2016-17 Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Catalog

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2016–17 Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Catalog

Bryn Mawr College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age or disability in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other College-administered programs, or in its employment practices.

In conformity with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, it is also the policy of Bryn Mawr College not to discriminate on the basis of sex in its educational programs, activities or employment practices. The admission of only women in the Undergraduate College is in conformity with a provision of the Act. Inquiries regarding compliance with this legislation and other policies regarding nondiscrimination may be directed to the Equal Opportunity Officer, who administers the College’s procedures, at 610-520-2636.

All information in this catalog is subject to change without notice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Costs of Education 20 Billing and Payment Due Dates 20 2016–17 Academic Calendars 3 When a Student Withdraws 20 Financial Aid 22 Contact and Website Information 4 Required Forms and Instructions 22 About Bryn Mawr College 4 Loan Funds 24 The Mission of Bryn Mawr College 4 Scholarship Funds 26 A Brief History of Bryn Mawr College 5 Geographical Distribution of Students 7 Academic Program 34 The Curriculum 34 Libraries and Requirements for the A.B. Degree 35 Educational Resources 8 Emily Balch Seminar Requirement 35 Libraries 8 Quantitative Requirement 35 Special Collections 8 Foreign Language Requirement 35 Special Research Resources 9 Distribution Requirement 35 Computing 9 The Major 36 Laboratories 9 The Independent Major Program 37 Facilities for the Arts 12 Physical Education Requirement 38 Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center 12 Residency Requirement 39 Campus Center 12 Exceptions 39 Eligibility to Participate in Commencement 39 Student Responsibilities Academic Regulations 39 and Rights 12 Registration 39 The Honor Code 12 Credit/No Credit 39 Privacy of Student Records 13 Course Options 40 Directory Information 13 Half-semester Courses 40 Campus Crime Awareness/Clery Act 13 Cooperation with Neighboring Institutions 40 Right-to-Know Act 13 Conduct of Courses 41 Equality of Opportunity 13 Quizzes, Examinations and Extensions 41 Access Services 14 Grading and Academic Record 42 Repeating Courses 42 Student Life 14 Satisfactory Academic Progress 42 Student Advising 14 Cumulative Grade Point Averages 44 Customs Week 14 Distinctions 44 Academic Support Services 14 Credit for Work Done Elsewhere 44 Leadership, Innovation, and the Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) 14 Credit for Test Scores 45 Health Center 15 Departure from the College 45 Academic Opportunities 47 Student Residences 16 Minors and Concentrations 47 Admission 16 Combined A.B./M.A. Degree Programs 47 3-2 Program in Engineering and Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 20 Applied Science 48 Student Financial Services 20 4+1 Partnership with Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science 48 2 Table of Contents

4+1 Program in Bioethics with the University of Comparative Literature 123 Pennsylvania 48 Computer Science 131 3-2 Program in City and Regional Planning 48 East Asian Languages and Cultures 134 Combined Master’s and Economics 140 Teacher Certification Programs 48 Education 145 4+2 Master’s Program in China Studies English 150 with Zhejiang University 49 Environmental Studies 166 Summer Language Programs 49 Film Studies 175 Study Abroad in the Junior Year 49 Fine Arts 180 Preparation for Careers in Architecture 50 French and Francophone Studies 182 Preparation for Careers in the Gender and Sexuality 188 Health Professions 50 General Studies 203 Preparation for Careers in Law 51 Geoarchaeology 204 Teacher Certification 51 Geology 205 Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps 51 German and German Studies 211 Centers for 21st Century Inquiry 51 Greek, Latin and Classical Studies 214 Continuing Education Program 52 Growth and Structure of Cities 234 Katharine E. McBride Scholars Program 52 Health Studies 246 Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program 52 Hebrew and Judaic Studies 253 History 253 Emily Balch Seminars 52 History of Art 265 360º 53 International Studies 275 Focus Courses 53 Italian and Italian Studies 283 Athletics and Physical Education 53 Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 289 Praxis Program 54 Linguistics 296 Collaboration with the Graduate School of Mathematics 298 Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research 55 Middle Eastern Studies 303 Museum Studies 306 Academic Awards and Prizes 56 Music 307 Neuroscience 310 Scholarships for Medical Study 59 Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies 314 Philosophy 315 Areas of Study 59 Physics 322 Definitions 59 Political Science 328 Africana Studies 62 Psychology 339 Anthropology 67 Religion 347 Arabic 76 Romance Languages 349 Arts Program 76 Russian 351 Arts in Education 77 Sociology 354 Creative Writing 77 Spanish 361 Dance 80 Theater 85 Board of Trustees 368 Astronomy 89 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 91 Faculty 369 Biology 97 Chemistry 104 Administration 375 Child and Family Studies 109 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 114 Index 376 Academic Calendars 3

ACADEMIC CALENDARS

2016 First Semester 2017 First Semester August 29 Classes begin September 4 Labor Day (no classes) September 5 Labor Day (no classes) Septmber 5 Classes begin October 7 Fall break begins after last class October 13 Fall break begins after last class October 16 Fall break ends October 22 Fall break ends at 8 a.m. November 23 Thanksgiving break begins after November 22 Thanksgiving break begins after last last class class November 27 Thanksgiving break ends November 26 Thanksgiving break ends December 8 Last day of classes December 14 Last day of classes December 9-10 Review period December 15–16 Review period December 11-16 Examination period December 17–22 Examination period

2017 Second Semester 2018 Second Semester January 17 Classes begin January 22 Classes begin March 3 Spring break begins after last class March 9 Spring break begins after last class March 12 Spring break ends March 18 Spring break ends April 28 Last day of classes May 4 Last day of classes April 29–30 Review period May 5–6 Review period May 1–12 Examination period May 7–18 Examination period May 13 Commencement May 19 Commencement 4 Contact Information

CONTACT and WEBSITE INFORMATION

Mailing Address: Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899

Phone: (610) 526-5000 College website: www.brynmawr.edu For information regarding academic programs and regulations, academic advising, study abroad, the curriculum and special academic programs, visit the Dean’s Office website at www.brynmawr.edu/deans. For information regarding course schedules, registration, procedures, exams and student records, visit the Registrar’s Office website at www.brynmawr.edu/registrar. For information regarding entrance exams, advance placement or admissions, visit the Admissions Office website at www. brynmawr.edu/admissions. For information about applying for financial aid or continuing financial aid, visit the Student Financial Services website at www.brynmawr.edu/financial-aid. For information about student billing, refunds and student loans, visit the Student Financial Services website at www. brynmawr.edu/financial-aid. For information about the Health Center and health insurance, visit the Health Center’s website at www.brynmawr.edu/ healthcenter. For information about residential life, visit the Student Life Office website at www.brynmawr.edu/residentiallife. For information about meal plans and dining halls, visit the Dining Services website at www.brynmawr.edu/dining. For information about the libraries and their special collections, visit the Libraries website at www.brynmawr.edu/library. For information about computers, labs, and technological resources, visit the Computing Services website at www.brynmawr. edu/computing. For information about accommodations for students with disabilities, visit the Access Services website at www.brynmawr. edu/access_services. For information about career development services, including pre-law advising and the Externship Program, visit the Career and Professional Development Office website at www.brynmawr.edu/cpd. For information about athletics, physical education, recreation and wellness, visit the Department of Athletics and Physical Education website at www.brynmawr.edu/athletics. Web pages for individual academic departments and programs may be accessed from the following website: www.brynmawr. edu/find/fieldsofstudy.shtml.

ABOUT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE learning through conversation and collaboration, primary reading, original research and experimentation. The Mission of Bryn Mawr College Our cooperative relationship with Haverford College enlarges the academic opportunities for students and The mission of Bryn Mawr College is to provide a their social community. Our active ties to Swarthmore rigorous education and to encourage the pursuit of College and the University of Pennsylvania as well as knowledge as preparation for life and work. Bryn Mawr the proximity of the city of Philadelphia further extend teaches and values critical, creative and independent the opportunities available at Bryn Mawr. habits of thought and expression in an undergraduate liberal-arts curriculum for women and in coeducational Living and working together in a community based on graduate programs in the arts and sciences and in mutual respect, personal integrity and the standards of social work and social research. Bryn Mawr seeks to a social and academic Honor Code, each generation sustain a community diverse in nature and democratic of students experiments with creating and sustaining a in practice, for we believe that only through considering self-governing society within the College. The academic many perspectives do we gain a deeper understanding and cocurricular experiences fostered by Bryn Mawr, of each other and the world. both on campus and in the College’s wider setting, encourage students to be responsible citizens who Since its founding in 1885, the College has maintained provide service and leadership for an increasingly its character as a small residential community that interdependent world. fosters close working relationships between faculty and students. The faculty of teacher/scholars emphasizes About Bryn Mawr College 5

A Brief History of Bryn Mawr College College as president from 1885 to 1894, Bryn Mawr repeatedly broke new ground. It was, for example, the When Bryn Mawr College opened its doors in 1885, it first institution in the United States to offer fellowships offered women a more ambitious academic program for graduate study to women; its self-government than any previously available to them in the United association, the first in the country at its founding in States. Other women’s colleges existed, but Bryn 1892, was unique in the United States in granting to Mawr was the first to offer graduate education through students the right not only to enforce but to make all the PhD—a signal of its founders’ refusal to accept of the rules governing their conduct; and its faculty, the limitations imposed on women’s intellectual alumnae and students engaged in research that achievement at other institutions. expanded human knowledge. A Quaker Legacy Engaging the World The founding of Bryn Mawr carried out the will of In 1912, the bequest of an alumna founded the Joseph W. Taylor, a physician who wanted to establish a Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social college “for the advanced education of females.” Taylor Research, which made Bryn Mawr the first institution originally envisioned an institution that would inculcate in the country to offer a Ph.D. in social work. The in its students the beliefs of the Society of Friends department became the Graduate School of Social (popularly known as Quakers), but by 1893 his trustees Work and Social Research in 1970. Bryn Mawr had broadened the College’s mission by deciding that intensified its engagement with the world around it by Bryn Mawr would be non-denominational. Bryn Mawr’s opening its Summer School for Women Workers in first administrators had determined that excellence in Industry In 1921, which offered scholarships for broad- scholarship was more important than religious faith in based programs in political economy, science and appointing the faculty, although the College remained literature to factory workers until 1938. committed to Quaker values such as freedom of conscience. During the presidency of Marion Edwards Park, from 1922 to 1942, the College began to work toward The College’s mission was to offer women rigorous cooperative programs with nearby institutions— intellectual training and the chance to do to original Haverford College, Swarthmore College and the research, a European-style program that was then University of Pennsylvania—that would later greatly available only at a few elite institutions for men. That expand the academic and social range of Bryn Mawr was a formidable challenge, especially in light of students. In 1931 the Graduate School of Arts and the resistance of society at large, at the end of the Sciences began to accept male students. During the 19th century, to the notion that women could be the decades of the Nazi rise to power in Europe and World intellectual peers of men. War II, Bryn Mawr became home to many distinguished M. Carey Thomas’ Academic Ideal European scholars who were refugees from Nazi persecution. Fortunately, at its inception, the College was adopted as a moral cause and a life’s work by a woman of immense A Tradition of Freedom tenacity, M. Carey Thomas. Thomas, Bryn Mawr’s From 1942 to 1970 Katharine Elizabeth McBride first dean and second president, had been so intent presided over the College in a time of change and upon undertaking advanced study that when American growth. During McBride’s tenure, the College twice universities denied her the opportunity to enter a Ph.D. faced challenges to its Quaker heritage of free inquiry program on an equal footing with male students, she and freedom of conscience. During the McCarthy era, went to Europe to pursue her degree. Congress required students applying for loans to sign When Thomas learned of the plans to establish a a loyalty oath to the United States and an affidavit college for women just outside Philadelphia, she brought regarding membership in the Communist party. Later, to the project the same determination she had applied at the height of student protest against the Vietnam to her own quest for higher education. Thomas’ ambition War, institutions of higher education were required to was the engine that drove Bryn Mawr to achievement— report student protesters as a condition of eligibility for though it is Important to note that while M. Carey government scholarship support. Thomas was an ardent proponent of higher education On both occasions, Bryn Mawr emerged as a leader for women, she, like most of her contemporaries, sought among colleges and universities in protecting its this privilege for wealthy white women only. students’ rights. It was the first college to decline The College established undergraduate and graduate aid under the McCarthy-era legislation and the only programs that were widely viewed as models of institution in Pennsylvania to decline aid rather than take academic excellence in both the humanities and on the role of informer during the Vietnam War. Bryn the sciences, programs that elevated standards for Mawr faculty and alumnae raised funds to replace much higher education nationwide. Under the leadership of the lost aid, and a court eventually found the Vietnam- of Thomas and James E. Rhoads, who served the era law unconstitutional and ordered restitution of the scholarship funds. 6 About Bryn Mawr College

Partnerships and Growth arts curriculum. McAuliffe spearheaded strategic partnerships with several universities and colleges During the 1960s, Bryn Mawr strengthened its ties to across the globe and played a critical role in the Haverford, Swarthmore and Penn when it instituted founding of the Women in Public Service Project with mutual cross-registration for all undergraduate courses. the U.S. Department of State. Addressing global needs In 1969, it augmented its special relationship with in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Haverford by establishing a residential exchange Bryn Mawr continued to be a leader in preparing program that opened certain dormitories at each college students for careers in these fields and recruited its first to students of the other institution. STEM Posse cohort of students. During the presidency of Harris L. Wofford, from 1970 to 1978, Bryn Mawr intensified its already-strong Learning and Action commitment to international scholarship. Wofford Professor of Psychology and a member of the faculty worked hard to involve alumnae overseas in recruiting since 1993, Kimberly Wright Cassidy became the ninth students and raising money for their support and for the president of Bryn Mawr College in February 2014. She support of Bryn Mawr’s extensive overseas programs. served as the College’s Provost from 2007–2013 and as Wofford, who later became a U.S. senator, also initiated Interim President from July 2013 to February 2014. closer oversight of the College’s financial investments During her tenure as Provost and Interim President, and their ramifications in the world. Cassidy was instrumental in leading curricular renewal Mary Patterson McPherson led the College from in collaboration with faculty leaders, the development 1978 to 1997, a period of tremendous growth in the of the College’s new interdisciplinary 360° courses, number and diversity of students—approximately the introduction of new academic programs including 1,300 undergraduates, nearly a quarter of whom were a major in International Studies and a Tri-Co minor women of color. During McPherson’s tenure, Bryn Mawr in Environmental Studies, and the advancement of undertook a thorough re-examination of the women- digital initiatives within the classroom. Central to all only status of its undergraduate college and concluded these initiatives has been her unwavering support of that providing the benefits of single-sex education the scholar/teacher model in which faculty research for women—in cultivating leadership, self-confidence and the instruction of students are inextricably bound. and academic excellence—remained essential to the Cassidy believes strongly in the important role academic College’s mission. partnerships play for small liberal arts colleges like Bryn Mawr. In addition to her support of Bryn Mawr’s Nancy J. Vickers, Bryn Mawr’s president from 1997 collaborative relationships with Haverford, University to 2008, began her tenure by leading the College of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore, she played a key community to a clear understanding of its priorities and role in establishing Bryn Mawr’s first-ever partnership the challenges it would face in the next century through with two area community colleges, and has also led the adoption of the Plan for a New Century. When efforts to create new 4+1 dual degree opportunities for she retired in June 2008, she left the College with a students, such as A.B./M.A. program with University 40 percent increase in undergraduate applications, a of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied completed fund-raising campaign that tripled the goal Science. of the previous campaign and an endowment that had nearly doubled since she took office. As president, Cassidy has been a public champion of women in STEM and has represented the College at a Beyond attaining a sound financial footing for the White House summit on STEM as well as a summit on College, Vickers oversaw dramatic changes in the college access, a value to which Bryn Mawr has long academic program, in outreach and in infrastructure, been committed. On campus, she is leading the effort while remaining true to the College’s historic mission. to apply lessons learned from using blended learning Those changes include refining undergraduate recruiting in STEM subjects to the humanities; and she has messages and practices, initiating new interdisciplinary launched the Leadership, Innovation, and the Liberal programs and faculty positions, improving student life, Arts Center (LILAC), which includes civic engagement, embracing cross-cultural communication, upgrading the career and professional development, and experiential campus’ use of technology, renovating many buildings, learning opportunities designed to prepare students to and achieving worldwide visibility through the Katharine become effective, self-aware leaders in their chosen Houghton Hepburn Center. pursuits. In addition, Cassidy has hosted two campus- Under Jane McAuliffe’s leadership, 2008 to 2013, the wide gatherings to engage all campus constituents College committed itself anew to liberal arts for the in dialogue about difference with respect to race and twenty-first century. It initiated the innovative 360° class, and is focused on creating a new ethos around Program, through which students investigate an issue wellness, including the design and construction of a new or theme from multiple disciplinary perspectives, facility. and became a national leader among liberal arts A developmental psychologist with a focus on cognition colleges in combining the strengths of online and and education, Cassidy has won research grants from classroom teaching—blended learning—in its liberal About Bryn Mawr College 7 the National Institutes of Health and the Guggenheim Southwest 67 6.69% Foundation, among others, and her research has been Texas 56 published in numerous major journals. She earned her New Mexico 7 M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Arizona 4 Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s degree with distinction in psychology from Swarthmore College. West 173 17.28% Today Bryn Mawr College continues and expands California 117 its traditions of academic excellence, opportunity for Washington 17 women, respect for the individual, and purposeful action Oregon 9 in the world. Colorado 8 Hawaii 6 Geographical Distribution of Students Idaho 2 Utah 2 2015–16 Undergraduate Degree Candidates Alaska 1 The 1,332 full time students came from 45 states, the Nevada 1 District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin North Dakota 1 Islands and the Armed Forces Europe and 60 foreign Wyoming 1 nations, distributed as follows: Puerto Rico 7 0.70% United States Residents (includes non-US citizens) Virgin Islands 2 0.20% Guam 1 0.10% Mid-Atlantic 423 42.26% Armed Forces Europe 1 0.10% Pennsylvania 165 Percent of Entire Student Body New Jersey 107 New York 97 Mid-Atlantic 31.76% Maryland 39 West 12.99% District of Columbia 8 New England 11.04% Delaware 7 South 7.51% Midwest 6.01% Midwest 80 7.99% Southwest 5.03% Illinois 22 Puerto Rico 0.53% Ohio 15 Virgin Islands 0.15% Wisconsin 13 Guam 0.08% Michigan 9 Armed Forces Europe 0.08% Minnesota 8 Indiana 4 Non-Resident Aliens, Resident Aliens, Dual Kansas 3 Citizenship Missouri 3 China 198 Iowa 2 India 30 South Dakota 1 Viet Nam 18 New England 147 14.69% Korea, Republic of 15 Pakistan 14 Massachusetts 110 Germany 11 Connecticut 15 Japan 10 Rhode Island 8 Canada 8 Vermont 6 France 7 New Hampshire 5 Mexico 6 Maine 3 Brazil 4 South 100 9.99% Dominican Republic 4 Kenya 4 Virginia 45 Nepal 4 Florida 15 Nigeria 4 Georgia 13 Russian Federation 4 North Carolina 12 Singapore 4 Tennessee 7 Ghana 3 Louisiana 3 Italy 3 Kentucky 2 Philippines 3 West Virginia 1 Taiwan, Province of China 3 South Carolina 1 Zimbabwe 3 Mississippi 1 Bangladesh 2 8 Libraries and Educational Resources

Denmark 2 opened in 1997, is located in the M. Carey Thomas El Salvador 2 Library building and houses the collections in Classical Haiti 2 and Near Eastern Archaeology, Classics, History of Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2 Art, and Growth and Structure of Cities. The Lois and Ireland 2 Reginald Collier Science Library was dedicated in 1993 Jamaica 2 and brings together the collections for Mathematics and Jordan 2 the sciences. The library collections of Haverford and Venezuela 2 Swarthmore Colleges, which complement and augment Albania 1 those of Bryn Mawr, are freely accessible to students. Australia 1 Tripod (http://tripod.brynmawr.edu), the library catalog, Bahamas 1 provides information about the more than three million Cote D’Ivoire 1 books, journals, videos, sound recordings, and other Cuba 1 materials in the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Hungary 1 College collections. A large percentage of the Tri- Indonesia 1 College holdings are accessible online. Bryn Mawr Israel 1 students may use the Haverford and Swarthmore Korea, Dem. People’s Rep. 1 libraries and may also have material transferred from Kuwait 1 either of the other two campuses for pickup or use Lebanon 1 at Bryn Mawr, usually in less than 24 hours. Through Malawi 1 the Library’s home page (www.brynmawr.edu/library), Morocco 1 students may connect to Tripod; explore more than Netherlands 1 200 subject-specific research databases; and tap into New Zealand 1 other library services and resources such as reference Palestinian Territories 1 services, research consultation, reserve readings, Romania 1 interlibrary loan, etc. Rwanda 1 Somalia 1 Bryn Mawr maintains extensive relationships with South Africa 1 other major academic libraries both in the region and Sri Lanka 1 worldwide. Through the consortial EZ-Borrow system, Syrian Arab Republic 1 students can borrow materials from more than 30 Tanzania, United Republic of 1 academic libraries in the mid-Atlantic region. Students Thailand 1 may also request items from libraries across North Togo 1 America through interlibrary loan. Trinidad and Tobago 1 Additional information about Bryn Mawr’s libraries and Turkey 1 services may be accessed at www.brynmawr.edu/library. Ukraine 1 Special Collections Percent of fall-enrolled Summary Number full-time undergraduates The Special Collections Department, based in Canaday US Citizen 913 68.54% Library, houses extensive holdings of art, artifacts, Dual Citizen 61 4.58% archival materials, rare books, and manuscripts. Objects Resident Alien 39 2.93% held in all of these collections are available to students Non-Resident Alien 319 23.95% for individual research and are also frequently used as “International Students” 419 31.45% teaching tools in the classroom and incorporated into (all except “U.S. Citizens”) exhibitions in libraries and other spaces across the campus. Note: citizenship status listed above is as of the IR fall census date. Sum of percentages above is greater than Bryn Mawr has developed an extraordinarily rich 100% because “International Students” is the sum of all Rare Books and Manuscripts collection to support the but U.S. Citizens. research interests of students and faculty. The collection of late medieval and Renaissance texts includes one LIBRARIES AND of the country’s largest groups of books printed in the 15th century, as well as manuscript volumes and 16th- EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES century printed books. Other important focuses of the collection are travel and exploration, women writers Libraries and women’s lives, the history of archaeology and The Mariam Coffin Canaday Library is the center of museums, European and African cities, and important Bryn Mawr’s library system. Opened in 1970, it houses literature in early editions. Complementary to the rare the College’s holdings in the humanities and the social books are collections of original letters, diaries and sciences. The award-winning Rhys Carpenter Library, other unpublished documents. Bryn Mawr has important Libraries and Educational Resources 9 collections from the late 19th and 20th centuries, public computers), and classrooms throughout the including papers and photographs relating to the campus. Online course materials, registration, e-mail, women’s rights movement; the experiences of women, shared software and Tripod, the library catalog shared primarily Bryn Mawr graduates, travelling and working by Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges overseas; the papers of playwrights, writers, and are accessible from a Web browser—many of these scholars; and extensive collections of the letters, diaries, are available from off-campus as well. Each new Bryn and scholarly works of Bryn Mawr faculty and alumnae. Mawr student receives their own e-mail and Network file storage accounts upon matriculation (typically late The College Archives contains the historical records of spring). Bryn Mawr, including the papers of the Presidents, and an extensive photographic collection that documents the Professional staff are available to students, faculty social, intellectual, administrative, and personal aspects and staff for consultation and assistance with their of campus activities and student life. technology needs. The Art and Artifacts collection includes objects of The Help Desk is located on the main floor of Canaday interest to students of anthropology, archaeology, Library and is available for walk-up help, email and the fine and decorative arts, geology, and related telephone assistance. Public computing labs may be inter- and multi-disciplinary courses of study. The found in the following buildings. Anthropology collections include objects from around the world, with the largest portion of these collections • Canaday (1st Floor and A Floor) originating from North America, South America and • Carpenter (B floor) Africa. These collections comprise numerous categories • Collier (Park Science Center) of objects: African and Oceanic works, Southwest pottery and Native American ritual, functional, and • Graduate School of Social Work and Social decorative objects, and Pre-Columbian ceramics and Research textiles from present-day Peru, among many others. The Archaeology collections include an extensive Laboratories group of Greek and Roman objects, especially vases, Laboratory work is emphasized at all levels of the pre-classical antiquities, and objects from Egypt and curriculum and the natural science departments have the ancient Near East, many of which represent the excellent teaching and research facilities that provide interests of Bryn Mawr faculty from the beginnings of the students with the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge college to the present day. research using modern equipment. Laboratories and The Fine Art collections include important holdings of classrooms are equipped with extensive computer prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and sculpture. resources for data analysis and instruction, including The painting collection of approximately 250 works is state-of-the-art video-projection systems and computer primarily composed of 19th- and 20th-century American workstations. and European works; a highlight is John Singer Teaching and research in biology, chemistry, computer Sargent’s 1899 portrait of Bryn Mawr President M. science, geology, mathematics, and physics is carried Carey Thomas. The print collection illustrates the history out in the Marion Edwards Park Science Center, which of Western printmaking from the 15th through the mid- also houses the Lois and Reginald Collier Science 20th centuries and includes Old Master prints, art prints, Library. Teaching and research in psychology is and examples of 19th-century book illustrations. The conducted in Bettws-y-Coed. collection also includes Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock See below for more detailed descriptions of the labs prints, works in a wide range of media by contemporary in each department, as well as a description of the women artists, Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and instrument shop, where custom-designed equipment early, modern, and contemporary photography. for special research projects can be fabricated by two expert instrument makers. Special Research Resources Biology The Rhys Carpenter Library houses the new Digital Media and Collaboration Lab, which provides The Department of Biology houses a wide variety technologically enabled spaces for collaborative work of instrumentation appropriate for the investigation and individual work stations with scanners. Assistance of living systems at the levels of cells, organisms is available for video and image editing. Carpenter staff and populations. This equipment is used in both our also work with faculty, staff, and students on building teaching and research laboratories, providing our digital collections, publishing digital scholarship, and students with the opportunity to utilize modern research facilitating the use of digital tools. methodologies for their explorations. There is an extensive collection of microscopes that can be used Computing for dissection, histology, microinjection and subcellular structural analyses, including dissection microscopes, Students have access to a high-speed wireless Internet an inverted microscope, and light microscopes equipped connection in all residence halls, libraries (which contain 10 Libraries and Educational Resources with fluorescent and DIC optics as well as advanced Geology digital capture and image analysis software. To conduct Because laboratory work in geology is based on molecular analyses of DNA and proteins, we have both observations in the field, the department conducts field end-point and real-time thermal cyclers, centrifuges, trips in most of its courses and also has additional trips electrophoresis equipment, a plate reader for ELISA of general interest. To aid in the study of observations assays, traditional and Nanodrop spectrophotometers and samples brought back from the field, the and a DNA sequencer. The department houses sterile department has excellent petrographic and analytical tissue culture facilities that are used for cell culture facilities, extensive reference and working mineral experiments. There is a wide assortment of physiology collections of approximately 10,000 specimens each, equipment that is used to measure intracellular and and a fine fossil collection. extracellular muscle and nerve activity, including voltage clamp amplifiers. Infrared and greenhouse gas The Department of Geology holds extensive analyzers and a dedicated stable isotope facility are paleontology, mineral, and rock collections for research used to evaluate plant and ecosystem metabolism in and teaching. A fully-equipped rock preparation facility, solid and gas samples. A greenhouse is available for with rock saws, grinding, polishing, crushing, thin plant biology and ecology research, and an on-campus section and mineral separation equipment, allows pond serves as a research field site for the analysis of students and faculty to prepare their own samples micro- and macro-organism diversity and water quality for petrographic and geochemical analysis. For rock parameters. and mineral analysis the department has petrographic microscopes, a Rigaku Ultima IV x-ray diffractometer,

Chemistry and a remote sensing laboratory for digital processing The Department of Chemistry houses many and analysis of imagery by orbiting satellites. The spacious well equipped laboratories with specialized department also houses a fully equipped paleomagnetic instrumentation and equipment for teaching and and rock magnetic lab that includes an Agico JR-6A research. These include a 400 MHz high-resolution spinner magnetometer, an ASC thermal demagnetizer, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer; a DTECH 2000 alternating field demagnetizer, a 10.0 gas and liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometers Tesla pulse magnetometer, an Agico KLY3 and an (GC-MS/LC-MS); Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) MFK1 automated susceptibility kappabridge, a dynamic spectrophotometers; a fluorescence spectrophotometer; low-magnetic field cage, and a PMS MicroMagTM 3900 ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectrophotometers, including Vibrating Sample Magnetometer that is shared with the Nanodrop format; high pressure liquid chromatographs Physics Department. (HPLC); a fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) The Department hosts a state-of-the-art Geochemistry system; liquid scintillation counter and equipment for Suite that houses a modern sedimentology laboratory radioactive isotope work; cold rooms and centrifuges for analysis of sediments, a large geochemistry for the preparation of biomolecules; refrigerated and lab facility for advanced geochemical research, a heated shakers for cell culture growth; thermal cyclers ventilation-isolated balance room containing a Mettler and electrophoresis equipment for molecular biology; Toledo XP56 microbalance, and a Class 10,000 clean stereomicroscope for protein crystal inspection and lab facility for sensitive isotopic analysis of low-level manipulation; potentiostats for electrochemical and trace metals in natural materials. Equipment housed spectroelectrochemical analysis; a biopotentiostat; in the Geochemistry Suite include an ELTRA Carbon facilities for molecular modeling and computational and Sulfur Determinator with TIC module, an inorganic/ chemistry, including a shared Beowulf cluster; and organic Carbon analyzer, an Agilent inductively-coupled departmental laptop computers for chemistry majors. plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS), a cathodo- In addition, two inert atmosphere dry boxes and luminescence microscope, a Carpenter Microsytems multiple Schlenk vacuum manifolds allow anaerobic Microsampler, a conodont extraction setup, and heavy operations for chemical handling and synthesis. Finally, liquid mineral separation setup. Sample preparation the Chemistry Department shares an atomic force and processing equipment in the sedimentology microscope with the other science departments in the lab includes a Virtis XL-55 12-port benchtop freeze- Park Science Center. dryer, Labconco water deionizer, IEC Centra-GP8 Computer Science ventilated benchtop centrifuge, Thermolyne 48000 The Department of Computer Science is home to four furnace, VWR 1370 forced-air drying oven, stand-up computer laboratories, in addition to an extensive refrigerator and separate stand-up freezer, two VWR collection of advanced robots, high-end computers 370 hotplate-stirrers, Branson 5210 ultrasonic bath, 8 for rendering 3D graphics, and access to Athena, an sets 3” diameter stainless steel sieves (44 micron - 500 84-core computer cluster. Dual-boot Linux/Windows micron mesh) and 2 sets of 8” diameter stainless steel workstations and Macintosh computers featuring the sieves (44 micron - 8 mm mesh). Analytical equipment latest CPU and graphics capabilities are available in the in the sedimentology lab includes binocular optical laboratories, as well as resources for instruction, data microscopes and a UIC Inc. CM5014 coulometric analysis, and visualization. carbon analyzer with furnace and acidification modules, Libraries and Educational Resources 11 and a Turner Designs 10-AU portable fluorometer for NMR Spectrometers, a Varian 1.2 Tesla water-cooled in-vivo/in-situ or extractive chlorophyll analysis. electromagnet, a Spectro Magnetic 0.4 Tesla air-cooled In addition to two field-ready fully equipped Chevrolet electromagnet, two data acquisition systems, and Suburban 4x4 vehicles and a departmental ancillary electronics and computers. The Photo-Physics 15-passenger van for transportation to field sites, the Laboratory houses three optical tables, two Nd:YAG geology department has a wide array of field equipment pump lasers, three commercial, tunable dye lasers, two for use by students. Basic mapping equipment includes auto-tracking harmonic crystal systems, a differentially twelve (12) Brunton 5010 GEO Transit compasses, a pumped vacuum chamber with a supersonic pulsed high-precision Leica TPS 1100 total surveying station valve to produce molecular beams, and a time-of-flight (theodolite and electronic distance meter), four high- mass spectrometer for ion detection. In addition, there precision Trimble differential GPS units including two are various pieces of equipment for data acquisition handheld GeoXT’s, and backpack or pole mountable and laser energy calibration. The Nanomaterials and ProXRS and ProXH antennas with field-rugged Spintronics Laboratory has an AJA ATC Orion Sputtering handheld PCs for data acquisition, and five Xplore Deposition system, a millipore water purification Inc. field-rugged Tablet PCs equipped with ESRI system, three chemical hoods, a TMC vibration isolated ArcGIS mapping software and built-in GPS antennas. optical table, and a 100-square-foot class-1000 Detailed geophysical surveys are supported by an ASD soft curtain cleanroom with the ceiling lighting field-portable visible- to near-infrared spectrometer a suitable for photolithography. It also has a Princeton Bartington Grad601 dual magnetic gradiometer system, Applied Research potentiostat (VersaSTAT-200) for and a PulseEKKO 100 ground-penetrating radar system electrochemical deposition and an ETS humidity with 50, 100 and 200 MHz antennas. For environmental control chamber for self-assembly. It also has a PMS monitoring students use Onset Hobo data loggers and MicroMagTM 3900 Vibrating Sample Magnetometer sensors, a YSI dissolved oxygen sensor, and an In-Situ shared with the Geology Department. Along with the Troll 9500 multi-parameter water quality meter; other other science departments in the Park Science Center, water monitoring equipment includes Van Dorn water the Physics Department has shared access to an Atomic sampling bottle, Secchi disk, and a General Oceanics Force Microscope and a new on-campus computing mechanical flowmeter For rock and sediment sample cluster that has 72 computing cores, 512 GB RAM, and collection the department has rock hammers, two gas- 110 TB of accessible storage. powered rock drills, several Eijkelkamp augers and Psychology coring devices, and a Ponar sediment grab sampler. Laboratory classes in Psychology have specialized Physics equipment for studying stress reactivity, perception, The Department of Physics has many laboratories for cultural influences, decision-making, language education and research. The instructional advanced processing, and the psychophysiological correlates experimental physics laboratories house oscilloscopes, of human cognition and emotion. The Department digital multimeters, power supplies, low-temperature of Psychology provides students with laboratory facilities, and a great deal of ancillary equipment experience encompassing the wide range of subject commonly found in research laboratories. In addition, matters within the discipline of psychology. The the instructional optics laboratory has six dark rooms department has state of the art equipment for studying with interferometers, lasers, and miscellaneous brain activity, both at the single neuron level and equipment for optics experiments. The instructional the whole brain level, including several stereotaxic nuclear physics laboratory houses a low-temperature apparatuses, instrumentation for recording and gamma detector and computer-based multichannel analyzing the activity of single neurons in relation to analyzers for nuclear spectroscopy, alpha particle behavior, and EEG apparatus for whole brain recording. detection, and positron-electron annihilation detection. The equipment interfaces with computers with advanced The instructional electronics laboratory has seventeen software for evaluating electrophysiological data. For stations equipped with electronic breadboards, function research on behavior, emotion, language and cognition, generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, students have access to a variety of computerized and computers. The Atomic and Optical Physics programming and equipment. This equipment includes research laboratory is equipped with three optical tables, digital video cameras, video editing programs, two ultrahigh vacuum systems used for cooling and behavioral coding programs, and statistical analysis trapping of atomic rubidium, a host of commercial and programs that are used to examine data obtained from home built diode laser systems, several YAG pumped human participants ranging in age from early childhood dye laser systems, a high vacuum atomic beam system, to older adulthood. an electron multiplying ccd camera, and a variety of Instrument Shop other supporting equipment. The Solid State Nuclear The Department of Science Services in the Park Magnetic Resonance (NMR) research laboratory is Sciences Building houses a fully-equipped Instrument equipped with two variable-temperature nitrogen flow Shop staffed by 2 full-time instrument makers and 1 systems, three fixed-frequency CPS-1 Spin Lock Pulsed 12 Student Responsibilities and Rights analytical instrumentation specialist that design, build, center boasts over 50 pieces of cardio equipment, 15 troubleshoot and maintain the scientific equipment selectorized weight machines and a multi-purpose room for instructional and research laboratories in all 6 housing everything from a broad offerings of physical natural science departments. Capabilities include 3D education classes, Bryn Mawr Fit Club classes and SolidWorks design modeling of instrumentation, 2- and strength and conditioning sessions for student athletes. 3-axis CNC milling machines, a precision instrument The fitness center has over 100 different workout lathe, surface grinding, full welding complement, options, free weights, indoor cycling bicycles, ergs, and sandblasting, sheet metal machinery, as well as a cardiovascular and strength training machines. large lathe and milling machine for oversized work. The The Class of 1958 Gymnasium is home to the College’s instrument makers/designers work with undergraduates intercollegiate badminton, basketball and volleyball engaged in research, class projects and senior thesis programs and hosts two regulation sized basketball projects with some hands-on machining and assembly and volleyball courts. In addition, the building includes from their designs. Help with material selection, design a state-of-the art eight lane swimming pool, athletic and production alternatives is also offered. training room, locker rooms, a conference smart room and the Department of Athletics & Physical Education Facilities for the Arts offices. The fitness center is located on the second Goodhart Hall houses the Dance and Theater Programs floor directly up the circular staircase as you enter the and the Office of the Arts and services as the College’s Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center. For more main venue for theater and dance. Performance information please consult www.brynmawr.edu/athletics/ spaces in Goodhart include the 512-seat McPherson facilities/. Auditorium, which has state-of-the art lighting and sound The outdoor athletics and recreation facilities includes; systems; the Katharine Hepburn Teaching Theater, a Applebee Field, Shillingford Field, seven tennis courts, a flexible black-box-style space with theatrical lighting recreational and club sport field at the Graduate School and sound capabilities; the Music Room, equipped with of Social Work, and an outdoor track and field practice a small stage and two pianos and used for ensemble area. The Applebee Field named for Constance M. K. rehearsals, chamber-music recitals, and the Creative Applebee, the first director of physical education at the Writing Reading Series; and the Common Room, an College and credited for bringing field hockey to the intimate, carpeted space. Students may also reserve United States, was renovated in August 2012. The field time in the four practice rooms in Goodhart, three of was converted from natural grass to a synthetic field, which are furnished with grand pianos. and expanded to meet NCAA requirements for lacrosse, The M. Carey Thomas Great Hall provides a large soccer and field hockey. space for classical music concerts, lectures and readings, while the adjacent Cloisters, Carpenter Library Campus Center roof, and Taft Garden are popular outdoor performance The Marie Salant Neuberger Centennial Campus spaces. The former Rhoads Dining Hall is appropriate Center, a transformation of the historic gymnasium for parties, DJ events, and smaller- to medium-scale building on Merion Green, opened in 1985. As the concerts. center for non-academic life, the facility houses a café, The Pembroke and Denbigh dance studios are home lounge areas, meeting rooms, the College post office to most smaller-to-medium-scale dance performance and the bookshop. The offices of Career Development activities. Both have large windows, ballet bars, mirrors and Conferences and Events are also located here. and theatrical lighting capabilities. Students, faculty and staff use the campus center for Wyndham Alumnae House’s Ely Room and English informal meetings and discussion groups as well as for House host creative writing classes, workshops, and campus-wide social events and activities. readings. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES Arnecliffe Studio plays host to the visual arts, as well as many student-organized workshops, readings and AND RIGHTS performances. The Rockefeller Hall drafting studios are devoted to architectural studies and theater design. The Honor Code Students interested in learning more about art spaces A central principle of Bryn Mawr College is the trust and venues on campus should visit www.brynmawr.edu/ that it places in its students. This trust is reflected in the arts/art-spaces/. academic and social Honor Codes. Individual students take responsibility for integrity in their academic and The Bern Schwartz Fitness social behavior. Administration of the academic Honor Code is shared with the faculty. The academic Honor and Athletic Center Board, composed of both students and faculty, mediates The Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center has in cases of infraction. In the social Honor Code, as in all quickly become the place to be since reopening aspects of their social lives, students are self-governing. in September 2010. The new 11,500 sq. ft. fitness Student Responsibilities and Rights 13

A social Honor Board consisting of 10 students mediates Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 by written in cases where conflicts cannot be resolved by the notification, which must be in the Registrar’s Office by individuals directly involved. Trained student mediators August 15. Forms requesting the withholding of directory work with students to resolve conflicts in effective ways. information are available in the Registrar’s Office. Bryn The successful functioning of the Honor Code is a Mawr College assumes that failure on the part of any matter of great pride to the Bryn Mawr community, and it student to request the withholding of categories of contributes significantly to the mutual respect that exists directory information indicates individual approval of among students and between students and faculty. disclosure. While the Honor Code makes great demands on the maturity and integrity of students, it also grants them Campus Crime Awareness and Fire an independence and freedom that they value highly. Safety To cite just one example, many examinations are self- Annual Security and Fire Safety Report scheduled, so that students may take them at whatever Clery Act and Higher Education Opportunity Act time during the examination period is most convenient for their own schedules and study patterns. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania enacted the College and University Security Act in 1988 (Clery In resolving academic cases, the Honor Board has Act) and the U.S. Congress enacted similar legislation the full range of options. It might fail a student on in 1990. In 2008, the Higher Education Opportunity an assignment or in a course, separate the student Act was enacted and the Violence Against Women from the College temporarily, or exclude the student Reauthorization Act (VAWA) was passed in 2013. These permanently. Social infractions that are beyond the laws require all institutions of higher education within ability of the Honor Board to resolve might be brought the Commonwealth to provide students and employees to a Dean’s Panel, which exercises similar authority. with information pertaining to, but not limited to crime For details regarding Honor Board hearings and Dean’s statistics, security measures, fire statistics, fire safety Panels, please refer to the Student Handbook. measures, policies relating to missing persons, and penalties for drug use, on an annual basis. These Privacy of Student Records acts also require that this information be available to The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 prospective students and employees upon request. The was designed to protect the privacy of educational entire report is available on-line at www.brynmawr.edu/ records, to establish the right of students to inspect safety/act73.htm. and review their educational records, and to provide Should you have other general questions please contact guidelines for the correction of inaccurate or misleading the Campus Safety Department at (610) 526-7911. data through informal and formal hearings. Students have the right to file complaints with the Family Policy Right-to-Know Act Compliance Office, US Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20202- The Student Right-to-Know Act requires disclosure of 5920, concerning alleged failures by the institution to the graduation rates of degree-seeking undergraduate comply with the act. Questions concerning the Family students. Students are considered to have graduated if Educational Rights and Privacy Act may be referred to they complete their programs within six years of the date the Undergraduate Dean’s Office. they entered college. Class entering fall 2009 (Class of 2013) Directory Information Size at entrance: 352 Bryn Mawr College designates the following categories After 4 years: 78.2% of student information as public or “directory After 5 years: 84% information.” Such information may be disclosed by the After 6 years: 85.1% institution for any purpose, at its discretion. Equal Opportunity, Non Discrimination, • Category I: Name, address, dates of attendance, class, current enrollment status, electronic mail and Discriminatory Harassment address Policies • Category II: Previous institution(s) attended, major Bryn Mawr College is firmly committed to a policy of field of study, awards, honors, degree(s) conferred equal opportunity for all members of its faculty, staff and student body. Bryn Mawr College does not discriminate • Category III: Date of birth on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic • Category IV: Telephone number origin, sexual orientation, age or disability in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship • Category V: Marital status and loan programs, and athletic and other College- Currently-enrolled students may withhold disclosure administered programs, or in its employment practices. of any category of information under the Family 14 Student Life

In conformity with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as Customs Week amended, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, it is also the policy of Bryn Mawr College not The College and the student government’s Customs to discriminate on the basis of sex in its employment Committee provide orientation for new first-year practices, educational programs or activities. The students, new transfer students, and new McBride admission of only women in the Undergraduate College Scholars. New students take residence before the is in conformity with a provision of the Civil Rights College is opened to returning students. The deans, Act. The provisions of Title IX protect students and Hall Advisers and volunteer “Customspeople” welcome employees from all forms of illegal sex discrimination, them, answer their questions and offer advice. Faculty which includes sexual harassment and sexual violence, members conduct a lively academic fair and are in College programs and activities. available to consult with students. All new students meet with a dean or faculty adviser to plan their Inquiries regarding compliance with this legislation academic programs for the fall semester. Undergraduate and other policies regarding nondiscrimination organizations at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges may be directed to the Equal Opportunity Officer acquaint new students with many other opportunities ([email protected] or 610-526-7360) and Title IX and aspects of college life. The Student Activities Office Coordinator ([email protected] or 610- hosts the “Fall Frolic” activities fair soon after classes 526-7360), who administer the College’s procedures. begin in September. Access Services Academic Support Services Bryn Mawr welcomes the full participation of individuals Academic support services at Bryn Mawr include the with disabilities in all aspects of campus life and is Academic Support and Learning Resources Specialist, committed to providing equal access for all qualified the Writing Center, the Q Center (Quantitative students with disabilities in accordance with Section Reasoning Project), peer mentoring, peer tutoring and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with a variety of study-skills support services. The Academic Disabilities Act as amended. Students with access Support and Learning Resources Specialist offers free needs due to a learning, physical, or psychological individual and small group meetings with students to disability are encouraged to contact the Coordinator of identify and implement techniques for more effective Access Services as early as possible to discuss their learning, studying, test-taking and time and stress concerns and to obtain information about the eligibility management. The Academic Support and Learning criteria and procedures for requesting accommodations. Resources Specialist also offers workshops and class Disclosure of a disability is voluntary, and the presentations. The Writing Center offers free, individual information will be maintained on a confidential basis. consultations with peer writing tutors to review, strategize and revise writing assignments and projects. STUDENT LIFE The Writing Center also offers occasional workshops open to the campus. The Public Speaking Initiative (PSI) Student Advising offers consultations for public speaking. The Q Center The Undergraduate Dean’s Office is charged with supports student work on quantitative problems in promoting the general welfare of undergraduates. introductory courses across social science and science Students may consult their deans on both academic and disciplines. The Q Center is staffed by peer mentors general matters. After students select their majors at the who are trained to help students with quantitative end of their sophomore year, they are assigned a faculty reasoning, problem solving strategies, and alleviating adviser in the major who helps them plan their academic math anxiety. Peer mentoring and peer tutoring are program for the junior and senior years. Dean’s Office available without cost to students. More information staff collaborate with the staff of the Leadership, about academic support services can be found on the

Innovation and Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) to promote Deans’ Office website at: www.brynmawr.edu/deans/ a holistic and experiential view of education. In addition for_students.shtml. to their deans, students may consult staff in offices such as Residential Life, the Pensby Center, and Student Leadership, Innovation, and Liberal Activities. The Residential Life staff and upper-class Arts Center (LILAC) students known as Hall Advisers provide advice and LILAC serves as the umbrella organization under assistance on questions of community life, especially which Civic Engagement and Career & Professional within the residence halls. Health concerns and Development operate along with a broad array of questions can be addressed by the College’s Medical experiential education programs. The mission of LILAC Director, Director of the Counseling Center, consulting is to prepare liberal art students to become effective, psychiatrist and counselors through scheduled self-aware leaders in their chosen life pursuits. The appointments at the Health Center. Students requiring preparation is rooted in experiential education with urgent medical attention or personal assistance outside a strong focus on reflection and growth. Career & of regular campus office hours should call on Campus Professional Development provides opportunities Safety. Student Life 15 for students to maximize their liberal arts education, Belmont Charter School or becoming a certified IRS preparing them to make intentional decisions about tax preparer who assists low-income Montgomery their futures. Civic Engagement collaborates with County residents with income tax preparation community-based organizations to prepare students through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance to be socially responsible leaders and citizens through (VITA) program. purposeful action, reflection, and learning. The LILAC • Praxis courses: Praxis means the integration of team includes 15 professional staff members, 20 theory and practice. Praxis courses incorporate undergraduate student coordinators, 8 undergraduate ways to explore and engage in real world career peers and a faculty liaison. experiences that provide opportunities to apply and LILAC offers students opportunities to engage beyond build on what you learn in the traditional classroom. campus, expanding their experience and their global • On-campus recruiting events which include visits reach. Engagement with LILAC is encouraged from hiring employers and graduate schools. beginning in the first year and throughout the years at the College. LILAC programs allow students to work on Health Center developing skills such as communication, conceptual thinking, problem solving, breadth of interdisciplinary The Health Center is a full service primary care office thought, collaboration, and research through course open to students when the College is in session. work, professional development programs, internships The College’s Health Service offers a wide range of and externships, alumnae engagement, and civic medical and counseling services to all matriculated engagement. These skills are keystone building blocks undergraduates. A detailed description of the services for long term career success and leadership. and fees can be found on the Health Center website: brynmawr.edu/healthcenter. The following list offers a sampling of LILAC programs: Outpatient primary care medical services include urgent • Free self-assessments such as Strength Finders, care, nursing visits, routine laboratory work, same day MBTI, Interpersonal Leadership Styles Assessment, appointments, routine gynecologic services, and care for Career Leader, or Strong Interest Inventory. chronic medical problems. There is no charge for doctor, • Lantern Link: Access to jobs and internships from nurse practitioner or nurse visits. No student is ever employers interested in hiring Bryn Mawr students. denied needed care due to an inability to pay. • Externships: Job shadowing with alumnae/i for 2-10 The counseling service is available to all undergraduate days during winter and spring breaks. students. There is no charge for the first 10 visits each academic year. There is a fee for subsequent visits • LILAC Summer Internship Funding: Funds are most of which is covered by insurance if the student awarded to students to support the costs of 8-10 submits the necessary paperwork. No student is ever week internship experiences through a competitive denied needed service because of an inability to pay, application process. and finances should never be a barrier to seeking care. • Alumna in Residence: An opportunity for reciprocal Consultation with a counselor or psychiatrist can be exchanges of knowledge, alumnae from different arranged by appointment by calling the main number of majors and careers return to campus to spend a the Health Center. Those with a serious urgent problem day interacting with faculty, students and staff. that cannot wait for an appointment can come to the Health Center for an evaluation at any time. • Student leadership roles as Career Peers or Student Coordinators of service programs. All entering students must file completed medical history and evaluation forms with Health Services before • Paid work off-campus through the federally registration for classes. funded American Reads/American Counts tutoring programs or in a wide variety of other non-profit The College purchases a medical insurance policy for organizations through the Community Based Work full-time undergraduate students to assure no student Study Program. is denied necessary medical care. The insurance is provided in conjunction with services supplied by the

• Coaching on resume building, LinkedIn profiles, Bryn Mawr College Health Center. It is to be used as navigating internship/job search, graduate school a secondary policy in conjunction with the student’s and interview skills. primary insurance. Therefore students should maintain • Intensives: 3-5 day educational programs focused their coverage on their families’ health plans. Information on topics such as Management, Entreprenuership, about the basic insurance plan and any available Grantsmanship, Storytelling, Leadership additional plans is sent to students each summer. Empowerment Advancement Program (LEAP), and A student may at any time request a medical leave of the Leadership Assessment Center. absence for reasons of health. For information on leaves • Structured volunteer programs in off-campus of absence, see Departure from the College prior to communities, such as mentoring 2nd-8th graders at Graduation in the Academic Regulations. 16 Admission

Student Residences from one year to the next, the number and kind of bi- college options change each year. Residence in College housing is required of all undergraduates. Exceptions may be made for a limited The College will consider modifying housing assignment number of upperclassmen (typically fifty to seventy procedures or arrangements when necessary to seniors) who gain approval to live off campus through provide equal access to the residence halls for students the annual room draw process in the preceding spring with disabilities or chronic medical conditions. Any semester. student who requires consideration should contact the Coordinator of Access Services. The College’s residence halls provide simple and comfortable living for students. Bryn Mawr expects The College is not responsible for loss of personal students to respect its property and the standards on property due to fire, theft or any other cause. Students which the halls are run. More information is posted who wish to insure against these risks should do so on the Residential Life website: www.brynmawr.edu/ individually or through their own family policies. residentiallife/policies. The College offers a variety of Six residence halls (Brecon, Denbigh, Merion, living accommodations, including singles, doubles, Pembroke East, Pembroke West and Radnor) are triples, quadruples and a few suites. The College named for counties in Wales, recalling the tradition of provides basic furniture, but students supply linen, the early Welsh settlers of the area in which Bryn Mawr bed pillows, desk lamps, rugs, mirrors and any other is situated. Rockefeller Hall is named for its donor, accessories they need. John D. Rockefeller, and Rhoads North and South for Forty Hall Advisors provide resources and advice to the first president of the College, James E. Rhoads. students living in the halls, and they work with the other Erdman Hall, first opened in 1965, was named in honor dorm leadership team members and residents to uphold of Eleanor Donnelley Erdman ’21, a former member the social Honor Code within the halls. of the Board of Trustees. Batten House serves as a residence for those interested in a cooperative living The halls are open during fall and spring breaks and environment. The Enid Cook ’31 Center is named after Thanksgiving vacation, but the dining halls are closed. the first African-American alumna, and serves as the During winter vacation, special arrangements are made Black Cultural Center as well as a residence hall. It has for international students, winter athletes and students been newly renovated and was dedicated in Fall 2015. who are taking classes at the University of Pennsylvania Connected by a walkway to the Enid Cook ’31 Center who wish to remain in residence. These students is the newest residence hall, the first to be built on Bryn pay a special fee for housing and live in an assigned Mawr’s campus since 1969. This New Dorm opened in residence hall. The dining halls are normally closed Fall 2015. during winter break. The physical maintenance of the halls is the ADMISSION responsibility of the Director of Facilities Services and Bryn Mawr College seeks candidates of character Housekeeping Services. At the end of the year, each and ability who want an education in the liberal arts student is held responsible for the condition of the and sciences and are prepared for college work. The room and its furnishings. Room assignments, the hall- College has found highly successful candidates among advisor program, residential life policies, and vacation- students of varied interests and talents from a wide period housing are the responsibility of the Director of range of schools and regions in the United States and Residential Life. abroad. In its consideration of candidates, the College Resident students are required to participate in the meal conducts a holistic review in determining a student’s plan, which provides access to 20 meals per week. For ability and readiness for college through the student’s those living at Batten House, the environmental co-op, high-school record in context of the rigor of her program where a kitchen is available, the meal plan is optional. of study, her rank in class (if available), standardized Any student with medical or other extraordinary reasons tests (if provided), personal essays, and insight provided for an accommodation to the meal plan may present by school and community officials. documentation of the disability to the coordinator of Candidates are expected to complete a four-year Access Services. Ordinarily, with the help of the College secondary school curriculum. A school program giving dietician, Dining Services can meet these special needs. good preparation for study at Bryn Mawr would be as The Bi-College housing exchange with Haverford follows: English grammar, composition, and literature College was established in 1969-70, when the College through four years; at least three years of mathematics, began housing a limited number of students from Bryn with emphasis on basic algebraic, geometric, and Mawr and Haverford. When there is equal interest from trigonometric concepts and deductive reasoning; three students at both campuses, Bryn Mawr and Haverford years of one modern or ancient language, or a good offer a housing exchange so that a few returning foundation in two languages; work in history; and at students may live on the other campus for a year. As least three courses in science, including 2 lab sciences neither Bryn Mawr nor Haverford allows room retention (preferably biology, chemistry, or physics). Elective Admission 17 subjects might be offered in, for example, art, music, are accepted at any time before the January 15 or computing to make up the total of 16 or more credits deadline. recommended for admission to the College. Application Deadlines Since school curricula vary widely, the College is fully aware that many applicants for admission will offer Fall Early Decision (ED I) the deadline for applications programs that differ from the one described above. The and all supporting materials: November 15. College will consider such applications, provided the Winter Early Decision (ED II) the deadline for students have maintained good records and continuity applications and all supporting materials: January 1. in the study of basic subjects. Regular Decision Plan the deadline for applications Application and all supporting materials: January 15. Bryn Mawr College accepts The Common Application Standardized Tests and Interviews and there is no application fee. The Common Application is available at www.commonapp.org/Login. For more Bryn Mawr College provides undergraduate applicants information about applying to Bryn Mawr, please visit: the option of submitting standardized test scores. www.brynmawr.edu/admissions/apply/. • SAT I or ACT scores are optional for US citizens and US permanent residents. Admission Plans • Non-US citizens and Non-US permanent residents Application to the first-year class may be made through are required to submit standardized test scores one of three plans: Fall Early Decision (ED I), Winter (SAT I or ACT) as well as either the TOEFL or Early Decision (ED II), or Regular Decision. IELTS if their primary language is not English and/ • For all three plans, applicants follow the same or their language of instruction over the past four procedures and are evaluated by the same criteria. years has not been English.

• Both the Fall Early Decision (ED I) and Winter Early • Official scores should be sent from testing agencies Decision (ED II) plans are binding and are most such as the College Board (Bryn Mawr code: 2049) beneficial for the candidate who has thoroughly or the ACT (Bryn Mawr code: 3526). Information investigated Bryn Mawr and has found the College about the tests, test centers, fees, and dates may to be her clear first choice. The ED II plan differs be obtained at www.collegeboard.com and www. only in recognizing that some candidates may arrive actstudent.org. at a final choice of college later than others. Students submitting test scores must have them completed by the January test date. • An early decision candidate may not apply early decision to any other institution, but may apply to Interview: An interview either at the College, with an another institution under a regular admission plan alumna admissions representative, or via Skype or or a non-binding early action plan. If admitted to telephone is strongly recommended for all candidates. Bryn Mawr College under an early decision plan, Interviews should be completed by the deadline of the the student is required to withdraw applications plan under which the candidate is applying. Appointments from all other colleges or universities. for interviews, information sessions, and campus tours can be made in advance by completing the campus visit • An early decision candidate must sign the Common request form online or calling the Office of Admissions at Application Early Decision Agreement indicating (610) 526-5152. The Office of Admissions is open from that she understands the commitment required. The 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and is open on select signatures of a parent and a high school official are Saturdays throughout the year. A student who is unable also required. The Early Decision Agreement may to visit the College can arrange an alumna or Skype be found on the Common Application website. interview by visiting the website as well. • Early decision candidates will receive one of three decisions: admit, defer to the regular applicant International Students pool, or deny. If admitted to Bryn Mawr, the student Bryn Mawr welcomes applications from international is required to withdraw all other applications. If students who have outstanding secondary school deferred to the regular pool, the student will be records and who meet university entrance requirements reconsidered along with the regular admission in their own countries. applicants and will receive notification in early April. If refused admission, the student may not apply Non-US citizens and Non-US permanent residents are again that year. required to submit standardized test scores (SAT I or ACT) as well as either the TOEFL* or IELTS** if their • The Regular Decision Plan is designed for those primary language is not English and/or their language candidates who wish to keep open different options of instruction over the past four years has not been for their undergraduate education throughout the English. Because exams are only given on selected admission process. Applications under this plan 18 Admission dates students should sit for their exams well in advance • Those with a score of less than 30 receive two of the application deadlines. units of credit for each honor score in a higher-level Bryn Mawr will accept official results of any of the exam. TOEFL tests: computer, paper or internet-based. *Honors scores are considered to be 6 or 7 in English, French, History and Spanish; 5, 6 or 7 in other subjects. *www.toefl.org **www.ielts.org Bryn Mawr also recognizes and awards credit for other international exams. Depending upon the quality of Early Admission and Deferred the examination results, Bryn Mawr may award credit Entrance for Advanced Levels on the General Certificate of Education (GCE), the French Baccalaureate, German Each year a few outstanding students enter the College Abitur and other similar exams. after the junior year of high school. Students who wish to apply for early admission should plan to complete a Some placement tests are given at the College during senior English course before entrance to the College Customs Week (Bryn Mawr’s orientation program for and should write to the Office of Admissions about new students) and students can consult with their dean application procedures. An interview, on campus or with about the advisability of taking these placement tests. an alumna admissions representative, is required of early admission candidates. Home-School and Alternative Education Students A student admitted to the College may request to defer entrance to the freshman class for one year. Students who have received homeschooling or Students who wish to defer their entrance will submit alternative education must submit The Common the enrollment card with the $500 deposit and select the Application with supporting documents in addition to the “defer” option. The student will then contact the Office following items: of Admissions in writing by May 1 with the details as to 1. Official transcripts from any high schools or how they will spend this time. Students will be contacted postsecondary institutions attended; as to whether their requests have been approved. 2. An academic portfolio that includes: Credit for Advanced Placement Tests • A transcript of courses taken, either self- and International Exams designed (including reading lists and syllabi), Students who have carried advanced work in school or a formal document from a correspondence and who have honor grades (5 in Art History, English, school or agency; Environmental Science, French, Government and • Evaluations or grades received for each Politics, History, Music Theory, Psychology and subject; Spanish; 4 or 5 in most other subjects) on the • A short research paper, preferably completed Advanced Placement Tests of the College Board may, within the last year (including evaluator’s after consultation with the dean and the departments comments); concerned, be admitted to one or more advanced courses in the first year at the College. 3. An additional essay on the reasons for choosing homeschooling; and With the approval of the dean and the departments concerned, one or more Advanced Placement Tests 4. An interview (on campus or Skype) with a member with honor grades may be presented for credit. Students of the admissions staff. receiving six or more units of credit may apply for Please note that the supporting documents noted above advanced standing. The Advanced Placement Tests are are in addition to those items required of all applicants. given at College Board centers in May. Bryn Mawr recognizes the academic rigor of the Transgender Students International Baccalaureate program and awards credit Bryn Mawr’s undergraduate mission is to educate and as follows: empower intellectually engaged, reflective and ethical women leaders. In taking an inclusive approach to • Students who present the full International fulfilling this mission—one that reflects the College’s Baccalaureate diploma with a total score of 30 or identity as an institution that values diversity as essential better and honor scores in three higher-level exams to its excellence—Bryn Mawr recognizes that gender is normally receive one year’s credit. fluid and that traditional notions of gender identity and • Those with a score of 35 or better, but with honor expression can be limiting. Bryn Mawr acknowledges scores in fewer than three higher-level exams, gender complexity as an opportunity for learning, and for receive two units of credit for each honor score asking how to be the best women’s college possible. We in higher-level exams plus two for the exam as a also recognize that students may express new gender whole. identities while at Bryn Mawr and beyond. Bryn Mawr Admission 19 is committed to all of our current and future students, The Katharine E. McBride Scholars whom we will continue to welcome, support and proudly Program claim as our alumnae/i. Our women-centered focus is not intended to exclude any members of this special The Katharine E. McBride Scholars Program was community, although it is a fundamental part of our created to give women, 24 years of age or above, who undergraduate mission. for one reason or another did not begin or complete their education immediately following high school, an In light of our mission and these understandings of opportunity to attend Bryn Mawr College. gender, Bryn Mawr College considers as eligible to apply to the undergraduate college all individuals who Applicants under the McBride program are required to have identified and continue to identify as women submit The Common Application in addition to the items (including cisgender and trans women), intersex listed below. individuals who do not identify as male, individuals • All official high school transcripts or GED equivalent assigned female at birth who have not taken medical or (Secondary School Final Report is not required) legal steps to identify as male, and individuals assigned female at birth who do not identify within the gender • All official college transcripts binary. • Two Instructor Evaluations* The College intends to be flexible and inclusive in • SAT I or ACT and TOEFL or IELTS (if applicable) implementing these understandings. Bryn Mawr uses *McBride Scholar applicants who have not attended a holistic approach to reviewing applications that college within the last three years may submit letters of appreciates the strengths of each applicant. Should reference from recommenders other than professors. questions arise, students are encouraged to contact the Office of Admissions; we may also follow up to request Once admitted to the College, McBride scholars are additional information from applicants. subject to the residency rule, which requires a student to take a minimum of 24 course units while enrolled at Transfer Students Bryn Mawr. Exceptions will be made for students who transfer more than eight units from previous work. Such Each year a number of students are admitted as students may transfer up to 16 units and must then take transfers to the sophomore and junior classes. at least 16 units at Bryn Mawr. McBride Scholars may Successful transfer candidates have done excellent study on a part-time or full-time basis. work at other colleges and universities and present strong high-school records that compare favorably Bryn Mawr College accepts The Common Application with those entering Bryn Mawr as first-year students. and there is no application fee. The Common Students who fail to meet the prescribed standards of Application is available at www.commonapp.org. academic work or who have been put on probation, suspended, or excluded from other colleges The Community College Connection and universities will not be admitted under any Community College Connection (C3) encourages circumstances. women studying at community colleges to continue their The deadline for fall entrance is March 1. Transfer education toward a bachelor’s degree at Bryn Mawr applicants are required to submit The Common College. Application and all supporting documents. Students pursuing an A.A., A.S., or A.F.A. at a Transfer and McBride applicants who are US citizens community college are eligible to apply. At the time of or US permanent residents are not required to submit application, students should have completed or nearly standardized test scores. However, non-US citizens completed their associate’s degree with strong core and non-US permanent residents are required to submit classes that cross disciplines. standardized test scores (SAT I or ACT) in addition to The most competitive applicants demonstrate the either the TOEFL* or IELTS** if their primary language is potential and drive to complete a bachelor’s degree at not English and/or their language of instruction over the a liberal arts college, have a competitive G.P.A. and past four years has not been English. demonstrate leadership abilities and critical thinking skills. To qualify for the A.B. degree, students ordinarily should C3 applicants to Bryn Mawr College should follow have completed a minimum of two years of full-time the application instructions for transfer students. The study at Bryn Mawr. application deadline for fall entrance is March 1. *www.toefl.org **www.ielts.org Readmission A student who has withdrawn from the College must apply for permission to return. The student should contact the Undergraduate Dean’s Office concerning the application process and be prepared to demonstrate readiness to resume work at Bryn Mawr. 20 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

