward Health Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Section 002 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I Section 002 (Spring 2022): Biological Organic Chemistry Fall 2021 Section 00A (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Section 00B (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Atomic and Section 00C (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry molecular structure; molecular modeling; rotational, vibrational, Section 00D (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three Section 00E (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry hours. Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. Section 00Z (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Quantitative Methods (QM) Section 098 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Spring 2022 CHEM B222 Physical Chemistry II The second semester (biological organic chemistry) is broken into two modules. In the first module, the reactivity of carbonyl Spring 2022 carbon is discussed, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic Modern thermodynamics, with application to phase equilibria, acids and derivatives, saccharides and enolate chemistry. interfacial phenomena and chemical equilibria; statistical Traditional biochemistry coverage begins with the second mechanics; chemical dynamics. Kinetic theory of gases; module. Amino acids (pI, electrophoresis, side chain pKa), chemical kinetics. Lecture three hours. Prerequisite: CHEM structure (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°), and enzymatic catalysis, B104 and MATH 201. May be taken concurrently with CHEM kinetics and inhibition are introduced. The reactivity of the co- B212, with permission of instructor. (vitamins) is also covered as individual case studies Quantitative Methods (QM) in bio-organic reactivity. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and laboratory five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 with a grade of at least 2.0. CHEM B231 Inorganic Chemistry Scientific Investigation (SI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bonding theory; structures and properties of ionic solids; BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics symmetry; crystal field theory; structures, spectroscopy, stereochemistry, reactions and reaction mechanisms of Not offered 2021-22 coordination compounds; acid-base concepts; descriptive An introductory course in designing experiments and analyzing chemistry of main group elements. Lecture three hours a week. biological data. This course is structured to develop students’ Prerequisite: CHEM 212. understanding of when to apply different quantitative methods, Course does not meet an Approach and how to implement those methods using the R statistics Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology environment. Topics include summary statistics, distributions, randomization, replication, parametric and nonparametric tests, CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry and introductory topics in multivariate and Bayesian statistics. The course is geared around weekly problem sets and Fall 2021 interactive learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 The structure, chemistry and function of amino acids, , is highly recommended. Students who have taken PSYC B205/ , polysaccharides and nucleic acids; kinetics; H200 or SOCL B265 are not eligible to take this course. metabolic relationships of , lipids and amino Quantitative Methods (QM) acids, and the control of various pathways. Lecture three hours Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) a week. Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. Scientific Investigation (SI) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Health Studies

BIOL B216 Genomics CHEM B251 Research Methodology in Chemistry Spring 2022 Fall 2021 An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic data. This is a laboratory topics course integrating advanced This course will examine the types of biological questions concepts in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and that can be answered using large biological data sets and physical chemistry. Students gain experience in the use of complete genome sequences as well as the techniques and departmental research instruments and in scientific literature technologies that make such studies possible. Topics include searches, quantitative data analysis, record keeping and genome organization and evolution, comparative genomics, writing. Prerequisite CHEM B212. Co-requisite: CHEM B221 and analysis of transcriptomes and proteomes, with a focus on or B231 or B242. Attendance at departmental colloquia is expected of all students.

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Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) semester of BIOL 110-111 and BIOL 201, or BIOL 236, or Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology permission of instructor. Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology CHEM B252 Research Methodology II Spring 2022 CHEM B345 Advanced Biological Chemistry This laboratory course integrates advanced concepts in Fall 2021 chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and physical This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CHEM B242 chemistry. Students will gain experience in the use of or BIOL B375. departmental research instruments and in scientific literature searches, quantitative data analysis, record-keeping, and Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology writing. Attendance at departmental colloquia is expected of all students. Course Prerequisites: CHEM B212. Course Co- BIOL B375 Biochemistry requisites: CHEM B222 or CHEM B231 or CHEM B242. Fall 2021 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) This course will focus on the structure and function of proteins, Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology carbohydrates and lipids, enzyme kinetics, and central metabolic pathways. Students will explore these topics via BIOL B255 lecture, critical reading and discussion of primary literature and Spring 2022 laboratory experimentation. Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab per week. Prerequisites: BIOL B110 and two semesters Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche on the of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212). planet. This course will examine how microbes have become successful colonizers; review aspects of interactions between Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology microbes, humans and the environment; and explore practical uses of microbes in industry, medicine and environmental BIOL B376 Molecular Biology management. The course will combine lecture, discussion of Spring 2022 primary literature and student presentations. Three hours of This course focuses on the analysis of nucleic acids and gene lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: regulation through lecture, critical reading and discussion of BIOL 110 and CHEM B104. primary literature and laboratory experimentation. Three hours Scientific Investigation (SI) of lecture, three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or BIOL B375 or permission of instructor. Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts toward Health Studies CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways and BIOL B271 Fall 2021 Spring 2022 An introduction to and the concepts of This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated by analyzing Biochemical pathways involved in cellular metabolism will be the experimental observations that support them. Topics include explored in molecular detail. Energy producing, degradation, gametogenesis and fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate and biosynthetic pathways involving sugars, fats, amino specification and differentiation, pattern formation, regulation acids, and nucleotides will be discussed with an emphasis of , neural development, and developmental on structures and mechanisms, experimental methods, plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations and regulation, and integration. Additional topics, drawn from the experiments on living embryos. Lecture three hours, laboratory primary research literature, may be covered. Readings will three scheduled hours a week; most weeks require additional be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature and hours outside of the regularly scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one assessments may include oral presentations, problem sets, semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. written examinations, and writing assignments. This is a second Scientific Investigation (SI) course in Biochemistry and assumes a strong foundation in the Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fundamentals of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM Counts toward Health Studies 242, or permission of instructor.

BIOL B327 Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Not offered 2021-22 CHEM B515 Topics in Organic Chemistry This seminar course will discuss evolution primarily at the Not offered 2021-22 level of genes and genomes. Topics will include the roles of This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Prerequisite: CHEM selection and drift in molecular evolution, evolution of gene B242 or permission of instructor. expression, genomic approaches to the study of quantitative variation, evolutionary history of humans, and evolutionary Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology perspectives on the study of human disease. Students will read papers from the primary literature, lead and participate in class discussions and debates, and write reviews of research articles. Quantitative proficiency required. Pre-requisites: One

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BIOLOGY courses require specific introductory courses (e.g., BIOL 110) as prerequisites. Students may complete a major or minor in Biology. • Six courses at the 200 and 300 level (excluding BIOL 390- Interdisciplinary minors with connections to the Biology Major 398) include Data Science, Environmental Studies, Health Studies, • At least two of these upper-level courses must be at the and Neuroscience. 300 level. The curriculum of the department is designed to introduce • At least three of these upper-level courses must be students to unifying concepts and broad issues in biology, laboratory courses. For students enrolled in two semesters and to provide the opportunity for in-depth inquiry into topics of BIOL 400 or BIOL 403, only two upper-level laboratory of particular interest through coursework and independent courses are required. research. Introductory and intermediate-level courses examine the structures and functions of living systems at all levels • The Writing in the Major requirement is fulfilled by of organization, from molecules, cells, and organisms, to completion of two 200/300-level laboratory courses in populations and ecosystems. Advanced courses encourage Biology, all of which are writing attentive. students to gain proficiency in the critical reading of research • No more than two upper-level courses may be taken literature, leading to the development, presentation and outside the Bryn Mawr Biology Department. defense of a senior paper as the capstone experience. • Senior capstone experience (two options) Opportunities for supervised research with faculty are available and encouraged. Students considering majoring in Biology Option 1: Two semesters of senior laboratory research are encouraged to make an appointment to meet with the (BIOL 400), which includes written and oral presentation of Department’s major advisor, Jennifer Skirkanich (jskirkanic@ a senior paper based on this research. brynmawr.edu), to determine the best sequence of courses Option 2: A topic-based senior seminar course (BIOL 390- based on their interests and goals. 398) taken in the senior year, which includes written and oral presentation of a senior paper based on an in-depth Faculty investigation of a topic. • Two semester courses in general chemistry (CHEM 103 Bárbara Bitarello, Assistant Professor of Biology and CHEM 104) Monica Chander, Associate Professor of Biology • Must be completed with merit grades before the beginning Gregory Davis, Associate Professor of Biology (on leave of junior year. semester II) • Three semester courses in allied sciences to be selected Tamara Davis, Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology from Anthropology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Karen Greif, Professor of Biology Geology, Mathematics, Physics, or Psychology. Selection of allied science courses must be made in consultation Cynthia Hsu, Visiting Assistant Professor with the student’s major adviser, and be approved by the Thomas Mozdzer, Associate Professor and Chair of Biology Department. Sydne Record, Associate Provost and Associate Professor of Biology Honors Departmental honors are awarded to students who have Crystal Reynaga, Assistant Professor distinguished themselves academically or via their participation Jennifer Skirkanich, Senior Lecturer in Biology in departmental activities. In order to be considered for honors, Michelle Wien, Senior Lecturer in Biology Biology majors are required to attend at least six STEM- focused seminars at Bryn Mawr College or Haverford College Adam Williamson, Assistant Professor of Biology and Co- over the course of their junior and senior years. In addition, Director of Health Studies students are required to submit a one-paragraph summary of each seminar they attend within 48 hours of attendance. The form to submit summaries can be found at brynmawr. Major Requirements qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d1fni5ZqFprdYhf?Q_JFE=qdg. As • Two semesters of introductory biology (BIOL110, and part of the process for awarding honors in Biology, interested BIOL111 or BIOL115) seniors are also required to write a short (one-page maximum) • Must be completed with merit grades before the beginning essay identifying ways in which they have distinguished of junior year. themselves within the Biology Department, including activities and scholarship beyond the classroom that exemplify their • A score of 5 on the Advanced Placement examination, engagement and growth as a Biology major. The form to submit or 7 on the International Baccalaureate examination, can an essay can be found at brynmawr.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/ be used to satisfy one semester of introductory biology. SV_cAMvlxxxCJfF5PL. Final selection for honors is made by Students placing out of one semester of introductory the Biology faculty. biology are still required to take one semester of BIOL 110/111/115 plus an additional Biology course at the 200 or Minor Requirements 300 level. In general, the Department highly recommends both semesters for majors since some 200/300-level • Six semester courses in Biology (including up to two introductory biology courses)

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• No more than two of these courses may be taken outside BIOL B111, students must demonstrate quantitative readiness the Bryn Mawr Biology Department prior to enrolling in either of these courses. At least one semester of Introductory Biology is required as a prerequisite Minors in Data Science, Environmental for most of the 200/300-level courses in Biology; both Studies, Health Studies and Neuroscience semesters of Introductory Biology are required for students interested in pursuing a Biology major. These minors are available for students interested in interdisciplinary exploration in these areas. Check relevant In previous years, the Introductory Biology sequence was sections of the course catalog for complete descriptions of the offered as four half-semester courses, Biology 110-113; minors. students who completed the four half-semester courses have fulfilled the Introductory Biology requirements for the major. Teacher Certification Biology 101-102 is for post-baccalaureate students The College offers a certification program in secondary teacher only; undergraduate students interested in taking Introductory education. Consult catalog for further information. Biology should enroll in Biology 110-111. Animal Experimentation Policy Courses Students who object to participating directly in laboratory BIOL B110 Biological Exploration I activities involving the use of animals in a course required for the major are required to notify the faculty member of their Fall 2021 objections at the beginning of the course. If alternative activities BIOL B110 is an introductory-level course designed to are available and deemed consistent with the pedagogic encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple objectives of the course by the faculty member, then the levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and student will be allowed to pursue alternative laboratory activities populational. Each course will explore these areas of biology without penalty. through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Fall 2020: 4+1 Master of Engineering Program with the BIOL B110 will explore the ways the central dogma of molecular University of Pennsylvania biology relates to the biochemical basis of human disease. The laboratory portion of the course will explore the fundamentals of Students enrolled in this program may begin coursework molecular and cellular biology through scientific research, with towards their master’s degree at University of Pennsylvania an emphasis on scientific process and experimental design. as a Bryn Mawr undergraduate. After graduation from Bryn Mawr, students will complete their master’s coursework over Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) the course of a year as a full-time student at UPenn. More Scientific Investigation (SI) information can be found at brynmawr.edu/academics/41- Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology master-engineering-penn. Biology majors interested in the 4+1 Program with Penn Engineering should contact Jennifer BIOL B111 Biological Exploration II Skirkanich ([email protected]). Spring 2022 BIOL B111 is an introductory-level course designed to Summer Science Research Program at Bryn encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple Mawr College levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and Bryn Mawr and Haverford students are eligible to apply to ecological. Each course will explore these areas of biology the Summer Science Research (SSR) program. SSR is a 10- through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory week program that supports students who are doing discovery- three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Spring based research in the laboratory or field with Bryn Mawr 2021: BIOL B111 will explore how organisms adapt to their faculty. The program provides support for students along with environments. Topics to be investigated include development, a speaker series and professional development programming. physiology, photosynthesis, ecology (population, community More information can be found at brynmawr.edu/summer- and ecosystem), and evolution. The laboratory portion of the science-research. course will explore the fundamentals of organismal biology through scientific research, with an emphasis on the scientific Overview of Introductory Biology Courses process and experimental design. Topics include development, at Bryn Mawr College neurobiology, evolution, physiology, ecology, and ecosystems. The Bryn Mawr College Biology Department offers a two- Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) semester Introductory Biology sequence for undergraduate Scientific Investigation (SI) students: Biology 110-111. These courses are available to all Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology students interested in taking a college-level biology course, BIOL B115 Computing Through Biology: An Introduction including prospective Biology majors/minors, non-majors interested in health professions, students fulfilling the Scientific Not offered 2021-22 Investigations distributional requirement and students simply This course is an introduction to biology through computer interested in taking a college-level biology course. There are science, or an introduction to computer science through biology. no course prerequisites for Biology 110 or 111; students are The course will This course is an introduction to biology through welcome to start the sequence either in the fall (BIOL B110) or computer science, or an introduction to computer science the spring (BIOL B111), depending on their schedules. Although through biology. The course will examine biological systems there are no specific course prerequisites for BIOL B110 or through the use of computer science, exploring concepts and 96 BIOLOGY solving problems from , evolution, ecology, and Counts toward Health Studies molecular biology through the practice of writing and modifying code in the Python programming language. The course will BIOL B202 Neurobiology introduce students to the subject matter and branches of Fall 2021 computer science as an academic discipline, and the nature, development, coding, testing, documenting and analysis of the An introduction to the nervous system and its broad efficiency and limitations of algorithms. Three hours of lecture, contributions to function. The class will explore fundamentals of three hours of lab per week. neural anatomy and signaling, sensory and motor processing and control, nervous system development and examples Quantitative Methods (QM) of complex brain functions. Lecture three hours a week. Scientific Investigation (SI) Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of Counts toward Introduction to Data Science instructor. BIOL B150 Human Anatomy Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Spring 2022 Counts toward Neuroscience An introduction to human anatomy. Topics include overall organization, cells and tissues, and the integumentary, skeletal, BIOL B210 Biology and Public Policy muscular, and nervous systems of animals and humans. Not offered 2021-22 Laboratories are designed to provide hands-on experience to familiarize students with anatomy in the context of whole A lecture/discussion course on major issues and advances organs and the . Lecture three hours, laboratory three in biology and their implications for public policy decisions. hours a week. Course does not count toward the Biology Major Topics discussed include reproductive technologies, the Human and is taught at the level of a 200-level course. Prerequisite: Genome project, environmental health hazards, bioterrorism, One semester of BIOL 110-111, CHEM 103 and 104, or and euthanasia and transplantation. Readings include permission of instructor. scientific articles, public policy and ethical considerations, and lay publications. Lecture three hours a week. This class Course does not meet an Approach involves considerable writing. Prerequisite: One semester of Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. BIOL B181 Introduction to Biology I: Genetics and the Counts toward Environmental Studies Central Dogma Counts toward Health Studies Fall 2021 BIOL B214 The History of Genetics and Embryology For post-baccalaureate premedical students only. A Not offered 2021-22 comprehensive examination of topics in genetics, molecular This course provides a general history of genetics and biology and cancer biology. Lecture three hours, laboratory embryology in Germany, Britain and the United States from three hours a week the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The course will include a Course does not meet an Approach focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played in the development of these sub-disciplines. We will look at BIOL B182 Introduction to Biology II: Biochemistry and the lives of well known and lesser-known individuals, asking Human Physiology how factors such as their educational experiences and mentor Spring 2022 relationships influenced the roles these women played in the scientific enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific For post-baccalaureate premedical students only. A contributions in historical context, requiring a review of core comprehensive examination of topics in biochemistry, cell concepts in genetics and developmental biology. biology and human physiology. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. BIOL B101 is strongly recommended. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Scientific Investigation (SI) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

BIOL B201 Genetics BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course focuses on the principles of genetics, including An introductory course in designing experiments and analyzing classical genetics, population genetics and molecular genetics. biological data. This course is structured to develop students’ Topics to be covered include the genetic and molecular nature understanding of when to apply different quantitative methods, of mutations and phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene and how to implement those methods using the R statistics identification, chromosome abnormalities, developmental environment. Topics include summary statistics, distributions, genetics, genome editing and epigenetics. Examples of genetic randomization, replication, parametric and nonparametric tests, analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms including and introductory topics in multivariate and Bayesian statistics. Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. Lecture three hours The course is geared around weekly problem sets and a week. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. interactive learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) is highly recommended. Students who have taken PSYC B205/ Scientific Investigation (SI) H200 or SOCL B265 are not eligible to take this course. Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Quantitative Methods (QM)

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Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) species, and will explore the role of plants in human society Scientific Investigation (SI) and ecological systems. One semester of BIOL 110/111. Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies BIOL B216 Genomics BIOL B236 Evolution Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic data. A lecture/discussion course on the development of evolutionary This course will examine the types of biological questions biology. This course will cover the history of evolutionary theory, that can be answered using large biological data sets and population genetics, molecular and developmental evolution, complete genome sequences as well as the techniques and paleontology, and phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a technologies that make such studies possible. Topics include week. genome organization and evolution, comparative genomics, and analysis of transcriptomes and proteomes, with a focus on Scientific Investigation (SI) human genetics. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111. BIOL 201 highly recommended. BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences

Quantitative Methods (QM) Fall 2021 Scientific Investigation (SI) A study of how and why modern computation methods are Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic principles Counts toward Health Studies of visualizing and analyzing scientific data through hands-on programming exercises. The majority of the course will use BIOL B217 the R programming language and corresponding open source Spring 2022 statistical software. Content will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six hours of combined lecture/lab per week. This course integrates anatomy, physiology, , and physics to understand the principles that govern Quantitative Methods (QM) animal and human movement. Concepts will highlight the Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) interdisciplinary nature of biomechanics that must be used Scientific Investigation (SI) to study the mechanics of movement, from running, walking, Counts toward Introduction to Data Science flying, to swimming. Students will develop fundamental Counts toward Environmental Studies quantitative skills for biological problem-solving and be exposed Counts toward Neuroscience to the field of comparative biomechanics. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111, or permission of instructor. BIOL B255 Microbiology

Quantitative Methods (QM) Spring 2022 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche on the Scientific Investigation (SI) planet. This course will examine how microbes have become successful colonizers; review aspects of interactions between BIOL B220 Ecology microbes, humans and the environment; and explore practical Fall 2021 uses of microbes in industry, medicine and environmental management. The course will combine lecture, discussion of A study of the interactions between organisms and their primary literature and student presentations. Three hours of environments. The scientific underpinnings of current lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: environmental issues, with regard to human impacts, are also BIOL 110 and CHEM B104. discussed. Students will also become familiar with ecological principles and with the methods ecologists use. Students will Scientific Investigation (SI) apply these principles through the design and implementation Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of experiments both in the laboratory and the field. Lecture Counts toward Environmental Studies three hours a week, laboratory/field investigation three hours Counts toward Health Studies a week. There will be optional field trips throughout the semester. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 or B111 or BIOL B271 Developmental Biology permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Scientific Investigation (SI) An introduction to embryology and the concepts of Counts toward Environmental Studies developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated by analyzing the experimental observations that support them. Topics include BIOL B225 Biology and Ecology of Plants gametogenesis and fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate Spring 2022 specification and differentiation, pattern formation, regulation of gene expression, neural development, and developmental Plants are critical to numerous contemporary issues, such plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations and as ecological sustainability, economic stability, and human experiments on living embryos. Lecture three hours, laboratory health. Students will examine the fundamentals of how plants three scheduled hours a week; most weeks require additional are structured, how they function, how they interact with other hours outside of the regularly scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one organisms, and how they respond to environmental stimuli. semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. In addition, students will be taught to identify important local

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Scientific Investigation (SI) laboratory three hours per week. In 2020 the course will have Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology a mandatory field trip to a tropical marine field station and Counts toward Health Studies an overnight field trip to a temperate field station in the mid- Atlantic. Prerequisite: BIOL B220 or BIOL B225. BIOL B303 Human Physiology Counts toward Environmental Studies Fall 2021 A comprehensive study of the physical and chemical processes BIOL B327 Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics in tissues, organs and organ systems that form the basis of Not offered 2021-22 animal and human function. , control systems and This seminar course will discuss evolution primarily at the the structural basis of function are emphasized. Laboratories level of genes and genomes. Topics will include the roles of are designed to introduce basic physiological techniques and selection and drift in molecular evolution, evolution of gene the practice of scientific inquiry. Lecture three hours, laboratory expression, genomic approaches to the study of quantitative three hours a week. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL variation, evolutionary history of humans, and evolutionary 110-111, CHEM 103, 104 and one 200-level biology course, or perspectives on the study of human disease. Students will permission of instructor. read papers from the primary literature, lead and participate in Counts toward Health Studies class discussions and debates, and write reviews of research articles. Quantitative proficiency required. Pre-requisites: One BIOL B305 and Biological Rhythms semester of BIOL 110-111 and BIOL 201, or BIOL 236, or Fall 2021 permission of instructor. This seminar course will survey our current understanding Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of and sleep at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level. Classes will be a mixture of lecture, BIOL B330 Ecological Modeling discussion, and student presentations based on both historical Fall 2021 and current primary literature. Prerequisite: PSYC H217, PSYC The survival of humanity depends upon natural resources B218, or BIOL B202 or permission of instructor. and ecosystem services. To make important decisions about environmental problems, society needs to understand BIOL B317 Evolution and Medicine ecological systems. However, ecological systems are inherently Spring 2022 complex. Statistical models coupled with empirical data and An opportunity to apply evolutionary thinking to the prevention simulations provide a means of exploring the complexity of and treatment of human disease. Course themes include: ecological systems to better inform environmental decisions. pathogen evolution; evolution of defense mechanisms; This class will introduce students to a variety of ecological reproductive medicine; cancer as an evolutionary process; models while instilling an appreciation for the types of disease-associated allele frequencies in populations; individual uncertainties that may shroud models to better understand health versus population health. A problem-based seminar inferences made from them. The course will be taught as a course with a focus on the primary research literature. Three hands-on integrated lab/lecture where students will be expected hours of course meetings per week. Prerequisite: Required: to program regularly, primarily in R. Prerequisite: BIOL B215 or BIOL 110 or 111 or permission of instructor. At least one of the BIOL B250. following courses is recommended but not required: BIOL 201 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) (Genetics), BIOL 206 (Genomics), or BIOL 236 (Evolution). Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Course does not meet an Approach BIOL B332 Global Change Biology BIOL B321 Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Global changes to our environment present omnipresent This course provides an opportunity for students to understand environmental challenges. We are only beginning to the neuronal basis of behavior through the examination of how understand the complex interactions between organisms and particular animals have evolved neural solutions to specific the rapidly changing environment. Students will explore the problems posed by their environments. The topics will be effects of global change on ecosystems by critically reading covered from a research perspective using a combination of and analyzing the primary literature and the latest IPCC report. lectures, discussions and student presentations. Prerequisite: In 2021, there will be a mandatory one-day field trip to the BIOL 202, PSYC 218 or PSYC 217 at Haverford. Smithsonian Global Change Research Wetland. Prerequisites: BIOL B220, BIOL 225 or BIOL B262, or permission of instructor. Counts toward Neuroscience Counts toward Environmental Studies BIOL B323 Coastal and Marine Ecology BIOL B352 Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 An interdisciplinary course exploring the ecological, biogeochemical, and physical aspects of coastal and marine An introduction to immunology with a focus on the dynamic ecosystems. We will compare intertidal in both network of molecules and cells underlying the vertebrate temperate and tropical environments, with a specific emphasis immune response. This problem-based workshop course on global change impacts on coastal systems (e.g. sea uses primary research articles and a curiosity-driven, level rise, warming, and species shifts). Lecture three hours, open-ended laboratory research project to make sense of 99 BIOLOGY complicated biology and empower each student to build a BIOL B391 Senior Seminar in Biochemistry big-picture view of this fast-moving, interdisciplinary field. Key Not offered 2021-22 themes include: immune cell specification and development; molecular recognition and immune ; generation of The unifying theme of this semester’s senior seminar will be immunological memory; and cancer immunotherapies. Learning Biochemical Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases. Specific strategies include problem solving, small group discussion, and discussion topics will be chosen by students enrolled in the critical analysis of the primary literature. Three hours of class course and will be examined with critical readings and oral meetings and three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL presentations of work from the research literature. In addition, B110. students will select and research a particular pathogen/ infectious disease, produce a significant written document Counts toward Health Studies based on their research, and present their research orally to the Biology Department. Three hours of class lecture and BIOL B354 Basic Concepts and Special Topics in discussion a week, supplemented by frequent meetings with Biochemistry individual students. Prerequisites: open to senior Biology Spring 2022 majors only; one of the following classes: BIOL 375, CHEM For post-baccalaureate premedical students and non-majors 242, BIOL 255, BIOL 201, or permission of instructor. who meet the prerequisites. Course does not count toward the Biology, Chemistry or BCMB Majors; students majoring in BIOL B395 Sr. Seminar: Cancer Biology Biology, Chemistry or BCMB should take BIOL B375 or CHEM Not offered 2021-22 B242. Prerequisites: one semester of BIOL B110/B111 and A senior seminar course with a broad focus on the biology of CHEM 211, or permission of the instructor. cancer. Potential topics might range from basic research in the etiology of cancer, to development of new therapeutics, BIOL B364 Developmental Neurobiology to proposals for screening or other policies. Students will Not offered 2021-22 select and research a topic relating to cancer, and produce a A lecture/discussion course on major topics in the development significant written document, and present their research orally of the nervous system. Lecture three hours a week. to the department. Prerequisites: open to senior Biology Majors Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or 271, BIOL 202 or equivalent, or only; one (or more) of the following courses: BIOL B201, B271, permission of instructor. B340, B375, or B376.

Counts toward Neuroscience BIOL B398 Senior Seminar BIOL B371 Advanced Developmental Biology Section 001 (Spring 2021): Epidemics Section 001 (Fall 2021): Phenotypic Plasticity

Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Fall 2020): Vaccines This seminar course will explore topics related to how animals Section 002 (Fall 2021): Cancer Biology develop as the result of a complex interplay between genes A senior seminar investigating the relationship of biological and the environment, focusing on literature from the last science and society. Three hours of discussion per week, five years. Students will present individual papers on topics supplemented by frequent meetings with individual students. and lead discussions. Prerequisite: BIOL B201(Genetics). Open to senior Biology majors only. B216(Genomics), or B271(Developmental Biology), or permission of instructor. BIOL B399 Senior Seminar in Laboratory Investigations BIOL B375 Biochemistry This seminar provides students with a collaborative forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas and broaden their perspective

Fall 2021 and understanding of research approaches used in various This course will focus on the structure and function of proteins, sub-disciplines of biology. There will be a focus on the carbohydrates and lipids, enzyme kinetics, and central presentation, interpretation and discussion of data, and metabolic pathways. Students will explore these topics via communication of scientific findings to diverse audiences. In lecture, critical reading and discussion of primary literature and addition, students write, defend and publicly present a paper laboratory experimentation. Three hours of lecture, three hours on their supervised research project. Three hours of class of lab per week. Prerequisites: BIOL B110 and two semesters discussion each week. Corequisite: enrollment in BIOL B403. of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212). BIOL B400 Senior Research Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Independent laboratory research in the senior year, which BIOL B376 Molecular Biology includes written and oral presentation of a senior paper based on this research. Typically taken both in the fall and the spring, Spring 2022 in the spring this course will require meeting for one hour every This course focuses on the analysis of nucleic acids and gene week as a group. regulation through lecture, critical reading and discussion of primary literature and laboratory experimentation. Three hours BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience of lecture, three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 Laboratory or library research under the supervision of a or BIOL B375 or permission of instructor. member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for those Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Counts toward Neuroscience

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BIOL B403 Supervised Laboratory Research in Biology CHEM B103 General Chemistry I Laboratory research under the supervision of a member of the Fall 2021 department. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. This is an introductory course in chemistry, open to students with no previous chemistry experience. Topics include aqueous BIOL B403 Supervised Laboratory Research in Biology solutions and solubility; the electronic structure of atoms and Laboratory research under the supervision of a member of the molecules; chemical reactions and energy; intermolecular department. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. forces. Examples discussed in lecture and laboratory include applications of the material to environmental sciences, material ANTH B207 Becoming Human: Evolutionary Perspectives science and biological chemistry. Lecture three hours, recitation on Human Anatomy one hour and laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: Not offered 2021-22 Quantitative Readiness Required. Millions of years of evolution have shaped human anatomy, Quantitative Methods (QM) creating a unique bipedal ape with a very large brain. What Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) can our bones, muscles, and physiology tell us about our Scientific Investigation (SI) evolutionary past? In this course you will learn about human Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology biology from an evolutionary perspective by considering humans as primates with a unique evolutionary trajectory. We CHEM B104 General Chemistry II will consider both how humans are biologically unique and how Section 001 (Spring 2021): Enriched Section our primate origins have shaped who we are today. Topics will Section 001 (Spring 2022): Enriched Section include human osteology and odontology, functional anatomy, energetics, reproduction, and diversity. Furthermore, we will Spring 2022 explore current hypotheses and evidence regarding important For students who have completed General Chemistry I or have questions in human origins and evolution, including whether some previous work in chemistry. Topics include chemical bipedalism is an efficient and effective form of locomotion, why kinetics; aqueous solutions and solubility; chemical equilibrium; human reproduction can be a difficult and dangerous process, electrochemistry; thermochemistry. Examples discussed in and which modern day health issues are a result of a mismatch lecture and laboratory workshop include nuclear chemistry, between our current lifestyles and our evolutionary adaptations. geochemistry, environmental sciences, material sciences and Inquiry into the Past (IP) biological chemistry. One section of the course is designed Scientific Investigation (SI) for students considering a major in the sciences and takes Counts toward Health Studies an interdisciplinary approach to the course topics. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory three hours a ANTH B208 Human Biology week. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a grade of at least 2.0 or permission of the instructor. Spring 2022 Quantitative Methods (QM) This course will be a survey of modern human biological Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological and Scientific Investigation (SI) genetic variation in modern human populations and discuss the Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology evolutionary explanations for the observed patterns. A major component of the class will be the discussion of the social CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways and implications of these patterns of biological variation, particularly Metabolism in the construction and application of the concept of race.

Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. Spring 2022 Counts toward Health Studies This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular metabolism will be ANTH B209 Human Evolution: Debates in explored in molecular detail. Energy producing, degradation, Paleoanthropology and biosynthetic pathways involving sugars, fats, amino acids, and nucleotides will be discussed with an emphasis

Not offered 2021-22 on structures and mechanisms, experimental methods, This course explores the biological and cultural evolution of regulation, and integration. Additional topics, drawn from the humans as viewed from the fossil and archaeological record, primary research literature, may be covered. Readings will beginning with our earliest ancestors and continuing to the be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature and dispersal of modern humans around the globe. We will use assessments may include oral presentations, problem sets, comparative, functional, and evolutionary anatomy to interpret written examinations, and writing assignments. This is a second past behaviors and relationships among fossil hominins, as course in Biochemistry and assumes a strong foundation in the well as their relationship to modern humans. Furthermore, fundamentals of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM we will use geology, archaeology, and paleoecology to 242, or permission of instructor. reconstruct behavioral aspects of fossil hominins and their Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology environmental influences. Throughout the course, we will focus our discussions on major debates in paleoanthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. Scientific Investigation (SI)

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CHEMISTRY Timetables for Meeting Major Requirements Students may follow various schedules to meet their major

Faculty requirements. However, a fairly typical one is: • freshman year: Chem 103 and 104, Math 101 and 102 Alyssa Bohen, Instructor in Chemistry • sophomore year: Chem 211 and 212, Math 201 Kaya Brannen, Teaching Assistant • junior year: Chem 221, 222, 231, 242, 251, 252 Sharon Burgmayer, W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry • senior year: two or more Chem 3xx Michelle Francl, Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry In particular note that Jonas Goldsmith, Associate Professor and Chair of Chemistry • Math 201 must be completed before taking Chem 221. Ariana Hall, Lecturer in Chemistry Math 201 is offered at Bryn Mawr only in the fall, but an Olga Karagiaridi, Lecturer in Chemistry equivalent course is offered at Haverford in the spring Yan Kung, Associate Professor of Chemistry term. Bill Malachowski, Professor of Chemistry • With instructor’s permission, Chem 221/222 can be taken concurrently with Chem 211/212 and this arrangement Patrick Melvin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry allows for the completion of all major requirements in three Shiwha Park, Visiting Assistant Professor years. Lisa Watkins, Lecturer in Chemistry • The required 300x courses all have prerequisites that generally include Chem 212 and/or Chem 222. The Chemistry major is offered with several different options: Students who wish to deviate from the usual schedule should • American Chemical Society Certified A.B., recommended consult with the major adviser as early as possible to devise an

for graduate school alternative. • Chemistry major, A.B. Only Honors • Chemistry minor The requirements for departmental honors are: • Chemistry major with concentration in biochemistry • Complete one of the major plans. • Chemistry major with concentration in geochemistry • Maintain a chemistry GPA of 3.7 or better. For all degree options, merit level work is expected in every • Complete Chem 398 and 399 with a grade of 3.3 or better chemistry, math, biology, geology, and physics course. each semester. ACS Certified A.B. Major Requirements • Participate in research oral/poster presentations. A student may qualify for a major in chemistry by completing a • Write an acceptable thesis, and meet all department total of 13 units in chemistry with the distribution: deadlines for submission of the thesis. • Chem 103, 104 • Complete an additional unit of Chem 3xx (for a total of three 300-level chemistry units). With department • Chem 211, 212 approval, one unit of 300-level work in certain fields may • Chem 221, 222 be substituted. • Chem 231 Minor • Chem 242 A student may qualify for a minor in chemistry by completing a • Chem 251, 252 total of 7 units in chemistry with the distribution: • Chem 398, 399 • Chem 103, 104 • two other Chem 3xx • Chem 211, 212 Chem 213/214 can replace Chem 212 for all major, minor and • Chem 221* or 222* concentration requirements. • Chem 231 or 242** Other required courses: Math 101, 102, 201. Students who plan • Chem 251 or 252 to do graduate work in chemistry should also consider taking Physics 121/122 (preferred) or 101/102 and Physics 201. *Pre-requisite: Math 201 Students majoring in Chemistry fulfill the disciplinary writing **Biol 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 requirement by satisfactorily completing Chem 251 and 252, Other required courses: Math 101, 102 which are writing attentive courses. Major with Concentration in Biochemistry Major, A.B. Only • Chem 103, 104 A non-ACS certified major requires all of the above coursework except Chem 398, 399. • Chem 211, 212 • Chem 221*, 222*, 231 or 242** (choose 3 of 4)

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• Chem 251, 252 4+1 Program in Engineering at UPenn • Chem 345 or 377 The University of Pennsylvania 4+1 engineering program • Chem 3xx allows students to earn an A.B. at Bryn Mawr and an M.S. in Engineering (M.S.E) at UPenn. Students apply between

• Biol 201 the beginning of the sophomore year and end of the junior • Biol 376*** year. For more information, see brynmawr.edu/academics/ combined-degrees/abma-programs-partner-institutions/41- *Pre-requisite: Math 201 master-engineering-program. Chemistry students considering **Biol 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 this program should contact Chemistry Laboratory Lecturer ***Chem 242 satisfies the pre-requisite for this course Lisa Watkins. See also the description of the 4+1 Program in Engineering at UPenn. Other required courses: Math 101, 102 Equivalent biology courses at Haverford may be substituted. Courses Major with Concentration in Geochemistry CHEM B103 General Chemistry I • Chem 103, 104 Fall 2021 • Chem 211, 212 This is an introductory course in chemistry, open to students with no previous chemistry experience. Topics include aqueous

• Chem 221*, 222*, 231 or 242** (choose 3 of 4) solutions and solubility; the electronic structure of atoms and • Chem 251, 252 molecules; chemical reactions and energy; intermolecular forces. Examples discussed in lecture and laboratory include • Chem 322 or 332 applications of the material to environmental sciences, material • Chem 3xx science and biological chemistry. Lecture three hours, recitation • Geol 101 one hour and laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: Quantitative Readiness Required. • Geol 202 Quantitative Methods (QM) • Geol 302, 305, 350 (choose 2 of 3; Geol 350 requires Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Geology major adviser approval) Scientific Investigation (SI) *Pre-requisite: Math 201 Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

**Bio 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 CHEM B104 General Chemistry II Other required courses: Math 101, 102 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Enriched Section The Chemistry major can also be combined with any of the Section 001 (Spring 2022): Enriched Section minors offered in the College. In particular, the minors in Spring 2022 Environmental Studies, Education and Computational Science offer attractive combinations with a Chemistry major for future For students who have completed General Chemistry I or have career paths that require competency in those allied fields. some previous work in chemistry. Topics include chemical Detailed information about these minors can be found in the kinetics; aqueous solutions and solubility; chemical equilibrium; appropriate section of the catalog. Students may double major electrochemistry; thermochemistry. Examples discussed in in Chemistry and Biology, but are not permitted to double major lecture and laboratory workshop include nuclear chemistry, in Biology and Biochemistry or Chemistry and Biochemistry. geochemistry, environmental sciences, material sciences and biological chemistry. One section of the course is designed A.B./M.A. Program for students considering a major in the sciences and takes an interdisciplinary approach to the course topics. Lecture • Chemistry major A.B. requirements three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory three hours a • four units of 5xx* week. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a grade of at least 2.0 or permission of the instructor. • two units of 7xx Quantitative Methods (QM) • M.A. thesis Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) • written final exam Scientific Investigation (SI)

*two units may be 3xx Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied CHEM B125 Writing Science Science Not offered 2021-22 The 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied Science is offered How does scientific research make its way out of the lab? in cooperation with the California Institute of Technology and Science translates from the laboratory and the field to journals awards both an A.B. at Bryn Mawr and a B.S. at Cal Tech. For written for the expert and is often translated again for more more information, see 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied general audiences--appearing in venues such as Twitter, Science. Chemistry students considering this program should newspapers, essays, and memoirs. This course will explore contact Chemistry Laboratory Lecturer Lisa Watkins. the many ways in which science is translated. Students will experiment with different structures and genres, with weekly

103 CHEMISTRY readings and writing exercises designed to help them be CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I clearer, livelier writers of science. This is a half-semester, half- Fall 2021 credit course. Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Atomic and CHEM B208 Topics in Art Analysis molecular structure; molecular modeling; rotational, vibrational, Fall 2021 electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three hours. Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. This is a topics course and topics will vary. All courses will cover a variety of methods of analysis of works of art centered Quantitative Methods (QM) around a specific theme. Using both completed case studies Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and their own analysis of objects in the Bryn Mawr College CHEM B222 Physical Chemistry II collection, students will investigate a number of instrumental methods of obtaining both quantitative and qualitative Spring 2022 information about the manufacture, use and history of the Modern thermodynamics, with application to phase equilibria, objects. This course counts towards the major in History of Art. interfacial phenomena and chemical equilibria; statistical Scientific Investigation (SI) mechanics; chemical dynamics. Kinetic theory of gases; Counts toward Museum Studies chemical kinetics. Lecture three hours. Prerequisite: CHEM B104 and MATH 201. May be taken concurrently with CHEM CHEM B211 Organic Chemistry I B212, with permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Quantitative Methods (QM)

An introduction to the basic concepts of organic chemistry, Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology including acid-base principles; functional groups; alkane and CHEM B231 Inorganic Chemistry cycloalkane structures; alkene reactions; alkynes; dienes and aromatic structures; substitution and elimination reactions; Spring 2022 alcohol reactivity; and radical reactions. The laboratory course Bonding theory; structures and properties of ionic solids; introduces basic operations in the organic chemistry lab, symmetry; crystal field theory; structures, spectroscopy, spectroscopy, and reactions discussed in lecture. Lecture three stereochemistry, reactions and reaction mechanisms of hours, recitation one hour and laboratory five hours a week. coordination compounds; acid-base concepts; descriptive Prerequisite: CHEM 104 with a grade of at least 2.0. chemistry of main group elements. Lecture three hours a week. Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Prerequisite: CHEM 212. Scientific Investigation (SI) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

CHEM B212 Organic Chemistry II: Biological Organic CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry Chemistry Fall 2021 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Section 002 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry The structure, chemistry and function of amino acids, proteins, Section 002 (Spring 2022): Biological Organic Chemistry lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic acids; enzyme kinetics; Section 00A (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry metabolic relationships of carbohydrates, lipids and amino Section 00B (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry acids, and the control of various pathways. Lecture three hours

Section 00C (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry a week. Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. Section 00D (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Course does not meet an Approach Section 00E (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section 00Z (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry Counts toward Health Studies Section 098 (Spring 2021): Biological Organic Chemistry CHEM B251 Research Methodology in Chemistry Spring 2022 Fall 2021 The second semester (biological organic chemistry) is broken into two modules. In the first module, the reactivity of carbonyl This is a laboratory topics course integrating advanced carbon is discussed, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic concepts in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and acids and derivatives, saccharides and enolate chemistry. physical chemistry. Students gain experience in the use of Traditional biochemistry coverage begins with the second departmental research instruments and in scientific literature module. Amino acids (pI, electrophoresis, side chain pKa), searches, quantitative data analysis, record keeping and protein structure (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°), and enzymatic catalysis, writing. Prerequisite CHEM B212. Co-requisite: CHEM B221 kinetics and inhibition are introduced. The reactivity of the co- or B231 or B242. Attendance at departmental colloquia is enzymes (vitamins) is also covered as individual case studies expected of all students. in bio-organic reactivity. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) and laboratory five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 with Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology a grade of at least 2.0. Scientific Investigation (SI) CHEM B252 Research Methodology II Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Spring 2022 This laboratory course integrates advanced concepts in

104 CHEMISTRY chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and physical fundamentals of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM chemistry. Students will gain experience in the use of 242, or permission of instructor. departmental research instruments and in scientific literature Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology searches, quantitative data analysis, record-keeping, and writing. Attendance at departmental colloquia is expected of CHEM B398 Senior Seminar all students. Course Prerequisites: CHEM B212. Course Co- requisites: CHEM B222 or CHEM B231 or CHEM B242. CHEM B399 Senior Seminar Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) CHEM B403 Supervised Research Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Many individual research projects are available, each under the CHEM B311 Advanced Organic Chemistry supervision of a member of the faculty. Laboratory at least 10 Not offered 2021-22 hours a week. Oral or written presentations are required at the end of each semester. Suggested Preparation: student must A survey of the methods and concepts used in the synthesis seek permission of faculty supervisor. of complex organic molecules. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisites: CHEM 212 and 222. CHEM B403 Supervised Research

CHEM B312 Advanced Organic Chemistry Many individual research projects are available, each under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Laboratory at least 10 Not offered 2021-22 hours a week. Oral or written presentations are required at the Principles of physical organic chemistry with emphasis on end of each semester. Suggested Preparation: student must reaction mechanisms, reactive intermediates, stereochemistry, seek permission of faculty supervisor. and qualitative molecular orbital theory reasoning. Prerequisites: a standard two-semester course in organic CHEM B511 Advanced Organic Chemistry I chemistry (such as CHEM B211/B212), and some coursework Not offered 2021-22 in physical chemistry. A survey of the methods and concepts used in the synthesis of

CHEM B332 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry complex organic molecules. Lecture three hours a week. Fall 2021 CHEM B512 Advanced Organic Chemistry This is a topics course covering topics in advanced inorganic Not offered 2021-22 chemistry. Prerequisites: CHEM 231 and 242 or permission of Principles of physical organic chemistry with emphasis on the instructor. reaction mechanisms, reactive intermediates, stereochemistry, CHEM B334 Organometallic Chemistry and qualitative molecular orbital theory reasoning. Prerequisites: a standard two-semester course in organic Spring 2022 chemistry (such as BMC Chemistry 211/212), and some Fundamental concepts in organometallic chemistry, including coursework in physical chemistry. structure and bonding, reaction types, and catalysis, and applications to current problems in organic synthesis. Lecture CHEM B515 Topics in Organic Chemistry three hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 212 and 231. Not offered 2021-22

CHEM B345 Advanced Biological Chemistry This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Prerequisite: CHEM B242 or permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. CHEM B532 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Not offered 2021-22

CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways and This is a topics course covering topics in advanced inorganic Metabolism chemistry. Prerequisites: CHEM 231 and 242 or permission of the instructor. Spring 2022 This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. CHEM B534 Organometallic Chemistry Biochemical pathways involved in cellular metabolism will be Spring 2022 explored in molecular detail. Energy producing, degradation, Fundamental concepts in organometallic chemistry, including and biosynthetic pathways involving sugars, fats, amino structure and bonding, reaction types, and catalysis, and acids, and nucleotides will be discussed with an emphasis applications to current problems in organic synthesis. Lecture on structures and mechanisms, experimental methods, three hours a week. Course is open to graduate students and regulation, and integration. Additional topics, drawn from the those undergraduates with CHEM B231 or permission from the primary research literature, may be covered. Readings will instructor. be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature and assessments may include oral presentations, problem sets, CHEM B545 Advanced Biological Chemistry written examinations, and writing assignments. This is a second course in Biochemistry and assumes a strong foundation in the Section 001 (Fall 2020): Biochemical Pathways

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Not offered 2021-22 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: Any course in Biochemistry. Faculty CHEM B577 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways and Metabolism Directors Not offered 2021-22 Jodie Baird, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology and Co- Director of Child and Family Studies This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular metabolism will be Heejung Park, Associate Professor of Psychology and Co- explored in molecular detail. Energy producing, degradation, Director of Child and Family Studies (on leave semester II) and biosynthetic pathways involving sugars, fats, amino Affiliated Faculty acids, and nucleotides will be discussed with an emphasis on structures and mechanisms, experimental methods, William (Dustin) Albert, Assistant Professor of Psychology regulation, and integration. Additional topics, drawn from the Amanda Cox, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology primary research literature, may be covered. Readings will be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature and Susanna Fioratta, Associate Professor of Anthropology (on assessments may include oral presentations, problem sets, leave semesters I and II) written examinations, and writing assignments. This is a second Chloe Flower, Assistant Professor of English on the Helen Taft course in Biochemistry and assumes a strong foundation in the Manning Professorship in British History fundamentals of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM Carolina Hausman-Stabile, Assistant Professor of Social Work 375, or permission of instructor. and Social Research CHEM B701 Supervised Work Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Haverford Education Program and Associate Dean for Global Engagement CHEM B701 Supervised Work Veronica Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co- Not offered 2021-22 Director of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies Program (on leave semester II) MATH B101 Calculus I Bethany Schneider, Associate Professor of Literatures in Fall 2021, Spring 2022 English This is the first in a sequence of two courses that covers Janet Shapiro, Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work single-variable calculus. Topics include functions, limits, and Social Research, Mary Hale Chase Professor in the Social continuity, derivatives, differentiation formulas, applications of Sciences, Social Work and Social Research and Director of the derivatives, integrals, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Center for Child and Family Wellbeing Prerequisite: proficiency in high-school mathematics (including algebra, geometry, and trigonometry). The Child and Family Studies (CFS) minor provides a Quantitative Methods (QM) curricular mechanism for inter-disciplinary work focused Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) on the contributions of biological, familial, psychological, socioeconomic, political, and educational factors to child and MATH B102 Calculus II family well-being. The minor not only addresses the life stages Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and cultural contexts of infancy through adolescence but also includes issues of parenting; child and family well-being; This is the second in a sequence of two courses that covers gender; schooling and informal education; risk and resilience; single-variable calculus. Topics include techniques of and the place, representation, and voice of children in society integration, applications of integration, infinite sequences and and culture. series, tests of convergence for series, and power series. Prerequisite: a merit grade in Math 101 (or an equivalent Students craft a pathway in the minor as they engage in course experience). selection through ongoing discussions with one of the Co- Directors. Sample pathways might include: political science/ Quantitative Methods (QM) child and family law; sociology/educational policy; child and family mental health; depictions of children/families in literature MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus and film; child and family public health issues; social work/child Fall 2021 welfare; anthropology/cross-cultural child and family issues;

This course extends calculus to functions of multiple variables. gender issues affecting children and families; social justice/ Topics include functions, limits, continuity, vectors, directional diversity issues affecting children and families; or economic derivatives, optimization problems, multiple integrals, factors affecting children and families. parametric curves, vector fields, line integrals, surface integrals, Students may complete a Child and Family Studies minor as an and the theorems of Gauss, Green and Stokes. Prerequisite: a adjunct to any major at Bryn Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore merit grade in Math 102 (or an equivalent experience). pending approval of the student’s coursework plan by one of Quantitative Methods (QM) the Co-Directors of Child and Family Studies, Heejung Park and Jodie Baird.

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Requirements for the Child and Family ENGL 270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. Literatures, 1690- Studies Minor 1935

The minor comprises six courses: one gateway course, ENGL 271 Transatlantic Childhood in the 19th Century (PSYCH 206 Developmental Psychology, PSYCH 203 POLS 374 Education, Politics and Policy , PSYC 211 Lifespan Development, POLS 375 Gender, Work and Family EDUC 200 Community Learning Collaborative, or SOCL 201 Study of Gender in Society), plus five additional courses, at PSYC 203 Educational Psychology least two of which must be outside of the major department PSYC 206 Developmental Psychology and at least one of which must be at the 300 level. Advanced

Haverford and Swarthmore courses typically taken by juniors PSYC 209 Abnormal Psychology and seniors that are more specific than introductory and survey PSYC 211 Lifespan Development courses will count as 300 level courses. Only two CFS courses PSYC 250 Autism Spectrum Disorders may be double-counted with any major, minor, or other degree credential. PSYC 303 Portraits of Maladjustment The minor also requires participation in at least one semester PSYC 311 Personality in Social Context or summer of volunteer, practicum, praxis, community-based PSYC 322 Culture and Development work study, or internship experience related to Child and Family Studies. Students are expected to discuss their placement PSYC 327 Adolescent Psychology choices with one of the Co-Directors. PSYC 351 Developmental Psychopathology Another requirement of the minor is attendance at minor PSYC 354 Asian American Psychology gatherings (2-4 times per semester) during which topics of PSYC 375 Movies and Madness interest are discussed. Sessions are facilitated by a range of individuals, including CFS students, affiliated faculty and staff, SOCL 102 Society, Culture, and the Individual and guest speakers. Meetings are 1-1.5 hours in length, with SOCL 201 The Study of Gender in Society times to be arranged. SOCL 205 Social Inequality The final minor requirement is participation during senior year in an annual CFS Poster Session during which students share SOCL 217 The Family in Social Context highlights of their CFS campus and field-based experiences. SOCL 225 Women in Society (Note: it is important to check the Trico course guide for SOCL 229 Black America in Sociological Perspective updated course information as not every course is taught every SOCL 232 A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in year. In some cases, courses relevant to the CFS minor will Philly have changed, or been added. Students should explore freely and consult with their advisor on curricular choices). SOCL 235 Mexican-American Communities SOCL 258 Courses That Can Be Counted Toward the Child and Family Studies Minor SOCL 266 Schools in American Cities

Bryn Mawr College Courses and Seminars SOWK 552 Perspectives on Inequality

ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology SOWK 554 Social Determinants of Health

ANTH 213 Anthropology of Food SOWK 559 Family Therapy: Theory and Practice

ANTH 268 Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Family SOWK 571 Education Law for Social Workers

ANTH 279 Anthropology of Childhood and Youth SOWK 574 Child Welfare Policy, Practice, and Research

ANTH 312 Anthropology of Reproduction SOWK 575 Global Public Health ANTH 343 Human Growth and Development and Life History: A Haverford College Courses and Seminars Comparative Evolutionary Perspective ANTH 103 Introduction to Anthropology ARTS 269 Writing for Children ANTH 209 Anthropology of Education EDUC 200 Community Learning Collaborative ANTH 263 Anthropology of Space: Housing and Society EDUC 210 Perspectives on COML 289 Children’s Literature EDUC 260 Multicultural Education EDUC 200 Community Learning Collaborative EDUC 266 Critical Issues in Urban Education EDUC 250 Literacies and Education EDUC 275 Emergent Multicultural Learners in U.S. Schools EDUC 275 Emergent Multi-Lingual Learners in U.S. Schools EDUC 302 Practice Teaching Seminar LING 200 2nd Language Acquisition EDUC 311 Theories of Change LING 228 1st Language Aquisition ENGL 247 Shakespeare’s Teenagers PSYC 210 Developmental Psychology PSYC 213 Memory and Cognition

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PSYC 215 Introduction to Personality Psychology ethnographic methodology, students will gain new analytical PSYC 238 Psychology of Language and methodological tools for understanding cultural difference, social organization, and social change. PSYC 327 Obesity: Psychology, Physiology, and Health Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) PSYC 335 Self and Identity Counts toward Child and Family Studies PSYC 338 Child Development and Social Policy Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies SOCL 204 Medical Sociology SOCL 226 Sociology of Gender ANTH B213 Anthropology of Food SOCL 235 Class, Race, and Education Not offered 2021-22 Food is part of the universal human experience. But everyday Swarthmore College Courses and Seminars experiences of food also reveal much about human difference. ED 14 Introduction to Education What we eat is intimately connected with who we are, where we belong, and how we see the world. In this course, we will ED 21/Psych 21 Educational Psychology use a socio-cultural perspective to explore how food helps us ED 23/Psych 23 Adolescence form families, national and religious communities, and other ED 23A Adolescents and Special Education groups. We will also consider how food may become a source of inequality, a political symbol, and a subject of social discord.

ED 26/Psych 26 Special Education Examining both practical and ideological meanings of food ED 42 Teaching Diverse Young Learners and taste, this course will address issues of identity, social difference, and cultural experience. ED 45 Literacies and Social Identities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ED 53 Language Minority Education Counts toward Child and Family Studies ED 64 Comparative Education Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ED 68 Urban Education ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction ED 70 Outreach Practicum Not offered 2021-22 ED 121 Psychology and Practice This course will examine how power in everyday life shapes ED 131 Social and Cultural Perspectives reproductive behavior and how reproduction is culturally ED 151 Literacies Research constructed. Through an examination of materials from different cultures, this course will look at how often competing interests ED 167 Identities and Education within households, communities, states and institutions (at both PSYC 34 Psychology of Language the local and global levels) influence reproduction in society. We will explore the political economy of reproduction cross- PSYC 39 Developmental Psychology culturally, how power and politics shape gendered reproductive PSYC 41 Children at Risk behavior and how it is interpreted and used differently by PSYC 50 Developmental Psychopathology persons, communities and institutions. Topics covered include but are not limited to the politics of family planning, mothering/ PSYC 55 Family Systems Theory and Psychological Change parenting, abortion, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, fetal testing PSYC 135 Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural Psychology and biology and social policy in cross-cultural comparison. Prerequisite: ANTH 8102 (or ANTH H103) or permission of Courses at Bryn Mawr instructor. Haverford: Social Science (SO), Enrollment Cap: 15; Post Bacc Spaces: 2; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/ Concentration; Senior; Junior; Permission of Instructor. Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Counts toward Child and Family Studies This course will explore the basic principles and methods Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of sociocultural anthropology. Through field research, Counts toward Health Studies direct observation, and participation in a group’s daily life, sociocultural anthropologists examine the many ways that ANTH B343 Human Growth and Development and Life people organize their social institutions and cultural systems, History ranging from the dynamics of life in small-scale societies to the transnational circulation of people, commodities, technologies Fall 2021 and ideas. Sociocultural anthropology examines how many In this seminar we will examine various aspects of the human of the categories we assume to be “natural,” such as kinship, life history pattern, highly unusual among mammals, from a gender, or race, are culturally and socially constructed. It comparative evolutionary perspective. First, we will survey the examines how people’s perceptions, beliefs, values, and fundamentals of life history theory, with an emphasis on primate actions are shaped by broader historical, economic, and life histories and socioecological pressures that influence them. political contexts. It is also a vital tool for understanding and Secondly, we will focus on unique aspects of human life history, critiquing imbalances of power in our contemporary world. including secondary altriciality of human infants, the inclusion Through a range of topically and geographically diverse of childhood and pubertal life stages in our pattern of growth course readings and films, and opportunities to practice and development, and the presence of a post-reproductive

108 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES life span. Finally, we will examine fossil evidence from the Drawing on participants’ diverse student teaching placements, hominin lineage used in reconstructing the evolution of the this seminar invites exploration and analysis of ideas, modern human life history pattern. Prerequisite: ANTH B101 or perspectives and approaches to teaching at the middle and permission of instructor. secondary levels. Taken concurrently with Practice Teaching.

Counts toward Child and Family Studies Open only to students engaged in practice teaching. Counts toward Child and Family Studies EDUC B200 Community Learning Collaborative: Practicing Partnership LING B200 Multilingualism and Second Language Not offered 2021-22 Acquisition

Designed to be the first course for students interested in Not offered 2021-22 pursuing one of the options offered through the Education It is estimated that at least 60% of the world population speaks Program, this course is open to students exploring an interest more than one language, while this is true of only around in educational practice, theory, research, and policy. The course 15-20% of Americans. Misconceptions about multilingualism, asks how myriad people, groups, and fields have defined multidialectalism, and language learning are common in the purpose of education, and considers the implications American society, and these can often lead to bias and of conflicting definitions for generating new, more just, and discrimination. This course examines these topics from a more inclusive modes of “doing school”. In collaboration with variety of sociocognitive angles, including language learning, practicing educators, students learn practical and philosophical language processing, dialectal variation, language contact, approaches to experiential, community-engaged learning language and identity, and language policy. The following types across individual relationships and organizational contexts. of questions will be considered: What do multilingual speakers’ Fieldwork in an area school or organization required linguistic resources mean to them? What are the linguistic Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ‘rules’ of code-switching? How is learning languages as a Counts toward Africana Studies child different from learning languages as an adult? Can you Counts toward Child and Family Studies ‘forget’ a language you once knew? How can public policies discourage or support multilingualism? This is a seminar-style EDUC B210 Perspectives on Special Education course that will use a mix of discussion, lecture, and interactive activities to give students a strong foundation in both classical

Fall 2021 and recent research on these topics while also inviting students The goal of this course is to introduce students to a range to explore personal curiosities and multilingualism in their own of topics, challenges and dilemmas that all teachers need to lives. It is also a writing intensive course that will guide students consider. Students will explore pedagogical strategies and tools to analyze the style and structure of academic works, offer that empower all learners on the neurological spectrum. Some low-stakes opportunities to improve writing skills, and provide of the topics covered in the course include how the brain learns, feedback on how to polish written work into a strong final how past learning experiences impact teaching, how education version. Prerequisites: At least one previous Linguistics course and civil rights law impacts access to services, and how to (any course) create an inclusive classroom environment that welcomes and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) affirms all learners. The field of special education is vast and Counts toward Child and Family Studies complex. Therefore, the course is designed as an introduction to the most pertinent issues, and as a launch pad for further POLS B374 Education Politics and Policy in the US exploration. Weekly fieldwork required. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Child and Family Studies Studying education politics and policy provides insights into Counts toward Praxis Program some central concerns of political science and highlights some tensions within the American political system such as: power EDUC B266 Critical Issues in Urban Education and influence, government v markets, federalism, equity and accountability, and expertise and citizen participation. This

Not offered 2021-22 seminar uses education politics as a window into these broader This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of concerns urban education in contemporary America. We use as critical Counts toward Child and Family Studies lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school systems; and restructuring and reform. PSYC B203 Educational Psychology While we look at urban education nationally over several decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students Fall 2021 investigate through documents and school placements. Weekly Topics in the psychology of human cognitive, social, and fieldwork in a school required. affective behavior are examined and related to educational Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) practice. Issues covered include learning theories, memory, Counts toward Africana Studies attention, thinking, motivation, social/emotional issues in Counts toward Child and Family Studies adolescence, and assessment/learning disabilities. This course Counts toward Praxis Program provides a Praxis Level II opportunity. Classroom observation is required. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 (Introductory Psychology) EDUC B302 Practice Teaching Seminar Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Praxis Program 109 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

PSYC B206 Developmental Psychology PSYC B329 Obesity: Psychology, Physiology, and Health Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 A topical survey of psychological development from infancy An examination of the causes and consequences of obesity at through adolescence, focusing on the interaction of personal individual and societal levels. Focuses on mechanisms of body and environmental factors in the ontogeny of perception, weight regulation along with the wide-scale changes in diet, language, cognition, and social interactions within the family eating habits, and physical activity that have contributed to the and with peers. Topics include developmental theories; infant obesity epidemic. Prerequisites: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100 or perception; attachment; language development; theory of mind; PSYC AP Score 5. memory development; peer relations, schools and the family Course does not meet an Approach as contexts of development; and identity and the adolescent Counts toward Child and Family Studies transition. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100. Interested students can take this course or PSYC B211, but not both. PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Child and Family Studies This course will examine emotional and behavioral disorders PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology of children and adolescents, including autism, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive Fall 2021, Spring 2022 disorder, depression, anorexia, and schizophrenia. Major topics This course examines the experience, origins and covered will include: contrasting models of psychopathology; consequences of psychological difficulties and problems. empirical and categorical approaches to assessment and Among the questions we will explore are: What do we mean diagnosis; outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, by abnormal behavior or psychopathology? What are the and prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their efficacy strengths and limitations of the ways in which psychopathology .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. is assessed and classified? What are the major forms of Counts toward Child and Family Studies psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat Counts toward Health Studies psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced Counts toward Neuroscience by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties and what are their consequences? How do we integrate social, PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Psychology biological and psychological perspectives on the causes of Through Films psychopathology? Do psychological treatments (therapies) work? How do we study the effectiveness of psychology Not offered 2021-22 treatments? Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = 16 or H100). students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of Course does not meet an Approach psychopathology are depicted in films. The primary focus of Counts toward Child and Family Studies the seminar will be evaluating the degree of correspondence Counts toward Health Studies between the cinematic presentation and current research knowledge about the disorder, taking into account the historical PSYC B211 Lifespan Development period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder are presented and Fall 2021 how representative the protagonist is of people who typically A topical survey of psychological development across manifest this disorder based on current research. We will also the lifespan, focusing on the interaction of personal and address the theory of etiology of the disorder depicted in the environmental factors in the ontogeny of perception, language, film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in cognition, and social interactions within the family and with the period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts peers. Topics include developmental theories; infant perception; of psychopathology in that period. Another focus will be how attachment; language development; theory of mind; memory the film portrays the course of the disorder and how it depicts development; peer relations and the family as contexts of treatment for the disorder. This cinematic presentation will be development; identity and the adolescent transition; adult evaluated with respect to current research on treatment for the personality; cognition in late adulthood; and dying with dignity. disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing treatment Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100. Interested students for the disorder at the time the film was made. Prerequisite: can take this course or PSYC B206, but not both PSYC B209. Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies PSYC B322 Culture and Development Counts toward Health Studies Not offered 2021-22 SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society This course focuses on adolescents and their families in cultural, social, and ecological contexts. Topics include family Not offered 2021-22 dynamics, parent-adolescent relationship, socioeconomic The definition of male and female social roles and sociological status, immigration, social change, and globalization. approaches to the study of gender in the United States, with Prerequisites: PSYC 105, and PSYC 206 or PSYC 224. attention to gender in the economy and work place, the division Counts toward Child and Family Studies of labor in families and households, and analysis of class and

110 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ethnic differences in gender roles. Of particular interest in this on a daily basis? These are some of the major questions that course is the comparative exploration of the experiences of we will explore together in this class. In this course, the Global women of color in the United States. South does not refer exclusively to a geographical location, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) but rather to a set of institutional structures that generate Counts toward Child and Family Studies disadvantages for all individuals and particularly for women Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and other minorities, regardless their geographical location in the world. In other words, a significant segment of the Global SOCL B205 Social Inequality North’s population lives under the same precarious conditions that are commonly believed as exclusive to the Global South.

Spring 2022 Simultaneously, there is a Global North embedded in the Global In this course, we will explore the extent, causes, and South as well. In this context, we will see that the geographical consequences of social and economic inequality in the U.S. division between the North and the South becomes futile when We will begin by discussing key theories and the intersecting we seek to understand the dynamics of the “Western-centric/ dimensions of inequality along lines of income and wealth, Christian-centric capitalist/patriarchal modern/colonial world- race and ethnicity, and gender. We will then follow a life-course system” (Grosfoguel, 2012). In the first part of the course, perspective to trace the institutions through which inequality is we will establish the theoretical foundations that will guide us structured, experienced, and reproduced through the family, throughout the rest of the semester. We will then turn to a wide neighborhoods, the educational system, labor markets and variety of case studies where we will examine, for instance, workplaces, and the criminal justice system. the contemporary global division of labor, gendered violence in the form of feminicides, international migration, and global Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) tourism. The course’s final thematic section will be devoted to Counts toward Child and Family Studies learning from the different feminisms (e.g. community feminism) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies emerging out of the Global South as well as the research SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context done in that region and its contribution to the development of a broader gender studies scholarship. In particular, we will pay

Not offered 2021-22 close attention to resistance, solidarity, and social movements The family represents a fundamental and ubiquitous institution led by women. Examples will be drawn from Latin America, the in the social world, providing norms and conveying values. This Caribbean, the US, Asia, and Africa. course focuses on current sociological research, seeking to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) understand how modern American families have transformed Counts toward Africana Studies due to complex structural and cultural forces. We will examine Counts toward Child and Family Studies family change from historical, social, and demographic Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies perspectives. After examining the images, ideals, and myths Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies concerning families, we will address the central theme of diversity and change. In what ways can sociology explain and SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological Perspective document these shifts? What influences do law, technology, Not offered 2021-22 and medicine have on the family? What are the results of evolving views of work, gender, and parenting on family This course presents sociological perspectives on various structure and stability? Prerequisite of one Social Science issues affecting black America as a historically unique minority Course group in the United States: the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era; the formation of urban black ghettos; the civil rights Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) reforms; the problems of poverty and unemployment; the Counts toward Child and Family Studies problems of crime and other social problems; the problems of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studie criminal justice; the continuing significance of race; the varied SOCL B225 Women in Society covert modern forms of racial discrimination; and the role of race in American politics. Prerequisite: at least one additional

Fall 2021 sociology course or permission of instructor. Course is not In 2015, the world’s female population was 49.6 percent of the available to freshmen. total global population of 7.3 billion. According to the United Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Nations, in absolute terms, there were 61,591,853 more men Inquiry into the Past (IP) than women. Yet, at the global scale, 124 countries have Counts toward Africana Studies more women than men. A great majority of these countries Counts toward Child and Family Studies are located in what scholars have recently been referring to as the Global South - those countries known previously SOCL B232 A Sociological Journey to Immigrant as developing countries. Although women outnumber their Communities in Philly male counterparts in many Global South countries, however, Not offered 2021-22 these women endure difficulties that have worsened rather than improving. What social structures determine this gender This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and inequality in general and that of women of color in particular? comparatively examine various immigrant communities living What are the main challenges women in the Global South in greater Philadelphia. It will expose students to the complex face? How do these challenges differ based on nationality, historical, economic, political, and social factors influencing class, ethnicity, skin color, gender identity, and other axes of (im)migration, as well as how migrants and the children oppression? What strategies have these women developed of immigrants develop their sense of belonging and their to cope with the wide variety of challenges they contend with homemaking practices in the new host society. In this course,

111 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES we will probe questions of belonging, identity, homemaking, the clinical social work process to work with children and citizenship, transnationalism, and ethnic entrepreneurship and adolescents. Work in the course will concentrate on a social how individuals, families, and communities are transformed work framework that stresses the complexity of the person- locally and across borders through the process of migration. environment transactions and emphasizes strengths and This course also seeks to interrogate how once in a new competencies country, immigrant communities not only develop a sense of Counts toward Child and Family Studies belonging but also how they reconfigure their own identities while they transform the social, physical, and cultural milieus B574 Child Welfare Policy, Practice and Research of their new communities of arrival. To achieve these ends, this course will engage in a multidisciplinary approach consisting Fall 2021 of materials drawn from such disciplines as cultural studies, This course examines social policies and interventions that anthropology, history, migration studies, and sociology to address problems of , neglect, and abandonment. examine distinct immigrant communities that have arrived in First, child maltreatment and dependency are considered in Philadelphia over the past 100 years. Although this course will historical, cross-national, and political contexts. Then, theories also cover the histories of migrant communities arriving in the and research on the causes and consequences of child area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a greater part of maltreatment are studied. The legal and political structure of the course will focus on recent migrant communities, mainly child welfare services in the U.S. is considered, along with from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and arriving the extent to which this system provides a continuum of care, in the area of South Philadelphia. A special focus will be on the copes with residual problems of other service sectors (e.g., Mexican American migrant community that stands out among welfare, mental health, substance abuse, and housing), and those newly arrived migrant communities. prevents or perpetuates oppression of women, children, people Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of color, and other disadvantaged groups. The course focuses Counts toward Child and Family Studies on micro-, meso-, and macro-level practice issues and research Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies findings in the areas of child protection, in-home services, out-of-home care, adoption, treatment, and prevention of child SOCL B258 Sociology of Education maltreatment. Issues of cultural sensitivity and new directions for practice are considered in each of these areas. Spring 2022 Counts toward Child and Family Studies Major sociological theories of the relationships between education and society, focusing on the effects of education on Courses at Haverford inequality in the United States and the historical development of primary, secondary, and post- in the United ANTH H209 Anthropology of Education: State of the Debate States. Other topics include education and social selection, Education and schooling in anthropological literature. We testing and tracking, and micro- and macro-explanations of will compare the concepts of “socialization” in British Social differences in educational outcomes. This is a Praxis II course; Anthropology with “cultural transmission” in American Cultural placements are in local schools. Anthropology to look for the different ways in which the role of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) education in social reproduction and transformation has been Counts toward Child and Family Studies framed over time. In addition to basic works by thinkers such Counts toward Education as Durkheim, Malinowski, Mead, Benedict and Boas, we will Counts toward Praxis Program read a selection of ethnographies of schooling from the United States, Africa and Japan. Prerequisite: Anthro 103 and one B559 Family Therapy: Theory and Practice course in Education. Fall 2021 ANTH H263 Anthropology of Space: Housing and Society This seminar considers contemporary theories of family Space, place and architecture in anthropological theory; the therapy within a historical perspective. Building on approaches contributions of anthropology to our understanding of the built associated with communication, inter-actional, structural, and imagined environment in diverse cultures. Topics include: intergenerational, feminist, symbolic and psychodynamic the body and its orientation in space; the house, kinship and theories, the seminar emphasizes practitioner decision- cosmology; architecture as a communicative/semiotic system; making in family treatment. Experiential learning methods space and sociopolitical segregation and integration; space and utilizing practice simulations and videotapes are used to focus commodity culture. May be taken for Bryn Mawr Cities credit. on a range of social work practice issues including family Prerequisite: One course in ANTH or CITY. developmental stages, economic strains, single parent, minority and multi-problem families. Students who have not completed BIOL H217 Biological Psychology Foundation Practice and the first semester of practicum must have the instructor’s permission to take this course.. Interrelations between brain, behavior, and subjective experience. The course introduces students to physiological Counts toward Child and Family Studies psychology through consideration of current knowledge about the mechanisms of mind and behavior. B565 Clinical Social Work Practice with Children and Adolescents COML H289 Children’s Literature Summer 2021 This course investigates the beginnings, selected historical The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some developments, and some of the varieties of literature for of the theoretical and practice issues related to adapting children, and asks questions about the distinctiveness of

112 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES such literature, its aims and its presumed readership, and the school students, and colleagues, and generated themselves. applicability of particular theoretical approaches to children’s The goal of the class is to support students as they engage books. We will look at folk tale and , early examples of daily in practice teaching and as they clarify and further literature specifically for children, some particularly influential document the fundamental philosophies and practices that will texts, and examples from several sub-genres of children s foster reflective practice throughout their careers. literature; we will also spend a week each on picture books and poetry for children. Discussion will focus both on the texts PSYCH H213 Memory and Cognition themselves and on critical issues of various kinds. An interdisciplinary study of ways in which memory and other cognitive processes manifest themselves in everyday life. EDUC H200 Critical Issues in Education Topics addressed include memory for faces and geographical Designed to be the first course for students interested in locations; advertising; eyewitness testimony; autobiographical pursuing one of the options offered through the Education memory; metacognition; mood and memory; biological bases Program, this course is also open to students who are not of cognition; human factors; decision-making; and cognitive yet certain about their career aspirations but are interested diversity. Prerequisite: Psychology 100 or 104 or consent. in educational issues. The course examines major issues in Typically offered in alternate years education in the United States within the conceptual framework of educational reform. Two hours a week of fieldwork are PSYCH H215 Introduction to Personality Psychology required. An examination of the fundamental issues and questions addressed by personality psychology. What is personality? EDUC H210 Perspectives on Special Education What are its underlying processes and mechanisms? How does Perspectives on Special Education is designed as a survey personality develop and change over time? What constitutes a course. The goal is to introduce you, the student, to a range of healthy personality? This course will explore these questions topics, challenges, dilemmas and strategies in understanding by considering evidence from several major approaches to and educating all learners, those considered typical learners personality (trait, psychodynamic, humanistic and social- and those considered ‘special’ learners. cognitive), and it will encourage students to develop a dynamic understanding of human personality that is situated within EDUC H250 Literacies and Education biological, social and cultural contexts. Lottery preference to A critical exploration of what counts as literacy, who decides, Psychology majors, minors and NBS concentrators, and then and what the implications are for teaching and learning. by class. Prerequisite: Psychology 100 or 105 or consent. Students explore both their own and others experiences of literacy through reading and writing about power, privilege, PSYCH H217 Biological Psychology access and responsibility around issues of adult, ESL, cultural, Interrelations between brain, behavior and subjective multicultural, gendered, academic and critical literacies. experience. The course introduces students to physiological Fieldwork required. (Writing Intensive Praxis I). Priority given psychology through consideration of current knowledge first to those pursuing certification or a minor in educational about the mechanisms of mind and behavior. Prerequisite: An studies. introductory course in Psychology or Biology, or consent.

EDUC H260 Multicultural Education PSYCH H238 Psychology of Language A n investigation of the continually evolving theory and practice An interdisciplinary examination of linguistic theory, language of multicultural education in the United States. This course evolution and the psychological processes involved in using explores and problematizes the history, politics, definitions, language. Topics include speech perception and production, focuses, purposes, outcomes, and limitations of multicultural processes of comprehension, language and the brain, education as enacted in a range of school subjects and language learning, language and thought, linguistic diversity settings. Central topics may include: curriculum development, and conversational interaction. Prerequisite: Psychology 100 or teacher training, language diversity, and public policy concerns. consent of instructor. Students will also engage in researching and reinventing what is possible in education for, with, and about a diverse world. PSYCH H335 Self and Identity Two to three hours of fieldwork in a related setting per week Who am I? How do I feel about myself? What is the story of my required. Enrollment limited to 25. Priority given to students life? How people answer such questions and the implications enrolled in the Education Program. of their answers, both over time and across situations in their lives, are the issues that are at the heart of this course on self EDUC H302 Practice Teaching Seminar (To be taken and identity. Through a combination of lecture and discussion, concurrently with EDUC B303/B433 (Practice Teaching) we will examine the literature on self and identity from This class is open only to students engaged in practice multiple disciplinary perspectives (biological, developmental, teaching. The assignments build on those in EDUC 301 personality, social, and clinical) and apply scientific concepts (Curriculum and Pedagogy), connect directly to students’ to the analysis of socially important issues, current events, practice teaching experiences, document students’ progress popular culture, and our own life experiences. Specific topics toward meeting PA Department of Education and BMC/ to be addressed include self and identity development in HC Education Program criteria for certification, and prepare childhood and adolescence, self-esteem and its consequences, students for their teaching careers. In this course, students gender and self, culture and ethnic identity development, are expected to re-visit, draw on, and put into practice the stigmatized selves and prejudice, and the connection between educational theory they have read in their education courses self/identity and mental health. and on their own, discussed with experienced educators, high

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SOCL H235 Class, Race and Education EDUC 26/PSYC 26 Special Education An examination of the effects of class and race on educational This course is designed to provide students with a critical and occupational outcomes, emphasizing the contemporary overview of special education, including its history, the United States. classification and description of exceptionalities, and its legal regulation. Major issues related to identification, assessment, Courses at Swarthmore educational and therapeutic interventions, psychosocial aspects, and inclusion are examined. Course includes a field EDUC 14 Introduction to Education placement. Required for students pursuing teacher certification. This course provides a survey of issues in education within Prerequisite: EDUC 14 an interdisciplinary framework. In addition to considering the theories of individuals such as Dewey, Skinner, and EDUC 41 Educational Policy Bruner, the course explores some major economic, historical, This course explores issues in the design, implementation, and psychological, and sociological questions in American evaluation of educational policy at the federal, state, and local education and discusses alternative policies and programs. levels in light of the ongoing historical and cultural debates Topics are examined through readings, software, writing, over educational policy. It will examine a range of current discussion, and hands-on activity. Fieldwork is required. policy topics, including school finance, issues of adequacy This course fulfills the prerequisite for further course work in and equity, the standards movement, systemic reform, testing educational studies and provides an opportunity for students to and accountability, varieties of school choice, early childhood explore their interests in educational policy, student learning, education, immigrant and , and special and teaching. This course, or the first-year seminar EDUC education from the perspectives of several social science 014F, is required for students pursuing teacher certification. disciplines and political perspectives. Prerequisite: EDUC 14

EDUC 17 Curriculum and Methods Seminar EDUC 42 Teaching Diverse Young Learners This seminar is taken concurrently with Ed 16. Readings and This course explores the ways children learn in classrooms discussion focus on the applications of and construct meaning in their personal, community, and and theory to classroom practice. Course content covers: academic lives. The course is framed by theories of learning lesson planning; classroom management; inquiry-oriented as transmissionist, constructivist, and participatory. Students teaching strategies; questioning and discussion methods; will draw on ethnographies, research, their own learning literacy; the integration of technology and media; classroom- histories, classroom observations, and positioning as novice based and standardized assessments; instruction of special learners to create optimal learning environments for diverse needs populations; topics in multicultural, nonracist, and learners including but not limited to English-language learners, nonsexist education; and legislation regarding the rights of socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, culturally non- students and teachers. As part of the seminar, students take mainstream students, students with learning differences and a series of special methods workshops in their content area. disabilities, and students with socioemotional classifications. Required for students pursuing teacher certification. Fieldwork is required. Required for elementary certification. Prerequisite: EDUC 14 EDUC 21/PSYC 21 Educational Psychology This course focuses on issues in learning and development EDUC 45 Literacies and Social Identities that have particular relevance to understanding student This course explores the intersections of literacy practices and thinking. Research and theoretical work on student learning identities of gender, race, class, religion, ethnicity, and sexual and development provide the core readings for the course. orientation within communities of practice. It includes but is not In addition, students participate in a laboratory section limited to school settings. Students will work with diverse theory that involves consideration of learning and motivation in and analytical tools that draw on educational, anthropological, an alternative public school classroom and provides an historical, sociological, linguistic, fictional, visual, popular introduction to research methods. Required for students readings and “scenes of literacy” from everyday practice. pursuing teacher certification. Fieldwork includes a Learning for Life partnership, tutoring, or community service in a literacy program. Prerequisite: EDUC Prerequisite: EDUC 14 or permission of the instructor. 14 or permission of the instructor EDUC 23 Adolescents and Special Education EDUC 53 Language Minority Education In this course, students examine adolescent development This course examines the multifaceted issues facing English from psychological, sociological, and life-span perspectives, learners in U.S. schools. Course topics include theories of reading both traditional theory and challenges to that theory second language acquisition and bilingualism, the history of that consider issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual bilingual education in the United States, educational language orientation. During the first part of the term, students explore policies and the impact of the English-only movement, various aspects of individual development (e.g., cognitive, and practical approaches to teaching linguistic minority affective, physiological, etc.). The second part of the semester students. Course readings draw from relevant literature focuses on the adolescent’s experience in a range of social in sociolinguistics, language policy, language acquisition, contexts (e.g., family, peer group, school, etc.). Required for educational anthropology, and language pedagogy. Through students pursuing teacher certification. fieldwork and small group projects, students have the Prerequisite: EDUC 14 or permission of the instructor. opportunity to explore issues particular to a language minority population of their choice. Required for students pursuing

114 CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES teacher certification. Prerequisite: EDUC 14 or permission of EDUC 121 Psychology and Practice Honors the instructor This seminar focuses on general developmental principles revealed in and applicable to contexts of practice as well as EDUC 61 Gender and Education practical applications of research and theory in developmental This course uses historical, psychological, and social psychology. Seminar foci include: (1) use of the literatures frameworks to explore the role of gender in the education in developmental, educational, and social psychology and process. It examines how gender influences the experiences of learning and cognitive science to identify key indicators teaching and learning and how schools both contribute to and for assessing changed understanding and motivation; (2) challenge social constructions of gender. Prerequisite: EDUC preparation of literature reviews on a topic of each student’s 14 or permission of the instructor choice; and (3) collaborative work on an evaluation research project addressing a “live” issue or problem identified by a EDUC 64 Comparative Education local teacher, school, or community organization. Prerequisite: This course examines key issues and themes in education as EDUC 14 and EDUC 21 they play out in schools and nations around the world. We will explore the roles of local, national, and international actors EDUC 131 Social and Cultural Perspectives Honors and organizations in the construction of educational goals and Seminar practice, using case studies and country studies to look for In this seminar, students examine schools as institutions that the interplay between local context and globalized movements both reflect and challenge existing social and cultural patterns in education. Topics will include immigration and schooling, of thought, behavior, and knowledge production. Seminar equity, literacy, curriculum goals and constructs, teachers participants study and use qualitative methods of research and and teaching, and education in areas of conflict. Prerequisite: examine topics including the aims of schooling, parent/school/ EDUC 14 community interaction, schooling and identity development, and classroom and school restructuring. Prerequisite: EDUC 14 and EDUC 68 Urban Education an additional course in the 60s This course examines issues of practice and policy, including financing, integration, compensatory education, curricular EDUC 151 Literacies Research Honors Seminar innovation, parent involvement, bilingual education, high- This seminar explores theories and methods in the design and stakes testing, comprehensive school reform, governance, and implementation of qualitative studies of literacy, evaluation of multiculturalism. The special challenges faced by urban schools literacy programs and pedagogy, and study of literacy policies. in meeting the needs of individuals and groups in a pluralistic Students review relevant literature and participate in a field- society will be examined using the approaches of education, based collaborative research project or program evaluation. psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics. Current issues will also be viewed in historical Prerequisite: EDUC 14 and an additional course in the 40s-60s. perspective. Prerequisite: EDUC 14 Either EDUC 42 or EDUC 45 is highly recommended.

EDUC 69 Savage Inaccuracies: The Facts and Economics EDUC 162 Sociology of Education of Education in America This seminar explores the countless connections between This course investigates the relationship between issues of schooling and society. The seminar will look at educational resource allocation and educational attainment. It examines the policy and practice, applying prominent sociological facts about student achievement, educational expenditure in perspectives to a broad array of educational and social the United States, and the relationship between them. It studies problems. The seminar will examine schools as socializing such questions as: Does reducing class size improve student institutions, the ways in which schooling influences social achievement? Does paying teachers more improve teacher stratification, social mobility, and adult socioeconomic success. quality and student outcomes? The course also investigates the Topics will include unequal access to education, what makes relationship between educational attainment and wages in the schools effective, dropping out and persisting in school at labor market. Finally, it analyzes the effects of various market- various levels, ability grouping and tracking, and school oriented education reforms such as vouchers and charter restructuring. Fieldwork is required. Theory course for SOAN schools. Prerequisite: Any statistics course (or the consent of majors. Prerequisite: EDUC 14 and an additional course in the the instructor). EDUC 14 is required to receive Educational 60s, or permission of the instructor. Studies Department credit for this course. EDUC 167 Identities and Education Honors Seminar EDUC 70 Outreach Practicum This course explores intersections between identities of This course is offered in conjunction with the Lang Center race, class, gender, sexual orientation and public education for Civic and Social Responsibility. It is designed to support in the United States. Readings will draw on the fields of students involved in educational and community-based anthropology, legal studies, and cultural studies. Two central outreach in urban settings. Students’ volunteer experiences frameworks, Cultural Production and Critical Race Theory will provide text and case material for course work. Historical will guide consideration of how social structures inform the grounding in the construction of cities in general, and Chester, realities of schooling and how racial, class-based, gendered PA, in particular, will be provided. Criteria for effective practices and sexual identities are formed with in the context of schools. will be identified for the range of volunteer roles in community Prerequisite: EDUC 14 and EDUC 68 service projects Prerequisite: EDUC 14 is recommended

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HIST 79 Women, Family and the State in China infancy to adolescence. The course examines theoretical The history of women and families in Chinese society from the perspectives on the nature of developmental change in addition late imperial period to the present. Eligible for ASIA or GSST to empirical and applied issues in the study of children. Topics credit. include the formation of social attachments; the foundations and growth of perceptual, cognitive, and social skills; language PSYC 27 Language Acquisition and Development acquisition; and the impact of family and peers on the development of the child. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 This course covers central issues in language development. Is the human mind specially designed to acquire language? PSYC 41 Children at Risk Are these constraints specific to language or general features of human cognition? Is there a critical period for language Violence, educational inequality, war, homelessness, and acquisition? How much does language ability depend on the chronic poverty form the backdrop of many children’s lives. We input given to the child? The course explores these and other consider children’s responses to such occurrences from clinical, issues in typically developing children and special populations. developmental and ecosystem perspectives. Prerequisite: Topics include speech perception, word learning, syntax, PSYC 001 and either PSYC 38 or PSYC 39 or permission of pragmatics and bilingualism. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 or LING instructor 001 Introduction to Language and Linguistics. PSYC 43 Developmental PSYC 30 Physiological Psychology People in the modern world are flooded with major and A survey of the neural and biochemical bases of behavior with minor decisions on a daily basis. The available information is special emphasis on sensory processing, motivation, emotion, overwhelming, and there is little certainty about the outcomes learning, and memory. Both experimental analyses and clinical of any of the decisions people face. This course explores implications are considered. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 how people should go about making decisions in a complex, uncertain world; how people do go about making decisions PSYC 34 Psychology of Language in a complex, uncertain world; and how the gap between the two can be closed. Prerequisite: PSYC 001. PSYC 31 The capacity for language sets the human mind apart from recommended all other minds, both natural and artificial, and so contributes critically to making us who we are. In this course, we ask PSYC 50 Developmental Psychopathology several fundamental questions about the psychology of language: How do children acquire it so quickly and accurately? This course covers several psychological disorders that often How do we understand and produce it, seemingly without first appear in childhood and adolescence, including autism effort? What are its biological underpinnings? What is the and other developmental disorders, attention-deficit disorder, relationship between language and thought? How did language conduct disorder, eating disorders, and emotional disorders. evolve? And to what extent is the capacity for language “built Theories about the causes and treatment are discussed. A in” (genetically) versus “built up” (by experience)? Prerequisite: heavy emphasis is on current research questions and empirical PSYC 001 or permission of the instructor. findings related to each disorder. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 and either PSYC 38 or PSYC 39 or permission of instructor PSYC 35 Social Psychology PSYC 55 Family Systems Theory and Psychological Social psychology argues that social context is central to Change human experience and behavior. This course provides a review of the field with special attention to relevant theory and Systems theory is important in clinical, educational, medical research. The dynamics of cooperation and conflict, the self, and organizational contexts. This course explores family group identity, conformity, social influence, prosocial behavior, systems perspectives on illness and change. Research and aggression, prejudice, attribution, and attitudes are discussed. theory are supplemented with popular film, documentaries, and Prerequisite: PSYC 001 therapeutic case histories to understand how psychologists work with individuals and organizations to address PSYC 36 Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making developmental, communication, and emotional impasses. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 or permission of instructor People in the modern world are flooded with major and minor decisions on a daily basis. The available information is PSYC 135 Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural overwhelming, and there is little certainty about the outcomes Psychology of any of the decisions people face. This course explores how people should go about making decisions in a complex, The seminar aims at a critical exploration of substantive uncertain world; how people do go about making decisions in topics in social psychology, including findings from cross- a complex, uncertain world; and how the gap between the two cultural research and research. Various can be closed. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 perspectives and methods in investigating how human mind and social behavior interact with situational and environmental PSYC 39 Developmental Psychology factors are considered. Real world implications and applications are emphasized. Do infants have concepts? How do children learn language? These questions and others are addressed in this survey Prerequisite: PSYC 001 and PSYC 35; PSYC 25 strongly course of cognitive, social, and emotional development from preferred.

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CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN Each student’s course of study to meet major requirements will be determined in consultation with the undergraduate ARCHAEOLOGY major advisor in the spring semester of the sophomore year, at which time a written plan will be designed. Students Students may complete a minor or major in Classical and Near considering majoring in the department are encouraged to take Eastern Archaeology. the introductory courses (ARCH 101 or 104 and 102) early in their undergraduate career and should also seek advice from departmental faculty. Students who are interested in Faculty interdisciplinary concentrations or in study abroad during the Catherine Baker, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities junior year are strongly advised to seek assistance in planning their major early in their sophomore year. Maggie Beeler, Visiting Assistant Professor Jennie Bradbury, Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Languages

Eastern Archaeology (on leave semesters I and II) Majors who contemplate graduate study in Classical fields Alice Donohue, Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and should incorporate Greek and Latin into their programs. Near Eastern Archaeology (on leave semesters I and II) Those who plan graduate work in Near Eastern or Egyptian may take appropriate ancient languages at the University Astrid Lindenlauf, Associate Professor and Chair of Classical of Pennsylvania, such as Middle Egyptian, Akkadian and and Near Eastern Archaeology Sumerian. Any student considering graduate study in Classical Peter Magee, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern and Near Eastern archaeology should study French and Archaeology German. Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Visiting Assistant Professor in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Field Trip Since 2015/16 the department has organized an annual field The curriculum of the department focuses on the cultures trip for registered majors in good standing in their Junior Year. of the Mediterranean regions and the Near East in antiquity. This voluntary trip involves a city (e.g., Athens or Rome) which Courses treat aspects of society and material culture of features in our teaching program or a city which contains these civilizations as well as issues of theory, method, and relevant museums (e.g., London, Paris, Berlin). The airfare and interpretation. lodging expenses are covered by the Department. Owing to the ongoing health crisis the Spring trip 2022 will be replaced by a Minor Requirements day trip to a museum on the east coast, if it is deemed safe by the senior administration of the College. The minor requires six courses. Core requirements are two 100-level courses distributed between the ancient Near East and Egypt and ancient Greece and Rome, in addition to four Study Abroad other courses selected in consultation with the major advisor. A semester of study abroad is encouraged if the program is approved by the department. Students are encouraged to Major Requirements consult with faculty, since some programs the department may approve may not yet be listed at the Office of International The major requires a minimum of 10 courses. Core Programs. Students who seek major credit for courses taken requirements are two 100-level courses distributed between abroad must consult with the major advisor before enrolling the ancient Near East and Egypt (either ARCH 101 or 104) and in a program. Major credit is given on a case-by-case basis ancient Greece and Rome (ARCH 102), and two semesters of after review of the syllabus, work submitted for a grade, and a the senior conference (ARCH 398 and 399). At least two upper- transcript. Credit will not be given for more than one course and level courses should be distributed between Classical and not for courses that are ordinarily offered by the department. Near Eastern subjects. Additional requirements are determined in consultation with the major advisor. Additional coursework in allied subjects may be presented for major credit but must Independent Research be approved in writing by the major advisor; such courses are Majors who wish to undertake independent research, especially offered in the Departments of Anthropology, Geology, Greek, for researching and writing a lengthy paper, must arrange with Latin and Classical Studies, Growth and Structure of Cities, and a professor who is willing to advise them, and consult with the History of Art. In consultation with the major advisor, one course major advisor. Such research normally would be conducted taken in study abroad may be accepted for credit in the major by seniors as a unit of supervised work (403), which must after review of the syllabus, work submitted for a grade, and a be approved by the advising professor before registration. transcript: credit will not be given for a course that is ordinarily Students planning to do such research should consult with offered by the department. Students can also take courses at professors in the department in the spring semester of their the University of Pennsylvania in consultation with the major junior year or no later than the beginning of the fall semester of advisor. the senior year. The writing requirement for the major consists of two one- semester Writing Attentive courses offered within the Honors department. Honors are granted on the basis of academic performance as demonstrated by a cumulative average of 3.5 or better in the major.

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Additional Major Experiences: Fieldwork ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban and Museum Internships Revolutions

The department strongly encourages students to gain fieldwork Not offered 2021-22 experience over the summer and assists them in getting This course examines the archaeology of the two most positions on field projects in North America and overseas. fundamental changes that have occurred in human society in The department is undertaking several field projects in Egypt, the last 12,000 years, agriculture and urbanism, and we explore Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Further field projects these in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also in Greece or the Near East are foreseen for the future. There explore those societies that did not experience these changes. will be opportunities for advanced undergraduates to participate Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in these projects. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Museum internships, either during the summer or during the Counts toward Geoarchaeology term, also constitute valid major experiences beyond the Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies classroom. The department is awarded annually one fully paid summer internship by the Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation ARCH B110 The World Through Classical Eyes for students to work for four weeks in the Museum of Cycladic Not offered 2021-22 Art in Athens, Greece. An announcement inviting applications is normally sent by the department chair in the spring. A survey of the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans perceived and constructed their physical and social world. The Opportunities to work with the College’s archaeology collections evidence of ancient texts and monuments will form the basis are available throughout the academic year and during the for exploring such subjects as cosmology, geography, travel summer. Students wishing to work with the collections should and commerce, ancient and anthropology, the consult Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager for Art and idea of natural and artificial wonders, and the self-definition Artifacts. of the classical cultures in the context of the oikoumene, the “inhabited world.” Funding for Summer Learning Opportunities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) The department has two funds that support students Inquiry into the Past (IP) for summer internships, summer fieldwork projects, and archaeological summer projects of their own design. One, ARCH B135 Focus: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods the Elisabeth Packard Fund for internships in Art History and Fall 2021 Archaeology is shared with the Department of the History of Art, while the other is the Anna Lerah Keys Memorial Prize. Any The fundamentals of the practice of archaeology through declared major may apply for these funds. An announcement readings and case studies and participatory demonstrations. calling for applications is normally sent to majors in the Case studies will be drawn from the archives of the Nemea spring, and the awards are made public at the annual college Valley Archaeological Project and material in the College’s awards ceremony in April. To help cover expenses related to collections. Each week there will be a 1-hour laboratory that will archaeological learning opportunities, which can be expensive, introduce students to a variety of fieldwork methods and forms the department encourages majors to consider applying for of analysis. This is a half semester Focus course. funding offered by Bryn Mawr College and external funding Inquiry into the Past (IP) sources. Counts toward Geoarchaeology

Courses ARCH B203 Ancient Greek Cities and Sanctuaries

ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Not offered 2021-22 Archaeology A study of the development of the Greek city-states and Spring 2022 sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is surveyed in its historic context. The political formation of the city-state and the role of A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the ancient religion is presented, and the political, economic, and religious Near East and Egypt. institutions of the city-states are explored in their urban Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) settings. The city-state is considered as a particular political Inquiry into the Past (IP) economy of the Mediterranean and in comparison to the utility Counts toward Africana Studies of the concept of city-state in other cultures. Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B102 Introduction to Counts toward Museum Studies Fall 2021 ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, Etruria, and Rome. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course focuses on perceptions of animals in ancient Inquiry into the Past (IP) Greece from the Geometric to the Classical periods. It Counts toward Museum Studies examines representations of animals in painting, sculpture, and the minor arts, the treatment of animals as attested in the archaeological record, and how these types of evidence relate

118 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY to the featuring of animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, century CE). We will explore how the vitality of classical styles comedy, and medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing and pagan beliefs mixed with the creative of other this rich body of evidence, the course develops a context in “indigenous” traditions - Egyptian, Arabic, Jewish, Gallic, etc., which participants gain insight into the ways ancient Greeks as well as those of the new church, so as to better understand perceived, represented, and treated animals. Juxtaposing the cultural plurality and vigor of this period formally considered the importance of animals in modern society, as attested, for a “Dark Age.” example, by their roles as pets, agents of healing, diplomatic Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) gifts, and even as subjects of specialized studies such as Inquiry into the Past (IP) animal law and animal geographies, the course also serves Counts toward Museum Studies to expand awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own society as well as that of ancient Greece. ARCH B220 Araby the Blest: The Archaeology of the Critical Interpretation (CI) Arabian Peninsula from 3000 to 300 B.C.E. Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B206 Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture A survey of the archaeology and history of the Arabian Not offered 2021-22 peninsula focusing on urban forms, transport, and cultures in This course surveys the sculpture produced from the the Arabian peninsula and Gulf and their interactions with the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the period, world from the rise of states in Mesopotamia down to the time beginning with the death of Alexander the Great, that saw the of Alexander the Great. transformation of the classical world through the rise of Rome Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and the establishment and expansion of the Roman Empire. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Style, iconography, and production will be studied in the contexts of the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman ARCH B222 Alexander the Great appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman society, and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the Not offered 2021-22 post-antique classical tradition. This course examines the life, personality, career, and Critical Interpretation (CI) military achievements of Alexander the Great, as well as the Inquiry into the Past (IP) extraordinary reception of his legacy in antiquity and through modern times. It uses historical, archaeological and art- ARCH B208 Ancient Near Eastern History historical evidence to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of Alexander’s cultural background and examines the real and Not offered 2021-22 imaginary features of his life and afterlife as they developed This course will explore some of the key historical figures, in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, Late Antiquity, the events and inventions that shaped Ancient Near Eastern Middle Ages, Renaissance, and succeeding periods in both societies and traditions. We will consider the impact that the Europe and Asia. Special attention is also placed on the modern disciplines of ancient near eastern archaeology and appeal that Alexander’s life and achievements have generated history have had on our understanding of this region. We will and continue to retain in modern popular visual culture as also discuss how the ancient history and more recent colonial evidenced from documentary films and pictures. past of this region has impacted upon and shaped our modern Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) interpretations of this region. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B215 Classical Art A survey of the social position of women in the ancient Near East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first millennium Not offered 2021-22 B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional concepts of gender A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from in archaeology and theories of matriarchy. Case studies the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 illustrate the historicity of gender concepts: women’s work B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are in early village societies; the meanings of Neolithic female examined in historical and social context, including interactions figurines; the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite empire; interpretive issues are highlighted. the indirect power of women such as Semiramis in the Neo- Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and more indirect

Inquiry into the Past (IP) archaeological evidence are the basis for discussion. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARCH B219 Art and Archaeology of Late Antiquity Inquiry into the Past (IP) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies This class examines the art and archaeology of the late- antique Mediterranean, tracing various iterations of artistic ARCH B225 The Art and Achaeology of Greco-Roman and architectural experimentation as well as socio-political Egypt expression from the Late Roman world of the Tetrarchs (3rd century CE) to the first Islamic Dynasty, the Umayyads (7th Not offered 2021-22

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This course examines the art and archaeology of Greco-Roman A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious Egypt from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th ideologies of, and interactions among, the five great empires of century BCE to the Late Roman Era, ca. 4th century CE. the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian Inquiry into the Past (IP) and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Empire in Iran. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARCH B226 Archaeology of Anatolia Inquiry into the Past (IP) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies

One of the cradles of civilization, Anatolia witnessed the rise ARCH B252 Pompeii and fall of many cultures and states throughout its ancient history. This course approaches the ancient material remains Spring 2022 of pre-classical Anatolia from the perspective of Near Eastern Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site whose archaeology, examining the art, artifacts, architecture, cities, destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was and settlements of this land from the Neolithic through the recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the Lydian periods. Some emphasis will be on the Late Bronze mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century Age and the Iron Age, especially phases of Hittite and Assyrian views of the Roman past as well as styles and preferences of imperialism, Late Hittite states, Phrygia, and the Urartu. the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) life, city structure, residential architecture, home decoration and Inquiry into the Past (IP) furnishing, wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile activities within a Roman city. ARCH B227 The Archaeology of Syria Inquiry into the Past (IP) Fall 2021 Counts toward Museum Studies

Home to a wealth of archaeological sites and cultures, Syria ARCH B254 Cleopatra is perhaps now more widely known for its almost decade long conflict that has seen the displacement of millions of Fall 2021 people and the damage to and destruction of hundreds of This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, the archaeological sites. The loss of is just one, last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception of her legacy very small, part of the human tragedies that have unfolded in in the Early Roman Empire and the western world from the Syria. Knowledge of the deep and recent past of this region, Renaissance to modern times. The first part of the course however, is integral for understanding its present, and its future. explores extant literary evidence regarding the upbringing, This course will explore human settlement and interaction education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian within Syria over the longue durée. Using a selection of key and Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar sites, inhabited for thousands of years, we will explore several and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her death by major themes including, the archaeology of inequality, the suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines constructions of role of urban life and the importance of ritual and religion. The Cleopatra in Roman literature, her iconography in surviving art, course will also consider the complex relationships that have and her contributions to and influence on both Ptolemaic and always existed between Syria and its neighboring countries. Roman art. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife Finally, we will turn to the role of archaeology, its future and of Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, and film potential within a post-conflict Syria. of both Europe and the United States, extending from the Critical Interpretation (CI) papal courts of Renaissance Italy and Shakespearean drama, Inquiry into the Past (IP) to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Mankiewicz’s 1963 , Cleopatra. Critical Interpretation (CI) ARCH B240 Archaeology and History of Ancient Inquiry into the Past (IP) Mesopotamia Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B263 Roman Archaeology: Life in the City A survey of the material culture of ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, from the earliest phases of state formation (circa Not offered 2021-22 3500 B.C.E.) through the Achaemenid Persian occupation This course explores the art and architecture of ancient Rome of the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). Emphasis will be on art, from the Republic through the Empire. By focusing on specific artifacts, monuments, religion, kingship, and the cuneiform topics, such as residences, markets, religious life, death and tradition. The survival of the cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into entertainment, and by surveying a rich variety of available later ancient and Islamic traditions will also be addressed. evidence that spans from architectural remains, inscriptions and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) monuments to paintings, architectural sculpture and mosaics, Inquiry into the Past (IP) the course highlights the importance of art historical and Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies archaeological inquiry for our understanding of urban life and experience in one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East Inquiry into the Past (IP) Fall 2021

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ARCH B303 Classical Bodies broad region, and some of the threats and disturbances Not offered 2021-22 affecting them. We will consider how different interest groups and stakeholders view, value and present historical and An examination of the conceptions of the human body archaeological sites to the general public, as well as the evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with success of modern initiatives and projects to safeguard the emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western heritage of the MENA region. Our research will consider the tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and ethics of cultural preservation, as well as the issues and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions problems encountered by heritage specialists working in areas of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; of modern conflict. Whilst not all damage can be prevented, the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the course will consider how different threats and disturbances the visible expression of character and emotions; and the might be mitigated. Prerequisite: Upper level 300-level course. formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later times. Students should have completed at least two 100 level/200 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies level courses in either classical or near eastern archaeology. Course does not meet an Approach ARCH B305 Topics in Ancient Athens Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Museum Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. ARCH B322 The Archaeology of the Roman Empire: Comparative Perspectives ARCH B306 Monumental Painting Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 An examination of the growth of the Roman Republic into The Mediterranean tradition of large-scale painting begins in the Roman Empire at its height, from its acquisitions of the prehistoric times and continues through Late Antiquity and Hellenistic kingdoms (second and first centuries, B.C.E.) to its beyond. Important examples survive on the walls of houses, domination of Europe, North Africa and the Near East. tombs and other structures at sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Anatolia, Macedonia, ARCH B330 Archaeological Theory and Method Magna Graecia, and Etruria, Rome and the famous sites of Pompeii and Hercul- aneum preserved by the eruption of Mount Spring 2022 Vesuvius. Technical, artistic, cultural and interpretive issues will A history of archaeology from the Renaissance to the present be considered. with attention to the formation of theory and method. Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Geoarchaeology

ARCH B312 Bronze Age Internationalism ARCH B333 Nomads and Archaeology Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course explores the rise and fall of the first international This course will explore the historical importance of mobile age in the eastern mediterranean. We will focus on the cultural groups in regions such as the Ancient Near East and some and diplomatic connections between Egypt, Syria, Anatolia of the archaeological traces they may leave behind. Using and the Aegean during the Bronze Age, c. 2000-1200BCE.. ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological literature we Prerequisites: ARCH B101 or B104 or B216 or B226 or B230 or will discuss the different ways in which mobile populations have B240 or B244. been conceptualized, portrayed and treated by non-mobile Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies societies and the relationship between these different groups. The course will also consider how new technologies and ARCH B316 Trade and Transport in the Ancient World archaeological methods might enable us to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding and how we might be able to place Not offered 2021-22 mobile populations at the center, rather than at the periphery, of Issues of trade, commerce and production of export goods are our archaeological narratives. addressed with regard to the Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies of Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the development of means of transport via maritime ARCH B355 The Achaemenid Empire routes and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of sea-faring Not offered 2021-22 across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while bio-archaeological data This course explores the art, history, and archaeology of is employed to examine the transformative role that Bactrian the Achaemenid Empire. Between 550 and 330 B.C., the and Dromedary camels played in ancient trade and transport. Achaemenid kings of Iran controlled the largest and greatest empire the world has seen up until that time. By studying ARCH B317 Cultural Heritage and Endangered the art, architecture, politics, religion, burial customs, Archaeology administration, economy, and warfare of Achaemenid Persia, Not offered 2021-22 the course offers a unique insight into the wealth, splendor, and diversity of one of the most powerful empires of the This course will examine how and why archaeological sites ancient Near East. Because the Achaemenid Empire exerted are ‘endangered’. Primarily focusing on the Near East and great influence on the ancient Mediterranean world, the North Africa (the MENA region), we will examine the different contacts and conflict between ancient Greece and Persia types of archaeological and heritage sites found across this

121 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY will be also examined, from an ancient Greek perspective, ethics of cultural preservation, as well as the issues and in order to understand how this perspective contributed to problems encountered by heritage specialists working in areas the misapprehension of the Achaemenid Empire in modern of modern conflict. Whilst not all damage can be prevented, Western thought. the course will consider how different threats and disturbances might be mitigated. ARCH B398 Senior Seminar A weekly seminar on topics to be determined with assigned ARCH B530 Archaeological Theory and Method readings and oral and written reports. Spring 2022 A history of archaeology from the Renaissance to the present ARCH B399 Senior Seminar with attention to the formation of theory and method. A weekly seminar on common topics with assigned readings and oral and written reports. ARCH B555 The Achaemenid Empire Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B403 Supervised Work Supervised Work This course explores the art, history, and archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire. Between 550 and 330 B.C., the ARCH B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Achaemenid kings of Iran controlled the largest and greatest empire the world has seen up until that time. By studying

Counts toward Praxis Program the art, architecture, politics, religion, burial customs, administration, economy, and warfare of Achaemenid Persia, ARCH B504 Archaeology of Greek Religion the course offers a unique insight into the wealth, splendor, Fall 2021 and diversity of one of the most powerful empires of the This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek religion ancient Near East. Because the Achaemenid Empire exerted by focusing on surviving archaeological, architectural, great influence on the ancient Mediterranean world, the epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence that dates from contacts and conflict between ancient Greece and Persia the Archaic and Classical periods. By examining a wealth will be also examined, from an ancient Greek perspective, of diverse evidence that ranges, for example, from temple in order to understand how this perspective contributed to architecture, and feasting and banqueting equipment to the misapprehension of the Achaemenid Empire in modern inscriptions, statues, vase paintings, and descriptive texts, Western thought. the course enables the participants to analyze the value and complexity of the archaeology of Greek religion and to ARCH B602 Graduate Intensive Survey recognize its significance for the reconstruction of daily life in Spring 2022 ancient Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such This course examines the archaeology of the two most as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of animal fundamental changes that have occurred in human society in sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive offerings and the last 12,000 years, agriculture and urbanism, and we explore also the important position of festivals and hero and mystery thee in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also cults in ancient Greek religious thought and experience. explore those societies that did not experience these changes.

ARCH B505 Topics in Ancient Athens ARCH B603 Graduate Intensive Survey

Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021

This is a topics course. Topics vary. A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, Etruria, and Rome. ARCH B512 Bronze Age Internationalism Fall 2021 ARCH B605 The Concept of Style This course explores the rise and fall of the first international Not offered 2021-22 age in the eastern Mediterranean. We will focus on the cultural This seminar examines the development and uses of concepts and diplomatic connections between Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and of “style” in the criticism, analysis, and historiography of the Aegean during the Bronze Age, c. 2000-1200BCE. textual and material culture. Particular attention is paid to the recognition and description of style, explanations of stylistic ARCH B517 Cultural Heritage and Endangered change, and the meanings attached to style, particularly but not Archaeology exclusively in classical and related traditions. Not offered 2021-22 This course will examine how and why archaeological sites ARCH B608 Mediterranean are ‘endangered’. Primarily focusing on the Near East and Not offered 2021-22 North Africa (the MENA region), we will examine the different This course explores a range of approaches to the study types of archaeological and heritage sites found across this of landscapes that relates to core principles of the field of broad region, and some of the threats and disturbances archaeology. It also discusses the construction of specific affecting them. We will consider how different interest groups landscapes in the Mediterranean (e.g., gardens, sacred and stakeholders view, value and present historical and landscapes, and memoryscapes). archaeological sites to the general public, as well as the success of modern initiatives and projects to safeguard the heritage of the MENA region. Our research will consider the 122 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY

ARCH B613 Interrogating the Dead existing terminologies for this historical region and consider Not offered 2021-22 how research methods and questions have changed in recent years. Topics covered may include: ancient gender roles, One of the most direct forms of evidence we have for ancient cultural heritage, landscape theory and approaches, new societies are graves. From these contexts we often find technologies and religion and ritual amongst others. skeletal remains; vestiges of once living people. The burial record, however, raises as many questions as it does answers. ARCH B691 The Uruk Period in Western Asia This graduate seminar will draw upon archaeological and Not offered 2021-22 anthropological literature to explore the different ways in which can inform us on wider socio-cultural ARCH B701 Supervised Work phenomenon. When, for example, can we see individuality emerging? What was the impact of mono-theistic religions upon Fall 2021, Spring 2022 the treatment and conceptualization of the body? How were Unit of supervised work burial assemblages manipulated by living populations? Using cases studies from the Neolithic through to the Islamic periods, CHEM B208 Topics in Art Analysis we will also explore patterns of similarity and difference that can Fall 2021 be identified across this broad region over time and space. This is a topics course and topics will vary. All courses will ARCH B616 Maritime Networks and the Archaeology of the cover a variety of methods of analysis of works of art centered Levant around a specific theme. Using both completed case studies and their own analysis of objects in the Bryn Mawr College Not offered 2021-22 collection, students will investigate a number of instrumental This course will explore the history and archaeology of the methods of obtaining both quantitative and qualitative Levant, and its key role in the maritime networks of the information about the manufacture, use and history of the Eastern Mediterranean. We will use case studies from the objects. This course counts towards the major in History of Art. Neolithic through to the late medieval period, to discover Scientific Investigation (SI) how ‘seascapes’ have shaped and influenced Levantine Counts toward Museum Studies economies, industries, identities and political interconnections throughout the history of this region. The class will draw upon CSTS B201 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics archaeological (both underwater and coastal), literary and iconographic evidence, alongside ongoing geomorphological Not offered 2021-22 and environmental studies in the region to take an Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), interdisciplinary approach to this topic. has been a figure of continuous fascination and political resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and ARCH B633 Nomads and Archaeology enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while Not offered 2021-22 she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, This course will explore the historical importance of mobile musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will groups in regions such as the Ancient Near East and some examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in of the archaeological traces they may leave behind. Using various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological literature we part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material will discuss the different ways in which mobile populations have evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and been conceptualized, portrayed and treated by non-mobile the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, societies and the relationship between these different groups. we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, The course will also consider how new technologies and and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging archaeological methods might enable us to fill in some of the from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to gaps in our understanding and how we might be able to place HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day mobile populations at the center, rather than at the periphery, of advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues our archaeological narratives. such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and

ARCH B634 Problems in Classical Art the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda.

Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) This is a topics course. Topics vary. A seminar dealing with current issues in the art of ancient Greece and related CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics traditions. Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B640 East Mediterranean Interconnections Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), Not offered 2021-22 has been a figure of continuous fascination and political resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and ARCH B680 Problems in the Archaeology of Mesopotamia enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined Not offered 2021-22 by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, This course will explore the different approaches and musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will technologies used to study Mesopotamia. We will problematize examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in

123 CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, and part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material history and to engage in a discourse about the complex and evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and changing conceptualizations of war and peace in the ancient the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, world. We plan to have several guest lecturers. Students we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, participating in this seminar will be expected to give oral and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging presentations and to develop their special areas of interests from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to in their research projects applying a variety of methods. No HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day previous classics or archaeology training is required. advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and HART B218 Byzantine Textiles in Life and Death the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course explores the manifold uses and meanings of Counts toward Film Studies textiles in early Byzantine visual and material culture as well as their afterlife as objects of collection and display in the CSTS B208 The Roman Empire modern era. Students will undertake original research on early Fall 2021 Byzantine textiles from the collection of Philadelphia University. Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the House of Assignments will develop skills in museological writing, Constantine with focus on the evolution of Roman culture and including documentation for collection databases and object society as presented in the surviving ancient evidence, both exhibitions. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in History of literary and archaeological. Art, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or History is recommended, but not required. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) CSTS B639 Italy and the Rise of Rome Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Not offered 2021-22 This course examines the archaeology and history of the HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Strategies Italian peninsula in the first millennium BCE, with a particular Not offered 2021-22 focus on the dynamics of Rome’s rise from small settlement to the dominant power on the Italian peninsula. Through This is a topics course. Course content varies. an examination of the textual, epigraphic, numismatic, and Counts toward Museum Studies archaeological evidence from Rome and the other major Counts toward Praxis Program powers in Italy in this period, including the Etruscans, Samnites, and Greek colonial cities, we investigate the major debates HART B318 Cultural Property and Museums and issues surrounding Rome’s rise to power, including the Not offered 2021-22 nature of Roman imperialism, processes of “Romanization” or acculturation among non-Romans, and the social and political This course examines cultural heritage and the concept of conflicts and pressures which played a role in shaping the cultural property in relation to museums and collections. We character of the Roman state in the first millennium BCE. will consider the development of national and international laws in the 20th and 21st centuries to protect cultural heritage, GSEM B654 War and Peace in the Ancient World museum responsibilities, and case studies on topics including the looting of archaeological sites, the fate of art during war, Not offered 2021-22 nationalism and politics, restitution of art, and fakes and For centuries history has been perceived, written and taught forgeries. as a series of wars and periods of peace. Yet, the question Counts toward Museum Studies remains: what does it mean when a city, a state or a nation is at war, and how do different cultures and societies conceptualize HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle peace? This interdisciplinary seminar explores theories and Ages practices of war and peace in the ancient world, examining the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. The Not offered 2021-22 archaeology of warfare will include battlefields, fortifications, A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems arms and weapons, siege machines, war memorials, funerary (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical monuments as well as the iconography of victors and victims. marketplace, and the social context for understanding health The literary sources that we will be reading, among them and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include the Homeric epics, select passages from Greek and Roman Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of historiography, philosophical and rhetorical works and ancient hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. handbooks and manuals of warfare, will shed light on the Critical Interpretation (CI) recording of conflicts, the conduct of war, notions of power Inquiry into the Past (IP) and peace, the depiction of leaders, the representation of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies violence, and strategies of commemoration. Investigating Counts toward Health Studies bodies of evidence, which are normally studied separately and Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies within specific disciplinary formations, we aim to challenge the

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Jerry Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy Deborah Roberts, Professor of Classics and Comparative Comparative Literature is a joint Bryn Mawr and Haverford Literature program that draws on the diverse teaching and research Ulrich Schoenherr, Professor Emeritus of German and interests of the faculty at the two colleges, especially but not Comparative Literature exclusively those in our many departments of language and literature.The study of Comparative Literature situates literature David Sedley, Associate Professor of French in an international perspective; examines transnational cultural connections through literary history, literary criticism, critical theory, and poetics; and works toward a nuanced Major Requirements understanding of the socio-cultural functions of literature. • COML 200 (Introduction to Comparative Literature), The close reading of literary texts and other works from normally taken by the spring of the sophomore year. different cultures and periods is fundamental to our enterprise. • Six advanced literature courses in the original languages Interpretive methods from other disciplines that interrogate (normally at the 200 level or above), balanced between two cultural discourses also play a role in the comparative study of literature departments (of which English may be one): at literature; among these are anthropology, philosophy, religion, least two (one in each literature) must be at the 300-level history, music, the history of art, visual studies, film studies, or above, or its equivalent, as approved in advance by the gender studies, and area studies (including Africana studies, advisor. Latin American and Iberian studies, and East Asian studies). Our students have gone on to do graduate work in comparative • One course in critical theory. literature and related fields; pursued advanced degrees in • Two electives in comparative literature. business, law, medicine, and journalism; and undertaken • COML 398 (Theories and Methods in Comparative careers in translation, publishing, international business, Literature). diplomacy, and non-governmental organizations. • COML 399 (Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature). Faculty *In the case of languages for which literature courses in the original language are not readily available in the Tri-Co, Co-Chairs and Advisers students may on occasion be allowed to count a course taught in English translation for which they do at least part of the Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English (Haverford reading in the original language. College) Shiamin Kwa, Co-Chair and Associate Professor of East Asian Minor Requirements

Studies and Co-Director of Comparative Literature Requirements for the minor are COML 200 and 398, plus four additional courses—two each in the literature of two languages. Steering Committee At least one of these four courses must be at the 300 level. Bryn Mawr College Students who minor in comparative literature are encouraged Edwige Crucifix, Assistant Professor of French and to choose their national literature courses from those with a Francophone Studies comparative component. Martín Gaspar, Associate Professor of Spanish (on leave NOTE: Both majors and minors should work closely with the semester I) co-chairs of the program and with members of the steering committee in shaping their programs. Alessandro Giammei, Assistant Professor of Italian (on leave semesters I and II) Requirements for Honors Timothy Harte, Provost and Professor of Russian Students who, in the judgment of the Comparative Literature María Cristina Quintero, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities Steering Committee, have done distinguished work in their and Professor and Chair of Spanish (on leave semester II) comparative literature courses and in the Senior Seminar will be considered for departmental honors. Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities NOTE: Please note that not all topics courses (B223, 299, 321, 325, 326, 340) count toward COML elective requirements. See Qinna Shen, Associate Professor and Chair of German adviser. Jamie Taylor, Associate Professor and Chair of Literatures in English Prizes Haverford The Barbara Riley Levin Prize is awarded annually to the Imke Brust, Assistant Professor of German senior major(s) whose work merits recognition for intellectual achievement, as demonstrated in the senior thesis. Israel Burshatin, Professor Emeritus of Spanish Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Associate Professor of Spanish and Faculty Comparative Literature Two co-chairs, one at each college, and a Bi- College steering Matthew Farmer, Assistant Professor of Classics committee administer the program. The committee generally includes those faculty members most often involved in teaching Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English the introductory course and the senior seminar.

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Courses regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common COML B200 Introduction to Comparative Literature problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual Spring 2022 texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be This course explores a variety of approaches to the studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern comparative or transnational study of literature through critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular readings of several kinds: texts from different cultural traditions culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our that raise questions about the nature and function of storytelling understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, and literature; texts that comment on, respond to, and rewrite and the trials of modernity. other texts from different historical periods and nations; Critical Interpretation (CI) translations; and readings in critical theory. Counts toward International Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) COML B398 Theories and Methods in Comparative COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local Literature Practices and Global Resonance This course, required of all senior comparative literature Not offered 2021-22 majors in preparation for writing the senior thesis in the The course is in English. It examines the ban on books, films, spring semester, has a twofold purpose: to review interpretive and art in a global context through a study of the historical approaches informed by critical theories that enhance our and sociopolitical conditions of censorship practices. This understanding of literary and cultural texts; and to help students semester our focus will be on Germany and China. The course prepare a preliminary outline of their senior theses. Throughout raises such questions as how censorship is used to fortify the semester, students research theoretical paradigms that political power, how it is practiced locally and globally, who bear on their own comparative thesis topics in order to situate censors, what are the categories of censorship, how censorship those topics in an appropriate critical context. This is a required succeeds and fails, and how writers and artists write and for majors and minors. create against and within censorship. The last question leads to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and artists COML B399 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature employ to translate the expression of repression, trauma, and Thesis writing seminar. Research methods. torture into idioms of resistance. Current focus: Censorship in Germany and China. German majors/minors can get German COML B403 Supervised Work Studies credit. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing course. ARCH B303 Classical Bodies

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with COML B242 German Encounters w East Asia: A emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western Transnational Cinema Course tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and Not offered 2021-22 female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; Due to increased mobility in the age of globalization, the the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; encounter between East and West has shifted from the the visible expression of character and emotions; and the imaginary to the real. Actual encounters provide the potential formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later times. for debunking cultural myths and prejudices that an orientalist lens tended to produce. East and West both carry their own Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies traditions, value systems, and distinct cultural identities. This sparks conflicts, but also generates mutual interest. In present- ARTW B261 Writing Poetry I day Germany, the Asian-German connection constitutes Spring 2022 a neglected aspect of multicultural discourses and thus In this course students will learn to “read like a writer,” while deserves more scrutiny. This transnational film course focuses grappling with the work of accomplished poets, and providing specifically on encounters between German-speaking countries substantive commentary on peers’ work. Through diverse and East Asia. Using film as the main medium, this course readings, students will examine craft strategies at work in touches on prominent issues such as orientalism, race, gender, both formal and free verse poems, such as diction, metaphor, class, nation, and identity, which have been much studied by imagery, lineation, metrical patterns, irony, and syntax. The literary and cultural critics in recent years. course will cover shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) as well as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, Critical Interpretation (CI) etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying the literal Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory description and Counts toward Film Studies clear, compelling language) and the concealed meaning of a text (e.g., through metaphor, imagery, meter, irony, and shifts COML B293 The Play of Interpretation in diction and syntax). By the end of the course, students will Not offered 2021-22 have generated new material, shaped and revised draft poems, and significantly grown as writers by experimenting with various Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and aspects of craft.

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Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Visual Studies

CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics EALC B310 Advanced Readings in the Graphic Narrative Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), This advanced seminar focuses on critical and theoretical has been a figure of continuous fascination and political approaches to the graphic novel. In the past several decades, resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and a genre of “ comics” has emerged from the medium that enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while are highly literary with a deep engagement between form and she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined meaning. This seminar focuses on weekly close readings of by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, such graphic novels with rigorous analysis of form and content. musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will Primary text readings are supplemented with readings from examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in literary theory, visual studies, and philosophy. Participants various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first are expected to be comfortable with the application of literary part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material critical theory and visual studies theory to texts. There are evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and no prerequisites for the course, but due to the quantity and the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, complexity of the reading material, some background in literary we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, study is necessary. Students interested in taking this course in and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging fulfillment of a major requirement in Comparative Literature or from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to East Asian Languages and Cultures will need to discuss with HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day me prior to enrollment. Preference given to students who have advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues taken EALC B255. This semester (Spring 2021) we will explore such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and theories of narrative in the context of the graphic narrative. the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. Students will read and view primary texts, supplemented by Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) theoretical readings, that engage questions of how subjects Counts toward Film Studies develop through unconventional notions of “travel” in time, space, or both. THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS PART OF A CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology 360 Fall 2021 Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and Counts toward Visual Studies fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in how some of these stories have been read and understood, East Asian Literature and Film recounted and revised, in various cultures and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We will also explore some Not offered 2021-22 of the interpretive theories by which these tales have been This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of understood, from ancient allegory to modern structural and literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will semiotic theories. The student should gain a more profound begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women’s understanding of the meaning of these myths to the Greeks lives beginning in early China, and consider how those themselves, of the cultural context in which they were tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical formulated. At the same time, this course should provide the borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior student with some familiarity with the range of interpretations knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. and strategies of understanding that people of various cultures Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and times have applied to the Greek myths during the more Counts toward Film Studies than two millennia in which they have been preserved. Preference to upperclassmen, previous coursework in myth EALC B345 Topics in East Asian Culture required. Not offered 2021-22 EALC B212 Topics: Introduction to Chinese Literature This is a topics course. Course contents vary. Not offered 2021-22 EALC B355 Animals, Vegetables, Minerals in East Asian This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Literature and Film Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) This semester, we will explore how artists question, explore, EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film celebrate, and critique the relationships between humans and the environment. Through a topics-focused course, students Spring 2022 will examine the ways that narratives about environment have This is a topics course. Course content varies. shaped the way that humans have defined themselves. We Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) will be reading novels and short stories and viewing films that Critical Interpretation (CI) contest conventional binaries of man and animal, civilization Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and nature, tradition and technology, and even truth and fiction. Counts toward Film Studies “Animals, Vegetables, Minerals” does not follow chronological or geographical frameworks, but chooses texts that engage

127 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE the three categories enumerated as the major themes of Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx our course. We will read and discuss animal theory, theories of place and landscape, and theories of modernization or ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned mechanization; and there will be frequent (and intentional) Violence in Latinx Literature overlap between these categories. We will also be watching Fall 2021 films that extend our theoretical questions of thes e themes beyond national, linguistic, and generic borders. You are This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- expected to view this course as a collaborative process in sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice which you share responsibility for leading discussion. There in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and are no prerequisites or language expectations, but students civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range should have some basic knowledge of East Asian, especially of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to Sinophone, history and culture, or be willing to do some explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- additional reading (suggested by the instructor) to achieve an sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt adequate contextual background for exploring these texts. the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how Counts toward Environmental Studies U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. Counts toward Visual Studies Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad imagine justice. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and Not offered 2021-22 racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural Taking into account the oral, written, aural, and visual forms production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, of African “texts” over several thousand years, this course films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of will explore literary production, intertextuality, translation, and Latinidad in the Americas. audience/critical reception. Representative works to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata and Mwindo epics, the Critical Interpretation (CI) plays of Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, the Muse Counts toward Africana Studies of Forgiveness; and the work of Sembène Ousmane, Bessie Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Head, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mariama Bâ, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yvonne Vera, and Counts toward Praxis Program others. ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory border as an open wound and the border culture that arises Not offered 2021-22 from this fraught site as a third country. This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent This is a topics course. Course content varies. different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants Not offered 2021-22 and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- South African texts from several language communities which immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by contemporary migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the South African writers which explore the complexities of life in course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, “the new South Africa.” Several films emphasize the minefield art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights of post-apartheid reconciliation and accountability. and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and Counts toward Africana Studies aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented Not offered 2021-22 migration. Noting that the official colonial independence of most African

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) countries dates back only half a century, this course focuses on

Critical Interpretation (CI) the fictive experiments of the most recent decade. A few highly

Counts toward Africana Studies controversial works from the 90’s serve as an introduction to

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies very recent work. Most works are in English. To experience

128 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE depth as well as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from FREN B312 Advanced Topics in Literature South Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the huge Section 001 (Fall 2021): Réalités et imaginaires du Maghreb African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in the present” in history and letters. Fall 2021 Counts toward Africana Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisites: two 200-level courses. FREN B207 Ouvrir la voix: Introduction aux études Current topic description: This course is an in-depth study of francophones the region of North Africa known as the Maghreb (Morocco, Fall 2021 Algeria, Tunisia). The course will situate works of art (literature, This course provides students with an overview of foundational films, graphic novels, songs) in the context of cultural events, concepts, methods and texts relevant to Francophone governmental policies, and social movements in the Maghreb. Studies. We will engage with past and present debates In doing so, we will examine the specificities and perspectives relating to identity, diversity, nation and empire in the colonial of Amazigh, Jewish and Arab communities while addressing and postcolonial contexts and explore the specificity of major contemporary issues concerning, for example, the Arab Francophone Studies with regards to the field of postcolonial spring and its aftermath, the legacy of colonialism, feminism, studies. While focused on literature, the course will also explore political corruption and religion. other forms of cultural production (movies, graphic novels, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studie political speeches, etc.) from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean and Vietnam. The course will train students in FREN B325 Topics: Etudes avancées literary analysis and develop their ability to speak and write Section 001 (Fall 2020): Derrière les barreaux critically in French. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical figure in French civilization. This is a topics course. Course FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the content varies. The seminar topic rotates among many Humanities subjects: La Révolution française: Histoire, littérature et culture; L’environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et Not offered 2021-22 valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et la politique, 1940-1968; Le By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones; Étude the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works socio-culturelle des arts du manger en France du Moyen Age in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students à nos jours; Crimes et criminalité; Ecrire la Grande Guerre: with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The 1914-10; Le “Rentrée Littéraire”; Proust/Baudelaire; L’Humain selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory et l’environnement. (psychoanalysis, , narratology), as well as the currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: FREN B326 Etudes avancées Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Section 001 (Spring 2022): La liberté ou la mort Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, Spring 2022 Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical figure theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with in French civilization. This is a topics course. Course content an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for varies. French credit. Current topic description: Critical Interpretation (CI) Current topic description: Comment les valeurs des Lumières FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes ont-elles inspiré la Révolution Française dans ses réformes les écrivains des débuts plus éclatantes, mais aussi dans ses développements les plus sombres? Comment en est-on venu à emprisonner au nom de Spring 2022 la liberté et à guillotiner au nom de la sûreté ? Nous lirons des This study of selected women authors from Latin CE- textes politiques de la période révolutionnaire (Robespierre, Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, Renaissance Saint-Just, etc.), mais aussi des œuvres ultérieures proposant and 17th century--among them, Perpetua, Hrotswitha, Marie une interprétation rétrospective de la Révolution Française de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, (Michelet, Hugo, France). Le but sera de comprendre comment Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines au nom d’idéaux républicains, on a pu en venir à mettre la the way in which they appropriate and transform the male terreur à l’ordre du jour. writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to FREN B350 Voix médiévales et échos modernes identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, Not offered 2021-22 and to assessing their importance to women’s writing in A study of selected 19th- and 20th-century works inspired by general: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a medieval subjects, such as the Grail and Arthurian legends and metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. the Tristan and Yseut stories, and by medieval genres, such as Prerequisite: two 200-level courses or permission of instructor. the roman, saints’ lives, or the miracle play. Among the texts Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

129 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE and films studied are works by Bonnefoy, Cocteau, Flaubert, the cinematic medium plays in influencing our experience of a Genevoix, Giono, and Gracq. film: how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form of representation that creates interactions between the spectator GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies and the images on the screen. Film screenings include Psycho, Section 001 (Fall 2021): Seeing and Being Seen Being John Malkovich, and others. Course is geared to freshman and those with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History

Fall 2021 of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics Introductory course or Theory course requirement. include Remembered Violence, Global Masculinities, and Crime Critical Interpretation (CI) and Detection in German. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Current topic description: Seeing and Being Seen: Vision and Counts toward Film Studies Visuality: This course explores the issues of vision, visibility Counts toward Visual Studies and visuality during the visual turn in Middle Ages in present day German speaking regions. In the courtly setting the gaze ITAL B212 Italy Today reigned as a form of social surveillance. Elsewhere, mystics Not offered 2021-22 such as Hildegard von Bingen and Beguine Mechthild von Magdeburg write down impressive visions of God and religious This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge life, asserting a powerful form of female authorship. Vision was class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with also tied to writing, memory practices, descriptive story-telling, the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its reflecting the social parameters and pressures of the period. metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by Beyond the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern, notions of living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and vision begin to shift as Age of Reason dawns and illuminates politicians. other ways of being in and knowing the world. We will explore Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the diverse forms of textual transmission in the premodern era, Critical Interpretation (CI) focusing on the courtly epic, Minnesang, conduct books, song Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies books, and intersections with visual culture with an emphasis Counts toward Film Studies on text-image relationships. ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022

GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist Not offered 2021-22 manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi- from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and by Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Ana Castillo, Sigmund Freud, of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour

Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, Kurban Said, and in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. others. Critical Interpretation (CI)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies

Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Film Studies

HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: ITAL B308 Rome as Palimpsests: from Ruins to Virtual Identification in the Cinema Reality

Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to the analysis of film through particular From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving images in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of compel our fascination? How exactly do film spectators relate the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has to the people, objects, and places that appear on the screen? always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia Wherein lies the power of images to move, attract, repel, and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some persuade, or transform its viewers? In this course, students will crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist of identification. We will explore how points of view are framed painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern in cinema, and how those viewing positions differ from those re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under of still photography, advertising, video games, and other forms fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones of media. Students will be encouraged to consider the role of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans- 130 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the a well-respected writer, as he himself wished, with no other main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We qualifications added. will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, ITAL B315 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and Not offered 2021-22 misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine course for students interested in taking the course towards warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism Italian credits. even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine, queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual Counts toward Museum Studies identity played a central role -- from Rimbaud to current Counts toward Praxis Program experimentalism -- in the development of what has been called ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such ITAL B312 Black, Queer, Jewish Italy a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, Not offered 2021-22 sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from This seminar approaches the two most studied phases of early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will Italian history, the Renaissance and the 20th century, by placing unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who what we call ‘otherness’ at the center of the picture rather have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with than at its supposed margins. The main aim is to challenge poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises, traditional accounts of Italian culture, and to look at pivotal of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s events and phenomena (the rise of Humanism, the rise of collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, fascism, courtly culture, the two World Wars, 16th century art, surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our futurism) from the point of view of black, queer, and Jewish own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no protagonists, authors, and fictional characters. Our theoretical previous knowledge of Italian required. bedrock will be offered by modern and contemporary thinkers Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies such as Fred Moten, Antonio Gramsci, Edie Segdwick, and Counts toward Museum Studies Hannah Arendt. Our primary sources will come from cultural epicenters of Renaissance, Baroque, and late Modern Italy, RUSS B218 The Coming-Of-Age Novel in 19th-century such as Leo X papal court, fascist Ferrara, 17th century Venice, Europe and colonial Libya. In class, we will adopt a trans-historical, Not offered 2021-22 intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective inspired by Fred Moten’s work, which will serve as the poetic common ground We will study a selection of nineteenth-century French, English, for our investigations. Themes and issues will be analyzed and Russian novels that are concerned with the education, at the crossing of the two historical phases and of the three development, and maturing of a young protagonist. These are topics in exam, and the material will include historical and novels that imagine the often difficult compromise between theoretical analyses, narrative texts, poems, films, and visual individual aspirations and the drive towards social integration. art. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of We will think about why the Bildungsroman - or, coming-of- Italian is required, as readings will be in English translation. An age novel - turned out to be one of the most productive and additional hour in Italian will be offered for departmental credits. popular literary forms of nineteenth-century Europe. We will Students taking the course for departmental credit will also read study works by such authors as Pushkin, Balzac, Stendhal, part of the readings in the original language, and produce three Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Goncharov, Tolstoy, short response-papers in Italian in lieu of the Midterm. Flaubert and others. (Content will vary somewhat each time the course is offered.) We will think about the depiction of childhood Course does not meet an Approach and early adulthood; families; national and imperial polities Counts toward Africana Studies and politics; the relationship between geographic, social, and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies economic mobility; domestic and professional selves and spaces; gender and sexuality. ITAL B313 Primo Levi, the Writer Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Today Primo Levi is one of the most widely read Italian writers RUSS B220 of post-World War II in Italy and abroad. Even though still Spring 2022 known primarily for his contributions to Holocaust testimony and theory, paradoxical as it may seem, the experience of This course introduces students to the Chernobyl nuclear Auschwitz and his need to tell proved to be the initial impulse disaster, its consequences, and its representations across a that drove Levi to continue to write until his death as a critical range of cultures and media through a comparative lens and as engagement of the Western classical canon and civilization that a global phenomenon. Culture meets ecology, science, history, in the end created Auschwitz. In addition to being a memoirist, and politics. Taught in translation. he was a columnist, novelist, writer of short stories and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) fantasy tales, many of which touch on science fiction, a literary Critical Interpretation (CI) critic, poet, essayist, and he also tried his hand as translator (of Kafka’s The Trial) and playwright. He has also been the RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 subject of countless illuminating interviews, many of which Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet have been translated into English. Levi is one of most prolific Russiaand Beyond writers of our time, earning the right to be regarded simply as

131 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / COMPUTER SCIENCE

Not offered 2021-22 Spain was not an idle aesthetic practice. We discover in the rich This is a topics course. Course content varies. poetic practice of the era preoccupations with historical, social and political themes, including discourses of power and empire, Inquiry into the Past (IP) racial difference, and the representation of women as objects Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of desire. In addition, we will consider the self-fashioning and Counts toward Film Studies subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody and imitation, Counts toward Visual Studies and the feminine appropriation of the male poetic tradition. Although the course will deal primarily with the poetry of Spain, SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores readings will include texts from Italy, France, England, and Not offered 2021-22 Mexico. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: at least one 200-level course. Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; other writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of texts, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another SPAN 200-level course. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts SPAN B370 Literatura y delincuencia toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) A study of the origins, development and transformation of the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latin picaresque genre from its origins in 16th- and 17th-century Spain through the 21st century. Using texts, literature, painting, SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Latin and film from Spain and Latin America, we will explore topics American Film such as the construction of the fictive self, the poetics and Not offered 2021-22 politics of criminality, transgression in gender and class. Among the topics to be discussed: criminalization of poverty, Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as “emotional prostitution, and the feminine picaresque. Prerequiste: At people”--often a euphemism to mean irrational, impulsive, wildly least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills pre-1700 heroic, fickle. This course takes this expression at face value to requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. ask: Are there particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, conversely, do these “people” become such because they Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation between emotions and political trajectories? To answer these questions, we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at COMPUTER SCIENCE different times, taken hold of the Latin American imagination and feelings: (1950s-1960s), documentaries Students may complete a major or minor in Computer Science (1970s-1990s), and “low-key” comedies (since 2000s.) or a minor in Computational Methods. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Faculty Deepak Kumar, Professor and Chair of Computer Science SPAN B260 Ariel/Calibán: colonialismo y neocolonialismo Christian Murphy, Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Not offered 2021-22 Computer Science A study of the transformations of Ariel/Calibán as images of Aline Normoyle, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Latin American and Caribbean cultures. Prerequisite: B120 or another SPAN 200-level course. Geoffrey Towell, Visiting Assistant Professor Critical Interpretation (CI) Dianna Xu, Professor of Computer Science (on leave semester II) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Computer Science is about the science of algorithms (theory, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latin analysis, design and implementation) as well the design SPAN B311 Crimen y detectives en la narrativa hispánica and implementation of computer systems. As such it is an contemporánea interdisciplinary field with roots in mathematics and engineering and applications in many other academic disciplines. The Not offered 2021-22 department at Bryn Mawr is founded on the belief that An analysis of the rise of the hard-boiled genre in contemporary Computer Science should transcend from being a subfield of Hispanic narrative and its contrast to classic , mathematics and engineering and play a broader role in all as a context for understanding contemporary Spanish and forms of human inquiry. Latin American culture. Discussion of pertinent theoretical The Computer Science Department is supported jointly by implications and the social and political factors that contributed faculty at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. The to the genre’s evolution and popularity. Prerequisite: at least department welcomes students who wish to pursue a major one SPAN 200-level course. in Computer Science. Additionally, the department also offers a minor in Computer Science. The department also strives to SPAN B317 Poéticas de poder y deseo en el Siglo de Oro facilitate double majors and evolving interdisciplinary majors. espaol Students can further specialize their majors by selecting Fall 2021 elective courses that focus on specific disciplinary tracks or

The poetry cultivated during the Renaissance and Baroque pathways within the discipline. 132 COMPUTER SCIENCE

Both, the major and the minor, emphasize foundations two of CMSC 223, 240, 245, 246, 330, 337, 340 or 345, and and basic principles of information science with the goal of one elective chosen from any course in computer science, providing students with skills that transcend short-term trends in approved by the student’s adviser in computer science. All computer hardware and software. requirements must be completed with merit grades. Students can declare a minor at the end of their sophomore Major in Computer Science year or soon after. Students should prepare a course plan and Students are encouraged to prepare a major course plan in have it approved by their faculty adviser. consultation with their academic adviser in Computer Science. The requirements for a major in computer science are: Minor in Computational Methods [Note: As of Spring 2021 this Minor has been deprecated in Three introductory courses: favor of the Minor in Data Science. Please consult the Data • CMSC B109/110 (or H105): Introduction to Computing, Science website.] or CMSC B113: Computer Science I, or BIOL B115: Computing through Biology This minor is no longer available for students in class of 2024 and beyond. we encourage students in class of 2022 and 2023 • CMSC B151/206 (or H106 or H107): Data Structures who wish to complete a Minor in Computational Methods to • CMSC/MATH B/H231: Discrete Mathematics consult with their advisor or consider pursuing the Minor in Data Science. Four core courses: Courses • Any two of CMSC B223/B246: Systems Programming CMSC B109 Introduction to Computing CMSC B/H240: Principles of Computer Organization Fall 2021 CMSC B/H245: Principles of Programming Languages The course is an introduction to computing: how we can describe and solve problems using a computer. Students will •A ny one of the two designated Writing Intensive learn how to write algorithms, manipulate data, and design courses programs to make computers useful tools as well as mediums CMSC B337/B330: Algorithms: Design and Practice of creativity. Contemporary, diverse examples of computing in a modern context will be used, with particular focus on CMSC B340: Analysis of Algorithms graphics and visual media. The Processing/Java programming • Any one of the designated Systems Courses language will be used in lectures, class examples and weekly CMSC B355/H356: Operating Systems programming projects, where students will learn and master fundamental computer programming principals. CMSC B/H350: Compiler Design Quantitative Methods (QM) CMSC B353: Software Engineering Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) • Four Electives in Computer Science Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science At least three must be 300-level or above • Senior Project/Thesis Capstone Experience CMSC B113 Computer Science I • CMSC B399: Senior Conference Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Note that CMSC H340 does not fulfill the writing requirement This is an introduction to the discipline of computer science, and cannot be used in place of CMSC B340. All requirements suitable for those students with a mature quantitative ability. must be completed with merit grades. This fast-paced course covers the basics of computer Students can specialize in specific disciplinary tracks or programming, with an emphasis on program design and pathways by carefully choosing their elective courses. problem decomposition. Graduates of this course will be able Such pathways can enable specialization in areas such as: to write small computer programs independently; examples computational theory, computer systems, computer graphics, include data processing for a data-based science course, small computational geometry, artificial intelligence, information games, or basic communications programs (such as a chat visualization, computational linguistics, etc. Students should client). No computer programming experience is necessary ensure that they have completed at least three courses in or expected. Prerequisite: Must pass either the Quantitative computer science by the end of their sophomore year (we Readiness Assessment or the Quantitative Seminar (QUAN highly recommend CMSC 109/110/113, 151/206 and 231). B001) Course does not meet an Approach Minor in Computer Science Quantitative Methods (QM)

Students in any major are encouraged to complete a minor in Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) computer science. Completing a minor in computer science Counts toward Introduction to Data Science enables students to pursue graduate studies in computer CMSC B151 Introduction to Data Structures science, in addition to their own major. The requirements for a minor in computer science at Bryn Mawr are (Haverford Fall 2021, Spring 2022 equivalents are not listed, please see above): CMSC Introduction to the fundamental algorithms and data structures 109/110/113 or BIOL 115, CMSC 151/206 and CMSC 231, any using Java. Topics include: Object-Oriented programming,

133 COMPUTER SCIENCE program design, fundamental data structures and complexity Course does not meet an Approach analysis. In particular, searching, sorting, the design and implementation of linked lists, stacks, queues, trees and hash CMSC B283 Topics in Computer Science maps and all corresponding complexity analysis. In addition, Spring 2022 students will also become familiar with Java’s built-in data structures and how to use them, and acquire competency using This is an intermediate-level topics course. Course content a debugger. Required: 2 hour lab. Prerequisites: CMSC B110 varies. or CMSC B113 or H105, or permission of instructor. Course does not meet an Approach Quantitative Methods (QM) CMSC B310 Computational Geometry Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Not offered 2021-22 A study of algorithms and mathematical theories that focus on CMSC B223 Systems Programming solving geometric problems in computing, which arise naturally Spring 2022 from a variety of disciplines such as Computer Graphics, A more advanced programming course using C/C++. Topics Computer Aided Geometric Design, Computer Vision, Robotics include memory management, design and implementation of and Visualization. The materials covered sit at the intersection additional data structures and algorithms, including priority of pure Mathematics and application-driven Computer Science queues, graphs and advanced trees. In addition, students will and efforts will be made to accommodate Math majors and be introduced to C++’s STL. There will be emphasis on more Computer Science majors of varying math/computational significant programming assignments, program design, and backgrounds. Topics include: graph theory, triangulation, other fundamental software engineering principles. Makefiles, convex hulls, geometric structures such as Voronoi diagrams interactive debugging, version control, and command-line and Delaunay triangulations, as well as curves and polyhedra shell interaction round out the technical skills developed in surface topology. Prerequisite: CMSC/MATH B/H231 and this course. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 or H107, and CMSC B206 or CMSC/MATH B/H231 and CMSC H106 or

MATH/CMSC 231. CMSC/MATH B/H231 and CMSC H107.