BILLING, PAYMENT, The College reserves the right to prevent a student from registering for classes, attending class or entering AND FINANCIAL AID residence until payment of the College charges has been made each semester. No student may preregister Student Financial Services for the next semester, participate in room draw, Student Accounts within the Controller’s Office bills for order a transcript, participate in summer internships, tuition, room and board, fines and other fees. employment or fellowships, hold leadership positions, participate in graduation, or receive a diploma, until all Financial Aid within the Enrollment Division administers accounts are paid, including the activities fee assessed the College’s financial aid programs. by the student Self-Government Association officers. This fee covers class and hall dues and support for Costs of Education student organizations and clubs. All resident students The tuition and fees in 2016-17 for all enrolled are required to participate in the College meal plan. undergraduate students, resident and nonresident, is A fee of $390 per semester will be charged to all $48,790 a year. undergraduates who are studying at another institution Summary of Fees and Expenses for 2016-17 during the academic year and who will transfer the Tuition ...... $47,640 credits earned to Bryn Mawr College, with the exception Residence (room and board) ...... $15,370 of students in the Junior Year Abroad Program. College Fee ...... $800 Students are permitted to reserve a room during the Self-Government Association Dues ...... $350 spring semester for the succeeding academic year, prior Non U.S. Citizen & Non-Permanent to payment of room and board fees, if they intend to be Resident Health Insurance ...... $1,699 in residence during that year. Those students who have Other Fees: reserved a room but decide, after June 15, to withdraw Continuing enrollment fee (per semester) ...... $390 from the College or take a leave of absence are charged Faced with rising costs affecting all parts of higher a fee of $500. This charge is billed to the student’s education, the College has had to raise tuition annually account. in recent years. Further annual increases may be All entering students are required to make a deposit expected. of $500. This deposit is applied to the student’s tuition account. Billing and Payment Due Dates By registering for courses, students accept responsibility When a Student Withdraws for the charges of the entire academic year, regardless Determination of Withdrawal Date of the method of payment. The College bills for each The date the student began the withdrawal process semester separately. The bill for the fall semester is sent by contacting the dean’s office orally or in writing in early July and is due August 1. The bill for the spring is considered the date of withdrawal for College semester is sent the first week in December and is due refunds and for the return of Federal Title IV funds. January 2. When a student continues to attend classes or other Student Accounts sends an email containing a link to academically related activity after beginning the the electronic billing statement, (eBill) to the student’s withdrawal process, the College may choose to use official Bryn Mawr email address. The College no the student’s last date of documented attendance at an longer sends paper bills. Students are able to set up academically related activity as the date of withdrawal. authorized payers (parents or others) who then can view For a student who leaves the College without notifying bills online, make payments by electronic check or set the College of the intent to withdraw, the College up a payment plan when enrollment opens. Our third- normally uses the student’s last date of documented party on-line processor for eBilling is Nelnet Business attendance at an academically related activity as the Solutions, (NBS). Students and authorized payers date of withdrawal. If that date cannot be ascertained, may make one-time ePayments through their QuikPAY the College will consider the midpoint of the enrollment product or utilize eCashier for the Automatic Monthly period to be the date the student withdrew. Payment Plan accessed through BIONIC. Treatment of College Charges When a Student The College’s payment plan, eCashier, enables monthly Withdraws – College Refund Policy payment of all or part of semester fees in installments Students will be refunded 100% of their previously paid without interest charges. The cost of enrolling is a $25 tuition, room and board, and college fee if the Registrar nonrefundable fee per semester. Payments for the receives written notice that the student has withdrawn plan commence prior to the beginning of each term. from the College or begun a leave of absence before Information about the payment plan is available from the first day of classes. Student Accounts. For a student withdrawing from the College or embarking on a medical or psychological leave of Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 21 absence on or after the first day of classes, refunds of • Subsidized Federal Direct Loans tuition, room and board occur according to a prorata • Federal Perkins Loans schedule up to 60% attendance. No refunds are processed for withdrawals after 60% of the semester. • Federal PLUS Loans Fall and spring breaks are not included in the calculation • Federal Pell Grants of refund weeks. Note that Self-Government Association dues and the health insurance portion of the college fee • Federal Iraq Afghanistan Service Grant are non-refundable. • Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Treatment of Title IV Federal Aid When a Student Grants (FSEOG) Withdraws • Other Title IV assistance The College’s Refund Policy and the Return of Federal If the College has issued a refund of Title IV funds in Title IV funds procedures are independent of one excess of the amount the student has earned prior another. The calculation of Title IV Funds earned by the to the withdrawal date, the student is responsible for student has no relationship to the student’s incurred repaying the funds. Any amount of loan funds that charges. Therefore, the student may still owe funds to the student (or the parent for a PLUS Loan) has not the College to cover unpaid institutional charges. earned must be repaid in accordance with the terms of the promissory note, that is, the student (or parent for The policy of returning unearned Title IV funds to the a PLUS Loan) must make scheduled payments to the federal programs applies to all students receiving holder of the loan over a period of time. Any amount of Federal Pell Grants, Federal Iraq and Afghanistan unearned grant funds is called an overpayment. The Service Grant, Federal Direct Loans, Federal PLUS amount of a grant overpayment that the student must Loans, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity repay is half of the unearned amount. The student must Grants (FSEOG), Federal Perkins Loans, and in some make arrangements with the College or the Department cases, state grants. of Education to return the unearned grant funds. When a recipient of Title IV Federal grant or loan A leave of absence is treated as a withdrawal and a assistance withdraws or takes a leave of absence return of Title IV funds may be calculated. A student may from the College during the semester, the College take a leave of absence from school for not more than a must determine per a federal formula, the amount total of 180 days in any 12-month period. of federal aid that the student may retain as of the withdrawal date. Any federal aid that the student is The calculation of the return of Title IV funds will be done eligible to receive, but which has not been disbursed, by the Offices of Financial Aid and Student Accounts. will be offered to the student as a post-withdrawal Deadlines for Returning Federal Title IV Funds disbursement. Any federal aid the student is not eligible to receive according to the federal refund policy will be The amount unearned federal funds allocated to the returned to the federal government. Federal Loan, Federal PLUS Program, Federal Pell Grant, Federal Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant, The student is entitled to retain federal aid based on Federal SEOG, and Federal Perkins will be returned the percentage of the semester she has completed. As by the College to the appropriate federal program prescribed by federal formula, the College calculates accounts within 45 days of the date the student officially the percentage by dividing the total number of calendar withdrew or was expelled, or within 45 days of the date days in the semester into the number of calendar days the College determined that the student had unofficially completed as of the withdrawal date. Fall and spring withdrawn. breaks are excluded as periods of nonattendance in the enrollment period. Once the student has completed The amount of the earned federal funds, if any, allocated more than 60% of the semester, she has earned all of to the student will be paid within 45 days of the student’s the Title IV assistance scheduled for that period. withdrawal date or, if the student withdrew unofficially, the date that the dean’s office determined that the The amount of Title IV assistance not earned is student withdrew. calculated by determining the percentage of assistance earned and applying it to the total amount of grant and Treatment of College Grants When a Student loan assistance that was disbursed. The amount the Withdraws school must return is the lesser of: The amount of College grant funds a student will retain is based on the percentage of the period of enrollment • the unearned amount of Title IV assistance or completed up to 60% of attendance. • the institutional charges incurred for the period of Treatment of State Grants When a Student enrollment multiplied by the unearned percentage. Withdraws

The order of return of Title IV funds is: The amount of the state grant funds a student will retain is based on the individual refund policy prescribed by • Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans the issuing state. 22 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

FINANCIAL AID resources, Bryn Mawr participates in the following Federal Student Assistance Programs: For general information about financial aid and how to apply for financial aid, consult the Office of Financial Aid • The Federal Direct Loan Program: Low interest website at www.brynmawr.edu/financial-aid. Detailed federal loans for undergraduate students. information about the financial aid application and • The Federal Direct PLUS Loan: Low interest federal renewal process, types of aid available and regulations loans for parents of dependent undergraduates. governing the disbursement of funds from grant and loan programs, can be found in the Financial Aid • The Federal Perkins Loan: A low-interest federal Handbook, which is updated and published annually, loan for undergraduates with federal need. and posted to our website. • The Federal Work-Study Program: This program The education of all students is subsidized by the provides funds for campus jobs for students who College because their tuition and fees cover only part of meet the federal eligibility requirements. the costs of instruction. To those students well qualified • The Federal Pell Grant: A federal grant awarded to for education in the liberal arts and sciences but unable undergraduates who have not earned a bachelor’s to meet the College fees, Bryn Mawr is able to offer degree and who demonstrate a level of financial further financial aid. Alumnae and friends of the College need specified annually by the Department of have built up endowments for scholarships; annual gifts Education from alumnae and other donors add to the amounts available each year. Bryn Mawr supported 71percent • The Federal Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant: of the undergraduate students at the College with For students who are not eligible for Pell Grant but institutional grant aid during the 2014-15 academic year, whose parent or guardian was a member of the awarding more than $30.1 million in grant aid. U.S. armed forces and died as a result of service performed in Iraq or Afghanistan after September Initial requests for financial aid are reviewed by the 11, 2001. Office of Financial Aid and are assessed on the basis of the student and family’s demonstrated financial • The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity need. Students must reapply each year. Eligibility is Grant (FSEOG): A federal grant for undergraduates re-established annually, assuming the student has with exceptional financial need. Priority is given to maintained satisfactory progress toward the degree. students who receive Federal Pell Grants. Instructions to apply for financial aid are included in Bryn Mawr College subscribes to the principle that the the Funding Your Future handout and on the Office of amount of aid granted a student should be based upon Financial Aid web page at: www.brynmawr.edu/financial- documented financial eligibility. When the total amount aid. of aid needed has been determined, awards are made in the form of grants, loans and jobs. Required Forms and Instructions for Bryn Mawr Merit Scholarship U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents Students admitted to Bryn Mawr College as first-time First-Year and Transfer Students undergraduate students are automatically considered for the Bryn Mawr Merit Scholarship; no additional Only applicants who apply for aid at the time of initial application is required. Applicants are evaluated using admission will be considered for Bryn Mawr Grant Bryn Mawr’s holistic admission review process, which assistance during any of their subsequent years of takes numerous factors into consideration including but enrollment at the College. To be considered for aid not limited to academic coursework and performance, as a freshman, the applicant’s response to the FA involvement in school and community, leadership Intent question on The Common Application must be qualities, letters of recommendation, quality and content affirmative. Applicants may apply and will be considered of writing, and potential to contribute in meaningful ways for federal aid, including the Federal Direct Loan to the Bryn Mawr community. Program, every year regardless of applying for aid as a Students may receive a Bryn Mawr Merit Scholarship freshman. even with no demonstrated financial need. Merit • CSS Financial Aid PROFILE: Submit the CSS scholarships may be awarded to U.S. citizens and Financial Aid/PROFILE at least two weeks before permanent residents. Awards range from $12,000- the deadline. If the student’s parent is divorced, $30,000 per year. Scholarships are non-negotiable separated or has never been married, submit the and only awarded at the time of admission. Merit CSS Noncustodial Parent PROFILE. The Bryn scholarships are awarded for a maximum of eight se- Mawr College CSS code number is 2049. mesters and renewable provided that the student is enrolled full time at Bryn Mawr. • Renewal Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): Submit the Renewal FAFSA as soon In addition to the funds made available through College as possible to meet the deadline, but not before Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 23

January 1st. The Bryn Mawr College federal code PROFILE. The Bryn Mawr College CSS code number is 003237. number is 2049. • Federal Tax Returns: Students and their parents • Renewal Free Application for Federal Student must submit signed copies of federal (no state) Aid (FAFSA): Submit the Renewal FAFSA as soon income tax returns, including all schedules and as possible to meet the deadline, but not before attachments, both business and personal, along January 1. The Bryn Mawr College federal code with all W2 forms to the College Board Institutional number is 003237. Document Service (IDOC). Students and parents • Federal Tax Returns: Returning students and their who are not required to file a federal income tax parents must submit signed copies of federal (no return must submit copies of all W-2 forms along state) income tax returns, including all schedules with a Parent or Student Non-Tax-Filer Form to and attachments, both business and personal, IDOC. All documents should be submitted to IDOC along with all W2 forms to the College Board as one complete packet and must have an IDOC Institutional Document Service (IDOC). Students cover sheet. and parents who are not required to file a federal • Trust Documents: Students and parents who are income tax return must submit copies of all W-2 beneficiaries of trust funds (other than Uniform Gift forms along with a Parent or Student Non-Tax-Filer to Minor Act trusts) must submit a copy of the Trust Form to IDOC. All documents should be submitted Tax Form 1041, the beneficiary’s K-1 form, the to IDOC as one complete packet and must have an year-end investment account statement for the trust IDOC cover sheet. assets, and a copy of the trust instrument governing the management of the trust by the Trustee to Required Forms and Instructions for IDOC. Students who are Not U.S. Citizens or Returning Students U.S. Permanent Residents Returning students must reapply for financial aid each First Year and Transfer year. All applications and documents must be submitted Register for a by April 15. Eligibility is re-established annually and • CSS Financial Aid PROFILE: customized CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE online at depends on the student’s maintaining satisfactory least two weeks before the deadline. If the student’s progress toward the degree and on continued parent is divorced, separated or has never been demonstrated need for assistance. The financial aid married and are not living together, submit the CSS award may change each year as a result of annual Noncustodial Parent PROFILE. The Bryn Mawr changes in family circumstances, such as the number College CSS code number is 2049. of family members in college or the family’s adjusted gross income. Self-help expectations including campus International students from Iran, Cuba, Sudan, employment and the amount of the federal loan a and North Korea are not eligible to complete the student is expected to borrow may increase each year. PROFILE or Noncustodial PROFILE and should complete the International Student Financial • CSS Financial Aid PROFILE: Submit the CSS Aid Application, available for download at: www. Financial Aid/PROFILE at least two weeks before brynmawr.edu/financial-aid/forms-and-publications. the deadline. If the student’s parent is divorced, separated or has never been married and are not Please fax: 610-526-5249, or email as a PDF: living together, submit the CSS Noncustodial Parent [email protected].

Required Forms and Instructions: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents

Submission Dates • FAFSA Tax Returns • CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE • Noncustodial PROFILE (if applicable)

Early Decision I November 15 November 15

Early Decision II January 1 January 1

Regular Decision January 15 January 15

Fall Transfer March 1 March 1

Returning Students Submit all documents by April 15 24 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

• Statement of Parental Earnings: Submit Repayment begins six months after the student is statements from both parents’ and stepparents’ no longer enrolled at least half-time at an accredited employers stating annual gross income and value institution. The repayment term ranges from 10 to 25 of any employment benefits and/or copies of all years depending on the amount borrowed and the pages of parents’ national tax returns, both personal repayment plan chosen. The minimum monthly payment and business. English translations and conversion is $50. If the student borrows a smaller amount, the to U.S. dollars are required. student will have shorter payment terms. If the student Submit parents’ wage/income statements to borrows a larger amount, the student may wish to Bryn Mawr College by mail: Bryn Mawr College, consolidate the loan to extend the repayment term. The

Financial Aid, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, by email: student should review options at: www2.ed.gov/offices/ [email protected] or by fax: 011-610-526-5249. OSFAP/DirectLoan/index.html. Returning Students Interest rates on federal student loans are set by Congress. Under the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty As long as they are continually enrolled students whose Act of 2013 federal student loan interest rates are tied citizenship status is not U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent to financial markets. Under this Act, interest rates will Resident are not required to re-submit a financial aid be determined each June for new loans being made for application annually. College grants and loans are the upcoming award year, which runs from July 1 to the automatically renewed. International students who have following June 30. Each loan will have a fixed interest not attended Bryn Mawr for more than two semesters rate for the life of the loan. Interest rates can be viewed are required to submit a new financial aid application. at: www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DirectLoan/index.html. Only students who were awarded aid upon entrance to the College are eligible for college grant and loan Loan fees will be deducted proportionately from the support in subsequent years at Bryn Mawr. gross amount on all Federal Direct Loans. The amount of loan funds the student receives is less than the For a list of scholarship funds and prizes that support amount borrowed, but the student is responsible for the awards made, see the scholarship funds page. repaying the entire amount borrowed and not just the These funds are used to enhance Bryn Mawr’s need- amount received. For loans first disbursed on or after based financial aid program. They are not awarded December 1, 2015, the loan fee was 1. .068%. For separately. For information on loan funds, see the loan loans disbursed after October 1, 2016, the loan fee funds page. may be different depending on the across-the-board federal budget cuts known as “sequester” put into place Loan Funds by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The Department of Federal Direct Loans Education will notify borrowers of fee changes. The Federal Direct Loan Program enables students Additional information on the Federal Direct Loan who have a citizenship status of U.S. Citizen or U.S. Program is available from Financial Aid or the Financial Permanent Resident to borrow directly from the federal Aid Handbook. government rather than from a bank. Students must Perkins Loan complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and be enrolled at least half time (two units). The Perkins Loan Program is administered by the Loans made through this program include the Direct College from allocated federal funds. Eligibility for a Subsidized and the Direct Unsubsidized Loans. Perkins Loan is determined through a federal needs

Required Forms and Instructions: Non U.S. Citizens and Non Permanent Residents

Submission Dates • CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE Parent Income • Noncustodial PROFILE (if applicable) Documents or Tax Returns

Early Decision I November 15 November 15

Early Decision II January 1 January 1

Regular Decision January 15 January 15

Fall Transfer March 1 March 1

Returning Students Reapplication is not required unless citizenship changes or the student is not enrolled consecutively for more than two terms. Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 25 test. The 5% interest rate and repayment of the loan federal loan interest rates are tied to financial markets. begin nine months after graduation, withdrawal from Under this Act, interest rates will be determined each the College or dropping below half-time status. No June for new loans being made for the upcoming award interest accrues on the loan until repayment begins. year, which runs from July 1 to the following June 30. There are no loan fees for Perkins Loans. Cancellation Each loan will have a fixed interest rate for the life of the and deferment of loan payments are possible under loan. certain circumstances, which are detailed in the loan A loan fee that is a percentage of the principal amount of promissory note. Awards range from $500 to $4,000 the loan will be deducted from the gross amount on the per year and are based on financial eligibility and the Federal Direct PLUS Loan. The amount of loan funds availability of funds. the parent receives is less than the amount borrowed, Federal Direct PLUS Loan but the parent is responsible for repaying the entire The Federal Direct PLUS Loan is a federally subsidized amount borrowed and not just the amount received. For loan program designed to help parents of dependent loans first disbursed on or after December 1, 2015, the undergraduates pay for educational expenses. Parents loan fee was 4.272%. For loans disbursed after October and their dependent child must be U.S. citizens or 1, 2016, the loan fee may be different depending on eligible noncitizens, must not be in default on any the across-the-board federal budget cuts known as federal education loans or owe an overpayment on a “sequester” put into place by the Budget Control Act of federal education grant, and must meet other general 2011. The Department of Education will notify borrowers eligibility requirements for the Federal Student Aid of fee changes. programs. Parent PLUS Loan borrowers cannot have an International Loan adverse credit history (a credit check will be done). The International Loan Program is administered by the Repayment begins on the date of the last disbursement. College from institutional funds to students who are not Parent PLUS loan borrowers whose funds were first U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents, and must disbursed on or after July 1, 2013 have the option of be awarded as part of a student’s aid offer. Recipients delaying their repayment on the PLUS loan either 60 must remain enrolled at the College at least half time to days after the loan is fully disbursed or six months after retain eligibility. The 5% interest rate and repayment of the dependent student is not enrolled at least half-time. the loan begin 12 months after graduation, withdrawal During this time, interest may be paid by the parent or from the College or dropping below half-time status. No capitalized. interest accrues on the loan until repayment begins. The Interest rates on PLUS loans are set by Congress. maximum repayment period is 10 years. Students who Under the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 file for bankruptcy may still be required to pay back the

U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents

Dependent Undergraduates (Except Students Base Additional Maximum Whose Parents Cannot Borrow PLUS Loans) Amount Unsubsidized Loan 1st-year undergraduate $3,500 $2,000 $5,500

2nd-year undergraduate $4,500 $2,000 $6,500

3rd/4th-year undergraduate $5,500 $2,000 $7,500

U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents

Independent Undergraduates and Dependent Base Additional Maximum Students Whose Parents Cannot Borrow Amount Unsubsidized PLUS Loans) Loan 1st-year undergraduate $3,500 $4,000 + $2,000 $9,500

2nd-year undergraduate $4,500 $4,000 + $2,000 $10,500

3rd/4th-year undergraduate $5,500 $5,000 + $2,000 $12,500 26 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid loan. Students may not borrow more than the amount The Edith Schmid Beck Scholarship Fund was offered as part of a financial aid award from year to year. established by Edith Schmid Beck ’44. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to a student Scholarship Funds working toward world peace who have shown genuine commitment to working toward international peace and The following scholarship funds are used to enhance justice, regardless of their academic major. Edith Beck Bryn Mawr’s need-based financial aid program. They had strong interest in fostering global solutions to world are not awarded separately. problems; she made a life-long commitment to erasing The Barbara Goldman Aaron Scholarship Fund was human differences that led to conflict and to working established by Barbara Goldman Aaron ’53. The fund toward a worldwide acceptance and compliance with a shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. universal code of law and social justice. (1999) (2005) The Susanna E. Bedell Fund provides undergraduate The Warren Akin IV Scholarship Fund was established financial aid. (2007) by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Akin (father) and Mr. and Mrs. The Beekey Scholarship Fund was established by Lois William Morgan Akin (brother) in memory of Warren Akin E. Beekey ’55, Sara Beekey Pfeffenroth ’63, and their IV, M.A. ’71, Ph.D. ’75. The fund is to be awarded in the mother, Mrs. Cyrus E. Beekey. The fund shall be used following order of preference: first, to graduate students to provide undergraduate financial aid for a student in English; second, to any graduate student; third, to any majoring in a modern foreign language or in English. Bryn Mawr student. (1984) (1985) The George I. Alden Scholarship Fund was established The L. Diane Bernard, Ph.D. ’67, Endowed Scholarship by the George I. Alden Trust through a challenge grant. Fund was established by L. Diane Bernard, Ph.D. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate ’67. The fund shall support the mission, program and financial aid. (1998) activities of the Graduate School of Social Work and The Sarah Lynn Allegra Scholarship Fund was Social Research of Bryn Mawr College by providing established by Catherine Allegra ‘83. The fund shall funding in perpetuity for a graduate scholarship. (2011) be used to provide scholarship assistance to an The Star K. and Estan J. Bloom Scholarship Fund was undergraduate student who demonstrates financial established by Star K. Bloom ’60, and her husband, need. (2016) Estan J. Bloom, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The fund The Johanna M. Atkiss Scholarship Fund was shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to established by Ruth R. Atkiss ’36 in memory of her students from the southern part of the United States, mother. The income will be used to provide scholarship with first preference given to residents of Alabama. assistance to a student preferably from the Philadelphia (1976) High School for Girls. In the event that there is no The Virginia Burdick Blumberg ’31 Scholarship Fund student with financial need from the Philadelphia was established by Virginia Burdick Blumberg ’31. The High School for Girls in a given year, the income may fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial support either a student from the Masterman School in aid. (1998) Philadelphia, or a Philadelphia area public high school. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate The Norma and John Bowles ARCS Endowment for financial aid. (1999) Sciences was established by Norma Landwehr Bowles ’42 and is administered in accordance with the interests The Mildred P. Bach Scholarship Fund was established of the ARCS (Achievement Research for College by Mildred P. Bach ’26. The fund shall be used to Students) Foundation, which seeks to encourage young provide undergraduate financial aid. (1992) women to pursue careers in the sciences. The fund The William O. and Carole Bailey ’61 Scholarship Fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with was established by Carole Parsons Bailey ’61 and preference for students studying the sciences. (1987) William O. Bailey. The fund shall be used to provide The Helen D. Brooks 1946 Fund was established undergraduate financial aid. (1994) through a bequest from Helen D. Brooks 1946. The fund The Baird Scholarship Endowment was established by shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. Bridget Baird ’69. Income from this fund shall be used (2016) to support financial aid for undergraduate students with The Cynthia Butterworth Burns 1959 Scholarship Fund preference given to minority students with significant was established by Cynthia Butterworth Burns ‘59. The financial need. (2008) fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial The Barbara Otnow Baumann ’54 Scholarship Fund aid. (2016) was established through a bequest from Barbara Otnow The Bryn Mawr Club of Princeton Scholarship was Baumann ’54 to provide undergraduate financial aid established by The Bryn Mawr Club of Princeton. The with preference given to a student from the New York fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial metropolitan area. (2006) Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 27 aid with preference to a student from the Princeton area The Class of 1960 Endowed Scholarship Fund was or from elsewhere in New Jersey. (1973) established to commemorate their 50th Reunion. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial The Mariam Coffin Canaday Scholarship Fund was aid. (2010) established by Ward M. Canaday, Trustee, George W. Ritter, co-Trustee and Frank H. Canaday, co-Trustee, The Class of 1982 Endowed Scholarship Fund of the Ward M. and Mariam C. Canaday Educational was established to provide financial assistance to and Charitable Trust. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduates with documented financial need undergraduate financial aid with preference to a student who demonstrates the highest academic promise from metropolitan Toledo, Ohio, the residence of Ward and personal commitment to the values of Bryn M. and Mariam C. Canaday. (1968) Mawr College with preference given to students from underserved communities. (2012) The Erin Grace Cassidy Scholarship Fund was established by Kimberly Wright Cassidy and Bart E. The Margaret Jackson Clowes Scholarship Fund was Cassidy in memory of their daughter. The fund shall be established by Margaret Jackson Clowes ’37. The fund used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2015) shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2008) The Patricia L. Chapman, M.S.S. ’81, Endowed Scholarship Fund for the Graduate School of Social The Evelyn Flower Morris Cope and Jacqueline Work and Social Research was established by Patricia Pascal Morris Evans Memorial Scholarship Fund was L. Chapman, M.S.S. ’81. The Chapman Fund supports established by Edward W. Evans and other family financial aid for single mothers raising children while members in memory of Evelyn Flower Morris Cope, balancing the demands of family, school and work. Class of 1903, and Jacqueline Pascal Morris Evans, (2010) Class of 1908. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1958) The Class of 1922 Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by a bequest from Margaret Crosby ’22, The Regina Katharine Crandall Scholarship Fund was Ph.D. Yale ’34. The fund shall be used to provide established by a group of Regina Katharine Crandall’s undergraduate financial aid. (1972) students and friends. She was a member of the teaching staff at Bryn Mawr College from 1902 to 1916; Associate The Class of 1939 Memorial Scholarship Fund was in English 1916 to 1917; Associate Professor of English established by members of the Class of 1939. The fund Composition 1917 to 1918; Margaret Kingsland Haskell shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. Professor of English Composition 1918 to 1933. The (1985) fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial The Class of 1943 Scholarship Fund was established by aid with preference to a student who has shown the James H. and Alice I. Goulder Foundation, Inc., of excellence in writing. (1950) which Alice Ireman Goulder ’43, and her husband were The Louise Hodges Crenshaw Scholarship Fund was officers. Members of the Class of 1943 and others have established by Miss Evelyn Hodges, sister of the late added to the Fund. The fund shall be used to provide Louise Crenshaw, died and left half of her residuary undergraduate financial aid. (1974) estate to the Army Relief Society. Before her death, Miss The Class of 1944 Memorial Scholarship Fund was Hodges indicated to Parke Hodges, her brother, a wish established by members of the Class of 1944. The to change her will and make certain funds available Class of 1944 Memorial Scholarship Fund was initiated to Bryn Mawr College, in memory of Mrs. Crenshaw, in 1954 in memory of Jean Brunn Mungall ’54, the to provide job counseling for Bryn Mawr graduates. Class’s first president, and continues to memorialize The Army Relief Society (since merged with the Army subsequent deceased members. The fund shall be used Emergency Relief) was advised by its legal counsel to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1988) that it could not make an unrestricted gift to Bryn Mawr Class of 1956 Endowed Scholarship Fund was College, but could give funds to the College as a established by Members of the Class of 1956 to memorial to Mrs. Crenshaw for individuals and purposes commemorate their 55th reunion. The fund shall be in accordance with their certificate of incorporation. used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2011) The Army Emergency Relief Board of Managers approved a gift to Bryn Mawr College to be added to the The Class of 1957 Scholarship Fund was established College’s endowment and to be used for scholarships by Members of the Class of 1957 to commemorate for dependent children of Army members meeting their 50th Reunion. The fund shall be used to provide AER eligibility requirements. The fund shall be used to undergraduate financial aid. (2007) provide undergraduate financial aid. (1978) The Class of 1958 Scholarship Fund was established The Raymond E. and Hilda Buttenwieser Crist ’20 by members of the class to commemorate their Scholarship Fund was established by Raymond E. 40th Reunion. The fund shall be used to provide Crist. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate undergraduate financial aid. (1998) financial aid. (1989) 28 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

The Annie Lawrie Fabens Crozier Scholarship Fund was survived her sister, Ellen Winsor, by only 20 minutes. established by Mr. and Mrs. Abbot F. Usher in memory The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate of Mrs. Usher’s daughter, Annie Lawrie Fabens Crozier financial aid to a minority student. (1959) ’51, who died only a few years after her graduation The Helen Feldman Scholarship Fund was established from Bryn Mawr. The fund shall be used to provide by the Class of 1968 for the establishment of a Fund in undergraduate financial aid with preference to a Junior the name of Helen Feldman ’68, their classmate who or Senior majoring in English. (1960) was killed in an automobile accident in August, 1967, The Louise Dickey Davison Fund was established in the summer before her senior year. The fund shall be memory of Louise Dickey Davison ’37 b y her husband, used to provide undergraduate financial aid for a student Roderic H. Davison and son, R. John Davison. The fund spending the summer studying in Russia. (1968) shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid The Courtney Seibert Fennimore ‘99 and Thomas with preference to students studying Classical and Near Fennimore Scholarship Fund was established Eastern Archaeology. (1995) by Courtney Seibert Fennimore ‘99 and Thomas The Anna Janney DeArmond Endowed Fund was Fennimore. The fund shall be used to provide established by Anna Janney DeArmond’s friend, undergraduate financial aid. (2016) Gertrude Weaver, in 1999. The fund shall be used to The Cora B. and F. Julius Fohs Perpetual Scholarship provide undergraduate financial aid. (2008) Fund was established by the Fohs Foundation of The Edith Aviles de Kostes 1988 Scholarship Fund was Houston, Texas. The fund shall be used to provide established by Edith Aviles de Kostes 1988. The fund undergraduate financial aid. (1965) shall be used to provide support for undergraduate The Lucy Norman Friedman Scholarship Fund was scholarships with preference for Latina students. (2014) established by Lucy Norman Friedman ’65. The fund The Dolphin Endowed Scholarship Fund was shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to established by Joan Gross Scheuer ’42 to provide those with substantial need. (2007) long-term support for the Dolphin Scholarships after The Edgar M. Funkhouser Memorial Scholarship Fund the Dolphin Program ended in 1998. The purpose of was established by Anne Funkhouser Francis ’33, from the Dolphin Endowed Scholarship Fund is to support the estate of her father, Edgar M. Funkhouse. The fund students from the New York City Public Schools. The shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial with preference being given to residents from southwest aid. (1991) Virginia and thereafter to students from District III. The Josephine Devigne Donovan Memorial Fund (1984) was established by family and friends of Josephine The Helen Hartman Gemmill Fund for Financial Aid Devigne Donovan ’38. The fund shall be used to provide was established by a bequest from Helen Hartman undergraduate financial aid to a student studying in Gemmill ’38, of Jamison, Pennsylvania who died on France her junior year. (1996) December 11, 1998. The fund shall be used to provide The Barbara Cooley McNamee Dudley Fund was undergraduate financial aid. (1999) established by Robin Krivanek, sister of Barbara Cooley The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment was McNamee Dudley ’42 and mother of Jennifer Krivanek established by Rosaline Goldin and Julia Goldin in ’75, aid to students from outside the United States. The memory of their parents. The fund shall be used fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial to provide undergraduate financial aid for students aid with preference to students from outside the United studying Hebrew or Judaic studies. (2001) States, not excluding members of families temporarily living in the United States. (1983) The Hazel Goldmark Fund was established by the daughters of Hazel Seligman Goldmark ’30, of New The Ellen Silberblatt Edwards Scholarship Fund was York, New York. Hazel Goldmark worked for many years established by Lucy Friedman ’65 and Temma Kaplan, in the New York Bookstore to raise money scholarships. and other friends and classmates of Ellen Edwards to The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate honor her memory. The Ellen Edwards Scholarship financial aid. (1991) will be awarded to an entering student whose promise for success at Bryn Mawr is not necessarily shown The Barbara and Arturo Gomez Fund was in conventional ways. Preference is to be given to a established by Barbara Baer Gomez ’43, M.A. student from New York City. The fund shall be used to ’44, and Arturo Gomez. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1994) provide undergraduate financial aid to a Mexican undergraduate. (1997) The Charles E. Ellis Scholarship shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1985) The Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Scholarship Fund was established by the Class of 1935 in honor of Phyllis The Rebecca Winsor Evans and Ellen Winsor Memorial Goodhart Gordan ’35. The fund shall be used to provide Scholarship Fund was established by a bequest from undergraduate financial aid with preference given to Rebecca Winsor Evans, who died on July 25, 1959. She students in the languages. (1985) Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 29

The Kierstin Gray ‘01 Scholarship was established by The Cheryl Holland 1980 Scholarship Fund was Kierstin Gray ‘01. The fund shall be used to provide established by a generous gift from Cheryl Holland financial assistance to an undergraduate student ‘80. The fund shall be used to support undergraduate with documented financial need with a preference for scholarships. (2015) students of underserved populations. (2016) The Leila Houghteling Memorial Scholarship Fund was The Margaret Winthrop McEwan Hansen ‘46 established by family and friends in memory of Leila Scholarship Fund was established by Laurie Hansen Houghteling, Class of 1911, of Winnetka, Illinois. The Saxton ‘79 in honor of her mother, Margaret Winthrop fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial McEwan Hansen ‘46. The fund shall be used to support aid. (1929) a student with need who is interested in the sciences. The Lillia Babbitt Hyde Scholarship Fund was (2013) established by the Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foundation. The The Alice Cohen Harrison ‘36 and Sally R. Harrison ‘71 fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial Scholarship Fund was established through the bequest aid to students who plan to pursue a medical education of Alice Cohen Harrison and by Walter C. Harrison or a scientific education in Chemistry. (1963) in honor of Sally R. Harrison ‘71. The fund shall be The Jenna Lynn Higgins ’07 Bryn Mawr Archaeology used to provide unrestricted support for the general Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by Lillian purposes of the College with a preference for providing and Charles Higgins with additional support from friends financial assistance to an undergraduate student with of Jenna Lynne Higgins ’07. The income from this documented financial need. (2014) fund is to be awarded annually to an undergraduate The Bill Hart and Dabney Gardner Hart ‘62 Scholarship Archaeology student. (2010) Fund was established by Bill Hart and Dabney The Elizabeth Bethune Higginson Jackson Scholarship Gardner Hart ’62. The fund shall be used to provide Fund was established by Deborah Jackson Weiss financial assistance to an undergraduate student with ’68 and her family in memory of her grandmother, documented financial need who demonstrates the Elizabeth Bethune Higginson Jackson, Class of 1897, highest academic promise and a personal commitment who died on January 14, 1974. Elizabeth Bethune to the values of Bryn Mawr College. (2013) Higginson Jackson, herself an alumna of Bryn Mawr, The Nora M. and Patrick J. Healy Fund was established had two daughters, two daughters-in-law and three by friends and family in memory of Nora M. Healy, granddaughters who attended Bryn Mawr, and was mother of Margaret M. Healy, Ph.D. ’69, and Nora T. a major donor to the Class of 1897 Professorship Healy, M.S.S. ’73. The fund shall be used to provide in Science. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with preference given to undergraduate financial aid. (1974) graduate students. (1984) The Kate Kaiser Scholarship Fund was established by The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Ruth Kaiser Nelson ’58 in her mother’s name. The fund for Minority Students was established by The Hearst shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid for Foundation, Inc. The fund shall be used to provide nontraditional-age students. (1991) undergraduate financial aid for minority students. (1992) The Sue Mead Kaiser Scholarship Fund was The Edith Helman Scholarship Fund was established established by The Bryn Mawr Club of Northern by a bequest from Edith Helman, Ph.D. ’33. The fund California and other individuals. The fund shall be used shall be used to provide graduate or undergraduate to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1974) scholarships with preference given to students in the The Stephanie Wenkert Kanwit ‘65 Scholarship Fund Humanities. (2011) by Stephanie Wenkert Kanwit ‘65. This Fund provides The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Memorial Scholarship financial assistance to an undergraduate student with Fund was established by Katharine Hepburn ’28 in documented financial need who demonstrates the memory of her mother, Katharine Houghton Hepburn, highest academic promise and a personal commitment Class of 1899, and will be awarded to “a student who to the values of Bryn Mawr College.(2014) has demonstrated both ability in her chosen field and The Alexandra Kaufmann ‘04 Scholarship Fund was independence in mind and spirit.” The fund shall be established by Alexandra Kaufmann ‘04. The fund shall used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1958) be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2015) The Annemarie Bettmann Holborn Fund was The Eileen P. Kavanagh Scholarship Fund provides established by Hanna Holborn Gray ’50 and her financial assistance to an undergraduate student with husband, Charles Gray, in honor of Mrs. Gray’s mother, documented financial need who demonstrates the Annemarie Bettmann Holborn. The fund shall be used highest academic promise and a personal commitment to provide undergraduate or graduate financial aid to to the values of Bryn Mawr College. Preference will be a student in the field of classics, including classical given to a student involved in the Bryn Mawr Science archaeology. (1991) Posse program. (2012) 30 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

The Sara Mann Ketcham ’42 Scholarship Fund was brother of Minor W. Latham, a graduate student established by established by Sara Mann Ketcham during 1902-04. The fund shall be used to provide ’42. The income will support her for all four years at undergraduate financial aid for a student studying the College, assuming ongoing financial need. The English and residing in Virginia, North Carolina, South fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, aid with preference for a graduate of Philadelphia High Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. (1984) School for Girls if there is no student with financial need The Edith Rotch Lauderdale 1950 Scholarship Fund from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, the Fund was established by Edith Rotch Lauderdale ‘50. The may be used to provide support for a student from a fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial Philadelphia area public high school. (2007) aid with preference for the Posse program. (2016) The Kohn Family Scholarship Fund was established The Marguerite Lehr Scholarship Fund was established by Martha and Jeffrey Kohn in honor of their daughter, by an anonymous alumna in memory of Marguerite Alexandra Kohn 2016. The fund shall be used to provide Lehr, Ph.D. ’23, and a member of the Bryn Mawr faculty scholarship assistance to an undergraduate student who from 1924 to 1967. The fund shall be used to provide demonstrates financial need. (2014) undergraduate financial aid who have excelled in The Kopal Scholarship Fund was established by Mathematics. (1988) Zdenka Kopal Smith ’65 and her family in memory of The Jean Lucas Lenard ’59 Scholarship Fund was Zdeněk Kopal and Eva M. Kopal. The scholarship was established by John and Jean Lucas to provide conceived of by Zdenka’s late sister, Eva M. Kopal ’71, financial assistance to an undergraduate student with to honor her father, astronomer Zdeněk Kopal (1914- documented financial need who demonstrates the 1993). The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate highest academic promise and a personal commitment financial aid. (2001) to the values of Bryn Mawr College. This scholarship will The Melodee Siegel Kornacker ’60 Fellowship in provide support to a junior or senior pursuing a career in Science was established by Melodee Siegel Kornacker biochemistry or molecular biology. (2011) ’60, of Columbus, Ohio. The fund shall be used to The Elisabeth Lerner Endowed Scholarship Fund provide graduate financial aid to a student in biology, was established by the Elmar Fund upon the chemistry, geology, physics or psychology in that order. recommendation of Elisabeth Lerner ‘90. The fund shall (1976) be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2015) The Hertha Kraus Scholarship Fund was established to The Bertha Szold Levin 1895, Alexandra Lee Levin support a student of the Graduate School of Social Work 1933, and Betsy Levin 1956 Scholarship Fund was and Social Research with demonstrated financial need. established by Betsy Levin ‘56 in memory of her mother (2007) and grandmother. The fund shall be used to provide The Laura Schlageter Krause ’43 Scholarship undergraduate financial aid with preference for first Fund in the Humanities was established by Laura generation college students. (2015) Schlageter Krause ’43. The fund shall be used to The Louise Steinhart Loeb Scholarship Fund was provide undergraduate financial aid to a student in the established by the Louise and Henry Loeb Fund at humanities. (1998) Community Funds, Inc. The fund shall be used to The Charlotte Louise Belshe Kress Scholarship Fund provide undergraduate financial aid. (2001) was established by a bequest from Paul F. Kress, The Ann Logan and Gregory Lawler Scholarship Fund husband of Charlotte Louise Belshe Kress ’54, of was established by Ann Logan 1976 and Gregory Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The fund shall be used to Lawler. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate provide undergraduate financial aid. (1994) financial aid. (2015) The Langdon-Schieffelin Fund was established by The Vi and Paul Loo Scholarship Fund was established Bayard Schieffelin and his wife, Virginia Loomis by Violet Loo ’56 and Paul Loo to provide undergraduate Schieffelin ’30, during the Centennial Campaign. financial aid with preference to students from Hawaii. They requested that The Langdon-Schieffelin Fund (2007) be established, saying that the funds were given in gratitude for the years at Bryn Mawr of the following The Alice Low Lowry Fund for Undergraduate and students: Julia Langdon Loomis, Class of 1898, Ida Graduate Scholarships and Tuition Grants was Langdon, Class of 1905, Barbara Schieffelin Bosanquet established by family, friends and colleagues in memory ’27. of Alice Low Lowry ’38 of Shaker Heights, Ohio. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate and Virginia Loomis Schieffelin ’30, Barbara Schieffelin graduate financial aid. (1968) Powell ’62. The fund shall be used to provide faculty salaries or undergraduate financial aid. (1982) The Lucas Scholarship Fund was established by Diana Daniel Lucas ’44 in memory of her parents, Eugene The Minor W. Latham Scholarship Fund was established Willett van Court Lucas, Jr., and Diana Elmendorf by a bequest from John C. Latham of New York City, Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 31

Richards Lucas; her brother, Peter Randell Lucas; and Bryn Mawr from the Special Studies Program.” The fund her uncle, John Daniel Lucas. The fund shall be used to shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. provide undergraduate financial aid. (1985) (1982) The Katharine Mali Scholarship Fund was established The Mrs. Wistar Morris Japanese Scholarship was by a bequest from Katharine Mali ’23 of New York, New established by the Japanese Scholarship Committee York. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate of Philadelphia. The fund shall be used to provide financial aid. (1980) undergraduate financial aid for Japanese students. The Dorothy Nepper Marshall Scholarship Fund was (1978) established by a bequest from Dorothy N. Marshall, The Frank L. and Mina W. Neall Scholarship Fund was Ph.D. ’44, of Brookline Massachusetts. The fund shall established by the bequest of Adelaide W. Neall in be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1986) memory of Miss Neall’s parents. The fund shall be used

The Katharine E. McBride Endowed Scholarship Fund to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1957) was established by a McBride alumna who offered The Bryn Mawr Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable an anonymous challenge to alumnae and friends Foundation was established by The Spaulding- of the McBride Program. A second challenge from Potter Charitable Trusts, of Keene, New Hampshire Susan Ahlstrom ’93 and Bill Ahlstrom helped complete through a challenge for alumnae of Bryn Mawr living the challenge. The fund shall be used to provide in New Hampshire. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate students in the McBride Program with undergraduate financial aid with preference to students financial aid with preference given to sophomores, from New Hampshire. (1964) juniors or seniors. (2001) The Patricia McKnew Nielsen Scholarship Fund was The Katharine E. McBride Undergraduate Scholarship established by Patricia McKnew Nielsen ’43. The fund Fund was established by Gwen Davis ’54, of Beverly shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with Hills, California. The fund shall be used to provide preference given to psychology majors. (1985) undergraduate financial aid. (1970) The Jane M. Oppenheimer Scholarship Fund The Mary-Berenice Morris McCall ‘52 Memorial Fund was established by a bequest from Dr. James H. for Study Abroad was established by Dr. John P. McCall. Oppenheimer, father of Jane Oppenheimer ’32, William The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Biology and History financial aid for students studying abroad. (2015) of Science Department of Biology. The fund shall The Carol McMurtrie Scholarship Fund was established be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with by Carol Cain McMurtrie ’66. The fund shall be used to preference given to Jewish Biology students. (1997) provide undergraduate financial aid. (2007) The Jean Shaffer Oxtoby ’42 Memorial Scholarship The Midwest Scholarship Endowment Fund was Fund was established by her son, David Oxtoby. The established by alumnae of District VII in honor of fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial Barbara Bauman Morrison ’62. The fund shall be used aid. (2010) to provide undergraduate financial aid to Midwestern The Pacific Northwest Scholarship Fund was students. (1974) established to provide undergraduate financial aid to

Dorothy F. Miller P ‘68 Scholarship Fund was students from the Pacific Northwest. (1976) established by Jean Kutner ‘68 in memory of The Marie Hambalek Palm ’70 Memorial Scholarship her mother. The fund shall be used to provide Fund was established by Gregory Palm, together with undergraduate financial aid. (2016) family and friends of his late wife, Marie Hambalek Palm The Elinor Dodge Miller Scholarship Fund was ’70. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate established to provide undergraduate financial aid. financial aid. (1998) (1985) The Margaret Tyler Paul Scholarship Fund was The Karen Lee Mitchell ’86 Scholarship Fund was established by the Class of 1922 in honor of their established by Carolyn and Gary Mitchell in memory 40th Reunion. The fund shall be used to provide of their daughter, Karen. The purpose of the Fund is undergraduate financial aid. (1963) to provide scholarship support for students of English The Delia Avery Perkins Fund was established by a literature, with a special interest in women’s studies, a bequest from Delia Avery Perkins, Class of 1900, of field of particular concern to Karen Mitchell. The fund Montclair, New Jersey. The fund shall be used to provide shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. undergraduate financial aid for freshman students from (1992) northern New Jersey. (1963) The Jesse S. Moore Fund was established by Caroline The Mary DeWitt Pettit Scholarship was established by Moore ’56 and her husband Peter “for post-college-age the Class of 1928 to honor their classmate. The fund women with financial need who have matriculated at shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with preference given to a student studying the sciences. (1978) 32 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid

The Julia Peyton Phillips Scholarship Fund was who demonstrates the highest academic promise, a established in 1986 with a gift from the Fairfield County determined spirit and a personal commitment to public Community Foundation. Since that time, the fund service and the values of Bryn Mawr College. (2007) has provided scholarship support for undergraduates The Jennifer Rusk ‘05 Scholarship Fund was studying Latin, Greek, American History, or English. established by Jennifer Rusk ‘05. The fund shall be The Vinton Liddell Pickens ’22 Scholarship Fund was used to provide undergraduate financial aid with established by Cornelia Pickens Suhler ’47 in memory preference for a student in the Posse program. (2015) of her mother. The fund shall be used to provide The Serena Hand Savage Memorial Scholarship undergraduate financial aid with preference to students Fund was established by family and friends of Serena with a major in Fine Arts or the Growth and Structure Hand Savage ’22, former President of the Alumnae of Cities, or a concentration in Environmental Studies. Association in her memory. The fund shall be used to (1995) provide undergraduate financial aid for a Junior who The Louise Hyman Pollak Scholarship Fund was shows great distinction in scholarship and character, established by a bequest from Louise Hyman Pollak and who may need assistance to finish her last two 1908, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The fund shall be used to years of College. (1951) provide undergraduate financial aid to a student from The Constance E. Schaar Memorial Fund was Cincinnati or the surrounding area. (1932) established by the parents, family, fellow students and The Porter Scholarship Fund was established by Carol friends of Constance E. Schaar ’63, who died during the Porter Carter ’60 and her mother, Mrs. Paul W. Porter, year following her graduation. The fund shall be used to for the establishment of a scholarship fund. The fund provide undergraduate financial aid. (1964) shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to a The Joseph and Gertrude Schrot Scholarship Fund was returning student. (1985) established through a bequest from Gertrude S. Schrot The Jean Seldomridge Price Memorial Scholarship of Philadelphia. The fund shall be used to provide Fund was established by a bequest from Jean S. Price financial aid to students of non-traditional age. (2010) ’41. The Fund shall be used to provide undergraduate The Schwartz Merit Scholarship Fund was established financial aid. (2011) by Rosalyn Ravitch Schwartz ’44. The fund will provide The Patricia A. Quinn Scholarship Fund was established scholarship support for deserving undergraduates at by Joseph J. Connolly has in honor of his wife, Patricia Bryn Mawr. (2013) Quinn Connolly ’91. The fund shall be used to provide The Mary Wilson Schwertz ’41 Scholarship Fund was undergraduate financial aid for a student from a high established by Mary Wilson Schwertz ’41. The fund school of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with Should no graduate of the Archdiocesan school preference for a student studying chemistry. (2011) system require financial aid in a given year, the Quinn Scholarship shall be awarded to a student with financial The Judith Harris Selig Fund was established by a need in the Katharine E. McBride Scholars Program, or bequest from Judith Harris Selig ’57. Her friends and to another nontraditional-aged student at the College. family made additional gifts in her memory. The fund (1991) shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1968) The Caroline Remak Ramsay Scholarship Fund was established by Caroline Remak Ramsay, Class of The Jacqueline Silbermann Scholarship Fund was 1925. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate established by Jacqueline Winter Silbermann ’59. financial aid for undergraduate students in the social The fund shall be used to provide financial assistance sciences. (1992) to matriculated students facing unexpected financial hardship with documented financial need who The Maximilian and Reba E. Richter Scholarship Fund demonstrate the highest academic promise and a was established by Charles Segal, Esq., attorney for personal commitment to the values of Bryn Mawr and one of the Trustees of the Estate of Max Richter, College. (2011) father of Helen R. Elser, Class of 1913. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to a The Smalley Foundation, Inc. Scholarship was student from a New York City public high school or established to provide undergraduate financial aid. college. (1961) Grant was made to Bryn Mawr in 1995 in honor of Elisa Dearhouse ’85. The Alice Mitchell Rivlin Scholarship Fund was established by an anonymous donor in honor of Alice The W.W. Smith Scholarship Prize is made possible Mitchell Rivlin ’52. The fund shall be used to provide by a grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust for undergraduate financial aid. (1996) financial aid support for past W.W. Smith Scholarship recipients who have shown academic excellence and The Barbara Paul Robinson Scholarship Fund was are beginning their senior year. The fund shall be used established by Barbara Paul Robinson ’62. The fund to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1986) shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid 33

The W.W. Smith Scholar Grants are made possible by provide undergraduate financial aid to a student who the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. The scholarships are has contributed responsibly to the life of the College awarded to needy, full-time undergraduate students in community. (1973) good academic standing, and may be awarded to the The Suetse Li Tung ’50 and Mr. and Mrs. Sumin Li same student for two or more years. (1978) Scholarship Fund for International Students was The C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund was established by established by Suetse Li Tung ’50. The fund shall The Starr Foundation, of New York City. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid for be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1988) international students, with preference for students from The Lavori Sterling Foundation Scholarship was China. (2008) established by the Lavori Sterling Foundation upon the The Florence Green Turner Scholarship Fund was recommendation of Liana Sterling ‘03. This Fund shall established to provide undergraduate financial aid. be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2016) (1991) The Amy Sussman Steinhart Scholarship Fund was The UPS Endowment Fund Scholarship was established established by the family of Amy Sussman Steinhart by the Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. The Class of 1902, of San Francisco. The fund shall be used fund shall be used to provide undergraduate financial to provide undergraduate financial aid for a student from aid. (1997) the Western states. (1932) The Anne Hawks Vaux Scholarship Fund was The Anna Lord Strauss Scholarship and Fellowship established by George Vaux of Bryn Mawr, Fund was established by the Ivy Fund, of which Pennsylvania in memory of his wife, Anne Hawks Anna Lord Strauss was the President. The fund shall Vaux ’35, M.A. ’41. The fund shall be used to provide be used to provide undergraduate financial aid to undergraduate financial aid. (1979) students interested in public service or the process of The Nancy J. Vickers Global Scholars Fund recognizes government. (1976) Nancy’s leadership as Bryn Mawr’s seventh president The Solon E. Summerfield Foundation was established by providing students with financial assistance to study by Gray Struther ’54 to provide undergraduate financial abroad for one semester. This Fund was established aid. (1958) with gifts honoring her 2008 retirement. (2011) The Chiemi Suzuki ‘00 and Margaret diZerega The Mildred and Carl Otto Von Kienbusch Fund for Scholarship Fund was established by Chiemi Suzuki Undergraduate Scholarships was established by a ‘00 and Margaret diZerega. The fund shall be used to bequest from Carl Otto von Kienbusch of New York City, provide undergraduate financial aid. (2015) husband of the late Mildred Pressinger von Kienbusch, The Elizabeth Prewitt Taylor Scholarship Fund was Class of 1909. The fund shall be used to provide established by a bequest from Elizabeth P. Taylor, undergraduate financial aid. (1976) Class of 1921. The fund shall be used to provide The Julia Ward Scholarship Fund was established undergraduate financial aid. (1960) by an anonymous friend in memory of Julia Ward, The Dean Karen Tidmarsh ’71 Scholarship Fund was Class of 1923. The scholarship is given in particular established by Sandra Berwind, M.A. ’61, Ph.D. ’68, recognition of Julia Ward’s understanding and sympathy in honor of Dean Karen Tidmarsh ’71. Preference is for young students. The fund shall be used to provide to be given to graduates of Philadelphia area public undergraduate financial aid. (1963) high schools. The fund shall be used to provide The Elizabeth Vogel Warren ’72 Scholarship was undergraduate financial aid. (2006) established by Elizabeth Vogel Warren ’72. The fund The Marion B. Tinaglia Scholarship Fund was shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid. established by John J. Tinaglia in memory of his wife, (2008) Edith Marion Brunt Tinaglia ’45. The fund shall be used The Betsy Frantz Havens Watkins ’61 Scholarship to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1983) Fund was established in 2012 by Betsy Frantz The Kate Wendall Townsend Scholarship Fund was Havens Watkins ’61 and Charles Watkins. The fund established by Katharine W. Sisson, Class of 1920, who shall be used to provide financial assistance to an died on July 6, 1978, in honor of her mother. The fund undergraduate student with documented financial need shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid with who demonstrates the highest academic promise and preference for a student from New England who has a personal commitment to the values of Bryn Mawr made a definite contribution to the life of the College in College. (2011) some way besides scholastic achievement. (1978) The Eliza Jane Watson Scholarship Fund was The Hope Wearn Troxell Memorial Scholarship was established by the John Jay and Eliza Jane Watson established by Southern California Alumnae in memory Foundation. The fund shall be used to provide of Hope Wearn Troxell ’46. The fund shall be used to undergraduate financial aid. (1964) 34 The Academic Program

The Susan Opstad White ’58 Scholarship Fund was memory of Frances Porcher Bowles ’36. The fund shall established by Mrs. Raymond Opstad in honor of her be used to provide undergraduate financial aid for daughter, Susan Opstad White. The fund shall be used international students. (1985) to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1987) The Chinese Scholarship was established by Beatrice The Sarah Lark Twiggar Scholarship Fund was MacGeorge, Class of 1901, M.A. ’21. The fund shall be established by Sarah Twiggar Werntz ‘58 in memory of used to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1929) her mother. This Fund provides financial assistance to The Lois Sherman Chope Scholarship Fund was an undergraduate student with documented financial established by Lois Sherman Chope ’49, through need who demonstrates academic promise and a the Chope Foundation. The purpose of the Fund is personal commitment to the values of Bryn Mawr to provide undergraduate scholarship support for College. (2014) international students. (1992) The Benjamin and Jennifer Suh Whitfield Scholarship The Elizabeth Dodge Clarke Fund was established by Fund was established by Benjamin and Jennifer Suh the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation. The fund shall Whitfield ’98. This Fund provides financial assistance be used to provide undergraduate financial aid for to an undergraduate student with documented financial international students. (1984) need who demonstrates the highest academic promise and a personal commitment to the values of Bryn Mawr The Middle East Scholarship Fund was established College. (2012) by Eliza Cope Harrison ’58, of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The purpose of the Fund will be to enable the College The Anita McCarter Wilbur Scholarship Fund was to make scholarship awards to able students from a established by a bequest from Anita McCarter Wilbur number of Middle Eastern countries. While the countries ’43, Kensington, Maryland, who died on March 28, have not been specifically named, it is expected that 1996. The fund shall be used to provide undergraduate Iran and Turkey will be included. The fund shall be used financial aid. (1996) to provide undergraduate financial aid. (1975) The William H. Willis Endowed Scholarship Fund was The Elizabeth G. Vermey Scholarship Fund was established by Caroline C. Willis ’66 in memory of established by friends of Elizabeth G. Vermey ’58, who her father. The Fund provides scholarship support for was the Director of Admissions at Bryn Mawr College undergraduate students, with preference for students from 1965 to 1995. The fund shall be used to provide from the South or students who are studying Classical undergraduate financial aid for an international student. Studies. (2008) (2008) The Margaret W. Wright and S. Eric Wright Scholarship The Harris and Clare Wofford International Fund was established by a bequest from Margaret White Scholarship was established to honor President Wofford Wright ’43, of Charleston, West Virginia. The fund and his commitment to international initiatives which shall be used to provide undergraduate financial aid he enthusiastically supported during his tenure at Bryn to students of Quaker lineage attending the College. Mawr. (1978) (1985) The D. Robert Yarnall Fund was established by a THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM bequest from D. Robert Yarnall, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, who died on September 11, 1967. His The Curriculum mother, Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall ’19, aunt Ruth Biddle Penfield ’29 and daughter Kristina Yarnall-Sibinga ’83 The Bryn Mawr curriculum is designed to encourage are graduates of the College. The fund shall be used to breadth of learning and training in the fundamentals provide undergraduate financial aid. (1967) of scholarship in the first two years, and mature and sophisticated study in depth in a major program during The Nanar and Anthony Yoseloff Endowed Scholarship the last two years. Its overall purpose is to challenge Fund was established by Nanar Tabrizi Yoseloff ’97 and the student and prepare her for the lifelong pleasure her husband, Anthony Yoseloff. The fund shall be used and responsibility of educating herself and playing a to provide undergraduate financial aid. (2009) responsible role in contemporary society. The curriculum International Funds encourages independence within a rigorous but flexible framework of divisional and major requirements. The Ann Updegraff Allen ’42 and Ann T. Allen ’65 Endowed Scholarship Fund was established by Ann The Bryn Mawr curriculum obtains further breadth Updegraff Allen ’42 and Ann T. Allen ’65 for students through institutional cooperation. Virtually all in good academic standing, with preference for undergraduate courses and all major programs at Bryn international students. The fund shall be used to provide Mawr and Haverford Colleges are open to students from undergraduate financial aid. (2008) both schools, greatly increasing the range of available subjects. With certain restrictions, Bryn Mawr students The Frances Porcher Bowles Memorial Scholarship may also take courses at Swarthmore College, the Fund was established by relatives and friends in The Academic Program 35

University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University a satisfactory score on the Quantitative Readiness during the academic year without payment of additional Assessment offered before the start of the freshman fees. year, or c) completing a Quantitative Readiness Seminar with a grade of 2.0 or higher during the freshman year. Requirements for the A.B. Degree In addition, each student must complete, with a grade for students who matriculated in the of 2.0 or higher, before the start of her senior year, one fall of 2011 or later (students who course which makes significant use of at least one of matriculated prior to fall 2011 should the following: mathematical reasoning and analysis, consult prior catalogs) statistical analysis, quantitative analysis of data or computational modeling. Courses that satisfy this Thirty-two units of work are required for the A.B. degree. requirement are designated “QM” in course catalogs These must include: and guides. • One Emily Balch Seminar. A student cannot use the same course to meet both the • One unit to meet the Quantitative and QM and distribution requirements. A student may use Mathematical Reasoning Requirement (preceded credits transferred from other institutions to satisfy these by the successful completion of the Quantitative requirements only with prior approval. Readiness Assessment or Quantitative Readiness Foreign Language Requirement Seminar) Before the start of the senior year, each student must • Two units to satisfy the Foreign Language complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of Requirement. foreign language. Courses that fulfill this requirement • Four units to meet the Distribution Requirement. must be taught in the foreign language; they cannot be taught in translation. Students may fulfill the requirement • A major subject sequence. by completing two sequential semester-long courses • Elective units of work to complete an undergraduate in one language, either at the elementary level or, program. depending on the result of their language placement In addition, all students must complete six half- test, at the intermediate level. A student who is prepared semesters of physical education, including wellness, for advanced work may complete the requirement successfully complete a swim proficiency requirement instead with two advanced free-standing semester- and meet the residency requirement. long courses in the foreign language(s) in which she is proficient. Non-native speakers of English may choose Students will normally satisfy the Emily Balch Seminar, to satisfy this requirement by coursework in English the Quantitative and Mathematical Reasoning literature. Requirement, the Foreign Language Requirement, and the Distribution Requirement with courses taken A student cannot use the same course to meet both the while in residence at Bryn Mawr during the academic Language and distribution requirements. A student may year. Students may use credits transferred from other use credits transferred from other institutions to satisfy institutions to satisfy these requirements only with prior these requirements only with prior approval. approval. AP, A level, or IB credits may not be used to Distribution Requirement: Approaches to Inquiry satisfy any of these requirements, although they might The student’s course of study in the major provides the allow a student to place into a more advanced course. opportunity to acquire a depth of disciplinary knowledge. Emily Balch Seminar Requirement In order to ensure exposure to a broad range of The Emily Balch Seminars aim to engage students frameworks of knowledge and modes of analysis, the in thinking about broad intellectual questions within College has a distribution requirement that directs and across disciplines and to teach close reading and the student to engage in studies across a variety of cogent writing. The seminars help prepare students fields, exposes her to emerging areas of scholarship, for a modern world that demands critical thinking and and prepares her to live in a global society and within effective communication both within and outside of the diverse communities. The aim of this distribution frameworks of particular disciplines. Students must requirement is to provide a structure to ensure a robust attain a grade of 2.0 or higher in the seminar in order to intellectual complement to the student’s disciplinary satisfy this requirement. work in the major. Before the start of the senior year, each student must Quantitative Requirement have completed, with grades of 2.0 or higher, one unit in Each student must demonstrate the application of the each of the following Approaches to Inquiry: quantitative skills needed to succeed in her professional and personal life as well as many social and natural 1. Scientific Investigation (SI):understanding science courses by either a) earning a satisfactory score the natural world by testing hypotheses against on the SAT, the ACT or a comparable test, or b) earning observational evidence. 36 The Academic Program

These are courses in which the student engages requirements of the major. No more than one course in in the observational and analytical practices any given department may be used to satisfy distribution that aim at producing causal understandings of requirements. the natural world. They engage students in the process of making observations or measurements The Major and evaluating their consistency with models, In order to ensure that a student’s education involves hypotheses or other accounts of the natural not simply exposure to many disciplines but also some world. In most, but not all, cases this will involve degree of mastery in at least one, she must choose an participation in a laboratory experience and will go area to be the focus of her work in the last two years at beyond describing the process of model testing the College. or the knowledge that comes from scientific investigation. The following is a list of major subjects. 2. Critical Interpretation (CI): critically interpreting Anthropology works, such as texts, objects, artistic creations and Astronomy (Haverford College) performances, through a process of close-reading. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biology These courses engage students in the practice of Chemistry interpreting the meanings of texts, objects, artistic Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology creations, or performances (whether one’s own or Classical Culture and Society the work of others) through “close-reading” of those Classical Languages works. Comparative Literature 3. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC): analyzing the Computer Science variety of societal systems and patterns of behavior East Asian Languages and Cultures across space. Economics These courses encourage the student’s English engagement with communities and cultures Fine Arts (Haverford College) removed from her own. Using the tools, French and Francophone Studies methodologies and practices that inform our Geology scholarship, students will develop a clearer and German and German Studies richer sense of what it means to analyze or interpret Greek a human life or community within a “culture.” A Growth and Structure of Cities central goal is to overcome the tendency to think History that our own culture is the only one that matters. History of Art Italian 4. Inquiry into the Past (IP): inquiring into the International Studies development and transformation of human Latin experience over time. Linguistics (Tri-College Major) These courses encourage the student to engage Linguistics and Languages (Tri-College Major) intellectually with peoples, communities, and polities Mathematics existing in a different historical context. Using the Music (Haverford College) tools, methodologies and practices that inform our Philosophy scholarship, students will develop a clearer and Physics richer sense of what it means to analyze or interpret Political Science a human life or community in the past. The aim is Psychology to have students view cultures, peoples, polities, Religion (Haverford College) events, and institutions on their own terms, rather Romance Languages than through the lens of the present. Russian Sociology These Approaches are not confined to any particular Spanish department or discipline. Each course that satisfies the distribution requirement will focus on one (or Each student must declare her major subject before possibly two) of these Approaches. The distribution the end of the sophomore year. The minimum course classifications can be found in the course guide and requirement in the major subject shall be eight course in BiONiC, and students should work with their deans units of which at least one course must be writing and advisers to craft their course plan. Although some intensive (or the equivalent attention to writing in two courses may be classified as representing more than courses) at the 200 or 300 level. one Approach to Inquiry, a student may use any given The process of declaring a major is part of the course to satisfy only one of the four Approaches. Sophomore Planning Process. Students consult with the Only one course within the major department may be departmental adviser and complete a major work plan, used to satisfy both the distribution requirement and the The Academic Program 37 which the student then shares with the dean. Students interested in the Independent Major Program No student may choose to major in a subject in which should attend the informational teas and meet she has incurred a failure, or in which her average is with Assistant Dean Raima Evan in the fall of their below 2.0. sophomore year. In designing an independent major, students must enlist two faculty members to serve as A student may double major with the consent of both advisers. One, who acts as director of the program, major departments and of her dean Even when a must be a member of the Bryn Mawr faculty; the other double major has been approved, scheduling conflicts may be a member of either the Bryn Mawr or Haverford may occur which make it impossible for a student to faculty. To propose an independent major, students complete the plan. must submit completed applications by the following Students may choose to major in any department deadlines: at Haverford College, in which case they must meet • the end of the first week of classes in the spring of the major requirements of Haverford College and the the sophomore year (for students hoping to study degree requirements of Bryn Mawr College. Procedures abroad during one or two semesters of the junior for selecting a Haverford major are available from the year), or Haverford Dean’s Office at all times and are sent to all sophomores in the early spring. • the end of the fourth week of classes in the spring of the sophomore year (for students planning to Declaring a major is one element of the Sophomore remain at Bryn Mawr throughout the junior year), or Planning Process. An up-to-date overview of the Process and details about each of the components will • the end of the fourth week of classes in the fall of be posted on the Dean’s Office website each fall. the junior year (for juniors) Every student working for an A.B. degree is expected to maintain grades of 2.0 or higher in all courses in her The application for an independent major consists of the major subject. A student who receives a grade below 2.0 following components: in a course in her major is reported to the Committee • A proposal developed in conversation with the on Academic Standing and may be required to change advisers that describes the student’s reasons for her major. If, at the end of her junior year, a student designing the independent major and explains has a major-subject grade point average below 2.0, why her interests cannot be accommodated by she must change her major. If she has no alternative an established major or a combination of an major, she will be excluded from the College. A student established major and a minor or concentration. who is excluded from the College is not eligible for . The proposal should identify the key intellectual readmission. questions her major will address and explain how Each department sets its own standards and criteria for each proposed course contributes to the exploration honors in the major, with the approval of the Curriculum of those questions. Committee. Students should see departments for • An independent major work plan of 11 to 14 details. courses, at least seven of which must be taken at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. The plan will include up to The Independent Major Program two courses at the 100 level and at least four at the The Independent Major Program is designed for 300 or 400 level, including at least one semester of students whose interests cannot be accommodated by a senior project or thesis (403). an established departmental major. An independent • Supporting letters from the two faculty advisers, major is a rigorous, coherent and structured plan of discussing the academic merits of the independent study involving courses from the introductory through major work plan and the student’s ability to the advanced level in a recognized field within the liberal complete it. arts. Independent majors must be constructed largely from courses offered at Bryn Mawr and Haverford • Confirmation from the student’s dean that the Colleges. student is mature and independent enough to successfully complete an independent major. The following is a list of some recent independent majors: • A copy of the student’s transcript, which will be supplied by the Dean’s Office. • Creative Writing The Independent Majors Committee, composed of four • Dance faculty members, two students and one dean, evaluates the proposals on a case-by-case basis. Their decisions • Public Health are final. The fact that a particular topic was approved in • Sociology of Education the past is no guarantee that it will be approved again. • Theater The committee considers the following issues: 38 The Academic Program

• Is the proposed major appropriate within the context their first semester of Freshmen year at Bryn Mawr of a liberal arts college? College. If an exceptional situation prevents a • Could the proposed major be accommodated student from completing Wellness in her freshmen instead by an established major and minor? year she must complete the course in its entirety during the sophomore year. • Does the proposal convey its intellectual concerns Core Requirements Credit Total: 3 Credits and the role each course will play in this inquiry? General Electives–Students are required to accrue • Are the proposed courses expected to be offered a minimum of 3 credits through General Elective over the next two years? opportunities. Students are encouraged to explore a • Will the faculty members be available for good wide variety of opportunities available to them in the advising? completion of the General Elective requirement. • Does the student’s record predict success in the 1. PE Classes (1-2 Credits) proposed major? Credits determined by the Department of Athletics, If the committee approves the proposed major and Physical Education and Recreation its title, the student declares an independent major. The committee continues to monitor the progress of 2. Dance Classes (Credit Varies) students who have declared independent majors and Dance classes may be used for academic or must approve, along with the advisers, any changes Physical Education credit but not both. Classes are in the program. A grade of 2.0 or higher is required for awarded PE credit on a quarter or semester basis. all courses in the independent major. If this standard is not met, the student must change immediately to a 3. Bi-Co/Tri-Co PE Classes (Credit Varies) departmental major. 4. Varsity Athletics and Club Sports (combined max 2 credits/year) Physical Education Requirement a. Varsity Athletics - Maximum of 2 Credits/Year The Department of Athletics, Physical Education (P.E.), b. Club Sports - Maximum of 1 Credit/Year and Recreation (the Department) affirms the College’s long standing commitment towards excellence in all A student may only earn 2 credits in a single areas of growth and development. The Department’s academic year from the combined category current programming allows opportunities to promote of Varsity Athletics and Club Sports if she has self-awareness, confidence, skill development, and competed in a Varsity Sport. Also, No student may habits that contribute towards a healthy lifestyle. earn more than 2 credits in single academic year Specific curricula towards this mission, through from the combined category of Varsity Athletics Intercollegiate Athletics, Physical Education, Wellness, and Club Sports, no matter how many different and Recreation, are designed to educate the current programs she participates. student and enhance the quality of campus life. 5. Independent Study - must be preapproved (max 2 All students matriculating for the 2011 Fall semester credits) or any semester thereafter will be required to earn As an undergraduate a student may earn a or receive credit for a minimum of 6 units of Physical maximum of 2 credits through the completion of Education. Independent Study. FIRST YEAR STUDENTS 6. Special Offerings (Credit Varies) For students entering as first years, the 6 unit Physical Condensed department sponsored recreational Education requirement is broken into two sections, Core classes that fall outside of traditional academic Requirements and General Electives (please note that time blocks (i.e. Wilderness First Aid, Lifeguard students must fulfill the requirements in both sections Certification, RAD). and have a minimum of 6 PE credits on their Academic General Requirement Credit Total: 3 Credits Requirements Log in Bionic): TRANSFER and MCBRIDE STUDENTS Core Requirements: PE requirement for Transfer and McBride students will 1. Swim Proficiency Requirement (1 Credit) be generated by the Registrar’s office when student’s a. Pass the swim academic standing is evaluated. Students entering with first year academic standing will be recognized as first -OR- years for the purpose of determining PE requirements. b. Take 1 Beginner Class (if test cannot be passed) Transfer students will be award PE place holders for 2. Wellness Class (2 Credits) semesters above first year that align with their academic standing, such that the graduation requirement will still Students must complete the Wellness Class during be 6 credits (Note: In effect, all students will need to Academic Regulations 39 get to 6 credits and have either taken or been awarded ACADEMIC REGULATIONS credit for all core requirements. The only difference will be that transfer and McBride students will be Registration awarded place markers to reflect the reduced number of semesters they are anticipated to be on campus.). Each semester, all Bryn Mawr students preregister for the next semester’s courses in consultation with their For example: A transfer or McBride student coming in as deans or faculty advisers. Once a student has selected a first semester sophomore would be awarded a place a major, the student must consult the major adviser; holder for the First Year Wellness Course (2 credits) prior to that, the student consults the dean. Failure and be expected to earn credit for the swim requirement to preregister means a student is excluded from any (1 credit) and 3 credits of General Elective PE. The necessary enrollment lotteries. student would earn a total of 4 credits (swim + General Electives), but Bionic will show a total of 6 credits (Swim Students must then confirm their registration on the + General Electives + Wellness Place holder) indicating announced days at the beginning of each semester that the student is complete. according to the procedures published on the Dean’s Office website..Failure to confirm registration results in Residency Requirement a $25 fine. Each student must complete six full-time semesters and Students normally carry a complete program of four earn a minimum of 24 academic units while in residence courses (four units) each semester. Requests for at Bryn Mawr. These may include courses taken at exceptions must be presented to the student’s dean Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and the University or, in the case of an accommodation for a disability, of Pennsylvania during the academic year. Exceptions arranged through the Access Services Office. Students to this requirement for transfer students entering as may not register for more than five courses (five units) second-semester sophomores or juniors are considered per semester. Requests for more than five units are at the time of matriculation. presented to the Special Cases Subcommittee of the Committee on Academic Standing for approval. The senior year must be spent in residence. Seven of the last 16 units must be earned in residence. Students Credit/No Credit Option do not normally spend more than the equivalent of four years completing the work of the A.B. degree. A student may take four units over four years, not more than one in any semester, under the Credit/No Credit Exceptions (CR/NC) option. A student registered for five courses is not permitted a second CR/NC registration. All requests for exceptions to the above regulations are presented to the Special Cases Subcommittee of Transfer students may take one CR/NC unit for each the Committee on Academic Standing for approval. year they spend at Bryn Mawr, based on class year at Normally, a student consults her dean and prepares a entrance. written statement to submit to the committee. A student registered for a course under either the graded or the CR/NC option is considered a regular Eligibility to Participate in member of the class and must meet all the academic Commencement Ceremony commitments of the course on schedule. The instructor is not notified of the student’s CR/NC registration A student must have completed all degree requirements because this information should in no way affect the to be awarded the A.B. student’s responsibilities in the course. Donning full academic regalia (robe, mortarboard and Faculty members submit numerical grades for all hood) and being called to the stage at Commencement students in their courses. For students registered CR/ signify that a student has completed all degree NC, the registrar converts numerical grades of 1.0 and requirements. These honors are therefore reserved, above to CR and the grade of 0.0 to NC. Numerical without exception, for only those students who have equivalents of CR grades are available to each student completed all degree requirements. from the registrar, but once the CR/NC option is elected, Members of the graduating class who have not the grade is converted to its numerical equivalent on yet completed all degree requirements are invited the transcript only if the course becomes part of the to participate in Senior Week activities with their student’s major. classmates (or postpone until the year that they When a course is taken under the CR/NC option, the graduate), to don the robe to participate In Convocation, grade submitted by the faculty member is not factored and to attend Commencement as audience members. into the student’s grade point average. However, that They are further invited to return to participate fully in grade is taken into consideration when determining the Commencement in a future year once their degree student’s eligibility for magna cum laude and summa requirements are complete. cum laude distinctions. 40 Academic Regulations