Course does not meet an Approach Quantitative Readiness Required (QR)

CMSC B231 Discrete Mathematics CMSC B312 Computer Graphics

Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to discrete mathematics with strong applications An introduction to the fundamental principles of computer to computer science. Topics include propositional logic, proof graphics, including , rendering, and . techniques, recursion, set theory, counting, probability theory Topics cover: 2D and 3D transformations; rendering techniques; and graph theory. Co-requisites: BIOL B115 or CMSC B110 or geometric algorithms; 3D object models (surface and volume); CMSC B113 or H105 or H107. visible surface algorithms; shading and mapping; ray tracing; and select others. Prerequisites: CMSC/MATH B231, CMSC Quantitative Methods (QM) B246 and MATH B203 or H215, or permission of instructor.

CMSC B240 Principles of Computer Organization CMSC B317 Spring 2022 Fall 2021 A lecture/laboratory course studying the hierarchical design The goal of this course is to give students a foundation for of modern digital computers. Combinatorial and sequential programming animated and interactive graphics. In particular, logic elements; construction of microprocessors; instruction we will “look under the hood” at the algorithms used by game sets; assembly language programming. Lectures cover the engines and modeling tools to create authorable, interactive theoretical aspects of machine architecture. In the laboratory, characters and special effects. Labs will give students hands designs discussed in lecture are constructed in software. on experience implementing algorithms in C++ as well as Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231 opportunities to derive their own unique . Topics will include mathematical foundations (coordinate systems, CMSC B245 Principles of Programming Languages transformations, quaternions), interpolation techniques, Fall 2021 keyframing, motion capture and procedural animation, and

An introduction to the study of programming languages. physically-based systems. Where do programming languages come from and how do Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) they evolve? And why should a programmer choose one over another? This course explores these topics by covering several CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics different programming language features and paradigms, Not offered 2021-22 including object-oriented, functional, and dynamic. It also looks at the history and future of programming languages by studying Introduction to computational models of understanding and the active development of several real-world languages. The processing human languages. How elements of linguistics, course has a strong lab component where students explore computer science, and artificial intelligence can be combined several programming languages both by writing code in those to help computers process human language and to help languages and by implementing interpreters. Prerequisite: linguists understand language through computer models. CMSC B206 or H106 or H107 and CMSC B231 Topics covered: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, generation and

134 COMPUTER SCIENCE knowledge representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206, CMSC B373 Artificial Intelligence or H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Counts toward Neuroscience Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of how to program computers to behave in ways normally attributed CMSC B337 Algorithms: Design and Practice to “intelligence” when observed in humans. Topics include Spring 2022 heuristic versus algorithmic programming; cognitive simulation This course examines the applications of algorithms to the versus machine intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural accomplishments of various programming tasks. The focus will language understanding; scene analysis; learning; decision- be on understanding of problem-solving methods, along with making. Topics are illustrated by programs from literature, the construction of algorithms, rather than emphasizing formal programming projects in appropriate languages and building proving methodologies. Topics include divide and conquer, small robots. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC approximations for NP-Complete problems, data mining and B231. parallel algorithms. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 and Counts toward Neuroscience B231. CMSC B383 Recent Advances in Computer Science CMSC B340 Analysis of Algorithms Spring 2022 Fall 2021 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2020 This course will cover qualitative and quantitative analysis Topic: Web Development for Data Science. Spring 2021 Topic: of algorithms and their corresponding data structures from a Software Development. Please contact instructor for more precise mathematical point of view. Topics include: performance details. bounds, asymptotic and probabilistic analysis, worst case and average case behavior and correctness and complexity. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Particular classes of algorithms will be studied in detail. CMSC B399 Senior Conference Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) An independent project in computer science culminating in a written report/thesis and oral presentation. Class discussions of CMSC B350 Compiler Design: Theory and Practice work in progress and oral and written presentations of research Not offered 2021-22 results will be emphasized. Required for all computer science A compiler is a computer program that translates code written in majors in the spring semester of their senior year. a programming language to machine code that a computer can directly execute. Students in this course will learn how to build CMSC B403 Supervised Work/Independent Study a compiler, and assignments will all be about incrementally CMSC B425 Praxis III: Independent Study building a compiler. Topics covered include: lexical analysis, grammars and parsing, intermediate representations, syntax- Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are directed translation, code generation, type checking, simple developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty dataflow and control-flow analyses, and optimizations. This is a and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by challenging, implementation-oriented course. genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned CMSC B353 Software Engineering in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical Spring 2022 understanding gained through classroom study to work done in the broader community. Software engineering is the process of designing and implementing a software system in a way that it is efficient and Counts toward Praxis Program reliable, and can easily be understood and modified by other BIOL B115 Computing Through Biology: An Introduction developers. This course will introduce students to the various tools, processes, and techniques that are used by professional Not offered 2021-22 software engineers to create high quality software. Topics will This course is an introduction to biology through computer include software development lifecycle, requirements, design, science, or an introduction to computer science through biology. implementation, testing, and maintenance. Students will The course will This course is an introduction to biology through engage in the development of mobile and web applications. computer science, or an introduction to computer science Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 or H107. through biology. The course will examine biological systems through the use of computer science, exploring concepts and CMSC B355 Operating Systems solving problems from bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and Fall 2021 molecular biology through the practice of writing and modifying A practical introduction to modern operating systems, using code in the Python programming language. The course will case studies from UNIX, MSDOS and the Macintosh. Topics introduce students to the subject matter and branches of include computer and OS structures, process and thread computer science as an academic discipline, and the nature, management, process synchronization and communication, development, coding, testing, documenting and analysis of the resource allocations, memory management, file systems, efficiency and limitations of algorithms. Three hours of lecture, and select examples in protection and security. This This is three hours of lab per week. a challenging, implementation-oriented course with a strong Quantitative Methods (QM) lab component. Prerequisite: CMSC B246 or permission of Scientific Investigation (SI) instructor. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science 135 DATA SCIENCE

DATA SCIENCE introduction to the field of data science via the statistical programming language, R. Over the semester, students will learn how to manipulate, manage, summarize and visualize Faculty large data sets. No previous exposure to programming or statistics is expected. Marc Schulz, Professor of Psychology and Director of Data Science Course does not meet an Approach Quantitative Readiness Required (QR)

Data are an omnipresent aspect of modern life. Commercial, Counts toward Introduction to Data Science governmental, and non-profit organizations increasingly depend Counts toward Neuroscience on data for their daily operations and planning. Massive DSCI B201 Ethics in Data Sciences amounts of personal data are generated daily. How such data are used and interpreted raises significant moral and social Fall 2021 issues and is likely to influence the well-being and functioning This course offers a critical perspective of diverse ethical of individuals, communities, environments and societies. challenges associated with data sciences. The goal of this The Data Science (DS) minor is an interdisciplinary program course is to prepare the students to become ethical data with courses in a number of departments. The DS minor citizens. For that, we integrate ethical perspectives with a provides an opportunity for students to learn about data discussion of the impact of data on the human condition and analytics, computational approaches, data-driven decision experience. This course responds to the vacuum of ethics making, data structures and management, and the social and guidelines in data sciences. As a field of inquiry and practice, ethical implications of data. data sciences do not have an ethical code despite that data and algorithmic processes and computational techniques impact Students can complete the minor by selecting from a broad everyday life. Our thinking is grounded in that the development range of courses. The Data Science minor is intended and use of data technologies carries consequences for citizens, to offer pathways for students from all divisions of the organizations, governments, the environment, and society at college. Students may complete at Data Science minor as a large. Because of the vacuum in critical ethical thinking in data complement to any major in the TRICO. sciences, the consequences of data technologies sometimes carry unintended implications. This class allows students to Requirements for the Data Science Minor apply ethical lenses to examine data sciences developments The minor comprises six courses. and applications to understand the ethical issues emerging One course in each of two foundational areas: from these, as well as how to mitigate them. The course is not required for DS minors. • Data Analytic Approaches: BIOL B250 Computational

Methods in the Sciences; CITY B201 Introduction to Course does not meet an Approach

GIS for Social and Environmental Analysis; CITY B217 Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Research Methods in Social Sciences; CMSC B151 (Data BIOL B115 Computing Through Biology: An Introduction Structures); ECON B258 Introduction to Econometrics; MATH B195 (Statistics for Data Science); MATH B205 Not offered 2021-22 (Theory of Probability with Applications); PSYCH This course is an introduction to biology through computer B205 Research Methods and Statistics or SOCL B265 science, or an introduction to computer science through biology. (Quantitative Methods) The course will This course is an introduction to biology through • Computing and Data Structures: DSCI B100, Introduction computer science, or an introduction to computer science to Data Science; CMSC B110, Introduction to Computing; through biology. The course will examine biological systems CMSC B113, Computer Science 1; or BIOL 115, through the use of computer science, exploring concepts and Computing Through Biology solving problems from bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology through the practice of writing and modifying Four additional courses from the list of courses below with the code in the Python programming language. The course will following constraints: introduce students to the subject matter and branches of • At least two of the additional courses must be at the 200 computer science as an academic discipline, and the nature, level or above development, coding, testing, documenting and analysis of the • Students can only count 2 courses that they are using for efficiency and limitations of algorithms. Three hours of lecture,

major credit towards the minor three hours of lab per week.

For minor advising please contact, Marc Schulz (mschulz@ Quantitative Methods (QM) brynmawr.edu), Professor of Psychology and Director of Data Scientific Investigation (SI)

Science. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Courses BIOL B330 Ecological Modeling Fall 2021 DSCI B100 Introduction to Data Science The survival of humanity depends upon natural resources Fall 2021 and ecosystem services. To make important decisions “Data science” is a catch-all term used to describe the about environmental problems, society needs to understand practice of working with and analyzing messy data sources to ecological systems. However, ecological systems are inherently draw meaningful conclusions. This course provides a broad complex. Statistical models coupled with empirical data and 136 DATA SCIENCE simulations provide a means of exploring the complexity of CMSC B109 Introduction to Computing ecological systems to better inform environmental decisions. Fall 2021 This class will introduce students to a variety of ecological models while instilling an appreciation for the types of The course is an introduction to computing: how we can uncertainties that may shroud models to better understand describe and solve problems using a computer. Students will inferences made from them. The course will be taught as a learn how to write algorithms, manipulate data, and design hands-on integrated lab/lecture where students will be expected programs to make computers useful tools as well as mediums to program regularly, primarily in R. Prerequisite: BIOL B215 or of creativity. Contemporary, diverse examples of computing BIOL B250. in a modern context will be used, with particular focus on graphics and visual media. The Processing/Java programming Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) language will be used in lectures, class examples and weekly Counts toward Introduction to Data Science programming projects, where students will learn and master fundamental computer programming principals. CITY B201 Introduction to GIS for Social and Environmental Analysis Quantitative Methods (QM)

Spring 2022 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) This course is designed to introduce the foundations of GIS Counts toward Introduction to Data Science with emphasis on applications for social and environmental analysis. It deals with basic principles of GIS and its use in CMSC B113 Computer Science I spatial analysis and information management. Ultimately, Fall 2021, Spring 2022 students will design and carry out research projects on topics of their own choosing. Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing This is an introduction to the discipline of computer science, and Quantitative Readiness are required (i.e.the quantitative suitable for those students with a mature quantitative ability. readiness assessment or Quan B001). This fast-paced course covers the basics of computer programming, with an emphasis on program design and Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) problem decomposition. Graduates of this course will be able Counts toward Introduction to Data Science to write small computer programs independently; examples Counts toward Environmental Studies include data processing for a data-based science course, small games, or basic communications programs (such as a chat CITY B217 Topics in Research Methods client). No computer programming experience is necessary Section 001 (Fall 2020): Research Mthds/Social Sciences or expected. Prerequisite: Must pass either the Quantitative Section 001 (Fall 2021): Research Mthds/Social Sciences Readiness Assessment or the Quantitative Seminar (QUAN Fall 2021 B001) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Course does not meet an Approach Quantitative Methods (QM) Current topic description: Research Methods in the Social Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Sciences: This course is a hands-on introduction to the Counts toward Introduction to Data Science research process. It will provide students with the practical skills needed to design, conduct, and analyze original research of CMSC B151 Introduction to Data Structures the complexity of a thesis-length project. Specifically, students will build knowledge and experience in research design (how Fall 2021, Spring 2022 to craft a good research question and match methods to the Introduction to the fundamental algorithms and data structures question), research methods (quantitative methods involving using Java. Topics include: Object-Oriented programming, analysis of pre-existing large-n survey data and the qualitative program design, fundamental data structures and complexity methods of case study, content analysis, and interviewing), analysis. In particular, searching, sorting, the design and and data analysis (basic descriptive and inferential statistical implementation of linked lists, stacks, queues, trees and hash analysis using Excel and SPSS along with qualitative data maps and all corresponding complexity analysis. In addition, analysis using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis). No students will also become familiar with Java’s built-in data computer programming is required or taught. structures and how to use them, and acquire competency using Quantitative Methods (QM) a debugger. Required: 2 hour lab. Prerequisites: CMSC B110

Counts toward Introduction to Data Science or CMSC B113 or H105, or permission of instructor. Quantitative Methods (QM) CITY B328 Analysis of Geospatial Data Using GIS Scientific Investigation (SI) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Introduction to Data Science

An advanced course for students with prior GIS experience CMSC B383 Recent Advances in Computer Science involving individual projects and collaboration with faculty.

Completion of GIS (City 201) or equivalent with 3.7 or above. Spring 2022 Instructor permission required after discussion of project. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2020 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Topic: Web Development for Data Science. Spring 2021 Topic: Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Software Development. Please contact instructor for more details. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science

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ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics MATH B195 Select Topics in Mathematics Spring 2022 Section 001 (Fall 2021): Statistics for Data Science An introduction to econometric terminology and reasoning. Fall 2021 Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical This is a topics course. Course content varies. For Fall 2021 inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis the course introduces basic descriptive and inferential statistics and on the use of data to address economic issues. The through work with real data and programming in R (statistical required computational techniques are developed as part of the computing and ). This course is open to course. Class cannot be taken if you have taken H203 or H204. students of all majors. Although it does not count towards the Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level elective. ECON math major, math majors may choose to take it as a College H201 does not count as an elective. elective. Satisfies the Data Analytics Foundational requirement Quantitative Methods (QM) for the Data Science minor. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Introduction to Data Science ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Spring 2022 MATH B205 Theory of Probability with Applications An introduction to econometric terminology and reasoning. Spring 2022 Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical The course analyzes repeatable experiments in which inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis short-term outcomes are uncertain, but long-run behavior and on the use of data to address economic issues. The is predictable. Topics include: random variables, discrete required computational techniques are developed as part of the distributions, continuous densities, conditional probability, course. Class cannot be taken if you have taken H203 or H204. expected value, variance, the Law of Large Numbers, and the Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level elective. ECON Central Limit Theorem. Prerequisite: Math 201. H201 does not count as an elective. Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Counts toward Introduction to Data Science PSYC B205 Research Methods and Statistics ECON B304 Econometrics Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Spring 2022 An introduction to research design, general research The econometric theory presented in ECON 253 is further methodology, and the analysis and interpretation of data. developed and its most important empirical applications are Emphasis will be placed on issues involved with conducting considered. Each student does an empirical research project psychological research. Topics include descriptive and using multiple regression and other statistical techniques. inferential statistics, research design and validity, analysis Prerequisites:ECON B253 or ECON H203 or ECON H204 and of variance, and correlation and regression. Each statistical ECON B200 or ECON B202 and MATH B201 or permission of method will also be executed using computers. Lecture three instructor. hours, laboratory 90 minutes a week. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Quantitative Methods (QM) Scientific Investigation (SI) GEOL B104 The Science of Climate Change Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Spring 2022 A survey of the science behind climate change. Students will PSYC B314 Advanced Data Science:Regression and analyze climate data, read primary scientific literature, examine Multivariate Statistics the drivers of climate change, and investigate the fundamental Fall 2021 Earth processes that are affected. We will also examine This course is designed to improve your data science skills by deep-time climate change and the geologic proxies that Earth introducing you to advanced statistical techniques that have scientists use to understand climate change on many different become increasingly important in psychology and a variety time scales. This course is appropriate for students with little of fields. The focus will be on understanding the advantages to no scientific background, but is geared toward students who and limitations of regression approaches and multivariate are considering a science major. Two 90-minute lectures per analytic techniques that permit simultaneous prediction of week. One required all-day field trip on a weekend. multiple outcomes. Topics covered will include basic regression Quantitative Methods (QM) approaches, advanced regression strategies, structural Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) equation modeling, factor analysis, measurement models, Scientific Investigation (SI) path modeling, modeling of longitudinal data sets, multilevel Counts toward Introduction to Data Science modeling approaches and growth curve modeling. Students will gain familiarity with these techniques by working with GNST B425 Praxis III - Independent Study actual data sets. The last part of each class will be reserved Counts toward Introduction to Data Science for lab time to apply lessons from class to an assignment due Counts toward Praxis Program the following week. Students are welcome to stay beyond the noon ending time to complete the assignment. Prerequisites: Required: PSYC Research Methods and Statistics 205 (BMC), Psych 200 (HC) Experimental Methods and Statistics, or BIOL

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B215 Experimental Design and Statistics. Students with good Quantitative Methods (QM) statistical preparation in math or other disciplines and some Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) knowledge of core methods used in social science or health- Counts toward Introduction to Data Science related research should consult with the instructor to gain permission to take the class. SOCL B317 Comparative Social Policy: Cuba, China, US, Scandinavia Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Counts toward Health Studies Fall 2021 This course will examine different countries’ policy choices PSYC B318 Data Science with R to address different societal challenges. Four societal types Not offered 2021-22 - socialist (Cuba), post-socialist (China), capitalist (US), and This course provides a broad introduction to the field of data social-democratic (Scandinavia) - will be studies to help us science via the statistical programming language, R. The understand how these different kinds of societies conceive course focuses on using computational methods and statistical of social problems and propose and implement attempted techniques to analyze amounts of data and to extract solutions. We will examine particular problems/solutions in four knowledge. It provides an overview of tools for data acquisition domains: health/sports; education; environment; technological and cleaning, data manipulation, data analysis and evaluation, development. As we explore these domains, we will attend visualization and communication of results, data management to methodological issues involved in making historical and and big data systems. The course surveys the complete data institutional comparisons science process from data to knowledge and gives students Counts toward Introduction to Data Science hands-on experience with tools and methods. Prerequisites: Counts toward Education PSYC B205, PSYC H200, or SOCL B265. Students with Counts toward Health Studies good statistical preparation in math or other disciplines should consult with the instructor to gain permission to take the class. SOCL B327 Capital and Connections:A Network Approach to Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Spring 2022 Counts toward Neuroscience Is it better to have a tightly knit circle of friends or several compartmentalized groups? And better for what--social PSYC B330 Reproducible Research in Psychology support, academic achievement, finding a job, coming up Spring 2022 with a new idea, sparking a social movement? How might How do we know what we know and what we don’t know in we study questions like these? In this course, we will explore empirical science? Can we trust the peer review process to the various ways of understanding social connections as a filter out invalid claims and identify the claims with enough resource--as a form of capital--and we will learn how to collect evidentiary support to merit inclusion in The Literature? and analyze data about networks to investigate the structure of This course has two primary aims. The first is to introduce social networks. In particular, we will learn how to think about students to the recent history and major conclusions of advantages and disadvantages as resulting from the structure the “Open Science” reform movement in psychology and and composition of our social networks. Prerequisite: At least related sciences. Students will learn about the structural and one social science course or permission of instructor. methodological factors that are potentially responsible for Course does not meet an Approach the high proportion of false positive findings in psychology. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science The second aim is to introduce modern best practices in research design and statistical computing, which prioritize error control, transparency, and reproducibility. The course EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND will provide a very gentle introduction to the R programming language, which students will use to produce a simple but fully CULTURE reproducible statistical analysis in the format of a scientific report. Prerequisites: PSYC B205 or PSYC H200 or similar Faculty introduction to Research Methods and Statistics. Honglan Huang, Visiting Instructor Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Yonglin Jiang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Shiamin Kwa, Associate Professor and Co-Chair of East Asian SOCL B265 Quantitative Methods Studies and Co-Director of Comparative Literature

Fall 2021 Ying Liu, Visiting Assistant Professor An introduction to the conduct of empirical, especially Changchun Zhang, Lecturer of Chinese on the Jye Chu quantitative, social science inquiry. In consultation with the Lectureship in Chinese Studies instructor, students may select research problems to which they apply the research procedures and statistical techniques introduced during the course. Using SPSS, a statistical The Bi-College Department of East Asian Languages and computer package, students learn techniques such as cross- Cultures is housed at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Our tabular analysis, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Required of mission is to foster learning about East Asia through rigorous Bryn Mawr Sociology majors and minors. Non-sociology majors language study and through deep and exploratory engagement and minors with permission of instructor. with prominent themes and sources from East Asian countries.

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Towards these ends, EALC offers up to five years of instruction hours per week. This is a year-long course. Students must in Chinese and Japanese language and an array of courses complete both semesters to receive credit. on East Asian culture taught in English, including such topics • Second-Year Japanese (JNSE H003-JNSE H004) meet as religion, visual culture, film, gender, history, and literature. five hours per week. Our curriculum seeks to decenter traditional ideas about East Asia, whether seen from the West or from within, that inform • Third- and Fourth-Year (Advanced) Japanese many popular as well as many academic stereotypes. The (JNSE H101-JNSE H102 and JNSE H201A/ Major seeks to train students in language, guide them through JNSE H201B) meet three hours per week. a curriculum that situates East Asian culture within global • Advanced Japanese takes a different topic each semester; discourses, and nurture their skills in critical thinking, research, students can take it any semester as Fourth- or Fifth-Year and writing. The two language programs, Chinese and Japanese, with one credit per semester, and repeat the Japanese, are central and foremost in this effort. Minors are course with different topic headings. offered in each of the languages and in EALC. Many students choose to study abroad in China or Japan during the school EALC Major Requirements: 12 Courses year or during the summer to enrich their knowledge and experience; alumni have pursued a wide variety of fields after Two introductory courses, Major Seminar, Capstone graduation, both in East Asia and in the United States. • EALC 131 Chinese Civ. Learning Goals • EALC 132 Japanese Civ. EALC has four learning goals: • EALC 200 Themes and Methods in the study of East Asia (offered only in the spring) • Laying the foundations for proficiency in Japanese or Chinese language and culture. • EALC 398 Senior Thesis (This is a single semester thesis offered only in the fall) • Gaining broad knowledge of the East Asian cultural sphere across time and in its global context. Two Terms of Intermediate/Advanced Language • Becoming familiar with basic bibliographic skills and • Two terms of Japanese or Chinese at Third-Year level or protocols; learning how to identify, evaluate, and interpret above primary textual and visual sources. Students who enter the major having satisfied the requirement • Embarking on and completing a major independent through assessment and approval by the respective Chinese or research project that pulls together past coursework, Japanese language directors should discuss this requirement taking the knowledge and skills gained to a new level to with the major advisor demonstrate mastery of a particular aspect of East Asian culture. Six Electives

Curriculum • Two must be 300-level EALC courses • The rest (four) can be chosen from 200 or 300 level EALC Chinese Program courses (a 100-level EALC course may be substituted The Chinese Program is a fully integrated Bi-Co program. We with permission), of which up to TWO can be chosen from offer multiple levels of instruction in Mandarin Chinese. CNSE or JNSE courses and non-EALC courses approved by the major advisor. • First-Year Chinese (CNSE 001-002) and Second-Year Chinese (CNSE 003–004) both have master and drill Language Minor Requirements sections. First-Year Chinese (CNSE 001–002) is a year- long course. Students must complete both semesters to Chinese Minor and Japanese Minor Requirements receive a total of three credits. The Chinese language and Japanese language minors both • We offer Non-intensive First-Year Chinese (CNSE 007- require six language courses. Students must take at least four 008) for students with some background in Chinese, based language courses in our Bi-Co programs, and can take at most on results of a placement test. Upon completion of this two at the Quaker Consortium or our approved off-campus full-year sequence, students move on to Second-Year domestic or Study Abroad programs. Chinese. Candidates for the Minor are approved in consultation with • Following Third-Year, we offer Advanced Chinese each the language program directors. Students who receive above semester. So far, we have eight topic courses in the 3.0 in all language classes and complete at least one year of Advanced Chinese series and students can continue advanced level are eligible to receive a certification of ability in taking Advanced Chinese for credits as long as the topics Chinese or Japanese based on their level of achievement in the differ. four skill areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Japanese Program EALC Minor The Bi-Co Japanese Program offers five years of instruction in The EALC minor requires six courses taken in the EALC modern Japanese. All Japanese language courses are offered Department, including language courses. The mix must include at Haverford. EALC 200 and one 300-level course. • First-Year Japanese (JNSE H001-JNSE H002) meet six

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Requirements for Honors from the Bronze Age to the 1800s, with special reference to such topics as belief, family, language, the arts and

The departmental faculty awards honors based on superior sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in performance in two areas: coursework in major-related courses English translation and secondary studies. (including language classes), and the senior thesis. The faculty requires a minimum 3.7 average in major-related coursework to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) consider a student for honors. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures Study Abroad EALC B200 Major Seminar: Methods and Approaches The EALC Department strongly recommends that majors study abroad to maximize their language proficiency and cultural This course is a writing intensive course for EALC majors and familiarity. We require formal approval by the study abroad minors to some foundational ideas and concepts in the study adviser prior to the student’s travel. Without this approval, credit of East Asia. Beginning with close readings of primary source for courses taken abroad may not be accepted by EALC. If texts, students are introduced to the philosophy and culture of study abroad is not practical, students may consider attending China, and its subsequent transmission and adaptation across certain intensive summer schools that EALC has approved. the vast geographical area that is commonly referred to as Students must work out these plans in concert with the “East Asia.” Students will gain familiarity with methods in this department’s study abroad adviser and the student’s dean. interdisciplinary field and develop skills in the practice of close critical analysis, bibliography, and the formulation of a research Language Placement Tests topic. Required of EALC majors and minors. Majors should take this course before the senior year. Prerequisite: One year of The two language programs conduct placement tests for first- Chinese or Japanese. time students at all levels in the week before classes start in the fall semester. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) To qualify for third-year language courses, students need to finish second-year courses with a score of 3.0 or above in all EALC B212 Topics: Introduction to Chinese Literature four areas of training: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Not offered 2021-22 If students do not meet the minimum grade at the conclusion of This is a topics course. Topics may vary. second-year language study, they must consult with the director of the respective language program and work out a summer Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) study plan that may include taking summer courses or studying Critical Interpretation (CI) on their own under supervision. EALC B225 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature Students who do not meet the requirement to advance must take a placement test before starting third-year language study Not offered 2021-22 in the fall. This a topics course. This course explores modern China from the early 20th century to the present through its literature, art Senior Prizes and films, reading them as commentaries of their own time.

Graduating Seniors in EALC are eligible for the “Margaret Topics vary. Mayeda Petersson Prize,” which recognizes a spirit of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) engagement and enthusiasm through the major and the thesis Critical Interpretation (CI) project. EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film EALC-sponsored Prizes Spring 2022 Graduating Seniors from any department who have studied This is a topics course. Course content varies. Chinese are eligible for the “Hu Shih Prize in Chinese” which recognizes excellence and dedication in the study of the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Chinese language. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Visual Studies EALC B110 Intro to Chinese Literature (in English) EALC B263 The Chinese Revolution Fall 2021 Fall 2021 Students will study a wide range of texts from the beginnings through the Qing dynasty. The course focuses on the genres of Places the causes and consequences of the 20th century poetry, prose, fiction and drama, and considers how both the revolutions in historical perspective, by examining its late- forms and their content overlap and interact. Taught in English. imperial antecedents and tracing how the revolution has (and has not) transformed China, including the lives of such Critical Interpretation (CI) key revolutionary supporters as the peasantry, women, and intellectuals. EALC B131 Chinese Civilization Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Spring 2022 Inquiry into the Past (IP) A broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and society

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EALC B264 Human Rights in China taken EALC B255. This semester (Spring 2021) we will explore Spring 2022 theories of narrative in the context of the graphic narrative. Students will read and view primary texts, supplemented by This course will examine China’s human rights issues from a theoretical readings, that engage questions of how subjects historical perspective. The topics include diverse perspectives develop through unconventional notions of “travel” in time, on human rights, historical background, civil rights, religious space, or both. THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS PART OF A practice, justice system, education, as well as the problems 360 concerning some social groups such as migrant laborers, women, ethnic minorities and peasants. Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Visual Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in East Asian Literature and Film EALC B265 Chinese Empires: Yuan, Ming, and Qing Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of The Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties (1271-1912) witnessed literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will fundamental transformations in imperial China. The Mongols begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women’s made China part of its vast land empire in the Yuan; Han lives beginning in early China, and consider how those Chinese restored the ethnic Han dominance in the Ming; and tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical the Manchus established China’s largest conquest empire borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior during the Qing. These imperial experiences not only enriched knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. Chinese cultural traditions but also left profound and ever- lasting legacies for contemporary China. From a historical Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies perspective, this course examines the Chinese empires by Counts toward Film Studies focusing on such topics as the formation and growth of imperial EALC B325 Topics in Chinese History and Culture government; the changing relationship between the central bureaucracy and local society; the interaction of diverse Section 001 (Fall 2021): Legal Culture in Chinese History ethnic groups; the tension between agrarian economy and Fall 2021 commercialization; the roles of women in family and society; the dynamics of elite and popular cultures; the interplay between This is a topics course. Course content varies. Chinese empires and foreign forces; and China’s search for EALC B345 Topics in East Asian Culture m odernity. This course will meet the College requirements for “Approaches to Inquiry” in “Cross-cultural Analysis” and “Inquiry Not offered 2021-22 into the Past.” Class time: 70% lecture, and 30% discussion. This is a topics course. Course contents vary. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) EALC B353 The Environment on China’s Frontiers Not offered 2021-22 EALC B270 Topics in Chinese History This seminar explores environmental issues on China’s Not offered 2021-22 frontiers from a historical perspective. It focuses on the This is a topics course, course content varies. particular relationship between the environment and the frontier, examining how these two variables have interacted. The course Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) will deal with the issues such as the relationship between the Inquiry into the Past (IP) environment and human ethnic and cultural traditions, social EALC B310 Advanced Readings in the Graphic Narrative movements, economic growth, political and legal institutions and practices, and changing perceptions. The frontier regions Not offered 2021-22 under discussion include Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, This advanced seminar focuses on critical and theoretical and the southwestern ethnic areas, which are all important in approaches to the graphic novel. In the past several decades, defining what China is and who the Chinese are. a genre of “auteur comics” has emerged from the medium that are highly literary with a deep engagement between form and EALC B355 Animals, Vegetables, Minerals in East Asian meaning. This seminar focuses on weekly close readings of Literature and Film such graphic novels with rigorous analysis of form and content. Not offered 2021-22 Primary text readings are supplemented with readings from This semester, we will explore how artists question, explore, literary theory, visual studies, and philosophy. Participants celebrate, and critique the relationships between humans and are expected to be comfortable with the application of literary the environment. Through a topics-focused course, students critical theory and visual studies theory to texts. There are will examine the ways that narratives about environment have no prerequisites for the course, but due to the quantity and shaped the way that humans have defined themselves. We complexity of the reading material, some background in literary will be reading novels and short stories and viewing films that study is necessary. Students interested in taking this course in contest conventional binaries of man and animal, civilization fulfillment of a major requirement in Comparative Literature or and nature, tradition and technology, and even truth and fiction. East Asian Languages and Cultures will need to discuss with “Animals, Vegetables, Minerals” does not follow chronological me prior to enrollment. Preference given to students who have or geographical frameworks, but chooses texts that engage 142 EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE the three categories enumerated as the major themes of not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second Year our course. We will read and discuss animal theory, theories Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons of place and landscape, and theories of modernization or as the intensive First Year Chinese, but the class meets only mechanization; and there will be frequent (and intentional) three hours a week. Students must place into Chinese B007 overlap between these categories. We will also be watching through the Chinese Language Placement exam. films that extend our theoretical questions of thes e themes Course does not meet an Approach beyond national, linguistic, and generic borders. You are expected to view this course as a collaborative process in CNSE B008 First Year Chinese (Non-intensive) which you share responsibility for leading discussion. There are no prerequisites or language expectations, but students Spring 2022 should have some basic knowledge of East Asian, especially This course is designed for students who have some facility Sinophone, history and culture, or be willing to do some in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have additional reading (suggested by the instructor) to achieve an not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second Year adequate contextual background for exploring these texts. Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons Counts toward Environmental Studies as the intensive First Year Chinese, but the class meets only

Counts toward Visual Studies three hours a week. Prerequisite: CNSE B007 Course does not meet an Approach EALC B398 Senior Seminar A research workshop culminating in the writing and CNSE B102 Third-Year Chinese presentation of a senior thesis. Required of all majors; open to Spring 2022 concentrators and others by permission. A focus on overall language skills through reading and

EALC B403 Supervised Work discussion of modern short essays, as well as on students’ facility in written and oral expression. Audio- and videotapes of CNSE B001 Intensive First-Year Chinese drama and films are used as study aids. Prerequisite(s): CNSE 101 Fall 2021 Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills is integrated COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local through grammar explanations and drill sessions designed Practices and Global Resonance to reinforce new material through active practice. Six hours a week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with Not offered 2021-22 the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are The course is in English. It examines the ban on books, films, required for credit. Requires attendance at class and drills. and art in a global context through a study of the historical Course does not meet an Approach and sociopolitical conditions of censorship practices. This semester our focus will be on Germany and China. The course CNSE B002 Intensive First-Year Chinese raises such questions as how censorship is used to fortify political power, how it is practiced locally and globally, who Spring 2022 censors, what are the categories of censorship, how censorship An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written succeeds and fails, and how writers and artists write and Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills is integrated create against and within censorship. The last question leads through grammar explanations and drill sessions designed to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and artists to reinforce new material through active practice. Six hours a employ to translate the expression of repression, trauma, and week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with torture into idioms of resistance. Current focus: Censorship in the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are Germany and China. German majors/minors can get German required for credit. Attendance required at class and drills Studies credit. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level

Course does not meet an Approach intensive writing course. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) CNSE B003 Second-Year Chinese Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures Fall 2021 HART B274 History of Chinese Art Second-Year Chinese aims for further development of language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Five hours of Spring 2022 class plus individual conference. This is a year-long course; This course is a survey of the arts of China from Neolithic to the both semesters (CNSE 003 and 004) are required for credit. contemporary period, focusing on bronze vessels of the Shang Prerequisite: First-year Chinese or a passing score on the and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese appropriation of Buddhist art, Placement Exam. Requires attendance at class and drills and the evolution of landscape and figure painting traditions. Course does not meet an Approach Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) CNSE B007 First-Year Chinese Non-Intensive Counts toward Museum Studies Fall 2021 This course is designed for students who have some facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have

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HART B370 Topics in Chinese Art social problems in the natural and built environment, and Section 001 (Fall 2021): Visual and Material Perspectives on demonstrates how the key theoretical developments and the Silk Road empirical findings of sociology are crucial in understanding how these problems develop, persist, and are addressed or Fall 2021 fail to be addressed. Conceptually, it begins with the radical This is a topics course. Course content varies. environmental changes at the dawn of modernity that gave rise to European sociology and the massive urban social problems Current topic description: Focusing on the eastern part of the experienced in rapidly changing urban areas that gave rise to route that connects India, Central Asia, China, and Japan American sociology. Empirically, it moves through a series of from antiquity to the medieveal period, this course surveys more contemporary case studies of environmental problems a variety of artworks and visual materials not only in formal (including both single-event “disasters” and ongoing slowly and iconographic terms but also through social, political, and developing ever-present realities) that demonstrate both the particularly religious perspectives. context for sociology’s development and the promise sociology offers in understanding environmental problems. The course POLS B227 Field Seminar in Comparative Politics will have a global focus drawing on case studies from North Fall 2021 America, South America, Europe, Africa, with special attention This seminar introduces the intellectual history of comparative given to East Asia. politics, and explore the primary approaches and concepts Course does not meet an Approach scholars employ in order to systematically analyze the political world. In doing so, we will also examine the political structures, Courses in East Asian Languages and institutions, and behaviors of a number of countries around the Cultures at Haverford world. Key questions we will discuss include: What is power and how is it exercised? What are the differences between EALC H112 MYTH, FOLKLORE, AND LEGEND IN JAPAN democratic and authoritarian regimes? How do different (1.0 Credit) countries develop their economies? What factors affect the Division: Humanities way that countries behave in the international arena? By the Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the end of this course, students will be equipped to answer these Social World questions, and prepared for further study in political science. An introduction to stories of the weird and supernatural in Freshman may not take this course and can take POLS B131. Japan and a reflection on genre and the scholarly enterprise Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher of -making. Readings from Buddhist miracle plays, Critical Interpretation (CI) early modern puppet drama, etc., supplemented by scholarly Counts toward International Studies secondary sources.

POLS B334 Three Faces of Chinese Power: Money, Might, EALC H132 JAPANESE CIVILIZATION (1.0 Credit) and Minds Division: Humanities Not offered 2021-22 Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the China’s extraordinary growth for the past 30 years has Social World confirmed the power of free markets, while simultaneously A broad chronological survey of Japanese culture and society challenging our thoughts on the foundations and limits of the from the earliest times to the present, with special reference market economy. Moreover, China’s ever-increasing economic to such topics as belief, family, language, the arts, and freedom and prosperity have been accompanied by only sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in limited steps toward greater political freedom and political English translation and secondary studies. liberalization, running counter to one of the most consistent patterns of political economic development in recent history. EALC H201 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM (1.0 Credit) This course examines China’s unique economic and political Division: Humanities development path, and the opportunities and challenges it Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the accompanies. This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an in- Social World depth understanding of the political and economic development with Chinese characteristics, 2) to conduct a comprehensive Focusing on the East Asian Buddhist tradition, the course analysis of three dimensions of Chinese economic, political and examines Buddhist philosophy, doctrine and practice as cultural power, and 3) to construct a thorough understanding of textual traditions and as lived religion. Crosslisted: East Asian challenges and opportunities for China from its extraordinary Languages and Cultures, Religion developmental path. This is a senior seminar. Prerequisite: two courses either in Political Science or East Asian Languages EALC H231 PRE-MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE (1.0 and Culture. Junior or Senior Standing required. Credit) Division: Humanities SOCL B268 Environmental Sustainability Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Not offered 2021-22 Social World This course relates a broadly construed understanding of This is a course introducing classical and medieval Japanese environmental sustainability to the historical development literature, and also related performance traditions. No of the major concepts and developments in sociology. It background in either East Asian culture or in the study situates the development of sociology as responding to major of literature is required; all works will be read in English

144 EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE translation. (Advanced Japanese language students are invited EALC H347 TOPICS IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY: THE ART to speak with the instructor about arranging to read some of the OF GOVERNANCE IN HIGH QING CHINA (1.0 Credit) works in the original or in translation into modern Japanese.) Division: Social Science The course is a chronological survey of Japanese literature Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the from the tenth century to the fifteenth. It will focus on well- Social World known texts like the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, both written by women, and the ballad-form Tale of the Heike. This seminar explores the cultural operations of state agencies during China’s long eighteenth-century, as they unfolded in EALC H247 DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE IN EAST ASIAN bureaucratic and legal systematization, knowledge making, RELIGIONS (1.0 Credit) textual production, bodily performances and gestures, the Division: Humanities taxonomization of space, people, and material objects, and the Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) representation of social, gender and ethnic identities, among others. We will ask: How did governing elites structure the This course engages the rich textual and visual traditions of social world and translate it into administrative language and China, Korea, and Japan to illuminate funerary and memorial practice? What strategies of representation and technologies practices and explore the terrain of the next world. Students will of rule did they develop to enhance their capacity for control learn about the culturally constructed nature of religious belief and their ability to grasp the complexities of the territories and and come to see the complexity and diversity of the influences people under their governance? Crosslisted: History, East Asian on understandings of life and death. The course is not a Languages and Cultures Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing chronological survey, but rather alternates between modern and above or instructor consent. and ancient narratives and practices to draw a picture of the relationship between the living and the dead as conceived in EALC H370 ADVANCED TOPICS IN BUDDHIST STUDIES East Asian religions. (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities EALC H292 MATERIAL CULTURE IN CHINA (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Division: Social Science Social World Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World Advanced course on a topic chosen annually by instructor. The purpose of this course is to give students with a basic This course offers an overview of China’s social, cultural and background in Buddhist Studies deeper conversancy with a political history during the early modern and modern periods. particular textual, thematic, or practice tradition in the history of But it does so by confronting material objects, placing them at Buddhism. Prerequisite(s): EALC 201 or instructor consent the center of historical inquiry. We will investigate how material objects marked status and social distinction; how they served EALC H398 SENIOR SEMINAR (1.0 Credit) as expressions of gender, ethnic and class identity; and how Division: Humanities during the modern period they morphed into symbolic tools of imperialist and nationalist projects. Crosslisted: EALC. Lottery A semester-long research workshop culminating in the writing Preference: History majors, EALC majors, sophomores and presentation of a senior thesis. Required of all majors; open to concentrators and others by permission. EALC H299 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE AND FILM (1.0 Credit) Chinese Courses at Haverford Division: Humanities CNSE H007 FIRST-YEAR CHINESE NON-INTENSIVE (1.0 Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Credit) This course explores important works within modern and Division: Humanities contemporary Japanese literature as well as their filmic Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) adaptations, from 1945 to the present. Topics include literary and cinematic representation of Japan’s war experience and This course is designed for students who have some facility postwar reconstruction, negotiation between traditional and in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have modern Japanese aesthetics, confrontation with the state, and not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second-year changing ideas regarding gender and sexuality. We explore Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons these and other topics by analyzing texts of various genres, as the intensive First-year Chinese, but the class meets only including film and film scripts, novels, short stories, manga, and three hours a week. Students must place into Chinese 007 academic essays. through the Chinese Language Placement exam.

EALC H335 JAPANESE MODERNISMS ACROSS MEDIA CNSE H008 FIRST YEAR CHINESE (NON-INTENSIVE) (1.0 (1.0 Credit) Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This curatorial seminar examines the technological shifts and cultural transformations that have shaped Japanese This course is designed for students who have some facility artistic production and practice from the early 20th-century in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have through the present day. Readings from pre-modern through not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second Year contemporary sources, film screenings, and museum field trips, Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons will be included. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. as the intensive First Year Chinese, but the class meets only Enrollment limited to 15 students. three hours a week. Prerequisite: CNSE B007 145 EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE

CNSE H101 THIRD-YEAR CHINESE (1.0 Credit) special emphasis on the development of conversational fluency Division: Humanities in socio-cultural contexts. This is a year-long course; both

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) semesters (001 and 002) are required for credit. A focus on overall language skills through reading and JNSE H002 FIRST-YEAR JAPANESE (INTENSIVE) (1.5 discussion of modern short stories, as well as on students Credits) facility in written and oral expression through readings Division: Humanities in modern drama and screenplays. Readings include Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) representative works from the May Fourth Period (1919-27) to the present. Audio and videotapes of drama and films are used Class meets six hours per week. Students must register for as study aids. sections 1, 2 or 3 and A, B or C. An introduction to the four basic skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), with CNSE H102 THIRD-YEAR CHINESE (1.0 Credit) special emphasis on the development of conversational fluency Division: Humanities in socio-cultural contexts. This is a year-long course; both

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) semesters (001and002) are required for credit. A focus on overall language skills through reading and JNSE H003 SECOND-YEAR JAPANESE (1.0 Credit) discussion of modern short stories, as well as on students Division: Humanities facility in written and oral expression through readings Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) in modern drama and screenplays. Readings include representative works from the May Fourth Period (1919-27) Class meets five hours per week. Students must register to the present. Audio- and videotapes of drama and films are for sections 1 or 2 and A or B. A continuation of first-year used as study aids. Prerequisite: First Sem of 3rd Yr. Chinese Japanese, with a focus on the further development of oral or consent. proficiency, along with reading and writing skills. (Students are not required to take both semesters.) Prerequisite(s): First-year CNSE H201 ADVANCED CHINESE:THE CULTURAL Japanese or equivalent or instructor consent REVOLUTION (1966-1976) (1.0 Credit) JNSE H004 SECOND-YEAR JAPANESE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) The courses in the “Advanced Chinese” series are the culmination of language training in the Bi-College Chinese Class meets five hours per week. Students must register program. Students can repeat such courses in the series with for sections 1 or 2 and A or B. A continuation of first-year different topics. Prerequisite(s): Third-year Chinese or instructor Japanese, with a focus on the further development of oral consent proficiency, along with reading and writing skills. (Students are not required to take both semesters.) Prerequisite(s): JNSE 003 CNSE H202 ADVANCED CHINESE: MUSICAL TRADITIONS or equivalent or instructor consent AND PRACTICES IN CHINA (1.0 Credit) JNSE H101 THIRD-YEAR JAPANESE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) The courses in the “Advanced Chinese” series are the culmination of language training in the Bi-college Chinese Class meets three hours per week. A continuation of language program. Students can repeat such courses in the series with study with further development of oral proficiency and reading/ different topics. Students are expected to be proactive and writing skills. Emphasis on reading and discussing simple texts. independent learners to advance their Chinese competency Advanced study of grammar and kanji; more training in opinion in speaking, listening, reading, and writing under close essay and report writing. Additional oral practice outside of the supervision of the instructor. Prerequisite(s):Third year Chinese classroom expected. Prerequisite(s): JNSE 004 or equivalent or or instructor consent instructor consent

CNSE H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (0.5 Credit) JNSE H102 THIRD-YEAR JAPANESE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities CNSE HDRI CHINESE DEPARTMENT DRILL SESSIONS Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (0.0 Credits) Class meets three hours per week. A continuation of language Drill sessions offered at Haverford for Bryn Mawr courses study with further development of oral proficiency and reading/ writing skills. Emphasis on reading and discussing simple texts. Japanese Courses at Haverford Advanced study of grammar and kanji; more training in opinion essay and report writing. Additional oral practice outside of the JNSE H001 FIRST-YEAR JAPANESE (INTENSIVE) (1.5 classroom expected. Prerequisite(s): JNSE 101 or equivalent or Credits) instructor consent Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) JNSE H201A ADVANCED JAPANESE: DISCERNING Class meets six hours per week. Students must register for HIDDEN MEANINGS IN JAPANESE MEDIA (1.0 Credit) sections 1, 2 or 3 and A, B or C. An introduction to the four Division: Humanities basic skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), with Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) 146 EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE / ECONOMICS

Class meets three hours per week. Continued training in successfully completed prior coursework in that field. For modern Japanese, with particular emphasis on reading texts, example, ECON B316 or B348 is a prerequisite for ECON mastery of the kanji, and expansion of vocabulary. Explores B396. In exceptional cases, ECON B403 Independent a variety of genres and text types using authentic materials. Research may be substituted for this requirement; this Prerequisite(s): JNSE 102 or equivalent or instructor consent requires preapproval of the instructor and the department chair. JNSE H201B ADVANCED JAPANESE (1.0 Credit) • A minimum of one semester of college-level calculus (or its Division: Humanities equivalent) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Students who earn a grade below 2.7 in ECON B105 are Class meets three hours per week. Continued training in advised not to major in Economics. modern Japanese, with particular emphasis on reading texts, Majors are advised to complete ECON B200, B202, and B253 mastery of the kanji, and expansion of vocabulary. Explores during sophomore year. They must be completed by the end of a variety of genres and text types using authentic materials. junior year or before any study away. Prerequisite(s): JNSE 102 or equivalent or instructor consent Majors should complete a Writing Intensive economics course JNSE H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) before taking a research seminar. JNSE H480F INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) Minor Requirements The minor in economics consists of 6 semester courses in ECONOMICS economics and one semester of college-level calculus. The required courses for the economics minor are: Students may complete a major or minor in Economics. • ECON B105 Introduction to Economics • ECON B200 Intermediate Microeconomics or B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics Faculty • ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Sebastian Anti, Assistant Professor of Economics • Three electives, one of which must have ECON B200 or Janet Ceglowski, Harvey Wexler Professor of Economics and B202 as a prerequisite Chair • A minimum of one semester of college-level calculus (or its Jiyoon Kim, Assistant Professor of Economics equivalent) Timothy Lambie Hanson, Visiting Assistant Professor A minor plan must be approved before the start of the senior Andrew Nutting, Associate Professor of Economics year.

The economics curriculum provides students with a strong More Important Information for Majors and grounding in economic theory and methods through the Minors core courses, and allows them to tailor their major to their Students with questions about the Economics major or minor specific interests in advanced theory and/or field courses. It are encouraged to meet with an Economics faculty member. emphasizes analytical rigor, the use and interpretation of statistical and empirical evidence, and original, independent • Because ECON B200, B202 and B253 have a 200-level research. The curriculum helps students master the methods economics elective as a prerequisite, prospective majors used by economists to analyze economic issues and assess should try to enroll in a 200-level economics elective the alternative economic arguments and policies. semester after completing ECON B105. • Bryn Mawr majors or minors should take the core (ECON Major Requirements B200, B202, and B253) at Bryn Mawr. When necessary, The economics major consists of 10 semester courses in the following substitutions can be made: economics and one semester of college-level calculus. The • Majors may substitute Haverford’s three-course required courses for the economics major are: theory sequence (ECON H201 Analytical Methods • ECON B105 Introduction to Economics for Economics, H300 Intermediate Microeconomics, and H302 Intermediate Macroeconomics) for Bryn

• ECON B200 Intermediate Microeconomics Mawr’s two-course theory sequence (ECON B200 • ECON B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics Intermediate Microeconomics and B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics). Minors may substitute ECON H201 • ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics and either ECON H300 or H302 for ECON B200 or B202. • Two 300-level electives for which ECON B200 or B202 is If a student takes ECON H201, the course counts towards a prerequisite, at least one of which is a Writing Intensive the major requirements at Bryn Mawr only if the student 300-level economics elective also takes ECON H300 and H302; it counts toward the • Three additional 200- and/or 300-level economics electives minor requirements at Bryn Mawr only if the student also takes ECON H300 or H302. • A research seminar in economics (ECON B390-399) that fulfills the thesis requirement. Each seminar focuses on a • Students may substitute Haverford’s ECON H203 specific field in economics and requires that a student has Statistical Methods in Economics or ECON H204

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Economic Statistics with Calculus for ECON B253 ECON B200 Intermediate Microeconomics Introduction to Econometrics as a major requirement at Spring 2022 Bryn Mawr only if they also take ECON 304 Econometrics as an elective. Because most of our 300-level electives Systematic development of the analytical framework require ECON B253 or ECON 304, majors and minors economists use to explain the behavior of consumers and should take ECON B253 unless they are confident they will firms. Determination of price; partial and general equilibria; be able to complete ECON 304 before taking one of those welfare economics. Application to current economic problems. other 300-level courses. Prerequisite: ECON B105, MATH B101 (or equivalent), one 200-level economics elective. ECON H201 does not count as Accounting-related courses at Haverford (ECON H247 an elective. Financial and Managerial Accounting) and Swarthmore (ECON SW033 Financial Accounting) do not count toward the Bryn ECON B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics Mawr economics major or minor. Fall 2021 • If a student has taken ECON 105 or H104/6, they cannot take another introductory course elsewhere for credit. The goal of this course is to provide a thorough understanding of the behavior of the aggregate economy and the likely • No more than two courses that do not have Econ 105 as a effects of government stabilization policies. Models of output, prerequisite can be counted toward an economics major or inflation, unemployment and interest rates are developed, minor at Bryn Mawr. along with theories of consumption, investment, economic growth, exchange rates and the trade balance. These models Honors are used to analyze the likely macroeconomic effects of fiscal An economics major with a minimum GPA of 3.70 in and monetary policies and to explore current macroeconomic economics, including economics courses taken in the second issues and problems. Prerequisites: ECON 105, MATH B101 semester of the senior year, will graduate with honors in (or equivalent), and one 200-level Economics elective. ECON economics. H201 does not count as an elective. Advanced Placement ECON B205 Financial Economics

The department will waive the ECON 105 prerequisite for Not offered 2021-22 students who score a 5 on both the Microeconomics and The class covers the economics of how people working Macroeconomics AP exams or a 6 or 7 on the Economics in financial markets and intermediaries solve problems Higher Learning Exam of the International Baccalaureate. associated with: 1) fund raising and 2) risk management. The The waiver does not count as course credit toward the major course covers the emergence of financial markets in history or minor; majors and minors receiving advanced placement to understand the current financial system, the economics of must still take a total of ten and six courses in economics, intertemporal choice, the measurement and management of respectively. Students qualifying for advanced placement risk in asset allocation, the capital asset pricing model, the should see the department chair to confirm the waiver, plan arbitrage pricing theory, derivatives, the economics of banking, their course work in economics and receive a permission capital structure and closes with historical perspectives on number to enroll in the elective that will substitute for Econ 105. financial market crises. Prerequisites: ECON B105 Quantitative Methods (QM) Study Away and Transfer Credits We encourage students to spend a semester abroad during ECON B207 Money and Banking their junior year. Majors must complete the required core Not offered 2021-22 courses (ECON B200, B202 and B253) before studying away. Up to two courses taken abroad may be counted for credit Analysis of the development and present organization of the toward the major. If a student wants a particular course to count financial system of the United States, focusing on the monetary toward the economics major, the student must obtain approval and payment systems, financial markets, and financial from the department chair before confirming registration at the intermediaries. May not be taken by students who have host institution. completed ECON 307. Prerequisites: ECON 105. Courses ECON B208 Labor Economics Fall 2021 ECON B105 Introduction to Economics Analysis of labor markets. Focuses on the economic forces and Fall 2021, Spring 2022 public policies that determine wage rates and unemployment. An introduction to micro- and macroeconomics: opportunity Specific topics include: human capital, family decision cost, supply and demand; consumer choice, the firm and output marking, discrimination, immigration, technological change, decisions; market structures; efficiency and market failure; compensating differentials, and signaling. Prerequisite: ECON the determination of national income, including government B105. spending, money and interest rates; unemployment, inflation ECON B213 Industrial organization and Antitrust and public policy. Prerequisites: Quantitative Readiness Required. Fall 2021 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Introduction to the economics of industrial organization and regulation, focusing on policy options for ensuring that corporations enhance economic welfare and the quality of life. 148 ECONOMICS

Topics include firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets; economic justice; and sustainable development. Prerequisites: theoretical bases of antitrust laws; regulation of product and ECON B105. occupational safety, environmental pollution, and truth in Counts toward Environmental Studies advertising. Prerequisite: ECON B105. ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental Programs ECON B214 Public Finance Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 Considers the determinants of human impact on the Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, environment at the neighborhood or community level and policy emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs on responses available to local government. How can economics income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics include help solve and learn from the problems facing rural and sources of inefficiency in markets and possible government suburban communities? The instructor was a local township responses; federal budget composition; social insurance supervisor who will share the day-to-day challenges of coping and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax structure and incidence. with land use planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and Prerequisites: ECON B105. the provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Praxis Program ECON B215 Urban Economics Spring 2022 ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Micro- and macroeconomic theory applied to urban economic Spring 2022 behavior. Topics include housing and land use; transportation; An introduction to econometric terminology and reasoning. urban labor markets; urbanization; and demand for and Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical financing of urban services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis and on the use of data to address economic issues. The ECON B217 Health Economics required computational techniques are developed as part of the Fall 2021 course. Class cannot be taken if you have taken H203 or H204. Economic analysis of the health sector. The demand for Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level elective. ECON medical care (the role of uncertainty, insurance, and health H201 does not count as an elective. as human capital); the supply of medical care (the market for Quantitative Methods (QM) , the derived demand for medical inputs, Counts toward Introduction to Data Science investments in capital and research and development, quality v. quantity of supply, models of hospital and physician behavior); ECON B255 Economic Crises and the Policy Response cost containment and other health-related government policies. Fall 2021 Prerequisite: ECON B105. Analysis of macroeconomic and financial crises and the ECON B225 Economic Development effectiveness of alternative policy responses through Spring 2022 different perspectives including economic history and recent developments in macroeconomic theory. May not be taken Examination of the issues related to and the policies designed by students who have completed ECON H307. Prerequisite: to promote economic development in the developing ECON B105. economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Focus is on why some developing economies grow faster Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) than others and why some growth paths are more equitable, ECON B304 Econometrics poverty reducing, and environmentally sustainable than others. Includes consideration of the impact of international trade Spring 2022 and investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange The econometric theory presented in ECON 253 is further rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies (industry, developed and its most important empirical applications are agriculture, education, population, and environment) on considered. Each student does an empirical research project development outcomes in a wide range of political and using multiple regression and other statistical techniques. institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Prerequisites:ECON B253 or ECON H203 or ECON H204 and Counts toward Environmental Studies ECON B200 or ECON B202 and MATH B201 or permission of Counts toward International Studies instructor. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science ECON B234 Environmental Economics Not offered 2021-22 ECON B313 Industrial Organization and Public Policy Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain the Spring 2022 underlying behavioral causes of environmental and natural The study of the interaction of buyers, sellers and government resource problems and to evaluate policy responses to them. in imperfectly competitive markets. Topics include the theory of Topics may include air and water pollution; the economic theory the firm, monopoly behavior, oligopoly, collusion, and adverse of externalities, public goods and the depletion of resources; selection. Prerequisites: ECON 200 and ECON B253 or 304. cost-benefit analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs;

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ECON B314 The Economics of Social Policy model. Assesses the performance of this development model in Spring 2022 Northeast (China, South Korea and Taiwan) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) in a Introduces students to the economic rationale behind comparative perspective. Considers the debate over the impact government programs and the evaluation of government of interventionist and selective development policies associated programs. Topics include health insurance, social security, with this model on the development successes and failures of unemployment and disability insurance, and education. the East Asian NIEs. Evaluates the impact of democratization Additionally, the instructor and students will jointly select topics in several of these polities on both the core development of special interest to the class. Emphasis will be placed on the model identified as well as on development performance. use of statistics to evaluate social policy. Prerequisites: ECON Prerequisite:ECON 225; ECON 200 or 202; and ECON 253 or 200; ECON 253 or 304. 304; or permission of instructor.

ECON B316 International Macroeconomics ECON B385 Democracy and Development Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 Examines the theory of, and current issues in, international From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew macroeconomics and international finance. Considers the from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism role of international factors in macroeconomic performance; and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to policy-making in an open economy; exchange rate systems argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late and exchange rate behavior; international financial integration; 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a and international financial crises. Writing Intensive.Prerequisite: reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question ECON B202 and ECON 253 or 304. this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case ECON B317 The Economics of Agricultural and Rural study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON Development 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior Fall 2021 or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the Instructor. Close to 900 million people living in extreme poverty live in rural regions and derive their income from agriculture. Many of them Counts toward International Studies practice subsistence farming, consuming only what they grow. Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights This class examines the economics of agricultural systems in poor countries, the challenges facing them, and why they ECON B393 Research Seminar in Industrial and account for such a large share of the world’s poor. The class Environmental Regulation will do this from the perspectives of microeconomic theory, Not offered 2021-22 econometric research, development economics, environmental economics, and political economy. Writing Intensive. Thesis seminar. Each student does a semester-long research Prerequisite: ECON B200: Intermediate Microeconomics and project on a relevant topic of interest. Research topics either ECON B253: Introduction to Econometrics or ECON include the interaction of buyers, sellers, and government in B304: Econometrics imperfectly competitive markets: the causes and responses to environmental and natural resources degradation. Prerequisite: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) ECON B200; B253 or B304; B234, B242 or B313 required.

ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and ECON B394 Research Seminar: Labor Economics Inequality Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Thesis seminar. Each student does a semester-long research Explores the causes and consequences of discrimination project on a relevant topic of interest. Research topics in and inequality in economic markets. Topics include economic discrimination, unionization, human capital, migration, labor theories of discrimination and inequality, evidence of supply, labor demand, and employment/unemployment are contemporary race- and gender-based inequality, detecting appropriate. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 208 or 324; discrimination, identifying sources of racial and gender ECON 253 or 304. inequality, and identifying sources of overall economic inequality. Additionally, the instructor and students will jointly Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) select supplementary topics of specific interest to the class. ECON B395 Research Seminar in Economic Development Possible topics include: discrimination in historical markets, disparity in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and Not offered 2021-22 education gaps. Writing Intensive. Prerequisites: At least one Thesis seminar. Each student is expected to engage in a 200-level applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; semester long research project on a relevant topic in economic ECON 200. development. The major work product for the seminar is Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies a senior research paper of refereed journal article length. Students are expected to participate in all group meetings and ECON B335 East Asian Development all one-on-one meetings with the professor. This course is only Not offered 2021-22 open to economics majors writing a senior thesis in economic development. Prerequisites: ECON 225 or ECON H240 and Identifies the core economic and political elements of an East ECON B200 or B202; and ECON 253 OR 304. Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) development

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ECON B396 Research Seminar: International Economics • Integrating experiential and academic learning Spring 2022 Each education course includes a field component through

Thesis seminar. Each student does a semester-long research which students bridge academic and experiential knowledge project on a relevant topic of interest. Research topics in with guidance from practitioners. Field placements in schools international trade or trade policy, international finance, and other educational settings range from two hours per week international macroeconomics, and international economic in the introductory course to full-time student teaching in the integration are appropriate. Prerequisites: ECON 316 and 202 certification program. or ECON 348 and 200; ECON 253 or 304 The Bi-College Education Program offers several options. ECON B403 Supervised Work Students may: An economics major may elect to do individual research. • Explore one or more aspects of education in areas of

A semester-long research paper is required; it satisfies the particular interest – such as urban education – by enrolling

300-level research paper requirement. Students who register in single courses for 403 must submit an application form before the beginning of • Pursue a minor in educational studies the semester (the form is available from the department chair). • Pursue a minor in education leading to secondary teacher The permission of both the supervising faculty member and certification department chair is required. • Complete the secondary teacher certification program after they graduate through the Post-baccalaureate Education Program or Students may complete a minor in education, in which there are • In a five-year program, complete both the A.B./M.A. two tracks: the minor in educational studies and the minor in program in French, mathematics, physics, or possibly other education leading to secondary teacher certification. Alumnae departments that offer the AB/MA option and the secondary may also complete the requirements for secondary teacher teaching certification program. certification after they graduate through the Post-baccalaureate Teacher Education Program. Students in the Tri-college community may also apply to sub-matriculate as juniors or seniors into the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education’s elementary or Faculty secondary education Master’s program. Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor The requirements for the minor in education and teacher of Education and Director, Peace, Conflict and Social Justice certification are described below. Students interested in these Concentration and Director, Teaching and Learning Institute, options, or the other options named above, should meet with Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges the Education Program Adviser as early as possible for advice on scheduling, preferably by the sophomore year. Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Haverford Education Program and Associate Dean for Global Engagement Requirements for the Minor The Bi-College minor in educational studies is an Chanelle Wilson, Assistant Professor of Education and Director interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural, political, of Africana Studies developmental, and interactional dimensions of teaching and Kelly Gavin Zuckerman, Visiting Assistant Professor learning and is designed for students with a broad range of education-related interests, such as graduate study in The field of education is about teaching people how to teach education, pursuit of elementary or secondary certification and more. The Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program is built after graduation, or a host of activities that require educational around four mutually-informing pursuits: teacher preparation; expertise. Many professions and pursuits – management and the interdisciplinary study of learning as a central human and training positions, research, administration and policy work, cultural activity; the investigation of the politics of schooling; and careers in social work, health and law -- involve using an and students’ growth as reflective facilitators, learners, educator’s skills and knowledge. Civic engagement, community researchers and change agents. development, and work towards social justice also require knowledge of how people learn and change. Because students Courses in the Education Program address students interested in these or other education-related pursuits major in interested in: different subject areas and have different aspirations, they are • The theory, process and transformation of education encouraged to design a minor appropriate to their major area of study and their anticipated futures. • Social justice, activism and working within and against systems as engaged learners in partnership with others. Requirements for the minor in educational studies include: • Future work as educators, researchers, and leaders in • EDUC 200 Community Collaborative schools, public or mental health, community, and other • Four education courses. At least two must be offered by settings Education Program or affiliated faculty (A. Cook-Sather/V. • Examining and reclaiming their own learning and P. Donnay/A. Lesnick/C. Wilson/K. Zuckerman). Up to educational goals two may be education courses offered by faculty in other

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departments (of these, one may be taken at Swarthmore, teacher certification at Bryn Mawr in a post-baccalaureate Penn, or while studying away). program. • One of the following as a culminating course: EDUC 311( Theories of Change in Educational Institutions), EDUC Title II Reporting 301 (Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar), SOWKB676 Title II of the Act (HEA) requires that a full (Making Space for Learning: Pedagogical Planning and teacher preparation report, including the institution’s pass Facilitation), or an intensified version of EDUCB295 rate as well as the state’s pass rate, be available to the public (Advocating Diversity in Higher Education). on request. Copies of the report may be requested from the Education Department at (610) 526-5010. Requirements for Secondary Certification The Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program is accredited Courses by the state of Pennsylvania to prepare undergraduates and alumnae for certification in the following subject areas: English; EDUC B200 Community Learning Collaborative: Practicing languages, including French, Latin, and Spanish; mathematics; Partnership the sciences, including biology, chemistry, and physics; and Not offered 2021-22 social studies. Pursuit of certification in Chinese and Russian Designed to be the first course for students interested in is also possible but subject to availability of student teaching pursuing one of the options offered through the Education placements. Students certified in a language have K-12 Program, this course is open to students exploring an interest certification. in educational practice, theory, research, and policy. The course To qualify for a teaching certificate, students must complete asks how myriad people, groups, and fields have defined an academic major in the subject area in which they seek the purpose of education, and considers the implications certification (or, in the case of social studies, students must of conflicting definitions for generating new, more just, and major in history, political science, economics, anthropology, more inclusive modes of “doing school”. In collaboration with psychology, sociology, or Growth and Structure of Cities and practicing educators, students learn practical and philosophical take courses outside their major in the other areas). Within their approaches to experiential, community-engaged learning major, students must select courses that help them meet the across individual relationships and organizational contexts. state standards for teachers in that subject area. Students must Fieldwork in an area school or organization required also complete the secondary teacher certification track of the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) minor in education, taking these courses: Counts toward Africana Studies • EDUC 200 Community Collaborative: Practicing Counts toward Child and Family Studies Partnership EDUC B210 Perspectives on Special Education • PSYC 203 Educational Psychology Fall 2021 • EDUC 210 Perspectives on Special Education The goal of this course is to introduce students to a range • EDUC 275 Emergent Multilingual Learners in U.S. Schools of topics, challenges and dilemmas that all teachers need to • EDUC 301 Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar (fall consider. Students will explore pedagogical strategies and tools semester, prior to student teaching) that empower all learners on the neurological spectrum. Some • EDUC 302 Practice Teaching Seminar and EDUC 303 of the topics covered in the course include how the brain learns, Practice Teaching. These courses are taken concurrently how past learning experiences impact teaching, how education for three credits. and civil rights law impacts access to services, and how to create an inclusive classroom environment that welcomes and Students preparing for certification must also take two courses affirms all learners. The field of special education is vast and in English and two courses in math, maintain a grade point complex. Therefore, the course is designed as an introduction average of 3.0 or higher, and pass a series of exams for to the most pertinent issues, and as a launch pad for further beginning teachers (state requirements). To be admitted exploration. Weekly fieldwork required. to the culminating student teaching phase of the program, students must earn a grade of a 2.7 or higher in both EDUC Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

200 (Community Learning Collaborative) and EDUC 301 Counts toward Child and Family Studies

(Curriculum and Pedagogy) and be recommended by their Counts toward Praxis Program major department and the director of the Education Program. EDUC B220 Changing in Mathematics and To be recommended for certification, students must earn Science a grade of 2.7 or higher in EDUC 302 (Practice Teaching Not offered 2021-22 Seminar) and a grade of Satisfactory in EDUC 303 (Practice Teaching). This Praxis course will examine research-based approaches to teaching mathematics and science. What does research tell us Note: Students practice-teach full time for 12 weeks in a local about how people learn? How can one translate this learning school during the spring semester of their senior year. Given theory into teaching approaches that will help all students learn this demanding schedule, students are not able to take courses mathematics and science? How are these new approaches, other than the Practice Teaching Seminar and senior seminar that often involve active, hands-on, inquiry based learning, for their major. being implemented in the classroom? What challenges Graduates may complete the requirements for secondary arise when one tries to bring about these types of changes in education? How do issues of equity, discrimination, and

152 EDUCATION social justice impact math and ? The Praxis consciousness, utilizing abolitionist teaching pedagogy component of the course usually involves two (2) two hour visits and culturally responsive pedagogy, as tools for social per week for 8 weeks to a local math or science classroom. transformation and resistance. Postcolonial Theory and Critical Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Race Theory will be utilized as lenses for understanding Counts toward Praxis Program the impact of white supremacy in deeply rooted institutions. Formal schooling is often perceived as a positive vestige EDUC B225 Topics: Empowering Learners of colonization, yet traditional practices often continue a legacy of oppression, in different forms. Postcolonial Theory

Not offered 2021-22 provides a variety of methodological tools for the analysis This is a topics course. Course content varies. Praxis course. of education and culture that are especially relevant in the Prerequisite: EDUC B200 or permission of instructor. age of globalization, necessitating the reconceptualization of citizenship. Critical Race Theory offers a set of tenets that can Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) be used to contextualize subjugation and implement practices Counts toward Praxis Program that amplify the voices of the marginalized. Afro-centrism and EDUC B240 Qualitative Research Critical Black Feminism inform a revolutionized education, which can, and should, support students’ pursuit of a politics

Not offered 2021-22 of resistance, subversion, and transformation. Students will This course teaches students to use and interpret observation, engage with novels, documentaries, historical texts, and survey, interview, focus group, and other qualitative methods of scholarly documents to explore US education as a case study. educational research, as well as to read and write about such Experiential trips to Afrocentric and non-traditional educational research. In addition to class meetings, research teams will spaces add depth to our work. In this course, we will consider meet regularly. the productive tensions between an explicit commitment to ideas of emancipation and progress, and the postcolonial Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) concepts and paradigms which impact what is created in the EDUC B260 Reconceptualizing Power in Education achievement of education revolution. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) The systematic critical exploration of the influence of power Critical Interpretation (CI) in education requires attention and re-conceptualization; this Counts toward Africana Studies course investigates the following question: how can power EDUC B295 Advocating Diversity in Higher Education be redistributed to ensure equitable educational outcomes? We will examine the production of transformative knowledge, Not offered 2021-22 arguing the necessity for including creativity and multi- As institutions of higher education embrace and even seek disciplinary collaboration in contemporary societies. Supporting greater diversity, we also see an increase in tensions born students’ pursuit of a politics of resistance, subversion, of differences across which we have little preparation to and transformation will allow for the rethinking of traditional communicate, learn, and live. This course will be co-created by education. We will also center the intersections between race, students enrolled and the instructor, and it will provide a forum class, gender, sexuality, language, religion, citizenship status, for exploration of diversity and difference and a platform for and geographic region, assessing their impact on teaching and action and campus-wide education. Extensive, informal writing learning. Weekly fieldwork required. and more formal research and presentations will afford you Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the opportunity to craft empowering narratives for yourselves Counts toward Africana Studies and your lives and to take research and teaching beyond the Counts toward Praxis Program classroom. Two to three hours of campus-based field work required each week. EDUC B266 Critical Issues in Urban Education Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 EDUC B302 Practice Teaching Seminar This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of urban education in contemporary America. We use as critical Not offered 2021-22 lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, Drawing on participants’ diverse student teaching placements, teachers, and school systems; and restructuring and reform. this seminar invites exploration and analysis of ideas, While we look at urban education nationally over several perspectives and approaches to teaching at the middle and decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students secondary levels. Taken concurrently with Practice Teaching. investigate through documents and school placements. Weekly Open only to students engaged in practice teaching. fieldwork in a school required. Counts toward Child and Family Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies EDUC B302 Practice Teaching Seminar Counts toward Child and Family Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Praxis Program Drawing on participants’ diverse student teaching placements, EDUC B282 Abolitionist Teaching for Education Revolution this seminar invites exploration and analysis of ideas, Fall 2021 perspectives and approaches to teaching at the middle and secondary levels. Taken concurrently with Practice Teaching. This course will focus on the development of a critical Open only to students engaged in practice teaching.

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Counts toward Child and Family Studies counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater and towards a major or minor in Education. EDUC B303 Practice Teaching in Secondary Schools Counts toward Praxis Program Not offered 2021-22 Supervised teaching in secondary schools (12 weeks). Two ENGL B220 Writing in Theory/Writing in Practice units of credit are given for this course. Open only to students Spring 2022 preparing for state certification. This Praxis course is designed for students interested in teaching or tutoring writing at the high-school or college EDUC B303 Practice Teaching in Secondary Schools level. The course focuses on current theories of rhetoric and Not offered 2021-22 composition, theories of writing and learning, writing pedagogy, Supervised teaching in secondary schools (12 weeks). Two and literacy issues. Students will get hands-on experience with units of credit are given for this course. Open only to students curriculum design and lesson planning, strategies for classroom preparing for state certification. teaching and individual instruction, and will develop digital projects related to multilingual writing and plagiarism. The EDUC B308 Inquiries into Black Study, Language Justice, Praxis components of the course are primarily project-based, and Education but we may also make one or two group visits to local sites where writing is taught. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Growing out of the Lagim Tehi Tuma/”Thinking Together” Counts toward Praxis Program program (LTT), the course will explore the implications for education in realizing the significance of global Black liberation POLS B374 Education Politics and Policy in the US and Black Study/ies--particularly in relation to questions of the Not offered 2021-22 suppression and sustenance of language diversity and with a focus, as well, on Pan-Africanism--by engaging with one Studying education politics and policy provides insights into particular community as a touchstone for learning from and some central concerns of political science and highlights some forwarding culturally sustaining knowledge. Prerequisites: Two tensions within the American political system such as: power courses, at least one in Education, with the second in Africana and influence, government v markets, federalism, equity and Studies, Linguistics, Sociology, or Anthropology; or permission accountability, and expertise and citizen participation. This of the instructor. seminar uses education politics as a window into these broader concerns Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Education Counts toward Praxis Program ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES EDUC B403 Supervised Work

EDUC B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Faculty Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are Anastasia Baginski, Visiting Instructor developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty Don Barber, Associate Professor of Geology on the Harold and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned Victor Donnay, Professor and Chair of Mathematics on the in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical William R. Kenan Jr., Chair understanding gained through classroom study to work done in Sara Grossman, Assistant Professor of Environmental the broader community. Studies on the Johanna Alderfer Harris and William H. Harris Counts toward Praxis Program Professorship in Environmental Studies (on leave semesters I and II) ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and Community Carol Hager, Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Settings Science Not offered 2021-22 This is a Praxis II course intended for students who have Now and over the coming decades, human societies face substantial experience in an art form and are interested daunting environmental challenges. Energy consumption in extending that experience into teaching and learning at is expected to rise sharply while even present-day carbon educational and community sites. Following an overview of emissions intensify global warming, threatening the finely the history of the arts in education, the course will investigate balanced marine and terrestrial ecosystems upon which we underlying theories and practices. The praxis component will rely for food, water and shelter. Global population pressure and allow students to create a fluid relationship between theory sea-level rise, along with weather extremes, will create climate and practice through observing, teaching, and reflecting on refugees and resource confiicts on an unprecedented scale. arts practices in educational contexts. School or community Responding to these cascading environmental, socioeconomic, placement 4 hours a week. Preparation: At least an and political challenges will require all the creativity, expertise intermediate level of experience in an art form. This course and compassion we can muster, but neither scientific arguments nor social appeals have succeeded in mobilizing

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Guided by a commitment to addressing challenges on multiple Environmental Studies students apply critical thinking and scales–by a holistic vision of humans in the environment, analytical skills within a holistic, systems framework that and by the particular problem at hand–ENVS scholars, includes the following specific goals: educators and activists utilize a variety of methods and tools, • Cultivation of environmental literacies, and the ability to which are represented in college curricula in many different read, analyze, and create products from the environmental ways. Students have the opportunity to pursue a Major in social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. Environmental Studies through a curricular collaboration between Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, or pursue a Minor • Experience with praxis activities in the context of in Environmental Studies to complement another major. The Bi- intellectual work, with particular emphasis on experience College ENVS Department is dedicated to preparing students working with community groups in a socially just and who have the environmental expertise needed for the world participatory framework. they will inherit. • Development and refining of written and oral The Bi-College ENVS Major combines the strengths of our two communication skills for a variety of academic and non- liberal arts campuses to create an interdisciplinary program that academic audiences. teaches students to synthesize diverse disciplinary knowledge • Knowledge of, and the ability to articulate, the role of and approaches, and to communicate effectively across different divisions of intellectual inquiry in environmental disciplinary boundaries as they engage with environmental issues. issues. In addressing these issues, ENVS students apply critical thinking and analytical skills within a holistic, systems • An understanding of the diverse modes of environmental framework that includes social justice as an essential theory, and experience translating complex environmental component. data into actionable conclusions or revised theory. The ENVS introductory course offers in-depth investigation Curriculum of the theoretical and applied foundations of the study of the environment from all divisions. The major incorporates praxis There are two curricular pathways through Environmental community-based learning and core courses that examine the Studies: the ENVS Major and ENVS Minor. theoretical and empirical approaches that the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities bring to local and global ENVS Major (Bi-Co) environmental questions. In addition, ENVS majors pursue an The ENVS Major curriculum is designed to maintain a balance individually selected area of environmental expertise, a focus between cultivating broad environmental literacies and area, in order to gain a depth of knowledge, and to develop a developing a focused area of expertise with associated skills. sense of their own agency in addressing what most concerns This program includes core classes and a self-designed “focus them. To support these learning goals, the ENVS program area” that can be completed with coursework from Haverford, provides opportunities for independent and collaborative Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore. research, including co-curricular learning, via local, national and international internships and opportunities to study abroad. ENVS Minor (Tri-Co) Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore also offer an The ENVS Minor curriculum is designed to complement interdisciplinary Tri-College (Tri-Co) Environmental Studies any major at Haverford, Bryn Mawr or Swarthmore, pending (ENVS) Minor, involving departments and faculty on all approval of the student’s coursework plan by the home three campuses from the natural sciences, engineering, department and the home-campus ENVS director. mathematics, the humanities, and the arts. The Tri-Co ENVS Minor brings together students and faculty to explore Major Requirements interactions among earth systems, human societies, and local Students are required to take a minimum of 11 courses in the and global environments. Environmental Studies major. Both the Bi-Co ENVS Major and the Tri-Co ENVS Minor cultivate in students the capacity to identify and confront key I. Core courses (6 credits) environmental issues through a blend of multiple disciplines, Six required courses are in the core program, which consists of: encompassing historical, cultural, economic, political, scientific, and ethical modes of inquiry. • ENVS 101: Case Studies in Environmental Issues To declare the ENVS Major or Minor, students should contact • ENVS 201: Laboratory in Environmental Sciences the Environmental Studies chair or advisor at their home • ENVS 202: Environmental Social Sciences campus. • ENVS 203: Environmental Humanities Learning Goals • ENVS 204: Place, People, and Praxis in Environmental Studies The Bi-Co Environmental Studies major is an interdisciplinary program that teaches students to synthesize diverse • ENVS 397: Environmental Studies Senior Capstone disciplinary knowledge and approaches, and to communicate (during the fall or spring semester of the senior year) effectively across disciplinary boundaries as they engage with

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Students interested in pursuing an ENVS major are strongly credit is awarded for this course at Haverford nor does the encouraged to take ENVS 101 during their first year of study. course satisfy any of the Bryn Mawr approaches to inquiry. ENVS 101 and 397 are each offered two times per year: once ENVS 201: Laboratory in Environmental Science at Haverford and once at Bryn Mawr, frequently in alternate semesters. Students are welcome to take these courses on This course introduces students to fundamental principles and either campus. practices of the environmental natural sciences. Methods such as hypothesis development and testing, experimental design, II. Electives, including focus areas (5 credits) data acquisition and analysis, and quantitative modeling are In addition to the core courses, students must take five employed to scientifically address an environmental question, electives for the ENVS major. A wide variety of environmentally problem or issue. Topics vary. Hands-on lab work or field themed courses may serve as ENVS electives, but the five experiences are included. Pre-requisite: ENVS 101. Scientific elective courses must fulfill the following requirements: Investigation (SI); Natural Science (NA). • At least three elective courses must articulate a coherent ENVS 202: Environment and Society intellectual or thematic focus (“focus area”) that students This course explores the intersections of natural and built develop in consultation with their ENVS advisor; environments with diverse societies. Students encounter • A minimum of one course must come from each of two conceptual and analytical tools of the social sciences to broad divisional groups: Natural sciences, mathematics, inform environmental responses at individual, collective, and and engineering; Social sciences, humanities, and arts. institutional levels. Environmental issues broadly understood • At least two elective courses must be taken at the are not merely problems for society, but stem from cultural 300-level or equivalent. patterns and how societies are organized. Social origins of environmental problems across local to global situations are III. Focus area surveyed. This class draws from environmental sociology, planning, geography, political theory, and environmental health The possibilities of a focus area are many. A student’s focus and justice. Learning to apply social concepts to environments area may be organized by a specific perspective on the study using multiple perspectives is a core component of the course. of the environment, a particular interdisciplinary focus, or even Focused segments cover environmental justice, Indigenous a geographic region. Focus areas are designed in consultation peoples’ environmentalisms, and social movements of the with an ENVS advisor. Early planning for the ENVS major Global Souths. Pre-requisite: ENVS 101. Cross-Cultural allows students to begin satisfying prerequisites for advanced Analysis (CC), Writing Attentive. Quantitative Readiness focus area courses. Required (QR). Sample focus area topics include, but are not limited to: Environment and Society, Environmental Policy, Earth Systems, ENVS 203: Environmental Humanities Environmental Modeling, Environmental Art and Technology, Bringing the traditional focus of the humanities–questions of and Environment in East Asia. meaning, value, ethics, justice and the politics of knowledge Courses taken as ENVS major electives need not be prefixed production–into environmental domains calls for a radical with “ENVS” in the course catalog. Advanced courses with reworking of a great deal of what we think we know about appropriate thematic content offered by any program, from ourselves and our fields of inquiry. Inhabiting the difficult space Africana Studies, through Mathematics, to Visual Studies, may of simultaneous critique and action, this course re-imagines be counted. the questions and approaches of the humanities, asking how our accumulated knowledge and practice might be refashioned Upon declaration of the ENVS major, the coursework plan must to meet current environmental challenges. We draw on a be approved by a major advisor on the student’s home campus. range of texts and films, and engage in a range of critical and Courses approved for the Environmental Studies Major at creative practices of our own. Pre-requisite: ENVS 101. Critical Swarthmore can be used to satisfy Bi-Co ENVS requirements Interpretation (CI); Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC). Writing in the contingent upon major advisor approval. major/Writing Attentive. Courses taken while studying abroad or off-campus may be approved for the ENVS major by the major advisor in ENVS 204: Place, People and Praxis in Environmental consultation with Bi-Co ENVS Department faculty. Studies This course offers a cross-disciplinary introduction to Courses community-based learning. Working with local community groups, students will learn the fundamental skills of praxis ENVS 101: Case Studies in Environmental Issues work applied to environmental issues within an inquiry-based The course offers a cross-disciplinary introduction to framework. Pre-requisite: ENVS 202 or ENVS 203. Course environmental studies. Tracing an arc from historical analysis to does not meet an approach. practical engagement, distinctive approaches to key categories of environmental inquiry are presented: political ecology, ENVS 275: Independent Research in Environmental earth science, energy, economics, public health, ecological Studies design, sustainability, public policy, and environmental ethics. Independent research, scholarship, or Praxis performed under Basic concepts, such as thermodynamics, biodiversity, cost- the supervision of an Environmental Studies faculty member. benefit analysis, the commons, and situational ethics, are Requires permission of instructor. Open to second and third variously defined and employed within specific explorations of year students only. Course does not meet an approach. environmental challenges in the modern world. No divisional

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ENVS 350: Advanced Topics in Environmental Studies Studies in consultation with their major advisor. In choosing This course offers an in-depth view of a special topic related to electives, students should aim to include mostly intermediate or the environment. Content and pre-requisites vary; see online advanced courses. descriptions for currently offered sections. Affiliated Programs ENVS 397: Environmental Studies Senior Capstone For information about faculty and courses in Environmental The senior project experience consists of participation in ENVS Studies at Swarthmore, visit the websites of that program. 397, the one-semester collaborative senior capstone. Under Concentrations and Interdisciplinary Minors the direction of a faculty instructor, ENVS seniors actively engage in environmental problem solving. Students bring the Environmental Studies contributes to the following perspectives and skills gained from their ENVS focus area and concentrations and interdisciplinary minors: preparatory work in the major to collaborate on interdisciplinary • Health Studies projects. Pre-requisite: Open to senior ENVS majors only, or • Peace, Justice, and Human Rights with permission of the instructor and ENVS Director. • Visual Studies ENVS 399: Environmental Studies Advanced Capstone^ This course is for students who arrange additional time Study Abroad to continue work on a senior projects in preparation for The Bi-Co ENVS Department strongly encourages students to performance, presentation, or other exhibition. Requires study abroad if it fits with their career plans. Students planning instructor permission. Up to one half credit. to major or minor in ENVS may receive course credit by ^Offered as staffing and student demand permits. participation in programs which offer environmental content, including but not limited to programs in Australia, Costa Rica, Minor Requirements Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Iceland, Scotland and South Africa. Students may receive course credit for elective courses, The Tri-Co ENVS Minor consists of six courses, including an at the equivalent of the 200 level or above, that contribute to the introductory course. Students may complete the introductory major’s “focus area” or the four non-core classes in the ENVS course at any of the three campuses. The six required courses minor. Students majoring in ENVS are required to take ENVS are: 101 and ENVS 397 at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, or Swarthmore • A required introductory course to be taken prior to the and strongly recommended to take the four 200-level core senior year. This may be ENVS 101 at Haverford or Bryn courses within the Bi-Co. Mawr or the parallel course at Swarthmore (ENVS 001). Any one of these courses satisfies the requirement, and Courses students may take no more than one such course for credit toward the minor. ENVS B101 Introduction to Environmental Studies

• Four elective course credits from approved lists of core Spring 2022 and cognate courses, including two credits in each of the The course offers a cross-disciplinary introduction to two categories below. Students may use no more than one environmental studies. Tracing an arc from historical analysis to cognate course credit for each category. (See the ENVS practical engagement, distinctive approaches to key categories website for course lists and more about core and cognate of environmental inquiry are presented: political ecology, earth courses.) No more than one of these four course credits science, energy, economics, public health, ecological design, may be in the student’s major. sustainability, public policy, and environmental ethics. Basic concepts, such as thermodynamics, biodiversity, cost-benefit Environmental Science, Engineering, and Math: courses analysis, scale, modernization, enclosure, the commons, hat build understanding and knowledge of scientific and situational ethics, are variously defined and employed methods and theories, and explore how these can be within specific explorations of environmental challenges in the applied in identifying and addressing environmental modern world. No divisional credit is awarded for this course challenges. At least one of the courses in this category at Haverford nor does the course satisfy any of the Bryn Mawr must have a laboratory component. approaches to inquiry.

Course does not meet an Approach Environmental Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts: Counts toward Environmental Studies courses that build understanding and knowledge of social and political structures as well as ethical considerations, ENVS B200 The Edible Environment: Theory and Ethics and how these inform our individual and collective

responses to environmental challenges. Not offered 2021-22 • An advanced elective in Environmental Studies (300-level The course addresses core philosophical questions related to or its equivalent at Swarthmore) that can be from either food production, consumption, and representation. The focus category. is on topics that highlight how we engage with the environment based on what we eat, how we consume it, and the way we ENVS 397 is no longer required or recommended for the ENVS talk about it. In the first part (food production), we examine the Minor. significance of domestication, taxonomies of edible animals, Students interested in the ENVS Minor should plan their course plants, and microbes, and how recent (bio)technological schedule with their home-campus Director of Environmental possibilities are changing our approach to food production. In the second part of the course, we turn to the human body 157 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES to discuss how hunger, pleasure and taste guide our food This course offers a cross-disciplinary introduction to consumption. In the third part, we discuss how extant practices community-based learning. Working with local community of labeling and food criticism influence our understandings of groups, students will learn the fundamental skills of praxis the edible environment. The class draws upon a wide range of work applied to environmental issues within an inquiry-based resources, including classical and contemporary philosophical framework. Pre-requisite: ENVS B101 or ENVS H101 and texts, food essays, magazine and newspaper articles, videos (ENVS B202, H202, B203, or H203) or instructor’s permission. and images. The course counts as a Social Science/Humanities Course does not meet an Approach elective for the Environmental Studies Minor. Suggested Counts toward Environmental Studies preparation is one course in Environmental Studies OR one Counts toward Praxis Program course in the Cities Program or permission of the instructor. Course does not meet an Approach ENVS B322 Decolonial Science, Technology and Environment ENVS B202 Environment and Society Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 The course explores the application of decolonial concepts at This is a topics course. This course explores the intersections the intersections of science, technology, and environmental of natural and built environments with diverse societies. studies. How can we understand uneven social dynamics Students will encounter conceptual and analytical tools of the bound to sciences and technologies--with corresponding social sciences to inform environmental responses at individual, opportunities to reconfigure environmental scientific collective, and institutional levels. Pre-requisite ENVS B101 or approaches? We analyze case studies that foreground ENVS H101 or instructor’s permission. diverse Latinx and Indigenous populations of the Americas Current topic description: An exploration of the ways in which and Caribbean. Four segments include: (I) bridging science different cultural, economic, and political settings have shaped and technology studies with deolonial theory; (II) conservation issue emergence and policy making. We examine the politics and forestry practices; (III) science contestations around of particular environmental issues in selected countries and pollution and pesticides; and (IV) climate change and disasters. regions, paying special attention to the impact of environmental Prerequisite: 200-level course in ENVS or LAILS or SOCL or movements. We also assess the prospects for international ANTH or permission of instructor. cooperation in addressing global environmental problems such Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies as climate change. Counts toward International Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ENVS B350 Advanced Topics in Environmental Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies Section 001 (Fall 2020): Carbon, Climate and Sea Level ENVS B203 Environmental Humanities: Stories of Justice Section 001 (Fall 2021): Carbon, Climate and Sea Level and Injustice Section 002 (Fall 2021): Gender and the Borderlands

Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Section 003 (Fall 2021): Race and the Human in Lit/Theory

Bringing the traditional focus of the humanities-questions of Fall 2021 meaning, value, ethics, justice and the politics of knowledge This is a topics course. Course content varies. production-into environmental domains calls for a radical Current topic description: This seminar explores recent reworking of a great deal of what we think we know about biogeochemical literature on Earth’s short-term carbon ourselves and our fields of inquiry. Inhabiting the difficult space with a focus on climate-system feedbacks associated with sea- of simultaneous critique and action, this course will re-imagine level change. the proper questions and approaches of the humanities, asking how our accumulated knowledge and practice might Current topic description: In this class we read landscapes as be refashioned to meet current environmental challenges, to archives of violence in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, and think productively rethink ‘the human’ in more than human terms. about how gendered understandings of nature, receptivity, In order to resituate the human within the environment, and labor, and space shape our perception of the home, the to resituate nonhumans within cultural and ethical domains, desert, the fence or wall, and the Rio Grande. Students will we will draw on a range of texts and films, and engage in a gain familiarity with the tools of archival research as we look at range of critical and creative practices of our own. Critical historical records associated with lynchings in the Southwest Interpretation (CI); Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC). Writing in in the late 19th and early 20th century, and with femicide in the major/ Intensive. Prerequisite: ENVS H101 or B101. (hard Northern Mexico in the late 20th century as well as histories check prerequisite). Enrollment cap: 18. Lottery Preference(s): of mining and environmental pollution in these places. We Senior ENVS majors, Junior ENVS majors, Sophomores, will read and watch the work of artists, filmmakers and poets first-year students. Minors and non-majors by instructor’s who have re-interpreted landscapes of the desert and of permission. border cities in light of these histories of violence. Students will conduct a creative investigation of a borderlands landscape, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) drawing on archival media and historical records. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Environmental Studies Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Environmental Studies ENVS B204 Place, People and Praxis in Environmental Studies ENVS B397 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22

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This capstone Environmental Studies course is designed to documentary film, graphic novels, photography and other allow Environmental Studies seniors to actively engage in multimedia, we will examine case studies of environmental environmental problem solving. Students bring the perspectives justice, conflicts over resources, and the impacts of extractive and skills gained from their ENVS focus area and from industries on indigenous and other frontline communities their preparatory work in the major/minor to collaborate on across the Global South and North. How does ecological interdisciplinary projects toxicity manifest as a form of racialized violence deployed Counts toward Environmental Studies across post-colonial geographies? Why do hydrocarbons produce “modern democracy” in some places and “petro- ENVS B403 Independent Study despotism” in others? How do we make sense of our position in a global political ecology of resource extraction? This course ENVS B425 Praxis III: Independent Study will unfold in three parts: the first will situate the problem of environmental justice within the broader context of humans’ Counts toward Praxis Program impacts on global ecologies; the second will examine the ANTH B244 Global Perspectives on Early Farmers and historical context of extractive capitalism; and the third will Social Change examine the problem of environmental justice as a legacy of postcolonialism. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and up;

Not offered 2021-22 Anth 102 recommended/suggested. Throughout most of human history our ancestors practiced Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) lifestyles focused upon the gathering and hunting of wild plants and animals. Today, however, a globalized agricultural economy ANTH B325 Mobility, Movement, and Migration in the Past supports a population of over seven billion individuals. This Not offered 2021-22 course utilizes information produced by archaeologists around the globe to examine this major historical transition while asking The movement of human social groups across landscapes, big questions like: What impact did the adoption of agriculture borders, and boundaries is a dominant feature of today’s world have on communities in the past, and how did farming spread as well as of the recent historic past. Archaeological research to different world regions? We will also consider how the has demonstrated that migration, movement, and mobility were current farming system influences our own society. How does also common features of human life in the more distant past. farming still affect our lives today, and how will the history of From examining cases of small-scale groups that were largely agricultural change shape our collective future? Counts toward defined by constant movements across their social landscapes, Environmental Studies minor. to the study of the spread of complex societies and early political states, this course will consider the role of migration in Inquiry into the Past (IP) the formation, reproduction, and alteration of human societies. Counts toward Environmental Studies Attention will be paid to how archaeologists recognize and ANTH B254 Anthropology and Social Science Research study movement, as well as to how knowledge of the past Methods contributes to a broader anthropological understanding of human migration. Prerequisite: ANTH B101, or permission of

Fall 2021 instructor This course is designed for students interested in learning ethnographic and qualitative social science methods, and how ANTH B352 Humans and Non-Humans to analyze qualitative results. Through hands on fieldwork, Fall 2021 students will learn and practice ethnographic field methods, Anthropology is the study of humans, but the idea of the for example, observation, participant observation, interviewing, “human” always implies the category of the “non-human.” use of visual media and drawing, life stories, generating and Humanity is defined in its relation to “non-humans”: analyzing data, and ways to productively transform qualitative ranging from tools and technology, to domesticated (and data into contextual information. Ethics in ethnographic undomesticated) animals, to agricultural crops, our local research will be a central theme, as will envisioning and ecologies, and the global environment. What does it mean to be designing projects that protect human subjects. The purpose human? What is the agency of non-humans in human worlds? of this course is to provide anthropology majors and students Do forests think? Do dogs dream? What is the agency of a in social sciences, humanities, as well as STEM majors with mountain? What are the rights of a river? What is the cultural interests in multi-method research, an opportunity to learn significance of DNA? This course will trace Anthropological methods in advance of their thesis proposal and research, debates over the “human” and “non-human” in contexts ranging Hanna Holborn Gray summer research, and other social from Amerindian cosmology, to political ecology, and science science independent research opportunities during their and technology studies. undergraduate experience, and post-graduation. Course does not meet an Approach Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Environmental Studies ANTH B354 Political Economy, Gender, Ethnicity and Transformation in Vietnam ANTH B293 Extractive Violence and Environmental Justice Fall 2021 Fall 2021 Today, Vietnam is in the midst of dramatic social, economic This course will introduce students to the study of and political changes brought about through a shift from a environmental justice and examine questions of race, ethnicity, central economy to a market/capitalist economy since the late indigeneity, gender and inequality within the political ecology 1980s. These changes have resulted in urbanization, a rise of extractive capitalism. Through ethnographic accounts,

159 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES in consumption, changes in land use, movement of people, CITY B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from environmental consequences of economic development, Antiquity to the Present and shifts in social and economic relationships and cultural Spring 2022 practices as the country has moved from low income to middle income status. This course examines culture and society in This course studies the city as a three-dimensional artifact. Vietnam focusing largely on contemporary Vietnam, but with a A variety of factors, geography, economic and population view to continuities and historical precedent in past centuries. In structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics are considered as this course, we will draw on anthropological studies of Vietnam, determinants of urban form. as well as literature and historical studies. Relationships Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) between the individual, family, gender, ethnicity, community, Inquiry into the Past (IP) land, and state will pervade the topics addressed in the course, as will the importance of political economy, nation, and CITY B201 Introduction to GIS for Social and globalization. In addition to class seminar discussions, students Environmental Analysis will view documentary and fictional films about Vietnamese Spring 2022 culture. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or first years with ANTH 102. This course is designed to introduce the foundations of GIS with emphasis on applications for social and environmental Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies analysis. It deals with basic principles of GIS and its use in Counts toward International Studies spatial analysis and information management. Ultimately, ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban students will design and carry out research projects on topics of Revolutions their own choosing. Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing and Quantitative Readiness are required (i.e.the quantitative Not offered 2021-22 readiness assessment or Quan B001). This course examines the archaeology of the two most Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) fundamental changes that have occurred in human society in Counts toward Introduction to Data Science the last 12,000 years, agriculture and urbanism, and we explore Counts toward Environmental Studies these in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also explore those societies that did not experience these changes. CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Section 001 (Fall 2020): The City and Nature

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Section 001 (Fall 2021): The City and Nature Counts toward Geoarchaeology Fall 2021 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies This is a topics course. Topics vary. BIOL B323 Coastal and Marine Ecology Current topic description: The City and Nature: The Not offered 2021-22 Environmental Transformation of Modern Cities: The class examines the emergence of the modern city in Europe and the An interdisciplinary course exploring the ecological, Americas in relation to their natural environments in order to biogeochemical, and physical aspects of coastal and marine understand how “country” and “city” were and continue to be ecosystems. We will compare intertidal habitats in both mutually constitutive spaces and concepts. Focusing on the era temperate and tropical environments, with a specific emphasis of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism, the class on global change impacts on coastal systems (e.g. sea studies how the planning, building, and regulating of urban built level rise, warming, and species shifts). Lecture three hours, environments were embedded in practices to control, manage, laboratory three hours per week. In 2020 the course will have and consume natural resources, and ultimately define nature. a mandatory field trip to a tropical marine field station and An integral part of this subject also concerns the people who an overnight field trip to a temperate field station in the mid- both affected and were affected by the decisions to construct Atlantic. Prerequisite: BIOL B220 or BIOL B225. and manipulate the terrain, as well as the institutions that Counts toward Environmental Studies were built to manage and define new social relations and public responsibilities of the modern city. This course looks at BIOL B332 Global Change Biology history of the relationship between the city and the countryside Not offered 2021-22 and how it has informed contemporary responses, policies and ideas around global climate change. The readings and Global changes to our environment present omnipresent materials are diverse, drawing from environmental studies and environmental challenges. We are only beginning to urban history, as well as art and architecture. This is a reading understand the complex interactions between organisms and and discussion heavy upper-level course. Each student will the rapidly changing environment. Students will explore the be asked to facilitate/host a discussion session. There are two effects of global change on ecosystems by critically reading options for the final assignment: an exhibition developed by a and analyzing the primary literature and the latest IPCC report. team and a more traditional research paper. The course fulfills In 2021, there will be a mandatory one-day field trip to the major requirements in Environmental Studies, History and Smithsonian Global Change Research Wetland. Prerequisites: Cities. BIOL B220, BIOL 225 or BIOL B262, or permission of instructor. Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies

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CSTS B226 Ecology of the Roman World supervisor who will share the day-to-day challenges of coping Not offered 2021-22 with land use planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and the provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. In this course, we will study Roman attitudes toward the natural world, reconstructing the environment in which Roman urban Counts toward Environmental Studies centers flourished. While investigating the attitudes towards Counts toward Praxis Program the environment that the Romans expressed through their ENGL B204 Native Lands, American Literatures, 1607-1899 myths, poetry, philosophy, and material culture, students will gain exposure to perspectives and methods from a variety Fall 2021 of disciplines including literary studies, archaeology and art This course will explore Anglophone narratives by white history, anthropology, social psychology, and 4E cognition. and Indigenous writers, between the arrival of the British in Through readings by authors such as Cato, Varro, Columella, Jamestown and the Philippine-American War. We will examine Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Pliny and Seneca, we narratives of conquest that understand colonial and US will discuss agriculture and pre-industrial economies, social expansion across Indigenous lands as “manifest ,” and (re)evolution, disease and famine, resource exploitation, and narratives of resistance that understand the same history as human interaction with the landscape through engineering. In imperial conquest and genocide. It took a lot of storytelling, a lot addition to gaining a broad understanding of how the Romans of literary labor, to invent a destiny and to make it manifest on interacted with and explained the world around them (and how landscapes, peoples and nations. This class asks how certain they used that world to explain themselves), students will a) ingredients of the master-narrative of colonial expansion and become familiar with the major periods and events of Roman the American “wild west” - bloodthirsty, sexually dangerous history and be able to contextualize attitudes towards nature tribal people, violent white outlaws, hard-working normative and the environment within those periods; b) become familiar white families, empty landscapes, easy money - came to be with the styles of literature and material arts during major essential to the American myth. And how were those stories periods of Roman history, and c) develop skills necessary for resisted and rewritten even as they were being formed? reading primary texts (literary, philosophical, and historical) as Ultimately, we will interrogate the so-called “frontier,” exposing it documents representing the intellectual history of the Roman as a vastly diverse network of Native-, African- Asian- and Euro- world. No previous knowledge of the ancient world is required. American peoples whose landscapes were already inhabited, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) already historied, already multinational. Materials examined may include early Indigenous narratives and anonymous EALC B353 The Environment on China’s Frontiers writings by white and Indigenous people, and texts and Not offered 2021-22 narratives by John Smith, William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, Tituba (Carib), Samson Occom (Mohegan), William Appess This seminar explores environmental issues on China’s (Pequot), Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, James frontiers from a historical perspective. It focuses on the Fennimore Cooper, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwe), Mary particular relationship between the environment and the frontier, Jemison (Seneca), Black Hawk (Sauk), John Rollin Ridge examining how these two variables have interacted. The course (Cherokee), Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Paiute), Wovoka will deal with the issues such as the relationship between the (Paiute), Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. environment and human ethnic and cultural traditions, social movements, economic growth, political and legal institutions Critical Interpretation (CI) and practices, and changing perceptions. The frontier regions Counts toward Environmental Studies under discussion include Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, ENGL B293 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Medieval Ecologies and the southwestern ethnic areas, which are all important in Spring 2022 defining what China is and who the Chinese are. This course explores relationships between natural, non- ECON B234 Environmental Economics human, and human agents in the Middle Ages. Reading natural Not offered 2021-22 philosophy, vernacular literature, and theological treatises, we examine how the Middle Ages understood supposedly “modern” Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain the environmental concepts like climate change, sustainability, underlying behavioral causes of environmental and natural animal rights, and protected land. resource problems and to evaluate policy responses to them.

Topics may include air and water pollution; the economic theory Critical Interpretation (CI) of externalities, public goods and the depletion of resources; Inquiry into the Past (IP) cost-benefit analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs; Counts toward Environmental Studies economic justice; and sustainable development. Prerequisites: GEOL B108 Earth’s Oceans: Past, Present, and Future ECON B105. Spring 2022 Counts toward Environmental Studies This course is designed to expose students to the fundamentals ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental Programs of oceanography with an emphasis on how Earth’s oceans Not offered 2021-22 are tied to life and climate and how we study these links in the present and in the fossil record. We will spend much Considers the determinants of human impact on the time understanding how the modern ocean works and how environment at the neighborhood or community level and policy biogeochemical cycles interact with it. A major focus will be how responses available to local government. How can economics we can use the ocean’s past and present to make predictions help solve and learn from the problems facing rural and about its future. suburban communities? The instructor was a local township Scientific Investigation (SI) 161 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

GEOL B203 Through Time Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Environmental Studies Fall 2021 We will explore how the Earth-life system has evolved through POLS B222 Environmental Issues: Movements and Policy time by studying the interactions between life, climate, and Making in Comparative Perspective tectonic processes. During the lab component of the course, Not offered 2021-22 we will study important fossil groups to better understand their paleoecology and roles in the Earth-life system. Prerequisite: An exploration of the ways in which different cultural, economic, GEOL B101, GEOL B108, or GEOL B209. and political settings have shaped issue emergence and policy making. We examine the politics of particular environmental

Scientific Investigation (SI) issues in selected countries and regions, paying special attention

Counts toward Environmental Studies to the impact of environmental movements. We also assess the prospects for international cooperation in addressing global GEOL B206 Energy Resources and Sustainability environmental problems such as climate change. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) An examination of issues concerning the supply of energy Counts toward Environmental Studies required by humanity. This includes an investigation of the geological framework that determines resource availability, POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change aspects of energy production and resource development and Not offered 2021-22 the science of global climate change. Two 90-minute lectures a week. Suggested preparation: one year of college science. This course will introduce students to important political issues raised by climate change locally, nationally, and internationally,

Scientific Investigation (SI) paying particular attention to the global implications of actions

Counts toward Environmental Studies at the national and subnational levels. It will focus not only on specific problems, but also on solutions; students will learn about GEOL B209 Natural Hazards some of the technological and policy innovations that are being Spring 2022 developed worldwide in response to the challenges of climate A quantitative approach to understanding the earth processes change. Only open to students in 360 program. that impact human societies. We consider the past, current, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and future hazards presented by geologic processes, including Counts toward Environmental Studies earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, and hurricanes. The course includes discussion of the social, economic, POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy and policy contexts within which natural geologic processes Not offered 2021-22 become hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across space and time. Focusing on particular issues such as health care,

Quantitative Methods (QM) domestic security, water and land use, we identify institutional,

Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) historical, and cultural factors that shape policies. We also

Scientific Investigation (SI) examine the growing importance of international-level policy

Counts toward Environmental Studies making and the interplay between international and domestic pressures on policy makers. Writing attentive. Prerequisite: One GEOL B302 Low-Temperature Geochemistry course in Political Science or public policy. Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most important Counts toward Environmental Studies subfields of the Earth sciences for understanding environmental Counts toward Health Studies and climatic change. In this course, we will explore stable isotopic fundamentals and applications including a number of POLS B321 Technology and Politics important case studies from the recent and dealing Fall 2021 with important biotic events in the fossil record and major climate changes. Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or GEOL 102, and A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology in at least one semester of chemistry or physics, or professor political and social life. We focus on the relationship between approval. technological change and democratic governance. We begin with historical and contemporary Luddism as well as pro-technology

Counts toward Environmental Studies movements around the world. Substantive issue areas MATH B151 Introduction to Math and Sustainability include security and surveillance, electoral politics, economic development and women’s empowerment, civil rights, warfare, Not offered 2021-22 social media and information/disinformation politics, agriculture, The world faces many sustainability challenges: climate climate change and energy politics, and pandemic response. change, energy, over-population, natural resource depletion. This course is open to all students who have the prerequisites. It Using techniques of mathematical modeling including also counts as a thesis prep course for political science majors. dynamical systems and bifurcation theory (tipping points), we Prerequisite: One course in Political Science, or ENVS 202, or will study quantitative aspects of these problems. No advanced permission of instructor. Writing attentive. mathematics beyond high school mathematics (pre-calculus) is Counts toward Environmental Studies required.

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POLS B326 Comparative Environmental Politics in East a global phenomenon. Culture meets ecology, science, history, and Southeast Asia and politics. Taught in translation. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) East Asia (referring to both Northeast and Southeast Asia) Critical Interpretation (CI) is often discussed as one unit vis-à-vis other economic blocs yet this region is a home to the largest population in RUSS B227 Eurasia and its Ecology: Cultural and the world with various divergent cultures, colonial histories, Historical Perspectives religions, political system and state-society relations, as Not offered 2021-22 well as the level of economic development. With increasing focus on 3Es-- Economic growth, Environment protection, This course will explore the historical, social, and cultural and Energy security-- as shared priorities at the regional significance of the environment in Russian literature and level, such diversities serve not only as opportunities but the visual arts. As the largest country on the planet and as challenges for East Asian states to cope with environmental a sprawling nation that covers almost a sixth of the world’s issues. Geographic proximity makes countries in the region land mass, Russia has both cherished and exploited its vast environmentally interdependent, and heavy dependence on forests and ample natural resources. Exploring Russian culture imported fossil fuels make energy security as a matter of from an ecological perspective, we will delve into the fiction, survival. Increasing public outcry over pollution and resultant poetry, cinema, and photography that has raised environmental health problems has also challenged political legitimacy and issues or, in the opposite vein, has promoted rapid industrial sustainable economic development. his course explores development and a swift taming of Russia’s natural landscape contemporary environmental issues in East Asia from for the sake of progress. To this day, Russian artists continue comparative political economy perspective and sheds light to grapple with the ecological state of the country and its fragile on how environmental problems - and solutions - are often well-being. shaped by political context and interweaved into varying actors’ Critical Interpretation (CI) perceived interest. Main questions in the course include: Inquiry into the Past (IP) What kind of environmental problems East Asia face and how Counts toward Film Studies diverse historical, political and economic conditions of each country shape the context in which countries deal with the SOCL B268 Environmental Sustainability problem either individually or collectively? What are the roles Not offered 2021-22 of various social, political and market actors in environmental politics? What sorts of approaches seem most likely to solve This course relates a broadly construed understanding of local, national and regional environmental issues such as air environmental sustainability to the historical development pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change? of the major concepts and developments in sociology. It What are the impacts of globalization and technological situates the development of sociology as responding to major innovation in dealing with environmental issues? Prerequisite: social problems in the natural and built environment, and Junior standing or higher, previous courses in social science, demonstrates how the key theoretical developments and humanities, area studies or relevant experiences are required. empirical findings of sociology are crucial in understanding This course meets writing intensive requirement. how these problems develop, persist, and are addressed or fail to be addressed. Conceptually, it begins with the radical

Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures environmental changes at the dawn of modernity that gave rise POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power and to European sociology and the massive urban social problems Mobilization experienced in rapidly changing urban areas that gave rise to American sociology. Empirically, it moves through a series of Not offered 2021-22 more contemporary case studies of environmental problems A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and (including both single-event “disasters” and ongoing slowly “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political developing ever-present realities) that demonstrate both the opportunity structure facing potential activists, the mobilizing context for sociology’s development and the promise sociology resources available to them, and the cultural framing within offers in understanding environmental problems. The course which these processes occur. Specific attention is paid to will have a global focus drawing on case studies from North recent movements within and across countries, such as America, South America, Europe, Africa, with special attention feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements, given to East Asia. and to emerging forms of citizen mobilization, including Course does not meet an Approach transnational and global networks, electronic mobilization via social media, and collaborative policymaking institutions. Writing Attentive. Prerequisite: one course in POLS or SOCL or permission of instructor. FILM STUDIES Counts toward Environmental Studies Students may complete a minor in Film Studies. RUSS B220 Chernobyl Spring 2022 Faculty This course introduces students to the Chernobyl nuclear Steering Committee disaster, its consequences, and its representations across a range of cultures and media through a comparative lens and as Timothy Harte, Provost and Professor of Russian

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Homay King, Chair and Professor of History of Art and the if any, may count simultaneously for multiple credentials. Final Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities (on leave approval is at the discretion of the program director. semester I) Julien Suaudeau, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies Courses and Director of Film Studies ARTD B220 Screendance: Movement and the Camera Michael Tratner, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of Spring 2022 Literatures in English This course is a practical introduction to Screendance for Sharon Ullman, Professor of History students interested in extending their experience or interest in dance and movement into a new realm. Also known as Affiliated Faculty dancefilm, cinedance, videodance and/or dance for the Sarah Bryant, Visiting Assistant Professor camera, Screendance connects film (and filmmaking) with Manar Darwish, Lecturer and Coordinator of Bi-Co Arabic dance (and dancemaking) in an evolving hybrid performative Program practice. For both the maker and audience, the inquiry is the adventure of discovering what the coming together of dance

Matt Feliz, Visiting Assistant Professor and screen can be. Screendance can be described as diverse, Shiamin Kwa, Co-Chair and Associate Professor of East Asian global, emergent, alive, active, trans-media, continually Studies and Co-Director of Comparative Literature evolving. Through class screenings, exercises, readings and discussion, students will learn approaches to combining dance Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. and the moving image. Students will work alone and in small Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities collaborative groups to create their own works integrating Rosi Song, Professor of Spanish dance and video. Through creative projects, students will develop their own cinematic style and an increased proficiency Film Studies is an interdisciplinary program of inquiry bringing with both filming and editing movement. a range of analytical methods to bear upon films, film Critical Interpretation (CI) audiences, and the social and industrial contexts of film and Counts toward Film Studies media production, distribution and exhibition. The courses that comprise the minor in film studies reflect the diversity ARTW B266 Screenwriting of approaches in the academic study of cinema. The minor Not offered 2021-22 is anchored by core courses in formal analysis, history and theory. Elective courses in particular , directors, An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art of national cinemas, genres, areas of theory and criticism, video storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: character, production, and issues in film and media culture add both dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, sound. The course breadth and depth to this program of study. focuses on the film adaptation; readings include novels, screenplays, and short stories. Films adapted from the readings Film Studies is a Bryn Mawr College minor. Students must will be screened. In the course of the semester, students will take a majority of courses on the Bryn Mawr campus; however, be expected to outline and complete the first act of an adapted minors are encouraged to consider courses offered in the screenplay of their own. Tri-College consortium and at the University of Pennsylvania. Students should work with the director of the Film Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Program to develop a minor work plan when declaring the Counts toward Film Studies minor. COML B242 German Encounters w East Asia: A Minor Requirements Transnational Cinema Course In consultation with the program director, students design a Not offered 2021-22 program of study that includes a range of film genres, styles, Due to increased mobility in the age of globalization, the national cinemas, eras and disciplinary and methodological encounter between East and West has shifted from the approaches. Students are strongly encouraged to take at least imaginary to the real. Actual encounters provide the potential one course addressing topics in global or non-western cinema. for debunking cultural myths and prejudices that an orientalist The minor consists of a total of six courses and must include lens tended to produce. East and West both carry their own the following: traditions, value systems, and distinct cultural identities. This 1. One introductory course in the formal analysis of film sparks conflicts, but also generates mutual interest. In present- day Germany, the Asian-German connection constitutes

2. One course in film history or an area of film history a neglected aspect of multicultural discourses and thus 3. One course in film theory or an area of film theory deserves more scrutiny. This transnational film course focuses specifically on encounters between German-speaking countries 4. Three electives. and East Asia. Using film as the main medium, this course At least one of the six courses must be at the 300 level. touches on prominent issues such as orientalism, race, gender, Courses that fall into two or more of the above categories may class, nation, and identity, which have been much studied by fulfill the requirement of the student’s choosing, but may not literary and cultural critics in recent years. fulfill more than one requirement simultaneously. Students Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) should consult with their advisers to determine which courses, Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures

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Counts toward Film Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Film Studies CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics Counts toward Visual Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B231 Theorizing Affect, Watching Television Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), has been a figure of continuous fascination and political Spring 2022 resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and This course examines television through the lens of affect enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while theory. Within humanities scholarship, the turn toward affect she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined has offered new ways to study the cultural, economic, and by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, political functions of literature and art. In our wider cultural musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will moment, television programming has become a source of examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in shared fascination. The course will pair readings from affect various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first studies (by scholars such as Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai) part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material with select examples of television shows (including Black evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and Mirror, Mad Men, and The Wire). We will also read scholarly the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, and public writing about television and consider the interplay we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, between cultural feelings and televisual forms such as seriality, and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging situation comedy, and bottle episodes. from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to Critical Interpretation (CI) HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues Counts toward Film Studies such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. ENGL B336 Topics in Film Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Section 001 (Fall 2020): Cinematic Voice Counts toward Film Studies Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cinematic Voice EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film Fall 2021 Spring 2022 This is a topics course and description varies according to the topic. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current topic description: If film is primarily a visual medium, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the integration of sound permanently changed the form. In this Critical Interpretation (CI) course, we will attend to the voice as a central component of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies film sound. Our explorations will include: the transition from Counts toward Film Studies silent to ; how voice is racialized and gendered in Counts toward Visual Studies Hollywood film; the ways that filmmakers link voice to image, and why these matter aesthetically and politically (e.g. dubbing, EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in voiceover, acousmatic voice); vocal expression and notions East Asian Literature and Film of interiority and exteriority; and the possibility of non-human Not offered 2021-22 voice. The syllabus pairs a range of films with theoretical and scholarly ideas about voice. This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women’s Counts toward Film Studies lives beginning in early China, and consider how those tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical FREN B208 La diversité dans le cinéma français borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior contemporain knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. Spring 2022 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Until the closing years of the 20th century, ethnic diversity Counts toward Film Studies was virtually absent from French cinema. While Francophone directors from Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa debunked ENGL B205 Introduction to Film colonialism and neocolonialism in their films, minorities hardly Fall 2021 appeared on French screens. Movies were made by white filmmakers for a white audience. Since the 1980’s and the This course is intended to provide students with the tools of 1990’s, minorities have become more visible in French films. critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, Are French Blacks and Arabs portrayed in French cinema sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the beyond stereotypes, or are they still objects of a euro-centric habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused gaze? Have minorities gained agency in storytelling, not just as work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical actors, but as directors? What is the national narrative at play units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and in the recent French films that focus on diversity? Is it still “us history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call against them”, or has the new generation of French filmmakers cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the found a way to include the different components of French Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history identity into a collective subject? From Bouchareb to Gomis, of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory. from Kechiche to Benyamina and Jean-Baptiste, this course will 165 FILM STUDIES map out the visual fault lines of the French self and examine GNST B302 Topics in Video Production the prospects for a post-republican sense of community. Open Section 001 (Spring 2021): Good Troubles to non-majors. There will be a weekly screening on Sunday, 7:00pm-9:00pm. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Film Studies HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: FREN B223 The Fire Every Time: Cinematic Rebels Across Identification in the Cinema the Atlantic Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to the analysis of film through particular Cinema, as an art form, can be seen as a rebellion against attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving images reality. Then again, cinema as mass entertainment with uber- compel our fascination? How exactly do film spectators relate industrial might can yield the most contagious legitimization of to the people, objects, and places that appear on the screen? power and social norms. Can filmmakers be genuine agents of Wherein lies the power of images to move, attract, repel, change and social justice? Do their creations have the power persuade, or transform its viewers? In this course, students will to disrupt the status quo? If so, how are some films designed be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic to subvert systemic normalization and disseminated forms of of identification. We will explore how points of view are framed domination? In this course, we will map out rebellious modern in cinema, and how those viewing positions differ from those (post WW2) cinema from both sides of the Atlantic. Setting of still photography, advertising, video games, and other forms aside and conventional delimitations, we will go of media. Students will be encouraged to consider the role back and forth across genres (, , ghost story, the cinematic medium plays in influencing our experience of a , drama…) between contemporary and older film: how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form of avatars of cinematic resistance, between documentary and representation that creates interactions between the spectator fiction, and between France, the U.S., West Africa and Latin and the images on the screen. Film screenings include Psycho, America. We will investigate a series of films that focus on Being John Malkovich, and others. Course is geared to non-compliance and individual resilience in the face of systemic freshman and those with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History adversity, while sharing a common oppositional ethos applied of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor to different forms of domination/violence: anticolonialism, Introductory course or Theory course requirement. anti-capitalism, antiracism, as well as ecology, pacifism and a critique of carceral institutions. For each of them, we will study Critical Interpretation (CI) how the style of cinematography is designed not just to support Inquiry into the Past (IP) a narrative, but as a counter-language aimed at subverting the Counts toward Film Studies conservative grammar codes of the mainstream. This course Counts toward Visual Studies will be taught in English. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105 only HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the for students taking this for French credit with additional hour. present Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Film Studies This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 GERM B262 Topics: Film and the German Literary through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological Imagination series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Not offered 2021-22 Hollywood, Italian , the , and other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical This is a topics course. Course content varies. films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes Critical Interpretation (CI) the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider Counts toward Film Studies various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio- political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings GNST B255 Video Production will provide historical context, and will introduce students Fall 2021 to key concepts in film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the This course will explore aesthetic strategies utilized by history requirement or the introductory course requirement for low-budget film and video makers as each student works the Film Studies minor. throughout the semester to complete a 7-15 minute film or video project. Course requirements include weekly screenings, Critical Interpretation (CI) reading assignments, and class screenings of rushes and Inquiry into the Past (IP) roughcuts of student projects. Prerequisites: Some prior film Counts toward Film Studies course experience necessary, instructor discretion. HART B334 Topics in Film Studies Course does not meet an Approach Section 001 (Spring 2021): Screening Technology Counts toward Film Studies Section 001 (Spring 2022): Transitional Objects: Between Old Counts toward Visual Studies and New Media Spring 2022

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This is a topics course. Course content varies. ITAL B217 Gendered Violence in Italy: How many women Current topic description: In this seminar, we will explore digital are killed? images in relation to cinema, photography, and other media. Not offered 2021-22 We will examine the fate of materiality, the body, and duration in How many women are killed in Italy? How many women suffer 21st c. media, and consider whether or not the digital marks a abuse at the hands of their partner? Data shows one in seven significant break from the analog. in Italy have suffered gendered abuse. In many regions, victims Counts toward Film Studies have nowhere to turn for shelter. This course will examine Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx domestic and sexual assault in intimate relationships from a feminist analysis. Historical, theoretical, and sociological HIST B284 Movies and America: The Past Lives Forever perspectives on gender violence will be critically analyzed Not offered 2021-22 through criminology research, literature, and theory. Course context will focus on dominance and control as a co-factor of Movies are one of the most important means by which gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, sexuality, Americans come to know - or think they know--their own nationality, and other variables. Therefore, the course will history. We look to old movies to tell us about a world we never highlight the differential impact of gender violence on women knew but think we can access through film. And Hollywood of color, , older women, adolescent girls, immigrants often reaches into the past to tell a good story. How can we and marginalized and disenfranchised women. Domestic and understand the impact of our love affair with movies on our sexual violence in contemporary Italy will also be reviewed and understanding of what happened in this country? In this course analyzed in the context of international contexts. This course we will examine the complex cultural relationship between film will be taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 102 or permission and American historical self-fashioning. from instructor

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Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Praxis Program Counts toward Visual Studies ITAL B229 The Politics of Food in , Culture, ITAL B212 Italy Today and Cinema

Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge In English. A profile of Italian literature/culture/cinema obtained class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with through an analysis of gastronomic documents, films, literary the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its texts, and magazines. We will also include a discussion of the metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by Slow Food Revolution, a movement initiated in Italy in 1980 living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and and now with a world-wide following, and its social, economic, politicians. ecological, aesthetic, and cultural impact to counteract fast food Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and to promote local food traditions. Course taught in English. Critical Interpretation (CI) One additional hour for students who want Italian credit.

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts toward Film Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Film Studies ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities ITAL B325 Literature and Film, Literature into Films and Back Spring 2022 Fall 2021 What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and This course is a critical analysis of Modern Italian society films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object through cinematic production and literature, from the oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In Risorgimento to the present. According to Alfred Hitchock’s this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from little stories, two goats were eating the reel of a movie taken different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender from a famous novel. “I liked the book better,” says one to and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece the other. While at times we too chew on movies taken from from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings books, our main objective will not be to compare books and to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will films, but rather to explore the more complex relation between discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and literature and cinema: how text is put into film, how cultural of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we references operate with respect to issues of style, technique, are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour and perspective. We will discuss how cinema conditions literary in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. imagination, and how literature leaves its imprint on cinema. We will “read” films as “literary images” and “see” novels as Critical Interpretation (CI) “visual stories”. Students will become acquainted with literary Counts toward Africana Studies sources through careful readings; on viewing the corresponding Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies film, students will consider how narrative and descriptive textual Counts toward Film Studies elements are transposed into cinematic audio/visual elements. An important concern of this course will be to analyze the particularity of each film/book in relation to a set of themes 167 FILM STUDIES

-gender, death, class, discrimination, history, migration- through of psychopathology in that period. Another focus will be how close textual analysis. We shall use contemporary Film theory the film portrays the course of the disorder and how it depicts and critical methodology to access these themes. treatment for the disorder. This cinematic presentation will be evaluated with respect to current research on treatment for the Counts toward Film Studies disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing treatment ITAL B380 Modernity and Psychoanalysis: Crossing for the disorder at the time the film was made. Prerequisite: National Boundaries in 20th c. Italy and Europe PSYC B209. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Designed as an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration of Italy’s Counts toward Film Studies 20th century cultural life, the course is organized around Counts toward Health Studies major artistic and intellectual trends, viewed in their historical and global perspective in connection with Avant-garde RUSS B217 The Cinema of literary movements and philosophical ideas: i.e. surrealism, Not offered 2021-22 metaphysics, Dadaism, psychoanalysis, futurism, decadence, modernism. While thinking and writing in Italian, we will This course will probe the cinematic oeuvre of the great Soviet examine films, novels, and poetry to gain insight on Modernity filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who produced some of the most with attention also to gender perspectives. Elements of metrics compelling, significant film work of the 20th century. Looking at and rhetoric will be used to analyze poetry in its own essence. not only Tarkovsky’s films but also those films that influenced Prerequisite: One 200-Level course in Italian. his work, we will explore the aesthetics, philosophy, and ideological pressure underlying Tarkovsky’s unique brand of Counts toward Film Studies cinema. MEST B201 Society and Culture of the Middle East Critical Interpretation (CI) Through Film Counts toward Film Studies Spring 2022 RUSS B227 Eurasia and its Ecology: Cultural and This course is designed so that students begin to acquire Historical Perspectives a knowledge and understanding of the contemporary Arab Not offered 2021-22 world through film. A main focus would be society and the representation of family life with all its intricacies. Because This course will explore the historical, social, and cultural the region is extremely diverse and the life of its people and significance of the environment in Russian literature and their experiences are, especially in the present, complex, it is the visual arts. As the largest country on the planet and as necessary to select only a few of the countries in the region a sprawling nation that covers almost a sixth of the world’s and their cinemas to focus on. This should allow for deeper land mass, Russia has both cherished and exploited its vast study and meaningful conclusions. The cinemas of several forests and ample natural resources. Exploring Russian culture Arab countries will be examined. Egypt has always been from an ecological perspective, we will delve into the fiction, and to a large extent remains the center of Arabic-language poetry, cinema, and photography that has raised environmental cinema; three quarters of all Arabic-language feature films issues or, in the opposite vein, has promoted rapid industrial having been produced there. Films by famous directors such as development and a swift taming of Russia’s natural landscape Youssef Chahine and Shadi Abdel Salam, among others, will for the sake of progress. To this day, Russian artists continue be appropriate to consider. But films from other Arab countries, to grapple with the ecological state of the country and its fragile e.g., from North Africa and the Middle East, will also be well-being. included for comparison and a more comprehensive picture. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Psychology Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia Through Films and Beyond

Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = 16 This is a topics course. Course content varies. students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The primary focus of Inquiry into the Past (IP) the seminar will be evaluating the degree of correspondence Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies between the cinematic presentation and current research Counts toward Film Studies knowledge about the disorder, taking into account the historical Counts toward Visual Studies period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder are presented and RUSS B365 Russian and Soviet Film Culture how representative the protagonist is of people who typically Not offered 2021-22 manifest this disorder based on current research. We will also This seminar explores the cultural and theoretical trends that address the theory of etiology of the disorder depicted in the have shaped Russian and Soviet cinema from the silent era film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in to the present day. The focus will be on Russia’s films and the period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts

168 FILM STUDIES / FINE ARTS film theory, with discussion of the aesthetic, ideological, and visual perception of form and to present knowledge and historical issues underscoring Russia’s cinematic culture. understanding of it in works of art. Taught in Russian. No previous study of cinema required, • For students intending to major or to minor in fine arts: although RUSS 201 or the equivalent is required. beyond the foregoing, to promote thinking in visual terms Counts toward Film Studies and to foster the skills needed to give expression to these in a coherent body of art works. SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Latin About 20 percent of Haverford students take fine arts courses American Film while enrolled in the College. The students who major in fine Not offered 2021-22 arts and wish to continue their education are usually accepted Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as “emotional at the professional graduate art school of their choice. Our people”--often a euphemism to mean irrational, impulsive, wildly alumni are distinguished professionals, active in the visual heroic, fickle. This course takes this expression at face value to creative arts and allied fields. ask: Are there particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, conversely, do these “people” become such because they Learning Goals share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation between All fine arts studio courses are designed for students to obtain emotions and political trajectories? To answer these questions, motor skills, theoretical and critical thinking, and problem we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at solving necessary to create art to the student’s fullest ability different times, taken hold of the Latin American imagination along with developing their own original ideas and concepts. and feelings: melodramas (1950s-1960s), documentaries Students achieve these goals in individual interactions such as (1970s-1990s), and “low-key” comedies (since 2000s.) critiques and hands-on instruction in small classroom settings. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) These educational goals are augmented by outside speakers, Counts toward Film Studies visiting artists, exhibitions and non-studio courses in visual

Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx culture sponsored by the department or taught by its faculty. Haverford’s Institutional Learning Goals are available on the President’s website, at http://hav.to/learninggoals. FINE ARTS Curriculum Faculty Disciplines Markus Baenziger, Professor of Fine Arts The fine arts program at Haverford centers around five disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and Anna Benjamin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts sculpture. Jonathan Goodrich, Visiting Instructor of Fine Arts Each discipline is offered at both the introductory and advanced Zachary Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts levels, exposing students to the rigors and processes of each Hee Sook Kim, Professor of Fine Arts medium. Students get the benefit of learning about the tradition and the practice in the introductory courses, and then utilize Ying Li, The Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts; Chair of and alter those ideas and tools in the advanced courses. Fine Arts Students are encouraged to channel multi-disciplinary interests William Williams, Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in and ideas in their work, and to find an identity and voice the Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts through the medium, as well as producing work that is relevant to them. Affiliated Faculty • Drawing is typically viewed as practice or a preparatory Christina Knight, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies exercise for a more “finalized” project (i.e. painting, John Muse, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies sculpture, printmaking, installation), and as the definition of art becomes ever-changing, drawing by contemporary In the Fine Arts Department, the focus is on the individual. standards includes sketches and everything in between Studio classes are small, and students from beginners to as final works. Especially with the influx of street art and majors receive individual instruction. illustration, sketches, lists, and doodles are taken both seriously and as final art forms. Drawing at Haverford Every student is encouraged to develop the physical and critical introduces and expands the traditional drawing practice skills necessary to create art. The philosophy of the department to working self-sufficiently and exploring aesthetic notions is that observational skills are the cornerstone of all visual art in a variety of mediums: ink, pencil, charcoal, pen, pastel, disciplines. Cognition and processing information are key skills markers, mixed media, etc. for any discipline—in the humanities or the sciences—and for this reason art at Haverford is specifically geared towards • Traditionally rooted in narration, religion, and history enhancing visual perception. Such finely tuned skills can the practice of painting is a mode of expression using benefit anyone professionally and personally. different styles and mediums. Oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media are the tools to experiment with different painting The fine arts courses offered by the department are structured styles and compositions. Painting at Haverford aims to to accomplish the following: guide students through the formative practices as well as • For students not majoring in fine arts: to develop a encouraging exploration. The painting program is rigorous with intensive work and weekly student critiques. Students 169 FINE ARTS have classroom opportunity to work figuratively and paint culminates with sophisticated sculptural concepts and from live models, work within the elements outside in fabrication methods at the advanced level. Haverford’s sprawling landscape, and also encouraged to challenge and take ideas further conceptually. With The sculpture facilities include a wood shop, metal distinguished guest artists and lecturers visiting from other fabrication equipment, and a large-scale foundry for academic institutions, students are exposed to many views bronze casting. Students are introduced to wood and and interpretations of art making, inspiration, and the metal working techniques, modeling and casting skills, and painting process. digital fabrication methods. The sculpture concentration’s focus on conceptual investigation and in-depth technical • Printmaking is an interdisciplinary art form that has its education, in conjunction with well-equipped foundry own unique style as intaglio, lithography, relief, monotype, facilities, provides students the setting to foster creativity and silkscreen. Digital printmaking in lithography, intaglio, and work through artistic curiosity. and silkscreen are taught along with traditional methods. Students are encouraged to combine printmaking with Coursework and Studio Work other mediums and extend their ideas from 2D to 3D including installation. Multi-media approaches are strongly The 100-level “Introductory or Foundation” courses consist recommended in advanced levels. of half-semester courses. Although one half-semester is not sufficient for a beginning student to master a given medium, Printmaking requires an intensive discipline. Patience it offers ample time for acquiring a medium’s basic skills. In is essential. Focus and attention are unavoidable. It is each discipline, the student learns to see and to coordinate an art form based on chemistry and math. It has a long their increasing skills of interpretation and expression to create history that they must be aware of in order to create individual art works. their own works. Furthermore, it is visual. No thoughts or philosophy can “be” a print even though it requires them The 200-level courses are “Materials and Techniques” courses. all. Regardless of level, students are individual artists; they Having gained a solid basis from the foundation courses, the are respected to create their own work with an excellence student chooses a medium to pursue in depth for a semester. in commitment that leads them to great achievements. At this level, we encourage the student to explore the various materials and their uses to create a refined and distinctive • The purpose of photography instruction at Haverford is to body of work. In the 300-level “Experimental Studio” courses, allow students to develop a personal body of work using the student uses the acquired knowledge of materials and photographic materials. techniques to further express and broaden their artistic vision A sequence of courses is offered from Foundation and ideas. Photography for students with little or no knowledge We encourage students to spend time on their own work to Advanced Photography in which students produce outside of class in the fine arts building. Adjacent faculty books and exhibitions. Emphasis is placed on producing studios encourage this informal contact, which is invaluable in photographs, which express both form and emotion learning the discipline of creating art. This type of contact and through mastery of materials and acquisition of the mentoring is an important aspect of a student’s education in our intellectual and critical traditions of photography. The department. former is accomplished by technical critiques of student work in negative, digital and print formats. The latter Major Requirements is accomplished through reading and studying of the history of photography, theory and criticism, photographic Fine Arts majors are required to concentrate in one of the monographs and original prints. following: drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, as detailed here: The facilities for the study of photography include up-to- date and well-equipped darkrooms for chemical and digital • Four 100-level foundation courses in each discipline. photography. The photography book collection in Magill • Two different 200-level courses outside the area of Library is one of the finest in the country. The photographic concentration in the major. print collection contains over 5,000 original photographs. It is encyclopedic and contains works from Hill and • Two 200-level courses and one 300-level course within the Adamson at the dawn of the beginning of photography students chosen focal area within Fine Arts. to contemporary works by Andres Serrano and Laurie • Three art history/theory/criticism or visual studies courses Simmons. These exceptional resources support small (as approved by major advisor). classes that allow for personal attention and instruction • Senior Departmental Studies (ARTS H499). from the professor and staff. • For majors intending to do graduate work, we strongly • The sculpture concentration at Haverford offers students recommend that they take an additional 300-level studio the opportunity to explore the three-dimensional media course within their area of concentration and an additional with a broad range of materials and processes. Classes art history course at Bryn Mawr. are designed to engage the visual language through a process of critical analysis and discovery while providing Senior Project a structured environment that allows students to acquire dexterity with a comprehensive set of three-dimensional In preparation for the senior thesis exhibition students attend skills. At the introductory level students are introduced to 499 Senior Departmental Studies (ARTS H499, prerequisite fundamental three-dimensional techniques and through 300 course in student’s concentration such as drawing, sequential classes they gain proficiency in a skill set that painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture) on a weekly basis. This two-semester, two-credit course provides students

170 FINE ARTS with a structured environment to develop a body of work that is culture courses, subject to approval by the chair of the Fine Arts presented in the form of an exhibition at the Cantor Fitzgerald Department before the course is taken. Gallery. The scope of the senior thesis exhibition accomplishes Minors can take one 200-level course outside of a minor’s the process of selecting works to be included in the exhibition, area of study and one art history/theory/criticism or visual determining the layout of the works, and installing the works culture course, subject to approval by the chair of the Fine Arts in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Students participate in the Department before the course is taken. planning of the opening reception for their thesis exhibition, which is advertised to a broad audience. During the opening, Facilities they present their work to a general audience and are available to answer questions from guests. After the gallery opening, See the departmental web page for a description of art studios, the Fine Arts Department faculty schedules a full departmental galleries, and other special facilities for this program. review of the work presented by each student. During the review each student articulates a formal presentation of their Courses work and students are asked to respond to questions and comments put forth by the faculty. ARTS H101 ARTS FOUNDATION-DRAWING (2-D) (0.5 Credit) Senior Project Learning Goals Division: Humanities Seniors are expected to create a coherent body of work Domain(s): A: Creative Expression that demonstrates proficiency in the use of their chosen A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no concentration, develop content and articulate ideas with a experience in drawing. Students will first learn how to see with personal and effective visual language and present their work a painter’s eye. Composition, perspective, proportion, light, in a professionally installed gallery exhibition, e.g. in the Cantor form, picture plane and other fundamentals will be studied. We Fitzgerald Gallery, Atrium Gallery, or Alcove Gallery. In addition will work from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and to presenting visual works, majors are expected to articulate masterwork. the content and context of their work in a written statement, which is on display with their work along with researches on ARTS H103 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 visual art and artists that are related to their own work. These Credit) educational goals are augmented by outside speakers, visiting Division: Humanities artists, exhibitions and non-studio courses in visual culture Domain(s): A: Creative Expression sponsored by the department or taught by its faculty. This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and Senior Project Assessment artistry of photography to students with some or no skills Each thesis project is evaluated by the Faculty members in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, who are also their concentration advisors using the following print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, categories: dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be • Original ideas and creativity. determined during the first class. Offered in the first quarter. • Proficiency in their chosen concentration. ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE (0.5 • Quality of the project. Credit) • Active discussion and participation during group critiques Division: Humanities by departmental full faculty, which forms in the beginning, Domain(s): A: Creative Expression midterm, and final week, and weekly group critique and This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to research in addition to individual meetings with the faculty provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and members. techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing • Progress in their project. three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of • Research on related sources, e.g. professional artist works projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will and digital presentation. focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. • Attendance. Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. Minor Requirements All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, and • Minors must take four 100-level foundation courses in no prior experience is required to successfully complete this different disciplines. course.