Students may not take any courses in their major regulation may be made jointly by the instructor and under the CR/NC option, but they may use it to take the appropriate dean only in cases when the student’s courses towards the Emily Balch Seminar, Quantitative, ability to complete the course is seriously impaired Quantitative and Mathematical Reasoning, Distribution due to unforeseen circumstances beyond her control. or Foreign Language Requirements. While all numerical The decision to withdraw from a Bryn Mawr course grades of 1.0 or better will be recorded on the transcript must take place before the final work for the course is as CR, the registrar will keep a record of whether due. If the course is at Haverford College, Haverford’s the course meets the 2.0 minimum needed to count deadlines apply. towards a requirement. It is the student’s responsibility to consult the Academic Requirements feature of the Half-Semester Courses student’s Student Center to determine whether a course Some departments offer half-credit, half-semester the student took CR/NC has satisfied a particular courses that run for seven weeks on a normal class requirement. schedule. These courses, which are as in-depth and as Students wishing to take a semester-long course CR/ fast-paced as full semester courses, provide students NC must sign the registrar’s register by the end of the with an opportunity to sample a wider variety of fields sixth week of classes. The deadline for half-semester and topics as they explore the curriculum (see Focus courses is the end of the third week of the half- Courses in “Academic Opportunities”). Note that half- semester. No student is permitted to sign up for CR/ semester courses follow registration deadlines that differ NC after these deadlines. Students who wish to register slightly from full semester courses. for CR/NC for year-long courses in which grades are given at the end of each semester must register CR/ Cooperation with Neighboring NC in each semester because CR/NC registration does Institutions not automatically continue into the second semester in those courses. Haverford students taking Bryn Mawr Students at Bryn Mawr may register for courses courses must register for CR/NC at the Haverford at Haverford, Swarthmore and the University of Registrar’s Office. Pennsylvania during the academic year without payment of additional fees according to the procedures Course Options outlined below. This arrangement does not apply to summer programs. Credit toward the Bryn Mawr degree Most departments allow students to pursue independent (including the residency requirement) is granted for study as supervised work, provided that a professor such courses with the approval of the student’s dean, agrees to supervise the work. Students pursuing and grades are included in the calculation of the grade independent study usually register for a course in that point average. Bryn Mawr also has a limited exchange department numbered 403 and entitled “Supervised program with Villanova University. Work,” unless the department has another numerical Virtually all undergraduate courses at Haverford College designation for independent study. Students should are fully open to Bryn Mawr students. Students register consult with their deans if there are any questions for Haverford courses in exactly the same manner as regarding supervised work. they do for Bryn Mawr courses, and throughout most Students may audit courses with the permission of the of the semester will follow Bryn Mawr procedures. If instructor, if space is available in the course. There extensions beyond the deadline for written work or are no extra charges for audited courses, and they are beyond the exam period are necessary, the student not listed on the transcript. Students may not register must be in compliance with both Bryn Mawr and to take the course for credit after the stated date for Haverford regulations. Confirmation of Registration. Many Swarthmore courses are open to Bryn Mawr Some courses are designated as limited enrollment. students in good academic standing, but on a space- BiONiC provides details about restrictions. If consent of available basis. To register for a Swarthmore course the instructor is required, the student is responsible for the student must obtain the instructor’s signature on securing permission. If course size is limited, the final a Swarthmore registration form. The student submits course list is determined by lottery. Only those students a copy of the Swarthmore form to the Swarthmore who have preregistered for a course will be considered registrar’s office in Parrish Hall and a copy of the form to for a lottery. the Bryn Mawr registrar’s office. Students who confirm their registration for five courses Bryn Mawr students in good academic standing may may drop one course through the third week of the register for up to two courses per semester at the semester. After the third week, students taking five University of Pennsylvania on a space-available basis, courses are held to the same standards and calendars provided that the course does not focus on material as students enrolled in four courses. that is covered by courses at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. No student may withdraw from a course after Scheduling problems are not considered an adequate confirmation of registration, unless it is a fifth course reason for seeking admission to a course at Penn. dropped as described above. Exceptions to this These courses will normally be liberal arts courses Academic Regulations 41 offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. However, Conduct of Courses over her time at Bryn Mawr, a student may count towards her degree up to four courses taught outside Regular attendance at classes is expected. the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Responsibility for attendance—and for learning the Pennsylvania. To ensure that students spend their first instructor’s standards for attendance—rests solely two years exploring the liberal arts curriculum, gaining with each student. Absences for illness or other urgent breadth, and preparing for a major, students will enroll reasons will normally be excused, and it is the student’s in no such courses during the first year of study and responsibility to contact her instructors and, if necessary, no more than one such course in the sophomore year. her dean, in a timely fashion to explain her absence. These courses must be taken during the fall or spring The student should consult her instructors about making semesters; summer courses are excluded. up the work. If it seems probable to the dean that a student’s work may be seriously handicapped by the Complete information on the process of requesting length of her absence, the dean may require the student and registering for a Penn course is available on the to withdraw from a course or from the entire semester. Bryn Mawr Registrar’s website. Bryn Mawr students must meet all Penn deadlines for dropping and adding Quizzes, Examinations and Extensions courses and must make arrangements for variations in academic calendars. Note that Bryn Mawr students Announced quizzes—written tests of an hour or less— cannot shop Penn classes. Students should consult are given at intervals throughout most courses. The their deans or the Bryn Mawr registrar’s office if they number of quizzes and their length are determined have any questions about Penn courses or registration by the instructor. Unannounced quizzes may also be procedures. included in the work of any course. If a student is absent without previous excuse from a quiz, the student may Bryn Mawr juniors and seniors in good academic be penalized at the discretion of the instructor. The standing may take one course per semester in the weight is decided by the instructor. If a student has been College of Arts and Sciences at Villanova University on excused from a quiz because of illness or some other a space-available basis, provided that the course is not emergency, a make-up quiz is often arranged. offered at Bryn Mawr or Haverford. If the course is fully enrolled, Bryn Mawr students can be admitted only with An examination is required of all students in the permission of the Villanova instructor. This exchange undergraduate courses, except when the work for is limited to superior students for work in their major or the course is satisfactorily tested by other means. If a in an allied field. Students must have permission of both student fails to appear at the proper time for a self- their major adviser and their dean. scheduled, scheduled or deferred examination, or fails to return a take-home exam, the student is counted as Courses at Villanova may be taken only for full grade having failed the examination. and credit; Bryn Mawr students may not elect Villanova’s pass/fail option for a Villanova course. Credits earned at A student may have an examination deferred by the Villanova are treated as transfer credits; students must student’s dean only in the case of illness or some other earn grades of C or better to transfer Villanova courses, emergency. When the deferral means postponement to the grades are not included in the student’s grade point a date after the conclusion of the examination period, average, and these courses do not count toward the the student must ordinarily take the examination at the residency requirement. next Deferred Examination Period. In order to register for a course at Villanova, the student Within the semester, the instructor in each course is should consult the Villanova Course Guide, and obtain responsible for setting the date when all written reports, a registration form to be signed by her major adviser essays, critical papers and laboratory reports are due. and returned to the Dean’s Office. The Dean’s Office The instructor may grant permission for extensions forwards all registration information to Villanova; within the semester; the written permission of the dean students do not register at Villanova. Students enrolled is not required. Instructors may ask students to inform in a course at Villanova are subject to Villanova’s their dean of the extension or may themselves inform regulations and must meet all Villanova deadlines the dean that they have granted an extension. regarding dropping/adding, withdrawal and completion Two deadlines are important to keep in mind when of work. It is the student’s responsibility to make planning for the end of the semester. Assignments due arrangements for variations in academic calendars. during the semester proper must be handed in by 5 p.m. Students should consult their deans if they have any on the last day of written work, which is the last day of questions about Villanova courses or registration classes. Final exams or final papers written in lieu of procedures. exams must be handed in by 12:30 p.m. on the last day Bryn Mawr students enrolled in courses at Swarthmore, of the exam period. Note that the exam period ends the University of Pennsylvania, or Villanova are subject earlier for seniors. These deadlines are noted on the to the regulations of these institutions. It is the student’s registrar’s website. responsibility to inform herself about and to remain in During the course of the semester, if a student is unable compliance with these regulations as well as with Bryn to complete the work for reasons the student cannot Mawr regulations. control, the student should contact the professor in 42 Academic Regulations advance of the deadline, if at all possible, to request an 1.7 C- extension. Extensions are generally not given after a deadline has already passed. 1.3 D+ PASSING, BELOW MERIT Requests for extensions that go into the exam period 1.0 D or beyond involve conversations between the student, 0.0 F FAILING professor, and dean. A student should contact both Once reported to the registrar, a grade may be altered her professor and her dean before the due date of the by the faculty member who originally submitted the assignment in question. The dean and the professor grade, or by the department or program chair on behalf must agree to all terms of the extension. Normally, the of the absent faculty member, by submitting a change- dean will support such an extension only if the delay of-grade form with a notation of the reason for the results from circumstances beyond a student’s control, change. Once reported to the registrar, no grade may be such as illness or family or personal emergency. Once changed after one year except by vote of the faculty. the terms of the extension are agreed upon, the dean fills out an extension form, which is then submitted to Repeating Courses the registrar. With the permission of the instructor, a student who If the instructor has not received a student’s work by fails a course may enroll in it a second time. The initial the end of the exam period, the instructor will submit a enrollment and failing grade remain on the student’s grade of Incomplete if an extension has been agreed transcript and count towards the overall GPA. upon. An Incomplete is a temporary grade. Once the student submits her work, the Incomplete will be In extraordinary circumstances, a student who receives replaced by the numerical grade which is the student’s a grade of 1.0, 1.3 or 1.7 may repeat the course final grade in the class. after receiving the permission of the Special Cases Committee.The student would receive a unit of credit If a student does not meet the date set in her extension, for the first attempt only. However, both grades would and does not request and receive a further extension, count toward the overall GPA.With the permission of the the instructor is required to submit a final grade. Committee, a student may repeat up to two courses, When official extensions are not received by the and not more than one in any semester. registrar from the dean, and the instructor submits a grade of Incomplete or fails to submit a grade, that Satisfactory Academic Progress grade is temporarily recorded on the transcript as an Unauthorized Incomplete. No grade, except a failure, The following guidelines regarding satisfactory can be recorded in place of an Unauthorized Incomplete academic progress meet the standards set by the without an extension or other appropriate action taken Faculty of Bryn Mawr College and those mandated by jointly by the student’s dean and instructor. the Department of Education. Seniors must submit all written work and complete 1. Qualitative Measures for Satisfactory Progress exams by 5 p.m. on the Saturday before senior grades toward the Degree: Academic Standard of Work are due in the Registrar’s Office. Extensions beyond At the close of every semester, the Committee on that deadline cannot be granted to any senior who Academic Standing (CAS) reviews the records of all expects to graduate that year. students who have failed to meet the college’s academic Specific dates for all deadlines are published standard of work. The record of any student who and circulated by the registrar. It is the student’s has received a grade below 2.0 in a course might be responsibility to inform herself of these dates. reviewed (see below). Upon review, students must meet the requirements set by CAS in order to regain good Grading and Academic Record standing at the college. The Merit Rule requires that a student attain grades of Grading Letter Grade Explanation 2.0 or higher in at least one half of the total number of Scale Equivalent courses taken while at Bryn Mawr. Courses from which 4.0 A MERIT the student has withdrawn are not considered. Covered 3.7 A- Merit grades range from grades for courses which the student elects to take Credit / No Credit are considered. The student may be 3.3 B+ 4.0 (outstanding) to 2.0 (satisfactory). Courses in excluded from the College at the close of any semester 3.0 B which students earn merit in which the student has failed to meet this requirement 2.7 B- grades can be used to and is automatically excluded if more than one-half of the student’s work falls below 2.0 at the close of the 2.3 C+ satisfy major, minor, and curricular requirements. student’s junior year. A student who is excluded from the 2.0 C College is not eligible for readmission. The Standard of Work in the Major requires that every student working for an A.B. degree maintain grades Academic Regulations 43 of 2.0 or higher in all courses in the major subject. No 67% of all courses attempted in any single semester student may choose as the major subject one in which and at least 67% cumulatively. Courses in which a the student has received a grade below 1.0 or one in student has earned the following grades for any reason, which the student’s average is below 2.0. A student including non-attendance, will count as units attempted receiving a grade below 2.0 in any course in the major but not completed: W (withdrawal), 0.0 (failure), NC subject (including a course taken at another institution) (a failure earned in a course taken credit / no credit), is reported to the Committee on Academic Standing. or NGR (no grade). Officially dropped and unofficially After consulting with the student’s major department, the audited courses count as neither units attempted nor Committee may require the student to change the major. completed. Courses in which a student has earned a At the end of the junior year, a student having a major grade of UI (unauthorized incomplete) or I (incomplete) subject average below 2.0 must change the major. If the will not be counted as a unit attempted until the final student has no alternative major, the student is excluded grade has been assigned. These standards apply from the College and is not eligible for readmission. to students enrolled in dual degree programs. The Repeated Failure: A student who has incurred a grade of maximum time frame for a transfer student may not 0.0 or NC following a previous 0.0 or NC will be reported exceed 150% of the thirty-two units minus the number of to the Committee on Academic Standing. units accepted for transfer at the point of matriculation. Any student who is unable to meet this expectation may Deterioration of Work: A student whose work meets petition her dean for an exception. these specific standards but whose record has deteriorated (for example, who has earned two or more Acceptance into a Major Program: grades below merit) will be reported to the Committee By the end of the sophomore year, every student on Academic Standing. must have declared a major. At the end of her fourth semester, any student who has failed to meet 2. Quantitative Measures for Satisfactory Progress this expectation must petition the Special Cases toward the Degree Subcommittee of the Committee on Academic Standing Students may request exceptions to these quantitative for an exception. Students who are not granted measures by petitioning their deans or the Special an exception will be brought to the attention of the Cases Subcommittee of the Committee on Academic Committee on Academic Standing. Standing. Only the records of those students who fail to meet these standards or to secure an exception will be Completion of requirements: reviewed at the close of the semester by the Committee Before the start of the sophomore year, all students on Academic Standing (CAS). Upon review, students must have completed the Emily Balch Seminar must meet the requirements set by CAS in order to Requirement. At the end of her second semester, regain good standing at the college. any student who has failed to meet this expectation must petition the Special Cases Subcommittee of the Units: Committee on Academic Standing for an exception. Thirty-two units are required to complete the A.B. Students who are not granted an exception will be degree. Students normally carry a complete program brought to the attention of the Committee on Academic of four courses (four units) each semester and are Standing. expected to complete the full-time course of study in eight enrolled semesters. A student may register for 3.0, Before the start of the junior year, all students who 3.5, 4.5 or 5.0 units per semester with the approval of matriculated in August 2011 or later must have the student’s dean. To enroll in 5.5 units, the student completed the physical education requirement. At the must also secure the permission of the Special Cases end of her fourth semester, any student who has failed Subcommittee of the Committee on Academic Standing. to meet this expectation must petition the Department of Athletics for an exception. Students who are not granted Pace: an exception will be brought to the attention of the Full-time students must earn a minimum of fifteen units Committee on Academic Standing. before the start of the junior year. These units may Before the start of the senior year, all students must include transfer credits. At the end of her second, third have completed all remaining requirements, including or fourth semester, any student who is unable to present the distribution, foreign language and quantitative to her dean a viable plan to meet this expectation requirements, and for students who matriculated prior must petition the Special Cases Subcommittee of the to August 2011, the physical education requirement. Committee on Academic Standing for an exception. At the end of her sixth semester, any student who is Students who are not granted an exception will be unable to present to her dean a viable plan to meet brought to the attention of the Committee on Academic this expectation must petition the Special Cases Standing. Subcommittee of the Committee on Academic Standing All students must be on pace to complete the A.B. for an exception. Students who are not granted degree within 150% of the standard thirty-two units. To an exception will be brought to the attention of the meet these guidelines, students must complete at least Committee on Academic Standing. 44 Academic Regulations

3. Procedure: The Committee on Academic she has met the expectations set by the CAS and Standing (CAS) can demonstrate that she is ready to do satisfactory At the end of every semester, the Committee on work at the college. Students who hope to return in Academic Standing (CAS) reviews the records of September must submit a re-enrollment application all students who have failed to meet the academic and all supporting materials by May 1. Those who hope standards of the College or to make satisfactory to return in January must submit their application and progress towards the degree. A student whose record materials by November 1. Re-enrollment applications is reviewed by CAS must meet the requirements set by are reviewed by CAS in June and in December. CAS in order to regain good standing at the college. Cumulative Grade Point Averages Each student whose record is reviewed will receive an official report from the Committee which lays out an In calculating cumulative grade-point averages, grades academic plan and specifies the standards the student behind CR, NC or NNG are not included. Summer must meet by the end of the following semester or school grades from Bryn Mawr earned on this campus before returning to the College. In addition, the report are included, as are summer school grades earned may place restrictions upon a student’s course load or from the Bryn Mawr programs at Avignon. No other course selection. The student will also receive a letter summer school grades are included. Term-time grades from her dean. The student’s parent(s) or guardian(s) from Haverford College, Swarthmore College and the will be notified that the student’s record has been University of Pennsylvania earned on the exchange reviewed by the Committee and informed of any are included. Term-time grades transferred from other resulting change in student status. institutions are not included. Any student previously in good standing whose record Distinctions has been reviewed will be put on academic warning or major subject warning the following semester, or The A.B. degree may be conferred cum laude, magna the semester of the student’s return if the student has cum laude and summa cum laude. been required to withdraw. If the student receives Cum laude financial aid, the student will also receive a financial aid warning. While on academic or major subject warning, All students with cumulative grade point averages of the student will be required to meet regularly with the 3.40 or higher, calculated as described above, are student’s dean and the student’s instructors will be eligible to receive the degree cum laude. asked to submit mid-semester reports regarding the Magna cum laude student’s work. If the student meets the standards To determine eligibility for magna cum laude, grade specified by the committee, the student regains good point averages are recalculated to include grades standing. If the student fails to meet the standards, the covered by CR, NC and NNG. All students with student may appeal to CAS for permission to return on recalculated grade point averages of 3.60 or higher are academic probation or major subject probation (and, if eligible to receive the degree magna cum laude. appropriate, for a semester of financial aid probation). The student’s appeal should specify the reasons the Summa cum laude student failed to make satisfactory academic progress To determine eligibility for summa cum laude, grade (such as health issues, family crises, or other special point averages are recalculated to include grades circumstance) and the changes that have taken place covered by CR, NC and NNG. The 10 students with the that ensure that the the student can make satisfactory highest recalculated grade point averages in the class progress in the upcoming semester. The student may receive the degree summa cum laude, provided their supply documentation to support the appeal. recalculated grade point averages equal or exceed 3.80. Any student whose record is reviewed by CAS or who appeals to CAS to return on academic probation or Credit for Work Done Elsewhere major subject probation may be required to withdraw All requests for transfer credit are approved by the from the College and present evidence that she can do Registrar. The following minimal guidelines are not satisfactory work before being readmitted on probation. exhaustive. To ensure that work done elsewhere will A withdrawn student may not register for classes at the be eligible for credit, students must obtain approval for College until she has been readmitted. The CAS may transfer credit before enrolling. These guidelines apply also recommend to the president that the student be to all of the specific categories of transfer credit listed excluded from the College. An excluded student is not below. eligible for readmission to the College. • Only liberal arts courses taken at accredited four- 4. Readmission process for students who have year colleges and universities will be considered for been required to withdraw transfer. A student who has been required by the CAS to • Four semester credits (or six quarter credits) are withdraw may apply to return on probation when equivalent to one unit of credit at Bryn Mawr. Academic Regulations 45

• A minimum grade of 2.0 or C or better is required Work done prior to matriculation: Students may for transfer. Grades of C minus or “credit” are not receive up to four units of transfer credit for courses acceptable. taken at a college prior to graduation from secondary • No on-line, correspondence or distance learning school. The courses must have been taught on the courses, even those sponsored by an accredited college campus (not in the high school) and have been four-year institution, are eligible for transfer. open to students matriculated at that college. The courses cannot have been counted toward secondary • The Registrar cannot award credit without the school graduation requirements. These courses may receipt of an official transcript from the outside include those taken at a community college. In all other institution recording the course completed and the respects, requests for transfer credit for work done prior final grade. to secondary school graduation are subject to the same To count a transferred course towards a College provisions, procedures and limits as all other requests requirement (such as an Approach), a student must for transfer credit. obtain prior approval from her dean, the Registrar, and Transfer Students: Students who transfer to Bryn the Special Cases Committee. Mawr from another institution may transfer a total of Domestic study away: Students who wish to receive eight units. These courses may include those taken credit for a semester or a year away from Bryn Mawr at a community college. Exceptions to the eight as full-time students at another institution in the United unit limit for second-semester sophomores and for States must have the institution and their programs juniors are considered at the time of the student’s approved in advance by their dean, major adviser, the transfer application. Credit for work completed before registrar, and other appropriate departments. Students matriculating at Bryn Mawr will be calculated as with citizenship outside the United States may also be described above. eligible to have a period of study at a university in their home country considered domestic study away. Credit for Test Scores Domestic Summer Work: Students who wish to Students may use honor scores on Advanced receive credit for summer school work at an institution Placement, International Baccalaureate, A-Level and in the United States must have the institutions, their other exams to enter advanced courses. They may programs and the courses they will take approved in also petition to count honor scores as transfer credits advance by the Registrar. Students must present to the towards the 32 units needed to graduate in order to Registrar an official transcript within one semester of graduate in six or seven semesters rather than eight, completion of the course. A total of no more than four or to avoid falling behind when they receive permission units earned in summer school may be counted toward to enroll in a reduced course load, when they must the degree; of these, no more than two units may be withdraw from a course, or when they fail a course. earned in any one summer. A maximum of 8 units of transfer credit may be used towards the degree with exceptions made for transfer Study Abroad: Bryn Mawr maintains a list of approved students at the time of the student’s application. programs and accepts credit from more than seventy Students may not count test credit towards general programs and universities in over thirty countries. education requirements, including the Emily Balch Students, who plan to study abroad during the academic Seminar, the Approaches to Inquiry, Quantitative, and year, must obtain the approval of the Study Abroad Foreign Language requirements. Committee in addition to that of their deans, major advisers, Registrar and other appropriate departments. Students must enroll in a normal full-time (15-16 credits) Departure from the College Prior to program at their study abroad program. Graduation Summer Study Abroad: Students must obtain pre- All students who leave Bryn Mawr prior to graduation approval of the institutions/programs and the courses are expected to see their dean to discuss their situation they wish to take abroad for credit. Students must and their plans for the future, and to learn about the re- request an official transcript from the summer study enrollment process. At that meeting, the dean will file a abroad program to be sent to the Registrar within one Notice of Departure. If a student notifies the dean of the semester of completion of the course(s). Students intention to withdraw but fails to appear in person, the who participate in a Bryn Mawr summer program dean will file the Notice of Departure within 5 business (e.g., Institut d’Etudes Francaises d’Avignon, Russian days of notification. Language Institute, and International Summer School Medical Leaves of Absence in China) do not need to obtain pre-approval for their A student may, on the recommendation of the College’s courses. A total of no more than four units earned in medical director or the student’s own doctor, at any summer school may be counted toward the degree; of time request a medical leave of absence for reasons these, no more than two units may be earned in any one of health. The College reserves the right to require a summer. student to take a leave of absence if, in the judgment of 46 Academic Regulations the medical director and the student’s dean, the student counselor with whom the student has worked while on is not in sufficiently good health to meet academic leave to contact the appropriate person at the College’s commitments or to continue in residence at the College. Health Center. Permission to return from a medical leave is granted when the Dean’s Office and the Medical leaves of absence for psychological College’s Health Center receive satisfactory evidence reasons of recovery and believe that the student is ready to A student may experience psychological difficulties resume studies. Students who are eligible to return in that interfere with the ability to function at college. September must submit all application materials by Taking time away from college to pursue therapy May 1. Those who are eligible to return in January must may be necessary. The College sees this decision as submit their materials by November 1. restorative, not punitive. With evidence of sufficient improvement in health to be successful, Bryn Mawr Personal Leaves of Absence welcomes the student’s return. Medical leaves for Any student in good academic standing may apply psychological reasons normally last at least two for a one- or two-semester leave of absence from the full semesters to allow sufficient time for growth, College. The student should discuss plans with the reflection and meaningful therapy. Students who return student’s dean and authorize a Notice of Departure prematurely are often at higher risk of requiring a by June 1 or, for a leave beginning in the spring, by second leave of absence. November 1. During the leave of absence, the student is encouraged to remain in touch with the student’s dean Leaving the College and is expected to confirm intention to return to the Prior to leaving the college, the student meets with the College by March 1 (for return in the fall) or November 1 student’s dean to discuss the situation, plan for the (for return in the spring). future, and learn about the re-enrollment process. At that meeting, the dean will file a Notice of Departure. A student on a semester-long leave of absence who If the student is unable to appear in person, the dean chooses not to return at the scheduled time may ask to will file a Notice of Departure within 5 business days extend the student’s leave by one additional semester of notification.The student also authorizes the medical by notifying the student’s dean by the above deadlines. director or the director of counseling services to inform If a student on a leave of absence chooses not to return the dean of the medical condition that prompted the to the College after two semesters, the student’s status leave of absence and recommendations for treatment changes to “withdrawn”(see “Voluntary Withdrawal” for the duration of the leave. Failure to complete this below). step may compromise the student’s eligibility to return Voluntary Withdrawals to the College. If the student is working with a medical A student in good standing who leaves the College professional who is not affiliated with the college, the in the following circumstances will be categorized as student should give that person permission to speak “withdrawn” rather than on leave and will need to apply with the medical director or the director of counseling for permission to return (see below, “Permission to services before they provide their recommendations to Return After Withdrawal”): the dean. After leaving the college, the student may expect • if the student leaves the college in mid-semester to receive a follow-up letter from the student’s dean (unless the student qualifies instead for a medical along with a copy of the Notice of Departure and of the or psychological leave of absence), treatment recommendations of the Health Center. The • if the student matriculates as a degree candidate at student should expect that parents or guardians will another school, receive a letter from the dean and a copy of the Notice • if the student’s leave of absence has expired, or of Departure. The student is encouraged to share the Health Center’s recommendations with parents or • if the student loses good standing after having guardians. applied for a leave of absence. While away, the student is advised to avoid visiting Required Withdrawals Haverford or Bryn Mawr without receiving prior Any student may be required to withdraw from the permission from the student’s dean. Students who fail College because the student fails to meet the academic to follow this advice risk compromising their eligibility to standards of the College, because of an infraction of return to the College. the Honor Code or other community norm, or because Returning to the College the student is not healthy enough to meet academic commitments. When a student is ready to apply to return, the student should contact the student’s dean to discuss the In addition, any student whose behavior disrupts either student’s interest in returning. The application and the normal conduct of academic affairs or the conduct of instructions are available on the Dean’s Office website. life in the residence halls may be required to withdraw In addition, the student should ask the physician or by the Dean of the Undergraduate College. If the Academic Opportunties 47 student wishes to appeal the decision, the student may History ask the Dean to convene a Dean’s Panel. In cases of History of Art required withdrawal, no fees are refunded. International Studies Italian Permission to Return After Withdrawal Japanese Students who withdraw, whether by choice or as a result Latin of the above procedures, must apply for permission to Linguistics return. The application and instructions are available on Mathematics the Dean’s Office website. Students must submit their Middle Eastern Studies application and all supporting documents no later than Museum Studies May 1 (for return in the fall) or November 1 (for return in Music (at Haverford) the spring). Neuroscience Philosophy ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES Physics Political Science Minors and Concentrations Psychology Russian Many departments, but not all, offer a minor. Students Sociology should see departmental entries for details. The minor Spanish is not required for the A.B. degree. A minor usually Theater Studies consists of six units, with specific requirements to be determined by the department. Every candidate for the The concentration, which is not required for the degree, A.B. degree is expected to maintain grades of 2.0 or is a cluster of classes that overlap the major and focus a above in all course in her major, minor or concentration. student’s work on a specific area of interest: However, if a course taken under the Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) or Haverford College’s No Numerical Grade • Gender and Sexuality (NNG) option subsequently becomes part of a student’s • Geoarchaeology (with a major in Anthropology, minor or concentration but not part of her major, the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, or grade is not converted to its numerical equivalent. Geology) The following is a list of subjects in which students may • Latin-American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and elect to minor. Minors in departments or programs that Cultures do not offer majors appear in italics. • Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Africana Studies Anthropology Combined Degree Programs Astronomy (at Haverford) Biology A.B./M.A. Degree Program Chemistry The combined A.B./M.A. program lets the unusually Child and Family Studies well-prepared undergraduate student work toward a Chinese master’s degree while still completing her bachelor’s Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology degree. Students in this program complete the same Classical Culture and Society requirements for each degree as do students who Comparative Literature undertake the A.B. and then the M.A. sequentially, but Computational Methods they are able to work toward both degrees concurrently. Computer Science They are allowed to count up to two courses towards Creative Writing both degrees. A full description of requirements for the Dance program and application procedures appear on the East Asian Languages and Cultures Dean’s Office website. This opportunity is available in Economics those subjects in which the Graduate School of Arts and Education Sciences offers a master’s degree: English Environmental Studies Chemistry Film Studies Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology French and Francophone Studies French Gender and Sexuality Greek Studies Geology Latin Language and Roman Studies German and German Studies Classical Studies Greek History of Art Growth and Structure of Cities Mathematics Health Studies Physics 48 Academic Opportunties

3-2 Program in Engineering and Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, students Applied Science with California in the 4+1 Partnership would then matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania and complete her Master’s Institute of Technology Degree. Students who had already completed three A student interested in engineering and recommended graduate courses would be able to complete the degree by Bryn Mawr may, after completing three years of work (seven remaining courses) in one year. at the College, apply to transfer into the third year at Penn Engineering has posted information tailored to Caltech to complete two full years of work there. At the prospective 4+1 students on its website. Students end of five years she is awarded an A.B. degree by Bryn interested in this program should consult the 4+1 Mawr and a Bachelor of Science degree by Caltech. liaison for their major department, as well as their Programs are available in many areas of specialization. major adviser. It may be advisable for such students to In her three years at Bryn Mawr, the student must enroll in one or more introductory engineering courses complete a minimum of 24 units, most of the coursework at Penn during their sophomore year to learn more required by her major (normally physics or chemistry), about engineering and better prepare for graduate level and all other Bryn Mawr graduation requirements. courses. She must also complete all courses prescribed by Caltech. The Admissions Office at Caltech has posted 4+1 Partnership In Bioethics with the information tailored to prospective 3-2 students on its University of Pennsylvania website. Qualified Haverford and Bryn Mawr undergraduates Students do not register for this program in advance; may apply to gain early and expedited admission as rather, they complete a course of study that qualifies external “submatriculates” to the Master of Bioethics them for recommendation by the appropriate Caltech (MBE), an interdisciplinary degree program offered by 3-2 Plan Liaison Officer at Bryn Mawr College for the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy. application in the spring semester of their third year at the College. Approval of the student’s major department 3-2 Program in City and Regional is necessary at the time of application and for the Planning with the University of transfer of credit from the Caltech program to complete the major requirements at Bryn Mawr. Pennsylvania This arrangement with the Department of City and Students considering this option should consult the Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania program liaison in the Department of Physics or allows a student to earn an A.B. degree with a major in Chemistry at the time of registration for Semester the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr I of their first year and each semester thereafter to and a degree of Master of City Planning at the University ensure that all requirements are being completed on of Pennsylvania in five years. While at Bryn Mawr the a satisfactory schedule. Financial aid at Caltech is not student must complete all college-wide requirements and available to non-U.S. citizens. the basis of a major in the Growth and Structure of Cities 4+1 Partnership with the School of Program. The student applies to the M.C.P. program at Penn in her junior year. GRE scores will be required for Engineering and Applied Science at the the application. Students are encouraged to prepare for University of Pennsylvania the program by completing both URBS 204 and URBS The College’s 4+1 Partnership with the University 440 before entering the program. No courses taken of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied prior to official acceptance into the M.C.P. program may Science allows a student to begin work on a Master’s be counted toward the master’s degree, and no more degree in Engineering while still enrolled as an than eight courses may be double-counted toward both undergraduate at Bryn Mawr. Applicants are required to the A.B. and the M.C.P. after acceptance. For further major in math or a relevant science and to have major information students should consult Carola Hein early in and cumulative GPAs of at least 3.0 and a minimum their sophomore year. 3.0 GPA in all math, science, and engineering courses. Applicants are also encouraged to submit GRE scores. Combined Master’s and Teacher Successful applicants are permitted to take up to Certification Programs at the three graduate courses at Penn while undergraduates University of Pennsylvania, Graduate through the Quaker Consortium. These courses would School of Education (GSE ) count towards a student’s undergraduate degree and at the discretion of her major department might also Bryn Mawr and Haverford students interested in count towards a student’s major. Successful applicants obtaining both the M.S.Ed. degree as well as faculty may also be eligible to participate in Penn’s summer approval for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania undergraduate research program. teaching certificate may choose to submatriculate as undergraduates into the University of Pennsylvania’s Academic Opportunties 49

Graduate School of Education’s 10-month, urban- The College also participates in summer programs focused Master’s Program in Elementary or Secondary with American Councils Advanced Russian Language Education. Students usually submatriculate at the and Area Studies Program (RLASP) in Moscow, St. beginning of their junior year. Petersburg and other sites in Russia. These overseas Bryn Mawr and Haverford students who submatriculate programs are based at several leading Russian may take up to two graduate-level education courses universities and are open to Bryn Mawr students who at Penn while they are undergraduates (usually during have reached the intermediate level of proficiency in their junior or senior years) that will double count toward speaking and reading. Summer programs are 8 weeks both their undergraduate and graduate degrees. To in length and provide the equivalent of 2 course units submatriculate into the program, students must have of work in advanced Russian language and culture. a GPA of a 3.0 or above and a combined GRE score Many Bryn Mawr students also take part in the semester of at least 1000 and must complete an application for (4 units) or academic year (8 units) programs in admission. Russia as well. For further information about American Councils programs, students should consult the More information about the secondary education and Department of Russian or American Councils at www. elementary education master’s programs are available americancouncils.org. on the GSE website. Bryn Mawr offers an eight-week intensive summer 4+2 Master’s Program in China program in Russian language and culture on campus available through the Russian Language Institute (RLI). Studies with Zhejiang University The program is open to bi-college students as well as to Taught in English and designed for Bryn Mawr, qualified students from other colleges, universities, and Haverford and Swarthmore graduates, this two-year high schools. master’s program in China Studies includes courses The Russian Language Institute offers a highly- in a range of fields, such as history, economic focused curriculum (6 hours per day) and co-curricular development and contemporary Chinese Society and environment conducive to the rapid development of Culture. Graduating seniors and recent alumnae/i from linguistic and cultural proficiency. Course offerings are all major fields are encouraged to apply. All designed to accommodate a full range of language expenses will be paid by Zhejiang University. learners, from the beginner to the advanced learner (three levels total). This highly-intensive program Summer Language Programs provides the equivalent of a full academic year of Summer language programs offer students the Russian to participants who complete the program. opportunity to spend short periods of time studying a Students may use units completed at RLI to advance to language, conducting research and getting to know the next level of study at their home institution or to help another part of the world well. fulfill the language requirement. Most RLI participants elect to reside on-campus at the Russian-speaking Bryn Mawr offers a six-week summer program in residential hall, as part of the overall RLI learning Avignon, France. This total-immersion program is experience. designed for undergraduate and graduate students with a serious interest in French language, literature and culture. The faculty of the institut is composed of Study Abroad in the Junior Year professors teaching in colleges and universities in the Bryn Mawr believes that study abroad is a rewarding United States and Europe. Classes are held at the academic endeavor that when carefully incorporated Médiathèque Ceccano and other sites in Avignon; the into students’ academic career can enhance students’ facilities of the Médiathèque Ceccano as well as the language skills, broaden their academic preparation, Université d’Avignon library are available to the group. introduce them to new cultures, and enhance their Students are encouraged to live with French families or personal growth and independence. The College has in student residences. A certain number of independent approved over 90 programs in colleges and universities studios are also available. in other countries. In addition, students can participate Applicants for admission must have strong academic in a domestic exchange at Spelman College through records and have completed a course in French at a the Bryn Mawr-Spelman Exchange Program. Students third-year college level or the equivalent. For detailed who study abroad include majors across the humanities, information concerning admission, curriculum, fees, the social sciences and the natural sciences. In recent academic credit, and scholarships, students should years, students studied in Argentina, Australia, Austria, consult Lisa Kolonay ([email protected]) and/or Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, visit the Avignon website at www.brynmawr.edu/avignon. Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, For detailed information on the courses offered by the Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Institut, students should contact Prof. Le Menthéour Russia, South Africa, Spain, England, and Scotland. ([email protected]). The Study Abroad Committee is responsible for 50 Academic Opportunities evaluating applications from all Bryn Mawr students Preparation for Careers in Architecture who want to study abroad during the academic year as part of their Bryn Mawr degrees. The Study Abroad Although Bryn Mawr offers no formal degree in Committee determines a student’s eligibility by looking architecture or a set pre-professional path, students who at a variety of factors, including the overall and major wish to pursue architecture as a career may prepare grade point averages, the intellectual coherence of the for graduate study in the United States and abroad study abroad experience with the academic program, through courses offered in the Growth and Structure of the student’s overall progress towards the degree, Cities Program. Students interested in architecture and and faculty recommendations. After careful review of urban design should pursue the studio courses (226, applications, the Committee will notify the student of 228) in addition to regular introductory courses. They their decision granting, denying, or giving conditions for should also select appropriate electives in architectural permission to study abroad. Only those students whose history and urban design (including courses offered plans are approved by the Committee will be allowed by the departments of Classical and Near Eastern to transfer courses from their study abroad programs Archaeology, East Asian Languages abd Cultures, and towards their Bryn Mawr degrees. History of Art) to gain a broad exposure to architecture over time as well as across cultural traditions. Affiliated Students applying for Study Abroad must be in good courses in physics and calculus meet requirements of academic and disciplinary standing. They are expected graduate programs in architecture; theses may also be to have, and to maintain, a minimum cumulative and planned to incorporate design projects. These students major GPA of 3.0 and must be on track to complete should consult as early as possible with Senior Lecturer College-Wide Degree requirements. In addition, Daniela Voith and the program director in the Growth students must declare a major and complete their Major and Structure of Cities Program. Work plan and College-Wide Requirements plan by the required deadline. Preparation for Careers in the Health Students with a grade point average below 3.0 should Professions consult the Assistant Dean, Director of International The Bryn Mawr curriculum offers courses that meet the Education regarding eligibility. Most non-English requirements for admission to professional schools in speaking language immersion programs expect medicine, dentistry, and many other health professions. students to meet at least intermediate proficiency level Each year a significant number of Bryn Mawr graduates in the language of instruction and/or target language enroll in these schools. Most Bryn Mawr students before matriculation, and some require more advanced apply to medical school following graduation, which is preparation. The student must also be in good reflective of national trends of students taking time for disciplinary standing. work or other experiences before enrolling in medical Most students may study abroad for one semester school. The minimal requirements for most medical only during their academic career. The Committee and dental schools include one year of English, one will consider requests for exceptions to this rule from year of biology, one year of general chemistry, one students majoring in a foreign language and those year of organic chemistry, one year of physics, and accepted to Oxford or the London School of Economics, one semester of biological chemistry; however, several which are yearlong programs for which one semester medical and dental schools require one additional is not an option. All students interested in study abroad semester of upper-level coursework in biology as well in their junior year must declare their major(s) and as math courses. Schools of veterinary medicine usually complete the Bryn Mawr study abroad application In require upper-level coursework in biology as well as the Student Service Center in BIONIC by the required extensive experience working with a diversity of animal deadline stated on the Study Abroad website. species. Students considering careers in one of the health professions are strongly encouraged to discuss Study abroad students pay Bryn Mawr College tuition their plans with the undergraduate health professions regardless of the tuition cost of the study abroad adviser in Canwyll House. program. The College, in turn, pays the program tuition and academic-related fees directly to the institution International students should be aware that students abroad. Students are responsible for paying room and who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents board costs and other fees directly to the program or to comprise less than 1% of the medical school students in the appropriate service provider. the United States. Many medical schools do not accept applications from international students, and schools Financial aid for study abroad is available for students that do accept international students often require them who are eligible for assistance and have been receiving to document their ability to pay the entire cost of a four- aid during their first and sophomore years. If the study year medical school education. International students abroad budget is not able to support all of those on aid are encouraged to contact the undergraduate health who plan to study abroad, priority will be given to those professions advisor to discuss the significant challenges for whom it is most appropriate academically and to faced by international students seeking admission those who have had the least international experience. to U. S. medical schools as well as to other health professional schools. Academic Opportunities 51

The Health Professions Advising Office publishes the attends a 4-week summer training program between Guide for First- and Second-Year Students Interested their sophomore and junior years, and then takes in the Health Professions. This handbook is available at Professional Officer Course (POC) classes during their the meeting for first-year students during Customs Week junior and senior years. Cadets in the three-year option and at the Health Professions Advising Office in Canwyll will be dual-enrolled in both GMC classes during their House. More information about preparing for careers in sophomore year, attend a summer training program, the health professions, including the Guide for First- and and take POC classes during their junior and senior Second-Year Students, is also available at the Health years. A cadet is under no contractual obligation with Professions Advising Office website, www.brynmawr. the USAF until entering the POC or accepting an edu/healthpro. AFROTC scholarship. The GMC curriculum focuses on the scope, structure, organization, and history of Preparation for Careers in Law the USAF with an emphasis on the development of airpower and its relationship to current events. The POC Because a student with a strong record in any field of curriculum concentrates on the concepts and practices study can compete successfully for admission to law of leadership and management, and the role of national school, there is no prescribed program of “pre-law” security forces in American society. courses. Students considering a career in law may explore that interest at Bryn Mawr in a variety of ways— In addition to the academic portion of the curricula, each e.g., by increasing their familiarity with U.S. history cadet participates in a two-hour Leadership Laboratory and its political process, participating in Bryn Mawr’s each week. Leadership Laboratory utilizes the cadet well-established student self-government process, organization designed for the practice of leadership and “shadowing” alumnae/i lawyers through the Career management techniques. and Professional Development’s externship program, Further information on the AFROTC program at Saint attending LILAC and CPD law career panels and Joseph’s University can be found at sites.sju.edu/afrotc, refining their knowledge about law-school programs in or students can contact detachment personnel directly the Pre-Law Club. Students seeking guidance about the at: law-school application and admission process should consult with the College’s pre-law advisor, Jennifer Unit Admissions Officer, AFROTC Detachment 750, Beale, at Career and Professional Development. Please Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131 email her at [email protected] to be added to the Phone: 610-660-3190, Email: [email protected] prelaw listerv. Centers for 21st Century Inquiry Teacher Certification Bryn Mawr’s interdisciplinary centers encourage Students majoring in biology, chemistry, English, French, innovation and collaboration in research, teaching and geology, history, Latin, mathematics, physics, political learning. The three interrelated centers are designed to science, Spanish and a number of other fields that are bring together scholars from various fields to examine typically taught in secondary school may get certified to diverse ways of thinking about areas of common teach in public secondary high schools in Pennsylvania. interest, creating a stage for constant academic renewal By reciprocal arrangement, the Pennsylvania certificate and transformation. is accepted by most other states as well. A student who Flexible and inclusive, the centers help ensure that wishes to teach should consult her dean, the Education the College’s curriculum can adapt to changing Program adviser and the chair of her major department circumstances and evolving methods and fields of study. early in her college career so that she may make Through research and internship programs, fellowships appropriate curricular plans. Students may also choose and public discussions, they foster links among scholars to get certified to teach after they graduate through in different fields, between the College and the world the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Post-Baccalaureate Teacher around it, and between theoretical and practical Education Program. For further information, see the learning. Education Program. The Center for the Social Sciences was established Air Force Reserve Officer Training to respond to the need for stronger linkages and cooperation among the social sciences at Bryn Mawr Corps (AFROTC) College. Uniting all the social sciences under an The Department of Aerospace Studies offered through inclusive umbrella, the center provides opportunities Detachment 750 at Saint Joseph’s University offers for consideration of broad substantive foci within the college students a three- or four-year curriculum leading fundamentally comparative nature of the social science to a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United disciplines, while training different disciplinary lenses on States Air Force (USAF). In the four-year option, a a variety of issues. student (cadet) takes General Military Course (GMC) The Center for International Studies brings together classes during their freshmen and sophomore years, scholars from various fields to define global issues 52 Academic Opportunities and confront them in their appropriate social, scientific, Postbaccalaureate Premedical cultural and linguistic contexts. The center sponsors Program the major in International Studies and supports collaborative, cross-disciplinary research, preparing The Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program at Bryn students for life and work in the highly interdependent Mawr College was established in 1972 and is designed world and global economy of the 21st century. for men and women who are highly motivated to pursue a career in medicine yet have not completed the science The Center for Visual Culture is dedicated to the prerequisite coursework necessary for applying to study of visual forms and experience of all kinds, from medical school. It is an intensive 12-month, full-time ancient artifacts to contemporary films and computer- program for up to 80 students per year. Students in the generated images. It serves as a forum for explorations program range in age and reflect diverse backgrounds of the visual aspect of the natural world as well as the in terms of their education and experience. In addition diverse objects and processes of visual invention and to their coursework, postbac students engage in interpretation around the world. volunteer work in the community and participate with undergraduates in health-related Interest groups. Continuing Education Program Applications should be submitted as early as possible The Continuing Education Program provides highly during our application season because decisions are qualified women, men and high-school students who made on a rolling basis and the postbac program do not wish to undertake a full college program leading is highly selective. Please visit www.brynmawr.edu/ to a degree the opportunity to take courses at Bryn postbac for complete information about the program. Mawr College on a fee basis, prorated according to the Students enrolled in the postbac program may elect tuition of the College, space and resources permitting. to forgo the traditional application process to medical Students accepted by the Continuing Education school in favor applying through linkage programs Program may apply to take up to two undergraduate with several medical schools. Those accepted courses or one graduate course per semester; they through linkage enter medical school in the August have the option of auditing courses or taking courses immediately after completing their postbaccalaureate for credit. Alumnae/i who have received one or more year. Otherwise, students apply to medical school degrees from Bryn Mawr (A.B., M.A., M.S.S., M.L.S.P. after completing their postbaccalaureate studies and and/or Ph.D.) and women and men over 65 years of age matriculate one year later. are entitled to take undergraduate courses for credit at the College at a special rate. This rate applies only to The Emily Balch Seminars continuing-education students and not to matriculated McBride Scholars. Continuing-education students are Director: Gail Hemmeter, Department of English not eligible to receive financial aid from the College. The Emily Balch Seminars introduce all first-year For more information or an application, go to www. students at Bryn Mawr to a critical, probing, thoughtful brynmawr.edu/academics/continuing_ed.shtml. approach to the world and our roles in it. The seminars are named for Emily Balch, Bryn Mawr Class of Katharine E. McBride Scholars 1889. She was a gifted scholar with a uniquely global Program perspective who advanced women’s rights on an The Katharine E. McBride Scholars Program serves international level and who, in 1946, was awarded the women beyond the traditional college-entry age who Nobel Prize for Peace. wish to earn an undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr. These challenging seminars are taught by scholar/ The program admits women who have demonstrated teachers of distinction within their fields and across talent, achievement and intelligence in various areas, academic disciplines. They facilitate the seminars including employment, volunteer activities and home or as active discussions among students, not lectures. formal study. McBride Scholars are admitted directly as Through intensive reading and writing, the thought- matriculated students. provoking Balch Seminars challenge students to think Once admitted to the College, McBride scholars are about complex, wide-ranging issues from a variety of subject to the residency rule, which requires that perspectives. a student take a minimum of 24 course units while While books and essays are core texts in the Balch enrolled at Bryn Mawr. Exceptions will be made for Seminars, all source materials that invite critical students who transfer more than eight units from interpretation and promote discussion and reflection previous work. Such students may transfer up to 16 may be included—films, performances, material objects, units and must then take at least 16 units at Bryn Mawr. research surveys and experiments, or studies of social McBride Scholars may study on a part-time or full-time practices and behavior. basis. For more information or an application, visit The seminars are organized around fundamental the McBride Program website at www.brynmawr.edu/ questions in contemporary or classical thought that mcbride or call (610) 526-5152. students will inevitably address in their lives, regardless Academic Opportunities 53 of the majors they elect at Bryn Mawr or the profession such as the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the city or career they pursue after graduating. Seminar topics of New Orleans. vary from year to year. 3. 360º engages students and faculty in active and An important goal of the seminars is to give students interactive ways in a non-traditional classroom instruction and practice in writing as a flexible tool of experience. inquiry and interpretation. Students can expect to write Essential to 360˚ is a component beyond traditional formal and informal assignments weekly during the classroom walls. This could occur through data semester. Students also meet one-on-one with their gathering or research trips, praxis-like community teachers every other week outside of class to discuss based partnerships, artistic productions, and/or their written work and their progress in becoming a intensive laboratory activity. critical thinker. 4. 360º will encourage students and faculty to reflect In the Balch Seminars, students form a tightly knit, on these different perspectives in explicit ways. collaborative learning community that will serve as a model for much of their intellectual life at Bryn Mawr, Over their course of study, students often informally both in and out of the classroom. As a result, students put together a set of related courses. 360º makes will enrich their educational experience in whatever these connections explicit and explored reflectively fields of knowledge they pursue at Bryn Mawr, and be among faculty and fellow students. better prepared for a more reflective and critical life in a 5. 360º participants enrich the entire community by complex and changing world beyond college. sharing their work in some form. For more information and a list of current courses, visit All 360º participants will share their experiences through www.brynmawr.edu/balch/. such activities as poster sessions, research talks, web postings, panel discussions and/or sharing of data, 360º research, visuals etc. Materials produced in 360º are 360º creates an opportunity for students to participate in archived for later use by others within the College a cluster of multiple courses that connect students and community. faculty in a single semester (or in some cases across For more information and a list of current and upcoming contiguous semesters) to focus on common problems, clusters, visit www.brynmawr.edu/360/. themes, and experiences for the purposes of research and scholarship. Focus Courses Interdisciplinary and interactive, 360º builds on Focus Courses are 7-week long, half-semester courses Bryn Mawr’s strong institutional history of learning that provide students with an opportunity to sample a experiences beyond the traditional classroom, placed wider variety of fields and topics as they explore the within a rigorous academic framework. curriculum. While some Focus Courses have been 360º is a unique academic opportunity that is defined by designed to whet the appetite for further study, several the following five characteristics: upper level topics lend themselves to a more in-depth, shorter experience. Focus courses are as rigorous and 1. 360º offers an interdisciplinary experience for fast-paced as full semester courses and are used to students and faculty. experiment and engage with more of Bryn Mawr’s stellar Reflecting the fact that many interesting questions academic offerings. are being explored at the edges or intersections of fields, each cluster of courses in 360º emphasizes Athletics and Physical Education interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary Administration coursework. 360º clusters may involve two or more courses bridging the humanities and the natural and Kathleen Tierney, Director of Athletics and Physical social sciences; collaborations within each broad Education division, or even two or more courses within the Katie Tarr, Senior Lecturer and Head Lacrosse Coach same department with very different subfields. What and Senior Woman’s Administrator, Athletics and is central is that these courses engage problems Physical Education using different approaches, theories, prior data and MaryAnn Schiller, Assistant Athletics Director methods. Travis Galaska, Athletics Communication Director 2. 360º is unified by a focused theme or research question. Courtney Morris, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach and Fitness Center Director These unifying themes can be topics that cut across disciplines such as “poverty,” refer to a particular Faculty space or time like “Vienna at the turn of the 20th Carol Bower, Senior Lecturer and Head Rowing Coach century”, or define a complex research question, 54 Academic Opportunities

Victor Brady, Lecturer and Head Field Hockey Coach students and fulfills two physical education credits. The Erin DeMarco, Senior Lecturer and Head Soccer Coach, curriculum is designed to be interesting, interactive Athletics and Physical Education and provide a base of knowledge that will encourage students to think about their wellbeing as an important Jason Hewitt, Lecturer and Head Coach of Cross partner to their academic life. The course will be taught Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field, by College faculty and staff from various disciplines and Athletics and Physical Education offices. Laura Kemper, Lecturer and Assistant Athletic Trainer, The newly renovated Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletics and Physical Education Athletic Center has quickly become the place to be Terry McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer and Head Athletic since reopening in September 2010. The new 11,500 Trainer, Athletics and Physical Education sq. ft. fitness center boasts over 50 pieces of cardio equipment, 15 selectorized weight machines and a Nicole Kimberly Reiley, Instructor and Head Coach of multi-purpose room housing everything from PE Indoor Volleyball cycling to Zumba Fitness! The fitness center has over Katie Tarr, Senior Lecturer and Head Lacrosse Coach 100 different workout options, including drop in classes, and Senior Woman’s Administrator, Athletics and free weights, indoor cycling bicycles, and cardiovascular Physical Education and strength training machines. Kathy Tierney, Director of Athletics and Physical The building hosts two-courts in the Class of 1958 Education, Athletics and Physical Education Gymnasium, an eight lane pool, a fitness center with varsity weight training area, an athletic training room, Rebecca Tyler, Lecturer and Head Basketball Coach locker rooms, a conference smart room and the Doanh Wang, Lecturer and Head Tennis Coach Department of Athletics & Physical Education offices. Nikki Whitlock, Senior Lecturer and Head Swimming The fitness center is located on the second floor directly Coach and Aquatics Director, Athletics and Physical up the circular staircase as you enter the Bern Schwartz Education Fitness and Athletic Center. For more information please consult: http://athletics.brynmawr.edu/information/ The Department of Athletics and Physical Education facilities/index. sponsors 12 intercollegiate sports in badminton, basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, indoor and The outdoor athletics and recreation facilities include outdoor track and field, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, two varsity athletics playing fields, seven tennis courts tennis and volleyball. Bryn Mawr is a NCAA Division and two fields for recreational and club sport usage. III member and a charter member of the Centennial The Shillingford and Applebee Fields are home to the Conference. Club sport opportunities are available in College’s field hockey, soccer and lacrosse programs. a range of sports; including rugby, equestrian, fencing, In the fall of 2011 the College completed construction karate, ice skating, squash, and ultimate Frisbee. on Applebee, converting it from natural grass to a NCAA Students interested in any of these programs should regulation sized synthetic field. consult the Department of Athletics at: http://athletics. brynmawr.edu/landing/index. Praxis Program Bryn Mawr’s Physical Education curriculum is designed Praxis is an experiential, community-based learning to provide opportunities to develop lifelong habits that program that integrates theory and practice through will enhance the quality of life. From organized sport student engagement in active, relevant fieldwork. The instruction, to a variety of dance offerings, lifetime sport program provides consistent, equitable guidelines along skills, fitness classes, and a wellness curriculum, the with curricular coherence and support to students and Department provides a breadth of programming to faculty who wish to combine coursework with fieldwork meet the needs of the undergraduate and the greater and community-based research. The three designated College community. The physical education and dance types of Praxis courses—Praxis I and II Departmental curriculums offer more than 50 courses in a variety courses and Praxis Independent Study courses—are of disciplines. All students must complete a physical described below and at www.brynmawr.edu/ceo/ education requirement (as determined by their year programs/praxis/. of entry into the college), including a swim-proficiency Praxis courses are distinguished by genuine requirement, and a freshmen Wellness Class. Students collaboration with community based organizations. The can enroll in physical education classes at Swarthmore nature of fieldwork assignments and projects varies and Haverford Colleges. according to the learning objectives for the course and The Department of Physical Education in conjunction according to the needs of the community partner. In with Health Services, Student Life and the Dean’s most Praxis courses, students are engaged in field Office has developed an eight-week Wellness Seminar placements or working on community-connected that focuses on a variety of issues confronting college projects that meet an identified need in the community. women. The course is mandatory for all first year The Praxis Program is one of the Civic Engagement Academic Opportunities 55 program offered through the Leadership, Innovation member who must agree in advance to supervise the and Liberal Arts Center (LILAC). Praxis Program staff project. Students receive additional support from the assist faculty in identifying, establishing and supporting Praxis staff, who conduct reflection sessions for each field placements in a wide variety of organizations, semester’s Praxis cohort, visit each student’s field such as public health centers, community art programs, site once a semester to meet with the student and her museums, community-development and social service supervisor, and coordinate a Praxis Poster Session. agencies, schools, and local government offices. Praxis Independent Study is an option for sophomore Faculty members are responsible for integrating the and higher-level students who are in good academic Praxis component into the course through process and standing. Students are eligible to take up to two Praxis reflection. As with all other courses, faculty evaluate Independent Study courses during their time at Bryn student work and progress. Mawr. The three types of Praxis courses require increasing Advance planning is required for students wanting to amounts of fieldwork but do not need to be taken develop a Praxis Independent Study course. At least successively. Praxis I and II courses are offered within one semester ahead of time, students should complete a variety of academic departments and are developed the Praxis Independent Study Tutorial, available on the by faculty in those departments. Praxis Independent website, and review additional online resource materials. Study courses are developed by individual students, in If possible, they should attend a Praxis Independent collaboration with faculty field supervisors, and Praxis Study Information Session, held once a month during staff. Students may enroll in more than one Praxis the academic year. Once they have completed the course at a time and are sometimes able to use the Praxis Independent Study Tutorial, students are invited same field placement to meet the requirements of both to schedule an appointment on Lantern Link with one courses. of the Praxis Program Directors, Nell Anderson or Praxis I Departmental Courses provide opportunities for Kelly Strunk, for additional guidance in developing a students to explore and develop community connections Praxis Independent Study course. A brief online Praxis in relation to the course topic by incorporating a variety Proposal, declaring their intention to develop a Praxis of activities into the syllabus, such as: field trips to local Independent Study course should be submitted online at organizations, guest speakers from those organizations, the time of pre-registration, but students cannot officially and assignments that ask students to research local pre-register for this type of Praxis course. The Praxis issues. In some cases, students in Praxis I courses are Proposal needs to be approved by the student’s Dean engaged an introductory fieldwork activities; the time and Major Advisor. Once students have submitted their commitment for this fieldwork does not exceed 2 hours proposals, they will be enrolled in a Moodle course that per week or 20 hours per semester. guides them in developing the Praxis Independent Study Praxis II Departmental Courses include a more Learning Plan. substantial fieldwork component that engages students The Praxis Independent Study Learning Plan—which in activities and projects off-campus that are linked must include a description of the course, learning directly to course objectives and are useful to the objectives, all stipulated coursework, identification of community partner. The time commitment for fieldwork the faculty supervisor, field site, field site supervisor varies greatly from course to course but falls within and fieldwork responsibilities— should be submitted the range of 2-7 hours per week or 20-70 hours per online by Thursday at 5 pm during the first week of the semester. Praxis II courses might include: weekly semester. The Praxis Program Director will review fieldwork in local classrooms or community-based the plan and will notify the Registrar’s Office when the organizations; conducting research that has been Praxis Learning plan is approved, at which point the requested by a community partner; project-based student will be officially registered for the course. activities such as creating a curriculum, designing a website, or curating a museum exhibit. The Praxis Collaboration with the Graduate Fieldwork Agreement is an important part of all Praxis School of Arts and Sciences and the II courses. This document outlines the learning and Graduate School of Social Work and placement objectives of the Praxis component and is signed by the course instructor, the field supervisor, the Social Research Praxis coordinator and the student. At Bryn Mawr, we embrace a distinctive academic model that offers a select number of outstanding coeducational Praxis Independent Study places fieldwork at the graduate programs in arts and sciences and social center of a supervised learning experience and gives work in conjunction with an exceptional undergraduate students the opportunity to design their own course college for women. As such, Bryn Mawr undergraduates and select their own field placement. The fieldwork for have significant opportunities to do advanced work by Praxis Independent Study consists of 8-10 hours per participating in graduate level courses offered in several week for 12 weeks. Typically, students complete two, academic areas. These areas include Chemistry; 4-to-5 hour visits per week. Fieldwork is supported by Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Greek, Latin, appropriate readings and regular meetings with a faculty 56 Academic Awards and Prizes and Classical Studies; History of Art; Mathematics; justice. It has been instrumental in promoting the social Physics; and Social Work. An undergraduate must meet work profession by providing a rigorous educational the appropriate prerequisites for a particular course and environment to prepare clinicians, administrators, obtain departmental approval if she wishes the course policy analysts, advocates, and educators who are to count towards her major. committed to addressing the needs of individuals, families, organizations, and communities, both locally The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and globally. Founded in 1885, the Bryn Mawr Graduate School was the first graduate school to open its doors to women in Moving forward, the School has reaffirmed its the United States. This radical innovation of graduate commitment through a redesigned outcomes/abilities- education in a women’s college was the beginning based curriculum, providing all students with an of a distinguished history of teaching and learning integrated perspective on policy, practice, theory, designed to enable every student to reach the apex of and research. Both Master’s and PhD graduates are her intellectual capacity. Today, students in the Graduate prepared to address the rapidly growing and complex School of Arts and Sciences are a vital component in challenges impacting the biological, psychological, a continuum of learning and research, acting as role and social conditions of children and families within models for undergraduates and as collaborators with their communities. GSSWSR graduates are leaders in the faculty. Renowned for excellence within disciplines, defining standards of practice, shaping social welfare Bryn Mawr also fosters connections across disciplines policy, and undertaking ethically grounded research in and the individual exploration of newly unfolding areas the social and behavioral sciences. of research. Examples of GSSWSR graduate level courses that are Examples of GSAS graduate level courses that are open to advanced undergraduates include: open to advanced undergraduates include: SOWK 302 Perspectives on Inequality ARCH 693 Studies in Greek Pottery SOWK 306 Social Determinants of Health and Health CHEM 534 Organometallic Chemistry Equity HART 607 Women in Medieval Art SOWK 308 Adult Development and Aging GREK 643 Readings in Greek History SOWK 309 Organizational Behavior: The Art and Science MATH 506 Graduate Topology SOWK 352 Child Welfare: Policy, Practice, and PHYS 503 and 504 Electromagnetic Theory I and II Research The Graduate School of Social Work and Social SOWK 354 To Protect the Health of the Public Research (GSSWSR) SOWK 408 Women and the Law Social work was woven into the very fabric of Bryn Mawr College since it first opened its doors in 1885. SOWK 411 Family Law Founded by Joseph Wright Taylor, a Quaker physician who wanted to establish a college for the advanced ACADEMIC AWARDS AND education of women, Bryn Mawr College soon became PRIZES nondenominational but continued to be guided by The following awards, fellowships, scholarships, and Quaker values, including the freedom of conscience and prizes are awarded by the faculty and are given solely a commitment to social justice and social activism. The on the basis of academic distinction and achievement. Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) was established through The Academy of American Poets Prize, awarded in a bequest in 1912 from an undergraduate alumna of memory of Marie Bullock, the Academy’s founder and the College, Carola Woerishoffer, who at the time of her president, is given each year to the student who submits death at age 25 was investigating factory conditions for to the Department of English the best poem or group of the New York Department of Labor. Her gift of $750,000 poems. (1957) (about $14 million in today’s dollars) was the largest gift The Seymour Adelman Book Collector’s Award is given the College had received at that time, and was made so each year to a student for a collection on any subject, that others would be prepared to engage in social work, single author or group of authors, which may include the field to which Carola Woerishoffer had committed manuscripts and graphics. (1980) herself. The Seymour Adelman Poetry Award was established As part of the Bryn Mawr College academic community by Daniel and Joanna Semel Rose ’52, to provide an and throughout its 95 year history, the School has award in honor of Seymour Adelman. The award is placed great emphasis on critical, creative, and designed to stimulate further interest in poetry at Bryn independent habits of thought and expression as well Mawr. Any member of the Bryn Mawr community— as an unwavering commitment to principles of social undergraduate or graduate student, staff or faculty Academic Awards and Prizes 57 member—is eligible for consideration. The grant may at Bryn Mawr from 1901 to 1910. It is awarded to a be awarded to fund research in the history or analysis student who shows evidence of creative ability in the of a poet or poem, to encourage the study of poetry in fields of informal essay, short story and longer narrative interdisciplinary contexts, to support the writing of poetry or verse. (1946) or to recognize a particularly important piece of poetic The Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Fund for Scholarships writing. (1985) in American History was founded by a gift from the The Horace Alwyne Prize was established by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Friends of Music of Bryn Mawr College in honor of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in memory of Elizabeth Horace Alwyne, Professor Emeritus of Music. The award Duane Gillespie. Two prizes are awarded annually is presented annually to the student who has contributed on nomination by the Department of History, one to a the most to the musical life of the College. (1970) member of the sophomore or junior class for work of The Areté Fellowship Fund was established by Doreen distinction in American history, a second to a senior Canaday Spitzer ’31. The fund supports graduate doing advanced work in American history for an essay students in the Departments of Greek, Latin and written in connection with that work. The income from Classical Studies, History of Art, and Classical and Near this fund has been supplemented since 1955 by annual Eastern Archaeology. (2003) gifts from the society. (1903) The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize was established by a Friends and colleagues have joined Ruth Nelson gift of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett. This prize is to in honoring Judy Gould’s retirement through the be awarded by a committee of the faculty on the basis establishment of the Judy Loomis Gould ‘64 Fund for of the work submitted. (1958) Summer Study Abroad. The Berle Memorial Prize Fund in German Literature The Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial was established by Lillian Berle Dare in memory of Scholarship was founded in memory of Maria L. her parents, Adam and Katharina Berle. The prize is Eastman, principal of Brooke Hall School for Girls, awarded annually to an undergraduate for excellence in Media, Pennsylvania, by gifts from the alumnae of the German literature. Preference is given to a senior who school. It is awarded annually to the member of the is majoring in German and who does not come from a junior class with the highest general average and is held German background. (1975) during the senior year. Transfer students who enter Bryn Mawr as members of the junior class are not eligible for The Bolton Prize was established by the Bolton this award. (1901) Foundation as an award for students majoring in the Growth and Structure of Cities. (1985) The Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship was founded in the memory of the late Charles S. Hinchman The Bryn Mawr European Fellowship has been awarded of Philadelphia by a gift made by his family. It is each year since the first class graduated in 1889. It is awarded annually to a member of the junior class for given for merit to a member of the graduating class, to work of special excellence in her major subject(s) and is be applied toward the expenses of one year’s study at a held during the senior year. (1921) university in the United States or abroad. The European Fellowship continues to be funded by a bequest from The Sarah Stifler Jesup Fund was established in Elizabeth S. Shippen. memory of Sarah Stifler Jesup ’56, by gifts from New York alumnae, as well as family and friends. The income The Commonwealth Africa Scholarship was established is to be awarded annually to one or more undergraduate by a grant from the Thorncroft Fund Inc. at the request students to further a special interest, project or career of Helen and Geoffrey de Freitas. The scholarship goal during term time or vacation. (1978) is used to send a graduate to a university or college in Commonwealth Africa, to teach or to study, with a The Pauline Jones Prize was established by friends, view to contributing to mutual understanding and the students and colleagues of Pauline Jones ’35. The furtherance of scholarship. In 1994, the description of prize is awarded to the student writing the best essay in the scholarship was changed to include support for French, preferably on poetry. (1985) current undergraduates. (1965) The Anna Lerah Keys Memorial Prize was established The Hester Ann Corner Prize for distinction in literature by friends and relatives in memory of Anna Lerah Keys was established in memory of Hester Ann Corner ’42, by ’79. The prize is awarded to an undergraduate majoring gifts from her family, classmates, and friends. The award in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. (1984) is made to a junior or senior on the recommendation of The Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholarship in English was a committee composed of the chairs of the Departments founded in memory of their daughter Sheelah by Dr. and of English and of Classical and Modern Foreign Mrs. Phillip Kilroy. This prize is awarded annually on the Languages. (1950) recommendation of the Department of English to a student The Katherine Fullerton Gerould Memorial Prize was for excellence of work in an English course. (1919) founded by a gift from a group of alumnae, many of The Richmond Lattimore Prize for Poetic Translation whom were students of Mrs. Gerould when she taught was established in honor of Richmond Lattimore, 58 Academic Awards and Prizes

Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr and distinguished Quistgaard. The income from this fund may be awarded translator of poetry. The prize is awarded for the best annually to a student in Economics. (1938) poetic translation submitted to a committee composed of The Laura Estabrook Romine ’39 Fellowship in the chairs of the Departments of Classical and Modern Economics was established by a gift from David E. Languages. (1984) Romine, to fulfill the wish of his late brother, John The Helen Taft Manning Essay Prize in History was Ransel Romine III, to establish a fund in honor of their established in honor of Helen Taft Manning ’15, in mother, Laura Estabrook Romine ’39. The fellowship the year of her retirement, by her class. The prize is is given annually to a graduating senior or alumna, awarded to a senior in the Department of History for regardless of undergraduate major, who has received work of special excellence in the field. (1957) admission to a graduate program in Economics. (1996) The McPherson Fund for Excellence was established The Barbara Rubin Award Fund was established by through the generous response of alumnae/i, friends, the Amicus Foundation in memory of Barbara Rubin and faculty and staff members of the College to an ’47. The fund provides summer support for students appeal issued in the fall of 1996. The fund honors the undertaking internships in nonprofit or research settings achievements of President Emeritus Mary Patterson appropriate to their career goals, or study abroad. McPherson. Three graduating seniors are named (1989) McPherson Fellows in recognition of their academic The Gail Ann Schweiter Prize Fund was established in distinction and community service accomplishments. memory of Gail Ann Schweiter ’79 by her family. The The fund provides support for an internship or other prize is to be awarded to a science or Mathematics special project. major in her junior or senior year who has shown The Nadia Anne Mirel Memorial Fund was established excellence both in her major field and in musical by the family and friends of Nadia Anne Mirel ’85. performance. (1993) The fund supports the research or travel of students The Charlotte Angas Scott Prize in Mathematics undertaking imaginative projects in the following areas: is awarded annually to an undergraduate on the children’s educational television, and educational film recommendation of the Department of Mathematics. and video. (1986) It was established by an anonymous gift in memory of The Martha Barber Montgomery Fund was established Charlotte Angas Scott, Professor of Mathematics 1885 by Martha Barber Montgomery ’49, her family and to 1924. (1960) friends to enable students majoring in the humanities, The Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in Foreign with preference to those studying philosophy and/or Language was founded under the will of Elizabeth history, to undertake special projects. The fund may S. Shippen of Philadelphia. It is awarded to a junior be used, for example, to support student research and whose major is in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, travel needs, or an internship in a nonprofit or research Russian or Spanish for excellence in the study of foreign setting. (1993) languages. (1915) The Elinor Nahm Prizes in Italian are awarded for The Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in Science excellence in the study of Italian at the introductory, was foundedunder the will of Elizabeth S. Shippen of intermediate and advanced levels. (1991) Philadelphia and is awarded to a junior whose major is The Elinor Nahm Prizes in Russian are awarded for in Biology, Chemistry, Geology or Physics for excellence excellence in the study of Russian language and in the study of sciences. (1915) linguistics and of Russian literature and culture. (1991) The Gertrude Slaughter Fellowship was established The Milton C. Nahm Prize in Philosophy is awarded by a bequest of Gertrude Taylor Slaughter, Class of to the senior Philosophy major whose thesis is judged 1893. The fellowship is to be awarded to a member of most outstanding. (1991) the graduating class for excellence in scholarship to be The Elisabeth Packard Art and Archaeology Internship used for a year’s study in the United States or abroad. Fund was established by Elisabeth Packard ’29 to (1964) provide stipend and travel support to enable students The Ariadne Solter Fund was established in memory majoring in History of Art or Classical and Near Eastern of Ariadne Solter ’91 by gifts from family and friends to Archaeology to hold museum internships, conduct provide an annual award to a Bryn Mawr or Haverford research or participate in archaeological digs. (1993) undergraduate working on a project concerning The Alexandra Peschka Prize was established in development in a third world country or the United memory of Alexandra Peschka ’64 by gifts from her States. (1989) family and friends. The prize is awarded annually to a The Katherine Stains Prize Fund in Classical Literature member of the first-year or sophomore class and writer was established by Katherine Stains in memory of her of the best piece of imaginative writing in prose. (1969) parents, Arthur and Katheryn Stains, and in honor of two The Jeanne Quistgaard Memorial Prize was given by excellent 20th-century scholars of classical literature, the Class of 1938 in memory of their classmate, Jeanne Richmond Lattimore and Moses Hadas. The income Areas of Study 59 from the fund is to be awarded annually as a prize to an income from this fund provides the Anna Howard Shaw undergraduate student for excellence in Greek literature, Scholarship in Medicine and Public Health, awarded either in the original or in translation. (1969) to members of the graduating class or graduates of The M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize is awarded annually the College for the pursuit, during an uninterrupted to a member of the senior class for distinction in writing. succession of years, of studies leading to the degrees The award is made by the Department of English for of M.D. and Doctor of Public Health or M.D. and Master either creative or critical writing. It was established in of Public Health. The award may be continued until the memory of Miss Thomas by her niece, Millicent Carey degrees are obtained. Renewal applications will be sent McIntosh ’20. (1943) to scholarship recipients by the premedical adviser. (1948) The Emma Osborn Thompson Prize in Geology was established by a bequest of Emma Osborn Thompson The Hannah E. Longshore Memorial Medical ’04. From the income of the bequest, a prize is to be Scholarship was founded by Mrs. Rudolf Blankenburg in awarded from time to time to a student in Geology. memory of her mother. The Scholarship is awarded by (1963) a committee to students and alumnae who have been accepted by a medical school. (1921) The Laura van Straaten Fund was established by Thomas van Straaten and his daughter, Laura van The Jane V. Myers Medical Scholarship Fund was Straaten ’90, in honor of Laura’s graduation. The fund established by Mrs. Rudolf Blankenburg in memory of supports a summer internship for a student working to her aunt. The scholarship is awarded by a committee advance the causes of civil rights, women’s rights or to students and alumnae who have been accepted by a reproductive rights. (1990) medical school. (1921) The Esther Walker Award was founded by a bequest The Harriet Judd Sartain Memorial Scholarship Fund from William John Walker in memory of his sister, Esther was founded by bequest under the will of Paul J. Walker ’10. It is given from time to time to support the Sartain. The income from the fund is to establish study of living conditions of northern African Americans. a scholarship which is awarded by a committee to (1940) students and alumnae who have been accepted by a medical school. (1948) The Anna Pell Wheeler Prize in Mathematics is awarded annually to an undergraduate on the recommendation AREAS OF STUDY of the Department of Mathematics. It was established by an anonymous gift in honor of Anna Pell Wheeler, Definitions Professor of Mathematics from 1918 until her death in 1966. (1960) MAJOR The Thomas Raeburn White Scholarships were In order to ensure that a student’s education involves established by Amos and Dorothy Peaslee in honor of not simply exposure to many disciplines but also Thomas Raeburn White, Trustee of the College from development of some degree of mastery in at least 1907 until his death in 1959, counsel to the College one, she must choose a major subject at the end of the throughout these years, and President of the Trustees sophomore year. With the guidance of the major adviser, from 1956 to 1959. The income from the fund is to be a student plans an appropriate sequence of courses. used for prizes to undergraduate students who plan The following is a list of major subjects: to study foreign languages abroad during the summer under the auspices of an approved program. (1964) Anthropology Astronomy (Haverford College) The Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman Prize, established Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by the children of Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman ’48, Biology is awarded annually to the student judged to have Chemistry submitted the most outstanding short story. (1987) Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Classical Culture and Society Scholarships for Medical Study Classical Languages The following scholarships may be awarded to seniors Comparative Literature or graduates of Bryn Mawr intending to study medicine, Computer Science after their acceptance by a medical school in the United East Asian Languages and Cultures States. The premedical adviser will send applications Economics for the scholarship to medical school applicants during English the spring preceding the academic year in which the Fine Arts (Haverford College) scholarship is to be held. French and Francophone Studies Geology The Linda B. Lange Fund was founded by bequest German and German Studies under the will of Linda B. Lange, A.B. 1903. The Greek 60 Areas of Study

Growth and Structure of Cities Latin History Linguistics (at Haverford) History of Art Mathematics Italian and Italian Studies Middle Eastern Studies International Studies Museum Studies Latin Music (at Haverford) Linguistics (Tri-College Major) Neuroscience Linguistics and Languages (Tri-College Major) Philosophy Mathematics Physics Music (Haverford College) Political Science Philosophy Psychology Physics Russian Political Science Sociology Psychology Spanish Religion (Haverford College) Theater Studies Romance Languages Russian CONCENTRATION Sociology The concentration, which is not required for the degree, Spanish is a cluster of classes that overlap the major and focus a student’s work on a specific area of interest: MINOR The minor typically consists of six courses, with specific • Gender and Sexuality requirements determined by the department or program. • Geoarchaeology (with a major in Anthropology, A minor is not required for the degree. The following is Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, or a list of subjects in which students may elect to minor. Geology) Minors in departments or programs that do not offer • Latin-American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies majors appear in italics. • Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Africana Studies Anthropology KEY TO COURSE LETTERS Astronomy (at Haverford) Biology ANTH Anthropology Chemistry ARAB Arabic Child and Family Studies ARTA Arts in Education Chinese ASTR Astronomy Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology BIOL Biology Classical Culture and Society CHEM Chemistry Comparative Literature CNSE Chinese Computational Methods ARCH Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Computer Science CSTS Classical Culture and Society Creative Writing COML Comparative Literature Dance CMSC Computer Science East Asian Languages and Cultures ARTW Creative Writing Economics ARTD Dance Education EALC East Asian Languages and Cultures English ECON Economics Environmental Studies EDUC Education Film Studies ENGL English French and Francophone Studies ARTS Fine Arts Gender and Sexuality FREN French and Francophone Studies Geology GNST General Studies German and German Studies GEOL Geology Greek GERM German and German Studies Growth and Structure of Cities GREK Greek Health Studies CITY Growth and Structure of Cities History HEBR Hebrew and Judaic Studies History of Art HIST History International Studies HART History of Art Italian and Italian Studies INST International Studies Japanese ITAL Italian Areas of Study 61

JNSE Japanese College, University of Pennsylvania and Villanova LATN Latin University courses pertinent to their studies. Catalogs LING Linguistics and course guides for Swarthmore are available through MATH Mathematics the Tri-Co Course Guide. Catalogs and course guides MUSC Music for Penn and Villanova are available through each PHIL Philosophy institution’s website. PHYS Physics POLS Political Science Course Descriptions PSYC Psychology Following the description are the name(s) of the RELG Religion instructor(s), the College requirements that the RUSS Russian course meets, if any, and information on cross-listing. SOCL Sociology Information on prerequisite courses may be included SPAN Spanish in the descriptions or in the prefatory material on each ARTT Theater department. KEY TO COURSE NUMBERS At the time of this printing, the course offerings and descriptions that follow were accurate. Whenever 001-099 These course numbers are used by possible, courses that will not be offered in the current only a few departments. They refer to year are so noted. There may be courses offered in the introductory courses that are not counted current year for which information was not available at towards the major. the time of this catalog printing. For the most up-to-date 100-199 Introductory courses. and complete information regarding course offerings, faculty, status, and college requirements, please consult 200-299 Introductory and intermediate-level BiONic at https://vbm.brynmawr.edu. courses 300-399 Advanced courses. 400-499 Special categories of work (e.g., 403 for a unit of supervised work). A semester course usually carries one unit of credit. Students should check the course guide for unit listing. One unit equals four semester hours or six quarter hours. A quarter course (or Focus course) carries 0.5 units. KEY TO REQUIREMENT INDICATORS Quantitative and Mathematical Reasoning (QM): Indicates courses that meet the requirement for work in QM. Quantitative Readiness (QR): Indicates courses that require quantitative readiness Scientific Inquiry (SI): Indicates courses that meet the requirement for work in SI. Critical Interpretation (CI): Indicates courses that meet the requirement for work In CI. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC): Indicates courses that meet the requirement for work CC. Inquiry Into the Past (IP): Indicates courses that meet the requirement for work In IP. Neighboring College Courses Selected Haverford College courses may be listed in this catalog when applicable to Bryn Mawr programs. Consult the Haverford catalog for full course descriptions. Students should consult their deans or major advisers for information about Swarthmore 62 Africana Studies

AFRICANA STUDIES • Five additional semester courses from an approved list of courses in Africana studies. Students may complete a minor in Africana Studies. • A senior thesis or seminar-length essay in an area of Africana studies. Students are encouraged to organize their course work Steering Committee along one of several prototypical routes. Such model Michael H. Allen, Chair (spring) and Professor of programs might feature: Political Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science • Regional or area studies; for example, focusing on blacks in Latin America, the English-speaking Linda-Susan Beard, Associate Professor of English and Caribbean or North America. Director of Africana Studies • Thematic emphases; for example, exploring Susanna Fioratta, Assistant Professor of Anthropology class politics, ethnic conflicts and/or economic Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn development in West and East Africa. Mawr/Haverford Education Program and Faculty • Comparative emphases; for example, problems of Convener of International Programs development, governance, public health or family Elaine O’Halloran Mshomba, Lecturer and gender. The final requirement for the Africana Studies minor is a Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana senior thesis or its equivalent. If the department in which Studies and History, Co-Director of International the student is majoring requires a thesis, she can satisfy Studies and Co-Director of Health Studies the Africana Studies requirement by writing on a topic Mary Osirim, Provost and Professor of Sociology that is approved by her department and the Africana Monique Scott, Director of Museum Studies Studies Program coordinator. If the major department does not require a thesis, an equivalent written Robert Washington, Professor of Sociology exercise—that is, a seminar-length essay—is required. Susan A. White, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director The essay may be written within the framework of a of Health Studies particular course or as an independent study project. The Africana Studies Program brings a global outlook to The topic must be approved by both the instructor in the study of Africa its Diasporas. Drawing on analytical question and the Africana Studies Program coordinator. perspectives from anthropology, economics, history, literary studies, political science and sociology, the COURSES program focuses on peoples of African descent within the context of increasing globalization and dramatic ANTH B202 Africa in the World social, economic and political changes. In this course, we will approach Africa with an emphasis on the many interconnections that link the continent Bryn Mawr’s Africana Studies Program participates in with the rest of the world, through both time and a U.S. Department of Education-supported consortium space. Much popular talk about Africa in the U.S. with Haverford College, Swarthmore Colleges, and the is overwhelmingly negative—focusing on poverty, University of Pennsylvania. Through this consortium, violence, and failed states—and often portrays Africa Bryn Mawr students have the opportunity to take a as something “other,” both different from and unrelated broad range of courses by enrolling in courses offered to the United States and much of the rest of the world. by all participating institutions. Also, Bryn Mawr’s But such preconceptions blatantly overlook what we Africana Studies Program sponsors a study abroad know about historical and contemporary movements of semester at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and people, ideas, materials, and money around the globe. participates in other study abroad programs offered Rather than regarding Africa as separate or apart, in by its consortium partners in Zimbabwe, Ghana, and this course we will examine the centrality of African Senegal. engagements with these global movements. Rather Students are encouraged to begin their work in the than attempting a survey of particular, bounded African Africana Studies Program by taking “Introduction “peoples” or “cultures,” we will explore complex issues to African Civilizations” (HIST B102). This required and processes through interconnected topics including introductory level course, which provides students colonial and postcolonial politics, urban life, gender and with a common intellectual experience as well as the sexuality, religion, economic networks, development, foundation for subsequent courses in Africana Studies, and transnational migration. We will use these themes should be completed by the end of the student’s junior as guides for exploring larger, interlinked questions of year. social life in Africa and around the world. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. Minor Requirements Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Africana Studies The requirements for a minor in Africana Studies are the Units: 1.0 following: Instructor(s): Fioratta,S. (Fall 2016) • One-semester interdisciplinary course Bryn Mawr HIST B102: Introduction to African Civilizations (ICPR 101 at Haverford). Africana Studies 63

ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Lives Matter. We also consider Bryn Mawr’s own Eastern Archaeology history, in light of how to move forward through critically A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the engaged education. ancient Near East and Egypt. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Counts towards: Africana Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Africana Studies Instructor(s): Cohen,J. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017) EDUC B260 Multicultural Education ARCH B230 Archaeology and History of Ancient An investigation of education as a cultural event that Egypt engages issues of identity, difference, and power. The A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt course explores a set of key tensions in the contested from the Pre-Dynastic through the Graeco-Roman areas of multiculturalism and multicultural education: periods, with special emphasis on Egypt’s Empire and identity and difference; peace and conflict; dialogue its outside connections, especially the Aegean and Near and silence; and culture and the individual psyche. Eastern worlds. Students will apply theory and practice to global as well Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) as specific, localized situations — communities and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive schools that contend with significant challenges in terms Counts towards: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern of equity and places where educators, students, and Studies parents are trying out ways of educating for diversity Units: 1.0 and social justice. Fieldwork of two to three hours per (Not Offered 2016-2017) week. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Praxis Program EDUC B200 Critical Issues in Education Units: 1.0 Designed to be the first course for students interested (Not Offered 2016-2017) in pursuing one of the options offered through the Education Program, this course is also open to students EDUC B266 Schools in American Cities exploring an interest in educational practice, theory, research, and policy. The course examines major issues This course examines issues, challenges, and and questions in education in the United States by possibilities of urban education in contemporary investigating the purposes of education. Fieldwork in an America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, area school required (eight visits, 1.5-2 hours per visit). class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive at urban education nationally over several decades, Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students Studies investigate through documents and school placements. Units: 1.0 This is a Praxis II course (weekly fieldwork in a school Instructor(s): Curl,H. required) (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family Studies; Praxis Program EDUC B208 Race-ing Education Units: 1.0 This course investigates education as part of processes Instructor(s): Cohen,J. of racialization and marginalization and also as a space (Spring 2017) for challenging these processes. How do race and schooling intersect and interact? How can educators – ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad along with students, parents, and communities – learn and teach critical awareness of race as an idea and a This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion system? With a focus on the U.S., we look at ways in bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the which race as a way of creating power is embedded intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. in earlier iterations of schooling, as in cases regarding We will focus on topics of shared concern among access to education for Black, Latinx, and Asian Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the students and in American Indian boarding schools, and damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, how race is differently taken up in the work of such the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of thinkers/educators as W.E.B. Dubois, James Baldwin, migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, and Paulo Freire. We consider how such issues play out including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, films, in the recent past and contemporary moment through activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of ongoing cases on affirmative action; work in Critical Latinidad in the Americas. Race Theory and LatCrit by such educators as Patricia Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Williams and Tara Yosso, and in decolonizing education Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality by Eve Tuck and Gloria Anzaldua; and curriculum and Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies pedagogy in the theory and practice of such educators Units: 1.0 as Kevin Kumashiro and movements such as Black Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. (Fall 2016) 64 Africana Studies

ENGL B234 Postcolonial Literature in English ENGL B362 African American Literature: This course will survey a broad range of novels and Hypercanonical Codes poems written while countries were breaking free of Intensive study of six 18th-21st century hypercanonical British colonial rule. Readings will also include cultural African American written and visual texts (and critical theorists interested in defining literary issues that arise responses) with specific attention to the tradition’s from the postcolonial situation. long use of speaking in code and in multiple registers Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) simultaneously. Focus on language as a tool of opacity Counts towards: Africana Studies as well as transparency, translation, transliteration, Units: 1.0 invention and resistance. Previous reading required. Instructor(s): Tratner,M. Counts towards: Africana Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Beard,L. ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature (Spring 2017) Pairing canonical African American fiction with theoretical, popular, and filmic texts from the late-19th ENGL B379 The African Griot(te) Century through to the present day, we will address the A focused exploration of the multi-genre productions ways in which the Black body, as cultural text, has come of Southern African writer Bessie Head and the critical to be both constructed and consumed within the nation’s responses to such works. Students are asked to help imagination and our modern visual regime. construct a critical-theoretical framework for talking Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) about a writer who defies categorization or reduction. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Beard,L. (Fall 2016) ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature South African texts from several language communities ENGL B264 Black Bards: Poetry in the Diaspora which anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by An interrogation of poetic utterance in works of the contemporary South African writers which explore the African diaspora, primarily in English, this course complexities of life in “the new South Africa.” Several addresses a multiplicity of genres, including epic, lyric, films emphasize the minefield of post-apartheid sonnet, rap, and mimetic jazz. The development of reconciliation and accountability. poetic theories at key moments such as the Harlem Counts towards: Africana Studies Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement will be Units: 1.0 explored. Instructor(s): Beard,L. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction (Not Offered 2016-2017) Noting that the official colonial independence of most African countries dates back only half a century, this ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature course focuses on the fictive experiments of the most Taking into account the oral, written, aural and visual recent decade. A few highly controversial works from forms of African “texts” over several thousand years, the 90’s serve as an introduction to very recent work. this course will explore literary production, translation Most works are in English. To experience depth as well and audience/critical reception. Representative works as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from South to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata Epic, Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ayi Kwei huge African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in Armah’s Fragments, Mariama Bâ’s Si Longe une Lettre, the present” in history and letters. Tsitsi Danga-rembga’s Nervous Conditions, Bessie Counts towards: Africana Studies Head’s Maru, Sembène Ousmane’s Xala, plays by Units: 1.0 Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, The Muse of (Not Offered 2016-2017) Forgiveness and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat. We will address the “transliteration” of Christian and FREN B254 Teaching (in) the Postcolony: Schooling Muslim languages and theologies in these works. in African Fiction Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive This seminar examines novels from Francophone and Counts towards: Africana Studies Anglophone Africa, critical essays, and two films, in Units: 1.0 order better to understand the forces that inform the Instructor(s): Beard,L. African child’s experiences of education. This course is (Spring 2017) taught in English. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Africana Studies 65

GNST B103 Introduction to Swahili Language and colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, urbanization, and Culture I westernization, as well as contemporary struggles over The primary goal of this course is to develop an authority, autonomy, identity and access to resources. elementary level ability to speak, read, and write Case studies will be drawn from across the continent. Swahili. The emphasis is on communicative competence Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the in Swahili based on the National Standards for Foreign Past (IP) Language Learning. In the process of acquiring the Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality language, students will also be introduced to East Africa Studies and its cultures. No prior knowledge of Swahili or East Units: 1.0 Africa is required. Note: GNST B103/B105 do not fulfill Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. the Bryn Mawr College language requirement. (Spring 2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Africana Studies HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Units: 1.0 The aim of this course is to provide an understanding Instructor(s): Mshomba,E. of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from (Fall 2016) Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course GNST B105 Introduction to Swahili Language and is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated Culture II system was created in the Americas in the early modern The primary goal of this course is to continue working period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic on an elementary level ability to speak, read, and write World as nothing more than an expanded version of Swahili. The emphasis is on communicative competence North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. in Swahili based on the National Standards for Foreign Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Language Learning. Students will also continue learning Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, about East Africa and its cultures. Prerequisite: GNST Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; B103 (Introduction to Swahili Language and Culture I) Peace, Justice and Human Rights or permission of the instructor is required. Note: GNST Units: 1.0 B103/B105 does not fulfill the Bryn Mawr College (Not Offered 2016-2017) language requirement. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) HIST B236 African History since 1800 Counts towards: Africana Studies The course analyzes the history of Africa in the last two Units: 1.0 hundred years in the context of global political economy. Instructor(s): Mshomba,E. We will examine the major themes in modern African (Spring 2017) history, including the 19th-century state formation, expansion, or restructuration; partition and resistance; HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New colonial rule; economic, social, political, religious, and Articulations cultural developments; nationalism; post-independence At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural politics, economics, and society, as well as conflicts and history museum played an important role in constructing the burden of disease. The course will also introduce and disseminating images of Africa to the Western students to the sources and methods of African history. public. The history of museum representations of Africa Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the and Africans reveals that exhibitions—both museum Past (IP) exhibitions and “living” World’s Fair exhibitions— has Counts towards: Africana Studies long been deeply embedded in politics, including the Units: 1.0 persistent “othering” of African people as savages (Not Offered 2016-2017) or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider HIST B237 Topic: Modern African History how art museums are creating new constructions of This is a topics course. Course content varies. Africa and how contemporary curators and conceptual Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the artists are creating complex, challenging new ways of Past (IP) understanding African identities. Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Studies Counts towards: Africana Studies; Museum Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. Instructor(s): Scott,M. (Fall 2016) Spring 2017: African Economic Development. This course examines the political economy of HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations African development in historical perspectives. We will address the following questions: Why is the The course is designed to introduce students to the African continent, which is rich in natural resources, history of African and African Diaspora societies, so poor? What are the causes of poverty in cultures, and political economies. We will discuss the Africa? The course will analyze the environmental, origins, state formation, external contacts, and the economic, political, and historical factors that structural transformations and continuities of African have affected the development of Africa. We will societies and cultures in the context of the slave trade, 66 Africana Studies

discuss the impact of slavery, colonial exploitation, HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450- foreign interventions, foreign aid, trade, and 1800 democratic transitions on African development. We This course explores the emergence, development, will also explore the theories of development and and challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and underdevelopment. blackness, that have been in place from the colonial period to the present. Through the reading of primary HIST B243 Topics: Atlantic Cultures and secondary sources, we will explore various ways This is a topics course. Course content varies. through which enslaved people imagined freedom, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the personal rights, community membership, and some Past (IP) of the paths they created in order to improve their Counts towards: Africana Studies experiences and change the social order. In an attempt Units: 1.0 to have a comparative approach, we will look at Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. particular events and circumstances that took place in few provinces in the Americas, with an emphasis Fall 2016: Maroon Communities - New on Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will World. The course explores the process of self- also look at the methodological challenges of studying emancipation by slaves in the early modern Atlantic and writing history of people who in principle, were not World. What was the nature of the communities that allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will free blacks forged? What were their relationships identify and underscore the contribution that people to the empires from which they freed themselves? of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, How was race constructed in the early modern freedom, equality, and democracy. period? Did conceptions of race change over time? Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas Units: 1.0 The course explores the confrontations, conquests (Not Offered 2016-2017) and accommodations that formed the “ground-level” experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout HIST B349 Topics in Comparative History the Americas. The course is comparative in scope, examining events and structures in North, South This is a topics course. Topics vary. and Central America, with particular attention paid Counts towards: Africana Studies to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous Units: 1.0 leadership in the colonial world of the 18th century. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, POLS B243 African and Caribbean Perspectives in Iberian and Latina/o Studies World Politics Units: 1.0 This course makes African and Caribbean voices Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. audible as they create or adopt visions of the world that (Fall 2016) explain their positions and challenges in world politics. Students learn analytical tools useful in understanding HIST B336 Topics in African History other parts of the world. Prerequisite: POLS 141 or 1 This is a topic course. Course content varies. course in African or Latin American history. Counts towards: Africana Studies; International Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Africana Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B337 Topics in African History SOCL B225 Women in Society This is a topics course. Topics vary. Counts towards: Africana Studies A study of the contemporary experiences of women of Units: 1.0 color in the Global South. The household, workplace, Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. community, and the nation-state, and the positions of women in the private and public spheres are compared Spring 2017: Hist of Global Health AfricaThe cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and course examines the histories of global health self-esteem; globalization and transnational social initiatives to deal with the burden of disease in movements and tensions and transitions encountered Africa. It offers historical (and anthroplogical) as nations embark upon development. perspectives on the ways in which medicine and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) public health in Africa have been transformed under Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family the pressures of broad forces and factors, including Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, colonial exploitation and rule, post-Second World Iberian and Latina/o Studies War initiatives, the postcolonial economic and Units: 1.0 political liberalization and globalization, and rise of Instructor(s): Montes,V. ‘para-states’ in Africa. (Spring 2017) Anthropology 67

SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological include ANTH 101, 102, 303, 398 and 399. (ANTH 103 Perspective at Haverford may be substituted for ANTH 102.) This course presents sociological perspectives on various issues affecting black America as a historically Minor Requirements unique minority group in the United States: the legacy Requirements for a minor in anthropology are ANTH of slavery and the Jim Crow era; the formation of urban 101, 102, 303, one ethnographic area course and two black ghettos; the civil rights reforms; the problems additional 200- or 300-level courses in anthropology. of poverty and unemployment; the problems of crime and other social problems in black communities; the problems of criminal justice; the continuing significance Honors of race; the varied covert modern forms of racial Qualified students may earn departmental honors in discrimination experienced by black Americans; and the their senior year. Honors are based on the quality of role of race in American politics. the senior thesis (398, 399) and grade point average in Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the courses taken for the anthropology major. Past (IP) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family Concentration in Geoarcheology Studies Units: 1.0 The Departments of Anthropology, Classical and (Not Offered 2016-2017) Near Eastern Archaeology, and Geology offer a concentration in geoarchaeology for existing majors in these departments. Please consult with Professor Magee regarding this program. Please note that these ANTHROPOLOGY requirements are separate from those for the major and cannot be double counted. Students may complete a major or a minor in Anthropology. Within the major, students may complete Requirements for the concentration: a concentration in Geoarchaeology. • Two 100-level units from Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (including ARCH Faculty 135, a half-credit course) or Geology, of which one must be from the department outside the student’s Casey Barrier, Assistant Professor of Anthropology major. Susanna Fioratta, Assistant Professor of Anthropology • ANTH/ARCH/GEOL 270: Geoarchaeology (Magee, Melissa Pashigian, Associate Professor of Anthropology Barber). (on leave semester II) • BIOL/ARCH/GEOL 328: Geospatial Data Analysis Maja Seselj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (on and GIS (staff). leave semesters I & II) • Two elective courses, to be chosen in consultation Caroline VanSickle, Visiting Assistant Professor with the major advisor, from among current offerings in Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Amanda Weidman, Chair and Associate Professor of Archaeology and Geology. One of these two Anthropology courses must be from outside the student’s major. Anthropology is a holistic study of the human condition Suggested courses include but are not limited in both the past and the present. The anthropological to ARCH 135 (HALF-CREDIT: Archaeological lens can bring into focus the social, cultural, biological Fieldwork and Methods), ANTH 203 (Human and linguistic variations that characterize the diversity Ecology), ANTH 220 (Methods and Theory), of humankind throughout time and space. The frontiers ARCH 330 (History of Archaeology and Theory), of anthropology can encompass many directions: the ANTH 225 (Paleolithic Archaeology), ANTH 240 search for early human fossils in Africa, the excavations (Traditional Technologies), ARCH 308 (Ceramic of prehistoric societies and ancient civilizations, the Analysis), ARCH 332 (Field Techniques), GEOL 202 analysis of language use and other expressive forms of (Mineralogy), GEOL 205 (Sedimentology), GEOL culture, or the examination of the significance of culture 310 (Geophysics), and GEOL 312 (Quaternary in the context of social life. Climates). Major Requirements Cooperation with Other Programs Requirements for the major are ANTH 101, 102, 303, The Department of Anthropology actively participates 398, 399, an ethnographic area course that focuses and regularly contributes to the minors in Africana on the cultures of a single region, and four additional Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality 200- or 300-level courses in anthropology. Students Studies, and Health Studies. In addition, Anthropology are encouraged to select courses from each of four cross-lists several courses with Biology, Classical subfields of anthropology: archaeology, bioanthropology, and Near Eastern Archaeology, German, Growth and linguistics or sociocultural. ANTH B303 fulfills the major Structure of Cities, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, writing intensive requirement. Political Science, and Sociology. Anthropology at Bryn Mawr also works in close cooperation with our Students may elect to do part of their work away from counterpart department at Haverford College. Bryn Mawr. Courses that must be taken at Bryn Mawr 68 Anthropology

COURSES the initial migration of big game hunters who spread throughout the continent more than 12,000 years ago, ANTH B101 Introduction to Anthropology: to the complex Pueblos of the Southwest and urban Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Cahokia in the East, there remains a rich archaeological Anthropology record that reflects the ways of life of these cultures. An introduction to the place of humans in nature, This course will introduce the culture history of North evolutionary theory, living primates, the fossil record for America as well as explanations for culture change and human evolution, human variation and the issue of race, diversification. and the archaeological investigation of culture change Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) from the Old Stone Age to the rise of early civilizations Units: 1.0 in the Americas, Eurasia and Africa. In addition to the Instructor(s): Barrier,C. lecture/discussion classes, students must select and (Spring 2017) sign up for one lab section. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) ANTH B208 Human Biology Units: 1.0 This course will be a survey of modern human biological Instructor(s): Barrier,C., VanSickle,C. variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological (Fall 2016) and genetic variation in modern human populations and discuss the evolutionary explanations for the observed ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology patterns. A major component of the class will be the An introduction to the methods and theories of cultural discussion of the social implications of these patterns of anthropology in order to understand and explain cultural biological variation, particularly in the construction and similarities and differences among contemporary application of the concept of race. Prerequisite: ANTH societies. 101 or permission of instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Health Studies Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Units: 1.0 Sexuality Studies; International Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Weidman,A., Fioratta,S. ANTH B209 Human Evolution (Spring 2017) This course explores the biological and cultural evolution of humans as viewed from the fossil and ANTH B202 Africa in the World archaeological record, beginning with our earliest In this course, we will approach Africa with an emphasis ancestors and continuing to the dispersal of modern on the many interconnections that link the continent humans around the globe. We will use comparative, with the rest of the world, through both time and functional, and evolutionary anatomy to interpret past space. Much popular talk about Africa in the U.S. behaviors and relationships among fossil hominins, is overwhelmingly negative—focusing on poverty, as well as their relationship to modern humans. violence, and failed states—and often portrays Africa Furthermore, we will use geology, archaeology, and as something “other,” both different from and unrelated paleoecology to reconstruct behavioral aspects of to the United States and much of the rest of the world. fossil hominins and their environmental influences. But such preconceptions blatantly overlook what we Throughout the course, we will focus our discussions on know about historical and contemporary movements of major debates in paleoanthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH people, ideas, materials, and money around the globe. 101 or permission of instructor. Rather than regarding Africa as separate or apart, in Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) this course we will examine the centrality of African Units: 1.0 engagements with these global movements. Rather Instructor(s): VanSickle,C. than attempting a survey of particular, bounded African (Fall 2016) “peoples” or “cultures,” we will explore complex issues and processes through interconnected topics including ANTH B210 Medical Anthropology colonial and postcolonial politics, urban life, gender and This course examines the relationships between sexuality, religion, economic networks, development, culture, society, disease and illness. It considers a and transnational migration. We will use these themes broad range of health-related experiences, discourses, as guides for exploring larger, interlinked questions of knowledge and practice among different cultures and social life in Africa and around the world. Prerequisite: among individuals and groups in different positions of Sophomore standing or higher. power. Topics covered include sorcery, herbal remedies, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) healing rituals, folk illnesses, modern disease, scientific Counts towards: Africana Studies medical perceptions, clinical technique, epidemiology Units: 1.0 and political economy of medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH Instructor(s): Fioratta,S. 102 or permission of instructor. (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies ANTH B204 North American Archaeology Units: 1.0 For millennia, the North American continent has been Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. home to a vast diversity of Native Americans. From (Fall 2016) Anthropology 69

ANTH B219 Visual Anthropology, Latin America and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Social Movements Units: 1.0 Focusing on indigenous communities and social (Not Offered 2016-2017) movements, this course examines the cultural uses of visual art, photography, film, and new media in Latin ANTH B232 Human Diets Past and Present: America. Students will analyze a variety of materials to Nutritional Anthropology reconsider western conceptions of art. As well, students This course will explore the complex nature of will explore how anthropologists employ visual methods human experiences in satisfying needs for food and in ethnographic research. Prerequisites: Sophomore nourishment. The approach is biocultural, exploring standing or higher. both the biological basis of human food choices and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the cultural context that influences food acquisition Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o and choice. Material covered will primarily be from Studies an evolutionary and cross-cultural perspective. Also Units: 1.0 included will be a discussion of popular culture in (Not Offered 2016-2017) the U.S. and our current obsession with food, such as dietary fads. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor ANTH B220 Methods and Theory in Archaeology permission. An examination of techniques and theories Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the archaeologists use to transform archaeological data Past (IP) into statements about patterns of prehistoric cultural Units: 1.0 behavior, adaptation and culture change. Theory Instructor(s): VanSickle,C. development, hypothesis formulation, gathering (Spring 2017) of archaeological data and their interpretation and evaluation are discussed and illustrated by examples. ANTH B234 Forensic Anthropology Theoretical debates current in anthropological Introduces the forensic subfield of biological archaeology are reviewed and the place of archaeology anthropology, which applies techniques of osteology in the general field of anthropology is discussed. and biomechanics to questions of forensic science, with Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. practical applications for criminal justice. Examines the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) challenges of human skeletal identification and trauma Units: 1.0 analysis, as well as the broader ethical considerations Instructor(s): Barrier,C. and implications of the field. Topics will include: human (Spring 2017) osteology; search and recovery of human remains; taphonomy; trauma analysis; and the development and ANTH B221 Performance in Latin America application of innovative and specialized techniques. This course examines performance in Latin America, Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. addressing performances that range from the everyday Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) to the staged. Topics include: self-presentation Units: 1.0 and gender; food and sports; political ceremonies, (Not Offered 2016-2017) personalities, and protest; religion, ritual, and rites of passage; literature, music, theater, dance, and ANTH B237 Environmental Health performance art. In particular, students will attend to the This course introduces principles and methods in situation of local practices within a global context, and to environmental anthropology and public health used to the relationship between culture, politics, and aesthetics. analyze global environmental health problems globally Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or higher. and develop health and disease control programs. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Topics covered include risk; health and environment; Units: 1.0 food production and consumption; human health and (Not Offered 2016-2017) agriculture; meat and poultry production; and culture, urbanization, and disease. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or ANTH B230 Religion in the Pacific Rim permission of instructor. Using ethnography as the foundation for study, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) this course provides an introduction to religious Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies beliefs throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including Units: 1.0 shamanism, sorcery, and the advent of Christianity. (Not Offered 2016-2017) The role of ritual and religion in forming identity, enforcing social structures, and managing cultural ANTH B239 Anthropology of Media change will be examined. We also will explore the This course examines the impact of non-print media difficulties anthropologists have had in understanding such as films, television, sound recordings, radio, cell and interpreting the rich religious heritage of the Pacific phones, the internet and social media on contemporary Rim. Students will consider how the interpretation life from an anthropological perspective. The course and representation of religious practices in the Pacific will focus on the constitutive power of media at two Rim have influenced anthropological approaches interlinked levels: first, in the construction of subjectivity, to perceptions of reality, power, and difference. senses of self, and the production of affect; and second, Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. in collective social and political projects, such as building national identity, resisting state power, or giving 70 Anthropology voice to indigenous claims. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the ANTH H103, or permission of instructor Past (IP) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ANTH B266 Waves of Power: Sound in Culture, Politics, and Society ANTH B244 Global Perspectives on Early Farmers From the chants of protesters to the hum of engines, and Social Change from the ring of church bells to the background tracks Throughout most of human history our ancestors of our favorite songs, sound matters. It is not just a practiced lifestyles focused upon the gathering and background to what we see, but a crucial and powerful hunting of wild plants and animals. Today, however, a part of social life. This course builds an understanding globalized agricultural economy supports a population of sound through anthropological investigation, as a of over seven billion individuals. This course utilizes product of human creativity, human conflict, and human information produced by archaeologists around the interaction with the material world. We will explore the globe to examine this major historical transition while ways that sound is conceptualized and endowed with asking big questions like: What impact did the adoption meaning; how sound becomes linked to identity; and of agriculture have on communities in the past, and how sound can become a call to action in different how did farming spread to different world regions? cultural and historical contexts. The kinds of sounds We will also consider how the current farming system we will encounter in this course include, but are not influences our own society. How does farming still affect limited to, music and spoken language; we will also be our lives today, and how will the history of agricultural studying environmental, industrial, and religious sounds. change shape our collective future? Counts toward You will also be learning about different ways to record, Environmental Studies minor. document, and write about sound by engaging in your Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) own sound-based ethnographic research. Prerequisite: Counts towards: Environmental Studies Sophomore Standing or higher. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Weidman,A. ANTH B248 Race, Power and Culture (Fall 2016) This course examines race and power through a variety of topics including colonialism, nation-state ANTH B268 Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and formation, genocide, systems of oppression/privilege, Family and immigration. Students will examine how class, This course explores the family and marriage as basic gender, and other social variables intersect to affect social institutions in cultures around the world. We will individual and collective experiences of race, as well as consider various topics including: kinship systems in the consequences of racism in various cultural contexts. social organization; dating and courtship; parenting and Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. childhood; cohabitation and changing family formations; Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) family planning and reproductive technologies; and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies gender and the division of household labor. In addition Units: 1.0 to thinking about individuals in families, we will consider (Not Offered 2016-2017) the relationship between society, the state, and marriage and family. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of ANTH B259 The Creation of Early Complex Societies instructor. In the last 10,000 years, humans around the world Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) have transitioned from organizing themselves through Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies small, egalitarian social networks to living within large Units: 1.0 and socially complex societies. This archaeology (Not Offered 2016-2017) course takes an anthropological perspective to seek to understand the ways that human groups created these ANTH B271 Museum Anthropology: History, Politics, complex societies. We will explore the archaeological Practices evidence for the development of complexity in the past, This course provides an in-depth exploration of including the development of villages and early cities, museum anthropology: the critical study of museum the institutionalization of social and political-economic practices from an anthropological perspective. The inequalities, and the rise of states and empires. course will fundamentally consider the role of museums Alongside discussion of current theoretical ideas about in exhibiting culture—the politics of placing cultures complexity, the course will compare and contrast on display, from living humans and human remains the evolutionary trajectories of complex societies in to cultural objects and artifacts. The course will also different world regions. Case studies will emphasize consider changing practices in museum anthropology, the pre-Columbian histories of complex societies in the including repatriation efforts, shifting notions of heritage Americas as well as some of the early complex societies and identity and the emergence of community-curated of the Old World. Counts toward Latin American, Iberian, exhibitions. This course complements the theoretical and Latina/o Studies minor. Approach: Inquiry into the explorations of the museum with visits to area museums Past (IP) and Cross-Cultural (CC) Anthropology 71 and hands-on work in Special Collections. systems of inequality, race and ethnicity, sexuality, Approach: Course does not meet an Approach queer theory, labor, globalization and social change, Units: 1.0 and others. Prerequisites: ANTH 102 or permission of (Not Offered 2016-2017) instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ANTH B277 Biology and Gender Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 This course will explore how ideas about sex and (Not Offered 2016-2017) gender influence scientific understanding of human evolution. It examines how biological research has been influenced by social context and beliefs about evolution ANTH B294 Culture, Power, and Politics over time and the legacy of such interaction for research What do a country’s national politics have to do with on biology and sex differences today. Topics will range culture? Likewise, how are politics hidden below the from how Charles Darwin and his contemporaries were surface of our everyday social lives? This course influenced by their social context, to current biological explores questions like these through anthropological research and what the legacy of biases mean for how approaches. Drawing on both classic and contemporary biological research on sex differences is done today. ethnographic studies from the U.S. and around Focusing on the importance of who gets to do science, the world, we will examine how social and cultural this course culminates with a study of social factors frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. affecting and impeding gender diversity in biology and Topics will include states and political systems, other STEM fields. Prerequisite: At least sophomore nationalism and citizenship, gender, violence, rumor and standing. conspiracy theory, and non-state forms of governance. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of the instructor. Past (IP) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: International Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): VanSickle,C. Instructor(s): Fioratta,S. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017)

ANTH B281 Language in Social Context ANTH B301 Anthropology of Globalization: Wealth, Studies of language in society have moved from the Mobility, Insecurity idea that language reflects social position/identity This course explores economic globalization from an to the idea that language plays an active role in anthropological perspective. With a focus on the social, shaping and negotiating social position, identity, and cultural, and historical aspects of global connections, we experience. This course will explore the implications seek to understand not only large-scale change in the of this shift by providing an introduction to the fields of world, but also how the growing integration of different sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. We will be countries and economic systems shapes everyday particularly concerned with the ways in which language life experience. Conversely, we will also explore how is implicated in the social construction of gender, race, individuals actively engage with, and sometimes help class, and cultural/national identity. The course will shape, changing global processes. We will examine the develop students’ skills in the ethnographic analysis meanings and motivations that guide some people to of communication through several short ethnographic accumulate capital, and we will consider the structural projects. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or inequalities and barriers that prevent others from permission of instructor. doing so. We will study the paths of mobile individuals Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical around the world—those who cross borders “legally” Interpretation (CI) as well as those whose movements are deemed Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Peace, “illegal”—and think critically about what exclusion and Justice and Human Rights forced immobility means for people socially as well Units: 1.0 as economically. Finally, we will investigate patterns Instructor(s): Weidman,A. of economic, political, and social insecurity that often (Spring 2017) accompany processes of globalization. Working through a series of ethnographic analyses and conducting our ANTH B287 Sex, Gender and Culture own research, we will gain a better understanding of how people around the world experience and actively Introduces students to core concepts and topics of make “the global.” Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH the cultural anthropological study of gender, sexuality H103 or permission of the instructor. difference and power in today’s world. Focusing on the Units: 1.0 body as a site of lived experience, the course explores (Not Offered 2016-2017) the varied intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, economics, class, location and sexual preference that produce different experiences for people both within and ANTH B303 History of Anthropological Theory across nations. Particular attention will be paid to how A consideration of the history of anthropological theories gender and other forms of difference are shaped and and the discipline of anthropology as an academic transformed by global forces, and how these processes discipline that seeks to understand and explain society are gendered and raced. Topics include: scientific and culture as its subjects of study. Several vantage discourses, femininity/masculinity, marriage and points on the history of anthropological theory are intimacy, media and childhood, gender and variance, 72 Anthropology engaged to enact an historically charged anthropology preservation and evolution in the survival of cultural of a disciplinary history. Anthropological theories are phenomena and practice. Readings will address topics considered not only as a series of models, paradigms, including: identity construction; public celebrations or orientations, but as configurations of thought, such as festivals, parades, and processions; religious technique, knowledge, and power that reflect the ever- belief and ritual practices; transformations in food, changing relationships among the societies and cultures music, dance, and performance; the commodification of the world. This course qualifies as completion of the of “ethnic” arts and crafts and “untouched” landscapes; writing requirement. Prerequisite: at least one additional debates over public space and historic preservation; anthropology course at the 200 or 300 level. and economic and cultural arguments surrounding Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive tourism and heritage programs. Special attention will be Units: 1.0 directed towards the impact of migration, colonialism, Instructor(s): Weidman,A. nationalism, and global capitalism upon cultural change. (Fall 2016) Prerequisite: ANTH B102, or permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction (Not Offered 2016-2017) An examination of social and cultural constructions of reproduction, and how power and politics in everyday ANTH B322 Anthropology of the Body life shapes reproductive behavior and its meaning in This course examines a diversity of meanings and Western and non-Western cultures. The influence of interpretations of the body in anthropology. It explores competing interests within households, communities, anthropological theories and methods of studying states, and institutions on reproduction is considered. the body and social difference via a series of topics Prerequisite: ANTH B102 (or ANTH H103) or permission including the construction of the body in medicine, of instructor. identity, race, gender, sexuality and as explored through Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and cross-cultural comparison. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or Sexuality Studies; Health Studies permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. ANTH B316 Media, Performance, and Gender in (Fall 2016) South Asia Examines gender as a culturally and historically ANTH B325 Mobility, Movement, and Migration in the constructed category in the modern South Asian Past context, focusing on the ways in which everyday The movement of human social groups across experiences of and practices relating to gender are landscapes, borders, and boundaries is a dominant informed by media, performance, and political events. feature of today’s world as well as of the recent historic Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. past. Archaeological research has demonstrated Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies that migration, movement, and mobility were also Units: 1.0 common features of human life in the more distant (Not Offered 2016-2017) past. From examining cases of small-scale groups that were largely defined by constant movements across ANTH B317 Disease and Human Evolution their social landscapes, to the study of the spread of complex societies and early political states, this course Pathogens and humans have been having an will consider the role of migration in the formation, “evolutionary arms race” since the beginning of our reproduction, and alteration of human societies. species. In this course, we will look at methods for Attention will be paid to how archaeologists recognize tracing diseases in our distant past through skeletal and study movement, as well as to how knowledge and genetic analyses as well as tracing the paths and of the past contributes to a broader anthropological impacts of epidemics that occurred during the historic understanding of human migration. Prerequisite: ANTH past. We will also address how concepts of Darwinian B101, or permission of instructor medicine impact our understanding of how people might Units: 1.0 be treated most effectively. There will be a midterm, (Not Offered 2016-2017) a final, and an essay and short presentation on a topic developed by the student relating to the class. Prerequisite: ANTH B101 or permission of the instructor. ANTH B328 Race, Inequality and Human Variation Counts towards: Health Studies, Biology In this seminar, students will examine the relationship Counts towards: Health Studies between science and social policies that impact “race” Units: 1.0 historically and in the present day. The course will focus (Not Offered 2016-2017) on the role that anthropology has played in the study of race and how anthropological work has been used and ANTH B320 Culture Change, Heritage and Tourism abused in socio-political arenas, both with and without the complicity of the scientists themselves. We will This course will examine change among individuals discuss the history of the study of evolution and how and groups in various cultural contexts, with a focus race concepts have affect its study, how the worlds of on heritage and tourism, and the tensions between science, politics and society are interrelated and how Anthropology 73 their relationship has been used to undermine, and ANTH B351 Transnationalism, Culture and sometimes promote, different racial and ethnic groups. Globalization Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission. Introduces students to transnationalism, globalization Units: 1.0 and what it means to live in culturally diverse societies. Instructor(s): VanSickle,C. Through media, art, technology, fashion, food, and (Spring 2017) music this course examines the sociopolitical contours of contemporary multiculturalism in our globalizing ANTH B331 Advanced Topics in Medical world. The course will examine the impact of global Anthropology forces such as immigration, media, and labor markets The purpose of the course is to provide a survey of on cultural diversity. We will look critically at the concept theoretical frameworks used in medical anthropology, of multiculturalism as it differs across the world, and coupled with topical subjects and ethnographic consider the power of culture as a means of oppression examples. The course will highlight a number of sub- as well as a tool for social change. We will consider specializations in the field of Medical Anthropology how people create and deploy culture through art including genomics, science and technology studies, production, visual media, social movements and other ethnomedicine, cross-cultural psychiatry/psychology, phenomena. Prerequisites: ANTH B102 or permission of cross-cultural bioethics, ecological approaches to the instructor studying health and behavior, and more. Prerequisite: Units: 1.0 ANTH B102, ANTH H103, or permission of instructor. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Health Studies Units: 1.0 ANTH B354 Identity, Ritual and Cultural Practice in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Contemporary Vietnam This course focuses on the ways in which recent ANTH B338 Applied Anthropology: Ethics, Methods economic and political changes in Vietnam influence & Rights and shape everyday lives, meanings and practices This course will explore anthropology and social there. It explores construction of identity in Vietnam change, specifically how anthropologists challenge through topics including ritual and marriage practices, forms of oppression and injustice. Through readings, gendered socialization, social reproduction and memory. discussions, and practice, we will examine and radically Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. reconsider what anthropology has been, what it is, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies and what it can be as a tool for engaging the world Units: 1.0 outside academia. We will read a variety of examples (Not Offered 2016-2017) of how public anthropologists have used ethnographic methods to address social inequalities both in the ANTH B398 Senior Conference United States and globally. We will discuss both the Research design, proposal writing, research ethics, process and product of such research and myriad empirical research techniques and analysis of original ways that insight from ethnographic fieldwork and material. Class discussions of work in progress and oral qualitative analysis lends visibility and public voice to a and written presentations of the analysis and results variety of issues including human rights, health, poverty of research are important. A senior thesis proposal is and inequality, homelessness, humanitarian aid, and the most significant writing experience in the seminar. war. Prerequisites: ANTH B102 or permission of the Prerequisite: Senior Anthropology majors only. instructor. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Barrier,C., Fioratta,S. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016)

ANTH B343 Human Growth and Development and ANTH B399 Senior Conference Life History Coding research notes, discussion of ongoing field work In this seminar we will examine various aspects of and research. A senior’s thesis is the most significant the human life history pattern, highly unusual among writing experience in the seminar. mammals, from a comparative evolutionary perspective. Units: 1.0 First, we will survey the fundamentals of life history Instructor(s): Barrier,C., Fioratta,S. theory, with an emphasis on primate life histories (Spring 2017) and socioecological pressures that influence them. Secondly, we will focus on unique aspects of human life ANTH B403 Supervised Work history, including secondary altriciality of human infants, the inclusion of childhood and pubertal life stages in our Independent work is usually open to junior and senior pattern of growth and development, and the presence majors who wish to work in a special area under the of a post-reproductive life span. Finally, we will examine supervision of a member of the faculty and is subject to fossil evidence from the hominin lineage used in faculty time and interest. reconstructing the evolution of the modern human life Units: 1.0 history pattern. Prerequisite: ANTH B101 or permission (Fall 2016) of instructor. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 74 Anthropology

ANTH B425 Praxis III: Independent Study a range of traditional dances from Japan and China, Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and capoeira in today’s Brazil, and social dances in North are developed by individual students, in collaboration America and Europe. Recognizing dance as a kind of with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is shared cultural knowledge and drawing on theories distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite and literature in anthropology, dance and related fields organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection such as history, and ethnomusicology, we will examine that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the dance’s relationship to social structure, ethnicity, classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding gender, spirituality and politics. Lectures, discussion, gained through classroom study to work done in the media, and fieldwork are included. Prerequisite: a broader community.Counts towards: Praxis Program course in anthropology or related discipline, or a dance Units: 1.0 lecture/seminar course, or permission of the instructor. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive ANTH B210 Medical Anthropology Units: 1.0 This course examines the relationships between (Not Offered 2016-2017) culture, society, disease and illness. It considers a broad range of health-related experiences, discourses, ARTD B265 Dance, Migration and Exile knowledge and practice among different cultures and among individuals and groups in different positions of Highlighting aesthetic, political, social and spiritual power. Topics covered include sorcery, herbal remedies, powers of dance as it travels, transforms, and healing rituals, folk illnesses, modern disease, scientific is accorded meaning both domestically and medical perceptions, clinical technique, epidemiology transnationally, especially in situations of war and social and political economy of medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH and political upheaval, this course investigates the re- 102 or permission of instructor. Approach: Cross- creation of heritage and the production of new traditions Cultural Analysis (CC) in refugee camps and in diaspora. Prerequisite: a Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies Dance lecture/seminar course or a course in a relevant Units: 1.0 discipline such as anthropology, sociology, or Peace Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. and Conflict Studies, or permission of the instructor. (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive ANTH B237 Environmental Health Units: 1.0 This course introduces principles and methods in (Not Offered 2016-2017) environmental anthropology and public health used to analyze global environmental health problems globally ARTD B310 Performing the City: Theorizing Bodies and develop health and disease control programs. in Space Topics covered include risk; health and environment; food production and consumption; human health and Building on the premise that space is a concern in agriculture; meat and poultry production; and culture, performance, choreography, architecture and urban urbanization, and disease. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 planning, this course will interrogate relationships or permission of instructor.Approach: Cross-Cultural between (performing) bodies and (city) spaces. Using Analysis (CC) perspectives from dance and performance studies, Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies urban studies and cultural geography, it will introduce Units: 1.0 space, spatiality and the city as material and theoretical (Not Offered 2016-2017) concepts and investigate how moving and performing bodies and city spaces intersect in political, social and cultural contexts. Lectures, discussion of assigned ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome readings, attendance at a live performance and 2-3 field The often-praised achievements of the classical trips are included. Prerequisites: One Dance lecture/ cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This seminar course or one course in relevant discipline course surveys the rich body of material and textual e.g. cities, anthropology, sociology or permission of the evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans instructor.Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics Units: 1.0 include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family (Not Offered 2016-2017) and social life. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) BIOL B236 Evolution Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Donohue,A. A lecture/discussion course on the development of (Spring 2017) evolutionary biology. This course will cover the history of evolutionary theory, population genetics, molecular and developmental evolution, paleontology, and ARTD B223 Anthropology of Dance phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a week. This course surveys ethnographic approaches to the Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) study of global dance in a variety of contemporary and Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology historical contexts, including contact improvisation, Units: 1.0 Argentinian tango, Kathak dance in Indian modernity, Instructor(s): Davis,G., Marenco,P. (Spring 2017) Anthropology 75

CITY B185 Urban Culture and Society development; gift exchange and guanxi networks; Examines techniques and questions of the social changing perceptions of space and place; as well as sciences as tools for studying historical and globalization and modernity. Prerequisite: Sophomore contemporary cities. Topics include political-economic standing or higher.Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis organization, conflict and social differentiation (class, (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ethnicity and gender), and cultural production and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; representation. Philadelphia features prominently International Studies in discussion, reading and exploration as do global Units: 1.0 metropolitan comparisons through papers involving (Not Offered 2016-2017) fieldwork, critical reading and planning/problem solving using qualitative and quantitative methods. Approach: GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course investigates the anthropological, Units: 1.0 philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary Instructor(s): McDonogh,G., Reyes,V. aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience (Fall 2016) and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship between imagined/ CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism remembered homelands and transnational identities, This is a topics course. Course content varies. and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the Past (IP) psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Studies Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, Units: 1.0 W. G. Sebald, and others. Instructor(s): McDonogh,G. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) Spring 2017: Colonial and Post-Colonial Cities. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Probing the relations of power at the heart of Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o power and society in many cities worldwide, this Studies; International Studies class uses case studies to test urban theory, forms Units: 1.0 and practice. In order to grapple with colonialism Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. and its aftermaths, we will focus on cities in (Spring 2017) North Africa, France, Ireland, Hong Kong and Cuba, systematically exploring research, writing HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 and insights from systematic interdisciplinary The aim of this course is to provide an understanding comparisons. of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form CITY B335 Topics in City and Media an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated Instructor(s): McDonogh,G. system was created in the Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic Spring 2017: Public/Private/Control/Freedom. World as nothing more than an expanded version of Cities demand and create information. Urbanism North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. has thrived on, through and by media from Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) monumental constructions to newspapers and film Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, to today’s social networks. This seminar explores Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; global practices, major theoretical debates, social Peace, Justice and Human Rights exclusions and resistance, and diasporic extensions Units: 1.0 of the mediated city. Looking through the prism (Not Offered 2016-2017) of public, counter-public and private spheres we examine the dialectic of control and freedom these urbane connections embody. SOCL B238 Perspectives on Urban Poverty This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to EALC B238 Chinese Culture and Society 20th century urban poverty knowledge. The course is This course encourages students to think critically about primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, major developments in Chinese culture and society cultural, political, racial, social, spatial/geographical, that have occurred during the twentieth and twenty-first and economic forces have either shaped or been left centuries, with an emphasis on understanding both out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. Of cultural change and continuity in China. Drawing on great importance, the course will evaluate competing ethnographic material and case studies from rural and knowledge systems and their respective implications urban China over the traditional, revolutionary, and in terms of the question of “what can be known” about reform periods, this course examines a variety of topics urban poverty in the contexts of social policy and including family and kinship; marriage, reproduction, practice, academic research, and the broader social and death; popular religion; women and gender; the imaginary. We will critically analyze a wide body of Cultural Revolution; social and economic reforms and literature that theorizes and explains urban poverty. 76 Arabic

Course readings span the disciplines of sociology, by instructor. Approach: Course does not meet an anthropology, critical geography, urban studies, history, Approach and social welfare. Primacy will be granted to critical Units: 1.0 analysis and deconstruction of course texts, particularly Instructor(s): Darwish,M. with regard to the ways in which poverty knowledge (Fall 2016) creates, sustains, and constricts channels of action in urban poverty policy and practice interventions. ARAB B004 Second-Year Modern Standard Arabic Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Combines intensive oral practice with writing and Units: 1.0 reading in the modern language. The course aims (Not Offered 2016-2017) to increase students’ expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic expression through ARABIC several media. Prerequisite: ARAB B003 or placement. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Faculty Units: 1.0 Grace M. Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Instructor(s): Darwish,M. Professor of French and Director of Middle Eastern (Spring 2017) Languages and Co-Director of the International Studies Program (fall) ARAB B403 Independent Study Manar Darwish, Instructor and Coordinator of Bi-Co Units: 1.0 Arabic Program Instructor(s): Darwish,M. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Farnaz Perry, Drill Instructor

Arabic language instruction is offered through Tri- College cooperation. Arabic 001 and 002 are taught at ARTS PROGRAM Haverford College (ARAB H001 and H002 Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic). Intermediate Arabic Students may complete a minor in Creative Writing, courses are taught at Bryn Mawr (ARAB B003 and Dance or Theater and qualified students may submit B004 Second-Year Modern Standard Arabic), and an application to major in Creative Writing, Dance Advanced Arabic courses are available at Swarthmore or Theater through the independent major program. College and the University of Pennsylvania through Students may complete a major in Fine Arts or a major the Quaker Consortium. The teaching of Arabic is one or minor in Music at Haverford College. English majors important component of the three colleges’ efforts may complete a concentration in Creative Writing. to increase the presence of the Middle East in their curricula. Bryn Mawr offers courses on the Middle East Faculty in the departments of Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Comparative Literature, General Dilruba Ahmed, Lecturer Studies, History, History of Art, and Political Science. Madeline Cantor, Associate Director and Term Professor Additionally, students can have a concentration in of Dance Middle Eastern Studies. Linda Caruso Haviland, Director and Associate College Foreign Language Professor of Dance Requirement Lauren Feldman, Lecturer Before the start of the senior year, each student must Thomas Ferrick, Lecturer complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of Cordelia Allen Jensen, Lecturer foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement by completing two sequential semester-long courses Annie Liontas, Lecturer in one language, beginning at the level determined by Mark Lord, Alice Carter Dickerman Director of the Arts their language placement. A student who is prepared for Program and Professor of the Arts on the Theresa advanced work may complete the requirement instead Helburn Chair of Drama and Director of the Theater with two advanced free-standing semester-long courses Program in the foreign language(s) in which she is proficient. Maiko Matsushima, Lecturer COURSES Catharine Slusar, Assistant Professor in Theater Daniel Torday, Associate Professor of Creative Writing ARAB B003 Second Year Modern Standard Arabic Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course aims Courses in the arts are designed to prepare students to increase students’ expressive ability through the who might wish to pursue advanced training in their introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and fields and are also for those who want to broaden their idiomatic expressions. Introduces students to authentic academic studies with work in the arts that is conducted written texts and examples of Arabic expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB B002 or placement Arts 77 at a serious and disciplined level. Courses are offered at director by the end of their sophomore year to submit a introductory as well as advanced levels. plan for the minor in order to ensure admission to the appropriate range of courses. ARTS IN EDUCATION The Arts Program offers a Praxis II course for students Concentration in Creative Writing who have substantial experience in an art form and are English majors may elect a three-course concentration interested in extending that experience into teaching in Creative Writing as part of the English major program. and learning at educational and community sites. Students interested in the concentration must meet with the Creative Writing Program director by the end of their ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and sophomore year to submit a plan for the concentration Community Settings and must also confirm the concentration with the chair of the English Department. This is a Praxis II course intended for students who have substantial experience in an art form and are interested in extending that experience into teaching COURSES and learning at educational and community sites. Following an overview of the history of the arts in ARTW B159 Introduction to Creative Writing education, the course will investigate underlying This course is for students who wish to experiment with theories. The praxis component will allow students to three genres of creative writing: short fiction, poetry create a fluid relationship between theory and practice and drama, and techniques specific to each of them. through observing, teaching and reflecting on arts Priority will be given to interested first- and second- practices in educational contexts. School or community year students; additional spaces will be made available placement 4 hours a week. Prerequisite: At least an to upper-year students with little or no experience in intermediate level of experience in an art form. This creative writing. Students will write or revise work every course counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater. week; roughly four weeks each will be devoted to short Counts towards: Praxis Program fiction, poetry, and drama. There will be individual Units: 1.0 conferences with the instructor to discuss their progress (Not Offered 2016-2017) and interests. Half of class time will be spent discussing student work and half will be spent discussing syllabus CREATIVE WRITING readings. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Courses in Creative Writing within the Arts Program Instructor(s): Reeves,C. are designed for students who wish to develop their (Spring 2017) skills and appreciation of creative writing in a variety of genres (poetry, prose fiction and nonfiction, playwriting, ARTW B240 Literary Translation Workshop screenwriting, etc.) and for those intending to pursue studies in creative writing at the graduate level. Any Open to creative writing students and students of English major may include one Creative Writing course literature, the syllabus includes some theoretical in the major plan. Students may pursue a minor as readings, but the emphasis is practical and analytical. described below. While there is no existing major in Syllabus reading includes parallel translations of Creative Writing, exceptionally well-qualified students certain enduring literary texts (mostly poetry) as well with a GPA of 3.7 or higher in Creative Writing courses as books and essays about the art of translation. completed in the Tri-College curriculum may consider Literary translation will be considered as a spectrum submitting an application to major in Creative Writing ranging from Dryden’s “metaphrase” (word-for-word through the Independent Major Program after meeting translation) all the way through imitation, adaptation, with the Creative Writing Program director. When and reimagining. Each student will be invited to work approved, the independent major in Creative Writing with whatever non-English language(s) s/he has, and may also be pursued as a double major with another to select for translation short works of poetry, prose, or academic major subject. drama. The course will include class visits by working literary translators. The Italian verbs for “to translate” and “to betray” sound almost alike; throughout, the Minor Requirements course concerns the impossibility and importance of Requirements for the minor in Creative Writing are literary translation.Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) six units of course work, generally including three Units: 1.0 beginning/intermediate courses in at least three different (Not Offered 2016-2017) genres of creative writing (chosen from ARTW 159, 231, 236, 240, 251, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268, ARTW B260 Writing Short Fiction I 269) and three electives, including at least one course at An introduction to fiction writing, focusing on the short the 300 level (ARTW 360, 361, 362, 364, 366, 367, 371, story. Students will consider fundamental elements of 373, 382), allowing for advanced work in one or more fiction and the relationship of narrative structure, style, genres of creative writing which are of particular interest and content, exploring these elements in their own work to the student. The objective of the minor in Creative and in the assigned readings in order to develop an Writing is to provide both depth and range, through understanding of the range of possibilities open to the exposure to several genres of creative writing. Students fiction writer. Weekly readings and writing exercises are should consult with the Creative Writing Program designed to encourage students to explore the material 78 Arts and styles that most interest them, and to push their and letters. fiction to a new level of craft, so that over the semester Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) their writing becomes clearer, more controlled, and more Units: 1.0 absorbing. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 ARTW B264 News and Feature Writing Instructor(s): Torday,D. Students in this class will learn how to develop, (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) report, write, edit and revise a variety of news stories, beginning with the basics of reporting and writing the ARTW B261 Writing Poetry I news and advancing to longer-form stories, including In this course students will learn to “read like a writer,” personality profiles, news features and trend stories, while grappling with the work of accomplished poets, and concluding with point-of-view journalism (columns, and providing substantive commentary on peers’ work. criticism, reported essays). The course will focus Through diverse readings, students will examine craft heavily on work published in The Philadelphia Inquirer strategies at work in both formal and free verse poems, and The New York Times. Several working journalists such as diction, metaphor, imagery, lineation, metrical will participate as guest speakers to explain their craft. patterns, irony, and syntax. The course will cover Students will write stories that will be posted on the shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) as well class blog, the English House Gazette. as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying Units: 1.0 the literal meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory Instructor(s): Ferrick,T. description and clear, compelling language) and the (Fall 2016) concealed meaning of a text (e.g., through metaphor, imagery, meter, irony, and shifts in diction and syntax). ARTW B265 Creative Nonfiction By the end of the course, students will have generated This course will explore the literary expressions of new material, shaped and revised draft poems, and nonfiction writing by focusing on the skills, process significantly grown as writers by experimenting with and craft techniques necessary to the generation and various aspects of craft. revision of literary nonfiction. Using the information- Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) gathering tools of a journalist, the analytical tools of Units: 1.0 an essayist and the technical tools of a fiction writer, Instructor(s): Ahmed,D. students will produce pieces that will incorporate (Fall 2016) both factual information and first person experience. Readings will include a broad group of writers ranging ARTW B262 Playwriting I from E.B. White to Anne Carson, George Orwell to An introduction to playwriting through a combination David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion to James Baldwin, of reading assignments, writing exercises, discussions among many others. about craft and ultimately the creation of a complete Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) one-act play. Students will work to discover and Units: 1.0 develop their own unique voices as they learn the Instructor(s): Torday,D. technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short writing (Spring 2017) assignments will complement each reading assignment. The final assignment will be to write an original one-act ARTW B266 Screenwriting play. An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: Units: 1.0 character, dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, (Not Offered 2016-2017) sound. The course focuses on the film adaptation; readings include novels, screenplays, and short stories. ARTW B263 Writing Memoir I Films adapted from the readings will be screened. In The purpose of this course is to provide students with the course of the semester, students will be expected practical experience in writing about the events, places to outline and complete the first act of an adapted and people of their own lives in the form of memoir. screenplay of their own. Emphasis will be placed on open-ended investigation Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) into what we think we know (about ourselves and Counts towards: Film Studies others) and how we think we came to know it. In Units: 1.0 addition to writing memoir of their own, and workshop (Spring 2017) discussions, students will also read and discuss works by writers such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Freud, H.D., ARTW B268 Writing Literary Journalism J.R. Ackerley, Georges Perec, and more contemporary This course will examine the tools that literary writers writing by writers such as Akeel Bilgrami, Elif Batuman, bring to factual reporting and how these tools enhance Emily Witt, Lawrence Jackson. Although little mention the stories they tell. Readings will include reportage, will be made of the master narratives of American polemical writing and literary reviewing. The issues memoir—Christian redemption, confession, captivity, of point-of-view and subjectivity, the uses of irony, and slavery—the class will consistently struggle to come forms of persuasion, clarity of expression and logic to terms with their foundational legacy in American life of construction will be discussed. The importance of Arts 79 context—the role of the editor and the magazine, the skills in writing for the stage. We will examine how great expectations of the audience, censorship and self- playwrights captivate a live audience through their censorship—will be considered. mastery of character, story and structure. Through a Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) combination of weekly reading assignments, playwriting Units: 1.0 exercises, theater explorations, artist-driven feedback, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and discussions of craft, this class will facilitate each student’s completion of an original, full-length play. ARTW B269 Writing for Children Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience in directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a In this course, students have the opportunity to hone the work sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students craft of writing for children and young adults. Through must complete the Creative Writing preregistration reading, in-class discussion, peer review of student questionnaire during preregistration to be considered for work, and private conferences with the instructor, we will the course. examine the specific requirements of the picture book, Units: 1.0 the middle-grade novel, and the young adult novel. This Instructor(s): Feldman,L. analytical study of classic and contemporary literature (Fall 2016) will inspire and inform students’ creative work in all aspects of storytelling, including character development, plotting, world building, voice, tone, and the roles of ARTW B364 Longer Fictional Forms illustration and page composition in story narration. An advanced workshop for students with a strong Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) background in fiction writing who want to write longer Units: 1.0 works: the long short story, novella and novel. Students Instructor(s): Jensen,C. will write intensively, and complete a long story, novel (Fall 2016) or novella (or combination thereof) totaling up to 20,000 words. Students will examine the craft of their work ARTW B360 Writing Short Fiction II and of published prose. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B260 or proof of interest and ability. For students without An exploration of approaches to writing short fiction ARTW B260, students must submit a writing sample designed to strengthen skills of experienced student of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to the Creative writers as practitioners and critics. Requires writing Writing Program during the preregistration period to be at least five pages each week, workshopping student considered for this course. pieces, and reading texts ranging from realist stories to Units: 1.0 metafictional experiments and one-page stories to the Instructor(s): Torday,D. short novella, to explore how writers can work within (Spring 2017) tight confines. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B260 or work demonstrating equivalent expertise in writing short fiction. Students without the ARTW B260, must submit a ARTW B365 Creative Nonfiction II writing sample of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to An exploration of approaches to writing personal the Creative Writing Program during the preregistration essays and lyric essays designed to strengthen skills period to be considered for this course. of experienced student essayists as practitioners and Units: 1.0 critics. Requires writing at least five pages each week, Instructor(s): Liontas,A. workshopping student essays, and reading texts ranging (Fall 2016) from long personal essays to book-length essays, to explore how writers can work within the broader ARTW B361 Writing Poetry II parameters of the long essay. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B265 or work demonstrating equivalent expertise This course assumes that reading and writing are in writing personal and lyric essays. Students without inextricably linked, and that the only way to write the ARTW B265, must submit a writing sample of 10- intelligent and interesting poetry is to read as much 15 pages in length (nonfiction prose) to the Creative of it as possible. Writing assignments will be closely Writing Program during the preregistration period to be connected to syllabus reading, including an anthology considered for this course. prepared by the instructor, and may include working Approach: Course does not meet an Approach in forms such as ekphrastic poems (i.e. poems about Units: 1.0 works of visual art or sculpture), dramatic monologues, (Not Offered 2016-2017) prose poems, translations, imitations and parodies. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B261 or work demonstrating equivalent familiarity with the basic forms ARTW B403 Supervised Work of poetry in English. For students without ARTW B261, Students who have had a Creative Writing Major a writing sample of 5-7 poems must be submitted to the approved through the Independent Major Program will instructor to be considered for this course. work with a member of the Creative Writing Program Units: 1.0 faculty on a semester-long 403 (Independent Study) as Instructor(s): Todd,J. a final project their senior year. Highly qualified Creative (Spring 2017) Writing minors and concentrators may petition the program to complete an independent study, subject to ARTW B362 Playwriting II the availability of faculty to supervise such projects. Units: 1.0 This course challenges students of playwriting to further (Fall 2016) develop their unique voices and improve their technical 80 Arts