• Two 200-level courses and one 300-level course within the ARTS H106 ARTS FOUNDATION - DRAWING (0.5 Credit) student’s chosen focal area within fine arts. Division: Humanities • One art history/theory/criticism or visual culture course. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Study Abroad This is a seven-week introductory level course designed to provide an overview of basic drawing techniques addressing Credits from Study Abroad or from Outside the Fine Arts line, form, perspective, and composition. Various drawing Department methods will be introduced in class, and students will gain Majors can take one 200-level course outside of a major’s experience in drawing by working from still life, models, concentration and any art history/theory/criticism or visual 171 FINE ARTS and architecture. Preference to declared majors who need performance art, avatars, and working together on a scavenger Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for hunt art project—we explore identity and history. Cross-Listed: the same Foundations course at least once without success. Visual Studies

ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION-PAINTING (0.5 Credit) ARTS H217 THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART Division: Humanities FROM 1619 TO THE PRESENT (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Division: Humanities A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the Social World handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study A survey course documenting and interpreting the development color theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms and history of African-American Art from 1619 to present day. and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, Representative works from the art and rare book collections will and surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, supplement course readings. landscape, imagination and masterwork. ARTS H218 CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM ARTS H108 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 (1.0 Credit) Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Domain(s): A: Creative Expression This course combines studio practice and creating art projects This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and with slide lectures, readings, and museum visits. Students will artistry of photography to students with some or no skills study the art of Chinese Calligraphy, and its connection with in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, Western art. No Chinese language required. print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- ARTS H223 PRINTMAKING: MATERIALS AND hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be TECHNIQUES: ETCHING (1.0 Credit) determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H121 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING- RELIEF (0.5 Credit) Concepts and techniques of B/W and Color Intaglio. Line etching, aquatint, soft and hard ground, chin-colle techniques Division: Humanities will be explored as well as visual concepts. Developing personal statements will be encouraged. Individual and group ARTS H124 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: MONOTYPE critiques will be employed. (0.5 Credit) Division: Humanities ARTS H224 COMPUTER AND PRINTMAKING (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Division: Humanities Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly Domain(s): A: Creative Expression methods, direct drawing, stencils, and brayer techniques for Computer-generated images and printmaking techniques. beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, and Students will create photographic, computer processed, and composition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and group directly drawn images on lithographic polyester plates and critiques will be employed. zinc etching plates. Classwork will be divided between the computer lab and the printmaking studio to create images using ARTS H142 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIES (1.0 both image processing software and traditional printmaking Credit) methods, including lithography, etching, and silk-screen. Division: Humanities Broad experimental approaches to printmaking and computer Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) techniques will be encouraged. Individual and group critiques An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, will be employed. enrollment limit: 12 Lottery Preference: Fine its methods of analysis and topical concerns. Traditional Arts Major and Minors media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an examination of the ubiquity of images of all kinds, their systems ARTS H225 LITHOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND of transmission, their points of consumption, and the very TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) limits of visuality itself. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Division: Humanities Comparative Literature An intermediate course covering B/W and Color Lithography in plates. Combined methods with other printmaking techniques ARTS H202 REFRAMED: ENACTMENT AND such as Paper lithography and Monotype are explored during REENACTMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE, DIGITAL MEDIA, the course along with photographic approaches. Editioning of AND CONTEMPORARY ART (1.0 Credit) images is required along with experimental ones. Development Division: Humanities of technical skills in traditional Lithography and personal visual Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) study are necessary with successful creative solutions. A strong This course examines how culture, social media and art body of work following a specific theme is required. Individual engage with themes of reenactment. Through re-creation – discussions and group critiques are held periodically. Additional Civil War reenactments, Comedy Central’s Drunk History, “re”- research on the history of printmaking is requested. 172 FINE ARTS

ARTS H231 DRAWING (2-D): ALL MEDIA (1.0 Credit) exhibitions, lectures and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in books and a research project supplement the Division: Humanities weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade Domain(s): A: Creative Expression archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: media and to explore the relationships between media, Fine Arts 103 or equivalent. techniques and expression. Each student will strive to develop a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental ARTS H253 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students CONCEPTUAL ART (1.0 Credit) will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Division: Humanities Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) slide lectures, museum and gallery visits. In this course, the specific mid-20th C movement called ARTS H233 PAINTING: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Conceptual Art will be explored, as will its progenitors and (1.0 Credit) its progeny. Students will study the founding manifestos, the canonical works and their critical appraisals, as well as Division: Humanities develop tightly structured studio practica to embody the former Students are encouraged to experiment with various painting research. The course invites artists, writers, activists, and techniques and materials in order to develop a personal cultural thinkers, those who want to know what it is to make approach to self-expression. We will emphasize form, color, things, spaces, situations, communities, allies, and trouble- texture, and the relationship among them; influences of various -without necessarily knowing how to draw, paint, sculpt, techniques upon the expression of a work; the characteristics photograph, videotape, or film. and limitations of different media. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course ARTS H322 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: ETCHING (1.0 includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide Credit) lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Division: Humanities

Foundations or consent. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H243 SCULPTURE: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES An advanced course covers Color Etching using multiple plates. (1.0 Credit) Viscosity printing, line etching, aquatint, soft-ground, surface roll, Chin-collè, plate preparation, registration, and editioning Division: Humanities are covered. Students study techniques and concepts in Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Intaglio method as well as visual expressions through hands- This course is designed to give students an in-depth on experiences. Development of technical skills of Intaglio introduction to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional and personal visual study are necessary and creative and concepts and fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood experimental approaches beyond two-dimensional outcomes and metal working, and additional processes such as casting encouraged. A strong body of work following a specific theme procedures for a range of synthetic materials and working with is required. Individual discussions and group critiques are held digital tools including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will periodically. Additional research on the history of printmaking is be introduced in class. Course may be repeated for credit. requested. Prerequisite: ARTSH104 or permission from the instructor. ARTS H331 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: DRAWING (2-D) (1.0 ARTS H250 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXHIBITION: Credit) OBJECTS, IMAGES, TEXTS, EVENTS (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses, to An introduction to the theory and practice of exhibition and develop further their individual approach to drawing. Students display. This course will supply students with the analytic tools are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique necessary to understand how exhibitions work and give them character of drawing in making their own art. Completed practical experience making arguments with objects, images, projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will texts, and events. include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and ARTS H251 PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND discussion of either their own work or the work of artists who TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) influenced them. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H333 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PAINTING (1.0 Credit) Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on the creation of color Division: Humanities photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions and Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses to critical insights into editing of individual student work and the develop further their individual approach to painting. Students use of the appropriate black-and-white photographic materials are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique in analog or digital formats necessary to give coherence to that character of their chosen media in making their own art. work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. 173 FINE ARTS / FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ Edwige Crucifix, Assistant Professor of French and lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide Francophone Studies talk and discussion of either their own work or the work of Rudy Le Menthéour, Associate Professor and Chair of French artists who influenced them. and Francophone Studies ARTS H343 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: SCULPTURE (1.0 Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Senior Lecturer in French and Credit) Francophone Studies Division: Humanities Corine Ragueneau Wells, Visiting Instructor Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Julien Suaudeau, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment and Director of Film Studies with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will The Bi-College (Bi-Co) French and Francophone Studies already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford is recognized as one of of sculpture and is at a stage where personal expression has the top undergraduate French programs in the country. The become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine purpose of the major in French and Francophone Studies is Arts 243A or B, or consent of instructor to develop sophisticated critical and analytical skills through the analysis of, among other things, French and Francophone ARTS H351 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY (1.0 literature, history, art, film, material culture, and/or institutions. Credit) Transdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged in all our

Division: Humanities courses. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression 100-level courses introduce students to the study of the French language, French and Francophone literatures and cultures, Students produce an extended sequence of their work in as well as exposing them to critical materials related to textual either book or exhibition format using or and documentary analysis conceived broadly. Courses at the color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of 200-level treat French and Francophone literature and cultures the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the across the historical spectrum and most are topic-based. student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by Advanced (300-level) courses offer in-depth study either of an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books genres and movements or of particular periods, themes and and related critical texts guide students to the completion of problems in French and Francophone culture. Students are their course work. This two semester course consists of the admitted to advanced courses after satisfactory completion of book project first semester and the exhibition project second two semesters of 200-level courses in French. semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project. All students who wish to pursue their study of French, regardless of level, must take a departmental placement ARTS H460 TEACHING ASSISTANT (0.5 Credit) examination prior to arriving at Bryn Mawr. Those students who enter beginning French have two options: intensive study of the ARTS H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) language in the intensive track (001-002 Intensive Elementary and 005 Intensive Intermediate; or non-intensive study of the This course gives the advanced student the opportunity to language in the non-intensive track (001-002 Elementary; 003- experiment with concepts and ideas and to explore in depth his 004 Intermediate). Although it is possible to major in French or her talent. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. using either of the two tracks, students who are considering ARTS H499 SENIOR DEPARTMENTAL STUDIES (1.0 doing so and have been placed at the 001 level are strongly Credit) encouraged to take the intensive track. Division: Humanities Major Requirements (Starting with Class of The student reviews the depth and extent of experience gained, 2023) and in so doing creates a coherent body of work expressive of Starting for class of 2023, requirements in the major subject the student’s insights and skills. At the end of the senior year are: the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work. • FREN 005 and 102 or 005 and 105 or 101 and 102 or 101 and 105. FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE • 200-level sequence: three courses, two of which STUDIES (maximum) may be taken outside the department, and the Junior Seminar (JSEM). Courses taken outside of the department should contribute to your independent program Faculty of study and have to be pre-approved by your major advisor and entered in your major work plan. The Junior Penny Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of Seminar is offered each semester. French and Francophone Studies and Director of Middle Eastern Languages (on leave semester I) • 300-level sequence: two courses, one of which may be taken outside the department, pending pre-approval of Christophe Corbin, Visiting Assitant Professor and Director of your major advisor. the Institut d’Avignon • Senior Experience consists of a thesis development

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workshop (Senior Seminar = FREN 398) in the fall Honors and the Senior Experience (Starting semester and either a Senior Thesis (FREN 400) or a third with Class of 2023) 300-level course culminating in the Senior Essay during the spring semester. In either case, the work of the spring After taking Senior Conference in semester I of the senior year, semester is capped by an oral defense. students have the choice in semester II of writing a thesis in French (40-50 pp.) under the direction of a faculty member or • All French majors are expected to have acquired fluency taking a 300-level course in which they write a Senior Essay in in the French language, both written and oral. Students French (15-25 pp.) The first choice offers self-selected students placed at the 200-level by departmental examinations are who already have developed a clearly defined subject in exempted from the 100-level requirements. Occasionally, semester I the opportunity to pursue independent research and students may be admitted to seminars in the graduate writing of the thesis with a faculty mentor. The second choice

school. allows students, often double majors with another thesis or • The Major Writing Intensive requirement may be met by pre-medical students, the opportunity to produce a substantial, any one of the following courses: FREN 101, 102, JSEM, but shorter, piece of work within the structure of their 300-level Senior Essay (in a 300-level. course). course in semester II. Major Requirements (Class of 2022) Ideally, students intending to write a Senior Thesis define

Requirements in the major subject for the Class of 2022 are: their subject, identify their advisors and start discussing the • French and Francophone Literature track: FREN 005 project with them by the end of the Junior Seminar. Discussion and 102 or 005 and 105 or 101 and 102 or 101 and 105; continues in the fall of senior year with the expectation that the the 200-level advanced language course, FREN 260; student submit a thesis proposal in the context of the Senior FREN 213 Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in the Seminar. Depending on the transdisciplinary nature of the Humanities (BMC) or “Qu’est-ce que la théorie” (HC);” subject, the student may be advised to select a second reader three 200-level literature courses, two 300-level literature in another department. The choice of the language (French or courses, and the year-long Senior Experience, which English) is made in consultation with the primary thesis advisor. consists of Senior Conference (FREN 398) in the fall Departmental honors are awarded for excellence in the Senior semester and either a Senior Thesis or a third 300-level Experience after the oral defense of either the Senior Thesis or course culminating in the Senior Essay during the spring the Senior Essay. semester. In either case, the work of the spring semester is capped by an oral defense. Honors and the Senior Experience (Class of • Transdisciplinary French and Francophone Studies: FREN 2022) 005 and 102 or 005 and 105 or 101 and 102 or 101 and For the French and Francophone Literature option: After taking 005; the 200-level advanced language course, FREN Senior Conference in semester I of the senior year, students 260; two 200-level courses, within the department: e.g., have the choice in semester II of writing a thesis in French FREN 291 or 299; two 200-level courses, to be chosen by (40-50 pp.) under the direction of a faculty member or taking a the student outside the French departments (at BMC/HC 300-level course in which they write a Senior Essay in French or JYA), which contribute coherently to her independent (15-25 pp.) The first choice offers self-selected students who program of study; FREN 325 or 326 Etudes avancées already have developed a clearly defined subject in semester de civilisation, Senior Conference (FREN 398), plus two I the opportunity to pursue independent research and writing 300-level courses outside the departments; a thesis of of the thesis with a faculty mentor. The second choice allows one semester in French or English. Students interested students, often double majors with another thesis or pre- in this track are encouraged to present the rationale and medical students, the opportunity to produce a substantial, the projected content of their transdisciplinary program for but shorter, piece of work within the structure of their 300-level departmental approval during their sophomore year and to course in semester II. Departmental honors are awarded for update their plan in junior year; they should have excellent excellence in the Senior Experience after the oral defense of records in French and the other subjects involved in their either the Senior Thesis or the Senior Essay. proposed program. For the Interdisciplinary Studies in French option: Students • Both concentrations: all French majors are expected to take French 325 or 326, if they have not already done so, have acquired fluency in the French language, both written and French 398 in Semester I of their senior year and, if they and oral. Unless specifically exempted by the department, have not already done so, complete the two 300-level courses they are required to take the 200-level advanced language required outside the department. In semester II they write a course. Students may wish to continue from this course thesis in French or English under the direction of a member to hone their skills further in courses on debate, stylistics of the French faculty and a mentor outside the department. and translation offered at Bryn Mawr College or abroad. Departmental honors are awarded for excellence in the Senior Students placed at the 200-level by departmental Experience after the oral defense of the Senior Thesis. examinations are exempted from the 100-level requirements. Occasionally, students may be admitted to seminars in the graduate school. Minor Requirements Requirements for a French minor are FREN 005 and 102 or • The Major Writing Intensive requirement may be met by 005 and 105, or 101 and 102 or 101 and 105; four 200-level or any one of the following courses: FREN 101, 102, 260, 300-level courses. At least one course must be 300-level. Senior Essay (in a 300-level course).

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Teacher Certification FREN B002 Elementary French The Department of French and Francophone Studies offers a Spring 2022 certification program in secondary teacher education. For more The speaking and understanding of French are emphasized information, see the description of the Education Program. particularly during the first semester, and written competence is stressed as well in semester II. The work includes intensive A.B./M.A. Program oral practice sessions. The course meets in non-intensive (five Particularly well-qualified students may undertake work hours a week) sections. This is a year-long course. toward the joint A.B./M.A. degree in French. Such a program Course does not meet an Approach may be completed in four, four and a half or five years and is undertaken with the approval of the department, the Special FREN B002IN Intensive Elementary French Cases Committee and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts Spring 2022 and Sciences. The second half of a two-semester beginning sequence Study Abroad designed to help students attain a level of proficiency to function comfortably in a French-speaking environment. It is Students majoring in French may, by a joint recommendation of both speaking-intensive (through pair work, group work and the deans of the Colleges and the Departments of French, be drills) and writing-intensive (through blogs and essays). In drill allowed to spend a semester of their junior year in France and/ sessions, students develop the ability to speak and understand or a Francophone country under one of the junior-year plans increasingly well through songs, skits, debates, and a variety of approved by Bryn Mawr. activities. Class meets nine hours per week. Students wishing to enroll in a summer program may apply for Course does not meet an Approach admission to the Institut d’Avignon, held under the auspices of Bryn Mawr. The Institut is designed for selected undergraduates FREN B003 Intermediate French with a serious interest in French and Francophone literatures and cultures; it will be particularly attractive for those who Fall 2021 anticipate professional or graduate-school careers requiring The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing French knowledge of the language and cultures of France and is continued; texts from French literature and cultural media are French-speaking countries. The curriculum includes general read; and short papers are written in French. Students regularly and advanced courses in French language, literature, history, attend supplementary oral practice sessions. The course performance and art. The program is open to students of meets in non-intensive (three hours a week) sections that are high academic achievement who have completed a course in supplemented by an extra hour per week with an assistant. This French at the third-year level or the equivalent. is a year-long course. Prerequisite: FREN B002 or placement required. Courses Course does not meet an Approach FREN B000 French TA/Drill/Discussion FREN B004 Intermediate French Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 FREN B001 Elementary French The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing French Fall 2021 is continued; texts from French literature and cultural media are read; and short papers are written in French. Students regularly The speaking and understanding of French are emphasized attend supplementary oral practice sessions. The course particularly during the first semester, and written competence meets in non-intensive (three hours a week) sections that are is stressed as well in semester II. The work includes intensive supplemented by an extra hour per week with an assistant. This oral practice sessions. The course meets five hours a week in is a year-long course. non-intensive sections. This is a year-long course and students must register for both semesters. Course does not meet an Approach Course does not meet an Approach FREN B005 Intensive Intermediate French

FREN B001IN Intensive Elementary French Fall 2021 Fall 2021 The emphasis on speaking and understanding French is continued; literary and cultural texts are read and increasingly French 001 Intensive Elementary is the first half of a two- longer papers are written in French. In addition to three semester beginning sequence designed to help students class meetings a week, students develop their skills in group attain a level of proficiency to function comfortably in a French- sessions with the professors and in oral practice hours with speaking environment. It is both speaking-intensive (through assistants. Students use internet resources regularly. This pair work, group work and drills) and writing-intensive (through course prepares students to take 102 or 105 in semester II. blogs and essays). In drill sessions, students develop the ability Open only to graduates of Intensive Elementary French or to speak and understand increasingly well through songs, skits, to students placed by the department. Students who did not debates, and a variety of activities. The course meets nine complete Intensive Elementary French must take either 102 hours per week. or 105 to receive language credit. Two additional hours of Course does not meet an Approach instruction outside class time required. Additional meeting hours on Tuesday and Thursday will be scheduled according

176 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES to students availability. Prerequisite: FREN B002IN (intensive) Using literary texts, historical documents and letters as a mirror or Placement exam. Approach: Course does not meet an of the social classes that they address, this interdisciplinary Approach course studies the principal preoccupations of secular and Course does not meet an Approach religious female and male authors in France and Norman England from the eleventh century through the fifteenth. FREN B101 Introduction à l’analyse littéraire et culturelle I Selected works from epic, lais, roman courtois, fabliaux, theater, letters, and contemporary biography are read in

Fall 2021 modern French translation. Prerequisite: FREN 102 or 105. Presentation of essential problems in literary and cultural Critical Interpretation (CI) analysis by close reading of works selected from various Inquiry into the Past (IP) periods and genres and by analysis of voice and image in Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies French writing and film from female and male authors in Metropolitan France, Africa, and other Francophone regions. FREN B204 Le Siècle des lumières Participation in discussion and practice in written and oral expression are emphasized, as are grammar review and Not offered 2021-22 exercises. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisites: Representative texts of the Enlightenment with emphasis FREN B004, placement, or permission of instructor. on the development of liberal thought as illustrated in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Encyclopédie and the works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Critical Interpretation (CI) and Rousseau. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105 or French Placement Exam (200-leverl or higher). FREN B102 Introduction à l’analyse littéraire et culturelle II Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Continued development of students’ expertise in literary and FREN B207 Ouvrir la voix: Introduction aux études cultural analysis by emphasizing close reading as well as oral francophones and written analyses of increasingly complex works chosen from various genres and periods of French and Francophone Fall 2021 works in their written and visual modes. Readings include This course provides students with an overview of foundational theater of the 17th or 18th centuries and build to increasingly concepts, methods and texts relevant to Francophone complex nouvelles, poetry and novels of the 19th and 20th Studies. We will engage with past and present debates centuries. Participation in guided discussion and practice relating to identity, diversity, nation and empire in the colonial in oral/written expression continue to be emphasized, as is and postcolonial contexts and explore the specificity of grammar review. Prerequisite: FREN 005 or 101. Francophone Studies with regards to the field of postcolonial Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) studies. While focused on literature, the course will also explore Critical Interpretation (CI) other forms of cultural production (movies, graphic novels, Counts toward International Studies political speeches, etc.) from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean and Vietnam. The course will train students in FREN B105 Directions de la France contemporaine literary analysis and develop their ability to speak and write Spring 2022 critically in French. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Ce cours a pour objet les dynamiques et les tensions qui Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) structurent ou déstructurent la France contemporaine. Dans Critical Interpretation (CI) quelle mesure la France a-t-elle profité de la colonisation et de l’esclavage pour devenir la France ? Le modèle républicain FREN B208 La diversité dans le cinéma français est-il mis à mal par ce qu’on appelle les “communautarismes”, contemporain ou n’est-il lui même qu’un déguisement du communautarisme Spring 2022 de la majorité ? Quel est ce “séparatisme” qui menacerait la Until the closing years of the 20th century, ethnic diversity cohésion nationale et les valeurs universalistes de la France was virtually absent from French cinema. While Francophone ? Pourquoi la laïcité est-elle en crise aujourd’hui ? L’État de directors from Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa debunked droit peut-il demeurer un État de droit face au djihadisme colonialism and neocolonialism in their films, minorities hardly ? L’arbitrage impossible entre priorité sanitaire et priorité appeared on French screens. Movies were made by white économique montre-t-il que le pouvoir politique est devenu filmmakers for a white audience. Since the 1980’s and the impuissant ? Les travaux à rendre vous permettront de vous 1990’s, minorities have become more visible in French films. exprimer dans des formats innovants (podcast, présentation Are French Blacks and Arabs portrayed in French cinema vidéo, réalisation de pages Internet) et de perfectionner vos beyond stereotypes, or are they still objects of a euro-centric compétences à l’oral aussi bien qu’à l’écrit. Prerequisite: FREN gaze? Have minorities gained agency in storytelling, not just as 005 or 101. actors, but as directors? What is the national narrative at play Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in the recent French films that focus on diversity? Is it still “us Counts toward Museum Studies against them”, or has the new generation of French filmmakers Counts toward Visual Studies found a way to include the different components of French identity into a collective subject? From Bouchareb to Gomis, FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: Amour et from Kechiche to Benyamina and Jean-Baptiste, this course will violence au Moyen Age map out the visual fault lines of the French self and examine Spring 2022 the prospects for a post-republican sense of community. Open

177 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES to non-majors. There will be a weekly screening on Sunday, page or the screen. We will then examine narratives dealing 7:00pm-9:00pm. with the relationship of former colonies with its “métropole,” Critical Interpretation (CI) reading texts from various regions including France, raising Counts toward Africana Studies the question of identity. There will be an extra hour for students Counts toward Film Studies taking it for credit towards French minor. Prerequisite: FREN B102 or B105 if counting towards French major or minor. FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 FREN B221 Femme sujet/Femme objet By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works Not offered 2021-22 in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students An in-depth examination of how women authors from selected with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The periods conceive of their art, construct authority for themselves, selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory and, where appropriate, distinguish themselves from male (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the colleagues, of whom several who have assumed female currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: voices/perspective will be examined as points of comparison. Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and It introduces students to the techniques and topics of selected Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short women writers (as well as theoretical approaches to them) stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, from the most recent (Djebar and M. Duras) to late Medieval Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of authors. This course is taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with 102 or 105 an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for Critical Interpretation (CI) French credit. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

FREN B214 French Theater Workshop FREN B223 The Fire Every Time: Cinematic Rebels Across Not offered 2021-22 the Atlantic

How do we best learn a language? By speaking it and by Not offered 2021-22 being completely immersed in it. We also learn best when we Cinema, as an art form, can be seen as a rebellion against play. When we have fun and are creative. This workshop will reality. Then again, cinema as mass entertainment with uber- immerse the students in a French only speaking class and they industrial might can yield the most contagious legitimization of will practice French on their feet. Students will be invited to power and social norms. Can filmmakers be genuine agents of improvise in French, to create little scenes in French and finally change and social justice? Do their creations have the power to work on a scene or a monologue from the French repertoire. to disrupt the status quo? If so, how are some films designed The class will start with teaching very specific theatrical skills to subvert systemic normalization and disseminated forms of to push the students not only in their ability to speak French domination? In this course, we will map out rebellious modern but also to act! This will enhance their confidence in speaking, (post WW2) cinema from both sides of the Atlantic. Setting thinking and performing in French, which will lead them to a aside chronology and conventional delimitations, we will go better mastery of the language. back and forth across genres (war film, thriller, ghost story, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) social realism, drama…) between contemporary and older avatars of cinematic resistance, between documentary and FREN B219 Diasporic Voices: Voyages and Identity fiction, and between France, the U.S., West Africa and Latin Narratives America. We will investigate a series of films that focus on non-compliance and individual resilience in the face of systemic

Not offered 2021-22 adversity, while sharing a common oppositional ethos applied Erin Mouré’s quote “once you cross a border, the border is to different forms of domination/violence: anticolonialism, not the same any longer” raises the question of identity and anti-capitalism, antiracism, as well as ecology, pacifism and a interrogates territorial integrity, wondering how people and critique of carceral institutions. For each of them, we will study communities morph after such life changing events. In this how the style of cinematography is designed not just to support course, students will question the very notion of experience a narrative, but as a counter-language aimed at subverting the and being through travel; as well as its meaning in terms of conservative grammar codes of the mainstream. This course identity, locus, and language. Through the works offered, we will be taught in English. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105 only invite students to approach icons, visual and written texts with for students taking this for French credit with additional hour. new theories and fresh eyes to interrogate the ethics of travel Critical Interpretation (CI) writing, filming and documenting, looking for ways to empower Counts toward Film Studies readers about history and migrations. Students will reflect on the types of travels: temporary or voluntary travels, migration FREN B224 Racisme et antiracisme en France under various forms of duress (violence, war, economic penury, persecution for reasons of religion, politics or sexual Fall 2021 identity). The works read and seen will encourage discussions Co-constructed with students, this course considers the about reasons for leaving home and invite a scrutiny about genealogy of French racism as a socio-political construct and how travel writers and filmmakers gaze and inscribe it on the as a system of domination. We will analyze how racism “made

178 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES in France” was designed, theorized, and deployed, but we will FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Hygiene and also study how its legacy is deconstructed and questioned Eugenics by contemporary artists whose work focuses on the French Not offered 2021-22 colonial history. Art will be examined as a response to the violence of racism and discrimination - a process by which At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in common: creators find their agency, their voice, and their strength, the former is usually conceived as a good management of our emancipating the person from the victimization framework. The everyday conditions of life, whereas the latter is commonly class will be taught in French and will include interactions with reviled for having inspired discriminatory practices (in Nazi the artists. Germany, but also in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Our inquiry will explore how, in the context of the French Critical Interpretation (CI) Enlightenment, a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) Inquiry into the Past (IP) was redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became Counts toward Africana Studies hegemonic both in the medical field and in civil society. We will also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal led to the quest FREN B260 Atelier d’écriture for the improvement of the human species. We will compare the Not offered 2021-22 French situation with that of other countries (mainly UK and the Intensive practice in speaking and writing. Conversation, USA). This course is taught in English. Students who wish to discussion, advanced training in grammar and stylistics. get credit in French will meet one extra hour. Approach: Critical Ce cours est une nouvelle version de l’atelier d’écriture. Il Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) a pour objet d’étude la musique française et francophone Critical Interpretation (CI) contemporaine. Pour les étudiants ayant déjà suivi le Inquiry into the Past (IP) FRENB260 à Bryn Mawr ou dans le cadre de l’Institut Counts toward Health Studies d’Avignon, ce nouveau cours comptera dans le calcul des crédits en vue de la spécialisation ou de la sous-spécialisation. FREN B298 Junior Seminar L’objectif est de donner un panorama de la musique en Fall 2021 français depuis les années 1940, en explorant la diversité et la complexité organique des genres qui la composent Junior Seminar is designed to introduce the knowledge and : chanson française, variété, rap, slam, rock alternatif, skill-set expected of our rising seniors: a certain familiarity with électro, reggae. Ces mouvements seront étudiés dans une the more broadly used critical references of our discipline; a perspective comparative et globale où la thématique primera capacity to read and interpret critically a “text” (whether literary, sur la chronologie et la géographie. Chaque semaine, deux cinematographic, historical, social, etc.) in detail and in a morceaux d’artistes, de genres et d’époques différents seront sustained fashion; knowing how to formulate an argument and analysés à la lumière du sujet qui est leur point commun: Paris, present it coherently to peers and professors (whether orally l’homosexualité, l’influence de la culture américaine, la fluidité or in written form); knowing how to conduct research efficiently du genre, la domination masculine, le colonialisme, l’esclavage, in a pre-determined amount of time; and knowing how to cite le consentement et le harcèlement, la violence parentale, la this research effectively in an argument and in a manner that dépression, la mise en scène des origines, la révolte féminine. follows the rules of the discipline. Prerequisites:: 2 (200-level) Dans cette perspective transmusicale, chaque chanson courses, with exceptions for students who have had fewer formera le contrepoint de l’autre. Sur le plan linguistique, courses. la déconstruction des paroles (syntaxe, vocabulaire, style, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) références, utilisation de l’argot, etc.) sera au centre de notre Critical Interpretation (CI) travail, tandis que nous étudierons les vidéos-clips avec les outils de l’analyse culturelle. Centré sur l’écrit (writing- FREN B299 Littérature, histoire et société intensive), le cours proposera des formats innovants pour les Not offered 2021-22 devoirs (écriture créative et analyse littéraire). Une rencontre/ performance en visioconférence avec l’un des artistes au A study of the language and political, social and ethical programme sera organisée. Prérequis: 102 ou 105 messages of literary texts whose authors were “engagés” in the conflicts, wars and revolutions that shook French society from Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the advent of the 1789 Revolution to the First World War. This

FREN B262 Débat, discussion, dialogue course is taught in French.

Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) This advanced study of oral communication develops students’ linguistic skills in narration, hypothesizing, persuasion or FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes counseling, debate, negotiation, etc. Such skills will be nurtured écrivains des débuts through enrichment of vocabulary, reinforcement of accuracy Spring 2022 in manipulation of complex grammatical structures, and enhancement of discursive strategies. The authentic material This study of selected women authors from Latin CE- (both print and film) which serves as the basis of analytical Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, Renaissance discussion will reflect issues of contemporary importance; for and 17th century--among them, Perpetua, Hrotswitha, Marie example, France and Third World Francophone countries. de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, Prerequisite: FREN B212 or B260. Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines the way in which they appropriate and transform the male writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious

179 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to in French civilization. This is a topics course. Course content identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, varies. and to assessing their importance to women’s writing in Current topic description: general: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. Current topic description: Comment les valeurs des Lumières Prerequisite: two 200-level courses or permission of instructor. ont-elles inspiré la Révolution Française dans ses réformes les plus éclatantes, mais aussi dans ses développements les plus Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies sombres? Comment en est-on venu à emprisonner au nom de la liberté et à guillotiner au nom de la sûreté ? Nous lirons des FREN B306 Libertinage et subversion textes politiques de la période révolutionnaire (Robespierre, Not offered 2021-22 Saint-Just, etc.), mais aussi des œuvres ultérieures proposant The libertine movement of the 18th century has long been une interprétation rétrospective de la Révolution Française condemned for moral reasons or considered of minor (Michelet, Hugo, France). Le but sera de comprendre comment importance when compared to the Enlightenment. Yet, the right au nom d’idéaux républicains, on a pu en venir à mettre la to happiness (‘droit au bonheur’) celebrated by the so-called terreur à l’ordre du jour. ‘Philosophes’ implies a duty to experience pleasure (‘devoir FREN B350 Voix médiévales et échos modernes de jouir’). This is what the libertine writers promoted. The libertine movement thus does not confine itself to literature, but Not offered 2021-22 also involves a dimension of social subversion. This course A study of selected 19th- and 20th-century works inspired by will allow you to understand Charles Baudelaire’s enigmatic medieval subjects, such as the Grail and Arthurian legends and comment: “the Revolution was made by voluptuaries.” the Tristan and Yseut stories, and by medieval genres, such as Prerequisite: two 200-level courses or permission of instructor. the roman, saints’ lives, or the miracle play. Among the texts and films studied are works by Bonnefoy, Cocteau, Flaubert, FREN B312 Advanced Topics in Literature Genevoix, Giono, and Gracq. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Réalités et imaginaires du Maghreb FREN B398 Senior Conference Fall 2021 This weekly thesis development workshop examines French This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisites: and Francophone literary texts and cultural documents from two 200-level courses. all periods, and the interpretive problems they raise. Close Current topic description: This course is an in-depth study of reading, complemented by extensive secondary readings from the region of North Africa known as the Maghreb (Morocco, different schools of interpretation, prepare students to analyze Algeria, Tunisia). The course will situate works of art (literature, other critical stances and to develop their own. films, graphic novels, songs) in the context of cultural events, governmental policies, and social movements in the Maghreb. FREN B400 Thesis Advising In doing so, we will examine the specificities and perspectives Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with your thesis advisor will allow of Amazigh, Jewish and Arab communities while addressing you to write your senior thesis efficiently and to prepare for a major contemporary issues concerning, for example, the Arab successful defense. spring and its aftermath, the legacy of colonialism, feminism, FREN B403 Supervised Work political corruption and religion. Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies FREN B425 Translation Praxis This Praxis course partners with advocacy organizations to FREN B325 Topics: Etudes avancées help translate documents from French into English. Topics and Section 001 (Fall 2020): Derrière les barreaux projects varies. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Praxis Program An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical FREN B625 Topics: Etudes avancées figure in French civilization. This is a topics course. Course content varies. The seminar topic rotates among many Not offered 2021-22 subjects: La Révolution française: Histoire, littérature et culture; An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical L’environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et figure in French civilization. This is a topics course. Course valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et la politique, 1940-1968; Le content varies. The seminar topic rotates among many Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones; Étude subjects: La Révolution française: Histoire, littérature et culture; socio-culturelle des arts du manger en France du Moyen Age L’environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et à nos jours; Crimes et criminalité; Ecrire la Grande Guerre: valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et la politique, 1940-1968; Le 1914-10; Le “Rentrée Littéraire”; Proust/Baudelaire; L’Humain Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones; Étude et l’environnement. socio-culturelle des arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; Crimes et criminalité; Ecrire la Grande Guerre: FREN B326 Etudes avancées 1914-10; Le “Rentrée Littéraire”; Proust/Baudelaire; L’Humain Section 001 (Spring 2022): La liberté ou la mort et l’environnement. Spring 2022 FREN B672 Baudelaire An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical figure Not offered 2021-22

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FREN B701 Supervised Work feminist theory; women’s studies; transnational and third- world feminisms; the experiences of women of color; gender Spring 2022 and science; the construction of masculinity; gay, lesbian, ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the queer, transgender, and transsexual studies; the history and Humanities representation of gender and sexuality in a global context. Spring 2022 Concentration and Minor Requirements What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist Six courses distributed as follows are required for the manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and concentration: films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In • An introductory course (including equivalent offerings at this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from Swarthmore College or the University of Pennsylvania). different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender • The junior seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece and Gender (alternating fall semesters between Bryn Mawr from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings and Haverford). to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and • Four additional approved courses from at least two of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we different departments, two of which are normally at the 300 are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour level. Units of Independent Study (403) may be used to in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. fulfill this requirement. Critical Interpretation (CI) • Of the six courses, no fewer than two and no more than

Counts toward Africana Studies three will also form part of the student’s major. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Requirements for the minor are identical to those for Counts toward Film Studies the concentration, with the stipulation that no courses in gender and sexuality will overlap with courses taken to fulfill requirements in the student’s major. GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES Neither a senior seminar nor a senior thesis is required for the concentration or minor; however, with the permission of the Students may complete a minor or concentration in Gender major department, a student may choose to count toward the and Sexuality. Students may submit an application to major in concentration a senior thesis with significant content in gender Gender and Sexuality through the independent major program. and sexuality. Students wishing to construct an independent major in gender and sexuality should make a proposal to the Committee on Independent Majors. Faculty Courses Steering Committee David Byers, Assistant Professor of Social Work ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Gregory Davis, Associate Professor of Biology (on leave Fall 2021, Spring 2022 semester II) This course will explore the basic principles and methods Colby J. Gordon, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English of sociocultural anthropology. Through field research, direct observation, and participation in a group’s daily life, Anita Kurimay, Associate Professor of History sociocultural anthropologists examine the many ways that Piper Sledge, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of people organize their social institutions and cultural systems, Gender and Sexuality Studies ranging from the dynamics of life in small-scale societies to the Rosi Song, Professor of Spanish transnational circulation of people, commodities, technologies and ideas. Sociocultural anthropology examines how many Sharon Ullman, Professor of History of the categories we assume to be “natural,” such as kinship, gender, or race, are culturally and socially constructed. It The Program in Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary, examines how people’s perceptions, beliefs, values, and Bi-College program that can be integrated with any major or actions are shaped by broader historical, economic, and pursued independently. Students graduate from the program political contexts. It is also a vital tool for understanding and with a high level of fluency and rigor in their understanding of critiquing imbalances of power in our contemporary world. the different ways issues of gender and sexuality shape our Through a range of topically and geographically diverse lives as individuals and as members of larger communities, course readings and films, and opportunities to practice both local and global. ethnographic methodology, students will gain new analytical and methodological tools for understanding cultural difference, Students choosing a concentration, minor or independent major social organization, and social change. in gender and sexuality plan their programs in consultation with the Gender and Sexuality coordinator on their home campus. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Members of the Gender and Sexuality steering committee Counts toward Child and Family Studies serve as their individual mentors. All students in the program Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies take the core course, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Counts toward International Studies Gender.” Other courses in the program allow them to explore a range of approaches to gender and sexual difference: critical 181 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

ANTH B213 Anthropology of Food Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ANTH B246 The Everyday Life of Language: Field Research Food is part of the universal human experience. But everyday in Linguistic Anthropology experiences of food also reveal much about human difference. Not offered 2021-22 What we eat is intimately connected with who we are, where we belong, and how we see the world. In this course, we will The goal of this course is to develop an awareness of how use a socio-cultural perspective to explore how food helps us language operates in various interactional and other (eg. ritual, form families, national and religious communities, and other performance, political) contexts that we commonly experience. groups. We will also consider how food may become a source The focus will be on gaining hands-on experience in doing of inequality, a political symbol, and a subject of social discord. linguistic anthropological data collection and analysis, and Examining both practical and ideological meanings of food putting the results of individual student projects together as part and taste, this course will address issues of identity, social of initiating an ongoing, multi-year project. Topics that students difference, and cultural experience. explore ethnographically may include: language and gender; language, race and social indexicality; sociolinguistic variation; Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) codeswitching; register and social stance; language and social Counts toward Child and Family Studies media. Student research will involve ethnographic observation, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies audio-recording of spoken discourse, conducting interviews, and learning how to create a transcript to use as the basis ANTH B239 Anthropology of Media for ethnographic analysis. Students will work in parallel on Not offered 2021-22 individual projects cohering around a particular topic, and class Life throughout much of the world today is saturated by forms time will be used to discuss the results and synthesize insights of media and media technologies: films, television, radio, cell that develop from bringing different ethnographic contexts phones, the internet and social media. This course examines together. For the praxis component of the course, students media from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the will use the experience they have gained to generate ideas impact of these various non-print media on social and political for components of a middle school/high school language arts life. We will also explore the distinctive properties of two media curriculum that incorporates linguistic anthropology concepts phenomena specific to our time: reality TV and social media. and student-driven research on language. Throughout, we will be concerned with the constitutive power Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of media at two levels: first, in the construction of subjectivity, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies senses of self, and the production of affect; and second, in Counts toward Praxis Program collective social and political projects, such as building national identity, consolidating or resisting state power, giving voice to ANTH B250 Global Economies: Work, Money, and Value in indigenous claims, or creating alliances. Everyday Life Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course explores economic life from an anthropological perspective. We will explore the social structures shaping ANTH B241 Archaeologies of Gender economies, labor, and consumption in diverse human cultures. Not offered 2021-22 Throughout we will examine the relation between global This course foregrounds gender as a structuring part of past systems and local everyday life, between gender constructions lives and explores the construction of gender in archaeological and work structures, between what we produce and what we interpretations across time and space. We begin with an consume. We will explore emerging 21st century economies overview of how gender has been theorized in archaeology and how new technologies are changing the ways we think as a discipline, including more recent theoretical approaches about labor. In addition, we will examine how traditional cultural which incorporate feminist and queer theory. Drawing on case values are still shaping today’s global economies. The central studies from diverse geographic locations and time periods, we focus of this course is the question of value: What are the will consider how studies of gender can be practically applied power dynamics shaping our perception of the value of human to archaeological investigations of labor, mortuary analysis, labor, capital, and the things we consume everyday? Prereq: space and landscape, and feasting and religious practices. This ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. engendered perspective, which includes women, men, and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) nonbinary genders, promotes more nuanced understandings of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies social complexity and diversity of past communities. Potential Counts toward International Studies topics to be considered include: theories of gender, non- binary genders and masculinities, mortuary analysis, labor ANTH B294 Culture, Power, and Politics and technology, space and landscape, feasting and ritual, Not offered 2021-22 gender and hierarchies, and colonialism and transformation of gendered identities. A running theme throughout this What do a country’s national politics have to do with culture? course will consider who is responsible for the production of Likewise, how are politics hidden below the surface of our knowledge, if the concept of positivism is inherently male, and everyday social lives? This course explores questions like how we can build feminist and community ideals into scientific these through anthropological approaches. Drawing on both investigations. classic and contemporary ethnographic studies from the U.S. and around the world, we will examine how social and cultural Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. We will Inquiry into the Past (IP)

182 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES investigate how people perceive the meanings and effects of caste, class, religious community, language, and gender the state; how nationalism and citizenship shape belonging on have become crucial sites for claiming citizenship, articulating the one hand, and exclusion on the other; how understandings distinctions among people, and constructing senses of what of gender, race, and difference converge with political action, and who can inhabit the public sphere. Using materials from ideology, and power; and how politics infuse everyday spaces different regions of India, our focus will be on how fine-grained including schools, businesses, homes, and even the dinner ethnographic study can be a tool to examine the broader table. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, H103 or permission of the dynamics of belonging and exclusion and its political and social instructor. effects. This course fulfills the BMC Anthropology major/minor

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ethnographic area requirement. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction ANTH B331 Medical Anthro Seminar: Critical Thinking for Not offered 2021-22 Critical Times This course will examine how power in everyday life shapes Not offered 2021-22 reproductive behavior and how reproduction is culturally constructed. Through an examination of materials from different Advanced Medical Anthropology: Critical Thinking for Critical cultures, this course will look at how often competing interests Times explores theoretical and applied frameworks used within households, communities, states and institutions (at both in medical anthropology to tackle pressing problems in our the local and global levels) influence reproduction in society. world today. Coupled with topical subjects and ethnographic We will explore the political economy of reproduction cross- examples, this seminar will enable students to delve deeply into culturally, how power and politics shape gendered reproductive sub-specialization areas in the field of medical anthropology, behavior and how it is interpreted and used differently by including: global health inequalities, cross-border disease persons, communities and institutions. Topics covered include transmission, genomics, science and technology studies, but are not limited to the politics of family planning, mothering/ ethnomedicine, cross-cultural psychiatry/psychology, cross- parenting, abortion, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, fetal testing cultural bioethics, and ecological approaches to studying health and biology and social policy in cross-cultural comparison. and behavior, among others. No prior experience in medical Prerequisite: ANTH 8102 (or ANTH H103) or permission of anthropology is required. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or ANTH instructor. Haverford: Social Science (SO), Enrollment Cap: 15; H103, or permission of instructor. Sophomore standing and Post Bacc Spaces: 2; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap higher. First year students who have taken Anth B102 or H103 the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/ can also register for this class. Concentration; Senior; Junior; Permission of Instructor. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B354 Political Economy, Gender, Ethnicity and Counts toward Health Studies Transformation in Vietnam ANTH B316 Beyond Bollywood: Gender, Performance and Fall 2021 Popular Culture in South Asia Today, Vietnam is in the midst of dramatic social, economic Not offered 2021-22 and political changes brought about through a shift from a The countries of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, central economy to a market/capitalist economy since the late Nepal, Sri Lanka) have produced vibrant and varied forms of 1980s. These changes have resulted in urbanization, a rise popular culture, including cinema, theatrical and other forms in consumption, changes in land use, movement of people, of performance, and sonic and visual culture. Using cinema environmental consequences of economic development, and other audio-visual materials, this course will examine and shifts in social and economic relationships and cultural media and performance as crucial sites for the construction practices as the country has moved from low income to middle and negotiation of gender ideologies and hierarchies in these income status. This course examines culture and society in different national contexts. The issues we will explore include: Vietnam focusing largely on contemporary Vietnam, but with a questions of agency, constraint, and identity in performance; view to continuities and historical precedent in past centuries. In the role of mass mediation in creating new masculinities and this course, we will draw on anthropological studies of Vietnam, femininities; and the relationship between popular culture and as well as literature and historical studies. Relationships larger sociopolitical identities. between the individual, family, gender, ethnicity, community, land, and state will pervade the topics addressed in the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies course, as will the importance of political economy, nation, and Counts toward International Studies globalization. In addition to class seminar discussions, students will view documentary and fictional films about Vietnamese ANTH B329 The politics of belonging and exclusion in culture. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or first India years with ANTH 102.

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Since India’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, the Counts toward International Studies globalizing dynamics of cultural and economic liberalization have been accompanied by renewed articulations of who ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East belongs in the “New India” and who doesn’t. In this context, Not offered 2021-22

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A survey of the social position of women in the ancient Near both embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first millennium of power, particularly with reference to gender, class, and B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional concepts of gender ethnicity. Students will also investigate bodiedness as an in archaeology and theories of matriarchy. Case studies active agent of social change and political action. Students illustrate the historicity of gender concepts: women’s work will read excerpts from seminal and contemporary theory in early village societies; the meanings of Neolithic female of performing bodiedness, ethnicity, and gender, as well as figurines; the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; from theoreticians, performers, and other practitioners more the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite empire; specifically engaged with dance and performance. In addition to the indirect power of women such as Semiramis in the Neo- literary, dance historical, anthropological and political texts, the Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and more indirect course includes media, guest lecturers, and introductory group archaeological evidence are the basis for discussion. improvisation and performance exercises, however, no prior Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) training or experience in dance or performance is necessary. In Inquiry into the Past (IP) lieu of books, readings will be posted on Moodle. Preparation: Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies A previous dance lecture/seminar course or a course in a Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies relevant discipline such as anthropology, sociology, or history is recommended but not required. ARCH B254 Cleopatra Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Fall 2021 Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception of her legacy BIOL B214 The History of Genetics and Embryology in the Early Roman Empire and the western world from the

Renaissance to modern times. The first part of the course Not offered 2021-22 explores extant literary evidence regarding the upbringing, This course provides a general history of genetics and education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian embryology in Germany, Britain and the United States from and Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The course will include a and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her death by focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines constructions of in the development of these sub-disciplines. We will look at Cleopatra in Roman literature, her iconography in surviving art, the lives of well known and lesser-known individuals, asking and her contributions to and influence on both Ptolemaic and how factors such as their educational experiences and mentor Roman art. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife relationships influenced the roles these women played in the of Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, and film scientific enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific of both Europe and the United States, extending from the contributions in historical context, requiring a review of core papal courts of Renaissance Italy and Shakespearean drama, concepts in genetics and developmental biology. to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph Inquiry into the Past (IP) Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film, Cleopatra. Scientific Investigation (SI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CSTS B221 Women of Roman Egypt Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B303 Classical Bodies This course aims to be an introduction to the history of Not offered 2021-22 female persons in the ancient world. It focuses particularly An examination of the conceptions of the human body on Roman Egypt, but covers a broad range of material evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with spanning the period of 300 BCE - 476 CE. Students engage emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western with a number of historical issues, such as legal personhood, tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and access to education, political protest, economic freedom, female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions religious practice, etc.. Students will acquire familiarity with of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; a) Egypt as a part of the Greco-Roman world; b) the role of the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; women in both Egyptian society and Rome more generally; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the and c) the written sources available for the study of female formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later times. experience in the ancient world. Because the course focuses Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies on the social, cultural, and institutional environments in which women operated, the topic offers itself as a useful study of ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body: Dance and the ancient world as a whole, as well as to particular issues Power of representation and authority. By the end of the course, students will have general understanding of Egypt as a part of

Not offered 2021-22 the Graeco-Roman world, a keen understanding of how women Artists, activists, politicos, regents, intellectuals, and just operated in the society of Ancient Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 450 ordinary people have, throughout history and across cultures, CE), and the ability to form arguments about the historical used dance and performance to support political goals and relevance of our sources. ideologies or to perform social or cultural interventions in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) private and public spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies this course focuses on how dance is a useful medium for Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies 184 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

CSTS B240 (Re)Productions from Antiquity to Modernity ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and Spring 2022 Inequality

How might Ancient Greek and Roman values regarding leisure Fall 2021 time, labor, poetic production, and reproduction intersect with Explores the causes and consequences of discrimination those of modern capitalism? Why are texts considered the and inequality in economic markets. Topics include economic children of ancient (male) authors, and where do women fit into theories of discrimination and inequality, evidence of this textual reproductive activity? What does a queer (i.e. non- contemporary race- and gender-based inequality, detecting essentialist, non-binary) reproduction look like? What makes discrimination, identifying sources of racial and gender art art, and does the reproduction of art, such as Roman copies inequality, and identifying sources of overall economic of Greek statues, entail the loss of some special uncapturable inequality. Additionally, the instructor and students will jointly quality? This course considers the above questions, select supplementary topics of specific interest to the class. investigating ancient and modern cultural attitudes towards (re) Possible topics include: discrimination in historical markets, production through intersectional feminist and queer theory. disparity in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and Students will explore modern textual and filmic representations education gaps. Writing Intensive. Prerequisites: At least one of pregnancy, abortion, creation, domestic labor, and artistic 200-level applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; labor to enrich their readings of ancient texts. Texts will include ECON 200. Ancient Greek tragedies such as Euripides’ Medea and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Sophocles’ Antigone, Latin poetry such as Horace’s Ars Poetica and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, novels such as Margaret Atwood’s ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances of The Handmaid’s Tale and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Gender films such as My Fair Lady, and modern poetry by Johanna Not offered 2021-22 Hedva and Dionne Brand. Readings chosen to highlight the construction and performance Critical Interpretation (CI) of gender identity during the period from 1550 to 1650 and the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ways in which the gender anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century men and women differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film include plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical Spring 2022 writing of the period. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B215 Early Modern Crime Narratives: Vice, Villains, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and Law Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Visual Studies Not offered 2021-22 This course taps into our continuing collective obsession EALC B264 Human Rights in China with criminality, unpacking the complicated web of feelings Spring 2022 attached to crime and punishment through early modern literary This course will examine China’s human rights issues from a treatments of villains, scoundrels, predators, pimps, witches, historical perspective. The topics include diverse perspectives king-killers, poisoners, mobs, and adulterers. By reading literary on human rights, historical background, civil rights, religious accounts of vice alongside contemporary and historical theories practice, justice system, education, as well as the problems of criminal justice, we will chart the deep history of criminology concerning some social groups such as migrant laborers, and track competing ideas about punishment and the criminal women, ethnic minorities and peasants. mind. This course pays particular attention the ways that people in this historical moment mapped criminality onto dynamics of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) gender, race, sexuality, disability, religion, and mental illness Inquiry into the Past (IP) according to cultural conventions very different from our own. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Authors may include Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, Middleton, Dekker, Webster, and Behn. EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in East Asian Literature and Film Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will Not offered 2021-22 begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women’s lives beginning in early China, and consider how those This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective Counts toward Film Studies experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives,

185 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented Latinidad in the Americas. migration. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Praxis Program Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

ENGL B225 Contemporary Life Writing: Form and Theory ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned Not offered 2021-22 Violence in Latinx Literature

In this course, we will explore contemporary forms of life Fall 2021 writing. The term “writing” will be used flexibly to encompass This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- self-representation in visual forms (including comics, sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice photography, and video). We will begin by considering myth in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and and archives in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Theresa Hak civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range Kyung Cha’s Dictée; our next unit will address how life writing of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to represents the lives of others. The last half of the course explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- focuses on the genre of autotheory, or life writing that has sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt become a form of theorizing (about gender, sexuality, race, and the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist biopolitics, among other topics) in its own right. discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how Critical Interpretation (CI) U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and ENGL B231 Theorizing Affect, Watching Television imagine justice. Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course examines television through the lens of affect Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies theory. Within humanities scholarship, the turn toward affect has offered new ways to study the cultural, economic, and ENGL B239 African American Poetry political functions of literature and art. In our wider cultural moment, television programming has become a source of Spring 2022 shared fascination. The course will pair readings from affect This course explores the work of black poets in the Americas. studies (by scholars such as Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai) Focusing on a range of poetic forms from the 18th century with select examples of television shows (including Black through the present, we will consider key questions that have Mirror, Mad Men, and The Wire). We will also read scholarly animated the works of black poets in North America and the and public writing about television and consider the interplay Caribbean, and how they have used poetic strategy to engage between cultural feelings and televisual forms such as seriality, these questions. How do black poets explore black political situation comedy, and bottle episodes. and social life in various historical and geographical contexts? Critical Interpretation (CI) How do they use particular formal strategies (for example, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies form poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, and experimental Counts toward Film Studies modes) to interrogate notions of blackness? How do political movements around gender, class, and sexuality factor in? ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration As we approach these questions, we will consider important Not offered 2021-22 critical conversations on African American poetry and poetics, examining how both well-known and underexplored poets Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico use form to complicate blackness and imagine various forms border as an open wound and the border culture that arises of freedom. Our work will take us through several poetic from this fraught site as a third country. This course will genres and forms, including print works, performance poetry, explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent hip hop music, and digital media. Throughout our analysis, different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and we will consider how discourses on gender, sexuality, class, between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities national and transnational identity, and other engagements with and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for difference shape black poetic expression, both historically and understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and in our current moment. language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- Critical Interpretation (CI) immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented Counts toward Africana Studies migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and ENGL B244 Post-1945 American Literature: Identity Poetics aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine Not offered 2021-22 a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key This course explores the intersections of experimental

186 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES literature, defined by its suspicion of an authoritative subject, racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, environmental and “identity politics,” a concept introduced by the Black destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in what feminist Combahee River Collective in 1977. Paying particular Walidah Imarisha terms “visionary fiction.” Students will be attention to the work of Black, queer, and lesbian writers and introduced to theoretical concepts such as intersectionality, poets, we will examine how identity is made and reimagined modernity/coloniality, Afrofuturism, marvelous realism, and through specific formal choices in a literary text; and we will zombie capitalism that will help them unpack the critical work trace the shifting fortunes of “identity” as a critical lens for accomplished by genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, literary study. What are the uses of identity, now, in representing we will probe the role that literature, comic books, film, and shared as well as singular experiences of marginalization? art can play in the struggle to build more radically egalitarian Likely writers and poets include: James Baldwin, Gwendolyn societies, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can Brooks, John Keene, Maxine Hong Kingston, , contribute to social justice. Eileen Myles, and Harryette Mullen. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B254 Female Subjects: American Literature 1750- Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies 1900 Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B275 Queer American Poetry This course explores the subject, subjection, and subjectivity Spring 2022 of women and female sexualities in U.S. literatures between What does poetry have to say about the history of sexuality? the signing of the Constitution and the ratification of the 19th How do queer voices, expansively defined, disrupt poetic norms Amendment. While the representation of women in fiction grew and forms? How has poetry been congenial to the project of and the number of female authors soared, the culture found imagining and making queer communities, queer spaces, and itself at to define the appropriate moments for female even queer worlds? In this course, we survey the work of queer speech and silence, action and passivity. We will engage a American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present, variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place women at the nexus as we touch on major topics in the history of sexuality, queer of national narratives of slavery and freedom, foreignness and studies, and American cultural history. This course provides an domesticity, wealth and power, masculinity and citizenship, and overview of American poetry as well as an introduction to queer sex and race “purity.” studies concepts and frameworks; no prior experience with Critical Interpretation (CI) these fields is necessary. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 English 262 is a topics course that allows for multiple themes to ENGL B282 Intro to Queer Studies: Theory, Representation, be taught. Each topic will have its own description and students Community may enroll for credit in the course as long as the topics vary. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) The uncertain, shifting meaning of “queer” provides it with both Counts toward Africana Studies utility and difficulty: does “queer” designate a type of desire, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies relation, political orientation, personal identity, or something else entirely? How does this change from the vantage of ENGL B269 Medieval Bodies different historical moments, geographical locations, or Not offered 2021-22 individual subjectivities? How does queerness interact with identity categories such as race, gender, class, nationality, The Middle Ages imagined the physical body as the site disability, and age? This course is an introduction to these of moral triumph and failure and as the canvas to expose questions and to queer studies, a field that destabilizes norms, social ills. The course examines medical tracts, saint’s lives, particularly around gender and sexuality. We will consider poetry, theological texts, and representations of the Passion. how queer scholarship and activism rethinks notions of space, Discussion topics range from plague and mercantilism to the time, community, pop culture, and more. Our discussions legal and religious depiction of torture. Texts by Boccaccio, will consider the bumpy evolution of queer from an adjective Chaucer, Dante, and Kempe will be supplemented with for personal eccentricity in the early twentieth century, to contemporary readings on trauma theory and embodiment. discriminatory slur by mid-century, to radical rallying cry during Critical Interpretation (CI) the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to unstable umbrella term and target Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies for commodification today. We will read formative texts in the history and theory of sexuality, as well as contemporary ENGL B274 Ethnic Speculative Fiction queer theorists, and consider the institutionalization of a term Not offered 2021-22 that critiques that very process. These discussions will be grounded in cultural productions ranging from trans short fiction This course will explore how Latina/os, Latin Americans, to Indigiqueer poetry, from gay cruising memoirs to lesbian African Americans, and Native Americas deploy speculative graphic novels. fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies 187 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

ENGL B305 Early Modern Trans Studies with several contemporary black diasporic feminist artists Fall 2021 themselves. Requirements include two short papers, regular response papers, and a final project. This course will consider the deep histories of transgender embodiment by exploring literary, historical, medical, and Counts toward Africana Studies religious texts from the Renaissance. Expect to read about Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies alchemical hermaphrodites, gender-swapping angels, Ethiopian Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies eunuchs, female husbands, trans saints, criminal transvestites, ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal and genderqueer monks. We will consider together how these early modern texts speak to the historical, theoretical, and Not offered 2021-22 political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies. Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance with We will read texts by Crashaw, Donne, Shakespeare, Lyly, and tropes of and eternity. Using recent queer theory Dekker as well as Susan Stryker, Dean Spade, Mel Chen, Paul on temporality, and 19th and 20th century primary texts, we Preciado, and Kadji Amin. Prerequisite: Students must have will explore topics such as: fame and noteriety; feminism and completed at least one 200-level class. mythology; epistemes, erotics and sexual seasonality; the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies death drive and the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for and seances. ENGL B310 Confessional Poetry Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B336 Topics in Film Poetry written since 1950 that deploys an autobiographical subject to engage with the psychological and political dynamics Section 001 (Fall 2020): Cinematic Voice of family life and with states of psychic extremity and mental Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cinematic Voice illness. Poets will include Lowell, Ginsberg, Sexton, and Fall 2021 Plath. The impact of this`movement’ on late twentieth century American poetry will also receive attention. A prior course in This is a topics course and description varies according to the poetry is desirable but not required. topic. Critical Interpretation (CI) Current topic description: If film is primarily a visual medium, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies the integration of sound permanently changed the form. In this course, we will attend to the voice as a central component of ENGL B314 Troilus and Criseyde film sound. Our explorations will include: the transition from silent to sound film; how voice is racialized and gendered in Not offered 2021-22 Hollywood film; the ways that filmmakers link voice to image, Examines Chaucer’s magisterial Troilus and Criseyde, his and why these matter aesthetically and politically (e.g. dubbing, epic romance of love, loss, and betrayal. We will supplement voiceover, acousmatic voice); vocal expression and notions sustained analysis of the poem with primary readings on free of interiority and exteriority; and the possibility of non-human will and courtly love as well as theoretical readings on gender voice. The syllabus pairs a range of films with theoretical and and sexuality and translation. We will also read Boccaccio’s scholarly ideas about voice. Il Filostrato, Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B337 Modernism and the Ordinary ENGL B320 Black Feminist Literature Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Modernism is consistently aligned with innovation: making This course explores contemporary black feminist literature and things new and making things strange. Yet modernist writing culture on a transnational stage. We will consider the works is preoccupied with habit, repetition, sameness, boredom, and of prominent, emerging, and underexplored black feminist the banal--with “things happening, normally, all the time,” as writers from various African diaspora locations, including South Virginia Woolf once put it. This course explores the modernist Africa, West Africa, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. fascination with the ordinary, from the objects in a kitchen to How do these writers engage with key currents in global black the rhythms of a day. Our primary task will be to understand the feminist politics, including understandings of gender, sexuality, stakes of paying attention to the ordinary world for queer and class, nationality and colonialism? How do they complicate women modernist writers, whose work reveals the ordinary as these discussions in their work? We will ground our exploration a site of deep ambivalence as well as possibility. Likely authors in close study of black feminist poetics--the specific formal and include: Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn creative choices that black feminist poets, fiction writers, visual Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Jean Rhys. artists, hip hop artists, webseries producers and others use Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies to examine gender end sexuality in their art. Paying particular attention to the work of queer and LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, ENGL B339 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex) artists, we will consider the various meanings of t erms such as “black,” “feminist,” and Not offered 2021-22 “queer” in various parts of the African Diaspora. Our work will Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico emphasize close analysis of black feminist writers’ works, as border as an open wound and the border culture that arises well as collaborative exercises and invited in-class discussions from this fraught site as a third country. This course will

188 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent shifting ideas about gender and sexuality), against its cultural different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and backdrop. Among the questions we will ask are: How does between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities Stein’s work redefine reading? What are the politics of “radical” and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for and “experimental” language use? What is a queer text? What understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and is a genius? language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants Course does not meet an Approach and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented ENGL B363 Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the Spring 2022 course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights A comprehensive study of Morrison’s narrative experiments and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and in fiction, this course traces her entire oeuvre from “Recitatif” aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine to God Help the Child. We read the works in publication order a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key with three main foci: Morrison-as-epistemologist questioning theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented what it is that constitutes knowing and being known, Morrison- migration. as-revisionary-teacher-of-reading-strategies, and Morrison in intertextual dialogue with several oral and literary traditions. In Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies addition to critical essays, students complete a “Pilate Project” - Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies a creative response to the works under study. ENGL B342 The Queer Middle Ages Counts toward Africana Studies Fall 2021 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course examines medieval queer history, focusing on FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: Amour et literary depictions of non-normative sexual identities and violence au Moyen Age expressions. From monastic vows of celibacy to same-sex erotic love, from constructions of female virginity to trans Spring 2022 identity, the Middle Ages conceptualized sexuality in a range of Using literary texts, historical documents and letters as a mirror ways and with a range of attached assumptions and anxieties. of the social classes that they address, this interdisciplinary Readings will include chivalric romance, rules for monks, cross- course studies the principal preoccupations of secular and dressing saints’ lives, and legal tracts worried about unmarried religious female and male authors in France and Norman women. England from the eleventh century through the fifteenth. Course does not meet an Approach Selected works from epic, lais, roman courtois, fabliaux, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies theater, letters, and contemporary biography are read in modern French translation. Prerequisite: FREN 102 or 105. ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies FREN B221 Femme sujet/Femme objet Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf An in-depth examination of how women authors from selected periods conceive of their art, construct authority for themselves, Not offered 2021-22 and, where appropriate, distinguish themselves from male Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, colleagues, of whom several who have assumed female a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, a victim of child voices/perspective will be examined as points of comparison. abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a creation of literary and popular It introduces students to the techniques and topics of selected history. We will try out all these approaches and examine women writers (as well as theoretical approaches to them) the features of our contemporary world that influence the from the most recent (Djebar and M. Duras) to late Medieval way Woolf, her work, and her era are perceived. We will also authors. This course is taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN attempt to theorize about why we favor certain interpretations 102 or 105 over others. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B358 Gertrude Stein: Difficult Genius Spring 2022 FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts As a radical modernist writer, theorist of language, and self- styled “genius,” Stein looms large in literary history. In this Spring 2022 course, it is our task to read (and enjoy!) Stein’s difficult, This study of selected women authors from Latin CE- genre-breaking writing. We will study Stein’s eclectic body of Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, Renaissance work, which spans the first half of the twentieth century (and and 17th century--among them, Perpetua, Hrotswitha, Marie two world wars, Stein’s move to Paris, a lesbian marriage, de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé,

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Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines shape these meanings. Particular attention will be given to the the way in which they appropriate and transform the male intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious social locations in order to understand a range of identities artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to and structures of inequality. This course will challenge you to identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, question taken-for-granted notions of gender and to consider and to assessing their importance to women’s writing in alternative ways to make sense of gender and sexuality. This general: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a course is equivalent to GNST 109 as a gateway to the minor. metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. This course counts towards a Sociology elective. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses or permission of instructor. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies GERM B217 Representing Diversity in German Cinema GNST B290 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Spring 2022 Sexuality German society has undergone drastic changes as a result Spring 2022 of immigration. Traditional notions of Germanness have been This course offers a rigorous grounding for students interested and are still being challenged and subverted. This course in questions of gender and sexuality. Bringing together uses films and visual media to examine the experiences of intellectual resources from multiple disciplines, it also explores various minority groups living in Germany. Students will learn what it means to think across and between disciplinary about the history of immigration of different ethnic groups, boundaries. including Turkish Germans, Afro-Germans, Asian Germans, Arab Germans, German Jews, and ethnic Germans from Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Eastern Europe. We will explore discourses on migration, racism, xenophobia, integration, and citizenship. We will seek GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides to understand not only the historical and contemporary contexts Fall 2021 for these films but also their relevance for reshaping German This course is designed to introduce the student to two of the society. Students will be introduced to modern German cinema greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the philosopher, from the silent era to the present. They will acquire terminology Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. These two writers set the and methods for reading films as fictional and aesthetic terms in the disciplines of philosophy and history for millennia, representations of history and politics, and analyze identity and philosophers and historians today continue to grapple construction in the worlds of the real and the reel. This course with their ideas and influence. The brilliant and controversial is taught in English. statesman Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) this course (Plato’s Symposium and Thucydides’ History of the Critical Interpretation (CI) Peloponnesian War), and we examine the ways in which both Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies authors handle the figure of Alcibiades as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying styles and modes of thought of GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies these two great writers. Suggested Prerequisites: At least 2 Not offered 2021-22 years of college Greek or the equivalent. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Course is taught Critical Interpretation (CI) in English. There will an additional hour in German for those Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies students taking the course for German credit. HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Fall 2021 GNST B108 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies The course is designed to introduce students to the history of Spring 2022 African and African Diaspora societies, cultures, and political economies. We will discuss the origins, state formation, This course will introduce students to major approaches, external contacts, and the structural transformations and theories, and topics in gender and sexuality studies, as a continuities of African societies and cultures in the context framework for understanding the past and present--not only of the slave trade, colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, how societies conceive differences in bodily sex, gender urbanization, and westernization, as well as contemporary expression, and sexual behavior, but how those conceptions struggles over authority, autonomy, identity and access shape broader social, cultural, political, and economic patterns. to resources. Case studies will be drawn from across the Critical Interpretation (CI) continent. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) GNST B118 Gender, Sexuality, and Society Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course will introduce students to major concepts, Counts toward International Studies questions, and events in the field of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies through a range of sources. Students will HIST B156 The Long 1960s explore how meanings of gender and sexuality have changed Not offered 2021-22 over time and the ways that cultural and historical contexts The 1960s has had a powerful effect on recent US History.

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But what was it exactly? How long did it last? And what do we HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of Sexuality really mean when we say “The Sixties?” This term has become in Modern Europe so potent and loaded for so many people from all sides of the Spring 2022 political spectrum that it’s almost impossible to separate fact from fiction; myth from memory. We are all the inheritors of this This course is a detailed examination of the changing nature intense period in American history but our inheritance is neither and definition of sexuality in Europe from the late nineteenth simple nor entirely clear. Our task this semester is to try to pull century to the present. Throughout the semester we critically apart the meaning as well as the legend and attempt to figure examine how understandings of sexuality changed--from out what “The Sixties” is (and what it isn’t) and try to assess its how it was discussed and how authorities tried to control it long term impact on American society. to how the practice of sexuality evolved. Focusing on both discourses and lived experiences, the class will explore Critical Interpretation (CI) sexuality in the context of the following themes; prostitution and Inquiry into the Past (IP) sex trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention Counts toward Africana Studies to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth of the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the “New Woman”; HIST B226 Topics in 20th Century European History abortion and contraception; the “sexual revolution” of the 60s; Section 001 (Spring 2021): History of the Body pornography and consumerism; LGBTQ activism; concluding Section 001 (Fall 2021): National Proj, Socialist Dream with considering sexuality in the age of cyber as well as genetic technology. In examining these issues we will question the role Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and influence of different political systems and war on sexuality. This is a topics course. Course content varies. By paying special attention to the rise of modern nation-states, forces of nationalism, and the impacts of imperialism we will Current topic description: This is an introductory course to the interrogate the nature of regulation and experiences of sexuality political and social history of East-Central Europe from the late in different locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century 19th century to the present. We will explore the complicated to the present. histories and emergence of the nation states between Germany and the Soviet Union. Beginning with the age of the Habsburg Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Empire and finishing in the age of the European Union we Inquiry into the Past (IP) will examine how societies in East central Europe struggled Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies to balance nationalism and as competing ways of HIST B243 Topics: Atlantic Cultures making sense of their world and as platforms for changing it. Section 001 (Spring 2022): Maroon Communities - New World Inquiry into the Past (IP) Spring 2022 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current topic description: The course explores the process HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle of self-emancipation by slaves in the early modern Atlantic Ages World. What was the nature of the communities that free blacks Not offered 2021-22 forged? What were their relationships to the empires from which they had freed themselves? How was race constructed in A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems the early modern period? Did conceptions of race change over (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical time? Through readings and discussion, we will investigate marketplace, and the social context for understanding health the establishment of autonomous African settlements and and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include cultures throughout the Americas, and examine the nature of Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of local autonomy within a strife-torn world of contending empires hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. and nation-states. Taking a comparative approach, we shall Critical Interpretation (CI) examine developments in North America, South America, the Inquiry into the Past (IP) Caribbean, and Brazil.

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Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa HIST B245 Topics in Modern US History Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies This is a topics course addressing public history in the U.S. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Praxis Program

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HIST B253 Themes in Modern Europe: Europe in the Global knew but think we can access through film. And Hollywood Age often reaches into the past to tell a good story. How can we Not offered 2021-22 understand the impact of our love affair with movies on our understanding of what happened in this country? In this course This course is a survey of Europe from the seventeenth century we will examine the complex cultural relationship between film to the present. Throughout the semester we will look at the and American historical self-fashioning. people, events, and major themes that shaped the history of modern Europe. We will cover a large number of topics, from Critical Interpretation (CI) social movements and political ideologies, to national identities Inquiry into the Past (IP) and gender norms. We will examine what we mean when we Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies speak of “Europe” and we will place Europe within the context Counts toward Film Studies of the wider, global world. Through the use of primary sources, Counts toward Visual Studies students will also learn the skills and techniques necessary in HIST B292 Women in Britain since 1750 the work of a historian. We will examine how historians write, interpret, and construct histories from a series of facts, and Fall 2021 what place these histories have in our contemporary world. Focusing on contemporary and historical narratives, this course Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) explores the ongoing production, circulation and refraction of Inquiry into the Past (IP) discourses on gender and nation as well as race, empire and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies modernity since the mid-18th century. Texts will incorporate Counts toward International Studies visual material as well as literary evidence and culture and consider the crystallization of the discipline of history itself. HIST B274 Focus: Topics in Modern US History Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP)

This is a topics course in 20th century America social history. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Topics vary by half semester HIST B298 Politics of Food Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Politics shapes what appears on our plates as well as Counts toward Museum Studies where we set our table. It all has a history. In America with Counts toward Praxis Program its confounding combination of engorging bounty and tragic poverty, food represents a special nexus of the political and the HIST B280 History of Witchcraft and Magic personal. This course looks at the history and politics of eating, Spring 2022 producing, and consuming food in the United States. Course topics include how food shaped both external and internal his course examines the social, cultural, and legal history of migrations to the United States; how American foreign policy witchcraft and magic throughout European history. We will from the Cold War to today helps us understand global food examine the values and attitudes that have influenced beliefs and refugee crises; the history and politics of food aid, and the about witchcraft and the supernatural, both historically and in transformation of food consumption in modern America. the present day. This course will pay specific attention to the role of gender and sexuality in the history of witchcraft, as the Inquiry into the Past (IP) vast majority of individuals charged in the witch hunts of the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were indeed women. HIST B325 Topics in Social History We will also study accusations of witchcraft, breaking down the power dynamics and assumptions at play behind the Section 001 (Fall 2021): Food Politics witch trials, and the effects of these trials on gender relations Section 001 (Spring 2022): Queer American History in European society. This class will track the intersections of Fall 2021, Spring 2022 magic and science throughout the early modern period, and the reconciliation of belief systems during the Enlightenment. This a topics course that explores various themes in American We will carry our analysis into the modern period, touching on social history. Course content varies. Course may be repeated. Victorian spiritualism and mysticism, the emergence of Neo- Current topic description: The Politics of Food. Politics shapes Paganism, and the return to the figure of the goddess. Our final what appears on our plates as well as where we set our table... foray will be and examination of the political “witch-hunts” of the It all has a history. In America with its confounding combination twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the enduring trope of of engorging bounty and tragic poverty, food represents a the “witch” in modern political culture. special nexus of the political and the personal. The politics of Inquiry into the Past (IP) food is also cultural and helps frame our sense of the present Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and the past. This course cannot cover all these arenas in one semester, but is an introduction to how to look at the complex HIST B284 Movies and America: The Past Lives Forever history and politics of eating, producing, and consuming food in the United States. Course topics include food and race, the Not offered 2021-22 cultural politics of who eats what and how they think about it; Movies are one of the most important means by which and the history and politics of food consumption in modern Americans come to know - or think they know--their own America. history. We look to old movies to tell us about a world we never Current topic description: Queer American History. This

192 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES course centers the influence of gender and sexual diversity ITAL B212 Italy Today in understanding the historical development of institutions, Not offered 2021-22 ideals, social and cultural transformations, and economic and political processes in the U.S. since European colonization. This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge The approach is intersectional, addressing gender and sexual class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with diversity as they intersect with race, class and other forms of the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its social difference and power. The course examines both key metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by events and developments in the emerging visibility of queer living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and subjects in the American context as well as the processes by politicians. which such visibility occurs. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B337 Topics in African History Counts toward Film Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities Fall 2021 Spring 2022 This is a topics course. Topics vary. What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist Current topic description: In the recent decades, the world has manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and experienced an increasing threat for public health from the films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object emerging infectious diseases that have provoked epidemics oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In and pandemics. The course will focus on the impact of this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from epidemics and pandemics on cities in Africa. We will discuss different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender the issues of public health history, social and cultural history of and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece disease as well as the issues of the history of medicine. We will from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings examine the histories of global initiatives to control disease in to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective (history, and social discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and and biomedical sciences), using case studies from across the of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we continent. We will explore various themes, such as the anxiety are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour and panic caused by the disease outbreaks; the state, medical, in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. and popular responses; the politics of disease control; the conflicts of interests between the interests of commerce, public Critical Interpretation (CI) health, and civil liberties; and the health disparities within cities. Counts toward Africana Studies We will focus on the colonial and postcolonial cities in Africa. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies We will also explore the questions regarding the sources of Counts toward Film Studies African history and their quality. ITAL B312 Black, Queer, Jewish Italy Counts toward Africana Studies

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Health Studies This seminar approaches the two most studied phases of Counts toward International Studies Italian history, the Renaissance and the 20th century, by placing what we call ‘otherness’ at the center of the picture rather HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450-1800 than at its supposed margins. The main aim is to challenge Not offered 2021-22 traditional accounts of Italian culture, and to look at pivotal events and phenomena (the rise of Humanism, the rise of This course explores the emergence, development, and fascism, courtly culture, the two World Wars, 16th century art, challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and blackness, that futurism) from the point of view of black, queer, and Jewish have been in place from the colonial period to the present. protagonists, authors, and fictional characters. Our theoretical Through the reading of primary and secondary sources, we bedrock will be offered by modern and contemporary thinkers will explore various ways through which enslaved people such as Fred Moten, Antonio Gramsci, Edie Segdwick, and imagined freedom, personal rights, community membership, Hannah Arendt. Our primary sources will come from cultural and some of the paths they created in order to improve their epicenters of Renaissance, Baroque, and late Modern Italy, experiences and change the social order. In an attempt to have such as Leo X papal court, fascist Ferrara, 17th century Venice, a comparative approach, we will look at particular events and and colonial Libya. In class, we will adopt a trans-historical, circumstances that took place in few provinces in the Americas, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective inspired by Fred with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The Moten’s work, which will serve as the poetic common ground course will also look at the methodological challenges of for our investigations. Themes and issues will be analyzed studying and writing history of people who in principle, were not at the crossing of the two historical phases and of the three allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will identify topics in exam, and the material will include historical and and underscore the contribution that people of African descent theoretical analyses, narrative texts, poems, films, and visual have made to the ideas of rights, freedom, equality, and art. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of democracy. Italian is required, as readings will be in English translation. An Counts toward Africana Studies additional hour in Italian will be offered for departmental credits. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Students taking the course for departmental credit will also read Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies 193 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES part of the readings in the original language, and produce three PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Psychology short response-papers in Italian in lieu of the Midterm. Through Films Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Africana Studies This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = 16 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The primary focus of ITAL B315 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde the seminar will be evaluating the degree of correspondence Not offered 2021-22 between the cinematic presentation and current research The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine knowledge about the disorder, taking into account the historical warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine, how accurately the symptoms of the disorder are presented and queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual how representative the protagonist is of people who typically identity played a central role -- from Rimbaud to current manifest this disorder based on current research. We will also experimentalism -- in the development of what has been called address the theory of etiology of the disorder depicted in the ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, the period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from of psychopathology in that period. Another focus will be how early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will the film portrays the course of the disorder and how it depicts unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who treatment for the disorder. This cinematic presentation will be have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with evaluated with respect to current research on treatment for the poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises, disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing treatment of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s for the disorder at the time the film was made. Prerequisite: collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, PSYC B209. surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our Counts toward Child and Family Studies own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies previous knowledge of Italian required. Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Museum Studies RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 PHIL B221 Ethics Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia Spring 2022 and Beyond An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of moral Not offered 2021-22 theories and a discussion of important ancient, modern, and This is a topics course. Course content varies. contemporary texts which established theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, relativism, emotivism, care Inquiry into the Past (IP) ethics. This course considers questions concerning freedom, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies responsibility, and obligation. How should we live our lives and Counts toward Film Studies interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a Counts toward Visual Studies global context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered. Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Sociology is the systematic study of society and social Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies interaction. It involves what C. Wright Mills called the Counts toward International Studies “sociological imagination,” a way of seeing the relationship between individuals and the larger forces of society and PHIL B252 Feminist Theory history. In this course, we will practice using our sociological Not offered 2021-22 imaginations to think about the world around us. We will examine how social norms and structures are created and Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and maintained, and we will analyze how these structures shape women have achieved equality have become commonplace. people’s behavior and choices, often without their realizing We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of it. After learning to think sociologically, we will examine the patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central centrality of inequality in society, focusing specifically on the to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory intersecting dimensions of race and ethnicity, gender, and and contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in class, and the role of social structures and institutions (such different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the as the family and education) in society. Overall, this course phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance draws our attention toward our own presuppositions-the things of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency we take for granted in our everyday lives-and provides us with with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite: a systematic framework within which we can analyze those one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. presuppositions and identify their effects.. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Counts toward International Studies these women endure difficulties that have worsened rather than improving. What social structures determine this gender SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society inequality in general and that of women of color in particular? Not offered 2021-22 What are the main challenges women in the Global South The definition of male and female social roles and sociological face? How do these challenges differ based on nationality, approaches to the study of gender in the United States, with class, ethnicity, skin color, gender identity, and other axes of attention to gender in the economy and work place, the division oppression? What strategies have these women developed of labor in families and households, and analysis of class and to cope with the wide variety of challenges they contend with ethnic differences in gender roles. Of particular interest in this on a daily basis? These are some of the major questions that course is the comparative exploration of the experiences of we will explore together in this class. In this course, the Global women of color in the United States. South does not refer exclusively to a geographical location, but rather to a set of institutional structures that generate

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) disadvantages for all individuals and particularly for women

Counts toward Child and Family Studies and other minorities, regardless their geographical location in

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies the world. In other words, a significant segment of the Global North’s population lives under the same precarious conditions SOCL B205 Social Inequality that are commonly believed as exclusive to the Global South. Spring 2022 Simultaneously, there is a Global North embedded in the Global In this course, we will explore the extent, causes, and South as well. In this context, we will see that the geographical consequences of social and economic inequality in the U.S. division between the North and the South becomes futile when We will begin by discussing key theories and the intersecting we seek to understand the dynamics of the “Western-centric/ dimensions of inequality along lines of income and wealth, Christian-centric capitalist/patriarchal modern/colonial world- race and ethnicity, and gender. We will then follow a life-course system” (Grosfoguel, 2012). In the first part of the course, perspective to trace the institutions through which inequality is we will establish the theoretical foundations that will guide us structured, experienced, and reproduced through the family, throughout the rest of the semester. We will then turn to a wide neighborhoods, the educational system, labor markets and variety of case studies where we will examine, for instance, workplaces, and the criminal justice system. the contemporary global division of labor, gendered violence in the form of feminicides, international migration, and global

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) tourism. The course’s final thematic section will be devoted to

Counts toward Child and Family Studies learning from the different feminisms (e.g. community feminism)

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies emerging out of the Global South as well as the research done in that region and its contribution to the development of SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context a broader gender studies scholarship. In particular, we will pay Not offered 2021-22 close attention to resistance, solidarity, and social movements The family represents a fundamental and ubiquitous institution led by women. Examples will be drawn from Latin America, the in the social world, providing norms and conveying values. This Caribbean, the US, Asia, and Africa. course focuses on current sociological research, seeking to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) understand how modern American families have transformed Counts toward Africana Studies due to complex structural and cultural forces. We will examine Counts toward Child and Family Studies family change from historical, social, and demographic Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies perspectives. After examining the images, ideals, and myths Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies concerning families, we will address the central theme of diversity and change. In what ways can sociology explain and SOCL B235 Mexican-American Communities document these shifts? What influences do law, technology, Fall 2021 and medicine have on the family? What are the results of evolving views of work, gender, and parenting on family For its unique history, the number of migrants, and the two structure and stability? Prerequisite of one Social Science countries’ proximity, Mexican migration to the United States Course represents an exceptional case in world migration. There is no other example of migration with more than 100 years of

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) history. The copious presence of migrants concentrated in a

Counts toward Child and Family Studies host country, such as we have in the case of the 11.7 million

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Mexican migrants residing in the United States, along with another 15 million Mexican descendants, is unparalleled. SOCL B225 Women in Society The 1,933-mile-long border shared by the two countries Fall 2021 makes it one of the longest boundary lines in the world and, In 2015, the world’s female population was 49.6 percent of the unfortunately, also one of the most dangerous frontiers in the total global population of 7.3 billion. According to the United world today. We will examine the different economic, political, Nations, in absolute terms, there were 61,591,853 more men social and cultural forces that have shaped this centenarian than women. Yet, at the global scale, 124 countries have migration influx and undertake a macro-, meso-, and micro- more women than men. A great majority of these countries levels of analysis. At the macro-level of political economy, are located in what scholars have recently been referring we will investigate the economic interdependency that has to as the Global South - those countries known previously developed between Mexico and the U.S. over different as developing countries. Although women outnumber their economic development periods of these countries, particularly, male counterparts in many Global South countries, however, the role the Mexican labor force has played to boosting and

195 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES sustaining both the Mexican and the American economies. At SOCL B262 Public Opinion the meso-level, we will examine different institutions both in Not offered 2021-22 Mexico and the U.S. that have determined the ways in which millions of Mexican migrate to this country. Last, but certainly This course explores public opinion: what it is, how it is not least, we will explore the impacts that both the macro-and measured, how it is shaped, and how it changes over time. meso-processes have had on the micro-level by considering Specific attention is given to the role of elites, the mass media, the imperatives, aspirations, and dreams that have prompted and religion in shaping public opinion. Examples include racial/ millions of people to leave their homes and communities behind ethnic civil rights, abortion, gay/lesbian/transgendered sexuality, in search of better opportunities. This major life decision of and inequalities. migration brings with it a series of social transformations in Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) family and community networks, this will look into the cultural Inquiry into the Past (IP) impacts in both the sending and receiving migrant communities. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies In sum, we will come to understand how these three levels of analysis work together. SOCL B263 Dimensions of Power: Micro, Meso, and Macro Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies What is power? How does it operate at different levels in Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies society--through one-on-one interactions, organizational and Counts toward Praxis Program societal (class, race/ethnic, gender) structures, and cultural SOCL B251 Queering Utopia norms? In this course, we will explore these questions by reading about sociological understandings of power and Spring 2022 applying those theories to our everyday lives. As part of this What if? This question is at the heart of both social theory course, students will collect qualitative data and analyze it and speculative fiction. Theory and fiction both serve as ways based on theories of power. No prior data-collection experience through which to make sense of social life and to imagine is necessary. alternatives. Within the traditions of feminist and queer thought, Course does not meet an Approach utopian and dystopian fiction have been utilized as a means Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies by which to imagine the outcomes of various social processes and alternative gender/sexuality systems. This medium is also SOCL B276 Making Sense of Race useful for exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality are Fall 2021 not only integral to individual identity but also to the structure of social life itself. In this course we will analyze the challenges What is the meaning of race in contemporary US and global to the status quo asserted by feminist theorists and queer society? How are these meanings (re)produced, resisted, theorists alongside a comparison with indigenous systems and refused? What meanings might we desire or imagine as of gender. We will also consider the various implications for alternatives? In this course, we will approach these questions everyday life of these theories as presented through the lens of through an array of sources while tracking our own thinking speculative fiction. We will compare works of fiction with works about and experiences of raced-ness. Course material will of social theory to think through the ways in which gender and survey sociological notions of the social construction of race, sexuality structure social life as well as the ways in which we empirical studies of lived experiences of race, and creative do, undo, and resist gender in everyday life. Over the course of fiction and non-fiction material intended to catalyze thinking the semester, we will contemplate work by Samuel R. Delany; about alternative possibilities. Michael Warner; Margaret Atwood; Ursula Le Guin; Nikki Course does not meet an Approach Sullivan; Sara Ahmed, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura Mamo, and Counts toward Africana Studies more. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Critical Interpretation (CI) SOCL B322 Thinking with Trans: Theorizing Race and

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Gender SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology of Not offered 2021-22 Deviance In 2017, philosopher Rebecca Tuvel published an article in Not offered 2021-22 the journal Hypatia outlining an argument for the existence of transracialism. This article came on the tail end of a great An examination of non-normative and criminal behavior viewed deal of controversy about the outing of NAACP leader, Rachel from the standpoint of different theoretical perspectives on Dolezal; a woman born to white parents who identifies as deviance (e.g., social strain, anomie, functionalism, social black. In this course we will examine the social construction of disorganization, symbolic interaction, and Marxism) with race and gender as well as critique the biological assumptions particular emphasis on social construction and labeling that underpin both social structures. We will explore the perspectives; and the role of subcultures, social movements theoretical power and pitfalls of the terms “transgender” and and social conflicts in changing the normative boundaries “transracial”- the similarities, differences, and tensions inherent of society. Topics include robbery, homicide, Black inner city in questioning taken for granted social structures that are violence, sexual deviance, prostitution, white collar crime, drug fundamental to social organization and personal identity. We addiction and mental disorders. will explore the theoretical context of the terms “transracial” and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) “transgender,” the various arguments for and against identity Counts toward Africana Studies categories, and the lived experiences of individuals and groups Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies who regularly transgress the boundaries of race and gender. 196 GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES / GENERAL STUDIES

Course does not meet an Approach Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills Counts toward Africana Studies pre-1700 requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. SOCL B326 Feminist Perspectives on Hlth Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Spring 2022 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Increasingly, an individual’s sense of self and worth as a citizen turn on their health identity. In this course we will draw on SPAN B314 Latinoamérica:Diversidad Conflicto Cult theories of gender, sexuality, medicalization, and biocitizenship Not offered 2021-22 to unravel the ways in which gender structures and medical This class studies the representation of regional, national, institutions are mutually constitutive and to explore how this and individual identity in contemporary Latin American novels. relationship, in turn, impacts individual identity. The course will Works include novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru take a global approach to feminist engagement with health written by female and male writers. The selected novels present issues with an emphasis on human rights and bodily autonomy. different strands of cultural conflict due to the simultaneous Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies presence of markedly different modes of identity. Several Counts toward Health Studies primary questions will guide our analysis of the course texts: What is identity? How are national and regional identities SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life constructed and why? What are the socio-historical, cultural Not offered 2021-22 and political influences on identity? What does the study of Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention to the Latin American novel reveal about the relationship among the body influence our understanding of social processes of economic development, the construction of social identities, subjectivity, interaction, and practice? While the body has long and citizenship? How can the study of the novel help us to been an “absent presence” in sociology, multiple approaches understand the dynamics of race, class and gender in specific to theorizing and researching the body have emerged in recent Latin American contexts? Prerequisite: at least one SPAN decades. A sociological approach to the body and embodiment 200-level course. provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between everyday Course does not meet an Approach experience and analyses of broad social structures which Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies can seem disconnected from daily life. In this course, we will Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies examine the processes by which individual bodies are shaped by and, in turn, shape social life. Key questions to be explored include: how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do GENERAL STUDIES individuals perform the body and how does interactional context influence this performance; what is the meaning of the body in General Studies courses focus on areas that are not usually social life; and is there a “right” body? Suggested preparation: covered in the Bryn Mawr curriculum and provide a supplement At least one course in the social sciences. to the areas more regularly covered. These courses cut across Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies disciplines and emphasize relationships among them. Many Counts toward Health Studies general studies courses are open, without prerequisite, to all SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en Espaa students. With the permission of the major department, they may be taken for major credit. Not offered 2021-22 A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men Courses and women writers, to assess how they come together in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, GNST B118 Gender, Sexuality, and Society as the country is facing new challenges in its quest for Spring 2021 modernity. Prerequisites: B120 or a SPAN 200-level course. This course will introduce students to major concepts, Inquiry into the Past (IP) questions, and events in the field of gender, sexuality, and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies feminist studies through a range of sources. Students will Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies explore how meanings of gender and sexuality have changed over time and the ways that cultural and historical contexts SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del Siglo de shape these meanings. Particular attention will be given to the Oro intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other Not offered 2021-22 social locations in order to understand a range of identities and structures of inequality. This course will challenge you to A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, and question taken-for-granted notions of gender and to consider poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the alternative ways to make sense of gender and sexuality. This construction of gender; the idealization and codification of course is equivalent to GNST 109 as a gateway to the minor. women’s bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, This course counts towards a Sociology elective. home, brothel, palace); and the performance of honor. The first half of the course will deal with representations of women by GNST B290: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex/Gender male authors (Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Spring 2021 Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas. This course offers a rigorous grounding for students interested

197 GENERAL STUDIES / GEOLOGY in questions of gender and sexuality. Bringing together A student who wishes to follow a career in geology are intellectual resources from multiple disciplines, it also explores encouraged to attend a summer field course, usually following what it means to think across and between disciplinary the completion of the 200-level courses. boundaries. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Senior Capstone All Geology majors participate in a senior capstone experience, which is a year-long one-credit course series (GEOL 399/GEOL GEOLOGY 400) that combines an independent project and a bi-weekly seminar. The independent project gives student the opportunity Students may complete a major or minor in Geology. Within the and experience of creatively developing their own academic major, students may complete concentrations in geochemistry project; following through on that project; getting constructive or geoarchaeology. feedback on that project; revising and improving that project; and submitting a report or other product that effectively communicates the project’s outcomes. The independent project Faculty a student develops can take a variety of creative forms and Don Barber, Associate Professor of Geology on the Harold is developed in consultation with the students agreed upon Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies advisor. Ideally the independent project is organized, planned, Selby Hearth, Associate Professor of Geology and arranged by the student and advisor by the end of the student’s junior year. So as not to overload any one faculty Katherine Marenco, Lecturer in Geology member in the department, the total number of students will, as Pedro Marenco, Associate Professor of Geology best as possible, be distributed across the faculty evenly, with preference given to those students whose projects overlap the Arlo Weil, Marion Bridgman Slusser Professor in the Sciences expertise of a given faculty member. and Chair and Professor of Geology(on leave semester II) The focus of the capstone seminar is to reinforce students’ ability to address geoscience questions and to communicate The department seeks to give students a well-rounded Earth their findings orally and in writing. Students and faculty will science education that balances fundamental knowledge meet once every other week to helping students develop the of geology with broadly applicable problem-solving and skills necessary to complete their independent projects, discuss communication skills. The integrated science of geology topics related to scientific literacy and practice, and prepare combines biology, chemistry, and physics as they apply to the students for the next step in their careers. workings of Earth and other planets. Well-trained geoscientists are increasingly in demand to address the environmental challenges and natural resource limitations of the modern Minor Requirements world. A central tenet for understanding and predicting Earth A minor in Geology consists of two 100-level Geology courses, processes and environmental change is the ability to decipher and any four of the 200- or 300-level courses offered by the past Earth history from geologic records. Thus, the major in department. Two 0.5 credit courses may be combined to count Geology includes study of the physics and chemistry of Earth toward one of the 100-level courses. Alternatively, an additional materials and processes; the history of the Earth and its 200- or 300-level course may be substituted for one of the organisms; and the range of techniques used to investigate the 100-level courses to meet the minor requirements. past and present workings of the Earth system. Field and lab experiences are essential parts of geology training, and field Concentration in Geoarchaeology trips and lab work are part of all introductory courses, most The geoarchaeology concentration allows students majoring other classes, and most independent research projects. in Anthropology, Archaeology, or Geology to explore the connections among these fields with respect to how our Major Requirements human ancestors interacted with past environments, and Twelve courses are required for the major: GEOL 101 (How how traces of human behavior are preserved in the physical the Earth Works), 202 (Mineralogy), 203 (Biosphere through environment. In Geology, the geoarchaeology concentration Time), 204 (Structural Geology), 205 (Sedimentary Materials consists of 13 courses: GEOL 101, 202, 203, 204, 205, 270, and Environments), at least two semesters of quantitative and 399; two semesters of chemistry; two semesters of math, or computational coursework (e.g., MATH 101 and 102 statistics, or computational methods; either ARCH 101 or or alternates approved by your adviser), a two-semester ANTH 101; and one 200- or 300-level elective from among sequence of CHEM (103-104) or PHYS (101-102 or 121-122), current offerings in Anthropology or Classical and Near Eastern GEOL 399/400, and either two advanced geology courses or Archaeology. Paperwork for the concentration should be filed one advanced geology course and an additional upper-level at the same time as the major work plan. For course planning course in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or computer advice, consult with Don Barber (Geology), Casey Barrier science. (Anthropology) or Peter Magee (Archaeology). The writing requirement for the major in Geology is fulfilled in one of the required 200-level major courses. In that course Concentration in Geochemistry a research project will culminate in a scientific paper based on The geochemistry concentration encourages students material collected in the field, or analyzed in the lab, by enrolled majoring either in Geology or in Chemistry to design a course students. of study that emphasizes Earth chemistry. Paperwork for Additional courses in the allied sciences are strongly the concentration should be filed at the same time as the recommended and are required by most graduate schools. major work plan. For a Geology major with a concentration 198 GEOLOGY in geochemistry, the following are required: GEOL 101, 202, This course is designed to expose students to the fundamentals 203, 204, 205, and 399; CHEM 103 (General Chemistry) of oceanography with an emphasis on how Earth’s oceans and CHEM 104 (General Chemistry II); CHEM 211(Organic are tied to life and climate and how we study these links in Chemistry) or CHEM 231 (Inorganic Chemistry); GEOL 302 the present and in the fossil record. We will spend much (Low Temperature Geochemistry) or GEOL 305 (Igneous and time understanding how the modern ocean works and how Metamorphic Petrology) or GEOL 350 (requires major advisor biogeochemical cycles interact with it. A major focus will be how approval); one additional 300-level geochemistry-themed we can use the ocean’s past and present to make predictions GEOL course or one additional advanced CHEM course. about its future. For a Chemistry major with a concentration in geochemistry, Scientific Investigation (SI) the following are required in addition to Chemistry major requirements (see Chemistry major advisor): GEOL 101 (How GEOL B112 Geology in Film the Earth Works), GEOL 202 (Mineralogy/Crystal Chemistry), two additional 300-level geochemistry-themed GEOL courses Fall 2021 including GEOL 302 (Low Temperature Geochemistry) or Geologic processes make for great film storylines, but GEOL 305 (Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology) or GEOL filmmakers take great liberty with how they depict scientific 350 (requires Geology major advisor approval). For course “facts” and scientists. We will explore how and why filmmakers planning advice, contact Pedro Marenco (Geology) or Sharon choose to deviate from science reality. We will study and view Burgmayer (Chemistry). one film per week and discuss its issues from a geologist’s perspective. Honors Course does not meet an Approach Honors are awarded to students who have outstanding academic records in Geology and allied fields and whose GEOL B202 Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry independent project is judged by the department faculty to be of Fall 2021 the highest quality. The crystal chemistry of representative minerals as well as Courses the relationship between the physical properties of minerals and their structures and chemical compositions. Emphasis GEOL B101 How the Earth Works is placed on mineral identification and interpretation. The occurrence and petrography of typical mineral associations Fall 2021 and rocks is also covered. Lecture three hours, laboratory at An introduction to the study of planet Earth--the materials of least three hours a week. One required field trip on a weekend. which it is made, the forces that shape its surface and interior, Prerequisite: introductory course in Geology or Chemistry (both the relationship of geological processes to people, and the recommended, one required). application of geological knowledge to the search for useful Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) materials. Laboratory and fieldwork focus on learning the tools Scientific Investigation (SI) for geological investigations and applying them to the local area Counts toward Geoarchaeology and selected areas around the world. Three lectures and one afternoon of laboratory or fieldwork a week. One required one- GEOL B203 Biosphere Through Time day field trip on a weekend. Fall 2021 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) We will explore how the Earth-life system has evolved through Counts toward Environmental Studies time by studying the interactions between life, climate, and tectonic processes. During the lab component of the course, GEOL B104 The Science of Climate Change we will study important fossil groups to better understand their paleoecology and roles in the Earth-life system. Prerequisite: Spring 2022 GEOL B101, GEOL B108, or GEOL B209. A survey of the science behind climate change. Students will Scientific Investigation (SI) analyze climate data, read primary scientific literature, examine Counts toward Environmental Studies the drivers of climate change, and investigate the fundamental Earth processes that are affected. We will also examine GEOL B204 Structural Geology deep-time climate change and the geologic proxies that Earth scientists use to understand climate change on many different Not offered 2021-22 time scales. This course is appropriate for students with little An introduction to the study of rock deformation in the Earth’s to no scientific background, but is geared toward students who lithosphere viewed from all scales - from the microscopic are considering a science major. Two 90-minute lectures per (atomic scale) to the macroscopic (continental scale). This week. One required all-day field trip on a weekend. class focuses on building a foundation of knowledge and Quantitative Methods (QM) understanding that will allow students to broaden their Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) appreciation and understanding of the complexity of the Scientific Investigation (SI) Earth system and the links between geologic structures at all Counts toward Introduction to Data Science scales and plate tectonics. Three lectures and three hours of laboratory a week, plus a required three-day, weekend field trip. GEOL B108 Earth’s Oceans: Past, Present, and Future Prerequisite: GEOL 101 and MATH 101. 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GEOL B205 Sedimentary Materials and Environments for discussing the assigned readings. During the week-long Spring 2022 field trip, students are exposed to geologic field methods while visiting sites that exemplify different geology from that at sites An introduction to sediment transport, depositional processes, near campus. Geologic methods introduced include proper and stratigraphic analysis, with emphasis on interpretation field note-taking, mapping and measuring geologic structures, of sedimentary sequences and the reconstruction of past and interpreting geologic history. Culminating work introduces environments. Three lectures and one lab a week, plus a students to geologic illustration and report writing. A passing one-day field trip. Prerequisite: GEOL 101, 102, or 103 or grade requires full participation and engagement by the student permission of instructor. Recommended: GEOL B202 and before, during and after the field trip. At least one post-trip B203. meeting is held on campus to synthesize the material covered, Course does not meet an Approach and to go over students’ final reports. Prerequisite: GEOL B101, Counts toward Geoarchaeology B102 or B103; and GEOL B202, B203, B204 or B205. GEOL B206 Energy Resources and Sustainability Scientific Investigation (SI) Not offered 2021-22 GEOL B302 Low-Temperature Geochemistry An examination of issues concerning the supply of energy Not offered 2021-22 required by humanity. This includes an investigation of the geological framework that determines resource availability, Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most important aspects of energy production and resource development and subfields of the Earth sciences for understanding environmental the science of global climate change. Two 90-minute lectures a and climatic change. In this course, we will explore stable week. Suggested preparation: one year of college science. isotopic fundamentals and applications including a number of important case studies from the recent and deep time dealing Scientific Investigation (SI) with important biotic events in the fossil record and major Counts toward Environmental Studies climate changes. Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or GEOL 102, and at least one semester of chemistry or physics, or professor GEOL B208 Geology Super Lab approval.

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Environmental Studies Students will learn the fundamentals of geological laboratory analysis via measurements on geological materials chosen GEOL B304 Tectonics by the students. We will utilize the analytical equipment and Fall 2021 techniques available in the Geology Department including (but not limited to) X-ray diffractometry, thin-section petrography, Plate tectonics and continental orogeny are reviewed in light carbon isotope mass spectrometry, and inductively-coupled of the geologic record in selected mountain ranges and certain plasma mass spectrometry. Emphasis will be placed on geophysical data. Three hours of lecture and a problem session data processing and quantitative analysis of large datasets. a week. Prerequisite: GEOL 204 or permission of instructor. Prerequisites: GEOL 101, GEOL 202, one other 200 level GEOL B305 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology course, junior/senior status. Spring 2022 Scientific Investigation (SI) The study of igneous and metamorphic rocks, including GEOL B209 Natural Hazards their origins and modes of occurrence. The focus is on Spring 2022 understanding how these rocks form, and on applying a combination of field methods, laboratory techniques, and A quantitative approach to understanding the earth processes theoretical understanding to interpret the origins of igneous that impact human societies. We consider the past, current, and metamorphic rocks. The class will build on the study of and future hazards presented by geologic processes, including mineralogy by examining assemblages of coexisting minerals, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, and hurricanes. and what those assemblages reveal about the pressure, The course includes discussion of the social, economic, temperature, and chemical conditions under which a rock must and policy contexts within which natural geologic processes have formed. For a culminating term project we will conduct become hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary an intensive study of local metamorphic rocks. Three lecture and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. hours weekly and one weekly lab. One weekend field trip. Quantitative Methods (QM) Prerequisites: GEOL 202. Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) GEOL B310 Introduction to Geophysics Counts toward Environmental Studies Not offered 2021-22 An overview covering how geophysical observations of the GEOL B299 Geology Field Short Course Earth’s magnetic field, gravity field, heat flow, radioactivity, Fall 2021 and seismic waves provide a means to study plate tectonics Geology majors choosing to participate in the annual Fall- or and the earth’s interior. Three class hours a week with weekly Spring-Break Geology Department Field Trip must enroll in problem sets. Prerequisite: one year of college physics or with GEOL B299. Enrollment in this class does not guarantee a permission of professor. spot on the field trip. Several pre-trip class meetings help Counts toward Geoarchaeology maximize student engagement on the trip by providing a forum

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GEOL B314 Marine Geology early in the semester to plan the research and discuss gradable Not offered 2021-22 outcomes (e.g., final research paper). Requires permission of the instructor and the major advisor. An introduction to oceanography, coastal processes, and the geomorphology of temperate and tropical shorelines. GEOL B403 Supervised Research Includes an overview of the many parameters, including sea Optional laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics, level change, that shape coastal environments. Meets twice open to junior or senior majors. Interested students must weekly for a combination of lecture, discussion and hands- consult with department faculty members as early as possible, on exercises, including a mandatory multi-day field trip to preferably before the start of the semester, in order to choose investigate developed and pristine sections of the Mid-Atlantic a faculty supervisor. The student and faculty supervisor meet US coast. Prerequisite: One 200-level GEOL course OR one early in the semester to plan the research and discuss gradable GEOL course AND one BIOL course (any level), OR advanced outcomes (e.g., final research paper). Requires permission of BIOL major standing (junior or senior). the instructor and the major advisor. Counts toward Environmental Studies BIOL B236 Evolution GEOL B350 Advanced Topics in Geology Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Applachian Geology A lecture/discussion course on the development of evolutionary Section 001 (Fall 2020): Geology and Colonialism biology. This course will cover the history of evolutionary theory, Section 001 (Spring 2022): Nicaragua: Places and Names population genetics, molecular and developmental evolution, Section 002 (Spring 2021): Planetary Geology paleontology, and phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a Spring 2022 week. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics Scientific Investigation (SI) include Carbonate Petrology, Appalachian Geology, Advanced Evolution, The Snowball Controversy, and Climate Change. BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences Fall 2021 GEOL B399 Senior Capstone Seminar A study of how and why modern computation methods are A capstone seminar course required for all Geology majors. used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic principles All Geology seniors will be required to participate in this two- of visualizing and analyzing scientific data through hands-on semester seminar that meets weekly for 1.5 hours for a total programming exercises. The majority of the course will use of 1.0 credit (0.5 credits per semester). Enrollment required the R programming language and corresponding open source in two half-credit courses, one in the fall and one in the spring statistical software. Content will focus on data sets from across semester of the senior year. The focus of the seminar will be the sciences. Six hours of combined lecture/lab per week. to integrate the student’s major curriculum into open peer-led discussions on cutting edge research in the many diverse fields Quantitative Methods (QM) of Geology, to discuss the impact and relevance of Geology to Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) modern society, and to work on oral and written communication Scientific Investigation (SI) skills. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Counts toward Environmental Studies GEOL B400 Senior Thesis Counts toward Neuroscience At the discretion of the department faculty, rising seniors may undertake an independent thesis project in addition to mandatory full participation in the senior capstone seminar. GERMAN AND GERMAN STUDIES This student thesis is conducted under the supervision of a faculty advisor(s). The undertaking of a thesis is modeled after a Master’s thesis project, but is scaled down for the shorter Faculty time frame (one versus two years) and educational level of Qinna Shen, Associate Professor and Chair of German a senior undergraduate student. The thesis project plan is Margaret Strair, Visiting Instructor initially developed, and agreed upon by conference between the supervising faculty member(s) and the student. Most of The Bryn Mawr Department of German and German Studies is the research is conducted independently by the student. The the Bryn Mawr section of the Bi-College German Department advisor serves as a source of ideas concerning scientific and offers a fully coordinated program of courses with the literature, methodologies, and financial support. The advisor Haverford College Department of German. By drawing upon may visit and inspect the research sites, laboratory or model, the expertise of the German faculty at both colleges, the and offer advice on how the research should be conducted or Department has established a broadly conceived German modified. Studies program, incorporating a variety of courses that lay GEOL B403 Supervised Research the foundation for a critical understanding of German-speaking cultures in their contemporary global context and their larger Optional laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics, political, social, and intellectual history. open to junior or senior majors. Interested students must consult with department faculty members as early as possible, The program aims, by means of various methodological preferably before the start of the semester, in order to choose approaches to the study of foreign languages and cultures, a faculty supervisor. The student and faculty supervisor meet to foster critical thinking, expository and analytical writing

201 GERMAN AND GERMAN STUDIES skills, understanding of the diversity of cultures, and the ability Senior Thesis Project to respond creatively to the challenges posed by cultural difference in an increasingly global world. A senior thesis project is required for all German majors. There are four options available to German majors and double majors A thorough knowledge of German is required for our majors to serve as meaningful capstones to their studies: and minors. Our language instruction challenges students from the elementary level to become critical consumers of authentic 1. A senior thesis (around 40 pages) in German. media and skilled in all modes of communication. Cross- 2. A combined thesis (40 + pages) written in English for disciplinary course offerings reflect both the breadth and depth double majors in a related discipline with a strong German of our curriculum and support the academic and professional Studies component. A combined thesis has to be approved goals of our students. German majors can and are encouraged by the department. to take courses and cultivate interests in interdisciplinary areas, 3. A senior essay (20 pages) for double majors, which grows such as comparative literature, film, gender and sexuality out of a research paper produced in a 300 level seminar. studies, growth and structure of cities, health studies, history, Students pursing this option will not take the Senior history of art, music, philosophy, and political science that Conference and instead will take an additional 300 level engage with German thought. seminar. College Foreign Language Requirement 4. A project, which may be either a 15-20-minute film or an exhibition with a portfolio and summary in German. The The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied content of the project and portfolio should be equivalent to by the completion of two courses in German with an average a 40-page research paper in German. grade of at least 2.0. Senior Thesis Presentation Major Requirements At the conclusion of their senior year, all majors are expected The Department of German and German Studies offers a to participate in a public presentation of their thesis projects. major and a minor. A German major consists of 10 credits. After Minors are invited and encouraged to present on a project they completing German 002 (or its equivalent), the German major have done in their upper-level German coursework. normally requires: • two intermediate German courses (101 and 102); Department Learning Goals • seven courses at the 200 and 300 level The Bi-College German Department aims, through the study of

• either one semester of Senior Conference (GERM 400) German language, culture, and literature, to foster: for majors opting to write a German senior thesis or an • a thorough knowledge of German language additional 300 level seminar in German for double majors • critical thinking writing a senior essay instead of a senior thesis. • expository writing skills Students who place out of 101 and 102 and begin their studies at the 200 level are still required to take 10 credits to fulfill the • the mastery of critical theories and methodologies, crucial major requirements. Two of the seven courses at the 200 or for the analysis of cultural artifacts and media 300 level could be non-German credit in the broader area of • the ability to respond intellectually and creatively to the German Studies with the approval of the department. challenges posed by cultural difference in an increasingly The Department of German and German Studies offers writing multicultural and global world attentive and writing intensive courses. Majors are required to • interdisciplinary connections that reflect breadth and depth take two writing attentive courses to help them develop critical of the study of German writing skills and the ability to analyze literary texts in their historical and cultural contexts. Senior Project Learning Goals All German majors must take at least one 200 and one 300 In writing the senior thesis, the student should: level course in the Bi-Co German Department. For students studying abroad for one semester, up to four courses may • conceive a theoretically informed and well-designed count toward the major. For students studying abroad for an research project entire academic year, up to six courses may count toward the • apply the language skills to research and evaluate primary major. Approval from the department is required for awarding and secondary materials credits from abroad. • utilize the analytical and methodological skills to produce

Minor Requirements an innovative and critically astute thesis • hone analytical and expository writing skills through all A minor in German and German Studies consists of six credits. stages of composing the thesis project To minor, students are normally required to take: • two Intermediate German courses (101 and 102) Assessment of Senior Thesis • four German courses at the 200 and 300 level The quality of the thesis is evaluated on the basis of the

If students are placed at the 200 level, they must take following criteria: additional German courses at and above 200 level to fulfill the • originality of topic 6-credit requirement.

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• mastery of analysis (ability to perform a critical analysis of Completion of GERM 002 or its equivalent as decided by the texts or cultural phenomena) department and/or placement test. • familiarity with primary and secondary literature Course does not meet an Approach • creative application of relevant theoretical discourses GERM B102 Intermediate German • clarity of writing Spring 2022 Honors This course is the continuation of GERM 101 (Intermediate German). We will concentrate on all four language skills- Any student whose grade point average in the major at the end -speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension. of their senior year is 3.8 or higher qualifies for departmental We will build on the knowledge that students gained in the honors. Students who have completed a thesis and whose elementary-level courses and then honed in GERM 101. Class major grade point average at the end of the senior year is 3.6 or will meet for an additional hour with a TA. This course will also higher, but not 3.8, are eligible to be discussed as candidates provide students with an introduction to selected aspects of for departmental honors. A student in this range of eligibility German culture. Prerequisite: GERM 101 or its equivalent as must be sponsored by at least one faculty member with whom decided by the department she has done coursework, and at least one other faculty member must read some of the student’s advanced work and Course does not meet an Approach agree on the excellence of the work in order for departmental honors to be awarded. If there is a sharp difference of opinion, GERM B201 Advanced Training: Language, Text, Context additional readers will serve as needed. Not offered 2021-22 Emphasis on the development of conversational, writing and Study Abroad interpretive skills through an introductory study of German Students majoring in German are encouraged to spend some political, cultural and intellectual life and history, including public time in German-speaking countries over the course of their debate, institutional practices, mass media, cross-cultural undergraduate studies. Various possibilities include: currents, folklore, fashion and advertising. Taught in German.

• summer intensive German language programs Course content may vary. • summer courses at German funded by DAAD GERM B202 Introduction to German Studies (German Academic Exchange) scholarships and the Section 001 (Spring 2021): Lit for Children/Young Adults Thomas Raeburn White Scholarship Not offered 2021-22 • select semester and year-long study abroad programs including the Junior Year Abroad in Munich or IES This is a topics courses. Topics may vary. Programs in Berlin and Freiburg. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Courses GERM B212 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the Rhetoric of GERM B001 Elementary German Modernity Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 Meets five hours a week with the individual class instructor, This course examines selected writings by Marx, Nietzsche, an additional one hour with a TA. Strong emphasis on and Freud as pre-texts for a critique of cultural reason communicative competence both in spoken and written German and underlines their contribution to questions of language, in a larger cultural context. representation, history, ethics, and art. These three visionaries of modernity have translated the abstract metaphysics of Course does not meet an Approach “the history of the subject” into a concrete analysis of human experience. Their work has been a major influence on the GERM B002 Elementary German Frankfurt School of critical theory and has also led to a Spring 2022 revolutionary shift in the understanding and writing of history Meets five hours a week with the individual class instructor, and literature now associated with the work of modern French and one additional hour with a TA. Strong emphasis on philosophers Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, communicative competence both in spoken and written and Jacques Lacan. Our readings will, therefore, also include German in a larger cultural context. Prerequisite: GERM 001 or short selections from these philosophers in order to analyze its equivalent or permission of instructor the contested history of modernity and its intellectual and moral consequences. Special attention will be paid to the relation

Course does not meet an Approach between rhetoric and philosophy and the narrative forms of “the philosophical discourse(s) of modernity” (e.g., sermon GERM B101 Intermediate German and myth in Marx; aphorism and oratory in Nietzsche, myth, Fall 2021 fairy tale, case hi/story in Freud). Course is taught in English. Thorough review of grammar, exercises in composition and One additional hour will be added for those students wanting conversation. Enforcement of correct grammatical patterns German credit. Course counts toward Philosophy. and idiomatic use of language. Study of selected literary and Critical Interpretation (CI) cultural texts and films from German-speaking countries. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Class will meet for an additional hour with a TA. Prerequisite:

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GERM B217 Representing Diversity in German Cinema by Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Ana Castillo, Sigmund Freud, Spring 2022 Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, Kurban Said, and German society has undergone drastic changes as a result others. of immigration. Traditional notions of Germanness have been and are still being challenged and subverted. This course Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) uses films and visual media to examine the experiences of Critical Interpretation (CI) various minority groups living in Germany. Students will learn Counts toward International Studies about the history of immigration of different ethnic groups, GERM B262 Topics: Film and the German Literary including Turkish Germans, Afro-Germans, Asian Germans, Imagination Arab Germans, German Jews, and ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. We will explore discourses on migration, Not offered 2021-22 racism, xenophobia, integration, and citizenship. We will seek This is a topics course. Course content varies. to understand not only the historical and contemporary contexts for these films but also their relevance for reshaping German Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) society. Students will be introduced to modern German cinema Critical Interpretation (CI) from the silent era to the present. They will acquire terminology Counts toward Film Studies and methods for reading films as fictional and aesthetic GERM B316 Berlin in German Literature and Film representations of history and politics, and analyze identity Not offered 2021-22 construction in the worlds of the real and the reel. This course is taught in English. Taught in German. The major focus of this course is the spatialization of memory and history in exemplary novels and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) films on Berlin. These works analyze the palimpsestic sites of Critical Interpretation (CI) the city as a quasi- of political upheavals, public life, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies fine arts, the star-crossed German-Jewish symbiosis, World GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies War II, and the cultures of the two postwar German states. Berlin underwent a tumultuous history in the twentieth century Section 001 (Fall 2021): Seeing and Being Seen and encapsulates a kaleidoscope of modern German history, Fall 2021 culture, and social life. Having served as the capital city of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1871), the German Empire (1871- This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics 1918), the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), the Third Reich include Remembered Violence, Global Masculinities, and Crime (1933-1945), East Germany during the Cold War (1945-1990), and Detection in German. and the reunified Germany, Berlin has captured different Current topic description: Seeing and Being Seen: Vision and strata of history in its architecture, art, music, literature, and Visuality: This course explores the issues of vision, visibility film. Since reunification, Berlin has been thriving and has and visuality during the visual turn in Middle Ages in present become one of the most vibrant metropoles of the world, at day German speaking regions. In the courtly setting the gaze once commemorating its past and addressing the constant reigned as a form of social surveillance. Elsewhere, mystics challenges of an ever-changing world. Prerequisites: Placed at such as Hildegard von Bingen and Beguine Mechthild von the advanced level in placement test; a 200-level course taught Magdeburg write down impressive visions of God and religious in German or with permission of instructor. life, asserting a powerful form of female authorship. Vision was also tied to writing, memory practices, descriptive story-telling, GERM B320 Topics in German Literature and Culture reflecting the social parameters and pressures of the period. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Funny Germans Beyond the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern, notions of Section 001 (Spring 2021): Shadows of German Romanticism vision begin to shift as Age of Reason dawns and illuminates other ways of being in and knowing the world. We will explore Fall 2021 the diverse forms of textual transmission in the premodern era, This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in focusing on the courtly epic, Minnesang, conduct books, song German. books, and intersections with visual culture with an emphasis Current topic description: Funny Germans: Humor and Satire on text-image relationships. from the Enlightenment to the Present: Humor and satire Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) often serve as strategies to criticize political power and social Critical Interpretation (CI) malaise. The course acquaints students with seminal German authors/filmmakers and major historical and literary periods, GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile as well as with the German way of creating humor and satire. Not offered 2021-22 The works chosen for this class range from the Enlightenment to the present, including Lessing, Kleist, Heine, Mann, Brecht, This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, Valentin, Biermann, Loriot, Wilder, Dörrie, and others. It will psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. change the stereotype about Germans and illustrate that in fact It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context there exists within German culture a rich tradition of subversive of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship humor and political satire. between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi- GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works Not offered 2021-22

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This is a topics course. Course content varies. Course is taught Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in English. There will an additional hour in German for those Critical Interpretation (CI) students taking the course for German credit. Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies

GERM B400 Senior Seminar COML B293 The Play of Interpretation

Senior Seminar. Students are required to write a long research Not offered 2021-22 paper with an annotated bibliography. Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and GERM B403 Supervised Work media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation GERM B403 Supervised Work in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be GERM B421 German for Reading Knowledge studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern This course is designed to prepare students to read and critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular translate challenging academic texts from German into English. culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our It presents an intensive examination of basic German grammar understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, and syntax, together with strategies that will enable students and the trials of modernity. to read and understand German texts essential for advanced Critical Interpretation (CI) study or learning in disciplines across the arts, social sciences, Counts toward International Studies and humanities. Previous experience in German is an asset, but is not a class prerequisite. This course does not fulfill the FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Language Requirement. Humanities COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local Not offered 2021-22 Practices and Global Resonance By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of Not offered 2021-22 the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students The course is in English. It examines the ban on books, films, with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The and art in a global context through a study of the historical selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory and sociopolitical conditions of censorship practices. This (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the semester our focus will be on Germany and China. The course currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: raises such questions as how censorship is used to fortify Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and political power, how it is practiced locally and globally, who Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short censors, what are the categories of censorship, how censorship stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, succeeds and fails, and how writers and artists write and Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of create against and within censorship. The last question leads theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and artists an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for employ to translate the expression of repression, trauma, and French credit. torture into idioms of resistance. Current focus: Censorship in Germany and China. German majors/minors can get German Critical Interpretation (CI) Studies credit. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing course. ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures Spring 2022 What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist COML B242 German Encounters w East Asia: A manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and Transnational Cinema Course films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object Not offered 2021-22 oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from Due to increased mobility in the age of globalization, the different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender encounter between East and West has shifted from the and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece imaginary to the real. Actual encounters provide the potential from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings for debunking cultural myths and prejudices that an orientalist to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will lens tended to produce. East and West both carry their own discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and traditions, value systems, and distinct cultural identities. This of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we sparks conflicts, but also generates mutual interest. In present- are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour day Germany, the Asian-German connection constitutes in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. a neglected aspect of multicultural discourses and thus deserves more scrutiny. This transnational film course focuses Critical Interpretation (CI) specifically on encounters between German-speaking countries Counts toward Africana Studies and East Asia. Using film as the main medium, this course Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies touches on prominent issues such as orientalism, race, gender, Counts toward Film Studies class, nation, and identity, which have been much studied by literary and cultural critics in recent years. 205 GERMAN AND GERMAN STUDIES / GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES

GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL as the College Year in Athens or the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. STUDIES Classical Culture and Society Faculty This bi-college major is designed to allow the student to use a strong foundation in Greek or Latin as the springboard for a Annette Baertschi, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and focused study of the culture and society of classical antiquity, Classical Studies and Director of the Graduate Group (on leave concentrating in one of the following areas: archaeology and semesters I and II) art history, philosophy and religion, literature and the classical Catherine Baker, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the tradition, history and society. Humanities Catherine Conybeare, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities Major Requirements and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies The requirements for the major, in addition to the Senior

Radcliffe Edmonds, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair Seminar and thesis, are nine courses distributed as follows: of the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies • Two courses in either Latin or Greek beyond the

Erin Lam, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellow elementary level

Carman Romano, Visiting Instructor • One course in Greek and/or Roman history Asya Sigelman, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin and • Three courses, at least two of which are at the 200 level or

Classical Studies higher, in one of the following concentrations: ◦ archaeology and art history, Haverford ◦ philosophy and religion, Matthew Farmer, Associate Professor of Classics ◦ literature and the classical tradition, Bret Mulligan, Associate Professor and Chair of Classics ◦ history and society Ava Shirazi, Assistant professor of Classics • Three electives, at least one of which is at the 200-level Deborah Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Classics or higher, and one of which is must be among the courses Hannah Silverblank, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics counted toward the history/society concentration (except in the case of students in that concentration)

There are four different tracks for undergraduates who wish In addition to completing the course requirements for the major to major within our department: Classical Culture and Society in Classical Culture and Society, every student must fulfill the (CCAS), Classical Language (CLAN), Greek (GREK), and requisite training in writing within the discipline by taking as part Latin (LATN). Each track has a different set of requirements, of her major plan two courses that are designated as Writing but each involves a combination of courses in the ancient Attentive or a single course designated as Writing Intensive. languages and courses in translation. Courses in Greek The student may count a Writing Attentive or Intensive course (GREK) and Latin (LATN) involve the study of the ancient that is taught outside the department if it is included in the language and reading texts in that language. Courses for which major plan. a knowledge of Greek or Latin is not required are listed under Classical Studies (CSTS). Minor Requirements In addition to the sequence of courses specified for each major, The requirements for the minor are six courses drawn from the all majors are expected to have read through the Classics range of courses counted toward the major. Of these, two must Reading List before they participate in the Senior Seminar, a be in Greek or Latin beyond the elementary level and at least required full-year course. In the first term, students refine their one must be in classical culture and society at the 200-level. ability to read, discuss, and critique classical texts through engagement with scholarship from various fields of Classics, Classical Languages while laying the groundwork for their senior thesis research. In The Classical Languages major offers students the opportunity the second term, they conduct independent research, to gain proficiency in both Greek and Latin and to explore culminating in a substantial thesis paper and a presentation to classical texts and the literary, historical, and philosophical the department. contexts in which they emerged. In addition to completing the course requirements for each type of major (Classical Culture and Society, Classical Languages, Major Requirements Greek, or Latin), every student must fulfill the requisite training The requirements for the major, in addition to the Senior in writing within the discipline by taking as part of her major Seminar and the thesis, are eight courses in Greek and Latin plan two courses that are designated as Writing Attentive or including at least two at the 200-level in one language and two a single course designated as Writing Intensive. The student at the 300-level or above in the other, as well as two courses may count a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught in ancient history and/or classical archaeology. In addition to outside the department if it is included in the major plan. completing the course requirements for the major in Classical Students, according to their concentrations, are encouraged to Languages, every student must fulfill the requisite training in consider a term of study during junior year in programs such writing within the discipline by taking as part of her major plan two courses that are designated as Writing Attentive or a single

206 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES course designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count by completing two semesters of Latin with an average grade a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the of at least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or better in the second department if it is included in the major plan. There are two final semester. examinations, a sight translation from Greek to English and another from Latin to English Major Requirements Requirements for the major are two courses in Latin at the Greek 100 level, two literature courses at the 200 level, two literature The major in Greek is designed to acquaint the students with courses at the 300 level, HIST 207 or 208, Senior Seminar the various aspects of Greek culture through a mastery of the and thesis, and two courses to be selected from the following: language and a comprehension of Greek history, mythology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at the 100 level religion, and the other basic forms of expression through which or above; Greek at the 100 level or above; French, Italian the culture developed. The works of poets, philosophers, and or Spanish at the 200 level or above. Courses taken at the historians are studied both in their historical context and in Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome are relation to subsequent Western thought. Students who major accepted as part of the major. in Greek pursue an intensive curriculum in the language, and in In addition to completing the course requirements for the Latin addition do work at the advanced level in allied fields. major, every student must fulfill the requisite training in writing within the discipline by taking as part of her major plan two College Foreign Language Requirement courses that are designated as Writing Attentive or a single The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied course designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count by completing two semesters of Greek with an average grade a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the of at least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or better in the second department if it is included in the major plan. semester. By the end of the senior year, majors will be required to have completed successfully a sight translation examination from Major Requirements Latin to English. Requirements in the major are two courses in Greek at the introductory level, two courses at the 100 level, two courses at Minor Requirements the 200 level, one course at the 300 level (or above) and the Requirements for the minor are normally six courses in Latin, Senior Seminar and the thesis. including one at the 300-level. For non-majors, two literature Also required are three courses to be distributed as follows: courses at the 200-level must be taken as a prerequisite for one in Greek history, one in Greek archaeology, and one in admission to a 300-level course. Greek philosophy. In addition to completing the course requirements for the Greek Courses major, every student must fulfill the requisite training in writing ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern within the discipline by taking as part of her major plan two Archaeology courses that are designated as Writing Attentive or a single course designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count Spring 2022 a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the ancient department if it is included in the major plan. Near East and Egypt. By the end of the senior year, majors will be required to have Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) completed a sight translation examination from Greek to Inquiry into the Past (IP) English. Counts toward Africana Studies Prospective majors in Greek are advised to take Greek in Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies their first year. Greek majors interested in pursuing advanced degrees are advised also to have a firm grounding in Latin. ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology Fall 2021 Minor Requirements A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, Requirements for a minor in Greek are two courses at the Etruria, and Rome. introductory level, two courses at the 100 level, two courses at Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the 200 level. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies Latin The Major in Latin is designed to acquaint the student with ARCH B110 The World Through Classical Eyes Roman literature, history, and culture, which are examined both Not offered 2021-22 in their classical context and as influences on the medieval, Renaissance, and modern world. Students who major in Latin A survey of the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans pursue an intensive curriculum in the language, and in addition perceived and constructed their physical and social world. The do work at the advanced level in an allied field. evidence of ancient texts and monuments will form the basis for exploring such subjects as cosmology, geography, travel College Foreign Language Requirement and commerce, ancient ethnography and anthropology, the idea of natural and artificial wonders, and the self-definition The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied

207 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES of the classical cultures in the context of the oikoumene, the suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines constructions of “inhabited world.” Cleopatra in Roman literature, her iconography in surviving art, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and her contributions to and influence on both Ptolemaic and Inquiry into the Past (IP) Roman art. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife of Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, and film ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World of both Europe and the United States, extending from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy and Shakespearean drama,

Fall 2021 to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph This course focuses on perceptions of animals in ancient Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film, Cleopatra. Greece from the Geometric to the Classical periods. It Critical Interpretation (CI) examines representations of animals in painting, sculpture, Inquiry into the Past (IP) and the minor arts, the treatment of animals as attested in the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies archaeological record, and how these types of evidence relate to the featuring of animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, ARCH B263 Roman Archaeology: Life in the City comedy, and medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing this rich body of evidence, the course develops a context in Not offered 2021-22 which participants gain insight into the ways ancient Greeks This course explores the art and architecture of ancient Rome perceived, represented, and treated animals. Juxtaposing from the Republic through the Empire. By focusing on specific the importance of animals in modern society, as attested, for topics, such as residences, markets, religious life, death and example, by their roles as pets, agents of healing, diplomatic entertainment, and by surveying a rich variety of available gifts, and even as subjects of specialized studies such as evidence that spans from architectural remains, inscriptions and animal law and animal geographies, the course also serves monuments to paintings, architectural sculpture and mosaics, to expand awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own the course highlights the importance of art historical and society as well as that of ancient Greece. archaeological inquiry for our understanding of urban life and

Critical Interpretation (CI) experience in one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B215 Classical Art Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B306 Monumental Painting

A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from Not offered 2021-22 the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 The Mediterranean tradition of large-scale painting begins in B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are prehistoric times and continues through Late Antiquity and examined in historical and social context, including interactions beyond. Important examples survive on the walls of houses, with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and tombs and other structures at sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, interpretive issues are highlighted. in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Anatolia, Macedonia, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Magna Graecia, and Etruria, Rome and the famous sites of Inquiry into the Past (IP) Pompeii and Hercul- aneum preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Technical, artistic, cultural and interpretive issues will ARCH B252 Pompeii be considered. Spring 2022 Counts toward Museum Studies

Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site whose ARCH B504 Archaeology of Greek Religion destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the Fall 2021 mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek religion views of the Roman past as well as styles and preferences of by focusing on surviving archaeological, architectural, the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence that dates from life, city structure, residential architecture, home decoration and the Archaic and Classical periods. By examining a wealth furnishing, wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile of diverse evidence that ranges, for example, from temple activities within a Roman city. architecture, and feasting and banqueting equipment to Inquiry into the Past (IP) inscriptions, statues, vase paintings, and descriptive texts, Counts toward Museum Studies the course enables the participants to analyze the value and complexity of the archaeology of Greek religion and to ARCH B254 Cleopatra recognize its significance for the reconstruction of daily life in ancient Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such

Fall 2021 as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of animal This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, the sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive offerings and last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception of her legacy also the important position of festivals and hero and mystery in the Early Roman Empire and the western world from the cults in ancient Greek religious thought and experience. Renaissance to modern times. The first part of the course explores extant literary evidence regarding the upbringing, CSTS B108 Roman Africa education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian Spring 2022 and Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her death by In 146 BCE, Rome conquered and destroyed the North

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African city of Carthage, which had been its arch-enemy history of classical antiquity. No previous knowledge of the for generations, and occupied many of the Carthaginian ancient world is required. settlements in North Africa. But by the second and third Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) centuries CE, North Africa was one of the most prosperous and cultured areas of the Roman Empire, and Carthage CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics (near modern Tunis) was one of the busiest ports in the

Mediterranean. This course will trace the relations between Not offered 2021-22 Rome and Carthage, looking at the history of their mutual Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), enmity, the extraordinary rise to prosperity of Roman North has been a figure of continuous fascination and political Africa, and the continued importance of the region even after resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and the Vandal invasions of the fifth century. enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined Counts toward Africana Studies by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will CSTS B201 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first Not offered 2021-22 part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and has been a figure of continuous fascination and political the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and Counts toward Film Studies the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, CSTS B205 Greek History and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to Not offered 2021-22 HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day This course traces the rise of the city-state (polis) in the Greek- advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues speaking world beginning in the seventh-century BC down to its such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and full blossoming in classical Athens and Sparta. Students should the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. gain an understanding of the formation and development of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Greek identity, from the Panhellenic trends in archaic epic and religion through its crystallization during the heroic defense Inquiry into the Past (IP) against two Persian invasions and its subsequent disintegration during the Peloponnesian war. The class will also explore the CSTS B203 Technology and Humanity in the Ancient World ways in which the evolution of political, philosophical, religious, Not offered 2021-22 and artistic institutions reflect the changing socio-political In this course, we will study the development, impact, and circumstances of Greece. The latter part of the course will focus ethical implications of technology in the ancient world. While on Athens in particular: its rise to imperial power under Pericles, investigating the attitudes toward technology expressed by its tragic decline from the Peloponnesian War and its important scientific and non-scientific authors of the Graeco-Roman role as a center for the teaching of rhetoric and philosophy. world, students will be exposed to perspectives and methods Since the study of history involves the analysis, evaluation, from a variety of disciplines including literary studies, and synthesis of the sources available for the culture studied, anthropology, social psychology, and 4E cognition, engaging students will concentrate upon the primary sources available for with questions related to areas of social justice, human Greek history, exploring the strengths and weakness of these ecology, artificial intelligence, urban planning, environmental sources and the ways in which their evidence can be used to management, and medicine. Through readings by authors such create an understanding of ancient Greece. Students should as Aristophanes, Euripides, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius learn how to analyze and evaluate the evidence from primary and Galen, we will discuss the technologies used to aid texts and to synthesize the information from multiple sources in memory, carry out calculative activities, perform labor, influence a critical way. human behavior, and improve quality of life. In addition to Inquiry into the Past (IP) gaining a broad understanding of ancient technologies (real and imagined), students will a) become familiar with the major CSTS B206 Cosmos: Myth, Medicine, and Law in Ancient periods and events of Graeco-Roman history and be able to Greece contextualize attitudes towards technology within those periods; Not offered 2021-22 b) become familiar with the styles of literature and material arts during major periods of Graeco-Roman history, and c) develop The ancient Greek word ‘cosmos’ means ‘order’ or ‘system’; it skills necessary for reading primary texts (literary, philosophical, also means ‘beauty’ or ‘adornment’. The Greeks thought of the and historical) as documents representing the intellectual world around them as an orderly system, adorned with beauty, 209 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES but their imaginings of that order took many different forms, CSTS B211 Masks, Madness, and Mysteries: Introduction from the most fantastic of myths to elaborate mathematical to Greek Tragedy and physiological models. This course explores the systems Spring 2022 of order that the Greeks imagined for the universe - the macrocosm, for the human body - the microcosm, and for This course will introduce the student to the world of Greek society - the the system of laws that brings order to humans Tragedy as it flourished in Athens in 5th century BC. We will in the world. Throughout the course, we examine the ways read the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and ideas of generation, justice, and gender inflect the cosmic discuss the playwrights’ treatment of myth, the role of the systems, beginning with early Greek epic and moving through chorus, the relation between text and performance, and the the philosophical texts (especially Plato’s Timaeus), Hippocratic relevance of Greek tragedy for subsequent centuries, down medical treatises, and lawcourt speeches. We will explore to the present day. Special attention will be given to modern the discourses of myth, science, and law in the ancient Greek performances of these ancient plays in theater and in film as context and their relation to contemporary discourses. Students well as to the themes of choral voice, disability, euthanasia, will gain familiarity with the conceptual schemas of ancient slavery; the impact of war on women and children; and the Greek thought that have been fundamental for cosmology, relation between mortals and immortals. Please Note: NO medicine, and law in the Western tradition and will learn to KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT GREEK IS REQUIRED. ALL analyze the ways in which these models have shaped ideas TEXTS WILL BE READ IN ENGLISH! of generation, justice, and gender throughout the ages. Critical Interpretation (CI) Students will also improve their skills of critical reading and Inquiry into the Past (IP) analytic writing through their work with the readings and writing assignments in the course, and they will hone their skills of CSTS B221 Women of Roman Egypt reasoned discussion in the class. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course aims to be an introduction to the history of CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic female persons in the ancient world. It focuses particularly on Roman Egypt, but covers a broad range of material Not offered 2021-22 spanning the period of 300 BCE - 476 CE. Students engage This course surveys the history of Rome from its origins to the with a number of historical issues, such as legal personhood, end of the Republic, with special emphasis on the rise of Rome access to education, political protest, economic freedom, in Italy and the evolution of the Roman state. The course also religious practice, etc.. Students will acquire familiarity with examines the Hellenistic world in which the rise of Rome takes a) Egypt as a part of the Greco-Roman world; b) the role of place. The methods of historical investigation using the ancient women in both Egyptian society and Rome more generally; sources, both literary and archaeological, are emphasized. and c) the written sources available for the study of female experience in the ancient world. Because the course focuses Inquiry into the Past (IP) on the social, cultural, and institutional environments in which women operated, the topic offers itself as a useful study of CSTS B208 The Roman Empire the ancient world as a whole, as well as to particular issues Fall 2021 of representation and authority. By the end of the course, Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the House of students will have general understanding of Egypt as a part of Constantine with focus on the evolution of Roman culture and the Graeco-Roman world, a keen understanding of how women society as presented in the surviving ancient evidence, both operated in the society of Ancient Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 450 literary and archaeological. CE), and the ability to form arguments about the historical relevance of our sources. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) CSTS B210 The Arts of Persuasion Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2021 In this course, we will read ancient Greek and Latin material not CSTS B226 Ecology of the Roman World as passive vehicles but as agents. Indeed, we will assume that Not offered 2021-22 the authors of what we now call “literature” and the characters embedded within it aimed to convince, persuade, and cajole In this course, we will study Roman attitudes toward the natural their ancient audience members and that they retain the world, reconstructing the environment in which Roman urban power to convince us, too. Although this course focuses on centers flourished. While investigating the attitudes towards primary sources in translation, secondary readings will support the environment that the Romans expressed through their our understanding of their cultural context. We will engage myths, poetry, philosophy, and material culture, students will with a broad constellation of ancient material, from explicitly gain exposure to perspectives and methods from a variety argumentative forensic speeches and philosophy to subtly of disciplines including literary studies, archaeology and art discursive scenes of seduction. Throughout the semester, we history, anthropology, social psychology, and 4E cognition. will keep in mind not only the goal of an author or character’s Through readings by authors such as Cato, Varro, Columella, persuasive speech, but analyze how he or she modulates her Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Pliny and Seneca, we rhetoric to convince a peer, a superior, a group, or even a god! will discuss agriculture and pre-industrial economies, social (re)evolution, disease and famine, resource exploitation, and

Critical Interpretation (CI) human interaction with the landscape through engineering. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of how the Romans

210 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES interacted with and explained the world around them (and how the ancient world and the techniques and devices they used to they used that world to explain themselves), students will a) serve their clientele, as well as the cultural contexts in which become familiar with the major periods and events of Roman these ideas of magic arose. We shall consider ancient tablets history and be able to contextualize attitudes towards nature and spell books as well as literary descriptions of magic in the and the environment within those periods; b) become familiar light of theories relating to the religious, political, and social with the styles of literature and material arts during major contexts in which magic was used. periods of Roman history, and c) develop skills necessary for Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) reading primary texts (literary, philosophical, and historical) as documents representing the intellectual history of the Roman CSTS B310 Forming the Classics: From Papyrus to Print world. No previous knowledge of the ancient world is required. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) 17This course will trace the constitution of Classics as a CSTS B232 Relating (to) the gods discipline in both its intellectual and its material aspects, and will examine how the works of classical antiquity were read, Spring 2022 interpreted, and preserved from the late Roman empire to the How did ancient Greeks and Romans imagine their gods? How early modern period. Topics will include the material production did they communicate with them? And what, exactly, happened and dissemination of texts, the conceptual organization when the gods talked back? In this course, we will grapple of codices (e.g. punctuation, rubrication, indexing), and with questions of why and how ancient people interacted with audiences and readers (including annotation, marginalia, and what anthropologists call “Invisible Others”: those not always commentary). Students will also learn practical techniques perceptible beings with whom human beings nonetheless for approaching these texts, such as palaeography and the engage. To do so, we will be guided by a broad range of Greek expansion of abbreviations. The course will culminate in and Latin material in translation, including but not limited to student research projects using manuscripts and early printed magical texts, prayers, hymns, philosophical discourse, and books from Bryn Mawr’s exceptional collections. Prerequisite: a mythic narratives that depict and/or invite the often disastrous, 200 level course in Greek, Latin, or Classical Studies. sometimes miraculous, and always fascinating interaction between mortal and deity. CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Fall 2021 The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and CSTS B240 (Re)Productions from Antiquity to Modernity fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and Spring 2022 elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see How might Ancient Greek and Roman values regarding leisure how some of these stories have been read and understood, time, labor, poetic production, and reproduction intersect with recounted and revised, in various cultures and eras, from those of modern capitalism? Why are texts considered the ancient tellings to modern movies. We will also explore some children of ancient (male) authors, and where do women fit into of the interpretive theories by which these tales have been this textual reproductive activity? What does a queer (i.e. non- understood, from ancient allegory to modern structural and essentialist, non-binary) reproduction look like? What makes semiotic theories. The student should gain a more profound art art, and does the reproduction of art, such as Roman copies understanding of the meaning of these myths to the Greeks of Greek statues, entail the loss of some special uncapturable themselves, of the cultural context in which they were quality? This course considers the above questions, formulated. At the same time, this course should provide the investigating ancient and modern cultural attitudes towards (re) student with some familiarity with the range of interpretations production through intersectional feminist and queer theory. and strategies of understanding that people of various cultures Students will explore modern textual and filmic representations and times have applied to the Greek myths during the more of pregnancy, abortion, creation, domestic labor, and artistic than two millennia in which they have been preserved. labor to enrich their readings of ancient texts. Texts will include Preference to upperclassmen, previous coursework in myth

Ancient Greek tragedies such as Euripides’ Medea and required. Sophocles’ Antigone, Latin poetry such as Horace’s Ars Poetica CSTS B398 Senior Seminar and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, novels such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in and films such as My Fair Lady, and modern poetry by Johanna discussion of selected topics in the various sub-fields of Hedva and Dionne Brand. Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary critical approaches to the Critical Interpretation (CI) primary sources. Students will also begin developing a topic Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies for their senior thesis, composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary presentation of their findings. CSTS B242 Magic in the Greco-Roman World Not offered 2021-22 CSTS B399 Senior Seminar Bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, amulets This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working with individual and talismans - from the simple spells designed to meet the advisors from the bi-college classics departments, students will needs of the poor and desperate to the complex theurgies of continue to develop the topic sketched out in the fall semester. the philosophers, the people of the Greco-Roman World made By the end of the course, they will have completed at least one use of magic to try to influence the world around them. In this draft and a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which course students will gain an understanding of the magicians of they will give a final oral presentation.

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CSTS B403 Supervised Work on case studies from across the region, especially in the western Mediterranean, we will explore the nature of this CSTS B425 Praxis III: Independent Study colonial phenomenon, with a particular focus on the ways in Counts toward Praxis Program which ancient sources, archaeological evidence, and modern approaches and agendas have shaped and re-shaped our CSTS B610 Forming the Classics: From Papyrus to Print understanding of the colonization process, colonial networks and landscapes, and the interaction between colonial Spring 2022 communities and their neighbors. This course will trace the constitution of Classics as a discipline in both its intellectual and its material aspects, and will examine CSTS B639 Italy and the Rise of Rome how the works of classical antiquity were read, interpreted, Not offered 2021-22 and preserved from the late Roman empire to the early modern period. Topics will include the material production and This course examines the archaeology and history of the dissemination of texts, the conceptual organization of codices Italian peninsula in the first millennium BCE, with a particular (e.g. punctuation, rubrication, indexing), and audiences and focus on the dynamics of Rome’s rise from small settlement readers (including annotation, marginalia, and commentary). to the dominant power on the Italian peninsula. Through Students will also learn practical techniques for approaching an examination of the textual, epigraphic, numismatic, and these texts, such as palaeography and the expansion of archaeological evidence from Rome and the other major abbreviations. The course will culminate in student research powers in Italy in this period, including the Etruscans, Samnites, projects using manuscripts and early printed books from Bryn and Greek colonial cities, we investigate the major debates Mawr’s exceptional collections. Prerequisite: a 200 level course and issues surrounding Rome’s rise to power, including the in Greek, Latin, or Classical Studies. nature of Roman imperialism, processes of “Romanization” or acculturation among non-Romans, and the social and political CSTS B612 The Literature of Exile conflicts and pressures which played a role in shaping the character of the Roman state in the first millennium BCE. Not offered 2021-22 This graduate seminar will introduce students to a range of CSTS B645 Ancient Magic writings produced by exiles, both Roman and “Greek,” in the Not offered 2021-22 twilight of the Roman Republic and the first centuries of the Roman Empire. The purpose of the course is to allow students Magic - the word evokes the mysterious and the marvelous, the to examine various facets of exilic experience, including: grief, forbidden and the hidden, the ancient and the arcane. But what nostalgia, alienation, patriotism, and identity. Students will did magic mean to the people who coined the term, the people also consider how Roman imperial expansion conditioned the of ancient Greece and Rome? Drawing on the expanding circumstances of exile and how exiles positioned themselves in body of evidence for ancient magical practices, as well as relation to imperial power. Throughout the course, students will recent theoretical approaches to the history of religions, this pay attention the manner in which both the genre of the exilic seminar explores the varieties of phenomena labeled magic works under examination and the philosophical commitments in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Bindings and curses, love of their authors affect the depiction of exile. One session of the charms and healing potions, amulets and talismans - from course will be devoted to the reception of these texts in later the simple spells designed to meet the needs of the poor and periods. Primary sources are intended to be read in the original desperate to the complex theurgies of the philosophers, the languages, but students with an interest in the topic who do not people of the Greco-Roman world did not only imagine what possess knowledge of Greek and/or Latin may make special magic could do, they also made use of magic to try to influence arrangements with the instructor. the world around them. The seminar examines the primary texts in Greek, the tablets and spell books, as well as literary CSTS B614 Language and Loss descriptions of magic, in the light of theories relating to the religious, political, and social contexts in which magic was Not offered 2021-22 used. In Lyric Philosophy, Jan Zwicky remarks that “loss is perhaps the ultimate philosophical problem.” In this seminar--a CSTS B675 Interpreting Mythology joint venture of Bryn Mawr classical studies and Villanova Fall 2021 philosophy--we will explore languages of loss and their uneasy place within philosophical forms of liberation. Our main The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and readings will be Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, Augustine’s fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and De magistro and Confessions, and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see Investigations. No proficiency in Latin is required for the course how some of these stories have been read and understood, (we will be reading texts in translation), but students who do recounted and revised, in various cultures and eras, from have proficiency will have opportunities to make use of it. ancient tellings to modern movies. We will also explore some of the interpretive theories by which these tales have been CSTS B638 Colonies and Colonization in the Ancient understood, from ancient allegory to modern structural and Mediterranean semiotic theories. The student should gain a more profound understanding of the meaning of these myths to the Greeks Not offered 2021-22 themselves, of the cultural context in which they were This course examines the history and archaeology formulated. At the same time, this course should provide the of Phoenician, Greek, and Roman colonization in the student with some familiarity with the range of interpretations Mediterranean during the 1st millennium BCE. Drawing and strategies of understanding that people of various cultures

212 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES and times have applied to the Greek myths during the more GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides than two millennia in which they have been preserved. Fall 2021 CSTS B701 Supervised Work This course is designed to introduce the student to two of the Fall 2021, Spring 2022 greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. These two writers set the GREK B010 Traditional and New Testament Greek terms in the disciplines of philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers and historians today continue to grapple

Fall 2021 with their ideas and influence. The brilliant and controversial This is the first half of a year-long introductory course to ancient statesman Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in Greek. It is designed to familiarize students with the basic this course (Plato’s Symposium and Thucydides’ History of the elements of classical Greek grammar and syntax as well as to Peloponnesian War), and we examine the ways in which both provide them with experience in reading short sentences and authors handle the figure of Alcibiades as a point of entry into passages in both Greek prose and poetry. the comparison of the varying styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. Suggested Prerequisites: At least 2 Course does not meet an Approach years of college Greek or the equivalent. GREK B011 Traditional and New Testament Greek Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This is the second half of a year-long introductory course to GREK B202 The Form of Tragedy ancient Greek. It is designed to familiarize students with the Not offered 2021-22 basic elements of classical Greek grammar and syntax. Once the grammar has been fully introduced, students will develop This course will introduce the student to two of the three facility by reading parts of the New Testament and a dialogue of great Athenian tragedians--Sophocles and Euripides. Their Plato. Prerequisite: GREK B010. dramas, composed two-and-a-half millenia ago, continue to be performed regularly on modern stages around the world and Course does not meet an Approach exert a profound influence on current day theatre. We will read GREK B101 Herodotus Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos and Euripides’ Bacchae in full, focusing on language, poetics, meter, and performance studies. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Greek 101 introduces the student to one of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the historian, Herodotus. The GREK B350 Topics in Greek Literature “Father of History,” as Herodotus is sometimes called, wrote Not offered 2021-22 one of the earliest lengthy prose texts extant in Greek literature, in the Ionian dialect of Greek. The “Father of Lies,” as he is Open only to advanced undergraduates, this course includes a also sometimes known, wove into his history a number of weekly seminar and a translation session. Three-quarters of the fabulous and entertaining anecdotes and tales. His ‘historie’ or reading will be from primary sources. inquiry into the events surrounding the invasions by the Persian empire against the Greek city-states set the precedent for all GREK B403 Supervised Work subsequent historical writings. This course meets three times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: GREK B607 The Hippocratic Corpus GREK B010 and B011 or equivalent. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Thinking about ancient medicine is a process not only of discovering lost knowledge but also of recreating lost GREK B104 Homer ignorance. Widespread acquaintance with scientific medicine Spring 2022 makes it a challenge for twenty-first century readers to imagine what it would be like not to have exact knowledge about basic Greek 104 is designed to introduce the student to the epic anatomy or physiology, to say nothing of biochemistry and poetry attributed to Homer, the greatest poet of ancient Greece, genetics, and studying ancient medicine can sometimes seem through selections from the Odyssey. Since Homer’s poetic to be merely an outlet for curiosity. But in principle, form is so important to the shape and texture of the Odyssey, reading an ancient medical text should be no different from we will examine the mechanics of Homeric poetry, both the reading any other ancient work. Like Plato, Thucydides, or the intricacies of dactylic hexameter and the patterns of oral dramatists, the Hippocratic Corpus invites us to think about formulaic composition. We will also spend time discussing the what it means to be human, how we can know anything about characters and ideas that animate this text, since the value of the world, and how we ought to act toward our fellow humans. Homer lies not merely in his incomparable mastery of his poetic This seminar, then, will focus on Hippocratic anthropology, form, but in the values and patterns of behavior in his story, epistemology, and ethics. We will apply the techniques of patterns which remained remarkably influential in the Greek classical philology--close reading, careful attention to style and world for centuries. Prerequisite: One year of college level rhetoric, and consideration of a work’s situation and context--

Greek or equivalent. to a selection of works from the Hippocratic Corpus, and to a Critical Interpretation (CI) few other texts more or less contemporary with it. Readings in secondary scholarship will provide additional knowledge and springboards for discussion. Our goal will be to understand the Hippocratic Corpus as part of ancient Greek literary culture.

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GREK B609 Pindar and Greek Lyric Phaedrus. In their rhetorical speeches on love, Phaedrus Fall 2021 speaks for Lysias, while Socrates speaks for Phaedrus or for the nymphs or for Stesichorus. And for whom does Plato We will begin with a careful reading of Pindar’s shorter odes, speak, or rather, write? And what does he mean when he writes then proceed to his most famous long odes (Olympian 1, for Socrates the speech that no one serious would ever put Pythian 3, Pythian 1) and then consider interpretative strategies anything serious in writing? In this seminar, we will explore the (past, present, and future) as we survey the rest of the odes. ideas of speech and writing, dialogue and rhetoric, philosophy One additional hour of reading TBA. and eros in the Phaedrus. In addition to a close reading of the text itself, we will sample from the scholarly debates over the GREK B615 Aeschylus’ Oresteia understanding and interpretation of the Phaedrus that have Not offered 2021-22 gone on over the past two and a half millenia of reading Plato’s Phaedrus. In this seminar we will conduct an in-depth reading of Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, GSEM B654 War and Peace in the Ancient World and Eumenides). We will explore Aeschylus’ poetic craft including metrics, vocabulary, syntax, metaphor-construction, Not offered 2021-22 plot patterns, rhetoric, character-portrayal, and staging. For centuries history has been perceived, written and taught Special attention will be devoted to close study of choral lyric as a series of wars and periods of peace. Yet, the question passages and the language and function of the tragic chorus. remains: what does it mean when a city, a state or a nation is at We will devote some time each week to scansion and out loud war, and how do different cultures and societies conceptualize recitation of the choral odes with the aim of developing a feel peace? This interdisciplinary seminar explores theories and for the text as poetry. Weekly secondary reading selections practices of war and peace in the ancient world, examining and oral in-class reports will be geared toward giving students the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. The a good sense for dominant interpretative trends in Aeschylean archaeology of warfare will include battlefields, fortifications, scholarship. We will also be looking at some of the incredible arms and weapons, siege machines, war memorials, funerary detective work done by twentieth-century editors in their monuments as well as the iconography of victors and victims. endeavor to reconstruct Aeschylus’ often fragmentary and The literary sources that we will be reading, among them obscure text. Towards the second half of the semester, students the Homeric epics, select passages from Greek and Roman will begin working on research papers. historiography, philosophical and rhetorical works and ancient handbooks and manuals of warfare, will shed light on the GREK B630 Euripides recording of conflicts, the conduct of war, notions of power Not offered 2021-22 and peace, the depiction of leaders, the representation of violence, and strategies of commemoration. Investigating In this seminar we will look closely at several plays of Euripides, bodies of evidence, which are normally studied separately and paying special attention to the tragedian’s language and meter. within specific disciplinary formations, we aim to challenge the We will also read widely in 20th and 21st century scholarship entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, and on Euripides. history and to engage in a discourse about the complex and GREK B639 Greek Orators:Classical Athens changing conceptualizations of war and peace in the ancient world. We plan to have several guest lecturers. Students

Not offered 2021-22 participating in this seminar will be expected to give oral The Attic orators provide a rich array of evidence for the social presentations and to develop their special areas of interests structures of men and women in ancient Athens, giving insights in their research projects applying a variety of methods. No into aspects of personal life that literary texts rarely touch previous classics or archaeology training is required. upon. In this seminar, we will explore the ideas of gender and citizenship as they are expressed in a number of the orations HART B104 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: from 4th century Athens. We will examine the ways in which The Classical Tradition rhetoric is used in the speeches, with close attention to the Fall 2021 kind of social and personal dynamics that were central to the An investigation of the historical and philosophical ideas of the forensic arena of this time period. A close reading of the texts classical, with particular attention to the Italian Renaissance themselves in the original Greek will help provide insight into and the continuance of its formulations throughout the the language of the courts, while the readings from modern Westernized world. scholarship will allow us to probe more deeply into some of the issues raised by the texts. Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) GREK B644 Plato Spring 2022 HIST B124 High and Late Middle Ages Not offered 2021-22 In this seminar, we will explore the central ideas of a Platonic dialogue as they are unfolded by the varying voices of the This course will cover the second half of the European Middle interlocutors. In the “Phaedo”, Plato presents a poignant picture Ages, often called the High and Late Middle Ages, from roughly of the last hours of Socrates. Plato’s dialogues all prompt 1000-1400. The course has a general chronological framework, questions about how to read and understand the complex and is based on important themes of medieval history. interchanges between the interlocutors, but no dialogue These include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social presents these issues as prominently or paradoxically as the transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the rise of the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; urbanism and

214 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES the growth of towns. The course number was previously HIST poetry. For students who have had the equivalent of several B224. years of high school Latin or are not adequately prepared to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) take LATN 101. This course meets three times a week with a Inquiry into the Past (IP) required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: One year of college level Latin or equivalent. HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle Course does not meet an Approach Ages Not offered 2021-22 LATN B112 Latin Literature

A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems Spring 2022 (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical In the second semester of the intermediate Latin sequence, marketplace, and the social context for understanding health readings in prose and poetry are frequently drawn from a and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include period, such as the age of Augustus, that illustrate in different Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of ways the leading political and cultural concerns of the time. The hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. Latin readings and discussion are supplemented by readings in Critical Interpretation (CI) the secondary literature. This course meets three times a week Inquiry into the Past (IP) with a required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: LATN

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies 101 or 110 or placement by the department. Counts toward Health Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies LATN B202 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature HIST B364 Medieval Robots Section 002 (Spring 2022): Literature of the Empire Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 A reading and research seminar focused on different examples In this course typically a variety of Latin prose and poetry of artificial life in medieval cultures. Primary sources will be of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth centuries from a variety of genres, and secondary sources will include CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may be featured in a significant theoretical works in art history, critical theory and given semester. This is a topics course, course content varies. science studies. Prerequisite: at least one course in medieval Prerequisite: At least one 200-level Latin course or equivalent. history, or the permission of the instructor. Current topic description: TBD Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) LATN B001 Elementary Latin LATN B203 Medieval Latin Literature Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 Latin 001 is the first part of a year-long course that introduces Selected works of Latin prose and poetry from the late Roman the student to the language and literature of ancient Rome. The Empire through the 12th century. Prerequisite: At least one first semester focuses upon the grammar of Latin, developing 200-level Latin course or equivalent. the student’s knowledge of the forms of the language and the basic constructions used. Exercises in translation and Critical Interpretation (CI) composition aid in the student’s learning of the language, while readings in prose and poetry from the ancient authors provide LATN B303 Lucretius the student with a deeper appreciation of the culture which Not offered 2021-22 used this language. Lucretius’ poem “De Rerum Natura”, On the Nature of Things, Course does not meet an Approach is one of the most remarkable works of classical antiquity: in six books of didactic epic it gives a detailed exposition of LATN B002 Elementary Latin Epicurean philosophy while exploiting all the riches of poetic Spring 2022 imagery, smearing the “honey of the Muses” round the lip of the cup containing the “wormwood” of its message. Atomic Latin 002 is the second part of a year-long course that theory, sexual relations, fear of death: these are just some introduces the student to the language and literature of ancient of the topics addressed. We shall read and interpret almost Rome. The second semester completes the course of study of the entire poem, giving equal weight to its philosophy and its the grammar of Latin, improving the student’s knowledge of the poetry. Prerequisites: at least two Latin courses at 200 level or forms of the language and forms of expression. Exercises in permission of instructor. translation and composition aid in the student’s learning of the language, while readings in prose and poetry from the ancient LATN B337 Vergil’s Aeneid authors provide the student with a deeper appreciation of the culture which used this language. Prerequisite: LATN B001. Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach A complete reading and close study of Virgil, whose “afterlife,” it has been said with little exaggeration, “is Western literature.” LATN B110 Intermediate Latin We read all of the certain poems--Eclogues (c. 39 BCE), Georgics (c. 29 BCE), and Aeneid (c. 19 BCE)--completely Fall 2021 in English, substantial portions of each in the Latin, and Intensive review of grammar, reading in classical prose and scholarship and criticism. Aiming at increased fluency in

215 GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL STUDIES reading Latin poetry, we also seek to deepen our capacity LATN B403 Supervised Work to respond to this astonishing ancient poet rigorously and meaningfully. Attention is paid to some of Virgil’s models LATN B633 Lucretius in Latin and Greek and to some imitators especially in the Not offered 2021-22 European epic tradition. Lucretius’ poem “De Rerum Natura”, On the Nature of Things, LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature is one of the most remarkable works of classical antiquity: in six books of didactic epic it gives a detailed exposition of Section 001 (Spring 2022): Epigram Epicurean philosophy while exploiting all the riches of poetic Section 001 (Fall 2021): Epistolgraphy imagery, smearing the “honey of the Muses” round the lip of Section 001 (Spring 2021): Statius the cup containing the “wormwood” of its message. Atomic Section 002 (Spring 2021): Modern Approaches to Ancient theory, sexual relations, fear of death: these are just some Emotion of the topics addressed. We shall read and interpret almost Fall 2021, Spring 2022 the entire poem, giving equal weight to its philosophy and its This is a topics course. Course content varies. poetry. Prerequisites: at least two Latin courses at 200 level or permission of instructor. Current topic description: Ancient letter-writing is suddenly garnering scholarly attention. Letters are being read by those LATN B637 Vergil Aeneid with literary and philosophical interests, not simply for historical Not offered 2021-22 detail. While this course will attend to various categories of letters - embedded letters, inscribed letters, letters primarily A complete reading and close study of Virgil, whose “afterlife,” for literary display - our principal focus wil be letters which it has been said with little exaggeration, “is Western literature.” were actually sent, and particularly correspondence of which We read all of the certain poems--Eclogues (c. 39 BCE), both sides survives to us. We shall cover a wide chronological Georgics (c. 29 BCE), and Aeneid (c. 19 BCE)--completely range, from the first century BC to the fifth century AD; our most in English, substantial portions of each in the Latin, and sustained investigation will be of the letters of Cicero, Pliny, scholarship and criticism. Aiming at increased fluency in and Augustine, though we shall encompass many others along reading Latin poetry, we also seek to deepen our capacity the way. In addition to the specific circumstances in which the to respond to this astonishing ancient poet rigorously and letters were sent, we shall also address wider questions: how meaningfully. Attention is paid to some of Virgil’s models do letters negotiate the absence of their addressee? what ideas in Latin and Greek and to some imitators especially in the of friendship, or other affective connection, do they perform? European epic tradition. what ideas of the self are entailed? how are ancient ideas of public and private letters played out? Finally, does it even LATN B648 Latin Epigram make sense to speak of a separate genre of epistolography? Spring 2022 The wide range of the course should make for some exciting In this seminar we will explore the themes and aesthetics answers. Cross listed as CSTS 663 of the Latin epigram, a genre (or is it?) best known for its Current topic description: n this seminar we will explore the brevity and wit. After orienting ourselves in the epigrams themes and aesthetics of the Latin epigram, a genre (or is it?) of the Neoterics (Catullus, Cinna, Calvus, Caesar), our best known for its brevity and wit. After orienting ourselves focus will turn to the poetry of Martial, whose accounts of in the epigrams of the Neoterics (Catullus, Cinna, Calvus, Rome, its inhabitants, and their foibles exerted a profound Caesar), our focus will turn to the poetry of Martial, whose influence on subsequent epigrammatists. We will consider accounts of Rome, its inhabitants, and their foibles exerted Martial’s poetry both thematically (poems on the city; women; a profound influence on subsequent epigrammatists. We will scoundrels; patrons; long poems) and as constituents of consider Martial’s poetry both thematically (poems on the city; organized, multi-faceted libri. To deepen our appreciation of women; scoundrels; patrons; long poems) and as constituents Martial’s poetic project, we will take occasional forays into of organized, multi-faceted libri. To deepen our appreciation para-epigrammatic genres and works (Priapea, Catalepton), of Martial’s poetic project, we will take occasional forays into as well as the scattered epigrams of authors both familiar para-epigrammatic genres and works (Priapea, Catalepton), (Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius) and obscure. We will also as well as the scattered epigrams of authors both familiar consider the evolution the epigram from its inscriptional and (Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius) and obscure. We will also epitaphic origins in Greek and Latin, and its development as consider the evolution the epigram from its inscriptional and a literary form by Hellenistic authors. In the final two weeks of epitaphic origins in Greek and Latin, and its development as the course, we will turn our attention to the reception of Martial a literary form by Hellenistic authors. In the final two weeks of by late antique (Ausonius, Claudian, Luxorius) and Neo-Latin the course, we will turn our attention to the reception of Martial poets (e.g. Pontano’s Baiae, Panormita’s Hermaphroditus, by late antique (Ausonius, Claudian, Luxorius) and Neo-Latin Marullo’s reception of Catullus, Thomas More, John Owen). poets (e.g. Pontano’s Baiae, Panormita’s Hermaphroditus, Readings in the original will be supplemented with relevant Marullo’s reception of Catullus, Thomas More, John Owen). scholarship throughout. Students will enhance their core work Readings in the original will be supplemented with relevant on Latin epigram by reading--independently or in small-groups- scholarship throughout. Students will enhance their core work -a complementary genre or author in the original related to on Latin epigram by reading--independently or in small-groups- their interests (e.g. Greek epigram, Horace’ Satires, Latin -a complementary genre or author in the original related to elegy, carmina epigraphica, Juvenal, Flavian epic, Pliny’s their interests (e.g. Greek epigram, Horace’ Satires, Latin Epistles, Christian epigram). elegy, carmina epigraphica, Juvenal, Flavian epic, Pliny’s Epistles, Christian epigram).

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LATN B650 Topics in Latin Literature determinism? Does moral responsibility require free will? What Section 001 (Spring 2021): Statius makes someone the same person over time? Can a person survive without their body? Is the recognition of others required Not offered 2021-22 to be a person? Advanced reading and interpretation of Latin literature: content Critical Interpretation (CI) varies POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, Greece, and LATN B652 Problems in Roman History 2nd and 1st the “West” Centuries B.C. Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 An introduction to the dialogic construction of comparative This course examines the history and politics of the later political philosophy, using texts from several cultures or worlds Roman republic (second and first centuries BCE) through the of thought: ancient and modern China, ancient Greece, and writings of selected authors (Livy, Sallust, Cicero and Caesar) the modern West. The course will have three parts. First, a and the evidence of contemporary material culture from the consideration of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in western Mediterranean and the Aegean. ancient (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses to this LATN B663 Epistolography development; and third, the current discussions and debates Fall 2021 about globalization, democracy, and human rights now going on in China and the West. Prerequisite: At least one course in Ancient letter-writing is suddenly garnering scholarly attention. either Philosophy, Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or Letters are being read by those with literary and philosophical consent of the instructor. interests, not simply for historical detail. While this course will attend to various categories of letters - embedded letters, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) inscribed letters, letters primarily for literary display - our Critical Interpretation (CI) principal focus wil be letters which were actually sent, and Counts toward International Studies particularly correspondence of which both sides survives to us. We shall cover a wide chronological range, from the POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient first century BC to the fifth century AD; our most sustained and Early Modern investigation will be of the letters of Cicero, Pliny, and Not offered 2021-22 Augustine, though we shall encompass many others along the way. In addition to the specific circumstances in which the An introduction to the fundamental problems of political letters were sent, we shall also address wider questions: how philosophy, especially the relationship between political life and do letters negotiate the absence of their addressee? what ideas the human good or goods. of friendship, or other affective connection, do they perform? Critical Interpretation (CI) what ideas of the self are entailed? how are ancient ideas of public and private letters played out? Finally, does it even make sense to speak of a separate genre of epistolography? GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES The wide range of the course should make for some exciting answers. Cross listed as CSTS 663 Students may complete a major or minor in Growth and Structure of Cities. PHIL B101 Happiness and Reality in Ancient Thought Spring 2022 What makes us happy? The wisdom of the ancient world has Faculty importantly shaped the tradition of Western thought but in some Jeffrey Cohen, Term Professor in Growth and Structure of important respects it has been rejected or forgotten. What is the Cities (on leave semester I) nature of reality? Can we have knowledge about the world and Jennifer Hurley, Visiting Instructor ourselves, and, if so, how? In this course we explore answers to these sorts of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and Min Kyung Lee, Assistant Professor of Growth and Structure of political questions by examining the works of the two central Cities Greek philosophers: Plato and Aristotle. We will consider Gary McDonogh, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor of earlier Greek religious and dramatic writings, a few Presocratic Growth and Structure of Cities philosophers, and the person of Socrates who never wrote a Lauren Restrepo, Assistant Professor of Growth and Structure word. of Cities (on leave semester II) Critical Interpretation (CI) Matthew Ruben, Visiting Assistant Professor Inquiry into the Past (IP) Daniela Voith, enior Lecturer in the Growth and Structure of PHIL B212 Metaphysics Cities Program Not offered 2021-22 The interdisciplinary major challenges students to understand Metaphysics is inquiry into basic features of the world and the dynamic relationships connecting urban spatial organization ourselves. This course considers two topics of metaphysics, and the built environment with politics, economics, cultures free will and personal identity, and their relationship. What and societies worldwide. Core introductory classes inegrate is free will and are we free? Is freedom compatible with

217 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES varied analytic approaches that explore issues of changing same time, speak to theory and data gained from other courses forms of the city over time and explore the variety of ways in Cities and related studies. through which women and men have re-created global urban In the senior year, a capstone course is required of all majors. life across history and across cultures. With these foundations, Most students join together in a research seminar, CITY 398, students pursue their interests through classes in architecture, in the Fall of that year, writing a 40-60 page thesis on a topic of urban social and economic relations, urban history, studies their choice, based on primary documents and original research of planning and the environmental conditions of urban life. and/or design. Occasionally, however, after consultation with Opportunities for internships, volunteering, and study abroad the major advisers, the student may elect another 300-level also enrich the major. Advanced seminars further ground the course or a program for independent research. This is often the course of study by focusing on specific cities and topics. case with double majors who write a thesis in another field. Complementing the major, students may also choose to do a Finally, each student must also identify four courses outside minor or a second major that allows them to expand upon their Cities that represent expertise to complement her work in focus in Cities with more specialized knowledge, whether in the major. These may include courses such as physics and Environmental Studies, Economics, International Studies, calculus for architects, additional courses in economics, Political Science or studies of language and culture. Students political science, sociology, or anthropology for students more also may apply for the 3-2 Program in City and Regional focused on the social sciences and planning, or courses that Planning in their junior year, offered in cooperation with the build on language, design, or regional interests. Any minor, University of Pennsylvania, after filling prerequisites there. concentration, or second major fulfills this requirement. Cities courses that are cross-listed with other departments or originate Major Requirements in them can be counted only once in the course selection, A minimum of 15 courses (11 courses in Cities and four allied although they may be either allied or elective courses. courses in related fields) is required to complete the major. Both the Cities Department electives and the four or more Two introductory courses (185, 190) balance sociocultural and allied courses must be chosen in close consultation with the formal approaches to urban form and the built environment, major advisers in order to create a strongly coherent sequence and introduce cross-cultural and historical comparison of urban and focus. This is especially true for students interested in development. The introductory sequence should be completed architectural design, who will need to arrange studio courses with a broader architectural survey course (253, 254, 255) and (226, 228) as well as accompanying courses in math, science a second social science course that entails extended analysis and architectural history; they should contact the department and writing (229). These courses should be completed as chair or Daniela Voith in their first year. Students interested in a early as possible in the first and second years; at least two second major should consult with advisers early on. of them must be taken by the end of the first semester of the sophomore year. Students should also note that many courses in the department beyond the introductory sequence are not offered every year; Writing across multiple disciplines is central to the major, this is true as well with regard to cross-listed courses. Finally, drawing on sources and models as varied as architectural and students must recognize that courses may carry prerequisites visual materials, ethnographic fieldwork, quantitative study, in cities, art history, economics, history, sociology, or the natural theoretical reflection and policy engagement. Students write sciences and have limited enrollments because of space and and receive commentary on their arguments and expression technology (Architecture Studio, GIS). from their introductory classes through their required capstone thesis. While most courses in the major have important writing Cities students should test their knowledge through components, City 229 acts as our primary writing-intensive engagement with cities worldwide beyond the classroom. course, asking students to draw upon the breadth of their Hence programs for study abroad or off campus are interests to focus on researching, writing and rewriting within encouraged, within the limits of the Bryn Mawr and Haverford a comparative framework. At the same time, students are rules and practices. In general, a one-semester program is encouraged to use other classes within the major to develop a strongly preferred. The Cities Department regularly works range of skills in methods, theory and presentations, oral and with off-campus and study-abroad programs that are strong in written. architectural history, planning, and design, as well as those that allow students to pursue social and cultural interests and hone After these introductory courses, each student selects six language skills. Students who would like to spend part or all of elective courses within the Cities Department, including cross- their junior year away must consult with the major advisers and listed courses. At least two classes must be at the 300 level appropriate deans early in their sophomore year. Internships in Cities or cross-listed courses. Students should consult with are also an important component of the program either in the advisors concerning other classes that might be integrated into summer or for credit with faculty supervision. the major. Over nearly five decades, Cities students have created major A strong foundation in varied methods is intrinsic to the plans that have allowed them to develop their interests in

Cities major. In the introductory classes, students will be cities with an eye toward future engagement with architecture, exposed to architectural and spatial analyses, qualitative and planning, ethnography, history, law, environmental studies, quantitative methods, and comparative case studies, based in mass media, public health, the fine arts, and other fields. No an awareness of local and global histories. More specialized matter the focus, though, each Cities student develops solid methods classes include CITY 217 (Social Science Methods), foundations in both the history of architectural and urban City 201 (GIS) and our architectural studio sequence (City form and the analysis of urban culture, societies, and policy. 226/228), which allows students to make informed choices Careful methodological choices, clear analytical writing, and about careers in architecture and design. These classes, at the critical visual readings constitute the hallmarks of the major. Strong interactions with faculty and other students and alums 218 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES that will continue even after graduation also characterizes the CITY B207 Topics in Urban Studies department as a growing and creative social cohort beyond Section 001 (Spring 2022): Philadelphia Architecture and Bryn Mawr and Haverford as well. Urbanism Minor Requirements Spring 2022 Students who wish to minor in the Cities Department must take This is a topics course. Course content varies. at least two out of the four required courses and four cities Current topic description: City 207 explores Philadelphia’s electives, including two at the 300 level. Senior Seminar is not architectural and urban evolution over five centuries. We’ll mandatory for fulfilling the cities minor. look very closely at buildings -- both the extraordinary and the more normative in different eras - while also devising a firm 3-2 Program in City and Regional Planning orientation within historical geographies of growth, functional Over the past three decades, many Cities majors have entered differentiation, and social patterning. In this year’s special the 3-2 Program in City and Regional Planning, offered in iteration as part of Trico in the City, we’ll take advantage of conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania. Students our presence downtown with walks almost every week to interested in this program should meet with faculty early in their collectively interrogate our settings. We’ll visit both historical sophomore year. buildings and informational repositories, the latter serving as our laboratory for learning to tap archival sources in Courses constructing new knowledge about buildings and urban change. The course meets in the MLK room at the Friends Center in CITY B185 Urban Culture and Society Philadelphia. Fall 2021 Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Examines techniques and questions of the social sciences as tools for studying historical and contemporary cities. CITY B214 The Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Topics include political-economic organization, conflict Communities in the City and social differentiation (class, ethnicity and gender), and cultural production and representation. Philadelphia features Not offered 2021-22 prominently in discussion, reading and exploration as do global This course explores the experiences and city-making metropolitan comparisons through papers involving fieldwork, strategies of immigrant communities in the Greater Philadelphia critical reading and planning/problem solving using qualitative Area from roughly the late 19th century to the present day. and quantitative methods. It sheds light on how immigrant communities have shaped Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the city at different points in time and how the Philadelphia Inquiry into the Past (IP metropolitan region, as an urban context, has shaped immigrants’ lives. The course also familiarizes students with CITY B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from Philadelphia’s history, transformations of the metropolitan Antiquity to the Present region in recent decades and current economic, social and spatial dynamics as well as key immigration concepts and Spring 2022 theories. This will be offered as part of the Trico-Philly program. This course studies the city as a three-dimensional artifact. The course will take place in Center City, Philadelphia. For A variety of factors, geography, economic and population additional information and the program application see the structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics are considered as program’s website https://www.brynmawr.edu/philly-program determinants of urban form. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) CITY B217 Topics in Research Methods CITY B201 Introduction to GIS for Social and Section 001 (Fall 2020): Research Mthds/Social Sciences Environmental Analysis Section 001 (Fall 2021): Research Mthds/Social Sciences Spring 2022 Fall 2021 This course is designed to introduce the foundations of GIS This is a topics course. Course content varies. with emphasis on applications for social and environmental analysis. It deals with basic principles of GIS and its use in Current topic description: Research Methods in the Social spatial analysis and information management. Ultimately, Sciences: This course is a hands-on introduction to the students will design and carry out research projects on topics of research process. It will provide students with the practical skills their own choosing. Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing needed to design, conduct, and analyze original research of and Quantitative Readiness are required (i.e.the quantitative the complexity of a thesis-length project. Specifically, students readiness assessment or Quan B001). will build knowledge and experience in research design (how to craft a good research question and match methods to the Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) question), research methods (quantitative methods involving Counts toward Introduction to Data Science analysis of pre-existing large-n survey data and the qualitative Counts toward Environmental Studies methods of case study, content analysis, and interviewing), and data analysis (basic descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using Excel and SPSS along with qualitative data

219 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES analysis using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis). No mastery of the narratives embodied in the architecture of these computer programming is required or taught. centuries. Quantitative Methods (QM) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science CITY B254 History of Modern Architecture CITY B226 Introduction to Architectural Design Fall 2021 Fall 2021 A survey of the development of modern architecture since the This studio design course introduces the principles of 18th century. architectural design. Suggested Preparation: drawing, some Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) history of architecture, and permission of instructor. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) CITY B255 Survey of American Architecture CITY B228 Problems in Architectural Design Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 This survey course examines architecture within the global A continuation of CITY 226 at a more advanced level. framework of “the modern.” Through an introduction to an Prerequisites: CITY B226 or permission of instructor. architectural canon of works and figures, it seeks to foster Course does not meet an Approach a critical consideration of modernity, modernization, and modernism. The course explores each as a category of CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism meaning that framed the theory and practice of architecture as a cultural, political, social, and technological enterprise.

Section 001 (Spring 2022): Cities Beyond Walls It also uses these conjugates to study the modes by which Section 001 (Spring 2021): Colonial and Post Colonial architecture may be said to have framed history. We will study

Reflections practical and discursive activity that formed a dynamic field Spring 2022 within which many of the contradictions of “the modern” were made visible (and visual) through architecture. In this course, This is a topics course. Course content varies. we will engage architectural concepts and designs by studying Current topic description: What happens after the city “ends?” drawings and buildings closely within their historical context. Beyond physical or structural walls of governance, finance We will examine spheres of reception for architecture and its and culture, what forms of peri-urban life do people create - theoretical, discursive, and cultural life through a variety of suburbs, squatter settlements, new or old enclaves? And what media: buildings of course, but also journals, books, and film. do these formations teach us about cities and regions? This We will also investigate architecture as a site and subject for writing-intensive course uses a comparative case study method critical inquiry. In particular, we will see what it may tell us about to develop research and writing skills, drawing on materials the globalization and politics of the twentieth century, and about from Hong Kong, Greater Buenos Aires, Greater Philadelphia history, theory, and criticism as epistemological tracks. and Paris and its region. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) CITY B306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places in Time CITY B250 Topics: Growth and Spatial Organization of the Not offered 2021-22 City A hands-on workshop for research into the histories of places, Not offered 2021-22 intended to bring students into contact with some of the This is a topics course. Course content varies. raw materials of architectural and urban history. A focus will Inquiry into the Past (IP) be placed on historical images and texts, and on creating engaging informational experiences that are transparent to their

Counts toward Environmental Studies evidentiary basis.

CITY B253 Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism CITY B328 Analysis of Geospatial Data Using GIS of the 18th and 19th Centuries Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 An advanced course for students with prior GIS experience The course frames the topic of architecture before the impact involving individual projects and collaboration with faculty. of 20th century Modernism, with a special focus on the two Completion of GIS (City 201) or equivalent with 3.7 or above. prior centuries - especially the 19th - in ways that treat them Instructor permission required after discussion of project. on their own terms rather than as precursors of more modern technologies and forms of expression. The course will integrate Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) urbanistic and vernacular perspectives alongside more familiar Counts toward Introduction to Data Science landmark exemplars. Key goals and components of the course will include attaining a facility within pertinent bibliographical CITY B332 Paris: Making a Modern City and digital landscapes, formal analysis and research skills Not offered 2021-22 exercised in writing projects, class field-trips, and a nuanced This course explores 19th-century Paris from the French Revolution to the First World War, and studies how the city

220 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES transformed into a modern capital. By engaging with history, cities yet to come, and a structure with which to generate architecture, art and literature, we will examine the social, interventions in the space between. This course will trace the cultural, political, and economic shifts and conflicts that shaped intellectual lineages of contemporary critical and postmodern its built environment and influenced many other cities around urban theory and put the ‘-isms’ into practice to help make the world. sense of the forces that differentiate and segregate individuals - and those that bring us together as urban citizens. Open to CITY B337 The Chinese City cities majors and non-majors who have taken an introductory Not offered 2021-22 course in social theory. This course examines Chinese urbanization as both a physical Current topic description: Explores physical, social, economic, and social process. Drawing broadly on scholarship in and political aspects of neighborhood change, with a particular anthropology, political science, geography, and city planning, emphasis on the interstate highway and urban renewal we will construct a history of the present of Chinese cities. By programs in the US. These large-scale government-led efforts taking the long view on China’s urban development, this course will be compared with more incremental neighborhood change seeks to contextualize and make sense of the sometimes from grassroots community development efforts, small-scale dazzling, sometimes dismal, and often contested landscape of developers, and immigrant-led transformations everyday life in contemporary urban China. Prior familiarity with China and the Chinese language is welcomed but not required. CITY B365 Topics: Techniques of the City

Course does not meet an Approach Section 001 (Spring 2022): Making and Remaking Philadelphia Section 001 (Spring 2021): New Urbanism and Its Discontents CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society Spring 2022 Section 001 (Fall 2021): The City and Nature This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2021 Current topic description: This course explores how This is a topics course. Topics vary. governance, politics, economics, planning, and community and social action have shaped and continue to shape modern Current topic description: The City and Nature: The American cities, with a special focus on Philadelphia. Course Environmental Transformation of Modern Cities: The class content will include; historical, academic, and popular texts. examines the emergence of the modern city in Europe and the Students will have the opportunity to interact with guest Americas in relation to their natural environments in order to speakers active in various aspects of Philadelphia’s urban understand how “country” and “city” were and continue to be landscape. Students will also conduct independent research on mutually constitutive spaces and concepts. Focusing on the era topics of their choosing. For advanced majors but also open to of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism, the class others by permission. studies how the planning, building, and regulating of urban built environments were embedded in practices to control, manage, CITY B377 Topics in Modern Architecture and consume natural resources, and ultimately define nature.

An integral part of this subject also concerns the people who Spring 2022 both affected and were affected by the decisions to construct This is a topics course on modern architecture. Topics vary. and manipulate the terrain, as well as the institutions that Current topic description: TBD were built to manage and define new social relations and public responsibilities of the modern city. This course looks at CITY B378 Formative Landscapes: The Architecture and history of the relationship between the city and the countryside Planning of American Collegiate Campuses and how it has informed contemporary responses, policies and ideas around global climate change. The readings and Not offered 2021-22 materials are diverse, drawing from environmental studies and The campus and buildings familiar to us here at the College urban history, as well as art and architecture. This is a reading reflect a long and rich design conversation regarding and discussion heavy upper-level course. Each student will communicative form, architectural innovation, and orchestrated be asked to facilitate/host a discussion session. There are two planning. This course will explore that conversation through options for the final assignment: an exhibition developed by a varied examples, key models, and shaping conceptions over team and a more traditional research paper. The course fulfills time. major requirements in Environmental Studies, History and Cities. CITY B398 Senior Seminar Course does not meet an Approach An intensive research seminar designed to guide students in Counts toward Environmental Studies writing a senior thesis.

CITY B360 Topics: Urban Culture and Society CITY B403 Independent Study Section 001 (Spring 2021): House and Dwelling CITY B415 Teaching Assistant Section 001 (Spring 2022): Urban Renewal Section 001 (Fall 2021): Urban Theory An exploration of course planning, pedagogy and creative thinking as students work to help others understand pathways Fall 2021, Spring 2022 they have already explored in introductory and writing classes. This is a topics course. Course content varies. This opportunity is available only to advanced students of highest standing by professorial invitation. Current topic description: Urban theory is a tool with which to critique existing cities, a position from which to imagine

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CITY B420 Praxis Fieldwork Seminar ARCH B215 Classical Art Section 001 (Spring 2021): Exploring Urban Questions through Not offered 2021-22 Practical Engage A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 CITY B425 Praxis III: Independent Study B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are examined in historical and social context, including interactions developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by interpretive issues are highlighted. genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical Inquiry into the Past (IP) understanding gained through classroom study to work done in ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East the broader community. Fall 2021 Counts toward Praxis Program A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious CITY B450 Urban Internships/Praxis ideologies of, and interactions among, the five great empires of Individual opportunities to engage in praxis in the greater the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: Philadelphia area; internships must be arranged prior to New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian registration for the semester in which the internship is taken. and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Empire in Iran. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban Inquiry into the Past (IP) Revolutions Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B252 Pompeii This course examines the archaeology of the two most fundamental changes that have occurred in human society in Spring 2022 the last 12,000 years, agriculture and urbanism, and we explore Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site whose these in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was explore those societies that did not experience these changes. recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century Inquiry into the Past (IP) views of the Roman past as well as styles and preferences of Counts toward Geoarchaeology the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies life, city structure, residential architecture, home decoration and furnishing, wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile ARCH B110 The World Through Classical Eyes activities within a Roman city. Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies A survey of the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans perceived and constructed their physical and social world. The ARCH B305 Topics in Ancient Athens evidence of ancient texts and monuments will form the basis for exploring such subjects as cosmology, geography, travel Not offered 2021-22 and commerce, ancient ethnography and anthropology, the This is a topics course. Course content varies. idea of natural and artificial wonders, and the self-definition of the classical cultures in the context of the oikoumene, the ARCH B316 Trade and Transport in the Ancient World “inhabited world.” Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Issues of trade, commerce and production of export goods are Inquiry into the Past (IP) addressed with regard to the Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these ARCH B203 Ancient Greek Cities and Sanctuaries systems is the development of means of transport via maritime Not offered 2021-22 routes and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods A study of the development of the Greek city-states and and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of sea-faring sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is surveyed in its historic across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while bio-archaeological data context. The political formation of the city-state and the role of is employed to examine the transformative role that Bactrian religion is presented, and the political, economic, and religious and Dromedary camels played in ancient trade and transport. institutions of the city-states are explored in their urban ARCH B505 Topics in Ancient Athens settings. The city-state is considered as a particular political economy of the Mediterranean and in comparison to the utility Not offered 2021-22 of the concept of city-state in other cultures. This is a topics course. Topics vary. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ECON B208 Labor Economics Counts toward Museum Studies Fall 2021 222 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES

Analysis of labor markets. Focuses on the economic forces and economic justice; and sustainable development. Prerequisites: public policies that determine wage rates and unemployment. ECON B105. Specific topics include: human capital, family decision Counts toward Environmental Studies marking, discrimination, immigration, technological change, compensating differentials, and signaling. Prerequisite: ECON ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental Programs B105. Not offered 2021-22 ECON B213 Industrial organization and Antitrust Considers the determinants of human impact on the Fall 2021 environment at the neighborhood or community level and policy responses available to local government. How can economics Introduction to the economics of industrial organization help solve and learn from the problems facing rural and and regulation, focusing on policy options for ensuring that suburban communities? The instructor was a local township corporations enhance economic welfare and the quality of life. supervisor who will share the day-to-day challenges of coping Topics include firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets; with land use planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and theoretical bases of antitrust laws; regulation of product and the provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. occupational safety, environmental pollution, and truth in advertising. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Praxis Program ECON B214 Public Finance ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Spring 2022 Spring 2022 Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs on An introduction to econometric terminology and reasoning. income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics include Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical sources of inefficiency in markets and possible government inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis responses; federal budget composition; social insurance and on the use of data to address economic issues. The and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax structure and incidence. required computational techniques are developed as part of the Prerequisites: ECON B105. course. Class cannot be taken if you have taken H203 or H204. Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level elective. ECON Counts toward Health Studies H201 does not count as an elective. ECON B215 Urban Economics Quantitative Methods (QM)

Spring 2022 Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Micro- and macroeconomic theory applied to urban economic ECON B314 The Economics of Social Policy behavior. Topics include housing and land use; transportation; Spring 2022 urban labor markets; urbanization; and demand for and financing of urban services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Introduces students to the economic rationale behind government programs and the evaluation of government ECON B225 Economic Development programs. Topics include health insurance, social security, Spring 2022 unemployment and disability insurance, and education. Additionally, the instructor and students will jointly select topics Examination of the issues related to and the policies designed of special interest to the class. Emphasis will be placed on the to promote economic development in the developing use of statistics to evaluate social policy. Prerequisites: ECON economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. 200; ECON 253 or 304. Focus is on why some developing economies grow faster than others and why some growth paths are more equitable, ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and poverty reducing, and environmentally sustainable than others. Inequality Includes consideration of the impact of international trade Fall 2021 and investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies (industry, Explores the causes and consequences of discrimination agriculture, education, population, and environment) on and inequality in economic markets. Topics include economic development outcomes in a wide range of political and theories of discrimination and inequality, evidence of institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON B105. contemporary race- and gender-based inequality, detecting discrimination, identifying sources of racial and gender Counts toward Environmental Studies inequality, and identifying sources of overall economic Counts toward International Studies inequality. Additionally, the instructor and students will jointly select supplementary topics of specific interest to the class. ECON B234 Environmental Economics Possible topics include: discrimination in historical markets, Not offered 2021-22 disparity in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain the education gaps. Writing Intensive. Prerequisites: At least one underlying behavioral causes of environmental and natural 200-level applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; resource problems and to evaluate policy responses to them. ECON 200. Topics may include air and water pollution; the economic theory Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of externalities, public goods and the depletion of resources; cost-benefit analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs;

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ECON B335 East Asian Development and policy contexts within which natural geologic processes Not offered 2021-22 become hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. Identifies the core economic and political elements of an East

Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) development Quantitative Methods (QM) model. Assesses the performance of this development model in Quantitative Readiness Required (QR)

Northeast (China, South Korea and Taiwan) and Southeast Asia Scientific Investigation (SI)

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) in a Counts toward Environmental Studies comparative perspective. Considers the debate over the impact GERM B217 Representing Diversity in German Cinema of interventionist and selective development policies associated with this model on the development successes and failures of Spring 2022 the East Asian NIEs. Evaluates the impact of democratization German society has undergone drastic changes as a result in several of these polities on both the core development of immigration. Traditional notions of Germanness have been model identified as well as on development performance. and are still being challenged and subverted. This course Prerequisite:ECON 225; ECON 200 or 202; and ECON 253 or uses films and visual media to examine the experiences of 304; or permission of instructor. various minority groups living in Germany. Students will learn about the history of immigration of different ethnic groups, EDUC B266 Critical Issues in Urban Education including Turkish Germans, Afro-Germans, Asian Germans, Not offered 2021-22 Arab Germans, German Jews, and ethnic Germans from This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of Eastern Europe. We will explore discourses on migration, urban education in contemporary America. We use as critical racism, xenophobia, integration, and citizenship. We will seek lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, to understand not only the historical and contemporary contexts teachers, and school systems; and restructuring and reform. for these films but also their relevance for reshaping German While we look at urban education nationally over several society. Students will be introduced to modern German cinema decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students from the silent era to the present. They will acquire terminology investigate through documents and school placements. Weekly and methods for reading films as fictional and aesthetic fieldwork in a school required. representations of history and politics, and analyze identity construction in the worlds of the real and the reel. This course Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) is taught in English. Counts toward Africana Studies

Counts toward Child and Family Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts toward Praxis Program Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENVS B200 The Edible Environment: Theory and Ethics GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 The course addresses core philosophical questions related to food production, consumption, and representation. The focus This is a topics course. Course content varies. Course is taught is on topics that highlight how we engage with the environment in English. There will an additional hour in German for those based on what we eat, how we consume it, and the way we students taking the course for German credit. talk about it. In the first part (food production), we examine the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies significance of domestication, taxonomies of edible animals, plants, and microbes, and how recent (bio)technological GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Iberian and possibilities are changing our approach to food production. Latina/o Studies In the second part of the course, we turn to the human body Spring 2022 to discuss how hunger, pleasure and taste guide our food consumption. In the third part, we discuss how extant practices A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and dividing of labeling and food criticism influence our understandings of societies from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The class the edible environment. The class draws upon a wide range of introduces the methods and interests of all departments in resources, including classical and contemporary philosophical the concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and texts, food essays, magazine and newspaper articles, videos change, globalization and struggles within dynamic histories, and images. The course counts as a Social Science/Humanities political economies, and creative expressions. Course is taught elective for the Environmental Studies Minor. Suggested in English. preparation is one course in Environmental Studies OR one Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) course in the Cities Program or permission of the instructor. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx

Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward International Studies

GEOL B209 Natural Hazards HART B253 Survey of Western Architecture

Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 A quantitative approach to understanding the earth processes The major traditions in Western architecture are illustrated that impact human societies. We consider the past, current, through detailed analysis of selected examples from classical and future hazards presented by geologic processes, including antiquity to the present. The evolution of architectural design earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, and hurricanes. and building technology, and the larger intellectual, aesthetic, The course includes discussion of the social, economic, 224 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES and social context in which this evolution occurred, are HIST B319 Topics in Modern European History considered. Section 001 (Fall 2021): History of Fascism Inquiry into the Past (IP) Section 001 (Spring 2021): Queer Histories of Europe Fall 2021 HART B323 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art Section 001 (Fall 2021): Palladio and neo-Palladianism This is a topics course. Course content varies. Section 001 (Spring 2022): The Fresco Current topic description: History of Fascism: Then and Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Now: What are the historical roots of facist ideologies and organizations and what can a historical perspective tell us This is a topics course. Course content varies. about the reasons for their continuous attraction? The seminar Current topic description: This seminar is concerned with the will examine the histories of facists’ movements in Europe from idea of architecture in the Renaissance and with Palladio in World War I to the present. As part of the seminar we will also particular. But it is also concerned, at a wider level and at interrogate the relationship between fascists movements and different moments and indeed in cultures beyond Italy, with the gender, sexuality, and youth in both the pre and post-World War idea of the villa, the country house and all that is invoked by II era. the idea of living and building, not in a city, byt beyond it, in the countryside. HIST B325 Topics in Social History

Current topic description: The fresco was the most important Section 001 (Fall 2021): Food Politics medium in the Renaissance for the representation of subject Section 001 (Spring 2022): Queer American History matter, whether religious or secular. This seminar has as Fall 2021, Spring 2022 its focus the idea of public art, across the centuries and This a topics course that explores various themes in American continents, whether produced years ago or more recently, social history. Course content varies. Course may be repeated. whether represented, among other placed, in Mexico or China or, of course, the United States. In the first part of the class Current topic description: The Politics of Food. Politics shapes we will consider readings that discuss the opportunities and what appears on our plates as well as where we set our table... problems of such an idea of art. In the second part we will have It all has a history. In America with its confounding combination reports, based on research, chosen by the individual members of engorging bounty and tragic poverty, food represents a of the seminar. special nexus of the political and the personal. The politics of food is also cultural and helps frame our sense of the present HART B355 Topics in the History of London and the past. This course cannot cover all these arenas in one Not offered 2021-22 semester, but is an introduction to how to look at the complex history and politics of eating, producing, and consuming food Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural concern in the United States. Course topics include food and race, the in the history of London, emphasizing London since the 18th cultural politics of who eats what and how they think about it; century. and the history and politics of food consumption in modern America. HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History Current topic description: Queer American History. This

Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa course centers the influence of gender and sexual diversity Not offered 2021-22 in understanding the historical development of institutions, ideals, social and cultural transformations, and economic and This is a topics course. Course content varies political processes in the U.S. since European colonization. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) The approach is intersectional, addressing gender and sexual Inquiry into the Past (IP) diversity as they intersect with race, class and other forms of Counts toward Africana Studies social difference and power. The course examines both key Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies events and developments in the emerging visibility of queer Counts toward Museum Studies subjects in the American context as well as the processes by which such visibility occurs. HIST B257 British Empire I: Capitalism and Slavery Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 Focusing on the Atlantic slave trade and the slave plantation ITAL B308 Rome as Palimpsests: from Ruins to Virtual mode of production, this course explores English colonization, Reality and the emergence and the decline of British Empire in the Not offered 2021-22 Americas and Caribbean from the 17th through the late 20th From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X centuries. It tracks some of the intersecting and overlapping in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of routes--and roots--connecting histories and politics within and the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has between these “new” world locations. It also tracks the further always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia and proliferating links between developments in these regions and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some and the histories and politics of regions in the “old” world, from crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of the north Atlantic to the South China sea. this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist Critical Interpretation (CI) painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern Inquiry into the Past (IP) re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones 225 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans- shrine visitation; and the modern art of twenty-first century historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the Sufism. Readings include works from history, religious studies, main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We anthropology, sociology, and the history of art and architecture. will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, Critical Interpretation (CI) a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an Counts toward Visual Studies additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level course for students interested in taking the course towards POLS B222 Environmental Issues: Movements and Policy Italian credits. Making in Comparative Perspective Counts toward Museum Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Praxis Program An exploration of the ways in which different cultural, economic, ITAL B318 Falling Statues: myth-making in literature, and political settings have shaped issue emergence and policy politics and art making. We examine the politics of particular environmental issues in selected countries and regions, paying special Spring 2022 attention to the impact of environmental movements. We We have become accustomed to the rituals of the dismissal also assess the prospects for international cooperation in of the heroes of the past: we tear down statues, we rename addressing global environmental problems such as climate buildings and places. But how did we get there? How, why change. and by whom are heroes constructed? When old heroes are Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) questioned, what substitutes them? How are the raise and fall Counts toward Environmental Studies of heroes tied to shifting models of masculinity, womanhood, power and the state? In this course, we will explore these POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, Greece, and questions focusing on Italy and Russia, two countries that the “West” in the 19th and 20th century went through several cycles of construction and deconstruction of their political heroes. In Not offered 2021-22 the first part of the course, we will investigate the codification An introduction to the dialogic construction of comparative of the “type” of the freedom-fighter in the representations political philosophy, using texts from several cultures or worlds of the protagonists of 19th-century European revolutionary of thought: ancient and modern China, ancient Greece, and movements, focusing on the links between the Italian the modern West. The course will have three parts. First, a Risorgimento and the anti-Tsarist movement in Russia, consideration of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in culminating in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. From the ancient (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century pamphlets that consecrated the Italian Garibaldi as the “hero of invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses to this the two worlds” to the autobiographies of the Russian terrorists development; and third, the current discussions and debates and the transcripts of their trials, we will investigate myth- about globalization, democracy, and human rights now going making as a constitutive part of political movements and reflect on in China and the West. Prerequisite: At least one course in on the models of masculinity and womanhood at the foundation either Philosophy, Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or of the “typical” revolutionary hero. In the second part of the consent of the instructor. semester, we will focus on Stalinism and Fascism, systems Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) that exploited their revolutionary roots to mobilize supporters Critical Interpretation (CI) in favor of oppressive institutions. Finally, we will discuss the Counts toward International Studies many ways in which 19th - and 20th-century heroes have been confronted, neutralized, dismantled - and the many ways in POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change which their models still haunt us. We will focus on literary texts and political speeches, but we will also analyze propaganda Not offered 2021-22 posters, movies, paintings, photographs, monuments and even This course will introduce students to important political issues street names. For your final project, you will have the option raised by climate change locally, nationally, and internationally, of building on our class discussions to explore myth-making in paying particular attention to the global implications of actions contemporary movements or forms of deconstruction of existing at the national and subnational levels. It will focus not only on heroes. specific problems, but also on solutions; students will learn about some of the technological and policy innovations that are MEST B210 The Art and Architecture of Islamic Spirituality being developed worldwide in response to the challenges of Not offered 2021-22 climate change. Only open to students in 360 program. This course examines how Muslim societies across time and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) space have used art and architecture in different ways to Counts toward Environmental Studies express and understand inner dimensions of spirituality and mysticism. Topics to be studied include: the calligraphical POLS B321 Technology and Politics remnants of the early Islamic period; inscriptions found Fall 2021 on buildings and gravestones; the majestic architecture of A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology in mosques, shrines, seminaries, and Sufi lodges; the brilliant political and social life. We focus on the relationship between arts of the book; the commemorative iconography and passion technological change and democratic governance. We begin plays of Ashura devotion; the souvenir culture of modern with historical and contemporary Luddism as well as pro-

226 GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF CITIES / HEALTH STUDIES technology movements around the world. Substantive issue global scales. Our Colleges value the intersection of public areas include security and surveillance, electoral politics, health and social justice, and this new course of study will allow economic development and women’s empowerment, civil students to approach these vital issues with greater knowledge rights, warfare, social media and information/disinformation and understanding. politics, agriculture, climate change and energy politics, and Given its multidisciplinary structure, the health studies minor pandemic response. This course is open to all students who will give scientific context to students in the social sciences and have the prerequisites. It also counts as a thesis prep course humanities who are interested in health policy, public health, for political science majors. Prerequisite: One course in Political law, medical ethics, social services, or . The Science, or ENVS 202, or permission of instructor. Writing minor also complements the curriculum for traditional science attentive. majors by providing important social and behavioral dimensions Counts toward Environmental Studies for those students planning to go into medicine, nursing, physical therapy, psychology and other clinical fields. SOCL B205 Social Inequality This is a Bi-College minor, and courses will be taught by Bryn Spring 2022 Mawr College and Haverford College across many disciplines. In this course, we will explore the extent, causes, and When approved by the Co-Directors, selected courses for the consequences of social and economic inequality in the U.S. minor may also be taken at Swarthmore College, University of We will begin by discussing key theories and the intersecting Pennsylvania and while studying abroad. dimensions of inequality along lines of income and wealth, race and ethnicity, and gender. We will then follow a life-course Minor Requirements perspective to trace the institutions through which inequality is The minor consists of a total of six courses, five of which structured, experienced, and reproduced through the family, must be outside of the student’s major, and must include the neighborhoods, the educational system, labor markets and following: workplaces, and the criminal justice system. • A multidisciplinary introductory course taught by two faculty Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) members from different academic divisions that must be Counts toward Child and Family Studies taken before enrolling in the Health Studies Capstone Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar. Introduction to Health Studies (HLTH H115B).

SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological Perspective • Three core courses from a list approved by the Co- Directors. Two of these courses must be elected from a

Not offered 2021-22 Department outside of the student’s major and at least This course presents sociological perspectives on various two of the courses should be at the non-introductory level. issues affecting black America as a historically unique minority Students must take one course in each of three areas: group in the United States: the legacy of slavery and the Jim M track:Mechanisms of disease and the maintenance of Crow era; the formation of urban black ghettos; the civil rights the health body (M) reforms; the problems of poverty and unemployment; the problems of crime and other social problems; the problems of R track: Cultural and Literary Rrepresentations of Health criminal justice; the continuing significance of race; the varied and Illness (R) covert modern forms of racial discrimination; and the role of S track: Responses of familial, social, civic and race in American politics. Prerequisite: at least one additional governmental Structures to issues of health and disease sociology course or permission of instructor. Course is not (S) available to freshmen. • One additional course, outside the student’s major. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Students may choose either a core course (C) or one Inquiry into the Past (IP) selected from a list of approved affiliate courses (A), which Counts toward Africana Studies deal with health issues, but not necessarily as their primary Counts toward Child and Family Studies focus. • Health Studies Capstone Seminar. A capstone course organized around a theme, such as vaccines, AIDS, drug HEALTH STUDIES abuse, disability, migration etc. Students will analyze current literature addressing the theme from their own Faculty disciplinary perspectives and will develop research proposals and collaborative projects. Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History and Co-Director of Health Studies (on leave Sample Core Courses--Please Visit Haverford’s Health Studies semester II) Web Page for Updates Adam Williamson, Assistant Professor of Biology and Co- Track M Director of Health Studies • ANTH B208: Human Biology

The Health Studies Minor at Bryn Mawr and Haverford • ANTH B317: Disease and Human Evolution Colleges brings together courses and faculty members in the • BIOL B210: Biology and Public Policy natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to guide • BIOL B303: Human Physiology students through the biomedical, cultural, ethical, and political questions that relate to health issues on local, regional and • CHEM B315: Medicinal Chemistry 227 HEALTH STUDIES

• GNST B201: , Smoking, and Cardiovascular Affiliate Courses Health • PSYC B209/H209: Abnormal Psychology Track M

• PSYC B351: Developmental Psychopathology • BIOL B201: Genetics

• PSYC B395: • BIOL B215: Experimental Design and Statistics

• PSYC B346: Pediatric Psychology • BIOL B216: Genomics

• BIOL H121: Poisons, Plagues, Pollution and Progress • BIOL B255: Microbiology

• BIOL H125: Perspectives: Genetic Roil and Royal • BIOL B271: Developmental Biology Families 0.5 credits • CHEM B242: Biological Chemistry • BIOL H128: Perspectives: How Do I Know Who I Am? 0.5 • SOWK B556: Adult Development and credits • BIOL H352: Cellular Immunology 0.5 credits • BIOL H308: Immunology 0.5 credits • BIOL H360: Bacterial Pathogenesis 0.5 credits • BIOL H310: Molecular Microbiology 0.5 credits • CHEM H357: Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry 0.5 credits • ICPR H311A: Reproductive Health and Justice • PSYC H223: Psychology of Human Sexuality • PSYC H245: Health Psychology Track R • PSYC H318B: Neurobiology of Disease • ITAL B208: Petrarca and Boccaccio in Translation Track R • ITAL B303: Petrarca and Boccaccio in Italian • ANTH B210: Medical Anthropology • FREN B325: Topics: Etudes avancées. Topic: Lumiéres et • ANTH B237: Environmental Health Medicine • ANTH B312: Anthropology of Reproduction • PSYC B260: The Psychology of Mindfulness • ANTH B331: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology • PSYC B375: Movies and Madness • PHIL B205: Medical Ethics • ICPR H207A: Disability, Identity, Culture • ANTH H260: Cultures of Health and Healing • ICPR H223: Mental Affliction: The Disease of Thought • ANTH H200: Viruses, Humans, Vital Politics: An • PEAC H201: Ethics and Justice: Applied Ethics of Peace, Anthropology of HIV and AIDS Justice and Human Rights • CPR H281: Violence and Public Health • WRPR H120: Evolutionary Fictions Available only to HC first year students Track S • WRPR H161: Written on the Body: Narrative and the • ANTH B210: Medical Anthropology Construction of contemporary Sexuality Available only to • ANTH B237: Environmental Health HC first year students

• ANTH B312: Anthropology of Reproduction Track S • BIOL B210: Biology and Public Policy • BIOL B215: Experimental Design and Statistics • FREN B275/HIST B275: Improving Mankind: Enlightened • ECON B214: Public Finance Hygiene and Eugenics • EDUC B225: Topics: Empowering Learners. Topic: Health • HIST B303: Topics in American History. Topic: History of Literacies in Context Medicine in America • PEAC H201: Ethics and Justice: Applied Ethics of Peace, • HIST B336: Topics in African History. Topic: Social and Justice and Human Rights Medical History of Medicine in Africa • PSYC B231: Health Psychology Courses

• PSYC B340: Women’s Mental Health HLTH B115 Introduction to Health Studies • ANTH H200: Viruses, Humans, Vital Politics: An Fall 2021 Anthropology of HIV and AIDS The multidisciplinary foundation for the health studies minor. • ICPR H311: Reproductive Health and Justice Students will be introduced to theories and methods from the • PSYC H242: Cultural Psychology life sciences, social sciences, and humanities and will learn to apply them to problems of health and illness. Topics include • PSYC H327: Supersized Nation: Understanding and epidemiological, public health, and biomedical perspectives

Managing America’s Obesity Epidemic on health and disease; social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health; globalization of health issues; cultural representations of illness; health inequalities, social justice, and health as a human right.

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Course does not meet an Approach questions in human origins and evolution, including whether Counts toward Africana Studies bipedalism is an efficient and effective form of locomotion, why Counts toward Health Studies human reproduction can be a difficult and dangerous process, and which modern day health issues are a result of a mismatch HLTH B398 Senior Seminar Health Studies between our current lifestyles and our evolutionary adaptations. Required culminating seminar, which integrates the three tracks of the Health Studies minor. Students share and Inquiry into the Past (IP) critically assess their own and fellow students’ ongoing work Scientific Investigation (SI) to communicate across disciplines and understand the value Counts toward Health Studies and interconnectedness of different disciplinary approaches. ANTH B331 Medical Anthro Seminar: Critical Thinking for Students present and defend their semester-long collaborative Critical Times projects at the end of the course. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Health Studies Advanced Medical Anthropology: Critical Thinking for Critical ANTH B207 Becoming Human: Evolutionary Perspectives Times explores theoretical and applied frameworks used on Human Anatomy in medical anthropology to tackle pressing problems in our Not offered 2021-22 world today. Coupled with topical subjects and ethnographic examples, this seminar will enable students to delve deeply into Millions of years of evolution have shaped human anatomy, sub-specialization areas in the field of medical anthropology, creating a unique bipedal ape with a very large brain. What including: global health inequalities, cross-border disease can our bones, muscles, and physiology tell us about our transmission, genomics, science and technology studies, evolutionary past? In this course you will learn about human ethnomedicine, cross-cultural psychiatry/psychology, cross- biology from an evolutionary perspective by considering cultural bioethics, and ecological approaches to studying health humans as primates with a unique evolutionary trajectory. We and behavior, among others. No prior experience in medical will consider both how humans are biologically unique and how anthropology is required. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or ANTH our primate origins have shaped who we are today. Topics will H103, or permission of instructor. Sophomore standing and include human osteology and odontology, functional anatomy, higher. First year students who have taken Anth B102 or H103 energetics, reproduction, and diversity. Furthermore, we will can also register for this class. explore current hypotheses and evidence regarding important questions in human origins and evolution, including whether Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies bipedalism is an efficient and effective form of locomotion, why Counts toward Health Studies human reproduction can be a difficult and dangerous process, BIOL B201 Genetics and which modern day health issues are a result of a mismatch between our current lifestyles and our evolutionary adaptations. Fall 2021 Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course focuses on the principles of genetics, including Scientific Investigation (SI) classical genetics, population genetics and molecular genetics. Counts toward Health Studies Topics to be covered include the genetic and molecular nature of mutations and phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene ANTH B208 Human Biology identification, chromosome abnormalities, developmental Spring 2022 genetics, genome editing and epigenetics. Examples of genetic analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms including This course will be a survey of modern human biological Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. Lecture three hours variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological and a week. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. genetic variation in modern human populations and discuss the evolutionary explanations for the observed patterns. A major Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) component of the class will be the discussion of the social Scientific Investigation (SI) implications of these patterns of biological variation, particularly Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the construction and application of the concept of race. Counts toward Health Studies Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. BIOL B210 Biology and Public Policy Counts toward Health Studies ANTH B207 Becoming Human: Not offered 2021-22 Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Anatomy A lecture/discussion course on major issues and advances Not offered 2021-22 in biology and their implications for public policy decisions. Millions of years of evolution have shaped human anatomy, Topics discussed include reproductive technologies, the Human creating a unique bipedal ape with a very large brain. What Genome project, environmental health hazards, bioterrorism, can our bones, muscles, and physiology tell us about our and euthanasia and organ transplantation. Readings include evolutionary past? In this course you will learn about human scientific articles, public policy and ethical considerations, biology from an evolutionary perspective by considering and lay publications. Lecture three hours a week. This class humans as primates with a unique evolutionary trajectory. We involves considerable writing. Prerequisite: One semester of will consider both how humans are biologically unique and how BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. our primate origins have shaped who we are today. Topics will Counts toward Environmental Studies include human osteology and odontology, functional anatomy, Counts toward Health Studies energetics, reproduction, and diversity. Furthermore, we will explore current hypotheses and evidence regarding important 229 HEALTH STUDIES

BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics experiments on living embryos. Lecture three hours, laboratory Not offered 2021-22 three scheduled hours a week; most weeks require additional hours outside of the regularly scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one An introductory course in designing experiments and analyzing semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. biological data. This course is structured to develop students’ understanding of when to apply different quantitative methods, Scientific Investigation (SI) and how to implement those methods using the R statistics Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology environment. Topics include summary statistics, distributions, Counts toward Health Studies randomization, replication, parametric and nonparametric tests, BIOL B303 Human Physiology and introductory topics in multivariate and Bayesian statistics. The course is geared around weekly problem sets and Fall 2021 interactive learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 A comprehensive study of the physical and chemical processes is highly recommended. Students who have taken PSYC B205/ in tissues, organs and organ systems that form the basis of H200 or SOCL B265 are not eligible to take this course. animal and human function. Homeostasis, control systems and Quantitative Methods (QM) the structural basis of function are emphasized. Laboratories Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) are designed to introduce basic physiological techniques and Scientific Investigation (SI) the practice of scientific inquiry. Lecture three hours, laboratory Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology three hours a week. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL Counts toward Health Studies 110-111, CHEM 103, 104 and one 200-level biology course, or permission of instructor. BIOL B216 Genomics Counts toward Health Studies Spring 2022 BIOL B352 Immunology An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic data. This course will examine the types of biological questions Spring 2022 that can be answered using large biological data sets and An introduction to immunology with a focus on the dynamic complete genome sequences as well as the techniques and network of molecules and cells underlying the vertebrate technologies that make such studies possible. Topics include immune response. This problem-based workshop course genome organization and evolution, comparative genomics, uses primary research articles and a curiosity-driven, and analysis of transcriptomes and proteomes, with a focus on open-ended laboratory research project to make sense of human genetics. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111. complicated biology and empower each student to build a BIOL 201 highly recommended. big-picture view of this fast-moving, interdisciplinary field. Key Quantitative Methods (QM) themes include: immune cell specification and development; Scientific Investigation (SI) molecular recognition and immune cell signaling; generation of Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology immunological memory; and cancer immunotherapies. Learning Counts toward Health Studies strategies include problem solving, small group discussion, and critical analysis of the primary literature. Three hours of class BIOL B255 Microbiology meetings and three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL

Spring 2022 B110.

Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche on the Counts toward Health Studies planet. This course will examine how microbes have become CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry successful colonizers; review aspects of interactions between microbes, humans and the environment; and explore practical Fall 2021 uses of microbes in industry, medicine and environmental The structure, chemistry and function of amino acids, proteins, management. The course will combine lecture, discussion of lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic acids; enzyme kinetics; primary literature and student presentations. Three hours of metabolic relationships of carbohydrates, lipids and amino lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: acids, and the control of various pathways. Lecture three hours BIOL 110 and CHEM B104. a week. Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. Scientific Investigation (SI) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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BIOL B271 Developmental Biology ECON B214 Public Finance

Fall 2021 Spring 2022 An introduction to embryology and the concepts of Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated by analyzing emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs on the experimental observations that support them. Topics include income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics include gametogenesis and fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate sources of inefficiency in markets and possible government specification and differentiation, pattern formation, regulation responses; federal budget composition; social insurance of gene expression, neural development, and developmental and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax structure and incidence. plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations and Prerequisites: ECON B105.

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Counts toward Health Studies We will also explore the questions regarding the sources of African history and their quality. FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Hygiene and Counts toward Africana Studies Eugenics Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Health Studies At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in common: Counts toward International Studies the former is usually conceived as a good management of our everyday conditions of life, whereas the latter is commonly ITAL B303 Boccaccio, the Plague, and Epidemic illness: reviled for having inspired discriminatory practices (in Nazi Literature and Medicine Germany, but also in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Not offered 2021-22 Our inquiry will explore how, in the context of the French What are the responses to human suffering during outbreaks Enlightenment, a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) of epidemic illness? How can literature be a valuable tool for was redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became plague prevention in time of pestilence? This class explores hegemonic both in the medical field and in civil society. We will crucial questions on how narrative works in medical contexts, also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal led to the quest with a focus on the Decameron and the black plague of 1348. for the improvement of the human species. We will compare the Giovanni Boccaccio is the first writer to unite the literary French situation with that of other countries (mainly UK and the topos of narration during a life-threatening situation with an USA). This course is taught in English. Students who wish to historical epidemic context in Medieval Italy. How does he tell get credit in French will meet one extra hour. Approach: Critical his stories in time of illness and death? How do writers and Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) other storytellers respond to dominant versions of health and Critical Interpretation (CI) medicine? Taught in Italian. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Health Studies

HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy Ages Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across space A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems and time. Focusing on particular issues such as health care, (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical domestic security, water and land use, we identify institutional, marketplace, and the social context for understanding health historical, and cultural factors that shape policies. We also and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include examine the growing importance of international-level policy Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of making and the interplay between international and domestic hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. pressures on policy makers. Writing attentive. Prerequisite: One course in Political Science or public policy. Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology HIST B337 Topics in African History Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics This course examines the experience, origins and Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics consequences of psychological difficulties and problems. Section 001 (Fall 2020): Hist of Global Health Africa Among the questions we will explore are: What do we mean Fall 2021 by abnormal behavior or psychopathology? What are the strengths and limitations of the ways in which psychopathology This is a topics course. Topics vary. is assessed and classified? What are the major forms of Current topic description: In the recent decades, the world has psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat experienced an increasing threat for public health from the psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced emerging infectious diseases that have provoked epidemics by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties and and pandemics. The course will focus on the impact of what are their consequences? How do we integrate social, epidemics and pandemics on cities in Africa. We will discuss biological and psychological perspectives on the causes of the issues of public health history, social and cultural history of psychopathology? Do psychological treatments (therapies) disease as well as the issues of the history of medicine. We will work? How do we study the effectiveness of psychology examine the histories of global initiatives to control disease in treatments? Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective (history, and social or H100). and biomedical sciences), using case studies from across the Course does not meet an Approach continent. We will explore various themes, such as the anxiety Counts toward Child and Family Studies and panic caused by the disease outbreaks; the state, medical, Counts toward Health Studies and popular responses; the politics of disease control; the conflicts of interests between the interests of commerce, public PSYC B231 Health Psychology health, and civil liberties; and the health disparities within cities.

We will focus on the colonial and postcolonial cities in Africa. Not offered 2021-22 231 HEALTH STUDIES

This course will provide an overview of the field of health Counts toward Neuroscience PSYC B327 Adolescent psychology using lecture, exams, videos, assignments, and Development an article critique. We will examine the current definition Spring 2022 of health psychology, as well as the theories and research behind many areas in health psychology (both historical and Is adolescence a biologically distinct stage of life, or a social contemporary). The course will focus on specific health and “holding ground” invented by modern culture for young social psychological theories, empirical research, and applying people unready or unwilling to assume the responsibilities of the theory and research to real world situations. Prerequisite: adulthood? Are adolescents destined to make risky decisions Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105) or Foundations of because of their underdeveloped ? At what age should Psychology (PSYC H100). Students may take either this course they be held accountable as adults in a court of law? This or HLTH/PSYC H245 not both. course will explore these and other questions about the biological, social, and legal forces that define the boundaries Course does not meet an Approach and shape the experience of adolescents growing up in Counts toward Health Studies the modern world. Students will learn about: (1) historical Counts toward Museum Studies changes in understanding and treatment of adolescents; (2) puberty-related biological changes marking the beginning PSYC B314 Advanced Data Science:Regression and of adolescence; (3) brain, behavioral, cognitive, and social Multivariate Statistics development during adolescence; and (4) contemporary Fall 2021 debates regarding age of adult maturity, and their implications This course is designed to improve your data science skills by for law and policy. Prerequisite: PSYC B206 (Developmental introducing you to advanced statistical techniques that have Psychology) or PSYC B211 (Lifespan Development) or become increasingly important in psychology and a variety permission or instructor. PSYC B205 is recommended. of fields. The focus will be on understanding the advantages and limitations of regression approaches and multivariate Counts toward Health Studies analytic techniques that permit simultaneous prediction of PSYC B331 Health Behavior and Context multiple outcomes. Topics covered will include basic regression approaches, advanced regression strategies, structural Not offered 2021-22 equation modeling, factor analysis, measurement models, This seminar will be devoted to a discussion of theory and path modeling, modeling of longitudinal data sets, multilevel research in health psychology. We will investigate both modeling approaches and growth curve modeling. Students historical and contemporary perspectives on the psychology will gain familiarity with these techniques by working with of wellness and illness. We will begin with a consideration of actual data sets. The last part of each class will be reserved how psychosocial forces influence health cognitions, behaviors, for lab time to apply lessons from class to an assignment due and physiological processes. The second half of the course the following week. Students are welcome to stay beyond the will focus on contextual factors, interventions, and emerging noon ending time to complete the assignment. Prerequisites: topics in research. We will debate the question of whether/how Required: PSYC Research Methods and Statistics 205 (BMC), psychological forces influence health outcomes. Prerequisite: Psych 200 (HC) Experimental Methods and Statistics, or BIOL PSYC B105 and PSYC B231 or PSYC B208, or by permission B215 Experimental Design and Statistics. Students with good of the instructor. statistical preparation in math or other disciplines and some knowledge of core methods used in social science or health- Counts toward Health Studies related research should consult with the instructor to gain PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology permission to take the class. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Counts toward Health Studies This course will examine emotional and behavioral disorders of children and adolescents, including autism, attention deficit PSYC B316 Advanced Topics in Neuroscience: Drugs of disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive Abuse disorder, depression, anorexia, and schizophrenia. Major topics Not offered 2021-22 covered will include: contrasting models of psychopathology; empirical and categorical approaches to assessment and This is a seminar course examining the neuroscience of diagnosis; outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, common drugs of abuse including psychostimulants, opiates/ and prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their efficacy opioids, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana. The goal of the .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. course is to explore progress in psychopharmacological research, while also discussing the societal ramifications of Counts toward Child and Family Studies addiction. We will also discuss these drugs of abuse in the Counts toward Health Studies context of the environmental factors that influence vulnerability Counts toward Neuroscience to them. We will examine concepts such as the importance PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Psychology of age on drug abuse, and how the developing brain may Through Films be vulnerable to addiction. The plan is to draw on relevant literature in order to investigate these topics and explore the Not offered 2021-22 implications for human addicts. This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = 16 Counts toward Health Studies students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The primary focus of the seminar will be evaluating the degree of correspondence

232 HEALTH STUDIES / HEBREW AND JUDAIC STUDIES between the cinematic presentation and current research take a global approach to feminist engagement with health knowledge about the disorder, taking into account the historical issues with an emphasis on human rights and bodily autonomy. period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies how accurately the symptoms of the disorder are presented and Counts toward Health Studies how representative the protagonist is of people who typically manifest this disorder based on current research. We will also SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life address the theory of etiology of the disorder depicted in the film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in Not offered 2021-22 the period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention to of psychopathology in that period. Another focus will be how the body influence our understanding of social processes of the film portrays the course of the disorder and how it depicts subjectivity, interaction, and practice? While the body has long treatment for the disorder. This cinematic presentation will be been an “absent presence” in sociology, multiple approaches evaluated with respect to current research on treatment for the to theorizing and researching the body have emerged in recent disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing treatment decades. A sociological approach to the body and embodiment for the disorder at the time the film was made. Prerequisite: provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between everyday PSYC B209. experience and analyses of broad social structures which Counts toward Child and Family Studies can seem disconnected from daily life. In this course, we will Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies examine the processes by which individual bodies are shaped Counts toward Film Studies by and, in turn, shape social life. Key questions to be explored Counts toward Health Studies include: how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do individuals perform the body and how does interactional context PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology influence this performance; what is the meaning of the body in social life; and is there a “right” body? Suggested preparation:

Spring 2022 At least one course in the social sciences. A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological Counts toward Health Studies basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological models of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and psychosis; and the psychology and of drug HEBREW AND JUDAIC STUDIES addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC H217 or permission of instructor. Modern Hebrew language instruction is available at Bryn Mawr through the elementary level. Students may take

Counts toward Health Studies Intermediate Modern Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania.

Counts toward Neuroscience At Swarthmore College biblical Hebrew is offered in a two- semester sequence through the first-year level, and additional SOCL B317 Comparative Social Policy: Cuba, China, US, reading in Classical Jewish texts is available in directed Scandinavia reading, one-half-credit courses. At Haverford, Judaic Studies Fall 2021 courses are offered by the Department of Religion. Bryn Mawr This course will examine different countries’ policy choices also offers several courses which complement Haverford’s to address different societal challenges. Four societal types offerings in Judaic Studies. All of these courses are listed in the - socialist (Cuba), post-socialist (China), capitalist (US), and Tri-Co Course Guide under the heading “Hebrew and Judaic social-democratic (Scandinavia) - will be studies to help us Studies.” understand how these different kinds of societies conceive of social problems and propose and implement attempted solutions. We will examine particular problems/solutions in four Faculty domains: health/sports; education; environment; technological Penny Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of development. As we explore these domains, we will attend French and Francophone Studies and Director of Middle to methodological issues involved in making historical and Eastern Languages (on leave semester I) institutional comparisons Nechama Sataty, Visiting Assistant Professor Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Counts toward Education Counts toward Health Studies College Foreign Language Requirement The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied SOCL B326 Feminist Perspectives on Hlth by completing Hebrew 001 and 002 with a minimum grade of at Spring 2022 least 2.0. Increasingly, an individual’s sense of self and worth as a citizen turn on their health identity. In this course we will draw on Courses theories of gender, sexuality, medicalization, and biocitizenship HEBR B001 Elementary Hebrew to unravel the ways in which gender structures and medical institutions are mutually constitutive and to explore how this Fall 2021 relationship, in turn, impacts individual identity. The course will This year-long course is designed to teach beginners the skills of reading, writing, and conversing in Modern Hebrew. It will

233 HEBREW AND JUDAIC STUDIES provide students with knowledge of the Hebrew writing system - ITAL B313 Primo Levi, the Writer its alphabet (Square letters for reading, cursive for writing) and Spring 2022 vocalization - as well as core aspects of grammar and syntax. Diverse means will be utilized: Textbook, supplementary printed Today Primo Levi is one of the most widely read Italian writers material, class conversations, presentations by students of of post-World War II in Italy and abroad. Even though still dialogues or skits that they prepare in advance, and written known primarily for his contributions to Holocaust testimony compositions. This course, followed by Semesters 3 and 4 and theory, paradoxical as it may seem, the experience of taken elsewhere, lays a foundation for reading of Modern Auschwitz and his need to tell proved to be the initial impulse Hebrew literary works. that drove Levi to continue to write until his death as a critical engagement of the Western classical canon and civilization that Course does not meet an Approach in the end created Auschwitz. In addition to being a memoirist, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies he was a columnist, novelist, writer of short stories and fantasy tales, many of which touch on science fiction, a literary HEBR B002 Elementary Hebrew critic, poet, essayist, and he also tried his hand as translator Spring 2022 (of Kafka’s The Trial) and playwright. He has also been the This is a continuation of HEBR B001, year-long course is subject of countless illuminating interviews, many of which designed to teach beginners the skills of reading, writing, and have been translated into English. Levi is one of most prolific conversing in Modern Hebrew. It will provide students with writers of our time, earning the right to be regarded simply as knowledge of the Hebrew writing system - its alphabet (Square a well-respected writer, as he himself wished, with no other letters for reading, cursive for writing) and vocalization - as well qualifications added. as core aspects of grammar and syntax. Diverse means will be utilized: Textbook, supplementary printed material, class POLS B283 Middle East Politics conversations, presentations by students of dialogues or skits Fall 2021 that they prepare in advance, and written compositions. This This course examines politics in the Middle East and North course, followed by Semesters 3 and 4 taken elsewhere, lays a Africa (the MENA region). With the aim of making sense of foundation for reading of Modern Hebrew literary works. the 21st Century, we will develop a broad historical overview Course does not meet an Approach of the region, going back to the late Ottoman era, and trace Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies the genealogies of key contemporary issues. Organizing themes include the regional state system and its challenges; HEBR B403 Supervised Work transnational political movements; dynamics of repression, resistance, revolution, and reform within states; the significance ITAL B312 Black, Queer, Jewish Italy of various forms of identity in political life (national, sectarian, Not offered 2021-22 religious, etc.); and the distinctive characteristics of the region’s political economy. Among the particular topics we will address This seminar approaches the two most studied phases of are processes of colonization and decolonization, state Italian history, the Renaissance and the 20th century, by placing building, origins and outcomes of the 2011 uprisings, past and what we call ‘otherness’ at the center of the picture rather ongoing civil wars, and the effects of foreign interventions. A than at its supposed margins. The main aim is to challenge core goal for the course is for students to become conversant traditional accounts of Italian culture, and to look at pivotal in current debates about political developments in the region events and phenomena (the rise of Humanism, the rise of and to learn how to think critically, and with greater depth and fascism, courtly culture, the two World Wars, 16th century art, nuance, about popular media coverage and “conventional futurism) from the point of view of black, queer, and Jewish wisdom” that prevails in American discourse. No prerequisites, protagonists, authors, and fictional characters. Our theoretical but either some prior familiarity with the Middle East or a prior bedrock will be offered by modern and contemporary thinkers political science course encouraged. such as Fred Moten, Antonio Gramsci, Edie Segdwick, and Hannah Arendt. Our primary sources will come from cultural Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) epicenters of Renaissance, Baroque, and late Modern Italy, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies such as Leo X papal court, fascist Ferrara, 17th century Venice, and colonial Libya. In class, we will adopt a trans-historical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective inspired by Fred HISTORY Moten’s work, which will serve as the poetic common ground for our investigations. Themes and issues will be analyzed Students may complete a major or minor in History. at the crossing of the two historical phases and of the three topics in exam, and the material will include historical and theoretical analyses, narrative texts, poems, films, and visual Faculty art. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of Dale Booth, Visiting Assistant Professor Italian is required, as readings will be in English translation. An additional hour in Italian will be offered for departmental credits. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of Students taking the course for departmental credit will also read European History and Chair of History (on leave semester II) part of the readings in the original language, and produce three Madhavi Kale, Professor of History (on leave semester I) short response-papers in Italian in lieu of the Midterm. Anita Kurimay, Associate Professor of History Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana Studies of these advanced courses be taken with Bryn Mawr history and History and Co-Director of Health Studies faculty). At least one course, at any level, must concentrate on the period before 1800. Sharon Ullman, Professor of History Only two 100-level courses may be counted toward the major. A primary aim of the Department of History is to deepen Credit toward the major is not given for either the Advanced students’ sense of time as a factor in cultural diversity and Placement examination or the International Baccalaureate. change. Our program of study offers students the opportunity to experience the past through attention to long-range questions, Honors comparative history, and complex causation. Students learn Majors with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (general) and 3.6 about particular periods, cultures, and historical moments (history) at the end of their senior year qualify for departmental alongside mastering the ability to consider multiple viewpoints, honors. aggregate data, articulate research questions, marshal evidence, and construct arguments, and have opportunities to Minor Requirements engage with digital humanities and public history. The requirement for the minor is six courses, at least four of which must be taken in the Bryn Mawr Department of The department’s 100-level courses, centered upon specific History, and include one course at any level that deals with topics within the instructor’s field of expertise, introduce the period before 1800, at least one 300-level course within students to a wide array of subjects and themes, and are open the department, and two additional history courses within the to all students, regardless of any prior instruction in History. department. No more than two course at the 100-level may In the 200-level courses, the department offers students the count toward the minor. opportunity to pursue interests in specific cultures, regions, policies, or societies, and enables them to experience a Courses broad array of approaches to history through attention to primary sources, introduction to historiography, and mastery of HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations chronology. Fall 2021 The department’s 300-level courses build on students’ knowledge gained in 200-level classes, and provide The course is designed to introduce students to the history of opportunities to explore topics at greater depth in a seminar African and African Diaspora societies, cultures, and political setting. 300-level courses offer students opportunities to economies. We will discuss the origins, state formation, undertake significant intellectual projects based on research in external contacts, and the structural transformations and primary and secondary sources. continuities of African societies and cultures in the context of the slave trade, colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, Major Requirements urbanization, and westernization, as well as contemporary struggles over authority, autonomy, identity and access Eleven courses are required for the History major, and two— to resources. Case studies will be drawn from across the Introduction to Historical Methods (HIST 299), and Approaches continent. to Historical Praxis (HIST 398)—must be taken at Bryn Mawr. Critical Interpretation (CI) In HIST 299, students will be introduced to different historical Inquiry into the Past (IP) frameworks and historiographic debates that animate the Counts toward Africana Studies field. (Majors taking History 299 will fulfill the College’s Writing Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Intensive requirement. ) It is intended to prepare advanced Counts toward International Studies sophomores and juniors to do advanced work at the 300-level and in some advanced 200-level courses. In HIST 398, which HIST B124 High and Late Middle Ages must be taken in Fall of senior year, the students complete a series of focused assignments designed to give them Not offered 2021-22 an opportunity to practice different ways of “doing history.” This course will cover the second half of the European Middle Students will work with professors as well as other resources at Ages, often called the High and Late Middle Ages, from roughly the College (, librarians, digital technologists, Praxis 1000-1400. The course has a general chronological framework, Program, etc.) to articulate a historical question, research it, and is based on important themes of medieval history. and produce a final project. This final project may be a term These include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social paper, but might also take the form of a digital project, an transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the rise of exhibit, a , a Praxis internship in a museum or archive, the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; urbanism and or something else. Upon successful completion of History the growth of towns. The course number was previously HIST 398, students may, if they wish, continue their project into a B224. second semester. This is not required, but if students wish to do so, the department will authorize and provide support for an Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) independent study in order to facilitate that ongoing work. Inquiry into the Past (IP) The remaining nine history courses may range across fields HIST B129 The Religious Conquest of the Americas or concentrate within them, depending on how a major’s Not offered 2021-22 interests develop. Of these, at least two must be seminars at the 300 level offered by the Departments of History at Bryn The course examines the complex aspects of the European Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore Colleges or the University of missionization of indigenous people, and explores how two Pennsylvania. (It is strongly recommended that at least one traditions of religious thought/practice came into conflict.

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Rather than a transposition of Christianity from Europe to the HIST B218 Memories, Memorials, and Representations of Americas, something new was created in the contested colonial World War I space. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) The course considers the historical origins and experience Inquiry into the Past (IP) of Word War I from a social and cultural perspective. We will Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies think about why some people anticipated and willingly went to war while others were caught by surprise and also, how the HIST B156 The Long 1960’s experience of war differed on the home front and battlefront. Not offered 2021-22 Second, the course will look at the political, social, economic, The 1960s has had a powerful effect on recent US History. and cultural consequences of the so-called, Great War. How But what was it exactly? How long did it last? And what do we did the end of the war affect people at the individual and really mean when we say “The Sixties?” This term has become community levels as well as nations as a whole? Finally, we will so potent and loaded for so many people from all sides of the examine the various historical factors that influence how (and political spectrum that it’s almost impossible to separate fact when) WWI has been remembered in modern Europe. from fiction; myth from memory. We are all the inheritors of this Inquiry into the Past (IP) intense period in American history but our inheritance is neither simple nor entirely clear. Our task this semester is to try to pull HIST B226 Topics in 20th Century European History apart the meaning as well as the legend and attempt to figure Section 001 (Spring 2021): History of the Body out what “The Sixties” is (and what it isn’t) and try to assess its Section 001 (Fall 2021): National Proj, Socialist Dream long term impact on American society. Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Africana Studies Current topic description: This is an introductory course to the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies political and social history of East-Central Europe from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore the complicated HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 histories and emergence of the nation states between Germany Fall 2021 and the Soviet Union. Beginning with the age of the Habsburg The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the Empire and finishing in the age of the European Union we way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. will examine how societies in East central Europe struggled and the Americas came together to form an interconnected to balance nationalism and socialism as competing ways of

Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the making sense of their world and as platforms for changing it. manner in which an integrated system was created in the Inquiry into the Past (IP) Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded Counts toward International Studies version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle Ages Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems Counts toward International Studies (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights marketplace, and the social context for understanding health and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include HIST B212 Pirates, Travelers, and Natural Historians: 1492- Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of 1750 hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) In the early modern period, conquistadors, missionaries, Inquiry into the Past (IP) travelers, pirates, and natural historians wrote interesting Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies texts in which they tried to integrate the New World into their Counts toward Health Studies existing frameworks of knowledge. This intellectual endeavor Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies was an adjunct to the physical conquest of American space, and provides a framework though which we will explore HIST B234 An Introduction to Middle Eastern History the processes of imperial competition, state formation, and Fall 2021 indigenous and African resistance to colonialism. This course serves as an introduction to the history of the Inquiry into the Past (IP) modern Middle East. We will also explore the narratives and Counts toward Africana Studies debates that have shaped the field of Middle East history. Counts toward Environmental Studies Topics include orientalism, colonialism, political reform, social, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies cultural, and intellectual movements, nationalism, and the Cold War. Readings will be drawn from the fields of history, anthropology, politics, and literature. Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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Counts toward International Studies By paying special attention to the rise of modern nation-states, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies forces of nationalism, and the impacts of imperialism we will interrogate the nature of regulation and experiences of sexuality HIST B236 African History since 1800 in different locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century Section 001 (Fall 2020): Africa since 1800 to the present. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Africa since 1800 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Fall 2021 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies The course analyzes the history of Africa in the last two hundred years in the context of global political economy. We HIST B241 America 1890-1945 will examine the major themes in modern African history, including the 19th-century state formation, expansion, Fall 2021 or restructuration; partition and resistance; colonial rule; This course focuses on the first half of the twentieth century economic, social, political, religious, and cultural developments; in the United States. An intense period of violent struggle nationalism; post-independence politics, economics, and over race, immigration, labor, income inequality, gender, and society, as well as conflicts and the burden of disease. The the very survival of American democracy in the face of global course will also introduce students to the sources and methods fascism, the early years of the twentieth century set the stage of African history. for the American society of today. One cannot fully understand Current topic description: The course deals with the continuities what has happened to the U.S. right now without spending time and transformations of African societies and cultures in the in the first 40 years of the twentieth century. context of European colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, Inquiry into the Past (IP) urbanization, and westernization. Special attention will be paid to the options available to the Africans and the choices they HIST B242 American Politics and Society: 1945 to the made in colonial situations and after independence. The course Present will also introduce students to the sources and methods in Spring 2022 history as well as to various historical interpretations of African history. How did we get here? This course looks at the stunning transformation of America after WWII. From a country Critical Interpretation (CI) devastated by economic crisis and wedded to isolationism Inquiry into the Past (IP) prior to the war, America turned itself into an international Counts toward Africana Studies powerhouse. Massive grass roots resistance forced the Counts toward International Studies United States to abandon its system of racial apartheid, to open opportunities to women, and to reinvent its very HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History definition as it incorporated immigrants from around the world. Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa Simultaneously, American music and film broke free from their Not offered 2021-22 staid moorings and permanently altered international culture. Finally, through the “War on Terror”, starting after 9/11, America This is a topics course. Course content varies initiated an aggressive new foreign policy that has shattered Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) traditional rules of warfare and reoriented global politics. We will explore the political, social, and cultural factors that have driven

Inquiry into the Past (IP) modern American history. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies HIST B243 Topics: Atlantic Cultures HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of Sexuality Section 001 (Spring 2022): Maroon Communities - New World in Modern Europe Section 001 (Fall 2020): Maroon Societies Spring 2022 Spring 2022 This course is a detailed examination of the changing nature This is a topics course. Course content varies. and definition of sexuality in Europe from the late nineteenth century to the present. Throughout the semester we critically Current topic description: The course explores the process examine how understandings of sexuality changed--from of self-emancipation by slaves in the early modern Atlantic how it was discussed and how authorities tried to control it World. What was the nature of the communities that free blacks to how the practice of sexuality evolved. Focusing on both forged? What were their relationships to the empires from discourses and lived experiences, the class will explore which they had freed themselves? How was race constructed in sexuality in the context of the following themes; prostitution and the early modern period? Did conceptions of race change over sex trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention time? Through readings and discussion, we will investigate to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth of the the establishment of autonomous African settlements and homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the “New Woman”; cultures throughout the Americas, and examine the nature of abortion and contraception; the “sexual revolution” of the 60s; local autonomy within a strife-torn world of contending empires pornography and consumerism; LGBTQ activism; concluding and nation-states. Taking a comparative approach, we shall with considering sexuality in the age of cyber as well as genetic examine developments in North America, South America, the technology. In examining these issues we will question the role Caribbean, and Brazil. and influence of different political systems and war on sexuality. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

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Inquiry into the Past (IP) the bodies (profoundly gendered, “raced,” and hierarchized) Counts toward Africana Studies that engage in all three. To what degree have techniques of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies governance (measuring, surveilling) practiced and routinized through the various colonial empires of the 19th and 20th HIST B245 Topics in Modern US History centuries informed the production and circulation of knowledge Not offered 2021-22 (specifically academic disciplines like History) the naturalization of analytical and descriptive categories like labor, race and

This is a topics course addressing public history in the U.S. class -- and vice versa? .

Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Museum Studies HIST B257 British Empire I: Capitalism and Slavery Counts toward Praxis Program Not offered 2021-22 HIST B253 Themes in Modern Europe: Europe in the Global Focusing on the Atlantic slave trade and the slave plantation Age mode of production, this course explores English colonization, Not offered 2021-22 and the emergence and the decline of British Empire in the Americas and Caribbean from the 17th through the late 20th This course is a survey of Europe from the seventeenth century centuries. It tracks some of the intersecting and overlapping to the present. Throughout the semester we will look at the routes--and roots--connecting histories and politics within and people, events, and major themes that shaped the history of between these “new” world locations. It also tracks the further modern Europe. We will cover a large number of topics, from and proliferating links between developments in these regions social movements and political ideologies, to national identities and the histories and politics of regions in the “old” world, from and gender norms. We will examine what we mean when we the north Atlantic to the South China sea. speak of “Europe” and we will place Europe within the context of the wider, global world. Through the use of primary sources, Critical Interpretation (CI) students will also learn the skills and techniques necessary in Inquiry into the Past (IP) the work of a historian. We will examine how historians write, interpret, and construct histories from a series of facts, and HIST B258 British Empire: Imagining Indias what place these histories have in our contemporary world. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course considers ideas about and experiences of “modern” Inquiry into the Past (IP) India, i.e., India during the colonial and post-Independence Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies periods (roughly 1757-present). While “India” and “Indian Counts toward International Studies history” along with “British empire” and “British history” will be the ostensible objects of our consideration and discussions, HIST B256 Disciplining Bodies in Motion: Migration and the course proposes that their imagination and meanings are Colonial Modernity continually mediated by a wide variety of institutions, agents, Not offered 2021-22 and analytical categories (nation, religion, class, race, gender, to name a few examples). The course uses primary sources, Migration and borderlands dominate headlines as well as the scholarly analyses, and cultural productions to explore the everyday experiences of millions of people around the world, political economies of knowledge, representation, and power in as vast numbers of human bodies move through spaces the production of modernity. interrupted by variously-contested and regulated natural barriers (rivers, seas, mountains, deserts, etc.) and barricades Critical Interpretation (CI) (social, cultural and psychic as well as physical) constructed Inquiry into the Past (IP) by not only States, but by a wide range of “non-State actors” Counts toward International Studies as well. Notably, since 1984, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, the majority of migrants to this country have been HIST B263 Impact of Empire: Britain 1858-1960 women, a trend that is also evident elsewhere (within as well Spring 2022 as across national borders). While migration arguably is a Is empire (on the British variant of which, in its heyday, the characteristic feature of humanity across time and space, this reportedly never set) securely superseded (as some course will situate our current transnational conjuncture in the have confidently asserted) or does it endure and, if so, in long duree of global migration engendered by developments what forms and domains? Focusing on the expanding British at the turn of the 16th century, focusing on the migration of colonial empire from the 17th century on, this course considers “labor” from the Indian subcontinent to the Pacific and Indian its impact through the dynamics of specific commodities’ Oceans, the Persian Gulf, Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, production, and consumption (sugar and tea, for example, but Britain, and Europe. Focusing on indentured and contract labor also labor and governance), their cultures (from plantations migration from British India, we will consider if and how the and factories to households to the state), and their disciplinary historically-contingent and sometime politically opportunistic technologies (including domesticity, the nation, and discourses and transactional tactics, regulations, protocols around these on history and modernity). “labor” migrations contributed simultaneously to naturalizing and also obscuring gendered assumptions about work and Critical Interpretation (CI) (whether performed within, between or outside their spaces, Inquiry into the Past (IP) still predicated on) households, (geographical) mobility, and

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HIST B264 Passages from India: 1800-Present propose and complete a digital final project based on primary

Not offered 2021-22 research.

This course explores the histories and effects of migration Critical Interpretation (CI) from the Indian subcontinent to far-flung destinations across Inquiry into the Past (IP) the globe. It starts with the circular migrations of traders, HIST B274 Focus: Topics in Modern US History merchants, and pilgrims in the medieval period from the Indian subcontinent to points east (in southeast Asia) and Not offered 2021-22 west (eastern Africa). However, the focus of the course is on This is a topics course in 20th century America social history. modern migrations from the subcontinent, from the indentured Topics vary by half semester labor migrations of the British colonial period (to Africa, the

Caribbean, and the South Pacific) to the post-Independence Critical Interpretation (CI) emigrations from the new nations of the subcontinent to Britain, Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Praxis Program Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B280 History of Witchcraft and Magic HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas Spring 2022 Fall 2021 his course examines the social, cultural, and legal history of The course explores the confrontations, conquests and witchcraft and magic throughout European history. We will accommodations that formed the “ground-level” experience of examine the values and attitudes that have influenced beliefs day-to-day colonialism throughout the Americas. The course about witchcraft and the supernatural, both historically and in is comparative in scope, examining events and structures in the present day. This course will pay specific attention to the North, South and Central America, with particular attention paid role of gender and sexuality in the history of witchcraft, as the to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous leadership vast majority of individuals charged in the witch hunts of the in the colonial world of the 18th century. sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were indeed women. Inquiry into the Past (IP) We will also study accusations of witchcraft, breaking down Counts toward Africana Studies the power dynamics and assumptions at play behind the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies witch trials, and the effects of these trials on gender relations in European society. This class will track the intersections of HIST B268 Telling Bryn Mawr Histories: Topics, Sources, magic and science throughout the early modern period, and and Methods the reconciliation of belief systems during the Enlightenment. Not offered 2021-22 We will carry our analysis into the modern period, touching on Victorian spiritualism and mysticism, the emergence of Neo- The course covers historical research practices and methods, Paganism, and the return to the figure of the goddess. Our final and will familiarize participants with the College’s curatorial foray will be and examination of the political “witch-hunts” of the and archival collections, so that each student might frame an twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the enduring trope of individual research project. the “witch” in modern political culture. Course does not meet an Approach Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B270 The History of the Book with Digital Methods Not offered 2021-22 HIST B284 Movies and America: The Past Lives Forever This course aims to interrogate the cultural history of books Not offered 2021-22 from the earliest printed books in western society (incunables) Movies are one of the most important means by which to e-books in the modern era. While this course is designed Americans come to know - or think they know--their own to give students a sense of how books, broadly construed, history. We look to old movies to tell us about a world we never evolved between the 15th century and the present, it places knew but think we can access through film. And Hollywood an emphasis on books as material objects, the generative often reaches into the past to tell a good story. How can we processes of book creation, and the human labor driving said understand the impact of our love affair with movies on our processes, with an eye to how cultural and social hierarchies understanding of what happened in this country? In this course (i.e., race, class, and gender) structure interaction with books. we will examine the complex cultural relationship between film This class is also designed to give students perspective on and American historical self-fashioning. the various ways scholars of various disciplines, archivists, librarians, conservators, and collectors think about books. Critical Interpretation (CI)

This is a discussion and activity-heavy class that will alternate Inquiry into the Past (IP) between close examination of archival holdings in Bryn Mawr Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

College’s Special Collections and critical making activities. Counts toward Film Studies

Critical making activities are designed to help students Counts toward Visual Studies understand book making processes, and may involve printing HIST B286 Topics in the British Empire demos, paper marbling, or simple bookbinding. Students will be exposed to various digital tools throughout the semester and Not offered 2021-22

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This is a topics course covering various “topics” in the study of LGBTQ rights to Watergate and an economic crisis that foretold the British Empire. Course content varies. the coming collapse of the U.S. economy to Patty Hearst and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Jonestown...as well as disco and the beginnings of rap...the Inquiry into the Past (IP) 1970s had it all. We’ll explore some of the key moments in this fascinating decade and chart its underappreciated historical HIST B292 Women in Britain since 1750 impact. Fall 2021 HIST B307 Topics in European and Britain Cultural History Focusing on contemporary and historical narratives, this course Section 001 (Fall 2021): Urban Histories in 19th Century Britain. explores the ongoing production, circulation and refraction of Section 001 (Spring 2022): Women and Work discourses on gender and nation as well as race, empire and modernity since the mid-18th century. Texts will incorporate Fall 2021, Spring 2022 visual material as well as literary evidence and culture and This is a topics course. Course content varies. consider the crystallization of the discipline of history itself. Current topic description: In this course we will explore the Critical Interpretation (CI) social and cultural landscape of urban Britain throughout the Inquiry into the Past (IP) long-nineteenth century. Specifically, we will look to the urban Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies centers of London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The nineteenth century saw large-scale urbanization across Britain HIST B298 Politics of Food and with this urbanization came dramatic changes in the social, Not offered 2021-22 cultural, political, and economic spheres. In this class we will chart many of these changes and examine how questions Politics shapes what appears on our plates as well as of class, race, gender, sexuality, and nationality played out where we set our table. It all has a history. In America with within the urban landscape. Using both primary and secondary its confounding combination of engorging bounty and tragic sources, students will explore topics such as: the Industrial poverty, food represents a special nexus of the political and the Revolution; urban planning; public health; popular protest and personal. This course looks at the history and politics of eating, reform movements; queer subcultures; the social-problem producing, and consuming food in the United States. Course novel; sexual commerce and sex work; urban consumption topics include how food shaped both external and internal patterns; “slumming” and social welfare; and the impact migrations to the United States; how American foreign policy of empire on the metropole. A portion of the course will be from the Cold War to today helps us understand global food dedicated to the development of student research projects. and refugee crises; the history and politics of food aid, and the transformation of food consumption in modern America. Current topic description: This class confronts head on the notion of “working women” as a twentieth-century phenomenon.

Inquiry into the Past (IP) In this course, we will examine the rich history of gendered

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies labor throughout early-modern and modern European history. We will explore what constitutes “women’s work” in various HIST B299 Exploring History periods, from the family economies of early-modern Europe, Spring 2022 to the emergence of the industrial sector in the nineteenth This course is designed to introduce history majors to the century, to twentieth-century war efforts. This course will also debates governing the production of historical knowledge which examine how the professionalization of certain fields, such dominate the discipline. Although undergraduates often read as medicine and food production, pushed women from long- history monographs as finished and “complete” projects, in established roles within communities. We will touch on a variety fact each of these works is always deeply contested - both in of topics surrounding gendered labor including: domestic labor; terms of method and product. The goal of this course is to not itinerant labor; professional guilds; sex work; the “New Woman” only reinforce habits of critical textual reading but to provide and the “Modern Girl;” workplace reform; the effects of work students the tools to critically “read” the entire project of writing on personal and community identity; government regulation history. Required for History Majors. of women’s labor; capitalist and communist ideologies on gender and labor; and the intersections of gender, race, and

Critical Interpretation (CI) class within the labor market. By focusing on the culture and

Inquiry into the Past (IP) practices of everyday life and lived experiences of women in the labor force, students will gain a greater understanding HIST B303 Topics in American History of the ways in which labor functioned as a site of regulation, Section 001 (Spring 2021): American “Fascisms” exploitation, and empowerment throughout European history. Section 001 (Fall 2021): The Lost Decade HIST B319 Topics in Modern European History Fall 2021 Section 001 (Fall 2021): History of Fascism This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics Section 001 (Spring 2021): Queer Histories of Europe have included medicine, advertising, and history of sexuality. Course may be repeated for credit. Fall 2021 Current topic description: The Lost Decade: America in the This is a topics course. Course content varies. 1970s: Squished between the famous 1960s and the “Go-Go” Current topic description: History of Fascism: Then and Reagan inspired 1980s, the 1970s has gotten lost in American Now: What are the historical roots of facist ideologies and memory. But its influence was extraordinary. From the full organizations and what can a historical perspective tell us force of feminism rising and the emergence of the struggle for about the reasons for their continuous attraction? The seminar

240 HISTORY will examine the histories of facists’ movements in Europe from emerging infectious diseases that have provoked epidemics World War I to the present. As part of the seminar we will also and pandemics. The course will focus on the impact of interrogate the relationship between fascists movements and epidemics and pandemics on cities in Africa. We will discuss gender, sexuality, and youth in both the pre and post-World War the issues of public health history, social and cultural history of II era. disease as well as the issues of the history of medicine. We will examine the histories of global initiatives to control disease in HIST B325 Topics in Social History Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective (history, and social Section 001 (Fall 2021): Food Politics and biomedical sciences), using case studies from across the Section 001 (Spring 2022): Queer American History continent. We will explore various themes, such as the anxiety and panic caused by the disease outbreaks; the state, medical,

Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and popular responses; the politics of disease control; the This a topics course that explores various themes in American conflicts of interests between the interests of commerce, public social history. Course content varies. Course may be repeated. health, and civil liberties; and the health disparities within cities. We will focus on the colonial and postcolonial cities in Africa. Current topic description: The Politics of Food. Politics shapes We will also explore the questions regarding the sources of what appears on our plates as well as where we set our table... African history and their quality. It all has a history. In America with its confounding combination of engorging bounty and tragic poverty, food represents a Counts toward Africana Studies special nexus of the political and the personal. The politics of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies food is also cultural and helps frame our sense of the present Counts toward Health Studies and the past. This course cannot cover all these arenas in one Counts toward International Studies semester, but is an introduction to how to look at the complex history and politics of eating, producing, and consuming food HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450-1800 in the United States. Course topics include food and race, the Not offered 2021-22 cultural politics of who eats what and how they think about it; and the history and politics of food consumption in modern This course explores the emergence, development, and America. challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and blackness, that have been in place from the colonial period to the present. Current topic description: Queer American History. This Through the reading of primary and secondary sources, we course centers the influence of gender and sexual diversity will explore various ways through which enslaved people in understanding the historical development of institutions, imagined freedom, personal rights, community membership, ideals, social and cultural transformations, and economic and and some of the paths they created in order to improve their political processes in the U.S. since European colonization. experiences and change the social order. In an attempt to have The approach is intersectional, addressing gender and sexual a comparative approach, we will look at particular events and diversity as they intersect with race, class and other forms of circumstances that took place in few provinces in the Americas, social difference and power. The course examines both key with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The events and developments in the emerging visibility of queer course will also look at the methodological challenges of subjects in the American context as well as the processes by studying and writing history of people who in principle, were not which such visibility occurs. allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will identify Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and underscore the contribution that people of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, freedom, equality, and HIST B327 Topics in Early American History democracy. Section 001 (Spring 2022): Settler Colonialism in the Americas Counts toward Africana Studies 1500-1800 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Spring 2022 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current topic HIST B349 Topics in Comparative History description. The course examines the processes through which Section 001 (Fall 2021): European Competition/Indgns European colonizers established colonies in the Americas upon lands originally controlled by Indigenous peoples. Settler Fall 2021 colonialism is explored via the perspectives of Indigenous and This is a topics course. Topics vary. African peoples Current topic description: Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Africana Studies HIST B337 Topics in African History Counts toward Museum Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics HIST B357 Topics in British Empire Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics

Fall 2021 Section 001 (Spring 2022): Colonial Modrty/Nation-State Section 001 (Spring 2021): Decolonizing History This is a topics course. Topics vary. Spring 2022 Current topic description: In the recent decades, the world has experienced an increasing threat for public health from the This is a topics course. Topics vary. Current topic description: This course explores history as both a disciplinary and a social practice, examining some of

241 HISTORY the cultural and intellectual meanings assigned to `history’ by and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by an array of practitioners across time and space. The course genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a aims to help students further develop their skills as readers, dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned critics, researchers and writers, and assignments are designed in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical accordingly. We will use an array of materials (including understanding gained through classroom study to work done in eye-witness accounts and chronicles, novels, films, historical the broader community. monographs and ethnographies) and tactics (including writing Counts toward Praxis Program assignments and class discussions) to explore different experiences, understandings and representations of some ARCH B208 Ancient Near Eastern History of the institutions (home, family, State, nation), phenomena

(migration, trade, travel), and analytical categories (gender, Not offered 2021-22 race, class, religion, sexuality) that animate not only This course will explore some of the key historical figures, contemporary historical practice but also our apprehensions events and inventions that shaped Ancient Near Eastern and performances of our selves. societies and traditions. We will consider the impact that the modern disciplines of ancient near eastern archaeology and HIST B364 Medieval Robots history have had on our understanding of this region. We will Not offered 2021-22 also discuss how the ancient history and more recent colonial past of this region has impacted upon and shaped our modern A reading and research seminar focused on different examples interpretations of this region. of artificial life in medieval cultures. Primary sources will be from a variety of genres, and secondary sources will include Critical Interpretation (CI) significant theoretical works in art history, critical theory and Inquiry into the Past (IP) science studies. Prerequisite: at least one course in medieval Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies history, or the permission of the instructor. ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2021 HIST B371 Topics in Atlantic History: The Early Modern A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious Pirate in Fact and Fiction ideologies of, and interactions among, the five great empires of Not offered 2021-22 the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian This course will explore piracy in the Americas in the period and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian 1550-1750. We will investigate the historical reality of Empire in Iran. pirates and what they did, and the manner in which pirates have entered the popular imagination through fiction and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) films. Pirates have been depicted as lovable rogues, anti- Inquiry into the Past (IP) establishment rebels, and enlightened multiculturalists who Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies were skilled in dealing with the indigenous and African peoples of the Americas. The course will examine the facts and the BIOL B214 The History of Genetics and Embryology fictions surrounding these important historical actors. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies This course provides a general history of genetics and embryology in Germany, Britain and the United States from HIST B398 Approaches to Historical Praxis the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The course will include a This course is designed to provide students the opportunity focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played to consider different ways of “doing history.” In conversation in the development of these sub-disciplines. We will look at with the professor and using the resources of the College the lives of well known and lesser-known individuals, asking (archivists, librarians, digital specialists, Praxis Program) how factors such as their educational experiences and mentor students will articulate a historical question, research it, and relationships influenced the roles these women played in the produce a final project. This project may be a final research scientific enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific paper, but might also take the more public form of a digital contributions in historical context, requiring a review of core project, an exhibit, a short film, or an internship in a local concepts in genetics and developmental biology. museum, oral history center, or archive. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Scientific Investigation (SI) HIST B403 Supervised Work Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Optional independent study, which requires permission of the instructor and the major adviser. CITY B250 Topics: Growth and Spatial Organization of the City HIST B403 Supervised Work Not offered 2021-22 Optional independent study, which requires permission of the This is a topics course. Course content varies. instructor and the major adviser. Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Counts toward Environmental Studies Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty

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CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first Section 001 (Fall 2021): The City and Nature part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and Fall 2021 the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, This is a topics course. Topics vary. we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging Current topic description: The City and Nature: The from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to Environmental Transformation of Modern Cities: The class HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day examines the emergence of the modern city in Europe and the advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues Americas in relation to their natural environments in order to such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and understand how “country” and “city” were and continue to be the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. mutually constitutive spaces and concepts. Focusing on the era of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism, the class Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) studies how the planning, building, and regulating of urban built Counts toward Film Studies environments were embedded in practices to control, manage, and consume natural resources, and ultimately define nature. CSTS B205 Greek History An integral part of this subject also concerns the people who Not offered 2021-22 both affected and were affected by the decisions to construct This course traces the rise of the city-state (polis) in the Greek- and manipulate the terrain, as well as the institutions that speaking world beginning in the seventh-century BC down to its were built to manage and define new social relations and full blossoming in classical Athens and Sparta. Students should public responsibilities of the modern city. This course looks at gain an understanding of the formation and development of history of the relationship between the city and the countryside Greek identity, from the Panhellenic trends in archaic epic and and how it has informed contemporary responses, policies religion through its crystallization during the heroic defense and ideas around global climate change. The readings and against two Persian invasions and its subsequent disintegration materials are diverse, drawing from environmental studies and during the Peloponnesian war. The class will also explore the urban history, as well as art and architecture. This is a reading ways in which the evolution of political, philosophical, religious, and discussion heavy upper-level course. Each student will and artistic institutions reflect the changing socio-political be asked to facilitate/host a discussion session. There are two circumstances of Greece. The latter part of the course will focus options for the final assignment: an exhibition developed by a on Athens in particular: its rise to imperial power under Pericles, team and a more traditional research paper. The course fulfills its tragic decline from the Peloponnesian War and its important major requirements in Environmental Studies, History and role as a center for the teaching of rhetoric and philosophy. Cities. Since the study of history involves the analysis, evaluation, Course does not meet an Approach and synthesis of the sources available for the culture studied, Counts toward Environmental Studies students will concentrate upon the primary sources available for Greek history, exploring the strengths and weakness of these CSTS B108 Roman Africa sources and the ways in which their evidence can be used to Spring 2022 create an understanding of ancient Greece. Students should learn how to analyze and evaluate the evidence from primary In 146 BCE, Rome conquered and destroyed the North texts and to synthesize the information from multiple sources in African city of Carthage, which had been its arch-enemy a critical way. for generations, and occupied many of the Carthaginian settlements in North Africa. But by the second and third Inquiry into the Past (IP) centuries CE, North Africa was one of the most prosperous and cultured areas of the Roman Empire, and Carthage EALC B131 Chinese Civilization (near modern Tunis) was one of the busiest ports in the Spring 2022 Mediterranean. This course will trace the relations between A broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and society Rome and Carthage, looking at the history of their mutual from the Bronze Age to the 1800s, with special reference enmity, the extraordinary rise to prosperity of Roman North to such topics as belief, family, language, the arts and Africa, and the continued importance of the region even after sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in the Vandal invasions of the fifth century. English translation and secondary studies. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics Not offered 2021-22 EALC B200 Major Seminar: Methods and Approaches in Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), East Asian Studies has been a figure of continuous fascination and political Spring 2022 resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and This course introduces current and prospective majors to enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while the scope and methods of East Asian Studies. It employs she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined readings on East Asian history and culture as a platform for by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, exercises in critical analysis, bibliography, cartography and the musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will formulation of research topics and approaches. It culminates in examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in a substantial research essay. Required of East Asian Studies

243 HISTORY majors, but open to others by permission, the course should be reflecting the social parameters and pressures of the period. taken before the senior year. Prerequisite: One year of Chinese Beyond the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern, notions of or Japanese. vision begin to shift as Age of Reason dawns and illuminates Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) other ways of being in and knowing the world. We will explore Inquiry into the Past (IP) the diverse forms of textual transmission in the premodern era, focusing on the courtly epic, Minnesang, conduct books, song EALC B263 The Chinese Revolution books, and intersections with visual culture with an emphasis on text-image relationships. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Places the causes and consequences of the 20th century Critical Interpretation (CI) revolutions in historical perspective, by examining its late- imperial antecedents and tracing how the revolution has HART B218 Byzantine Textiles in Life and Death (and has not) transformed China, including the lives of such key revolutionary supporters as the peasantry, women, and Fall 2021 intellectuals. This course explores the manifold uses and meanings of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) textiles in early Byzantine visual and material culture as well Inquiry into the Past (IP) as their afterlife as objects of collection and display in the modern era. Students will undertake original research on early EALC B264 Human Rights in China Byzantine textiles from the collection of Philadelphia University. Assignments will develop skills in museological writing,

Spring 2022 including documentation for collection databases and object This course will examine China’s human rights issues from a exhibitions. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in History of historical perspective. The topics include diverse perspectives Art, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or History is recommended, on human rights, historical background, civil rights, religious but not required. practice, justice system, education, as well as the problems Inquiry into the Past (IP) concerning some social groups such as migrant laborers, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies women, ethnic minorities and peasants. Counts toward Museum Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) MEST B200 Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Spring 2022

EALC B325 Topics in Chinese History and Culture This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on analytical approaches,

Section 001 (Fall 2021): Legal Culture in Chinese History methods, and tools. Students consider the dynamics of the Fall 2021 region in the premodern and modern periods and become familiar with the major issues and debates that dominate This is a topics course. Course content varies. various disciplinary approaches to the Middle East. Readings ENGL B359 Dead Presidents include both important canonical and alternative scholarship in order to examine the limits and possibilities of the field. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Framed by the extravagant funerals of Presidents Washington Counts toward International Studies and Lincoln, this course explores the cultural importance of Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies the figure of the President and the Presidential body, and of the 19th-century preoccupations with death and mourning, in MEST B210 The Art and Architecture of Islamic Spirituality the U.S. cultural imaginary from the Revolutionary movement Not offered 2021-22 through the Civil War. This course examines how Muslim societies across time and GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies space have used art and architecture in different ways to Section 001 (Fall 2021): Seeing and Being Seen express and understand inner dimensions of spirituality and mysticism. Topics to be studied include: the calligraphical

Fall 2021 remnants of the early Islamic period; inscriptions found This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics on buildings and gravestones; the majestic architecture of include Remembered Violence, Global Masculinities, and Crime mosques, shrines, seminaries, and Sufi lodges; the brilliant and Detection in German. arts of the book; the commemorative iconography and passion plays of Ashura devotion; the souvenir culture of modern Current topic description: Seeing and Being Seen: Vision and shrine visitation; and the modern art of twenty-first century Visuality: This course explores the issues of vision, visibility Sufism. Readings include works from history, religious studies, and visuality during the visual turn in Middle Ages in present anthropology, sociology, and the history of art and architecture. day German speaking regions. In the courtly setting the gaze reigned as a form of social surveillance. Elsewhere, mystics Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) such as Hildegard von Bingen and Beguine Mechthild von Critical Interpretation (CI) Magdeburg write down impressive visions of God and religious Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies life, asserting a powerful form of female authorship. Vision was Counts toward Visual Studies also tied to writing, memory practices, descriptive story-telling,

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HISTORY OF ART be submitted at the end of the spring semester. Generally 25- 40 pages in length, the senior thesis represents the culmination of the departmental experience. Students may complete a major or minor in History of Art. Honors Faculty Seniors whose work is outstanding (with a minimum 3.7 GPA in David Cast, Professor of History of Art the major at the beginning of the second semester senior year) may be invited to undertake an honors thesis. Consideration for Matthew Feliz, Visiting Assitant Professor honors is by invitation only. At the end of the spring semester, if Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor of History of Art the submitted thesis fulfills expectations, the honors candidate will be invited to discuss the thesis with faculty members in a Homay King, Professor and Chair of History of Art (on leave one-half hour oral examination. semester I) C.C. McKee, Assistant Professor of History of Art Minor Requirements Lisa Saltzman, Professor of History of Art on the Emily Rauh A minor in history of art requires six units: one or two 100-level Pulitzer ‘55 Professorship (on leave semesters I and II) courses and four or five courses at the 200 or 300 level. The Jie Shi, Assistant Professor of History of Art student’s minor program is decided in consultation with the department undergraduate advisor. Alicia Walker, Professor and Chair of History of Art on the Marie Neuberger Fund for the Study of Arts Courses

The curriculum in History of Art immerses students in the HART B102 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: study of visual and material culture. Students learn to interpret Naturalism and the Supernatural in South Asian Art through methodologies dedicated to the historical, the material, Spring 2022 the critical, and the theoretical. Majors and minors are encouraged to supplement courses taken in the department This course examines the representations of gods, plants, with history of art courses offered at Haverford, Swarthmore, humans and animals in the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Islamic and the University of Pennsylvania. Majors are also artistic traditions of India. It traces both the development encouraged to study abroad for a semester of their junior year. of naturalistic representations, as well as departures and embellishments on naturalism in the painting, sculpture, Major Requirements architecture, metalwork and textiles of South Asia. The course will consider the spiritual, social, political and aesthetic The major requires ten units, approved by the major advisor. motivations that led artists to choose naturalistic or supernatural These courses should include one or two 100-level “critical forms of representation. approaches” seminars, which also fulfill the departmental writing intensive requirement; three or four 200-level lecture Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) courses; three 300-level seminars; and senior conference I Inquiry into the Past (IP) and II in the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. In HART B104 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: the course of their departmental studies, students are strongly The Classical Tradition encouraged to take classes across geographical, temporal, and cultural subfields and to explore diverse media. Students Fall 2021 must complete coursework in at least three of the following An investigation of the historical and philosophical ideas of the fields of study: Ancient and Medieval; Renaissance and classical, with particular attention to the Italian Renaissance Baroque; Modern, Contemporary, and Film; and Global/Non- and the continuance of its formulations throughout the Western. Westernized world. With the approval of the major advisor, a limited number of Critical Interpretation (CI) courses in fine arts may be counted toward the fulfillment Inquiry into the Past (IP) of the distribution requirements. Likewise, a limited number of courses with significant curricular investment in visual HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: and material culture may be counted toward the major Identification in the Cinema requirements, including courses in ancient art offered by Spring 2022 the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology department, in the study of art institutions through the Museum Studies An introduction to the analysis of film through particular Program, or in architecture by the Growth and Structure of attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving images Cities department. Courses in art history taken abroad or at compel our fascination? How exactly do film spectators relate another institution in the United States may also be counted to the people, objects, and places that appear on the screen? if approved by the major advisor. Generally, no more than Wherein lies the power of images to move, attract, repel, two courses based outside of the department of History of persuade, or transform its viewers? In this course, students will Art may be counted toward the major requirements; the be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic remainder of a student’s courses in the major should be of identification. We will explore how points of view are framed completed with members of the core faculty in History of Art. in cinema, and how those viewing positions differ from those of still photography, advertising, video games, and other forms A senior thesis, based on independent research and using of media. Students will be encouraged to consider the role scholarly methods of historical and/or critical interpretation must the cinematic medium plays in influencing our experience of a 245 HISTORY OF : how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form of HART B233 Nineteenth-Century Art representation that creates interactions between the spectator Not offered 2021-22 and the images on the screen. Film screenings include Psycho, Being John Malkovich, and others. Course is geared to This course takes a transnational approach to the history of art freshman and those with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History from the Age of Revolution (beginning in the late-eighteenth of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor century) through the industrial globalization of the late- Introductory course or Theory course requirement. nineteenth century. Lectures, readings and class discussions will engage key artistic and historical developments that shaped Critical Interpretation (CI) art and culture during this period. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Film Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Visual Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP)

HART B111 Landscapes, Art, and Racial Ecologies HART B240 The Global Baroque Spring 2022 Fall 2021 This course uses art, visual, and material culture to trace the Global Baroque” examines the Baroque style both within and plantation’s centrality to colonial and post-colonial environments beyond Europe, moving from Italy, France, Spain and Flanders in the Atlantic World from the eighteenth century to the present, to seventeenth-century India, Iran, Japan and China, the as a site of environmental destruction as well as parallel New World, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Kongo. ecologies engendered by African-descended peoples’ aesthetic We will study the role of Baroque art in early modern politics, and botanical contestation. Objects to be considered include religious missions and global trade; the emergence of princely landscape painting, plantation cartography, scientific imagery, collections of wonders and cartography; the flourishing of new environmental art, and ecologically motivated science fiction. and wondrous art materials; and the changing role of the artist and artisan in this period. We will consider the Baroque as an Critical Interpretation (CI) invitation for emotional engagement, as a style of power that Inquiry into the Past (IP) was complicit in the violence of European colonialism, and as a tool of cultural reclamation used by artists across the world. As HART B112 Art, Death, and the Afterlife a class, we will work to construct an art history of “The Global Fall 2021 Baroque” that also attends to the complex specificities of time This course aims to explore how art was used as a symbolic and place. form to overcome death and to assure immortality in a variety Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of archaeological, philosophical, religious, sociopolitical, and Inquiry into the Past (IP) historical contexts. Inquiry into the Past (IP) HART B248 Topics in Museum Studies Not offered 2021-22 HART B218 Byzantine Textiles in Life and Death This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course explores the manifold uses and meanings of Counts toward Museum Studies textiles in early Byzantine visual and material culture as well as their afterlife as objects of collection and display in the HART B253 Survey of Western Architecture modern era. Students will undertake original research on early Not offered 2021-22 Byzantine textiles from the collection of Philadelphia University. Assignments will develop skills in museological writing, The major traditions in Western architecture are illustrated including documentation for collection databases and object through detailed analysis of selected examples from classical exhibitions. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in History of antiquity to the present. The evolution of architectural design Art, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or History is recommended, and building technology, and the larger intellectual, aesthetic, but not required. and social context in which this evolution occurred, are considered. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies HART B260 Modern Art HART B230 Renaissance Art Fall 2021 Spring 2022 This course traces the history of modern art from the mid- A survey of painting in Florence and Rome in the 15th and 16th nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Lectures, centuries (Giotto, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, readings and class discussions will engage key artistic and Raphael), with particular attention to contemporary intellectual, historical developments that shaped art and culture during the social, and religious developments. modern period. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Visual Studies

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HART B266 The Global Present that make an exhibition effective (or not). By visiting exhibitions Not offered 2021-22 and meeting with a range of museum professionals in art, anthropology and science museums, this course offers a critical America, Europe and beyond, from the 1950s to the present, in perspective on the inner workings of the museum as well as visual media and visual theory. insights into the “new museology.” Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies HART B272 Since 1960: Contemporary Art and Theory Counts toward Visual Studies Fall 2021 Lectures and readings will examine major movements HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the in contemporary art, including Pop Art, Minimalism, present Conceptualism, Performance, Postmodernism, and Installation Spring 2022 Art. We will examine the dialogue between visual works and critical texts by Roland Barthes, Claire Bishop, Frederic This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 Jameson, Adrian Piper, and Kobena Mercer, among others. through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Critical Interpretation (CI) Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global HART B274 History of Chinese Art cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes Spring 2022 the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio- This course is a survey of the arts of China from Neolithic to the political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings contemporary period, focusing on bronze vessels of the Shang will provide historical context, and will introduce students and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese appropriation of Buddhist art, to key concepts in film studies such as realism, formalism, and the evolution of landscape and figure painting traditions. spectatorship, the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the Critical Interpretation (CI) history requirement or the introductory course requirement for Inquiry into the Past (IP) the Film Studies minor. Counts toward Museum Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New Inquiry into the Past (IP) Articulations Counts toward Film Studies Spring 2022 HART B300 The in the Museum At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural history Not offered 2021-22 museum played an important role in constructing and This course provides an introduction to theoretical and practical disseminating images of Africa to the Western public. The aspects of museums and to the links between practice and history of museum representations of Africa and Africans theory that are the defining characteristic of the museum reveals that exhibitions--both museum exhibitions and “living” curator’s work today. The challenges and opportunities World’s Fair exhibitions-- has long been deeply embedded in confronting curators and their colleagues, peers, audiences, politics, including the persistent “othering” of African people as and constituents will be addressed through readings, savages or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical discussions, guest presentations, writings, and individual and exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider how art group projects. museums are creating new constructions of Africa and how contemporary curators and conceptual artists are creating Counts toward Museum Studies complex, challenging new ways of understanding African identities. HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Strategies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Africana Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Museum Studies

Counts toward Visual Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Praxis Program HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Practice HART B316 Museum Studies Fieldwork Seminar Fall 2021 Section 001 (Spring 2021): The Asian Art Museum-San Using the museums of Philadelphia as field sites, this course Francisco provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of museum studies and the important synergies between Spring 2022 theory and practice. Students will learn: the history of museums This course provides students a forum in which to ground, as institutions of recreation, education and leisure; how the frame and discuss their hands-on work in museums, galleries, museum itself became a symbol of power, prestige and archives or collections. Whether students have arranged an sometimes alienation; debates around the ethics and politics internship at a local institution or want to pursue one in the Bryn of objects of art, culture and nature; and the qualities Mawr College Collections, this course will provide a framework

247 HISTORY OF ART for these endeavors, coupling praxis with theory supported by Section 001 (Fall 2020): The Present readings from the discipline of Museum Studies. The course Section 001 (Spring 2022): Transitional Objects: Between Old will culminate in a final presentation, an opportunity to reflect and New Media critically on the internship experience. Prior to taking the Spring 2022 course, students will develop a Praxis Learning Plan through the Career and Civic Engagement office. All students will share This is a topics course. Course content varies. a set syllabus, common learning objectives and readings, Current topic description: In this seminar, we will explore digital but will also be able to tailor those objectives to the specific images in relation to cinema, photography, and other media. museum setting or Special Collections project in which they are We will examine the fate of materiality, the body, and duration in involved. 21st c. media, and consider whether or not the digital marks a Counts toward International Studies significant break from the analog. Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Praxis Program Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

HART B318 Cultural Property and Museums HART B345 Topics in Material Culture Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Spring 2022): Arts of the Mughal Empire This course examines cultural heritage and the concept of Section 001 (Spring 2021): Textiles of Asia cultural property in relation to museums and collections. We will consider the development of national and international Spring 2022 laws in the 20th and 21st centuries to protect cultural heritage, This is a topics course. Course content varies. museum responsibilities, and case studies on topics including Current topic description: This course examines production of the looting of archaeological sites, the fate of art during war, South Asia during the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). As a class, nationalism and politics, restitution of art, and fakes and we will explore a broad range of media, from marble tombs and forgeries. gemstones to cotton and silk textiles, and many forms of art, Counts toward Museum Studies including the visual arts, but also music, poetry, and garden design. HART B323 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art Counts toward Museum Studies Section 001 (Fall 2021): Palladio and neo-Palladianism Section 001 (Spring 2022): The Fresco HART B350 Topics in Modern Art Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Section 001 (Fall 2020): Identity in Film and Video Art

This is a topics course. Course content varies. Section 001 (Spring 2022): Identity in Film and Video Art Section 001 (Spring 2021): The Sublime Current topic description: This seminar is concerned with the idea of architecture in the Renaissance and with Palladio in Spring 2022 particular. But it is also concerned, at a wider level and at This is a topics course. Course content varies. different moments and indeed in cultures beyond Italy, with the Current topic description: This course addresses themes of idea of the villa, the country house and all that is invoked by identity in Film, Performance, and Video Art. the idea of living and building, not in a city, byt beyond it, in the countryside. HART B355 Topics in the History of London Current topic description: The fresco was the most important Not offered 2021-22 medium in the Renaissance for the representation of subject matter, whether religious or secular. This seminar has as Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural concern its focus the idea of public art, across the centuries and in the history of London, emphasizing London since the 18th continents, whether produced years ago or more recently, century. whether represented, among other placed, in Mexico or China HART B370 Topics in Chinese Art or, of course, the United States. In the first part of the class we will consider readings that discuss the opportunities and Section 001 (Fall 2021): Visual and Material Perspectives on problems of such an idea of art. In the second part we will have the Silk Road reports, based on research, chosen by the individual members Fall 2021 of the seminar. This is a topics course. Course content varies. HART B326 Special Topics in Art of the Black Atlantic Current topic description: Focusing on the eastern part of the Section 001 (Spring 2021): Performances/Black Personhood route that connects India, Central Asia, China, and Japan from antiquity to the medieveal period, this course surveys Not offered 2021-22 a variety of artworks and visual materials not only in formal This is a topics course. Course content varies. and iconographic terms but also through social, political, and Course does not meet an Approach particularly religious perspectives. Counts toward Africana Studies HART B374 Topics: Exhibition Seminar HART B334 Topics in Film Studies Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Screening Technology This is a topics course. Course content varies. Students will