DANCE departments. In both the minor and the major, students may choose to emphasize one aspect of the field, but Dance is not only an art and an area of creative impulse must first consult with the dance faculty regarding their and action; it is also a significant and enduring human course of study. behavior that can serve as a core of creative and scholarly inquiry within the liberal arts. The Program Technique Courses and Performance Ensemble offers full semester courses in progressive levels Courses of ballet, modern and jazz, as well as a full range The Dance Program offers a full range of dance of technique courses in diverse genres and various instruction including courses in ballet, modern, jazz, traditions. Several performance opportunities are and African as well as techniques developed from other available to students ranging from our Dance Outreach cultural art and social forms such as flamenco, Classical Ensemble, which travels to schools throughout the Indian, Polynesian hula, hip-hop, Latin social dance, Philadelphia region, to our Spring Concert in which and tap dance, among others. A ballet placement class students work with professional choreographers or is required for upper level ballet courses. Performance reconstructors and perform in our main stage theater. ensembles, choreographed or re-staged by professional Students may also investigate the creative process in artists, are by audition only and are given full concert three levels of composition and choreography courses. support. The Dance Outreach Ensemble tours regional We also offer lecture/seminar courses designed to schools. Technique courses ARTD 136-139, 230-232, introduce students to dance as a vital area of academic 330-331, and most dance ensembles are offered for inquiry. These include courses that examine dance academic credit but all technique courses and ensemble within western practices as well as courses that extend courses may be taken for Physical Education credit or locate themselves beyond those social or theatrical instead (see both listings below). traditions. Technique/Ensemble Courses for PE Credit (check Students can take single courses in dance, can course guide for courses available each semester) minor in dance, or complete a major through the independent major program. The core academic PE B101 Ballet: Beginning Technique curriculum for the dance minor or independent major in dance includes intermediate or advanced technique PE B102 Ballet: Intermediate Technique courses, performance ensembles, dance composition, PE B103 Ballet: Advanced Technique independent work, and courses in dance research or analysis. PE B104 Ballet Workshop PE B105 Modern: Beginning Technique Minor Requirements PE B106 Modern: Intermediate Technique Requirements for the dance minor are six units of PE B107 Modern: Advanced Technique coursework: three required (ARTD B140, B142, and two .5 credit studio courses: one must be selected from PE B108 Jazz: Beginning Technique among the following technique courses: 136-139, or any PE B110 Jazz: Intermediate Technique 200 or 300 level technique course; the second .5 credit PE B111 Hip-hop Technique course must be a technique course at the 200 or 300 level or selected from among the following performance PE B112 African Dance ensembles:345-350); three approved electives; and PE B116 Salsa attendance at a prescribed number of performances/ events. With the advisor’s approval, one elective in PE B117 Classical Indian Dance the minor may be selected from allied Tri-College PE B118 Movement Improvisation departments PE B120 Intro to Flamenco Independent Major in Dance PE B121 Tap I Requirements PE B122 Intro to Social Dance The independent major requires eleven courses, PE B123 Tap II drawn primarily from our core academic curriculum PE B125 Swing Dance and including: ARTD 140 and one additional dance lecture/seminar course; ARTD 142 and one additional PE B126 Rhythm & Style: Flamenco and Tap composition/choreography courses; one 0.5 technique PE B127 Social Dance Forms: Topics Intro to Social course at the intermediate or advanced level each Dance, Swing, Salsa semester after declaring the major. Participation in a performance ensemble is highly recommended. The PE B129 The Gesture of Dance: Classical Indian and major also requires attendance at a prescribed number Polynesian/Hula of performances/events, demonstration of basic writing PE B131 Tap: Learning and Performing competency in dance by taking two writing attentive or one writing intensive course in Dance or an approved PE B145 Dance Ensemble: Modern allied program or department, and a senior capstone PE B146 Dance Ensemble: Ballet experience. With the advisor’s approval, two electives PE B147 Dance Ensemble: Jazz in the major may be selected from allied Tri-College Arts 81

PE B148 Dance Ensemble: African ARTA B251/EDUC B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and Community Settings (not offered 2016-17) PE B149 Dance Ensemble: Outreach

PE B150 Dance Ensemble: Special Topics (2016-17: COURSES Style TBA) PE B195 Movement for Theater ARTD B136 Introduction to Dance Techniques I: Modern PE B196 Dance Composition Lab Students enrolling in this course take one full semester PE B197 Directed Work in Dance of beginning modern dance as their primary course and must contact the dance program to be placed in a Courses for Academic Credit second full semester technique course as well. The two courses together constitute .5 credit. The schedule for ARTD B136 001 Intro to Dance Techniques I - Modern the second course options can be found on the Dance ARTD B137 002 Intro to Dance Techniques I - Ballet Program website www.brynmawr.edu/dance/courses/ schedule.html. Students must meet the attendance ARTD B138 001 Intro to Dance Techniques II - Modern requirement, attend two mandatory lectures and one live ARTD B139 002 Intro to Dance Techniques II - Ballet dance performance, and complete three short writing assignments. In lieu of books, students may incur $10- ARTD B140 Approaches to Dance: Themes and 30 in performance ticket fees but may take advantage of Perspectives free Tri-Co performances. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis ARTD B142 Dance Composition I only. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach ARTD B145 Dance: Close Reading Units: 0.5 Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L., Cantor,M. ARTD/ANTH B223 Anthropology of Dance (not offered (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) 2016-17)

ARTD B230 Intermediate Technique: Modern ARTD B137 Introduction to Dance Techniques I: ARTD B231 Intermediate Technique: Ballet Ballet Students enrolling in this course take one full semester ARTD B232 Intermediate Technique: Jazz of beginning ballet as their primary course and must ARTD B240 Dance History I: Roots of Western Theater contact the dance program to be placed in a second full Dance (not offered 2016-17) semester technique course as well. The two courses together constitute .5 credit. The schedule for the ARTD B241 Dance History II: A History of Contemporary second course options can be found on the Dance Western Theater Dance (not offered 2016-17) Program website www.brynmawr.edu/dance/courses/ ARTD B242 Dance Composition II schedule.html. Students must meet the attendance requirement, attend two mandatory lectures and one live ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body dance performance, and complete three short writing assignments. In lieu of books, students may incur $10- ARTD B265 Dance, Migration and Exile (not offered 30 in performance ticket fees but may take advantage of 2016-17) free Tri-Co performances. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis ARTD/ANTH B310 Performing the City: Theorizing only. Bodies in Space (not offered 2016-17) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 0.5 ARTD B330 Advanced Technique: Modern Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L., Cantor,M. ARTD B331 Advanced Technique: Ballet (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

ARTD B342 Advanced Choreography ARTD B138 Introduction to Dance Techniques II: ARTD B345 Dance Ensemble: Ballet Modern Students enrolling in this course take one full semester ARTD B346 Dance Ensemble: Modern of beginning modern dance as their primary course ARTD B347 Dance Ensemble: Jazz and must contact the dance program to be placed in a second full semester technique course as well. The two ARTD B348 Dance Ensemble: African courses together constitute .5 credit. The schedule for ARTD B349 Dance Ensemble: Outreach the second course options can be found on the Dance Program website www.brynmawr.edu/dance/courses/ ARTD B350 Dance Ensemble: Special (2016-2017: schedule.html. Students must meet the attendance Style TBA) requirement; write a critique of one live dance event and ARTD B390 Senior Project/Thesis a short paper on a topic selected in consultation with the faculty coordinator. In lieu of books, students may ARTD B403 Supervised Work incur $10-30 in performance ticket fees but may take advantage of free Tri-Co performances. Offered on a ARTD B403 002 Supervised Work: Anatomy for the Pass/Fail basis only. Prerequisite: ARTD 136 or 137. Dancer (not offered 2016-17) 82 Arts

Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Units: 0.5 Instructor(s): Brick,D. Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L., Cantor,M. (Fall 2016) (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) ARTD B145 Focus: Dance/Close Reading ARTD B139 Introduction to Dance Techniques II: Students will engage in a close reading of dance, Ballet using live dance performances as primary texts and Students enrolling in this course take one full semester setting these performances in critical and historical of beginning ballet as their primary course and must contexts through readings in dance criticism and theory, contact the dance program to be placed in a second activities, discussion and media. Each week, students full semester technique course as well. The two will apply their findings in organized field trips to live courses together constitute .5 credit. The schedule performances, selected from a range of genres, and will for the second course options can be found on the work through their responses in discussion and writing. Dance Program website www.brynmawr.edu/dance/ Requires performance attendance on weekends. In lieu courses/schedule.html. Students must meet attendance of books, students can expect approximately $50 in requirement; write a critique of one live dance event and performance ticket expenses for the course. a short paper on a topic selected in consultation with Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) the faculty coordinator. In lieu of books, students may Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive incur $10-30 in performance ticket fees but may take Counts towards: Praxis Program advantage of free Tri-Co performances. Offered on a Units: 0.5 Pass/Fail basis only. Prerequisite: ARTD 136 or 137. Instructor(s): Cantor,M. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach (Spring 2017) Units: 0.5 Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L. ARTD B223 Anthropology of Dance (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) This course surveys ethnographic approaches to the study of global dance in a variety of contemporary and ARTD B140 Approaches to Dance: Themes and historical contexts, including contact improvisation, Perspectives Argentinian tango, Kathak dance in Indian modernity, This course introduces students to dance as a multi- a range of traditional dances from Japan and China, layered, significant and enduring human behavior capoeira in today’s Brazil, and social dances in North that ranges from art to play, from ritual to politics, and America and Europe. Recognizing dance as a kind of beyond. It engages students in the creative, critical, shared cultural knowledge and drawing on theories and conceptual processes that emerge in response and literature in anthropology, dance and related fields to the study of dance. It also explores the research such as history, and ethnomusicology, we will examine potential that arises when other areas of academic dance’s relationship to social structure, ethnicity, gender, inquiry, including criticism, ethnology, history and spirituality and politics. Lectures, discussion, media, philosophy, interact with dance and dance scholarship. and fieldwork are included. Prerequisite: a course in Lectures, discussion, film, video, and guest speakers anthropology or related discipline, or a dance lecture/ are included. In lieu of books, students must attend one seminar course, or permission of the instructor. dance performance (typical costs: $12-30) but may take Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical advantage of free Tri-co performances. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L. (Spring 2017) ARTD B230 Modern: Intermediate Technique Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on ARTD B142 Dance Composition I expanding the movement vocabulary, on introducing In this introduction to the art of making dances, an movement phrases that are increasingly complex array of compositional tools and approaches is used to and demanding, and on further attention to motional evolve and refine choreographic ideas. Basic concepts dynamics and spatial contexts. Students at this level such as space, phrasing, timing, image, energy, density are also expected to begin demonstrating an intellectual and partnering are introduced and explored alongside and kinesthetic understanding of these technical attention to the roles of inspiration and synthesis in challenges and their actual performance. Students will the creative process. Improvisation is used to explore be evaluated on their openness and commitment to choreographic ideas and students learn to help and the learning process, increased understanding of the direct others in generating movement. Discussion of technique, and demonstration in class of their technical and feedback on weekly choreographic assignments and stylistic progress as articulated within the field. and readings contributes to analyzing and refining Preparation: three semesters of beginning level modern, choreography. Concurrent participation in any level its equivalent, or permission of the instructor. technique course is required. Additional costs: In lieu Approach: Course does not meet an Approach of books, students may incur $30-$40 in performance Units: 0.5 ticket fees, but may take advantage of free Tri-co Instructor(s): Shanahan,M. performances. . (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Arts 83

ARTD B231 Ballet: Intermediate Technique ARTD B242 Dance Composition II Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on This course builds on work accomplished in expanding the movement vocabulary, on introducing Composition I and develops an understanding of and movement phrases that are increasingly complex skill in the theory and craft of choreography. This and demanding, and on further attention to motional includes deepening movement invention skills; exploring dynamics and spatial contexts. Students at this level are form and structure; investigating sources for sound, also expected to begin demonstrating an intellectual and music, text and language; developing group design; and kinesthetic understanding of these technical challenges broadening critical understanding. Students will work on and their actual performance. Students will be evaluated projects and will have some opportunity to revise and on their openness and commitment to the learning expand work. Readings and viewings will be assigned process, increased understanding of the technique, and and related production problems will be considered. demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic Concurrent participation in any level technique course is progress as articulated within the field. Preparation: required. Additional costs: In lieu of books, students may three semesters of beginning level ballet, its equivalent, incur $10-30 in performance ticket fees but may take or permission of the instructor. advantage of free Tri-co performances. Prerequisite: Approach: Course does not meet an Approach ARTD B142. Units: 0.5 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Mintzer,L. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Cantor,M. (Spring 2017) ARTD B232 Jazz: Intermediate Technique Intermediate level dance technique courses focus on ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body expanding the movement vocabulary, on introducing This is a topics course. Course content varies. movement phrases that are increasingly complex Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical and demanding, and on further attention to motional Interpretation (CI) dynamics and spatial contexts. Students at this level are Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive also expected to begin demonstrating an intellectual and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies kinesthetic understanding of these technical challenges Units: 1.0 and their actual performance. Students will be evaluated Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L. on their openness and commitment to the learning process, increased understanding of the technique, and Fall 2016: Dance and Power. Artists, activists, demonstration in class of their technical and stylistic politicos, regents, intellectuals and just ordinary progress as articulated within the field. Prerequisite: people have, throughout history and across two semesters of beginning level jazz, its equivalent, or cultures, used dance and performance to support permission of the instructor political goals and ideologies or to perform social Approach: Course does not meet an Approach or cultural interventions in the private and public Units: 0.5 spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, we will (Not Offered 2016-2017) focus on how dance is a useful medium for both embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices ARTD B240 Dance History I: Roots of Western of power, particularly with reference to gender, class, and ethnicity. Students will also investigate Theater Dance bodiedness as an active agent of social change and This course investigates the historic and cultural political action. We will read excerpts from seminal forces affecting the development and functions of pre- and contemporary theory of performing bodiedness, 20th-century Western theater dance. It will consider ethnicity, and gender, as well as from theoreticians, nontheatrical forms and applications as well, but will performers, and other practitioners more specifically give special emphasis to the development of theater engaged with dance and performance. In addition dance forms within the context of their relationship to literary, dance historical, anthropological and to and impact on Western culture. The course, of political texts, the course includes media, guest necessity, will give some consideration as well to the lecturers, and introductory group improvisation impact of global interchange on the development and performance exercises; however, no prior of Western dance. It will also introduce students to training or experience in dance or performance a selection of traditional and more contemporary is necessary. In lieu of books, students will be models of historiography with particular reference to assigned to see a dance performance (typical the changing modes of documenting, researching and costs: $12-30) but may take advantage of free Tri- analyzing dance. In addition to lectures and discussion, co performances. A previous dance lecture/seminar the course will include film, video, slides, and some course or a course in a relevant discipline such as movement experiences. anthropology, sociology, or history is recommended Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the but not required. Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive ARTD B265 Dance, Migration and Exile Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Highlighting aesthetic, political, social and spiritual Units: 1.0 powers of dance as it travels, transforms, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) is accorded meaning both domestically and transnationally, especially in situations of war and social 84 Arts and political upheaval, this course investigates the re- and their actual performance. The last half hour of this creation of heritage and the production of new traditions class includes optional pointe or repertory work with in refugee camps and in diaspora. Prerequisite: a permission of the instructor. Preparation: Minimum Dance lecture/seminar course or a course in a relevant of three semesters of intermediate level ballet, its discipline such as anthropology, sociology, or Peace and equivalent, or permission of the instructor. First year Conflict Studies, or permission of the instructor. students must take a placement class. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Units: 0.5 Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Moss,C., Damon,C. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ARTD B342 Advanced Choreography Independent study in choreography under the guidance ARTD B310 Performing the City: Theorizing Bodies of the instructor. Students are expected to produce one in Space major choreographic work and are responsible for all Building on the premise that space is a concern in production considerations. Concurrent attendance in performance, choreography, architecture and urban any level technique course is required. Pre-requisite: planning, this course will interrogate relationships ARTD B242. between (performing) bodies and (city) spaces. Using Units: 0.5, 1.0 perspectives from dance and performance studies, Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L., Cantor,M. urban studies and cultural geography, it will introduce (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) space, spatiality and the city as material and theoretical concepts and investigate how moving and performing ARTD B345 Dance Ensemble: Modern bodies and city spaces intersect in political, social and Dance ensembles are designed to offer students cultural contexts. Lectures, discussion of assigned significant opportunities to develop dance technique, readings, attendance at a live performance and 2-3 field particularly in relationship to dance as a performance trips are included. Prerequisites: One Dance lecture/ art. Students audition for entrance into individual seminar course or one course in relevant discipline ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or e.g. cities, anthropology, sociology or permission of the guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged instructor. from classic or contemporary repertories are rehearsed Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive and performed in concert. Students are evaluated on Units: 1.0 their participation in rehearsals, their demonstration of (Not Offered 2016-2017) full commitment and openness to the choreographic and performance processes both in terms of attitude ARTD B330 Modern: Advanced Technique and technical practice, and their achieved level of Advanced level technique courses continue to expand performance. This course is suitable for intermediate movement vocabulary and to introduce increasingly and advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in challenging movement phrases and repertory. one technique class a week is required. Students are also expected to begin recognizing Units: 0.5 and incorporating the varied gestural and dynamic Instructor(s): Cantor,M. markers of styles and genres, with an eye to both (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) developing their facility for working with various choreographic models and for beginning to mark ARTD B346 Dance Ensemble: Ballet out their individual movement preferences. These Dance ensembles are designed to offer students courses continue to focus on both the intellectual and significant opportunities to develop dance technique, kinesthetic understanding and command of technical particularly in relationship to dance as a performance challenges and their actual performance. Preparation: art. Students audition for entrance into individual Two semesters of Modern: Intermediate Technique, its ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged Units: 0.5 from classic or contemporary repertories are rehearsed Instructor(s): Malcolm-Naib,R. and performed in concert. Students are evaluated on (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) their participation in rehearsals, their demonstration of full commitment and openness to the choreographic and ARTD B331 Ballet: Advanced Technique performance processes both in terms of attitude and Advanced level technique courses continue to expand technical practice, and achievement of expected levels movement vocabulary and to introduce increasingly of performance. This course is suitable for intermediate challenging movement phrases and repertory. and advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in Students are also expected to begin recognizing and at least one technique class per week is required. incorporating the varied gestural and dynamic markers Units: 0.5 of styles and genres, with an eye to both developing (Spring 2017) their facility for working with various choreographic models and for beginning to mark out their individual ARTD B347 Dance Ensemble: Jazz movement preferences. These courses continue Dance ensembles are designed to offer students to focus on both the intellectual and kinesthetic significant opportunities to develop dance technique, understanding and command of technical challenges particularly in relationship to dance as a performance Arts 85 art. Students audition for entrance into individual Students audition for entrance into individual ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or ensembles. Original works choreographed guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged by faculty or guest choreographers or works from classic or contemporary repertories are rehearsed reconstructed / restaged from classic or and performed in concert. Students are evaluated on contemporary repertories are rehearsed and their participation in rehearsals, their demonstration of performed in concert. Students are evaluated on full commitment and openness to the choreographic and their participation in rehearsals, their demonstration performance processes both in terms of attitude and of full commitment and openness to the technical practice, and achievement of expected levels choreographic and performance processes both of performance This course is suitable for intermediate in terms of attitude and technical practice, and and advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in achievement of expected levels of performance. at least one technique class per week is required. This course is suitable for intermediate and Units: 0.5 advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) at least one technique class per week is suggested.

ARTD B348 Dance Ensemble: African ARTD B390 Senior Project/Thesis Dance ensembles are designed to offer students Majors develop, in conjunction with a faculty advisor, a significant opportunities to develop dance technique, senior capstone experience that is complementary to particularly in relationship to dance as a performance and will expand and deepen their work and interests art. Students audition for entrance into individual within the field of dance. This can range from a ensembles. Original works choreographed by faculty or significant research or expository paper to a substantial guest choreographers or works reconstructed / restaged choreographic work that will be supported in a full studio from classic or contemporary repertories are rehearsed performance. Students who elect to do choreographic and performed in concert. Students are evaluated on or performance work must also submit a portfolio (10 their participation in rehearsals, their demonstration of pages) of written work on dance. Work begins in the Fall full commitment and openness to the choreographic and semester and should be completed by the middle of the performance processes both in terms of attitude and Spring semester. One outside evaluator will be invited to technical practice, and achievement of expected levels offer additional comment. of performance. This course is suitable for intermediate Units: 0.5, 1.0 and advanced level dancers. Concurrent attendance in (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) at least one technique class per week is suggested. Units: 0.5 ARTD B403 Supervised Work (Spring 2017) Research in a particular topic of dance under the guidance of an instructor, resulting in a final paper or ARTD B349 Dance Ensemble: Dance Outreach project. Permission of the instructor is required. Project Units: 0.5, 1.0 Dance Outreach Ensemble is a community-focused (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) project in which students learn both a lecture- demonstration and a narrative dance work and tour THEATER this combined program to schools every Fall in the The curricular portion of the Bryn Mawr and Haverford Philadelphia area, reaching 1500 to 2000 children each Colleges’ Theater Program focuses on the point of year. Dance Outreach introduces these children to contact between creative and analytic work. Courses dance through a program of original choreography that combine theory (reading and discussion of dramatic is supported by commissioned music and costuming as literature, history and criticism) and practical work well. Interested students are expected to have some (creative exercises, scene study and performance) experience in a dance form or genre, enthusiasm to provide viable theater training within a liberal-arts for performance, and an interest in education in and context. through the arts. Students are selected after an initial group meeting and movement session in the Fall. Concurrent participation in at least one technique class Minor Requirements per week is suggested. Requirements for the minor in Theater are six units of Units: 0.5 course work, three required (ARTT 150, 251 and 252) Instructor(s): Cantor,M. and three elective. Students must consult with the (Fall 2016) Theater faculty to ensure that the necessary areas in the field are covered. Students may submit an application ARTD B350 Dance Ensemble: Special Topics to major in Theater through the independent major program. This is a topics course. The genre or style content of this ensemble varies. Units: 0.5 Theater Performance Numerous opportunities exist to act, direct, design and Spring 2017: Hip Hop. Dance ensembles are work in technical theater. In addition to the Theater designed to offer students significant opportunities Program’s mainstage productions, many student theater to develop dance technique, particularly in groups exist that are committed to musical theater, relationship to dance as a performance art. 86 Arts improvisation, community outreach, Shakespeare, film examining practical applications of various technical and video work, etc. All Theater Program productions elements such as scenery, costume, and lighting while are open and casting is routinely blind with respect to emphasizing their aesthetic integration. race and gender. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 COURSES Instructor(s): Matsushima,M. (Spring 2017) ARTT B151 Focus: Dramatic Structures in Plays, Performance, and Film ARTT B255 Fundamentals of Costume Design This course is an introduction to techniques of dramatic Hands-on practical workshop on costume design for structure that are used in the creation of plays, works performing arts; analysis of text, characters, movement, of performance art, and films. We will have recourse situations; historical and stylistic research; cultivation in our work to some crucial theoretical documents as of initial concept through materialization and plotting to well as to play scripts both classic and contemporary execution of design. and archived and live performances. Participants will Approach: Course does not meet an Approach make critical readings of works using the techniques Units: 1.0 of artistic analysis utilized by directors, dramaturgs, Instructor(s): Matsushima,M. actors, playwrights and designers. This course is (Fall 2016) intended to be a touchstone for the study of any of these creative pursuits as well as an excellent opportunity for ARTT B258 Intermediate Topics in Technical Theater interested students to acquaint themselves with critical Production aspects of the creative process. This course is a deeper exploration of the process Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of technical theater production introduced in ARTT Units: 0.5 B252 – Fundamentals of Technical Theater Production. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Through a combination of lecture, in-class and out-of- class analysis, and hands-on experience students will ARTT B152 Focus: Writing about Theater and gain a more thorough understanding of the processes Performance of technical theatrical production. The course focuses This course will constitute an introduction to writing on five sections of technical production: basic technical about theater and performance art events. Our work drawing, advanced scenic construction techniques, will be structured in relation to a number of live and electricity for the entertainment industry (lighting, archived performances which the class will see on sound, motors), basic rigging, and basic sound system and off-campus. Students will practice techniques for design and execution. While mathematics is not the preparing to see a performance, discuss strategies for focus of the class, basic math and some algebra and reading dramatic texts and for observing time-based art. trigonometry will be necessary. Prerequisite: ARTT B252 We will read notable examples of occasional criticism or Permission of Instructor by a diverse group of writers of the past fifty years, who Approach: Course does not meet an Approach publish in a wide variety of forms including on blogs and Units: 1.0 social media. We will examine their work for techniques Instructor(s): McDaniel,J. and strategies. Students will also read and respond to (Fall 2016) each other’s writing. Central questions of the course include the evolution of critical vocabulary, the role of ARTT B265 Acting Across Culture the critic’s bias, the development of a critical voice, This course examines how we access Shakespeare and the likely trajectory of the fields of criticism and across culture and across language, as performers and performance. audience members. We will explore the role of creator/ Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) performer using traditional and non-traditional means Units: 0.5 (text work and scansion, investigation of objective (Not Offered 2016-2017) and actions, and first-folio technique). Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Acting or its equivalent. ARTT B251 Fundamentals of Acting Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This studio course provides an introduction to the basic Units: 1.0 processes of acting to students of various experience (Not Offered 2016-2017) levels. We develop tools and a shared vocabulary using performance exercises, games, improvisation and scene ARTT B312 Ladies’ Voices Give Pleasure: Plays by work. Women Units: 1.0 This course introduces students to the rich and Instructor(s): Slusar,C. multifarious tradition(s) of dramatic literature (broadly (Fall 2016) construed) by women (broadly construed). Through close readings of texts that diverge from what some ARTT B254 Fundamentals of Theater Design feminist critics have called the dominant “ejaculatory” An introduction to the creative process of visual design model of dramaturgy rooted in Aristotelian teleology for theater, exploring dramatic context and influence of and replicative of the male sexual experience, we will cultural, social, and ideological forces on theater and explore the formal and thematic preoccupations of 20th Arts 87 and 21st century playwrights who complicate notions ARTT B425 Praxis III of desire, community, history, identity, difference, Units: 1.0 and representation. Prerequisite: 200 level course in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Theater, English, or Comparative Literature. Units: 1.0 ARTT B430 Practicum in Stage Management Instructor(s): Rizzo,J. (Fall 2016) Over the semester, the student will attend all auditions, rehearsals, and performances of the Bi-College Theater Program production, and will be responsible for ARTT B332 The Actor Creates: Performance Studio managing all the details of same. With the guidance of in Generating Original Work a mentor and through reading and research, the student This course explores the actor as creator, inviting the will learn to perform the many organizational and performer to become a generative artist with agency communications tasks involved in stage management. to invent her own work. Building on skills introduced Students will be required to read a number of texts with in Fundamentals of Acting, we will introduce new the goal of understanding the vast scope of the job, methodologies of training to construct a framework in the artistry and authority expected of a stage manager, which students can approach making original solo and the variations in styles of stage management, and the group work. Students will use processes employing standard procedures a student stage manager can visual art, found dialogue, music, autobiography, and incorporate into a college setting. Each student will be more. Emphasizing guided, individual, and group expected to keep a daily journal of their experience— collaboration, we will examine the role of the actor/ intellectual, artistic, and practical. The journal is their creator through exercises and readings that relate the own and is meant to stimulate and deepen their thinking actor’s creative process to an understanding of self and about the process. This practicum requires that a the artist’s role in communities. Prerequisite: ARTT B251 student be willing to engage in the production process (Fundamentals of Acting) both as an artist with an intellectual stake in the work Units: 1.0 and as an adult with a position of real authority in the Instructor(s): Slusar,C. group. The student will be expected to use that authority (Fall 2016) while always remaining calm, polite, kind, and generous to the artists with whom they are working. Prerequisites: ARTT B353 Advanced Performance Ensemble Prior academic work in theater and the permission of An advanced, intensive workshop in theater the instructor performance. Students explore a range of performance Units: 1.0 techniques in the context of rehearsing a performance Instructor(s): McDaniel,J. project, and participate in weekly seminars in which (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) the aesthetic and theatrical principles of the play and production will be developed and challenged. The ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and course may be repeated. Prerequisite: ARTT B253 or Community Settings permission of the instructor. This is a Praxis II course intended for students who Units: 1.0 have substantial experience in an art form and are Instructor(s): Slusar,C. interested in extending that experience into teaching (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) and learning at educational and community sites. Following an overview of the history of the arts in ARTT B354 Shakespeare on the Stage education, the course will investigate underlying An exploration of Shakespeare’s texts from the point of theories. The praxis component will allow students to view of the performer. A historical survey of the various create a fluid relationship between theory and practice approaches to producing Shakespeare from Elizabethan through observing, teaching and reflecting on arts to contemporary times, with intensive scenework practices in educational contexts. School or community culminating in on-campus performances. placement 4 hours a week. Prerequisite: At least an Units: 1.0 intermediate level of experience in an art form. This (Not Offered 2016-2017) course counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater. Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 1.0 ARTT B359 Directing for the Stage (Not Offered 2016-2017) A semiotic approach to the basic concepts and methods of stage direction. Topics explored through ARTD B142 Dance Composition I readings, discussion and creative exercises include directorial concept, script analysis and research, stage In this introduction to the art of making dances, an composition and movement, and casting and actor array of compositional tools and approaches is used to coaching. Students rehearse and present three major evolve and refine choreographic ideas. Basic concepts scenes. Prerequisite: ARTT B251 (Fundamentals of such as space, phrasing, timing, image, energy, density Acting) or permission of instructor. and partnering are introduced and explored alongside Units: 1.0 attention to the roles of inspiration and synthesis in Instructor(s): Lord,M. the creative process. Improvisation is used to explore (Fall 2016) choreographic ideas and students learn to help and direct others in generating movement. Discussion of 88 Arts and feedback on weekly choreographic assignments seminar course or one course in relevant discipline and readings contributes to analyzing and refining e.g. cities, anthropology, sociology or permission of the choreography. Concurrent participation in any level instructor. technique course is required. Additional costs: In lieu Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive of books, students may incur $30-$40 in performance Units: 1.0 ticket fees, but may take advantage of free Tri-co (Not Offered 2016-2017) performances. . Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) ARTT B250 Twentieth-Century Theories of Acting Units: 1.0 An introduction to 20th-century theories of acting Instructor(s): Brick,D. emphasizing the intellectual, aesthetic, and sociopolitical (Fall 2016) factors surrounding the emergence of each director’s approach to the study of human behavior on stage. ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body Various theoretical approaches to the task of developing This is a topics course. Course content varies. a role are applied in workshop and scene study. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Units: 1.0 Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies ARTT B252 Fundamentals of Technical Theater Units: 1.0 A practical, hands-on workshop in the creative process Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L. of turning a concept into a tangible, workable end Fall 2016: Dance and Power. Artists, activists, through the physical execution of a design. Exploring politicos, regents, intellectuals and just ordinary new and traditional methods of achieving a coherent people have, throughout history and across synthesis of all areas of technical production. cultures, used dance and performance to support Units: 1.0 political goals and ideologies or to perform social Instructor(s): McDaniel,J. or cultural interventions in the private and public (Spring 2017) spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, we will focus on how dance is a useful medium for both ARTT B253 Performance Ensemble embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices An intensive workshop in the methodologies and of power, particularly with reference to gender, aesthetics of theater performance, this course is open class, and ethnicity. Students will also investigate to students with significant experience in performance. bodiedness as an active agent of social change and In collaboration with the director of theater, students will political action. We will read excerpts from seminal explore a range of performance techniques and styles and contemporary theory of performing bodiedness, in the context of rehearsing a performance project. ethnicity, and gender, as well as from theoreticians, Admission to the class is by audition or permission performers, and other practitioners more specifically of the instructor. The class is offered for a half-unit of engaged with dance and performance. In addition credit. to literary, dance historical, anthropological and Units: 0.5 political texts, the course includes media, guest Instructor(s): Slusar,C. lecturers, and introductory group improvisation (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) and performance exercises; however, no prior training or experience in dance or performance ARTT B270 Ecologies of Theater: Performance, Play, is necessary. In lieu of books, students will be and Landscape assigned to see a dance performance (typical costs: $12-30) but may take advantage of free Tri- Students in this course will investigate the notion of co performances. A previous dance lecture/seminar theatrical landscape and its relation to plays and to the course or a course in a relevant discipline such as worlds that those landscapes refer to. Through readings anthropology, sociology, or history is recommended in contemporary drama and performance and through but not required the construction and evaluation of performances, the class will explore the relationship between human ARTD B310 Performing the City: Theorizing Bodies beings and the environments they imagine, and will in Space study the ways in which those relationships impact how we think about our relationship to the world in which Building on the premise that space is a concern in we live. The course will culminate in a series of public performance, choreography, architecture and urban performances.Suggested Preparation: Any course planning, this course will interrogate relationships in theater, design, film, dram, or permission of the between (performing) bodies and (city) spaces. Using instructor. perspectives from dance and performance studies, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) urban studies and cultural geography, it will introduce Units: 1.0 space, spatiality and the city as material and theoretical (Not Offered 2016-2017) concepts and investigate how moving and performing bodies and city spaces intersect in political, social and cultural contexts. Lectures, discussion of assigned ARTT B351 Acting II readings, attendance at a live performance and 2-3 field A continuation of the methods of inquiry in trips are included. Prerequisites: One Dance lecture/ Fundamentals of Acting, this course is structured as a Astronomy 89 series of project-based learning explorations in acting. ENGL B296 Introduction to Medieval Drama Prerequisite: ARTT B251 (Fundamentals of Acting) or Introduces students to the major types of dramatic permission of instructor. production in the Middle Ages: mystery plays, morality Units: 1.0 plays, and miracle plays. Also examines early Protestant Instructor(s): Slusar,C. political drama know as “interludes” and the translation (Spring 2017) of medieval plays into contemporary films and novellas. Explores the construction of local communities around ARTT B403 Supervised Work professional acting and production guilds, different Units: 1.0 strategies of performance, and the relationship between (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) the medieval dramatic stage and other kinds of “stages.” Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARTW B262 Playwriting I Units: 1.0 An introduction to playwriting through a combination (Spring 2017) of reading assignments, writing exercises, discussions about craft and ultimately the creation of a complete one-act play. Students will work to discover and develop their own unique voices as they learn the ASTRONOMY technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short writing assignments will complement each reading assignment. Students may complete a major or minor in Astronomy The final assignment will be to write an original one-act at Haverford College. play. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Faculty (Not Offered 2016-2017) Desika Narayanan, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge, Bettye and Howard Marshall Professor ARTW B362 Playwriting II of Natural Sciences and Professor of Astronomy This course challenges students of playwriting to further Emeritus develop their unique voices and improve their technical skills in writing for the stage. We will examine how great Beth Willman, Associate Professor of Astronomy (on playwrights captivate a live audience through their leave 2015-16) mastery of character, story and structure. Through a The range of astronomical phenomena is vast–from the combination of weekly reading assignments, playwriting Big Bang origin of the Universe, to the death throes of exercises, theater explorations, artist-driven feedback, collapsing stars, to the rings of Saturn. The curriculum and discussions of craft, this class will facilitate each of the astronomy department is based on the study student’s completion of an original, full-length play. of these systems and of their evolution. Any study of Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience in astronomy is enriched by a firm understanding of the directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a physics underlying these phenomena. Our curriculum work sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students is shaped to provide both astronomy and astrophysics must complete the Creative Writing preregistration majors with a solid foundation in the basic principles of questionnaire during preregistration to be considered for both astronomy and physics, an understanding of the the course. most recent developments in astronomy and cosmology, Units: 1.0 and the inspiration to pursue further learning in the Instructor(s): Feldman,L. sciences. (Fall 2016) Entry to either major is through a pair of courses that survey all major areas of modern astrophysics: ENGL B230 Topics in American Drama Astronomy 205 and 206. These are typically taken in the Considers American plays of the 20th century, reading sophomore year, to allow students to build a foundation major playwrights of the canon alongside other in physics (our majors require physics courses, as dramatists who were less often read and produced. explained below). We also offer as number of more Will also study later 20th century dramatists whose focused, upper level courses on specific topics in plays both develop and resist the complex foundation astronomy, including one on observational techniques. established by canonical American playwrights and how Some of these reflect the research interests of our American drama reflects and responds to cultural and faculty. political shifts. Considers how modern American identity has been constructed through dramatic performance, Student research is a vital part of both majors. Our considering both written and performed versions of faculty work at the cutting edge of modern astronomy these plays. and cosmology, creating exceptional research Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) opportunities for majors. Some of those opportunities Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive are based on campus, within the College’s William J. Units: 1.0 Strawbridge Observatory, equipped with telescopes and (Spring 2017) powerful computer facilities. Other opportunities lie off- campus through the department’s alliances with national and private observatories, including Kitt Peak in Arizona and the Simons Observatory in Chile. 90 Astronomy

Students may major in astronomy or astrophysics, but Physics 302, Physics 303, and Physics 309. not both. Astrophysics majors may not double major in The Senior Seminar, Physics 399, including a talk and either physics or astronomy, nor can they minor in either senior thesis on research conducted by the student. physics or astronomy. Astronomy majors may pursue This research can be undertaken in a 400-level research a double major or a minor in physics. A concentration course with any member of the Physics or Astronomy in scientific computing is available for astronomy and departments or by doing extracurricular research at astrophysics majors. Haverford or elsewhere, e.g., an approved summer From time to time, the department offers three courses, research internship at another institution. The thesis is Astronomy 101a, Astronomy 112, and Astronomy 114b, to be written under the supervision of both the research which student can take with no prerequisites or prior advisor and a Haverford advisor if the research advisor experience in astronomy. These are intended primarily is not a Haverford faculty member. for non-science students. Bryn Mawr equivalents may be substituted for the The department also offers a half-credit course, non-astronomy courses. Astronomy/Physics 152 and Astronomy/Physics 152, for first-year students who are Physics 308 are recommended but not required. considering a physical science major and wish to study some of the most recent developments in astrophysics. Minor Requirements • Physics 105 (or 101); Physics 106 (or 102) Astronomy Major Requirements • Astronomy 205; Astronomy 206; one 300 level The astronomy major is appropriate for students that astronomy course. Minors may substitute a 100-level desire an in-depth education in astronomy that can be Swarthmore astronomy seminar for the 300-level applied to a wide-range of career trajectories, but who astronomy course. do not necessarily intend to pursue graduate study in astronomy. We strongly recommend (but do not require) Astronomy/ Physics 152. Physics 105 (or 101 or 115), Physics 106 (or 102), Physics 213, Physics 214. Honors Requirements Two mathematics courses; Mathematics 121 and all 200 level or higher mathematics courses can be used to All astronomy and astrophysics majors are regarded satisfy this requirement. as candidates for Honors. For both majors, the award of Honors will be made in part on the basis of superior Astronomy 205, Astronomy 206, four 300-level work in the departmental courses and in certain related astronomy courses, one of which may be replaced by an courses. For astronomy majors, the award of Honors upper-level physics course. will additionally be based on performance on the comprehensive examinations, with consideration given Astronomy 404, which may be replaced by approved for independent research. For astrophysics majors, the independent research either at Haverford or elsewhere. award of Honors will additionally be based on the senior Written comprehensive examinations. thesis and talk. Bryn Mawr equivalents may be substituted for the non-astronomy courses. Astronomy/Physics 152 is Concentrations and Interdisciplinary recommended but not required. Minors Scientific Computing Concentration Astrophysics Major Requirements The concentration in scientific computing gives students The astrophysics major is appropriate for students an opportunity to develop a basic facility with the who wish to pursue the study of astronomy with tools and concepts involved in applying computation additional attention to the physical principles that to a scientific problem, and to explore the specific underlie astrophysical phenomena. The depth of the computational aspects of their own major disciplines. physics training required for a degree in astrophysics will prepare students who wish to pursue a career in Special Programs astronomy or astrophysics, or to enter graduate study in In 2010, Haverford became a member of the 0.9m astronomy or astrophysics. telescope at Tucson’s Kitt Peak National Observatory Physics 105 (or 115 or 101), Physics 106 (or 102), (noao.edu/0.9m) consortium, and in 2013 we became Physics 213, Physics 214, Physics 211 (usually taken a member of the Northeast Astronomy Participation concurrently with Physics 213). Group’s partnership with the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory (apo.nmsu.edu) in Two mathematics courses. Mathematics 121 and all New Mexico. We offer all Haverford astronomy 200 level or higher mathematics courses can be used to and astrophysics majors the opportunity to obtain satisfy this requirement. astronomical observations at one of these research Astronomy 205, Astronomy 206, and any two 300 level facilities in Tucson or Apache Point. astronomy courses. Majors can substitute 100-level Swarthmore astronomy seminars for 300-level Haverford is also part of the KNAC eight-college astronomy courses. consortium (astro.swarthmore.edu/knac) that provides research assistantships for a summer student Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 91 exchange program, grants for student travel to outside Joshua Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Biology (on observatories, and a yearly symposium at which leave semesters I & II) students present their research. Susan A. White, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of Health Studies COURSES

ASTR H205A Introduction to Astrophysics I The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major allows the student to progress through a series of courses that General introduction to astronomy including: the emphasize understanding of life at the molecular level structure and evolution of stars; the properties and and utilize experimental approaches. evolution of the solar system including planetary surfaces and atmospheres; exoplanets; and Research may be a valuable experience for students observational projects using the Strawbridge considering graduate or professional studies or for those Observatory telescopes. planning research or teaching careers. Any Chemistry Narayanan,Desika or Biology professor may be selected as a research adviser, but students are encouraged to consult ASTR H341A Advanced Topics: Observational departmental advisers for information on how to join Astronomy research groups. Students may select either a one or Observing projects that involve using a CCD camera two semester research experience. on a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Projects With very careful advanced planning a student may include spectroscopy; variable star photometry; H-alpha enroll in Study Abroad. Typically a student will select a imaging; imaging and photometry of galaxies and star one-semester program in an English-speaking country clusters; instruction in the use of image processing such as England, Wales, Australia or Ghana. software and CCD camera operation. Students work in groups of two with minimal faculty supervision. Formal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology reports are required. Thorman,Paul Requirements and Opportunities A student may qualify for an A. B. in Biochemistry and ASTR H404A Research in Astrophysics Molecular Biology by completing courses in Chemistry Intended for those students who choose to complete an and Biology with the following distribution. Students independent research project in astrophysics under the must be mindful that some courses have pre-requisites. supervision of a faculty member. Fundamental Courses Narayanan,Desika • Biology 110 • Chemistry 103, 104 BIOCHEMISTRY AND • Chemistry 211 and 212 or 213, 214 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Major Writing Requirement Students may complete a major in Biochemistry Students will complete two writing-attentive laboratory and Molecular Biology. Required courses are drawn courses before the end of their junior year. To satisfy this principally from the Biology and Chemistry Departments requirement, students typically select two courses from and those interested in Biochemistry should consult the following list: Biology 375, Biology 376, Chemistry both Biology and Chemistry web pages. Students may 251, or Chemistry 252. double major in Chemistry and Biology, but are not permitted to double major in Biology and Biochemistry Core Biochemistry Courses or Chemistry and Biochemistry. There is no minor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. No more than two • Chemistry 242 and Chemistry 251 OR Biology 375 non Tri-Co courses may be counted towards the major. • Chemistry 221 OR Chemistry 222 • Chemistry/Biology 377 Faculty Advanced Biology Courses Sharon Burgmayer, Dean of Graduate Studies and the W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry • Biology 201 Monica Chander, Chair and Associate Professor of • Biology 376 Biology Greg Davis, Associate Professor of Biology Advanced Electives on Biochemically Related Topics Tamara Davis, Professor of Biology Two courses that provide depth and breadth are Karen Greif, Professor of Biology required and one must be at the 300 or 500 level. Yan Kung, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Suggested courses include, but are not limited to: William Malachowski, Associate Provost and Professor • Biology 215 of Chemistry • Biology 216 92 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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• Biology 271 • Freshman year: Biology 110 , Chemistry 103, 104, • Biology 327 Mathematics 101, 102 • Biology 340 • Sophomore year: Chemistry 211, 212 (or 213, 214), Mathematics 201, Physics 121, 122 • Biology 352 • Junior year: Biology 201, 255, Chemistry 222, 242, • Chemistry 221 or 222 (if not used as a Core course) 251 • Chemistry 231 • Senior year: Biology/Chemistry 377, Biology 340, • Chemistry 251 376, Senior Experience • Chemistry 331 Sample 2 • Chemistry 332 • Chemistry 345 • Freshman year: Biology 110, 111, Chemistry 103, 104, Mathematics 101, 102 • Chemistry 515 • Sophomore year: Chemistry 211, 212, (or 214, 214) Students are encouraged to consider suitable course Mathematics 201, Biology 201 offerings at Haverford and Swarthmore and all choices must be approved by the major adviser. • Junior year: Biology 216, 375, 377, Chemistry 222, CS110 Senior Experience • Senior year: Biology 340, 376, Senior Experience Option 1—Required for Honors Honors • Biology 403 (2 semesters) OR Chemistry 398, 399 Students seeking to complete the Biochemistry and plus all requirements associated with the senior Molecular Biology Major must complete two semesters thesis. of research (Option 1) and have a GPA of 3.6 in all • Biology 399 major and allied courses. Option 2 Advanced Placement Chemistry or Biology 403 (Independent Study or Praxis on a Biochemical topic arranged by the student). Students are instructed to follow the policies described An additional laboratory course, not counted as an by individual departments. Advanced Elective, chosen from: COURSES • Biology 255 • Biology 271 BIOL B110 Biological Exploration I BIOL B110 is an introductory-level course designed • Biology 340 to encourage students to explore the field of biology • Chemistry 251 at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, organismal and ecological. Each course will explore Courses in Allied Fields these areas of biology through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Quantitative • Mathematics 101, 102 readiness is required for this course. This is a topics • Mathematics 201 course, course topic varies. In consultation with the major adviser, two courses must Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); be selected from the courses listed below. Students who Scientific Investigation (SI) plan to undertake graduate or medical studies should Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology consider taking Physics. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Greif,K., Davis,T., Skirkanich,J. • Physics 101, 102 or 121, 122 Fall 2016: Biology of Cancer. Biology B110-001 • Biology 111, 202, 220, 225, 236, 250 will explore the biology underlying cancer through • Computer Science 110, 206 examination of areas of biochemistry, cell biology, • Geology 101, 102, 103, 202, 203 genetics and genomics, building a picture of cell function that helps explain the physiology of cancer. Timetable for Meeting Requirements Fall 2016: From Genotype to Phenotype. Biology There are a variety of ways to meet the major B110-002 will explore the relationship between requirements provided that 100 level courses in phenotype and genotype through analyses of Chemistry and Mathematics are completed by the end inheritance patterns in families and populations, of the freshman year. Note that Mathematics 201 is the underlying molecular basis of phenotypes, and required as a pre-requisite for Chemistry 221 or 222 and an examination of the regulation and decoding of only two sample programs are shown here. genetic information that ultimately produces the proteins whose structure /function dictate cellular Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 93

activity. environment. Topics include summary statistics, distributions, randomization, replication, parametric BIOL B111 Biological Exploration II and nonparametric tests, and introductory topics in BIOL 111 is an introductory-level course designed multivariate and Bayesian statistics. The course is to encourage students to explore the field of biology geared around weekly problem sets and interactive at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 is organismal and ecological. Each course will explore highly recommended. these areas of biology through a unifying theme. Lecture Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Quantitative readiness is required for this course. This is Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive a topics course, course topic varies. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Health Studies Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Units: 1.0 Scientific Investigation (SI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 BIOL B216 Genomics Instructor(s): Skirkanich,J., Davis,G., Record,S. An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic Spring 2017: Development and Evolution. B111- data. This course will examine the types of biological 001. questions that can be answered using large biological data sets and complete genome sequences as well Spring 2017: Global Change and Ecosystems. as the techniques and technologies that make such B111-002. studies possible. Topics include genome organization BIOL B201 Genetics and evolution, comparative genomics, and analysis of transcriptomes and proteomes. Prerequisite: This course focuses on the principles of genetics, One semester of BIOL 110-111. BIOL 201 highly including classical genetics, population genetics and recommended. molecular genetics. Topics to be covered include Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific the genetic and molecular nature of mutations and Investigation (SI) phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene identification, Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; chromosome abnormalities, developmental genetics, Health Studies genome editing and epigenetics. Examples of genetics Units: 1.0 analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms (Not Offered 2016-2017) including Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. BIOL B220 Ecology Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); A study of the interactions between organisms and Scientific Investigation (SI) their environments. The scientific underpinnings of Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; current environmental issues, with regard to human Health Studies impacts, are also discussed. Students will also become Units: 1.0 familiar with ecological principles and with the methods Instructor(s): Davis,T. ecologists use. Students will apply these principles (Fall 2016) through the design and implementation of experiments both in the laboratory and the field. Lecture three hours BIOL B202 Introduction to Neuroscience a week, laboratory/field investigation three hours a week. There will be optional field trips throughout the An introduction to the nervous system and its broad semester. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 or contributions to function. The class will explore B111 or permission of instructor. fundamentals of neural anatomy and signaling, sensory Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) and motor processing and control, nervous system Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive development and examples of complex brain functions. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester Environmental Studies of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. Units: 1.0

Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Instructor(s): Mozdzer,T. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; (Fall 2016) Neuroscience Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Greif,K. BIOL B225 Biology and Ecology of Plants (Fall 2016) Plants are critical to numerous contemporary issues, such as ecological sustainability, economic stability, and BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics human health. Students will examine the fundamentals of how plants are structured, how they function, how An introductory course in designing experiments and they interact with other organisms, and how they analyzing biological data. This course is structured respond to environmental stimuli. In addition, students to develop students’ understanding of when to will be taught to identify important local species, and apply different quantitative methods, and how to will explore the role of plants in human society and implement those methods using the R statistics ecological systems. One semester of BIOL 110/111. 94 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and experiments on living embryos. Lecture three Environmental Studies hours, laboratory three scheduled hours a week; most Units: 1.0 weeks require additional hours outside of the regularly (Not Offered 2016-2017) scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one semester of BIOL 110- 111 or permission of instructor. BIOL B236 Evolution Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive A lecture/discussion course on the development of Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; evolutionary biology. This course will cover the history Health Studies of evolutionary theory, population genetics, molecular Units: 1.0 and developmental evolution, paleontology, and Instructor(s): Davis,G. phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a week. (Fall 2016) Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 BIOL B340 Cell Biology Instructor(s): Davis,G., Marenco,P. A lecture course with laboratory emphasizing current (Spring 2017) knowledge in cell biology. Among topics discussed are cell membranes, cell surface specializations, cell motility BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences and the cytoskeleton, regulation of cell activity and cell signaling. Laboratory experiments are focused on A study of how and why modern computation methods studies of the cytoskeleton making use of techniques are used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic in cell culture and immunocytochemistry. A student- principles of visualizing and analyzing scientific data designed project is a major component. Lecture three through hands-on programming exercises. The majority hours, laboratory four hours a week. Prerequisites: One of the course will use the R programming language and semester of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212), corresponding open source statistical software. Content and BIOL B201 or B271, or permission of instructor. will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive hours of combined lecture/lab per week. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Units: 1.0 Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Environmental Studies; Neuroscience BIOL B375 Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Units: 1.0 Biology I (Not Offered 2016-2017) The first semester of a two-semester course that focuses on the structure and function of proteins, BIOL B255 Microbiology carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids, enzyme kinetics, metabolic pathways, gene regulation and Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche recombinant DNA techniques. Students will explore on the planet. This course will examine how microbes these topics via lecture, critical reading and discussion have become successful colonizers; review aspects of primary literature and laboratory experimentation. of interactions between microbes, humans and the Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab per week. environment; and explore practical uses of microbes Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 and two in industry, medicine and environmental management. semesters of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212) The course will combine lecture, discussion of primary Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive literature and student presentations. Three hours Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Units: 1.0 Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL 110 and CHEM Instructor(s): Chander,M. B104. (Fall 2016) Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; BIOL B376 Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Environmental Studies; Health Studies Biology II Units: 1.0 This second semester of a two-semester sequence Instructor(s): Chander,M. will continue with analysis of nucleic acids and (Spring 2017) gene regulation through lecture, critical reading and discussion of primary literature and laboratory BIOL B271 Developmental Biology experimentation. Three hours of lecture, three hours of An introduction to embryology and the concepts lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or BIOL B375 or of developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated permission of instructor. by analyzing the experimental observations that Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive support them. Topics include gametogenesis and Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate specification and Units: 1.0 differentiation, pattern formation, regulation of gene Instructor(s): Davis,T. expression, neural development, and developmental (Spring 2017) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 95

BIOL B399 Senior Seminar in Laboratory substitution and elimination reactions; alcohol Investigations reactivity; and radical reactions. The laboratory course This seminar provides students with a collaborative introduces basic operations in the organic chemistry forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas and broaden lab, spectroscopy, and reactions discussed in lecture. their perspective and understanding of research Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory approaches used in various sub-disciplines of biology. five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 104 with a grade There will be a focus on the presentation, interpretation of at least 2.0. and discussion of data, and communication of scientific Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); findings to diverse audiences. In addition, students Scientific Investigation (SI) write, defend and publicly present a paper on their Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology supervised research project. Three hours of class Units: 1.0 discussion each week. Corequisite: enrollment in BIOL Instructor(s): Malachowski,B., Schmink,J., B403. Karagiaridi,O., Jacoby Morris,K. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Record,S. CHEM B212 Organic Chemistry II: Biological (Spring 2017) Organic Chemistry The second semester (biological organic chemistry) CHEM B103 General Chemistry I is broken into two modules. In the first module, the For students with some back ground in chemistry who reactivity of carbonyl carbon is discussed, including are motivated, self-directed learners. Topics include ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and derivatives, aqueous solutions and solubility; the electronic structure saccharides and enolate chemistry. Traditional of atoms and molecules; chemical reactions and biochemistry coverage begins with the second energy; intermolecular forces. Examples discussed in module. Amino acids (pI, electrophoresis, side chain lecture and laboratory workshop include environmental pKa), protein structure (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°), and enzymatic sciences, material sciences and biological chemistry. catalysis, kinetics and inhibition are introduced. The Lecture three hours and Chemistry workshop three reactivity of the co-enzymes (vitamins) is also covered hours a week. The laboratory workshop period will be as individual case studies in bio-organic reactivity. used for traditional chemical experimentation or related Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory problem solving. The course may include individual five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 with a grade conferences, evening peer-led instruction sessions. of at least 2.0. Prerequisite: Quantitative Readiness Required. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Instructor(s): Nerz-Stormes,M., Malachowski,B., Units: 1.0 Karagiaridi,O. Instructor(s): White,S., Goldsmith,J., Watkins,L. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016) CHEM B213 Organic Chemistry II for Chem/ CHEM B104 General Chemistry II Biochemistry Majors A continuation of CHEM B103. Topics include chemical A student should register for CHEM 213 if they are reactions; introduction to thermodynamics and chemical planning on taking the complementary quarter course, equilibria; acid-base chemistry; electrochemistry; CHEM 214, in the second half of the semester. CHEM chemical kinetics. Lecture three hours, recitation one 213 mirrors the content of the first module of CHEM hour and laboratory three hours a week. May include 212, Organic Chemistry II: Biological Organic Chemistry. individual conferences, evening problems or peer-led In the first module, the reactivity of carbonyl carbon is instruction sessions. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a discussed, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic grade of at least 2.0 or chemistry department placement acids and derivatives, saccharides and enolate or permission of the instructor. Students interested in chemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM B211 the intensive section of CHEM B104 must have earned Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) at least a 3.0 in CHEM B103. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Units: 0.5 Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 CHEM B214 Intermediate Organic Chemistry for Instructor(s): Francl,M., Watkins,L. Chem/Biochemistry Majors (Spring 2017) A student should register for CHEM 214 if she will be completing CHEM 213 in the first quarter. CHEM 214 CHEM B211 Organic Chemistry I deals with intermediate concepts in organic chemistry, An introduction to the basic concepts of organic including transition-metal catalyzed reactions, molecular chemistry, including acid-base principles; functional orbital theory, and advanced treatment of enolate groups; alkane and cycloalkane structures; alkene chemistry with a special emphasis on predicting reactions; alkynes; dienes and aromatic structures; stereochemical outcomes of reactions. 96 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Co-requisite: CHEM B221 or B231 or B242. Attendance Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at departmental colloquia is expected of all students. Units: 0.5 Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) (Spring 2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J., White,S., Malachowski,B. Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Atomic and molecular structure; molecular modeling; Fall 2016: Physical Chemistry. rotational, vibrational, electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three hours. Spring 2017: Organic and Biochemistry. Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) CHEM B252 Research Methodology II Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology This laboratory course integrates advanced concepts Units: 1.0 in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and Instructor(s): Francl,M. physical chemistry. Students will gain experience in (Fall 2016) the use of departmental research instruments and in scientific literature searches, quantitative data analysis, CHEM B222 Physical Chemistry II record-keeping, and writing. Attendance at departmental colloquia is expected of all students. Course Modern thermodynamics, with application to phase Prerequisites: CHEM B212. Course Co-requisites: equilibria, interfacial phenomena and chemical CHEM B222 or CHEM B231 or CHEM B242. equilibria; statistical mechanics; chemical dynamics. Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Kinetic theory of gases; chemical kinetics. Lecture three Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive hours. Prerequisite: CHEM B104 and MATH 201. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J. (Spring 2017) CHEM B345 Advanced Biological Chemistry This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CHEM CHEM B231 Inorganic Chemistry B242 or BIOL B375. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bonding theory; structures and properties of ionic solids; Units: 1.0 symmetry; crystal field theory; structures, spectroscopy, (Not Offered 2016-2017) stereochemistry, reactions and reaction mechanisms of coordination compounds; acid-base concepts; descriptive chemistry of main group elements. Lecture CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways three hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 212. and Metabolism Approach: Course does not meet an Approach This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular Units: 1.0 metabolism will be explored in molecular detail. Energy Instructor(s): Burgmayer,S. producing, degradation, and biosynthetic pathways (Spring 2017) involving sugars, fats, amino acids, and nucleotides will be discussed with an emphasis on structures and CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry mechanisms, experimental methods, regulation, and integration. Additional topics, drawn from the primary The structure, chemistry and function of amino research literature, may be covered. Readings will be acids, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature acids; enzyme kinetics; metabolic relationships of and assessments may include oral presentations, carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids, and the control problem sets, written examinations, and writing of various pathways. Lecture three hours a week. assignments. This is a second course in Biochemistry Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. and assumes a strong foundation in the fundamentals Approach: Course does not meet an Approach of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM 375, or Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; permission of instructor. Health Studies Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Malachowski,B., Miller,B. Instructor(s): White,S. (Fall 2016) (Spring 2017)

CHEM B251 Research Methodology in Chemistry CHEM B515 Topics in Organic Chemistry This is a laboratory topics course integrating advanced This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Prerequisite: concepts in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic CHEM B242 or equivalent. and physical chemistry. Students gain experience in Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the use of departmental research instruments and in Units: 1.0 scientific literature searches, quantitative data analysis, (Not Offered 2016-2017) record keeping and writing. Prerequisite CHEM B212. Biology 97

BIOLOGY in consultation with the student’s major adviser and be approved by the department. BIOL110/111/115 and CHEM103/104 must be completed within the first two Students may complete a major or minor in Biology. years if you want to declare a Biology major. Within the major, students may complete minors in computational methods, environmental studies or neural Students interested in pursuing graduate studies or and behavioral sciences. medical school are encouraged to take two semesters each of physics and organic chemistry. In addition, all biology students are encouraged to take courses Faculty that employ quantitative reasoning or computational Peter Brodfuehrer, Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology approaches; such courses can be taken within the Biology Department or in other departments. Monica Chander, Chair and Associate Professor of Biology A score of 5 on the Advanced Placement examination, or equivalent International Baccalaureate scores, can be Gregory Davis, Associate Professor of Biology used to satisfy one semester of the introductory biology Tamara Davis, Professor of Biology requirement for the major. One additional semester of Karen Greif, Professor of Biology BIOL 110/111/115 is required to fulfill the introductory biology requirement. The department, however, highly Michelle Kanther, Lecturer recommends both semesters of introductory biology for Courtney Harmon Morris, Instructor majors. Placement out of one semester of introductory biology does not satisfy the introductory biology pre- Thomas Mozdzer, Assistant Professor of Biology requisite for 200/300-level courses. Sydne Record, Assistant Professor of Biology The writing within the Major Requirement is fulfilled by Joshua Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Biology (on the completion of two 200/300-level laboratory courses leave semesters I & II) in Biology, all of which are writing attentive. Jennifer Skirkanich, Lecturer in Biology Michelle Wien, Lecturer in Biology (on leave semester I) Honors Departmental honors are awarded to students who The programs of the department are designed to have distinguished themselves academically or via introduce students to unifying concepts and broad their participation in departmental activities. As part of issues in biology, and to provide the opportunity for the process for awarding honors in Biology, interested in-depth inquiry into topics of particular interest through seniors are asked to write a short (one-page maximum) coursework and independent research. Introductory- essay identifying ways in which they have distinguished and intermediate-level courses examine the structures themselves within the Biology Department, including and functions of living systems at all levels of activities and scholarship beyond the classroom that organization, from molecules, cells and organisms to exemplify their engagement and growth as a Biology populations. Advanced courses encourage the student major. Final selection for honors is made by the Biology to gain proficiency in the critical reading of research faculty. literature, leading to the development, defense and presentation of a senior paper. Opportunities for Minor Requirements supervised research with faculty are available and A minor in Biology consists of six semester courses highly encouraged. Students considering coursework in in Biology, of which no more than two may be taken Biology are encouraged to meet with the department’s outside the Bryn Mawr Biology Department. major advisor to determine the best sequence of courses based on their interests and goals. Minors in Environmental Studies, Major Requirements Computational Methods, and Neural and Behavioral Sciences Course requirements for a major in Biology include two semesters of introductory biology (BIOL110-111,115), Minors in Environmental Studies, Computational six courses at the 200 and 300 level (excluding BIOL Methods, and Neural and Behavioral Sciences are 390-399), of which at least two must be at the 300-level available for students interested in interdisciplinary and three must be laboratory courses, and one senior exploration in these areas. Check relevant sections seminar course (BIOL 390-399). No more than two of the course catalog for complete descriptions of the 200- or 300-level courses may be taken outside the minors. Bryn Mawr Biology Department. Two semesters of supervised laboratory research, BIOL 403, may be Teacher Certification substituted for one of the required laboratory courses. The College offers a certification program in secondary In addition, two semester courses in general chemistry teacher education. and three additional semester courses in allied sciences, to be selected from Anthropology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics, Physics or Animal Experimentation Policy Psychology are required for all majors. Selection of the Students who object to participating directly in laboratory three additional allied science courses must be done activities involving the use of animals in a course 98 Biology required for the major are required to notify the faculty BIOL B111 Biological Exploration II member of her or his objections at the beginning of the BIOL 111 is an introductory-level course designed course. If alternative activities are available and deemed to encourage students to explore the field of biology consistent with the pedagogical objectives of the course at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, by the faculty member, then a student will be allowed to organismal and ecological. Each course will explore pursue alternative laboratory activities without penalty. these areas of biology through a unifying theme. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisite: COURSES Quantitative readiness is required for this course. This is a topics course, course topic varies. BIOL B101 Introduction to Biology I: Genetics & the Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Central Dogma Scientific Investigation (SI) For post-baccalaureate premedical students only. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology A comprehensive examination of topics in genetics, Units: 1.0 molecular biology and cancer biology. Lecture three Instructor(s): Skirkanich,J., Davis,G., Record,S. hours, laboratory three hours a week. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Spring 2017: Development and Evolution. B111- Units: 1.0 001. Instructor(s): Wien,M., Kanther,M. Spring 2017: Global Change and Ecosystems. (Fall 2016) B111-002.