248 HISTORY OF ART gain practical experience in the production of an exhibition: HART B603 Advanced Research Methods conceiving a curatorial approach, articulating themes, writing Spring 2022 didactics, researching a checklist, designing gallery layout, producing print and web materials, developing programs, and This is a workshop designed to support graduate students in marketing the exhibit. Prerequisite: At least one previous HART the History of Art in independent research and writing projects course at Bryn Mawr College. at any stage. These include seminar papers and MA theses, preparing bibliographies and studying for preliminary exams, Counts toward Museum Studies researching and writing a dissertation prospectus, or writing drafts of dissertation chapters. The primary purpose of this HART B380 Topics in Contemporary Art seminar and its timeslot are to help you pursue your academic Section 001 (Fall 2021): Art and Technology work in an efficient, realistic, and mindful fashion. We will also Section 001 (Spring 2022): Latin American Art use the seminar for professional development: discussion Section 001 (Spring 2021): Monuments and Memory of teaching, abstracts and talks, fellowship applications, Fall 2021, Spring 2022 publishing, the job market, and service and leadership. This seminar is the sole regularly offered formal setting for you to This is a topics course. Course content varies. receive this training. Finally, the seminar will provide a forum Current topic description: This seminar explores the for practice talks and mock interviews. May be taken more than intersections of art and technology in the post-war era. Aided once for credit; mandatory for those beyond coursework except by a consideration of critical, historical, theoretical, and by permission of primary advisor. philosophical writings on technology, new media, and post- humanism, we will examine ways in which artists have engaged HART B610 Topics in Medieval Art with a variety of emerging technologies in their practices. Section 001 (Spring 2022): Gendered Byzantine Objects Current topic description: Taking the term “Conceptualism” as Section 001 (Fall 2020): Surveying Byzantium its point of departure, this seminar explores a variety of Latin Spring 2022 American approaches to conceptual practice in the 1960s and 1970s. We will consider key artists and movements, This is a topics course. Course content varies. including Tucuman Arde, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujin and Ana Current topic description: An exploration of gender dynamics in Mendieta. Through an engagement with a variety of primary Byzantine society as conveyed through objects, images, and sources and secondary literature, we will seek to understand texts. In addition to the exploration of feminine and masculine the ways that artists in Latin America deployed conceptual identities, the course also considers the visual culture of strategies for aesthetic, political, social and economic critique. distinctly Byzantine concepts of gendered bodies, including those eunuchs, cross-dressing holy people and angels. HART B398 Senior Conference I A critical review of the discipline of art history in preparation for HART B626 Special Topics in Art of the Black Atlantic the senior thesis. Required of all senior majors. Section 001 (Spring 2021): Performances/Black Personhood Not offered 2021-22 HART B399 Senior Conference II

A seminar for the discussion of senior thesis research and such This is a topics course. Course content varies. theoretical and historical concerns as may be appropriate. HART B630 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art Interim oral reports. Required of all majors; culminates in the senior thesis. Section 001 (Fall 2020): Mannerism Not offered 2021-22 HART B403 Supervised Work This is a topics course. Course content varies. Advanced students may do independent research under the supervision of a faculty member whose special competence HART B636 Vasari coincides with the area of the proposed research. Consent of the supervising faculty member and of the major adviser is Not offered 2021-22 required. This seminar focuses on Giorgio Vasari as painter and architect and above all as a founder of the Florentine Academy and the HART B403 Supervised Work writer of the first modern history of the arts. Topics covered Advanced students may do independent research under the range across the arts of that time and then the questions any supervision of a faculty member whose special competence such critical accounting of the arts calls up, imitation, invention, coincides with the area of the proposed research. Consent the notion of the artist and however it is possible to capture in of the supervising faculty member and of the major adviser is words what seems often to be beyond them. required. HART B639 Topics in Chinese Art HART B425 Praxis III Section 001 (Spring 2022): Chinese Calligraphy Students are encouraged to develop internship projects in the Spring 2022 college’s collections and other art institutions in the region. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Praxis Program Current topic description: Traditional Chinese calligraphy is one of the few subfields of art history in which little systematic theorization has been conducted in modern scholarship. This is 249 HISTORY OF ART partly due to the absence of a Western counterpart. Calligraphy We will examine the fate of materiality, the body, and duration in never rose to the status of an equal of painting in the West, but 21st c. media, and consider whether or not the digital marks a in traditional China, it was the most privileged art category and significant break from the analog. regarded as the foundation of painting. This course explores the unique theoretical and historical underpinnings of ancient HART B674 Topics: Exhibition Seminar Chinese calligraphy in light of contemporary critical theories Not offered 2021-22 and ancient Chinese calligraphy theories and practices. Aspects to be examined include ontology, embodiment, This is a topics course. Course content varies. Students will topology, technique, agency, ethics, politics, religion, etc. gain practical experience in the production of an exhibition: conceiving a curatorial approach, articulating themes, writing HART B640 Topics in Baroque Art didactics, researching a checklist, designing gallery layout, producing print and web materials, developing programs, and Section 001 (Fall 2021): Ornament marketing the exhibit. Students should be prepared to conduct Fall 2021 independent research and to author a public-facing publication. This is a topics course. Course content varies. HART B680 Topics in Contemporary Art Current topic description: This seminar will examine the history Section 001 (Spring 2021): Monuments and Memory and theory of ornament from a wide range of disciplinary, temporal, and geographic perspectives. Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies. HART B645 Problems in Representation Section 001 (Fall 2021): Realism HART B701 Supervised Work Fall 2021 Fall 2021, Spring 2022 This seminar examines, as philosophy and history, the idea of Supervised Work realism, as seen in the visual arts since the Renaissance and beyond to the 19th and 20th centuries. ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology

Current topic description: This seminar examines, as Fall 2021 philosophy and history, the idea of realism, as seen in the visual A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, arts since the Renaissance and beyond to the 19th and 20th Etruria, and Rome. centuries. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

HART B646 Topics in Material Culture Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Textiles of South Asia Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World

This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2021 This course focuses on perceptions of animals in ancient HART B651 Topics: Interpretation and Theory Greece from the Geometric to the Classical periods. It Section 001 (Fall 2021): Affect, Psychoanalysis, and Race examines representations of animals in painting, sculpture, and the minor arts, the treatment of animals as attested in the Fall 2021 archaeological record, and how these types of evidence relate This is a topics course. Course content varies. to the featuring of animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, Current topic description: This graduate seminar interrogates comedy, and medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing the “Affective Turn” in the humanities in the past two decades this rich body of evidence, the course develops a context in and places this “new” approach within a longer lineage of which participants gain insight into the ways ancient Greeks psychoanalysis and its centrality to certain veins of art historical perceived, represented, and treated animals. Juxtaposing research. The principle inquiry of our seminar will be the the importance of animals in modern society, as attested, for role that these discourses play in the narration of aesthetic example, by their roles as pets, agents of healing, diplomatic experiences and their intersections with a range of culturally gifts, and even as subjects of specialized studies such as specific positions. Each week, the theorectical texts will be animal law and animal geographies, the course also serves positioned in relation to works of modern and contemporary to expand awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own art as a way of grounding our investigation of affect’s new society as well as that of ancient Greece. prominence and psychoanalysis’s enduring legacy in the Critical Interpretation (CI) discipline of art history. ARCH B206 Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture HART B661 Topics in Film Studies Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Spring 2022): Transit’l Objcs/Digital Miedia This course surveys the sculpture produced from the Spring 2022 fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the period, This is a topics course. Topics vary. beginning with the death of Alexander the Great, that saw the transformation of the classical world through the rise of Rome Current topic description: In this seminar, we will explore digital and the establishment and expansion of the Roman Empire. images in relation to cinema, photography, and other media. Style, iconography, and production will be studied in the

250 HISTORY OF ART contexts of the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman ARCH B252 Pompeii appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman society, Spring 2022 and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the post-antique classical tradition. Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site whose destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was Critical Interpretation (CI) recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the Inquiry into the Past (IP) mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century views of the Roman past as well as styles and preferences of ARCH B215 Classical Art the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban Not offered 2021-22 life, city structure, residential architecture, home decoration and A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from furnishing, wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 activities within a Roman city. B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are Inquiry into the Past (IP) examined in historical and social context, including interactions Counts toward Museum Studies with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are highlighted. ARCH B254 Cleopatra Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Fall 2021 Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception of her legacy ARCH B219 Art and Archaeology of Late Antiquity in the Early Roman Empire and the western world from the Not offered 2021-22 Renaissance to modern times. The first part of the course This class examines the art and archaeology of the late- explores extant literary evidence regarding the upbringing, antique Mediterranean, tracing various iterations of artistic education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and architectural experimentation as well as socio-political and Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar expression from the Late Roman world of the Tetrarchs (3rd and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her death by century CE) to the first Islamic Dynasty, the Umayyads (7th suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines constructions of century CE). We will explore how the vitality of classical styles Cleopatra in Roman literature, her iconography in surviving art, and pagan beliefs mixed with the creative energies of other and her contributions to and influence on both Ptolemaic and “indigenous” traditions - Egyptian, Arabic, Jewish, Gallic, etc., Roman art. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife as well as those of the new church, so as to better understand of Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, and film the cultural plurality and vigor of this period formally considered of both Europe and the United States, extending from the a “Dark Age.” papal courts of Renaissance Italy and Shakespearean drama, to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film, Cleopatra. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Museum Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B225 The Art and Achaeology of Greco-Roman Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Egypt ARCH B263 Roman Archaeology: Life in the City Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course examines the art and archaeology of Greco-Roman Egypt from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th This course explores the art and architecture of ancient Rome century BCE to the Late Roman Era, ca. 4th century CE. from the Republic through the Empire. By focusing on specific topics, such as residences, markets, religious life, death and

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) entertainment, and by surveying a rich variety of available

Inquiry into the Past (IP) evidence that spans from architectural remains, inscriptions and

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies monuments to paintings, architectural sculpture and mosaics, the course highlights the importance of art historical and ARCH B240 Archaeology and History of Ancient archaeological inquiry for our understanding of urban life and Mesopotamia experience in one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) A survey of the material culture of ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, from the earliest phases of state formation (circa ARCH B303 Classical Bodies 3500 B.C.E.) through the Achaemenid Persian occupation Not offered 2021-22 of the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). Emphasis will be on art, artifacts, monuments, religion, kingship, and the cuneiform An examination of the conceptions of the human body tradition. The survival of the cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with later ancient and Islamic traditions will also be addressed. emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions

Inquiry into the Past (IP) of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism;

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice;

251 HISTORY OF ART the visible expression of character and emotions; and the structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics are considered as formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later times. determinants of urban form. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B306 Monumental Painting Not offered 2021-22 CITY B253 Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism of the 18th and 19th Centuries The Mediterranean tradition of large-scale painting begins in prehistoric times and continues through Late Antiquity and Spring 2022 beyond. Important examples survive on the walls of houses, The course frames the topic of architecture before the impact tombs and other structures at sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, of 20th century Modernism, with a special focus on the two in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Anatolia, Macedonia, prior centuries - especially the 19th - in ways that treat them Magna Graecia, and Etruria, Rome and the famous sites of on their own terms rather than as precursors of more modern Pompeii and Hercul- aneum preserved by the eruption of Mount technologies and forms of expression. The course will integrate Vesuvius. Technical, artistic, cultural and interpretive issues will urbanistic and vernacular perspectives alongside more familiar be considered. landmark exemplars. Key goals and components of the course Counts toward Museum Studies will include attaining a facility within pertinent bibliographical and digital landscapes, formal analysis and research skills ARCH B322 The Archaeology of the Roman Empire: exercised in writing projects, class field-trips, and a nuanced Comparative Perspectives mastery of the narratives embodied in the architecture of these centuries. Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) An examination of the growth of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire at its height, from its acquisitions of the CITY B254 History of Modern Architecture Hellenistic kingdoms (second and first centuries, B.C.E.) to its domination of Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Fall 2021 A survey of the development of modern architecture since the ARCH B605 The Concept of Style 18th century. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This seminar examines the development and uses of concepts Inquiry into the Past (IP) of “style” in the criticism, analysis, and historiography of textual and material culture. Particular attention is paid to the CITY B255 Survey of American Architecture recognition and description of style, explanations of stylistic Not offered 2021-22 change, and the meanings attached to style, particularly but not This survey course examines architecture within the global exclusively in classical and related traditions. framework of “the modern.” Through an introduction to an architectural canon of works and figures, it seeks to foster ARCH B634 Problems in Classical Art a critical consideration of modernity, modernization, and Not offered 2021-22 modernism. The course explores each as a category of This is a topics course. Topics vary. A seminar dealing with meaning that framed the theory and practice of architecture current issues in the art of ancient Greece and related as a cultural, political, social, and technological enterprise. traditions. It also uses these conjugates to study the modes by which architecture may be said to have framed history. We will study CHEM B208 Topics in Art Analysis practical and discursive activity that formed a dynamic field within which many of the contradictions of “the modern” were Fall 2021 made visible (and visual) through architecture. In this course, This is a topics course and topics will vary. All courses will we will engage architectural concepts and designs by studying cover a variety of methods of analysis of works of art centered drawings and buildings closely within their historical context. around a specific theme. Using both completed case studies We will examine spheres of reception for architecture and its and their own analysis of objects in the Bryn Mawr College theoretical, discursive, and cultural life through a variety of collection, students will investigate a number of instrumental media: buildings of course, but also journals, books, and film. methods of obtaining both quantitative and qualitative We will also investigate architecture as a site and subject for information about the manufacture, use and history of the critical inquiry. In particular, we will see what it may tell us about objects. This course counts towards the major in History of Art. the globalization and politics of the twentieth century, and about Scientific Investigation (SI) history, theory, and criticism as epistemological tracks. Counts toward Museum Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) CITY B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present CITY B306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places in Time Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 This course studies the city as a three-dimensional artifact. A hands-on workshop for research into the histories of places, A variety of factors, geography, economic and population intended to bring students into contact with some of the raw materials of architectural and urban history. A focus will

252 HISTORY OF ART be placed on historical images and texts, and on creating ENGL B317 Materializing Disability: Text and Technology engaging informational experiences that are transparent to their Not offered 2021-22 evidentiary basis. Early disability activists, a group that was composed primarily CITY B377 Topics in Modern Architecture wheelchair users, named the built environment--including curbs Spring 2022 and flights of steps--as the cause of their disablement. People are not inherently disabled, they argued, but inaccessible This is a topics course on modern architecture. Topics vary. spaces--or poorly conceived material environments--limit their Current topic description: TBD mobility. Because we will be studying literature, we will turn our attention to the built environment of texts and imagine how the CITY B378 Formative Landscapes: The Architecture and written word both enables and disables people with disabilities. Planning of American Collegiate Campuses When disabled people are unable to write or communicate by conventional means, what new writing practices do they Not offered 2021-22 imagine? What technologies might they rely on? From braille The campus and buildings familiar to us here at the College and talking books to American Sign Language poetry and reflect a long and rich design conversation regarding screen-reader technology, disabled people have adapted texts communicative form, architectural innovation, and orchestrated to suit their needs while challenging what constitutes language. planning. This course will explore that conversation through The course begins in the mid nineteenth century when Lennard varied examples, key models, and shaping conceptions over Davis argues that disability emerges as a key concept in time. U.S. culture and proceeds through the mid twentieth-century civil rights movement when disabled people began to frame CSTS B201 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics disability as a social identity. The course will travel across book Not offered 2021-22 history, technology, editorial theory, poetry, and performance to consider disability as a material and textual phenomenon. Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), (Note: at the end of the term, students will design their own has been a figure of continuous fascination and political “edition” of a text with accessibility as the guiding force behind resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and its design). enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined Course does not meet an Approach by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will ENGL B336 Topics in Film examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cinematic Voice various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first Fall 2021 part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and This is a topics course and description varies according to the the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, topic. we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, Current topic description: If film is primarily a visual medium, and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging the integration of sound permanently changed the form. In this from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to course, we will attend to the voice as a central component of HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day film sound. Our explorations will include: the transition from advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues silent to sound film; how voice is racialized and gendered in such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and Hollywood film; the ways that filmmakers link voice to image, the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. and why these matter aesthetically and politically (e.g. dubbing, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) voiceover, acousmatic voice); vocal expression and notions Inquiry into the Past (IP) of interiority and exteriority; and the possibility of non-human voice. The syllabus pairs a range of films with theoretical and ENGL B205 Introduction to Film scholarly ideas about voice. Fall 2021 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course is intended to provide students with the tools of Counts toward Film Studies critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused Humanities work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical Not offered 2021-22 units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory. selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory Critical Interpretation (CI) (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the Counts toward Film Studies currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: Counts toward Visual Studies Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison,

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Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia French credit. and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some Critical Interpretation (CI) crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist GSEM B654 War and Peace in the Ancient World painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under

Not offered 2021-22 fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones For centuries history has been perceived, written and taught of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans- as a series of wars and periods of peace. Yet, the question historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the remains: what does it mean when a city, a state or a nation is at main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We war, and how do different cultures and societies conceptualize will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be peace? This interdisciplinary seminar explores theories and preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, practices of war and peace in the ancient world, examining a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. The misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an archaeology of warfare will include battlefields, fortifications, additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level arms and weapons, siege machines, war memorials, funerary course for students interested in taking the course towards monuments as well as the iconography of victors and victims. Italian credits. The literary sources that we will be reading, among them Counts toward Museum Studies the Homeric epics, select passages from Greek and Roman Counts toward Praxis Program historiography, philosophical and rhetorical works and ancient handbooks and manuals of warfare, will shed light on the ITAL B315 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde recording of conflicts, the conduct of war, notions of power and peace, the depiction of leaders, the representation of Not offered 2021-22 violence, and strategies of commemoration. Investigating The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine bodies of evidence, which are normally studied separately and warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism within specific disciplinary formations, we aim to challenge the even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine, entrenched oppositions between archaeology, philology, and queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual history and to engage in a discourse about the complex and identity played a central role -- from Rimbaud to current changing conceptualizations of war and peace in the ancient experimentalism -- in the development of what has been called world. We plan to have several guest lecturers. Students ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such participating in this seminar will be expected to give oral a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, presentations and to develop their special areas of interests sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from in their research projects applying a variety of methods. No early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will previous classics or archaeology training is required. unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises, Humanities of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s Spring 2022 collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and previous knowledge of Italian required. films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from Counts toward Museum Studies different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece MEST B210 The Art and Architecture of Islamic Spirituality from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings Not offered 2021-22 to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will This course examines how Muslim societies across time and discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and space have used art and architecture in different ways to of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we express and understand inner dimensions of spirituality and are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour mysticism. Topics to be studied include: the calligraphical in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. remnants of the early Islamic period; inscriptions found Critical Interpretation (CI) on buildings and gravestones; the majestic architecture of Counts toward Africana Studies mosques, shrines, seminaries, and Sufi lodges; the brilliant Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies arts of the book; the commemorative iconography and passion Counts toward Film Studies plays of Ashura devotion; the souvenir culture of modern shrine visitation; and the modern art of twenty-first century ITAL B308 Rome as Palimpsests: from Ruins to Virtual Sufism. Readings include works from history, religious studies, Reality anthropology, sociology, and the history of art and architecture. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies 254 HISTORY OF ART / INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Counts toward Visual Studies students with specialties in the Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences can benefit from a visible and structured flow of RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 courses in International Studies. The inter and multi-disciplinary Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia approaches reflected in the structure for the major as well and Beyond as for the minor reflect the kind of integrative thinking that is necessary for effective agency in the globalized world

Not offered 2021-22 economy and society. Students in International Studies will This is a topics course. Course content varies. be made aware of both the distinct modes of inquiry that may transcend disciplines and the cumulative effects of convergent Inquiry into the Past (IP) examinations of phenomena from these different disciplinary Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies perspectives. Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Visual Studies International Studies engages students in the necessarily inter- and multi-disciplinary coursework that will prepare them for productive roles in transnational or intergovernmental INTERNATIONAL STUDIES institutions and in the areas of public policy, law, governance, public health, medicine, business, diplomacy, journalism, and development. Courses cover both theoretical perspectives and Faculty empirical issues in different areas of the world. International Studies at Bryn Mawr provides a foundation for students Chair interested in pursuing career opportunities in these areas or Michael Allen, Associate Provost and Professor of Political in entering graduate programs such as International Politics/ Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science and Relations, International Political Economy/Development Co-Director of International Studies Studies, International Law and Institutions, and Organizational Theory and Leadership. Steering Committee A Bryn Mawr graduate in International Studies will be: Penny Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of • Capable of integrative analysis from different disciplinary French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages (on leave perspectives semester I) • Ethically literate Nisrin Elamin, Assistant Professor of International Studies • Prepared for work in related fields such as law, public

Madhavi Kale, Professor of History (on leave semester I) health, medicine, business, and journalism as well as Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana Studies for graduate study in International Politics/Relations, and History and Co-Director of Health Studies (on leave International Political Economy/Development Studies, semester II) International Law and Institutions, and Organizational Theory and Leadership Mary Osirim, Professor of Sociology (on leave semesters I and II) • Able to contribute their knowledge and leadership skills within governmental and nongovernmental organizations at International Studies is the study of relationships among people transnational, regional, or global levels or in cross-cultural and states affected by increasingly permeable borders and settings. facing global issues. International Studies aims to prepare Although language study is not required per se for the major students to be responsible citizens by introducing them to or the minor, students can take advantage of Bryn Mawr’s issues of importance in an increasingly interdependent world traditional strength in the study of language and culture to of global dynamics in politics, economics, ideas, language, and enhance their study of non-Anglophone areas of the world. culture. At Bryn Mawr, International Studies combines applied Those intending to study abroad in a non-Anglophone area and theoretical approaches by drawing from disciplines in both must meet the level of proficiency required by the Junior Year the Social Sciences and Humanities. This broad conception Abroad program involved; and those intending to undertake of International Studies distinguishes our program from many graduate work in international studies should plan to acquire others. It builds from a core of courses from politics, economics, the advanced level of proficiency in one foreign language (at and ethics, a branch of philosophy, and then incorporates the time of admission or graduation) required by the most electives from specified tracks that reflect areas of strength selective programs here and abroad. Since it began in 2005, in faculty research and teaching. It allows students to explore the minor in International Studies has attracted a significant the descriptive and normative aspects of living in a world number of language majors who use their study of a particular characterized by the deep interconnections of a globalized language to select a coherent set of electives under a world. It thus draws on Bryn Mawr’s longstanding interest in relevant track in the minor in order to pursue career and study promoting justice with its already established coursework at the opportunities in the international arena. undergraduate level and at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and on its well established programs in Major Requirements languages and cultures. Students majoring in International Studies must complete The curricular content is relevant in preparing graduates to a total of ten courses, which include a core of four courses, participate critically and effectively in the many integrated an elective track of four courses, and a senior capstone transnational and global institutional networks of production, experience of either two courses (398 and 399) OR 398 and services, creative expression, research and governance. Thus an additional 300 level course. Students should work with their

255 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES major adviser to identify one writing intensive or two writing any given year, substitutions will be allowed with another allied attentive courses to fulfill the major writing requirement. course offered at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore or Penn,

Please note that some of the courses listed in the core have with the approval of an Advisor from International Studies. prerequisites, which may increase the total number of courses Culture and Interpretation for the major in International Studies to eleven. Also note that no more than two courses in an International Studies major Also in the core, and unique to Bryn Mawr, Culture and work plan can be used to satisfy another major, minor, or Interpretation teaches how language, aesthetics, beliefs, concentration requirement. values, and customs can shape possibilities for cross-cultural understanding and dialogue in globalizing polities, economies Core Courses and societies. Courses satisfying this requirement cover a broad perspective that teaches students about differing The Core is a mix of 100-300 level courses in International cultures and what it means to interpret or make cross-cultural fields. Students must choose one course from among comparisons and engage in cross-cultural dialogue in the four eligible courses in EACH of Politics, Economics, and global context. The list of eligible courses is, therefore, drawn Philosophy (at least one of which is at the 300 level). They from courses taught by Advisors from a range of key disciplines must also choose one course from among ten in Culture and in International Studies: Anthropology, Cities, Comparative Interpretation, a requirement in the core that is unique to Bryn Literature, History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Languages and Mawr. The rationale for the two parts of the Core (Politics, Area Studies. The course is meant to be a broad analysis of Economics, and Philosophy and Culture and Interpretation) culture and interpretation that does not focus on a country or are given below along with corresponding lists of eligible region in isolation from this broad analysis. Each of the courses courses under each. The disciplines of Politics, Economics, selected from the range of disciplines capture this breadth and Philosophy have become central to International Studies and depth. Students interested in studying a specific region of programs since markets, conflicts, diplomacy and rules are the world separate from its global implications can pursue this nested in values and norms as much as in state territories and study in one of the tracks. The eligible courses for the Culture institutional framings. The program at Bryn Mawr is distinctive and Interpretation component of the core are: in having the requirement that students take an ethics course in which they study topics in areas such as global ethical issues, • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH B102) development ethics, global justice, and human rights. • Culture and Interpretation (COML, or COML B323) The eligible courses for the Politics, Economics, and • The Play of Interpretation (COML B293) Philosophy component of the core are: • Chinese Perspectives on the Individual and Society (at Political Science Haverford) (EALC H120) • Introduction to International Politics (POLS B250), or • La Mosaique France (FREN B251) International Politics (POLS H151) • Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile (GERM B231) • Politics of International Law and Institutions (POLS B241) • Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples • International Political Economy (POLS B391) and Cultures (GNST B245) • Topics in International Politics (POLS H350) • The Atlantic World 1492-1800 (HIST B200) • British Empire: Imagining Indias (HIST B258) Economics • Society, Culture and the Individual (SOCL B102) • Economic Development (ECON B225), or Economic Development and Transformation: China vs. India (ECON • Introduction to African Civilization (HIST B102) H240) • Modern African History since 1800 (HIST B236) • The Economics of Globalization (ECON B236) • Social and Cultural History of Medicine in Africa (HIST • Democracy and Development (ECON B385), or Economics B336) of Transition and Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern With the approval of an Advisor from International Studies, Europe (ECON H241) substitutions may be allowed in the case of the ten eligible NOTE: Introduction to Economics (ECON B105) is a courses for the Culture and Interpretation component of the prerequisite for all other Economics courses. core when none is available in any given year.

Philosophy Electives • Global Ethical Issues (PHIL B225), or Human Rights and Elective Tracks allow students to focus on one theme or area in Global Politics (POLS H262) greater depth across four courses, one of which must be at the

• Applied Ethics of Peace, Justice and Human Rights (PEAC 300 level. H201) The electives continue to anchor the major in inter- and • Development Ethics (PHIL B344) multidisciplinary work while also adding flexibility so that students may be creative and purposeful in structuring their • Global Justice (POLS H362) own work. What makes International Studies at Bryn Mawr If none of the eligible core courses from a particular discipline unique is that it draws upon its established faculty research, in the Politics, Economics, and Philosophy core is available in resources, and reputations in the individual tracks at the same time as it offers flexibility under clear advising for each of the

256 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES individualized pathways of learning. Students should choose page. The listed courses are a starting point for collaboration the four electives from the approved lists under one of the between the student and the major advisor. tracks identified below. Global Social Justice The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from (but are not limited to) courses listed under the tracks on the Updated Efforts to realize social justice are increasingly necessary in Core Courses web page. The listed courses are a starting global systems as much as they had always been in national point for collaboration between the student and the major and local ones. The Global Social Justice track will allow advisor. Students should also check the International Studies students to make connections at all these levels. They will be Web site or the Tri-College Course Guide for information about able to draw on the long tradition of focus on Social Justice courses that are offered in the current year. at Bryn Mawr and Haverford and on collaboration with the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and Students may choose one of the following tracks: its thrust on Social Welfare. Bryn Mawr’s mission statement identifies the characteristics of a Bryn Mawr education as Gender “critical thinking, interdisciplinary perspective, engagement in a Bryn Mawr’s “proud history of global leadership for women” diverse community, and purposeful vision of social justice”. The makes gender an obvious choice as one of the tracks enabling Global Social Justice track allows students to explore issues students to complete the Major in International Studies. To of social and political change in the context of economic and make good on Bryn Mawr’s mission to prepare “students to political transition in the globalized world. Students gain insight be purposefully engaged citizens of an increasingly complex into how global issues affect relationships among people and and interconnected world”, the student in International Studies cultures within and across national boundaries and how global who selects the Gender track will study gender and its issues are in turn affected by these relationships. They will intersections with factors such as race, class, ethnicity, sexual study the ways in which dramatic economic disparities wrought orientation, age, religion, and disability in order to analyze by globalization and the global economy affect social welfare gender with respect to the workings of the global economy and and thwart efforts to achieve social justice locally, nationally, globalization more generally. Although not always the case, and globally. The FOUR elective courses are to be selected many organizations at the local, national, and global levels from (but are not limited to) an approved list on the Updated now understand gender to be a central factor in policies for Course Courses web page. The listed courses are a starting alleviating poverty or promoting economic growth. The changes point for collaboration between the student and the major wrought by measures such as improving health care for women advisor. and children and increasing access to education, property, and work outside the home shows the importance of understanding Independent Design gender and its intersections with other forms of discrimination in a globalized and interconnected world. Students who are so inclined may develop an independent design in consultation with an Advisor from the Center for The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from (but are not International Studies. An Independent Design could include limited to) an approved list on the Updated Core Courses web area studies that draw on Bryn Mawr’s strengths in the study page. The listed courses are a starting point for collaboration of languages and cultures and on our programs in Africana between the student and the major advisor. Studies, East Asian Studies and Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures. Development Development is most often understood in terms of processes Senior Capstone Experience of economic growth, industrialization, and modernization The capstone experience consists of two 300 level courses, that result in a society’s achieving a high (per capita) 398 and 399, OR 398 and an additional 300 level course in gross domestic product. These descriptions of economic International Studies. processes tend to embed assumptions about progress, transformation, and liberation as exemplified in concepts The 398 seminar will have students do research, presentations, such as “underdeveloped” or “developing” countries. The and final essays that delve deeper into topics from relevant student in International Studies who selects this track will courses in previously taken tracks and may incorporate study the concept of development in a broad sense by using experiences in Praxis courses, Summer internships, or Study a multidisciplinary approach that combines courses from Abroad. Should a student select to take 399 instead of an disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Cities, History, additional 300 level course, the 398 seminar could also be Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology to effectively the basis for students to identify and begin preliminary work understand development processes from multiple perspectives. on research projects for 399 – including the exploration of One result is an exploration of development that broadens the theoretical perspectives and research methods that will provide study from describing economic deprivation in terms of levels a framework for their research and the matching of students of income, for example, to understanding the ways in which with faculty serving as individual supervisors. equality, justice, well-being, and human flourishing are affected While most individualized supervision for those taking 399 will by growth and modernization processes. The student selecting be of students writing a senior thesis, designated advisors in the Development track will become versed in the critical issues, International Studies will work with those students who select to problems, and achievements common not only to developing produce an extended document using platforms such as DVD regions of the world but also to developed countries and the documentary, a website, or a PowerPoint talk with pictures and world as a whole. video clips instead of writing a senior thesis. The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from (but are not limited to) an approved list on the Updated Core Courses web

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Minor Requirements the militarization of aid and the politicization of emergency assistance. We will also be looking to non-traditional sources The Minor in International Studies has been in place since such as novels, films, NGO documents and congressional 2005. Students who have declared a Minor and have not hearings to gain insight from the perspectives of those yet graduated should consult with one of the Co-Directors of impacted by and/or shaping humanitarian policies and International Studies to determine whether to continue under practices. Finally, we will examine the ways ‘non-Western’ the old requirements for the Minor, switch to doing a Major actors and humanitarian organizations are reshaping the field in International Studies, or make slight adjustments to the of humanitarianism and relationships across the Global South requirements for the Minor in light of revisions that now have more broadly. the core requirements for the Minor in line with those for the Major. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies The Minor has always attracted and will continue to attract Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies students who major in a language, arts, an area study, Political Science, or Economics. It will be possible, however, for INST B398 Senior Seminar select students to pursue one of the tracks in the major under consultation with an Advisor from International Studies. This non-thesis capstone course is a seminar in which students do research, presentations and a final essay. These delve into Students minoring in International Studies must complete a topics from relevant courses in previously-taken tracks and total of seven courses, which include a required core of four may incorporate experiences from Praxis, Summer, or Study courses and an elective track of three courses. Please note Abroad. that some of the courses listed in the core have prerequisites, which may increase the total number of courses for the minor in Counts toward International Studies International Studies to eight. INST B399 Senior Project in International Studies Courses This involves the writing of a thesis or the production of an extended document on platforms such as a DVD or a website INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective with the guidance of a designated adviser in International

Spring 2022 Studies.

In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements Counts toward International Studies have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different INST B403 Supervised Work parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this Fall 2021, Spring 2022 class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands of these protest movements? What can we learn from the This course will explore the basic principles and methods grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain of sociocultural anthropology. Through field research, momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South direct observation, and participation in a group’s daily life, in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits sociocultural anthropologists examine the many ways that of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential people organize their social institutions and cultural systems, and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal ranging from the dynamics of life in small-scale societies to the about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical transnational circulation of people, commodities, technologies approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and and ideas. Sociocultural anthropology examines how many action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the of the categories we assume to be “natural,” such as kinship, popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to gender, or race, are culturally and socially constructed. It develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding examines how people’s perceptions, beliefs, values, and popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students actions are shaped by broader historical, economic, and will explore these questions through a series of case studies political contexts. It is also a vital tool for understanding and including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia critiquing imbalances of power in our contemporary world. and India. Through a range of topically and geographically diverse course readings and films, and opportunities to practice Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ethnographic methodology, students will gain new analytical Counts toward Africana Studies and methodological tools for understanding cultural difference, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies social organization, and social change. Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) INST B301 Politics of Aid and Humanitarianism Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Spring 2022 Counts toward International Studies This course explores the relationship between humanitarian aid, politics and the legacy of colonialism. Our goal will be ANTH B294 Culture, Power, and Politics to historicize and contextualize humanitarian policies and Not offered 2021-22 practices through specific case studies which can include, but will not be limited to: Haiti, Sudan, USA, Sri Lanka, Yemen, What do a country’s national politics have to do with culture? Palestine, Somalia, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Likewise, how are politics hidden below the surface of our We will use these case studies to explore topics such as everyday social lives? This course explores questions like

258 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES these through anthropological approaches. Drawing on both COML B293 The Play of Interpretation classic and contemporary ethnographic studies from the U.S. Not offered 2021-22 and around the world, we will examine how social and cultural frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. We will Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and investigate how people perceive the meanings and effects of regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and the state; how nationalism and citizenship shape belonging on media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common the one hand, and exclusion on the other; how understandings problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation of gender, race, and difference converge with political action, in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual ideology, and power; and how politics infuse everyday spaces texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be including schools, businesses, homes, and even the dinner studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern table. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, H103 or permission of the critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular instructor. culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and the trials of modernity. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward International Studies ANTH B301 Anthropology of Globalization Not offered 2021-22 EALC B353 The Environment on China’s Frontiers This class explores globalization from an anthropological Not offered 2021-22 perspective. With a focus on the social, cultural, and historical This seminar explores environmental issues on China’s aspects of global connections, we seek to understand how the frontiers from a historical perspective. It focuses on the growing integration of different places and systems around particular relationship between the environment and the frontier, the world shapes everyday life experience. Conversely, examining how these two variables have interacted. The course we also explore how individuals actively engage with, and will deal with the issues such as the relationship between the sometimes help shape, dynamic global processes. Questioning environment and human ethnic and cultural traditions, social assumptions that link globalization with worldwide cultural and movements, economic growth, political and legal institutions economic homogeneity, we will examine how gender, race, and practices, and changing perceptions. The frontier regions class, and other structures of difference and inequality become under discussion include Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, meaningful within a global systems of power. Working through and the southwestern ethnic areas, which are all important in a series of ethnographic analyses and conducting our own defining what China is and who the Chinese are. research, we will gain a better understanding of how people around the world experience and actively make “the global.” ECON B225 Economic Development Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or permission of the Spring 2022 instructor. Examination of the issues related to and the policies designed Counts toward International Studies to promote economic development in the developing ANTH B354 Political Economy, Gender, Ethnicity and economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Transformation in Vietnam Focus is on why some developing economies grow faster than others and why some growth paths are more equitable, Fall 2021 poverty reducing, and environmentally sustainable than others. Today, Vietnam is in the midst of dramatic social, economic Includes consideration of the impact of international trade and political changes brought about through a shift from a and investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange central economy to a market/capitalist economy since the late rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies (industry, 1980s. These changes have resulted in urbanization, a rise agriculture, education, population, and environment) on in consumption, changes in land use, movement of people, development outcomes in a wide range of political and environmental consequences of economic development, institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON B105. and shifts in social and economic relationships and cultural Counts toward Environmental Studies practices as the country has moved from low income to middle Counts toward International Studies income status. This course examines culture and society in Vietnam focusing largely on contemporary Vietnam, but with a ECON B385 Democracy and Development view to continuities and historical precedent in past centuries. In Not offered 2021-22 this course, we will draw on anthropological studies of Vietnam, as well as literature and historical studies. Relationships From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew between the individual, family, gender, ethnicity, community, from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism land, and state will pervade the topics addressed in the and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to course, as will the importance of political economy, nation, and argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late globalization. In addition to class seminar discussions, students 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a will view documentary and fictional films about Vietnamese reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question culture. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or first this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, years with ANTH 102. political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior Counts toward International Studies

259 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural Instructor. dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works Counts toward International Studies by Julia Alvarez, Albert Camus, Ana Castillo, Sigmund Freud, Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, Kurban Said, and ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration others. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico Counts toward International Studies border as an open wound and the border culture that arises from this fraught site as a third country. This course will GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Iberian and explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent Latina/o Studies different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities Spring 2022 and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and dividing understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and societies from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The class language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants introduces the methods and interests of all departments in and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative the concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- change, globalization and struggles within dynamic histories, immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented political economies, and creative expressions. Course is taught migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the in English. course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and Counts toward International Studies aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key HART B345 Topics in Material Culture theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented migration. Section 001 (Spring 2022): Arts of the Mughal Empire Section 001 (Spring 2021): Textiles of Asia Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Africana Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Current topic description: This course examines production of Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx South Asia during the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). As a class, ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned we will explore a broad range of media, from marble tombs and Violence in Latinx Literature gemstones to cotton and silk textiles, and many forms of art, including the visual arts, but also music, poetry, and garden Fall 2021 design. This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- Counts toward Museum Studies sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range Fall 2021 of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist and the Americas came together to form an interconnected discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. manner in which an integrated system was created in the Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded imagine justice. version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Counts toward International Studies

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, HIST B234 An Introduction to Middle Eastern History psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. Fall 2021 It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship This course serves as an introduction to the history of the between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational modern Middle East. We will also explore the narratives and identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi- debates that have shaped the field of Middle East history.

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Topics include orientalism, colonialism, political reform, social, living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and cultural, and intellectual movements, nationalism, and the politicians. Cold War. Readings will be drawn from the fields of history, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) anthropology, politics, and literature. Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies PHIL B221 Ethics HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History Spring 2022 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of moral Not offered 2021-22 theories and a discussion of important ancient, modern, and This is a topics course. Course content varies contemporary texts which established theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, relativism, emotivism, care Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ethics. This course considers questions concerning freedom, Inquiry into the Past (IP) responsibility, and obligation. How should we live our lives and Counts toward Africana Studies interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies global context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of Counts toward Museum Studies practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered. HIST B258 British Empire: Imagining Indias Critical Interpretation (CI)

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course considers ideas about and experiences of “modern” Counts toward International Studies India, i.e., India during the colonial and post-Independence periods (roughly 1757-present). While “India” and “Indian PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues history” along with “British empire” and “British history” will be Not offered 2021-22 the ostensible objects of our consideration and discussions, the course proposes that their imagination and meanings are The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires continually mediated by a wide variety of institutions, agents, has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, and analytical categories (nation, religion, class, race, gender, the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates to name a few examples). The course uses primary sources, of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of scholarly analyses, and cultural productions to explore the environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing political economies of knowledge, representation, and power in theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and the production of modernity. challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and disability theorists. Critical Interpretation (CI)

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts toward International Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B263 Impact of Empire: Britain 1858-1960 Counts toward International Studies Spring 2022 POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics Is empire (on the British variant of which, in its heyday, the Fall 2021 sun reportedly never set) securely superseded (as some have confidently asserted) or does it endure and, if so, in An introduction to international relations, exploring its main what forms and domains? Focusing on the expanding British subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and colonial empire from the 17th century on, this course considers problems in world politics examined include systems of power its impact through the dynamics of specific commodities’ management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and production, and consumption (sugar and tea, for example, but peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and also labor and governance), their cultures (from plantations international law are also addressed. This course assumes a and factories to households to the state), and their disciplinary reasonable knowledge of modern world history. technologies (including domesticity, the nation, and discourses Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) on history and modernity). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx

Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward International Studies

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights ITAL B212 Italy Today POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient Not offered 2021-22 and Early Modern This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge Not offered 2021-22 class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its An introduction to the fundamental problems of political metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by philosophy, especially the relationship between political life and the human good or goods.

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Critical Interpretation (CI) POLS B391 International Political Economy Fall 2021 POLS B241 The Politics of International Law and Institutions This seminar examines the growing importance of economic Not offered 2021-22 issues in world politics and traces the development of the modern world economy from its origins in colonialism and An introduction to international law, which assumes a working the industrial revolution, through to the globalization of recent knowledge of modern world history and politics since World decades. Major paradigms in political economy are critically War II. The origins of modern international legal norms in examined. Aspects of and issues in international economic philosophy and political necessity are explored, showing relations such as development, finance, trade, migration, the schools of thought to which the understandings of these and foreign investment are examined in the light of selected origins give rise. Significant cases are used to illustrate various approaches. This course is open to all students who have principles and problems. Prerequisite: POLS B141 the prerequisites. Prerequisite: One course in International Critical Interpretation (CI) Politics or Economics is required. Preference is given to seniors Counts toward International Studies although juniors are accepted. Counts toward International Studies POLS B249 Politics of Economic Development Spring 2022 SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual How do we explain the variations of political and economic Fall 2021, Spring 2022 systems in the world? What is the relationship between the Sociology is the systematic study of society and social state and the market? To what extent does the timing of interaction. It involves what C. Wright Mills called the industrialization affect the viability of certain developmental “sociological imagination,” a way of seeing the relationship strategies? This seminar introduces the intellectual history between individuals and the larger forces of society and of comparative political economy and development studies history. In this course, we will practice using our sociological with readings on both comparative political economy and imaginations to think about the world around us. We will international political economy. First, we will examine the examine how social norms and structures are created and debates on the dynamics of the state and the market in the maintained, and we will analyze how these structures shape development and globalization process. Second, we will people’s behavior and choices, often without their realizing explore specific case studies to discuss: 1) how the political it. After learning to think sociologically, we will examine the and economic processes have changed in response to the centrality of inequality in society, focusing specifically on the interaction of the domestic and international arenas, 2) whether intersecting dimensions of race and ethnicity, gender, and and how the late developers learned from the experiences class, and the role of social structures and institutions (such of early developers, 3) how the international economy and as the family and education) in society. Overall, this course international financial crisis shaped domestic development draws our attention toward our own presuppositions-the things strategies. Lastly, we will analyze the developmental we take for granted in our everyday lives-and provides us with concerns at the sub-national level with financial liberalization. a systematic framework within which we can analyze those Prerequisite: Freshman can enroll after they have taken 100 presuppositions and identify their effects.. level courses in social science and after getting instructor permission. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward International Studies

POLS B367 China and the World: Implications of China’s SOCL B317 Comparative Social Policy: Cuba, China, US, Rise Scandinavia Fall 2021 Fall 2021 In the 20th Century, China’s rise has been one of the most This course will examine different countries’ policy choices distinctive political affairs changing the landscape of regional to address different societal challenges. Four societal types and world politics. Especially, China’s breathtaking growth has - socialist (Cuba), post-socialist (China), capitalist (US), and challenged the foundations and limits of the market economy social-democratic (Scandinavia) - will be studies to help us and political liberalization theoretically and empirically. understand how these different kinds of societies conceive This course examines the Chinese economic and political of social problems and propose and implement attempted development and its implications for other Asian countries solutions. We will examine particular problems/solutions in four and the world. This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an domains: health/sports; education; environment; technological in-depth understanding of the Chinese Economic development development. As we explore these domains, we will attend model in comparison to other development models, 2) to to methodological issues involved in making historical and conduct a comprehensive analysis of political and socio- institutional comparisons economic exchanges of China and its relations with other major countries in East Asia, and 3) to construct a thorough Counts toward Introduction to Data Science understanding of challenges and opportunities for China from Counts toward Education its extraordinary economic growth. This is a senior seminar, and Counts toward Health Studies a previous course in comparative politics, international relations or East Asian studies is required. This course meet writing intensive requirement. Prerequisite: Junior standing or higher.

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LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN AND languages spoken by peoples of Iberia or Latin America or Iberia. LATINA/O STUDIES Courses Students may complete a minor in Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. ANTH B216 Transnational Movements Across the Americas Spring 2022 Faculty Globalization has enabled the movement of people, the trade of goods, and the exchange of culture and ideas Coordinators but it has also created unprecedented problems such as Jennifer Harford Vargas, Associate Professor of Literatures in inequality, exploitation, and environmental crisis. However, the English and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and networks formed by globalization have also created exciting Iberian Studies Program opportunities for activists to organize across borders, tackle issues of global concern, and develop creative solutions. This Veronica Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co- course will introduce students to the study of transnational Director of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies social movements with a focus on the Americas. We will Program (on leave semester II) make use of ethnographic case studies, documentary film, and an interdisciplinary social science literature to examine

Affiliated Faculty transnational movements on a variety of themes such Inés Arribas, Senior Lecturer in Spanish (on leave semester II) as: human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, biodiversity conservation, climate justice, the Kaylea Berard, Senior Lecturer in Spanish alter-globalization movement, and the rights of nature. Students Nisrin Elamin, Assistant Professor of International Studies will learn about the historical context of transnationalism, Matthew Feliz, Visiting Assistant Professor theories of social movement and collective action, the study of networks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of the strategies mobilized by transnational actors to advocate

European History and Chair of History (on leave semester II) on issues of social and environmental justice. Prerequisite: Martín Gaspar, Associate Professor of Spanish (on leave Sophomore standing and up; or first years who have taken Anth semester I) 102 Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Assistant Professor of Social Work Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and Social Research Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

Brook Lillehaugen, Co-Chair and Associate Professor of ANTH B235 Comparative Colonialism in Latin America Linguistics (Haverford) Not offered 2021-22 Gary W. McDonogh, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities This course takes a comparative perspective to consider state development in Central and South America through the early Maria Cristina Quintero, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities Spanish Colonial era. The course is divided into three sections: and Professor and Chair of Spanish (on leave semester II) in the first third, students learn about the development of the Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor of Maya and the Wari, consider the cultural distinctions between Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies (on leave semesters the two states, and compare how each state set the stage for I and II) the upcoming major imperial empires. The second section studies how Aztec and Inka civilizations built upon (or not) Rosi Song, Professor of Spanish existing infrastructures and religious traditions to become major Mecca Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English powers. The third section investigates how Spanish colonial processes were shaped by cultural traditions in Mexico and Peru. Specifically, this third section explores how cultural Minor Requirements structures and shifting alliances led to Spanish forces adapting To fulfill the requirements, the student must complete: and exacerbating these factors in their ultimately successful conquests of each region. Readings are based mostly on • An introductory course, GNST 245: Introduction to Latin current literature and some book sections. Assignments American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies or its Haverford include a comparative essay based on some aspect of equivalent: SPAN 240 Latin American and Iberian Culture empire (economic strategy, religious practices, hegemonic vs. and Civilization. militaristic conquests), various hands-on small projects and • Five courses that count toward the minor. At least one of activities, and a final exam. them should be at the 300-level. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) • Students Presentations: In the spring of the senior year, Inquiry into the Past (IP) minors will present their individual projects in a conference- Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies style panel. The project should focus on an issue relevant to LAILS. ENGL B216 Narrativity and Hip Hop • Language: Although not required, it is strongly Fall 2021 recommended that students seek proficiency in one of the This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes

263 LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINA/O STUDIES in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive analysis of hip- aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual performance and visual art, a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key we will consider how rappers and hip-hop artists from the theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented late twentieth century onward have used the form to extend, migration. further, and complicate key concerns of literature in general, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and African American and African Diaspora literature in Critical Interpretation (CI) particular. We will explore key texts in hip hop from the late Counts toward Africana Studies 1970s to the current moment. Reading these texts alongside Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies short fiction by writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Victor LaValle, Kiese Laymon, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Regina Bradley and others, we will ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned consider how themes of socioeconomic mobility, gender and Violence in Latinx Literature sexuality, queer and feminist critique, and intersectional political engagement animate artists’ narrative and poetic strategies Fall 2021 across genre and media. Written work will include regular in- This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- class presentations, short creative assignments, three short sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice papers, and a final project. As a part of the Philly program, the in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and course will take place in Center City, Philadelphia. Along with civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range course readings, we will engage directly with writers, artists, of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to and events that help shape Philadelphia’s vibrant hip-hop and explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- literature scene. For additional information see the program’s sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt website https://www.brynmawr.edu/philly-program the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist Critical Interpretation (CI) discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how Counts toward Africana Studies U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad imagine justice. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics ENGL B239 African American Poetry of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and Spring 2022 racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective This course explores the work of black poets in the Americas. experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural Focusing on a range of poetic forms from the 18th century production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, through the present, we will consider key questions that have films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of animated the works of black poets in North America and the Latinidad in the Americas. Caribbean, and how they have used poetic strategy to engage Critical Interpretation (CI) these questions. How do black poets explore black political Counts toward Africana Studies and social life in various historical and geographical contexts? Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies How do they use particular formal strategies (for example, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies form poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, and experimental Counts toward Praxis Program modes) to interrogate notions of blackness? How do political movements around gender, class, and sexuality factor in? ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration As we approach these questions, we will consider important critical conversations on African American poetry and poetics, Not offered 2021-22 examining how both well-known and underexplored poets Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico use form to complicate blackness and imagine various forms border as an open wound and the border culture that arises of freedom. Our work will take us through several poetic from this fraught site as a third country. This course will genres and forms, including print works, performance poetry, explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent hip hop music, and digital media. Throughout our analysis, different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and we will consider how discourses on gender, sexuality, class, between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities national and transnational identity, and other engagements with and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for difference shape black poetic expression, both historically and understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and in our current moment. language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative Critical Interpretation (CI) metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- Counts toward Africana Studies immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and

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ENGL B274 Ethnic Speculative Fiction language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants Not offered 2021-22 and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- This course will explore how Latina/os, Latin Americans, immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented African Americans, and Native Americas deploy speculative migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, environmental and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in what aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine Walidah Imarisha terms “visionary fiction.” Students will be a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key introduced to theoretical concepts such as intersectionality, theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented modernity/coloniality, Afrofuturism, marvelous realism, and migration. zombie capitalism that will help them unpack the critical work accomplished by genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies we will probe the role that literature, comic books, film, and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies art can play in the struggle to build more radically egalitarian ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory societies, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can contribute to social justice. Not offered 2021-22 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies ENVS B322 Decolonial Science, Technology and Environment ENGL B320 Black Feminist Literature Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 The course explores the application of decolonial concepts at This course explores contemporary black feminist literature and the intersections of science, technology, and environmental culture on a transnational stage. We will consider the works studies. How can we understand uneven social dynamics of prominent, emerging, and underexplored black feminist bound to sciences and technologies--with corresponding writers from various African diaspora locations, including South opportunities to reconfigure environmental scientific Africa, West Africa, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. approaches? We analyze case studies that foreground How do these writers engage with key currents in global black diverse Latinx and Indigenous populations of the Americas feminist politics, including understandings of gender, sexuality, and Caribbean. Four segments include: (I) bridging science class, nationality and colonialism? How do they complicate and technology studies with deolonial theory; (II) conservation these discussions in their work? We will ground our exploration and forestry practices; (III) science contestations around in close study of black feminist poetics--the specific formal and pollution and pesticides; and (IV) climate change and disasters. creative choices that black feminist poets, fiction writers, visual Prerequisite: 200-level course in ENVS or LAILS or SOCL or artists, hip hop artists, webseries producers and others use ANTH or permission of instructor. to examine gender end sexuality in their art. Paying particular attention to the work of queer and LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex) artists, we will consider the Counts toward International Studies various meanings of t erms such as “black,” “feminist,” and GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Iberian and “queer” in various parts of the African Diaspora. Our work will Latina/o Studies emphasize close analysis of black feminist writers’ works, as well as collaborative exercises and invited in-class discussions Spring 2022 with several contemporary black diasporic feminist artists A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and dividing themselves. Requirements include two short papers, regular societies from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The class response papers, and a final project. introduces the methods and interests of all departments in Counts toward Africana Studies the concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies change, globalization and struggles within dynamic histories, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies political economies, and creative expressions. Course is taught in English. ENGL B339 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx

Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico Counts toward International Studies border as an open wound and the border culture that arises HART B272 Since 1960: Contemporary Art and Theory from this fraught site as a third country. This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent Fall 2021 different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and Lectures and readings will examine major movements between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities in contemporary art, including Pop Art, Minimalism, and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for Conceptualism, Performance, Postmodernism, and Installation understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and Art. We will examine the dialogue between visual works

265 LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINA/O STUDIES and critical texts by Roland Barthes, Claire Bishop, Frederic the processes of imperial competition, state formation, and Jameson, Adrian Piper, and Kobena Mercer, among others. indigenous and African resistance to colonialism. Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Environmental Studies HART B334 Topics in Film Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Screening Technology Section 001 (Fall 2020): The Present HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas

Section 001 (Spring 2022): Transitional Objects: Between Old Fall 2021 and New Media The course explores the confrontations, conquests and Spring 2022 accommodations that formed the “ground-level” experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout the Americas. The course This is a topics course. Course content varies. is comparative in scope, examining events and structures in Current topic description: In this seminar, we will explore digital North, South and Central America, with particular attention paid images in relation to cinema, photography, and other media. to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous leadership We will examine the fate of materiality, the body, and duration in in the colonial world of the 18th century. 21st c. media, and consider whether or not the digital marks a Inquiry into the Past (IP) significant break from the analog. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies HIST B327 Topics in Early American History HIST B129 The Religious Conquest of the Americas Section 001 (Spring 2022): Settler Colonialism in the Americas Not offered 2021-22 1500-1800 The course examines the complex aspects of the European Spring 2022 missionization of indigenous people, and explores how two This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current topic traditions of religious thought/practice came into conflict. description. The course examines the processes through which Rather than a transposition of Christianity from Europe to the European colonizers established colonies in the Americas Americas, something new was created in the contested colonial upon lands originally controlled by Indigenous peoples. Settler space. colonialism is explored via the perspectives of Indigenous and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) African peoples Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450-1800 HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 This course explores the emergence, development, and The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and blackness, that way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. have been in place from the colonial period to the present. and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Through the reading of primary and secondary sources, we Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the will explore various ways through which enslaved people manner in which an integrated system was created in the imagined freedom, personal rights, community membership, Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the and some of the paths they created in order to improve their history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded experiences and change the social order. In an attempt to have version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American a comparative approach, we will look at particular events and history. circumstances that took place in few provinces in the Americas, Inquiry into the Past (IP) with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. The Counts toward Africana Studies course will also look at the methodological challenges of Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies studying and writing history of people who in principle, were not Counts toward International Studies allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will identify Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights and underscore the contribution that people of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, freedom, equality, and HIST B212 Pirates, Travelers, and Natural Historians: 1492- democracy. 1750 Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies In the early modern period, conquistadors, missionaries, travelers, pirates, and natural historians wrote interesting HIST B371 Topics in Atlantic History: The Early Modern texts in which they tried to integrate the New World into their Pirate in Fact and Fiction existing frameworks of knowledge. This intellectual endeavor was an adjunct to the physical conquest of American space, Not offered 2021-22 and provides a framework though which we will explore This course will explore piracy in the Americas in the period

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1550-1750. We will investigate the historical reality of LING B105 Language and Place pirates and what they did, and the manner in which pirates Spring 2022 have entered the popular imagination through fiction and films. Pirates have been depicted as lovable rogues, anti- This project-based course focusses on hands-on research establishment rebels, and enlightened multiculturalists who in a small group setting in order to collaboratively come were skilled in dealing with the indigenous and African peoples to understand the relationship between a place and the of the Americas. The course will examine the facts and the languages of that place. In Spring 2022 the course will be fictions surrounding these important historical actors. part of a 360 and will focus on Nicaragua. Through seeking to understand the languages of Nicaragua, their histories and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies social dynamics, students will also learn basics of linguistics, especially and sociolinguistics. Spanish INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective language a plus, though not required. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing LING B140 Language and Empire in Mesoamerica systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings Not offered 2021-22 have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands In this course we look at language and empire in Mesoamerica of these protest movements? What can we learn from the from a linguistic perspective. Students learn about the grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain languages and linguistic features of the Mesoamerican area. momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South The course features three “imperial” languages: Nahuatl, in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits Spanish, and English. We consider the roles that language of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential can have in building and maintaining empire and explore and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal the linguistic landscape of Mesoamerica in its entirety. For about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical example, we examine the role of Nahuatl in place names approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and throughout Mesoamerica, the use of Spanish bilingual texts action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the in the spread of Catholicism, and why in modern Mexico, popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to speaking Spanish with an English accent might be viewed as develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding “cool” but speaking Spanish with a Zapotec accent can be popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students viewed as “uneducated”. The course ends with a unit on ways will explore these questions through a series of case studies that speakers of indigenous Mesoamerican languages push including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia back against linguistic colonialism, including opportunities to and India. hear first hand from language activists about their experiences and efforts. This course is reading, writing, and discussion Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) heavy. This course is designated as satisfying the following Counts toward Africana Studies approaches at BMC: CI and CC. This course should also Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx count towards the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies concentration. INST B301 Politics of Aid and Humanitarianism Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies This course explores the relationship between humanitarian aid, politics and the legacy of colonialism. Our goal will be POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics to historicize and contextualize humanitarian policies and Fall 2021 practices through specific case studies which can include, but will not be limited to: Haiti, Sudan, USA, Sri Lanka, Yemen, An introduction to international relations, exploring its main Palestine, Somalia, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Philippines. subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and We will use these case studies to explore topics such as problems in world politics examined include systems of power the militarization of aid and the politicization of emergency management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and assistance. We will also be looking to non-traditional sources peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and such as novels, films, NGO documents and congressional international law are also addressed. This course assumes a hearings to gain insight from the perspectives of those reasonable knowledge of modern world history. impacted by and/or shaping humanitarian policies and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) practices. Finally, we will examine the ways ‘non-Western’ Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx actors and humanitarian organizations are reshaping the field Counts toward International Studies of humanitarianism and relationships across the Global South Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies more broadly. Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies SOCL B225 Women in Society Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2021 In 2015, the world’s female population was 49.6 percent of the total global population of 7.3 billion. According to the United

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Nations, in absolute terms, there were 61,591,853 more men This course also seeks to interrogate how once in a new than women. Yet, at the global scale, 124 countries have country, immigrant communities not only develop a sense of more women than men. A great majority of these countries belonging but also how they reconfigure their own identities are located in what scholars have recently been referring while they transform the social, physical, and cultural milieus to as the Global South - those countries known previously of their new communities of arrival. To achieve these ends, this as developing countries. Although women outnumber their course will engage in a multidisciplinary approach consisting male counterparts in many Global South countries, however, of materials drawn from such disciplines as cultural studies, these women endure difficulties that have worsened rather anthropology, history, migration studies, and sociology to than improving. What social structures determine this gender examine distinct immigrant communities that have arrived in inequality in general and that of women of color in particular? Philadelphia over the past 100 years. Although this course will What are the main challenges women in the Global South also cover the histories of migrant communities arriving in the face? How do these challenges differ based on nationality, area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a greater part of class, ethnicity, skin color, gender identity, and other axes of the course will focus on recent migrant communities, mainly oppression? What strategies have these women developed from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and arriving to cope with the wide variety of challenges they contend with in the area of South Philadelphia. A special focus will be on the on a daily basis? These are some of the major questions that Mexican American migrant community that stands out among we will explore together in this class. In this course, the Global those newly arrived migrant communities. South does not refer exclusively to a geographical location, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) but rather to a set of institutional structures that generate Counts toward Child and Family Studies disadvantages for all individuals and particularly for women Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies and other minorities, regardless their geographical location in the world. In other words, a significant segment of the Global SOCL B235 Mexican-American Communities North’s population lives under the same precarious conditions that are commonly believed as exclusive to the Global South. Fall 2021 Simultaneously, there is a Global North embedded in the Global For its unique history, the number of migrants, and the two South as well. In this context, we will see that the geographical countries’ proximity, Mexican migration to the United States division between the North and the South becomes futile when represents an exceptional case in world migration. There is we seek to understand the dynamics of the “Western-centric/ no other example of migration with more than 100 years of Christian-centric capitalist/patriarchal modern/colonial world- history. The copious presence of migrants concentrated in a system” (Grosfoguel, 2012). In the first part of the course, host country, such as we have in the case of the 11.7 million we will establish the theoretical foundations that will guide us Mexican migrants residing in the United States, along with throughout the rest of the semester. We will then turn to a wide another 15 million Mexican descendants, is unparalleled. variety of case studies where we will examine, for instance, The 1,933-mile-long border shared by the two countries the contemporary global division of labor, gendered violence makes it one of the longest boundary lines in the world and, in the form of feminicides, international migration, and global unfortunately, also one of the most dangerous frontiers in the tourism. The course’s final thematic section will be devoted to world today. We will examine the different economic, political, learning from the different feminisms (e.g. community feminism) social and cultural forces that have shaped this centenarian emerging out of the Global South as well as the research migration influx and undertake a macro-, meso-, and micro- done in that region and its contribution to the development of levels of analysis. At the macro-level of political economy, a broader gender studies scholarship. In particular, we will pay we will investigate the economic interdependency that has close attention to resistance, solidarity, and social movements developed between Mexico and the U.S. over different led by women. Examples will be drawn from Latin America, the economic development periods of these countries, particularly, Caribbean, the US, Asia, and Africa. the role the Mexican labor force has played to boosting and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) sustaining both the Mexican and the American economies. At Counts toward Africana Studies the meso-level, we will examine different institutions both in Counts toward Child and Family Studies Mexico and the U.S. that have determined the ways in which Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies millions of Mexican migrate to this country. Last, but certainly Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies not least, we will explore the impacts that both the macro-and meso-processes have had on the micro-level by considering SOCL B232 A Sociological Journey to Immigrant the imperatives, aspirations, and dreams that have prompted Communities in Philly millions of people to leave their homes and communities behind in search of better opportunities. This major life decision of Not offered 2021-22 migration brings with it a series of social transformations in This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and family and community networks, this will look into the cultural comparatively examine various immigrant communities living impacts in both the sending and receiving migrant communities. in greater Philadelphia. It will expose students to the complex In sum, we will come to understand how these three levels of historical, economic, political, and social factors influencing analysis work together. (im)migration, as well as how migrants and the children Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of immigrants develop their sense of belonging and their Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies homemaking practices in the new host society. In this course, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies we will probe questions of belonging, identity, homemaking, Counts toward Praxis Program citizenship, transnationalism, and ethnic entrepreneurship and how individuals, families, and communities are transformed locally and across borders through the process of migration.

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SOCL B246 Sociology of Migration: A Cross-Cultural SPAN B209 Lo que hemos comido: Identidades en Espaa Overview of Contemporary Challenges Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course considers the relationship between the food The twenty-first century began much as the twentieth century we eat and our sense of identity in the context of regional did for the United States with high levels of immigration. This identity politics in Spain. We will review the historical tension has affected not only the nation, but the discipline of sociology. as they surface in diverse linguistic and cultural communities Just as early twentieth century Chicago School sociology and currently challenged by the new wave of immigration focused on immigration and settlement issues, so too the first to the peninsula. Amid this intersection of different cultures decade of the twenty-first century shows a flurry of sociological and practices, we will study how each region as turned to its imagination devoted to immigration scholarship. This course traditional cuisine and local culinary products to strengthen their will center on the key texts, issues, and approaches coming sense of regional identity while strategizing to communicate out of this renovated sociology of immigration, but we will also this uniqueness beyond the brand of “Spain” to the world. include approaches to the study of immigration from history, We will examine, for instance, how this new trend compares anthropology, and ethnic studies. While we will consider to the tourism industry endorsed by the dictatorship in the comparative and historical approaches, our focus will be on the 1960s. This discussion will serve as a case study to explore late twentieth century through the present, and we will spend how communities remember and narrate their own histories a good deal of time focusing on the longest running labor to themselves and to others, using concepts such as taste, migration in the world, Mexican immigration to the U.S., as terroir, memory, and identity. Students in the course will view well as on Central American migrant communities in the U.S. films and read fiction, essays, and culinary essays from around Students with an interest in contemporary U.S. immigration Spain. Prerequisite: SPAN 120 or permission of instructor. will be exposed to a survey of key theoretical approaches and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC). Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts relevant issues in immigration studies in the social sciences. toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Current themes, such as globalization, transnationalism, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) gendered migration, immigrant labor markets, militarization of Critical Interpretation (CI) the U.S.-Mexican border, U.S. migration policy, the new second Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies generation and segmented assimilation, and citizenship will be included. SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; other Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of texts, society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another SPAN B120 Introduccin al análisis literario SPAN 200-level course. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts Fall 2021, Spring 2022 toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Readings from Spanish and Spanish-American works of Critical Interpretation (CI) various periods and genres (drama, poetry, short stories). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Main focus on developing analytical skills with attention to improvement of grammar. This course is a requisite for the SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en Espaa Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, or placement. This Not offered 2021-22 course can satisfy the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. and women writers, to assess how they come together in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, Critical Interpretation (CI) as the country is facing new challenges in its quest for Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies modernity. Prerequisites: B120 or a SPAN 200-level course. SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en Espaa Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies A study of the rich dramatic tradition of Spain from the Golden Age (16th and 17th centuries) to the 20th century within specific SPAN B231 El cuento y novela corta en Espaa cultural and social contexts. The course considers a variety Not offered 2021-22 of plays as manifestations of specific sociopolitical issues and problems. Topics include theater as a site for fashioning Traces the development of the novella and short story in Spain, a national identity; the dramatization of gender conflicts; and from its origins in the Middle Ages to our time. The writers will plays as vehicles of protest in repressive circumstances. include Pardo Bazán, Cervantes, Clarín, Don Juan Manuel, Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples Matute, Zayas, and a number of contemporary writers such and Cultures Concentration. Prerequiste: SPAN B120; or as Mayoral and Montero. Our approach will include formal another SPAN 200-level course. Critical Interpretation (CI). and thematic considerations, and attention will be given to Inquiry into the Past (IP). Counts toward Latin American, sociopolitical and historical contexts. Prerequiste: SPAN B120;

Iberian and Latina/o Studies. or another SPAN 200-level course.

Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI)

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

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SPAN B233 Focus: La Habana y sus textos another 200-level. This course can satisfy the Writing Intensive Not offered 2021-22 (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. La Habana (a historical, artistic and literary crossroad) is Current topic description: The early writings of the New World studied in its intersemiotic complexity. Readings from the straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This colonial period to the present. Authors included, among period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between others: La Condesa de Merlín, Alexander von Humboldt, Alejo real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Reinaldo Arenas, Marilyn ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding Bobes, Leonardo Padura. Selective films by Cuban directors. El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or one 200-level Spanish course. examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Inquiry into the Past (IP) Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Current topic description: Conflicto y resistencia en el SPAN B234 Focus: El cuento de lo fantástico en teatro latinoamericano; This course highlights theater as an Hispanoamérica oppositional force against hegemonic power structures, and as a lens by which one can study and analyze moments of

Not offered 2021-22 conflict and resistance in the Latin American socio-political A survey of Spanish American short story, focused on the context. Students will be familiarized with the terminology and fantastic. Authors include Poe, Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, major theatrical and performance tendencies and theories that Ocampo, Peri Rossi, Ferré, Mutis, Poniatowska and will allow them to situate these works in relation to theatrical Valenzuela. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or practices in other parts of the world. Students will read and another 200-level Spanish course. analyze representative works that respond to significant social and political moments of conflict such as the Mexican Critical Interpretation (CI) Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s regime, Inquiry into the Past (IP) Mexico’s 1968 Student Movement, and the Southern Cone Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies dictatorial regimes (Chile and Argentina). In addition to the SPAN B238 El giro visual en Espaa(1960-2020): de la primary readings, students will read secondary and theoretical censura a works that will situate the works within their historical and aesthetic contexts. This will reinforce students’ critical analysis

Fall 2021 skills and will allow them to participate in academic discourse. In 50 years, Spain went from living under the last dictatorship Critical Interpretation (CI) in Europe to becoming one of the late cultural capitalism Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies benchmarks. This course explores the tensions between tradition and modernity or between authoritarianism and rupture SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Latin in contemporary Spain’s media and cultural consumption. We American Film will pay special attention to the impact of technological changes Not offered 2021-22 in film, television, and new media --from Berlanga and Saura’s movies in the 60s to the expansion of Spanish series on online Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as “emotional platforms such as Netflix and HBO. Course will be taught in people”--often a euphemism to mean irrational, impulsive, wildly Spanish. heroic, fickle. This course takes this expression at face value to ask: Are there particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) And, conversely, do these “people” become such because they Critical Interpretation (CI) share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation between Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies emotions and political trajectories? To answer these questions, SPAN B242 José Martí y el equilibrio mundial we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at different times, taken hold of the Latin American imagination

Not offered 2021-22 and feelings: melodramas (1950s-1960s), documentaries An introductory course on José Martí: the writer, the thinker, the (1970s-1990s), and “low-key” comedies (since 2000s.) revolutionary. Texts include selections from La Edad de Oro (a Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) magazine for children), essays on the arts, the United States, Counts toward Film Studies Nuestra América, political struggle and interdependence (“world Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx equilibrium”), a selection of his poetic works and a novella. Prerequiste: SPAN B120 or another SPAN 200-level course. SPAN B260 Ariel/Calibán: colonialismo y neocolonialismo Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies A study of the transformations of Ariel/Calibán as images of SPAN B243 Temas de la literatura hispana Latin American and Caribbean cultures. Prerequisite: B120 or another SPAN 200-level course. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Conflicto y resistencia en el teatro latinoamerica Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Fall 2021 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or

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SPAN B307 Cervantes and individual identity in contemporary Latin American novels. Not offered 2021-22 Works include novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru written by female and male writers. The selected novels present A study of themes, structure, and style of Cervantes’ different strands of cultural conflict due to the simultaneous masterpiece Don Quijote and its impact on world literature. presence of markedly different modes of identity. Several In addition to a close reading of the text and a consideration primary questions will guide our analysis of the course texts: of narrative theory, the course examines the impact of Don What is identity? How are national and regional identities Quijote on the visual arts, music, film, and popular culture. constructed and why? What are the socio-historical, cultural Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and political influences on identity? What does the study of and Cultures Concentration. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN the Latin American novel reveal about the relationship among 200-level course. Course fulfills pre-1700 requirement and HC’s economic development, the construction of social identities, pre-1898 requirement and citizenship? How can the study of the novel help us to Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies understand the dynamics of race, class and gender in specific Latin American contexts? Prerequisite: at least one SPAN SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del Siglo de 200-level course. Oro Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the SPAN B315 El futuro ya lleg: relatos del presente en construction of gender; the idealization and codification of América Latina women’s bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the performance of honor. The first Not offered 2021-22 half of the course will deal with representations of women by Taught in Spanish. In the 21st Century, “Here and now” is male authors (Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the not what it used to be. There is no single “here” but instead second will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de multiple, coexisting realities (that of the cellphone, the street, Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas. the ‘world’.) There’s no clear present when the “now” is Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills multiple. In this course we will explore 21st century Latin pre-1700 requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. Counts American shorts-stories, films, works of art, and novellas that toward Gender and Sexuality Studies. Counts toward Latin synchronize with our contemporary circumstances---fictions American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. and representations where realities alternate, identities flow, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and the world appears oddly out of scale. As contemporaries, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies you will also be asked to write fictions about life “here and now.” Throughout, we will keep two fundamental questions in SPAN B312 Latin American and Latino Art and the mind: What is reality (here)? What is the contemporary (now)? Question of the Masses Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies The course examines the ways in which Latin American SPAN B317 Poéticas de poder y deseo en el Siglo de Oro and Latino texts (paintings, murals, sculptures, and some espaol narratives) construct “minor,” “featureless” and “anonymous” characters, thus demarcating how and which members of Fall 2021 society can and cannot advance a plot, act independently and/ The poetry cultivated during the Renaissance and Baroque or be agents of change. By focusing the attention on what is Spain was not an idle aesthetic practice. We discover in the rich de-emphasized, we will explore how artistic works, through poetic practice of the era preoccupations with historical, social their form, are themselves political actors in the social life of and political themes, including discourses of power and empire, Latin America, the US, and beyond. We will also consider the racial difference, and the representation of women as objects place of Latin American and Latino Art in the US imaginary and of desire. In addition, we will consider the self-fashioning and in institutions such as museums and galleries. Prerequisites: subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody and imitation, Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors and the feminine appropriation of the male poetic tradition. who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature Although the course will deal primarily with the poetry of Spain, department. Students seeking Spanish credit must have taken readings will include texts from Italy, France, England, and BMC Spanish 120 and at least one other Spanish course at a Mexico. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: at least one 200-level 200-level, or received permission from instructor. Course does course. not meet an Approach. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Museum Studies. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Course does not meet an Approach SPAN B324 Ideologías del Franquismo: arte, cultura, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies educacin Counts toward Museum Studies Spring 2022 SPAN B314 Latinoamérica:Diversidad Conflicto Cult This course offers a panoramic view of the building of Not offered 2021-22 Francoism as an ideology over the longest authoritarian regime in Western society during the 20th century (1939- This class studies the representation of regional, national, 1975). Through the study of its cultural, artistic, and mediatic

271 LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINA/O STUDIES / LINGUISTICS expressions, as well as other national institutions such as transformations. Major topics include slavery and resistance; education and religion, this course addresses the connections Cuba’s struggles for freedom; changing cultural policies and between cultural representations and the social, political, and film of the Revolution. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level economic experiences lived in Spain during that period. These course. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o representations will consist mainly of those produced during Studies. the Franco regime with comparisons to the contemporary era. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Some of the issues we will focus on are the Spanish Civil War, international isolation and autarky, repression and exile, and SPAN B370 Literatura y delincuencia censorship as a strategy of Francoist ideology, among many others. Prerequisite: At least one SPAN 200-level course Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach A study of the origins, development and transformation of the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies picaresque genre from its origins in 16th- and 17th-century Spain through the 21st century. Using texts, literature, painting, SPAN B326 Voces trasplantadas: teoría y práctica de la and film from Spain and Latin America, we will explore topics traduccin such as the construction of the fictive self, the poetics and politics of criminality, transgression in gender and class. Not offered 2021-22 Among the topics to be discussed: criminalization of poverty, Taught in Spanish. Translation has been argued to be both prostitution, and the feminine picaresque. Prerequiste: At impossible and inevitable. Theoretically impossible, because least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills pre-1700 no two languages are perfectly equivalent; practically requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. inevitable, because cultures, and human beings, are constantly Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies interpreting one another--and understanding themselves in the process. This course is an introduction to translation as a practice with linguistic, literary, and cultural implications. It is organized in three steps. We will begin by exploring the LINGUISTICS linguistic aspect of translation: the theories (and myths) about language difference and equivalence, and how they can be Bi-Co students may major or minor in the Tri-Co Linguistics put into practice. Then we will focus on translating literary texts Department (Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore). of different genres (from canonical epics to film, from poems to short stories and proverbs), and we will simultaneously examine how the various types of texts have spurred very Faculty different opinions about what is a good or bad translation, Jane Chandlee, Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Haverford) what is desirable, and what is not. Finally, we will trace the Shizhe Huang, C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies role of translation in cultural exchanges, as well as its defining (Haverford) presence in contemporary debates on “world literature.” Prerequisite: At least one 200 level Spanish course. Brook D. Lillehaugen, Co-Chair and Associate Professor of Linguistics (Tri-College) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Praxis Program Amanda Payne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Haverford) SPAN B330 La novela de formacin femenina en América Latina Affiliated Faculty Spring 2022 At Bryn Mawr Perhaps the most successful novelistic genre is the Deepak Kumar, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Bildungsroman or “coming-of-age”: novels that follow the development of a person from youth to adulthood, from Amanda Weidman, Associate Professor and Chair of inexperienced to mature. But what happens when these Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Sciences protagonists are women, often facing the hurdles of societies that impede or limit growth and choice? Since the 19th Century, At Haverford Latin American female authors have explored the struggles of Marilyn Boltz, Professor of Psychology “growth” and the various models of womanhood available in Ana López-Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish their societies. In this course, we will read a total of six Latin American Bilgunsromane of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century Danielle Macbeth, T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy written by women authors from various countries. We will Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English look at normative definitions and expectations of coming-of- age novels and how these authors created new options for At Swarthmore themselves, for their characters, and for their readers. Kirby Conrod, Visiting Assistant Professor Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Rikker Dockum, Visiting Assistant Professor SPAN B351 Tradicin y revolucin: Cuba y su literatura Melanie Drolsbaugh, Instructor American Sign Language Not offered 2021-22 Theodore B. Fernald, Professor and Co-Chair An examination of Cuba, its history and its literature Donna Jo Napoli, Professor with emphasis on the analysis of cultural and economic

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Jonathan North Washington, Assistant Professor LING/PSYC H238 (The Psychology of Language) PHIL H253 (Analytic Philosophy of Language) Linguistics is the scientific study of language, the medium which PHIL H260 (Historical Introduction to Logic) allows us to communicate and share our ideas with others. As a discipline, linguistics examines the structural components of ANTH B281 (Language in the Social Context) sound, form and meaning, and the precise interplay between LING/CMSC H325 (Computational Linguistics) them. Modern linguistic inquiry stresses analytical and argumentation skills, which will prepare students for future LING/SPAN H365 (The Politics of Language in the Spanish- pursuits in any field where such skills are essential. Linguistics Speaking World) is also relevant to other disciplines, such as Psychology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Science, Sociology and Language Courses (LING/LANG majors only, six credits) Anthropology. (Some of our students have double majored with This requirement applied only to Linguistics and Language one of them.) majors, not Linguistics majors. The primary goals of the linguistics major are to introduce Ling/Lang majors must study two different languages with three students to the field of linguistics proper through a series of credits from each, with at least one credit at the third-year level foundation courses in linguistics theory and methodology; to for each of the two languages. provide training in the application of certain theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of linguistic data; and to Thesis (one credit) offer an array of interdisciplinary courses that allow students to A one-credit senior thesis in the fall semester of the senior year explore other related fields that best suit their interests. is required for majors in both tracks. The thesis constitutes the comprehensive requirement for the major. Major Requirements Note: Majors in the Tri-Co Linguistics Department can receive The Tri-Co Linguistics Department offers two major tracks: (i) up to two elective credits for pre-approved courses taken Linguistics and (ii) Linguistics & Language (often called Ling/ outside the Tri-Co. Interested students should seek consultation Lang). Students complete either of these majors with a total of with, and approval from, the Bi-Co chair of the department prior eight credits. to enrolling in the courses, and be ready to provide course descriptions during consultation and transcripts afterwards for Mandatory Foundation Courses (three credits) proper credit counting towards the major. Students in both major tracks must complete one course from each of the following categories: Senior Project • Forms: LING H113 or LING S050 (Introduction to Syntax) Majors in our department are recommended to take the Junior Seminar LING S090 (Advanced Research Methods in • Meanings: LING H114 or LING S040 (Introduction to Linguistics), in the spring term of their junior year. This course Semantics) is designed to expose students to the classic literature on the • Sounds: LING H115 or LING S045 (Phonetics and major subfields in linguistics, familiarizing them with theoretical Phonology) frameworks, methodologies, and bibliographies, culminating in the selection of a potential thesis topic, working and • Structure of a Non-Indo-European Language Courses (one reworking on a thesis abstract with references. Students are credit) also encouraged to take an upper level seminar course in the Students in both major tracks much complete one course from subfield where they will most likely choose a thesis topic. the Structure of a Non-Indo-European Language series, which include the following classes, among others: Linguistics majors write their thesis in the fall semester of their senior year. All Bi-Co linguistics majors should pre-register LING H215 (Structure of Colonial Valley Zapotec) for LING H399 in the spring of their junior year. They will be LING H282 (Structure of Chinese) assigned an appropriate faculty advisor once they choose a thesis topic and the topic is approved. In the topic proposal,

LING S060 (Structure of Navajo) students need to list at least two relevant courses related to LING S062 (Structure of American Sign Language) the topic. (LING S090 could be listed as one of the two.) If their assigned faculty advisor is from Swarthmore, majors will then LING S064 (Structure of Tuvan) switch to the appropriate senior seminar section of LING S100, Elective Courses (LING majors only, three credits) which can be done in the beginning of the fall semester of their senior year. Three elective courses in linguistics or related fields are required for Linguistics majors. (Ling/Lang majors are not Requirements for Honors required to take elective courses, but have an additional language requirement, see below.) Electives include the Honors will be granted, at the discretion of the faculty members, following courses, among others: to those senior majors who have consistently distinguished themselves in major-related course work (typically with a GPA

LING B101 or LING H101 (Introduction to Linguistics) of 3.7 or higher), active and constructive participation in the LING H204 (Topics in Introductory Programming: Language intellectual life of the department, and an outstanding senior and Computation) thesis. A senior major may receive high honors if deemed exceptional in all three areas. CMSC/LING H208 (Speech Synthesis and Recognition) LING/ENGL H213 (Inventing [the] English)

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Minor Requirements Courses Students may minor in linguistics through Haverford by LING B101 Introduction to Linguistics completing six credits in the following three areas: Spring 2022 Mandatory Foundation Courses (three credits) An introductory survey of linguistics as a field. This course Forms: LING H113 or LING S050 (Introduction to Syntax) examines the core areas of linguistic structure (morphology, Meanings: LING H114 or LING S040 (Introduction to phonology, syntax, semantics), pragmatics, and language Semantics) variation in relation to language change. The course provides rudimentary training in the analysis of language data, and Sounds: LING H115 or LING S045 (Phonetics and Phonology) focuses on the variety of human language structures and on Structure of a Non-Indo-European Language Courses (one the question of universal properties of language. credit) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) LING H215 (Structure of Colonial Valley Zapotec) Counts toward Praxis Program LING H282 (Structure of Chinese) LING B105 Language and Place LING S060 (Structure of Navajo) Spring 2022 LING S062 (Structure of American Sign Language) This project-based course focusses on hands-on research in a small group setting in order to collaboratively come

LING S064 (Structure of Tuvan) to understand the relationship between a place and the languages of that place. In Spring 2022 the course will be Elective Courses (choose two from the following sample of part of a 360 and will focus on Nicaragua. Through seeking relevant courses among many others): to understand the languages of Nicaragua, their histories and LING B101 or LING H101 (Introduction to Linguistics) social dynamics, students will also learn basics of linguistics, LING H204 (Topics in Introductory Programming: Language especially historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. Spanish and Computation) language a plus, though not required. CMSC/LING H208 (Speech Synthesis and Recognition) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies LING/ENGL H213 (Inventing [the] English) LING B140 Language and Empire in Mesoamerica LING/PSYC H238 (The Psychology of Language) Not offered 2021-22 PHIL H253 (Analytic Philosophy of Language) In this course we look at language and empire in Mesoamerica PHIL H260 (Historical Introduction to Logic) from a linguistic perspective. Students learn about the LING/ANTH B281 (Language in the Social Context) languages and linguistic features of the Mesoamerican area. The course features three “imperial” languages: Nahuatl, LING/CMSC H325 (Computational Linguistics) Spanish, and English. We consider the roles that language LING/SPAN H365 (The Politics of Language in the Spanish- can have in building and maintaining empire and explore Speaking World) the linguistic landscape of Mesoamerica in its entirety. For The Tri-Co Linguistics Department accepts all linguistics example, we examine the role of Nahuatl in place names courses offered at Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford for throughout Mesoamerica, the use of Spanish bilingual texts credit in their appropriate category. in the spread of Catholicism, and why in modern Mexico, speaking Spanish with an English accent might be viewed as Note: Minors in the Tri-Co Linguistics Department can receive “cool” but speaking Spanish with a Zapotec accent can be up to two elective credits for pre-approved courses taken viewed as “uneducated”. The course ends with a unit on ways outside the Tri-Co. Interested students should seek consultation that speakers of indigenous Mesoamerican languages push with, and approval from, the Bi-Co chair of the department prior back against linguistic colonialism, including opportunities to to enrolling in the courses, and be ready to provide course hear first hand from language activists about their experiences descriptions during consultation and transcripts afterwards for and efforts. This course is reading, writing, and discussion proper credit counting towards the minor. heavy. This course is designated as satisfying the following approaches at BMC: CI and CC. This course should also Study Away and Study Abroad count towards the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies Majors in the Tri-Co Linguistics Department can receive up concentration. to two elective credits for pre-approved courses taken at Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) departments on the College’s list of study away or study abroad Critical Interpretation (CI) programs. Interested students should seek consultation with, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies and approval from, the Bi-Co chair of the department prior to studying abroad, and be ready to provide course descriptions LING B200 Multilingualism and Second Language during consultation and transcripts afterwards for proper credit Acquisition counting towards the major. Not offered 2021-22 It is estimated that at least 60% of the world population speaks more than one language, while this is true of only around 15-20% of Americans. Misconceptions about multilingualism,

274 LINGUISTICS multidialectalism, and language learning are common in ANTH B281 Language in Social Context American society, and these can often lead to bias and Not offered 2021-22 discrimination. This course examines these topics from a variety of sociocognitive angles, including language learning, This course provides an introduction to the concepts and language processing, dialectal variation, language contact, methods of linguistic anthropology, which can help us language and identity, and language policy. The following types understand the role language plays in constructing identities, of questions will be considered: What do multilingual speakers’ creating social and political hierarchies, and shaping linguistic resources mean to them? What are the linguistic understandings and experiences of the world. The course ‘rules’ of code-switching? How is learning languages as a considers topics relevant to the everyday life of language in child different from learning languages as an adult? Can you the U.S. context, including the relationship between language ‘forget’ a language you once knew? How can public policies and gender, race, and socioeconomic inequality, and uses discourage or support multilingualism? This is a seminar-style ethnographic materials from a variety of cultural contexts course that will use a mix of discussion, lecture, and interactive to explore three perspectives that are central to linguistic activities to give students a strong foundation in both classical anthropology. These are: language, power, and the linguistic and recent research on these topics while also inviting students market: how different languages and the ways of speaking get to explore personal curiosities and multilingualism in their own associated with particular social groups and become valued lives. It is also a writing intensive course that will guide students or devalued; linguistic ideologies and semiotic processes: how to analyze the style and structure of academic works, offer language as a system of signs becomes meaningful, to whom, low-stakes opportunities to improve writing skills, and provide and in what ways; poetics and performance: how people “do feedback on how to polish written work into a strong final things with words” and how the non-referential (sonic, poetic) version. Prerequisites: At least one previous Linguistics course aspects of language matter. (any course) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Child and Family Studies CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics LING B399 Senior Thesis Seminar Not offered 2021-22 This seminar exposes students to linguistic research methods Introduction to computational models of understanding and and guides them through the conceptualization of a topic, processing human languages. How elements of linguistics, the research, and the writing of a senior thesis. All linguistics computer science, and artificial intelligence can be combined majors must write their senior thesis in this seminar or Ling to help computers process human language and to help S100 or S195. linguists understand language through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, generation and LING B403 Supervised Work knowledge representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206, or H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. ANTH B246 The Everyday Life of Language: Field Research in Linguistic Anthropology Counts toward Neuroscience Not offered 2021-22 SPAN B216 Introduccin a la lingística hispánica The goal of this course is to develop an awareness of how Not offered 2021-22 language operates in various interactional and other (eg. ritual, A survey of the field of Hispanic linguistics. We will explore performance, political) contexts that we commonly experience. the sounds and sound patterns of Spanish (phonetics and The focus will be on gaining hands-on experience in doing phonology), how words are formed (morphology), the structure linguistic anthropological data collection and analysis, and and interpretation of sentences (syntax and semantics), putting the results of individual student projects together as part language use (pragmatics), the history and dialects of of initiating an ongoing, multi-year project. Topics that students the Spanish language, and second language acquisition. explore ethnographically may include: language and gender; Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or permission of the instructor. Critical language, race and social indexicality; sociolinguistic variation; Interpretation (CI) codeswitching; register and social stance; language and social media. Student research will involve ethnographic observation, Critical Interpretation (CI) audio-recording of spoken discourse, conducting interviews, Courses at Haverford and learning how to create a transcript to use as the basis for ethnographic analysis. Students will work in parallel on LING H101 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS (1.0 Credit) individual projects cohering around a particular topic, and class time will be used to discuss the results and synthesize insights Division: Humanities that develop from bringing different ethnographic contexts Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the together. For the praxis component of the course, students Social World will use the experience they have gained to generate ideas An introductory survey of linguistics as a field. This course for components of a middle school/high school language arts examines the core areas of linguistic structure (morphology, curriculum that incorporates linguistic anthropology concepts phonology, syntax, semantics), pragmatics, and language and student-driven research on language. variation in relation to language change. The course provides Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) rudimentary training in the analysis of language data, and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies focuses on the variety of human language structures and on Counts toward Praxis Program the question of universal properties of language.

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LING H113 INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX (1.0 Credit) final question about possible generalizations arrived at during Division: Humanities; Symbolic Reasoning the semester. Prerequisite(s): One prior or concurrent course in linguistics. Note: No knowledge of Mandarin or ASL will be Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World assumed. This course is a hands-on investigation of sentence structures in human language. This is a participation intensive course. LING H146 LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY, THREATS TO Collectively, the class will develop an increasingly complex DIVERSITY, AND RESISTANCE (1.0 Credit) syntactic theory starting with basic assumptions and seeing Division: Humanities where they lead. In the process, students will develop skills in Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World observing syntactic patterns and analyzing these patterns in order to come to some generalizations on their own. The course address issues of linguistic diversity, experiences of difference, power structures as they relate to the perception LING H114 INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS (1.0 Credit) and use of language, and struggles for justice in linguistic

Division: Humanities; Symbolic Reasoning context. Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World LING H204 TOPICS IN INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING: This course focuses on the study of meaning in human LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION (1.0 Credit) language. We will explore semantic issues that arise from Division: Natural Science; Quantitative; Symbolic Reasoning the lexicon, the sentences, and the discourse. Along the way, Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes we will investigate not only the semantic structure of natural language but also pragmatic factors that affect language use. A general introduction to computer programming, in the This is a participation-intensive course. In the process, students context of its application to a specific discipline such as Data will not only learn the basic semantic theory but will also Analysis or Bioinformatics. Prerequisite for CMSC 107, along develop skills in observing semantic patterns and analyzing with discipline-specific analysis. Not for students who have these patterns in order to come to some generalizations on completed CMSC 105 and/or 107. This course is equivalent to their own. Prerequisite(s): Any previous linguistics class or CMSC 104. Prerequisite(s): LING H101, H113, or H115 instructor permission. LING H208 SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION (1.0 LING H115 PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (1.0 Credit) Credit) Division: Humanities; Symbolic Reasoning Division: Natural Science; Symbolic Reasoning Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes This course investigates the sound patterns found in human An introduction to the methodologies used in the automated languages. Phonetics is the study of these patterns from a recognition and synthesis of human speech, focusing on physical and perceptual perspective while phonology is the Hidden Markov Models in recognition and unit selection study of sound patterns from a cognitive perspective. Activities in synthesis. Students will get hands-on experience with in the class will expose students to the methodologies used by implementing the various components of these systems to both perspectives (articulatory description and acoustic analysis better understand the techniques, challenges, and open for phonetics and formal theoretical models for phonology) areas of research. Crosslisted: Computer Science, Linguistics and show the necessity and utility of both approaches in Prerequisite(s): LING 204, CS105 and 106 OR CS107 OR understanding the nature of sound patterns in human language. BMC 110 and 206 OR instructor consent

LING H125 SOCIOLINGUISTICS: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, LING H209 MORPHOLOGICAL REINFLECTION (1.0 Credit) AND SOCIETY (1.0 Credit) Division: Natural Science Division: Humanities Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Morphological reinflection is the machine learning problem of An introduction to the connection between language and social developing automated tools to convert a word marked for one and identity as it is studied from a variety of methodologies category into its corresponding form in another category (e.g., and perspectives, including ethnography, variationist running to ran). The difficulty varies with the complexity of the sociolinguistics, and experimental sociolinguistics in the lab. language’s inflectional system and the resources available for Students will collect and analyze data from real-life speech to that language. We will study current methods for solving this explore the social correlates of linguistic behavior, using both problem, using many example languages to understand what qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze their data. aspects of linguistic structure prove most challenging for this computational task. Crosslisted: Linguistics, Computer Science LING H131 MODALITY IN LANGUAGE: MANDARIN AND Pre-requisite(s): LING 204 OR CMSC 104 OR CMSC 105/106 ASL AS EXAMPLES (1.0 Credit) OR CMSC 107 (or BMC equivalents). LING 101 and SWAT

Division: Humanities LING 043 are desirable, but not required. Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes LING H214 SPANISH IN THE US: LANGUAGE, IDENTITY In this course we look at five issues where modality effects AND POLITICS (1.0 Credit) might be expected to be evidenced. We compare the data Division: Humanities on Mandarin and ASL and discuss possible ramifications for linguistic theory. The issues range across the grammar, with a 276 LINGUISTICS / LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the This course is designed to acquaint students with both the Social World syntactic and semantic structures of Mandarin Chinese and The course introduces students to basic concepts of (critical) the theoretical implications they pose to the study of natural sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. It examines language. Students will have an opportunity to further their the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship understanding of linguistic theories and to develop skills in of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies analyzing a non-Indo-European language systematically. and policies reflect and shape societal views of Spanish LING H325 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (1.0 Credit) and its speakers (and contribute to discrimination and social injustices). Course taught in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): Course at Division: Natural Science the 200-level in Spanish or Linguistics An overview of key areas of computational linguistics, including natural language processing and computational modeling of LING H215 THE STRUCTURE OF COLONIAL VALLEY morpho-phonological systems. Students will study and practice ZAPOTEC (1.0 Credit) the primary algorithms and techniques used in the automated Division: Humanities analysis of natural language data. Crosslisted: Computer Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Science, Linguistics Prerequisite(s): CMSC 105 and CMSC Social World 106 (or CMSC 107), OR CMSC B110 and CMSC B206, OR instructor permission. A detailed examination of the grammar of Colonial Valley Zapotec, an indigenous language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Focus on LING H399 SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR (1.0 Credit) hands-on research, morphological analysis, and translation of Division: Humanities archival documents. Prerequisite(s): LING 113; and one of the following: LING 101, 114, 115, or instructor consent Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World LING H228 FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (1.0 Credit) This seminar exposes students to linguistic research methods Division: Social Science and guides them through the conceptualization of a topic, Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World the research, and the writing of a senior thesis. All linguistics majors must write their senior thesis in this seminar or Ling A seminar course on how humans acquire native S100 or S195. Enrollment limited to 15 students, Senior language(s). The class surveys acquisition theories and the linguistics majors only. experimental methodologies that test them. Topics include a range of linguistic areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), and contexts (monolingual, multilingual, and LITERATURES IN ENGLISH atypical development). Crosslisted: Linguistics, Psychology Prerequisite(s): Any one of the following: LING 101, 113, 114, 115, or Swarthmore equivalent. Faculty LING H250 SEMINAR IN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: Linda-Susan Beard, Associate Professor of Literatures in

NONLINEAR PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS (1.0 English (on leave semester I) Credit) Sara Bryant, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in Division: Humanities; Symbolic Reasoning English Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Chloe Flower, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English on the Helen Taft Manning Professorship in British History This course provides theoretical and empirical breadth in advanced topics in phonetics and / or phonology. It also serves Colby Gordon, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English to introduce students to new ideas and recent developments Jennifer Harford Vargas, Associate Professor of Literatures in in the field. Topics vary from semester to semester. English and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and Prerequisite(s): LING 115 Iberian Studies Program”

LING H281 SEMANTICS II (1.0 Credit) Gail Hemmeter, Senior Lecturer of Literatures in English and Director of Writing Division: Social Science Bethany Schneider, Associate Professor of Literatures in Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World English This course familiarizes students with original research Jess Shollenberger, Visiting Assistant Professor in semantics. We review the basics of formal pragmatics, compositional semantics, lambda calculus, and event Mecca Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English semantics. Then we read and discuss a selection of research Jamie Taylor, Associate Professor and Chair of Literatures in articles, culminating in a final research project. Prerequisite(s): English LING 114 Kate Thomas, K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of Literatures in

LING H282 STRUCTURE OF CHINESE (1.0 Credit) English Division: Social Science Michael Tratner, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of Literatures in English Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World

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The English Department offers a wide range of courses in Concentration in Creative Writing British, American, and Anglophone literatures, from medieval romance to contemporary novels and film. Students develop Students may elect a concentration in creative writing. Three their own paths through the major, experimenting with historical courses in your English major may be CW courses, one of periods, genres, and forms while also developing expertise in them at the 300 level. You must still take English 250 and specific areas. 398 and 399. Students enrolling in this concentration must seek the approval of their major adviser in English and of the The department stresses critical thinking, incisive writing and director of the Creative Writing Program; they must enroll in the speaking, and a sense of initiative and responsibility for the concentration before the end of their sophomore year. enterprise of interpretation. With their advisers, English majors design a program of study that deepens their understanding of Other Concentrations diverse genres, textual traditions, and periods. We encourage students to explore the history of cultural production and The Department of English contributes courses toward minors reception and also to question the presuppositions of literary in Africana Studies, in Environmental Studies, and in the study. The major culminates in an independently written essay Program in Gender and Sexuality. of 30-40 pages, developed during a senior research seminar in the fall semester and individually mentored by a faculty member Students Going Abroad in the spring. Students are expected to take at least two English Students should complete both English 250 and one 300-level courses at Bryn Mawr before signing up for the major or minor. course before leaving for a semester or year abroad. Up to two courses from study abroad may count toward the English Summary of the Major major, provided they get departmental approval. Send your The major requires a total of eleven courses. Three courses request, and full syllabuses of the courses you took/will take, to are required: 250, 398 and 399. Of the other 8 courses, at the department chair. least three must be at the 300 level (exclusive of 398 and 399). All 300 level courses must be taken at BMC or HC. 250 must English Majors and the Education be taken before the senior year. One 100 level class may Certification Program be taken as a first year or sophomore, and only one may be English majors planning to complete an education certification taken. Note: One 200 level Creative Writing course can count in their senior year should file a work plan with the chairs of the towards the major. Education and English Departments no later than December • ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study, (must be taken 1 of their junior year. English majors on this path will follow an before the senior year. Prerequisite: at least one 200 level accelerated writing schedule in their senior year. course) Extended Research • ENGL B398 Senior Seminar (offered Mondays in the fall, 2:30-4pm) Some students seek a longer horizon and a chance to dig deeper into their research interests. Rising juniors and seniors • ENGL B399 Senior Essay (taken in the spring, with an in English frequently apply for fellowship support from the

individual adviser) Hanna Holborn Gray program, to pursue original research over the summer or through the year. The projects may be stand- Summary of the Minor alone or may lead to a senior essay. In either case, students Students must declare their minor by the end of their junior work closely with faculty advisers to define the goals, methods, year. and potential outcomes of their research • Five English courses (at least one at the 300 level). 300 levels must be taken at BMC or HC. One 200 level Departmental Honors Creative Writing course may count towards the minor. Students who have done distinguished work in their courses in the major and who write outstanding senior essays will be • ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study (must be taken considered for departmental honors. before the senior year. Prerequisite: one or preferably two 200-level English courses) Courses

Writing Requirement ENGL B104 The Global Short Story By the end of their junior year, English majors must satisfy the Spring 2022 College’s Writing Intensive Requirement. English 250 is the department’s WI course. The majority of the most provocative and interesting English- language literary production at the current moment hails from Minor in Film Studies African nations, India, Oceania and their diasporae throughout the world. A significant number of major international literary There is no limit to the number of courses in film studies that prizes have been awarded to members of these writing may count toward the English major, except for a student communities who cross borders, continents, passport identities, majoring in English who is also seeking to declare a minor and traditions in their experiments with narration, place, politics, in film studies. In that case two (and only two) of the courses and the creolization of English. The late Nigerian novelist and that comprise the six-course film studies minor may also memoirist Chinua Achebe said of the English language, in count towards the eleven-course English major. The minimum particular: “Do not be fooled by the fact that we may write in number of courses required to complete an English major and a English because we intend to do unheard of things with it.” minor in film studies is thus fifteen courses.

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Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ENGL B204 Native Lands, American Literatures, 1607-1899 Critical Interpretation (CI) Fall 2021 Counts toward Africana Studies This course will explore Anglophone narratives by white ENGL B106 Romance to Bromance and Indigenous writers, between the arrival of the British in Fall 2021 Jamestown and the Philippine-American War. We will examine narratives of conquest that understand colonial and US This course examines the ongoing popularity of romance, expansion across Indigenous lands as “manifest destiny,” and examining the genre from the Middle Ages to contemporary narratives of resistance that understand the same history as romantic comedies. In doing so, we will pay particular attention imperial conquest and genocide. It took a lot of storytelling, a lot to the gender politics romance produces, supports, and of literary labor, to invent a destiny and to make it manifest on challenges, exploring how various historical moments and landscapes, peoples and nations. This class asks how certain media conceptualize love, desire, sex, and marriage. Texts will ingredients of the master-narrative of colonial expansion and include Chaucer’s _Troilus and Criseyde_, Marlowe’s _Hero the American “wild west” - bloodthirsty, sexually dangerous and Leander_, Richard Hurd’s eighteenth-century _Letters tribal people, violent white outlaws, hard-working normative on Chivalry and Romance_, and nineteenth-century bodice white families, empty landscapes, easy money - came to be rippers. We will also discuss the ongoing publication of essential to the American myth. And how were those stories Harlequin romances, the popularity of in film resisted and rewritten even as they were being formed? (from the 1930s to now) as well as the reimagining of romance Ultimately, we will interrogate the so-called “frontier,” exposing it tropes and male intimacy in films like “Brokeback Mountain” as a vastly diverse network of Native-, African- Asian- and Euro- and buddy comedies. American peoples whose landscapes were already inhabited, Critical Interpretation (CI) already historied, already multinational. Materials examined may include early Indigenous narratives and anonymous ENGL B107 Staging American Families writings by white and Indigenous people, and texts and narratives by John Smith, William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, Not offered 2021-22 Tituba (Carib), Samson Occom (Mohegan), William Appess This 100-level seminar for freshmen and sophomores offers a (Pequot), Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, James taste of the reading and writing practices of the English major. Fennimore Cooper, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwe), Mary It is not required for the major, but counts toward it. Freshmen Jemison (Seneca), Black Hawk (Sauk), John Rollin Ridge and sophomores may take only one 100-level course. Modern (Cherokee), Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Paiute), Wovoka and contemporary American drama often takes as its focus the (Paiute), Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. family in its various iterations: nuclear families; lost families; Critical Interpretation (CI) imagined families; explosive marriages; rebel children; siblings Counts toward Environmental Studies in conflict. This course will focus on dramatizations of the family in 20th- and 21st-century American plays. We will explore how ENGL B205 Introduction to Film staged family dynamics are shaped by performances of gender, class and race. The course offers opportunities to develop Fall 2021 abilities that contribute to success in the English major: close This course is intended to provide students with the tools of reading, active discussion, critical writing. critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, Critical Interpretation (CI) sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused ENGL B202 Understanding Poetry work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and Not offered 2021-22 history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call This course is for students who wish to develop their skills in cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the reading and writing about poetry. It will provide grounding in Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history traditional prosody (i.e., in reading accentual, syllabic, and of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory. accentual-syllabic verse), as well as tactics for reading and Critical Interpretation (CI) understanding the breath-based or image-based prosody of Counts toward Film Studies free verse. This is not a chronological survey of English poetry, Counts toward Visual Studies but the syllabus has been put together with an eye to sampling the riches of the English poetic tradition and calling attention to ENGL B207 Eating Empire: Food, Diaspora and Victorian some of its most important moments. The goal of the course is Britain for you to become capable readers, interpreters and critics of poetry in a wide variety of voices and styles. There are no pre- Spring 2022 requisites--except an interest in poetry! You will be expected to This class will explore British culinary culture across the long attend class regularly, come prepared, and participate actively nineteenth century, focusing on how food culture was used in in class discussions and activities. Papers will be short, but will the ordering and Othering of the world and its populations. Our add up to about twenty-five pages of critical writing over the lens is the relationship of food to nineteenth-century colonial course of the semester. There will also be one or two creative and imperial discourse and we will analyze how food both assignments, and a short in-class presentation of your “favorite traced and guided global networks of power, politics and trade. poem.” We will be particularly interested in theorizing the paradox that Critical Interpretation (CI) the trademark English comestibles - the sweet cup of tea, the curry - are colonial imports, and we will also construct a history

279 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH of the industrialization of food that facilitated exportation. As class presentations, short creative assignments, three short we are tracing the flows of capital and foodstuffs, we will also papers, and a final project. As a part of the Philly program, the consider the power of resisting food, by studying anti-saccharite course will take place in Center City, Philadelphia. Along with abolitionist protests, hunger strikes and food adulteration course readings, we will engage directly with writers, artists, campaigns. Organizing units will include sugar, chocolate, tea, and events that help shape Philadelphia’s vibrant hip-hop and spices. Texts will include slave narratives, nineteenth century literature scene. For additional information see the program’s cookbooks and colonial culinary memoirs, Thackeray’s Vanity website https://www.brynmawr.edu/philly-program Fair, Stoker’s Dracula, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances of ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Gender Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural Readings chosen to highlight the construction and performance and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined of gender identity during the period from 1550 to 1650 and the histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics ways in which the gender anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles men and women differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and include plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective writing of the period. experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural Inquiry into the Past (IP) production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinidad in the Americas. ENGL B215 Early Modern Crime Narratives: Vice, Villains, Critical Interpretation (CI) and Law Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies This course taps into our continuing collective obsession Counts toward Praxis Program with criminality, unpacking the complicated web of feelings attached to crime and punishment through early modern literary ENGL B220 Writing in Theory/Writing in Practice treatments of villains, scoundrels, predators, pimps, witches, king-killers, poisoners, mobs, and adulterers. By reading literary Spring 2022 accounts of vice alongside contemporary and historical theories This Praxis course is designed for students interested in of criminal justice, we will chart the deep history of criminology teaching or tutoring writing at the high-school or college and track competing ideas about punishment and the criminal level. The course focuses on current theories of rhetoric and mind. This course pays particular attention the ways that people composition, theories of writing and learning, writing pedagogy, in this historical moment mapped criminality onto dynamics of and literacy issues. Students will get hands-on experience with gender, race, sexuality, disability, religion, and mental illness curriculum design and lesson planning, strategies for classroom according to cultural conventions very different from our own. teaching and individual instruction, and will develop digital Authors may include Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, projects related to multilingual writing and plagiarism. The Middleton, Dekker, Webster, and Behn. Praxis components of the course are primarily project-based, Inquiry into the Past (IP) but we may also make one or two group visits to local sites

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies where writing is taught. Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B216 Narrativity and Hip Hop Counts toward Praxis Program Fall 2021 ENGL B222 “Afro-Futurism” This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive analysis of hip- Not offered 2021-22 hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual performance and visual art, The study of “Afro-Futurism” is the cultural, artistic, and political we will consider how rappers and hip-hop artists from the exploration of African and diasporan visions and critiques of late twentieth century onward have used the form to extend, the past, present and future. It presents worlds inflected by the further, and complicate key concerns of literature in general, ancient conjurations of African forebears, chattel slaves, and and African American and African Diaspora literature in free African Americans from the 19th to the 21st century. The particular. We will explore key texts in hip hop from the late supranatural worlds of Afro-Futurism brings into sharp focus the 1970s to the current moment. Reading these texts alongside laws of both nature and society. It has given birth to a revision short fiction by writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, of the science fiction and fantasy genres by writers such as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Victor LaValle, Kiese Laymon, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Tomi Adeyeni, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Regina Bradley and others, we will and Deji Bryce Olukotun. Prerequisites: Contemporary consider how themes of socioeconomic mobility, gender and enrollment in or completion of the Emily Balch Seminar, its sexuality, queer and feminist critique, and intersectional political Haverford equivalent, or College permission to bypass either. engagement animate artists’ narrative and poetic strategies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) across genre and media. Written work will include regular in- Critical Interpretation (CI) 280 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Counts toward Africana Studies of love do these black writers develop, and how do such visions impact how freedom is imagined in Afrodiasporic literature? ENGL B225 Contemporary Life Writing: Form and Theory Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) In this course, we will explore contemporary forms of life Counts toward Africana Studies writing. The term “writing” will be used flexibly to encompass self-representation in visual forms (including comics, ENGL B230 Disabled Women’s Life Writing photography, and video). We will begin by considering myth Not offered 2021-22 and archives in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Theresa Hak Drawing on recent “feminist disability studies” scholarship, Kyung Cha’s Dictée; our next unit will address how life writing this course considers what role disability plays in women’s life represents the lives of others. The last half of the course writing. We will begin by assessing how, historically, women focuses on the genre of autotheory, or life writing that has have been represented as disabled--from Aristotle and Freud’s become a form of theorizing (about gender, sexuality, race, and assertion that women were “deformed” versions of men to biopolitics, among other topics) in its own right. Edward H. Clarke’s belief that women were not biologically Critical Interpretation (CI) fit to be educated. We’ll ask: how do the genres of memoir, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies autobiography, or life writing push back against these gender prescriptions and offer new definitions of what it means to ENGL B226 Postmodernism be a disabled woman? How do lesbian and trans identities Fall 2021 map onto disability experience? And how do these accounts change both before and after the disability rights movement? To be modern is to be new; to be post-modern is then to be Possible course texts include: The Diary of Alice James, “after the new,” in other words to exist after everything new has Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Helen already been done. What does it mean for authors, filmmakers Keller’s The Story of My Life, Katherine Butler Hathaway’s The and artists to feel that all their works and all the people Little Locksmith, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, and Terry represented in them are not original, but are rather entirely Galloway’s Mean Little deaf Queer. copies or simulations? This strange belief emerged in the 1970s, and this course will examine the way it has led to some Critical Interpretation (CI) intriguing works of literature, film and art. Starting with Andy Warhol’s versions of Campbell’s soup cans and Jeffrey Koons’ ENGL B231 Theorizing Affect, Watching Television balloon sculptures, we will move to books about people whose Spring 2022 personalities and even their bodies seem to be composed of This course examines television through the lens of affect images and texts from past eras--Salvador Plascensia’s The theory. Within humanities scholarship, the turn toward affect People of Paper; Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, has offered new ways to study the cultural, economic, and and Jorge Borges’ Ficciones. To help us understand these political functions of literature and art. In our wider cultural works, we will use the critical theories of Jean Baudrillard and moment, television programming has become a source of Linda Hutcheon. shared fascination. The course will pair readings from affect Critical Interpretation (CI) studies (by scholars such as Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai) with select examples of television shows (including Black ENGL B227 Writing Love in the African Diaspora Mirror, Mad Men, and The Wire). We will also read scholarly Not offered 2021-22 and public writing about television and consider the interplay between cultural feelings and televisual forms such as seriality, This course explores how various forms of love are imagined in situation comedy, and bottle episodes. contemporary writing of the African Diaspora. From parent-child affections, to romance and marriage, to the closeness between Critical Interpretation (CI) friends, “love” is a central theme in literature and a crucial part Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of how we define humanity. Focusing on contemporary texts Counts toward Film Studies such as Justin Torres’s We the Animals, Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter, Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, Dee Rees’s Pariah, ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Toni Morrison’s Love, and the works of poets and lyricists Not offered 2021-22 including Yusef Komunyakaa, Warsan Shire, Messy Maya, Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico and Cardi B, we will consider how various forms of intimacy border as an open wound and the border culture that arises are written and read in the African Diaspora. We will read from this fraught site as a third country. This course will these works alongside key short works from earlier moments explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent in Afrodiasporic literature, as well as theoretical and critical different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and texts in Diaspora feminism, sexuality studies, affect theory, and between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities queer theory to consider several questions: What do literary and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for love relationships reveal about cultural notions of gender, understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and sexuality, class, (dis)ability, embodiment and spirituality? How language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants are intimacy and human connection evoked differently through and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative , experimentalism, and other Diasporic poetic and metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- aesthetic techniques? What forms and media do black artists immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented use to evoke the love of place, nation and home? What visions migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature,

281 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights ENGL B241 God in America: Literatures 1620-1865 and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and Spring 2022 aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key This course proposes that to understand American literature, theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented we must understand American Protestantism. Only a century migration. after Martin Luther nailed his theses to a German church door, the Mayflower disgorged its radical separatist passengers into Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and Critical Interpretation (CI) wild men,” aka Cape Cod, where they set up the social and Counts toward Africana Studies religious experiment remembered as “Puritanism.” Their colony Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies would become, they promised, a “City on a Hill.” Many other Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies sects followed, and soon those who came for other reasons encountered a Protestant battle over America in full swing. On ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned the one hand, Protestant challenges to social, racial, gender Violence in Latinx Literature and political hierarchy promised unimaginable freedoms and Fall 2021 inspired radical social change; on the other hand, Protestant This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- arguments underwrote slavery and settler-colonial violence, sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice gender oppression, and ecological devastation. This course in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and begins with the Puritans, ends with the Civil War, and examines civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range literature by white, Black and Indigenous writers grappling, from of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to inside and outside of faith, with the question of how to live in explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- and change God’s America. sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt Critical Interpretation (CI) the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how ENGL B244 Post-1945 American Literature: Identity Poetics U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. Not offered 2021-22 Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and This course explores the intersections of experimental imagine justice. literature, defined by its suspicion of an authoritative subject, and “identity politics,” a concept introduced by the Black Critical Interpretation (CI) feminist Combahee River Collective in 1977. Paying particular Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies attention to the work of Black, queer, and lesbian writers and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies poets, we will examine how identity is made and reimagined through specific formal choices in a literary text; and we will ENGL B239 African American Poetry trace the shifting fortunes of “identity” as a critical lens for Spring 2022 literary study. What are the uses of identity, now, in representing This course explores the work of black poets in the Americas. shared as well as singular experiences of marginalization? Focusing on a range of poetic forms from the 18th century Likely writers and poets include: James Baldwin, Gwendolyn through the present, we will consider key questions that have Brooks, John Keene, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, animated the works of black poets in North America and the Eileen Myles, and Harryette Mullen. Caribbean, and how they have used poetic strategy to engage Critical Interpretation (CI) these questions. How do black poets explore black political Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and social life in various historical and geographical contexts? How do they use particular formal strategies (for example, ENGL B246 The Global Middle Ages form poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, and experimental Not offered 2021-22 modes) to interrogate notions of blackness? How do political movements around gender, class, and sexuality factor in? We start with the question: when and where were the Middle As we approach these questions, we will consider important Ages, exactly? Perhaps what comes to most people’s minds critical conversations on African American poetry and poetics, isn’t the right answer at all! This course offers students an examining how both well-known and underexplored poets introduction to the medieval period as a time of active cultural use form to complicate blackness and imagine various forms exchange, racial imaginaries, and decentralized globality. We of freedom. Our work will take us through several poetic will explore what it means to think about history on a global genres and forms, including print works, performance poetry, scale, how to broaden our understanding of the Middle Ages hip hop music, and digital media. Throughout our analysis, without replicating Eurocentric perspectives, and how literary we will consider how discourses on gender, sexuality, class, texts work to mediate history instead of merely reflecting it. national and transnational identity, and other engagements with Further, we will consider how the definition of the medieval has difference shape black poetic expression, both historically and been politically weaponized in our current moment, and what in our current moment. is at stake in resisting such delimitations. Texts may include the Book of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the Romance of the Three Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Kingdoms, and the King of Tars. No previous experience with Critical Interpretation (CI) medieval literature required. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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ENGL B248 Theorizing Everyday Life are powerful signs in an international culture industry. After Spring 2022 setting up key eighteenth-century concepts and contexts for what French historian Philippe Ariès calls the “invention of The everyday is an important concept in critical cultural childhood”, we will explore the ways in which images of young theory. At the same time, it is imagined to exceed academic girls have been deployed as the benign faces of ruthless description, providing a window onto the messiness of imperialism, reading through the entirety of each original series. concrete, lived experience. In this course, we explore a We will track the geographical movement of both heroines, with range of theories of everyday life, culled from literary studies, particular attention to different spatial narratives of nationhood anthropology, Black studies, feminist theory, and affect theory, and empire-building, whether manifest destiny in the U.S., or in order to understand the stakes of paying attention to the what critic Northrop Frye has termed the “garrison mentality” familiar, the mundane, and the unnoticed. Why is the everyday of Canadian culture. Here we’ll be especially attentive to so fascinating to novelists and poets? How can we understand commonalities in how both authors produce class-stratified extreme political, social, and environmental conditions as and racialized notions of girlhood, as well as divergences in embedded in the everyday? What forms and genres of writing how both countries, each still framed to varying degrees as does the everyday demand? Students will have the chance to the “infant nation” of Great Britain, yield new and evolving experiment with forms of everyday life-writing, including the discourses of girlhood. , the project poem, and the kitchen-table conversation. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021, Spring 2022 English 262 is a topics course that allows for multiple themes to We will explore the power of language in a variety of linguistic, be taught. Each topic will have its own description and students historical, disciplinary, social, and cultural contexts, focusing may enroll for credit in the course as long as the topics vary. on the power of the written word to provide a foundational basis for the critical and creative analysis of literary studies. Critical Interpretation (CI)

This course will help to broaden our ideas of what texts and Counts toward Africana Studies language accomplish socially, historically, and aesthetically. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Students will thus refine their faculties of reading closely, ENGL B269 Medieval Bodies writing incisively and passionately, asking productive questions, producing their own compelling interpretations, and listening Not offered 2021-22 to the insights offered by others. Prerequisite: One English The Middle Ages imagined the physical body as the site course or permission of instructor. English Majors and Minors of moral triumph and failure and as the canvas to expose must take this class before their senior year. Not appropriate for social ills. The course examines medical tracts, saint’s lives, freshmen. poetry, theological texts, and representations of the Passion. Course does not meet an Approach Discussion topics range from plague and mercantilism to the legal and religious depiction of torture. Texts by Boccaccio, ENGL B254 Female Subjects: American Literature 1750- Chaucer, Dante, and Kempe will be supplemented with 1900 contemporary readings on trauma theory and embodiment. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI)

This course explores the subject, subjection, and subjectivity Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies of women and female sexualities in U.S. literatures between ENGL B274 Ethnic Speculative Fiction the signing of the Constitution and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. While the representation of women in fiction grew Not offered 2021-22 and the number of female authors soared, the culture found This course will explore how Latina/os, Latin Americans, itself at pains to define the appropriate moments for female African Americans, and Native Americas deploy speculative speech and silence, action and passivity. We will engage a fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place women at the nexus imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of of national narratives of slavery and freedom, foreignness and racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, environmental domesticity, wealth and power, masculinity and citizenship, and destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in what sex and race “purity.” Walidah Imarisha terms “visionary fiction.” Students will be Critical Interpretation (CI) introduced to theoretical concepts such as intersectionality, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies modernity/coloniality, Afrofuturism, marvelous realism, and zombie capitalism that will help them unpack the critical work ENGL B261 Colonizing Girlhoods: L.M.Montgomery and accomplished by genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, Laura Ingalls Wilde we will probe the role that literature, comic books, film, and Not offered 2021-22 art can play in the struggle to build more radically egalitarian societies, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can This class explores what we can see anew when we juxtapose contribute to social justice. two iconic figures of North American children’s literature:

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ENGL B275 Queer American Poetry Scholars often call the period between the 1850s and the 1910s Spring 2022 the “Golden Age” of children’s literature--an age producing such childhood stalwarts as Little Women, The Secret Garden, What does poetry have to say about the history of sexuality? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Peter and Wendy. This How do queer voices, expansively defined, disrupt poetic norms class will offer an introduction to the critical study of Golden Age and forms? How has poetry been congenial to the project of children’s literature, while also asking that we rethink this age imagining and making queer communities, queer spaces, and in two principal respects. Making use of the extensive holdings even queer worlds? In this course, we survey the work of queer of the Ellery Yale Wood Collection of children’s books, we will American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present, begin by questioning how the canon of children’s literature as we touch on major topics in the history of sexuality, queer came to be formed by studying established “classics” alongside studies, and American cultural history. This course provides an children’s books by contemporaneous (though traditionally overview of American poetry as well as an introduction to queer “adult”) writers such as Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, W.E.B. studies concepts and frameworks; no prior experience with Dubois, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Moreover, we will examine these fields is necessary. a recent critical turn in childhood studies that re-evaluates older Critical Interpretation (CI) notions of children’s relationships to agency and identity. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B282 Intro to Queer Studies: Theory, Representation, ENGL B277 Speculative Futures, Alternative Worlds Community Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 Just as colonization is an act of speculative fiction, imagining The uncertain, shifting meaning of “queer” provides it with both and violently imposing a different world, so too does utility and difficulty: does “queer” designate a type of desire, decolonization rely on the power of imagination. This course relation, political orientation, personal identity, or something will explore how Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Asian American else entirely? How does this change from the vantage of cultural producers deploy speculative fiction to interrogate white different historical moments, geographical locations, or supremacy and imperialism and to imagine decolonial futures. individual subjectivities? How does queerness interact with We will analyze representations of racism, settler colonialism, identity categories such as race, gender, class, nationality, heteropatriarchy, environmental destruction, and anti-immigrant disability, and age? This course is an introduction to these discrimination in works by writers, filmmakers, and artists questions and to queer studies, a field that destabilizes norms, such as Octavia Butler, Sabrina Vourvoulias, N.K. Jemison, particularly around gender and sexuality. We will consider Ken Liu, Alex Rivera, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, as well as how queer scholarship and activism rethinks notions of space, anthologies such as Walking the Clouds and Nets for Snaring time, community, pop culture, and more. Our discussions the Sun. In doing so, we will probe the role that literature, film, will consider the bumpy evolution of queer from an adjective and graphic narratives can play in decolonizing knowledge. for personal eccentricity in the early twentieth century, to Students will be also introduced to key theoretical concepts discriminatory slur by mid-century, to radical rallying cry during such as modernity/coloniality; ethnic futurisms (Afro-Futurism, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to unstable umbrella term and target Latinxfuturism, Indigenous Futurism, etc.); marvelous realism; for commodification today. We will read formative texts in survivance, and social death that will help them unpack the the history and theory of sexuality, as well as contemporary critical work accomplished by genre fiction and query the ways queer theorists, and consider the institutionalization of a term in which the aesthetic imagination can contribute to social that critiques that very process. These discussions will be justice. grounded in cultural productions ranging from trans short fiction Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) to Indigiqueer poetry, from gay cruising memoirs to lesbian Critical Interpretation (CI) graphic novels. Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B283 Transnational Writing Taking into account the oral, written, aural, and visual forms of African “texts” over several thousand years, this course Not offered 2021-22 will explore literary production, intertextuality, translation, and This course is a study in direct and indirect conversations audience/critical reception. Representative works to be studied between and among writers, eras, and continents involving include oral traditions, the Sundiata and Mwindo epics, the narrative practitioners who may never have interacted in life or plays of Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, the Muse letters, but whose works, nevertheless, “speak” to each other of Forgiveness; and the work of Sembène Ousmane, Bessie in intertextual exchanges. Almost all the works were originally Head, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mariama Bâ, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi written in English. The yoked works are in groupings of no more wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yvonne Vera, and than 5 to underscore and to intensify the dialogue and to allow others. adequate time for discussion and written analysis. 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ENGL B286 “A Strange, Uncoupled Couple”: Whitman and that the character projects to her social world. In addition, we Dickinson will conduct exercises that allow us to regain a measure of Not offered 2021-22 authorship over the portraits of our lives assembled by data brokers. Students will learn tactics for protecting against online This course attends to the two most well-known poets in the harassment and surveillance. nineteenth-century U.S.: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

While both writers have similar investments in the materiality Critical Interpretation (CI) of texts and in redefining traditional poetic forms, their Inquiry into the Past (IP) compositional practices couldn’t be more different. Dickinson ENGL B293 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Medieval Ecologies was a famously private poet, publishing only ten poems in her lifetime (all anonymously, and many against her consent). Spring 2022 Whitman was committed to a public persona, intent on This course explores relationships between natural, non- evoking national life in his broadly circulated, printed poems. human, and human agents in the Middle Ages. Reading natural In comparing both poets’ representation of gender, sexuality, philosophy, vernacular literature, and theological treatises, we disability, celebrity, and the individual, this course will more examine how the Middle Ages understood supposedly “modern” broadly serve as an introduction to American poetry. environmental concepts like climate change, sustainability, Critical Interpretation (CI) animal rights, and protected land. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) ENGL B289 Topics in the Ellery Yale Wood Collection Counts toward Environmental Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B302 Moby Dick This is a topics course built around current strengths in the Ellery Yale Wood children’s book collection of Special Spring 2022 Collections. Course content varies from semester to semester. “It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things Critical Interpretation (CI) appalled me,” Ishmael muses as he tries to understand the monomaniacal hunt that drives Captain Ahab and his crew ENGL B290 Modernisms of whalers of every race and creed to their watery doom. Not offered 2021-22 Herman Melville’s 1851 Moby Dick and historical and critical materials surrounding it, will be the entire subject of this course. This course will examine a range of works (novels, poems, An allegory of a nation charging toward Civil War, a nation paintings, and movies) that have been called “Modernist”-- founded on ideals of freedom and equality, but built on capitalist in general, these are works that are plotless, characterless, expansion, white supremacy, slavery and genocide, Moby Dick fragmented, eerie or just plain strange. The central question is hailed by many (and many who have never read it) as “The we will be exploring is, why did artists decide to create such Great American Novel.” But which America, whose America? distinctly unrealistic works? The course is organized as Written for the generation that would fight the Civil War, how an exploration of several different lenses through which to does this novel continue to describe America, today? By turns view what was going on in the early twentieth century when comic, tragic, epic, mundane, thuddingly literal and gorgeously modernism emerged; each lens presents a different theory spiritual and metaphysical, the novel rewards both intricate of why new literary forms emerged. The course is organized close reading and intense historical and critical analysis. as an exploration of several different lenses through which to We will take up questions of race, gender and sexuality, view what was going on in the early twentieth century when colonialism, the animal and the human, the oceanic, freedom, modernism emerged; each lens presents a different theory of individuality, totalitarianism, capitalism, nation and belonging. why new literary forms emerged. Critical Interpretation (CI) Students will write a midterm and a final research paper. Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B305 Early Modern Trans Studies ENGL B291 Networked Selfhood and the Novel Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course will consider the deep histories of transgender In this class, we will read a selection novels from the late- embodiment by exploring literary, historical, medical, and nineteenth century to the present alongside recent scholarship religious texts from the Renaissance. Expect to read about in media theory examining the shifting boundaries between alchemical hermaphrodites, gender-swapping angels, Ethiopian the self and the publics we connect with online today. Our eunuchs, female husbands, trans saints, criminal transvestites, guiding theme will be “networked selfhood.” On the one hand, and genderqueer monks. We will consider together how these networked selfhood involves conscious acts of authorship. early modern texts speak to the historical, theoretical, and We compose sketches of our lives for classmates, public political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies. figures, acquaintances we’ve met only once. On the other We will read texts by Crashaw, Donne, Shakespeare, Lyly, and hand, networked selfhood entails a tacit understanding that Dekker as well as Susan Stryker, Dean Spade, Mel Chen, Paul very different portraits of our lives are being assembled by data Preciado, and Kadji Amin. Prerequisite: Students must have brokers, government agencies, and Silicon Valley companies. completed at least one 200-level class. The novels we read will offer lessons in how personhood can Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies be configured differently. Novels allow the reader to see, for instance, contradictions between the inner and outer person, the character shared with the reader as opposed to the “self”

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ENGL B307 Philadelphia Freedom: Slavery, Liberty, to the novels and mature poetry, we will read substantial Literature 1682-1899 pieces of the juvenilia (including work by Branwell Brontë), Not offered 2021-22 such as Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, as well as the Diary Papers and assorted letters. We will situate these Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, a space of religious literary works alongside a range of other textual materials diversity, the hotbed of the American Revolution, the first large (philanthropic tracts; excerpts from government “Blue Books”; “free” city north of the slave states, a major center of free legal and medical writings; newspaper scandal stories; etc.). Black culture. In this course we will examine literature written Moreover, we will consider the place of this family’s historical in and about Philadelphia before the Civil War, exploring how childhood in the flourishing present-day Brontë industry, where and why Philadelphians engaged questions of freedom and visitors to Haworth Parsonage are invited to craft their own non-freedom. Beginning with William Penn and the colonial “tiny book” before purchasing embroidery kits replicating the city, moving through the literatures of Revolution and the Civil sisters’ schoolgirl samplers. We will ask: where does juvenilia War, we will conclude with W. E. B. DuBois’ The Philadelphia fit into an author’s corpus? How do we in fact distinguish Negro. We will take two field trips to the city and students will juvenilia from ostensibly mature works, particularly in the case be expected to pursue city-based research projects. of such a short-lived family? How have narratives about the Counts toward Africana Studies child geniuses informed interpretations of the women’s tales of childhood? ENGL B310 Confessional Poetry ENGL B316 Narrativity and Hip-Hop Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Poetry written since 1950 that deploys an autobiographical subject to engage with the psychological and political dynamics This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes of family life and with states of psychic extremity and mental in hip-hop culture. Through close, intensive analysis of hip illness. Poets will include Lowell, Ginsberg, Sexton, and hop lyrics, as well as audiovisual performance and visual art, Plath. The impact of this`movement’ on late twentieth century we will consider how rappers and hip-hop artists from the late American poetry will also receive attention. A prior course in twentieth century onward have used the form to extend, further, poetry is desirable but not required. and complicate key concerns of literature in general, and African American and African Diaspora literature in particular.

Critical Interpretation (CI) We will explore key texts in hip hop from late 1970s to the

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies current moment, reading them alongside short fiction and poetic works by writers such as Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, ENGL B314 Troilus and Criseyde Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Ivelisse Rodriguez Not offered 2021-22 and others, considering how themes of socioeconomic mobility, Examines Chaucer’s magisterial Troilus and Criseyde, his coming of age, gender performance, and intersectional political epic romance of love, loss, and betrayal. We will supplement engagement, animate artists’ narrative and poetic strategies sustained analysis of the poem with primary readings on free across genre and media. will and courtly love as well as theoretical readings on gender Counts toward Africana Studies and sexuality and translation. We will also read Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato, Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid and ENGL B317 Materializing Disability: Text and Technology

Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Not offered 2021-22

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Early disability activists, a group that was composed primarily wheelchair users, named the built environment--including curbs ENGL B315 Reading Childhood Through the Brontës and flights of steps--as the cause of their disablement. People Not offered 2021-22 are not inherently disabled, they argued, but inaccessible Recently, the field of childhood studies has seen a move from spaces--or poorly conceived material environments--limit their considering texts about children to an increased focus on mobility. Because we will be studying literature, we will turn our texts authored by children. This theoretical turn complicates attention to the built environment of texts and imagine how the longstanding questions relating to the ethics of representing written word both enables and disables people with disabilities. young people, opening up new frameworks for understanding When disabled people are unable to write or communicate agency and self-fashioning by children. This class will take by conventional means, what new writing practices do they up these emergent questions via the works of one family. imagine? What technologies might they rely on? From braille The Brontës’ texts offer a remarkable nexus for considering and talking books to American Sign Language poetry and these critical concerns. Novels such as Emily Brontë’s screen-reader technology, disabled people have adapted texts Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre offer to suit their needs while challenging what constitutes language. powerful evocations of the interior lives of children, while The course begins in the mid nineteenth century when Lennard Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Davis argues that disability emerges as a key concept in well as Charlotte’s Villette are unsparing in their depictions U.S. culture and proceeds through the mid twentieth-century of the labor and of childrearing. Yet the family’s juvenile civil rights movement when disabled people began to frame productions--minutely scripted in tiny handmade books--are disability as a social identity. The course will travel across book integral to their mythologizing in contemporary British culture. In history, technology, editorial theory, poetry, and performance this class, we will take the Brontë family as a case study in an to consider disability as a material and textual phenomenon. effort to understand some of the very different ways childhood (Note: at the end of the term, students will design their own came to be understood in the nineteenth century. In addition

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“edition” of a text with accessibility as the guiding force behind writers such as Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Zadie Smith, Tom its design). McCarthy, and Mohsin Hamid. Topics to be explored include Course does not meet an Approach flânerie, anonymity, migrations, chance and repetition, and visibility and (dis)connection. ENGL B319 U.S. Literary Modernism and Technology Course does not meet an Approach

Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B322 Love and Money The period between 1900 and 1945 is categorized as the Fall 2021 heyday of American modernism, an era that occasioned prolific literary production and divisions between “low” and We like to think that money should not influence love, but there “high” culture. This course is organized around technological are surprising relationships between what most people value developments, which led to authorial experimentations with in romantic relationships and what those same people think literary form and an emphasis on subjective experience. Taking is most valuable economically. And what people value most seriously William Carlos Williams’s assertion that a poem is changes over history as as result of broad social changes. So “a small... machine made out of words,” we will explore how this course will examine similarities in various eras between literature takes up technology--trains, automobiles, typewriters, love stories and economic treatises. We will begin with phonographs, and radios--as a thematic for exploring human Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to perception and will. Tentative texts include: Hart Crane’s The mercantilism and colonialism, then proceed through Jane Eyre Bridge, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Henry James’s In the and Goblin Market in relation to industrial capitalism, then look Cage, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and John Dos at some modernist poems in relation to deficit spending and the Passos’s The 42nd Parallel. need to stimulate demand, and end with Hollywood movies and the recent economics that values information and virtual copies Course does not meet an Approach more than anything physical.

ENGL B320 Black Feminist Literature ENGL B327 Childhood in Ruins Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course explores contemporary black feminist literature and This course will examine twentieth-century children’s culture on a transnational stage. We will consider the works literature and novels about childhood that consider the varied of prominent, emerging, and underexplored black feminist relationships between childhood and scenes of ruin. We will writers from various African diaspora locations, including South be exploring ruins both in the context of the built environment-- Africa, West Africa, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. including for instance urban blight, zones of warfare, and sites How do these writers engage with key currents in global black of colonization--as well as texts that deal with environmental feminist politics, including understandings of gender, sexuality, ruin and an increasingly toxic natural landscape. Why do so class, nationality and colonialism? How do they complicate many authors in the twentieth century choose to explore the these discussions in their work? We will ground our exploration thematics of ruin via the tropes of childhood? Moreover, what is in close study of black feminist poetics--the specific formal and the relationship between these landscapes and the embodied creative choices that black feminist poets, fiction writers, visual experiences of the children that traverse these spaces? We artists, hip hop artists, webseries producers and others use will take as an especial focus the idea of the city as a site of to examine gender end sexuality in their art. Paying particular both geographical and individual ruination, using texts set attention to the work of queer and LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, in London and New York City as our case studies. Though Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex) artists, we will consider the we will consider the traditional associations of ruination with various meanings of t erms such as “black,” “feminist,” and catastrophe and decay, we will also explore the ways in which “queer” in various parts of the African Diaspora. Our work will children act as canny navigators of these spaces, actively emphasize close analysis of black feminist writers’ works, as reclaiming environments framed as irredeemable. Literary texts well as collaborative exercises and invited in-class discussions will be read alongside major theoretical works on spatial theory, with several contemporary black diasporic feminist artists urban studies, theories of embodiment, and childhood studies. themselves. Requirements include two short papers, regular response papers, and a final project. ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal Counts toward Africana Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance with Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies tropes of immortality and eternity. Using recent queer theory on temporality, and 19th and 20th century primary texts, we ENGL B321 Metropolitan Forms and Fictions will explore topics such as: fame and noteriety; feminism and Spring 2022 mythology; epistemes, erotics and sexual seasonality; the Urban life is a definitive feature of modernity. As people moved death drive and the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for mummies from rural areas and from other countries into increasingly and seances. large cities, ways of life modernized: how people earned a Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies living, what kinds of communities they formed, the gendered and sexual identities that became newly possible and ENGL B335 Beyond the Human legible, the spaces people inhabited and how they moved Not offered 2021-22 through them. These and other aspects of urban life shaped literary expression. This course will examine modern and This course will explore recent “materialist” approaches to contemporary works about metropolitan experience, by literature which reject the notion that what is human is better 287 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH than what is non-human. Generally what supposedly makes understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and humans valuable is the mind, so we will look at works that treat language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants the mind as just another body part. We will also read some and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative critical theory that explains how valuing the mind over the body, metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- the human over the animal, has been used to support racism, immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented sexism, and colonialism--and has led to the destruction of the migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the ecological system. The course will include both works that course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, present the social, political, and biological horrors resulting from art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights the separation of the non-human from the human, and works and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and that imagine humans merging with nature. The reading in the aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine course will include selections from books of “materialist” theory a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key (such as Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented Things), novels (Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden; migration. Virginia Woolf, The Waves; Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis), Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies nonfiction (Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), and movies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies (Ousmane Sembene, Xala). ENGL B342 The Queer Middle Ages ENGL B336 Topics in Film Fall 2021 Section 001 (Fall 2021): Cinematic Voice This course examines medieval queer history, focusing on Fall 2021 literary depictions of non-normative sexual identities and This is a topics course and description varies according to the expressions. From monastic vows of celibacy to same-sex topic. erotic love, from constructions of female virginity to trans Current topic description: If film is primarily a visual medium, identity, the Middle Ages conceptualized sexuality in a range of the integration of sound permanently changed the form. In this ways and with a range of attached assumptions and anxieties. course, we will attend to the voice as a central component of Readings will include chivalric romance, rules for monks, cross- film sound. Our explorations will include: the transition from dressing saints’ lives, and legal tracts worried about unmarried silent to sound film; how voice is racialized and gendered in women. Hollywood film; the ways that filmmakers link voice to image, Course does not meet an Approach and why these matter aesthetically and politically (e.g. dubbing, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies voiceover, acousmatic voice); vocal expression and notions of interiority and exteriority; and the possibility of non-human ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory voice. The syllabus pairs a range of films with theoretical and Not offered 2021-22 scholarly ideas about voice. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies ENGL B337 Modernism and the Ordinary ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Modernism is consistently aligned with innovation: making Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, things new and making things strange. Yet modernist writing a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, a victim of child is preoccupied with habit, repetition, sameness, boredom, and abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a creation of literary and popular the banal--with “things happening, normally, all the time,” as history. We will try out all these approaches and examine Virginia Woolf once put it. This course explores the modernist the features of our contemporary world that influence the fascination with the ordinary, from the objects in a kitchen to way Woolf, her work, and her era are perceived. We will also the rhythms of a day. Our primary task will be to understand the attempt to theorize about why we favor certain interpretations stakes of paying attention to the ordinary world for queer and over others. women modernist writers, whose work reveals the ordinary as a site of deep ambivalence as well as possibility. Likely authors Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies include: Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn ENGL B358 Gertrude Stein: Difficult Genius Brooks, Marianne Moore, and Jean Rhys. Spring 2022 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies As a radical modernist writer, theorist of language, and self- ENGL B339 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration styled “genius,” Stein looms large in literary history. In this Not offered 2021-22 course, it is our task to read (and enjoy!) Stein’s difficult, genre-breaking writing. We will study Stein’s eclectic body of Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico work, which spans the first half of the twentieth century (and border as an open wound and the border culture that arises two world wars, Stein’s move to Paris, a lesbian marriage, from this fraught site as a third country. This course will shifting ideas about gender and sexuality), against its cultural explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent backdrop. Among the questions we will ask are: How does different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and Stein’s work redefine reading? What are the politics of “radical” between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for 288 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH and “experimental” language use? What is a queer text? What that borrows extensively from Ulysses: the graphic novel Fun is a genius? Home, by Alison Bechdel. Course does not meet an Approach ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B359 Dead Presidents South African texts from several language communities which Not offered 2021-22 anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by contemporary Framed by the extravagant funerals of Presidents Washington South African writers which explore the complexities of life in and Lincoln, this course explores the cultural importance of “the new South Africa.” Several films emphasize the minefield the figure of the President and the Presidential body, and of of post-apartheid reconciliation and accountability. the 19th-century preoccupations with death and mourning, in Counts toward Africana Studies the U.S. cultural imaginary from the Revolutionary movement through the Civil War. ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B363 Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure Noting that the official colonial independence of most African Spring 2022 countries dates back only half a century, this course focuses on A comprehensive study of Morrison’s narrative experiments the fictive experiments of the most recent decade. A few highly in fiction, this course traces her entire oeuvre from “Recitatif” controversial works from the 90’s serve as an introduction to to God Help the Child. We read the works in publication order very recent work. Most works are in English. To experience with three main foci: Morrison-as-epistemologist questioning depth as well as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from what it is that constitutes knowing and being known, Morrison- South Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the huge as-revisionary-teacher-of-reading-strategies, and Morrison in African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in the present” intertextual dialogue with several oral and literary traditions. In in history and letters. addition to critical essays, students complete a “Pilate Project” - Counts toward Africana Studies a creative response to the works under study. Counts toward Africana Studies ENGL B390 Medieval Race Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B374 African-American Childhoods Examines how late medieval writers understood racial, cultural, and ethnic differences, exploring how “race” can be understood Fall 2021 as multiple systems of power that link together cultural and This course explores the literatures of African-American religious identities, the body, and performance. Focuses on childhood from the late nineteenth century until the present day. medieval vocabularies and depictions of racial and cultural We will explore “classic” works of children’s literature by authors difference, community-formation, and “foreignness.” such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Petry, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Hamilton, ENGL B398 Senior Seminar Jacqueline Woodson, James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, June Required preparation for ENGL 399 (Senior Essay). Through Jordan, Angie Thomas and others-- alongside artifacts from weekly seminar meetings and regular writing and research a range of other spheres such as textbooks, chapbooks, and assignments, students will design a senior essay topic or topics the overall rise of a new child-centered periodical culture at of their choice, frame exciting and practical questions about the turn of the twentieth century. We will pay especial attention it, and develop a writing plan for its execution. Students will to the ways in which the intertwined categories of literacy and leave the course with a departmentally approved senior essay property have shaped racialized notions of childhood in the prospectus, an annotated bibliography on their chosen area United States. In addition to close textual analysis, we will of inquiry, and 10 pages of writing towards their senior essay. engage with major theoretical works in the field of childhood Students must pass the course to enroll in ENGL 399. and identity studies, while also investigating firsthand what can be learned via the physical examination of children’s books held ENGL B399 Senior Essay in Bryn Mawr’s Ellery Yale Wood Collection. Supervised independent writing project required of all English Counts toward Africana Studies majors. Students must successfully complete ENGL 398 (Senior Conference) and have their Senior Essay prospectus ENGL B377 James Joyce approved by the department before they enroll in ENGL 399. Not offered 2021-22 ENGL B403 Supervised Work Most of this course will be devoted to reading one wild, amazing book: Ulysses. The book talks about almost Advanced students may pursue independent research projects. everything, so it can seem hard to just sit down and read it on Permission of the instructor and major adviser is required. your own--and that is one of the things that is wonderful about ENGL B403 Supervised Work it: it makes reading a collaborative experience. That is how the class will run: each of us will become a resource for everyone Advanced students may pursue independent research projects. else, just by holding on to our own ways of thinking and Permission of the instructor and major adviser is required. reading and talking with each other. We will also read a book

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ARTT B356 Theater Of and After Samuel Beckett In this course students will learn to “read like a writer,” while Not offered 2021-22 grappling with the work of accomplished poets, and providing substantive commentary on peers’ work. Through diverse An exploration of Beckett’s theater work conducted through readings, students will examine craft strategies at work in both reading and practical exercises in performance both formal and free verse poems, such as diction, metaphor, techniques. Points of special interest include the monologue imagery, lineation, metrical patterns, irony, and syntax. The form of the early novels and its translation into theater, course will cover shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) Beckett’s influences (particularly silent film) and collaborations, as well as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, and the relationship between the texts of the major dramatic etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying the literal works and the development of both modern and postmodern meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory description and performance techniques. clear, compelling language) and the concealed meaning of a text (e.g., through metaphor, imagery, meter, irony, and shifts ARTW B159 Introduction to Creative Writing in diction and syntax). By the end of the course, students will Spring 2022 have generated new material, shaped and revised draft poems, and significantly grown as writers by experimenting with various This course is for students who wish to experiment with three aspects of craft. genres of creative writing: short fiction, poetry and drama, and techniques specific to each of them. Priority will be given to Critical Interpretation (CI) interested first- and second-year students; additional spaces will be made available to upper-year students with little or no ARTW B262 Playwriting I experience in creative writing. Students will write or revise work Not offered 2021-22 every week; roughly four weeks each will be devoted to short fiction, poetry, and drama. There will be individual conferences An introduction to playwriting through a combination of reading with the instructor to discuss their progress and interests. Half assignments, writing exercises, discussions about craft and of class time will be spent discussing student work and half will ultimately the creation of a complete one-act play. Students will be spent discussing syllabus readings. work to discover and develop their own unique voices as they learn the technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short Critical Interpretation (CI) writing assignments will complement each reading assignment. The final assignment will be to write an original one-act play. ARTW B233 Writing for Radio and Podcast Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 This course will explore the craft of writing for audio sources ARTW B263 Writing Memoir I by focusing on the skills, process and techniques necessary Not offered 2021-22 to the generation and production of radio and podcast pieces. Using the information-gathering tools of a journalist, the The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical analytical tools of an essayist and the technical tools of a prose experience in writing about the events, places and people of writer, students will study contemporary and historical radio their own lives in the form of memoir. Emphasis will be placed and podcasts in the interest of creating their own pieces. The on open-ended investigation into what we think we know (about central focus of the course will be weekly visits from current ourselves and others) and how we think we came to know radio writers, producers and on-air personalities, including local it. In addition to writing memoir of their own, and workshop and national NPR producers, commentators and reporters. discussions, students will also read and discuss works by writers such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Freud, H.D., J.R. Ackerley, Critical Interpretation (CI) Georges Perec, and more contemporary writing by writers such Counts toward Creative Writing as Akeel Bilgrami, Elif Batuman, Emily Witt, Lawrence Jackson. Counts toward Praxis Program Although little mention will be made of the master narratives of American memoir--Christian redemption, confession, captivity, ARTW B260 Writing Short Fiction I and slavery--the class will consistently struggle to come to Fall 2021, Spring 2022 terms with their foundational legacy in American life and letters. An introduction to fiction writing, focusing on the short story. Critical Interpretation (CI) Students will consider fundamental elements of fiction and the relationship of narrative structure, style, and content, ARTW B264 Long Form Journalism. exploring these elements in their own work and in the assigned Not offered 2021-22 readings in order to develop an understanding of the range of possibilities open to the fiction writer. Weekly readings Students in this class will learn how to develop, report, write, and writing exercises are designed to encourage students to edit and revise a variety of news stories, beginning with the explore the material and styles that most interest them, and basics of reporting and writing the news and advancing to to push their fiction to a new level of craft, so that over the longer-form stories, including personality profiles, news features semester their writing becomes clearer, more controlled, and and trend stories, and concluding with point-of-view journalism more absorbing. (columns, criticism, reported essays). The course will focus heavily on work published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Critical Interpretation (CI) New York Times. Several working journalists will participate as guest speakers to explain their craft. Students will write ARTW B261 Writing Poetry I stories that will be posted on the class blog, the English House Spring 2022 Gazette. 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ARTW B265 Creative Nonfiction linked, and that the only way to write intelligent and interesting Fall 2021, Spring 2022 poetry is to read as much of it as possible. Writing assignments will be closely connected to syllabus reading, including an This course will explore the literary expressions of nonfiction anthology prepared by the instructor, and may include working writing by focusing on the skills, process and craft techniques in forms such as ekphrastic poems (i.e. poems about works of necessary to the generation and revision of literary nonfiction. visual art or sculpture), dramatic monologues, prose poems, Using the information-gathering tools of a journalist, the translations, imitations and parodies. Suggested Preparation: analytical tools of an essayist and the technical tools of a fiction ARTW B261 or work demonstrating equivalent familiarity with writer, students will produce pieces that will incorporate both the basic forms of poetry in English. For students without factual information and first person experience. Readings will ARTW B261, a writing sample of 5-7 poems must be submitted include a broad group of writers ranging from E.B. White to to the instructor to be considered for this course. Anne Carson, George Orwell to David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion to James Baldwin, among many others. ARTW B362 Playwriting II Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 This course challenges students of playwriting to further ARTW B266 Screenwriting develop their unique voices and improve their technical skills Not offered 2021-22 in writing for the stage. We will examine how great playwrights An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art of captivate a live audience through their mastery of character, storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: character, story and structure. Through a combination of weekly reading dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, sound. The course assignments, playwriting exercises, theater explorations, focuses on the film adaptation; readings include novels, artist-driven feedback, and discussions of craft, this class screenplays, and short stories. Films adapted from the readings will facilitate each student’s completion of an original, full- will be screened. In the course of the semester, students will length play. Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience be expected to outline and complete the first act of an adapted in directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a work screenplay of their own. sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students must complete the Creative Writing preregistration questionnaire during

Critical Interpretation (CI) preregistration to be considered for the course. Counts toward Film Studies ARTW B364 Longer Fictional Forms ARTW B269 Writing for Children Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 An advanced workshop for students with a strong background In this course, students have the opportunity to hone the craft in fiction writing who want to write longer works: the long short of writing for children and young adults. Through reading, story, novella and novel. Students will write intensively, and in-class discussion, peer review of student work, and private complete a long story, novel or novella (or combination thereof) conferences with the instructor, we will examine the specific totaling up to 20,000 words. Students will examine the craft requirements of the picture book, the middle-grade novel, of their work and of published prose. Suggested Preparation: and the young adult novel. This analytical study of classic ARTW B260 or proof of interest and ability. For students without and contemporary literature will inspire and inform students’ ARTW B260, students must submit a writing sample of 10-15 creative work in all aspects of storytelling, including character pages in length (prose fiction) to the Creative Writing Program development, plotting, world building, voice, tone, and the roles during the preregistration period to be considered for this of illustration and page composition in story narration. course. Critical Interpretation (CI) COML B293 The Play of Interpretation ARTW B360 Writing Short Fiction II Not offered 2021-22

Not offered 2021-22 Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and An exploration of approaches to writing short fiction designed to regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and strengthen skills of experienced student writers as practitioners media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common and critics. Requires writing at least five pages each week, problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation workshopping student pieces, and reading texts ranging from in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual realist stories to metafictional experiments and one-page texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be stories to the short novella, to explore how writers can work studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern within tight confines. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B260 critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular or work demonstrating equivalent expertise in writing short culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our fiction. Students without the ARTW B260, must submit a understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, writing sample of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to the and the trials of modernity. Creative Writing Program during the preregistration period to be Critical Interpretation (CI) considered for this course. Counts toward International Studies

ARTW B361 Writing Poetry II COML B398 Theories and Methods in Comparative Fall 2021 Literature This course assumes that reading and writing are inextricably This course, required of all senior comparative literature majors in preparation for writing the senior thesis in the 291 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH spring semester, has a twofold purpose: to review interpretive EALC B310 Advanced Readings in the Graphic Narrative approaches informed by critical theories that enhance our Not offered 2021-22 understanding of literary and cultural texts; and to help students prepare a preliminary outline of their senior theses. Throughout This advanced seminar focuses on critical and theoretical the semester, students research theoretical paradigms that approaches to the graphic novel. In the past several decades, bear on their own comparative thesis topics in order to situate a genre of “auteur comics” has emerged from the medium that those topics in an appropriate critical context. This is a required are highly literary with a deep engagement between form and for majors and minors. meaning. This seminar focuses on weekly close readings of such graphic novels with rigorous analysis of form and content. CSTS B204 Cleopatra: Passion, Power, and Politics Primary text readings are supplemented with readings from Not offered 2021-22 literary theory, visual studies, and philosophy. Participants are expected to be comfortable with the application of literary Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (69-30 BCE), critical theory and visual studies theory to texts. There are has been a figure of continuous fascination and political no prerequisites for the course, but due to the quantity and resonance for over 2000 years. She was the most famous and complexity of the reading material, some background in literary enigmatic person in the ancient Mediterranean world while study is necessary. Students interested in taking this course in she was alive and, since then, she has been re-imagined fulfillment of a major requirement in Comparative Literature or by countless poets, dramatists, philosophers, filmmakers, East Asian Languages and Cultures will need to discuss with musicians, and artists of all types. In this course, we will me prior to enrollment. Preference given to students who have examine both the historical Cleopatra and her reception in taken EALC B255. This semester (Spring 2021) we will explore various media in subsequent cultures and societies. In the first theories of narrative in the context of the graphic narrative. part, we will carefully study the ancient literary and material Students will read and view primary texts, supplemented by evidence to learn all we can about the real Cleopatra and theoretical readings, that engage questions of how subjects the tumultuous times in which she lived. In the second part, develop through unconventional notions of “travel” in time, we will then consider a selection of medieval, early modern, space, or both. THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS PART OF A and contemporary representations of Cleopatra, ranging 360 from Chaucer to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to

HBO’s series Rome and the use of Cleopatra in present-day Course does not meet an Approach advertising. Throughout our readings, we will focus on issues Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures such as female agency and power in a man’s world, beauty and Counts toward Visual Studies the femme fatale, east vs. west, and politics and propaganda. EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) East Asian Literature and Film Counts toward Film Studies Not offered 2021-22 CSTS B211 Masks, Madness, and Mysteries: Introduction This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of to Greek Tragedy literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will Spring 2022 begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women’s lives beginning in early China, and consider how those This course will introduce the student to the world of Greek tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical Tragedy as it flourished in Athens in 5th century BC. We will borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior read the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. discuss the playwrights’ treatment of myth, the role of the chorus, the relation between text and performance, and the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies relevance of Greek tragedy for subsequent centuries, down Counts toward Film Studies to the present day. Special attention will be given to modern EALC B345 Topics in East Asian Culture performances of these ancient plays in theater and in film as well as to the themes of choral voice, disability, euthanasia, Not offered 2021-22 slavery; the impact of war on women and children; and the This is a topics course. Course contents vary. relation between mortals and immortals. Please Note: No knowledge of Ancient Greek is required. All texts will be read in FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the English. Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Inquiry into the Past (IP) By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works Spring 2022 in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The This is a topics course. Course content varies. selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the Critical Interpretation (CI) currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Counts toward Film Studies Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short Counts toward Visual Studies stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with 292 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH / MATHEMATICS an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the French credit. Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist GERM B262 Topics: Film and the German Literary manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and Imagination films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object Not offered 2021-22 oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In This is a topics course. Course content varies. this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece

Critical Interpretation (CI) from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings

Counts toward Film Studies to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and HART B112 Art, Death, and the Afterlife of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we Fall 2021 are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour This course aims to explore how art was used as a symbolic in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. form to overcome death and to assure immortality in a variety Critical Interpretation (CI) of archaeological, philosophical, religious, sociopolitical, and Counts toward Africana Studies historical contexts. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Film Studies

HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 present Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia Spring 2022 and Beyond This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 Not offered 2021-22 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological This is a topics course. Course content varies. series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Inquiry into the Past (IP) Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global Counts toward Film Studies cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes Counts toward Visual Studies the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio- political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings MATHEMATICS will provide historical context, and will introduce students to key concepts in film studies such as realism, formalism, The Mathematics curriculum is designed to expose students spectatorship, the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the to a wide spectrum of ideas in modern mathematics, train history requirement or the introductory course requirement for students in the art of logical reasoning and clear expression, the Film Studies minor. and provide students with an appreciation of the beauty of the Critical Interpretation (CI) subject and of its vast applicability. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Students may complete a major or minor in Mathematics. Counts toward Film Studies Within the major, students may complete the requirements for certification. In addition, there are HART B334 Topics in Film Studies various programs that, for suitably advanced students, can be Section 001 (Spring 2021): Screening Technology combined with the major. These include the combined A.B./ Section 001 (Fall 2020): The Present M.A. program at Bryn Mawr, and combined degree programs in Section 001 (Spring 2022): Transitional Objects: Between Old engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Columbia and New Media University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Spring 2022 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Faculty Current topic description: In this seminar, we will explore digital John Bergdall, Assistant Professor of Mathematics (on leave images in relation to cinema, photography, and other media. semesters I and II) We will examine the fate of materiality, the body, and duration in Leslie Cheng, Rachel C. Hale Professor in the Sciences and 21st c. media, and consider whether or not the digital marks a Mathematics significant break from the analog. Victor Donnay, Professor and Chair of Mathematics on the Counts toward Film Studies William R. Kenan Jr., Chair Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Erica Graham, Associate Professor of Mathematics (on leave semesters I and II)

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Peter Kasius, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Math Electives Paul Melvin, Professor of Mathematics Any mathematics course at or above the 200-level (including Djordje Milićević, Associate Professor of Mathematics graduate courses) or any course cross-listed as a mathematics course at Bryn Mawr or Haverford can be used as an elective

Ziva Myer, Visiting Assistant Professor towards the major. Amy Myers, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Math Program In addition, some Bryn Mawr and Haverford courses from

Coordinator departments other than mathematics that have a substantial Daisy Sudparid, Visiting Instructor mathematical content may also be counted as electives. Currently, courses that count as math electives include: Lisa Traynor, Professor of Mathematics and the Class of 1897 Professor of Science • CHEM B221: Physical Chemistry I or CHEM H305 Quantum Chemistry; Major Requirements • CHEM B321: Advanced Physical Chemistry; • CMSC B231: Discrete Mathematics; A minimum of 10 semester courses is required for the major, including the six core courses listed below and four electives at • CMSC B310: Computational Geometry; or above the 200 level. • CMSC B340: Analysis of Algorithms; Core Requirements • ECON B304/ECON H304: Econometrics; MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus (H121 or H216) • PHYS B306: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences; MATH B203 Linear Algebra (H215) • PHYS B328: Galactic Dynamics and Mechanics. MATH B301 Real Analysis I (H317) A student may also, in consultation with a major advisor, MATH B303 Abstract Algebra I (H333) petition the Department to accept additional courses as MATH B302 Real Analysis II (H318) or MATH B304 Abstract electives. Algebra II (H334) At most three courses can be doubled counted for a second MATH B398 or B399 Senior Conference major. The course numbers HXXX refer to Haverford College equivalents. With the exception of Senior Conference, Major Writing Requirement equivalent courses at Haverford or elsewhere may be Students will take two writing attentive courses to satisfy the substituted for Bryn Mawr courses with approval of the major major writing requirement. Courses that are designated as advisor. writing attentive are MATH B301 and MATH B303. MATH B301 and MATH B302 have been designated as Writing Attentive (WA). As the analysis and algebra sequences, MATH Honors 301/302 and MATH 303/304, both have a strong proof writing A degree with honors in mathematics will be awarded by focus, students often find it useful to take a course such as the Department to students who complete the major in MATH 206 (Transition to Higher Mathematics) before they mathematics and also meet the following further requirements: enroll in these sequences. • at least two additional units of work at the 300 level or The Department will change the core requirements in coming above (which may include one or two units of MATH 400 or years. As a transition to this change, with permission of the MATH 403), Mathematics Department certain other 300-level or 500-level • a grade point average of at least 3.6, calculated using the math courses may be substituted for MATH B302 or MATH grades from 10 math courses: the six math core courses B304. In particular, for the 2021-2022 academic year, these and the highest grades in four math electives (excluding include MATH B322 Functions of Complex Variables, MATH 400-level), B390 Number Theory, MATH H328 Mathematical Statistics, MATH H335 Topology, MATH H397 Mathematical Modeling, • grades of 3.7 or 4.0 in all 400-level math courses, MATH B503 Graduate Algebra I, MATH B522 Complex • completion of a commendable project consisting of a

Analysis, and MATH B530 Differential Topology. written thesis and an oral presentation of the thesis. Mathematics majors are encouraged to complete their core Additional guidelines and requirements for an honors level requirements other than Senior Conference by the end of their thesis and presentation can be found on the Mathematics junior year. Senior Conference must be taken during the senior Department’s web page. year. Students considering the possibility of graduate study in Minor Requirements mathematics or related fields are urged to go well beyond the The math minor requires five courses in mathematics at Bryn minimum requirements of the major. In such cases, a suitable Mawr or Haverford. program of study should be designed with the advice of a major advisor. Two of the mathematics courses must be at the 300-level or higher and the remaining three courses must be at least at the 200-level or higher; the Haverford course, Math H121,

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Multivariable Calculus, can also be counted towards the math Prerequisite: a merit grade in Math 101 (or an equivalent minor as if it were a 200-level course. experience). Any of the courses from other departments listed in the above Quantitative Methods (QM) Math Electives description can be counted as a mathematics course towards the minor. These courses may only be MATH B104 Basic Probability and Statistics counted as 200-level courses for the purposes of the math Fall 2021, Spring 2022 minor, regardless of their course numbers within their own departments. At most one course may double-count towards This course introduces key concepts in descriptive and both your major and the math minor. inferential statistics. Topics include summary statistics, graphical displays, correlation, regression, probability, the Law It may also be possible to count certain math courses taken at of Large Numbers, expected value, standard error, the Central other colleges and universities towards the math minor. This Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, sampling procedures, bias, will always require special permission from the Mathematics and the use of statistical software. Department. Quantitative Methods (QM) Advanced Placement Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Students entering with a 4 or 5 on the Calculus AB advanced MATH B151 Introduction to Math and Sustainability placement test will be given credit for MATH 101 and could Not offered 2021-22 enroll in MATH 102 or MATH 201 as their first mathematics course. Students entering with a 4 or 5 on the Calculus BC The world faces many sustainability challenges: climate advanced placement test will be given credit for MATH 101 and change, energy, over-population, natural resource depletion. 102, and should enroll in MATH 201 as their first mathematics Using techniques of mathematical modeling including course. All other students are strongly encouraged to take the dynamical systems and bifurcation theory (tipping points), we Mathematics Placement Exam so they can be best advised. will study quantitative aspects of these problems. No advanced mathematics beyond high school mathematics (pre-calculus) is Courses required. Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B100 Introduction to Calculus Counts toward Environmental Studies Not offered 2021-22 MATH B195 Select Topics in Mathematics This course introduces the concepts and skills that provide a foundation for calculus, the study of how things change. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Statistics for Data Science Functions that provide useful models for studying the change of Fall 2021 a wide variety of phenomena will be introduced and analyzed through the concepts of limits and derivatives. This is a topics course. Course content varies. For Fall 2021 the course introduces basic descriptive and inferential statistics Quantitative Methods (QM) through work with real data and programming in R (statistical computing and graphics software). This course is open to MATH B101 Calculus I students of all majors. Although it does not count towards the Fall 2021, Spring 2022 math major, math majors may choose to take it as a College This is the first in a sequence of two courses that covers elective. Satisfies the Data Analytics Foundational requirement single-variable calculus. Topics include functions, limits, for the Data Science minor. continuity, derivatives, differentiation formulas, applications of Course does not meet an Approach derivatives, integrals, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Prerequisite: proficiency in high-school mathematics (including algebra, geometry, and trigonometry). MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus Quantitative Methods (QM) Fall 2021 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) This course extends calculus to functions of multiple variables. Topics include functions, limits, continuity, vectors, directional MATH B101L Calculus I lab derivatives, optimization problems, multiple integrals, Fall 2021 parametric curves, vector fields, line integrals, surface integrals, This lab course will reinforce the concepts and skills that are and the theorems of Gauss, Green and Stokes. Prerequisite: a needed to be successful in Calculus 1. Students must be merit grade in Math 102 (or an equivalent experience). enrolled in MATH B101 Calculus I to enroll in this course. Quantitative Methods (QM)

MATH B102 Calculus II MATH B203 Linear Algebra Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Spring 2022 This is the second in a sequence of two courses that covers This course considers systems of linear equations, matrix single-variable calculus. Topics include techniques of algebra, determinants, vector spaces, subspaces, linear integration, applications of integration, infinite sequences and independence, bases, dimension, linear transformations, series, tests of convergence for series, and power series. eigenvalues, eigenvectors, orthogonality, and applications of linear algebra. Prerequisite (or corequisite): Math 102. Quantitative Methods (QM) 295 MATHEMATICS

MATH B205 Theory of Probability with Applications MATH B225 Introduction to Financial Mathematics Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 The course analyzes repeatable experiments in which Topics to be covered include market conventions and short-term outcomes are uncertain, but long-run behavior instruments, Black-Scholes option-pricing model, and practical is predictable. Topics include: random variables, discrete aspects of trading and hedging. All necessary definitions from distributions, continuous densities, conditional probability, probability theory (random variables, normal and lognormal expected value, variance, the Law of Large Numbers, and the distribution, etc.) will be explained. Prerequisite: MATH 102. Central Limit Theorem. Prerequisite: Math 201. ECON 105 is recommended. Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science MATH B290 Elementary Number Theory MATH B206 Transition to Higher Mathematics Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 Properties of the integers, divisibility, primality and factorization, This course focuses on mathematical writing and proof congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, multiplicative techniques. Topics include symbolic logic, set notation and functions, quadratic residues and quadratic reciprocity, quantifiers, proof by contradiction and induction, set notation continued fractions, and applications to computer science and and operations, relations and partitions, functions, and more. cryptography. Prerequisite: MATH 102. Prerequisite (or corequisite): Math 203. Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B295 Select Topics in Mathematics MATH B208 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation Section 001 (Fall 2021): Graph Theory Not offered 2021-22 Section 001 (Spring 2021): Math Modeling and Sustainability

Mathematical models are constructed to describe the complex Section 002 (Fall 2021): Actuarial Mathematics world within and around us. Computational methods are Fall 2021, Spring 2022 employed to visualize and solve these models. In this course, This is a topics course. Course content varies. Not all topics are we focus on developing mathematical models to describe open to first year students. real-world phenomena, while using computer simulations to examine prescribed and/or random behavior of various Current topic description: A graph is a set of vertices (dots) systems. The course includes an introduction to programming connected by edges (line segments) that can be used to model (in R or Matlab/Octave), and mathematical topics may a network of some kind. In this course we ask questions, include discrete dynamical systems, model fitting using least look for patterns, make conjectures, and try to prove our squares, elementary stochastic processes, and linear models observations about graphs. We explore pure mathematical (regression, optimization, linear programming). Applications to terrain, and pause for a few practical applications along the economics, biology, chemistry, and physics will be explored. way. Topics may include: subgraphs, isomorphic graphs, Prior programming experience not required. degrees of vertices, trees, vertex coloring, edge coloring, Hamilton cycles, Eulerian circuits, spanning trees, matchings, Course does not meet an Approach scheduling, and planar graphs. Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Current topic description: This course will provide an introduction to some of the mathematical techniques used MATH B210 Differential Equations with Applications in actuarial work and will give an overview of some of the Spring 2022 areas in which actuaries are currently involved. Some of the concepts that will be addressed include valuation of Ordinary differential equations, including general first-order financial transactions, demography, life insurance, valuation of equations, linear equations of higher order and systems of contingent payments, and premium calculation. Prerequisite: equations, via numerical, geometrical, and analytic methods. Math 102 Applications to physics, biology, and economics. Co-requisite:

MATH 201 or 203. Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Environmental Studies Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Praxis Program

MATH B221 Introduction to Topology and Geometry MATH B301 Real Analysis I Spring 2022 Fall 2021 An introduction to the ideas of topology and geometry through A first course in real analysis, providing a rigorous development the study of knots and surfaces in three-dimensional space. of single variable calculus, with a strong focus on proof writing. The course content may vary from year to year, but will Topics covered: the real number system, elements of set theory generally include some historical perspectives and some and topology, limits, continuous functions, the intermediate and discussion of connections with the natural and life sciences. extreme value theorems, differentiable functions and the mean Co-requisite: MATH 201 or 203. value theorem, uniform continuity, the Riemann integral, the Quantitative Methods (QM) fundamental theorem of calculus. Possible additional topics include analysis on metric spaces or dynamical systems. Prerequisite: MATH 201. Some students also find it helpful to

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MATH B302 Real Analysis II MATH B317 AdvTopics in Mathematics Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 A continuation of Real Analysis I: Infinite series, power series, This is an advanced topics course. Course content varies. sequences and series of functions, pointwise and uniform Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) convergence, and additional topics selected from: Fourier series, calculus of variations, the Lebesgue integral, dynamical MATH B322 Functions of Complex Variables systems, and calculus in higher dimensions. Prerequisite:

MATH 301. Fall 2021 Analytic functions, Cauchy’s theorem, Laurent series, calculus MATH B303 Abstract Algebra I of residues, conformal mappings, Moebius transformations. Fall 2021 Prerequisite: MATH 301 or permission of instructor.

A first course in abstract algebra, including an introduction to MATH B325 Advanced Topics in Applied Mathematics groups, rings and fields, and their homomorphisms. Topics covered: cyclic and dihedral groups, the symmetric and Not offered 2021-22 alternating groups, direct products and finitely generated This topics course will focus on one advanced area in applied abelian groups, cosets, Lagrange’s Theorem, normal mathematics. Topics may include numerical linear algebra, subgroups and quotient groups, isomorphism theorems, applied partial differential equations, optimal control, parameter integral domains, polynomial rings, ideals, quotient rings, estimation and model fitting. prime and maximal ideals. Possible additional topics include Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) group actions and the Sylow Theorems, free abelian groups, free groups, PIDs and UFDs. Prerequisite: MATH 203. Some MATH B390 Number Theory students also find it helpful to have taken a transitional course such as MATH 206 before enrolling in this course. Spring 2022 Study of integers with an emphasis on their multiplicative MATH B304 Abstract Algebra II structure and topics related to analysis, and a first course in Spring 2022 analytic number theory. Core topics: divisibility and primes, arithmetic functions, average and extremal orders, techniques A continuation of Abstract Algebra I. Vector spaces and of analytic number theory, Riemann zeta function, prime linear algebra, field extensions, algebraic and transcendental number theorem, Dirichlet characters, L-functions. Possible extensions, finite fields, fields of fractions, field automorphisms, additional topics may include approximations by rational the isomorphism extension theorem, splitting fields, separable numbers, geometry of numbers, algebraic numbers and class and inseparable extensions, algebraic closures, and Galois numbers, sums of squares, and the idea of modular forms. theory. Also, if not covered in Abstract Algebra I: group actions Prerequisite: Math 201, and some familiarity with writing and Sylow theorems, free abelian groups, free groups, PIDs proofs (such as Math 206, Math 301/303 as a co-requisite, or and UFDs. Possible additional topic: finitely generated modules permission of instructor) over a PID and canonical forms of matrices. Prerequisite: MATH 303. Quantitative Methods (QM)

MATH B308 Applied Mathematics I MATH B395 Research Seminar Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course will provide a general introduction to methods and A research seminar for students involved in individual or small modeling in applied mathematics. A variety of mathematical group research under the supervision of the instructor. With tools will be used to develop and study a wide range of models, permission, the course may be repeated for credit. This is a including deterministic, discrete, and stochastic methods. topics course. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Additional emphasis will be placed on techniques for analyzing mathematical models, including phase plane methods, stability MATH B396 Research Seminar analysis, dimensional analysis, bifurcation theory, and computer Not offered 2021-22 simulations. Applications to biology, physics, chemistry, A research seminar for students involved in individual or small engineering, and the social sciences may be discussed. group research under the supervision of the instructor. With Prerequisite: Math 203 or equivalent, or permission from permission, the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: instructor Permission of instructor. MATH B312 Topology MATH B398 Senior Conference Not offered 2021-22 A seminar for seniors majoring in mathematics. Topics vary General topology (topological spaces, continuity, compactness, from year to year. connectedness, quotient spaces), the fundamental group and covering spaces, introduction to geometric topology MATH B399 Senior Conference (classification of surfaces, manifolds). Typically offered yearly in A seminar for seniors majoring in mathematics. Topics vary from year to year. 297 MATHEMATICS

MATH B400 Senior Thesis MATH B530 Differential Topology Independent research for senior thesis in Math Fall 2021 This course covers the basic notions of differential topology. MATH B403 Supervised Work Topics covered include smooth manifolds, smooth maps, MATH B425 Praxis III differential forms, and integration on manifolds. Counts toward Praxis Program MATH B701 Supervised Work MATH B501 Graduate Real Analysis I Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 MATH B702 Research Seminar In this course we will study the theory of measure and Fall 2021, Spring 2022 integration. Topics will include Lebesgue measure, measurable functions, the Lebesgue integral, the Riemann-Stieltjes integral, MATH B702 Research Seminar complex measures, differentiation of measures, product Not offered 2021-22 measures, and Lp spaces. CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I MATH B502 Graduate Real Analysis II Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Atomic and This course is a continuation of Math 501. molecular structure; molecular modeling; rotational, vibrational, electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three MATH B503 Graduate Algebra I hours. Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. Spring 2022 Quantitative Methods (QM) This is the first course in a two course sequence providing a Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology standard introduction to algebra at the graduate level. Topics in the first semester will include categories, groups, rings, CMSC B231 Discrete Mathematics modules, and linear algebra. Fall 2021, Spring 2022 MATH B504 Graduate Algebra II An introduction to discrete mathematics with strong applications Not offered 2021-22 to computer science. Topics include propositional logic, proof techniques, recursion, set theory, counting, probability theory This course is a continuation of Math 503, the two courses and graph theory. Co-requisites: BIOL B115 or CMSC B110 or providing a standard introduction to algebra at the graduate CMSC B113 or H105 or H107. level. Topics in the second semester will include linear algebra, fields, Galois theory, and advanced group theory. Prerequisite: Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B503. CMSC B310 Computational Geometry MATH B512 General Topology Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 A study of algorithms and mathematical theories that focus on This course covers the basic notions of point set topology, with solving geometric problems in computing, which arise naturally an introduction to algebraic and geometric topology. Topics from a variety of disciplines such as Computer Graphics, covered include topological spaces, continuity, compactness, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Computer Vision, Robotics connectedness, quotient spaces, the fundamental group and and Visualization. The materials covered sit at the intersection covering spaces, and the classification of surfaces. of pure Mathematics and application-driven Computer Science and efforts will be made to accommodate Math majors and MATH B517 Adv Topics in Mathematics Computer Science majors of varying math/computational backgrounds. Topics include: graph theory, triangulation,

Not offered 2021-22 convex hulls, geometric structures such as Voronoi diagrams MATH B522 Complex Analysis and Delaunay triangulations, as well as curves and polyhedra surface topology. Prerequisite: CMSC/MATH B/H231 and Fall 2021 CMSC B206 or CMSC/MATH B/H231 and CMSC H106 or This course covers the basic notions of complex analysis. CMSC/MATH B/H231 and CMSC H107. Topics covered include analytic functions, Cauchy’s theorem, Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) the calculus of residues, conformal mappings, Riemann mapping theorem and Picard’s little theorem. CMSC B340 Analysis of Algorithms MATH B525 Algebraic Topology Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course will cover qualitative and quantitative analysis of algorithms and their corresponding data structures from a This course covers the basic notions of algebraic topology. precise mathematical point of view. Topics include: performance Topics covered include homology theory, cohomology theory, bounds, asymptotic and probabilistic analysis, worst case duality on manifolds, and an introduction to homotopy theory. and average case behavior and correctness and complexity. Particular classes of algorithms will be studied in detail. Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) 298 MATHEMATICS / MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

ECON B304 Econometrics Nisrin Elamin, Assistant Professor of International Studies Spring 2022 Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor of History of Art The econometric theory presented in ECON 253 is further Helen (Betsy) Mesard, Visiting Assistant Professor developed and its most important empirical applications are Rubina Salikuddin, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern considered. Each student does an empirical research project Studies using multiple regression and other statistical techniques. Prerequisites:ECON B253 or ECON H203 or ECON H204 and Nathaniel Shils, Visiting Assistant Professor ECON B200 or ECON B202 and MATH B201 or permission of Sharon Ullman, Professor of History instructor. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science The Program in Middle Eastern Studies offers a concentration focusing on the study of the area from Morocco to Afghanistan PHYS B306 Mathematical Methods in the Physical from antiquity to the present day. Bryn Mawr students can Sciences investigate the history, politics, and cultures of the Middle East Fall 2021 through coursework, independent study, study abroad, and events here and at neighboring institutions. This course presents topics in applied mathematics useful to students, including physicists, engineers, physical chemists, The members of the Middle Eastern Studies geologists, and computer scientists studying the natural Program assist students to plan coursework and independent sciences. Topics are taken from Fourier series, integral study, including independent majors in Middle Eastern Studies. transforms, advanced ordinary and partial differential equations, There are two tracks to Middle East Studies Concentration; one special functions, boundary-value problems, functions of requires study or competence in a Middle Eastern language, complex variables, and numerical methods. Lecture three hours the other does not. and additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisite: MATH 201 and 203. Track 1 PHYS B328 Galactic Dynamics and Advanced Classical The first track consists of six courses in the Humanities or Mechanics Social Sciences that focus on the ancient and modern Middle East distributed in the following manner: Not offered 2021-22 1. A basic course that offers a broad introduction to the region This course is for the advanced undergraduate interested in and its peoples. When available, students should take. the physics galactic dynamics and evolution, i.e. collisionless, HIST 234: An Introduction to Middle Eastern History at gravitational N-body systems composed of stars and dark Bryn Mawr OR MEST 200: Introduction to Middle Eastern matter. Topics covered will include potential theory, orbit Studies at Bryn Mawr. If these courses are not available, theory, collisionless Boltzmann equation, Jeans equations, disk students will select a comparable introductory course in stability, violent relaxation, phase mixing, dynamical friction and consultation with their advisor(s). kinetic theory. To support the these theories, we will also cover advanced topics in classical mechanics including Lagrange 2. Five elective Middle Eastern topic courses, including: and Hamilton methods, the central force problem, canonical • at least one at the 300 level, in a specific area to be transformations, action-angle variables, chaos and perturbation chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor. theory. This course is taught in a seminar format, in which This area might be defined in terms of conceptual, students are responsible for presenting much of the course historical, or geographical interests and, in many material in class meetings. Prerequisites: MATH B201, MATH cases, will be connected to work in the student’s B203, PHYS B201, B214, and PHYS B308 or permission from major. instructor. • at least one must be in the social sciences and at least one must be in the humanities. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES • at least one must be pre-modern in content, and at least one must be modern in content. Faculty 3. Of the six courses required for the concentration only three may be in the student’s major. Alicia Walker, Professor and Chair of History of Art on the Marie Neuberger Fund for the Study of Arts Track 2 Manar Darwish, Lecturer and Coordinator of Bi-Co Arabic The second track consists of language study and other Program courses. Students opting for this track must take the equivalent Penny Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of of two years of study of a modern Middle Eastern language or French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages (on leave pass a proficiency exam in one of these languages, whereby semester I) they may also meet the standard set for the A.B. degree for the foreign language requirement. Four additional courses Jennie Bradbury, Assistant Professor of Classical and Near distributed as follows are required for the concentration: Eastern Archaeology (on leave semesters I and II) 1. A basic course that offers a broad introduction to the region Edwige Crucifix, Assistant Professor of French and and its peoples. When available, students should take Francophone Studies HIST 234: An Introduction to Middle Eastern History at

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Bryn Mawr OR MEST 200: Introduction to Middle Eastern ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban Studies at Bryn Mawr. If these courses are not available, Revolutions students will select a comparable introductory course in Not offered 2021-22 consultation with their advisor(s). This course examines the archaeology of the two most 2. Three elective Middle Eastern topic courses, including: fundamental changes that have occurred in human society in • at least one at the 300 level, in a specific area to be the last 12,000 years, agriculture and urbanism, and we explore chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor. these in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also This area might be defined in terms of conceptual, explore those societies that did not experience these changes. historical, or geographical interests and, in many Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) cases, will be connected to work in the student’s Inquiry into the Past (IP) major. Counts toward Geoarchaeology • at least one must be in the social sciences and at least Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies one must be in the humanities. ARCH B208 Ancient Near Eastern History • at least one must be pre-modern in content, and at least one must be modern in content. Not offered 2021-22 3. Of the four courses, only two may form a part of the This course will explore some of the key historical figures, student’s major. events and inventions that shaped Ancient Near Eastern societies and traditions. We will consider the impact that the For Middle Eastern languages taught at Bryn Mawr and modern disciplines of ancient near eastern archaeology and Haverford, please see the course listings for the Bi-College history have had on our understanding of this region. We will Program in Arabic and the Bryn Mawr offerings in Hebrew. also discuss how the ancient history and more recent colonial past of this region has impacted upon and shaped our modern Courses interpretations of this region. ARAB B003 Second Year Modern Standard Arabic Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Fall 2021 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course aims to increase students’ ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced Not offered 2021-22 grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic A survey of the social position of women in the ancient Near expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB H002 or East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first millennium placement by instructor. B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional concepts of gender in archaeology and theories of matriarchy. Case studies

Course does not meet an Approach illustrate the historicity of gender concepts: women’s work

Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies in early village societies; the meanings of Neolithic female figurines; the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; ARAB B004 Second-Year Modern Standard Arabic the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite empire; Spring 2022 the indirect power of women such as Semiramis in the Neo- Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and more indirect the modern language. The course aims to increase students’ archaeological evidence are the basis for discussion. expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces Inquiry into the Past (IP) students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB B003 or Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies placement. Course does not meet an Approach ARCH B225 The Art and Achaeology of Greco-Roman Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Egypt Not offered 2021-22 ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern This course examines the art and archaeology of Greco-Roman Archaeology Egypt from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th Spring 2022 century BCE to the Late Roman Era, ca. 4th century CE. A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the ancient Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Near East and Egypt. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Africana Studies ARCH B227 The Archaeology of Syria Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2021 Home to a wealth of archaeological sites and cultures, Syria is perhaps now more widely known for its almost decade

300 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES long conflict that has seen the displacement of millions of North Africa (the MENA region), we will examine the different people and the damage to and destruction of hundreds of types of archaeological and heritage sites found across this archaeological sites. The loss of cultural heritage is just one, broad region, and some of the threats and disturbances very small, part of the human tragedies that have unfolded in affecting them. We will consider how different interest groups Syria. Knowledge of the deep and recent past of this region, and stakeholders view, value and present historical and however, is integral for understanding its present, and its future. archaeological sites to the general public, as well as the This course will explore human settlement and interaction success of modern initiatives and projects to safeguard the within Syria over the longue durée. Using a selection of key heritage of the MENA region. Our research will consider the sites, inhabited for thousands of years, we will explore several ethics of cultural preservation, as well as the issues and major themes including, the archaeology of inequality, the problems encountered by heritage specialists working in areas role of urban life and the importance of ritual and religion. The of modern conflict. Whilst not all damage can be prevented, course will also consider the complex relationships that have the course will consider how different threats and disturbances always existed between Syria and its neighboring countries. might be mitigated. Prerequisite: Upper level 300-level course. Finally, we will turn to the role of archaeology, its future and Students should have completed at least two 100 level/200 potential within a post-conflict Syria. level courses in either classical or near eastern archaeology. Critical Interpretation (CI) Course does not meet an Approach Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Museum Studies

ARCH B240 Archaeology and History of Ancient ARCH B333 Nomads and Archaeology Mesopotamia Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course will explore the historical importance of mobile A survey of the material culture of ancient Mesopotamia, groups in regions such as the Ancient Near East and some modern Iraq, from the earliest phases of state formation (circa of the archaeological traces they may leave behind. Using 3500 B.C.E.) through the Achaemenid Persian occupation ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological literature we of the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). Emphasis will be on art, will discuss the different ways in which mobile populations have artifacts, monuments, religion, kingship, and the cuneiform been conceptualized, portrayed and treated by non-mobile tradition. The survival of the cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into societies and the relationship between these different groups. later ancient and Islamic traditions will also be addressed. The course will also consider how new technologies and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) archaeological methods might enable us to fill in some of the Inquiry into the Past (IP) gaps in our understanding and how we might be able to place Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies mobile populations at the center, rather than at the periphery, of our archaeological narratives. ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Fall 2021 CSTS B221 Women of Roman Egypt A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five great empires of Not offered 2021-22 the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: This course aims to be an introduction to the history of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian female persons in the ancient world. It focuses particularly and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian on Roman Egypt, but covers a broad range of material Empire in Iran. spanning the period of 300 BCE - 476 CE. Students engage Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) with a number of historical issues, such as legal personhood, Inquiry into the Past (IP) access to education, political protest, economic freedom, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies religious practice, etc.. Students will acquire familiarity with a) Egypt as a part of the Greco-Roman world; b) the role of ARCH B312 Bronze Age Internationalism women in both Egyptian society and Rome more generally; and c) the written sources available for the study of female

Fall 2021 experience in the ancient world. Because the course focuses This course explores the rise and fall of the first international on the social, cultural, and institutional environments in which age in the eastern mediterranean. We will focus on the cultural women operated, the topic offers itself as a useful study of and diplomatic connections between Egypt, Syria, Anatolia the ancient world as a whole, as well as to particular issues and the Aegean during the Bronze Age, c. 2000-1200BCE.. of representation and authority. By the end of the course, Prerequisites: ARCH B101 or B104 or B216 or B226 or B230 or students will have general understanding of Egypt as a part of B240 or B244. the Graeco-Roman world, a keen understanding of how women operated in the society of Ancient Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 450 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies CE), and the ability to form arguments about the historical ARCH B317 Cultural Heritage and Endangered relevance of our sources. Archaeology Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies This course will examine how and why archaeological sites are ‘endangered’. Primarily focusing on the Near East and

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FREN B312 Advanced Topics in Literature that they prepare in advance, and written compositions. This Section 001 (Fall 2021): Réalités et imaginaires du Maghreb course, followed by Semesters 3 and 4 taken elsewhere, lays a foundation for reading of Modern Hebrew literary works. Fall 2021 Course does not meet an Approach This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisites: Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies two 200-level courses. Current topic description: This course is an in-depth study of HIST B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle the region of North Africa known as the Maghreb (Morocco, Ages Algeria, Tunisia). The course will situate works of art (literature, Not offered 2021-22 films, graphic novels, songs) in the context of cultural events, A lecture and discussion course on the therapeutic systems governmental policies, and social movements in the Maghreb. (humoral theory, faith healing, natural magic), the medical In doing so, we will examine the specificities and perspectives marketplace, and the social context for understanding health of Amazigh, Jewish and Arab communities while addressing and disease in the medieval period. Topics covered include major contemporary issues concerning, for example, the Arab Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical textual traditions, the rise of spring and its aftermath, the legacy of colonialism, feminism, hospitals and public health, and the Black Death. political corruption and religion. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B218 Byzantine Textiles in Life and Death Counts toward Health Studies Fall 2021 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies This course explores the manifold uses and meanings of textiles in early Byzantine visual and material culture as well HIST B234 An Introduction to Middle Eastern History as their afterlife as objects of collection and display in the Fall 2021 modern era. Students will undertake original research on early This course serves as an introduction to the history of the Byzantine textiles from the collection of Philadelphia University. modern Middle East. We will also explore the narratives and Assignments will develop skills in museological writing, debates that have shaped the field of Middle East history. including documentation for collection databases and object Topics include orientalism, colonialism, political reform, social, exhibitions. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in History of cultural, and intellectual movements, nationalism, and the Art, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or History is recommended, Cold War. Readings will be drawn from the fields of history, but not required. anthropology, politics, and literature. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies HEBR B001 Elementary Hebrew HIST B364 Medieval Robots Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This year-long course is designed to teach beginners the skills A reading and research seminar focused on different examples of reading, writing, and conversing in Modern Hebrew. It will of artificial life in medieval cultures. Primary sources will be provide students with knowledge of the Hebrew writing system - from a variety of genres, and secondary sources will include its alphabet (Square letters for reading, cursive for writing) and significant theoretical works in art history, critical theory and vocalization - as well as core aspects of grammar and syntax. science studies. Prerequisite: at least one course in medieval Diverse means will be utilized: Textbook, supplementary printed history, or the permission of the instructor. material, class conversations, presentations by students of dialogues or skits that they prepare in advance, and written Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies compositions. This course, followed by Semesters 3 and 4 taken elsewhere, lays a foundation for reading of Modern INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective Hebrew literary works. Spring 2022 Course does not meet an Approach In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing HEBR B002 Elementary Hebrew systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings Spring 2022 have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands This is a continuation of HEBR B001, year-long course is of these protest movements? What can we learn from the designed to teach beginners the skills of reading, writing, and grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain conversing in Modern Hebrew. It will provide students with momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South knowledge of the Hebrew writing system - its alphabet (Square in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits letters for reading, cursive for writing) and vocalization - as well of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential as core aspects of grammar and syntax. Diverse means will and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal be utilized: Textbook, supplementary printed material, class about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical conversations, presentations by students of dialogues or skits approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and

302 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the and to a large extent remains the center of Arabic-language popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to cinema; three quarters of all Arabic-language feature films develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding having been produced there. Films by famous directors such as popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students Youssef Chahine and Shadi Abdel Salam, among others, will will explore these questions through a series of case studies be appropriate to consider. But films from other Arab countries, including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia e.g., from North Africa and the Middle East, will also be and India. included for comparison and a more comprehensive picture. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies MEST B205 Ethics and Islam INST B301 Politics of Aid and Humanitarianism Fall 2021 Spring 2022 This course will introduce students to Islamic ethical and This course explores the relationship between humanitarian political thought. After providing a foundation in the study of aid, politics and the legacy of colonialism. Our goal will be Islam, we will examine major trends in Muslim ethical and to historicize and contextualize humanitarian policies and political thinking. practices through specific case studies which can include, but Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) will not be limited to: Haiti, Sudan, USA, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Critical Interpretation (CI) Palestine, Somalia, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies We will use these case studies to explore topics such as the militarization of aid and the politicization of emergency MEST B210 The Art and Architecture of Islamic Spirituality assistance. We will also be looking to non-traditional sources such as novels, films, NGO documents and congressional Not offered 2021-22 hearings to gain insight from the perspectives of those This course examines how Muslim societies across time and impacted by and/or shaping humanitarian policies and space have used art and architecture in different ways to practices. Finally, we will examine the ways ‘non-Western’ express and understand inner dimensions of spirituality and actors and humanitarian organizations are reshaping the field mysticism. Topics to be studied include: the calligraphical of humanitarianism and relationships across the Global South remnants of the early Islamic period; inscriptions found more broadly. on buildings and gravestones; the majestic architecture of Counts toward Africana Studies mosques, shrines, seminaries, and Sufi lodges; the brilliant Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies arts of the book; the commemorative iconography and passion Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies plays of Ashura devotion; the souvenir culture of modern shrine visitation; and the modern art of twenty-first century MEST B200 Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies Sufism. Readings include works from history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and the history of art and architecture. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Middle Critical Interpretation (CI) Eastern Studies with a focus on analytical approaches, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies methods, and tools. Students consider the dynamics of the Counts toward Visual Studies region in the premodern and modern periods and become familiar with the major issues and debates that dominate POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics various disciplinary approaches to the Middle East. Readings include both important canonical and alternative scholarship in Fall 2021 order to examine the limits and possibilities of the field. An introduction to international relations, exploring its main Critical Interpretation (CI) subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and Counts toward International Studies problems in world politics examined include systems of power Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and MEST B201 Society and Culture of the Middle East international law are also addressed. This course assumes a Through Film reasonable knowledge of modern world history. Spring 2022 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx This course is designed so that students begin to acquire Counts toward International Studies a knowledge and understanding of the contemporary Arab Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies world through film. A main focus would be society and the Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights representation of family life with all its intricacies. Because the region is extremely diverse and the life of its people and POLS B283 Middle East Politics their experiences are, especially in the present, complex, it is necessary to select only a few of the countries in the region Fall 2021 and their cinemas to focus on. This should allow for deeper This course examines politics in the Middle East and North study and meaningful conclusions. The cinemas of several Africa (the MENA region). With the aim of making sense of Arab countries will be examined. Egypt has always been the 21st Century, we will develop a broad historical overview

303 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES / MUSEUM STUDIES of the region, going back to the late Ottoman era, and trace Archaeology, History, Education, Cities, Biology and Geology. the genealogies of key contemporary issues. Organizing The Bryn Mawr Museum Studies program aims to empower themes include the regional state system and its challenges; students to become significant contributors to various transnational political movements; dynamics of repression, professions throughout museums, galleries and archives. resistance, revolution, and reform within states; the significance The Museum Studies program calls upon the College’s of various forms of identity in political life (national, sectarian, extensive collection of art and artifacts, rare books and prints, religious, etc.); and the distinctive characteristics of the region’s photographs and manuscripts, which facilitates research and political economy. Among the particular topics we will address experiential learning for students. Through Bryn Mawr’s Special are processes of colonization and decolonization, state Collections, students can draw upon the in-house expertise of building, origins and outcomes of the 2011 uprisings, past and a strong group of curators and other museum professionals ongoing civil wars, and the effects of foreign interventions. A working in the department. Bryn Mawr is in close proximity to core goal for the course is for students to become conversant the museum-rich Philadelphia region, and students have the in current debates about political developments in the region opportunity to work with distinguished and diverse museum and to learn how to think critically, and with greater depth and professionals across the city. nuance, about popular media coverage and “conventional wisdom” that prevails in American discourse. No prerequisites, Museum Studies Minor Curriculum but either some prior familiarity with the Middle East or a prior political science course encouraged. The requirements for the minor are six courses that include: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) • Core courses (2): “Museum Studies: History, Theory, Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Practice” and one course with Special Collections research or exhibition development. POLS B360 Islam and Politics • Elective courses (2-3): These can be courses officially Spring 2022 taught in museum studies as well as courses in other This course locates and explores the politics of Islam in the disciplines that include museum studies content. Students politics of interpretation, taking into account texts both literal also can take advantage of relevant courses at Haverford and social. More broadly, this course will consider evolving and Swarthmore. The Director of Museum Studies in approaches to culture, religion, and ideology in political addition to the Professor of the elective must deem the science, exploring not just the effect of Islam on politics but also course acceptable as a museum studies course. the ways in which politics have shaped the Islamic tradition • Experiential courses (1-2): Praxis courses and/or the over time. This course is open to all students who have the Museum Studies Fieldwork Seminar. prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep course for political A student declares Museum Studies as a minor by meeting science senior majors. Prerequisite: POLS B283 or instructor with the Director of Museum Studies and completing a minor consent. work plan. The student can major in any department. Student Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies internships in museums are considered vital “hands-on” learning opportunities for those who seek careers in museum practice. Students will also be encouraged to seek summer MUSEUM STUDIES museum internships.

Students may complete a minor in Museum Studies. Museum Studies Core Courses HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Practice Faculty HART B316 Museum Studies Fieldwork Seminar

Steering Committee Steering Committee Monique Scott, Associate Professor of History of Art and Monique Scott, Associate Professor of History of Art and Director of Museum Studies Director of Museum Studies Carrie Robbins, Curator, Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts Carrie Robbins, Curator, Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor of History of Art Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor of History of Art Alicia Walker, Professor and Chair of History of Art on the Marie Alicia Walker, Associate Professor of History of Art on the Marie Neuberger Fund for the Study of Arts Neuberger Fund for the Study of Art

Museum Studies is a program that offers students a rich and Courses dynamic education in both museum theory and practice. ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology Students have the opportunities to learn about the history of museums and their roles in society as well as to engage with Fall 2021 critical, theoretical museum scholarship. Through coursework A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, and internships, students will also have the opportunity Etruria, and Rome. to gain practical hands-on experience in Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections as well as in museums in Philadelphia Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and beyond. This dynamic and inter-disciplinary program Inquiry into the Past (IP) intersects disciplines such as the History of Art, Anthropology, Counts toward Museum Studies

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ARCH B203 Ancient Greek Cities and Sanctuaries ARCH B317 Cultural Heritage and Endangered Not offered 2021-22 Archaeology

A study of the development of the Greek city-states and Not offered 2021-22 sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is surveyed in its historic This course will examine how and why archaeological sites context. The political formation of the city-state and the role of are ‘endangered’. Primarily focusing on the Near East and religion is presented, and the political, economic, and religious North Africa (the MENA region), we will examine the different institutions of the city-states are explored in their urban types of archaeological and heritage sites found across this settings. The city-state is considered as a particular political broad region, and some of the threats and disturbances economy of the Mediterranean and in comparison to the utility affecting them. We will consider how different interest groups of the concept of city-state in other cultures. and stakeholders view, value and present historical and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) archaeological sites to the general public, as well as the Inquiry into the Past (IP) success of modern initiatives and projects to safeguard the Counts toward Museum Studies heritage of the MENA region. Our research will consider the ethics of cultural preservation, as well as the issues and ARCH B219 Art and Archaeology of Late Antiquity problems encountered by heritage specialists working in areas of modern conflict. Whilst not all damage can be prevented,

Not offered 2021-22 the course will consider how different threats and disturbances This class examines the art and archaeology of the late- might be mitigated. Prerequisite: Upper level 300-level course. antique Mediterranean, tracing various iterations of artistic Students should have completed at least two 100 level/200 and architectural experimentation as well as socio-political level courses in either classical or near eastern archaeology. expression from the Late Roman world of the Tetrarchs (3rd Course does not meet an Approach century CE) to the first Islamic Dynasty, the Umayyads (7th Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies century CE). We will explore how the vitality of classical styles Counts toward Museum Studies and pagan beliefs mixed with the creative energies of other “indigenous” traditions - Egyptian, Arabic, Jewish, Gallic, etc., CHEM B208 Topics in Art Analysis as well as those of the new church, so as to better understand the cultural plurality and vigor of this period formally considered Fall 2021 a “Dark Age.” This is a topics course and topics will vary. All courses will Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) cover a variety of methods of analysis of works of art centered Inquiry into the Past (IP) around a specific theme. Using both completed case studies Counts toward Museum Studies and their own analysis of objects in the Bryn Mawr College collection, students will investigate a number of instrumental ARCH B252 Pompeii methods of obtaining both quantitative and qualitative information about the manufacture, use and history of the

Spring 2022 objects. This course counts towards the major in History of Art. Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site whose Scientific Investigation (SI) destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was Counts toward Museum Studies recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of Pompeii in the mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century FREN B105 Directions de la France contemporaine views of the Roman past as well as styles and preferences of the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban Spring 2022 life, city structure, residential architecture, home decoration and Ce cours a pour objet les dynamiques et les tensions qui furnishing, wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile structurent ou déstructurent la France contemporaine. Dans activities within a Roman city. quelle mesure la France a-t-elle profité de la colonisation et Inquiry into the Past (IP) de l’esclavage pour devenir la France ? Le modèle républicain Counts toward Museum Studies est-il mis à mal par ce qu’on appelle les “communautarismes”, ou n’est-il lui même qu’un déguisement du communautarisme ARCH B306 Monumental Painting de la majorité ? Quel est ce “séparatisme” qui menacerait la cohésion nationale et les valeurs universalistes de la France

Not offered 2021-22 ? Pourquoi la laïcité est-elle en crise aujourd’hui ? L’État de The Mediterranean tradition of large-scale painting begins in droit peut-il demeurer un État de droit face au djihadisme prehistoric times and continues through Late Antiquity and ? L’arbitrage impossible entre priorité sanitaire et priorité beyond. Important examples survive on the walls of houses, économique montre-t-il que le pouvoir politique est devenu tombs and other structures at sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, impuissant ? Les travaux à rendre vous permettront de vous in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Anatolia, Macedonia, exprimer dans des formats innovants (podcast, présentation Magna Graecia, and Etruria, Rome and the famous sites of vidéo, réalisation de pages Internet) et de perfectionner vos Pompeii and Hercul- aneum preserved by the eruption of Mount compétences à l’oral aussi bien qu’à l’écrit. Prerequisite: FREN Vesuvius. Technical, artistic, cultural and interpretive issues will 005 or 101. be considered. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Visual Studies

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HART B218 Byzantine Textiles in Life and Death as institutions of recreation, education and leisure; how the Fall 2021 museum itself became a symbol of power, prestige and sometimes alienation; debates around the ethics and politics This course explores the manifold uses and meanings of of collecting objects of art, culture and nature; and the qualities textiles in early Byzantine visual and material culture as well that make an exhibition effective (or not). By visiting exhibitions as their afterlife as objects of collection and display in the and meeting with a range of museum professionals in art, modern era. Students will undertake original research on early anthropology and science museums, this course offers a critical Byzantine textiles from the collection of Philadelphia University. perspective on the inner workings of the museum as well as Assignments will develop skills in museological writing, insights into the “new museology.” including documentation for collection databases and object exhibitions. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in History of Critical Interpretation (CI)

Art, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or History is recommended, Inquiry into the Past (IP) but not required. Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Visual Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies HART B300 The Curator in the Museum Counts toward Museum Studies Not offered 2021-22 HART B248 Topics in Museum Studies This course provides an introduction to theoretical and practical Not offered 2021-22 aspects of museums and to the links between practice and theory that are the defining characteristic of the museum This is a topics course. Course content varies. curator’s work today. The challenges and opportunities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) confronting curators and their colleagues, peers, audiences, Counts toward Museum Studies and constituents will be addressed through readings, discussions, guest presentations, writings, and individual and HART B274 History of Chinese Art group projects. Spring 2022 Counts toward Museum Studies This course is a survey of the arts of China from Neolithic to the HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Strategies contemporary period, focusing on bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese appropriation of Buddhist art, Not offered 2021-22 and the evolution of landscape and figure painting traditions. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Museum Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Praxis Program Counts toward Museum Studies HART B316 Museum Studies Fieldwork Seminar HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New Section 001 (Spring 2021): The Asian Art Museum-San Articulations Francisco Spring 2022 Spring 2022 At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural history museum played an important role in constructing and This course provides students a forum in which to ground, disseminating images of Africa to the Western public. The frame and discuss their hands-on work in museums, galleries, history of museum representations of Africa and Africans archives or collections. Whether students have arranged an reveals that exhibitions--both museum exhibitions and “living” internship at a local institution or want to pursue one in the Bryn World’s Fair exhibitions-- has long been deeply embedded in Mawr College Collections, this course will provide a framework politics, including the persistent “othering” of African people as for these endeavors, coupling praxis with theory supported by savages or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical readings from the discipline of Museum Studies. The course exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider how art will culminate in a final presentation, an opportunity to reflect museums are creating new constructions of Africa and how critically on the internship experience. Prior to taking the contemporary curators and conceptual artists are creating course, students will develop a Praxis Learning Plan through complex, challenging new ways of understanding African the Career and Civic Engagement office. All students will share identities. a set syllabus, common learning objectives and readings, but will also be able to tailor those objectives to the specific Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) museum setting or Special Collections project in which they are Counts toward Africana Studies involved. Counts toward Museum Studies

Counts toward Visual Studies Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Museum Studies HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Practice Counts toward Praxis Program Fall 2021 HART B318 Cultural Property and Museums Using the museums of Philadelphia as field sites, this course Not offered 2021-22 provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of museum studies and the important synergies between This course examines cultural heritage and the concept of theory and practice. Students will learn: the history of museums cultural property in relation to museums and collections. We

306 MUSEUM STUDIES will consider the development of national and international Counts toward Museum Studies laws in the 20th and 21st centuries to protect cultural heritage, Counts toward Praxis Program museum responsibilities, and case studies on topics including the looting of archaeological sites, the fate of art during war, HIST B349 Topics in Comparative History nationalism and politics, restitution of art, and fakes and Section 001 (Fall 2021): European Competition/Indgns forgeries. Fall 2021 Counts toward Museum Studies This is a topics course. Topics vary. HART B345 Topics in Material Culture Current topic description: Section 001 (Spring 2022): Arts of the Mughal Empire Counts toward Africana Studies Section 001 (Spring 2021): Textiles of Asia Counts toward Museum Studies

Spring 2022 ITAL B308 Rome as Palimpsests: from Ruins to Virtual This is a topics course. Course content varies. Reality Current topic description: This course examines production of Not offered 2021-22 South Asia during the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). As a class, From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X we will explore a broad range of media, from marble tombs and in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of gemstones to cotton and silk textiles, and many forms of art, the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has including the visual arts, but also music, poetry, and garden always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia design. and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some Counts toward Museum Studies crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist HART B374 Topics: Exhibition Seminar painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern Not offered 2021-22 re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones This is a topics course. Course content varies. Students will of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans- gain practical experience in the production of an exhibition: historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the conceiving a curatorial approach, articulating themes, writing main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We didactics, researching a checklist, designing gallery layout, will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be producing print and web materials, developing programs, and preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, marketing the exhibit. Prerequisite: At least one previous HART a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and course at Bryn Mawr College. misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an Counts toward Museum Studies additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level course for students interested in taking the course towards HIST B237 Themes in Modern African History Italian credits. Section 001 (Spring 2021): Public History in Africa Counts toward Museum Studies Counts toward Praxis Program Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies ITAL B315 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22

Inquiry into the Past (IP) The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine

Counts toward Africana Studies warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine,

Counts toward Museum Studies queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual identity played a central role -- from Rimbaud to current HIST B245 Topics in Modern US History experimentalism -- in the development of what has been called Not offered 2021-22 ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such This is a topics course addressing public history in the U.S. a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from

Critical Interpretation (CI) early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will

Inquiry into the Past (IP) unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with

Counts toward Museum Studies poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises,

Counts toward Praxis Program of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, HIST B274 Focus: Topics in Modern US History surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our Not offered 2021-22 own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no This is a topics course in 20th century America social history. previous knowledge of Italian required. Topics vary by half semester Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Museum Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies 307 MUSEUM STUDIES / MUSIC

PSYC B231 Health Psychology development of skill in composition and performance joined Not offered 2021-22 with analysis of musical works and their place in various cultures. A major in music provides a foundation for further This course will provide an overview of the field of health study leading to a career in music. psychology using lecture, exams, videos, assignments, and an article critique. We will examine the current definition As a result of having majored in our department, students of health psychology, as well as the theories and research exhibit proficiency in various skills appropriate to a specific area behind many areas in health psychology (both historical and of the curriculum as listed below. But beyond such competence, contemporary). The course will focus on specific health and we seek to develop their awareness of aesthetics and of social psychological theories, empirical research, and applying their place in the history of musical performance, craft, and the theory and research to real world situations. Prerequisite: scholarship. Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105) or Foundations of Psychology (PSYC H100). Students may take either this course Learning Goals or HLTH/PSYC H245 not both. Music Department faculty members are committed to Course does not meet an Approach the education of the whole musician. This entails the Counts toward Health Studies study of performance, theory, and history, as we believe Counts toward Museum Studies these disciplines support each other in a comprehensive understanding of music. Depending on the level of the SPAN B312 Latin American and Latino Art and the individual course, we aim for students to: Question of the Masses • gain command of chosen instrument or voice, showing Not offered 2021-22 understanding of technical skills of musicianship. The course examines the ways in which Latin American • understand how to apply appropriate interpretive choices and Latino texts (paintings, murals, sculptures, and some to a given musical work. narratives) construct “minor,” “featureless” and “anonymous” • analyze important aspects of musical style and structure, characters, thus demarcating how and which members of both in score and aurally. society can and cannot advance a plot, act independently and/ or be agents of change. By focusing the attention on what is • demonstrate ability to deploy elements of melody, de-emphasized, we will explore how artistic works, through , and structure in original creations. their form, are themselves political actors in the social life of • develop rhetorical skills to speak and write about music Latin America, the US, and beyond. We will also consider the with conviction, and the bibliographical skills required place of Latin American and Latino Art in the US imaginary and to find works and critical perspectives that inform these in institutions such as museums and galleries. Prerequisites: judgements. Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors Haverford’s Institutional Learning Goals are available on the who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature President’s website, at http://hav.to/learninggoals. department. Students seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish 120 and at least one other Spanish course at a Curriculum 200-level, or received permission from instructor. Course does not meet an Approach. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian Composition/Theory and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Museum Studies. The composition/theory program stresses proficiency in Course does not meet an Approach aural, keyboard, and vocal skills, and written harmony and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies counterpoint. Composition following important historical models Counts toward Museum Studies and experimentation with contemporary styles are emphasized.

Musicology MUSIC The musicology program, which emphasizes European, North American, and Asian traditions, considers music in the rich

Faculty context of its social, religious, and aesthetic surroundings. Ingrid Arauco, Professor of Music Performance Curtis Cacioppo, Professor Emeritus of Music Haverford’s music performance program offers opportunities to participate in the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers, Leonardo Dugan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Chorale, Orchestra, and chamber ensembles. Students can Richard Freedman, The John C. Whitehead 1943 Professor of receive academic credit for their participation (MUSC H102, the Humanities; Chair and Professor of Music MUSC H214, MUSC H215, and MUSC H216), and can receive Myron Gray, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music credit for Private Study (MUSC H208 for Instrumental Study, MUSC H209 for Voice Study, and MUSC H210 for Keyboard Heidi Jacob, Professor of Music Study). Student chamber ensembles, solo instrumentalists, Nathan Zullinger, Assistant Professor of Music and vocalists also give informal recitals during the year. Courses such as Art Song and Topics in Piano have a built-in

The music curriculum is designed to deepen students’ performance component. understanding of musical form and expression through the

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Private Lessons Majors pursuing an independent project in composition/theory, musicology or performance generally register for MUSC H480 Students can arrange private music lessons through the in both the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. Each department or independently. We have a referral list of many semester of MUSC H480 earns one course credit; however, fine teachers in the Philadelphia area with whom we are only one semester of MUSC H480 counts toward the courses affiliated. The department helps to subsidize the cost of lessons required for the major. Majors pursuing the expanded curricular for students with financial need who are studying for academic option may be advised to take a preparatory fall MUSC H480, credit. which likewise would earn one course credit, but not apply Major Requirements toward fulfillment of major requirements. • Composition/Theory: MUSC H203, MUSC H204, and Senior Project Learning Goals

MUSC H303. • In the process of preparing an original composition, the • Musicology: Three courses, MUSC H229, plus any two of student exercises the ability to compose a substantial work MUSC H220, MUSC H221, MUSC H222, MUSC H223, (e.g., string quartet, song cycle, piano sonata) exhibiting MUSC H224, or MUSC H225. proficiency in notation, clarity of structure, stylistic integrity, and awareness of historical models. In pursuing a • Two electives in Music, from: MUSC H149, MUSC H207, theoretical inquiry, the student engages in the analysis of MUSC H220, MUSC H221, MUSC H222, MUSC H223, musical content through primary and secondary sources, MUSC H224, MUSC H225, MUSC H227, MUSC H250, aiming for a synthesis of perspectives and an expression MUSC H254, MUSC H265, MUSC H266, MUSC H270, of insights sensitive to music’s interpretive possibilities. MUSC H304, and MUSC H325. • In the process of preparing a senior thesis in musicology, • Performance the student develops the ability to craft an original research

• Participation in a department-sponsored performance question based on knowledge of and reflection upon prior

group for at least a year. literature in the field. The student will also demonstrate • MUSC H208, MUSC H209, or MUSC H210 command of appropriate musicological research methods, instrumental or vocal private study for one year. clear written expression, and the capacity to speak with authority about the topic in a public presentation. • We strongly urge continuing ensemble participation and instrumental or vocal private study. • In the process of preparing a senior recital, the student hones the skills to present a technically and interpretively • A Senior Project (as detailed below) challenging program of repertory from a range of stylistic • We expect majors to attend the majority of department- periods. sponsored concerts, lectures, and colloquia. • In the process of fulfilling a program of intensified study Students may take only one elective course abroad or at within an additional course elective, the student expands another institution in the U.S., including within the Tri-College curricular horizons, and meets the highest-level challenges Consortium or at Penn, with prior written approval from the in their experience as a major. Chair of the Music Department. Regardless of the specific path taken, it is intended that the senior experience stimulate reflection on the discipline of music Senior Project as a whole, and lead to the student’s awareness of place within Senior majors in the Department of Music may choose to the unfolding history of musical creativity, scholarship and undertake their capstone experience by pursuing one of the performance. Each project should in its own way constitute a following focused project options: an original composition consummation of the student’s musical growth throughout the or theoretical inquiry; a musicology research paper; a full undergraduate years. recital performance; a personalized plan of study within an elective course beyond the number required. In some cases, Senior Project Assessment projects might combine two fields—performance and theory, Whether undertaken in the context of an intensified elective or for example—and may involve joint advisorship. All projects of an independent study the actual numerical grade assigned culminate in public presentation appropriate to their nature and for the senior project remains at advisor discretion. The scope. department as a body discusses the project’s relative quality Majors are asked in February of their junior year to discuss and the consistency of effort brought to bear in its production, with department faculty members their ideas for the senior to aid the advisor in evaluation. A written summary of the experience, identify an advisor, and submit a formal, written department’s collective appraisal of the student’s achievement project proposal to the Chair before spring break. Proposals in the senior experience is furnished by the chair to the student are then reviewed by the Music faculty in department meetings. prior to Commencement. Frequently the department asks that proposals be modified and submitted for a second review before final approval is given. Requirements for Honors Notification of departmental approval is sent by the chair to Honors students in April. As soon as the project is approved, students are expected to consult with the advisor to determine a clear • Minimum GPA in music courses of 3.7 AND grade on schedule for the timely completion of work according to the senior project of 4.0. unique needs of the project. Students are often encouraged to get a head start on senior project work well before the beginning of their final fall semester.

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High Honors representing traditions of South, Central, and East Asia, and Indonesia. • Outstanding, standard-setting contribution to the department in the context of courses and/or ensembles. Facilities

• Exceptional level of originality, depth, and synthesis in See the departmental web page for a description of the senior project as compared to undergraduate work performance, rehearsal, library spaces, instruments and generally, outside Haverford (i.e., a level of work that equipment. should be sufficient to gain admission to top graduate programs in the field). Courses

Minor Requirements MUSC H102 CHORALE (0.5 Credit) • Composition/Theory: MUSC H203 and MUSC H204. Division: Humanities • Musicology: MUSC H229; plus any one of MUSC H220, Chorale is a large mixed chorus that performs major works MUSC H221, MUSC H222, MUSC H223, MUSC H224, or from the oratorio repertoire with orchestra and student soloists. MUSC H225. Attendance at weekly two-hour rehearsals and dress rehearsals • One elective from the following: MUSC H149, MUSC during performance week is required. Entrance by audition. H207, MUSC H220, MUSC H221, MUSC H222, MUSC Students can start Chorale at the beginning of any semester. H223, MUSC H224, MUSC H225, MUSC H227, MUSC This course is graded universal P/F in which no numerical H250, MUSC H254, MUSC H265, MUSC H266, MUSC grade is assigned. Prerequisite(s): Audition and consent of the H270, MUSC H303, MUSC H304, and MUSC H325. instructor.

• MUSC H208, MUSC H209, MUSC H210 instrumental/ MUSC H107 INTRODUCTORY PIANO (0.5 Credit) vocal private study or department ensemble participation

for one year. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression • We expect minors to attend the majority of department- sponsored concerts, lectures, and colloquia. An introduction to the art of playing the piano and the music written for it. No prior musical experience is required. This Students may take only one elective course abroad or at course consists of weekly hour-long sessions in the form of another institution in the U.S., including within the Tri-College either a class lecture/workshop given on Tuesday evenings, Consortium or at Penn, with prior written approval from the or self-directed listening sessions posted on Moodle, as well

Chair of the Music Department. as weekly 20-minute private lessons at an arranged time. It is expected that the student will practice an hour each day, Special Programs and Funds six days a week, and keep a listening journal, giving personal The Music Department Concert Artist Series presents responses to the required listening. The final exam is a distinguished and emerging performers in public concerts, performance of two or more short works on the class recital at master classes, lecture-demonstrations, reading sessions, and the end of the term. informal encounters. Among artists recently featured have been pianist Peter Serkin, violinist Miranda Cuckson, the Orlando MUSC H110 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY (1.0 Consort, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Renee Rosnes Jazz Credit) Quartet, and the Borealis Wind Quintet with pianist Leon Bates. Division: Humanities The Network for New Music Residency features Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Philadelphia’s distinguished contemporary music ensemble An intensive introduction to the notational and theoretical in reading and recording sessions for student composers, materials of music, complemented by work in sight-singing, performances of contemporary music with students in the keyboard harmony, and dictation. This course is appropriate Chamber Music program, and a concert series highlighting the for students who sing or play an instrument, but who have had work of prominent living composers. little or no systematic instruction in music theory. Topics include The William Heartt Reese Music Fund was established in time and pitch and their notation, scales, intervals, triads, basic 1977 to honor William Heartt Reese, Professor of Music and harmonic progressions, melodic construction, harmonization conductor of the Glee Club and Orchestra at Haverford from of melody, non-harmonic tones, transposition, and key change 1947 to 1975. The fund supports applied music lessons for (modulation). Students who wish to explore the art of musical students enrolled in the department’s private study program. composition will find this course especially useful, as two creative projects are assigned: the composition of a pair of The John H. Davison ‘51 Fund for Student Composers melodies in the major and minor modes, and a 32-bar piece supports the performance of new works by student composers. which changes key. Preparation for these projects is provided This fund recognizes John’s 40 years of teaching and musical through listening and analysis of works in a variety of musical creativity at Haverford. styles. Students having completed this course will be prepared The Orpheus Prize is awarded for exceptional achievement in to enter Music 203, the first semester of the theory sequence the practice of tonal harmony. for music majors.

The Kessinger Family Fund for Asian Performing Arts sponsors musical performances and lecture-demonstrations MUSC H111 A MUSICAL MILLENNIUM (1.0 Credit) that enrich Haverford’s cross-cultural programs. Since its Division: Humanities inception in 1997, the fund has supported visits by artists Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)

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When does music history begin in the West? How has Western MUSC H204 PRINCIPLES OF TONAL HARMONY II (1.0 music evolved and—just as importantly—why? This course Credit) teaches students to hear how musical style changes over time Division: Humanities while considering the social and technological conditions that Domain(s): A: Creative Expression underpin such changes. We listen closely and critically to works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Stravinsky, among Continuation of Music 203, covering chromatic harmony and others, discussing these using a precise shared vocabulary. At focusing on the development of sonata forms from the Classical the same time, we read historical documents closely related through the Romantic period. Composition of a sonata to musical sound: Bach’s frustrating negotiations with his exposition is the final project. Three class hours plus laboratory church employers; Wolfgang Mozart’s intimate letters to his period covering related aural and keyboard harmony skills. father and musical mentor, Leopold; the emotional testament in Required for the Music major or minor; should be taken the which Beethoven grapples with his hearing loss. Ultimately, we semester after Music 203. Prerequisite: Music 203. traverse a thousand years to discover how Western music went from being a liturgical ritual of plain, unaccompanied song to an MUSC H208 PRIVATE STUDY: INSTRUMENTAL (0.5 Credit) extravagant secular form of entertainment for elite audiences in Division: Humanities modern cities. No prior musical knowledge is required. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression

MUSC H127 READING JAZZ (1.0 Credit) All students enrolled in the private study program should be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble or Division: Humanities activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their program Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long lessons with A study of jazz and its many meanings, from Louis Armstrong approved teachers for one-half credit, graded. All students in to John Coltrane, and from Charles Mingus to Sun Ra. We’ll the private study program perform for a faculty jury at the end explore the music itself, of course. But our main focus will be of the semester. Students assume the cost of their lessons, but on the stories that its creators tell about themselves, and the may apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of each stories that various eye (and ear) witnesses and critics tell semester’s study through the department. about why jazz matters. Together, we will discuss, question, and write about topics such as art and entertainment, difference MUSC H209 PRIVATE STUDY: VOICE (0.5 Credit) and race, ownership and authenticity, discrimination and Division: Humanities community. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression

MUSC H181 THE GENIUS OF MOZART (1.0 Credit) All students enrolled in the private study program should be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble or Division: First Year Writing activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their program Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long lessons with What is (a) genius? A person or an attribute? Human or divine? approved teachers for one-half credit, graded. All students in Does the artist control it or does it control the artist? When the private study program perform for a faculty jury at the end did this concept emerge, and how has it evolved? This course of the semester. Students assume the cost of their lessons, but considers such questions in connection with the life and works may apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of each of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We probe his biographies semester’s study through the department. and letters for insights into the man, and we investigate what makes his music tick. All the while we cast a critical eye on MUSC H210 PRIVATE STUDY: KEYBOARD (0.5 Credit) the mythology of Mozart’s genius, a rich tradition of anecdote, Division: Humanities intrigue, and speculation that can be hard to separate from Domain(s): A: Creative Expression fact. We ask how Mozart—real and imaginary—has reflected All students enrolled in the private study program should and shaped ideas of genius, considering his representation in be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble or literature and film. No prerequisite; open to all students. activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their program MUSC H203 PRINCIPLES OF TONAL HARMONY I (1.0 supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long lessons with Credit) approved teachers for one-half credit, graded. All students in the private study program perform for a faculty jury at the end Division: Humanities of the semester. Students assume the cost of their lessons, but Domain(s): A: Creative Expression may apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of each The harmonic vocabulary and compositional techniques of semester’s study through the department. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and others. Analysis of musical literature in a variety of genres and MUSC H214 CHAMBER SINGERS (0.5 Credit) harmonization in four parts. Composition of minuet and trio, A 30-voice mixed choir that performs a wide range of mostly a set of variations, or other homophonic piece is the final project. cappella repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day, Requires three class hours plus laboratory period covering in original languages. The choir performs on and off campus, related aural and keyboard harmony skills. Required for the both public concerts and outreach concerts to underserved Music major and minor; should be taken no later than fall of audiences. Requires attendance at three 80-minute rehearsals sophomore year. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 110 or instructor weekly. Entrance by audition at the beginning of the Fall consent semester each year. This course is graded universal P/F in which no numerical grade is assigned.

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MUSC H215 CHAMBER MUSIC (0.5 Credit) Vivaldi, and Handel. Prerequisite(s): Any full-credit course in

Division: Humanities Music, or instructor consent Intensive rehearsal of works for small instrumental groups, with MUSC H223 MOZART’S WORLD: MUSIC OF THE supplemental assigned research and listening. Performance CLASSICAL ERA (1.0 Credit) is required. Students enrolled in Chamber Music have Division: Humanities the opportunity to receive coaching from visiting artists on Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) the Concert Artist Series and from resident ensembles. Performances take place at Haverford and Bryn Mawr This course takes students on a musical tour of Europe in the Colleges, and other community venues. This course is available age of Mozart. Traveling from Naples to Paris, London, and to those students who are concurrently studying privately, Vienna, we consider how politics, religion, commerce, and or who have studied privately immediately prior to the start technology shaped local musical cultures. At the same time, of the semester. In addition, all students playing orchestral we explore the formation of a pan-European musical language, instruments must participate concurrently in the Orchestra, the galant style, in works by Mozart and his contemporaries. unless granted permission by the music director. Entrance by Prerequisite(s): Any full-credit course in Music, or instructor audition only. This course is graded universal P/F in which no consent numerical grade is assigned. MUSC H225 NOVELTY AND RENEWAL IN 20TH-CENTURY MUSC H216 ORCHESTRA (0.5 Credit) MUSIC (1.0 Credit) The Haverford-Bryn Mawr Orchestra has over seventy Division: Humanities members and performs a wide range of symphonic repertory. Course assembles music by Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Orchestra members are expected to attend one two-and-a-half Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith, Weill, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, hour rehearsal per week, and are guided in sectional rehearsals and many others, considered through reactionary priorities by professional musicians. There are three/four performances of modernist aesthetics. Topics include the search for order a year, including Parents/Family Weekend concerts. The spring and control; music and the state; music, film, and electronic Orchestra concert features the winner of the annual student technologies; and new roles for composers, performers, and concerto competition. Entrance by audition only. This course is listeners. The class is organized around some two dozen graded universal P/F in which no numerical grade is assigned. important works, pieces chosen for their historical influence and for their acute formulation of musical and aesthetic problems. MUSC H219 ART SONG (0.5 Credit) Prerequisite(s): Music 110, 111, or instructor consent Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression MUSC H228 MUSICAL VOICES OF ASIA (1.0 Credit) A performance course devoted to the French, German, English, The musical traditions of South, East and Central Asia and and American art song literature from Schubert to the present. Indonesia. Extensive discussion of vocal and instrumental Weekly performance classes will be accompanied by weekly genres, approaches to texts and stories, and systems of individual coaching with the instructor, culminating in a public learning. We will also pay special attention to the place of recital at the end of the semester. Prerequisite(s): audition and music in broader cultural and social contexts as a definer of consent of instructor gender or religious identities, as an object of national or political ownership, and in its interaction with Western classical and MUSC H221 MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE: RITUAL AND popular forms. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or higher. REPRESENTATION (1.0 Credit) MUSC H229 THINKING ABOUT MUSIC: IDEAS, HISTORY, Division: Humanities AND MUSICOLOGY (1.0 Credit) This course explores the remarkable emergence of new ways Division: Humanities of representing poetic and dramatic texts in musical form, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) charting the cultural forces of Renaissance, Reformation, and printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. We will explore Core concepts and perspectives for the serious study of music. changes in musical style, and the changing role that music Students explore music, meaning, and musicological method in played in European culture. We’ll hear music by composers a variety of contexts through a set of six foundational themes like Dufay, Josquin, Palestrina, Lasso, and Marenzio, among and questions: Music and the Idea of Genius, Who Owns many others. Three class hours plus listening laboratory period. Music?, Music and Technology, The Global Soundscape, Music Prerequisite(s): Any full-credit course in Music, or equivalent and the State, and Tonality, Sense, and Reason. Each unit uses prior experience in musical study. a small number of musical works, performances, or documents as a focal point. In each unit we also read current musicological MUSC H222 BACH AND THE BAROQUE (1.0 Credit) work in an attempt to understand the methods, arguments, and Division: Humanities perspectives through which scholars interpret music and its Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) many meanings. This course is required of all music majors and minors in their sophomore or junior year. Prerequisite(s): MUSC This course traces sharp changes in 17th-century musical 110, 111, or 203 style and the equally striking changes in roles for soloists, composers, and audiences that prepared the way for Bach’s MUSC H251 MUSIC, FILM and NARRATIVE (1.0 Credit) extraordinary synthesis of musical technique in the first half of Division: Humanities the 18th century. Attention to contexts of patronage, publishing, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) church, and theater, and to composers including Monteverdi,

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An introduction to music and film with special attention to works plus laboratory period covering related aural and keyboard from the 1930s through the 1950s by composers such as Auric, harmony skills. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204 Copland, Eisler, Herrmann, Korngold, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Steiner, Tiomkin and Waxman. Close study of orchestration, MUSC H320 CHORAL CONDUCTING (1.0 Credit) harmony and thematic process as they contribute to cinematic Division: Humanities narrative and form. Source readings include artistic positions Domain(s): A: Creative Expression staked out by film composers themselves as well as critical and scholarly essays by leading writers on the narrative possibilities This course will offer an introduction to conducting choral of film music. Extensive reading, listening, and viewing ensembles. Students will learn to synthesize the many aspects assignments. Weekly writing assignments, three short essays, of conducting, including physical communication, artistic journal, and class discussion. Prerequisite(s): Music 203 or leadership, and musical study. In addition to incorporating equivalent knowledge of music theory. elements of music history and theory, this course will emphasize additional skills such as score study, group vocal MUSC H265 MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA: CLASSICAL TO technique, and performance practice in different musical eras. CONTEMPORARY (1.0 Credit) Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204 and MUSC 229; MUSC 102 or MUSC 214, and any one of the following: MUSC 208, 209, 210 Division: Humanities This course traces the evolution of the orchestra and samples MUSC H325 SEMINAR IN 20TH/21ST CENTURY MUSIC some of its most compelling literature, from the symphonic (1.0 Credit) canvases of Beethoven, Berlioz, and Still to contemporary Division: Humanities pieces incorporating non-Western instruments, electronics and even cell phones. Along the way we will learn to read Study of composers, works, and trends since 1900, with the orchestral score, and study the capabilities of various reference to theoretical and aesthetic writings and their relation orchestral instruments and how they are used together. Short to world events. Recent topics have included European émigré weekly exercises in scoring during the first half of the class, influence on American music, and Make It New: Music by visits from guest musicians, and attendance at concerts of Philadelphia Composers. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204 the Philadelphia Orchestra and/or Chamber Orchestra of MUSC H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) Philadelphia will both supplement and enhance our class discussions. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 203 or permission of Division: Humanities instructor Prerequisite(s): Approval of department and consent of instructor MUSC H266 COMPOSITION (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression NEUROSCIENCE Preparation of a portfolio of compositions for various instruments and ensembles. Weekly assignments designed to invite creative, individual responses to a variety of musical Advisory Committee/Faculty ideas; experimentation with harmony, form, notation, and text- William (Dustin) Albert, Assistant Professor of Psychology setting. Performance of student works-in-progress and final Laura Been, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Haverford reading/recording session with professional musicians. Recent College classes have had their compositions read by Network for New Music, percussionist Phillip O’Banion, and the Amernet String Rebecca Compton, Professor of Psychology, Haverford College Quartet. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204 and instructor consent Robert Fairman, Professor of Biology, Haverford College

MUSC H303 ADVANCED TONAL HARMONY (1.0 Credit) Andrew Gargiulo, Bucher Jackson Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Bryn Mawr College Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Laura Grafe, Assistant Professor of Psychology (on leave semesters I and II) Study of late 19th-century harmonic practice in selected works of Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Fauré, Wolf, Debussy, and Mahler. Seol Hee Im, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Haverford Exploration of chromatic harmony through analysis and short College compositions; final composition project consisting of either Mary Ellen Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, art song or piano piece such as nocturne or intermezzo. Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College Musicianship lab covers related aural and keyboard harmony skills. Prerequisite(s): MUSC 204 Roshan Jain, Assistant Professor of Biology, Haverford College Cora Mukerji, Assistant Professor of Psychology MUSC H304 COUNTERPOINT (1.0 Credit) Crystal Reynaga, Assistant Professor of Biology Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Patrese Robinson-Drummer, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Haverford College 18th-century contrapuntal techniques and forms with emphasis on the works of J.S. Bach. Composition of two-part contrapuntal Anjali Thapar, Professor of Psychology dances and inventions, canon, chorale prelude, fugue in three voices. Attention is also paid to counterpoint in later style periods, especially the twentieth century. Three class hours 313 NEUROSCIENCE

The desire to understand human and animal behavior in terms from at least two of the three categories to fulfil the of nervous system structure and function is longstanding. breadth requirement. Historically, researchers and scholars have approached • A list of approved courses and their categories is this task from a variety of disciplines, including medicine, available online. biology, psychology, philosophy, and physiology. The field of neuroscience emerged as an interdisciplinary approach, • Laboratory Coursework in Neuroscience (1 credit) combining techniques and perspectives from these disciplines, • In order to gain hands-on experience with some of as well as emerging fields such as computation and cognitive the tools, methods, and paradigms of Neuroscience, science, to yield new insights into the workings of the nervous majors are required to take 1 credit of neuroscience system and behavior. laboratory coursework. This can be accomplished in several ways (e.g., 2 half-credit psych labs, 1 full- Neuroscience Major credit psych lab, 1 full-credit neuroscience SuperLab). The major in Neuroscience allows students to pursue an • A list of approved laboratory courses is available in-depth study of the nervous system and behavior across online. disciplines. Students should consult with the Neuroscience

Chair or any member of the faculty advisory committee in order • Thesis or Capstone in Neuroscience (1 credit) to declare the major. • To culminate their experience as a Neuroscience major, students are required to complete one course Learning Goals of thesis or capstone work. This may take the form of The goals of the major include enabling students to gain: a 2-semester laboratory thesis project or a 1-semester capstone course. • Training in cognate disciplines that are fundamental to the study of Neuroscience Neuroscience Minor • An in-depth understanding of the organization of the The minor in Neuroscience allows students with any major to nervous system and its relation to the categories of pursue interests in behavior and the nervous system across behavior such as , sensation and perception, disciplines. Students should consult with the faculty coordinator motivational states, and higher cognition or any member of the advisory committee in order to declare • Fluency with the many levels at which the nervous system the minor. can be studied, including molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience levels Learning Goals • An ability to closely examine and critically evaluate primary The goals of the minor include enabling students to gain: research on specialized, advanced neuroscience topics • a basic understanding of the organization of the nervous • An appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of system and its relation to categories of behavior such neuroscience and the allied disciplies that inform the study as motor control, sensation and perception, motivational of mind, brain, and behavior states, and higher cognition • Experience with neuroscience laboratory skills and the • an appreciation of and fluency with the many levels at design and analysis of neuroscience experiments which the nervous system can be studied, including molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral and cognitive Major Requirements neuroscience levels • Introduction to Neuroscience (1 credit) • an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience and the allied disciplines that inform the

• NEUR H100 study of mind, brain, and behavior

• Foundational Science Courses (4 credits) • an ability to closely examine and critically evaluate primary • 1 semester of General Chemistry (CHEM H111, H113, research on specialized, advanced neuroscience topics H115, or B103) • 1 semester of Introductory Biology (BIOL H200A, Minor Requirements H201B with instructor approval, B110 or B111) • HC NEUR H100, PSYC H217 () • 1 semester of Introductory Psychology (PSYC H100 or or BMC PSYC B218 (Behavioral Neuroscience) or BIOL B105) B202 (Introduction to Neuroscience) • 1 semester of Statistics (PSYC H200, PSYC B205; • Five credits from the list of approved courses, with these MATH H103 or H203, MATH B104, or ECON H203) constraints:

• Upper-level Neuroscience Courses with Breadth • The five credits must sample from three different

Requirement (4 credits) disciplines

• Students must take 4 credits of upper-level • At least three of the five credits must come from List A:

neuroscience courses Primary Neuroscience courses

• Upper-level Neuroscience courses are divided into • At least one of the credits must be at the 300-level or

three categories: Cellular/Molecular, Behavioral/ higher Systems, and Cognitive. Students must take courses • One of the five credits may come from supervised senior research in neuroscience

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• No more than two of the six minor credits may come and physics to understand the principles that govern from institutions outside of the Bi-Co animal and human movement. Concepts will highlight the A current list of approved courses, divided into List A: Primary interdisciplinary nature of biomechanics that must be used Neuroscience and List B: Allied Disciplines, is available online. to study the mechanics of movement, from running, walking, flying, to swimming. Students will develop fundamental Courses quantitative skills for biological problem-solving and be exposed to the field of comparative biomechanics. Prerequisite: One BIOL B110 Biological Exploration I semester of BIOL 110-111, or permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) BIOL B110 is an introductory-level course designed to Scientific Investigation (SI) encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences populational. Each course will explore these areas of biology Fall 2021 through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Fall 2020: A study of how and why modern computation methods are BIOL B110 will explore the ways the central dogma of molecular used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic principles biology relates to the biochemical basis of human disease. The of visualizing and analyzing scientific data through hands-on laboratory portion of the course will explore the fundamentals of programming exercises. The majority of the course will use molecular and cellular biology through scientific research, with the R programming language and corresponding open source an emphasis on scientific process and experimental design. statistical software. Content will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six hours of combined lecture/lab per week. Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) BIOL B111 Biological Exploration II Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Spring 2022 Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Neuroscience BIOL B111 is an introductory-level course designed to encourage students to explore the field of biology at multiple BIOL B305 Sleep and Biological Rhythms levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and Fall 2021 ecological. Each course will explore these areas of biology through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory This seminar course will survey our current understanding three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required. Spring of chronobiology and sleep at the molecular, cellular, and 2021: BIOL B111 will explore how organisms adapt to their organismal level. Classes will be a mixture of lecture, environments. Topics to be investigated include development, discussion, and student presentations based on both historical physiology, photosynthesis, ecology (population, community and current primary literature. Prerequisite: PSYC H217, PSYC and ecosystem), and evolution. The laboratory portion of the B218, or BIOL B202 or permission of instructor. course will explore the fundamentals of organismal biology through scientific research, with an emphasis on the scientific BIOL B321 Neuroethology process and experimental design. Topics include development, Not offered 2021-22 neurobiology, evolution, physiology, ecology, and ecosystems. This course provides an opportunity for students to understand Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) the neuronal basis of behavior through the examination of how Scientific Investigation (SI) particular animals have evolved neural solutions to specific Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology problems posed by their environments. The topics will be covered from a research perspective using a combination of BIOL B202 Neurobiology lectures, discussions and student presentations. Prerequisite: Fall 2021 BIOL 202, PSYC 218 or PSYC 217 at Haverford. An introduction to the nervous system and its broad Counts toward Neuroscience contributions to function. The class will explore fundamentals of neural anatomy and signaling, sensory and motor processing BIOL B364 Developmental Neurobiology and control, nervous system development and examples Not offered 2021-22 of complex brain functions. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111 or permission of A lecture/discussion course on major topics in the development instructor. of the nervous system. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or 271, BIOL 202 or equivalent, or Scientific Investigation (SI) permission of instructor. Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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BIOL B217 Biomechanics BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience Spring 2022 Laboratory or library research under the supervision of a member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for those This course integrates anatomy, physiology, neuromechanics, with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. 315 NEUROSCIENCE

Counts toward Neuroscience ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Spring 2022 CHEM B103 General Chemistry I Fall 2021 An introduction to econometric terminology and reasoning. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical This is an introductory course in chemistry, open to students inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis with no previous chemistry experience. Topics include aqueous and on the use of data to address economic issues. The solutions and solubility; the electronic structure of atoms and required computational techniques are developed as part of the molecules; chemical reactions and energy; intermolecular course. Class cannot be taken if you have taken H203 or H204. forces. Examples discussed in lecture and laboratory include Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level elective. ECON applications of the material to environmental sciences, material H201 does not count as an elective. science and biological chemistry. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: Quantitative Methods (QM)

Quantitative Readiness Required. Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B104 Basic Probability and Statistics Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Biochemistry and Molecular Biology This course introduces key concepts in descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include summary statistics, CMSC B373 Artificial Intelligence graphical displays, correlation, regression, probability, the Law Fall 2021 of Large Numbers, expected value, standard error, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, sampling procedures, bias, Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of how to and the use of statistical software. program computers to behave in ways normally attributed to “intelligence” when observed in humans. Topics include Quantitative Methods (QM) heuristic versus algorithmic programming; cognitive simulation Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) versus machine intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural PHIL B319 Philosophy of Mind language understanding; scene analysis; learning; decision- making. Topics are illustrated by programs from literature, Spring 2022 programming projects in appropriate languages and building The conscious mind remains a philosophical and scientific small robots. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC mystery. In this course, we will explore the nature of B231. consciousness and its place in the physical world. Some Counts toward Neuroscience questions we will consider include: How is consciousness related to the brain and the body? Are minds a kind of CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics computer? Is the conscious mind something non-physical or Not offered 2021-22 immaterial? Is it possible to have a science of consciousness, or will consciousness inevitably resist scientific explanation? Introduction to computational models of understanding and We will explore these questions from a philosophical processing human languages. How elements of linguistics, perspective that draws on relevant literature from cognitive computer science, and artificial intelligence can be combined neuroscience. to help computers process human language and to help linguists understand language through computer models. Counts toward Neuroscience Topics covered: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, generation and PSYC B105 Introductory Psychology knowledge representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206, or H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Counts toward Neuroscience How do biological predispositions, life experiences, culture, contribute to individual differences in human and animal DSCI B100 Introduction to Data Science behavior? This biopsychosocial theme will be examined by Fall 2021 studying both “normal” and “abnormal” behaviors in domains such as perception, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion, “Data science” is a catch-all term used to describe the and social interaction thereby providing an overview of practice of working with and analyzing messy data sources to psychology’s many areas of inquiry. There is a laboratory draw meaningful conclusions. This course provides a broad component of this course that meets 2 hours per week (four introduction to the field of data science via the statistical evening times, one on Sunday). programming language, R. Over the semester, students will learn how to manipulate, manage, summarize and visualize Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) large data sets. No previous exposure to programming or Scientific Investigation (SI) statistics is expected. PSYC B205 Research Methods and Statistics Course does not meet an Approach Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Counts toward Introduction to Data Science An introduction to research design, general research Counts toward Neuroscience methodology, and the analysis and interpretation of data. Emphasis will be placed on issues involved with conducting psychological research. Topics include descriptive and

316 NEUROSCIENCE inferential statistics, research design and validity, analysis physiological effects of stress on the immune system, gut of variance, and correlation and regression. Each statistical , and feeding behavior, the effects of stress across method will also be executed using computers. Lecture three the lifespan and in offspring, as well as strategies to build hours, laboratory 90 minutes a week. resilience. Students will also be exposed to primary literature Quantitative Methods (QM) on these topics and expected to present these articles in a Scientific Investigation (SI) journal club format. This course is designed to provide students Counts toward Introduction to Data Science with the skills necessary to evaluate recent findings and trends in stress research. Suggested preparation: PSYCB218 PSYC B212 Human Cognition (Behavioral Neuroscience) or equivalent. Fall 2021 Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Neuroscience This course provides an overview of the field of Cognitive Psychology, the branch of psychology that studies how PSYC B316 Advanced Topics in Neuroscience: Drugs of we think. Over the semester we will survey classic and Abuse contemporary theory and findings on a wide range of mental processes that we use every day - from attention and memory Not offered 2021-22 to language and problem solving - and our goal will be to This is a seminar course examining the neuroscience of understand how the human mind works! Prerequisite: PSYC common drugs of abuse including psychostimulants, opiates/ B105 or H100 (Introductory Psychology), or instructor’s opioids, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana. The goal of the permission. course is to explore progress in psychopharmacological Scientific Investigation (SI) research, while also discussing the societal ramifications of Counts toward Neuroscience addiction. We will also discuss these drugs of abuse in the context of the environmental factors that influence vulnerability PSYC B218 Behavioral Neuroscience to them. We will examine concepts such as the importance of age on drug abuse, and how the developing brain may

Fall 2021, Spring 2022 be vulnerable to addiction. The plan is to draw on relevant This course will introduce students to the field of behavioral literature in order to investigate these topics and explore the neuroscience. The first part of the course will familiarize implications for human addicts. students with the brain and neuronal communication. Then, Counts toward Health Studies we will delve into brain-behavior relationships. Topics covered Counts toward Neuroscience will include: sex behavior, hunger, sleep, emotion, and psychopathology. Classic and state-of-the-art neuroscience PSYC B318 Data Science with R research methodologies leading to this knowledge will be highlighted. Students will learn course content through lectures, Not offered 2021-22 readings, and digital media. To culminate the course, students This course provides a broad introduction to the field of data will write a literature review on a topic of their choosing within science via the statistical programming language, R. The the field of behavioral neuroscience. Lecture three hours a course focuses on using computational methods and statistical week. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC 105). techniques to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract Course does not meet an Approach knowledge. It provides an overview of tools for data acquisition Counts toward Neuroscience and cleaning, data manipulation, data analysis and evaluation, visualization and communication of results, data management PSYC B286 Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience and big data systems. The course surveys the complete data science process from data to knowledge and gives students

Not offered 2021-22 hands-on experience with tools and methods. Prerequisites: This writing-intensive laboratory course will provide students PSYC B205, PSYC H200, or SOCL B265. Students with with experience in the design, implementation, analysis, and good statistical preparation in math or other disciplines should presentation of behavioral neuroscience research. Students will consult with the instructor to gain permission to take the class. partake in experiments that explore the relationship between Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) the brain and behavior, using Sprague Dawley rats as a model Counts toward Introduction to Data Science organism. Students should expect to write research reports Counts toward Neuroscience on experiments performed in the lab, as well as give an oral presentation on research conducted. Prerequisites: Psyc105 PSYC B319 (Introductory Psychology), Psyc205 (Research Methods and

Statistics); Suggested Preparation: Psyc218 (Behavioral Not offered 2021-22 Neuroscience) Neuroscience not only helps us understands the biological Scientific Investigation (SI) basis of behavior, but it has become increasingly relevant to law, education, war, politics, and religion. This course will PSYC B315 Stress Neuroscience examine how neuroscience is integrated into these various aspects of everyday life. We will discuss how neuroscience

Not offered 2021-22 may be helpful or harmful in each of these areas, highlighting This course will examine the neural mechanisms underlying the ethical, legal, and social challenges it brings. physiological and emotional responses to stress. We will Course does not meet an Approach explore how stress influences susceptibility to substance Counts toward Neuroscience use and mental health disorders. We will investigate the

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PSYC B321 Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior because of their underdeveloped brains? At what age should they be held accountable as adults in a court of law? This Not offered 2021-22 course will explore these and other questions about the This course is designed to introduce students to the basic biological, social, and legal forces that define the boundaries principles of learning and memory. It will emphasize the and shape the experience of adolescents growing up in neuroscience of learning and memory and connect this to the modern world. Students will learn about: (1) historical behavioral outcomes. We will examine forms of learning that changes in understanding and treatment of adolescents; (2) are universal across species and contrast this with higher puberty-related biological changes marking the beginning level learning only observed in humans. We will focus on two of adolescence; (3) brain, behavioral, cognitive, and social dominant learning theories (among others): Pavlov’s classical development during adolescence; and (4) contemporary conditioning and Skinner’s operant conditioning. Lastly, we will debates regarding age of adult maturity, and their implications consider applications of these theories in real life. for law and policy. Prerequisite: PSYC B206 (Developmental Course does not meet an Approach Psychology) or PSYC B211 (Lifespan Development) or Counts toward Neuroscience permission or instructor. PSYC B205 is recommended. Counts toward Health Studies PSYC B323 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience Section 001 (Fall 2021): Perceptual Disorders and the Broken PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology Mind Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 This course will examine emotional and behavioral disorders This is a topics course. Course content varies. of children and adolescents, including autism, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive Current topic description: Perceptual Disorders and the Broken disorder, depression, anorexia, and schizophrenia. Major topics Mind: This seminar style course is designed to introduce covered will include: contrasting models of psychopathology; students to the principles by which we perceive the world empirical and categorical approaches to assessment and around us. Spanning perceptual psychology and sensory diagnosis; outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, neuroscience, students will learn about and discuss how and prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their efficacy we process and attend to our senses, detecting meaningful .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. features like faces, moving objects, or speech out of countless, seemingly irrelevant details. We will explore how damage to Counts toward Child and Family Studies any of these systems may alter or manipulate these processes, Counts toward Health Studies resulting in unusual and surprising symptoms. We will also Counts toward Neuroscience discuss how prior knowledge and emotion can shape our perception of the world around us. As before, this course is PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology designed to introduce students to the principles by which we Spring 2022 perceive the world around us. In this course, we will consider A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- how prior knowledge, emotion, attention, etc. can all shape our behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological perception of the world around us through both top-down and basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological models bottom-up processing. An optional textbook is Looking Inside of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the treatment of the Disordered Brain, by Ahmad Hariri, but most reading will psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and come from journal articles that will be distributed. Assignments psychosis; and the psychology and pharmacology of drug will include: quizzes, participation, a literature review, and short addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC reflection assignments H217 or permission of instructor.

Counts toward Neuroscience Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Neuroscience PSYC B325 Judgment and Decision-Making Not offered 2021-22 This course will explore the psychology of reasoning and PEACE, CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL decision-making processes in depth. We will examine affective, JUSTICE STUDIES cognitive, and motivational processes, as well as recent research in neuroscience. Among other topics, we will discuss Students may complete a concentration in Peace, Conflict, and notions of rationality and irrationality, accuracy, heuristics, Social Justice Studies. biases, metacognition, evaluation, risk perception, and moral judgment. Prerequisites: ECONB136, ECONH203, PSYCB205 or PSYCH200, and PSYCB212, PSYCH260 or permission of Faculty instructor. Advisory Committee PSYC B327 Adolescent Development Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor

Spring 2022 of Education and Director, Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Is adolescence a biologically distinct stage of life, or a social Concentration and Director, Teaching and Learning Institute, “holding ground” invented by modern culture for young Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges people unready or unwilling to assume the responsibilities of adulthood? Are adolescents destined to make risky decisions

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Jill Stauffer, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of conceptually or around a particular substantive problem. These Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Haverford College courses might include international conflict and resolution; social justice, diversity and identity, ethnic conflict in general Lee Smithey, Associate Professor of Sociology and Coordinator or in a specific region of the world (e.g. Southern Africa, the of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College Middle East, Northern Ireland); a theoretical approach to the field, such as nonviolence, social justice movements, The Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies program bargaining or game theory; an applied approach, such as reflects Bryn Mawr’s interest in the study of conflicts, reducing violence among youth, the arts and peacemaking, peacemaking, and social justice and offers students the community mediation or a particular policy question such as opportunity to design a course of study, to sustain a thematic immigration or bilingual education. focus across disciplinary boundaries, and to enrich their major program in the process. Students are encouraged to draw The following courses are pre-approved (www.brynmawr. courses from the programs at Haverford (https://www.haverford. edupeacestudies/courses.html). To see if other courses might edu/peace-justice-and-human-rights) and Swarthmore (https:// be counted toward the concentration, contact the program www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies) as well. coordinator, Alison Cook-Sather, [email protected]. Students in the concentration can pursue a wide range of theoretical and substantive interests concerning questions such Courses as: intra-state and international causes of conflict; cooperative HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 and competitive strategies of negotiation and bargaining; intergroup relations and the role of culturally constituted Fall 2021 institutions and practices in conflict management; social The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the movements; protests and revolutions; the role of religion in way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. social conflict and its mitigation; human rights and transitional and the Americas came together to form an interconnected justice in post conflict societies; and social justice and identity Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the questions arising from ethnic, religious and cultural diversity manner in which an integrated system was created in the and the implications of these constructions for the distribution Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the of material and symbolic resources in society as well as the history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded practical capacities to engage individuals and groups across version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American constructions of difference by linking practice and theory. A history. list of courses student have included in their concentrations can be found here: (http://www.brynmawr.edu/peacestudies/ Inquiry into the Past (IP) courseoptions.html). Below is a more general description of the Counts toward Africana Studies concentration requirements. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Counts toward International Studies Students in the concentration are encouraged to explore Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights alternative conceptions of peace and social justice in different cultural contexts and historical moments by emphasizing the ECON B385 Democracy and Development connections between the intellectual scaffolding needed to Not offered 2021-22 analyze the construction of social identities and the social, political and economic implications of these constructions for From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew the distribution of material and symbolic resources within and from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism between societies and the challenges and opportunities to and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to engage individuals and groups to move their communities and argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late societies towards peace and social justice. 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question Concentration Requirements this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case Students who wish to take the concentration meet with a faculty study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON advisor by the spring of their sophomore year to develop a 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior plan of study. All concentrators are required to take three core or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the courses: (1) an introductory course, Introduction to Peace, Instructor. Social Justice and Human Rights at Haverford or Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore; (2) a 200-level Counts toward International Studies course (Conflict and Conflict Management, International Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Law, Politics of Humanitarianism, or Forgiveness, Mourning, and Mercy in Law and Politics), and (3) a project involving HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 community participation and reflection by participation in bi- Fall 2021 semester meetings, attendance at lectures/workshops, and The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the development of a portfolio in their junior and senior years. This way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. constellation of this second option earns students a single and the Americas came together to form an interconnected credit that is awarded upon the successful completion of all Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the components. manner in which an integrated system was created in the In addition, students are required to take three courses Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the chosen in consultation with their advisor, working out a plan history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded that focuses this second half of their concentration regionally,

319 PEACE, CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and history. problems in world politics examined include systems of power Inquiry into the Past (IP) management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and Counts toward Africana Studies peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies international law are also addressed. This course assumes a

Counts toward International Studies reasonable knowledge of modern world history. Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics Counts toward International Studies Fall 2021 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights An introduction to international relations, exploring its main subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and ECON B385 Democracy and Development problems in world politics examined include systems of power management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and Not offered 2021-22 peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew international law are also addressed. This course assumes a from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism reasonable knowledge of modern world history. and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a Counts toward International Studies reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the

Fall 2021 Instructor. The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the Counts toward International Studies way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the RUSS B237 Crime or Punishment: Russian Narratives of manner in which an integrated system was created in the Incarceration Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded Fall 2021 version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American This course explores Russian narratives of incarceration, history. punishment, and captivity from the 17th century to the present Inquiry into the Past (IP) day and considers topics such as social justice, violence and its Counts toward Africana Studies artistic representations, totalitarianism, witness-bearing, and the

Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx possibility of transcendence in suffering. Taught in translation. Counts toward International Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights ECON B385 Democracy and Development Not offered 2021-22 From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew PHILOSOPHY from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to Students may complete a major or minor in Philosophy. argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question Faculty this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, Macalester Bell, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case Bob Dostal, Katherine McBride Professor study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior Lars Thimo Heisenberg, Assistant Professor of Philosophy or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the Adrienne Prettyman, Associate Professor of Philosophy Instructor. Collin Rice, Associate Professor of Philosophy Counts toward International Studies

Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights The Department of Philosophy introduces students to some of the most compelling answers to questions of human existence POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics and knowledge. It also grooms students for a variety of fields Fall 2021 that require analysis, conceptual precision, argumentative An introduction to international relations, exploring its main skill, and clarity of thought and expression. These include

320 PHILOSOPHY administration, the arts, business, computer science, health Prerequisites professions, law, and social services. The major in Philosophy also prepares students for graduate-level study leading to No introductory-level course carries a prerequisite. However, careers in teaching and research in the discipline. most courses at both the intermediate and advanced levels carry prerequisites. Unless stated otherwise in the course The curriculum focuses on three major areas: the systematic description, any introductory course satisfies the prerequisite areas of philosophy, such as logic, theory of knowledge, for an intermediate-level course, and any intermediate course metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics; the history of philosophy satisfies the prerequisite for an advanced-level course. through the study of key philosophers and philosophical periods; and the philosophical explication of methods in such Courses domains as art, history, religion, and science. The department is a member of the Greater Philadelphia PHIL B101 Happiness and Reality in Ancient Thought Philosophy Consortium comprising 13 member institutions in Spring 2022 the Delaware Valley. It sponsors conferences on various topics What makes us happy? The wisdom of the ancient world has in philosophy and an annual undergraduate student philosophy importantly shaped the tradition of Western thought but in some conference. important respects it has been rejected or forgotten. What is the nature of reality? Can we have knowledge about the world and Major Requirements ourselves, and, if so, how? In this course we explore answers Students majoring in Philosophy must take a minimum of 11 to these sorts of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and semester courses in the discipline and attend the monthly political questions by examining the works of the two central noncredit departmental colloquia which feature leading visiting Greek philosophers: Plato and Aristotle. We will consider scholars. The following six courses are required for the major: earlier Greek religious and dramatic writings, a few Presocratic • the two-semester Historical Introduction (PHIL 101 and philosophers, and the person of Socrates who never wrote a

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• Ethics (PHIL 221); Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) • Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 211), Metaphysics (PHIL 212), or Logic (PHIL 103); PHIL B102 Science and Morality in Modernity • and Senior Conference (PHIL 398 and PHIL 399). Fall 2021, Spring 2022 • At least three other courses at the 300 level are required, In this course, we explore answers to fundamental questions one of which must concentrate on the work of a single about the nature of the world and our place in it by examining philosopher or a period of philosophy. the works of some of the central figures in modern western All majors will be required to complete two writing attentive philosophy. Can we obtain knowledge of the world and, if so, courses prior to the start of their senior year. how? Does God exist? What is the nature of the self? How do we determine morally right answers? What sorts of policies Philosophy majors are encouraged to supplement their and political structures can best promote justice and equality? philosophical interests by taking advantage of courses offered These questions were addressed in “modern” Europe in the in related areas, such as anthropology, history, history of context of the development of modern science and the religious art, languages, literature, mathematics, political science, wars. In a time of globalization we are all, more or less, heirs of psychology, and sociology. the Enlightenment which sees its legacy to be modern science and the mastery of nature together with democracy and human Honors rights. This course explores the above questions and considers Honors will be awarded by the department based on the senior them in their historical context. Some of the philosophers thesis and other work completed in the department. The Milton considered include Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and C. Nahm Prize in Philosophy is a cash award presented to the Wollstonecraft. graduating senior major whose senior thesis the department Critical Interpretation (CI) judges to be of outstanding caliber. This prize need not be Inquiry into the Past (IP) granted every year. PHIL B103 Introduction to Logic Minor Requirements Spring 2022 Students may minor in Philosophy by taking six courses in the Logic is the study of formal reasoning, which concerns the discipline at any level. They must also attend the noncredit nature of valid arguments and inferential fallacies. In everyday department colloquia. life our arguments tend to be informal and sometimes imprecise. The study of logic concerns the structure and nature Cross-Registration of arguments, and so helps to analyze them more precisely. Students may take advantage of cross-registration Topics will include: valid and invalid arguments, determining the arrangements with Haverford College, Swarthmore College, logical structure of ordinary sentences, reasoning with truth- and the University of Pennsylvania. Courses at these functional connectives, and inferences involving quantifiers and institutions may satisfy Bryn Mawr requirements, but students predicates. This course does not presuppose any background should check with the major advisor to make sure specific knowledge in logic. courses meet requirements. Quantitative Methods (QM)

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PHIL B206 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science PHIL B220 Dreams and Philosophy Fall 2021 Fall 2021 Scientific ideas and inferences have a huge impact on our Philosophers have long puzzled over the nature of dreams daily lives and the lives of practicing scientists. But what is and what they can teach us about ourselves and our world. science, how does it work, and what does it able us to know? This course surveys the philosophy of dreams, from Socrates’ In this introductory course, we will be considering some Dream in the Theaetetus, to Descartes’ skepticism, to traditional philosophical questions applied to the foundations contemporary debates in cognitive science. Some questions and practice of natural science. These questions may include that we will discuss include: Why do we dream? Are dreams the history of philosophical approaches in science, the nature different from hallucinations, and how so? Can you learn of scientific knowledge, changes in scientific knowledge over something new in a dream? Are dreams conscious, or are they time, how science provides explanations of what we observe, more like false memories that you invent upon waking? How the justification of false assumptions in science, the nature of can scientists best study dreams? We will analyze arguments scientific theories, and some questions about the ethics and from philosophy and the relevant sciences in order to reveal the values involved in scientific practice. philosophical significance of dreams. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI)

PHIL B208 Black Political and Social Thought PHIL B221 Ethics Fall 2021 Spring 2022 In this class, we will focus our attention on the philosophical An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of moral works of a diverse range of Black thinkers, both historical theories and a discussion of important ancient, modern, and and contemporary, who take up questions about race, contemporary texts which established theories such as virtue racism, oppression, authenticity, solidarity, justice freedom, ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, relativism, emotivism, care power, identity, and beauty. This is a discussion-based class, ethics. This course considers questions concerning freedom, and at least one previous course in philosophy is strongly responsibility, and obligation. How should we live our lives and recommended. Prerequisite: At least one previous course in interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a Philosophy is strongly recommended. global context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of Critical Interpretation (CI) practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered. PHIL B211 Theory of Knowledge Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2022 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Epistemology focuses on three central philosophical questions: “What is knowledge?”, “What can we know?”, and “How PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues do we know what we know?” In addition to their role in our daily lives, these questions are central to almost every Not offered 2021-22 discipline include the sciences, history, and philosophy itself. The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires This course is an extended investigation into the nature of has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, knowledge, understanding, and justification. We will look at the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates a number of debates including skepticism, relativism, the of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of value of knowledge, the nature of understanding, scientific environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing knowledge, scientific realism, naturalistic epistemology, feminist theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and epistemology, testimonial knowledge, and pragmatic influences challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, on knowledge. The aim of this course is to develop a sense and disability theorists. of how these concepts and theories interrelate, and to instill Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) philosophical skills in the critical evaluation of them. Critical Interpretation (CI) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies PHIL B212 Metaphysics Not offered 2021-22 PHIL B234 The Nature of Public Art and the Ethics of Commemoration Metaphysics is inquiry into basic features of the world and ourselves. This course considers two topics of metaphysics, Not offered 2021-22 free will and personal identity, and their relationship. What Philadelphia has the largest number of public artworks in the is free will and are we free? Is freedom compatible with country and is also the first city in the nation to require that determinism? Does moral responsibility require free will? What developers use a portion of their construction budget for public makes someone the same person over time? Can a person art. It is also home to a number of well-known memorials. In survive without their body? Is the recognition of others required this course, we will take up a number of philosophical questions to be a person? about the nature of public art, political aesthetics, and the ethics Critical Interpretation (CI) of commemoration using case studies drawn from Philadelphia. Some of the questions we will consider include the following: What is public art? What is public space? What is the role of public art in a democracy? Is there a distinct category of

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“street art” which can be distinguished from public art on the as well as from the contemporary Anglo-American debate. one hand and graffiti on the other? What is the moral value of That way, we draw on a broad set of ideas in order to tackle commemorative art? What, if anything, do we have a moral the philosophical, moral and existential challenge that markets obligation to commemorate and what grounds that obligation? pose: and, while going along, familiarize ourselves with classic How should we assess controversies surrounding the removal authors from both the European and Anglo-American traditions of art honoring persons or groups many judge to be morally in social/political philosophy. objectionable, such as Confederate monuments? How should Critical Interpretation (CI) we memorialize victims of injustice? Prerequisites: At least one previous Philosophy class is suggested. PHIL B249 Ideology and Propaganda Course does not meet an Approach Spring 2022 PHIL B238 Science, Technology and the Good Life In contemporary political discourse, we often hear the accusation that a certain belief is “mere ideology” or that a Not offered 2021-22 certain piece of political speech is “pure propaganda”. We “Science, Technology, and the Good Life” considers the relation sometimes even hear that we live in an age where ‘ideological’ of science and technology to each other and to everyday life, conflicts are supposed to have immeasurably deepened, and particularly with respect to questions of ethics and politics. where we are - for that reason - inundated by ‘propaganda’ In this course, we try to get clear about how we understand in the news or on social media. But what, really, is ideology? these domains and their interrelationships in our contemporary What is propaganda? How are they related to one another? world. We try to clarify the issues relevant to these questions And what is their relationship to truth? Is propaganda always by looking at the contemporary debates about the role of made up of lies? Can truth function ideologically? And: What automation and digital media and the problem of climate is the ethics of ideology and propaganda? Is all propaganda change. These debates raise many questions including: the unethical? Are there ‘good’ ideologies? And how can we appropriate model of scientific inquiry (is there a single model overcome flawed ones? This course examines these questions for science?, how is science both experimental and deductive?, from the perspective of contemporary social philosophy, with an is science merely trial and error?, is science objective?, is emphasis on both the Marxist and the liberal tradition. science value-free?), the ideological standing of science Critical Interpretation (CI) (has science become a kind of ideology?), the autonomy of Counts toward International Studies technology (have the rapidly developing technologies escaped our power to direct them?), the politics of science (is science PHIL B252 Feminist Theory somehow essentially democratic?, and are “scientific” cultures more likely to foster democracy?, or is a scientific culture Not offered 2021-22 essentially elitist and autocratic?), the relation of science to the Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and formation of public policy (experts rule?, are we in or moving women have achieved equality have become commonplace. toward a technocracy?), the role of technology and science in We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of the process of modernization, Westernization, and globalization patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central (what role has science played in industrialization and what to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory role does it now play in a post-industrial world?). To find an and contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in appropriate way to consider these questions, we look at the different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the pairing of science with democracy in the Enlightenment project phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance and study contemporary work in the philosophy of science, of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency political science, and ethics. with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite:

Critical Interpretation (CI) one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Environmental Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

PHIL B248 Markets and Morality PHIL B256 Scientific Modeling, Idealization, and Policy Not offered 2021-22 Making

Markets are everywhere today: if you want to find a job, if you Not offered 2021-22 want to buy some good, or if you want to sell some service, you This course will focus on the role of scientific models, theories, will inevitably have to submit yourself to their norms. Yet, this and research in democratic policy making. In particular, we will omnipresence of markets raises fundamental ethical questions. consider the epistemological and ethical questions surrounding Is it really good that we organize exchange and production the use of scientific models in conservation ecology, climate largely through markets? How are societies and individuals change, and other areas of biology. The goal of the course impacted by centrally relying on them? Should we, much will be to focus on how scientific research ought to be funded, rather, prefer a planned economy? Or would such a planned practiced and incorporated into policy within a democratic economy unduly constrain people’s freedom? And, if we opt society. for markets, what are their moral limits? Should human organs Critical Interpretation (CI) or access to lawmakers be distributed via a market? Should access to health-care be governed by market principles? This PHIL B271 Minds and Machines seminar explores these ethical and political questions through an unusually diverse set of texts. The syllabus brings together Fall 2021 a broad set of perspectives from both the history of philosophy What is the relationship between the mind and the body? What

323 PHILOSOPHY is consciousness? Is your mind like a computer, or do some Critique of Pure Reason. We will read and discuss the text with aspects of the mind resist this analogy? Is it possible to build an reference to its historical context and with respect to its impact artificial mind? In this course, we’ll explore these questions and on developments in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy more, drawing on perspectives from philosophy, psychology of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion as and cognitive neuroscience. We will consider the viability of well as developments in German Idealism, 20th-century different ways of understanding the relationship between mind phenomenology., and contemporary analytic philosophy. and body as a framework for studying the mind, as well as the Prerequisite: PHIL 102 or at least one 200 level Philosophy distinctive issues that arise in connection with the phenomenon course. of consciousness. No prior knowledge or experience with any of the subfields is assumed or necessary. PHIL B334 Karl Marx and his critics Critical Interpretation (CI) Fall 2021 Karl Marx is one of those philosophers who are often cited, PHIL B305 Topics in Value Theory but not equally as often carefully read. This seminar aims Section 001 (Spring 2021): The Ethics of ‘Wokeness” to change this. It offers a close reading of Karl Marx’s most Not offered 2021-22 important philosophical works, alongside the work of his most influential critics. We will begin, in the first part of the course, by PHIL B308 German Philosophy: From Kant to Hegel considering Marx’s early fragments, his revolutionary political writings and the economic-philosophical theory of Capital. In

Not offered 2021-22 the second half of the course, we will examine criticisms from In the wake of Kant’s critical philosophy, German philosophy both the left and the right: criticisms that target Marx’s labor goes through a period of philosophical excitement and theory of value, his theory of history, or his theory of alienation. intellectual upheaval. In a space of only roughly thirty years, Special attention will be paid to criticisms that argue that he philosophers such as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel compose lacks attention to the way that economic oppression intersects a flurry of competing responses to the Kantian proposal, with structural racism, structural misogyny and colonialism. generating new approaches to epistemology, metaphysics, Reading Marx from this contemporary perspective will allow ethics and politics that, in turn, come to define European us to evaluate what parts of Marx’s views, if any, still possess thought for centuries. But what was this controversy originally relevance for contemporary social thought. Prerequisite: One about? What aspects of Kant’s critical project caused it? What previous philosophy course or permission from instructor. are unifying themes in Fichte, Schelling and Hegel’s responses to Kant? In what ways do they diverge? And what, if anything, PHIL B338 Phenomenology: Heidegger and Husserl can we today still learn from this brief, yet turbulent period Not offered 2021-22 in the history of philosophy? In this upper-level seminar we ask these questions through a careful examination of some This upper-level seminar will consider the two main proponents of the most important primary texts of that time, and through of phenomenology--a movement in philosophy in the 20th a thorough discussion of their contemporary implications. century that attempted to restart philosophy in a radical way. Prerequisite: One previous Philosophy course or permission Its concerns are philosophically comprehensive: ontology, from instructor. epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and so on. Phenomenology provides the important background for other Course does not meet an Approach later developments in 20th-century philosophy and beyond: existentialism, deconstruction, post-modernism. This seminar PHIL B319 Philosophy of Mind will focus primarily on Edmund Husserl’s Crisis of the European Spring 2022 Sciences and Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. Other writings to be considered include some of Heidegger’s later The conscious mind remains a philosophical and scientific work and Merleau-Ponty’s preface to his Phenomenology of mystery. In this course, we will explore the nature of Perception. consciousness and its place in the physical world. Some questions we will consider include: How is consciousness PHIL B343 related to the brain and the body? Are minds a kind of computer? Is the conscious mind something non-physical or Not offered 2021-22 immaterial? Is it possible to have a science of consciousness, The theory of evolution has had a huge impact on the way or will consciousness inevitably resist scientific explanation? we view the world around us, our place in that world, and our We will explore these questions from a philosophical knowledge of biological organisms. But what is the theory of perspective that draws on relevant literature from cognitive evolution, how does it work, and what does it enable us to neuroscience. know? In this course, we will be considering some philosophical Counts toward Neuroscience issues surrounding the practice and development of biological theory. We will begin by investigating Darwin’s original theory PHIL B330 Kant and how that theory has changed since Darwin’s time. We will also look at the debate between evolution and creationism. Spring 2022 Then we will investigate several problems within the philosophy The significance of Kant’s transcendental philosophy for of biology including: the nature of fitness, the units of selection, thought in the 19th and 20th centuries cannot be overstated. adaptationism, optimization, idealization, reductionism, His work is profoundly important for both the analytical and and complexity. Finally, we will look at the application of the so-called “continental” schools of thought. This course evolutionary theory in our attempts to understand the human will provide a close study of Kant’s breakthrough work: The mind and nature.

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PHIL B398 Senior Seminar In this course, we will study the development, impact, and Senior majors are required to write an undergraduate thesis ethical implications of technology in the ancient world. While on an approved topic. The senior seminar is a two-semester investigating the attitudes toward technology expressed by course in which research and writing are directed. Seniors will scientific and non-scientific authors of the Graeco-Roman meet collectively and individually with the supervising instructor. world, students will be exposed to perspectives and methods from a variety of disciplines including literary studies, PHIL B399 Senior Seminar anthropology, social psychology, and 4E cognition, engaging with questions related to areas of social justice, human The senior seminar is a required course for majors in ecology, artificial intelligence, urban planning, environmental Philosophy. It is the course in which the research and writing of management, and medicine. Through readings by authors such an undergraduate thesis is directed both in and outside of the as Aristophanes, Euripides, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius class time. Students will meet sometimes with the class as a and Galen, we will discuss the technologies used to aid whole and sometimes with the professor separately to present memory, carry out calculative activities, perform labor, influence and discuss drafts of their theses. human behavior, and improve quality of life. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of ancient technologies (real PHIL B403 Supervised Work and imagined), students will a) become familiar with the major CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics periods and events of Graeco-Roman history and be able to contextualize attitudes towards technology within those periods;

Not offered 2021-22 b) become familiar with the styles of literature and material arts Introduction to computational models of understanding and during major periods of Graeco-Roman history, and c) develop processing human languages. How elements of linguistics, skills necessary for reading primary texts (literary, philosophical, computer science, and artificial intelligence can be combined and historical) as documents representing the intellectual to help computers process human language and to help history of classical antiquity. No previous knowledge of the linguists understand language through computer models. ancient world is required. Topics covered: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, generation and Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) knowledge representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206 , or H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Counts toward Neuroscience Humanities Not offered 2021-22 CMSC B373 Artificial Intelligence By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of

Fall 2021 the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of how to in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students program computers to behave in ways normally attributed with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The to “intelligence” when observed in humans. Topics include selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory heuristic versus algorithmic programming; cognitive simulation (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the versus machine intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: language understanding; scene analysis; learning; decision- Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and making. Topics are illustrated by programs from literature, Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short programming projects in appropriate languages and building stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, small robots. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of B231. theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for Counts toward Neuroscience French credit. COML B293 The Play of Interpretation Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 GERM B212 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the Rhetoric of Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies and Modernity regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic sciences, and Not offered 2021-22 media and cultural studies, this course focuses on common problems of text, authorship, reader/spectator, and translation This course examines selected writings by Marx, Nietzsche, in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual and Freud as pre-texts for a critique of cultural reason texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be and underlines their contribution to questions of language, studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern representation, history, ethics, and art. These three visionaries critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, popular of modernity have translated the abstract metaphysics of culture, and film will illustrate how theory enhances our “the history of the subject” into a concrete analysis of human understanding of the complexities of history, memory, identity, experience. Their work has been a major influence on the and the trials of modernity. Frankfurt School of critical theory and has also led to a revolutionary shift in the understanding and writing of history Critical Interpretation (CI) and literature now associated with the work of modern French Counts toward International Studies philosophers Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, CSTS B203 Technology and Humanity in the Ancient World and Jacques Lacan. Our readings will, therefore, also include short selections from these philosophers in order to analyze Not offered 2021-22 the contested history of modernity and its intellectual and moral

325 PHILOSOPHY consequences. Special attention will be paid to the relation A continuation of POLS 228, although 228 is not a prerequisite. between rhetoric and philosophy and the narrative forms of Particular attention is given to the various ways in which the “the philosophical discourse(s) of modernity” (e.g., sermon concept of freedom is used in explaining political life. Readings and myth in Marx; aphorism and oratory in Nietzsche, myth, from Locke, J.S. Mill, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and others. fairy tale, case hi/story in Freud). Course is taught in English. Critical Interpretation (CI) One additional hour will be added for those students wanting German credit. Course counts toward Philosophy. POLS B245 Philosophy of Law Critical Interpretation (CI) Fall 2021 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Introduces students to a variety of questions in the philosophy ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the of law. Readings will be concerned with the nature of law, the Humanities character of law as a system, the ethical character of law, and the relationship of law to politics, power, authority, and society. Spring 2022 Readings will include philosophical arguments about law, as What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist well as judicial cases through which we examine these ideas manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and within specific contexts, especially tort and contracts. Most or films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object all of the specific issues discussed will be taken from Anglo- oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In American law, although the general issues considered are not this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from limited to those legal systems. Recommended Prerequisite: different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender sophomore standing, freshman only with professor’s consent. and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece Critical Interpretation (CI) from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will POLS B261 Sovereignty, Identity, and Law discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we Not offered 2021-22 are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour What is sovereignty and what does it mean to say that a in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. “people” is sovereign? Is popular sovereignty rule by the “will Critical Interpretation (CI) of the people?” Who is this “people” whose will is sovereign? Counts toward Africana Studies What are the implications of our answers to these questions Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies for our idea of law? Is law the expression of that pre-existing Counts toward Film Studies will, and of something that already exists, called “the people”? Or does law have a role in creating “the people” and its “will”? POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, Greece, and Drawing on theoretical, historical, and legal texts, this course the “West” will explore the idea of sovereignty and popular sovereignty and its relation to law and collective identity. Sophomore Standing. Not offered 2021-22 Freshman only with instructor’s approval. An introduction to the dialogic construction of comparative Critical Interpretation (CI) political philosophy, using texts from several cultures or worlds Inquiry into the Past (IP) of thought: ancient and modern China, ancient Greece, and the modern West. The course will have three parts. First, a POLS B272 The Power of the People: Democratic consideration of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in Revolutions ancient (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses to this Fall 2021 development; and third, the current discussions and debates We often invoke “democracy” as the very ground of political about globalization, democracy, and human rights now going legitimacy, but there is very little agreement on what democracy on in China and the West. Prerequisite: At least one course in means, why we might desire it, or how state institutions, law, either Philosophy, Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or and political culture might embody it. In this seminar we will consent of the instructor. grapple with some recent and influential accounts of democratic Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) governance and democratic movements today. Our objective Critical Interpretation (CI) will be to develop a critical vocabulary for understanding what Counts toward International Studies democracy might mean, what conditions it requires, and what “best practices” citizens committed to democracy might enlist to POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient confront political challenges such as the structural divisions that and Early Modern persist among class, gender, and race; persistent inequality and influence of money and corporations; and the potential Not offered 2021-22 for democratic, grass-roots power as a vital ingredient to An introduction to the fundamental problems of political democratic flourishing. Writing Intensive. philosophy, especially the relationship between political life and Critical Interpretation (CI) the human good or goods. Course does not meet an Approach Critical Interpretation (CI) POLS B327 Political Philosophy in the 20th Century POLS B231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern Not offered 2021-22 Spring 2022 A study of 20th- and 21st-century extensions of three traditions

326 PHILOSOPHY / PHYSICS in Western political philosophy: the adherents of the German POLS B371 Topics in Political Philosophy and English ideas of freedom and the founders of classical Section 001 (Fall 2020): Anti-Political Theory naturalism. Authors read include Hannah Arendt, Michel Section 001 (Spring 2022): Governing the Self and Others Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, and John Rawls. Topics include the relationship of individual rationality and political authority, Spring 2022 cosmopolitanism, the “crisis of modernity,” and the debate An advanced seminar on a topic in political or legal philosophy/ concerning contemporary democratic citizenship. Prerequisite: theory. Topics vary by year. Prerequisite: At least one course in Two courses in text-based political philosophy or political political theory or philosophy or consent of instructor. theory, or consent of the instructor. Current topic description: What does it mean to call Bryn POLS B350 Equalities and Inequalities in Politics and Mawr and Haverford self-governing institutions? Or to believe Society that we - citizens of various communities, nations, or states - govern ourselves? Higher education institutions are not alone Not offered 2021-22 in invoking self-governance as both ethical and educational; The modern state rests on a claim of equality (of a certain this seminar seeks to reflect deeply about the meanings of sort) between citizens. At the same time, modern societies self-governance, why we might desire it, and how political are marked by significant and increasing inequalities (of institutions, laws, and culture might embody it. We will grapple various sorts). How should we regard the co-existence of with some recent and influential accounts of governance and the claim of equality and the existence of inequalities? For politics from communitarian, queer-anarchistic, Afro-Pessimist, some, the existence of large-scale inequalities may be seen Indigenous, and democratic perspectives. Our objective will be not only as wholly consistent with the equality of citizens, but to develop and implement critical vocabulary for understanding an expected, natural, and proper outcome of that equality. and implementing what self-governance might mean, what For others, the existence of significant inequalities marks a conditions it requires, and what “best practices” community failure of the promise of equality among citizens. Beyond these members and citizens committed to it might enlist to realize its disagreements, people disagree about the significance of the potential for self-development and collective flourishing. distinction between citizens and non-citizens. What kinds of equalities, if any, that are not acceptable between citizens are acceptable between citizens and non-citizens? In this course, PHYSICS we shall explore such questions concerning the relationship between claims of equality and the existence of inequalities Students may complete a major or minor in Physics. Within in modern societies. We will examine these various questions the major, students may complete a minor in educational at both an abstract level (reading essays of political theory studies or complete the requirements for secondary education and philosophy) and in the context of particular problems of certification. Students may complete an M.A. in the combined social policy. While the instructor will be largely responsible A.B./M.A. program. for assigning readings of the first sort, students will share the responsibility for finding readings of the second. They will do this as part of their own semester-long research projects. This Faculty course is open to all students who have the prerequisites. It Xuemei Cheng, Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of also serves as a thesis prep course for political science senior Physics majors. Suggested Preparation: At least one course in political theory OR Political Science Senior OR consent of instructor. Kathryn J. Daniel, Assistant Professor of Physics Counts toward Africana Studies Mark Matlin, Senior Lecturer and Lab Coordinator of Physics Chandani Nandadasa, Visiting Assistant Professor POLS B359 Depth Psychology, Politics, and the Social Order Michael Noel, Marion Reilly Professor and Chair of Physics David Schaffner, Associate Professor of Physics (on leave Fall 2021 semesters I and II) In this course, we examine a variety of political and social Michael Schulz, Associate Professor of Physics (on leave issues (among them racism, the economic organization of semester II) society, and demagoguery) from the perspective of “depth psychology.” By “depth psychology” we refer to the study of human activity in terms of individual and collective, conscious The courses in Physics emphasize the concepts and and unconscious psychic dynamics. Modern depth psychology techniques that have led to our present way of modeling the grew up in the late 19th century; its two greatest theorists physical world. They are designed both to relate the individual were Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, the latter of parts of physics to the whole and to treat the various subjects whom founded what is now the broad and diverse field of in depth. Opportunities exist for interdisciplinary work and for psychoanalysis. We will draw on works by Nietzsche, by Freud, participation by qualified majors in research with members of by later psychoanalysts, and by writers were deeply influenced the faculty and their graduate students. In addition, qualified by these, such as Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, and Herbert seniors may take graduate courses. Marcuse. We will also draw on the insights of depth psychology to try to help understand the use and organization of hate within Required Introductory Courses for the Major contemporary politics. Prerequisite: One course in theory OR and Minor consent of instructor. The introductory courses required for the physics major and Course does not meet an Approach minor are PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 (or PHYS 101 and 102)

327 PHYSICS and MATH 101 and MATH 102. Students are encouraged to The physics program at Bryn Mawr allows for a student place out of MATH 101 and 102 if that is appropriate. Although to major in physics even if the introductory courses are not College credit is given for a score of 4 or 5 on the AP tests completed until the end of the sophomore year. and for a score of 5 or above on the IB examination, the AP and IB courses are not equivalent to PHYS 121 and PHYS Three-Year Plan meeting the minimum 122 and advanced placement will not, in general, be given. requirements for the major: However, students with a particularly strong background in physics are encouraged to take the departmental placement 1st Year examination either during the summer before entering Bryn • MATH 101, 102 Mawr or just prior to, or during, the first week of classes. Then, the department can place students in the appropriate course. 2nd Year Students are not given credit for courses they place out of as a result of taking this placement exam. It is best for a student • PHYS 121, 122 considering a physics major to complete the introductory • MATH 201, 203 requirements in the first year. However, the major sequence is designed so that a student who completes the introductory 3rd Year sequence by the end of the sophomore year can major in • PHYS 201, 214, 306, 331 or 305 physics. 4th Year Major Requirements • Three 300-level physics courses, plus 398 The physics major provides depth in the discipline through a series of required courses, as well as the flexibility to choose Honors from a range of electives in physics and related fields. This The degree of Bachelor of Arts is awarded with honors in allows students to follow various paths through the major and physics in recognition of excellence as demonstrated by both thus tailor their program of study to best meet their career goals academic work and research. The award is made upon the and scientific interests. recommendation of the department based on the following Beyond the two introductory physics courses and the two criteria: introductory mathematics courses, ten additional courses are • distinction in undergraduate research and quality of a required for the major. (Haverford courses may be substituted written senior thesis; for Bryn Mawr courses where appropriate.) Five of the ten courses must be PHYS 201, 214, 306, and MATH 201, 203. • achievement of a major GPA of at least 3.4 and an overall In addition, either PHYS 331 or 305 is required as well as the GPA of at least 3.0. half-credit Senior Seminar, PHYS 398 offered each fall. PHYS • For purposes of honors, the major GPA is computed from 331 and PHYS 305 are Writing Intensive courses and by the following courses: completing at least one of them, students can meet the Writing Requirement in the major. The remaining three courses must physics courses at the 200-level and above at be chosen from among the other 300-level physics courses, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, excluding PHYS one of which may be substituted with one course from among 380, 390, 398, and 403 at Bryn Mawr College and ASTR 342, 343, and 344, or a 300-level math course, with the their analogs at Haverford College; approval of the major’s advisor. Other substitutions from related 200-level courses in mathematics required for the disciplines such as chemistry, geology, and engineering) may physics major (MATH B201 and B203); be possible. Please consult with the major’s advisor to discuss 300-level courses in mathematics, astronomy (or in such options. some cases another field) only if substituted for a 300-level course in physics with the approval of the Four-Year Plan meeting the minimum major advisor. requirements for the major:

1st Year Study Abroad Many physics majors participate in the College’s junior year • PHYS 121, 122 study abroad program. Undergraduate physics courses are • MATH 101, 102 surprisingly standardized throughout the world. The Majors Adviser will work with you to design an appropriate set of 2nd Year courses to take wherever you go. • PHYS 201, 214 • MATH 201, 203 Minor Requirements The requirements for the minor, beyond the introductory 3rd Year sequence, are PHYS 201, 214 and 306; PHYS 331 or 305; • PHYS 306, 331 or 305, and one other 300-level physics MATH 201, 203; and one additional 300-level physics course. course The astronomy and mathematics courses described under “Major Requirements” may not be substituted for the one 4th Year additional 300-level physics course.