BIOL B102 Introduction to Biology II: Biochemistry BIOL B115 Computing Through Biology: An & Human Physiology Introduction For post-baccalaureate premedical students only. A This course is an introduction to biology through comprehensive examination of topics in biochemistry, computer science, or an introduction to computer cell biology and human physiology. Lecture three hours, science through biology. The course will examine laboratory three hours a week. BIOL B101 is strongly biological systems through the use of computer recommended. science, exploring concepts and solving problems from Approach: Course does not meet an Approach bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology Units: 1.0 through the practice of writing and modifying code in Instructor(s): Wien,M., Kanther,M. the Python programming language. The course will (Spring 2017) introduce students to the subject matter and branches of computer science as an academic discipline, and the nature, development, coding, testing, documenting and BIOL B110 Biological Exploration I analysis of the efficiency and limitations of algorithms. BIOL B110 is an introductory-level course designed Additional Meeting Time: (Lab) 2 hours. to encourage students to explore the field of biology Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, Investigation (SI) organismal and ecological. Each course will explore Units: 1.0 these areas of biology through a unifying theme. Lecture (Not Offered 2016-2017) three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Quantitative readiness is required for this course. This is a topics BIOL B201 Genetics course, course topic varies. Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); This course focuses on the principles of genetics, Scientific Investigation (SI) including classical genetics, population genetics and Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology molecular genetics. Topics to be covered include Units: 1.0 the genetic and molecular nature of mutations and Instructor(s): Greif,K., Davis,T., Skirkanich,J. phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene identification, chromosome abnormalities, developmental genetics, Fall 2016: Biology of Cancer. Biology B110-001 genome editing and epigenetics. Examples of genetics will explore the biology underlying cancer through analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms examination of areas of biochemistry, cell biology, including Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. genetics and genomics, building a picture of cell Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester function that helps explain the physiology of cancer. of BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Fall 2016: From Genotype to Phenotype. Biology Scientific Investigation (SI) B110-002 will explore the relationship between Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; phenotype and genotype through analyses of Health Studies inheritance patterns in families and populations, Units: 1.0 the underlying molecular basis of phenotypes, and Instructor(s): Davis,T. an examination of the regulation and decoding of (Fall 2016) genetic information that ultimately produces the proteins whose structure /function dictate cellular activity. BIOL B202 Introduction to Neuroscience An introduction to the nervous system and its broad contributions to function. The class will explore Biology 99 fundamentals of neural anatomy and signaling, sensory Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative and motor processing and control, nervous system Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) development and examples of complex brain functions. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. Health Studies Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; (Not Offered 2016-2017) Neuroscience Units: 1.0 BIOL B216 Genomics Instructor(s): Greif,K. An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic (Fall 2016) data. This course will examine the types of biological questions that can be answered using large biological BIOL B210 Biology and Public Policy data sets and complete genome sequences as well A lecture/discussion course on major issues and as the techniques and technologies that make such advances in biology and their implications for studies possible. Topics include genome organization public policy decisions. Topics discussed include and evolution, comparative genomics, and analysis reproductive technologies, the Human Genome of transcriptomes and proteomes. Prerequisite: project, environmental health hazards, bioterrorism, One semester of BIOL 110-111. BIOL 201 highly and euthanasia and organ transplantation. Readings recommended. include scientific articles, public policy and ethical Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific considerations, and lay publications. Lecture three Investigation (SI) hours a week. This class involves considerable writing. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111, or Health Studies permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Greif,K. BIOL B220 Ecology (Spring 2017) A study of the interactions between organisms and their environments. The scientific underpinnings of BIOL B214 The Historical Roots of Women in current environmental issues, with regard to human Genetics and Embryology impacts, are also discussed. Students will also become This course provides a general history of genetics and familiar with ecological principles and with the methods embryology from the late 19th to the mid-20th century ecologists use. Students will apply these principles with a focus on the role that women scientists and through the design and implementation of experiments technicians played in the development of these sub- both in the laboratory and the field. Lecture three hours disciplines. We will look at the lives of well known and a week, laboratory/field investigation three hours a lesser-known individuals, asking how factors such as week. There will be optional field trips throughout the their educational experiences and mentor relationships semester. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 or influenced the roles these women played in the scientific B111 or permission of instructor. enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) contributions in historical context, requiring a review of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive core concepts in genetics and developmental biology. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; One facet of the course will be to look at the Bryn Mawr Environmental Studies Biology Department from the founding of the College Units: 1.0 into the mid-20th century. Instructor(s): Mozdzer,T. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP); Scientific (Fall 2016) Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies BIOL B225 Biology and Ecology of Plants Units: 1.0 Plants are critical to numerous contemporary issues, (Not Offered 2016-2017) such as ecological sustainability, economic stability, and human health. Students will examine the fundamentals BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics of how plants are structured, how they function, how An introductory course in designing experiments and they interact with other organisms, and how they analyzing biological data. This course is structured respond to environmental stimuli. In addition, students to develop students’ understanding of when to will be taught to identify important local species, and apply different quantitative methods, and how to will explore the role of plants in human society and implement those methods using the R statistics ecological systems. One semester of BIOL 110/111. environment. Topics include summary statistics, Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) distributions, randomization, replication, parametric Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and nonparametric tests, and introductory topics in Environmental Studies multivariate and Bayesian statistics. The course is Units: 1.0 geared around weekly problem sets and interactive (Not Offered 2016-2017) learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 is highly recommended. 100 Biology

BIOL B236 Evolution BIOL B262 Urban Ecosystems A lecture/discussion course on the development of Cities can be considered ecosystems whose functions evolutionary biology. This course will cover the history are highly influenced by human activity. This course will of evolutionary theory, population genetics, molecular address many of the living and non-living components and developmental evolution, paleontology, and of urban ecosystems, as well as their unique processes. phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a week. Using an approach focused on case studies, the course Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) will explore the ecological and environmental problems Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that arise from urbanization, and also examine solutions Units: 1.0 that have been attempted. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 or Instructor(s): Davis,G., Marenco,P. B111 or ENVS B101. (Spring 2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Counts towards: Environmental Studies BIOL B244 Behavioral Endocrinology Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) An interdisciplinary-based analysis of the nature of hormones, how hormones affect cells and systems, and how these effects alter the behavior of animals. Topics BIOL B271 Developmental Biology will be covered from a research perspective using An introduction to embryology and the concepts a combination of lectures, discussions and student of developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated presentations. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL by analyzing the experimental observations that 110-111 or one of the following courses: BIOL B202, support them. Topics include gametogenesis and PSYC B218 or PSYC H217. fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate specification and Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) differentiation, pattern formation, regulation of gene Counts towards: Neuroscience expression, neural development, and developmental Units: 1.0 plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations (Not Offered 2016-2017) and experiments on living embryos. Lecture three hours, laboratory three scheduled hours a week; most BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences weeks require additional hours outside of the regularly scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one semester of BIOL 110- A study of how and why modern computation methods 111 or permission of instructor. are used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) principles of visualizing and analyzing scientific data Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive through hands-on programming exercises. The majority Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; of the course will use the R programming language and Health Studies corresponding open source statistical software. Content Units: 1.0 will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six Instructor(s): Davis,G. hours of combined lecture/lab per week. (Fall 2016) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive BIOL B303 Human Physiology Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; A comprehensive study of the physical and chemical Environmental Studies; Neuroscience processes in tissues, organs and organ systems Units: 1.0 that form the basis of animal and human function. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Homeostasis, control systems and the structural basis of function are emphasized. Laboratories are designed BIOL B255 Microbiology to introduce basic physiological techniques and the practice of scientific inquiry. Lecture three hours, Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisites: One on the planet. This course will examine how microbes semester of BIOL 110-111, CHEM 103, 104 and one have become successful colonizers; review aspects 200-level biology course. of interactions between microbes, humans and the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive environment; and explore practical uses of microbes Counts towards: Health Studies in industry, medicine and environmental management. Units: 1.0 The course will combine lecture, discussion of primary (Not Offered 2016-2017) literature and student presentations. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL 110 and CHEM BIOL B313 Integrative Organismal Biology I B104. The first semester of a two-semester course focusing Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) on the anatomical and physiological properties of cells, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive tissues, organs and organ systems that form the basis Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; of human function. Homeostasis, control systems Environmental Studies; Health Studies and the structural basis of function are emphasized. Units: 1.0 Lecture: three hours, laboratory: three hours a week. Instructor(s): Chander,M. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL 110-111, CHEM (Spring 2017) 103, 104 and one 200-level biology course. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Brodfuehrer,P. (Fall 2016) Biology 101

BIOL B314 Integrative Organismal Biology II Counts towards: Environmental Studies The second semester of Integrative Organismal Biology. Units: 1.0 Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours a week. Instructor(s): Mozdzer,T. Prerequisite: BIOL 313 or permission of instructor. (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Brodfuehrer,P. BIOL B340 Cell Biology (Spring 2017) A lecture course with laboratory emphasizing current knowledge in cell biology. Among topics discussed are BIOL B321 Neuroethology cell membranes, cell surface specializations, cell motility This course provides an opportunity for students to and the cytoskeleton, regulation of cell activity and understand the neuronal basis of behavior through the cell signaling. Laboratory experiments are focused on examination of how particular animals have evolved studies of the cytoskeleton making use of techniques neural solutions to specific problems posed to them by in cell culture and immunocytochemistry. A student- their environments. The topics will be covered from a designed project is a major component. Lecture three research perspective using a combination of lectures, hours, laboratory four hours a week. Prerequisites: One discussions and student presentations. Prerequisite: semester of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212), BIOL 202, PSYC 218 or PSYC 217 at Haverford. and BIOL B201 or B271, or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Neuroscience Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) BIOL B323 Coastal and Marine Ecology BIOL B352 Immunology An interdisciplinary course exploring the ecological, biogeochemical, and physical aspects of coastal and This course is intended to familiarize students with marine ecosystems. We will compare intertidal habitats the cellular, molecular, and biochemical aspects of in both temperate and tropical environments, with a the innate and adaptive components of the immune specific emphasis on global change impacts on coastal system. The course will consist of interactive lectures systems (e.g. sea level rise, warming, and species and discussions to gain a comprehensive introduction shifts). In 2015 the course will have a mandatory field to the underlying principles of immunology. Lectures trip to a tropical marine field station and an overnight will be supplemented with analysis of primary literature, field trip to a temperate field station in the mid-Atlantic. group presentations, and discussion. The first half of Prerequisite: BIOL B220 (Ecology) the course will focus on the immune system and the Counts towards: Environmental Studies functions of its major components. The second half will Units: 1.0 focus on how the various components of the immune (Not Offered 2016-2017) system function during their response to infections agents and how the system is deregulated during non- infections immune diseases. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 or BIOL B326 From Channels to Behavior B111, and one 200 level Biology course. Introduces the principles, research approaches, and Units: 1.0 methodologies of cellular and behavioral neuroscience. Instructor(s): Kanther,M. The first half of the course will cover the cellular (Fall 2016) properties of neurons using current and voltage clamp techniques along with neuron simulations. The second BIOL B364 Developmental Neurobiology half of the course will introduce students to state-of- the-art techniques for acquiring and analyzing data in A lecture/discussion course on major topics in the a variety of rodent models linking brain and behavior. development of the nervous system. Lecture three hours Prerequisites: one semester of BIOL 110-111 and one of a week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or 271, BIOL 202 or the following: PSYC B218/PSYC H217, or BIOL 202. equivalent, or permission of instructor. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Neuroscience Counts towards: Neuroscience Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Greif,K. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017)

BIOL B332 Global Change Biology BIOL B375 Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I Global changes to our environment present omnipresent environmental challenges. We are only beginning to The first semester of a two-semester course that understand the complex interactions between organisms focuses on the structure and function of proteins, and the rapidly changing environment. Students will carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids, enzyme explore the effects of global change on ecosystems kinetics, metabolic pathways, gene regulation and by analyzing the primary literature and the latest IPCC recombinant DNA techniques. Students will explore report. In 2017, there will be a mandatory one-day these topics via lecture, critical reading and discussion field trip to the Smithsonian Global Change Research of primary literature and laboratory experimentation. Wetland. Prerequisites: BIOL B220, BIOL 225 or BIOL Three hours of lecture, three hours of lab per week. B262, or permission of instructor. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 and two semesters of Organic Chemistry (CHEM B211/B212) 102 Biology

Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive BIOL B393 Senior Seminar in Molecular Genetics Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology This seminar course focuses on topics of current Units: 1.0 interest and significance in genetics, molecular genetics Instructor(s): Chander,M. and genomics. Topics vary, and may include the (Fall 2016) characterization of functional DNA elements, the effects of allelic variation, mechanisms of gene regulation, and/ BIOL B376 Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular or genetics as a tool for understanding development. Biology II Students investigate topics of interest through critical This second semester of a two-semester sequence reading of primary literature and hone written and will continue with analysis of nucleic acids and oral communication skills via the presentation and gene regulation through lecture, critical reading discussion of scientific information and ideas. In and discussion of primary literature and laboratory addition, students write, defend, and publicly present experimentation. Three hours of lecture, three hours of one long research paper. Three hours of discussion per lab per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or BIOL B375 or week, supplemented by regular meetings with individual permission of instructor. students. Prerequisites: BIOL 201 or Biology 271 or Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Biology 376, or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Davis,T. Instructor(s): Davis,T. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017) BIOL B394 Senior Seminar in Evolutionary BIOL B380 Topics in Cellular and Organismal Developmental Biology Physiology Topics of current interest and significance in Physiology is the study of the normal functioning of a evolutionary developmental biology are examined with living organism and its components, including all its critical readings and oral presentations of work from the physical and chemical processes. The integration of research literature. In addition, students write, defend function across many levels of organization will be and publicly present a research paper based on their emphasized. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110- readings. Three hours of class lecture and discussion 111, CHEM 103, 104 and one 200-level biology course a week, supplemented by frequent meetings with Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive individual students. Prerequisite: BIOL 201, 216, 236, Counts towards: Health Studies 271 or permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

BIOL B390 Senior Seminar in Ecology BIOL B398 Senior Seminar in Science and Society A focus on the interactions among organisms and A seminar that addresses a variety of topics at the their environments. Students read and discuss current interface of biology and society. Students write, defend and classic papers from the primary literature. Topics and publicly present a research project. Students may include biogeographic patterns, population and examine issues through readings from the research community dynamics, and ecosystem functioning. We literature and oral presentations in class. Students also may explore current issues such as global warming, prepare, defend and publicly present a research project. habitat degradation and fragmentation, loss of Three hours of discussion per week, supplemented by biodiversity and the introduction of alien species. The frequent meetings with individual students. Prerequisite: effects of these human induced changes on the biota Biology or Biochemistry major. are examined. Students write, defend and publicly Units: 1.0 present one long research paper. Three hours of class Instructor(s): Greif,K. lecture and discussion a week, supplemented by (Fall 2016) frequent meetings with individual students. Prerequisite: BIOL 220 or permission of instructor. BIOL B399 Senior Seminar in Laboratory Units: 1.0 Investigations (Not Offered 2016-2017) This seminar provides students with a collaborative forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas and broaden BIOL B392 Senior Seminar their perspective and understanding of research An advanced course in the study of the organization and approaches used in various sub-disciplines of biology. function of physiological systems from the molecular There will be a focus on the presentation, interpretation level to the organismal level. Specific topics related to and discussion of data, and communication of scientific the organization and function of physiological systems findings to diverse audiences. In addition, students are examined in detail using the primary literature. In write, defend and publicly present a paper on their addition, students write, defend and publicly present one supervised research project. Three hours of class long research paper. Three hours of class lecture and discussion each week. Corequisite: enrollment in BIOL discussion a week, supplemented by frequent meetings B403. with individual students. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Record,S. (Spring 2017) Biology 103

BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Laboratory or library research under the supervision of Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology a member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for Units: 1.0 those with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of Instructor(s): White,S., Goldsmith,J., Watkins,L. instructor. (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Neuroscience Units: 1.0 CHEM B104 General Chemistry II (Fall 2016) A continuation of CHEM B103. Topics include chemical reactions; introduction to thermodynamics and chemical BIOL B425 Praxis III: Independent Study equilibria; acid-base chemistry; electrochemistry; Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and chemical kinetics. Lecture three hours, recitation one are developed by individual students, in collaboration hour and laboratory three hours a week. May include with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is individual conferences, evening problems or peer-led distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite instruction sessions. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection grade of at least 2.0 or chemistry department placement that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the or permission of the instructor. Students interested in classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding the intensive section of CHEM B104 must have earned gained through classroom study to work done in the at least a 3.0 in CHEM B103. broader community. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Counts towards: Praxis Program Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Francl,M., Watkins,L. (Spring 2017) ANTH B208 Human Biology This course will be a survey of modern human biological CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological and Metabolism and genetic variation in modern human populations and discuss the evolutionary explanations for the observed This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL patterns. A major component of the class will be the B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular discussion of the social implications of these patterns of metabolism will be explored in molecular detail. Energy biological variation, particularly in the construction and producing, degradation, and biosynthetic pathways application of the concept of race. Prerequisite: ANTH involving sugars, fats, amino acids, and nucleotides 101 or permission of instructor. will be discussed with an emphasis on structures and Counts towards: Health Studies mechanisms, experimental methods, regulation, and Units: 1.0 integration. Additional topics, drawn from the primary (Not Offered 2016-2017) research literature, may be covered. Readings will be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature and assessments may include oral presentations, BIOL B354 Basic Concepts and Special Topics in problem sets, written examinations, and writing Biochemistry assignments. This is a second course in Biochemistry For post-baccalaureate premedical students and non- and assumes a strong foundation in the fundamentals majors who meet the prerequisites. Course does not of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM 375, or count toward the biology major, majors should take permission of instructor. BIOL B375. Prerequisites: one semester of BIOL 110/ Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B111, and CHEM 211 or permission of the instructor. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): White,S. Instructor(s): Miller,B. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017) CMSC B115 Computing Through Biology: An CHEM B103 General Chemistry I Introduction For students with some back ground in chemistry who This course is an introduction to biology through are motivated, self-directed learners. Topics include computer science, or an introduction to computer aqueous solutions and solubility; the electronic structure science through biology. The course will examine of atoms and molecules; chemical reactions and biological systems through the use of computer energy; intermolecular forces. Examples discussed in science, exploring concepts and solving problems from lecture and laboratory workshop include environmental bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology sciences, material sciences and biological chemistry. through the practice of writing and modifying code in Lecture three hours and Chemistry workshop three the Python programming language. The course will hours a week. The laboratory workshop period will be introduce students to the subject matter and branches used for traditional chemical experimentation or related of computer science as an academic discipline, and the problem solving. The course may include individual nature, development, coding, testing, documenting and conferences, evening peer-led instruction sessions. analysis of the efficiency and limitations of algorithms. Prerequisite: Quantitative Readiness Required. Additional Meeting Time: (Lab) 2 hours. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative 104 Chemistry

Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific Chemistry Program Requirements and Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Opportunities (Not Offered 2016-2017) The Chemistry major is offered with several different options:

CMSC B361 Emergence • American Chemical Society Certified A.B., A multidisciplinary exploration of the interactions recommended for graduate school underlying both real and simulated systems, such as ant colonies, economies, brains, earthquakes, • Chemistry major, A.B. Only biological evolution, artificial evolution, computers, and • Chemistry minor life. These emergent systems are often characterized • Chemistry major with concentration in biochemistry by simple, local interactions that collectively produce global phenomena not apparent in the local interactions. • Chemistry major with concentration in geochemistry Prerequisite: CMSC 206 or H106 and CMSC 231 or For all degree options, merit level work is expected in permission of instructor. every chemistry, math, biology, geology, and physics Counts towards: Neuroscience course. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) See also: More Information About Majors/Concentrations PSYC B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience www.brynmawr.edu/chemistry/documents/ Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. MajorRequirements.pdf Students should consult with faculty members to FAQ About The Chemistry Major. determine their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the www.brynmawr.edu/chemistry/undergraduate/FAQ.html semester prior to when they will begin. Counts towards: Neuroscience Units: 1.0 ACS Certified A.B. Major Requirements (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) A student may qualify for a major in chemistry by completing a total of 13 units in chemistry with the distribution: CHEMISTRY • Chem 103, 104 • Chem 211, 212 Students may complete a major or minor in Chemistry. • Chem 221, 222 Within the major, students may complete a minor in • Chem 231 computational methods or education. Concentrations in biological chemistry, environmental studies, or • Chem 242 geochemistry may be completed within the major. • Chem 251, 252 Students may complete an M.A. in the combined • Chem 398, 399 A.B./M.A. program. • two other Chem 3xx Chem 213/214 can replace Chem 212 for all major, Faculty minor and concentration requirements. Sharon Burgmayer, Dean of Graduate Studies and the • Other required courses: Math 101, 102, 201. W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry Students who plan to do graduate work in chemistry Michelle Francl, Chair and Professor of Chemistry on should also consider taking Physics 121/122 the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Change Master Fund (preferred) or 101/102 and Physics 201. Jonas Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Chemistry Students majoring in Chemistry fulfill the disciplinary writing requirement by satisfactorily completing Chem Kimberly J. Jacoby Morris, Laboratory Lecturer 251 and 252, which are writing attentive courses. Olga Karagiaridi, Lecturer in Chemistry Yan Kung, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (on leave Major, A.B. only semesters I & II) A non-ACS certified major requires all of the above Bill Malachowski, Associate Provost and Professor of coursework except Chem 398, 399. Chemistry Bradley Miller, Bucher-Jacoson Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Timetables for Meeting Major the Sciences Requirements Maryellen Nerz-Stormes, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry Students may follow various schedules to meet their (on leave semester I) major requirements. However, a fairly typical one is: Jason Schmink, Assistant Professor of Chemistry • freshman year: Chem 103 and 104, Math 101 and Lisa Hernandez-Cuebas Watkins, Lecturer in Chemistry 102 Susan White, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of • sophomore year: Chem 211 and 212, Math 201 Health Studies • junior year: Chem 221, 222, 231, 242, 251, 252 Chemistry 105

• senior year: two or more Chem 3xx *Pre-requisite: Math 201 In particular note that **Biol 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 • Math 201 must be completed before taking Chem ***Chem 242 satisfies the pre-requisite for this course 221. Math 201 is offered at Bryn Mawr only in the fall, but an equivalent course is offered at Haverford • Other required courses: Math 101, 102 in the spring term. Equivalent biology courses at Haverford may be • Chem 221/222 can be taken concurrently with substituted. Chem 211/212 and this arrangement allows for the completion of all major requirements in three years. Major with Concentration in • The required 300x courses all have prerequisites Geochemistry that generally include Chem 212 and/or Chem 222. • Chem 103, 104 Students who wish to deviate from the usual schedule should consult with the major adviser as early as • Chem 211, 212 possible to devise an alternative. • Chem 221*, 222*, 231 or 242** (choose 3 of 4) • Chem 251, 252 Honors • Chem 322 or 332 The requirements for departmental honors are: • Chem 3xx • Complete one of the major plans. • Geol 101 • Maintain a chemistry GPA of 3.7 or better. • Geol 202

• Complete Chem 398 and 399 with a grade of 3.3 or • Geol 302, 305, 350 (choose 2 of 3; Geol 350 better each semester. requires Geology major adviser approval) • Participate in research oral/poster presentations. *Pre-requisite: Math 201 • Write an acceptable thesis, and meet all department **Bio 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 deadlines for submission of the thesis. • Complete an additional unit of Chem 3xx (for a total • Other required courses: Math 101, 102 of three 300-level chemistry units). With department The Chemistry major can also be combined with any approval, one unit of 300-level work in certain fields of the minors offered in the College. In particular, may be substituted. the minors in Environmental Studies, Education and Computational Science offer attractive combinations Minor with a Chemistry major for future career paths that A student may qualify for a minor in chemistry by require competency in those allied fields. Detailed completing a total of 7 units in chemistry with the information about these minors can be found in the distribution: appropriate section of the catalog. Students may double major in Chemistry and Biology, but are not permitted to • Chem 103, 104 double major in Biology and Biochemistry or Chemistry and Biochemistry. • Chem 211, 212 • Chem 221* or 222* A.B./M.A. Program • Chem 231 or 242** • Chemistry major A.B. requirements • Chem 251 or 252 • four units of 5xx* *Pre-requisite: Math 201 • two units of 7xx **Biol 375 may be substituted for Chem 242 • M.A. thesis • Other required courses: Math 101, 102 • written final exam *two units may be 3xx Major with Concentration in Biochemistry 3-2 Program in Engineering and • Chem 103, 104 Applied Science • Chem 211, 212 The 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied Science is offered in cooperation with the California Institute of • Chem 221*, 222*, 231 or 242** (choose 3 of 4) Technology and awards both an A.B. at Bryn Mawr and • Chem 251, 252 a B.S. at Cal Tech. For more information, see www. • Chem 345 or 377 brynmawr.edu/deans/exp_acad_options/3-2_prog_ eng_app_sci.shtml. Chemistry students considering • Chem 3xx this program should contact Professor Michelle Francl • Biol 201 for class of 2017, Chemistry Laboratory Lecturer Lisa Watkins for class of 2018 and Professor Jason Schmink • Biol 376*** for class of 2019. 106 Chemistry

4+1 Program in Engineering at UPenn five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 104 with a grade of at least 2.0. The University of Pennsylvania 4+1 engineering Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); program allows students to earn an A.B. at Bryn Mawr Scientific Investigation (SI) and an M.S. in Engineering (M.S.E) at UPenn. Students Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology apply between the beginning of the sophomore year Units: 1.0 and end of the junior year. For more information, Instructor(s): Malachowski,B., Schmink,J., see www.brynmawr.edu/deans/exp_acad_options/ Karagiaridi,O., Jacoby Morris,K. FourPlusOnePartnership.shtml. Chemistry students (Fall 2016) considering this program should contact Professor Michelle Francl. See also the description of the 4+1 Program in Engineering at UPenn. CHEM B212 Organic Chemistry II: Biological Organic Chemistry COURSES The second semester (biological organic chemistry) is broken into two modules. In the first module, the CHEM B103 General Chemistry I reactivity of carbonyl carbon is discussed, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and derivatives, For students with some back ground in chemistry who saccharides and enolate chemistry. Traditional are motivated, self-directed learners. Topics include biochemistry coverage begins with the second aqueous solutions and solubility; the electronic structure module. Amino acids (pI, electrophoresis, side chain of atoms and molecules; chemical reactions and pKa), protein structure (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°), and enzymatic energy; intermolecular forces. Examples discussed in catalysis, kinetics and inhibition are introduced. The lecture and laboratory workshop include environmental reactivity of the co-enzymes (vitamins) is also covered sciences, material sciences and biological chemistry. as individual case studies in bio-organic reactivity. Lecture three hours and Chemistry workshop three Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory hours a week. The laboratory workshop period will be five hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 with a grade used for traditional chemical experimentation or related of at least 2.0. problem solving. The course may include individual Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) conferences, evening peer-led instruction sessions. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Prerequisite: Quantitative Readiness Required. Units: 1.0 Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Instructor(s): Nerz-Stormes,M., Malachowski,B., Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Karagiaridi,O. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): White,S., Goldsmith,J., Watkins,L. (Fall 2016) CHEM B213 Organic Chemistry II for Chem/ Biochemistry Majors CHEM B104 General Chemistry II A student should register for CHEM 213 if they are planning on taking the complementary quarter course, A continuation of CHEM B103. Topics include chemical CHEM 214, in the second half of the semester. CHEM reactions; introduction to thermodynamics and chemical 213 mirrors the content of the first module of CHEM equilibria; acid-base chemistry; electrochemistry; 212, Organic Chemistry II: Biological Organic Chemistry. chemical kinetics. Lecture three hours, recitation one In the first module, the reactivity of carbonyl carbon is hour and laboratory three hours a week. May include discussed, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic individual conferences, evening problems or peer-led acids and derivatives, saccharides and enolate instruction sessions. Prerequisite: CHEM B103 with a chemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM B211 grade of at least 2.0 or chemistry department placement Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) or permission of the instructor. Students interested in Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the intensive section of CHEM B104 must have earned Units: 0.5 at least a 3.0 in CHEM B103. (Spring 2017) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology CHEM B214 Intermediate Organic Chemistry for Units: 1.0 Chem/Biochemistry Majors Instructor(s): Francl,M., Watkins,L. A student should register for CHEM 214 if she will be (Spring 2017) completing CHEM 213 in the first quarter. CHEM 214 deals with intermediate concepts in organic chemistry, CHEM B211 Organic Chemistry I including transition-metal catalyzed reactions, molecular An introduction to the basic concepts of organic orbital theory, and advanced treatment of enolate chemistry, including acid-base principles; functional chemistry with a special emphasis on predicting groups; alkane and cycloalkane structures; alkene stereochemical outcomes of reactions. reactions; alkynes; dienes and aromatic structures; Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) substitution and elimination reactions; alcohol Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology reactivity; and radical reactions. The laboratory course Units: 0.5 introduces basic operations in the organic chemistry (Spring 2017) lab, spectroscopy, and reactions discussed in lecture. Lecture three hours, recitation one hour and laboratory Chemistry 107

CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I Fall 2016: Physical Chemistry. Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Spring 2017: Organic and Biochemistry. Atomic and molecular structure; molecular modeling; rotational, vibrational, electronic and magnetic CHEM B252 Research Methodology II resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three hours. This laboratory course integrates advanced concepts Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) physical chemistry. Students will gain experience in Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the use of departmental research instruments and in Units: 1.0 scientific literature searches, quantitative data analysis, Instructor(s): Francl,M. record-keeping, and writing. Attendance at departmental (Fall 2016) colloquia is expected of all students. Course Prerequisites: CHEM B212. Course Co-requisites: CHEM B222 Physical Chemistry II CHEM B222 or CHEM B231 or CHEM B242. Modern thermodynamics, with application to phase Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) equilibria, interfacial phenomena and chemical Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive equilibria; statistical mechanics; chemical dynamics. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Kinetic theory of gases; chemical kinetics. Lecture three Units: 1.0 hours. Prerequisite: CHEM B104 and MATH 201. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology CHEM B311 Advanced Organic Chemistry Units: 1.0 A survey of the methods and concepts used in the Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J. synthesis of complex organic molecules. Lecture three (Spring 2017) hours a week. Prerequisites: CHEM 212 and 222. Units: 1.0 CHEM B231 Inorganic Chemistry (Not Offered 2016-2017) Bonding theory; structures and properties of ionic solids; symmetry; crystal field theory; structures, spectroscopy, CHEM B312 Advanced Organic Chemistry stereochemistry, reactions and reaction mechanisms Principles of physical organic chemistry with emphasis of coordination compounds; acid-base concepts; on reaction mechanisms, reactive intermediates, descriptive chemistry of main group elements. Lecture stereochemistry, and qualitative molecular orbital theory three hours a week. Prerequisite: CHEM 212. reasoning. Prerequisites: a standard two-semester Approach: Course does not meet an Approach course in organic chemistry (such as CHEM B211/ Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B212), and some coursework in physical chemistry. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Burgmayer,S. Instructor(s): Schmink,J. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016)

CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry CHEM B321 Topics: Advanced Physical Chemistry The structure, chemistry and function of amino This is a topics course, course content varies. Lecture/ acids, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic seminar /laboratory three hours per week. Prerequisites: acids; enzyme kinetics; metabolic relationships of CHEM 221 and 222 or permission of the instructor. carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids, and the control Units: 1.0 of various pathways. Lecture three hours a week. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach CHEM B332 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Health Studies This is a topics course covering topics in advanced Units: 1.0 inorganic chemistry. Prerequisites: CHEM 231 and 242 Instructor(s): Malachowski,B., Miller,B. or permission of the instructor. (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Burgmayer,S.

CHEM B251 Research Methodology in Chemistry Fall 2016: Bioinorganic Chemistry. A survey of This is a laboratory topics course integrating advanced metals in biology illustrating structural, enzymatic concepts in chemistry from biological, inorganic, organic and pharmaceutical applications of transition metals and physical chemistry. Students gain experience in in biological chemistry and including discussion of the use of departmental research instruments and in structural themes and bonding, reaction types, and scientific literature searches, quantitative data analysis, catalysis. record keeping and writing. Prerequisite CHEM B212. Co-requisite: CHEM B221 or B231 or B242. Attendance CHEM B334 Organometallic Chemistry at departmental colloquia is expected of all students. Fundamental concepts in organometallic chemistry, Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) including structure and bonding, reaction types, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive and catalysis, and applications to current problems Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in organic synthesis. Lecture three hours a week. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J., White,S., Malachowski,B. 108 Chemistry

Prerequisite: CHEM 212 and 231. hours a week. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

CHEM B345 Advanced Biological Chemistry CHEM B512 Advanced Organic Chemistry This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CHEM Principles of physical organic chemistry with emphasis B242 or BIOL B375. on reaction mechanisms, reactive intermediates, Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology stereochemistry, and qualitative molecular orbital theory Units: 1.0 reasoning. Prerequisites: a standard two-semester (Not Offered 2016-2017) course in organic chemistry (such as BMC Chemistry 211/212), and some coursework in physical chemistry. CHEM B377 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways Units: 1.0 and Metabolism Instructor(s): Schmink,J. (Fall 2016) This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular metabolism will be explored in molecular detail. Energy CHEM B515 Topics in Organic Chemistry producing, degradation, and biosynthetic pathways This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Prerequisite: involving sugars, fats, amino acids, and nucleotides CHEM B242 or equivalent. will be discussed with an emphasis on structures and Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology mechanisms, experimental methods, regulation, and Units: 1.0 integration. Additional topics, drawn from the primary (Not Offered 2016-2017) research literature, may be covered. Readings will be drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature CHEM B521 Advanced Physical Chemistry and assessments may include oral presentations, Quantum mechanics and its application to problems in problem sets, written examinations, and writing chemistry. Topics will include molecular orbital theory, assignments. This is a second course in Biochemistry density functional theory. Readings and problem sets and assumes a strong foundation in the fundamentals will be supplemented with material from the current of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM 375, or research literature. Students will gain experience with permission of instructor. programming in Mathematica. Prerequisites: CHEM 221 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and 222 or permission of the instructor. Lecture/seminar Units: 1.0 three hours per week. Instructor(s): White,S. (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CHEM B398 Senior Seminar Units: 1.0 CHEM B532 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Instructor(s): Francl,M., Burgmayer,S., White,S., This is a topics course covering topics in advanced Malachowski,B., Goldsmith,J., Schmink,J., Kung,Y. inorganic chemistry. Prerequisites: CHEM 231 and 242 (Fall 2016) or permission of the instructor. Units: 1.0 CHEM B399 Senior Seminar Instructor(s): Burgmayer,S. Units: 1.0 Fall 2016: Bioinorganic Chemistry. A survey of Instructor(s): Francl,M., Burgmayer,S., White,S., metals in biology illustrating structural, enzymatic Malachowski,B., Goldsmith,J., Schmink,J., Kung,Y. and pharmaceutical applications of transition metals (Spring 2017) in biological chemistry and including discussion of structural themes and bonding, reaction types, and CHEM B425 Praxis III: Independent Study catalysis. Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration CHEM B534 Organometallic Chemistry with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is Fundamental concepts in organometallic chemistry, distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite including structure and bonding, reaction types, and organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection catalysis, and applications to current problems in that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the organic synthesis. Lecture three hours a week. Course classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding is open to graduate students and those undergraduates gained through classroom study to work done in the with CHEM B231 or permission from the instructor. broader community. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Praxis Program (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CHEM B545 Advanced Biological Chemistry This is a topics course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: Any CHEM B511 Advanced Organic Chemistry I course in Biochemistry. A survey of the methods and concepts used in the Units: 1.0 synthesis of complex organic molecules. Lecture three (Not Offered 2016-2017) Child and Family Studies 109

CHEM B577 Biochemistry II: Biochemical Pathways PHYS B350 Computational Methods in the Physical and Metabolism Sciences This course is a continuation of CHEM B242 or BIOL This course provides an introduction to a variety of B375. Biochemical pathways involved in cellular computational tools and programming techniques metabolism will be explored in molecular detail. Energy that physical science graduates might encounter in producing, degradation, and biosynthetic pathways graduate work or employment in STEM-related fields. involving sugars, fats, amino acids, and nucleotides Tools explored will include both command-line and GUI will be discussed with an emphasis on structures and programming environments, both scripting and scientific mechanisms, experimental methods, regulation, and programming languages, basic programming concepts integration. Additional topics, drawn from the primary such as loops and function calls, and key scientific research literature, may be covered. Readings will be programming applications such as integration, finding of drawn from textbooks and from the primary literature roots and minima/maxima, least-square fitting, solution and assessments may include oral presentations, of differential equations, boundary-value problems, problem sets, written examinations, and writing finite-element analysis, Fourier analysis, matrix assignments. This is a second course in Biochemistry operations, Monte Carlo techniques, and possibly neural and assumes a strong foundation in the fundamentals networks. Where possible, examples will be taken from of Biochemistry. Prerequisite: BIO 375 or CHEM 375, or multiple scientific disciplines, in addition to physics. This permission of instructor. course is intended for second semester sophomores, Units: 1.0 juniors and seniors. Co-requisite: MATH B203 and Instructor(s): White,S. three units of science (Biology, Physics, Chemistry or (Spring 2017) Geology). Units: 1.0 CHEM B701 Supervised Work (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Burgmayer,S., White,S., Malachowski,B., Goldsmith,J., Schmink,J., Kung,Y. CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Students may complete a Child and Family Studies MATH B101 Calculus I minor as an adjunct to any major at Bryn Mawr, A first course in one-variable calculus: functions, limits, Haverford or Swarthmore pending approval of the continuity, the derivative, differentiation formulas, student’s coursework plan by the Director of Child and applications of the derivative, the integral, integration Family Studies, Leslie Rescorla. by substitution, fundamental theorem of calculus. May include a computer component. Prerequisite: adequate Faculty score on calculus placement exam, or permission of the instructor. Students should have a reasonable command Director of high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Leslie Rescorla, Professor of Psychology on the Class Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative of 1897 Professorship of Science and Director of Readiness Required (QR) Child and Family Studies and the Director of the Units: 1.0 Child Study Institute (on leave semester II) (Fall 2016) Affiliated Faculty MATH B102 Calculus II Dustin Albert, Assistant Professor of Psychology A continuation of Calculus I: transcendental functions, Marissa Golden, Interim Chair (fall) and Associate techniques of integration, applications of integration, Professor of Political Science on the Joan Coward infinite sequences and series, convergence tests, power Chair in Political Economics series. May include a computer component. Math 102 Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn assumes familiarity of the content covered in Math 101 Mawr/Haverford Education Program and Faculty or its equivalent. Convener of International Programs Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Units: 1.0 Bridget Nolan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Heejung Park, Assistant Professor of Psychology

MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus Deborah Roberts, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Haverford College Vectors and geometry in two and three dimensions, partial derivatives, extremal problems, double and Marc Schulz, Chair and Professor of Psychology and triple integrals, vector analysis (gradients, curl and Rachel C. Hale Professor in the Sciences and divergence), line and surface integrals, the theorems Mathematics of Gauss, Green and Stokes. May include a computer Janet Shapiro, Professor of Social Work and Director of component. Prerequisite: MATH 102 or permission of the Center for Child and Family Wellbeing instructor. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) The Child and Family Studies (CFS) minor provides a Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) 110 Child and Family Studies curricular mechanism for inter-disciplinary work focused Courses that can be counted toward on the contributions of biological, familial, psychological, socioeconomic, political, and educational factors to child the Child and Family Studies Minor and family well-being. The minor not only addresses Bryn Mawr College Courses and Seminars the life stages and cultural contexts of infancy through ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology adolescence but also includes issues of parenting; child and family well-being; gender; schooling and ANTH 268 Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and informal education; risk and resilience; and the place, Family representation, and voice of children in society and culture. ANTH 281 Language in the Social Context ANTH 312 Anthropology of Reproduction Requirements for the Child and Family ARTS 269 Writing for Children Studies Minor EDUC 200 Critical Issues in Education The minor comprises six courses: one gateway course (PSYCH 206 Developmental Psychology, PSYCH 203 EDUC 210 Perspectives on Special Education Educational Psychology, EDUC 200 Critical Issues in EDUC 260 Multicultural Education Education, or SOCL 201 Study of Gender in Society), plus five additional courses, at least two of which must EDUC 266 Schools in American Cities be outside of the major department and at least one of which must be at the 300 level. Advanced Haverford EDUC 302 Practice Teaching Seminar and Swarthmore courses typically taken by juniors and EDUC 311 Fieldwork Seminar seniors that are more specific than introductory and survey courses will count as 300 level courses. Only two ENGL 247 Shakespeare’s Teenagers CFS courses may be double-counted with any major, ENGL 270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. Literatures, minor, or other degree credential. 1690-1935 Students craft a pathway in the minor as they engage in POLS 375 Gender, Work and Family course selection through ongoing discussions with the CFS Director. Sample pathways might include: political PSYC 203 Educational Psychology science/child and family law; sociology/educational PSYC 206 Developmental Psychology policy; child and family mental health; depictions of children/families in literature and film; child and PSYC 209 Abnormal Psychology family public health issues; social work/child welfare; anthropology/cross-cultural child and family issues; PSYC 250 Autism Spectrum Disorders gender issues affecting children and families; social PSYC 322 Culture and Development justice/diversity issues affecting children and families; or economic factors affecting children and families. PSYC 340 Women’s Mental Health The minor also requires participation in at least one PSYC 346 Pediatric Psychology semester or summer of volunteer, practicum, praxis, PSYC 350 Developmental Cognitive Disorders community-based work study, or internship experience related to Child and Family Studies. Students are PSYC 351 Developmental Psychopathology expected to discuss their placement choices with the PSYC 375 Movies and Madness CFS Director. SOCL 201 The Study of Gender in Society To foster the inter-disciplinary nature of Child and Family Studies, students enrolled in the minor must also SOCL 205 Social Inequality complete the following requirements: SOCL 217 The Family in Social Context • Attendance at periodic CFS evening meetings for SOCL 225 Women in Society discussion sessions, guest speakers, “minor teas”, etc. SOCL 229 Black America in Sociological Perspective • Participation during senior year in an annual CFS SOCL 266 Schools in American Cities Poster Session during which students will share highlights of their CFS campus and field-based SOWK 552 Perspectives on Inequality experiences. SOWK 554 Social Determinants of Health (Note: it is important to check the Trico course guide for updated course information as not every course SOWK 571 Education Law for Social Workers is taught every year. In some cases, courses relevant SOWK 574 Child Welfare Policy, Practice, and to the CFS minor will have changed, or been added. Research Students should explore freely and consult with their advisor on curricular choices). SOWK 575 Global Public Health Haverford College Courses and Seminars ANTH 103 Introduction to Anthropology Child and Family Studies 111

ANTH 209 Anthropology of Education ANTH B281 Language in Social Context ANTH 263 Anthropology of Space and Architecture Studies of language in society have moved from the idea that language reflects social position/identity EDUC 200 Critical Issues in Education to the idea that language plays an active role in shaping and negotiating social position, identity, and EDUC 275 English Learners in the U.S. experience. This course will explore the implications PSYC 223 Psychology of Human Sexuality of this shift by providing an introduction to the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. We will be PSYC 335 Self & Identity particularly concerned with the ways in which language SOCL 204 Medical Sociology is implicated in the social construction of gender, race, class, and cultural/national identity. The course will SOCL 226 Sociology of Gender develop students’ skills in the ethnographic analysis Swarthmore College Courses and Seminars of communication through several short ethnographic projects. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or ED 14 Introduction to Education permission of instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical ED 21/Psych 21 Educational Psychology Interpretation (CI) ED 23/Psych 23 Adolescence Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights ED 23A Adolescents and Special Education Units: 1.0 ED 26/Psych 26 Special Education Instructor(s): Weidman,A. (Spring 2017) ED 42 Teaching Diverse Young Learners ED 45 Literacies and Social Identities ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction ED 53 Language Minority Education An examination of social and cultural constructions of reproduction, and how power and politics in everyday ED 64 Comparative Education life shapes reproductive behavior and its meaning in Western and non-Western cultures. The influence of ED 68 Urban Education competing interests within households, communities, ED 70 Outreach Practicum states, and institutions on reproduction is considered. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 (or ANTH H103) or permission ED 121 Psychology and Practice Honors Seminar of instructor. ED 131 Social and Cultural Perspectives Honors Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Seminar Sexuality Studies; Health Studies Units: 1.0 ED 151 Literacies Research Honors Seminar Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. ED 167 Identities and Education Honors Seminar (Fall 2016)

PSYC 35 Social Psychology EDUC B200 Critical Issues in Education PSYC 39 Developmental Psychology Designed to be the first course for students interested in pursuing one of the options offered through the PSYC 41 Children at Risk Education Program, this course is also open to students PSYC 50 Developmental Psychopathology exploring an interest in educational practice, theory, research, and policy. The course examines major issues PSYC 55 Family Systems Theory and Psychological and questions in education in the United States by Change investigating the purposes of education. Fieldwork in an PSYC 135 Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural area school required (eight visits, 1.5-2 hours per visit). Psychology Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family COURSES Studies Units: 1.0 ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor(s): Curl,H. An introduction to the methods and theories of cultural (Fall 2016) anthropology in order to understand and explain cultural similarities and differences among contemporary EDUC B210 Perspectives on Special Education societies. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and The goal of this course is to introduce students to a Sexuality Studies; International Studies range of topics, challenges, dilemmas, and strategies to Units: 1.0 understand and educate all learners—those considered Instructor(s): Weidman,A., Fioratta,S. typical learners as well as those considered “special” (Spring 2017) learners. Students will learn about: how students’ learning profiles affect their ability to learn in school from a functional perspective; how and why students’ 112 Child and Family Studies educational experience is affected by education law working mothers on children, and the policy implications (especially special education law); major issues in of women, work, and family. special education; and how to meet diverse students’ Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and needs in an inclusive classroom. Two hours of fieldwork Sexuality Studies per week required. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Praxis Program PSYC B203 Educational Psychology Units: 1.0 Topics in the psychology of human cognitive, social, Instructor(s): Flaks,D. and affective behavior are examined and related to (Fall 2016) educational practice. Issues covered include learning theories, memory, attention, thinking, motivation, social/ EDUC B266 Schools in American Cities emotional issues in adolescence, and assessment/ This course examines issues, challenges, and learning disabilities. This course provides a Praxis possibilities of urban education in contemporary Level I opportunity. Classroom observation is required. America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, Prerequisite: PSYC B105 (Introductory Psychology) class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school Approach: Course does not meet an Approach systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Praxis at urban education nationally over several decades, Program we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students Units: 1.0 investigate through documents and school placements. Instructor(s): Cassidy,K. This is a Praxis II course (weekly fieldwork in a school (Fall 2016) required) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) PSYC B206 Developmental Psychology Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family A topical survey of psychological development Studies; Praxis Program from infancy through adolescence, focusing on the Units: 1.0 interaction of personal and environmental factors in the Instructor(s): Cohen,J. ontogeny of perception, language, cognition, and social (Spring 2017) interactions within the family and with peers. Topics include developmental theories; infant perception; EDUC B302 Practice Teaching Seminar attachment; language development; theory of mind; Drawing on participants’ diverse student teaching memory development; peer relations, schools and the placements, this seminar invites exploration and family as contexts of development; and identity and analysis of ideas, perspectives and approaches to the adolescent transition. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or teaching at the middle and secondary levels. Taken PSYC H100 concurrently with Practice Teaching. Open only to Approach: Course does not meet an Approach students engaged in practice teaching. Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Albert,W. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016)

ENGL B270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology Literatures, 1690-1935 This course examines the experience, origins and This course will focus on the “American Girl” as a consequences of psychological difficulties and particularly contested model for the nascent American. problems. Among the questions we will explore Through examination of religious tracts, slave and are: What do we mean by abnormal behavior or captivity narratives, literatures for children and adult psychopathology? What are the strengths and literatures about childhood, we will analyze U. S. limitations of the ways in which psychopathology is investments in girlhood as a site for national self- assessed and classified? What are the major forms of fashioning. psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties Sexuality Studies and what are their consequences? How do we integrate Units: 1.0 social, biological and psychological perspectives on (Not Offered 2016-2017) the causes of psychopathology? Do psychological treatments (therapies) work? How do we study the POLS B375 Gender, Work and Family effectiveness of psychology treatments? Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 or H100). As the number of women participating in the paid Approach: Course does not meet an Approach workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health it becomes increasingly important to study the issues Studies raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine Units: 1.0 the experiences of working and nonworking mothers Instructor(s): Schulz,M. in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of (Spring 2017) Child and Family Studies 113

PSYC B250 Autism Spectrum Disorders PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Focuses on theory of and research on Autism Spectrum Psychology Through Films Disorders (ASD). Topics include the history of autism; This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = classification and diagnosis; epidemiology and 16 students) deals with critical analysis of how various etiology; major theories; investigations of sensory and forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The motor atypicalities, early social communicative skills, primary focus of the seminar will be evaluating the affective, cognitive, symbolic and social factors; the degree of correspondence between the cinematic neuropsychology of ASD; and current approaches to presentation and current research knowledge about intervention. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology the disorder, taking into account the historical period (PSYC 105). in which the film was made. For example, we will Approach: Course does not meet an Approach discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder Counts towards: Child and Family Studies are presented and how representative the protagonist Units: 1.0 is of people who typically manifest this disorder based Instructor(s): Wozniak,R. on current research. We will also address the theory of (Spring 2017) etiology of the disorder depicted in the film, including discussion of the relevant intellectual history in the PSYC B322 Culture and Development period when the film was made and the prevailing accounts of psychopathology in that period. Another This course focuses on adolescents and their families focus will be how the film portrays the course of the in cultural, social, and ecological contexts. Topics disorder and how it depicts treatment for the disorder. include family dynamics, parent-adolescent relationship, This cinematic presentation will be evaluated with socioeconomic status, immigration, social change, and respect to current research on treatment for the globalization. Prerequisites: PSYC 105, and PSYC 206 disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing or PSYC 224. treatment for the disorder at the time the film was made. Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Prerequisite: PSYC B209. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Instructor(s): Park,H. Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Film Studies; (Spring 2017) Health Studies Units: 1.0 PSYC B346 Pediatric Psychology Instructor(s): Rescorla,L. This course uses a developmental-ecological (Fall 2016) perspective to understand the psychological challenges associated with physical health issues in children. The SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society course explores how different environments support The definition of male and female social roles and the development of children who sustain illness or sociological approaches to the study of gender in the injury and will cover topics including: prevention, United States, with attention to gender in the economy coping, adherence to medical regimens, and pain and work place, the division of labor in families and management. The course will consider the ways households, and analysis of class and ethnic differences in which cultural beliefs and values shape medical in gender roles. Of particular interest in this course is the experiences. Suggested Preparations: PSYC B206 comparative exploration of the experiences of women of highly recommended. color in the United States. Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Studies Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Units: 1.0 Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology (Spring 2017) This course will examine emotional and behavioral disorders of children and adolescents, including autism, SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, A consideration of the family as a social institution in obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anorexia, the United States, looking at how societal and cultural and schizophrenia. Major topics covered will include: characteristics and dynamics influence families; how contrasting models of psychopathology; empirical and the family reinforces or changes the society in which categorical approaches to assessment and diagnosis; it is located; and how the family operates as a social outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, and organization. Included is an analysis of family roles prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their and social interaction within the family. Major problems efficacy .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. related to contemporary families are addressed, such Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health as domestic violence and divorce. Cross-cultural and Studies; Neuroscience subcultural variations in the family are considered. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Wright,N. 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SOCL B225 Women in Society CLASSICAL AND NEAR A study of the contemporary experiences of women of color in the Global South. The household, workplace, EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY community, and the nation-state, and the positions of women in the private and public spheres are compared Students may complete a major or minor in Classical cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and and Near Eastern Archaeology. self-esteem; globalization and transnational social movements and tensions and transitions encountered Faculty as nations embark upon development. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Alice Donohue, Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family and Near Eastern Archaeology Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, Susan Helft, Lecturer Iberian and Latina/o Studies Units: 1.0 Astrid Lindenlauf, Associate Professor of Classical and Instructor(s): Montes,V. Near Eastern Archaeology (Spring 2017) Peter Magee, Chair and Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Director of the Middle SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological Eastern Studies Program Perspective Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Visiting Assistant Professor This course presents sociological perspectives on various issues affecting black America as a historically James Wright, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern unique minority group in the United States: the legacy Archaeology (on leave semesters I & II) of slavery and the Jim Crow era; the formation of urban black ghettos; the civil rights reforms; the problems The curriculum of the department focuses on the of poverty and unemployment; the problems of crime cultures of the Mediterranean regions and the Near and other social problems in black communities; the East in antiquity. Courses treat aspects of society and problems of criminal justice; the continuing significance material culture of these civilizations as well as issues of of race; the varied covert modern forms of racial theory, method, and interpretation. discrimination experienced by black Americans; and the role of race in American politics. Major Requirements Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the The major requires a minimum of 10 courses. Core Past (IP) requirements are two 100-level courses distributed Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family between the ancient Near East and Egypt (either ARCH Studies 101 or 104) and ancient Greece and Rome (ARCH Units: 1.0 102), and two semesters of the senior conference. At (Not Offered 2016-2017) least two upper-level courses should be distributed between Classical and Near Eastern subjects. Additional SOWK B575 Global Public Health requirements are determined in consultation with the This course will use three overarching concepts of major advisor. Additional coursework in allied subjects globalization, social justice and community to help may be presented for major credit but must be approved students to define and explore the idea of public health in writing by the major advisor; such courses are offered and to decide for themselves where responsibilities in the Departments of Anthropology, Geology, Greek, for the public health lie. The first half of the course will Latin and Classical Studies, Growth and Structure of have a global focus with an exploration of the evolution Cities, and History of Art. In consultation with the major of some public health policy infrastructures in parts of advisor, one course taken in study abroad may be Africa, India, the former Soviet Union and the United accepted for credit in the major. States. The second half will focus on the attempts of the United States to manage the public health The writing requirement for the major consists of two through an exploration of examples of federal health one-semester Writing Attentive courses offered within legislation and the populations that they are intended to the department. address. Major health legislation includes: soldiers’ and Each student’s course of study to meet major veterans’ benefits, Maternal and Child Health, Medicaid, requirements will be determined in consultation with the Medicare, and laws related to the protection of the frail undergraduate major advisor in the spring semester elderly. The subject of HIV/AIDS will be used to review of the sophomore year, at which time a written plan all of the concepts and issues of the course. Enrollment will be designed. Students considering majoring in the limited to 5 advanced undergraduates. department are encouraged to take the introductory Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Praxis courses (ARCH 101 or 104 and 102) early in their Program undergraduate career and should also seek advice from Units: 1.0 departmental faculty. Students who are interested in (Not Offered 2016-2017) interdisciplinary concentrations or in study abroad during the junior year are strongly advised to seek assistance in planning their major early in their sophomore year. Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 115

Minor Requirements must arrange with a professor who is willing to advise them, and consult with the major advisor. Such research The minor requires six courses. Core requirements are normally would be conducted by seniors as a unit of two 100-level courses distributed between the ancient supervised work (403), which must be approved by the Near East and Egypt and ancient Greece and Rome, in advising professor before registration. Students planning addition to four other courses selected in consultation to do such research should consult with professors in with the major advisor. the department in the spring semester of their junior year or no later than the beginning of the fall semester Annual Field Trip of the senior year. From 2015/6 onwards the Department will be organizing an annual field trip for registered majors in their Junior Languages Year. The trip will involve a city (e.g., Athens or Rome) Majors who contemplate graduate study in Classical which features in our teaching program, or a city which fields should incorporate Greek and Latin into their contains relevant Museums (e.g., London, Paris, Berlin). programs. Those who plan graduate work in Near Details for the upcoming trip will be made available Eastern or Egyptian may take appropriate ancient at the beginning of the Fall Semester. The airfare and languages at the University of Pennsylvania, such as accommodations costs are covered by the Department. Middle Egyptian, Akkadian and Sumerian. Any student considering graduate study in Classical and Near Concentration in Geoarcheology Eastern archaeology should study French and German. The Departments of Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, and Geology offer a Study Abroad concentration in geoarchaeology for existing majors A semester of study abroad is encouraged if the in these departments. Please consult with Professor program is approved by the department. Students Magee regarding this program. Please note that these are encouraged to consult with faculty, since some requirements are separate from those for the major and programs the department may approve may not yet be cannot be double counted. listed at the Office of International Programs. Students Requirements for the concentration: who seek major credit for courses taken abroad must consult with the major advisor before enrolling in a • Two 100-level units from Anthropology, Classical program. Major credit is given on a case-by-case basis and Near Eastern Archaeology (including ARCH after review of the syllabus, work submitted for a grade, 135, a half-credit course) or Geology, of which one and a transcript. Credit will not be given for more than must be from the department outside the student’s one course and not for courses that are ordinarily major. offered by the department. • ANTH/ARCH/GEOL 270: Geoarchaeology (Magee, Barber). Fieldwork • BIOL/ARCH/GEOL 328: Geospatial Data Analysis The department strongly encourages students to and GIS (staff). gain fieldwork experience and assists them in getting positions on field projects in North America and • Two elective courses, to be chosen in consultation overseas. The department is undertaking several field with the major advisor, from among current offerings projects in which undergraduates may be invited to in Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern participate. Archaeology and Geology. One of these two courses must be from outside the student’s major. Professor Peter Magee conducts a for-credit field school Suggested courses include but are not limited at Muweilah, al-Hamriya and Tell Abraq in the United to ARCH 135 (HALF-CREDIT: Archaeological Arab Emirates. Undergraduate and graduate students Fieldwork and Methods), ANTH 203 (Human participate in this project, which usually takes place Ecology), ANTH 220 (Methods and Theory), during the winter break. He sends an announcement ARCH 330 (History of Archaeology and Theory), about how to apply for a position in the fall of each year. ANTH 225 (Paleolithic Archaeology), ANTH 240 Students who participate for credit sign up for a 403 (Traditional Technologies), ARCH 308 (Ceramic independent study with Professor Magee. Analysis), ARCH 332 (Field Techniques), GEOL 202 Professor Astrid Lindenlauf is also beginning a new (Mineralogy), GEOL 205 (Sedimentology), GEOL excavation project at the ancient Greek trading post of 310 (Geophysics), and GEOL 312 (Quaternary Naukratis in Egypt, and the opportunities for work there Climates). will expand as the project gets under way. Honors Honors are granted on the basis of academic Museum Internships performance as demonstrated by a cumulative average The department is awarded annually two internships of 3.5 or better in the major. by the Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation for students to work for a month in the Museum of Cycladic Art in Independent Research Athens, Greece, with an additional two weeks at an archaeological field project. This is an all-expense paid Majors who wish to undertake independent research, internship for which students may submit an application. especially for researching and writing a lengthy paper, An announcement inviting applications is sent in the late 116 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology fall or beginning of the second semester. architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment. Opportunities to work with the College’s archaeology Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) collections are available throughout the academic Units: 1.0 year and during the summer. Students wishing to work Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. with the collections should consult Marianne Weldon, (Fall 2016) Collections Manager for Special Collections. ARCH B135 Focus: Archaeological Fieldwork and Funding for Internships and Special Methods Projects The fundamentals of the practice of archaeology The department has two funds that support students through readings and case studies and participatory for internships and special projects of their own design. demonstrations. Case studies will be drawn from the One, the Elisabeth Packard Fund for internships in Art archives of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project History and Archaeology is shared with the Department and material in the College’s collections. Each week of the History of Art, while the other is the Anna Lerah there will be a 1-hour laboratory that will introduce Keys Memorial Prize. Any declared major may apply for students to a variety of fieldwork methods and forms of these funds. An announcement calling for applications analysis. This is a half semester Focus course. is sent to majors in the spring, and the awards are made Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) at the annual college awards ceremony in April. Counts towards: Geoarchaeology Units: 0.5 COURSES (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near ARCH B137 Focus: Introduction into Principles of Eastern Archaeology Preservation & Conservation A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the This half-unit introductory course provides insights into ancient Near East and Egypt. the fundamentals of the practices of archaeological Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the preservation and conservation and enhances the Past (IP) understanding of their significance in the archaeological Counts towards: Africana Studies process. This half-course deals exclusively with Units: 1.0 excavated materials that are still on-site or have been (Not Offered 2016-2017) moved to a storage facility or a museum. Materials considered in this course include architecture, textiles, ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology and portable objects made of clay, stone, and metal. A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, While most of the finds are from land sites, occasional Etruria, and Rome. references to marine material are made. Most of the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the material used in the hands-on sessions comes from Past (IP) the Special Collections. Suggested preparation: basic Units: 1.0 understanding of chemistry is helpful. Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach (Fall 2016) Units: 0.5 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban Revolutions ARCH B203 Ancient Greek Cities and Sanctuaries This course examines the archaeology of the two A study of the development of the Greek city-states and most fundamental changes that have occurred in sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is surveyed in its human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and historic context. The political formation of the city-state urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near and the role of religion is presented, and the political, East as far as India. We also explore those societies economic, and religious institutions of the city-states that did not experience these changes. are explored in their urban settings. The city-state is Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the considered as a particular political economy of the Past (IP) Mediterranean and in comparison to the utility of the Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern concept of city-state in other cultures. Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) Instructor(s): Magee,P. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. (Fall 2016) ARCH B125 Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World This course explores Greek and Roman mythology using an archaeological and art historical approach, This course focuses on perceptions of animals in focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of ancient Greece from the Geometric to the Classical the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and periods. It examines representations of animals in transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and painting, sculpture, and the minor arts, the treatment of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 117 animals as attested in the archaeological record, and ARCH B215 Classical Art how these types of evidence relate to the featuring of A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, comedy, and from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing this 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic rich body of evidence, the course develops a context production are examined in historical and social context, in which participants gain insight into the ways ancient including interactions with neighboring areas and Greeks perceived, represented, and treated animals. cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are Juxtaposing the importance of animals in modern highlighted. society, as attested, for example, by their roles as Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the pets, agents of healing, diplomatic gifts, and even as Past (IP) subjects of specialized studies such as animal law and Units: 1.0 animal geographies, the course also serves to expand Instructor(s): Donohue,A. awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own (Fall 2016) society as well as that of ancient Greece. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) A survey of the social position of women in the ancient Near East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first millennium B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional ARCH B205 Greek Sculpture concepts of gender in archaeology and theories One of the best preserved categories of evidence of matriarchy. Case studies illustrate the historicity for ancient Greek culture is sculpture. The Greeks of gender concepts: women’s work in early village devoted immense resources to producing sculpture societies; the meanings of Neolithic female figurines; that encompassed many materials and forms and the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; served a variety of important social functions. This the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite course examines sculptural production in Greece and empire; the indirect power of women such as Semiramis neighboring lands from the Bronze Age through the in the Neo-Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and fourth century B.C.E. with special attention to style, more indirect archaeological evidence are the basis for iconography and historical and social context. discussion. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle (Not Offered 2016-2017) Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 ARCH B206 Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course surveys the sculpture produced from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the ARCH B226 Archaeology of Anatolia period, beginning with the death of Alexander the One of the cradles of civilization, Anatolia witnessed Great, that saw the transformation of the classical world the rise and fall of many cultures and states throughout through the rise of Rome and the establishment and its ancient history. This course approaches the ancient expansion of the Roman Empire. Style, iconography, material remains of pre-classical Anatolia from the and production will be studied in the contexts of perspective of Near Eastern archaeology, examining the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman the art, artifacts, architecture, cities, and settlements of appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman this land from the Neolithic through the Lydian periods. society, and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman Some emphasis will be on the Late Bronze Age and sculpture in the post-antique classical tradition. the Iron Age, especially phases of Hittite and Assyrian Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the imperialism, Late Hittite states, Phrygia, and the Urartu. Past (IP) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. (Spring 2017) ARCH B211 The Archaeology and Anthropology of Rubbish and Recycling ARCH B228 The Archaeology of Iran: From the This course serves as an introduction to a range of Neolithic to Alexander the Great approaches to the study of waste and dirt as well as This course examines the archaeology of Iran from practices and processes of disposal and recycling in circa 6000 BC to the coming of Alexander the Great at past and present societies. Particular attention will be the end of the fourth century BC. Through the course paid to the interpretation of spatial disposal patterns, we examine the beginnings of agriculture, pastoralism the power of dirt(y waste) to create boundaries and and sedentary settlement in the Neolithic and difference, and types of recycling. Chalcolithic periods; Bronze Age interaction between Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Iran, Mesopotamia, south Asia and the Arabian Gulf; Past (IP) developments within the Iron Age; and the emergence Units: 1.0 of the Achaemenid Empire (538-332BC). (Not Offered 2016-2017) 118 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) great empires of the ancient Near East of the second Units: 1.0 and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in ARCH B230 Archaeology and History of Ancient Iran. Egypt Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies from the Pre-Dynastic through the Graeco-Roman Units: 1.0 periods, with special emphasis on Egypt’s Empire and Instructor(s): Helft,S. its outside connections, especially the Aegean and Near (Fall 2016) Eastern worlds. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive ARCH B252 Pompeii Counts towards: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site Studies whose destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 Units: 1.0 C.E. was recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of (Not Offered 2016-2017) Pompeii in the mid-1700s had an enormous impact on 18th- and 19th-century views of the Roman past as well ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity as styles and preferences of the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban life, city structure, We investigate representations of women in different residential architecture, home decoration and furnishing, media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that activities within a Roman city. they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in Units: 1.0 the ancient world, the objects that they were associated (Not Offered 2016-2017) with in life and death and their occupations. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B254 Cleopatra Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception Units: 1.0 of her legacy in the Early Roman Empire and the Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. western world from the Renaissance to modern times. (Spring 2017) The first part of the course explores extant literary evidence regarding the upbringing, education, and ARCH B238 Land of Buddha: The Archaeology of rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and South Asia, First Millenium B.C.E. Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her This course uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct death by suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines social and economic life in South Asia from ca. 1200 to constructions of Cleopatra in Roman literature, her 0 B.C.E. We examine the roles of religion, economy and iconography in surviving art, and her contributions foreign trade in the establishment of powerful kingdoms to and influence on both Ptolemaic and Roman art. and empires that characterized this region during this A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife of period. Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and film of both Europe and the United States, Units: 1.0 extending from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy (Not Offered 2016-2017) and Shakespearean drama, to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 ARCH B240 Archaeology and History of Ancient epic film, Cleopatra. Mesopotamia Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the A survey of the material culture of ancient Mesopotamia, Past (IP) modern Iraq, from the earliest phases of state formation Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (circa 3500 B.C.E.) through the Achaemenid Persian Units: 1.0 occupation of the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. Emphasis will be on art, artifacts, monuments, religion, (Spring 2017) kingship, and the cuneiform tradition. The survival of the cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into later ancient and ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome Islamic traditions will also be addressed. The often-praised achievements of the classical Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This Past (IP) course surveys the rich body of material and textual Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans Units: 1.0 -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics (Not Offered 2016-2017) include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family and social life. ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the A survey of the history, material culture, political and Past (IP) religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 119

Units: 1.0 their sculptural decoration and engage in more Instructor(s): Donohue,A. recent discussions, for instance, on the role of the (Spring 2017) Acropolis played in shaping the Hellenic Identity.