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The department has been very successful in preparing students 4+1 Program in Engineering with UPenn for graduate school in physics, physical chemistry, materials Students can pursue engineering through the 4+1 Program science, engineering, and related fields. To be well prepared in Engineering and Applied Science offered in cooperation for graduate school, students should take, at a minimum, these with the University of Pennsylvania, earning an A.B. at Bryn upper-level courses: PHYS 302, 303, 308, and 309. Students Mawr and an M.A. at U. Penn in five years. For additional should also take any additional courses in physics and allied information, visit www.brynmawr.edu/catalog/2016-17/program/ fields that reflect their interests, and should engage in research opportunities/41penn_engineerin.... with a member of the faculty by taking PHYS 403. (Note that PHYS 403 does not count towards the 14 courses required for A.B./M.A. Program the major.) Seniors can take graduate courses, usually PHYS 501: Quantum Mechanics or PHYS 503: Electromagnetism, to To earn an M.A. degree in physics in the College’s A.B./ get a head start on graduate school. M.A. program, a student must complete the requirements for an undergraduate physics major and also must complete six units Minor in Educational Studies or Secondary- of graduate level work in physics. Of these six units, as many School Teacher Certification as two units may be undergraduate courses at the 300 level taken for graduate credit (these same two courses may be used Students majoring in physics can pursue a minor in to fulfill the major requirements for the A.B. degree), at least educational studies or state certification to teach at the two units must be graduate seminars at the 500 level, and two secondary-school level. Students seeking the minor need units must be graduate research at the 700 level leading to the to complete six education courses including a two-semester submission and oral defense of an acceptable M.A. thesis. senior seminar, which requires five to eight hours per week of fieldwork. To earn secondary-school certification (grades 7-12) Courses at Haverford College in physics, students must: complete the physics major plus two semesters of chemistry and one semester as a teaching Many upper-level physics courses are taught at Haverford assistant in a laboratory for introductory or intermediate and Bryn Mawr in alternate years as indicated in the listings physics courses; complete six education courses; and student of the specific courses below. These courses (numbered 302, teach full-time (for two course credits) second semester of their 303, 308, 309, and 322) may be taken at either institution to senior year. For additional information, see Education. satisfy major requirements. Haverford 335 and Bryn Mawr 325 are both topics in advanced theoretical physics and they also Pre-Health Professions tend to alternate. In addition, 100- and 200-level courses at Haverford can be used to replace 100- and 200-level courses A major in physics can be excellent preparation for a career at Bryn Mawr but these courses are not identical and careful in the health professions. A recent (2010) study by the planning is required. American Institute of Physics finds that “…as a group, physics bachelor’s degree recipients achieve among the highest Introductory Physics Sequences scores of any college major on the entrance exams for medical school…” In addition to one year of physics, most medical Students on a pre-health professions track wanting to take and dental schools require one year of English, one year of one year of physics should take PHYS 101 and PHYS 102. biology, one year of general chemistry, and one year of organic Some students on a physical sciences major track could take chemistry. Students wishing to pursue this path should consult PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 and others might take PHYS 122 the physics major’s advisor early in their studies as well as the and PHYS 201. See your major adviser and carefully note Health Professions Advising Office to develop an appropriate the math pre- and co-requisites for these courses. PHYS major plan. For additional information, see Health Professions 121/122/201/214 is a coordinated, four-semester sequence in Advising. physics. Students are encouraged to place out of MATH 101 and 102 if that is appropriate. Engineering Options Courses Although Bryn Mawr does not offer engineering courses, several options are available to students with an interest in this PHYS B101 Introductory Physics I field. Fall 2021 A Physics Major With an Engineering Focus PHYS 101/102 is an introductory sequence intended primarily A path through the physics major can be developed that for students on the pre-health professions track. Emphasis is provides a solid preparation for further studies at the masters or on developing an understanding of how we study the universe, doctoral level in engineering. This path can include coursework the ideas that have arisen from that study, and on problem in engineering taken at Swarthmore College or the University of solving. Topics are taken from among Newtonian kinematics Pennsylvania. and dynamics, relativity, gravitation, fluid mechanics, waves and sound, electricity and magnetism, electrical circuits, light 3+2 Program in Engineering and Applied Science with and optics, quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear Caltech physics. An effective and usable understanding of algebra and trigonometry is assumed. First year students who will take or Students can pursue engineering through the 3+2 Program in place out of MATH 101 should take PHYS 121. MATH B100 or Engineering and Applied Science, offered in cooperation with MATH H105 are required co requisites. Lecture three hours, the California Institute of Technology, earning both an A.B. at laboratory two hours. Bryn Mawr and a B.S. at Caltech in five years. For additional information, see the “Academic Opportunities” section of the Quantitative Methods (QM) Catalog. 329 PHYSICS

Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Quantitative Methods (QM) Scientific Investigation (SI) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) PHYS B102 Introductory Physics II Spring 2022 PHYS B201 Electromagnetism

PHYS 101/102 is an introductory sequence intended primarily Fall 2021 for students on the pre-health professions track. Emphasis is The lecture material covers electro- and magneto-statics, on developing an understanding of how we study the universe, electric and magnetic fields, induction, Maxwell’s equations, the ideas that have arisen from that study, and on problem and electromagnetic radiation. Scalar and vector fields and solving. Topics are taken from among Newtonian kinematics vector calculus are developed as needed. The laboratory and dynamics, relativity, gravitation, fluid mechanics, waves involves passive and active circuits and projects in analog and and sound, electricity and magnetism, electrical circuits, light digital electronics. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours. and optics, quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear Prerequisite: PHYS 102 or 122. Corequisite: MATH 201. physics. An effective and usable understanding of algebra and Quantitative Methods (QM) trigonometry is assumed. Prerequisites: MATH B100 or HC Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) MATH H105 . Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours. Scientific Investigation (SI) Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) PHYS B214 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Scientific Investigation (SI) Spring 2022 PHYS B105 Design and Making for All An introduction to the principles governing systems at the atomic scale and below. Topics include the experimental basis Not offered 2021-22 of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, Schrödinger’s This is a combined lecture and laboratory course that explores equation and its solutions, and the time dependence of how products are designed and made, introducing the quantum states. Recent developments, such as paradoxes engineering design process, creativity methods, human factors calling attention to the counter-intuitive aspects of quantum considerations, and ideation. Students engage in reverse physics, will be discussed. Additional topics may be included engineering as well as creation of simple product prototypes at the discretion of the instructor. The laboratory provides using tools including 3D printers. an introduction to a variety of computational tools and Quantitative Methods (QM) programming techniques. Lecture three hours, laboratory three Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) hours. Prerequisite: MATH 201 and PHYS B122, or permission

Scientific Investigation (SI) of the instructor. Corequisite: MATH 203. Quantitative Methods (QM) PHYS B121 Modern Physics Scientific Investigation (SI) Fall 2021 PHYS B302 Advanced Quantum Mechanics and This course presents current conceptual understandings Applications and mathematical formulations of fundamental ideas used in physics. Students will develop physical intuition and problem- Spring 2022 solving skills by exploring key concepts in physics such as This course presents nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, conservation laws, symmetries and relativistic space-time, including Schrodinger’s equation, the eigenvalue problem, as well as topics in modern physics taken from the following: the measurement process, the hydrogen , the harmonic fundamental forces, nuclear physics, particle physics, and oscillator, angular momentum, spin, the periodic table, cosmology. This course can serve as a stand-alone survey of perturbation theory, and the relationship between quantum physics or as the first of a four-semester sequence designed and Newtonian mechanics. Lecture three hours and additional for those majoring in the physical sciences. The laboratory recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS B214 and involves quantum mechanics, solid state physics, and optics PHYS B306 or PHYS H213 experiments. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours. Co- requisite: MATH B101. PHYS B303 Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Quantitative Methods (QM) Not offered 2021-22 Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) This course presents the statistical description of the Scientific Investigation (SI) macroscopic states of classical and quantum systems, including conditions for equilibrium, the microcanonical, PHYS B122 Classical Mechanics canonical, and grand canonical ensembles, and Bose-Einstein, Spring 2022 Fermi-Dirac, and Maxwell Boltzmann statistics. The statistical The lecture material covers Newtonian Mechanics of single basis of classical thermodynamics is investigated. Examples particles, systems of particles, rigid bodies, and continuous and applications are drawn from among solid state physics, media with applications, one-dimensional systems including low temperature physics, atomic and molecular physics, forced oscillators, scattering and orbit problems. Lecture three electromagnetic waves, and cosmology. Lecture three hours hours, laboratory two hours. Prerequisites: PHYS 121 (or and additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) and MATH 101. Corequisite: MATH PHYS B214 or H214. Co-requisite: PHYS B306 or H213. 102.

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PHYS B305 Advanced Electronics Lab This course presents the physics of solids and nanomaterials. Spring 2022 Topics include crystal structure and diffraction, the reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zones, crystal binding, lattice vibrations This laboratory course is a survey of electronic principles and normal modes, phonon dispersion, Einstein and Debye and circuits useful to experimental physicists and engineers. models for the specific heat, the free electron model, the Topics include the design and analysis of circuits using Fermi surface, electrons in periodic structures, the Bloch transistors, operational amplifiers, feedback and analog-to- theorem and band structure. Additional topics are taken from digital conversion. Also covered is the use of electronics for nanoscale structures (0-D nanodots, 1-D nanowires, and 2-D automated control and measurement in experiments, and the thin films), nanomagnetism, spintronics, superconductivity, and interfacing of computers and other data acquisition instruments experimental methods for fabrication and characterization of to experiments. Laboratory eight hours a week. Prerequisite: nanomaterials. Lecture three hours and additional recitation PHYS B201 sessions as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS B201 and PHYS B214 and B306 OR PHYS H213 and H214. PHYS B305 Advanced Electronics Lab Spring 2022 PHYS B325 General Relativity This laboratory course is a survey of electronic principles Not offered 2021-22 and circuits useful to experimental physicists and engineers. An introductory course in general relativity with an emphasis on Topics include the design and analysis of circuits using physical principles and geodesics in curved . Topics transistors, operational amplifiers, feedback and analog-to- include special relativity, the calculus of variations, metrics, digital conversion. Also covered is the use of electronics for geodesics, the equivalence principle, gravitational redshift, the automated control and measurement in experiments, and the static weak field metric, the Schwarzschild metric describing interfacing of computers and other data acquisition instruments spacetime outside of a black holes or star, the precession of to experiments. Laboratory eight hours a week. Prerequisite: planetary orbits and the bending of light by massive objects, PHYS B201 the parametrized post-Newtonian formalism for probing deviations from general relativity, the Kruskal extension of PHYS B306 Mathematical Methods in the Physical the Schwarzschild spacetime, causal structure, gravitational Sciences collapse, tensors, covariant derivatives, parallel transport, Fall 2021 geodesic deviation, curvature, and the Einstein equations. Additional topics may include applications to rotating black This course presents topics in applied mathematics useful to holes, gravitational waves, cosmology, or Hawking radiation. students, including physicists, engineers, physical chemists, Prerequisites: PHYS B306 or H213. geologists, and computer scientists studying the natural sciences. Topics are taken from Fourier series, integral PHYS B328 Galactic Dynamics and Advanced Classical transforms, advanced ordinary and partial differential equations, Mechanics special functions, boundary-value problems, functions of complex variables, and numerical methods. Lecture three hours Not offered 2021-22 and additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisite: This course is for the advanced undergraduate interested in MATH 201 and 203. the physics galactic dynamics and evolution, i.e. collisionless, gravitational N-body systems composed of stars and dark PHYS B308 Advanced Classical Mechanics matter. Topics covered will include potential theory, orbit Fall 2021 theory, collisionless Boltzmann equation, Jeans equations, disk stability, violent relaxation, phase mixing, dynamical friction and This course presents kinematics and dynamics of particles kinetic theory. To support the these theories, we will also cover and macroscopic systems using Newtonian, Lagrangian, and advanced topics in classical mechanics including Lagrange Hamiltonian mechanics. Topics include oscillations, normal and Hamilton methods, the central force problem, canonical mode analysis, inverse square laws, nonlinear dynamics, transformations, action-angle variables, chaos and perturbation rotating rigid bodies, and motion in noninertial reference theory. This course is taught in a seminar format, in which frames. Lecture three hours and additional recitation sessions students are responsible for presenting much of the course as needed. Prerequisite: PHYS B201 or PHYS B214 or PHYS material in class meetings. Prerequisites: MATH B201, MATH H214. Co-requisite: PHYS B306 or H213. B203, PHYS B201, B214, and PHYS B308 or permission from PHYS B309 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory instructor. Not offered 2021-22 PHYS B331 Advanced Experimental Physics This course presents electrostatics and magnetostatics, Not offered 2021-22 dielectrics, magnetic materials, electrodynamics, Maxwell’s This laboratory course consists of set-piece experiments equations, electromagnetic waves, and special relativity. Some as well as directed experimental projects to study a variety examples and applications may come from superconductivity, of phenomena in atomic, molecular, optical, nuclear, and plasma physics, and radiation theory. Lecture three hours and solid state physics. The experiments and projects serve as additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS an introduction to contemporary instrumentation and the B201 and B306 OR H213 and H214. experimental techniques used in physics research laboratories PHYS B322 Solid State Physics in industry and in universities. Students write papers in a format appropriate for research publications and make a presentation Spring 2022

331 PHYSICS to the class. Laboratory eight hours a week. Corequisite: PHYS PHYS B504 Electromagnetic Theory II 214. Not offered 2021-22 PHYS B380 Physics Pedagogy This course is the second semester of a two semester graduate Not offered 2021-22 level sequence on electromagnetic theory. Topics include electromagnetic radiation, multiple fields, scattering and Students work with a faculty member as assistant teachers in a diffraction theory, special relativity, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian college course in physics, or as assistants to a faculty member descriptions, radiation from point particle motion, Lienard- developing new teaching materials. Students will be involved Wiechert potentials, classical electron theory and radiation in some combination of the following: directed study of the reaction. Additional topics may be included at the discretion literature on teaching and learning pedagogy, construction and of the instructor. This course is taught in a seminar format, design of parts of a course, and actual teaching in a lecture in which students are responsible for presenting much of the course or laboratory. Corequisite: PHYS 201 or 214. course material in class meetings. Prerequisite: PHYS 503

PHYS B390 Independent Study PHYS B505 Classical Mechanics I Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 At the discretion of the department, juniors or seniors may This course will cover mechanics topics familiar from the supplement their work in physics with the study of topics not undergraduate curriculum, but from deeper theoretical and covered in regular course offerings. mathematical perspectives. Topics will include Lagrange and Hamilton methods, the central force problem, rigid body PHYS B398 Senior Seminar motion, oscillations, and canonical transformations. Time Required for senior Physics majors. Students meet weekly with permitting, other topics that might be explored include chaos faculty to discuss recent research findings in physics as well as theory, special relativity, and the application of Lagrangian and career paths open to students with a major in Physics. Students Hamiltonian methods to continuous systems. This course is are required to attend all colloquia and student research taught in a seminar format, in which students are responsible presentations hosted by the Bryn Mawr College Physics for presenting much of the course material in class meetings. department. Prerequisite: Senior Standing. PHYS B507 Statistical Mechanics I PHYS B403 Supervised Research Not offered 2021-22 At the discretion of the department, juniors and seniors may Review of Thermodynamics; Equilibrium statistical mechanics supplement their work in physics with research in one of the -- microcanonical and canonical ensembles; Ideal gases, faculty research groups. Students provide a written paper and photons, electrons in metals; Phase transitions; Monte give an oral presentation at the end of the semester or year. Carlo techniques; Classical fluids, Non-equilibrium statistical Students are encouraged to contact individual faculty members mechanics. and the departmental Web pages for further information. PHYS B701 Supervised Work PHYS B403 Supervised Research Fall 2021, Spring 2022 At the discretion of the department, juniors and seniors may supplement their work in physics with research in one of the Supervised Research faculty research groups. Students provide a written paper and give an oral presentation at the end of the semester or year. MATH B101 Calculus I Students are encouraged to contact individual faculty members Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and the departmental Web pages for further information. This is the first in a sequence of two courses that covers single-variable calculus. Topics include functions, limits, PHYS B503 Electromagnetic Theory I continuity, derivatives, differentiation formulas, applications of Not offered 2021-22 derivatives, integrals, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. This course is the first semester of a year-long standard Prerequisite: proficiency in high-school mathematics (including sequence on electromagnetism. This semester begins with algebra, geometry, and trigonometry). topics in electrostatics, including Coulomb’s and Gauss’s Quantitative Methods (QM) Laws, Green functions, the method of images, expansions in Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) orthogonal functions, boundary-value problems, and dielectric materials. The focus then shifts to magnetic phenomena, MATH B102 Calculus II including the magnetic fields of localized currents, boundary- Fall 2021, Spring 2022 value problems in magnetostatics, and the interactions of fields and magnetic materials. The last portion of the course This is the second in a sequence of two courses that covers treats Maxwell’s equations, transformation properties of single-variable calculus. Topics include techniques of electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves and their integration, applications of integration, infinite sequences and propagation and, time permitting, the basics of waveguides. series, tests of convergence for series, and power series. This course is taught in a seminar format, in which students are Prerequisite: a merit grade in Math 101 (or an equivalent responsible for presenting much of the course material in class experience). meetings. Quantitative Methods (QM)

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MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus All Haverford Political Science courses count toward the Fall 2021 Bryn Mawr major (the same is generally true for courses at Swarthmore and Penn). Majors in the Bryn Mawr department This course extends calculus to functions of multiple variables. must take at least four (for 2019-20: three) of their major Topics include functions, limits, continuity, vectors, directional courses here, in addition to 399. derivatives, optimization problems, multiple integrals, parametric curves, vector fields, line integrals, surface integrals, The study of politics covers a wide ground, and the Political and the theorems of Gauss, Green and Stokes. Prerequisite: a Science major is designed to give students an opportunity to merit grade in Math 102 (or an equivalent experience). focus their study while also attending to questions, issues, and problems that run through the study of politics more generally, Quantitative Methods (QM) and that connect the study of politics to other disciplines. We have organized the major along the lines of four general MATH B203 Linear Algebra themes as well as according to traditional subfields

Spring 2022 • Identity and Difference This course considers systems of linear equations, matrix • Policy Formation and Political Action algebra, determinants, vector spaces, subspaces, linear independence, bases, dimension, linear transformations, • Interdependence and Conflict eigenvalues, eigenvectors, orthogonality, and applications of • Political and Legal Theory linear algebra. Prerequisite (or corequisite): Math 102. • American Politics Quantitative Methods (QM) • Comparative Politics • International Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE • Law and Policy The Political Science major consists of a minimum of 10 Faculty courses: Michael Allen, Associate Provost and Professor of Political • Two introductory-level courses, which prospective majors Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science and should complete by the end of their sophomore year, from Co-Director of International Studies this list: 121, 123 (at HC), 131, 141, 143 (at HC), 151 (at HC), 228, 245 and 231. These courses may be taken in Caitlin Brown, Visiting Assitant Professor any order. Jeremy Elkins, Associate Professor of Political Science • Two concentrations, at least one of which should be from Marissa Golden, Associate Professor of Political Science on the either the four general themes or the traditional subfields Joan Coward Chair in Political Economics listed above. The second concentration is normally also Carol Hager, Professor of Environmental Studies and Political chosen from those categories, but it can be based on Science a more substantive focus (e.g. gender, environmental politics, or the politics of a particular region), to be Seung-Youn Oh, Associate Professor of Political Science determined in consultation with the student’s advisor. Each Joel Schlosser, Associate Professor and Chair of Political concentration consists of three courses, at least one Science of which must be at the 300 level and all of which must be either at the 200 or 300 level. The specific courses Nathaniel Shils, Visiting Instructor required to satisfy the concentration will be determined as part of a major work plan by the student and her advisor. Political Science is the study of justice and authority, peace and conflict, public policies and elections, government and law, • One additional 300 level course. (For the Class of 2019-20, democracy and autocracy, freedom and oppression. More than a 200-level course may be substituted for the additional any other social science, Political Science uses a wide variety 300-level course. In either case, the total number of of approaches to explain political phenomena and to evaluate courses will be a minimum of 10). the actions of polities and leaders. The Political Science major • Senior Essay (399), to be taken in the spring semester of develops reading, writing, and thinking skills necessary for a the senior year. critical understanding of the political world. The major prepares • At least four (for 2019-20: three) courses, in addition students to go on to public policy or law schools as well as to to POLS 399, must be taken in the Bryn Mawr Political graduate work in Political Science. Majors in the department Science Department. have pursued careers worldwide in public service, journalism, advocacy, law, and education, to name a few. Senior Capstone Major Requirements The senior project in Political Science can take one of two forms. All students can choose to write Senior Field Essays. Students who wish to declare Political Science as a major With faculty approval and a well-constructed project, students should contact the Political Science Chair. The department can instead choose to write a senior thesis. Students on both will attempt to respect requests for a particular advisor, but, paths will have an oral “defense” at the end of the spring because of the need to distribute advisees evenly among the semester. faculty, cannot guarantee particular requests.

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Senior Field Essays for credit toward the major. Courses taken abroad count at the 200 level only. The Senior Field Essays consist of two essays (approximately 12-15 pages each) on two topics or themes that the student Writing Intensive and Writing Attentive has studied during their time at Bryn Mawr. These essays are an opportunity to reflect on topics/themes of the students’ Courses own choosing, and are intended to draw on, and extend and/ Students are required to take at least one writing intensive or integrate ideas from various courses that the student has course or two writing attentive courses in their major. Political taken. Generally, the topics of the essays should reflect their Science generally offers one writing intensive course two concentrations and the courses taken within each; the annually. In addition, a number of 300-level courses that count precise topic of each essay will be determined by the student as writing attentive will be offered annually. in consultation with a senior essay advisor. Each essay should discuss approximately 5-7 relevant works (books and/ Departmental Honors or articles), although a higher or lower number (or a specific Students who have done distinguished work in their courses balance between books and articles) may be determined in in the major and who write outstanding senior essays will be consultation with the faculty advisor. The precise number of considered for departmental honors. works considered may vary depending on the topic and will be determined in consultation with the student’s faculty advisor. Minor Requirements Students attend a fall meeting to discuss the general A minor in Political Science consists of six courses distributed requirements for the essays, and submit a proposal for the across a minimum of two fields. At least four of these courses topics of the two essays at about the 10th week of the fall must be at the 200 level or higher, and at least two of them semester. (The exact date is announced at the fall meeting). must be at the 300 level. At least three of the courses must Students are assigned an advisor who meets with the student be taken from the Bryn Mawr Department of Political Science at the end of fall semester or beginning of spring semester. course offerings. Students meet regularly with their advisors through the spring semester to discuss their work-in-progress. The first essay is The fields are: submitted before spring break. The second essay is submitted • Identity and Difference by the last day of spring classes. • Policy Formation and Political Action Senior Thesis • Interdependence and Conflict Students who are interested in the possibility of writing a thesis • Political and Legal Theory and who have a clearly defined thesis topic should discuss • American Politics their prospective thesis with a member of the Political Science faculty during the fall semester prior to fall break. The faculty • Comparative Politics member and the student will discuss the appropriateness of • International Politics doing a thesis in lieu of the Field Essays. With the approval of the faculty member, the student will submit a detailed thesis • Law and Policy proposal in lieu of the Field Essay proposals, due around the 10th week of fall semester. Students writing a thesis Course Designations are assigned a thesis advisor with whom the student meets Almost every course offered in the Political regularly during the spring term. Science Departments at Bryn Mawr and Haverford will count for at least one of the fields of concentration, and some may Senior Orals count for more than one (no single course, however, may be

During finals weeks of the spring semester, senior Political counted as part of more than one field of concentration). Many

Science majors will meet with their advisor and a second faculty courses offered at Swarthmore and Penn will also count reader to discuss their completed field essays or thesis. This is toward these. Students should consult their advisor for an opportunity for the student to answer questions about, and information on classifying any courses that do not appear on elaborate on, their senior projects. this list. Major Credit for Courses Outside Identity and Difference the Political Science Department 123 American Politics: Difference and Discrimination (H) Up to three courses from departments other than 131 Introduction to Comparative Politics Political Science may be accepted for major credit, if in the 206 Conflict and Conflict Management judgment of the department these courses are an integral 220 Constitutional Law part of a student’s major plan. Decisions as to which outside courses count for Political Science major credit are made by 226 Social Movement Theory (H) the faculty on a case by case basis. When in doubt, students 228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Early should consult their major advisor or the department chair. Modern Ordinarily, 100-level courses taken in other departments may not be counted for major credit in Political Science. 229 Latino Politics in the U.S. (H) We encourage students to spend a semester abroad during 231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern their junior year. We generally count one course taken abroad 235 African Politics (H)

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242 Women in War and Peace (H) 265 Politics, Markets and Theories of Capitalism (H) 243 African and Caribbean Perspectives in World Politics 274 Education Politics and Policy 245 Philosophy of Law 278 Oil, Politics, Society, and Economy 248 Modern Middle East Cities 279 State Transformation/Conflict 253 Feminist Theory 288 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa 282 The Exotic Other 287 Media and Politics: The Middle East Transformed 285 Religion and the Limits of Liberalism (H) 308 Political Transformation in Eastern and Western Europe:

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316 Politics—Identity and conflict 314 Strategic Advocacy: Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in Washington, D.C. (H) 320 Democracy in America (H) 315 Public Policy Analysis (H) 336 Democracy and Democratization (H) 320 Democracy in America (H) 340 Postcolonialism and the Politics of Nation-building (H) 321 Technology and Politics 345 Islam, Democracy and Development (H) 325 Grassroots Politics in Philadelphia (H) 348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict identity and conflict 333 Transformations in American Politics: late 20th-early 21st 354 Comparative Social Movements century 358 Political Psychology and Ethnic Conflict 334 Politics of Violence (H) 370 Becoming a People: Power, Justice, and the Political (H) 339 The Policymaking Process 375 Perspectives on Work, and Family in the U.S. 345 Islam, Democracy and Development (H) 379 Feminist Political Theory (H) 354 Comparative Social Movements: Power, Protest, 383 Islamic Reform and Radicalism and Mobilization 375 Perspectives on Work and Family in the U.S. Policy Formation and Political Action 378 Origins of American Constitutionalism 121 American Politics (H) 385 Democracy and Development H121 American Politics and Its Dynamics (H) 393 US Welfare Politics: Theory and Practice 131 Introduction to Comparative Politics H123 American Politics: Difference and Discrimination (H) Interdependence and Conflict H131 Comparative Government and Politics (H) 151 International Politics (H) 131 Introduction to Comparative Politics 205 European Politics 205 European Politics 206 Conflict and Conflict Management 222 Introduction to Environmental Issues: Policy Making in 211 Politics of Humanitarianism Comparative Perspective 233 Perspectives on Civil War and Revolution: H223 American Political Process: The Congress (H) Southern Europe and Central America (H) H224 The American Presidency (H) 235 Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies H225 Mobilization Politics (H) 239 The United States and Latin America (H) H226 Social Movement Theory (H) 240 Inter-American Dialogue (H) H227 Urban Politics (H) 242 Women in War and Peace (H) H228 Urban Policy (H) 247 Political Economy of Developing Countries (H) H230 Topics in Comparative Politics (H) 248 Modern Middle East Cities H235 African Politics (H) 250 International Politics H237 Latin American Politics (H) 252 International Politics of the Middle East (H) 242 Women in War and Peace (H) 253 Introduction to Terrorism Studies (H) 248 Modern Middle East Cities 256 The Evolution of the Jihadi Movement (H) H249 The Soviet System and Its Demise (H) 258 The Politics of International Institutions (H) 254 Bureaucracy and Democracy 259 American Foreign Policy (H) H257 The State System (H) 261 Global Civil Society (H) 259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin American 262 Human Rights and Global Politics (H) 335 POLITICAL SCIENCE

264 Politics of Commodities 365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare 265 Politics, Markets and Theories of Capitalism (H) 370 Becoming a People: Power, Justice, and the Political (H) 278 Oil, Politics, Society, and Economy 371 Topics in Legal and Political Philosophy 279 State Transformation/Conflict 378 Origins of American Constitutionalism 283 Modern Middle East/North Africa 379 Feminist Political Theory (H) 288 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa 380 Persons, Morality and Modernity 287 Media and Politics: The Middle East Transformed 381 Nietzsche, Self, and Morality 308 Political Transformation in Eastern and Western Europe: 392 State in Theory and History Germany and Its Neighbors 316 Ethnic Group Politics—Identity and conflict Courses 339 Transitional Justice (H) POLS B121 Introduction to U.S. Politics 347 Advanced Issues in Peace and Conflict Fall 2021 340 Postcolonialism and the Politics of Nation-building (H) As democracy faces new challenges across the globe, it is 348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict identity and conflict more important than ever to understand the key features of the American political system - including its policy making and 350 Topics in International Politics (H) electoral institutions and its elected and appointed officials - 357 International Relations Theory: Conflict and the Middle and to think critically about their virtues and limitations. This East (H) course provides an overview of these key features. Writing Attentive. 358 The War on Terrorism (H) Course does not meet an Approach 358 Political Psychology and Ethnic Conflict 361 Democracy and Global Governance (H) POLS B131 Introduction to Comparative Politics 362 Global Justice (H) Fall 2021 365 Solidarity Economy Movements (H) This course is designed to provide an introduction to the discipline of comparative politics. We will explore the primary

378 Origins of American Constitutionalism approaches and concepts scholars employ in order to 379 The United Nations and World Order systematically analyze the political world. In doing so, we will also examine the political structures, institutions, and behaviors 383 Islamic Reform and Radicalism of a number of countries around the world. Questions we will 385 Democracy and Development 391 International Political engage with include: What is power and how is it exercised? Economy What are the differences between democratic and authoritarian 392 State in Theory and History regimes? How do different countries develop their economies? What factors shape the relationships between states and their Political Theory societies? By the end of this course, students will be equipped to answer these questions and prepared for further study in 171 Introduction to Political Theory: Democratic Authority (H) political science. 228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Early Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Modern 231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics 234 Legal Rights in the Administrative State Fall 2021 241 Politics of International law and Institutions An introduction to international relations, exploring its main subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and 245 Philosophy of Law problems in world politics examined include systems of power 253 Feminist Theory management, imperialism, globalization, war, bargaining, and 266 Sovereignty (H) peace. Problems and institutions of international economy and international law are also addressed. This course assumes a 272 Democratic Theory: Membership, Citizenship reasonable knowledge of modern world history. and Community (H) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) 276 American Political Thought from Founding to Civil War (H) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies 277 American Political Thought: Post Civil War (H) Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies 284 Modernity and its Discontents Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights 300 Nietzsche, Kant, Plato: Modes of Practical Philosophy POLS B202 Politics of Nationalism 320 Greek Political Philosophy Not offered 2021-22 327 Political Philosophy: 1950-Present This course explores the genesis, forms, and political dynamics 336 Democracy and Democratization (H)

336 POLITICAL SCIENCE of nationalism in different states and regions of the world. The economic realities of those parts of the world of which most of semester will culminate with examination of contemporary us have hitherto remained ignorant. debates about recent nationalist resurgence. In addition to Critical Interpretation (CI) the cultivation of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills, Counts toward International Studies three goals guide the course. The goals are for students to 1) develop nuanced understandings of the history and varieties of POLS B222 Environmental Issues: Movements and Policy nationalism, 2) analyze the relationships between concepts of Making in Comparative Perspective nationality, ethnicity, race, patriotism, and self-determination, and 3) assess nationalism in relation to alternative forms of Not offered 2021-22 collective identity and political organization. Texts will include An exploration of the ways in which different cultural, economic, “classics” of nationalism studies, scholarship on specific and political settings have shaped issue emergence and policy national movements, primary source material, and public making. We examine the politics of particular environmental commentary on current political trends. issues in selected countries and regions, paying special Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) attention to the impact of environmental movements. We Critical Interpretation (CI) also assess the prospects for international cooperation in addressing global environmental problems such as climate POLS B205 European Politics: Coming Together or Falling change. Apart? Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Spring 2022 Counts toward Environmental Studies

The European Union is one of the most ambitious experiments POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, Greece, and in international cooperation ever attempted. Despite the EU’s the “West” many successes, sources of conflict between and within

European countries have persisted. With the recent Greek Not offered 2021-22 financial crisis (“Grexit”), the Syrian refugee crisis, Britain’s An introduction to the dialogic construction of comparative departure (“Brexit”), and the rise of far-right nationalist parties political philosophy, using texts from several cultures or worlds in many member countries, the union is starting to look frayed of thought: ancient and modern China, ancient Greece, and around the edges. In fact, each move toward European the modern West. The course will have three parts. First, a has dropped barriers for some while raising them for others. In consideration of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in this course, we will explore European politics from the edges, ancient (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century from the borders separating the included from the excluded. invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses to this These borders may be geographical, political, socioeconomic, development; and third, the current discussions and debates racial/ethnic, or cultural in nature. Our focus will be on political about globalization, democracy, and human rights now going initiatives from the bottom up and the outside in. From this on in China and the West. Prerequisite: At least one course in perspective, we will try to make sense of the interactions that either Philosophy, Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or produce cross-cutting pressures toward European unification consent of the instructor. on the one hand and toward dissolution of the European Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) experiment on the other. We will cover issue areas such as Critical Interpretation (CI) migrant labor, housing and urban quality of life, immigration Counts toward International Studies and refugee policy, climate, pandemic response, education and collective memory, defense and security, and information POLS B227 Field Seminar in Comparative Politics politics. Fall 2021 Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This seminar introduces the intellectual history of comparative politics, and explore the primary approaches and concepts POLS B219 Comparative Field Seminar: Politics of scholars employ in order to systematically analyze the political Developing Countries world. In doing so, we will also examine the political structures, Not offered 2021-22 institutions, and behaviors of a number of countries around the Some 80% of the world’s population resides in the “developing world. Key questions we will discuss include: What is power world,” also known as the Global South or the Third World. and how is it exercised? What are the differences between The great diversity among developing countries argues against democratic and authoritarian regimes? How do different lumping them together into a single category, and yet the countries develop their economies? What factors affect the political and economic challenges they face, and the way they way that countries behave in the international arena? By the have been integrated into the world system--and the discipline end of this course, students will be equipped to answer these of political science--suggests that it might be possible, and questions, and prepared for further study in political science. possibly fruitful, to study them together. In this course, we will Freshman may not take this course and can take POLS B131. do just that, looking at the many issues they share in common, Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher from widespread poverty and vulnerability to the international Critical Interpretation (CI) economy to post-colonial states grappling with issues of Counts toward International Studies autonomy, sovereignty, authority, and accountability. While we may very well discover that the concepts of the “developing POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient world” and “the politics of the developing world” have and Early Modern problematic aspects, we will have reached such a conclusion Not offered 2021-22 as the result of critical engagement with the political and

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An introduction to the fundamental problems of political POLS B245 Philosophy of Law philosophy, especially the relationship between political life and Fall 2021 the human good or goods. Introduces students to a variety of questions in the philosophy Critical Interpretation (CI) of law. Readings will be concerned with the nature of law, the character of law as a system, the ethical character of law, and POLS B229 Politics of Women’s Empowerment the relationship of law to politics, power, authority, and society. Not offered 2021-22 Readings will include philosophical arguments about law, as The “empowerment of women” has become a key goal, well as judicial cases through which we examine these ideas whether real or rhetorical, of governments and politically within specific contexts, especially tort and contracts. Most or involved non-governmental institutions across the globe. all of the specific issues discussed will be taken from Anglo- Whether through foreign aid programs targeted at women or American law, although the general issues considered are not reserved seats within domestic legislatures, it is not uncommon limited to those legal systems. Recommended Prerequisite: to see policies meant to “empower” women. But what does sophomore standing, freshman only with professor’s consent. “empowerment” actually entail? Is it about assimilating women Critical Interpretation (CI) into existing political and economic structures? What types of power are being given to women, and how are they to use POLS B249 Politics of Economic Development it? Which women are being “empowered”? How does the Spring 2022 “empowerment” of women fit with other goals of those already in power? Is this a victory for feminism? We will take a cross- How do we explain the variations of political and economic national approach to the issue, looking at how various polities systems in the world? What is the relationship between the are approaching women’s empowerment, both at home and state and the market? To what extent does the timing of abroad. industrialization affect the viability of certain developmental strategies? This seminar introduces the intellectual history Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of comparative political economy and development studies Critical Interpretation (CI) with readings on both comparative political economy and international political economy. First, we will examine the POLS B231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern debates on the dynamics of the state and the market in the Spring 2022 development and globalization process. Second, we will A continuation of POLS 228, although 228 is not a prerequisite. explore specific case studies to discuss: 1) how the political Particular attention is given to the various ways in which the and economic processes have changed in response to the concept of freedom is used in explaining political life. Readings interaction of the domestic and international arenas, 2) whether from Locke, J.S. Mill, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and others. and how the late developers learned from the experiences of early developers, 3) how the international economy and

Critical Interpretation (CI) international financial crisis shaped domestic development strategies. Lastly, we will analyze the developmental POLS B241 The Politics of International Law and concerns at the sub-national level with financial liberalization. Institutions Prerequisite: Freshman can enroll after they have taken 100 Not offered 2021-22 level courses in social science and after getting instructor An introduction to international law, which assumes a working permission. knowledge of modern world history and politics since World Critical Interpretation (CI) War II. The origins of modern international legal norms in philosophy and political necessity are explored, showing POLS B251 Democracy, Politics and the Media the schools of thought to which the understandings of these Fall 2021 origins give rise. Significant cases are used to illustrate various principles and problems. Prerequisite: POLS B141 The media is sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, standing alongside the executive, legislative, and judicial

Critical Interpretation (CI) branches as a guarantor of democracy. But political actors

Counts toward International Studies have long labored to direct the press away from serving as their watchdogs and toward serving as their lapdogs. In this class, POLS B243 African and Caribbean Perspectives in World we will be focusing on this messy, multifaceted--and highly Politics consequential--relationship between politics and the media. Spring 2022 This course is aimed at introducing students to the rich area This course makes African and Caribbean voices audible as of research in this field, providing an overview of the various they create or adopt visions of the world that explain their facets of the discipline of political communication, from media positions and challenges in world politics. Students learn effects theories such as cognitive dissonance, framing and analytical tools useful in understanding other parts of the priming to critical, cultural, and normative theories on the role world. Prerequisite: POLS 141 or 1 course in African or Latin of the media in modern democracy. Our class discussions will American history. center on examining current political issues (such as social protests, foreign affairs coverage, political campaigns, social

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) media and political entertainment) and exploring whether older

Counts toward Africana Studies theories and approaches are still relevant in a media landscape so different (in quantity and quality) from the one in which they were originated - and what can we learn from them about

338 POLITICAL SCIENCE modern political phenomena. Many of our theories and cases themes include the regional state system and its challenges; will be drawn from the American context, but we will not limit transnational political movements; dynamics of repression, ourselves to only a single country. resistance, revolution, and reform within states; the significance of various forms of identity in political life (national, sectarian, POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change religious, etc.); and the distinctive characteristics of the region’s Not offered 2021-22 political economy. Among the particular topics we will address are processes of colonization and decolonization, state This course will introduce students to important political issues building, origins and outcomes of the 2011 uprisings, past and raised by climate change locally, nationally, and internationally, ongoing civil wars, and the effects of foreign interventions. A paying particular attention to the global implications of actions core goal for the course is for students to become conversant at the national and subnational levels. It will focus not only on in current debates about political developments in the region specific problems, but also on solutions; students will learn and to learn how to think critically, and with greater depth and about some of the technological and policy innovations that are nuance, about popular media coverage and “conventional being developed worldwide in response to the challenges of wisdom” that prevails in American discourse. No prerequisites, climate change. Only open to students in 360 program. but either some prior familiarity with the Middle East or a prior Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) political science course encouraged.

Counts toward Environmental Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies POLS B261 Sovereignty, Identity, and Law Not offered 2021-22 POLS B303 The Politics of Protest What is sovereignty and what does it mean to say that a Not offered 2021-22 “people” is sovereign? Is popular sovereignty rule by the “will In this course, we’ll expand our view of political participation, of the people?” Who is this “people” whose will is sovereign? looking beyond its institutionalized, regularized forms--voting, What are the implications of our answers to these questions holding office, etc.--by taking protest seriously. It places special for our idea of law? Is law the expression of that pre-existing emphasis on a comprehensive, multidimensional analysis will, and of something that already exists, called “the people”? of protest, asking students to recognize both the regularities Or does law have a role in creating “the people” and its “will”? and the nuances of what we call “protest.” Students will seek Drawing on theoretical, historical, and legal texts, this course answers to not only the “what” of protest, but also issues of who will explore the idea of sovereignty and popular sovereignty and chooses to protest, why they choose to do so, when and where its relation to law and collective identity. Sophomore Standing. they do, and how they go about it. We will see that there are no

Freshman only with instructor’s approval. single, authoritative answers to any of these questions, and as Critical Interpretation (CI) such, students will be asked to enter into a dialogue and debate Inquiry into the Past (IP) with scholars considering these issues. Students will leave this course not only with a greater appreciation and understanding POLS B272 The Power of the People: Democratic of the place of protest within politics, but also, as a result of Revolutions their original research paper, a deeper knowledge and a critical, Fall 2021 scholarly perspective of specific incidence(s) of protest in the real world. Prerequisites: One course in POLS or SOCL or We often invoke “democracy” as the very ground of political permission of instructor. legitimacy, but there is very little agreement on what democracy means, why we might desire it, or how state institutions, law, POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy and political culture might embody it. In this seminar we will Not offered 2021-22 grapple with some recent and influential accounts of democratic governance and democratic movements today. Our objective A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across space will be to develop a critical vocabulary for understanding what and time. Focusing on particular issues such as health care, democracy might mean, what conditions it requires, and what domestic security, water and land use, we identify institutional, “best practices” citizens committed to democracy might enlist to historical, and cultural factors that shape policies. We also confront political challenges such as the structural divisions that examine the growing importance of international-level policy persist among class, gender, and race; persistent inequality making and the interplay between international and domestic and influence of money and corporations; and the potential pressures on policy makers. Writing attentive. Prerequisite: One for democratic, grass-roots power as a vital ingredient to course in Political Science or public policy. democratic flourishing. Writing Intensive. Course does not meet an Approach Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Environmental Studies Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Health Studies

POLS B283 Middle East Politics POLS B314 Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Politics Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This course examines politics in the Middle East and North Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth of Africa (the MENA region). With the aim of making sense of scholarship on settler colonialism and indigenous politics the 21st Century, we will develop a broad historical overview alongside new waves of political activism for indigenous rights of the region, going back to the late Ottoman era, and trace around the world. This resurgence is evident in transnational the genealogies of key contemporary issues. Organizing solidarity movements, amplified demands for collective

339 POLITICAL SCIENCE indigenous rights, and the movement of indigenous politics into problem either individually or collectively? What are the roles the realm of international law. This seminar will survey this new of various social, political and market actors in environmental scholarship and examine these political phenomena in historical politics? What sorts of approaches seem most likely to solve and comparative perspective that is global in scope. Among the local, national and regional environmental issues such as air questions that will guide our inquiry are: What types of polities pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change? has settler colonialism produced? What types of regimes What are the impacts of globalization and technological to they develop and how are different kinds of inequality innovation in dealing with environmental issues? Prerequisite: entrenched within them? How have indigenous peoples Junior standing or higher, previous courses in social science, resisted settlement and dispossession across time and space? humanities, area studies or relevant experiences are required. How and why have indigenous-settler relations developed This course meets writing intensive requirement. differently across cases? Cases we may consider include a Counts toward East Asian Languages and Cultures variety from the Americas, South Africa, Australia, Western Sahara, Palestine, Ireland, Algeria, and, to unsettle common POLS B327 Political Philosophy in the 20th Century assumptions about the geographic location of settlement,

Russian and Japanese settler colonialism. Prerequisite: At least Not offered 2021-22 one political science course or permission of instructor A study of 20th- and 21st-century extensions of three traditions in Western political philosophy: the adherents of the German POLS B321 Technology and Politics and English ideas of freedom and the founders of classical Fall 2021 naturalism. Authors read include Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, and John Rawls. Topics include A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology in the relationship of individual rationality and political authority, political and social life. We focus on the relationship between cosmopolitanism, the “crisis of modernity,” and the debate technological change and democratic governance. We begin concerning contemporary democratic citizenship. Prerequisite: with historical and contemporary Luddism as well as pro- Two courses in text-based political philosophy or political technology movements around the world. Substantive issue theory, or consent of the instructor. areas include security and surveillance, electoral politics, economic development and women’s empowerment, civil POLS B334 Three Faces of Chinese Power: Money, Might, rights, warfare, social media and information/disinformation and Minds politics, agriculture, climate change and energy politics, and pandemic response. This course is open to all students who Not offered 2021-22 have the prerequisites. It also counts as a thesis prep course China’s extraordinary growth for the past 30 years has for political science majors. Prerequisite: One course in Political confirmed the power of free markets, while simultaneously Science, or ENVS 202, or permission of instructor. Writing challenging our thoughts on the foundations and limits of the attentive. market economy. Moreover, China’s ever-increasing economic Counts toward Environmental Studies freedom and prosperity have been accompanied by only limited steps toward greater political freedom and political POLS B326 Comparative Environmental Politics in East liberalization, running counter to one of the most consistent and Southeast Asia patterns of political economic development in recent history. This course examines China’s unique economic and political Spring 2022 development path, and the opportunities and challenges it East Asia (referring to both Northeast and Southeast Asia) accompanies. This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an in- is often discussed as one unit vis-à-vis other economic depth understanding of the political and economic development blocs yet this region is a home to the largest population in with Chinese characteristics, 2) to conduct a comprehensive the world with various divergent cultures, colonial histories, analysis of three dimensions of Chinese economic, political and religions, political system and state-society relations, as cultural power, and 3) to construct a thorough understanding of well as the level of economic development. With increasing challenges and opportunities for China from its extraordinary focus on 3Es-- Economic growth, Environment protection, developmental path. This is a senior seminar. Prerequisite: two and Energy security-- as shared priorities at the regional courses either in Political Science or East Asian Languages level, such diversities serve not only as opportunities but and Culture. Junior or Senior Standing required. challenges for East Asian states to cope with environmental issues. Geographic proximity makes countries in the region POLS B339 Bureaucracy and Democracy in America environmentally interdependent, and heavy dependence on Not offered 2021-22 imported fossil fuels make energy security as a matter of survival. Increasing public outcry over pollution and resultant This course is an upper-level seminar designed primarily for health problems has also challenged political legitimacy and juniors and seniors who want to spend the Semester reading sustainable economic development. his course explores about and discussing the role of the federal bureaucracy in contemporary environmental issues in East Asia from the U.S. political system. Topics will include the history of the comparative political economy perspective and sheds light federal bureaucracy, the bureaucratic policymaking process on how environmental problems - and solutions - are often and administrative law, the roles of expertise and politics in shaped by political context and interweaved into varying actors’ agency decision-making, the competition among the three perceived interest. Main questions in the course include: constitutional branches to “control” the bureaucracy, and What kind of environmental problems East Asia face and how the normative goals of competence, responsiveness and diverse historical, political and economic conditions of each representativeness. Discussion of current events - including the country shape the context in which countries deal with the federal government’s response to COVID and the role of race in public administration - will be a central part of the seminar.

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Attention will also be paid - and assignments oriented towards - POLS B359 Depth Psychology, Politics, and the Social preparing students for the Senior Experience. Order Counts toward Environmental Studies Fall 2021 In this course, we examine a variety of political and social POLS B350 Equalities and Inequalities in Politics and issues (among them racism, the economic organization of Society society, and demagoguery) from the perspective of “depth Not offered 2021-22 psychology.” By “depth psychology” we refer to the study of The modern state rests on a claim of equality (of a certain human activity in terms of individual and collective, conscious sort) between citizens. At the same time, modern societies and unconscious psychic dynamics. Modern depth psychology are marked by significant and increasing inequalities (of grew up in the late 19th century; its two greatest theorists various sorts). How should we regard the co-existence of were Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, the latter of the claim of equality and the existence of inequalities? For whom founded what is now the broad and diverse field of some, the existence of large-scale inequalities may be seen psychoanalysis. We will draw on works by Nietzsche, by Freud, not only as wholly consistent with the equality of citizens, but by later psychoanalysts, and by writers were deeply influenced an expected, natural, and proper outcome of that equality. by these, such as Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, and Herbert For others, the existence of significant inequalities marks a Marcuse. We will also draw on the insights of depth psychology failure of the promise of equality among citizens. Beyond these to try to help understand the use and organization of hate within disagreements, people disagree about the significance of the contemporary politics. Prerequisite: One course in theory OR distinction between citizens and non-citizens. What kinds of consent of instructor. equalities, if any, that are not acceptable between citizens are Course does not meet an Approach acceptable between citizens and non-citizens? In this course, we shall explore such questions concerning the relationship POLS B360 Islam and Politics between claims of equality and the existence of inequalities Spring 2022 in modern societies. We will examine these various questions at both an abstract level (reading essays of political theory This course locates and explores the politics of Islam in the and philosophy) and in the context of particular problems of politics of interpretation, taking into account texts both literal social policy. While the instructor will be largely responsible and social. More broadly, this course will consider evolving for assigning readings of the first sort, students will share the approaches to culture, religion, and ideology in political responsibility for finding readings of the second. They will do science, exploring not just the effect of Islam on politics but also this as part of their own semester-long research projects. This the ways in which politics have shaped the Islamic tradition course is open to all students who have the prerequisites. It over time. This course is open to all students who have the also serves as a thesis prep course for political science senior prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep course for political majors. Suggested Preparation: At least one course in political science senior majors. Prerequisite: POLS B283 or instructor theory OR Political Science Senior OR consent of instructor. consent. Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies

POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power and POLS B367 China and the World: Implications of China’s Mobilization Rise Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021 A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and In the 20th Century, China’s rise has been one of the most “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political distinctive political affairs changing the landscape of regional opportunity structure facing potential activists, the mobilizing and world politics. Especially, China’s breathtaking growth has resources available to them, and the cultural framing within challenged the foundations and limits of the market economy which these processes occur. Specific attention is paid to and political liberalization theoretically and empirically. recent movements within and across countries, such as This course examines the Chinese economic and political feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements, development and its implications for other Asian countries and to emerging forms of citizen mobilization, including and the world. This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an transnational and global networks, electronic mobilization in-depth understanding of the Chinese Economic development via social media, and collaborative policymaking institutions. model in comparison to other development models, 2) to Writing Attentive. Prerequisite: one course in POLS or SOCL or conduct a comprehensive analysis of political and socio- permission of instructor. economic exchanges of China and its relations with other major countries in East Asia, and 3) to construct a thorough Counts toward Environmental Studies understanding of challenges and opportunities for China from its extraordinary economic growth. This is a senior seminar, and POLS B356 Topics in American Politics: The 2020 a previous course in comparative politics, international relations Presidential Election Dissected or East Asian studies is required. This course meet writing Section 001 (Spring 2021): The 2020 Campaign Dissected intensive requirement. Prerequisite: Junior standing or higher. Not offered 2021-22 POLS B371 Topics in Political Philosophy This is a topics course. Topics vary. Section 001 (Fall 2020): Anti-Political Theory Section 001 (Spring 2022): Governing the Self and Others Spring 2022 341 POLITICAL SCIENCE

An advanced seminar on a topic in political or legal philosophy/ POLS B425 Praxis III: Independent Study theory. Topics vary by year. Prerequisite: At least one course in Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are political theory or philosophy or consent of instructor. developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty Current topic description: What does it mean to call Bryn and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by Mawr and Haverford self-governing institutions? Or to believe genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a that we - citizens of various communities, nations, or states - dynamic process of reflection that incorporates lessons learned govern ourselves? Higher education institutions are not alone in the field into the classroom setting and applies theoretical in invoking self-governance as both ethical and educational; understanding gained through classroom study to work done in this seminar seeks to reflect deeply about the meanings of the broader community. self-governance, why we might desire it, and how political Counts toward Praxis Program institutions, laws, and culture might embody it. We will grapple with some recent and influential accounts of governance and ANTH B329 The politics of belonging and exclusion in politics from communitarian, queer-anarchistic, Afro-Pessimist, India Indigenous, and democratic perspectives. Our objective will be to develop and implement critical vocabulary for understanding Not offered 2021-22 and implementing what self-governance might mean, what Since India’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, the conditions it requires, and what “best practices” community globalizing dynamics of cultural and economic liberalization members and citizens committed to it might enlist to realize its have been accompanied by renewed articulations of who potential for self-development and collective flourishing. belongs in the “New India” and who doesn’t. In this context, caste, class, religious community, language, and gender POLS B372 Comparative Democratic Institutions have become crucial sites for claiming citizenship, articulating Not offered 2021-22 distinctions among people, and constructing senses of what and who can inhabit the public sphere. Using materials from This is an advanced seminar covering issues of regime stasis different regions of India, our focus will be on how fine-grained and change. Particular attention will be paid to processes of ethnographic study can be a tool to examine the broader democratic collapse and authoritarianization. Writing Intensive. dynamics of belonging and exclusion and its political and social Counts as a 300-level thesis prep course for Political Science effects. This course fulfills the BMC Anthropology major/minor Seniors. Prerequisite: POLS 131, Introduction to Comparative ethnographic area requirement. Politics or instructor consent. Course does not meet an Approach POLS B374 Education Politics and Policy in the US Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward International Studies Studying education politics and policy provides insights into ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East some central concerns of political science and highlights some Fall 2021 tensions within the American political system such as: power and influence, government v markets, federalism, equity and A survey of the history, material culture, political and religious accountability, and expertise and citizen participation. This ideologies of, and interactions among, the five great empires of seminar uses education politics as a window into these broader the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia B.C.E.: concerns New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Counts toward Child and Family Studies Empire in Iran. POLS B391 International Political Economy Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Fall 2021 Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies This seminar examines the growing importance of economic issues in world politics and traces the development of the ECON B385 Democracy and Development modern world economy from its origins in colonialism and Not offered 2021-22 the industrial revolution, through to the globalization of recent decades. Major paradigms in political economy are critically From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew examined. Aspects of and issues in international economic from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” the collapse of communism relations such as development, finance, trade, migration, and developmental successes in East Asia have led some to and foreign investment are examined in the light of selected argue the triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late approaches. This course is open to all students who have 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a the prerequisites. Prerequisite: One course in International reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We will question Politics or Economics is required. Preference is given to seniors this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, although juniors are accepted. political science and sociology drawing from theoretical, case study and classical literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON Counts toward International Studies 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the POLS B399 Senior Essay Instructor. POLS B403 Supervised Work Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights

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ENVS B202 Environment and Society have mobilized hundreds and thousands of people in different Fall 2021 parts of the world to demand a radical overhauling of existing systems and changes in political leadership. These uprisings This is a topics course. This course explores the intersections have raised a series of questions that will be the focus of this of natural and built environments with diverse societies. class. What are the catalysts, underlying causes and demands Students will encounter conceptual and analytical tools of the of these protest movements? What can we learn from the social sciences to inform environmental responses at individual, grassroots organizing that allowed these movements to gain collective, and institutional levels. Pre-requisite ENVS B101 or momentum? All too often popular uprisings in the Global South ENVS H101 or instructor’s permission. in particular, are seen as representing the failures and limits Current topic description: An exploration of the ways in which of revolutionary action and politics rather than their potential different cultural, economic, and political settings have shaped and promise. What then, do recent popular uprisings reveal issue emergence and policy making. We examine the politics about the limitations and relevance of various theoretical of particular environmental issues in selected countries and approaches to explaining revolutionary phenomena and regions, paying special attention to the impact of environmental action? How might local scholars and activists analyzing the movements. We also assess the prospects for international popular uprisings taking place in their countries, allow us to cooperation in addressing global environmental problems such develop new vocabularies and frameworks for understanding as climate change. popular protests and revolutionary action elsewhere? Students will explore these questions through a series of case studies

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) including Sudan, Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, France, Ethiopia

Counts toward Environmental Studies and India. FREN B223 The Fire Every Time: Cinematic Rebels Across Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the Atlantic Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies Cinema, as an art form, can be seen as a rebellion against reality. Then again, cinema as mass entertainment with uber- INST B301 Politics of Aid and Humanitarianism industrial might can yield the most contagious legitimization of Spring 2022 power and social norms. Can filmmakers be genuine agents of change and social justice? Do their creations have the power This course explores the relationship between humanitarian to disrupt the status quo? If so, how are some films designed aid, politics and the legacy of colonialism. Our goal will be to subvert systemic normalization and disseminated forms of to historicize and contextualize humanitarian policies and domination? In this course, we will map out rebellious modern practices through specific case studies which can include, but (post WW2) cinema from both sides of the Atlantic. Setting will not be limited to: Haiti, Sudan, USA, Sri Lanka, Yemen, aside chronology and conventional delimitations, we will go Palestine, Somalia, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Philippines. back and forth across genres (war film, thriller, ghost story, We will use these case studies to explore topics such as social realism, drama…) between contemporary and older the militarization of aid and the politicization of emergency avatars of cinematic resistance, between documentary and assistance. We will also be looking to non-traditional sources fiction, and between France, the U.S., West Africa and Latin such as novels, films, NGO documents and congressional America. We will investigate a series of films that focus on hearings to gain insight from the perspectives of those non-compliance and individual resilience in the face of systemic impacted by and/or shaping humanitarian policies and adversity, while sharing a common oppositional ethos applied practices. Finally, we will examine the ways ‘non-Western’ to different forms of domination/violence: anticolonialism, actors and humanitarian organizations are reshaping the field anti-capitalism, antiracism, as well as ecology, pacifism and a of humanitarianism and relationships across the Global South critique of carceral institutions. For each of them, we will study more broadly. how the style of cinematography is designed not just to support Counts toward Africana Studies a narrative, but as a counter-language aimed at subverting the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx conservative grammar codes of the mainstream. This course Counts toward Middle Eastern Studies will be taught in English. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105 only for students taking this for French credit with additional hour. PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Film Studies The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, HIST B286 Topics in the British Empire the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates Not offered 2021-22 of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of This is a topics course covering various “topics” in the study of environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing the British Empire. Course content varies. theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class,

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and disability theorists. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) INST B210 Popular Uprisings in Global Perspective Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Spring 2022 Counts toward International Studies In recent years, popular uprisings and protest movements

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PHIL B238 Science, Technology and the Good Life SOCL B317 Comparative Social Policy: Cuba, China, US, Not offered 2021-22 Scandinavia

“Science, Technology, and the Good Life” considers the relation Fall 2021 of science and technology to each other and to everyday life, This course will examine different countries’ policy choices particularly with respect to questions of ethics and politics. to address different societal challenges. Four societal types In this course, we try to get clear about how we understand - socialist (Cuba), post-socialist (China), capitalist (US), and these domains and their interrelationships in our contemporary social-democratic (Scandinavia) - will be studies to help us world. We try to clarify the issues relevant to these questions understand how these different kinds of societies conceive by looking at the contemporary debates about the role of of social problems and propose and implement attempted automation and digital media and the problem of climate solutions. We will examine particular problems/solutions in four change. These debates raise many questions including: the domains: health/sports; education; environment; technological appropriate model of scientific inquiry (is there a single model development. As we explore these domains, we will attend for science?, how is science both experimental and deductive?, to methodological issues involved in making historical and is science merely trial and error?, is science objective?, is institutional comparisons science value-free?), the ideological standing of science Counts toward Introduction to Data Science (has science become a kind of ideology?), the autonomy of Counts toward Education technology (have the rapidly developing technologies escaped Counts toward Health Studies our power to direct them?), the politics of science (is science somehow essentially democratic?, and are “scientific” cultures SOCL B323 Communes, Co-ops, and Collectives: more likely to foster democracy?, or is a scientific culture Alternative Organizations essentially elitist and autocratic?), the relation of science to the formation of public policy (experts rule?, are we in or moving Fall 2021 toward a technocracy?), the role of technology and science in From schools to hospitals to grocery stores, most of the the process of modernization, Westernization, and globalization organizations we encounter and participate in throughout (what role has science played in industrialization and what our lives are based on a hierarchical, bureaucratic form of role does it now play in a post-industrial world?). To find an organization. How did this form of organization come to be so appropriate way to consider these questions, we look at the common in U.S. society? And what are the alternatives? In pairing of science with democracy in the Enlightenment project this course, we will begin by exploring the origins, form, and and study contemporary work in the philosophy of science, proliferation of what Max Weber famously referred to as the political science, and ethics. “iron cage” of bureaucracy. Then we will focus on alternative Critical Interpretation (CI) forms of organization, such as communes, cooperatives, and Inquiry into the Past (IP) collectives. How do these types of collectivist-democratic Counts toward Environmental Studies organizations differ from the rational-bureaucratic organizations with which we are most familiar? How are these alternative PHIL B252 Feminist Theory organizations structured? What makes them work--or not? From the Burning Man (anti)organization to mutual Not offered 2021-22 aid societies, democratic schools, farmer cooperatives, Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and and feminist collectives, we will explore the ways in which women have achieved equality have become commonplace. alternative organizations can enforce the status quo or serve We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of as catalysts for social change. Prerequisite: At least one social patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central science course or permission of instructor. to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory Course does not meet an Approach and contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency PSYCHOLOGY with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Students may complete a major or minor in Psychology. Along with the major, students also have the opportunity to pursue an

Critical Interpretation (CI) area of further study such as a minor in Neuroscience, Child

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and Family Studies, or Computational Methods. SOCL B262 Public Opinion William (Dustin) Albert, Assistant Professor of Psychology Not offered 2021-22 Jodie Baird, Visiting Assistant Professor This course explores public opinion: what it is, how it is measured, how it is shaped, and how it changes over time. Kimberly Cassidy, President and Professor of Psychology Specific attention is given to the role of elites, the mass media, Andrew Gargiulo, Bucher Jackson Post-Doctoral Fellow and religion in shaping public opinion. Examples include racial/ Laura Grafe, Assistant Professor of Psychology (on leave ethnic civil rights, abortion, gay/lesbian/transgendered sexuality, semesters I and II) and inequalities. Mary Ellen Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cora Mukerji, Assistant Professor of Psychology Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Ariana Orvell, Assistant Professor of Psychology the department may be taken for major credit if they satisfy Heejung Park Associate Professor of Psychology (on leave the above descriptions of 200-level and 300-level courses and semester II) are approved by the student’s major adviser. Students should contact their major adviser about major credit for a course Laurel Peterson, Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology outside the department before taking the course. Marc Schulz, Professor of Psychology and Director of Data Science Honors Anjali Thapar, Professor of Psychology Departmental honors (called Honors in Research in Psychology) are awarded on the merits of a report of research Abbey Wexler, Visiting Instructor (the design and execution; and the scholarship exhibited in the writing of a paper based on the research). To be considered The department offers the student a major program that allows for honors, students must have a grade point average in a choice of courses from among a wide variety of fields in psychology of 3.6 or higher at the end of the fall semester of psychology: biological, clinical, cognitive, developmental, the senior year. health, and social. In addition to the considerable breadth offered, the program encourages the student to focus on more Haverford College Courses that count specialized areas through advanced coursework, seminars toward the Major and supervised research. Students have found that the major program provides a strong foundation for graduate work Psychology courses offered at Haverford College may be in psychology, and related fields such as, law, social work, substituted for the equivalent Bryn Mawr courses for purposes medicine, public policy, business, education and data science. of the Bryn Mawr psychology major (the same is true for psychology courses offered at Swarthmore and the University Major Requirements of Pennsylvania). Specifically, PSYC 100 at Haverford may be substituted for PSYC 105. PSYC 200 at Haverford may be The major requirements in Psychology are PSYC 105 (or substituted for PSYC 205. Although the half-unit 300-level a one-semester introductory psychology course taken laboratory courses at Haverford may be substituted for the half- elsewhere); PSYC 205; two half-credit 200-level laboratory unit 200-level laboratory courses at Bryn Mawr, the Haverford courses (courses designated as PSYC 28X), six courses laboratory courses will not count towards the college-wide at the 200 and 300 level (at least two 200-level and two writing requirement in the major. For all other courses, a 300-level), one semester of Junior Brown Bag, and one student should consult with her major advisor. Senior Requirement. Majors may elect to fulfill their Senior Requirement with PSYC 399 (Senior Seminar in Psychology) Minor Requirements or by completing two semesters of supervised research (PSYC 398 or PSYC 401). A student may minor in Psychology by taking PSYC 105 and PSYC 205 and any other four courses that meet the Major Writing Requirement: Majors should complete the writing requirements of the major. requirement prior to the start of the senior year. The writing requirement can be met by completing two half-credit 200-level Minor in Neuroscience writing intensive laboratory courses or a full credit writing intensive course. Students majoring in psychology can minor in Neuroscience. The minor comprises six courses: one gateway course Majors may substitute advance placement credit (score of 5 on (Behavioral Neuroscience BMC PSYC 218, Biological the Psychology Advanced Placement exam) for PSYC 105. In Psychology HC PSYC 217, or Introduction to Neuroscience general, courses at the 200 level survey major content areas BMC BIO 202), plus five additional courses. The five courses of psychological research. With the exception of PSYC 205, all must sample from three different disciplines and at least 200-level courses require PSYC 105 or the permission of the one course must be at the 300-level or higher. Additional instructor. Courses at the 300 level typically have a 200-level information for the minor is listed on the Psychology survey course as a prerequisite and offer either specialization Department’s website. within a content area or integration across areas. PSYC 398, 399, and 401 are senior capstone courses and are intended Minor in Computational Methods to provide psychology majors with an intensive and integrative culminating experience in psychology. Students majoring in psychology can minor in computational methods.The minor consists of one gateway course Majors are also required to attend a one-hour, weekly brown (Introduction to Computer Science, CS 110 or CS 205), a bag in the junior year for one semester. This requirement is course in data structures (CS 206) and discrete mathematics designed to introduce students to faculty members’ areas of (CS 231), plus three additional courses. Additional information research, to provide additional opportunities for student-faculty for the minor is listed on the Computer Science Department’s interactions, to build a sense of community, and to provide website. some opportunities for professional and self-development. Minor in Child and Family Studies Advising Students majoring in psychology can minor in Child and Family The selection of courses to meet the major requirements is Studies. The minor comprises six courses: one gateway made in consultation with the student’s major adviser. Any course (Developmental Psychology PSYC 206, Educational continuing faculty member can serve as a major adviser. It Psychology PSYC 203, Critical Issues in Education EDUC 200, is expected that the student will sample broadly among the or Study of Gender in Society (SOCL 201), plus five additional diverse fields represented in the curriculum. Courses outside

345 PSYCHOLOGY courses, at least two of which must be outside of the major Course does not meet an Approach department and at least one of which must be at the 300 level. Counts toward Child and Family Studies Additional information for the minor is listed on the Child and Family Studies’s website. PSYC B208 Social Psychology Spring 2022 Courses This course is designed to expose students to the key theories PSYC B105 Introductory Psychology in social psychology and help develop critical thinking skills Fall 2021, Spring 2022 to ask questions like a social psychologist (e.g., How do we explain behavior? Why do people behave differently toward How do biological predispositions, life experiences, culture, outgroup vs. ingroup members?). The course will cover social contribute to individual differences in human and animal psychology’s history and its philosophical perspectives, behavior? This biopsychosocial theme will be examined by including classic theories, methodologies, and research of studying both “normal” and “abnormal” behaviors in domains social psychology. Special attention will be given to how these such as perception, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion, classic theories can be applied to current events, media, and social interaction thereby providing an overview of and everyday situations. Topics include attribution, emotion, psychology’s many areas of inquiry. There is a laboratory attitudes and rationalization, stereotyping and prejudice, component of this course that meets 2 hours per week (four and social influence. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100 evening times, one on Sunday). (Introductory Psychology), or instructor’s permission.

Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Course does not meet an Approach Scientific Investigation (SI) PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology PSYC B203 Educational Psychology Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Fall 2021 This course examines the experience, origins and Topics in the psychology of human cognitive, social, and consequences of psychological difficulties and problems. affective behavior are examined and related to educational Among the questions we will explore are: What do we mean practice. Issues covered include learning theories, memory, by abnormal behavior or psychopathology? What are the attention, thinking, motivation, social/emotional issues in strengths and limitations of the ways in which psychopathology adolescence, and assessment/learning disabilities. This course is assessed and classified? What are the major forms of provides a Praxis Level II opportunity. Classroom observation is psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat required. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 (Introductory Psychology) psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced Course does not meet an Approach by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties and Counts toward Child and Family Studies what are their consequences? How do we integrate social, Counts toward Praxis Program biological and psychological perspectives on the causes of psychopathology? Do psychological treatments (therapies) PSYC B205 Research Methods and Statistics work? How do we study the effectiveness of psychology Fall 2021, Spring 2022 treatments? Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 or H100). An introduction to research design, general research methodology, and the analysis and interpretation of data. Course does not meet an Approach Emphasis will be placed on issues involved with conducting Counts toward Child and Family Studies psychological research. Topics include descriptive and Counts toward Health Studies inferential statistics, research design and validity, analysis of variance, and correlation and regression. Each statistical PSYC B211 Lifespan Development method will also be executed using computers. Lecture three Fall 2021 hours, laboratory 90 minutes a week. A topical survey of psychological development across Quantitative Methods (QM) the lifespan, focusing on the interaction of personal and Scientific Investigation (SI) environmental factors in the ontogeny of perception, language, Counts toward Introduction to Data Science cognition, and social interactions within the family and with peers. Topics include developmental theories; infant perception; PSYC B206 Developmental Psychology attachment; language development; theory of mind; memory Not offered 2021-22 development; peer relations and the family as contexts of development; identity and the adolescent transition; adult A topical survey of psychological development from infancy personality; cognition in late adulthood; and dying with dignity. through adolescence, focusing on the interaction of personal Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100. Interested students and environmental factors in the ontogeny of perception, can take this course or PSYC B206, but not both language, cognition, and social interactions within the family and with peers. Topics include developmental theories; infant Course does not meet an Approach perception; attachment; language development; theory of mind; Counts toward Child and Family Studies memory development; peer relations, schools and the family as contexts of development; and identity and the adolescent PSYC B212 Human Cognition transition. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100. Interested Fall 2021 students can take this course or PSYC B211, but not both. This course provides an overview of the field of Cognitive

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Psychology, the branch of psychology that studies how This course provides an overview of how--and how well-- we think. Over the semester we will survey classic and people make judgments and decisions. The core idea is that contemporary theory and findings on a wide range of mental decisions are often based on heuristics rather than on formal processes that we use every day - from attention and memory algorithms. Although these “mental shortcuts” typically yield to language and problem solving - and our goal will be to good decisions, they also can produce systematic biases. We understand how the human mind works! Prerequisite: PSYC will explore real-world applications both to one’s personal life B105 or H100 (Introductory Psychology), or instructor’s and to public policy. Topics include deliberative and intuitive permission. thinking; rationality; prospect theory; heuristics and biases (e.g., Scientific Investigation (SI) mental accounting, sunk cost, hindsight bias, framing, etc.); Counts toward Neuroscience applications (e.g., medical decision making); and de-biasing solutions (e.g., nudges). Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100. PSYC B218 Behavioral Neuroscience Course does not meet an Approach Fall 2021, Spring 2022 PSYC B283 Laboratory in Developmental Psychology This course will introduce students to the field of behavioral neuroscience. The first part of the course will familiarize Section 001 (Spring 2021): Early Childhood students with the brain and neuronal communication. Then, Section 001 (Fall 2021): Early Childhood we will delve into brain-behavior relationships. Topics covered Section 002 (Fall 2021): Adolescence will include: sex behavior, hunger, sleep, emotion, and Fall 2021 psychopathology. Classic and state-of-the-art neuroscience This laboratory course is designed to provide students with research methodologies leading to this knowledge will be hands-on exposure to the principles and practices that guide highlighted. Students will learn course content through lectures, scientific research on human psychological development. readings, and digital media. To culminate the course, students Topics will vary by section, and students can take both sections will write a literature review on a topic of their choosing within of PSYC 283 (Early Childhood; Adolescence) for credit toward the field of behavioral neuroscience. Lecture three hours a meeting the lab requirement in the major. This course is week. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC 105). writing intensive and, as a 0.5 unit class, is designed to meet Course does not meet an Approach half of the writing requirement in the major. This is a 0.5 unit Counts toward Neuroscience course that meets for the full semester. Prerequisite: Psych 105 (Introductory Psychology) and Psych 205 (Methods and PSYC B224 Cross-Cultural Psychology Statistics); Suggested preparation: Psych 206 (Developmental Not offered 2021-22 Psychology) or Psychology 211 (Lifespan Development) is helpful, but not required. Explores human behavior as a product of cultural context. Why are some aspects of human behavior the same across Current topic description: In this course we will examine the cultures, while others differ? Topics include the relationships crucial steps in the scientific research process, including between culture and development, cognition, the self, and developing research questions and hypotheses, identifying an social behaviors. Discussions include implications of cross- appropriate research design, ensuring measurement reliability cultural psychology for psychological theory and applications. and validity, collecting and analyzing data, and communicating Prerequisites: ANTH101, PSYCB105, PSYCH100, SOCL102 or results. In this section of the course, special attention will be permission of instructor given to the research topics and methodological approaches important to the study of early childhood development, with

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) an emphasis on children’s social cognition. Through lab activities, group projects, and direct interaction with child PSYC B231 Health Psychology participants, students will gain specific exposure to the use of Not offered 2021-22 psychological research methods to examine developmental This course will provide an overview of the field of health questions. Learning to design, conduct, critique, and write psychology using lecture, exams, videos, assignments, and about research are central skills in the field of psychology. an article critique. We will examine the current definition This course is designed to introduce you to these skills in an of health psychology, as well as the theories and research experiential way. The class explores the scientific principles behind many areas in health psychology (both historical and and practices underlying research in psychology, with an contemporary). The course will focus on specific health and emphasis on the techniques and approaches important to social psychological theories, empirical research, and applying developmental psychology and early childhood, in particular. the theory and research to real world situations. Prerequisite: Through readings and projects, students will learn about Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105) or Foundations of important methodological issues and steps in the research Psychology (PSYC H100). Students may take either this course process, including how to develop a research question, how to or HLTH/PSYC H245 not both. select an appropriate methodology, and how to communicate ideas. This is a writing intensive course designed to help you

Course does not meet an Approach develop your writing skills in psychology. Writing assignments

Counts toward Health Studies will be varied in style and content, and you will gain practice in

Counts toward Museum Studies all aspects of the writing process including offering feedback and making revisions. As a 0.5-credit course, this course PSYC B232 Smart Choices: An Introduction to Decision satisfies half of the writing intensive requirement for Psychology Making majors. No textbook is required for this course. Instead, we will Not offered 2021-22 read and discuss a variety of journal articles and other written

347 PSYCHOLOGY materials related to developmental psychology (on topics such presentation of behavioral neuroscience research. Students will as morality and gender), research methods, and the writing partake in experiments that explore the relationship between process. You will also search for and acquire readings specific the brain and behavior, using Sprague Dawley rats as a model to the research project you design. All required readings organism. Students should expect to write research reports will be available on Moodle. Assessments will include both on experiments performed in the lab, as well as give an oral smaller, lower stakes writing assignments as well as larger, presentation on research conducted. Prerequisites: Psyc105 more substantial writing assignments. There are no exams. (Introductory Psychology), Psyc205 (Research Methods and A major goal of the course is to develop and design your own Statistics); Suggested Preparation: Psyc218 (Behavioral research project (either individually or in pairs). Students will Neuroscience) also have the opportunity to practice their statistics skills in Scientific Investigation (SI) collaboration with peers and with the support of the instructor. For more information or if you have questions, please email me PSYC B288 Laboratory in Social Psychology ([email protected]). Spring 2022 Current topic description: In this course we will examine the crucial steps in the scientific research process, including his writing-intensive laboratory course will offer experience developing research questions and hypotheses, identifying an in conducting psychological research in the area of social appropriate research design, ensuring measurement reliability psychology. The course involves coming up with a research and validity, collecting and analyzing data, and communicating question relevant to social psychology, conducting a literature results. In this section of the course, special attention will be review, designing and conducting research (identifying correct given to the research topics and methodological approaches research method), statistical analysis (measurement and important to the study of adolescent self-regulation and reliability, identifying and running the appropriate statistical decision-making. Through lab activities and group projects, test), interpretation of results and writing up an APA-style students will gain specific exposure to the use of reproducible manuscript of a journal article in psychology. This is a 0.5 unit research methods to examine developmental question. course that meets the first half ofl semester. Prerequisites: PSYC 205 (Methods and Statistics); Suggested Preparation: Scientific Investigation (SI) PSYC208 (Social Psychology) helpful, but not required. PSYC B284 Lab in Health Psychology Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Scientific Investigation (SI) Fall 2021 This laboratory/writing intensive/scientific inquiry quarter PSYC B289 Laboratory in Clinical Psychology course will provide a hands-on experience conducting health Spring 2022 psychology research and writing APA-style manuscripts. Students will be exposed to various aspects of the scientific At its core, this laboratory course is designed to explore how process such as: literature reviews, hypothesis-generation, it is that psychologists come to know (or think they know) data collection, analysis, writing (drafting and polishing), peer- things and how they communicate what they think they know. reviewing, and oral dissemination of scientific findings. The The class focuses on the scientific principles and practices course will focus on biopsychosocial theory and challenge underlying research in psychology with an emphasis on students to apply the theory to their own research project(s) techniques and topics important to the subfield of clinical and write papers on the results. This is a 0.5 unit course that psychology. This course is intended to provide hands-on meets for the first quarter of the semester. Prerequisite: PSYC training in how to conduct research. Through lab activities B205. and class projects, students will learn about important methodological issues and steps in the research process Scientific Investigation (SI) including how to identify important questions, measurement issues such as reliability and validity, different modes of data PSYC B285 Laboratory in Cultural Psychology collection, and how to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Fall 2021 This class is a writing intensive class and, as a .5 unit class, is This writing-intensive laboratory course will provide students designed to meet half of the writing requirement in the major. an opportunity to learn the entire process of psychological Prerequisite: Psych 205 (Methods and Statistics); Suggested research in a small scale. Students will formulate research preparation: Psych 209 (Abnormal Psychology) is helpful, but questions within the area of cultural psychology, review the not required. relevant literature, collect, code, and analyze data, and produce Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) APA-style manuscripts. This lab course will expose students Scientific Investigation (SI) to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches to investigating research questions in cultural psychology. PSYC B311 Personality and Social Contexts Prerequisites: Psych 105 (Introductory Psychology) and Psych Not offered 2021-22 205 (Methods and Statistics);Suggested preparation: Psych 224 (Cross Cultural Psychology) is helpful, but not required. This course will explore how individual differences can explain variability in behavior and how individuals can also vary based Scientific Investigation (SI) on the social context. That is, we will examine how people behave across and within social contexts. The course will cover PSYC B286 Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience a variety of social psychological topics, such as motivation, Not offered 2021-22 prejudice and discrimination, and identity, and will be asking This writing-intensive laboratory course will provide students questions such as “Are there certain types of people who are with experience in the design, implementation, analysis, and more susceptible to stereotype threat?” and “In which situations 348 PSYCHOLOGY are stereotype threat more or less likely to occur for men than to them. We will examine concepts such as the importance women?” of age on drug abuse, and how the developing brain may Course does not meet an Approach be vulnerable to addiction. The plan is to draw on relevant literature in order to investigate these topics and explore the PSYC B314 Advanced Data Science:Regression and implications for human addicts. Multivariate Statistics Counts toward Health Studies Fall 2021 Counts toward Neuroscience

This course is designed to improve your data science skills by PSYC B318 Data Science with R introducing you to advanced statistical techniques that have become increasingly important in psychology and a variety Not offered 2021-22 of fields. The focus will be on understanding the advantages This course provides a broad introduction to the field of data and limitations of regression approaches and multivariate science via the statistical programming language, R. The analytic techniques that permit simultaneous prediction of course focuses on using computational methods and statistical multiple outcomes. Topics covered will include basic regression techniques to analyze massive amounts of data and to extract approaches, advanced regression strategies, structural knowledge. It provides an overview of tools for data acquisition equation modeling, factor analysis, measurement models, and cleaning, data manipulation, data analysis and evaluation, path modeling, modeling of longitudinal data sets, multilevel visualization and communication of results, data management modeling approaches and growth curve modeling. Students and big data systems. The course surveys the complete data will gain familiarity with these techniques by working with science process from data to knowledge and gives students actual data sets. The last part of each class will be reserved hands-on experience with tools and methods. Prerequisites: for lab time to apply lessons from class to an assignment due PSYC B205, PSYC H200, or SOCL B265. Students with the following week. Students are welcome to stay beyond the good statistical preparation in math or other disciplines should noon ending time to complete the assignment. Prerequisites: consult with the instructor to gain permission to take the class. Required: PSYC Research Methods and Statistics 205 (BMC), Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Psych 200 (HC) Experimental Methods and Statistics, or BIOL Counts toward Introduction to Data Science B215 Experimental Design and Statistics. Students with good Counts toward Neuroscience statistical preparation in math or other disciplines and some knowledge of core methods used in social science or health- PSYC B319 Neuroethics related research should consult with the instructor to gain permission to take the class. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Introduction to Data Science Neuroscience not only helps us understands the biological Counts toward Health Studies basis of behavior, but it has become increasingly relevant to law, education, war, politics, and religion. This course will PSYC B315 Stress Neuroscience examine how neuroscience is integrated into these various aspects of everyday life. We will discuss how neuroscience Not offered 2021-22 may be helpful or harmful in each of these areas, highlighting This course will examine the neural mechanisms underlying the ethical, legal, and social challenges it brings. physiological and emotional responses to stress. We will Course does not meet an Approach explore how stress influences susceptibility to substance Counts toward Neuroscience use and mental health disorders. We will investigate the physiological effects of stress on the immune system, gut PSYC B321 Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior microbiome, and feeding behavior, the effects of stress across the lifespan and in offspring, as well as strategies to build Not offered 2021-22 resilience. Students will also be exposed to primary literature This course is designed to introduce students to the basic on these topics and expected to present these articles in a principles of learning and memory. It will emphasize the journal club format. This course is designed to provide students neuroscience of learning and memory and connect this to with the skills necessary to evaluate recent findings and behavioral outcomes. We will examine forms of learning that trends in stress research. Suggested preparation: PSYCB218 are universal across species and contrast this with higher (Behavioral Neuroscience) or equivalent. level learning only observed in humans. We will focus on two Course does not meet an Approach dominant learning theories (among others): Pavlov’s classical Counts toward Neuroscience conditioning and Skinner’s operant conditioning. Lastly, we will consider applications of these theories in real life. PSYC B316 Advanced Topics in Neuroscience: Drugs of Course does not meet an Approach Abuse Counts toward Neuroscience Not offered 2021-22 PSYC B322 Culture and Development This is a seminar course examining the neuroscience of common drugs of abuse including psychostimulants, opiates/ Not offered 2021-22 opioids, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana. The goal of the This course focuses on adolescents and their families in course is to explore progress in psychopharmacological cultural, social, and ecological contexts. Topics include family research, while also discussing the societal ramifications of dynamics, parent-adolescent relationship, socioeconomic addiction. We will also discuss these drugs of abuse in the status, immigration, social change, and globalization. context of the environmental factors that influence vulnerability Prerequisites: PSYC 105, and PSYC 206 or PSYC 224.

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Counts toward Child and Family Studies Psychology) or PSYC B211 (Lifespan Development) or permission or instructor. PSYC B205 is recommended. PSYC B323 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience Counts toward Health Studies Section 001 (Fall 2021): Perceptual Disorders and the Broken Mind PSYC B329 Obesity: Psychology, Physiology, and Health Fall 2021 Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies. An examination of the causes and consequences of obesity at Current topic description: Perceptual Disorders and the Broken individual and societal levels. Focuses on mechanisms of body Mind: This seminar style course is designed to introduce weight regulation along with the wide-scale changes in diet, students to the principles by which we perceive the world eating habits, and physical activity that have contributed to the around us. Spanning perceptual psychology and sensory obesity epidemic. Prerequisites: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100 or neuroscience, students will learn about and discuss how PSYC AP Score 5. we process and attend to our senses, detecting meaningful Course does not meet an Approach features like faces, moving objects, or speech out of countless, Counts toward Child and Family Studies seemingly irrelevant details. We will explore how damage to any of these systems may alter or manipulate these processes, PSYC B330 Reproducible Research in Psychology resulting in unusual and surprising symptoms. We will also Spring 2022 discuss how prior knowledge and emotion can shape our perception of the world around us. As before, this course is How do we know what we know and what we don’t know in designed to introduce students to the principles by which we empirical science? Can we trust the peer review process to perceive the world around us. In this course, we will consider filter out invalid claims and identify the claims with enough how prior knowledge, emotion, attention, etc. can all shape our evidentiary support to merit inclusion in The Literature? perception of the world around us through both top-down and This course has two primary aims. The first is to introduce bottom-up processing. An optional textbook is Looking Inside students to the recent history and major conclusions of the Disordered Brain, by Ahmad Hariri, but most reading will the “Open Science” reform movement in psychology and come from journal articles that will be distributed. Assignments related sciences. Students will learn about the structural and will include: quizzes, participation, a literature review, and short methodological factors that are potentially responsible for reflection assignments the high proportion of false positive findings in psychology. The second aim is to introduce modern best practices in Counts toward Neuroscience research design and statistical computing, which prioritize error control, transparency, and reproducibility. The course PSYC B325 Judgment and Decision-Making will provide a very gentle introduction to the R programming Not offered 2021-22 language, which students will use to produce a simple but fully This course will explore the psychology of reasoning and reproducible statistical analysis in the format of a scientific decision-making processes in depth. We will examine affective, report. Prerequisites: PSYC B205 or PSYC H200 or similar cognitive, and motivational processes, as well as recent introduction to Research Methods and Statistics. research in neuroscience. Among other topics, we will discuss Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) notions of rationality and irrationality, accuracy, heuristics, Counts toward Introduction to Data Science biases, metacognition, evaluation, risk perception, and moral judgment. Prerequisites: ECONB136, ECONH203, PSYCB205 PSYC B331 Health Behavior and Context or PSYCH200, and PSYCB212, PSYCH260 or permission of Not offered 2021-22 instructor. This seminar will be devoted to a discussion of theory and PSYC B327 Adolescent Development research in health psychology. We will investigate both historical and contemporary perspectives on the psychology Spring 2022 of wellness and illness. We will begin with a consideration of Is adolescence a biologically distinct stage of life, or a social how psychosocial forces influence health cognitions, behaviors, “holding ground” invented by modern culture for young and physiological processes. The second half of the course people unready or unwilling to assume the responsibilities of will focus on contextual factors, interventions, and emerging adulthood? Are adolescents destined to make risky decisions topics in research. We will debate the question of whether/how because of their underdeveloped brains? At what age should psychological forces influence health outcomes. Prerequisite: they be held accountable as adults in a court of law? This PSYC B105 and PSYC B231 or PSYC B208, or by permission course will explore these and other questions about the of the instructor. biological, social, and legal forces that define the boundaries Counts toward Health Studies and shape the experience of adolescents growing up in the modern world. Students will learn about: (1) historical PSYC B332 Unlocking the self-control toolbox changes in understanding and treatment of adolescents; (2) puberty-related biological changes marking the beginning Fall 2021 of adolescence; (3) brain, behavioral, cognitive, and social What is self-control? Can it be learned? Or is it something that development during adolescence; and (4) contemporary people either “have” or “don’t have”? This course will explore debates regarding age of adult maturity, and their implications these questions and others, including which psychological for law and policy. Prerequisite: PSYC B206 (Developmental processes and concrete strategies allow people to effectively regulate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to meet their

350 PSYCHOLOGY goals; to what extent self-control is effortful; and how it works address the theory of etiology of the disorder depicted in the for different people in different situations and cultural contexts. film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in Students will learn about influential theoretical models of self- the period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts control and emotion regulation, considering how people can of psychopathology in that period. Another focus will be how use attention, their mind, the external environment, and social the film portrays the course of the disorder and how it depicts relationships to enact self-control successfully. Students will treatment for the disorder. This cinematic presentation will be read empirical, peer-reviewed journal articles throughout this evaluated with respect to current research on treatment for the course, learning to synthesize; critically evaluate; and extend disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing treatment them, by asking new questions. Prerequisite: Psych 105. Psych for the disorder at the time the film was made. Prerequisite: 205 and Psych 208 are recommended, PSYC B209. Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology Counts toward Film Studies Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Health Studies

This course will examine emotional and behavioral disorders PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology of children and adolescents, including autism, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive Spring 2022 disorder, depression, anorexia, and schizophrenia. Major topics A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- covered will include: contrasting models of psychopathology; behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological empirical and categorical approaches to assessment and basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological models diagnosis; outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the treatment of and prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their efficacy psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. psychosis; and the psychology and pharmacology of drug Counts toward Child and Family Studies addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC

Counts toward Health Studies H217 or permission of instructor. Counts toward Neuroscience Counts toward Health Studies Counts toward Neuroscience PSYC B353 Advanced Topics in Clinical Psychology Spring 2022 PSYC B399 Senior Seminar This course provides an in-depth examination of research and This seminar is intended to serve as a capstone experience for theory in a particular area of clinical psychology. Topics will vary senior psychology majors who have opted not to do a senior from year to year. thesis. The focus of the seminar will be on analyzing the nature of public discourse (coverage in newspapers, magazines, on PSYC B354 Asian American Psychology the internet) on a variety of major issues, identifying material in the psychological research literature relating to these issues,

Not offered 2021-22 and to the extent possible relating the public discourse to the This course will provide an overview of the nature and meaning research. of being Asian American in the United States. We will examine the history, struggle, and success of Asian Americans, drawing PSYC B400 Senior Thesis upon psychological theory and research, interdisciplinary Senior psychology majors who are doing a thesis should ethnic studies scholarship, and memoirs. Students will also register for Senior Thesis (PSYC B400) with their adviser for learn to evaluate the media portrayal of Asian Americans while both the Fall and Spring semester. Students will receive one examining issues affecting Asian American communities such unit per semester. Prerequisite: Psychology major. as stereotypes, discrimination, family relationships, dating/ marriage, education, and health disparities. Prerequisite: PSYC B403 Supervised Research Introduction to Psychology (Psych 105) is required, Research Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. Methods and Statistics (Psych 205) is recommended.. Students should consult with faculty members to determine their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the semester prior to PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Psychology when they will begin. Through Films Not offered 2021-22 PSYC B403 Supervised Research This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = 16 Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of Students should consult with faculty members to determine psychopathology are depicted in films. The primary focus of their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the semester prior to the seminar will be evaluating the degree of correspondence when they will begin. between the cinematic presentation and current research knowledge about the disorder, taking into account the historical PSYC B499 Junior Brown Bag period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss Majors are also required to attend a one-hour, weekly brown how accurately the symptoms of the disorder are presented and bag in the junior year for one semester. This requirement is how representative the protagonist is of people who typically designed to sharpen students’ analytical and critical thinking manifest this disorder based on current research. We will also skills, to introduce students to faculty members’ areas of

351 PSYCHOLOGY / RELIGION research, to provide additional opportunities for student-faculty students to become critically informed, independent, and interactions, and to build a sense of community. creative interpreters of some of the religious movements, sacred texts, ideas, and practices that have decisively shaped BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience human experience. In their coursework, students develop skills Laboratory or library research under the supervision of a in the critical analysis of the sacred texts, images, beliefs, member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for those and performances of various religions, including Judaism, with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The department’s programs are designed to help students understand how religions

Counts toward Neuroscience develop and change and how religious texts, symbols, and rituals help constitute communities and cultures. Thus, the DSCI B100 Introduction to Data Science major in religion seeks to help students develop a coherent set Fall 2021 of academic skills in the study of religion, while at the same “Data science” is a catch-all term used to describe the time encouraging interdisciplinary work in the humanities, practice of working with and analyzing messy data sources to sciences, and social sciences. draw meaningful conclusions. This course provides a broad introduction to the field of data science via the statistical Learning Goals programming language, R. Over the semester, students will The Haverford religion major is unique in that it provides learn how to manipulate, manage, summarize and visualize students with a comprehensive curriculum that includes large data sets. No previous exposure to programming or carefully designed areas of concentrations, specialized statistics is expected. coursework, supervised research, a lengthy written research Course does not meet an Approach product, and a departmental oral conversation with the entire Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) department as the minimum requirements for fulfilling the Counts toward Introduction to Data Science major. Through coursework, senior thesis research, and the Counts toward Neuroscience Senior Colloquium with the Swarthmore Religion Department, the department seeks to fulfill the following learning goals: • Expose students to the central ideas, debates, scholars, RELIGION methods, historiography, and approaches to the academic study of religion. Faculty • Analyze key terms and categories in the study of religion, and utilize the diverse vocabularies deployed among a Molly Farneth, Assistant Professor of Religion; Coordinator of range of scholars in religion and related fields. Gender and Sexuality Studies • Develop critical thinking, analytical writing, and sustained Pika Ghosh, Visiting Associate Professor of Religion engagement in theory and method, together with the Guangtian Ha, Assistant Professor of Religion critical competence to engage sacred texts, images, ideas

Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Professor and Chair of Religion and practices.

Ken Koltun-Fromm, Robert and Constance MacCrate Professor • Cultivate the learning environment as an integrative and of Social Responsibility and Professor of Religion collaborative process.

Anne McGuire, The Kies Family Professor of Humanities; • Expand intellectual opportunities for students to broaden

Associate Professor of Religion and critically assess their worldviews.

Terrance Wiley, Assistant Professor of Religion and Coordinator • Encourage students to supplement their work in religion of African and Africana Studies with elective languages (Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese, Latin, Sanskrit, Yoruba). Affiliated Faculty • Foster interdisciplinary methods and perspectives in the Richard Evans, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion study of religion, while continuing to model this through the curriculum. Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer, Visiting Assistant Professor of

East Asian Languages and Cultures • Prepare students for professional careers, for graduate studies in religion or related fields, and for leadership roles Brie Gettleson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology as reflective, critically-aware human beings. Hank Glassman, The Janet and Henry Richotte 1985 Professor Like other liberal arts majors, the religion major is meant to of Asian Studies; Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian prepare students for a broad array of vocational possibilities. Languages and Cultures Religion majors typically find careers in law, public service David Harrington Watt, Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor (including both religious and secular organizations), medicine, of Quaker Studies business, ministry, and education. Religion majors have also pursued advanced graduate degrees in anthropology, history, Charlie Kuper, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics political science, biology, Near Eastern studies, and religious Zolani Ngwane, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology studies. Hannah Silverblank, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Major Requirements The major in religion is designed to help students develop a A central mission of the Religion Department is to enable coherent set of academic skills and expertise in the study of 352 RELIGION religion, while at the same time encouraging interdisciplinary related to the senior research project in religion, consists of five work in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The stages: the formulation of a thesis proposal; presentation of major consists of 11 courses with the following requirements: the proposal; presentation of a portion of work in progress; the writing and submission of first and final drafts; oral discussion

• Five courses within an area of concentration: each with department faculty. major is expected to fashion a coherent major program focused around work in one of three designated areas of Senior Project Learning Goals concentration: The goals of the senior thesis process are to: • Religious Traditions in Cultural Context. The study of religious traditions and the textual, historical, • further develop research skills and obtain a mastery of sociological and cultural contexts in which they academic citation practices. develop. Critical analysis of formative texts and issues • provide students with an opportunity to pursue original that advance our notions of religious identities, origins, research questions and to sharpen scholarly interests as

and ideas. one masters a particular field/argument. • Religion, Literature, and Representation. The study • enhance written and verbal analysis through participation of religion in relation to literary expressions and other in the yearlong senior seminar with department faculty and forms of representation, such as performance, music, students, weekly meetings with individual advisors, and the

film, and the plastic arts. final oral presentation of the thesis to the department. • Religion, Ethics, and Society. The exploration of • nurture group cohesion as a department, through larger social issues such as race, gender, and identity collaborative participation with fellow majors during the as they relate to religion and religious traditions. course of RELG H398A and RELG H399B, concretely Examines how moral principles, cultural values, and expressed by way of critical feedback to shared writing. ethical conduct help to shape human societies. • build student confidence in the ability to see to fruition a The five courses within the area of concentration must rigorous project requiring prolonged periods of thought, include at least one department seminar at the 300 level. writing, revising, and research. Where appropriate and relevant to the major’s program, up to two courses for the major may be drawn from outside Senior Project Assessment the field of religion, subject to departmental approval. You will receive a regular course grade for RELG H399B, which • RELG H299 (Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of will appear on your transcript. This overall grade is comprised Religion). of three separate grades that evaluate: • RELG H398A and RELG H399B, a two-semester senior • Your participation in the seminar process outlined above. seminar and thesis program. Participation in the seminar means: punctual attendance • Three additional half-year courses drawn from outside the at all seminar events; careful preparation, especially the major’s area of concentration. reading of your colleagues’ work in progress; and regular meetings with your advisor and submission of writing, • Junior Colloquium: an informal required gathering of according to the schedule mutually agreed upon. the junior majors once each semester. Students should complete the Religion Major Worksheet in advance in • The quality of your thesis. consultation with their major advisor and bring copies of Your thesis will be read by all members of the department,

the completed worksheet to the meeting. who will mutually agree upon a grade for the written thesis. At least six of each major’s 11 courses must be taken in This grade will be factored into your final grade for the the Haverford Religion Department.In some rare cases, seminar. students may petition the department for exceptions to the • The effectiveness of your oral exam. major requirements. Such petitions must be presented to the department for approval in advance. The effectiveness of your oral discussion will be factored into the final grade for the thesis and for the seminar as Final evaluation of the major program will consist of written a whole. All members of the department will participate in work, including a thesis, and an oral conversation completed in your oral discussion, but your advisor will not participate the context of the Senior Seminar (RELG H398A and 399B). in the process of the final evaluation and grading of your Advising for the major takes place in individual meetings work. between majors and faculty advisors and in a departmental Junior Colloquium held once each semester. At this colloquium, Requirements for Honors junior majors will present their proposed programs of study with The department awards honors and high honors in religion particular attention to their work in the area of concentration. All on the basis of the quality of work in the major and on the majors should fill out and bring the Religion Major Worksheet, completed thesis. which can be found on the Religion Department website, to the colloquium. Minor Requirements Senior Project The minor in religion, like the major, is designed to help students develop a coherent set of academic skills and The senior thesis research project in the Department of expertise in the study of religion, while at the same time Religion serves as a capstone experience for our majors. The encouraging interdisciplinary work in the humanities, sciences, work of RELG H398A and RELG H399B, the required courses

353 RELIGION and social sciences. The minor consists of six courses with the RELG H106 THE SENSE AND SENSES OF ISLAM (1.0 following requirements: Credit) • Five courses within an area of concentration, with at least Division: Humanities one at the 300 level: Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World Religious Traditions in Cultural Context. The study of religious traditions and the textual, historical, sociological This course introduces students to the debates about the and cultural contexts in which they develop. Critical senses in Islam. What is the relationship between sound and analysis of formative texts and issues that advance our the sacred, between the sensorium and the meanings of notions of religious identities, origins, and ideas. Islam? Course readings will include Sufi texts, works by Islamic scholars, ethnographies of Muslim musical practices, as well as Religion, Literature, and Representation. The study of philosophical works. religion in relation to literary expressions and other forms of representation, such as performance, music, film, and RELG H110 SACRED TEXTS AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS the plastic arts. (1.0 Credit) Religion, Ethics, and Society. The exploration of larger Division: Humanities social issues such as race, gender, and identity as they Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the relate to religion and religious traditions. Examines how Social World moral principles, cultural values, and ethical conduct help to shape human societies. An introduction to Religion through the close reading of selected sacred texts of various religious traditions in their • RELG H299 (Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of historical, literary, philosophical, and religious contexts. Religion). • Junior Colloquium: an informal required gathering of RELG H112 MYTH, FOLKLORE, AND LEGEND IN JAPAN the junior majors once each semester. Students should (1.0 Credit) complete the Religion Minor Worksheet, available on the Division: Humanities Religion Department website, in advance in consultation Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the with their major advisor and bring copies of the completed Social World worksheet to the meeting. An introduction to stories of the weird and supernatural in All six courses must be taken in the Haverford Religion Japan and a reflection on genre and the scholarly enterprise Department. In some rare cases, students may petition the of taxonomy-making. Readings from Buddhist miracle plays, department for exceptions to the minor requirements. Such early modern puppet drama, etc., supplemented by scholarly petitions must be presented to the department for approval in secondary sources. advance. RELG H118 HEBREW BIBLE AND ITS INTERPRETERS (1.0 Study Abroad Credit) Students planning to study abroad must construct their Division: Humanities programs in advance with the department. Students seeking Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) religion credit for abroad courses must write a formal petition to The Hebrew Bible, or “Old Testament,” is, arguably, the the department upon their return and submit all relevant course most influential text in the West. Religions, governments, materials. We advise students to petition courses that are within movements, artists, thinkers, and common people have all the designated area of concentration. drawn inspiration, wisdom, and foolishness from its texts. In this course we will sample a variety of ways in which readers have Courses wrestled with, been influenced by, appreciated, depreciated, analyzed, criticized, and popularized the Bible. We will turn RELG H104 RELIGION AND SOCIAL ETHICS (1.0 Credit) to a variety of sources—philosophical, academic, cultural, Division: Humanities theological, and popular—for insights, examples, and samples. This course focuses on sexual ethics as an analytical lens to We will also pay special attention to interpretations of the Bible think through contemporary issues of race, gender, and class. on themes such as race and nation, gender and law, war and Students will analyze Christian and Jewish approaches to peace. sexuality, and question how social regulations of sexuality are often connected to intersectional issues of religion, race, and RELG H122 INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT gender. (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities RELG H105 FOOD and RELIGION (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities An introduction to the New Testament and early Christian An exploration of the role of food in religious beliefs and literature. Special attention will be given to the Jewish origins practices. Topics include the role of food in religious rituals, the of the Jesus movement, the development of traditions about connection between religious foodways and religious identities, Jesus in the earliest Christian communities, and the social and the ethics of food production and consumption. contexts and functions of various texts. Readings will include non-canonical writings, in addition to the writings of the New Testament canon.

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RELG H150 SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIOUS CULTURES (1.0 examines Buddhist philosophy, doctrine and practice as Credit) textual traditions and as lived religion. Crosslisted: East Asian

Division: Humanities Languages and Cultures, Religion Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World RELG H202 THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT An introductory course covering the variegated expressions (1.0 Credit) of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Sikhism in South Division: Humanities Asia. Why are people always predicting the coming endtime? RELG H155 THEMES IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF This course will explore the genre of apocalypse, looking for RELIGION: RITUAL (1.0 Credit) common themes that characterize this form of literature. Our Division: Social Science primary source readings will be drawn from the Bible and Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World non-canonical documents from the early Jewish and Christian traditions. We will use an analytical perspective to explore the What is it that rituals actually do? Are they enactments social functions of apocalyptic, and ask why this form has been (affirmations) of collective ideals or are they arguments so persistent and influential. about these? Are they media for political action or are they expressions of teleological phenomena? The course is a RELG H208 SACRED MATTERS: MATERIAL DIMENSIONS comparative study of ritual and its place in religious practice OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH ASIA (1.0 Credit) and political argumentation. Concrete case studies will include Division: Humanities an initiation ritual in South Africa, the Communion Sacrament in Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Christianity, a Holocaust commemorative site in Auschwitz, and the cult of spirit-possession in Niger. Cross-listed: Anthropology, An examination of the bodily, sensorial and emotional Religion experience of things, substances, architecture, sculpture, landscape, textiles, and texts, the aesthetics of epic poetry, RELG H159 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN ISLAMIC TEXTS drama, song, dance in South Asian religious cultures. Topics AND PRACTICES (1.0 Credit) may include how such practices inscribe religious experience, Division: First Year Writing provide parameters for social organization, and offer religious critique. Prerequisite(s): One course in Religion or Visual This course introduces students to the different views of Studies gender and sexuality in Islamic thought, and situates these views within Muslim histories and societies. We will draw on RELG H209 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (1.0 Credit) primary sources, historiographical work, ethnographies of Division: Humanities Muslim societies, fiction, poetry, and play. One major focus will be on homosexuality in Islam and Muslim societies. In An introduction to the primary characters and stories of Greek the course of this examination we will also have a chance to and Roman mythology including cosmic creation, Olympian question what “homosexuality” is and whether this term can be and other deities, and heroes both as they appear in Greek applied cross-culturally and cross-religiously. To think critically and Roman literature and art and as they are later represented about homosexuality in Islam will thus compel us to reconsider in modern art, music, and film. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, homosexuality and Islam at once. Open only to first-year Comparative Literature, Religion students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. RELG H221 WOMEN AND GENDER IN EARLY RELG H186 REINVENTING QUAKERISM: HAVERFORD CHRISTIANITY (1.0 Credit) COLLEGE, RUFUS JONES, AND THE INVENTION OF Division: Humanities LIBERAL QUAKERISM (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: First Year Writing An examination of the representations of women and gender Quakerism isn’t stable. It varies from place to place and from in early Christian texts and their significance for contemporary generation to generation. There is a real sense in which Christianity. Topics include interpretations of Genesis 1-3, Orthodox Quakerism (the form of Quakerism that is most images of women and sexuality in early Christian literature, and closely connected to Haverford College) was reinvented in the roles of women in various Christian communities. the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students in this course will examine some of the changes that Orthodox RELG H222 GNOSTICISM (1.0 Credit) Quakerism underwent between the 1860s and the by Division: Humanities analyzing the life and thought of Rufus Jones (1863-1948). Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Jones is the most famous Quaker ever to teach at Haverford The phenomenon of Gnosticism examined through close and one of most influential scholars ever produced by the reading of primary sources, including the recently discovered Religious Society of Friends. Open only to first-year students as texts of Nag Hammadi. Topics include the relation of assigned by the Director of College Writing. Gnosticism to Greek, Jewish, and Christian thought; the variety RELG H201 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM (1.0 Credit) of Gnostic schools and sects; gender imagery, mythology and other issues in the interpretation of Gnostic texts. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the RELG H224 INDIGENIZING ISLAM TRANSNATIONALLY: Social World RACE, GENDER, ETHNICITY (1.0 Credit) Focusing on the East Asian Buddhist tradition, the course Division: Humanities 355 RELIGION

Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World RELG H254 RAP AND RELIGION: RHYMES ABOUT GOD This course introduces students to the myriad arguments AND THE GOOD (1.0 Credit) and controversies surrounding the “indigenization” of Islam Division: Humanities in different non-Muslim societies around the world. The main We will explore the origins, existential, and ethical dimensions areas of focus will be Europe (primarily the UK and France), the of Rhythm and Poetry (RAP) music. Giving attention to RAP US, and China. songs written and produced by African American artists, including Tupac, Nas, Jay-Z, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, and RELG H228 BREAK EVERY YOKE: INCARCERATION, Kanye West, we will analyze their work with an interest ABOLITION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (1.0 Credit) in understanding a) the conceptions of God and the good Division: Humanities reflected in them, b) how these conceptions connect to and Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the reflect African American social and cultural practices, and c) Social World how the conceptions under consideration change over time. Students in this course will be invited to explore the intersection of religion with issues of mass incarceration, prison abolition, RELG H256 ZEN THOUGHT, ZEN CULTURE, ZEN HISTORY and social justice in the United States. Students will read (1.0 Credit) important works of abolitionist thought, will explore the Division: Humanities religious origins of the modern penitentiary, and will produce What are we talking about when we talk about Zen? This original research that draws on the history of religious course is an introduction to the intellectual and cultural history approaches to incarceration, abolition, and social justice to of the style of Buddhism known as Zen in Japanese. We will comment on contemporary debates over these same issues. examine the development and expression of this religious Crosslisted: PEAC. Lottery Preference: Religion Majors, PJHR movement in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Crosslisted: Concentrators East Asian Languages and Cultures, History, Religion RELG H230 RELIGION AND BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE RELG H266 VIRTUE, FRIENDSHIP, AND DEMOCRATIC (1.0 Credit) PRACTICE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities This course will examine the background for and the key Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) events, figures, philosophies, tactics, and consequences of the This course examines how classical authors, theologians, and modern black freedom struggle in United States. The period contemporary political theorists have thought about the virtues from 1955-1965 will receive special attention, but the roots and demands of friendship and the politics that emerge from of the freedom struggle and the effect on recent American practices of friendship. Taught as POLS B266 in alternating political, social, and cultural history will also be considered. years. RELG H236 RACE AND JUDAISM (1.0 Credit) RELG H268 ANARCHISM: RELIGION, ETHICS, POLITICAL Division: Humanities OBLIGATION (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities Charlottesville, 2017. White supremacists chanted “Jews will Anarchism emerged in the nineteenth century as an important not replace us!”—but what did they mean? Are European Jews transnational sociopolitical philosophy and religious movement. white? Is Zionism racism? Is Judaism just a religion? Regarded Course participants will analyze anarchism as a political as the “other” of European history and politics, the perpetrators philosophy and as a social movement, from the nineteenth of discrimination in Israel/Palestine, and advocates of racial century labor movement to the ongoing global justice justice in America, Jews play a significant role in contemporary movement. racial discourses. This course is a survey of Jewish history and politics through the lens of race. We will examine primary RELG H274 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: ANCIENT ANSWERS documents, works of history, fiction, film, comedy, ethnography, TO A DIFFICULT QUESTION (1.0 Credit) and theory in order to make sense of present problems in

Israel, Europe, and America. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) RELG H242 TOPICS IN RELIGION AND INTELLECTUAL What is evil, and where does it come from? The difficulty of HISTORY: THE RELIGIOUS WRITINGS OF JAMES answering these questions is only matched by their importance BALDWIN (1.0 Credit) to our lived human experience. Together we will study a wide Division: Humanities range of texts from Archaic Greece through the early Middle Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Ages, and throughout the course, students will be encouraged Social World to consider and reconsider their own understanding of these urgent issues. No previous experience in Classics or the An investigation of various traditions of the black religious ancient world is required. Crosslisted: COML,RELG. Pre- experience from slavery to the present. Religious traditions requisite(s): None Lottery Preference: Ten slots reserved for examined within the course may include slave religion, first years, preference to Classics majors and minors black Christianity, Gullah religion, Santeria and Islam. The relationship of these religious traditions to American social history as well as how they adapted over space and time will also be explored.

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RELG H286 RELIGION AND AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE (1.0 RELG H309 EXPERIENCING THE RAMAYANA (1.0 Credit) Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities This seminar will explore the South Asian epic, the Ramayana, What is religious freedom? How have debates about the role in a few of the many texts, images, and performance contexts of religion in public life shaped American politics? And how in which it has flourished for over two millennia. We will also have anxieties about race, gender, and sexuality determined consider the Ramayana as a discourse that has been used to the limits and possibilities of religious freedom? Grounding present and contest ideas and ideals: a way of talking about contemporary political debates in their historical context, everything from gender roles to political ideologies to the nature students analyze speeches, court cases, visual and popular of the divine. Prerequisite(s): Two courses in Religion or Visual culture, and political theory and philosophy to explore the Studies complex relationship between religion and politics in the U.S. RELG H312 RITUAL AND THE BODY (1.0 Credit) RELG H295 QUAKERS, WAR, AND SLAVERY (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities An exploration of the meaning and function of ritual, and of the Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the ways that rituals shape bodies, habits, and identities. Special Social World attention will be given to the relationship between ritual and A seminar on Early Friends’ views on war and slavery. Students gender. Readings include Durkheim, Mauss, Bourdieu, Butler, will analyze primary sources and secondary works to explore and Mahmood. Prerequisite(s): at least one 200 level in the how and why Early Friends came to see both war and slavery department, or instructor consent as immoral. Crosslisted: Independent College Programs; Peace, Justice and Human Rights; Religion Prerequisite(s): RELG H316 HEGEL’S SOCIAL ETHICS (1.0 Credit) First Year Writing Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) RELG H299 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION (1.0 Credit) An examination of religion, ethics, and politics in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (in translation). As we work through Division: Humanities Hegel’s monumental text, we will consider its influence over Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) modern and contemporary discussions of gender, domination, An introduction to theories of the nature and function of religion ethical conflict and religious pluralism. Prerequisite(s): At least from theological, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, one 200-level course in philosophy, political theory, or religious and sociological perspectives. Readings may include: thought, or permission of the instructor. Schleiermacher, Marx, Nietzche, Freud, Tylor, Durkheim, Weber, James, Otto, Benjamin, Eliade, Geertz, Foucault, RELG H317 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MAGIC AND THE Douglas, Smith, Berger, Haraway. MAGIC OF ETHNOGRAPHY (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities RELG H303 RELIGION, LITERATURE AND Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the REPRESENTATION: IMAGES OF KRISHNA (1.0 Credit) Social World Division: Humanities Do ethnographies of magic exude their own magical quality, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) thus enfolded into the very thing they purport to explain? This This course approaches the Hindu god Krishna through varied seminar examines what constitutes ‘good’ ethnographic writing, expressions in architecture, sculpture, paintings, textiles, and in what manner ethnography may be considered a type of landscape design, poetry, music, dance, and drama. We modernist literature that crosses over into the science of social will ask how these practices were employed to visualize the investigation. Crosslisted: ANTH. Pre-requisite(s): at least one divine, to nurture faith and passion, and to gain proximity to the 100-level course on Religion or Anthropology, preferably a transcendent deity. Class work will include field trips to local 200-level course in either field Lottery Preference: 1. Religion temples and museums. majors and minors 2. Anthropology majors and minors

RELG H305 SEMINAR IN RELIGION, ETHICS, AND RELG H319 BLACK QUEER SAINTS: SEX, GENDER, SOCIETY: GOOD AND EVIL (1.0 Credit) RACE, CLASS AND THE QUEST FOR LIBERATION (1.0 Division: Humanities Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities How good can one be in a globalized world? Has the nature Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the of evil changed? This course is a theoretical and practical Social World investigation into the limits of modern disaster and despair, Drawing on fiction, biography, critical theory, film, essays, and heroism and hope. In this course we will explore traditional memoirs, participants will explore how certain African American religious responses to evil, catastrophe, and suffering, the artists, activists, and religionists have resisted, represented, meaning of natural and man-made disasters. We will also and reinterpreted sex, sexuality, and gender norms in the examine attempts to create perfect societies and secular context of capitalist, white supremacist, male supremacist, saints, meditate on the nature of goodness, and consider and heteronormative cultures. Crosslisted: Africana Studies, various religious practices intended to cultivate virtue and just Religion Prerequisite(s): 200-level Humanities course, or societies. Special attention will be paid to religious reactions to instructor consent colonialism, racism, and war.

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RELG H329 HAMDANI: CO-SPIRATION OF THE SACRED French and Francophone Studies and Director of Middle AND THE SATIRICAL (1.0 Credit) Eastern Languages (on leave semester I) Division: Humanities María Cristina Quintero, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of Comparative Literature (on leave semester II) This course builds on a fourteenth-century Uyghur text titled The Contest of the Fruits – a rap battle-style put-down Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. between different fruits – to explore the role of humour and Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities satire in helping us think through notions of the sacred. Cross Listed: Anthropology; Comparative Literature Prerequisite(s): The Departments of French and Francophone Studies, At least two 200-level courses in any of the following areas: Italian, and Spanish cooperate in offering a major in Romance religion, anthropology, sociology, classics, linguistics, literature Languages that requires advanced work in at least two (regardless of language), and philosophy. Students with Romance languages and literatures. Additional work in a third previous engagements with the Hurford Center or with a language and literature is suggested. strong interest in arts, religion, and philosophy are especially encouraged to enroll. In addition, it is highly desirable that Major Requirements students who enroll in this course have significant knowledge of a non-English language so they can draw from other traditions The requirements for the major are a minimum of nine of humour. For this reason, it is recommended that students courses, including the Senior Conference and/or Senior Essay, whose primary language is English have at least two years of described below, in the first language and literature and six continuous study of a non-English language or its equivalent; courses in the second language and literature, including the native [and heritage] speakers of a non-English language may Senior Conference in French, if French is selected as second. be assumed to meet this recommendation. Those students Students should consult with their advisers no later than their unsure of their qualification should email Prof. Ha (gha@ sophomore year in order to select courses in the various haverford.edu) for a consultation session. departments that complement each other. Students must complete a writing requirement in the major. RELG H343 SEMINAR IN RELIGIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY Students will work with their major advisors in order to identify (1.0 Credit) either two writing attentive or one writing intensive course within Division: Humanities their major plan of study. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Students should consult with their advisers no later than their This seminar will focus on the historical origins and origin myths sophomore year in order to select courses in the various of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from within the cultural departments that complement each other. matrix of late ancient Greco-Roman, Byzantine, and Persian Haverford students intending to major in Romance Languages imperial socio-politics. We will stress the interrelationships of must have their major work plan approved by a Bryn Mawr these religions as they develop between the 1st to 8th centuries College adviser. CE. Prerequisites: one course in Religion or Classics. The following sequence of courses is recommended when RELG H398A SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR PART 1 (1.0 the various languages are chosen for primary and secondary Credit) concentration, respectively (see the departmental listings for course descriptions). Division: Humanities A practical methodology course which prepares senior Religion Writing Requirement majors to write their senior theses. Students must complete a writing requirement in the major. Students will work with their major advisors in order to identify RELG H399B SENIOR SEMINAR AND THESIS (1.0 Credit) either two writing attentive or one writing intensive course within Division: Humanities their major plan of study. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) First Language and Literature RELG H460 TEACHING ASSISTANT (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities French (Class of 2022) RELG H480 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1.0 Credit) FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Four literature courses at the 200 level, including FREN 213.

Division: Humanities Advanced language course: FREN 260 (BMC) or 212 (HC). Two courses at the 300 level.

ROMANCE LANGUAGES French (beginning with Class of 2023) FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Three Students may complete a major in Romance Languages. literature or language courses at the 200 level and the Junior Seminar. Two courses at the 300 level.

Faculty Italian Penny Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of ITAL 101, 102. Four courses at the 200 level. Three courses at the 300 level.

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Spanish Janet Shaw, Visiting Assistant Professor SPAN 102, SPAN 120. Four courses at the 200 level. Two José Vergara, Assistant Professor of Russian courses at the 300 level. Irina Walsh, Lecturer in Russian Second Language and Literature The Russian major is a multidisciplinary program designed French to provide students with a broad understanding of Russian culture and the Russophone world. The major places a strong

FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Three emphasis on the development of functional proficiency in the literature or language courses at the 200 level. One course at Russian language. Language study is combined with a specific the 300 level. area of concentration to be selected from the fields of Russian literature, history, economics, language/linguistics, or area Italian studies. ITAL 101, 102. Two literature courses at the 200 level. Two literature courses at the 300 level. College Foreign Language Requirement Spanish The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied by completing RUSS 001 and 002 with an average grade of at SPAN 102, SPAN 120. Two courses at the 200 level. Two least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or better in RUSS 002. courses at the 300 level. In addition to the coursework described above, when the Major Requirements first language and literature is Spanish, majors in Romance A total of 10 courses is required to complete the major: two in Languages must enroll in SPAN 398 (Senior Seminar).* When Russian language at the 200 level or above; four in the area of French is chosen as either the first or second language, concentration, two at the 200 level and two at the 300 level or students must take the first semester Senior Conference in above (for the concentration in area studies, the four courses French (FREN 398) in addition to the coursework described must be in four different fields); three in Russian fields outside above.** When Italian is chosen, students must take ITAL 398 the area of concentration; and either RUSS 398, Senior Essay, and ITAL 399, offered in consultation with the department, in or RUSS 399, Senior Conference. addition to the coursework described above in order to receive honors.*** An oral examination (following the current model in Russian majors have the option of fulfilling the College’s writing the various departments) may be given in one or both of the requirement through Writing Attentive (WA) courses either two languages, according to the student’s preference, and through upper-level Russian language courses, where the students follow the practice of their principal language as to focus is on writing in Russian, or through 200-level courses written examination or thesis. Please note that 398 does not on Russian literature (in translation), culture or film, where the count as one of the two required 300-level courses. focus is on writing in English. Majors also have the option of completing one WA course in Russian and one WA course in Interdepartmental courses at the 200 or 300 level are offered English. from time to time by the cooperating departments. These courses are conducted in English on such comparative Majors are encouraged to pursue advanced language study in Romance topics as epic, romanticism, or literary vanguard Russia in summer, semester, or year-long academic programs. movements of the 20th century. Students should be able to Majors may also take advantage of intensive immersion read texts in two of the languages in the original. language courses offered during the summer by the Bryn Mawr Russian Language Institute. As part of the requirement for * In order to receive honors, students whose first language is RUSS 398/399, all Russian majors take senior comprehensive Spanish should have a minimum 3.7 GPA in Spanish and are examinations that cover the area of concentration and Russian required to write a senior essay (SPAN 399). language competence. ** For students whose first language is French, honors are awarded on the basis of performance in Senior Conference Honors and on a successfully completed thesis (FREN 403) or senior All Russian majors are considered for departmental honors at essay, the latter completed in a third 300-l. course in semester the end of their senior year. The awarding of honors is based

II of senior year. on a student’s overall academic record and all work done in the *** In order to receive honors, students whose first language is major. Italian are required to write a senior essay (ITAL 398 and ITAL 399) Minor Requirements Students wishing to minor in Russian must complete six units at the 100 level or above, two of which must be in the Russian RUSSIAN language.

Students may complete a major or minor in Russian. Courses

RUSS B001 Elementary Russian Intensive Faculty Fall 2021 Timothy Harte, Provost and Professor of Russian Study of basic grammar and syntax. Fundamental skills Marina Rojavin, Visiting Assistant Professor in speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension are

359 RUSSIAN developed. Eight hours a week including conversation sections late 1950s and early 1960s, when social, political and cultural and language laboratory work. changes led to more openness and freedom in Soviet society. Course does not meet an Approach This course focuses on this brief, yet consequential time in Soviet history. The main text for the course will be the 2013 RUSS B002 Elementary Russian Intensive TV series The Thaw (dir. Valery Todorovsky). As we watch this show, we will discuss its major conflicts and the characters’

Spring 2022 lives, and we will look into all the allusions to various Soviet Study of basic grammar and syntax. Fundamental skills texts and realia. As such, we will explore Stalin’s repressions, in speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension are de-Stalinization, the rehabilitation of Stalin’s political prisoners, developed. Eight hours a week including conversation sections Gagarin’s orbiting of the Earth, the Cold War, Khrushchev’s and language laboratory work. policies during the Thaw, artistic movements, government censorship, and fashion. Through articles, literary and non- Course does not meet an Approach literary texts, documentaries and feature films, in addition RUSS B101 Intermediate Russian to the TV series, participants in this course will expand their understanding of this time period in Soviet history and Russian

Fall 2021 culture in general. Participants will also compare and contrast Continuing development of fundamental skills with emphasis culturally-accepted norms, behaviors, and taboos in Soviet on vocabulary expansion in speaking and writing. Readings in Russia to those characteristic of contemporary Russian society. Russian classics and contemporary works. Five hours a week All texts and class interaction will be in Russian. Course does not meet an Approach Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

RUSS B102 Intermediate Russian RUSS B217 The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 Continuing development of fundamental skills with emphasis This course will probe the cinematic oeuvre of the great Soviet on vocabulary expansion in speaking and writing. Readings in filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who produced some of the most Russian classics and contemporary works. Five hours a week. compelling, significant film work of the 20th century. Looking at not only Tarkovsky’s films but also those films that influenced Course does not meet an Approach his work, we will explore the aesthetics, philosophy, and RUSS B106 Intensive Survival Russian ideological pressure underlying Tarkovsky’s unique brand of cinema. Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) This course will be an intensive “crash” course in Russian Counts toward Film Studies for those enrolled in the 360 who have no prior experience studying or speaking Russian (those in the 360 who have RUSS B218 The Coming-Of-Age Novel in 19th-century studied the Russian language in the past will be expected to Europe take a concurrent Russian language course at the College). Not offered 2021-22 This course will entail 5 hrs./week of elementary language instruction in Russian, with special emphasis on speaking skills We will study a selection of nineteenth-century French, English, needed for the trip. and Russian novels that are concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. These are RUSS B201 Advanced Russian novels that imagine the often difficult compromise between Fall 2021 individual aspirations and the drive towards social integration. We will think about why the Bildungsroman - or, coming-of- Intensive practice in speaking and writing skills using a variety age novel - turned out to be one of the most productive and of modern texts and contemporary films and television. popular literary forms of nineteenth-century Europe. We will Emphasis on self-expression and a deeper understanding of study works by such authors as Pushkin, Balzac, Stendhal, grammar and syntax. Five hours a week. Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Course does not meet an Approach Flaubert and others. (Content will vary somewhat each time the course is offered.) We will think about the depiction of childhood RUSS B202 Advanced Russian and early adulthood; families; national and imperial polities Spring 2022 and politics; the relationship between geographic, social, and economic mobility; domestic and professional selves and Intensive practice in speaking and writing skills using a variety spaces; gender and sexuality. of modern texts and contemporary films and television.

Emphasis on self-expression and a deeper understanding of Critical Interpretation (CI) grammar and syntax. Five hours a week. RUSS B219 Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol - Russian Course does not meet an Approach Romantics?

RUSS B216 The Soviet Thaw and Its Culture Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This course provides a dynamic introduction to some of the most influential works of Russian literature, texts that became Named by famed Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg, the Thaw ethical, ideological, and aesthetic touchstones for all later (Ottepel) was a brief period in Soviet history spanning the periods of Russian culture. We will study the works of Pushkin,

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Lermontov, and Gogol with attention to their thematic and Inquiry into the Past (IP) formal preoccupations, their historical contexts and often Counts toward Film Studies fascinating histories of reception in the nineteenth century, in the Soviet period, and in contemporary culture. Topics of RUSS B229 Soviet Culture, Above and Below Ground particular interest include Romanticism as a literary, cultural, Not offered 2021-22 and historical phenomenon in Russia and in Europe; Russia’s experiment in Westernization; the status of the writer within This course serves as a short survey of Soviet literature, art, shifting socio-political hierarchies; imperialism; the fluctuating and film after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. We will explore meanings of social class; individual subjectivity as an object of the works of avant-garde authors and artists, official writers and artistic representation; the absurd. All readings, discussions, painters, authors who wrote “for the desk drawer,” and those and assignments in English. No knowledge of Russian whose creative works were circulated in the underground. We required. will explore Soviet science fiction and dystopia, the utopian world building of , trauma of the Gulag, and Critical Interpretation (CI) the parodic humor of late Soviet conceptual art. From canvas to film to the printed page, we will focus on major cultural topics RUSS B220 Chernobyl in and around the increasing pressures of shifting political Spring 2022 landscapes, ideology, propaganda, the publishing market, and

This course introduces students to the Chernobyl nuclear the role of the writer in Russian society. disaster, its consequences, and its representations across a Critical Interpretation (CI) range of cultures and media through a comparative lens and as Inquiry into the Past (IP) a global phenomenon. Culture meets ecology, science, history, and politics. Taught in translation. RUSS B235 The Social Dynamics of Russian Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Spring 2022 Critical Interpretation (CI) An examination of the social factors that influence the language of Russian conversational speech, including contemporary RUSS B222 Language Policy Issues and the Russophone Russian media (films, television, and the Internet). Basic social World strategies that structure a conversation are studied, as well Fall 2021 as the implications of gender and education on the form and This course provides an introduction to the study of language style of discourse. Prerequisite: RUSS B201, RUSS 102 also policy and language planning in the countries where Russian is required if taken concurrently with RUSS 201. or has once been used. The course will offer a survey of current Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) theoretical approaches to language maintenance, bilingualism and language shift, as well as language spread and language RUSS B237 Crime or Punishment: Russian Narratives of death. Having a rich history of language interaction, the Incarceration Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia will Fall 2021 be the major foci in this course. We will explore how Russian was often used as a tool for colonization. We will follow the This course explores Russian narratives of incarceration, development of various writing systems by Soviet linguists, punishment, and captivity from the 17th century to the present mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. We will also look at the day and considers topics such as social justice, violence and its interactions between Russian and languages currently used in artistic representations, totalitarianism, witness-bearing, and the

Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic states, and in parts of possibility of transcendence in suffering. Taught in translation. the Russian Federation. All texts and class interactions will be Critical Interpretation (CI) in Russian. Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Peace, Justice and Human Rights

RUSS B227 Eurasia and its Ecology: Cultural and RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 Historical Perspectives Section 001 (Fall 2020): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia

Not offered 2021-22 and Beyond

This course will explore the historical, social, and cultural Not offered 2021-22 significance of the environment in Russian literature and This is a topics course. Course content varies. the visual arts. As the largest country on the planet and as Inquiry into the Past (IP) a sprawling nation that covers almost a sixth of the world’s Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies land mass, Russia has both cherished and exploited its vast Counts toward Film Studies forests and ample natural resources. Exploring Russian culture Counts toward Visual Studies from an ecological perspective, we will delve into the fiction, poetry, cinema, and photography that has raised environmental RUSS B271 Chekhov: His Short Stories and Plays in issues or, in the opposite vein, has promoted rapid industrial Translation development and a swift taming of Russia’s natural landscape for the sake of progress. To this day, Russian artists continue Not offered 2021-22 to grapple with the ecological state of the country and its fragile A study of the themes, structure and style of Chekhov’s major well-being. short stories and plays. The course will also explore the Critical Interpretation (CI) significance of Chekhov’s prose and drama in the English- 361 RUSSIAN speaking world, where this masterful Russian writer is the most of violence in Russian society, and Russia’s evaluation of the staged playwright after Shakespeare. All readings and lectures past. Prerequisite: RUSS 102 or the equivalent. in English. RUSS B365 Russian and Soviet Film Culture Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Not offered 2021-22 This seminar explores the cultural and theoretical trends that RUSS B316 Russian and Soviet Short Story have shaped Russian and Soviet cinema from the silent era Not offered 2021-22 to the present day. The focus will be on Russia’s films and This new Russian language course will explore the nature and film theory, with discussion of the aesthetic, ideological, and evolution of the Russian short story from the beginning of the historical issues underscoring Russia’s cinematic culture. 19th century through the beginning of the 21st century. We Taught in Russian. No previous study of cinema required, will begin with the stories of Pushkin and Gogol and continue although RUSS 201 or the equivalent is required. with Garshin who proved instrumental in developing the Counts toward Film Studies genre to its modern form. Students will then read stories by Chekhov, Bunin, Nabokov, Babel, Shukshin, Tolstaya, Pelevin RUSS B390 Russian for Pre-Professionals I -- writers with distinguished voices who introduced a variety Fall 2021 of groundbreaking themes, characters, and plots and whose art reveals the possibilities of the genre. All the readings and This capstone to the overall language course sequence is discussion will be in Russian. designed to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency in Russian to the advanced level or higher, preparing students Course does not meet an Approach to carry out academic study or research in Russian in a professional field. Suggested Preparation: study abroad in RUSS B317 Power and the Poet: Resistance and Otherness Russia for at least one summer, preferably one semester; and/ in Russian, Sov or certified proficiency levels of ‘advanced-low’ or ‘advanced- Fall 2021 mid’ in two skills, one of which must be oral proficiency. In Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, literature and, RUSS B391 Russian for Pre-Professionals II later, cinema have served to augment voices calling for freedom and non-conformism in opposition to censorship and Spring 2022 oppression. Vis-à-vis these calls for freedom, the concept Second part of year long capstone language sequence of the Other has always occupied a prominent space in the designed to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency to the Russian collective mindset, as well as in literature and art. “advanced level,” preparing students to carry out advanced Evoking the broad image of the writer, artist, philosopher, academic study or research in Russian in a professional field. and thinker in Russian culture and embodying Otherness, Prerequisite: RUSS 390 or equivalent. the poet has often challenged Russian society to confront difficult issues. This course will examine how the so-called RUSS B398 Senior Essay poet’s Otherness has been imagined and depicted in Russian Independent research project designed and conducted under prose and poetry, cinema and media, and in the culture as the supervision of a departmental faculty member. May be a whole. By questioning underlying assumptions in Russian undertaken in either fall or spring semester of senior year. culture, students will explore the processes of constructing and representing the Other in terms of ethnicity, social class, sexual RUSS B399 Senior Conference orientation, and dissidence. Conducted in Russian Exploration of an interdisciplinary topic in Russian culture. RUSS B319 Advanced Russian through Current Events Topic varies from year to year. Requirements may include short papers, oral presentations, and examinations. Fall 2021 This course offers an exploration of contemporary social, RUSS B403 Supervised Work political, ecological, and cultural issues in Russia and on the territories of former Soviet Republics. By working with authentic RUSS B403 Supervised Work materials, including articles and video clips, students will FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the solidify Advanced-level reading, listening, writing and speaking Humanities skills (ACTFL 2012). All texts and class interactions will be in Russian. Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works RUSS B342 Russian Culture Today in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students Not offered 2021-22 with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory This seminar focuses on current cultural trends in Russia, with (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the special emphasis on the interplay between various artistic currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: media and post-Soviet Russia’s rapidly developing society. Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Students will be introduced to contemporary Russian literature, Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short painting, television, film, and music while considering such stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, topics as Russia’s ambiguous attitude toward the West, the rise Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of

362 RUSSIAN / SOCIOLOGY theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with questions focusing on Italy and Russia, two countries that an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for in the 19th and 20th century went through several cycles of French credit. construction and deconstruction of their political heroes. In Critical Interpretation (CI) the first part of the course, we will investigate the codification of the “type” of the freedom-fighter in the representations ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the of the protagonists of 19th-century European revolutionary Humanities movements, focusing on the links between the Italian Risorgimento and the anti-Tsarist movement in Russia,

Spring 2022 culminating in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. From the What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist pamphlets that consecrated the Italian Garibaldi as the “hero of manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and the two worlds” to the autobiographies of the Russian terrorists films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object and the transcripts of their trials, we will investigate myth- oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In making as a constitutive part of political movements and reflect this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from on the models of masculinity and womanhood at the foundation different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender of the “typical” revolutionary hero. In the second part of the and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece semester, we will focus on Stalinism and Fascism, systems from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings that exploited their revolutionary roots to mobilize supporters to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will in favor of oppressive institutions. Finally, we will discuss the discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and many ways in which 19th - and 20th-century heroes have been of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we confronted, neutralized, dismantled - and the many ways in are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour which their models still haunt us. We will focus on literary texts in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. and political speeches, but we will also analyze propaganda posters, movies, paintings, photographs, monuments and even Critical Interpretation (CI) street names. For your final project, you will have the option Counts toward Africana Studies of building on our class discussions to explore myth-making in Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies contemporary movements or forms of deconstruction of existing Counts toward Film Studies heroes. ITAL B216 Body and Mind Fall 2021 SOCIOLOGY In this course, we will explore representations of the relationship between body and mind, starting from 19th-century Students may complete a major or minor in Sociology. Russian novels that conceptualize love as a physical ailment and ending with the history of Alzheimer’s disease. Talking about the relationship between body and mind will allow us to Faculty investigate how gender roles and models of womanhood and Amanda Cox, Visiting Assistant Professor masculinity shaped the evolution of modern sciences, from psychiatry to obstetrics. Investigating how bodies have been David Karen, Professor of Sociology (and continue to be) read, we will discuss systems created Veronica Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology on the to police societies by cataloguing bodies, from Lombroso’s Rosabeth Moss Kantor Change Master Fund and Co-Director phrenology to modern fingerprinting and face recognition of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies (on leave softwares. Finally, we will consider how our understanding of semester II) the relationship between body and mind has changed over time. Many of the theories we will discuss during the semester Mary Osirim, Special Advisor to the Provost and Professor of are now considered outdated pseudo-science - but how can Sociology (on leave semesters I and II) we conceptualize the difference between science and pseudo- Piper Sledge, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of science? As new categories and disease designations appear Gender and Sexuality Studies to substitute the old ones, which are the implications of creating Nathan Wright, Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology a label for a constellation of existing symptoms? The course will be taught entirely in English. There will be an optional hour in Italian for students of Italian. The major in Sociology aims to provide understanding of the organization and functioning of modern society by analyzing

Critical Interpretation (CI) its major institutions, social groups, and values, and their connections to culture and power. To facilitate these analytical ITAL B318 Falling Statues: myth-making in literature, objectives, the department offers rigorous preparation in social politics and art theory and problem-focused training in quantitative as well as Spring 2022 qualitative methodologies. We have become accustomed to the rituals of the dismissal of the heroes of the past: we tear down statues, we rename Major Requirements buildings and places. But how did we get there? How, why Requirements for the major are SOCL 102, 265, 302, 303 and by whom are heroes constructed? When old heroes are (Junior Seminar), which fulfills the College writing intensive questioned, what substitutes them? How are the raise and fall requirement, 398 (Senior Seminar), five additional courses in of heroes tied to shifting models of masculinity, womanhood, sociology (one of which may be at the 100 level and at least power and the state? In this course, we will explore these one of which must be at the 300 level). In addition, the student

363 SOCIOLOGY must take two additional courses in sociology or an allied past to be theses: students conduct an analysis of empirical subject; the allied courses are to be chosen in consultation data (this can be qualitative or quantitative; collected by the with the faculty adviser. The department strongly recommends student or by someone else; contemporary or historical; etc.) that majors take a history course focused on late 19th and or students undertake to research a question using already 20th century American history. Students with an interest in published evidence (so the thesis could be a very focused, quantitative sociology are encouraged to elect as allied work extensive literature review). Students would be welcome to further training in mathematics, statistics and computer science. propose developing further a research paper that they wrote in Those with an interest in historical or theoretical sociology a course. This kind of proposal needs to be very specific as to are encouraged to elect complementary courses in history, what the new/additional goals are. philosophy, and anthropology. In general, these allied courses The Department of Sociology offers concentrations in gender should be chosen from the social sciences. and society and African American studies. In pursuing these concentrations, majors should inquire about the possibility of Senior Experience coursework at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and the The Senior Seminar is required of all senior sociology University of Pennsylvania. majors regardless of whether or not they wish to do a thesis. Depending on the number of students, in some years the Minor Requirements Senior Seminar will have two sections. The content of the two Requirements for the minor are SOCL 102, 265, 302, and sections may differ, but the structure of the seminars will be three additional courses within the department. Students may the same. Students will focus on their writing in a series of choose electives from courses offered at Haverford College. assignments, emphasizing, as the new college-wide writing Bryn Mawr majors should consult their department about major requirement suggests, the process and elements of good credit for courses taken at other institutions. writing. Honors Senior Thesis Honors in Sociology are available to those students who During senior year, seniors will have the option of doing a have a grade point average in the major of 3.5 or higher and one-semester thesis in the fall, a one-semester thesis in the who write a senior thesis that is judged outstanding by the spring, or a two-semester thesis (one grade for the year). To department. The thesis would be written under the direction of become eligible to write a senior thesis, a student must have a a Sociology faculty member. minimum 3.3 GPA in sociology (this will also be the minimum GPA for a student to do an independent study in sociology). Concentrations Within the Sociology Major Junior sociology majors will need to approach a faculty member as early as possible about the possibility of advising their Gender and Society thesis and will need to indicate in their thesis proposal their

“preferred adviser.” The department will attempt to follow these Three courses are required for this concentration—at least preferences but will take responsibility for assigning an adviser. two of these courses must be in sociology. The remaining course can be in sociology or an allied social science field. Rising seniors who wish to write a senior thesis will need to Students who pursue this concentration are required to take submit by June 30 to the Chair of sociology a 1-2 page thesis at least one of the core courses in this area offered by the proposal that includes the following information: department: The Study of Gender in Society (SOCL 201) or 1. Proposed term of thesis-writing: fall semester; spring Women in Contemporary Society: The Southern Hemisphere semester; both semesters (SOCL 225). The department encourages students in this concentration to take courses that focus on the study of gender 2. : brief indication of when the data will be collected, in both the Global North and the Global South. In addition to when/how it will be analyzed, when the write-up will take taking courses in this field at Bryn Mawr, students may also place, etc. take courses towards this concentration in their study abroad 3. Preferred adviser programs or at Haverford, Swarthmore, and the University 4. Thesis proposal (should include the research question, its of Pennsylvania. Any course taken outside of the Bryn Mawr sociological significance, the proposed method, plan of Department of Sociology must be approved by the department

analysis, and anticipated value) for concentration credit. a. The thesis proposal should also state clearly whether African American Studies the research will require IRB approval, if approval has Three courses are required for this concentration—at least two already been secured, or when it will be secured of these courses must be in sociology. The remaining course b. Please indicate if you have any previous preparation/ can be in either sociology or an allied field. Students who work in the thesis topic area. pursue this concentration are required to take the core course The chair will distribute the proposals to department members, offered by the Bryn Mawr Department of Sociology: Black collect their comments, and inform the student of a yes/no America In Sociological Perspective (SOCL 229). Students decision by July 15. Please note that students who are not are encouraged to take courses on Black America listed under selected to do a senior thesis may still pursue independent the Bryn Mawr and Haverford Africana Studies Programs. work with a faculty member (if their GPA in the major is 3.3 or Courses taken outside the Bryn Mawr Department of Sociology above). If you are unsure of whether your topic is really must be approved by the department for concentration credit. “THESIS,” you should discuss this with a faculty member. The Majors interested in this concentration should consult Robert following broad categories of work have been considered in the Washington for further information.

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Courses due to complex structural and cultural forces. We will examine family change from historical, social, and demographic SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual perspectives. After examining the images, ideals, and myths concerning families, we will address the central theme of Fall 2021, Spring 2022 diversity and change. In what ways can sociology explain and Sociology is the systematic study of society and social document these shifts? What influences do law, technology, interaction. It involves what C. Wright Mills called the and medicine have on the family? What are the results of “sociological imagination,” a way of seeing the relationship evolving views of work, gender, and parenting on family between individuals and the larger forces of society and structure and stability? Prerequisite of one Social Science history. In this course, we will practice using our sociological Course imaginations to think about the world around us. We will Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) examine how social norms and structures are created and Counts toward Child and Family Studies maintained, and we will analyze how these structures shape Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies people’s behavior and choices, often without their realizing it. After learning to think sociologically, we will examine the SOCL B225 Women in Society centrality of inequality in society, focusing specifically on the intersecting dimensions of race and ethnicity, gender, and Fall 2021 class, and the role of social structures and institutions (such In 2015, the world’s female population was 49.6 percent of the as the family and education) in society. Overall, this course total global population of 7.3 billion. According to the United draws our attention toward our own presuppositions-the things Nations, in absolute terms, there were 61,591,853 more men we take for granted in our everyday lives-and provides us with than women. Yet, at the global scale, 124 countries have a systematic framework within which we can analyze those more women than men. A great majority of these countries presuppositions and identify their effects.. are located in what scholars have recently been referring Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) to as the Global South - those countries known previously Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies as developing countries. Although women outnumber their Counts toward International Studies male counterparts in many Global South countries, however, these women endure difficulties that have worsened rather SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society than improving. What social structures determine this gender inequality in general and that of women of color in particular? Not offered 2021-22 What are the main challenges women in the Global South The definition of male and female social roles and sociological face? How do these challenges differ based on nationality, approaches to the study of gender in the United States, with class, ethnicity, skin color, gender identity, and other axes of attention to gender in the economy and work place, the division oppression? What strategies have these women developed of labor in families and households, and analysis of class and to cope with the wide variety of challenges they contend with ethnic differences in gender roles. Of particular interest in this on a daily basis? These are some of the major questions that course is the comparative exploration of the experiences of we will explore together in this class. In this course, the Global women of color in the United States. South does not refer exclusively to a geographical location, Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) but rather to a set of institutional structures that generate Counts toward Child and Family Studies disadvantages for all individuals and particularly for women Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and other minorities, regardless their geographical location in the world. In other words, a significant segment of the Global SOCL B205 Social Inequality North’s population lives under the same precarious conditions that are commonly believed as exclusive to the Global South. Spring 2022 Simultaneously, there is a Global North embedded in the Global In this course, we will explore the extent, causes, and South as well. In this context, we will see that the geographical consequences of social and economic inequality in the U.S. division between the North and the South becomes futile when We will begin by discussing key theories and the intersecting we seek to understand the dynamics of the “Western-centric/ dimensions of inequality along lines of income and wealth, Christian-centric capitalist/patriarchal modern/colonial world- race and ethnicity, and gender. We will then follow a life-course system” (Grosfoguel, 2012). In the first part of the course, perspective to trace the institutions through which inequality is we will establish the theoretical foundations that will guide us structured, experienced, and reproduced through the family, throughout the rest of the semester. We will then turn to a wide neighborhoods, the educational system, labor markets and variety of case studies where we will examine, for instance, workplaces, and the criminal justice system. the contemporary global division of labor, gendered violence Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in the form of feminicides, international migration, and global Counts toward Child and Family Studies tourism. The course’s final thematic section will be devoted to Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies learning from the different feminisms (e.g. community feminism) emerging out of the Global South as well as the research SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context done in that region and its contribution to the development of a broader gender studies scholarship. In particular, we will pay Not offered 2021-22 close attention to resistance, solidarity, and social movements The family represents a fundamental and ubiquitous institution led by women. Examples will be drawn from Latin America, the in the social world, providing norms and conveying values. This Caribbean, the US, Asia, and Africa. course focuses on current sociological research, seeking to Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) understand how modern American families have transformed Counts toward Africana Studies 365 SOCIOLOGY

Counts toward Child and Family Studies represents an exceptional case in world migration. There is Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies no other example of migration with more than 100 years of Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies history. The copious presence of migrants concentrated in a host country, such as we have in the case of the 11.7 million SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological Perspective Mexican migrants residing in the United States, along with Not offered 2021-22 another 15 million Mexican descendants, is unparalleled. The 1,933-mile-long border shared by the two countries This course presents sociological perspectives on various makes it one of the longest boundary lines in the world and, issues affecting black America as a historically unique minority unfortunately, also one of the most dangerous frontiers in the group in the United States: the legacy of slavery and the Jim world today. We will examine the different economic, political, Crow era; the formation of urban black ghettos; the civil rights social and cultural forces that have shaped this centenarian reforms; the problems of poverty and unemployment; the migration influx and undertake a macro-, meso-, and micro- problems of crime and other social problems; the problems of levels of analysis. At the macro-level of political economy, criminal justice; the continuing significance of race; the varied we will investigate the economic interdependency that has covert modern forms of racial discrimination; and the role of developed between Mexico and the U.S. over different race in American politics. Prerequisite: at least one additional economic development periods of these countries, particularly, sociology course or permission of instructor. Course is not the role the Mexican labor force has played to boosting and available to freshmen. sustaining both the Mexican and the American economies. At Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the meso-level, we will examine different institutions both in Inquiry into the Past (IP) Mexico and the U.S. that have determined the ways in which Counts toward Africana Studies millions of Mexican migrate to this country. Last, but certainly Counts toward Child and Family Studies not least, we will explore the impacts that both the macro-and meso-processes have had on the micro-level by considering SOCL B232 A Sociological Journey to Immigrant the imperatives, aspirations, and dreams that have prompted Communities in Philly millions of people to leave their homes and communities behind Not offered 2021-22 in search of better opportunities. This major life decision of migration brings with it a series of social transformations in This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and family and community networks, this will look into the cultural comparatively examine various immigrant communities living impacts in both the sending and receiving migrant communities. in greater Philadelphia. It will expose students to the complex In sum, we will come to understand how these three levels of historical, economic, political, and social factors influencing analysis work together. (im)migration, as well as how migrants and the children of immigrants develop their sense of belonging and their Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) homemaking practices in the new host society. In this course, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies we will probe questions of belonging, identity, homemaking, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies citizenship, transnationalism, and ethnic entrepreneurship and Counts toward Praxis Program how individuals, families, and communities are transformed locally and across borders through the process of migration. SOCL B246 Sociology of Migration: A Cross-Cultural This course also seeks to interrogate how once in a new Overview of Contemporary Challenges country, immigrant communities not only develop a sense of Not offered 2021-22 belonging but also how they reconfigure their own identities The twenty-first century began much as the twentieth century while they transform the social, physical, and cultural milieus did for the United States with high levels of immigration. This of their new communities of arrival. To achieve these ends, this has affected not only the nation, but the discipline of sociology. course will engage in a multidisciplinary approach consisting Just as early twentieth century Chicago School sociology of materials drawn from such disciplines as cultural studies, focused on immigration and settlement issues, so too the first anthropology, history, migration studies, and sociology to decade of the twenty-first century shows a flurry of sociological examine distinct immigrant communities that have arrived in imagination devoted to immigration scholarship. This course Philadelphia over the past 100 years. Although this course will will center on the key texts, issues, and approaches coming also cover the histories of migrant communities arriving in the out of this renovated sociology of immigration, but we will also area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a greater part of include approaches to the study of immigration from history, the course will focus on recent migrant communities, mainly anthropology, and ethnic studies. While we will consider from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and arriving comparative and historical approaches, our focus will be on the in the area of South Philadelphia. A special focus will be on the late twentieth century through the present, and we will spend Mexican American migrant community that stands out among a good deal of time focusing on the longest running labor those newly arrived migrant communities. migration in the world, Mexican immigration to the U.S., as Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) well as on Central American migrant communities in the U.S. Counts toward Child and Family Studies Students with an interest in contemporary U.S. immigration Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies will be exposed to a survey of key theoretical approaches and relevant issues in immigration studies in the social sciences. SOCL B235 Mexican-American Communities Current themes, such as globalization, transnationalism, Fall 2021 gendered migration, immigrant labor markets, militarization of the U.S.-Mexican border, U.S. migration policy, the new second For its unique history, the number of migrants, and the two generation and segmented assimilation, and citizenship will be countries’ proximity, Mexican migration to the United States included.

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Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology of Inquiry into the Past (IP) Deviance Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Not offered 2021-22 SOCL B251 Queering Utopia An examination of non-normative and criminal behavior viewed Spring 2022 from the standpoint of different theoretical perspectives on deviance (e.g., social strain, anomie, functionalism, social What if? This question is at the heart of both social theory disorganization, symbolic interaction, and Marxism) with and speculative fiction. Theory and fiction both serve as ways particular emphasis on social construction and labeling through which to make sense of social life and to imagine perspectives; and the role of subcultures, social movements alternatives. Within the traditions of feminist and queer thought, and social conflicts in changing the normative boundaries utopian and dystopian fiction have been utilized as a means of society. Topics include robbery, homicide, Black inner city by which to imagine the outcomes of various social processes violence, sexual deviance, prostitution, white collar crime, drug and alternative gender/sexuality systems. This medium is also addiction and mental disorders. useful for exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality are not only integral to individual identity but also to the structure Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of social life itself. In this course we will analyze the challenges Counts toward Africana Studies to the status quo asserted by feminist theorists and queer Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies theorists alongside a comparison with indigenous systems SOCL B258 Sociology of Education of gender. We will also consider the various implications for everyday life of these theories as presented through the lens of Spring 2022 speculative fiction. We will compare works of fiction with works Major sociological theories of the relationships between of social theory to think through the ways in which gender and education and society, focusing on the effects of education on sexuality structure social life as well as the ways in which we inequality in the United States and the historical development of do, undo, and resist gender in everyday life. Over the course of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in the United the semester, we will contemplate work by Samuel R. Delany; States. Other topics include education and social selection, Michael Warner; Margaret Atwood; Ursula Le Guin; Nikki testing and tracking, and micro- and macro-explanations of Sullivan; Sara Ahmed, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura Mamo, and differences in educational outcomes. This is a Praxis II course; more. placements are in local schools. Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Education SOCL B256 Media, Race and Social Movements Counts toward Praxis Program Not offered 2021-22 SOCL B262 Public Opinion In 2015, Ava DuVernay’s Selma about the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement was nominated for Not offered 2021-22 four Golden Globe Awards. Fifty years after the Selma to This course explores public opinion: what it is, how it is Montgomery March, narratives about the movement and its measured, how it is shaped, and how it changes over time. leaders still capture widespread public attention and cultural Specific attention is given to the role of elites, the mass media, legitimation. Public figures often appeal to our collective and religion in shaping public opinion. Examples include racial/ memory of the Civil Rights movements and its leaders when ethnic civil rights, abortion, gay/lesbian/transgendered sexuality, they ask us to take positions on hot-button social issues like and inequalities. school funding, mass incarceration, health care coverage, and reproductive rights. But the median age of the US population Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) is 37.8, meaning that at least half of Americans have no Inquiry into the Past (IP) personal recollection of the movement. Instead, we share a Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies collective imaginary of the Civil Rights Movement and other SOCL B263 Dimensions of Power: Micro, Meso, and Macro formative historical moments in our national history, based on what we have learned from teachers, books, movies, music Not offered 2021-22 and countless other secondary sources. Media provides What is power? How does it operate at different levels in us access to knowledge - including knowledge about what society--through one-on-one interactions, organizational and ideas, institutions, and figures are important to our culture and societal (class, race/ethnic, gender) structures, and cultural identities. However, in order to receive that knowledge, we norms? In this course, we will explore these questions by must interpret it through a shared cultural language that is also reading about sociological understandings of power and influenced by the media we consume, the relationships we applying those theories to our everyday lives. As part of this have, and the institutions we rely upon. In this sociology course, course, students will collect qualitative data and analyze it we will work toward a shared understanding of the American based on theories of power. No prior data-collection experience media ecosystem by comparing and critiquing coverage of is necessary. social movements from a range of media sources, including social media and international citizen journalism. We will focus Course does not meet an Approach in particular on how racial frames impact this ecosystem. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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SOCL B264 Sociology of Childhood race and racism, the construction and persistence of racial Fall 2021 inequalities, and subtopics on racial dynamics in the United States. Subtopics will include: education, environment, police In this course, we will examine childhood from a sociological and prisons, fear and love, and popular culture. perspective focusing on how children shape and are shaped by their social worlds. We will begin by considering childhood Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) as an historically constructed category that has changed over SOCL B270 Refugee Families: Global Systems in Crisis? time and place. We will next focus on three institutions that are key agents of childhood socialization: the family, the school, Not offered 2021-22 and peers. Finally, we will study topics that may be considered This course approaches the global refugee crisis from a problems of childhood: commercialization, the medicalization sociological vantage point. The course begins by asking who of aspects of children’s life experiences, and school discipline. is considered a refugee and how this category is constructed. Throughout the course, we will consider how children’s lives are We will examine how refugee families fit within the nation- shaped by broader systems of inequality based on race, class, state system and how forced migration fits within larger and gender. trends in migration and globalization. We then follow refugee Course does not meet an Approach families and the institutions that shape their trajectories from waiting in refugee camps and cities in neighboring countries SOCL B265 Quantitative Methods to the possibility of more durable solutions through return Fall 2021 migration to their home country (repatriation), local integration, or resettlement. How do the dynamics of family shape--and An introduction to the conduct of empirical, especially change in--the process? In the last section of the class, we quantitative, social science inquiry. In consultation with the focus on the integration of refugees and asylum-seekers in instructor, students may select research problems to which the U.S. and Europe. Along the way, we will consider refugee they apply the research procedures and statistical techniques agency and self-reliance, as well as the constraints and introduced during the course. Using SPSS, a statistical inequalities they face while navigating global refugee systems. computer package, students learn techniques such as cross- tabular analysis, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Required of Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Bryn Mawr Sociology majors and minors. Non-sociology majors SOCL B276 Making Sense of Race and minors with permission of instructor. Fall 2021 Quantitative Methods (QM) Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) What is the meaning of race in contemporary US and global Counts toward Introduction to Data Science society? How are these meanings (re)produced, resisted, and refused? What meanings might we desire or imagine as SOCL B268 Environmental Sustainability alternatives? In this course, we will approach these questions Not offered 2021-22 through an array of sources while tracking our own thinking about and experiences of raced-ness. Course material will This course relates a broadly construed understanding of survey sociological notions of the social construction of race, environmental sustainability to the historical development empirical studies of lived experiences of race, and creative of the major concepts and developments in sociology. It fiction and non-fiction material intended to catalyze thinking situates the development of sociology as responding to major about alternative possibilities. social problems in the natural and built environment, and demonstrates how the key theoretical developments and Course does not meet an Approach empirical findings of sociology are crucial in understanding Counts toward Africana Studies how these problems develop, persist, and are addressed or Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies fail to be addressed. Conceptually, it begins with the radical SOCL B302 Social Theory environmental changes at the dawn of modernity that gave rise to European sociology and the massive urban social problems Fall 2021, Spring 2022 experienced in rapidly changing urban areas that gave rise to This course focuses primarily on the works of classical social American sociology. Empirically, it moves through a series of theorists. The theorists include: George Herbert Meade, Emile more contemporary case studies of environmental problems Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber; and secondarily their (including both single-event “disasters” and ongoing slowly influences on the works of more contemporary theorists: C. developing ever-present realities) that demonstrate both the Wright Mills, Shulamith Firestone, Antonio Gramsci, Erving context for sociology’s development and the promise sociology Goffman, Randall Collins, Robert Bellah, Howard Becker, and offers in understanding environmental problems. The course Pierre Bourdieu. Among the theoretical conceptions examined: will have a global focus drawing on case studies from North culture, religion, the sacred, power, authority, modernization, America, South America, Europe, Africa, with special attention deviance, bureaucracy, social stratification, social class, status given to East Asia. groups, social conflict, and social conceptions of the self. Course does not meet an Approach SOCL B303 Junior Conference: Discipline-Based Intensive SOCL B269 Sociology of Race Writing Not offered 2021-22 Fall 2021, Spring 2022 This course is an introduction to thinking about race This course will introduce students to a range of qualitative sociologically. It will cover major sociological theories about methods in the discipline and will require students to engage,

368 SOCIOLOGY through reading and writing, a wide range of sociological Counts toward Africana Studies issues. The emphasis of the course will be to develop a clear, concise writing style, while maintaining a sociological focus. SOCL B322 Thinking with Trans: Theorizing Race and Substantive areas of the course will vary depending on the Gender instructor. Prerequisite: Required of and limited to Bryn Mawr Not offered 2021-22 Sociology Major, Junior Standing In 2017, philosopher Rebecca Tuvel published an article in SOCL B309 Sociology of Religion the journal Hypatia outlining an argument for the existence of transracialism. This article came on the tail end of a great Fall 2021 deal of controversy about the outing of NAACP leader, Rachel This course will investigate what sociology offers to an historical Dolezal; a woman born to white parents who identifies as and contemporary understanding of religion. Most broadly, the black. In this course we will examine the social construction of course explores how religion has fared under the conditions of race and gender as well as critique the biological assumptions modernity given widespread predictions of secularization yet that underpin both social structures. We will explore the remarkably resilient and resurgent religious movements the theoretical power and pitfalls of the terms “transgender” and world over. The course is structured to alternate theoretical “transracial”- the similarities, differences, and tensions inherent approaches to religion with specific empirical cases that in questioning taken for granted social structures that are illustrate, test, or contradict the particular theories at hand. fundamental to social organization and personal identity. We It focuses primarily on the West, but situated within a global will explore the theoretical context of the terms “transracial” and context. “transgender,” the various arguments for and against identity categories, and the lived experiences of individuals and groups SOCL B317 Comparative Social Policy: Cuba, China, US, who regularly transgress the boundaries of race and gender. Scandinavia Course does not meet an Approach Fall 2021 Counts toward Africana Studies This course will examine different countries’ policy choices Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies to address different societal challenges. Four societal types - socialist (Cuba), post-socialist (China), capitalist (US), and SOCL B323 Communes, Co-ops, and Collectives: social-democratic (Scandinavia) - will be studies to help us Alternative Organizations understand how these different kinds of societies conceive Fall 2021 of social problems and propose and implement attempted From schools to hospitals to grocery stores, most of the solutions. We will examine particular problems/solutions in four organizations we encounter and participate in throughout domains: health/sports; education; environment; technological our lives are based on a hierarchical, bureaucratic form of development. As we explore these domains, we will attend organization. How did this form of organization come to be so to methodological issues involved in making historical and common in U.S. society? And what are the alternatives? In institutional comparisons this course, we will begin by exploring the origins, form, and Counts toward Introduction to Data Science proliferation of what Max Weber famously referred to as the Counts toward Education “iron cage” of bureaucracy. Then we will focus on alternative Counts toward Health Studies forms of organization, such as communes, cooperatives, and collectives. How do these types of collectivist-democratic SOCL B321 The Black American Intellectual Community organizations differ from the rational-bureaucratic organizations Not offered 2021-22 with which we are most familiar? How are these alternative organizations structured? What makes them work--or This seminar explores an important but neglected subject in not? From the Burning Man (anti)organization to mutual the study of race relations: the social role of the black American aid societies, democratic schools, farmer cooperatives, intellectual community. Viewing black intellectuals from the and feminist collectives, we will explore the ways in which perspective of the sociology of knowledge, it examines the alternative organizations can enforce the status quo or serve patterns of development and conflict in the black American as catalysts for social change. Prerequisite: At least one social intellectual community, extending from the early 20th century to science course or permission of instructor. the early 21st century. It will examine the social and historical contexts and influences that shaped their world views as they Course does not meet an Approach confronted the issues of racism, racial integration, black social problems, black culture, and black identity - issues that were SOCL B326 Feminist Perspectives on Hlth framed through rival and often antagonistic black ideological Spring 2022 movements: black nationalism, liberal civil rights activism, Increasingly, an individual’s sense of self and worth as a citizen communism, new left radicalism, political conservatism, and turn on their health identity. In this course we will draw on afro-centrism. Among the black intellectuals whose ideas theories of gender, sexuality, medicalization, and biocitizenship and influence will be considered in the seminar: Booker T. to unravel the ways in which gender structures and medical Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Alain Locke, institutions are mutually constitutive and to explore how this James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, relationship, in turn, impacts individual identity. The course will Richard Wright, E. Franklin Frazier, Horace Cayton, Zora Neal take a global approach to feminist engagement with health Hurston, Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison, Kenneth Clark, James issues with an emphasis on human rights and bodily autonomy. Baldwin, Harold Cruise, Bayard Rustin, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Malcom X, and Taneshi Coates. Counts toward Health Studies

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SOCL B327 Capital and Connections:A Network Approach can seem disconnected from daily life. In this course, we will to Social Structure examine the processes by which individual bodies are shaped Spring 2022 by and, in turn, shape social life. Key questions to be explored include: how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do Is it better to have a tightly knit circle of friends or several individuals perform the body and how does interactional context compartmentalized groups? And better for what--social influence this performance; what is the meaning of the body in support, academic achievement, finding a job, coming up social life; and is there a “right” body? Suggested preparation: with a new idea, sparking a social movement? How might At least one course in the social sciences. we study questions like these? In this course, we will explore the various ways of understanding social connections as a Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies resource--as a form of capital--and we will learn how to collect Counts toward Health Studies and analyze data about networks to investigate the structure of SOCL B358 Higher Education: Structure, Dynamics, Policy social networks. In particular, we will learn how to think about advantages and disadvantages as resulting from the structure Not offered 2021-22 and composition of our social networks. Prerequisite: At least This course examines the structure and dynamics of the one social science course or permission of instructor. “non-system” of higher education in the US in historical Course does not meet an Approach and comparative perspective. Focusing on patterns of access, graduation, and allocation into the labor market, the SOCL B331 Global Sociology: Capital, Power, and Protest course examines changes over time and how these vary in World-Historical Perspective at different types of institutions and cross-nationally. Issues

Not offered 2021-22 of culture, diversity (especially with respect to class, race/ ethnic, and gender), and programming will be examined. The last decades of the 20th century brought about a series The main theoretical debates revolve around the relationship of social, political, economic, and cultural changes that have between higher education and the society (does it reproduce reshaped our ways of understanding and thereby relating or transform social structure) in which it is embedded. to the world. Globalization as a conceptual paradigm has Prerequisites: at least one social science course or permission assisted us in comprehending those changes and most of instructor. importantly the impacts that those changes have brought to our lives individually and collectively. In this sense, globalization SOCL B398 Senior Conference has not only stirred up a series of debates within the social This capstone course for the sociology major focuses on sciences about its novelty, but has also become one of the major concepts or areas in sociology and requires students to most contested concepts, meaning that there are different and develop their analytical and synthetic skills as they confront competing understandings of what the term means and how both theoretical and empirical materials. The Key emphasis to assess the process. With this in mind, the objective of this in the course will be on students’ writing. Through a variety course is to explore the distinct themes that make up what is of assignments (of different lengths and purposes), students referred to as the sociology of globalization. These include: will practice the process (drafts) and elements (clarity and globalization studies and theories of globalization; the global concision) of good writing. Specific topical content will vary by economy; political globalization; globalization and culture; semester according to the expertise of the instructor and the transnational civil society/transnational social movements; interests of students. Writing Attentive. globalization and gender/race/ethnicity; transnational migration; new global division of labor; and human consequences SOCL B403 Supervised Work of globalization in the form of the so-called wasted lives (Bauman), to mention just a few. Linkages between social, Students have the opportunity to do individual research projects political, and economic forces that play a role in shaping under the supervision of a faculty member. trends and problems will be analyzed through lectures, SOCL B420 Praxis Fieldwork Seminar readings, discussions, case studies, and films shown in class. An intersectional perspective of race, class, nationality, and Counts toward Praxis Program gender (among other social axes of oppression) will be used to demonstrate how various historically marginalized groups EDUC B266 Critical Issues in Urban Education experience the impact of globalization. Finally, this course Not offered 2021-22 adopts a social justice framework with the intent to cultivate This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of students as active agents of change. Prerequisite: Previous urban education in contemporary America. We use as critical course in social science; permission of instructor. lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life teachers, and school systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look at urban education nationally over several Not offered 2021-22 decades, we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention to investigate through documents and school placements. Weekly the body influence our understanding of social processes of fieldwork in a school required. subjectivity, interaction, and practice? While the body has long Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) been an “absent presence” in sociology, multiple approaches Counts toward Africana Studies to theorizing and researching the body have emerged in recent Counts toward Child and Family Studies decades. A sociological approach to the body and embodiment Counts toward Praxis Program provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between everyday experience and analyses of broad social structures which 370 SOCIOLOGY / SPANISH

GNST B118 Gender, Sexuality, and Society Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor of Not offered 2021-22 Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies (on leave semesters I and II) This course will introduce students to major concepts, questions, and events in the field of gender, sexuality, and Rosi Song, Professor of Spanish feminist studies through a range of sources. Students will explore how meanings of gender and sexuality have changed The major in Spanish offers a program of study in the over time and the ways that cultural and historical contexts language, literature, and culture of Spain, Latin America, and shape these meanings. Particular attention will be given to the U.S. Latino communities. The program is designed to develop intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other linguistic competence and critical skills, as well as a profound social locations in order to understand a range of identities appreciation of the culture and civilization of the Hispanic world. and structures of inequality. This course will challenge you to Our graduates have gone on to pursue successful careers in question taken-for-granted notions of gender and to consider law, business, medicine, and translation, among others. This alternative ways to make sense of gender and sexuality. This major program prepares students appropriately for graduate course is equivalent to GNST 109 as a gateway to the minor. study in Spanish. This course counts towards a Sociology elective. The language courses provide solid preparation and practice Critical Interpretation (CI) in spoken and written Spanish, including a thorough review of Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies grammar and vocabulary contextualized by cultural readings and activities. SPAN 120 prepares students for advanced POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power and work in literature and cultural studies while improving Mobilization competence in the language. Courses at the 200 level Not offered 2021-22 courses deal with a variety of topics including a consideration A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and of major manifestations of Spanish and Spanish-American, “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political and U.S. Latino literature and culture, in various periods and opportunity structure facing potential activists, the mobilizing genres, within a socio-historical context. Advanced 300-level resources available to them, and the cultural framing within courses engage intensively with individual authors, topics, or which these processes occur. Specific attention is paid to periods of special significance. recent movements within and across countries, such as All students who have taken Spanish at other institutions and feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements, plan to enroll in Spanish courses at Bryn Mawr must take a and to emerging forms of citizen mobilization, including placement examination. The exam is offered online by the transnational and global networks, electronic mobilization department and is available on our website. via social media, and collaborative policymaking institutions. Students in all courses are encouraged to supplement their Writing Attentive. Prerequisite: one course in POLS or SOCL or coursework with study in Spain or Spanish America either in the permission of instructor. summer or during their junior year. Counts toward Environmental Studies The Department of Spanish works in cooperation with the Departments of French and Italian in the Romance Languages POLS B374 Education Politics and Policy in the US major. It also collaborates with the Latin American, Iberian, and Not offered 2021-22 Latina/o Studies (LAILS). Studying education politics and policy provides insights into some central concerns of political science and highlights some College Foreign Language Requirement tensions within the American political system such as: power Before the start of the senior year, each student must and influence, government v markets, federalism, equity and complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of foreign accountability, and expertise and citizen participation. This language. Students may fulfill the requirement by completing seminar uses education politics as a window into these broader two sequential semester-long courses in one language, concerns beginning at the level determined by their language placement. Counts toward Child and Family Studies A student who is prepared for advanced work may complete the requirement instead with two advanced free-standing semester-long courses in the foreign language(s) in which she SPANISH is proficient.

Inés Arribas, Senior Lecturer in Spanish (on leave semester II) Major Requirements Requirements for the Spanish major are: Kaylea Berard, Senior Lecturer in Spanish • SPAN 120 (Introducción al análisis literario), Martín Gaspar, Associate Professor of Spanish (on leave semester I) • four 200-level courses, Melissa González-Contreras, Visiting Assistant Professor • three 300-level courses, Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas, Visiting Assistant • and SPAN 398 (Senior Seminar). Roberto Martínez Bachrich, Visiting Instructor The prerequisite for 200-level Spanish courses is the completion of SPAN 120, which is offered every semester. María Cristina Quintero, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities The prerequisite for 300-level courses is the completion of a and Professor and Chair of Spanish (on leave semester II) 200-level course in Spanish. At least two courses for the major 371 SPANISH must be in Peninsular literature (Spain) and at least two in Latin Designed to develop basic communicative skills in both oral American literature; one of the major courses should focus on and written Spanish. Students are exposed to different aspects pre-1700 literature. Two courses must be writing intensive (WI). of Hispanic and Latino cultures. The Tuesday class is a Students can satisfy the writing requirement by taking SPAN mandatory practice session with a teaching assistant. Students 120, SPAN 243, and other 200-level courses designated as who receive a 3.3 or above in this course may enroll in SPAN WI in any given semester. Students whose training includes 101 the following semester. Students who receive a 3.0 or less advanced work may, with the permission of the department, be must take SPAN 100. Prerequisite: SPAN B001 or placement. exempted from taking SPAN 120. SPAN 400 Senior Essay is Course does not meet an Approach optional for majors with a grade point average of 3.7 who seek to graduate with honors. It may not be counted as one of the SPAN B100 Basic Intermediate Spanish 300-level requirements. Students wishing to enroll in SPAN 400

Senior Essay must submit a proposal to the department and Fall 2021 identify a faculty member who will direct the project. A review of grammar with emphasis on all language skills: Please note: the department offers some courses taught speaking, listening, reading, and writing, with group activities in English and, with permission from major advisor, we and individual presentations. A variety of readings from occasionally accept courses related to the Hispanic world the Hispanic world will be included. The Tuesday class is offered in other departments. We recommend that at least a mandatory practice session with a teaching assistant. some of the work (readings or written assignments) be done in Prerequisite: SPAN 002 or placement or instructor’s permission. Spanish. No more than two courses taught in English may be Course does not meet an Approach applied toward a major, and only one toward a minor. SPAN B101 Intermediate Spanish Independent research (SPAN 403) is offered to students recommended by the department. The work consists Fall 2021, Spring 2022 of independent reading, conferences, and a long paper. This course focuses on developing vocabulary and grammatical structures in all language skills in Spanish. A variety of readings Honors from the Hispanic world will be included. The class meets three Departmental honors are awarded on the basis of a minimum times a week with the instructor and there is one additional grade point average of 3.7 in the major, SPAN 400 Senior required 50-minute practice session with a teaching assistant Essay, and the recommendation of the department. on Monday evenings. Course does not meet an Approach Minor Requirements Requirements for a minor in Spanish are six courses in Spanish SPAN B102 Advanced Language Through Culture beyond SPAN 101, at least one of which must be at the Fall 2021, Spring 2022 300 level. At least one course should be in Peninsular literature This course stresses mastery of complex grammatical (Spain). constructions through selected readings from the Spanish- speaking world in a global context: art, folklore, geography, Minor in Latin American, Iberian, and literature, sociopolitical issues, and multicultural perspectives. Latina/o Studies (LAILS) Written and oral proficiency is emphasized, with special The Department of Spanish participates with other departments emphasis on reading and writing. The class meets three in offering a minor in Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o hours a week with the instructor and there is an additional Studies (LAILS). required 50-minute practice session with a teaching assistant on Monday evenings. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 or placement or Teacher Certification instructor’s permission. The department also participates in a teacher- Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) certification program. For more information see the description of the Education Program. SPAN B120 Introduccin al análisis literario Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Courses Readings from Spanish and Spanish-American works of SPAN B001 Beginning Spanish I various periods and genres (drama, poetry, short stories). Main focus on developing analytical skills with attention to Fall 2021 improvement of grammar. This course is a requisite for the Develops basic communicative skills in both oral and written Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, or placement. This Spanish. Introduces students to different aspects of Hispanic course can satisfy the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement for the and Latino cultures. Assumes no previous study of Spanish. Spanish major. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin The Tuesday class is a mandatory practice session with a American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. teaching assistant. Critical Interpretation (CI) Course does not meet an Approach Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

SPAN B002 Beginning Spanish II SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en Espaa Spring 2022 Not offered 2021-22 Second course of the First-year Spanish language sequence. A study of the rich dramatic tradition of Spain from the Golden

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Age (16th and 17th centuries) to the 20th century within specific Critical Interpretation (CI) cultural and social contexts. The course considers a variety of plays as manifestations of specific sociopolitical issues SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en Espaa and problems. Topics include theater as a site for fashioning Not offered 2021-22 a national identity; the dramatization of gender conflicts; and plays as vehicles of protest in repressive circumstances. A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and women writers, to assess how they come together in and Cultures Concentration. Prerequiste: SPAN B120; or configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, another SPAN 200-level course. Critical Interpretation (CI). as the country is facing new challenges in its quest for

Inquiry into the Past (IP). Counts toward Latin American, modernity. Prerequisites: B120 or a SPAN 200-level course. Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies SPAN B225 La poesía hispanoamericana SPAN B209 Lo que hemos comido: Identidades en Espaa Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 Study of poetic language from the Avant-garde movements This course considers the relationship between the food to the present. Special attention to key figures. Prerequiste: we eat and our sense of identity in the context of regional Spanish 120 or another 200-level course. Critical Interpretation identity politics in Spain. We will review the historical tension (CI). as they surface in diverse linguistic and cultural communities Critical Interpretation (CI) and currently challenged by the new wave of immigration to the peninsula. Amid this intersection of different cultures SPAN B231 El cuento y novela corta en Espaa and practices, we will study how each region as turned to its Not offered 2021-22 traditional cuisine and local culinary products to strengthen their sense of regional identity while strategizing to communicate Traces the development of the novella and short story in Spain, this uniqueness beyond the brand of “Spain” to the world. from its origins in the Middle Ages to our time. The writers will We will examine, for instance, how this new trend compares include Pardo Bazán, Cervantes, Clarín, Don Juan Manuel, to the tourism industry endorsed by the dictatorship in the Matute, Zayas, and a number of contemporary writers such 1960s. This discussion will serve as a case study to explore as Mayoral and Montero. Our approach will include formal how communities remember and narrate their own histories and thematic considerations, and attention will be given to to themselves and to others, using concepts such as taste, sociopolitical and historical contexts. Prerequiste: SPAN B120; terroir, memory, and identity. Students in the course will view or another SPAN 200-level course. films and read fiction, essays, and culinary essays from around Critical Interpretation (CI) Spain. Prerequisite: SPAN 120 or permission of instructor. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC). Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. SPAN B233 Focus: La Habana y sus textos Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Not offered 2021-22

Critical Interpretation (CI) La Habana (a historical, artistic and literary crossroad) is

Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies studied in its intersemiotic complexity. Readings from the colonial period to the present. Authors included, among SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores others: La Condesa de Merlín, Alexander von Humboldt, Alejo Not offered 2021-22 Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Reinaldo Arenas, Marilyn Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; other Bobes, Leonardo Padura. Selective films by Cuban directors. writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of texts, Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or one 200-level Spanish course. society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another Critical Interpretation (CI) SPAN 200-level course. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts Inquiry into the Past (IP) toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) SPAN B234 Focus: El cuento de lo fantástico en Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Hispanoamérica SPAN B216 Introduccin a la lingística hispánica Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 A survey of Spanish American short story, focused on the A survey of the field of Hispanic linguistics. We will explore fantastic. Authors include Poe, Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, the sounds and sound patterns of Spanish (phonetics and Ocampo, Peri Rossi, Ferré, Mutis, Poniatowska and phonology), how words are formed (morphology), the structure Valenzuela. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or and interpretation of sentences (syntax and semantics), another 200-level Spanish course. language use (pragmatics), the history and dialects of Critical Interpretation (CI) the Spanish language, and second language acquisition. Inquiry into the Past (IP) Prerequisite: SPAN B120 or permission of the instructor. Critical Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Interpretation (CI)

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SPAN B238 El giro visual en Espaa(1960-2020): de la works that will situate the works within their historical and censura a Netflix aesthetic contexts. This will reinforce students’ critical analysis

Fall 2021 skills and will allow them to participate in academic discourse.

In 50 years, Spain went from living under the last dictatorship Critical Interpretation (CI) in Europe to becoming one of the late cultural capitalism Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies benchmarks. This course explores the tensions between SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Latin tradition and modernity or between authoritarianism and rupture American Film in contemporary Spain’s media and cultural consumption. We will pay special attention to the impact of technological changes Not offered 2021-22 in film, television, and new media --from Berlanga and Saura’s Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as “emotional movies in the 60s to the expansion of Spanish series on online people”--often a euphemism to mean irrational, impulsive, wildly platforms such as Netflix and HBO. Course will be taught in heroic, fickle. This course takes this expression at face value to Spanish. ask: Are there particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) And, conversely, do these “people” become such because they Critical Interpretation (CI) share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation between Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies emotions and political trajectories? To answer these questions, we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at SPAN B242 José Martí y el equilibrio mundial different times, taken hold of the Latin American imagination Not offered 2021-22 and feelings: melodramas (1950s-1960s), documentaries (1970s-1990s), and “low-key” comedies (since 2000s.) An introductory course on José Martí: the writer, the thinker, the revolutionary. Texts include selections from La Edad de Oro (a Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) magazine for children), essays on the arts, the United States, Counts toward Film Studies

Nuestra América, political struggle and interdependence (“world Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies equilibrium”), a selection of his poetic works and a novella. SPAN B260 Ariel/Calibán: colonialismo y neocolonialismo Prerequiste: SPAN B120 or another SPAN 200-level course. Not offered 2021-22 Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies A study of the transformations of Ariel/Calibán as images of Latin American and Caribbean cultures. Prerequisite: B120 or SPAN B243 Temas de la literatura hispana another SPAN 200-level course. Section 001 (Fall 2021): Conflicto y resistencia en el teatro Critical Interpretation (CI) latinoamerica Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Fall 2021 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or SPAN B307 Cervantes another 200-level. This course can satisfy the Writing Intensive Not offered 2021-22 (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. A study of themes, structure, and style of Cervantes’ Current topic description: The early writings of the New World masterpiece Don Quijote and its impact on world literature. straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This In addition to a close reading of the text and a consideration period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between of narrative theory, the course examines the impact of Don real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when Quijote on the visual arts, music, film, and popular culture. ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course and Cultures Concentration. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted 200-level course. Course fulfills pre-1700 requirement and HC’s to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. pre-1898 requirement Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

Current topic description: Conflicto y resistencia en el SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del Siglo de teatro latinoamericano; This course highlights theater as an Oro oppositional force against hegemonic power structures, and as a lens by which one can study and analyze moments of Not offered 2021-22 conflict and resistance in the Latin American socio-political A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, and context. Students will be familiarized with the terminology and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the major theatrical and performance tendencies and theories that construction of gender; the idealization and codification of will allow them to situate these works in relation to theatrical women’s bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, practices in other parts of the world. Students will read and home, brothel, palace); and the performance of honor. The first analyze representative works that respond to significant half of the course will deal with representations of women by social and political moments of conflict such as the Mexican male authors (Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s regime, second will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Mexico’s 1968 Student Movement, and the Southern Cone Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas. dictatorial regimes (Chile and Argentina). In addition to the Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills primary readings, students will read secondary and theoretical pre-1700 requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. Counts

374 SPANISH toward Gender and Sexuality Studies. Counts toward Latin Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies. SPAN B315 El futuro ya lleg: relatos del presente en Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies América Latina Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Not offered 2021-22 SPAN B311 Crimen y detectives en la narrativa hispánica Taught in Spanish. In the 21st Century, “Here and now” is contemporánea not what it used to be. There is no single “here” but instead Not offered 2021-22 multiple, coexisting realities (that of the cellphone, the street, An analysis of the rise of the hard-boiled genre in contemporary the ‘world’.) There’s no clear present when the “now” is Hispanic narrative and its contrast to classic detective fiction, multiple. In this course we will explore 21st century Latin as a context for understanding contemporary Spanish and American shorts-stories, films, works of art, and novellas that Latin American culture. Discussion of pertinent theoretical synchronize with our contemporary circumstances---fictions implications and the social and political factors that contributed and representations where realities alternate, identities flow, to the genre’s evolution and popularity. Prerequisite: at least and the world appears oddly out of scale. As contemporaries, one SPAN 200-level course. you will also be asked to write fictions about life “here and now.” Throughout, we will keep two fundamental questions in SPAN B312 Latin American and Latino Art and the mind: What is reality (here)? What is the contemporary (now)? Question of the Masses Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies

The course examines the ways in which Latin American SPAN B316 Relatos en un mundo inestable and Latino texts (paintings, murals, sculptures, and some narratives) construct “minor,” “featureless” and “anonymous” Not offered 2021-22 characters, thus demarcating how and which members of In this course, we explore fiction as it relates to our society can and cannot advance a plot, act independently and/ Contemporary world. Starting from the middle of the 20th or be agents of change. By focusing the attention on what is Century, we will study the transition from modernism to de-emphasized, we will explore how artistic works, through postmodernism with Francisco Ayala, a major avant-garde their form, are themselves political actors in the social life of Spanish author, who was exiled from Spain after the Civil War Latin America, the US, and beyond. We will also consider the of 1936. We will read Ayala’s El jardín de las delicias (The place of Latin American and Latino Art in the US imaginary and Garden of Earthly Delights), a collection of short stories, which in institutions such as museums and galleries. Prerequisites: he calls a “novel,” and where he explores modern themes in Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors dialogue with Hieronymus Bosch’s painting of the same title. who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature We examine how difficult it is to render meaning in a global and department. Students seeking Spanish credit must have taken pluralistic society. Among other works, we consider: Eduardo BMC Spanish 120 and at least one other Spanish course at a Mendoza (“La ballena,” a short story), Rosa Montero (La 200-level, or received permission from instructor. Course does loca de la casa, a novel/autobiography/essay that explores not meet an Approach. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian relationships among genres) and women dystopian fiction and Latina/o Studies. Counts toward Museum Studies. writers included in the anthology Distópicas (works that explore Course does not meet an Approach relevant topics that closely resemble what we hear in the news Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies today: effects of climate warming, exile, totalitarian systems, Counts toward Museum Studies the plight of the poor and marginalized, social media and technology). SPAN B314 Latinoamérica:Diversidad Conflicto Cult SPAN B317 Poéticas de poder y deseo en el Siglo de Oro Not offered 2021-22 espaol This class studies the representation of regional, national, Fall 2021 and individual identity in contemporary Latin American novels. The poetry cultivated during the Renaissance and Baroque Works include novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru Spain was not an idle aesthetic practice. We discover in the rich written by female and male writers. The selected novels present poetic practice of the era preoccupations with historical, social different strands of cultural conflict due to the simultaneous and political themes, including discourses of power and empire, presence of markedly different modes of identity. Several racial difference, and the representation of women as objects primary questions will guide our analysis of the course texts: of desire. In addition, we will consider the self-fashioning and What is identity? How are national and regional identities subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody and imitation, constructed and why? What are the socio-historical, cultural and the feminine appropriation of the male poetic tradition. and political influences on identity? What does the study of Although the course will deal primarily with the poetry of Spain, the Latin American novel reveal about the relationship among readings will include texts from Italy, France, England, and economic development, the construction of social identities, Mexico. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: at least one 200-level and citizenship? How can the study of the novel help us to course. understand the dynamics of race, class and gender in specific

Latin American contexts? Prerequisite: at least one SPAN Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies 200-level course. SPAN B320 Visiones y revisiones del surrealismo espaol Course does not meet an Approach Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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A multimedia study of the development of a surrealistic ethic Bildungsroman or “coming-of-age”: novels that follow the in Spain in the 20th century as represented chiefly in the development of a person from youth to adulthood, from works of Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador inexperienced to mature. But what happens when these Dalí, among others. The scope and validity of the Spanish protagonists are women, often facing the hurdles of societies surrealistic movement will be examined in relation to its that impede or limit growth and choice? Since the 19th Century, originating principles: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, and the Latin American female authors have explored the struggles of artistic and political manifestos of the avant-garde. Through the “growth” and the various models of womanhood available in study of works of poetry, art, and film, we will also discuss the their societies. In this course, we will read a total of six Latin relationship between the theoretical and historical background American Bilgunsromane of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century of this artistic movement as we contrast art and politics, artistic written by women authors from various countries. We will freedom and political commitment. look at normative definitions and expectations of coming-of- age novels and how these authors created new options for SPAN B324 Ideologías del Franquismo: arte, cultura, themselves, for their characters, and for their readers. educacin Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Spring 2022 This course offers a panoramic view of the building of SPAN B351 Tradicin y revolucin: Cuba y su literatura Francoism as an ideology over the longest authoritarian Not offered 2021-22 regime in Western society during the 20th century (1939- An examination of Cuba, its history and its literature 1975). Through the study of its cultural, artistic, and mediatic with emphasis on the analysis of cultural and economic expressions, as well as other national institutions such as transformations. Major topics include slavery and resistance; education and religion, this course addresses the connections Cuba’s struggles for freedom; changing cultural policies and between cultural representations and the social, political, and film of the Revolution. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level economic experiences lived in Spain during that period. These course. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o representations will consist mainly of those produced during Studies. the Franco regime with comparisons to the contemporary era. Some of the issues we will focus on are the Spanish Civil War, Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies international isolation and autarky, repression and exile, and censorship as a strategy of Francoist ideology, among many SPAN B370 Literatura y delincuencia others. Prerequisite: At least one SPAN 200-level course Not offered 2021-22 Course does not meet an Approach A study of the origins, development and transformation of the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies picaresque genre from its origins in 16th- and 17th-century Spain through the 21st century. Using texts, literature, painting, SPAN B326 Voces trasplantadas: teoría y práctica de la and film from Spain and Latin America, we will explore topics traduccin such as the construction of the fictive self, the poetics and Not offered 2021-22 politics of criminality, transgression in gender and class. Among the topics to be discussed: criminalization of poverty, Taught in Spanish. Translation has been argued to be both prostitution, and the feminine picaresque. Prerequiste: At impossible and inevitable. Theoretically impossible, because least one SPAN 200-level course. Course fulfills pre-1700 no two languages are perfectly equivalent; practically requirement and HC’s pre-1898 requirement. inevitable, because cultures, and human beings, are constantly interpreting one another--and understanding themselves in Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies the process. This course is an introduction to translation as a practice with linguistic, literary, and cultural implications. SPAN B398 Senior Seminar It is organized in three steps. We will begin by exploring the The study of special topics, critical theory and approaches with linguistic aspect of translation: the theories (and myths) about primary emphasis on Hispanic literatures. A requirement for all language difference and equivalence, and how they can be Spanish Majors. Some topics and readings will be prepared in put into practice. Then we will focus on translating literary texts consultation with the students. of different genres (from canonical epics to film, from poems to short stories and proverbs), and we will simultaneously SPAN B400 Senior Essay examine how the various types of texts have spurred very Available only to Spanish majors whose proposals are different opinions about what is a good or bad translation, approved by the department, Students must identify a faculty what is desirable, and what is not. Finally, we will trace the member as director of the essay during the Fall semester of the role of translation in cultural exchanges, as well as its defining senior year. presence in contemporary debates on “world literature.” Prerequisite: At least one 200 level Spanish course. SPAN B403 Supervised Work Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies Independent reading, conferences, and a long paper; offered to Counts toward Praxis Program senior students recommended by the department.

SPAN B330 La novela de formacin femenina en América SPAN B403 Supervised Work Latina Independent reading, conferences, and a long paper; offered to Spring 2022 senior students recommended by the department. Perhaps the most successful novelistic genre is the

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ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad techniques Latinx cultural producers use to resist violence and

Not offered 2021-22 imagine justice.

This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural Critical Interpretation (CI) and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx of shared concern among Latino groups such as struggles ENGL B274 Ethnic Speculative Fiction for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective Not offered 2021-22 experience of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural This course will explore how Latina/os, Latin Americans, production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, African Americans, and Native Americas deploy speculative films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to Latinidad in the Americas. imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of Critical Interpretation (CI) racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, environmental Counts toward Africana Studies destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in what Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Walidah Imarisha terms “visionary fiction.” Students will be Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx introduced to theoretical concepts such as intersectionality, Counts toward Praxis Program modernity/coloniality, Afrofuturism, marvelous realism, and zombie capitalism that will help them unpack the critical work ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration accomplished by genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, Not offered 2021-22 we will probe the role that literature, comic books, film, and art can play in the struggle to build more radically egalitarian Gloria Anzaldúa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico societies, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can border as an open wound and the border culture that arises contribute to social justice. from this fraught site as a third country. This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and Critical Interpretation (CI) between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities Counts toward Africana Studies and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Iberian and and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative Latina/o Studies metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti- immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented Spring 2022 migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and dividing course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, societies from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The class art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants’ rights introduces the methods and interests of all departments in and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and the concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine change, globalization and struggles within dynamic histories, a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key political economies, and creative expressions. Course is taught theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented in English. migration. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward International Studies Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Humanities

ENGL B237 Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned Spring 2022 Violence in Latinx Literature What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist Fall 2021 manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state- oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender civil war in Central and South America, we will focus on a range and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece of genres--including novels, memoir, poetry, film, and murals--to from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings explore how memory and the imagination can contest state- to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will sanctioned violence, how torture and disappearances haunt discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and the present, how hetereopatriarchal and white supremacist of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we discourses are embedded in authoritarian regimes, and how are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour U.S. imperialism has impacted undocumented migration. in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. Throughout the course we will analyze the various creative Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies 377 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Both majors consist of ten courses starting at the ITAL 101/102 Counts toward Film Studies level. For both majors we recommend a senior thesis offered with ITAL 398 and ITAL 399 (required for honors). See below. TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES Both majors are required to complete one Writing Intensive (WI) course in the major. The goal of the WI course will be Students may complete a major or minor in Transnational Italian re-thinking the argument, logical connection, focus, transition, Studies. evidence, quotes, organization, and sources. In responding to the feedback, students will experience writing as a process of Faculty discovery (re-visioning) and meaning. Chiara Benetollo, Visiting Assistant Professor Letters in Italian/ Track A Daria Bozzato, Visiting Assistant Professor Major requirements in Letters in Italian are 10 courses. Track A David Cast, Professor of History of Art may be appropriate for students with an interest in literary and language studies. Required: ITAL 101/102, plus five courses (or Alessandro Giammei, Assistant Professor of Italian (on leave more) conducted in Italian based in our department (ITAL) and semesters I and II) three courses in English within the department (ITAL) or two in Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. English within the department (ITAL) and one among the list of Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities electives (courses must be approved in advance by the chair of our department) . Of the courses taken in Italian, students are In voting unanimously to embrace this new name in 2021, we expected to enroll in at least three 300-level capstone seminars are joining other programs in the humanities across the world covering both Early-Modernity (ITAL 301, ITAL 304, ITAL 303) who are seizing the current moment to make curricular changes and Modern Studies (ITAL 380, ITAL 320, ITAL 313, ITAL 325). for the explicit decolonization of our field(s). By de-centering Intercultural Italian Studies/Track B peninsular Italian culture, questioning concepts of “standard Italian” and “Italian civilization”, and evading ethnocentric, Major requirements in Intercultural Italian Studies are 10 national, and nationalistic rhetoric, we wish to manifest our courses. Track B may be appropriate for students with an commitment to an anti-racist, transcultural, and post-colonial interest in arts, culture, and translation. The concentration approach to Italian Studies. consists of both interdisciplinary and single-discipline courses. Required: ITAL 101/102, plus three 300 level courses The aim of our major/minor is to explore the social, linguistic, conducted in Italian (based in our department, ITAL 320, ITAL literary, artistic, ethnic, and political communities that have 303, ITAL 304, ITAL 303, ITAL 380, ITAL 325) and four related identified themselves as Italian throughout history. In order to courses in English within our department at the 200 or 300 do so across disciplinary boundaries, the Department actively level. cooperates with numerous institutions, primarily by offering cross-listed and co-taught courses in the Bi-Co. Major with Honors In particular, we participate in the Romance Languages major The honors component requires the completion of a year-long with the Departments of French and Francophone Studies and thesis advised by a faculty member in the department (ITAL Spanish, as well as with the many departments and programs 398 and ITAL 399). Application to it requires a GPA in the major that inform the Bi-Co major in Comparative Literature. Many of 3.7 or higher, as well as a written statement, to be submitted of our courses, taught in English and in Italian, count towards by the fall of senior year, outlining the proposed project (see History of Art, Growth and Structure of Cities, Russian, further below) and indicating the faculty member who has Classics, International Studies, Health Studies, Africana agreed to serve as advisor. The full departmental faculty vets Studies, Film Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. the proposals and at the end of senior year will decide if honors will be given. College Foreign Language Requirement Before the start of the senior year, each student must complete, Thesis with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of foreign language. Students will write a 30 page thesis that aims to engage Students may fulfill the requirement by completing two with primary texts and relevant secondary literature. By the sequential semester-long courses in one language, either at the end of the fall semester, students must have completed a elementary level or, depending on the result of their language formal proposal and a Table of Content in draft. Proposals placement test, at the intermediate level. A student who is for the thesis should describe the questions being asked in prepared for advanced work may complete the requirement the research, and how answers to them will contribute to instead with two advanced free-standing semester-long scholarship. Students must include a discussion of the primary courses in the foreign language(s) in which she is proficient. sources on which the research will rest, as well as a preliminary Non-native speakers of English may choose to satisfy all or part bibliography of relevant secondary studies. It is expected that of this requirement by coursework in English literature. before submitting their proposals students will have conferred with a faculty member who has agreed to serve as advisor. In Major Requirements December students will formally present the proposal to the The Department of Transnational Italian Studies offers a Major department. In April students will give an oral presentation of in Letters in Italian (track A) and a Major in Intercultural Italian their work of approximately one hour to faculty members and Studies (track B). interested students. The final draft is due on April 28th of the

378 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES senior year, and will be graded by faculty members. Faculty will • COML B200 Introduction to Comparative Literature retain the option to assign final honors to the research project. • CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic Pre-approved Study Abroad Programs in • ENGL H220 Epic – at Haverford College Italy • CSTS B208 The Roman Empire Studying abroad is both an enriching intellectual experience • ENGL H385 Topics in Apocalyptic Writing – at Haverford and an opportunity for personal growth: immersion in a foreign College culture offers an unmatched means to improve your language • HART B253: Survey of Western Architecture: 1400-1800 skills, and daily life within a foreign community provides cultural breadth essential for the increasingly connected global • HART B323: Topics in Renaissance Art community. Students, specialists as well as non-specialists, • HART/RUSSIAN B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature are strongly encouraged to spend at least one semester or a and Film summer studying outside the United States. • HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of Students who are studying abroad for the major for one year Sexuality in Modern Europe can earn two credits in Italian and one credit in allied fields (total of three credits) , but to receive more than one credit the • HIST B319 Topics in Modern European History student must take one course in our department at Bryn Mawr • LATN B112 Latin Literature College immediately upon return. Those who are studying • LATN B337 Vergil’s Aeneid abroad for one semester can earn no more than a total of two credits in Italian, but to receive more than one credit the student • MUS H207 Italian Keyboard Tradition must take one course in our department at Bryn Mawr College • RUSS B218 The Coming-Of-Age Novel in 19th-century immediately upon return. Europe Pre-approved Semester Programs Abroad *For elective courses: faculty in other programs must be willing to arrange work within courses that may count for this major. Not in Italy Courses must be approved in advance by the Chair of our We will grant a maximum of one credit for a course taken department. abroad, upon completion of a one credit course in the Italian section (ITAL) at Bryn Mawr College, taken immediately Courses upon return. This credit will not count towards major or minor requirements. ITAL B001 Beginning Italian I Fall 2021 Pre-approved 6-Week Summer Programs in Italy The course is for students with no previous knowledge of Italian. It aims at giving the students a complete foundation in We will grant all students a maximum of one credit for a course the Italian language, with particular attention to oral and written taken abroad, upon completion of a one credit course in Italian communication. The course will be conducted in Italian and will (ITAL), taken at Bryn Mawr College immediately upon return. involve the study of all the basic structures of the language- Only course minors may count this credit toward completion of -phonological, grammatical, syntactical--with practice in the course requirements. conversation, reading, composition. Readings are chosen from a wide range of texts, while use of the language is encouraged University of Pennsylvania through role-play, debates, songs, and creative composition Students majoring at BMC cannot earn more than two credits at Course does not meet an Approach the University of Pennsylvania in Italian. ITAL B002 Beginning Italian II Minor Requirements Spring 2022 Requirements for the minor are ITAL 101/102 and four This course is the continuation of ITAL B001 and is intended additional units including one 200 level courses (preferably in for students who have started studying Italian the semester Italian) and three 300 level courses (one of which in Italian). before. It aims at giving the students a complete foundation in With departmental approval, students who begin their work in the Italian language, with particular attention to oral and written Italian at the 200 level will be exempted from ITAL 101 and 102 communication. The course will be conducted in Italian and will and will fulfill the requirement with courses at the 200 and 300 involve the study of all the basic structures of the language- level. For courses in translation, the same conditions for majors -phonological, grammatical, syntactical--with practice in apply. conversation, reading, composition. Readings are chosen from a wide range of texts, while use of the language is encouraged *Elective Courses through role-play, debates, songs, and creative composition. • ARCH B217 Captive Greece, Captor Rome? Prerequisite: ITAL B001 or placement. • ARCH B303 Classical Bodies Course does not meet an Approach • ARTW B240/COML B240 Literary Translation ITAL B101 Intermediate Italian through Culture I

• CITY B207 Topics in Urban Studies Fall 2021

• CITY B360 Digital Rome This course provides students with a broader basis for 379 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES learning to communicate effectively and accurately in Italian. ITAL B216 Body and Mind While the principal aspect of the course is to further develop Fall 2021 language abilities, the course also imparts a foundation for the understanding of modern and contemporary Italy. Students In this course, we will explore representations of the will gain an appreciation for Italian culture and be able to relationship between body and mind, starting from 19th-century communicate orally and in writing in a wide variety of topics. Russian novels that conceptualize love as a physical ailment We will read newspaper and magazine articles to analyze and ending with the history of Alzheimer’s disease. Talking aspects on modern and contemporary Italy. We will also view about the relationship between body and mind will allow us to and discuss Italian films and internet materials. investigate how gender roles and models of womanhood and masculinity shaped the evolution of modern sciences, from Course does not meet an Approach psychiatry to obstetrics. Investigating how bodies have been (and continue to be) read, we will discuss systems created ITAL B102 Intermediate Italian through Culture II to police societies by cataloguing bodies, from Lombroso’s Spring 2022 phrenology to modern fingerprinting and face recognition This course provides students with a broader basis for softwares. Finally, we will consider how our understanding of learning to communicate effectively and accurately in Italian. the relationship between body and mind has changed over While the principal aspect of the course is to further develop time. Many of the theories we will discuss during the semester language abilities, the course also imparts a foundation for the are now considered outdated pseudo-science - but how can understanding of modern and contemporary Italy. Students we conceptualize the difference between science and pseudo- will gain an appreciation for Italian culture and be able to science? As new categories and disease designations appear communicate orally and in writing in a wide variety of topics. to substitute the old ones, which are the implications of creating We will read a novel to analyze aspects on modern and a label for a constellation of existing symptoms? The course will contemporary Italy. We will also view and discuss Italian films be taught entirely in English. There will be an optional hour in and internet materials. Prerequisite: ITAL B101 or placement. Italian for students of Italian. Course does not meet an Approach Critical Interpretation (CI)

ITAL B212 Italy Today ITAL B217 Gendered Violence in Italy: How many women are killed? Not offered 2021-22 Not offered 2021-22 This is a topics course. Course content varies. This bridge class, taught in Italian, is designed to familiarize students with How many women are killed in Italy? How many women suffer the shifting cultural panorama of present-day Italy (and its abuse at the hands of their partner? Data shows one in seven metamorphosing language) through a variety of readings by in Italy have suffered gendered abuse. In many regions, victims living authors, journalists, comic-book artists, intellectuals, and have nowhere to turn for shelter. This course will examine politicians. domestic and sexual assault in intimate relationships from a feminist analysis. Historical, theoretical, and sociological

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) perspectives on gender violence will be critically analyzed

Critical Interpretation (CI) through criminology research, literature, and theory. Course

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies context will focus on dominance and control as a co-factor of

Counts toward Film Studies gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, sexuality, nationality, and other variables. Therefore, the course will ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the highlight the differential impact of gender violence on women Humanities of color, lesbians, older women, adolescent girls, immigrants Spring 2022 and marginalized and disenfranchised women. Domestic and What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist sexual violence in contemporary Italy will also be reviewed and manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and analyzed in the context of international contexts. This course films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object will be taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 102 or permission oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? In from instructor this course we will read some pivotal theoretical texts from Critical Interpretation (CI) different fields, with a focus on race and ethnicity and gender Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies and sexuality. Each theory will be paired with a masterpiece Counts toward Film Studies from Italian culture (from Renaissance treatises and paintings Counts toward Praxis Program to stories written under fascism and postwar movies). We will discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and ITAL B229 The Politics of Food in Italian Literature, Culture, of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shaped what we and Cinema are reading. Class conducted in English, with an additional hour Not offered 2021-22 in Italian for students seeking Italian credit. In English. A profile of Italian literature/culture/cinema obtained

Critical Interpretation (CI) through an analysis of gastronomic documents, films, literary

Counts toward Africana Studies texts, and magazines. We will also include a discussion of the

Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Slow Food Revolution, a movement initiated in Italy in 1980

Counts toward Film Studies and now with a world-wide following, and its social, economic, ecological, aesthetic, and cultural impact to counteract fast food

380 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES and to promote local food traditions. Course taught in English. Counts toward Praxis Program One additional hour for students who want Italian credit. ITAL B312 Black, Queer, Jewish Italy Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Not offered 2021-22 Counts toward Film Studies This seminar approaches the two most studied phases of Italian history, the Renaissance and the 20th century, by placing ITAL B301 Dante what we call ‘otherness’ at the center of the picture rather Not offered 2021-22 than at its supposed margins. The main aim is to challenge A reading of the Vita Nuova (Poems of Youth) and The Divine traditional accounts of Italian culture, and to look at pivotal Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in order to discover the events and phenomena (the rise of Humanism, the rise of subtle nuances of meaning in the text and to introduce students fascism, courtly culture, the two World Wars, 16th century art, to Dante’s tripartite vision of the afterlife. Dante’s masterpiece futurism) from the point of view of black, queer, and Jewish lends itself to study from various perspectives: theological, protagonists, authors, and fictional characters. Our theoretical philosophical, political, allegorical, historical, cultural, and bedrock will be offered by modern and contemporary thinkers literary. Personal journey, civic responsibilities, love, genre, such as Fred Moten, Antonio Gramsci, Edie Segdwick, and governmental accountability, church-state relations, the tenuous Hannah Arendt. Our primary sources will come from cultural balance between freedom of expression and censorship-- epicenters of Renaissance, Baroque, and late Modern Italy, these are some of the themes that will frame the discussions. such as Leo X papal court, fascist Ferrara, 17th century Venice, One additional hour for students who want Italian credit. and colonial Libya. In class, we will adopt a trans-historical, Prerequisite: At least two 200-level literature courses. intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspective inspired by Fred Moten’s work, which will serve as the poetic common ground ITAL B303 Boccaccio, the Plague, and Epidemic illness: for our investigations. Themes and issues will be analyzed Literature and Medicine at the crossing of the two historical phases and of the three topics in exam, and the material will include historical and

Not offered 2021-22 theoretical analyses, narrative texts, poems, films, and visual What are the responses to human suffering during outbreaks art. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of of epidemic illness? How can literature be a valuable tool for Italian is required, as readings will be in English translation. An plague prevention in time of pestilence? This class explores additional hour in Italian will be offered for departmental credits. crucial questions on how narrative works in medical contexts, Students taking the course for departmental credit will also read with a focus on the Decameron and the black plague of 1348. part of the readings in the original language, and produce three Giovanni Boccaccio is the first writer to unite the literary short response-papers in Italian in lieu of the Midterm. topos of narration during a life-threatening situation with an Course does not meet an Approach historical epidemic context in Medieval Italy. How does he tell Counts toward Africana Studies his stories in time of illness and death? How do writers and Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies other storytellers respond to dominant versions of health and medicine? Taught in Italian. ITAL B313 Primo Levi, the Writer Counts toward Health Studies Spring 2022

ITAL B308 Rome as Palimpsests: from Ruins to Virtual Today Primo Levi is one of the most widely read Italian writers Reality of post-World War II in Italy and abroad. Even though still known primarily for his contributions to Holocaust testimony

Not offered 2021-22 and theory, paradoxical as it may seem, the experience of From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X Auschwitz and his need to tell proved to be the initial impulse in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of that drove Levi to continue to write until his death as a critical the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has engagement of the Western classical canon and civilization that always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia in the end created Auschwitz. In addition to being a memoirist, and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some he was a columnist, novelist, writer of short stories and crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of fantasy tales, many of which touch on science fiction, a literary this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist critic, poet, essayist, and he also tried his hand as translator painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern (of Kafka’s The Trial) and playwright. He has also been the re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under subject of countless illuminating interviews, many of which fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones have been translated into English. Levi is one of most prolific of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans- writers of our time, earning the right to be regarded simply as historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the a well-respected writer, as he himself wished, with no other main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We qualifications added. will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, ITAL B315 A Gendered History of the Avant-Garde a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and Not offered 2021-22 misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine course for students interested in taking the course towards warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism Italian credits. even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine, queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual Counts toward Museum Studies identity played a central role -- from Rimbaud to current

381 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES experimentalism -- in the development of what has been called the other. While at times we too chew on movies taken from ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such books, our main objective will not be to compare books and a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, films, but rather to explore the more complex relation between sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from literature and cinema: how text is put into film, how cultural early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will references operate with respect to issues of style, technique, unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who and perspective. We will discuss how cinema conditions literary have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with imagination, and how literature leaves its imprint on cinema. poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises, We will “read” films as “literary images” and “see” novels as of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s “visual stories”. Students will become acquainted with literary collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, sources through careful readings; on viewing the corresponding surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our film, students will consider how narrative and descriptive textual own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no elements are transposed into cinematic audio/visual elements. previous knowledge of Italian required. An important concern of this course will be to analyze the Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies particularity of each film/book in relation to a set of themes Counts toward Museum Studies -gender, death, class, discrimination, history, migration- through close textual analysis. We shall use contemporary Film theory ITAL B318 Falling Statues: myth-making in literature, and critical methodology to access these themes. politics and art Counts toward Film Studies Spring 2022 ITAL B380 Modernity and Psychoanalysis: Crossing We have become accustomed to the rituals of the dismissal National Boundaries in 20th c. Italy and Europe of the heroes of the past: we tear down statues, we rename buildings and places. But how did we get there? How, why Not offered 2021-22 and by whom are heroes constructed? When old heroes are Designed as an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration of Italy’s questioned, what substitutes them? How are the raise and fall 20th century cultural life, the course is organized around of heroes tied to shifting models of masculinity, womanhood, major artistic and intellectual trends, viewed in their historical power and the state? In this course, we will explore these and global perspective in connection with Avant-garde questions focusing on Italy and Russia, two countries that literary movements and philosophical ideas: i.e. surrealism, in the 19th and 20th century went through several cycles of metaphysics, Dadaism, psychoanalysis, futurism, decadence, construction and deconstruction of their political heroes. In modernism. While thinking and writing in Italian, we will the first part of the course, we will investigate the codification examine films, novels, and poetry to gain insight on Modernity of the “type” of the freedom-fighter in the representations with attention also to gender perspectives. Elements of metrics of the protagonists of 19th-century European revolutionary and rhetoric will be used to analyze poetry in its own essence. movements, focusing on the links between the Italian Prerequisite: One 200-Level course in Italian. Risorgimento and the anti-Tsarist movement in Russia, Counts toward Film Studies culminating in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. From the pamphlets that consecrated the Italian Garibaldi as the “hero of ITAL B398 Senior Seminar the two worlds” to the autobiographies of the Russian terrorists and the transcripts of their trials, we will investigate myth- This course is open only to seniors in Italian and in Romance making as a constitutive part of political movements and reflect Languages. Under the direction of the instructor, each student on the models of masculinity and womanhood at the foundation prepares a senior thesis on an author or a theme that the of the “typical” revolutionary hero. In the second part of the student has chosen. By the end of the fall semester, students semester, we will focus on Stalinism and Fascism, systems must have completed an abstract and a critical annotated that exploited their revolutionary roots to mobilize supporters bibliography to be presented to the department. See Thesis in favor of oppressive institutions. Finally, we will discuss the description. Prerequisite: This course is open only to seniors in many ways in which 19th - and 20th-century heroes have been Italian Studies and Romance Languages with a GPA of 3.7. confronted, neutralized, dismantled - and the many ways in ITAL B399 Senior Conference which their models still haunt us. We will focus on literary texts and political speeches, but we will also analyze propaganda Under the direction of the instructor, each student prepares posters, movies, paintings, photographs, monuments and even a senior thesis on an author or a theme that the student has street names. For your final project, you will have the option chosen. In April there will be an oral defense with members of building on our class discussions to explore myth-making in and majors of the Italian Department. See Thesis description. contemporary movements or forms of deconstruction of existing Prerequisite: This course is open only to seniors in Italian heroes. Studies and Romance Languages.

ITAL B325 Literature and Film, Literature into Films and ITAL B403 Supervised Work Back Offered with approval of the Department. Fall 2021 FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the This course is a critical analysis of Modern Italian society Humanities through cinematic production and literature, from the Risorgimento to the present. According to Alfred Hitchock’s Not offered 2021-22 little stories, two goats were eating the reel of a movie taken By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of from a famous novel. “I liked the book better,” says one to the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works

382 TRANSNATIONAL ITALIAN STUDIES / VISUAL STUDIES in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students Christina Knight, Assistant Professor and Director of Visual with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The Studies selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory Joshua Moses, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the Environmental Studies; Visual Culture, Arts, and Media Faculty currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: Fellow (2020-2022) Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short John Muse, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies stories (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, Erin Schoneveld, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Djebar, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of and Cultures; Associate Professor of Visual Studies theoretical texts. The class will be conducted in English with an additional hour in French for students wishing to take it for Raegan Truax, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow; Visiting Assistant

French credit. Professor of Visual Studies Critical Interpretation (CI) The Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Minor invites students HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of Sexuality both to investigate their place in a global system of images in Modern Europe and make images, objects, and digital artifacts with critical awareness. Additionally, the program trains students in Spring 2022 interdisciplinary rigor and encourages them to examine the This course is a detailed examination of the changing nature relationship between the visual and various structures of power. and definition of sexuality in Europe from the late nineteenth Located in the new Visual Culture, Arts and Media facility century to the present. Throughout the semester we critically (VCAM), Visual Studies links elements of the curriculum, examine how understandings of sexuality changed--from campus, and broader community, highlighting the intersections how it was discussed and how authorities tried to control it between courses, faculty, students, departments, and Centers to how the practice of sexuality evolved. Focusing on both engaging the visual. discourses and lived experiences, the class will explore sexuality in the context of the following themes; prostitution and Learning Goals sex trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth of the • To teach students visual literacy homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the “New Woman”; Students of Visual Studies will investigate their place abortion and contraception; the “sexual revolution” of the 60s; in the global system of images. Through a Visual pornography and consumerism; LGBTQ activism; concluding Studies framework students have the ability to describe, with considering sexuality in the age of cyber as well as genetic analyze, and negotiate an increasingly complex world of technology. In examining these issues we will question the role information technologies; the impact of these technologies and influence of different political systems and war on sexuality. on art, culture, science, commerce, policy, society, and By paying special attention to the rise of modern nation-states, the environment; and the interrelationship of these forces of nationalism, and the impacts of imperialism we will technologies with historical and material forms. interrogate the nature of regulation and experiences of sexuality in different locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century • To engage students in critical making to the present. Visual Studies creates curricular opportunities for students Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) to make images, objects, and digital artifacts with critical Inquiry into the Past (IP) awareness of their powers and limitations. Critical making, Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies or thinking with process, encourages students to develop production skills which, when coupled with theoretical training and analytical rigor, will broaden their ability to improvise and problem-solve in a variety of disciplinary VISUAL STUDIES contexts. • To train students in interdisciplinary rigor Faculty Visual Studies encourages conversation between scholars Below are the core Visual Studies faculty. Many other faculty working on the relationship between text and the visual, contribute courses to the program; see the Courses section for the nature of perception, cognition and attention, and a full listing. the historic construction of looking. Visual Studies can help students perceive when disciplines are essential to understanding a subject, and when they can be combined Core Faculty for a more expansive or more precise critical engagement. Kathryne Corbin, Assistant Professor of French and • To guide students in an “ethics of the visual” Francophone Studies; Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies Visual Studies invites a return to the liberal arts as a process of creativity, critique, and reflection. It links Victoria Funari, Senior Lecturer of Visual Studies creative expression to cultural analysis and social Shannan Hayes, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Writing engagement, training a generation of theoretically informed Program and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights makers, artists, innovators, teachers, and civic leaders. Emily Hong, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual We invite students to examine the relationship between Studies the visual and structures of power, to analyze the role of

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images in making consumers and to attend to the role that Studies, and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr) will count as electives images play in constructing “others” through race, gender, in the Visual Studies Minor. or disability. AFST H361 TOPICS AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT: Curriculum REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY (1.0 Credit) The Visual Studies curriculum is organized to help students Division: Humanities develop critical and creative engagement with visual experience Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) across media, time, and cultures. For the past three centuries African American writers have All students are required to take an introductory gateway mined the experience of chattel slavery in the cause of literal course and a senior-level capstone course. The introductory and artistic emancipation. Slave narratives, as well as poetry, course will cover a variety of disciplinary approaches to the field essays and novels depicting slavery, constitute a literary of Visual Studies, and will include guest lectures, field trips for universe so robust that the term subgenre does it injustice. In hands-on learning, and an introduction to some form of making. this work spanning the 18th-21st centuries, the reader will find The capstone course will consolidate a student experience of pulse-quickening plots, gruesome horror, tender sentiment, the interdisciplinary minor that integrates visual scholarship, heroism, degradation, sexual violation and redemption, as making, and public engagement. Students will select their four well as resonant meditations on language and literacy, racial elective courses from three categories: Visual Literacy, Labs/ identity, power, psychology, democracy, freedom and the Studio Courses and The Ethics of the Visual. human character. This course is focused primarily on prose Students interested in the Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Minor representations of slavery in the Americas. Our discussions should plan their course schedule in consultation with the will incorporate history, but will foreground literary and cultural

Director of Visual Studies and with their major advisor. Please analysis. note: currently no more than one of the six minor credits may ANTH H233 DECOLONIZING count towards the student’s major. (1.0 Credit) The minor will include six courses: Division: Social Science • The Introduction to Visual Studies gateway course, offered Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the each fall (VIST H142) Social World • Four elective courses selected from three categories This is a hybrid video production and theory course which (please find a current list of approved courses on the grapples with the entanglements between / Visual Studies website): documentary and colonial structures of power. We will bring a decolonizing lens to explore—through texts, screenings, and

• Visual Literacy making films—major modalities in the field including sensory Courses that encourage students to describe, analyze, ethnography, indigenous media, and feminist experimental and negotiate the visual and the impact of digital and/or film. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Anthropology Prerequisite(s): material technologies on art, culture, science, commerce, Sophomore standing policy, society, and the environment ANTH H238 VISUALIZING BORDER/LANDS (1.0 Credit) • Labs/Studio Courses Division: Social Science Courses that create curricular opportunities for students Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) to make images, objects, films and digital artifacts and develop a critical awareness of the relationship between This course attends to the visual representations of the process, product, and reception border, including film and photography, but also text and sound. Students will engage in their own creative and visual

• The Ethics of the Visual representations around the theme of borders for the final Courses that invite students to examine the relationship course assignment. between the visual and social structures of power, analyzing the role of images in making consumers and ANTH H266 SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS (1.0 attending to the role that images play in constructing Credit) “others” through such categories as race, gender, or Division: Social Science disability Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World • A Capstone Seminar where students will work in small Through this course, students will develop ethnographic groups to research and propose a project that engages the research and writing skills using sensory detail (taste, touch, larger campus community (VIST H399). sight, sound, smell and feeling) to evoke people, places, Both the Gateway and the Capstone courses must be taken at and things. Assignments are primarily writing-intensive Haverford College. Additionally, at least two of the four elective with additional fieldwork and multimodal (e.g. photography, courses must be taken at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, or Swarthmore film) exercises. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Visual Studies in order to be counted for the Visual Studies Minor. Prerequisite(s): Any Anthropology course Courses ANTH H314 FEMINIST FILMMAKING STUDIO (1.0 Credit) NB: In addition to the following list, all courses in cognate Division: Humanities departments (Fine Arts at Haverford, History of Art, Museum Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of the Social World

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This intermediate video production course explores how This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and feminist filmmakers subvert the male gaze, a particular view artistry of photography to students with some or no skills which has been made to seem universal. Students will enact in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, intersectional and decolonial filmmaking practices by producing print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, a short film and a podcast episode. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- Anthropology Prerequisite(s): any course in anthropology, hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be visual studies, or gender and sexuality studies or instructor determined during the first class. Offered in the first quarter. consent ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE,ARTS ANTH H318 BLACK FEMINIST BORDERLANDS (1.0 FOUNDATION: SCULPTURE,ARTS FOUNDATION- Credit) SCULPTURE (0.5 Credit) Division: Social Science Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of the Social Domain(s): A: Creative Expression World This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to This course explores how Black people throughout the African provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and diaspora create transnational geographies of belonging, techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing traverse imposed borders, and imagine the world in new three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of ways. Students will have the opportunity to apply the course projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will themes through writing and creative assignments. Crosslisted: focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects Anthropology, Visual Studies Prerequisite(s):One course will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. in either Africana Studies or Visual Studies or Gender and Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, Sexuality Studies or Anthropology. basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, ARTS H101 ARTS FOUNDATION-DRAWING (2-D) (0.5 and no prior experience is required to successfully complete Credit) this course. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Division: Humanities Arts majors and minors,This is a seven-week, half semester Domain(s): A: Creative Expression course designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed through experience in drawing. Students will first learn how to see with a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first a painter’s eye. Composition, perspective, proportion, light, projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while form, picture plane and other fundamentals will be studied. We later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression will work from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction, masterwork. modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail ARTS H101 ARTS FOUNDATION-DRAWING (2-D) (0.5 in class, and no prior experience is required to successfully Credit) complete this course Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE,ARTS A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no FOUNDATION: SCULPTURE,ARTS FOUNDATION- experience in drawing. Students will first learn how to see with SCULPTURE (0.5 Credit) a painter’s eye. Composition, perspective, proportion, light, Division: Humanities form, picture plane and other fundamentals will be studied. We Domain(s): A: Creative Expression will work from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to masterwork. provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing ARTS H103 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of Credit) projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will Division: Humanities focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects Domain(s): A: Creative Expression will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, artistry of photography to students with some or no skills basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, and no prior experience is required to successfully complete dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- this course. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be Arts majors and minors,This is a seven-week, half semester determined during the first class. Offered in the first quarter. course designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and ARTS H103 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed through Credit) a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while Division: Humanities later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression Domain(s): A: Creative Expression and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction,

385 VISUAL STUDIES modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class, and no prior experience is required to successfully in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail complete this course in class, and no prior experience is required to successfully complete this course ARTS H106 ARTS FOUNDATION - DRAWING (0.5 Credit) Division: Humanities ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE,ARTS Domain(s): A: Creative Expression FOUNDATION: SCULPTURE,ARTS FOUNDATION- SCULPTURE (0.5 Credit) This is a seven-week introductory level course designed to provide an overview of basic drawing techniques addressing Division: Humanities line, form, perspective, and composition. Various drawing Domain(s): A: Creative Expression methods will be introduced in class, and students will gain This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to experience in drawing by working from still life, models, provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and and architecture. Preference to declared majors who need techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of the same Foundations course at least once without success. projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects ARTS H106 ARTS FOUNDATION - DRAWING (0.5 Credit) will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. Division: Humanities Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, Domain(s): A: Creative Expression basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, This is a seven-week introductory level course designed to and no prior experience is required to successfully complete provide an overview of basic drawing techniques addressing this course. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine line, form, perspective, and composition. Various drawing Arts majors and minors,This is a seven-week, half semester methods will be introduced in class, and students will gain course designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional experience in drawing by working from still life, models, concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and and architecture. Preference to declared majors who need constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed through Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first the same Foundations course at least once without success. projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION-PAINTING (0.5 Credit) later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction, Division: Humanities modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated Domain(s): A: Creative Expression in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail A seven-week introductory course for students with little or in class, and no prior experience is required to successfully no experience in painting. Students will be first introduced complete this course to the handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study color theory such as interaction of color, value and ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - SCULPTURE,ARTS color, warms and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, FOUNDATION: SCULPTURE,ARTS FOUNDATION- texture, and surface quality. We will work from live model, SCULPTURE (0.5 Credit) still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment Division: Humanities Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A Domain(s): A: Creative Expression seven-week introductory course for students with little or no This is a seven-week, half semester course designed to experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study techniques. Skills associated with organizing and constructing color theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will and surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while later projects landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment Limit: 15 will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A seven-week Various fabrication skills including construction, modeling, introductory course for students with little or no experience in basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. painting. Students will be first introduced to the handling of All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail in class, basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study the color and no prior experience is required to successfully complete theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms and this course. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, surface Arts majors and minors,This is a seven-week, half semester quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, course designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional imagination and masterwork. concepts and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION-PAINTING (0.5 Credit) constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed through a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first Division: Humanities projects will focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while Domain(s): A: Creative Expression later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression A seven-week introductory course for students with little or and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction, no experience in painting. Students will be first introduced modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be demonstrated to the handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in detail will study color theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, 386 VISUAL STUDIES texture, and surface quality. We will work from live model, hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter. Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no ARTS H108 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the Credit) handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study Division: Humanities color theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms Domain(s): A: Creative Expression and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, and surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment Limit: 15 artistry of photography to students with some or no skills Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A seven-week in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, introductory course for students with little or no experience in print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, painting. Students will be first introduced to the handling of dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study the color hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms and determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter. cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, surface Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, minors,This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft imagination and masterwork. and artistry of photography to students with some or no skills in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION-PAINTING (0.5 Credit) print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- Division: Humanities hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be Domain(s): A: Creative Expression determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter. A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no experience in painting. Students will be first introduced ARTS H121 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING- to the handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We RELIEF,FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: RELIEF PRINTING will study color theory such as interaction of color, value and (0.5 Credit) color, warms and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, Division: Humanities texture, and surface quality. We will work from live model, Domain(s): ,A: Creative Expression still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A ,A seven-week course covering various techniques and seven-week introductory course for students with little or no approaches to the art of the woodcut and the linocut, experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the emphasizing the study of design principles and the expressive handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. color theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms Enrollment limit -15 and cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, ARTS H124 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: MONOTYPE and surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, (0.5 Credit) landscape, imagination and masterwork. Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and minors,A seven-week Division: Humanities introductory course for students with little or no experience in Domain(s): A: Creative Expression painting. Students will be first introduced to the handling of Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study the color methods, direct drawing, stencils, and brayer techniques for theory such as interaction of color, value and color, warms and beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, surface and composition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, group critiques will be employed. Enrollment Limit: 15,Basic imagination and masterwork. printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly methods, direct drawing, stencils, brayer techniques for ARTS H108 ARTS FOUNDATION-PHOTOGRAPHY (0.5 beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, and Credit) somposition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and group Division: Humanities critiques will be employed. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H124 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: MONOTYPE This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and (0.5 Credit) artistry of photography to students with some or no skills in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, Division: Humanities print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, Domain(s): A: Creative Expression dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two- Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be methods, direct drawing, stencils, and brayer techniques for determined during the first class. Offered in the second quarter. beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, Enrollment Limit: 15 Lottery Preference: Fine Arts majors and and composition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and minors,This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft group critiques will be employed. Enrollment Limit: 15,Basic and artistry of photography to students with some or no skills printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, methods, direct drawing, stencils, brayer techniques for print enlargements, and printing techniques such as burning, beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, and dodging, and exposure time. This class also requires a two-

387 VISUAL STUDIES somposition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and group discussions and group critiques are held periodically. Additional critiques will be employed. research on the history of printmaking is requested.

ARTS H142 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIES (1.0 ARTS H231 DRAWING (2-D): ALL MEDIA (1.0 Credit) Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, media and to explore the relationships between media, its methods of analysis and topical concerns. Traditional techniques and expression. Each student will strive to develop media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental examination of the ubiquity of images of all kinds, their systems issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students of transmission, their points of consumption, and the very will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. limits of visuality itself. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Course includes drawing projects, individual and group Comparative Literature crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits.,Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing media and ARTS H217 THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART to explore the relationships between media, techniques and FROM 1619 TO THE PRESENT (1.0 Credit) expression. Each student will strive to develop a personal Division: Humanities approach to drawing while addressing fundamental issues of Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work Social World from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide A survey course documenting and interpreting the development lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts and history of African-American Art from 1619 to present day. Foundations or consent Representative works from the art and rare book collections will supplement course readings. ARTS H231 DRAWING (2-D): ALL MEDIA (1.0 Credit) ARTS H218 CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM Division: Humanities (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Division: Humanities Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing Domain(s): A: Creative Expression media and to explore the relationships between media, techniques and expression. Each student will strive to develop This course combines studio practice and creating art projects a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental with slide lectures, readings, and museum visits. Students will issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students study the art of Chinese Calligraphy, and its connection with will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination.

Western art. No Chinese language required. Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits.,Students are ARTS H224 COMPUTER AND PRINTMAKING (1.0 Credit) encouraged to experiment with various drawing media and Division: Humanities to explore the relationships between media, techniques and Domain(s): A: Creative Expression expression. Each student will strive to develop a personal Computer-generated images and printmaking techniques. approach to drawing while addressing fundamental issues of Students will create photographic, computer processed, and pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work directly drawn images on lithographic polyester plates and from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course zinc etching plates. Classwork will be divided between the includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide computer lab and the printmaking studio to create images using lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts both image processing software and traditional printmaking Foundations or consent methods, including lithography, etching, and silk-screen. Broad experimental approaches to printmaking and computer ARTS H233 PAINTING: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES techniques will be encouraged. Individual and group critiques (1.0 Credit) will be employed. enrollment limit: 12 Lottery Preference: Fine Division: Humanities

Arts Major and Minors Students are encouraged to experiment with various painting techniques and materials in order to develop a personal ARTS H225 LITHOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND approach to self-expression. We will emphasize form, color, TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) texture, and the relationship among them; influences of various Division: Humanities techniques upon the expression of a work; the characteristics An intermediate course covering B/W and Color Lithography in and limitations of different media. Students will work from plates. Combined methods with other printmaking techniques observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course such as Paper lithography and Monotype are explored during includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide the course along with photographic approaches. Editioning of lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts images is required along with experimental ones. Development Foundations or consent. of technical skills in traditional Lithography and personal visual study are necessary with successful creative solutions. A strong ARTS H243 SCULPTURE: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES body of work following a specific theme is required. Individual (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities

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Domain(s): A: Creative Expression archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose This course is designed to give students an in-depth sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: introduction to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional Fine Arts 103 or equivalent.,Students are encouraged to concepts and fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis and metal working, and additional processes such as casting is placed on the creation of color photographic prints which procedures for a range of synthetic materials and working with express plastic form, emotions and ideas about the physical digital tools including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will world. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into be introduced in class. Course may be repeated for credit. editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate Prerequisite: ARTSH104 or permission from the instructor.,This black-and-white photographic materials in analog or digital course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction formats necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional concepts and the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood and metal lectures and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in working, and additional processes such as casting procedures books and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. for a range of synthetic materials and working with digital tools In addition students produce a handmade archival box to including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will be introduced house their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and in class. Course may be repeated for credit. mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or equivalent. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or equivalent. ARTS H243 SCULPTURE: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) ARTS H251 PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities

Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach concepts and fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood to photography. Emphasis is placed on the creation of color and metal working, and additional processes such as casting photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions and procedures for a range of synthetic materials and working with ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give digital tools including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will critical insights into editing of individual student work and the be introduced in class. Course may be repeated for credit. use of the appropriate black-and-white photographic materials Prerequisite: ARTSH104 or permission from the instructor.,This in analog or digital formats necessary to give coherence to that course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum to a comprehensive range of three-dimensional concepts and exhibitions, lectures and a critical analysis of photographic fabrication techniques. Emphasis will be on wood and metal sequences in books and a research project supplement the working, and additional processes such as casting procedures weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade for a range of synthetic materials and working with digital tools archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will be introduced sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: in class. Course may be repeated for credit. Fine Arts 103 or equivalent.,Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis ARTS H250 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXHIBITION: is placed on the creation of color photographic prints which OBJECTS, IMAGES, TEXTS, EVENTS (1.0 Credit) express plastic form, emotions and ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into

Division: Humanities editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) black-and-white photographic materials in analog or digital An introduction to the theory and practice of exhibition and formats necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of display. This course will supply students with the analytic tools the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, necessary to understand how exhibitions work and give them lectures and a critical analysis of photographic sequences in practical experience making arguments with objects, images, books and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. texts, and events. In addition students produce a handmade archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and ARTS H251 PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIALS AND mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or TECHNIQUES (1.0 Credit) equivalent. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or equivalent. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression ARTS H253 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONCEPTUAL ART (1.0 Credit) Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach Division: Humanities to photography. Emphasis is placed on the creation of color Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) photographic prints which express plastic form, emotions and ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give In this course, the specific mid-20th C movement called critical insights into editing of individual student work and the Conceptual Art will be explored, as will its progenitors and use of the appropriate black-and-white photographic materials its progeny. Students will study the founding manifestos, in analog or digital formats necessary to give coherence to that the canonical works and their critical appraisals, as well as work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum develop tightly structured studio practica to embody the former exhibitions, lectures and a critical analysis of photographic research. The course invites artists, writers, activists, and sequences in books and a research project supplement the cultural thinkers, those who want to know what it is to make weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade things, spaces, situations, communities, allies, and trouble-

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-without necessarily knowing how to draw, paint, sculpt, ARTS H333 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PAINTING (1.0 photograph, videotape, or film. Credit) Division: Humanities ARTS H322 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: Domain(s): A: Creative Expression, ETCHING,EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PRINTMAKING: LITHOGRAPHY (1.0 Credit) Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses to Division: Humanities develop further their individual approach to painting. Students Domain(s): A: Creative Expression, are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique character of their chosen media in making their own art. An advanced course covers Color Etching using multiple plates. Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Viscosity printing, line etching, aquatint, soft-ground, surface Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ roll, Chin-collè, plate preparation, registration, and editioning lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide are covered. Students study techniques and concepts in talk and discussion of either their own work or the work of Intaglio method as well as visual expressions through hands- artists who influenced them. on experiences. Development of technical skills of Intaglio and personal visual study are necessary and creative and ARTS H333 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PAINTING (1.0 experimental approaches beyond two-dimensional outcomes Credit) encouraged. A strong body of work following a specific theme Division: Humanities is required. Individual discussions and group critiques are held Domain(s): A: Creative Expression, periodically. Additional research on the history of printmaking is requested.,An advanced course exploring traditional and Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses to experimental lithographic printmaking techniques in multiple develop further their individual approach to painting. Students plates and stones. Two- and three- dimensional and design are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique and drawing exploration in color also are addressed. During the character of their chosen media in making their own art. semester, students use multiple-plate and stone lithography in Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. colors. Registration, color separation, and edition are taught at Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ an advanced level. Combining other mediums can be explored lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide individually. Development of technical skills of the Lithographic talk and discussion of either their own work or the work of process with personal visual study is necessary and creative artists who influenced them. and experimental approaches are highly encouraged. A strong body of work following a specific theme is required. ARTS H343 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: SCULPTURE (1.0 Individual discussions and group critiques are held periodically. Credit) Additional research on the history of printmaking is requested. Division: Humanities Prerequisite(s): One course in printmaking or instructor consent Domain(s): A: Creative Expression

ARTS H331 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: DRAWING (2-D) (1.0 In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment Credit) with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will Division: Humanities already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics Domain(s): A: Creative Expression of sculpture and is at a stage where personal expression has Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses, to become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine develop further their individual approach to drawing. Students Arts 243A or B, or consent of instructor are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique character of drawing in making their own art. Completed ARTS H351 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will PHOTOGRAPHY,EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PHOTOGRAPHY include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ lecture (1.0 Credit) and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and Division: Humanities discussion of either their own work or the work of artists who Domain(s): A: Creative Expression influenced them. Students produce an extended sequence of their work in ARTS H331 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: DRAWING (2-D) (1.0 either book or exhibition format using black and white or Credit) color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the Division: Humanities student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented Domain(s): A: Creative Expression by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses, to books and related critical texts guide students to the completion develop further their individual approach to drawing. Students of their course work. This two semester course consists of are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique the book project first semester and the exhibition project character of drawing in making their own art. Completed second semester. At the end of each semester the student projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will may exhibit his/her project.,Students produce an extended include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ lecture sequence of their work in either book (ARTSH351A) or and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and exhibition (ARTSH351B) format using black and white or discussion of either their own work or the work of artists who color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of influenced them. the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by

390 VISUAL STUDIES an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books COML H205 STUDIES IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN and related critical texts guide students to the completion of NOVEL,LEGENDS OF ARTHUR (1.0 Credit) their course work. This two semester course consists of the Division: Humanities book project first semester (351A) and the exhibition project Domain(s): ,A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) second semester (351B). At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project. Investigating the Past in Latin American Contemporary Narratives. This course examines issues of memory and ARTS H351 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO identity in the context of personal and national stories/histories. PHOTOGRAPHY,EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: PHOTOGRAPHY The course will analyze recently published novels, and short (1.0 Credit) stories (including some film adaptations) by representative Division: Humanities writers from the region. This course is conducted in Spanish. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Crosslisted: Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102, placement, or consent of the instructor. Enrollment Students produce an extended sequence of their work in Limit: 25,An exploration of the Arthurian legend, from its earliest either book or exhibition format using black and white or versions to most recent retellings. The tradition of Arthurian color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of tales is complex and various, combining Celtic and Christian the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the mythologies. Sometimes called the “matter of Britain” the student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented Arthurian narrative has been critical in establishing national and by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture ethnic identities ever since the Middle Ages. Medival notions of books and related critical texts guide students to the completion chivalry and courtly love also raise fascinating questions about of their course work. This two semester course consists of the conflict between personal and private morality, and about the book project first semester and the exhibition project the construction of both identity and gender. second semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project.,Students produce an extended COML H210 SPANISH AND SPANISH AMERICAN FILM sequence of their work in either book (ARTSH351A) or STUDIES (1.0 Credit) exhibition (ARTSH351B) format using black and white or Division: Humanities color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the Exploration of Latin American film. The course will discuss student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by approximately one movie per week. The class will focus on the an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books analysis of cinematic discourses as well as the films’ cultural and related critical texts guide students to the completion of and historic background. The course will also provide advanced their course work. This two semester course consists of the language training with particular emphasis in refining oral and book project first semester (351A) and the exhibition project writing skills. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted: second semester (351B). At the end of each semester the Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102, or student may exhibit his/her project. placement, or instructor consent.

ASTR H341 ADVANCED TOPICS: OBSERVATIONAL COML H262 TOP GERMAN CINEMA: #METOO WOMEN ASTRONOMY (1.0 Credit) AND FILM,EUROPEAN FILM (1.0 Credit) Division: Natural Science Division: Humanities Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts),A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World Observing projects that involve using a CCD camera on a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Projects include This course meets twice a week and will either be taught in spectroscopy; variable star photometry; H-alpha imaging; English with an extra-session in German or in German if all imaging and photometry of galaxies and star clusters; registered students speak German. It is the aim of this course instruction in the use of image processing software and to contextualize the #MeToo Movement in a transnational CCD camera operation. Students work in groups of two with U.S. - European context. We will read a variety of texts and minimal faculty supervision. Formal reports are required. watch selected European/U.S. films that impacted the historical Prerequisite(s): ASTR H204 relationship between and representation of women in film. While this course focuses primarily on female directors, our COML H142 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIES (1.0 discussion will also include the works of some male directors. Credit) Crosslisted: German, Comparative Literature Division: Humanities COML H381 VISUAL POLITICS OF BONDAGE (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) its methods of analysis and topical concerns. Traditional media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an This course examines the visual politics of literatures of examination of the ubiquity of images of all kinds, their systems bondage, focusing on colonial Brazil/Amazon, the cross- of transmission, their points of consumption, and the very temporal Indian Ocean World, and our contemporary moment limits of visuality itself. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Fine Arts, of globalization. Our central course inquiry across the course Comparative Literature will address the visual politics both nascent and full-fleshed in textual and imagistic representations of those extremely uneven power relations definitive of bondage, and is attentive across genres to the novel, painting, photography, and film.

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Cross-listed for English and Visual Arts. Prerequisite(s): Two “Animals, Vegetables, Minerals” does not follow chronological 200-level courses in English or instructor consent or geographical frameworks, but chooses texts that engage the three categories enumerated as the major themes of CSTS H209 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (1.0 Credit) our course. We will read and discuss animal theory, theories Division: Humanities of place and landscape, and theories of modernization or mechanization; and there will be frequent (and intentional) An introduction to the primary characters and stories of Greek overlap between these categories. We will also be watching and Roman mythology including cosmic creation, Olympian films that extend our theoretical questions of thes e themes and other deities, and heroes both as they appear in Greek beyond national, linguistic, and generic borders. You are and Roman literature and art and as they are later represented expected to view this course as a collaborative process in in modern art, music, and film. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, which you share responsibility for leading discussion. There

Comparative Literature, Religion are no prerequisites or language expectations, but students should have some basic knowledge of East Asian, especially CSTS H222 CREATING CLASSICS: A VISUAL WORKSHOP Sinophone, history and culture, or be willing to do some ON PASOLINI and GREEK DRAMA (1.0 Credit) additional reading (suggested by the instructor) to achieve an Division: Humanities adequate contextual background for exploring these texts. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Can our engagement with the past be a creative action? A EALC H112 MYTH, FOLKLORE, AND LEGEND IN JAPAN reclaiming and subversion of inherently exclusionary ideas (1.0 Credit) and media? This seminar and creative workshop answers Division: Humanities such questions through an analysis and recreation of ancient Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the sources and their afterlives in the modern media. Social World An introduction to stories of the weird and supernatural in EALC B240 TOPICS IN CHINESE FILM (1.0 Credit) Japan and a reflection on genre and the scholarly enterprise This is a topics course. Course content varies. of taxonomy-making. Readings from Buddhist miracle plays, early modern puppet drama, etc., supplemented by scholarly EALC B310 ADVANCED READINGS IN THE GRAPHIC secondary sources. NARRATIVE (1.0 Credit) This advanced seminar focuses on critical and theoretical EALC H132 JAPANESE CIVILIZATION (1.0 Credit) approaches to the graphic novel. In the past several decades, Division: Humanities a genre of “auteur comics” has emerged from the medium that Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the are highly literary with a deep engagement between form and Social World meaning. This seminar focuses on weekly close readings of A broad chronological survey of Japanese culture and society such graphic novels with rigorous analysis of form and content. from the earliest times to the present, with special reference Primary text readings are supplemented with readings from to such topics as belief, family, language, the arts, and literary theory, visual studies, and philosophy. Participants sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in are expected to be comfortable with the application of literary English translation and secondary studies. critical theory and visual studies theory to texts. There are no prerequisites for the course, but due to the quantity and EALC H201 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM (1.0 Credit) complexity of the reading material, some background in literary study is necessary. Students interested in taking this course in Division: Humanities fulfillment of a major requirement in Comparative Literature or Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the East Asian Languages and Cultures will need to discuss with Social World me prior to enrollment. Preference given to students who have Focusing on the East Asian Buddhist tradition, the course taken EALC B255. This semester (Spring 2021) we will explore examines Buddhist philosophy, doctrine and practice as theories of narrative in the context of the graphic narrative. textual traditions and as lived religion. Crosslisted: East Asian Students will read and view primary texts, supplemented by Languages and Cultures, Religion theoretical readings, that engage questions of how subjects develop through unconventional notions of “travel” in time, EALC H231 PRE-MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE (1.0 space, or both. THIS COURSE IS OFFERED AS PART OF A Credit) 360 Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the EALC B355 ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS IN EAST Social World ASIAN LITERATURE and FILM (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities This is a course introducing classical and medieval Japanese literature, and also related performance traditions. No This semester, we will explore how artists question, explore, background in either East Asian culture or in the study celebrate, and critique the relationships between humans and of literature is required; all works will be read in English the environment. Through a topics-focused course, students translation. (Advanced Japanese language students are invited will examine the ways that narratives about environment have to speak with the instructor about arranging to read some of the shaped the way that humans have defined themselves. We works in the original or in translation into modern Japanese.) will be reading novels and short stories and viewing films that The course is a chronological survey of Japanese literature contest conventional binaries of man and animal, civilization from the tenth century to the fifteenth. It will focus on well- and nature, tradition and technology, and even truth and fiction.

392 VISUAL STUDIES known texts like the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, both habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused written by women, and the ballad-form Tale of the Heike. work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and EALC H247 DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE IN EAST ASIAN history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call RELIGIONS (1.0 Credit) cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the Division: Humanities Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory.

This course engages the rich textual and visual traditions of ENGL H205 LEGENDS OF ARTHUR (1.0 Credit) China, Korea, and Japan to illuminate funerary and memorial practices and explore the terrain of the next world. Students will Division: Humanities learn about the culturally constructed nature of religious belief Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) and come to see the complexity and diversity of the influences An exploration of the Arthurian legend, from its earliest on understandings of life and death. The course is not a versions to most recent retellings. The tradition of Arthurian chronological survey, but rather alternates between modern tales is complex and various, combining Celtic and Christian and ancient narratives and practices to draw a picture of the mythologies. Sometimes called the “matter of Britain” the relationship between the living and the dead as conceived in Arthurian narrative has been critical in establishing national and East Asian religions. ethnic identities ever since the Middle Ages. Medival notions of chivalry and courtly love also raise fascinating questions about EALC H299 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE the conflict between personal and private morality, and about LITERATURE AND FILM (1.0 Credit) the construction of both identity and gender. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) ENGL H209 THIRD WORLD CINEMA: DESIRING FREEDOMS, FREEING DESIRES (1.0 Credit) This course explores important works within modern and contemporary Japanese literature as well as their filmic Division: Humanities adaptations, from 1945 to the present. Topics include literary Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) and cinematic representation of Japan’s war experience and his course explores the central role of film in imagining postwar reconstruction, negotiation between traditional and decolonization and desire as entangled narratives in the modern Japanese aesthetics, confrontation with the state, and Third World. Treating film as a text within specific cinematic changing ideas regarding gender and sexuality. We explore traditions, we read for the ways in which Third World artists these and other topics by analyzing texts of various genres, have interrogated the complex objectives of desiring freedoms including film and film scripts, novels, short stories, manga, and and freeing desires for post/colonies. academic essays. ENGL H225 SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGIC AND BEYOND EALC H335 JAPANESE MODERNISMS ACROSS MEDIA (1.0 Credit) (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This curatorial seminar examines the technological shifts An “introductory emphasis” study of the major tragedies and cultural transformations that have shaped Japanese and related histories, comedies, and romances, with artistic production and practice from the early 20th-century special reference to the evolution of dramatic form, poetic through the present day. Readings from pre-modern through style, characterization, and ideology as they are shaped contemporary sources, film screenings, and museum field trips, by Shakespeare’s persistent experimentation with dramas will be included. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. of extravagant will, desire, tyranny, skepticism, and death. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Particular attention will be paid to key scenes in an effort to assess both Shakespeare’s response to contemporary literary EALC H370 ADVANCED TOPICS IN BUDDHIST STUDIES and cultural concerns and the internal reformation of his own (1.0 Credit) craft. Prerequisite(s): First Year Writing Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the ENGL H247 PLANETARY LINES IN WORLD LITERATURE Social World AND FILM (1.0 Credit)

Advanced course on a topic chosen annually by instructor. Division: Humanities The purpose of this course is to give students with a basic Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) background in Buddhist Studies deeper conversancy with a Mainly Anglophone eco-fiction, non-fiction, and films from North particular textual, thematic, or practice tradition in the history of America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania address Buddhism. Prerequisite(s): EALC 201 or instructor consent a human-impacted ecology; course work such as midterm “translation” and hybrid final paper projects encourages ENGL B205 INTRODUCTION TO FILM (1.0 Credit) students to collaborate across linguistic and disciplinary Division: Humanities interests. The question of “world” as universal and “planet” as Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) material are considered, with an emphasis on lines of difference This course is intended to provide students with the tools of generating worlds in World and material predicaments re- critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, mapping the planet. Cross-listed for English and Visual Arts. sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the

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ENGL H252 ROMANTIC POETRY and CRITICISM (1.0 will incorporate history, but will foreground literary and cultural Credit) analysis. Division: Humanities FREN B105 DIRECTIONS DE LA FRANCE A reading of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, with CONTEMPORAINE (1.0 Credit) attention to early/late works and to the interfiliation of theory Division: Humanities and poetry. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) ENGL H254 PRE-RAPHAELITES, AESTHETES AND Ce cours a pour objet les dynamiques et les tensions qui DECADENTS: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE LATE structurent ou déstructurent la France contemporaine. Dans 19TH CENTURY (1.0 Credit) quelle mesure la France a-t-elle profité de la colonisation et Division: Humanities de l’esclavage pour devenir la France ? Le modèle républicain Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) est-il mis à mal par ce qu’on appelle les “communautarismes”, ou n’est-il lui même qu’un déguisement du communautarisme Readings in the discursive formation of the 19th-c. novel that de la majorité ? Quel est ce “séparatisme” qui menacerait la examine the aesthetic, the ethical, the sociopolitical, and cohésion nationale et les valeurs universalistes de la France the affective as categories of interest and productive cultural ? Pourquoi la laïcité est-elle en crise aujourd’hui ? L’État de investment. Authors will be selected from what may be termed droit peut-il demeurer un État de droit face au djihadisme the “long 19th century” and will draw from a list that includes ? L’arbitrage impossible entre priorité sanitaire et priorité Richardson, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and James. économique montre-t-il que le pouvoir politique est devenu impuissant ? Les travaux à rendre vous permettront de vous ENGL H282 AN ENERGY OF PROFUSION; AN ENERGY exprimer dans des formats innovants (podcast, présentation OF LINE : THE MODERNIST MOVEMENT, 1900-1920 (1.0 vidéo, réalisation de pages Internet) et de perfectionner vos Credit) compétences à l’oral aussi bien qu’à l’écrit. Prerequisite: FREN Division: Humanities 005 or 101. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) FREN H105 DIRECTIONS DE LA FRANCE ENGL H346 NEW(S) MEDIA,PRINT CULTURE (1.0 Credit) CONTEMPORAINE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course explores a century of critical response and creative An examination of contemporary society in France and media innovation (1670-1770) in relation to questions about Francophone cultures as portrayed in recent documents and form, materiality, circulation, authority, and embodiment across film. Emphasizing the tension in contemporary French-speaking genres. What structures control systems of knowledge and societies between tradition and change, the course focuses creative production in eighteenth-century Britain and how do on subjects such as family structures and the changing role these help us think about current incarnations of readership of women, cultural and linguistic identity, an increasingly and form today? Our most ambitious texts will be Laurence multiracial society, the individual and institutions (religious, Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy—a meditation on experimental political, educational), and les loisirs. In addition to the basic fiction, mortality, history, and digression; and Anne Carson’s text and review of grammar, readings are chosen from experimental poem Nox. The course is part of the Philadelphia newspapers, contemporary literary texts, magazines, and they Area Creative Collaboratives initiative and will work closely with are complemented by video materials. Offered in the second poet Anne Carson and Philadelphia theater group Lightning semester. Prerequisite(s): FREN 005 or 101 Rod Special. Some performance workshops and travel off campus will be required. Interdisciplinary students welcome. FREN H212 GRAMMAIRE AVANCÉE: COMPOSITION ET Crosslisted: English, Visual Studies Prerequisite(s): At least one CONVERSATION (1.0 Credit) 200-level ENGL course or instructor consent Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) ENGL H361 TOPICS AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT: REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY (1.0 Credit) The principal objective of this course is to allow its participants to master the techniques of composition and to write with a

Division: Humanities growing ease in order to express themselves with pertinent

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) and original ideas. Students will contribute to the creation of For the past three centuries African American writers have an online news blog and will experiment with writing different mined the experience of chattel slavery in the cause of literal genres of journalism, as well as editing a televised news and artistic emancipation. Slave narratives, as well as poetry, segment. Assigned readings on current news and films will essays and novels depicting slavery, constitute a literary be the subject of discussion. The course will allow students universe so robust that the term subgenre does it injustice. In to improve their written and oral French, to revise certain this work spanning the 18th-21st centuries, the reader will find important aspects of French grammar, to develop their pulse-quickening plots, gruesome horror, tender sentiment, analytical and critical senses, and to develop their knowledge heroism, degradation, sexual violation and redemption, as of French and francophone culture. Prerequisite(s): FREN 101 well as resonant meditations on language and literacy, racial and 102/105, or 005 and 102/105 identity, power, psychology, democracy, freedom and the human character. This course is focused primarily on prose representations of slavery in the Americas. Our discussions

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FREN H225 POLITIQUE ET POÉTIQUE: LA FEMME ET LA of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor PRESSE QUOTIDIENNE (1836-1918) (1.0 Credit) Introductory course or Theory course requirement. Division: Humanities HART B260 MODERN ART (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities In this course, we consider pivotal moments in French culture, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) society, and history from the perspectives of women witnesses. The first generation of women journalists modernized the image This course traces the history of modern art from the mid- of the woman and gave new representation to women in the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Lectures, press. Cross Listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual readings and class discussions will engage key artistic and Studies Prerequisite(s): French 101-102 or French 101-105; or historical developments that shaped art and culture during the instructor permission modern period.

GERM H262 TOP GERMAN CINEMA: #METOO WOMEN HART B279 EXHIBITING AFRICA: ART, ARTIFACT AND AND FILM (1.0 Credit) NEW ARTICULATIONS (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural history Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the museum played an important role in constructing and Social World disseminating images of Africa to the Western public. The history of museum representations of Africa and Africans This course meets twice a week and will either be taught in reveals that exhibitions—both museum exhibitions and “living” English with an extra-session in German or in German if all World’s Fair exhibitions— has long been deeply embedded in registered students speak German. It is the aim of this course politics, including the persistent “othering” of African people as to contextualize the #MeToo Movement in a transnational savages or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical U.S. - European context. We will read a variety of texts and exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider how art watch selected European/U.S. films that impacted the historical museums are creating new constructions of Africa and how relationship between and representation of women in film. contemporary curators and conceptual artists are creating While this course focuses primarily on female directors, our complex, challenging new ways of understanding African discussion will also include the works of some male directors. identities. Crosslisted: German, Comparative Literature HART B281 MUSEUM STUDIES: HISTORY, THEORY, GNST B255 VIDEO PRODUCTION (1.0 Credit) PRACTICE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Social World This course will explore aesthetic strategies utilized by Using the museums of Philadelphia as field sites, this course low-budget film and video makers as each student works provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects throughout the semester to complete a 7-15 minute film or of museum studies and the important synergies between video project. Course requirements include weekly screenings, theory and practice. Students will learn: the history of museums reading assignments, and class screenings of rushes and as institutions of recreation, education and leisure; how the roughcuts of student projects. Prerequisites: Some prior film museum itself became a symbol of power, prestige and course experience necessary, instructor discretion. sometimes alienation; debates around the ethics and politics of collecting objects of art, culture and nature; and the qualities HART B110 CRITICAL APPROACHES TO VISUAL that make an exhibition effective (or not). By visiting exhibitions REPRESENTATION: IDENTIFICATION IN THE CINEMA (1.0 and meeting with a range of museum professionals in art, Credit) anthropology and science museums, this course offers a critical Division: Humanities perspective on the inner workings of the museum as well as Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) insights into the “new museology.” An introduction to the analysis of film through particular attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving images HIST H317 TOPICS IN LATIN AMERICAN HIST: THE compel our fascination? How exactly do film spectators relate STRUGGLE FOR KNOWLEDGE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, to the people, objects, and places that appear on the screen? EDUCATION and LIBERATION (1.0 Credit) Wherein lies the power of images to move, attract, repel, Division: Social Science persuade, or transform its viewers? In this course, students will Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic Social World of identification. We will explore how points of view are framed This course examines the revolutionary politics, emancipatory in cinema, and how those viewing positions differ from those pedagogies, and struggles for liberation espoused by of still photography, advertising, video games, and other forms grassroots intellectuals and social movements in modern Latin of media. Students will be encouraged to consider the role American history. the cinematic medium plays in influencing our experience of a film: how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form of HLTH H304 CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES: THEORY AND representation that creates interactions between the spectator PRACTICE (1.0 Credit) and the images on the screen. Film screenings include Psycho,

Being John Malkovich, and others. Course is geared to Division: Humanities freshman and those with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)

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An examination of work in critical disability studies across a An interdisciplinary visual studies examination of queer range of humanistic disciplines and an exploration of how subcultural performance and its influence on contemporary disability theory and engaged community practice inform American culture. Readings include live performance, visual art and shape one another. Includes a semester-long project in and film as well as historical and theoretical secondary sources. partnerships with the Center for Creative Works, a community Prerequisite(s): an intro course in Gen/Sex artspace for artists with intellectual disabilities. Prerequisite(s): Students will be selected based on instructor evaluation of MATH H337 DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY (1.0 Credit) written applications. To access the application: preregister for Division: Natural Science the course, view your class schedule in the Student Center in Domain(s): C: Physical and Natural Processes Bionic (Main Menu > Self-Service > Student Center > Class Schedule), and click on the URL icon A study of the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Concepts covered include both the local theory (including ICPR H142 WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES: metrics, curvature, and geodesics) and the global theory, REPRESENTATIONS IN ART (0.5 Credit) including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Prerequisite(s): MATH 317 or MATH 216 with special permission, or instructor consent Students will learn about issues involving women and gender in the European Middle Ages. Through discussion and research, MUSC H251 MUSIC, FILM and NARRATIVE (1.0 Credit) students will analyze medieval art and create image records for the database, Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index. Division: Humanities

This course is graded pass/fail. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) An introduction to music and film with special attention to works ICPR H143 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: HISTORY, PROCESS, from the 1930s through the 1950s by composers such as Auric, AND ANALYSIS (0.5 Credit) Copland, Eisler, Herrmann, Korngold, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, What does it mean for books to be illustrated? How do Steiner, Tiomkin and Waxman. Close study of orchestration, illustrations interact with other parts of books? Students will harmony and thematic process as they contribute to cinematic explore books created for a variety of audiences over time and narrative and form. Source readings include artistic positions space, creating exhibits on a topic of interest. This course is staked out by film composers themselves as well as critical and graded P/F. scholarly essays by leading writers on the narrative possibilities of film music. Extensive reading, listening, and viewing ICPR H144 INTRODUCTION TO MIDI FILM SCORING (0.5 assignments. Weekly writing assignments, three short essays, Credit) journal, and class discussion. Prerequisite(s): Music 203 or

Introduction to film scoring using computers, software equivalent knowledge of music theory. instruments and MIDI. A hands-on course in the techniques PHIL H117 REPRESENTING DIFFERENCE (1.0 Credit) and technology necessary for writing and recording music for film using computers and MIDI. This course is graded Division: Humanities P/F. Prerequisite(s): Some musical knowledge helpful but not Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) necessary What is the self? The other? How have concepts of the self and the other been central to the history of philosophy? Through ICPR H145 SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: DESIGNING a survey of the history of Western philosophy, students in this OBJECTS OF PLAY (0.5 Credit) course will think critically about difference. Emphasizing digital design and remote digital fabrication, this course invites students to think critically about objects of PHIL H211 PHILOSOPHY OF ART (1.0 Credit) play. What materials are used in toy design? What are the Division: Humanities environmental implications of mass production? How can Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) thinking about communities of play help us imagine solutions to problems of isolation? This course is graded P/F. Crosslisted: Exploration of Philosophy of Art in the Post-Kantian Tradition. Independent College Programs, Visual Studies Topics include the nature of aesthetic judgment, the relationship between art and morality, and the potential for works of art ICPR H250 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXHIBITION: to signify ideas non-discursively. Readings from Kant, Hegel, OBJECTS, IMAGES, TEXTS, EVENTS (1.0 Credit) Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Deleuze. Prerequisite(s): 100-level philosophy course or instructor permission Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) RELG H106 THE SENSE AND SENSES OF ISLAM (1.0 An introduction to the theory and practice of exhibition and Credit) display. This course will supply students with the analytic tools Division: Humanities necessary to understand how exhibitions work and give them Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the practical experience making arguments with objects, images, Social World texts, and events. This course introduces students to the debates about the ICPR H258 AMERICAN QUEEN: DRAG IN senses in Islam. What is the relationship between sound and CONTEMPORARY ART AND PERFORMANCE (1.0 Credit) the sacred, between the sensorium and the meanings of Islam? Course readings will include Sufi texts, works by Islamic Division: Humanities scholars, ethnographies of Muslim musical practices, as well as Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) philosophical works.

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RELG H112 MYTH, FOLKLORE, AND LEGEND IN JAPAN will ask how these practices were employed to visualize the (1.0 Credit) divine, to nurture faith and passion, and to gain proximity to the Division: Humanities transcendent deity. Class work will include field trips to local

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the temples and museums. Social World RUSS B238 TOPICS: THE HISTORY OF CINEMA 1895 TO An introduction to stories of the weird and supernatural in 1945 (1.0 Credit) Japan and a reflection on genre and the scholarly enterprise Division: Humanities of taxonomy-making. Readings from Buddhist miracle plays, early modern puppet drama, etc., supplemented by scholarly This is a topics course. Course content varies. secondary sources. SPAN H210 SPANISH AND SPANISH AMERICAN FILM RELG H201 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM (1.0 Credit) STUDIES (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts),; B: Analysis of Social World the Social World Focusing on the East Asian Buddhist tradition, the course Exploration of films in Spanish from both sides of the Atlantic. examines Buddhist philosophy, doctrine and practice as The course will discuss approximately one movie per class, textual traditions and as lived religion. Crosslisted: East Asian from a variety of classic and more recent directors such Languages and Cultures, Religion as Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Lucrecia Martel among others. The class will focus on the analysis of RELG H208 SACRED MATTERS: MATERIAL DIMENSIONS cinematic discourses as well as the films’ cultural and historic OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH ASIA (1.0 Credit) background. The course will also provide advanced language Division: Humanities training with particular emphasis in refining oral and writing Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World skills. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted: Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN An examination of the bodily, sensorial and emotional 102, or placement, or instructor consent. Enrollment Limit: experience of things, substances, architecture, sculpture, 15,Exploration of Latin American film. The course will discuss landscape, textiles, and texts, the aesthetics of epic poetry, approximately one movie per week. The class will focus on the drama, song, dance in South Asian religious cultures. Topics analysis of cinematic discourses as well as the films’ cultural may include how such practices inscribe religious experience, and historic background. The course will also provide advanced provide parameters for social organization, and offer religious language training with particular emphasis in refining oral and critique. Prerequisite(s): One course in Religion or Visual writing skills. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted: Studies Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102, or placement, or instructor consent. RELG H209 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities SPAN H210 SPANISH AND SPANISH AMERICAN FILM STUDIES (1.0 Credit) An introduction to the primary characters and stories of Greek and Roman mythology including cosmic creation, Olympian Division: Humanities and other deities, and heroes both as they appear in Greek Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts),; B: Analysis of and Roman literature and art and as they are later represented the Social World in modern art, music, and film. Crosslisted: Classical Studies, Exploration of films in Spanish from both sides of the Atlantic. Comparative Literature, Religion The course will discuss approximately one movie per class, from a variety of classic and more recent directors such RELG H256 ZEN THOUGHT, ZEN CULTURE, ZEN HISTORY as Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Lucrecia (1.0 Credit) Martel among others. The class will focus on the analysis of Division: Humanities cinematic discourses as well as the films’ cultural and historic background. The course will also provide advanced language What are we talking about when we talk about Zen? This training with particular emphasis in refining oral and writing course is an introduction to the intellectual and cultural history skills. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted: of the style of Buddhism known as Zen in Japanese. We will Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN examine the development and expression of this religious 102, or placement, or instructor consent. Enrollment Limit: movement in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Crosslisted: 15,Exploration of Latin American film. The course will discuss East Asian Languages and Cultures, History, Religion approximately one movie per week. The class will focus on the RELG H303 RELIGION, LITERATURE AND analysis of cinematic discourses as well as the films’ cultural REPRESENTATION: IMAGES OF KRISHNA (1.0 Credit) and historic background. The course will also provide advanced language training with particular emphasis in refining oral and

Division: Humanities writing skills. This course is conducted in Spanish. Crosslisted:

Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Spanish, Comparative Literature. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102, or This course approaches the Hindu god Krishna through varied placement, or instructor consent. expressions in architecture, sculpture, paintings, textiles, landscape design, poetry, music, dance, and drama. We

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VIST H108 REAL WORK AND DREAM JOBS: VISUAL This course examines the convergence of bodies, media, and REPRESENTATIONS AND THEORIES OF WORK (1.0 technology in the context of critical media arts practice and Credit) digital culture. It introduces students to critical design and

Division: First Year Writing media art production practices. An entry into theories of work, thinking critically and historically VIST H205 PHYSICAL COMPUTING FOR ART AND DESIGN about the role of work in society, the promise of art as an ideal (1.0 Credit) form of work, and the structural persistence of gendered, Division: Natural Science classed, and racial divisions of labor. Open only to first-year Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); C: Physical and students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. Natural Processes VIST H110 FOUNDATIONS IN FILM PRODUCTION (1.0 An examination of the design and construction of interactive Credit) systems that respond to stimulus from the real world. Includes Division: Humanities understanding basic electronic components in order to Domain(s): A: Creative Expression construct complex systems and tools to perform specific tasks. Prerequisite(s): An understanding of basic math and algebra, The fundamentals of digital film production. Students will learn though no previous electronics or programming experience is the grammar of key film genres and basic filmmaking craft, necessary. including cameras, lighting, sound techniques, and nonlinear editing, creating four short films in the genres of animation, VIST H206 HYBRID CINEMA: FICTION/NON-FICTION AND experimental, documentary, and fiction. THE EXPLORATION OF REALITY (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities VIST H116 SPECULATIVE FILMMAKING (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression This course traces the evolution of “hybrid” cinema – film and media informed by documentary and fiction traditions - from Students will learn the craft of digital video production and post- the inception of the moving image to the present. Throughout production through the creation of short video projects focused cinema history, filmmakers have been grappling with the on the genres of speculation, especially about the future representation of reality: For many trailblazing directors, of humans and human societies, as a creative framework. the interplay between non-fiction and fiction filmmaking has Students will learn the basics of HD cameras, digital sound inspired new ways of expressing the complexities of identity recording and lighting techniques, as well as non-linear and society. video editing, sound editing and exporting video using Adobe Premiere. Pre-requisite(s): Enrollment limit of 12 students. VIST H207 MODELING THE SPECTATOR (1.0 Credit) Lottery Preference: Visual Studies minors Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) VIST H130 INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE STUDIES (1.0 Credit) This course will examine the figure of the spectator as a Division: Humanities historical subject of changing media environments. From an Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) industrial to an informational image economy, it will survey theories and practices of spectatorship as they respond to the Through readings of theoretical texts, art works, dance, and emergence of modern technologies of representation. experimental performance, we will explore performance as an interpretive framework for social behaviors, institutions, VIST H211 A HISTORY OF THE USER (1.0 Credit) and presentations of self. Readings engage philosophy, Division: Humanities psychoanalysis, anthropology, race studies, disability studies, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) and sexuality studies. What is a “user”? A speculative history of the user as the VIST H142 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIES (1.0 human subject of a cybernetic view of the world up to the Credit) current moment of post-Internet identity extraction through data

Division: Humanities surveillance, algorithmic bias, and digital activism. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) VIST H212 CINEMATIC GAMES (1.0 Credit) An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, Division: Humanities its methods of analysis and topical concerns. Traditional Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an examination of the ubiquity of images of all kinds, their systems An alternative history of the cinema from its origin in hand-held of transmission, their points of consumption, and the very toys and games of illusion to puzzle films, VR, and multiplayer limits of visuality itself. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Fine Arts, video games. From spectator to player, how does the cinema Comparative Literature frame our seeing as interactive, networked, and embodied.

VIST H204 BODY MEDIA: WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND VIST H213 RACE AS MEDIUM (1.0 Credit) DIGITAL BODIES (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Approaching race as both a media and technology of social

398 VISUAL STUDIES visibility and invisibility, we will explore the work of practitioners VIST H233 DECOLONIZING VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1.0 who utilize the marked-ness of the racial body as a mediated Credit) object to create resistant practices of image-making and Division: Social Science looking. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the Social World VIST H214 MODERN ART - AFRICA AND EUROPE (1.0 Credit) This is a hybrid video production and theory course which

Division: Humanities grapples with the entanglements between ethnographic film/ Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) documentary and colonial structures of power. We will bring a decolonizing lens to explore—through texts, screenings, and This course focuses on encounters between the cultures making films—major modalities in the field including sensory of Africa and Europe, from the 17th through the mid-20th ethnography, indigenous media, and feminist experimental centuries, and on the resulting visual practices that emerged film. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Anthropology Prerequisite(s): on both continents. Prerequisite(s): sat least one Visual Studies Sophomore standing course at the 100 or 200 level or permission from instructor VIST H243 INTRODUCTION TO DOCUMENTARY VIDEO VIST H216 BLACK SPECULATIVE FUTURES (1.0 Credit) PRODUCTION (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) The craft and theory of documentary video production. The The course will explore how black artists, theorists, and basics, including use of HD digital cameras, lighting and activists imagine different futures to critique power asymmetries sound techniques, and nonlinear video editing, culminating in and create radical transformation. We will investigate how the the completion of short documentaries during the semester. speculative works differently across genres and we will craft our Attendance at weekly documentary screenings is required, own embodied speculative art. Thurs 7:00-9:30pm.

VIST H217 MYTH AND MEANING IN CONTEMPORARY VIST H247 PLANETARY LINES IN WORLD LITERATURE MEDIA NARRATIVES (1.0 Credit) AND FILM (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course explores contemporary myths presented through Mainly Anglophone eco-fiction, non-fiction, and films from North film, television, and gaming narratives that follow frameworks America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania address and story models of classic and post-millennial mythic journeys. a human-impacted ecology; course work such as midterm These frameworks and models are used in the construction of “translation” and hybrid final paper projects encourages myth and meaning as well as in the analysis and interpretation students to collaborate across linguistic and disciplinary of contemporary stories with the power to entertain, educate interests. The question of “world” as universal and “planet” as and inspire audiences. Pre-requisite(s): N/A material are considered, with an emphasis on lines of difference generating worlds in World and material predicaments re- VIST H220 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA mapping the planet. Cross-listed for English and Visual Arts. PRODUCTION: MOVING IMAGE AND TIME-BASED MEDIA (1.0 Credit) VIST H250 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXHIBITION: Division: Humanities OBJECTS, IMAGES, TEXTS, EVENTS (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities This course introduces students to the foundations of digital Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) video production and time-based media as an art form. We will An introduction to the theory and practice of exhibition and examine the history, theory, and practices of film, video, and the display. This course will supply students with the analytic tools moving image in a visual arts context. necessary to understand how exhibitions work and give them practical experience making arguments with objects, images, VIST H230 POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA (1.0 Credit) texts, and events. Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts); B: Analysis of the VIST H253 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF Social World CONCEPTUAL ART (1.0 Credit) This course provides an introduction to Japanese cinema from Division: Humanities the immediate Postwar period of 1945 to the present day. Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Focusing on films by influential directors including Ozu Yasujiro, In this course, the specific mid-20th C movement called Kurosawa Akira, and Mizoguchi Kenji among others we will Conceptual Art will be explored, as will its progenitors and consider how Japanese filmmakers use cinema to investigate its progeny. Students will study the founding manifestos, issues of truth, beauty, identity, and nationhood in an attempt the canonical works and their critical appraisals, as well as to answer fundamental questions regarding life and death in develop tightly structured studio practica to embody the former Japan’s Postwar period. Crosslisted: East Asian Languages research. The course invites artists, writers, activists, and and Cultures, Visual Studies, Environmental Studies cultural thinkers, those who want to know what it is to make things, spaces, situations, communities, allies, and trouble-

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-without necessarily knowing how to draw, paint, sculpt, VIST H302 DIGITAL ACTIVISMS: CRITICAL photograph, videotape, or film. CARTOGRAPHIES AND DIY DATA JUSTICE (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities VIST H258 AMERICAN QUEEN: DRAG IN Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of the Social CONTEMPORARY ART AND PERFORMANCE (1.0 Credit) World Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course examines how artists, researchers, and community organizers have sought to address issues of visibility, An interdisciplinary visual studies examination of queer dataveillance, and data justice. Students will design, develop, subcultural performance and its influence on contemporary and execute critical data projects using data visualization American culture. Readings include live performance, visual art techniques, digital mapping and web-development tools. and film as well as historical and theoretical secondary sources. Prerequisite(s): VIST142 Intro to Visual Studies or VIST H207 Prerequisite(s): an intro course in Gen/Sex Modeling the Spectator, or consent of the instructor

VIST H266 SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS (1.0 VIST H303 ADVANCED DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION: Credit) DIGITAL AESTHETICS (1.0 Credit) Division: Social Science Division: Humanities Domain(s): B: Analysis of the Social World Domain(s): A: Creative Expression Through this course, students will develop ethnographic Advanced digital media production studio course focusing on research and writing skills using sensory detail (taste, touch, the theory and practice of digital aesthetics. Students create sight, sound, smell and feeling) to evoke people, places, digital media projects addressing the theme of the course with and things. Assignments are primarily writing-intensive various production techniques, including 2D animation and with additional fieldwork and multimodal (e.g. photography, interactive, web-based video. Prerequisite(s): VIST H220 Intro film) exercises. Crosslisted: Anthropology, Visual Studies to Digital Media Production or instructor consent Prerequisite(s): Any Anthropology course VIST H304 FEMINIST AESTHETICS: (1.0 VIST H267 BEAUTY PROBLEMS: RHETORIC, Credit) AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY (1.0 Credit) Division: Humanities Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course reintegrates the visual emphasis of “feminist This course will examine a series of problems that beauty aesthetics” into the multi-sensory field of experience known as and other sensuous pleasures make for philosophy, film, and “affect.” Our task is to evaluate what affect theory might add to contemporary art. Works will include those of Plato, Immanuel visual studies, feminist politics, and our understanding of the Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Isaac Julien, world. Elaine Scarry, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Fred Moten and others. VIST H306 HARLEM WORLD: GLOBAL BLACKNESS IN THE 20TH CENTURY (1.0 Credit) VIST H299 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE Division: Humanities LITERATURE AND FILM (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) This course traces the lasting global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing upon poetry, music, visual art, and This course explores important works within modern and political philosophy, we will examine the movement’s complex contemporary Japanese literature as well as their filmic treatment of Africa and consider the precedent it set in adaptations, from 1945 to the present. Topics include literary imagining black identity throughout the diaspora. and cinematic representation of Japan’s war experience and postwar reconstruction, negotiation between traditional and VIST H307 UNTIMELY ART AND PERFORMANCE (1.0 modern Japanese aesthetics, confrontation with the state, and Credit) changing ideas regarding gender and sexuality. We explore Division: Humanities these and other topics by analyzing texts of various genres, Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) including film and film scripts, novels, short stories, manga, and academic essays. In this course we will examine artworks and performances that generate a sense of being untimely. Disjointed, de- VIST H301 IMMERSIVE MEDIA (1.0 Credit) instrumentalized, and ahistorical, we will consider what Division: Humanities transformative undertakings untimely art makes possible and Domain(s): A: Creative Expression the ethical, social, and political resonances of untimeliness. Prerequisite(s): Any course in Visual Studies, Fine Arts, History Immersive Media is a production studio course that introduces of Arts, and/or philosophy or with permission from the instructor students to new forms of immersive media including 360 video, virtual reality, and immersive web. Prerequisite(s): Familiarity VIST H314 FEMINIST FILMMAKING STUDIO (1.0 Credit) with and Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Division: Humanities Effects. Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of the Social World

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This intermediate video production course explores how Crosslisted: English, Visual Studies Prerequisite(s): One feminist filmmakers subvert the male gaze, a particular view 200-level English course or instructor consent which has been made to seem universal. Students will enact intersectional and decolonial filmmaking practices by producing VIST H346B NEW(S) MEDIA, PRINT CULTURE (1.0 Credit) a short film and a podcast episode. Crosslisted: Visual Studies, Division: Humanities Anthropology Prerequisite(s): any course in anthropology, visual studies, or gender and sexuality studies or instructor This course explores a century of polemic and performance in consent relation to more recent political, formal and legal debates about digital technologies. In particular we will focus on modernity’s VIST H315 BLACK PERFORMANCE THEORY (1.0 Credit) shifting visual representations of materiality and circulation; ownership, authority and license; citation, plagiarism and piracy. Division: Humanities What structures control systems of knowledge production Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) and dissemination in the eighteenth century and today? Our An interdisciplinary visual studies examination of how black most ambitious text will be Laurence Sterne’s strange novel performance reflects and shapes subject formation in America Tristram Shandy—a brilliant meditation on experimental fiction, as well as the diaspora. Readings include live and recorded mortality, history, and digression for eighteenth-century and performances as well as historical and theoretical secondary contemporary readers. Interdisciplinary students welcome. sources. Prerequisite(s): 100 or 200-level course in either Crosslisted: English, Visual Studies Prerequisite(s): One Africana Studies or Gender and Sexuality Studies or permission 200-level English course or instructor consent from the instructor. VIST H353 THE DOCUMENTARY BODY: ADVANCED MEDIA VIST H318 BLACK FEMINIST BORDERLANDS (1.0 Credit) PRODUCTION (1.0 Credit) Division: Social Science Division: Humanities Domain(s): A: Creative Expression; B: Analysis of the Social The theory and craft of documentary film through an exploration World of representations of the body. Students produce short This course explores how Black people throughout the African documentaries, hone camera and editing skills, and learn diaspora create transnational geographies of belonging, basic producing skills. Students may also explore new media traverse imposed borders, and imagine the world in new forms. Required weekly screenings, Thurs 7:00-9:30pm. ways. Students will have the opportunity to apply the course Prerequisite(s): One introductory video production class or themes through writing and creative assignments. Crosslisted: equivalent experience or instructor consent. Students should Anthropology, Visual Studies Prerequisite(s):One course enter the class having basic competency with video cameras in either Africana Studies or Visual Studies or Gender and and Adobe Premiere Pro editing software. Sexuality Studies or Anthropology. VIST H381 VISUAL POLITICS OF BONDAGE (1.0 Credit) VIST H343 ADVANCED DOCUMENTARY VIDEO Division: Humanities PRODUCTION (1.0 Credit) Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) Division: Humanities This course examines the visual politics of literatures of Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) bondage, focusing on colonial Brazil/Amazon, the cross- The craft and theory of documentary filmmaking beyond the temporal Indian Ocean World, and our contemporary moment basics. Students produce fully-developed short documentaries, of globalization. Our central course inquiry across the course hone their camera and editing skills, and learn basic producer’s will address the visual politics both nascent and full-fleshed skills, including proposal writing, legal frameworks, and in textual and imagistic representations of those extremely distribution trends. Required attendance at weekly screenings, uneven power relations definitive of bondage, and is attentive Thurs 7:00-9:30pm. Prerequisites:One introductory video across genres to the novel, painting, photography, and film. production class or equivalent experience. (Students should Cross-listed for English and Visual Arts. Prerequisite(s): Two enter the class having basic competency with video cameras 200-level courses in English or instructor consent and Adobe Premiere Pro editing software.) VIST H399 CAPSTONE FOR VISUAL STUDIES MINORS VIST H346 NEW(S) MEDIA, PRINT CULTURE (1.0 Credit) (1.0 Credit)

Division: Humanities Division: Humanities This course explores a century of polemic and performance in Examines art, writing and exhibition practices centering in relation to more recent political, formal and legal debates about particular cultural contexts. Explores artists and curators digital technologies. In particular we will focus on modernity’s who link art, identity, and politics, and the environment shifting visual representations of materiality and circulation; in their practice. Focuses on developing practical skills ownership, authority and license; citation, plagiarism and piracy. related to archival research, analysis of visual material and What structures control systems of knowledge production critical making. To be taken in fall semester of senior year. and dissemination in the eighteenth century and today? Our Prerequisite(s): Visual Studies minor most ambitious text will be Laurence Sterne’s strange novel WRPR H108 REAL WORK AND DREAM JOBS: VISUAL Tristram Shandy—a brilliant meditation on experimental fiction, REPRESENTATIONS AND THEORIES OF WORK (1.0 mortality, history, and digression for eighteenth-century and Credit) contemporary readers. Interdisciplinary students welcome. Division: First Year Writing

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An entry into theories of work, thinking critically and historically about the role of work in society, the promise of art as an ideal form of work, and the structural persistence of gendered, classed, and racial divisions of labor. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. WRPR H111 POWER, PLACE, AND FILM (1.0 Credit)

Division: First Year Writing This writing seminar introduces students to film analysis through the themes of power and place and covers topics such as colonialism and imperialism, immigration, inequality, etc. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.

WRPR H164 MATERIALITY AND SPECTACLE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES (1.0 Credit) Division: First Year Writing Spectacles reflect, influence, and change cultural experiences, meaning, and understanding. This course will consider the materiality of spectacular nineteenth century US events through critical examination of historical accounts, primary research, and close readings of objects. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.

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