ARCH B301 Greek Vase-Painting ARCH B308 Ceramic Analysis This course is an introduction to the world of painted Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the pottery of the Greek world, from the 10th to the 4th relative chronology of archaeological sites and of centuries B.C.E. We will interpret these images from understanding past human behavior. Included are an art-historical and socio-economic viewpoint. We will theories, methods and techniques of pottery description, also explore how these images relate to other forms analysis and interpretation. Topics include typology, of representation. Prerequisite: one course in classical seriation, ceramic characterization, production, archaeology or permission of instructor. function, exchange and the use of computers in pottery Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive analysis. Laboratory work on pottery in the department Units: 1.0 collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Geoarchaeology Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Magee,P. ARCH B303 Classical Bodies (Spring 2017) An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, ARCH B312 The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Bronze Age Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and This course is focused on the artistic interconnections their implications; conventions of visual representation; among Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, and the Aegean during the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 BCE) and their ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1500 BCE) background. visible expression of character and emotions; and the Prerequisites: ARCH B101 or B216 or B226 or B230 or formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later B240 or B244. times. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Helft,S. Instructor(s): Donohue,A. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017) ARCH B316 Trade and Transport in the Ancient ARCH B304 Archaeology of Greek Religion World This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek Issues of trade, commerce and production of export religion by focusing on surviving archaeological, goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze architectural, epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, that dates from the Archaic and Classical periods. By Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the examining a wealth of diverse evidence that ranges, for development of means of transport via maritime routes example, from temple architecture, and feasting and and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods banqueting equipment to inscriptions, statues, vase and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of paintings, and descriptive texts, the course enables sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while the participants to analyze the value and complexity of bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the the archaeology of Greek religion and to recognize its transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels significance for the reconstruction of daily life in ancient played in ancient trade and transport. Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such Units: 1.0 as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of (Not Offered 2016-2017) animal sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive offerings and also the important position of festivals ARCH B323 On the Trail of Alexander the Great and hero and mystery cults in ancient Greek religious This course explores the world of Alexander the Great thought and experience. and the Hellenistic world on the basis of a variety of Units: 1.0 sources. Particular focus is put on the material culture (Not Offered 2016-2017) of Macedonia and Alexander’s campaigns that changed forever the nature and boundaries of the Greek world. ARCH B305 Topics in Ancient Athens Prerequisite: a course in classical archaeology or This is a topics course. Course content varies. permission of the instructor. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. ARCH B329 Archaeology and National Imagination Fall 2016: Acropolis. This course is an introduction in Modern Greece to the Acropolis of Athens, perhaps the best-known This course explores the link between archaeology, acropolis in the world. We will explore its history, antiquity and the national imagination in modern Greece understand and interpret specific monuments and 120 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from the establishment of the Greek state in the early that dates from the Archaic and Classical periods. By nineteenth century to present times. Drawing from a examining a wealth of diverse evidence that ranges, for variety of disciplines, including history, archaeology, example, from temple architecture, and feasting and art history, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and banqueting equipment to inscriptions, statues, vase political science, the course examines the pivotal role of paintings, and descriptive texts, the course enables archaeology and the classical past in the construction the participants to analyze the value and complexity of of national Greek identity. Special emphasis is placed the archaeology of Greek religion and to recognize its on the concepts of Hellenism and nationalism, the significance for the reconstruction of daily life in ancient European rediscovery of Greece in the Romantic era, Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such and the connection between classical archaeology as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of and Philhellenism from the eighteenth to the twentieth animal sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive centuries. Additional topics of study include the offerings and also the important position of festivals presence of foreign archaeological schools in Greece, and hero and mystery cults in ancient Greek religious the Greek perception of archaeology, the politics of thought and experience. display in Greek museums, and the importance and Units: 1.0 power of specific ancient sites, monuments, and events, (Not Offered 2016-2017) such as the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the Olympic Games, in the construction and preservation of ARCH B505 Topics in Ancient Athens Greek national identity. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. ARCH B359 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology This is a topics course. Course content varies. Fall 2016: Acropolis. This course is an introduction Prerequisites: 200-level coursework in some aspect of to the Acropolis of Athens, perhaps the best-known classical or related cultures, archeology or art history. acropolis in the world. We will explore its history, Units: 1.0 understand and interpret specific monuments and (Not Offered 2016-2017) their sculptural decoration and engage in more recent discussions, for instance, on the role of the ARCH B398 Senior Seminar Acropolis played in shaping the Hellenic Identity. A weekly seminar on topics to be determined with ARCH B508 Ceramic Analysis assigned readings and oral and written reports. Pottery is fundamental for establishing the relative Units: 1.0 chronology of archaeological sites and past human Instructor(s): Magee,P. behavior. Included are theories, methods and (Fall 2016) techniques of pottery description, analysis, and interpretation. Topics are typology, seriation, ceramic ARCH B399 Senior Seminar characterization, production, function, exchange and the A weekly seminar on common topics with assigned use of computers in pottery analysis. Laboratory in the readings and oral and written reports. collections. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Magee,P. (Spring 2017) ARCH B403 Supervised Work Supervised Work ARCH B516 Trade and Transport in the Ancient Units: 1.0 World (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Issues of trade, commerce and production of export goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze ARCH B501 Greek Vase Painting Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the This course is an introduction to the world of painted development of means of transport via maritime routes pottery of the Greek world, from the 10th to the 4th and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods centuries B.C.E. We will interpret these images from and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of an art-historical and socio-economic viewpoint. We will sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while also explore how these images relate to other forms bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the of representation. Prerequisite: one course in classical transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels archaeology or permission of instructor. played in ancient trade and transport. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ARCH B504 Archaeology of Greek Religion ARCH B529 Archaeology and National Imagination This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek in Modern Greece religion by focusing on surviving archaeological, architectural, epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence This course explores the link between archaeology, antiquity and the national imagination in modern Greece Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 121 from the establishment of the Greek state in the early Units: 1.0 nineteenth century to present times. Drawing from a Instructor(s): Donohue,A. variety of disciplines, including history, archaeology, (Fall 2016) art history, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and political science, the course examines the pivotal role of ARCH B669 Ancient Greece and the Near East archaeology and the classical past in the construction Approaches to the study of interconnections between of national Greek identity. Special emphasis is placed Ancient Greece and the Near East, mainly in the Iron on the concepts of Hellenism and nationalism, the Age, with emphasis on art, architecture, and intellectual European rediscovery of Greece in the Romantic era, perspective. and the connection between classical archaeology Units: 1.0 and Philhellenism from the eighteenth to the twentieth Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. centuries. Additional topics of study include the (Spring 2017) presence of foreign archaeological schools in Greece, the Greek perception of archaeology, the politics of display in Greek museums, and the importance and ARCH B672 Archaeology of Rubbish power of specific ancient sites, monuments, and events, This course explores a range of approaches to the study such as the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the of waste and dirt as well as practices and processes of Olympic Games, in the construction and preservation of disposal and recycling in past and present societies. Greek national identity. Particular attention will be paid to understanding and Units: 1.0 interpreting spacial disposal patterns, identifying votive (Not Offered 2016-2017) deposits (bothroi), and analyzing the use of dirt(y waste) in negotiating social differences. ARCH B552 Egyptian Architecture: New Kingdom Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) A proseminar that concentrates on the principles of ancient Egyptian monumental architecture with an emphasis on the New Kingdom. The primary focus of ARCH B692 Archaeology of Achaemenid Era the course is temple design, but palaces, representative The course explores the archaeology of the Achaemenid settlements, and examples of Graeco-Roman temples Empire. It will be offered in conjunction with Professor of the Nile Valley will also be dealt with. Lauren Ristvet (UPENN) and will cover the archaeology Units: 1.0 of the regions from Libya to India fro 538 to 332 BC. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Students will be expected to provide presentations as well as written work. ARCH B605 The Concept of Style Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Magee,P. Style is a fundamental concern for historians of art. (Fall 2016) This seminar examines concepts of style in ancient and post-antique art historiography, focusing on the historical and intellectual contexts in which they arose. Special ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near attention is paid to the recognition and description of Eastern Archaeology style, explanations of stylistic change, and the meanings A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the attached to style, particularly in classical and related art. ancient Near East and Egypt. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP) Counts towards: Africana Studies ARCH B623 On the Trail of Alexander the Great Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course explores the world of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic world based on a variety of sources. Particular focus is put on the material culture ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology of Macedonia and Alexander’s campaigns that changed A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, forever the nature and boundaries of the Greek world. Etruria, and Rome. Prerequisite: a course in Classical Archaeology or Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the permission of the instructor. Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. (Fall 2016) ARCH B634 Problems in Greek Art Since antiquity, representational art has been evaluated ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban in terms of a quality variously characterized as “realism”, Revolutions “naturalism”, and “lifelikeness.” Questions surrounding This course examines the archaeology of the two these concepts have attracted renewed attention. The most fundamental changes that have occurred in emphasis of the class is on examining primary texts and human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and monuments, tracing the development of the scholarship, urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near and formulating directions for research. Prerequisite: East as far as India. We also explore those societies Graduate Students Only. that did not experience these changes. 122 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the ARCH B308 Ceramic Analysis Past (IP) Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern relative chronology of archaeological sites and of Studies understanding past human behavior. Included are Units: 1.0 theories, methods and techniques of pottery description, Instructor(s): Magee,P. analysis and interpretation. Topics include typology, (Spring 2017) seriation, ceramic characterization, production, function, exchange and the use of computers in pottery ARCH B125 Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky analysis. Laboratory work on pottery in the department This course explores Greek and Roman mythology collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. using an archaeological and art historical approach, Counts towards: Geoarchaeology focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of Units: 1.0 the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and Instructor(s): Magee,P. transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and (Spring 2017) architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment. ARCH B359 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Prerequisites: 200-level coursework in some aspect of Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. classical or related cultures, archeology or art history. (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ARCH B215 Classical Art A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome ARCH B516 Trade and Transport in the Ancient from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa World 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic Issues of trade, commerce and production of export production are examined in historical and social context, goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze including interactions with neighboring areas and Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the highlighted. development of means of transport via maritime routes Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods Past (IP) and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of Units: 1.0 sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while Instructor(s): Donohue,A. bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the (Fall 2016) transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels played in ancient trade and transport. ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Units: 1.0 We investigate representations of women in different (Not Offered 2016-2017) media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that ARCH B608 Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in This course explores a range of approaches to the study the ancient world, the objects that they were associated of landscapes that relates to core principles of the field with in life and death and their occupations. of archaeology. It also discusses the construction of Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the specific landscapes in the Mediterranean (e.g., gardens, Past (IP) sacred landscapes, and memoryscapes). Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. ARCH B617 Herculaneum: Villa dei Papiri (Spring 2017) The Villa of the Papyri is a ‘villa suburbana’ that housed a large collection of sculptures. Its reconstruction ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome became famous as the Getty Villa. This Villa will serve The often-praised achievements of the classical as an ‘exemplum’ of a Roman villa to explore topics cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This including early excavation techniques, libraries and the course surveys the rich body of material and textual Epicurean philosophy, the concepts and meanings of evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans villae, as well as the placement of statues and copy -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics criticism include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family Units: 1.0 and social life. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B628 Assyria and the West: Neo-Hittite States Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Donohue,A. This seminar revolves around the art and architecture (Spring 2017) of the Neo-Hittite states of the Iron Age in Syro-Anatolia Comparative Literature 123 from the lens of their relations with the Neo-Assyrian implications of patterns of food production, preparation, Empire. consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues Units: 1.0 like gender, health, financial situation, geographical (Not Offered 2016-2017) variability, and political status. Anthropological, archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches ARCH B643 Mortuary Practices will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and This seminar focuses on the mortuary practices of the society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects ancient Greek and Macedonian worlds from the Iron Age our contemporary customs and practices and how our to the end of the Hellenistic period. Special emphasis identity is still shaped by what we eat. is placed on the examination of skeletal remains, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) funerary offerings, the art, and architecture of specific Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies archaeological sites and on the study of various issues Units: 1.0 in the archaeology of death. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. (Fall 2016) CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece and Rome ARCH B654 The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, In this course we examine the archaeology of prehistoric including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic Arabia from c. 8000 to 500 BC. Particular emphasis competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and is placed upon how the archaeological evidence processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources illuminates social and economic structures. and paying attention to art, archaeology and topography, Units: 1.0 this course explores the social, political and religious (Not Offered 2016-2017) contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment and the representation of ancient spectacle in ARCH B701 Supervised Work contemporary film. Unit of supervised work Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Donohue,A., Ataç,M., Magee,P., (Not Offered 2016-2017) Lindenlauf,A. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE CSTS B213 Persia and The Greeks This Course explores interactions between Greeks Students may complete a major or minor in Comparative and Persians in the Mediterranean and Near East from Literature. the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic Age. Through a variety of sources (from Greek histories, tragedies, and ethnography, to Persian royal inscriptions and Co-Directors administrative documents and the Hebrew Bible), we Israel Burshatin, Professor and Co-Director of shall work to illuminate the interface between these Comparative Literature (Haverford College) two distinct yet complementary cultures. Our aim will be to gain familiarity not only with a general narrative María Cristina Quintero, Chair and Professor of of Greco-Persian history, from the foundation of the Spanish, Co-Director of Comparative Literature and Achaemenid Empire in the middle of the sixth century Co-Director of Romance Languages BCE to the Macedonian conquest of Persia some 250 years later, but also with the materials (archaeological, Steering Committee numismatic, epigraphical, artistic, and literary) from Bryn Mawr College which we build such a narrative. At the same time, we shall work to understand how contact between Persia Elizabeth Allen, Professor of Russian and Comparative and the Greeks in antiquity has influenced discourse Literature on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship in about the opposition between East and West in the Russian modern world. Martín Gaspar, Assistant Professor of Spanish (on leave Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the semesters I & II) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Jennifer Harford Vargas, Assistant Professor of English (Not Offered 2016-2017) and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and Iberian Studies Program CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World Tim Harte, Chair and Associate Professor of Russian This course explores practices of eating and drinking Shiamin Kwa, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- on the Jye Chu Lectureship in Chinese Studies (on cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are leave semesters I and II) not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with Roberta Ricci, Chair and Associate Professor of Italian whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider 124 Comparative Literature

Azade Seyhan, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities course taught in English translation for which they do at and Chair and Professor of German and least part of the reading in the original language. Comparative Literature Haverford Honors Imke Brust, Assistant Professor of German Students who, in the judgment of the advisory committee, have done distinguished work in their Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Associate Professor of courses and in the senior seminar will be considered for Spanish & Comparative Literature departmental honors. Robert Germany, Assistant Professor of Classics Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English Minor Requirements Jerry Miller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Requirements for the minor are COML 200 and 398, plus four additional courses—two each in the Deborah Roberts, Professor of Classics and literature of two languages. At least one of these four Comparative Literature courses must be at the 300 level. Students who minor Ulrich Schoenherr, Associate Professor of German and in comparative literature are encouraged to choose Comparative Literature their national literature courses from those with a comparative component. David Sedley, Associate Professor of French Travis Zadeh, Assistant Professor of Religion Both majors and minors are encouraged to work closely with the chairs and members of the advisory committee The study of Comparative Literature situates literature in shaping their programs. in an international perspective; examines transnational cultural connections through literary history, literary NOTE: Please note that not all topics courses (B223, criticism, critical theory, and poetics; and works toward a 299, 321, 325, 326, 340) count toward COML elective nuanced understanding of the socio-cultural functions of requirements. See adviser. literature. The structure of the program allows students to engage in such diverse areas of critical inquiry as COURSES East-West cultural relations, global censorship and human rights, diaspora studies, film history and theory, COML B200 Introduction to Comparative Literature and aesthetics of modernity. Therefore, interpretive This course explores a variety of approaches to the methods from other disciplines also play a role in comparative or transnational study of literature through the comparative study of literature; among these are readings of several kinds: texts from different cultural anthropology, ethnology, philosophy, history, history of traditions that raise questions about the nature and art, religion, classical studies, area studies (Africana function of storytelling and literature; texts that comment studies, Middle Eastern studies, Latin American studies, on, respond to, and rewrite other texts from different among others), gender studies, and other arts. historical periods and nations; translations; and readings Comparative Literature students are required to have in critical theory. a reading knowledge of at least one foreign language Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) adequate to the advanced study of literature in that Units: 1.0 language. Some Comparative Literature courses may Instructor(s): Mahuzier,B. require reading knowledge of a foreign language as (Spring 2017) a prerequisite for admission. Students considering graduate work in Comparative Literature should also COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local study a second foreign language. Practices and Global Resonance The course is in English. It examines the ban on books Major Requirements and art in a global context through a study of the Requirements for the Comparative Literature major historical and sociopolitical conditions of censorship are COML 200: Introduction to Comparative Literature practices. The course raises such questions as how (normally taken in the sophomore year); six literature censorship is used to fortify political power, how it is courses at the 200 level or above, balanced between practiced locally and globally, who censors, what are two literature departments (of which English may be the categories of censorship, how censorship succeeds one)*—at least two of these (one in each national and fails, and how writers and artists write and create literature) must be at the 300 level or above, or its against and within censorship. The last question leads equivalent as approved in advance by the adviser; to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and one course in critical theory; two electives; COML 398: artists employ to translate the expression of repression, Theories and Methods in Comparative Literature and trauma, and torture into idioms of resistance. German 399: Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature. majors/minors can get German Studies credit. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing Students must further complete a writing requirement in course. the major. Students will work with their major advisors in Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) order to identify either two writing attentive or one writing Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o intensive course within their major plan of study. Studies; Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 *In the case of languages for which literature courses Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. in the original language are not readily available in the (Fall 2016) Tri-Co, students may on occasion be allowed to count a Comparative Literature 125

COML B232 Encuentros culturales en América ARCH B303 Classical Bodies Latina An examination of the conceptions of the human body This course introduces canonical Latin American evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, texts through translation scenes represented in them. with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Arranged chronologically since the first encounters Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of during the conquest until contemporary times, the concepts of male and female standards of beauty and readings trace different modulations of a constant their implications; conventions of visual representation; linguistic and cultural preoccupation with translation in the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic Latin America. Translation scenes are analyzed through ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the close reading, and then considered as barometers for visible expression of character and emotions; and the understanding the broader cultural climate. Special formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later emphasis is placed on key notions for literary analysis times. and translation studies, as well as for linking the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies literary text with cultural, social, political, and historical Units: 1.0 processes. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or B120 Instructor(s): Donohue,A. (previously SPAN B200/B202). (Spring 2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 ARTW B240 Literary Translation Workshop (Not Offered 2016-2017) Open to creative writing students and students of literature, the syllabus includes some theoretical COML B293 The Play of Interpretation readings, but the emphasis is practical and analytical. Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies Syllabus reading includes parallel translations of and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic certain enduring literary texts (mostly poetry) as well sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course as books and essays about the art of translation. focuses on common problems of text, authorship, Literary translation will be considered as a spectrum reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and ranging from Dryden’s “metaphrase” (word-for-word formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from translation) all the way through imitation, adaptation, different cultural traditions and histories will be studied and reimagining. Each student will be invited to work through interpretive approaches informed by modern with whatever non-English language(s) s/he has, and critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, to select for translation short works of poetry, prose, or popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory drama. The course will include class visits by working enhances our understanding of the complexities of literary translators. The Italian verbs for “to translate” history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity. and “to betray” sound almost alike; throughout, the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) course concerns the impossibility and importance of Counts towards: International Studies literary translation. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) COML B398 Theories and Methods in Comparative Literature CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema This course, required of all senior comparative literature This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course majors in preparation for writing the senior thesis in explores how contemporary film, a creative medium the spring semester, has a twofold purpose: to review appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like interpretive approaches informed by critical theories that Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. enhance our understanding of literary and cultural texts; Examining both films that are directly based on Greek and to help students prepare a preliminary outline of plays and films that make use of classical material their senior theses. Throughout the semester, students without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we research theoretical paradigms that bear on their own will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed comparative thesis topics in order to situate those topics and appropriated for modern audiences and how the in an appropriate critical context. classical past continues to be culturally significant. A Units: 1.0 variety of methodological approaches such as film and (Not Offered 2016-2017) gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- COML B399 Senior Seminar in Comparative historical interpretation. Literature Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies Thesis writing seminar. Research methods. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. Instructor(s): Quintero,M. (Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film.

COML B403 Supervised Work CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology Units: 1.0 The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and (Fall 2016) fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We 126 Comparative Literature will see how some of these stories have been read and to Communism and Fascism, seeking to understand understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures how they join in political debates and comment upon the and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We mass experience of movie going. will also explore some of the interpretive theories by Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) which these tales have been understood, from ancient Counts towards: Film Studies allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. The Units: 1.0 student should gain a more profound understanding of (Not Offered 2016-2017) the meaning of these myths to the Greeks themselves, of the cultural context in which they were formulated. At ENGL B234 Postcolonial Literature in English the same time, this course should provide the student This course will survey a broad range of novels and with some familiarity with the range of interpretations poems written while countries were breaking free of and strategies of understanding that people of various British colonial rule. Readings will also include cultural cultures and times have applied to the Greek myths theorists interested in defining literary issues that arise during the more than two millennia in which they have from the postcolonial situation. been preserved. Preference to upperclassmen, previous Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) coursework in myth required. Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Tratner,M. (Spring 2017) EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film This is a topics course. Course content varies. ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical This course examines representations of dictatorship Interpretation (CI) in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore Counts towards: Film Studies the relationship between narrative form and absolute Units: 1.0 power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use (Not Offered 2016-2017) to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central EALC B281 Food in Translation: Theory and America, and the Southern Cone. Practice Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This semester we will explore the connections between Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin what we eat and how we define ourselves in the American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies context of global culture. We will proceed from the Units: 1.0 assumption that food is an object of culture, and that our (Not Offered 2016-2017) contemplation of its transformations and translations in production, preparation, consumption, and distribution ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature will inform our notions of personal and group identity. Taking into account the oral, written, aural and visual This course takes Chinese food as a case study, and forms of African “texts” over several thousand years, examines the way that Chinese food moves from its this course will explore literary production, translation host country to diasporic communities all over the and audience/critical reception. Representative works world, using theories of translation as our theoretical to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata Epic, and empirical foundation. From analyzing menu Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ayi Kwei and ingredient translations to producing a short film Armah’s Fragments, Mariama Bâ’s Si Longe une Lettre, based on interviews, we will consider the relationship Tsitsi Danga-rembga’s Nervous Conditions, Bessie between food and communication in a multilingual and Head’s Maru, Sembène Ousmane’s Xala, plays by multicultural world. Readings include theoretical texts on Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, The Muse of translation (Apter), recipe books and menus, Chinese Forgiveness and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat. and Chinese-American literature (Classic of Poetry, We will address the “transliteration” of Christian and Mo Yan, Hong Kingston). Films include Ian Cheney’s Muslim languages and theologies in these works. “Searching for General Tso,” Wayne Wang’s “Soul of a Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Banquet” and “Eat a Bowl of Tea,” Ang Li’s “Eat Drink Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Man Woman,” and Wong Karwai’s “In the Mood for Counts towards: Africana Studies Love.” Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Instructor(s): Beard,L. Interpretation (CI) (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory This is a topics course. Course content varies. ENGL B229 Movies and Mass Politics Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Movies and mass politics emerged together, altering Units: 1.0 entertainment and government in strangely similar Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. ways. Fascism and Communism claimed an inherent relation to the masses and hence to movies; Hollywood Fall 2016: Theory of the Ethnic Novel. This rejected such claims. We will examine films that allude course traces the development of the U.S. ethnic Comparative Literature 127

novel. We will examine novels by Native Americans, Madame de Lafayette—examines the way in which Chicana/os, and African Americans, focusing on they appropriate and transform the male writing key formal innovations in their respective traditions. tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists We will be using – and testing -- core concepts within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to developed by narrative theorists to understand the identifying recurring concerns and structures in their genre of the novel. We will be using--and testing- works, and to assessing their importance to women’s -core concepts in critical theory to understand the writing in general: among them, the poetics of silence, genre of the novel and ethnic literary imaginaries. reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. Prerequisite: two 200-level ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature courses or permission instructor. South African texts from several language communities Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies which anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by Units: 1.0 contemporary South African writers which explore the Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. complexities of life in “the new South Africa.” Several (Spring 2017) films emphasize the minefield of post-apartheid reconciliation and accountability. FREN B325 Topics: Etudes avancées Counts towards: Africana Studies An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical Units: 1.0 figure in French civilization. This is a topics course. Instructor(s): Beard,L. Course content varies. The seminar topic rotates (Fall 2016) among many subjects: La Révolution frantaise: histoire, littérature et culture; L’Environnement naturel dans la ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et Noting that the official colonial independence of most la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et African countries dates back only half a century, this dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des course focuses on the fictive experiments of the most arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; recent decade. A few highly controversial works from Crimes et criminalité; Ecrire la Grande Guerre: 1914-10; the 90’s serve as an introduction to very recent work. Le “Rentrée Littéraire; Proust. Most works are in English. To experience depth as well Units: 1.0 as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from South Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the Spring 2017: Ecrire la Grande Guerre: 1917. huge African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in 1917 in the history of the so-called “Great War” the present” in history and letters. is known as “l’année terrible” for all participtants : Counts towards: Africana Studies patriotic consensus is gone, moral is low, desertion Units: 1.0 and mutinies high, “war efforts” wavering; 1917 (Not Offered 2016-2017) is also the year Russia switches sides, and the United States enters the conflict. Paying special attention to that year, this course proposes to study FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the immediate as well as the long lasting impact of the Humanities WWI on French society, literature, art, history and An examination in English of leading theories of memory. interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course FREN B326 Etudes avancées content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) figure in French civilisation. The seminar topic rotates Units: 1.0 among many subjects: La Révolution française: histoire, Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. littérature et culture; L’Environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et This course will be taught in English and focus dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des on works of French feminist, postcolonial and arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical French film. texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition Units: 1.0 (namely French), and more or less distinctly (Not Offered 2016-2017) circumscribed fields, we will also look at the broader transcultural and translinguistic influences that brought these “schools” into being and, most FREN B350 Voix médiévales et échos modernes importantly, what fields of thinking they have A study of selected 19th- and 20th-century works subsequently inspired across language traditions. inspired by medieval subjects, such as the Grail and Arthurian legends and the Tristan and Yseut stories, FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: and by medieval genres, such as the roman, saints’ femmes écrivains des débuts lives, or the miracle play. Included are texts and films by This study of selected women authors from Latin Bonnefoy, Cocteau, Flaubert, Genevoix, Giono, Gracq, CE-Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, and Yourcenar. Renaissance and 17th century—among them, Perpetua, Units: 1.0 Hrotswitha, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine (Not Offered 2016-2017) de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and 128 Comparative Literature

GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies Students wanting German credit will meet for additional This is a topics course. Course content varies. hour per week. Recent topics include Remembered Violence, Global Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Masculinities, and Crime and Detection in German. Units: 1.0 The current topic will be taught in English with an Instructor(s): Shen,Q., Seyhan,A. additional meeting for students taking the class as Fall 2016: This course a German course. Current topic is Remembered German Lit as World Lit investigates the connection of modern German Violence. Description: As Germany was rebuilding from Literature from the 18th century onward with world two world war wars and the Holocaust, its history was literatures through literary trends, cultural networks, being redefined in an international context where non- and translational contracts. The study of these Germans were also confronting the legacy of violent sources illustrates how German literary trends conflict with Germany. We will explore the conditions have crossed linguistic and cultural boundaries and that raise the question of a central feature of memory interacted with other cultural worlds. Readings range in the modern era: does a common sense of history from the works of German Romanticism to postwar emerge from this international dialogue or does the German writing and contemporary German–based cultural legacy of violence come out of an ongoing trans-cultural and linguistic texts. Current topic contest over divergent memories? description: The major focus of this course is the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical spatialization of memory and history in exemplary Interpretation (CI) novels and films on Berlin. These works analyze Units: 1.0 the palimpsestic sites of the city as a mini archive of (Not Offered 2016-2017) political upheavals, public life, fine arts, the star- crossed German-Jewish symbiosis, World War II,

GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile and the cultures of the two German post-war states. This course investigates the anthropological, Spring 2017: The philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary Berlin in Literature and Film. major focus of this course is the spatialization of aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience memory and history in exemplary novels and films and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines on Berlin. These works analyze the palimpsestic the structure of the relationship between imagined/ sites of the city as a mini archive of political remembered homelands and transnational identities, upheavals, public life, fine arts, the star-crossed and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and German-Jewish symbiosis, World War II, and the multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the cultures of the two German post-war states. psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Studies Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and others. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Instructor(s): Shen,Q. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Fall 2016: Studies; International Studies Representing Diversity in German This course examines a wide-ranging Units: 1.0 Cinema. repertoire of transnational films produced in Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. contemporary Germany. It presents an introduction (Spring 2017) to modern German cinema through a close analysis of visual material and identity construction in the GERM B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German worlds of the real and the reel. Literature and Culture This is a topics course. Taught in English. Course HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual content varies. Previous topics include, Women’s Representation: Identification in the Cinema Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile, and Diasporas; An introduction to the analysis of film through particular Nation and Identity in Post-War Austria. attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical images compel our fascination? How exactly do film Interpretation (CI) spectators relate to the people, objects, and places Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies that appear on the screen? Wherein lies the power of Units: 1.0 images to move, attract, repel, persuade, or transform (Not Offered 2016-2017) its viewers? In this course, students will be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic of GERM B320 Topics in German Literature and Culture identification. We will explore how points of view are This is a topics course. Course content varies. Previous framed in cinema, and how those viewing positions topics include: Romantic Literary Theory and Literary differ from those of still photography, advertising, Modernity; Configurations of Femininity in German video games, and other forms of media. Students Literature; Nietzsche and Modern Cultural Criticism; will be encouraged to consider the role the cinematic Contemporary German Fiction; No Child Left Behind: medium plays in influencing our experience of a film: Education in German Literature and Culture, German how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form Literary Culture in Exile (1933-1945). Taught in English. of representation that creates interactions between Comparative Literature 129 the spectator and the images on the screen. Film Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) screenings include Psycho, Being John Malkovich, Units: 1.0 and others. Course is geared to freshman and those Instructor(s): Patruno,N. with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History of Art major (Fall 2016) 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor Introductory course or Theory course requirement. ITAL B212 Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the New Literature Past (IP) This course, taught in English, will focus primarily Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive on the works of the so-called “migrant writers” who, Counts towards: Film Studies having adopted the Italian language, have become a Units: 1.0 significant part of the new voice of Italy. In addition to Instructor(s): King,H. the aesthetic appreciation of these works, this course (Spring 2017) will also take into consideration the social, cultural, and political factors surrounding them. The course will HART B306 Film Theory focus on works by writers who are now integral to Italian An introduction to major developments in film theory canon – among them: Cristina Ali-Farah, Igiaba Scego, and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of Ghermandi Gabriella, Amara Lakhous. As part of the film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic “author”; the course, movies concerned with various aspects of Italian politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between Migrant literature will be screened and analyzed. cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film Interpretation (CI) studies; the relation between film studies and other Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week Studies of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central Units: 1.0 principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Class will be divided between discussion of critical texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in text. Prerequisite: A course in Film Studies (HART the Humanities B110, HART B299, ENGL B205, or the equivalent from another college by permission of instructor). An examination in English of leading theories of Counts towards: Film Studies interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Units: 1.0 Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Instructor(s): King,H. content varies. (Spring 2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HART B340 Topics in Baroque Art This is a topics course. Course content varies. ITAL B214 The Myth of Venice (1800-2000) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 The Republic of Venice existed for over a millennium. Instructor(s): Hertel,C. This course begins in the year 1797 at the end of the Republic and the emerging of an extensive body of Fall 2016: Dutch Painting. This seminar examines literature centered on Venice and its mythical facets. the conceptual polarity of realism and illusionism Readings will include the Romantic views of Venice in paintings by Hals, Peeters, Steen, Rembrandt, (excerpts from Lord Byron, Fredrick Schiller, Wolfang Ruisdael, Terborch, Vermeer, and others by way von Goethe, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni) and of attending to genres (e.g., scenes of social the 20th century reshaping of the literary myth (readings life, portrait, still life, landscape) and modes of from Thomas Mann, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, representation (e.g., comedy, parody, vanitas), as Gabriele D’Annunzio, Henry James, and others). A well as cultural, social, and political practices (e.g., journey into this fascinating tradition will shed light on religion, colonialism, luxury consumption, gender how the literary and visual representation of Venice, roles, scientific exploration, and collection). rather than focusing on a nostalgic evocation of the death of the Republic, became a territory of exploration ITAL B211 Primo Levi, the Holocaust, and Its for literary modernity. The course is offered in English; Aftermath all texts are provided in translation. One additional hour A consideration, through analysis and appreciation of for the students who are taking the course for Italian his major works, of how the horrific experience of the credit. Suggested Preparation: At least two 200-level Holocaust awakened in Primo Levi a growing awareness literature courses. of his Jewish heritage and led him to become one of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the dominant voices of that tragic historical event, as Counts towards: Film Studies well as one of the most original new literary figures of Units: 1.0 post-World War II Italy. Always in relation to Levi and Instructor(s): Monserrati,M. his works, attention will also be given to Italian women (Spring 2017) writers whose works are also connected with the Holocaust. Course is taught in English. An extra hour ITAL B310 Detective Fiction will be scheduled for those students taking the course In English. Why is detective fiction so popular? What for Italian or Romance Languages credit. explains the continuing multiplication of detective texts 130 Comparative Literature despite the seemingly finite number of available plots? texts, society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 This course will explore the worldwide fascination with and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another this genre beginning with European writers before SPAN 200-level course. turning to the more distant mystery stories from around Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) the world. The international scope of the readings Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o will highlight how authors in different countries have Studies developed their own national detective typologies while Units: 1.0 simultaneously responding to international influence of Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. the British-American model. Italian majors taking this (Spring 2017) course for Italian credit will be required to meet for an additional hour with the instructor and to do the readings SPAN B308 Teatro del Siglo de Oro: negociaciones and writing in Italian. Suggested Preparation: One de clase, género y poder literature course at the 200 level. A study of the dramatic theory and practice of 16th- and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive 17th-century Spain. Topics include the treatment of Counts towards: Film Studies honor, historical self-fashioning and the politics of the Units: 1.0 corrales, and palace theater. Prerequisite: at least one (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN 200-level course. Units: 1.0 PHIL B323 Culture and Interpretation (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course will discuss these questions. What are the aims of interpretation? Must we assume that, for cultural SPAN B311 Crimen y detectives en la narrativa objects—like artworks, music, or literature—there hispánica contemporánea must be a single right interpretation? If not, what is to prevent one from sliding into an interpretive anarchism? An analysis of the rise of the hard-boiled genre in What is the role of a creator’s intentions in fixing upon contemporary Hispanic narrative and its contrast to admissible interpretations? Does interpretation affect classic detective fiction, as a context for understanding the identity of the object of interpretation? If an object contemporary Spanish and Latin American culture. of interpretation exists independently of interpretive Discussion of pertinent theoretical implications and the practice, must it answer to only one right interpretation? social and political factors that contributed to the genre’s In turn, if an object of interpretation is constituted by evolution and popularity. Prerequisite: at least one interpretive practice, must it answer to more than one SPAN 200-level course. right interpretation? This course encourages active Units: 1.0 discussions of these questions. Instructor(s): Song,R. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive (Spring 2017) Counts towards: International Studies Units: 1.0 SPAN B317 Poéticas del deseo y el poder en la lírica (Not Offered 2016-2017) del Siglo de Oro A study of the evolution of the lyric in Spain during RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to the Renaissance and Baroque periods beginning with 1945 the oral tradition and the imitation of Petrarch. Topics This is a topics course. Course content varies. include: the representation of women as objects Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) of desire and pre-texts for writing, the political and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive national subtexts for lyric production, the self-fashioning Counts towards: Film Studies and subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody Units: 1.0 and imitation, and the feminine appropriation of the Instructor(s): Harte,T. Petrarchan tradition. Although concentrating on the poetry of Spain, reading will include texts from Italy, Spring 2017: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet France, England and Mexico. Taught in Spanish. Russia & Beyond. This course will explore cinema Prerequisites: at least one 200-level course. Counts from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies end of the silent era. While the course will focus Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects Studies of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films Units: 1.0 analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic Instructor(s): Quintero,M. methods that went into the direction and production (Spring 2017) of a variety of celebrated silent films from Russia, Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. These films will SPAN B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, the Early Modern Iberian World social, and even philosophical, so that students can The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema’s from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, rapid evolution. Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender other writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of normativity). Course is taught in English and is open Computer Science 131 to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one All majors, minors and concentrations offered by the 200-level course in a literature department. Students department emphasize foundations and basic principles seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish of information science with the goal of providing 110 and/or 120 and at least one other Spanish course at students with skills that transcend short-term trends in a 200-level, or received permission from instructor. computer hardware and software. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Major in Computer Science Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Students are encouraged to prepare a major course plan in consultation with their academic adviser in Computer Science. The requirements for a major in SPAN B332 Novelas de las Américas computer science are three introductory courses (CMSC What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US 110, 206 and 231), three core courses (two of CMSC novel as “American” in the continental sense? What do 240, 245, 246 and one of CMSC 330, 340 or 345), six we learn by comparing novels from “this” America to electives of a student’s choosing and a senior thesis. classics of the “other” Americas? Can we find through Additionally, all Computer Science majors must take this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, CMSC B330, a writing intensive course, to fulfill the interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these writing requirement. questions by connecting and comparing major US novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and Students can specialize in specific disciplinary tracks or 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to pathways by carefully choosing their elective courses. illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances Such pathways can enable specialization in areas such and affinities. This course is taught in Spanish. as: computational theory, computer systems, computer Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. graphics, computational geometry, artificial intelligence, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o information visualization, computational linguistics, Studies cognitive science, etc. Students should ensure that Units: 1.0 they have completed at least three courses in computer (Not Offered 2016-2017) science by the end of their sophomore year (we highly recommend CMSC 110, 206 and 231).

COMPUTER SCIENCE Minor in Computer Science Students in any major are encouraged to complete Students may complete a major or minor in Computer a minor in computer science. Completing a minor in Science or a minor in Computational Methods. computer science enables students to pursue graduate studies in computer science, in addition to their own major. The requirements for a minor in computer Faculty science at Bryn Mawr are CMSC 110, 206, 231, any Douglas Blank, Associate Professor of Computer two of CMSC 240, 245, 246, 330, 340 or 345, and one Science elective chosen from any course in computer science, approved by the student’s adviser in computer science. Richard Eisenberg, Lecturer in Computer Science As mentioned above, these requirements can be Deepak Kumar, Professor of Computer Science combined with any major, depending on the student’s interest and preparation. Dianna Xu, Chair and Professor of Computer Science Computer Science is the science of computer Minor in Computational Methods algorithms—their theory, analysis, design and implementation. As such it is an interdisciplinary This minor is designed to enable students majoring field with roots in mathematics and engineering and in any discipline to learn computational methods applications in many other academic disciplines. The and applications in their major area of study. The department at Bryn Mawr is founded on the belief that requirements for a minor in computational methods are Computer Science should transcend from being a CMSC 110, 206, 231; one of CMSC 225, 245, 246, 310, subfield of mathematics and engineering and play a 312, 330, 340 or 361; any two computational courses broader role in all forms of human inquiry. depending on a student’s major and interests (there are over 35 such courses to choose from in various The Computer Science Department is supported jointly departments). by faculty at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. The department welcomes students who wish to Students can declare a minor at the end of their pursue a major in Computer Science. Additionally, the sophomore year or soon after. Students should prepare department also offers a minor in Computer Science, a course plan and have it approved by at least two a concentration in Computer Science (at Haverford faculty advisers. Students minoring in computational College) and a minor in Computational Methods (at Bryn methods are encouraged to propose senior projects/ Mawr College). The department also strives to facilitate theses that involve the application of computational double majors and evolving interdisciplinary majors. modeling in their major field of study. Students can further specialize their majors by selecting elective courses that focus on specific disciplinary tracks or pathways within the discipline. 132 Computer Science

COURSES propositional logic, proof techniques, recursion, set theory, counting, probability theory and graph theory. CMSC B110 Introduction to Computing Co-requisites: CMSC B110 or H105 or H107. The course is an introduction to computing: how we Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) can describe and solve problems using a computer. Units: 1.0 Students will learn how to write algorithms, manipulate Instructor(s): Xu,D. data, and design programs to make computers useful (Spring 2017) tools as well as mediums of creativity. Contemporary, diverse examples of computing in a modern context will CMSC B240 Principles of Computer Organization be used, with particular focus on graphics and visual A lecture/laboratory course studying the hierarchical media. The Processing/Java programming language design of modern digital computers. Combinatorial will be used in lectures, class examples and weekly and sequential logic elements; construction of programming projects, where students will learn and microprocessors; instruction sets; assembly language master fundamental computer programming principals. programming. Lectures cover the theoretical aspects Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative of machine architecture. In the laboratory, designs Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) discussed in lecture are constructed in software. Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231 Instructor(s): Blank,D., Eisenberg,R., Kumar,D. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

CMSC B115 Computing Through Biology: An CMSC B245 Principles of Programming Languages Introduction An introduction to a wide range of topics relating This course is an introduction to biology through to programming languages with an emphasis on computer science, or an introduction to computer abstraction and design. Design issues relevant to science through biology. The course will examine the implementation of programming languages are biological systems through the use of computer discussed, including a review and in-depth treatment of science, exploring concepts and solving problems from mechanisms for sequence control, the run-time structure bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology of programming languages, and programming in the through the practice of writing and modifying code in large. The course has a strong lab component where the Python programming language. The course will students explore a variety of programming languages introduce students to the subject matter and branches and concepts. Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and of computer science as an academic discipline, and the CMSC B231 nature, development, coding, testing, documenting and Approach: Course does not meet an Approach analysis of the efficiency and limitations of algorithms. Units: 1.0 Additional Meeting Time: (Lab) 2 hours. Instructor(s): Blank,D. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific (Fall 2016) Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 CMSC B246 Programming Paradigms (Not Offered 2016-2017) A more advanced programming course using C/ C++. Topics include memory management, system CMSC B206 Introduction to Data Structures and low-level programming as well as design and Introduction to the fundamental algorithms and data implementation of additional data structures and structures using Java. Topics include: Object-Oriented algorithms, including priority queues, graphs and programming, program design, fundamental data advanced trees (space-partitioning and application- structures and complexity analysis. In particular, specific trees). In addition, students will be introduced to searching, sorting, the design and implementation of C++’s STL. There will be emphasis on more significant linked lists, stacks, queues, trees and hash maps and programming assignments, and in connection to that, all corresponding complexity analysis. In addition, program design and other fundamental software students will also become familiar with Java’s built- engineering principals. Make file and GDB will be in data structures and how to use them, and acquire used at least in the first half. Required: 2 hour lab. competency using the shell, commandline scripting Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 or H107, and CMSC and a debugger without any IDE. Required: 2 hour lab. B231, or permission of instructor. Prerequisites: CMSC B110 or H105, or permission of Approach: Course does not meet an Approach instructor. Units: 1.0 Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific Instructor(s): Eisenberg,R. Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Spring 2017: Unix and C Programming. Topics Instructor(s): Blank,D., Kumar,D. include memory management, system and low-level (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) programming as well as design and implementation of additional data structures and algorithms. CMSC B231 Discrete Mathematics CMSC B310 Computational Geometry An introduction to discrete mathematics with strong applications to computer science. Topics include A study of algorithms and mathematical theories that focus on solving geometric problems in computing, Computer Science 133 which arise naturally from a variety of disciplines such process synchronization and communication, resource as Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric allocations, memory management, file systems, and Design, Computer Vision, Robotics and Visualization. select examples in protection and security. Prerequisite: The materials covered sit at the intersection of pure CMSC B246 or permission of instructor. Mathematics and application-driven Computer Science Units: 1.0 and efforts will be made to accommodate Math majors Instructor(s): Xu,D. and Computer Science majors of varying math/ (Spring 2017) computational backgrounds. Topics include: graph theory, triangulation, convex hulls, geometric structures CMSC B361 Emergence such as Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, A multidisciplinary exploration of the interactions as well as curves and polyhedra surface topology. underlying both real and simulated systems, such Prerequisite: CMSC B231/ MATH B231. as ant colonies, economies, brains, earthquakes, Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) biological evolution, artificial evolution, computers, and Units: 1.0 life. These emergent systems are often characterized (Not Offered 2016-2017) by simple, local interactions that collectively produce global phenomena not apparent in the local interactions. CMSC B312 Computer Graphics Prerequisite: CMSC 206 or H106 and CMSC 231 or An introduction to the fundamental principles permission of instructor. of computer graphics: including 3D modeling, Counts towards: Neuroscience rendering, and animation. Topics cover: 2D and 3D Units: 1.0 transformations; rendering techniques; geometric (Not Offered 2016-2017) algorithms; 3D object models (surface and volume); visible surface algorithms; shading and mapping; CMSC B371 Cognitive Science ray tracing; and select others. Prerequisites: CMSC/ Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of MATH B231, CMSC B246 and MATH B203 or H215, or intelligence in mechanical and organic systems. In permission of instructor. this introductory course, we examine many topics Units: 1.0 from computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, Instructor(s): Xu,D. mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. Can a (Fall 2016) computer be intelligent? How do neurons give rise to thinking? What is consciousness? These are some CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics of the questions we will examine. No prior knowledge Introduction to computational models of understanding or experience with any of the subfields is assumed and processing human languages. How elements of or necessary. Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence CMSC B231 or permission of instructor. can be combined to help computers process human Counts towards: Neuroscience language and to help linguists understand language Units: 1.0 through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, Instructor(s): Blank,D. semantics, pragmatics, generation and knowledge (Fall 2016) representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206 , or H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. CMSC B372 Artificial Intelligence Counts towards: Neuroscience Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of Units: 1.0 how to program computers to behave in ways (Not Offered 2016-2017) normally attributed to “intelligence” when observed in humans. Topics include heuristic versus algorithmic CMSC B330 Algorithms: Design and Practice programming; cognitive simulation versus machine This course examines the applications of algorithms to intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural the accomplishments of various programming tasks. language understanding; scene analysis; learning; The focus will be on understanding of problem-solving decision-making. Topics are illustrated by programs methods, along with the construction of algorithms, from literature, programming projects in appropriate rather than emphasizing formal proving methodologies. languages and building small robots. Prerequisites: Topics include divide and conquer, approximations CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231. for NP-Complete problems, data mining and parallel Counts towards: Neuroscience algorithms. Prerequisites: CMSC B206 or H106 and Units: 1.0 B231. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 1.0 CMSC B380 Recent Advances in Computer Science Instructor(s): Kumar,D. This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Spring 2017) Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231, or permission of instructor CMSC B355 Operating Systems Units: 1.0 A practical introduction to modern operating Instructor(s): Eisenberg,R. systems, using case studies from UNIX, MSDOS (Spring 2017) and the Macintosh. Topics include computer and OS structures, process and thread management, 134 East Asian Languages and Cultures

CMSC B399 Senior Conference Kimiko Suzuki Benjamin, Instructor, Japanese Language An independent project in computer science culminating Program in a written report/thesis and oral presentation. Class Minako Kobayashi, Japanese Drill Instructor discussions of work in progress and oral and written presentations of research results will be emphasized. FACULTY IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE Required for all computer science majors in the spring semester of their senior year. Haverford Units: 1.0 Hank Glassman, Janet and Henry Ritchotte ‘85 Instructor(s): Kumar,D. Professor of Asian Studies, Associate Prof. of East (Spring 2017) Asian Languages and Cultures Paul Jakov Smith, John R. Coleman Professor of Social CMSC B403 Supervised Work/Independent Study Sciences, Professor of History, Departmental Co- Units: 1.0 chair (Fall 2016) Erin Schoneveld, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures BIOL B115 Computing Through Biology: An Bryn Mawr Introduction Yonglin Jiang, Associate Professor of East Asian This course is an introduction to biology through Language and Cultures, Departmental Co-chair computer science, or an introduction to computer Shiamin Kwa, Assistant Professor of East Asian science through biology. The course will examine Languages and Cultures on the Jye Chu biological systems through the use of computer Lectureship in Chinese Studies, (on leave science, exploring concepts and solving problems from semesters I & II) bioinformatics, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology through the practice of writing and modifying code in The Bi-College Department of East Asian Languages the Python programming language. The course will and Cultures (EALC) links rigorous language training introduce students to the subject matter and branches to the study of East Asian, particularly Chinese of computer science as an academic discipline, and the and Japanese, culture and society. In addition to nature, development, coding, testing, documenting and our intensive programs in Chinese and Japanese analysis of the efficiency and limitations of algorithms. languages, departmental faculty offer courses in East Additional Meeting Time: (Lab) 2 hours. Asian literature, religion, film, art and visual culture, Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific and social and intellectual history. The intellectual Investigation (SI) orientation of the Department of East Asian Languages Units: 1.0 and Cultures is centered on primary textual and visual (Not Offered 2016-2017) sources; that is, we focus on East Asia’s rich cultural traditions as a way to understand its present, through the study of a wide range of literary and historical EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND texts (in translation and in the original), images, film, and scholarly books and articles. All students wishing CULTURES to specialize in this humanistic approach to the study of China, Japan, and East Asia more generally are Students may complete a major in East Asian encouraged to consider the EALC major. We also Languages and Cultures, a minor in Chinese language work closely with affiliated faculty in the Bi-Co and or Japanese language, or a (non-language) minor in Tri-Co community who approach East Asia from the East Asian Languages and Cultures. perspective of such social science disciplines as anthropology, economics, political science, sociology Faculty and the growth and structure of cities, as well as with faculty in history, music, religion and philosophy. Our CHINESE LANGUAGE FACULTY majors are encouraged to take advantage of these Haverford programs to supplement their EALC coursework. Shizhe Huang, C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies; Most courses in the major, though, will be taken within Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics; Director the department itself. We also offer an EALC minor, of the Chinese Language Program described more fully below.

Bryn Mawr East Asian Languages Changchun Zhang, Instructor, Associate Director of the Chinese Language Program (on leave semester II) The Bi-College Chinese Program offers five years of Tz’u Chiang, Senior Lecturer, Chinese Language instruction in Mandarin Chinese. First-year Chinese Program (CNSE001-002) and Second-year Chinese (CNSE003- 004) both have master and drill sections. First-year JAPANESE LANGUAGE FACULTY Chinese (CNSE001-002) is a year-long course. Both Haverford semesters must be completed in order to receive Tetsuya Sato, Senior Lecturer and Director of the credit. Advanced Chinese, offered each semester with Japanese Language Program a different topic, can be taken as Fourth- or Fifth-year Chinese, with one credit per semester, and repeated as East Asian Languages and Cultures 135 long as the topics differ. For students with a background Bryn Mawr. Students must earn a grade of 2.0 or higher in Chinese, we offer CNSE007-008 after administering to continue in the major and be eligible to write a senior a placement test. Upon completion of this full year thesis. sequence, students move on to Second-year Chinese. The approved Study Abroad program for Chinese III. THREE (3) DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE is CET. If you have any questions, please contact COURSES (3 UNITS) the Director of the Chinese Program, Shizhe Huang In addition, majors must take THREE additional non- ([email protected]), who also serves as the language courses offered by members of the Bi-Co advisor for Chinese Minor. EALC Department (Glassman, Jiang, Kwa, Schoneveld, The Bi-College Japanese Program offers four years of Smith). On signing up for the major, students should instruction in modern Japanese. First-year Japanese work with the departmental co-chair on their campus (JNSE001-002), taught at Haverford, is six hours (one to select courses that are intellectually complementary. hour on MWF and ninety minutes on TTh) per week; The Departmental Elective Courses cannot be satisfied unlike Chinese language courses, there is no distinction by courses outside the department, or by courses taken between master and drill sections. Students should abroad. At least one of these three courses must be at register for one of the MWF sessions and choose the 300 level. one of the TTh sessions. Second through Fourth-year IV. TWO NON-DEPARTMENTAL COURSES RELATED (Advanced) Japanese (JNSE003-004, JNSE101-102, TO EAST ASIA (2 UNITS) and JNSE201A/B) all meet at Haverford. The first-year and second-year courses in Japanese (JNSE001-002 In order to encourage a sampling of approaches to East and 003-004 respectively) meet five days a week. Asia beyond EALC or the Bi-Co community, students For the first-year courses, both semesters must be are required to take two courses related to East completed in order to obtain credit, whereas students Asia from the wider array of courses offered outside earn credit for each semester for the second-year the Department and/or from Study Abroad courses courses and above. If you have any questions, please approved by their advisor, at least one of which must be contact Tetsuya Sato (tsato@haverford. edu) for at the 300 level. These courses may not substitute for clarification. the three Core and three elective courses offered by the EALC faculty. East Asian Languages and Culture V. THE SENIOR THESIS (1 UNIT) Major Requirements Finally, students are required to complete a senior thesis I. THE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT (2 UNITS) (EALC 398, 1 credit). Although the majority of the thesis will be done in the Fall semester, the final draft will be EALC majors are required to demonstrate third-year- completed and formally presented early in the Spring level competence in Chinese or Japanese, either by semester. passing a placement assessment or completing the relevant third-year course (that is, CNSE 101-102 or VI. PLACEMENT TESTS, STUDY ABROAD, AND THE JNSE 101-102). Korean language instruction is offered EALC MINOR at the University of Pennsylvania, but does not count towards the Bi-Co EALC major. Placement Tests II. THREE (3) CORE COURSES (3 UNITS), REQUIRED Placement tests for first-time students at all levels are OF ALL MAJORS: conducted by the two language programs, respectively, in the week before classes start in the fall semester. To Beyond demonstrating language competence, EALC qualify for third-year language courses students need majors are required to take THREE core courses from to finish Second-year courses with a score of 3.0 or the following array of courses: above in all four areas of training: Listening, speaking, • One 100-level course on China from among reading, and writing. In the event that students do not 110 (Introduction to Chinese Lit.), 120 (Chinese meet the minimum grade at the conclusion of Second- Perspectives on the Individual and Society), or 131 year language study, they must consult with the director (Chinese Civ.); and of the respective language program and work out a summer study plan that may include taking summer • One 100-level course on Japan from among courses or studying on their own under supervision. 132 (Japanese Civ) or a variety of new 100-level They must take a placement test before starting Third- courses on Japan currently in development. year language study in the fall. (Similarly, students who • EALC 200: Methods and Approaches to East do not finish Third-year with a score at or higher than Asian Cultures (fulfills the Writing Intensive Major 3.0 in any of the four areas must also take a placement Requirement) exam before entering Fourth-year.) EALC 200 is required of all EALC majors and minors. Majors are urged to take 200 in the Spring of their Study Abroad sophomore year; minors may take it during their junior The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures or senior year. Please note that EALC 200 serves as the strongly recommends study abroad to maximize designated departmental Writing Intensive course (30 language proficiency and cultural familiarity. Formal pages of writing), now required of all departments by 136 East Asian Languages and Cultures approval is required by the study abroad adviser prior year Chinese as a prerequisite. Majors are strongly to the student’s travel. Without this approval, credit encouraged to take this course. Prerequisites: for courses taken abroad may not be accepted by the Successful completion of 3rd-year Chinese or EALC Department. If studying abroad is not practical, equivalent. students may consider attending certain intensive Units: 1.0 summer schools approved by the EALC Department. (Not Offered 2016-2017) These plans must be worked out in concert with the department’s study abroad adviser and the student’s EALC B110 Intro to Chinese Literature (in English) dean. Students will study a wide range of texts from the beginnings through the Qing dynasty. The course The Minors focuses on the genres of poetry, prose, fiction and The EALC Department certifies three minors: Chinese drama, and considers how both the forms and their language (Advisor: Shizhe Huang), Japanese language content overlap and interact. Taught in English. (Advisor: Tetsuya Sato), and East Asian Languages Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) and Cultures (Advisors: EALC co-chairs). The two Units: 1.0 language minors both require six language courses, Instructor(s): Fu,R. and may be fulfilled concurrently with the EALC major. (Fall 2016) The EALC minor requires six courses, all of which must be taken from among courses offered by the EALC EALC B131 Chinese Civilization departmental faculty; the mix must include EALC 200 A broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and and one 300-level course. Minors with a focus on other society from the Bronze Age to the 1800s, with special aspects of East Asia will be served by the Global Asia reference to such topics as belief, family, language, the concentration, currently under discussion. arts and sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in English translation and secondary COURSES studies. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the CNSE B007 First-Year Chinese Non-Intensive Past (IP) This course is designed for students who have some Units: 1.0 facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency (Spring 2017) to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year EALC B212 Topics: Introduction to Chinese Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Literature Students must place into Chinese B007 through the This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Chinese Language Placement exam. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Film Studies Instructor(s): Chiang,T.(Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CNSE B008 First Year Chinese (Non-intensive) This course is designed for students who have some EALC B225 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing This a topics course.This course explores modern China Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency from the early 20th century to the present through its to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course literature, art and films, reading them as commentaries that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year of their own time. Topics vary. Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Prerequisite: CNSE B007 Interpretation (CI) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Fu,R. Instructor(s): Chiang,T. (Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Writing Practices and Society in China and Beyond. Examination of the development of CNSE B380 Readings in Advanced Chinese writing practices, and the ways in which they have This course prepares advanced readers of Chinese for interacted with and been shaped by the material, the practice of reading and using primary source texts in social, intellectual, and ideological dimensions of early-modern and modern Chinese literature. Students an encompassing textual culture in China. After will engage in critical reading and analysis of Chinese beginning with readings and in-class discussion, texts in class discussion and writing assignments. Part students will help choose the paths we explore as of each class meeting will be dedicated to reading and they develop their own individual research projects translating from the text to discuss issues of translation dealing with topics discussed in class or other and grammar. This class is conducted in English, and aspects of textual cultures in China. all readings and screenings are in the original language. Spring 2017: Modern Chinese Literature and The course assumes advanced reading knowledge Film. Introduction to works of modern Chinese of Chinese and requires successful completion of 3rd East Asian Languages and Cultures 137

literature and film by time and theme. Exploration EALC B264 Human Rights in China of the worlds created by authors and directors This course will examine China’s human rights issues who experienced, reflected upon, and recast one from a historical perspective. The topics include diverse of the most tumultuous periods of social change perspectives on human rights, historical background, and cultural creativity in human history, as well as civil rights, religious practice, justice system, education, the new experiences and meanings we produce in as well as the problems concerning some social groups these works through our own readings and in our such as migrant laborers, women, ethnic minorities and own context. peasants. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the EALC B238 Chinese Culture and Society Past (IP) This course encourages students to think critically about Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies major developments in Chinese culture and society Units: 1.0 that have occurred during the twentieth and twenty-first Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. centuries, with an emphasis on understanding both (Fall 2016) cultural change and continuity in China. Drawing on ethnographic material and case studies from rural and EALC B270 Topics in Chinese History urban China over the traditional, revolutionary, and reform periods, this course examines a variety of topics This is a topics course, course content varies. including family and kinship; marriage, reproduction, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the and death; popular religion; women and gender; the Past (IP) Cultural Revolution; social and economic reforms and Units: 1.0 development; gift exchange and guanxi networks; Instructor(s): Fu,R. changing perceptions of space and place; as well as Spring 2017: History of the Silk Road. A journey globalization and modernity. Prerequisite: Sophomore along the overland routes that stretched between standing or higher. China and the Mediterranean Sea and served Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the as conduits for cultural and material exchange Past (IP) between the East and the West from 200-1000 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; AD. Exploration of major archaeological ruins and International Studies artifacts, along with primary sources in translation. Units: 1.0 Examination of modern representations and (Not Offered 2016-2017) reimaginings of life along the Silk Road.

EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film EALC B281 Food in Translation: Theory and This is a topics course. Course content varies. Practice Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical This semester we will explore the connections between Interpretation (CI)Counts towards: Film Studies what we eat and how we define ourselves in the Units: 1.0 context of global culture. We will proceed from the (Not Offered 2016-2017) assumption that food is an object of culture, and that our contemplation of its transformations and translations in EALC B260 The History and Rhetoric of Buddhist production, preparation, consumption, and distribution Meditation will inform our notions of personal and group identity. While Buddhist meditation is often seen as a neutral This course takes Chinese food as a case study, and technology, free of ties to any one spiritual path or examines the way that Chinese food moves from its worldview, we will examine the practice through the host country to diasporic communities all over the cosmological and soteriological contexts that gave rise world, using theories of translation as our theoretical to it. This course examines a great variety of discourses and empirical foundation. From analyzing menu surrounding meditation in traditional Buddhist texts. and ingredient translations to producing a short film Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the based on interviews, we will consider the relationship Past (IP) between food and communication in a multilingual and Units: 1.0 multicultural world. Readings include theoretical texts on Instructor(s): Glassman,H. translation (Apter), recipe books and menus, Chinese (Fall 2016) and Chinese-American literature (Classic of Poetry, Mo Yan, Hong Kingston). Films include Ian Cheney’s “Searching for General Tso,” Wayne Wang’s “Soul of a EALC B263 The Chinese Revolution Banquet” and “Eat a Bowl of Tea,” Ang Li’s “Eat Drink Places the causes and consequences of the 20th Man Woman,” and Wong Karwai’s “In the Mood for century revolutions in historical perspective, by Love.” examining its late-imperial antecedents and tracing how Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical the revolution has (and has not) transformed China, Interpretation (CI) including the lives of such key revolutionary supporters Counts towards: Film Studies as the peasantry, women, and intellectuals. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP)Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 138 East Asian Languages and Cultures

EALC B322 Topics: Considering the Dream of Red their causal factors and solving measures in cultural Chambers traditions, social movements, economic growth, political The Dream of Red Chambers (Hongloumeng) is and legal institutions and practices, international arguably the most important novel in Chinese literary cooperation and changing perceptions. Prerequisite: history. The novel tells the story of the waxing and Sophomore standing or above. waning of fortunes of the Jia family and their networks Counts towards: Environmental Studies of family and social relations, and in its finely articulated Units: 1.0 details also serves as a chronicle of the Qing dynasty, Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. an examination of visual culture, environment, kinship, (Fall 2016) sociology, economics, religious and cultural beliefs, and the structures of domestic life. In addition to addressing EALC B380 Readings in Advanced Chinese these aspects that we might categorize as external, This course prepares advanced readers of Chinese the novel also turns inwards and examines the human for the practice of reading, translating and analyzing heart and mind. How can we know another? How do we primary source texts in early-modern and modern define ourselves? These questions, and many others, Chinese literature. This class is conducted in English, have occupied scholars for the last two centuries. and all readings and screenings are in the original We will spend the semester reading all five volumes language. The course assumes advanced reading of the David Hawkes translation, with secondary knowledge of Chinese and requires successful readings assigned to guide the discussion based on the completion of 3rd year Chinese or equivalent as a semester’s theme. Course topics varies. prerequisite. Majors are strongly encouraged to take this Units: 1.0 course. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) EALC B325 Topics in Chinese History and Culture This is a topics course. Course content varies. EALC B398 Senior Seminar Units: 1.0 A research workshop culminating in the writing and (Not Offered 2016-2017) presentation of a senior thesis. Required of all majors; open to concentrators and others by permission. EALC B345 Topics in East Asian Culture Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course contents vary. Instructor(s): Glassman,H., Jiang,Y., Schoneveld,E. Prerequisite: At least one course approved as an EALC (Fall 2016) core course and sophomore standing. Units: 1.0 EALC B399 Senior Seminar Instructor(s): Fu,R. A research workshop culminating in the writing and presentation of a senior thesis. Required of all majors. Fall 2016: Readings in Strange Stories from a Units: 0.5 Chinese Studio. Close reading of the 18th-century (Not Offered 2016-2017) collection Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhi zhiyi) in translation, with some attention to EALC H120A Chinese Perspectives on the Individual secondary and theoretical materials. Exploration of themes such as fox fairies, ghosts, monsters, and Society metamorphosis, Utopia, the quest for immortality, A survey of philosophical, literary, legal, and and life as a dream. These tales will serve as autobiographical sources on Chinese notions of the starting points for examining broader questions, individual in traditional and modern China. Particular including what it means to read across cultures. emphasis is placed on identifying how ideal and actual relationships between the individual and society EALC B352 China’s Environment vary across class and gender and over time. Special This seminar explores China’s environmental issues attention will be paid to the early 20th century, when from a historical perspective. It begins by considering Western ideas about the individual begin to penetrate a range of analytical approaches , and then explores Chinese literature and political discourse. three general periods in China’s environmental changes, Smith,Paul Jakov imperial times, Mao’s socialist experiments during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, and the post- EALC H132A Japanese Civilization Mao reforms. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A broad chronological survey of Japanese culture Counts towards: Environmental Studies and society from the earliest times to the present, Units: 1.0 with special reference to such topics as belief, family, (Not Offered 2016-2017) language, the arts, and sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in English translation EALC B362 Environment in Contemporary East and secondary studies. Asia: China and Japan Glassman,Hank This seminar explores environmental issues in contemporary East Asia from a historical perspective. EALC H219A Modern and Contemporary East Asian It will explore the common and different environmental Art and Visual Culture problems in Japan and China, and explain and interpret This course examines the development of modern and contemporary art and visual culture in China, Japan and East Asian Languages and Cultures 139

Korea from the early twentieth century to the present is integrated through grammar explanations and drill day, with a focus on photography, sculpture, painting, sessions designed to reinforce new material through film, propaganda, and performance art. active practice. Six hours a week of lecture and oral Schoneveld,Erin practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required EALC H242A Buddhist Philosophy in a Global for credit. Attendance required at class and drills Context Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.5 An introduction to classical Indian Buddhist thought in (Spring 2017) a global and comparative context. The course begins with a meditative reading of the classical text-The Dhamapada-and proceeds to an in depth critical CNSE B003 Second-year Chinese exploration of the teachings of Nagarjuna, the great Second-year Chinese aims for further development dialectician who founded the Madhyamika School. of language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and Gangadean,Ashok K writing. Five hours of class plus individual conference. This is a year-long course; both semesters (CNSE 003 EALC H268A War and Military Culture in China and 004) are required for credit. Prerequisite: First-year Chinese or a passing score on the Placement Exam. This course surveys the role of war and the tension Requires attendance at class and drills between civil and martial values in Chinese history, the Approach: Course does not meet an Approach place of China’s military arts and sciences in global Units: 1.0 history, and literary and biographical representations of Instructor(s): Chiang,T. China’s experience of war. (Fall 2016) Crosslisted: History, East Asian Languages & Cultures Pre-requisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher Smith,Paul Jakov CNSE B004 Second-Year Chinese Second-year Chinese aims for further development EALC H335B Japanese Modernism Across Media of language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Five hours of class plus individual conference. This curatorial seminar examines the technological This is a year-long course; both semesters (CNSE 003 shifts and cultural transformations that have shaped and 004) are required for credit. Prerequisite: First-year Japanese artistic production and practice from the Chinese or a passing score on the Placement Exam. early 20th-century through the present day. Readings Attendance required at class and drills from pre-modern through contemporary sources, film Approach: Course does not meet an Approach screenings, and museum field trips, will be included. Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. Instructor(s): Chiang,T. Schoneveld,Erin (Spring 2017)

EALC H398A Senior Seminar CNSE B007 First-Year Chinese Non-Intensive A semester-long research workshop culminating in the This course is designed for students who have some writing and presentation of a senior thesis. Required facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing of all majors; open to concentrators and others by Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency permission. to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course Glassman,Hank that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year Schoneveld,Erin Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Students must place into Chinese B007 through the CHINESE Chinese Language Placement exam. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach COURSES Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Chiang,T. CNSE B001 Intensive First-Year Chinese (Fall 2016) An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills CNSE B008 First Year Chinese (Non-intensive) is integrated through grammar explanations and drill This course is designed for students who have some sessions designed to reinforce new material through facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing active practice. Six hours a week of lecture and oral Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course This is a year-long course; both semesters are required that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year for credit. Requires attendance at class and drills. Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Prerequisite: CNSE B007 Units: 1.5 Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Instructor(s): Zhang,C. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Chiang,T. (Spring 2017) CNSE B002 Intensive First Year Chinese An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills 140 Economics

CNSE B380 Readings in Advanced Chinese JAPANESE This course prepares advanced readers of Chinese for the practice of reading and using primary source texts in JNSE H001A First-Year Japanese (Intensive) early-modern and modern Chinese literature. Students An introduction to the four basic skills (reading, writing, will engage in critical reading and analysis of Chinese speaking, and listening), with special emphasis on texts in class discussion and writing assignments. Part the development of conversational fluency in socio- of each class meeting will be dedicated to reading and cultural contexts. Six hours per week of lecture and oral translating from the text to discuss issues of translation practice. This is a year-long course; both semesters and grammar. This class is conducted in English, and (001 and 002) are required for credit. Students must all readings and screenings are in the original language. choose one Drill Session. The course assumes advanced reading knowledge Sato,Tetsuya of Chinese and requires successful completion of 3rd Kobayashi,Minako year Chinese as a prerequisite. Majors are strongly encouraged to take this course. Prerequisites: JNSE H003A Second-Year Japanese Successful completion of 3rd-year Chinese or equivalent. A continuation of first-year Japanese, with a focus Units: 1.0 on the further development of oral proficiency, along (Not Offered 2016-2017) with reading and writing skills. Five hours per week of lecture and oral practice. This is not a year-long course. Students must choose one Drill Session. EALC B380 Readings in Advanced Chinese Suzuki,Kimiko This course prepares advanced readers of Chinese Kobayashi,Minako for the practice of reading, translating and analyzing primary source texts in early-modern and modern JNSE H101A Third-Year Japanese Chinese literature. This class is conducted in English, and all readings and screenings are in the original A continuation of language study with further language. The course assumes advanced reading development of oral proficiency and reading/writing knowledge of Chinese and requires successful skills. Emphasis on reading and discussing simple completion of 3rd year Chinese or equivalent as a texts. Advanced study of grammar and kanji; more prerequisite. Majors are strongly encouraged to take this training in opinion essay and report writing. Additional course. oral practice outside of classroom expected. Units: 1.0 Sato,Tetsuya (Not Offered 2016-2017) JNSE H201A Advanced Japanese I CNSE H101A Third-Year Chinese Continued training in modern Japanese, with particular A focus on overall language skills through reading emphasis on reading texts, mastery of the kanji, and and discussion of modern short stories, as well as on expansion of vocabulary. Explores variety of genres students facility in written and oral expression through and text types using authentic materials. readings in modern drama and screenplays. Readings Suzuki,Kimiko include representative works from the May Fourth Period (1919-27) to the present. Audio and videotapes of drama and films are used as study aids. ECONOMICS Attributes: East Asian Languages and Cultures Humanities Students may complete a major or minor in Economics. Zhang,Changchun

CNSE H201A Advanced Chinese: Chinese Films and Faculty Culture Janet Ceglowski, Professor of Economics on the Harvey In this Advanced Chinese course the topic is Chinese Wexler Chair of Economics Films and Culture. Students will watch and study a Andrew Nutting, Assistant Professor of Economics selection of films through which we will learn about life in contemporary China and learn the vocabulary Michael Rock, Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of to discuss and write on relevant topics. This is still Economic History language course, with more intensive training on formal David Ross, Associate Professor of Economics writing and oral expression on serious topics. Pre- requisite(s): Third year Chinese or equivalent or consent Andrew Sfekas, Visiting Assistant Professor of of instructor. Economics Attributes: East Asian Languages and Cultures Thomas Vartanian, Professor of Social Work and Chair Humanities of Economics Huang,Shizhe The Economics curriculum is designed to provide an understanding of economic processes and institutions and the interactions among economic, political and social structures. The curriculum helps students master the methods used by economists to analyze Economics 141 economic issues and it enables them to make reasoned economics elective as a prerequisite. Thus, majors assessments of alternative public policies in a wide are encouraged to enroll in a 200-level economics range of fields. elective in the semester after they complete ECON 105. Major Requirements • Most courses offered by the Haverford economics The economics major consists of 10 semester courses department count toward the Bryn Mawr economics in economics and one semester of college-level major and minor. An exception is Econ H247 calculus. The required courses for the economics major (Financial and Managerial Accounting). H300 are: covers the same material as B200; H302 the same material as B202; and H304 the same material as • ECON 105 Introduction to Economics B304. • ECON B200 Intermediate Microeconomics • Most courses offered by the Swarthmore economics department may also be counted toward • ECON B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics the Bryn Mawr economics major and minor; two • ECON 253 Introduction to Econometrics or ECON important exceptions are SW011 (Intermediate B304 Econometrics Microeconomics), because it does not draw on • A research seminar in economics (ECON 390-399) the same quantitative tools and SW033 (Financial that fulfills the thesis requirement. Each seminar Accounting). focuses on a specific field in economics and • Students may substitute ECON H203 or H204 for requires that a student has successfully completed ECON 253 as a major requirement if they also take prior coursework in that field. For example, ECON ECON 304 as an elective. 316 or 348 is a prerequisite for ECON 396. In • Most of our 300-level electives assume that you exceptional cases, ECON 403 Independent have been exposed to the regression model, Research may be substituted for this requirement; which is covered at some length in ECON 253 this requires preapproval of the instructor and the (Introduction to Econometrics), but only briefly department chair. in ECON H203 or H204 (Statistical Methods) at • At least two 300-level electives for which ECON Haverford. Therefore, you should take ECON 200 or 202 is a prerequisite 253 unless you are confident you will be able to • At least one Writing Intensive 300-level elective complete ECON 304 before taking one of those other 300-level courses. • Three additional 200- and/or 300-level economics electives • If a student has taken ECON 105 or H106, she cannot take another introductory course elsewhere • A minimum of one semester of college-level for credit. calculus (or its equivalent) • No more than two courses that do not have Econ Majors are advised to complete ECON 200, 202, and 105 as a prerequisite can be counted toward an 253 during sophomore year. They must be completed economics major or minor at Bryn Mawr. by the end of junior year or before any study away. These three courses should be taken at Bryn Mawr or • At least one semester of calculus (MATH 101) is Haverford. The department does not grant credit for a prerequisite for ECON B200, B202, and B304. Swarthmore’s intermediate microeconomics course, Two semesters of calculus (MATH 102) are a ECON SW011, because it is not calculus-based. prerequisite for ECON H300 and H302. Students who earn a grade below 2.7 in ECON 105 are Honors advised not to major in Economics. An economics major with a minimum GPA of 3.70 in economics, including economics courses taken in the Minor Requirements second semester of the senior year, will graduate with The minor in economics consists of ECON 105; either honors in economics. ECON 200 or 202; either ECON 253 or 304 and three electives, one of which must have ECON 200 or 202 as Advanced Placement a prerequisite. The department will waive the ECON 105 prerequisite A minor plan must be approved before the start of the for students who score a 5 on both the Microeconomics senior year. and Macroeconomics AP exams or a 6 or 7 on the Economics Higher Learning Exam of the International More Important Information for Majors Baccalaureate. The waiver does not count as course and Minors credit toward the major or minor; majors and minors receiving advanced placement must still take a total of Students with questions about the Economics major ten and six courses in economics, respectively. Students or minor are encouraged to meet with an Economics qualifying for advanced placement should see the faculty member. department chair to confirm the waiver, plan their course work in economics and receive a permission number to • ECON 202 requires sophomore standing to enroll in the elective that will substitute for Econ 105. enroll, and ECON 200 and 253 have a 200-level 142 Economics

Study Away and Transfer Credits models are used to analyze the likely macroeconomic effects of fiscal and monetary policies and to explore Planning ahead is the key to successfully balancing current macroeconomic issues and problems. a semester or year away with the economics major. Prerequisites: ECON 105, MATH B101 (or equivalent), Students planning a semester or year away must and one 200-level Economics elective (most 200 level complete the statistical methods and intermediate theory courses, excluding required courses for the major). courses (200, 202 and 253) before going away and Units: 1.0 must consult with the department chair well before the Instructor(s): Ceglowski,J. application deadline for study away. If a student wants a (Fall 2016) particular course to count toward the economics major or minor, the student must obtain approval from the department chair before confirming registration at the ECON B205 Financial Economics host institution. The class covers the economics of how people working in financial markets and intermediaries solve COURSES problems associated with: 1) fund raising and 2) risk management. The course covers the emergence of ECON B105 Introduction to Economics financial markets in history to understand the current financial system, the economics of intertemporal choice, An introduction to micro- and macroeconomics: the measurement and management of risk in asset opportunity cost, supply and demand; consumer choice, allocation, the capital asset pricing model, the arbitrage the firm and output decisions; market structures; pricing theory, derivatives, the economics of banking, efficiency and market failure; the determination of capital structure and closes with historical perspectives national income, including government spending, money on financial market crises. Prerequisites: ECON B105 and interest rates; unemployment, inflation and public Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative policy. Prerequisites: Quantitative Readiness Required. Readiness Required (QR) Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Ceglowski,J., Nutting,A., Sfekas,A. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) ECON B207 Money and Banking ECON B136 Working with Economic Data Analysis of the development and present organization of the financial system of the United States, focusing on Applies selected principles of economics to the the monetary and payment systems, financial markets, quantitative analysis of economic data; uses and financial intermediaries. May not be taken by spreadsheets and other tools to collect and judge students who have completed ECON 307. Prerequisites: the reliability of economic data. Topics may include ECON 105. measures of income inequality and poverty; Units: 1.0 unemployment, national income and other measures of (Not Offered 2016-2017) economic well-being; cost-benefit of public and private investments; construction of price indices and other government statistics; evaluating economic forecasts; ECON B208 Labor Economics and the economics of personal finance. Prerequisites: Analysis of labor markets. Focuses on the economic Quantitative Readiness Required. forces and public policies that determine wage rates and Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) unemployment. Specific topics include: human capital, Units: 1.0 family decision marking, discrimination, immigration, (Not Offered 2016-2017) technological change, compensating differentials, and signaling. Prerequisite: ECON B105. ECON B200 Intermediate Microeconomics Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Nutting,A. Systematic development of the analytical framework (Spring 2017) economists use to explain the behavior of consumers and firms. Determination of price; partial and general equilibria; welfare economics. Application to current ECON B213 Taming the Modern Corporation economic problems. Prerequisite: ECON B105, MATH Introduction to the economics of industrial organization B101 (or equivalent), one 200-level economics elective. and regulation, focusing on policy options for ensuring Units: 1.0 that corporations enhance economic welfare and the Instructor(s): Nutting,A. quality of life. Topics include firm behavior in imperfectly (Spring 2017) competitive markets; theoretical bases of antitrust laws; regulation of product and occupational safety, ECON B202 Intermediate Macroeconomics environmental pollution, and truth in advertising. Prerequisite: ECON B105. The goal of this course is to provide a thorough Units: 1.0 understanding of the behavior of the aggregate Instructor(s): Sfekas,A. economy and the likely effects of government (Spring 2017) stabilization policies. Models of output, inflation, unemployment and interest rates are developed, along with theories of consumption, investment, economic ECON B214 Public Finance growth, exchange rates and the trade balance. These Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs Economics 143 on income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics Units: 1.0 include sources of inefficiency in markets and possible Instructor(s): Ross,D. government responses; federal budget composition; (Spring 2017) social insurance and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax structure and incidence. Prerequisites: ECON B105. ECON B236 The Economics of Globalization Counts towards: Health Studies An introduction to international economics through Units: 1.0 theory, policy issues, and problems. The course surveys (Not Offered 2016-2017) international trade and finance, as well as topics in international economics. It investigates why and what a ECON B215 Urban Economics nation trades, the consequences of such trade, the role Micro- and macroeconomic theory applied to urban of trade policy, the behavior and effects of exchange economic behavior. Topics include housing and land rates, and the macroeconomic implications of trade use; transportation; urban labor markets; urbanization; and capital flows. Topics may include the economics and demand for and financing of urban services. of free trade areas, world financial crises, outsourcing, Prerequisite: ECON B105. immigration, and foreign investment. Prerequisites: Units: 1.0 ECON B105. The course is not open to students who (Not Offered 2016-2017) have taken ECON B316 or B348. Counts towards: International Studies ECON B217 Health Economics Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Economic analysis of the health sector. The demand for medical care (the role of uncertaintly, insurance, and health as human capital); the supply of medical care ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental (the market for medical education, the derived demand Programs for medical inputs, investments in capital and research Considers the determinants of human impact on the and development, quality v. quantity of supply, models of environment at the neighborhood or community level hospital and physician behavior); cost containment and and policy responses available to local government. other health-related government policies; and the role How can economics help solve and learn from the of health in developing economics. Prerequisite: ECON problems facing rural and suburban communities? The B105. instructor was a local township supervisor who will Units: 1.0 share the day-to-day challenges of coping with land use Instructor(s): Sfekas,A. planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and the (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program ECON B225 Economic Development Units: 1.0 Examination of the issues related to and the policies Instructor(s): Ross,D. designed to promote economic development in the (Fall 2016) developing economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Focus is on why some developing ECON B243 Economic Inequality and Government economies grow faster than others and why some Policy Choices growth paths are more equitable, poverty reducing, This course will examine the U.S. economy and the and environmentally sustainable than others. Includes effects of government policy choices. The class will consideration of the impact of international trade and focus on the potential trade-offs between economic investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange efficiency and greater economic equality. Some of the rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies issues that will be explored include tax, education, and (industry, agriculture, education, population, and health care policies. Different perspectives on issues will environment) on development outcomes in a wide range be examined. Prerequisite: ECON B105. of political and institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON Units: 1.0 B105. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Environmental Studies; International Studies ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Rock,M. An introduction to econometric terminology and (Fall 2016) reasoning. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical inference. Particular emphasis is placed on regression analysis and on the use ECON B234 Environmental Economics of data to address economic issues. The required Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain computational techniques are developed as part of the the underlying behavioral causes of environmental course. Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level and natural resource problems and to evaluate policy elective. responses to them. Topics may include air and water Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) pollution; the economic theory of externalities, public Units: 1.0 goods and the depletion of resources; cost-benefit Instructor(s): Ross,D. analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs; (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) economic justice; and sustainable development. Prerequisites: ECON B105. Counts towards: Environmental Studies 144 Economics

ECON B304 Econometrics Topics include economic theories of discrimination and The econometric theory presented in ECON 253 is inequality, evidence of contemporary race- and gender- further developed and its most important empirical based inequality, detecting discrimination, identifying applications are considered. Each student does an sources of racial and gender inequality, and identifying empirical research project using multiple regression and sources of overall economic inequality. Additionally, the other statistical techniques. Prerequisites: ECON 203 or instructor and students will jointly select supplementary 204 or 253; ECON 200 or both 202 and MATH 201. topics of specific interest to the class. Possible topics Units: 1.0 include: discrimination in historical markets, disparity Instructor(s): Sfekas,A. in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and (Spring 2017) education gaps. Prerequisites: At least one 200-level applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; ECON 200 or 202. ECON B313 Industrial Organization and Public Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Policy Units: 1.0 The study of the interaction of buyers, sellers and Instructor(s): Nutting,A. government in imperfectly competitive markets. (Fall 2016) Prerequisites: ECON 200 and ECON B253 or 304. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive ECON B331 Human Capital Accumulation and Units: 1.0 Development Instructor(s): Ross,D. (Fall 2016) Education stands at the center of a range of important policy and methodological issues in low and high income countries alike. To what extent does human ECON B314 The Economics of Social Policy capital accumulation contribute to economic growth, Introduces students to the economic rationale behind reduce income inequality and increase intergenerational government programs and the evaluation of government mobility? Why do some groups in low income programs. Topics include health insurance, social economies, e.g., men and children from relatively high security, unemployment and disability insurance, and income families, tend to accumulate more human capital education. Additionally, the instructor and students than other groups, e.g., women and children of the will jointly select topics of special interest to the class. poor? Why have governments intervened in the market Emphasis will be placed on the use of statistics to for education, and what have been the efficiency and evaluate social policy. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON equity consequences? Prerequisites: ECON 200 and 253 or 304. (ECON 253 or ECON 304). Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ECON B316 International Macroeconomics ECON B335 East Asian Development Examines the theory of, and current issues in, Identifies the core economic and political elements of international macroeconomics and international an East Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) finance. Considers the role of international factors in development model. Assesses the performance of macroeconomic performance; policy-making in an this development model in Northeast (China, South open economy; exchange rate systems and exchange Korea and Taiwan) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, rate behavior; international financial integration; and Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) in a international financial crises. Prerequisite: ECON B202; comparative perspective. Considers the debate over ECON 253 or 304. the impact of interventionist and selective development Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive policies associated with this model on the development Units: 1.0 successes and failures of the East Asian NIEs. Instructor(s): Ceglowski,J. Evaluates the impact of democratization in several of (Fall 2016) these polities on both the core development model identified as well as on development performance. ECON B322 Issues in Macroeconomics: Theory, Prerequisite:ECON 225; ECON 200 or 202; and ECON Policy, History 253 or 304; or permission of instructor. Several timely issues in macroeconomic theory and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive policy-making are examined in depth. Possible topics Units: 1.0 include the implications of chronic deficit spending, the (Not Offered 2016-2017) effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, growth and productivity. Prerequisites: ECON B253 or 304 and 202. ECON B348 International Trade Units: 1.0 Study of the major theories offered to explain (Not Offered 2016-2017) international trade. Includes analyses of the effects of trade barriers (tariffs, quotas, non-tariff barriers), trade ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and liberalization, and foreign investment by multinational Inequality corporations on growth, poverty, inequality, and the Explores the causes and consequences of environment. Prerequisite: ECON B200. discrimination and inequality in economic markets. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Education 145

ECON B385 Democracy and Development ECON B403 Supervised Work From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of An economics major may elect to do individual research. democracies grew from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” A semester-long research paper is required; it satisfies the collapse of communism and developmental the 300-level research paper requirement. Students who successes in East Asia have led some to argue the register for 403 must submit an application form before triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late the beginning of the semester (the form is available 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some from the department chair). The permission of both the fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We supervising faculty member and department chair is will question this phenomenon through the disciplines required. of economics, history, political science and sociology Units: 1.0 drawing from theoretical, case study and classical (Fall 2016) literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 253 or 304; and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior ECON B234 Environmental Economics Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain Instructor. the underlying behavioral causes of environmental Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice and natural resource problems and to evaluate policy and Human Rights responses to them. Topics may include air and water Units: 1.0 pollution; the economic theory of externalities, public Instructor(s): Rock,M. goods and the depletion of resources; cost-benefit (Spring 2017) analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs; economic justice; and sustainable development. ECON B393 Research Seminar in Industrial and Prerequisites: ECON B105. Environmental Regulation Counts towards: Environmental Studies Thesis seminar. Each student does a semester- Units: 1.0 long research project on a relevant topic of interest. Instructor(s): Ross,D. Research topics include the interaction of buyers, (Spring 2017) sellers, and government in imperfectly competitive markets: the causes and responses to environmental ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental and natural resources degradation. Prerequisite: ECON Programs B200; B253 or B304; B234 or B313. Considers the determinants of human impact on the Units: 1.0 environment at the neighborhood or community level Instructor(s): Ross,D. and policy responses available to local government. (Spring 2017) How can economics help solve and learn from the problems facing rural and suburban communities? The ECON B395 Research Seminar in Economic instructor was a local township supervisor who will Development share the day-to-day challenges of coping with land use Thesis seminar. Each student is expected to engage in planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and the a semester long research project on a relevant topic in provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. economic development. The major work product for the Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program seminar is a senior research paper of refereed journal Units: 1.0 article length. Students are expected to participate in all Instructor(s): Ross,D. group meetings and all one-on-one meetings with the (Fall 2016) professor. This is a course for majors writing a senior thesis in economic development. Prerequisites: ECON 225 or ECON H240 and ECON B200 or B202; and EDUCATION ECON 253 OR 304. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Rock,M. Students may complete a minor in education, in which (Fall 2016) there are two tracks: the minor in educational studies and the minor in education leading to secondary teacher certification. Alumnae may also complete the ECON B396 Research Seminar: International requirements for secondary teacher certification after Economics they graduate through the Post-baccalaureate Teacher Thesis seminar. Each student does a semester- Education Program. long research project on a relevant topic of interest. Research topics in international trade or trade policy, international finance, international macroeconomics, Faculty and international economic integration are appropriate. Jody Cohen, Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Prerequisites: ECON 316 and 202 or ECON 348 and Haverford Education Program 200; ECON 253 or 304. Units: 1.0 Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katherine Woodworth Instructor(s): Ceglowski,J. Chair and Professor in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford (Spring 2017) Education Program and Director of Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Program 146 Education

Heather Curl, Lecturer possible for advice on scheduling, preferably by the Debbie Flaks, Instructor sophomore year. Alice Lesnick, Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Requirements for the Minor in Mawr/Haverford Education Program and Faculty Convener of International Programs Educational Studies The bi-college minor in educational studies is an The field of education is about teaching people how to interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural, political, teach and more. The Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education developmental, and interactional dimensions of teaching Program is built around four mutually-informing pursuits: and learning and is designed for students with a broad teacher preparation; the interdisciplinary study of range of education-related interests, such as graduate learning as a central human and cultural activity; the study in education, pursuit of elementary or secondary investigation of the politics of schooling; and students’ certification after graduation, or a host of activities growth as reflective facilitators, learners, researchers that require educational expertise. Many professions and change agents. and pursuits – management and training positions, research, administration and policy work, and careers Courses in the Education Program address students in social work, health and law -- involve using an interested in: educator’s skills and knowledge. Civic engagement, community development, and work towards social • The theory, process and transformation of justice also require knowledge of how people learn education and change. Because students interested in these • Social justice, activism and working within and or other education-related pursuits major in different against systems subject areas and have different aspirations, they are • Future work as educators in schools, public or encouraged to design a minor appropriate to their major mental health, community, or other settings area of study and their anticipated futures. • Examining and reclaiming their own learning and Requirements for the minor in educational studies educational goals include: • Integrating experiential and academic learning • EDUC 200 Critical Issues in Education Each education course includes a field component • Four education courses. At least two must be through which instructors seek continuously to offered by Education Program or affiliated faculty integrate theory and practice, asking students to bridge (J. Cohen,/A. Cook-Sather/H. Curl/V. Donnay/D. academic and experiential knowledge in the classroom Flaks/A. Lesnick). Up to two may be education and beyond it. Field placements in schools and other courses offered by faculty in other departments (of educational settings range from two hours per week in these, one may be taken at Swarthmore, Penn, or the introductory course to full-time student teaching in while studying away). the certification program. • One of the following as a culminating course: The Bi-College Education Program offers several EDUC 311( Theories of Change in Educational options. Students may: Institutions), EDUC 301 (Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar), SOWKB676 (Making Space for Learning: • Explore one or more aspects of education in areas Pedagogical Planning and Facilitation), or an of particular interest – such as urban schooling – by intensified version of EDUCB295 (Advocating enrolling in single courses Diversity in Higher Education). • Pursue a minor in educational studies Requirements for Secondary • Pursue a minor in education leading to secondary teacher certification Certification • Complete the secondary teacher certification The Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program is program after they graduate through the Post- accredited by the state of Pennsylvania to prepare baccalaureate Teacher Education Program undergraduates and alumnae for certification in the following subject areas: English; languages, including or French, Latin, and Spanish; mathematics; the sciences, • In a five-year program, complete both the including biology, chemistry, and physics; and social A.B./M.A. program in French, mathematics, physics, or studies. Pursuit of certification in Chinese, German, possibly other departments that offer the AB/MA option and Russian is also possible but subject to availability and the secondary teaching certification program. of student teaching placements. Students certified in a language have K-12 certification. Students in the tri-college community may also apply to sub-matriculate as juniors or seniors into the University To qualify for a teaching certificate, students must of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education’s complete an academic major in the subject area in elementary or secondary education Master’s program. which they seek certification (or, in the case of social studies, students must major in history, political science, The requirements for the minor in education and teacher economics, anthropology, sociology, or Growth and certification are described below. Students interested in Structure of Cities and take courses outside their major these options, or the other options named above, should in the other areas). Within their major, students must meet with the Education Program Adviser as early as select courses that help them meet the state standards Education 147 for teachers in that subject area. Students must also EDUC B208 Race-ing Education complete the secondary teacher certification track of the This course investigates education as part of processes minor in education, taking these courses: of racialization and marginalization and also as a space for challenging these processes. How do race and • EDUC 200 Critical Issues in Education schooling intersect and interact? How can educators – • PSYC 203 Educational Psychology along with students, parents, and communities – learn • EDUC 210 Perspectives on Special Education and teach critical awareness of race as an idea and a system? With a focus on the U.S., we look at ways in • EDUC 275 English Learners in U.S. Schools which race as a way of creating power is embedded • EDUC 301 Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar (fall in earlier iterations of schooling, as in cases regarding semester, prior to student teaching) access to education for Black, Latinx, and Asian students and in American Indian boarding schools, and • EDUC 302 Practice Teaching Seminar and EDUC how race is differently taken up in the work of such 303 Practice Teaching. These courses are taken thinkers/educators as W.E.B. Dubois, James Baldwin, concurrently for three credits. and Paulo Freire. We consider how such issues play out Students preparing for certification must also take two in the recent past and contemporary moment through courses in English and two courses in math, maintain a ongoing cases on affirmative action; work in Critical grade point average of 3.0 or higher, and pass a series Race Theory and LatCrit by such educators as Patricia of exams for beginning teachers (state requirements). Williams and Tara Yosso, and in decolonizing education To be admitted to the culminating student teaching by Eve Tuck and Gloria Anzaldua; and curriculum and phase of the program, students must earn a grade of pedagogy in the theory and practice of such educators a 2.7 or higher in both EDUC 200 (Critical Issues in as Kevin Kumashiro and movements such as Black Education) and EDUC 301 (Curriculum and Pedagogy) Lives Matter. We also consider Bryn Mawr’s own and be recommended by their major department and the history, in light of how to move forward through critically director of the Education Program. To be recommended engaged education. for certification, students must earn a grade of 2.7 or Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) higher in EDUC 302 (Practice Teaching Seminar) and a Counts towards: Africana Studies grade of Satisfactory in EDUC 303 (Practice Teaching). Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Cohen,J. Note: Students practice-teach full time for 12 weeks in (Fall 2016) a local school during the spring semester of their senior year. Given this demanding schedule, students are not able to take courses other than the Practice Teaching EDUC B210 Perspectives on Special Education Seminar and senior seminar for their major. The goal of this course is to introduce students to a range of topics, challenges, dilemmas, and strategies to Graduates may complete the requirements for understand and educate all learners—those considered secondary teacher certification at Bryn Mawr in a post- typical learners as well as those considered “special” baccalaureate program. learners. Students will learn about: how students’ learning profiles affect their ability to learn in school Title II Reporting from a functional perspective; how and why students’ Title II of the Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that a educational experience is affected by education law full teacher preparation report, including the institution’s (especially special education law); major issues in pass rate as well as the state’s pass rate, be available special education; and how to meet diverse students’ to the public on request. Copies of the report may be needs in an inclusive classroom. Two hours of fieldwork requested from Ann Brown, Program Coordinator and per week required. Advisor, by email at [email protected] or phone at Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (610) 526-5376. Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Praxis Program Units: 1.0 COURSES Instructor(s): Flaks,D. (Fall 2016) EDUC B200 Critical Issues in Education Designed to be the first course for students interested EDUC B220 Changing Pedagogies in Mathematics in pursuing one of the options offered through the and Science Education Program, this course is also open to students exploring an interest in educational practice, theory, This Praxis course will examine research-based research, and policy. The course examines major issues approaches to teaching mathematics and science. and questions in education in the United States by What does research tell us about how people learn? investigating the purposes of education. Fieldwork in an How can one translate this learning theory into teaching area school required (eight visits, 1.5-2 hours per visit). approaches that will help all students learn mathematics Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and science? How are these new approaches, that often Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive involve active, hands-on, inquiry based learning, being Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family implemented in the classroom? What challenges arise Studies when one tries to bring about these types of changes in Units: 1.0 education? How do issues of equity, discrimination, and Instructor(s): Curl,H. social justice impact math and science education? The (Fall 2016) Praxis component of the course usually involves two (2) 148 Education two hour visits per week for 8 weeks to a local math or Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) science classroom. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 1.0 EDUC B260 Multicultural Education Instructor(s): Donnay,V. An investigation of education as a cultural event that (Fall 2016) engages issues of identity, difference, and power. The course explores a set of key tensions in the contested EDUC B225 Topics: Empowering Learners areas of multiculturalism and multicultural education: This is a topics course. Course content varies. Praxis identity and difference; peace and conflict; dialogue course. Prerequisite: EDUC B200 or permission of and silence; and culture and the individual psyche. instructor. Students will apply theory and practice to global as well Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) as specific, localized situations — communities and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive schools that contend with significant challenges in terms Counts towards: Praxis Program of equity and places where educators, students, and Units: 1.0 parents are trying out ways of educating for diversity Instructor(s): Lesnick,A. and social justice. Fieldwork of two to three hours per week. Spring 2017: Holistic Approaches to Education Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and Health.This course supports students Counts towards: Africana Studies; Praxis Program in developing their philosophy of educational Units: 1.0 empowerment with a focus on integrating mind, (Not Offered 2016-2017) body, spirit, and emotions in the design of teaching and learning. Drawing on critical disability studies, EDUC B266 Schools in American Cities health studies, mindfulness approaches, and culture-centered understandings, students will gain This course examines issues, challenges, and practical and conceptual tools for strength-based possibilities of urban education in contemporary work with individuals and communities. America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school EDUC B244 Unsettling Literacy: Praxis systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look at urban education nationally over several decades, Taught, by teachers in the Education Program and we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students English Department, each instructor is serving a “term investigate through documents and school placements. professorship” at Bryn Mawr College, while doing This is a Praxis II course (weekly fieldwork in a school long(er) term instruction at Riverside Correctional required) Facility in North Philadelphia. We will offer these two Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) “walled communities” as comparative contexts for Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family experiences and reflections on what it means to “learn Studies; Praxis Program our letters”: What gives us access, to texts and selves? Units: 1.0 What are the outcomes of such educational processes? Instructor(s): Cohen,J. Do we imagine “letters,” in Frederick Douglas’s words, (Spring 2017) as providing “the pathway from slavery to freedom,” and/or (as claimed by a contemporary criminologist) as “training good workers for a problematic system”? EDUC B270 Identity, Access, and Innovation in Does becoming “lettered” enable learners to fill roles Education in stratified, normalizing institutions, and/or give us This course explores formal policies that address increased leeway in living our lives, perhaps even dimensions of identity such as race, class, gender, opening up what educator Jean Anyon calls “radical language and dis/ability in education, and the informal possibilities”? Co-requisite: Students must register for ways that such policies play out in access to education both EDUC B244 and ENGL B244. and in knowledge construction and production. Praxis Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) placements will provide students with opportunities to Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive work in participatory ways in relation to these issues. Counts towards: Praxis Program Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Praxis Program Instructor(s): Cohen,J. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

EDUC B255 Technology, Education and Society EDUC B285 Ecologies of Minds and Communities Altering Environments This course will attend to students’ distinctive ways This course examines the dynamic role and impact of seeing and being in the world, in the context of of technology in classroom, informal, community, communitarian questions of identity, access, and and global contexts. In order to develop agency and power. How can we re-imagine ecological literacy more judgment in using, creating and evaluating technologies, deeply and fruitfully with and for diverse students and students will learn via experience and critical exploration communities? of associated questions of power, knowledge, culture, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) access, and identity. Prerequisite: EDUC 200 Education 149

Counts towards: Environmental Studies ANTH B271 Museum Anthropology: History, Politics, Units: 1.0 Practices (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course provides an in-depth exploration of museum anthropology: the critical study of museum EDUC B290 Learning in Institutional Spaces practices from an anthropological perspective. The This course considers how the institutions of schools course will fundamentally consider the role of museums and prisons operate as sites of learning. Beginning in exhibiting culture—the politics of placing cultures with an examination of educational and penitential on display, from living humans and human remains institutions, we inquire into how these structures both to cultural objects and artifacts. The course will also constrain and propel learning, and how human beings consider changing practices in museum anthropology, take up, challenge and change their surroundings. We including repatriation efforts, shifting notions of heritage investigate the role of “voice”--speaking out, expressing, and identity and the emergence of community-curated engaging in dialogue—in teaching and learning: In exhibitions. This course complements the theoretical what ways can “voice” instigate understanding and explorations of the museum with visits to area museums even change, and how is this notion also complex and and hands-on work in Special Collections. problematic? We consider explicit curriculae alongside Approach: Course does not meet an Approach implicit, even hidden curriculae; how do people inside Units: 1.0 these spaces collude with, subvert, and challenge (Not Offered 2016-2017) official agendas as they create their own agendas for learning? ARTA B251 Arts Teaching in Educational and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Community Settings Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Praxis This is a Praxis II course intended for students who Program have substantial experience in an art form and are Units: 1.0 interested in extending that experience into teaching (Not Offered 2016-2017) and learning at educational and community sites. Following an overview of the history of the arts in EDUC B295 Advocating Diversity in Higher education, the course will investigate underlying Education theories. The praxis component will allow students to As institutions of higher education embrace and even create a fluid relationship between theory and practice seek greater diversity, we also see an increase in through observing, teaching and reflecting on arts tensions born of differences across which we have practices in educational contexts. School or community little preparation to communicate, learn, and live. This placement 4 hours a week. Prerequisite: At least an course will be co-created by students enrolled and the intermediate level of experience in an art form. This instructor, and it will provide a forum for exploration of course counts toward the minor in Dance or Theater. diversity and difference and a platform for action and Counts towards: Praxis Program campus-wide education. Extensive, informal writing Units: 1.0 and more formal research and presentations will afford (Not Offered 2016-2017) you the opportunity to craft empowering narratives for yourselves and your lives and to take research and EDUC B403 Supervised Work teaching beyond the classroom. Two to three hours of Units: 1.0 campus-based field work required each week. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Cook-Sather,A. EDUC B425 Praxis III: Independent Study (Spring 2017) Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration EDUC B302 Practice Teaching Seminar with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite Drawing on participants’ diverse student teaching organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection placements, this seminar invites exploration and that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the analysis of ideas, perspectives and approaches to classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding teaching at the middle and secondary levels. Taken gained through classroom study to work done in the concurrently with Practice Teaching. Open only to broader community. students engaged in practice teaching. Counts towards: Praxis Program Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017) ENGL B244 Unsettling Literacy EDUC B303 Practice Teaching in Secondary Schools Taught, by teachers in the Education Program and Supervised teaching in secondary schools (12 weeks). English Department, each instructor is serving a “term Two units of credit are given for this course. Open only professorship” at Bryn Mawr College, while doing to students preparing for state certification. long(er) term instruction at Riverside Correctional Units: 2.0 Facility in North Philadelphia. We will offer these two (Spring 2017) “walled communities” as comparative contexts for 150 English experiences and reflections on what it means to “learn Faculty our letters”: What gives us access, to texts and selves? What are the outcomes of such educational processes? Linda-Susan Beard, Associate Professor of English and Do we imagine “letters,” in Frederick Douglas’s words, Director of Africana Studies as providing “the pathway from slavery to freedom,” Peter Briggs, Professor of English (on leave semester II) and/or (as claimed by a contemporary criminologist) as “training good workers for a problematic system”? Anne Dalke, Term Professor of English Does becoming “lettered” enable learners to fill roles Colby J. Gordon, Assistant Professor of English in stratified, normalizing institutions, and/or give us increased leeway in living our lives, perhaps even Jody Griffith, Lecturer opening up what educator Jean Anyon calls “radical Jennifer Harford Vargas, Assistant Professor of English possibilities”? Co-requisite: Students must register for and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and both EDUC B244 and ENGL B244. Iberian Studies Program Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Praxis Program Jane Hedley, K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of Units: 1.0 English (on leave semester I) Instructor(s): Dalke,A., Cohen,J. (Spring 2017) Gail Hemmeter, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Writing POLS B374 Education Politics & Policy Jesse Hoffman, Visiting Assistant Professor This course will examine education policy through the David Kenosian, Lecturer lens of federalism and federalism through a case study of education policy. The dual aims are to enhance Hoang Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and our understanding of this specific policy area and our Director of Film Studies understanding of the impact that our federal system of Matthew J. Rigilano, Lecturer government has on policy effectiveness. Units: 1.0 Matthew Ruben, Lecturer in English and the Emily Balch (Not Offered 2016-2017) Seminars Bethany Schneider, Associate Professor of English SOWK B676 Making Space for Learning: Pedagogical Planning and Facilitation Eleanor Stanford, Instructor Supported by the Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) Jamie Taylor, Associate Professor of English and a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this series of pedagogy workshops for graduate Kate Thomas, Chair and Associate Professor of English students may be taken in its entirety for course credit, Michael Tratner, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of or individual workshops may be attended as stand- English (on leave semester I) alone sessions. Seven two-hour workshops focused on a variety of pedagogical issues (e.g., course design, teaching styles, creating culturally responsive The English Department offers a wide range of courses classrooms, grading) are scheduled for both the fall and in British, American, and Anglophone literatures, from the spring semesters.* These are interactive workshops, medieval romance to contemporary novels and film. some of which require the completion of reading in Students develop their own paths through the major, advance and some of which include discussion of texts experimenting with historical periods, genres, and forms during the workshops themselves, but all of which focus while also developing expertise in specific areas. on active, collaborative explorations of pedagogical The department stresses critical thinking, incisive writing issues. A full list of the workshop topics is available and speaking, and a sense of initiative and responsibility through the Dean’s Office. These workshops count for the enterprise of interpretation. With their advisers, toward the completion of the Dean’s Certificate in English majors design a program of study that deepens Pedagogy (http://www.brynmawr.edu/gsas/Resources/ their understanding of diverse genres, textual traditions, certificate.html). Enrollment limited to 5 advanced and periods. We encourage students to explore the undergraduates. history of cultural production and reception and also to Units: 1.0 question the presuppositions of literary study. The major Instructor(s): Cook-Sather,A. culminates in an independently written essay of 30-40 (Fall 2016) pages, developed during a senior research seminar in the fall semester and individually mentored by a faculty member in the spring. Students are expected to take at ENGLISH least two English courses at Bryn Mawr before signing up for the major or minor. Students may complete a major or minor in English. Within the major, students may complete a Summary of the Major concentration in Creative Writing. Students may also The major requires a total of eleven courses. At least combine an English major with or minor in Africana five courses at the 200 level (exclusive of 250) and at Studies, Environmental Studies, or Gender and least three at the 300 level (exclusive of 398 and 399). Sexuality Studies; alternatively, a concentration in All 300 level courses must be taken at BMC or HC. Gender and Sexuality Studies is available. English 151

Note: One 200 level Creative Writing course can count English Majors and the Education towards the major. Certification Program • ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study, (must be English majors planning to complete an education taken before the senior year. Prerequisite: at least certification in their senior year should file a work one 200 level course) plan with the chairs of the Education and English • ENGL B398 Senior Seminar (offered Mondays in Departments no later than December 1 of their the fall, 2:30-4pm) junior year. English majors on this path will follow an accelerated writing schedule in their senior year. • ENGL B399 Senior Essay (taken in the spring, with an individual adviser) Extended Research Summary of the Minor Some students seek a longer horizon and a chance to Students must declare their minor by the end of their dig deeper into their research interests. Rising juniors junior year. and seniors in English frequently apply for fellowship support from the Hanna Holborn Gray program, to • Five English courses (at least one at the 300 level). pursue original research over the summer or through 300 levels must be taken at BMC or HC. One 200 the year. The projects may be stand-alone or may lead level Creative Writing course may count towards to a senior essay. In either case, students work closely the minor. with faculty advisers to define the goals, methods, and potential outcomes of their research • ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study (must be taken before the senior year. Prerequisite:1 or preferably 2 200-level English courses) Departmental Honors Students who have done distinguished work in their Writing Requirement courses in the major and who write outstanding senior By the end of their junior year, English majors must essays will be considered for departmental honors. satisfy the College’s Writing Intensive Requirement by taking one Writing Intensive (WI) course taught by COURSES English Department faculty. ENGL B193 Critical Feminist Studies Minor in Film Studies Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger questions about feminist forms of theorizing: three There is no limit to the number of courses in film studies fictional texts will be supplemented by a wide range of that may count toward the English major, except for essays. Students will review current scholarship, identify a student majoring in English who is also seeking to their own stake in the conversation, and define a critical declare a minor in film studies. In that case two (and question they want to pursue at length. only two) of the courses that comprise the six-course Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) film studies minor may also count towards the 11-course Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies English major. The minimum number of courses Units: 1.0 required to complete an English major and a minor in (Not Offered 2016-2017) film studies is thus 15 courses.

Concentration in Creative Writing ENGL B201 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Access to and skill in reading Middle English will be Students may elect a concentration in creative writing. acquired through close study of the Tales. Exploration of (In addition to the eight English courses, students must Chaucer’s narrative strategies and of a variety of critical take English 250, English 398, and English 399, as approaches to the work will be the major undertakings described above) One of the creative writing units at of the semester. the 300 level may count as one of the three required Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) 300-level courses for the major. Students enrolling in Units: 1.0 this concentration must seek the approval of their major (Not Offered 2016-2017) adviser in English and of the director of the Creative Writing Program; they must enroll in the concentration ENGL B202 Understanding Poetry before the end of their sophomore year. This course is for students who wish to develop their skills in reading and writing critically about poetry. Other Minors The course will provide grounding in the traditional The Department of English contributes courses toward skills of prosody (i.e., reading accentual, syllabic, and minors in Africana Studies, in Environmental Studies, accentual-syllabic verse) as well as tactics for reading and in the Program in Gender and Sexuality. and understanding the breath-based or image-based prosody of free verse. Lyric, narrative, and dramatic Students Going Abroad poetry will be discussed and differentiated. We will be using close reading and oral performance to highlight Students should complete both English 250 and one the unique fusion of language, rhythm (sound), and 300-level course before leaving for a semester or year image that makes poetry different from prose. abroad. 152 English

Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B207 Eating Empire: Food, Diaspora and Units: 1.0 Victorian Britain (Not Offered 2016-2017) This class will explore British culinary culture across the long nineteenth century, focusing on how food ENGL B203 Imagined Worlds: Utopia and Dystopia culture was used in the ordering and Othering of the in Literature world and its populations. Our lens is the relationship When Thomas More coined the term “Utopia” in 1516, of food to nineteenth-century colonial and imperial it meant both “good place” and “no place” – an ideal discourse and we will analyze how food both traced society, and an unreachable one. Since then, the term and guided global networks of power, politics and (as well as its opposite, dystopia) has been applied to trade. We will be particularly interested in theorizing the representations of imagined worlds that hold a mirror up paradox that the trademark English comestibles – the to our own. In this class, we’ll read texts from the early sweet cup of tea, the curry – are colonial imports, and modern period (Utopia, The Blazing World) through the we will also construct a history of the industrialization present day (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Hunger Games) of food that facilitated exportation. As we are tracing that use invented societies to critique the ‘real world.’ the flows of capital and foodstuffs, we will also We will pay particular attention to how descriptions consider the power of resisting food, by studying anti- of imagined places explore very real tensions around saccharite abolitionist protests, hunger strikes and food class, gender and racial identities. Do these texts offer adulteration campaigns. Organizing units will include a path to better worlds, or do such fantasies always sugar, chocolate, tea, spices. Texts will include slave remain out of reach? narratives, nineteenth century cookbooks and colonial Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) culinary memoirs, Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Stoker’s Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Dracula, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical (Not Offered 2016-2017) Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 ENGL B205 Introduction to Film (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course is intended to provide students with the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings ENGL B208 Big Books of American Literature of images and sounds, sections of films and entire This course focuses on the “big books” of mid-19th- narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical century American literature, viewed through the lenses viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in of contemporary theory and culture. Throughout the film studies. The course introduces formal and technical course, as we explore the role that classics play in the units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and construction of our culture, we will consider American history that add up to the experiences and meanings we literature as an institutional apparatus, under debate call cinema. Although much of the course material will and by no means settled. This will involve a certain focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be amount of antidisciplinary work: interrogating books drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly as naturalized objects, asking how they reproduce screenings is mandatory. conventional categories and how we might re-imagine Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) the cultural work they perform. We will look at the Counts towards: Film Studies problems of exceptionalism as we examine traditional Units: 1.0 texts relationally, comparatively, and interactively. Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Dalke,A. ENGL B206 Romance to Bromance (Fall 2016) This course examines the ongoing popularity of romance, examining the genre from the Middle Ages to ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances contemporary romantic comedies. In doing so, we will of Gender pay particular attention to the gender politics romance Readings chosen to highlight the construction and produces, supports, and challenges, exploring how performance of gender identity during the period various historical moments and media conceptualize from 1550 to 1650 and the ways in which the gender love, desire, sex, and marriage. Texts will include anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century men and women Chaucer’s _Troilus and Criseyde_, Marlowe’s _Hero differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will include and Leander_, Richard Hurd’s eighteenth-century plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical _Letters on Chivalry and Romance_, and nineteenth- writing of the period. century bodice rippers. We will also discuss the ongoing Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) publication of Harlequin romances, the popularity of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive romantic comedy in film (from the 1930s to now) as well Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies as the reimagining of romance tropes and male intimacy Units: 1.0 in films like “Brokeback Mountain” and buddy comedies. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 ENGL B211 The Lives of Nineteenth-Century (Not Offered 2016-2017) Monsters This course explores the centrality of monstrosity to the nineteenth-century British novel. Our work will English 153 involve placing these monsters in the tradition of the Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, John James Gothic in order to understand the cultural, social, and Audubon’s house @ Mill Grove, Wissahickon Valley literary metaphors they represent. In some cases, we Park, Chanticleer (a pleasure garden in Wayne), and the will read about monsters with hideous bodies, but our Laurel Hill Cemetery. work will also include reading about monstrosity that is Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical kept hidden from view. To aid our work—and to provide Interpretation (CI) adequate protection—we will read about the sublime, Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and the uncanny, and the other topics that monstrosity veils Sexuality Studies and exposes such as gender and sexuality. Literary Units: 1.0 texts might include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, James (Not Offered 2016-2017) Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Emily ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, George Eliot’s The Lifted This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion Veil, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Bram bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the Stoker’s Dracula, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. and Mr. Hyde, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian We will focus on topics of shared concern among Gray. Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, Units: 1.0 the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of (Not Offered 2016-2017) migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, films, ENGL B215 Early Modern Crime Narratives: Vice, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Villains, and Law Latinidad in the Americas. This course taps into our continuing collective Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) obsession with criminality, unpacking the complicated Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality web of feelings attached to crime and punishment Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies through early modern literary treatments of villains, Units: 1.0 scoundrels, predators, pimps, witches, king-killers, Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. poisoners, mobs, and adulterers. By reading literary (Fall 2016) accounts of vice alongside contemporary and historical theories of criminal justice, we will chart the deep ENGL B218 Ecological Imaginings history of criminology and track competing ideas about Re-thinking the evolving nature of representation, with a punishment and the criminal mind. This course pays focus on language as a link between natural and cultural particular attention the ways that people in this historical ecosystems. We will observe the world; read classical moment mapped criminality onto dynamics of gender, and cutting edge ecolinguistic, ecoliterary, ecofeminist, race, sexuality, disability, religion, and mental illness and ecocritical theory, along with a wide range of according to cultural conventions very different from exploratory, speculative, and imaginative essays and our own. Authors may include Shakespeare, Marlowe, stories; and seek a variety of ways of expressing our Massinger, Middleton, Dekker, Webster, and Behn. own ecological interests. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and Units: 1.0 Sexuality Studies Instructor(s): Gordon,C. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ENGL B216 Re-creating Our World: Vision, Voice, ENGL B221 Roaring Girls & Ranting Widows: Value Narratives of Crime To this shared project, the discipline of English literary Narratives of Crime and Adventure will explore the figure studies will contribute an awareness of the limits of the female outlaw (picara), in literary and visual texts and possibilities of representation, asking what is from the early modern period to today. Through reading foregrounded, what backgrounded or omitted, in each British and American texts that feature the figure of the verbal, visual, aural or tactile re-presentation of the female outlaw (or picara), students will understand the world. Asking, too, what might be imagined that has ways in which literary content and literary form function not yet been experienced, “Re-creating Our World” together, and how they reflect cultural changes and invites students both to create their own multi-modal norms. Students will focus their readings through the representations of the spaces they occupy, and to re- role of the female outlaw to the more common picaro, create, in some way, the space that is Bryn Mawr. This male outlaw. Students will learn how the “female course offers a shared exploration of imaginative images picaresque” (as seen in novels, other writings, and and texts, with a global reach and in a range of genres visual texts) explores gender, changes in moral and (photography, film, poetry, as well as multiple narratives, aesthetic values, class, race, politics, colonialism, the in forms that will vary from satire to science fiction, from body, and sexuality. apocalypse to utopia). On field trips to local sites, we Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) will also study “representations” of the world in the form Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies of various “shaped spaces,” including The Center for Units: 1.0 Environmental Transformation in Camden, the John (Not Offered 2016-2017) 154 English

ENGL B228 Silence: The Rhetorics of Class, Gender, Units: 1.0 Culture, Religion Instructor(s): Briggs,P. This course will consider silence as a rhetorical art and (Fall 2016) political act, an imaginative space and expressive power that can serve many functions, including that of opening ENGL B234 Postcolonial Literature in English new possibilities among us. We will share our own This course will survey a broad range of novels and experiences of silence, re-thinking them through the poems written while countries were breaking free of lenses of how it is explained in philosophy, enacted in British colonial rule. Readings will also include cultural classrooms and performed by various genders, cultures, theorists interested in defining literary issues that arise and religions. from the postcolonial situation. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Praxis Counts towards: Africana Studies Program Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Tratner,M. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017)

ENGL B229 Movies and Mass Politics ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Movies and mass politics emerged together, altering Gloria Anzalda has famously described the U.S.- entertainment and government in strangely similar Mexico border as an open wound and the border culture ways. Fascism and Communism claimed an inherent that arises from this fraught site as a third country. relation to the masses and hence to movies; Hollywood This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os rejected such claims. We will examine films that allude creatively represent different kinds of migrations across to Communism and Fascism, seeking to understand geo-political borders and between cultural traditions to how they join in political debates and comment upon the forge transnational identities and communities. We will mass experience of movie going. use cultural production as a lens for understanding how Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) citizenship status, class, gender, race, and language Counts towards: Film Studies shape the experiences of Latin American migrants and Units: 1.0 their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative (Not Offered 2016-2017) metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of ENGL B230 Topics in American Drama undocumented migrants and Latina/os in contemporary Considers American plays of the 20th century, reading U.S. society. Over the course of the semester, we will major playwrights of the canon alongside other probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can dramatists who were less often read and produced. play in the struggle for migrants’ rights and minority civil Will also study later 20th century dramatists whose rights, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can plays both develop and resist the complex foundation contribute to social justice. We will examine a number established by canonical American playwrights and how of different genres, as well as read and apply key American drama reflects and responds to cultural and theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented political shifts. Considers how modern American identity migration. has been constructed through dramatic performance, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical considering both written and performed versions of Interpretation (CI) these plays. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017)

ENGL B232 Pirates in the Popular Imagination ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas This course will explore popular representations of This course examines representations of dictatorship pirates from the seventeenth century to the present, in in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore memoirs, first-hand and fictional accounts (including the relationship between narrative form and absolute children’s literature), and films. The context will be power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use global, with an emphasis on the transatlantic world. to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator Topics will include slavery, gender/sexuality, captivity, novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central class/status, race, and imperialism/colonialism. America, and the Southern Cone. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin Units: 1.0 American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B233 Spenser and Milton ENGL B240 Wit and Witness: English Literature The course is equally divided between Spenser’s Faerie 1660-1744 Queene and Milton’s Paradise Lost, with additional short readings from each poet’s other work. The rise of new literary genres and the contemporary Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) efforts to find new definitions of heroism and wit, good English 155 taste and good manners, sin and salvation, individual adults as teenaged characters, using adaptations to tell identity and social responsibility, and the pressure the story of today’s teens coming of age. In this course, exerted by changing social, intellectual and political we’ll study several Shakespeare plays and current contexts of literature. Readings from Defoe, Dryden, versions them, including film, fiction, music and even a early feminist writers, Pope, Restoration dramatists and production of Romeo and Juliet conducted entirely over Swift. Twitter. Why do so many artists choose to represent Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) present-day teen culture through Shakespeare? And Units: 1.0 can the notion of a “teen” protagonist productively be (Not Offered 2016-2017) applied to Shakespeare’s plays? Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) ENGL B242 Historical Introduction to English Poetry I Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course traces the development of English poetry from 1360 to 1700, emphasizing forms, themes, and conventions that have become part of the continuing ENGL B249 Love and Madness in Victorian Poetry vocabulary of poetry, and exploring the strengths We commonly associate Victorian Britain with great and limitations of different strategies of interpretation. works of fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens and Featured poets: Chaucer, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, Charlotte Brontë. However, the development of Victorian and Milton. poetry over the same period of time, roughly 1830-1901, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) is a frequently overlooked site of immense creativity. Units: 1.0 This course will cover a broad array of topics from the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Victorian Poetess to the Pre-Raphaelite School with a particular emphasis on the innovation of the dramatic ENGL B243 Historical Introduction to English Poetry monologue. Unlike the Romantic lyric, the dramatic II monologue enables us to hear directly from a diversity of speakers who are frequently lovesick and mad. The development of English poetry from 1700 to the From murderers to narcissistic painters, the dramatic present. This course is a continuation of ENGL 242 monologue represents the nuances of human thought but can be taken independently. Featured poets: that surface in language. Readings will include texts Wordsworth, Browning, Christina Rossetti, Yeats, by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barret Heaney, Walcott. Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) William Morris, George Meredith, Matthew Arnold, Units: 1.0 Augusta Webster, Amy Levy, and Oscar Wilde. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 ENGL B244 Unsettling Literacy Instructor(s): Hoffman,J. Taught, by teachers in the Education Program and (Fall 2016) English Department, each instructor is serving a “term professorship” at Bryn Mawr College, while doing ENGL B250 Methods of Literary Study long(er) term instruction at Riverside Correctional We will explore the power of language in a variety of Facility in North Philadelphia. We will offer these two linguistic, historical, disciplinary, social, and cultural “walled communities” as comparative contexts for contexts, focusing on the power of the written word experiences and reflections on what it means to “learn to provide a foundational basis for the critical and our letters”: What gives us access, to texts and selves? creative analysis of literary studies. This course will What are the outcomes of such educational processes? help to broaden our ideas of what texts and language Do we imagine “letters,” in Frederick Douglas’s words, accomplish socially, historically, and aesthetically. as providing “the pathway from slavery to freedom,” Students will thus refine their faculties of reading and/or (as claimed by a contemporary criminologist) closely, writing incisively and passionately, asking as “training good workers for a problematic system”? productive questions, producing their own compelling Does becoming “lettered” enable learners to fill roles interpretations, and listening to the insights offered by in stratified, normalizing institutions, and/or give us others. Prerequisite: One English course or permission increased leeway in living our lives, perhaps even of instructor. English Majors and Minors must take opening up what educator Jean Anyon calls “radical before their senior year. possibilities”? Co-requisite: Students must register for Approach: Course does not meet an Approach both EDUC B244 and ENGL B244. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Schneider,B., Harford Vargas,J., Taylor,J. Counts towards: Praxis Program (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Dalke,A., Cohen,J. (Spring 2017) ENGL B254 Female Subjects: American Literature 1750-1900 ENGL B247 Shakespeare’s Teenagers This course explores the subject, subjection, and subjectivity of women and female sexualities in U.S. There was no such thing as a teenager in literatures between the signing of the Constitution Shakespeare’s England; the word doesn’t enter the and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. While English language until the 20th century. Yet present-day the representation of women in fiction grew and the writers and filmmakers often cast Shakespeare’s young 156 English number of female authors soared, the culture found ENGL B264 Black Bards: Poetry in the Diaspora itself at pains to define the appropriate moments for An interrogation of poetic utterance in works of the female speech and silence, action and passivity. We will African diaspora, primarily in English, this course engage a variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place addresses a multiplicity of genres, including epic, lyric, women at the nexus of national narratives of slavery sonnet, rap, and mimetic jazz. The development of and freedom, foreignness and domesticity, wealth and poetic theories at key moments such as the Harlem power, masculinity and citizenship, and sex and race Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement will be “purity.” explored. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ENGL B259 Victorian Literature and Culture ENGL B267 The Romantic Imagination Examines a broad range of Victorian poetry, prose, and Many of our contemporary ideas about both the fiction in the context of the cultural practices, social imagination and the power of art to change the world institutions, and critical thought of the time. Of particular originate from British Romantic literature. These ideas interest are the revisions of gender, sexuality, class, developed in a short but intensely creative period of nation, race, empire, and public and private life that literary and cultural history spanning from the 1790s to occurred during this period. the 1820s. This is an age of political upheaval, scientific Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) discovery, and social revolution. We will foreground Units: 1.0 our discussion of these radical transformations in art (Not Offered 2016-2017) and politics by reading the prose of Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Godwin. We will then ENGL B260 Origin Stories: Human Perspectives on examine the rise of Romanticism in the poetry of William Beginnings Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by focusing This course is part of the “Origin Stories” 360. It will on their groundbreaking text _Lyrical Ballads_. We begin with an examination of “Western” origin stories will use this poetry to define the power of what these and philsosophies of progress and history, with the writers called the “imagination.” The course will then turn intention of both historicizing and “making strange” toward the later Romantics, who responded to these the cultural inheritances most prevalent in Europe artistic and political ideals in surprising ways. Readings and post-contact North America. We will then turn to may include Percy By sshe Shelley’s _The Cenci_, an in-depth analysis of the Diné Bahane’, or “Story of John Keats’s Odes, and Lord Byron’s _Childe Harold’s the People,” the creation cycle of the Navajo, focusing Pilgrimage_. Our study of verse will be complemented attention on a geographically specific and temporally by fiction writers of the period such as Jane Austen and non-linear philosophy of origin and continuity. We will Mary Shelley. An assortment of critical texts will enable conclude with a series of contemporary Science Fiction us to situate these works in their cultural, social, and and Fantasy engagements with the problem of origin, literary contexts. asking how we continue to reinvent our beginnings, and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) why. Throughout the course we will turn our attention Units: 1.0 to origin stories from various parts of the world that Instructor(s): Hoffman,J. might specifically illuminate the science in the other two (Fall 2016) courses. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ENGL B268 Native Soil and American Units: 1.0 Literature:1492-1900 Instructor(s): Schneider,B. This course will consider the literature of contact and (Spring 2017) conflict between English-speaking whites and Native Americans between the years 1492 and 1920. We will ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature focus on how these cultures understood the meaning Pairing canonical African American fiction with and uses of land, and the effects of these literatures of theoretical, popular, and filmic texts from the late-19th encounter upon American land and ecology and vice- Century through to the present day, we will address the versa. Texts will include works by Native, European- and ways in which the Black body, as cultural text, has come African-American writers, and may include texts by to be both constructed and consumed within the nation’s Christopher Columbus, John Smith, William Bradford, imagination and our modern visual regime. Handsome Lake, Samson Occom, Lydia Maria Child, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive John Rollin Ridge, Mark Twain, Mourning Dove, Ella Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Deloria and Willa Cather. Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Units: 1.0 Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Beard,L. Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) English 157

ENGL B270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. virtual (food advertising and online forums), does the Literatures, 1690-1935 intellectual vocabulary for taste also need to change? This course will focus on the “American Girl” as a After analyzing the cultural-historical background of particularly contested model for the nascent American. food writing (from M.F.K. Fisher to Anthony Bourdain), Through examination of religious tracts, slave and James Beard Award-winning food writer Craig Laban will captivity narratives, literatures for children and adult lead the class through a wide range of tasting/thinking/ literatures about childhood, we will analyze U. S. writing exercises. These will include in-class tasting investments in girlhood as a site for national self- sessions where students will develop critical and— fashioning. crucially—creative ways of talking about what they taste Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) in conjunction with specially designed field exercises Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and (local restaurants and markets, building local food maps Sexuality Studies of cities, interviews with food organizations). Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B272 Queer of Color Critique ENGL B284 Women Poets: Giving Eurydice a Voice Queer of color critique (QoCC) is a mode of criticism with roots in women of color feminism, post- This course covers English and American woman poets structuralism, critical race theory, and queer studies. of the 19th and 20th centuries whose gender was QoCC focuses on “intersectional” analyses. That is, important for their self-understanding as poets, their QoCC seeks to integrate studies of race, sexuality, choice of subject matter, and the audience they sought gender, class, and nationalism, and to show how these to gain for their work. Featured poets include Elizabeth categories are co-constitutive. In so doing, QoCC Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, contends that a focus on gay rights or reliance on Lucille Clifton, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, academic discourse is too narrow. QoCC therefore Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, Anne addresses a wide set of issues from beauty standards Sexton, and Gertrude Stein. to terrorism and questions the very idea of “normal.” Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This course introduces students to the ideas of QoCC Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies through key literary and film texts. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical (Not Offered 2016-2017) Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B288 The Novel Units: 1.0 This course will explore the multi-vocal origins of Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. the novel in English and the ways in which its rapid (Spring 2017) development parallels changes in reading, vision, thought, and self-perception. The course will trace the ENGL B279 Introduction to African Literature novel’s evolution from its 17th-century beginnings in Taking into account the oral, written, aural and visual romance, spiritual autobiography, and travel literature; forms of African “texts” over several thousand years, through its emergence as a middle-class mode of this course will explore literary production, translation expression in the 18th century; to its period of cultural and audience/critical reception. Representative works dominance in the Victorian era; and to modernist to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata Epic, and postmodern experimentation. In studying the Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ayi Kwei novel’s historical, cultural, and formal dimensions, the Armah’s Fragments, Mariama Bâ’s Si Longe une Lettre, course will discuss the significance of realism, parody, Tsitsi Danga-rembga’s Nervous Conditions, Bessie characters, authorship, and the reader. Head’s Maru, Sembène Ousmane’s Xala, plays by Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, The Muse of Units: 1.0 Forgiveness and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat. (Not Offered 2016-2017) We will address the “transliteration” of Christian and Muslim languages and theologies in these works. ENGL B290 Modernisms Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This course will examine a range of works (novels, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive poems, paintings, and movies) that have been called Counts towards: Africana Studies “Modernist”—in general, these are works that are Units: 1.0 plotless, characterless, fragmented, eerie or just plain Instructor(s): Beard,L. strange. The central question we will be exploring is, (Spring 2017) why did artists decide to create such distinctly unrealistic works? The course is organized as an exploration of ENGL B281 Writing Taste: Food Studies with several different lenses through which to view what was Resident Food Writer going on in the early twentieth century when modernism After a discussion of key texts on “taste”—from emerged; each lens presents a different theory of why philosophy, literature, and sociology, students will new literary forms emerged. analyze the “new world” of taste criticism from important Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) food critics to Yelp. As food has become increasingly Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 158 English

ENGL B293 Critical Feminist Studies: An Revolution, the first large “free” city north of the slave Introduction states, a major center of free Black culture. In this Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger course we will examine literature written in and about questions about feminist forms of theorizing. Three book Philadelphia before the Civil War, exploring how and length texts will be supplemented by on-line readings. why Philadelphians engaged questions of freedom and Students will review current scholarship, identify their non-freedom. Beginning with William Penn and the own stake in the conversation and define a critical colonial city, moving through the literatures of Revolution question they want to pursue at length. and the Civil War, we will conclude with W. E. B. DuBois’ Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) The Philadelphia Negro. We will take two field trips to Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the city and students will be expected to pursue city- Units: 1.0 based research projects. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B296 Introduction to Medieval Drama ENGL B309 Native American Literature Introduces students to the major types of dramatic production in the Middle Ages: mystery plays, morality This course focuses on late-20th-century Native plays, and miracle plays. Also examines early Protestant literatures that attempt to remember and redress earlier political drama know as “interludes” and the translation histories of dispersal and genocide. We will ask how of medieval plays into contemporary films and novellas. various writers with different tribal affiliations engage in Explores the construction of local communities around discourses of humor, memory, repetition, and cultural professional acting and production guilds, different performance to refuse, rework, or lampoon inherited strategies of performance, and the relationship between constructions of the “Indian” and “Indian” history and the medieval dramatic stage and other kinds of “stages.” culture. We will read fiction, film, and contemporary Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the critical approaches to Native literatures alongside much Past (IP) earlier texts, including oral histories, political speeches, Units: 1.0 law, and autobiography. Readings may include works by (Spring 2017) Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy, Thomas King, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor. Units: 1.0 ENGL B297 Terror, Pleasure, and the Gothic (Not Offered 2016-2017) Imagination Introduces students to the 18th-century origins of Gothic ENGL B310 Confessional Poetry literature and its development across genres, media and time. Exploring the formal contours and cultural contexts Poetry written since 1950 that deploys an of the enduring imaginative mode in literature, film, art, autobiographical subject to engage with the and architecture, the course will also investigate the psychological and political dynamics of family life and Gothic’s connection to the radical and conservative with states of psychic extremity and mental illness. cultural agendas. Poets will include Lowell, Ginsberg, Sexton, and Plath. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) The impact of this`movement’ on late twentieth century Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies American poetry will also receive attention. A prior Units: 1.0 course in poetry is desirable but not required. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B301 Women on Top: Gender and Power in Renaissance Drama ENGL B311 Renaissance Lyric From virtuous queens to scheming adulteresses and cross-dressed “Roaring Girls,” powerful female For roughly half the semester we will focus on the characters are at the center of a number of Renaissance sonnet, a form that was domesticated in England during plays. This class will explore how playwrights such the sixteenth century. The other half of the course will as Shakespeare, Webster and Dekker represent both focus on the “metaphysical” poetry of John Donne, fantasies and anxieties about tough women who take George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell. There will be a charge of their destinies. We will read these plays first strong component of critical and theoretical reading to in the context of the historical position of women in early contextualize the poetry, model ways of reading it, and modern England, and then turn to gender theory (e.g. raise questions about its social, political and religious Butler, Sedgwick, Rubin) to examine constructions of purposes. gender identity and female agency. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B312 The Pencil of Nature: Victorian Literature and Photography ENGL B307 Philadelphia Freedom: Slavery, Liberty, This seminar examines the complex and mutually- Literature 1682-1899 informing relationship between Victorian literature Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, a space and photography. For example, to what extent is the of religious diversity, the hotbed of the American realist novel indebted to photography’s invention, or alternatively, how has the novel shaped photography? English 159

To approach questions of this magnitude, the course construction of Shakespeare as an author shaped how is divided into a series of foundational thematic units we understand these very categories. that examine works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Units: 1.0 We begin by thinking about the history of photography (Not Offered 2016-2017) in several key texts by Susan Sontag, Carol Mavor, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin. After we develop ENGL B326 Topics in Renaissance Literature a vocabulary to discuss the medium’s history, we This is a topics course. Course content varies. turn to its conception and how photography stems Units: 1.0 from the literature of Romanticism. This grounding in (Not Offered 2016-2017) photography’s early language will help us to read fiction and poetry of the 1830s and 1840s. Other units will address photography’s role in constructing visions of ENGL B330 Sidekicks: Natives in the American the city, the use of photography in the Victorian culture Literary Canon from Crusoe to Moby Dick of mourning, the ways in which the photograph can How have written Indians — the Tontos, Fridays, engender desire, the influence of photography on Pre- Pocahontases and Queequegs of the American canon Raphaelite artists, and the sensationalism of Victorian — been adopted, mimicked, performed and undermined crime depicted in photographs and stories. by Native American authors? This course will examine Units: 1.0 how canonical and counter-canonical texts invent and (Not Offered 2016-2017) reinvent the place of the Indian across the continuing literary “discovery” of America from 1620 to the present. ENGL B322 Love and Money Readings include The Last of the Mohicans, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Moby Dick and This course focuses on literary works that explore the Robinson Crusoe. Critical texts, research presentations, relationship between love and money. We will seek written assignments and intensive seminar discussion to understand the separate and intertwined histories will address questions of cultural sovereignty, mimesis, of these two arenas of human behavior and will read, literacy versus orality, literary hybridity, intertextuality along with literary texts, essays by influential figures in and citation. the history of economics and sexuality. The course will Units: 1.0 begin with The Merchant of Venice, proceed through Instructor(s): Schneider,B. Pride and Prejudice to The Great Gatsby, and end with (Fall 2016) Hollywood movies. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance ENGL B324 Topics in Shakespeare: Shakespeare on with tropes of immortality and eternity. Using recent Film queer theory on temporality, and 19th and 20th century primary texts, we will explore topics such as: fame Films and play texts vary from year to year. The course and noteriety; feminism and mythology; epistemes, assumes significant prior experience of Shakespearean erotics and sexual seasonality; the death drive and drama and/or Renaissance drama. the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for mummies and Counts towards: Film Studies seances. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Instructor(s): Gordon,C. Units: 1.0 Spring 2017: Global Shakespeare. We will read Instructor(s): Thomas,K. Shakespearean drama alongside the global (Fall 2016) performance archives that update and remix Shakespeare for a world shaped by the War on ENGL B335 The Mind is a Body Part: Materialism in Terror, globalization, occupation, and revolution. Modern Literature By pairing original texts and their adaptations, this This course will explore recent “materialist” approaches course considers pressing issues in postcolonial to literature which reject the notion that what is human theory, including cosmopolitanism; appropriation; is better than what is non-human. Generally what colonial education and canon formation; supposedly makes humans valuable is the mind, so nationalism; and the global city. we will look at works that treat the mind as just another body part. We will also read some critical theory that ENGL B325 Why Shakespeare? explains how valuing the mind over the body, the Shakespeare has been widely proclaimed the greatest human over the animal, has been used to support playwright in the English language – but why and how racism, sexism, and colonialism--and has led to the did this come to be? Did Shakespeare really, as one destruction of the ecological system. The course will famous critic has claimed, “invent the human,” or have include both works that present the social, political, and a series of historical circumstances conspired to set biological horrors resulting from the separation of the the playwright on a pedestal? This course has two non-human from the human, and works that imagine aims: first, we will perform close readings of selected humans merging with nature. The reading in the course Shakespeare sonnets and plays through the lens of will include selections from books of “materialist” theory cultural history; second, we will draw on critical theory (such as Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political (e.g. Barthes, Foucault) to investigate theories of Ecology of Things), novels (Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, authorship and “genius,” exploring how the posthumous Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis), nonfiction (Annie 160 English

Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), and movies (Ousmane Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Sembene, Xala, James Cameron, Avatar). Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Tratner,M. (Spring 2017) ENGL B355 Performance Studies Introduces students to the field of performance studies, ENGL B336 Topics in Film a multidisciplinary species of cultural studies which This is a topics course. Course content varies. theorizes human actions as performances that both Counts towards: Film Studies construct and resist cultural norms of race, gender, Units: 1.0 and sexuality. The course will explore “performativity” Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. in everyday life as well as in the performing arts, and will include multiple viewings of dance and theater both Fall 2016: Global Queer Cinema. This course on- and off-campus. In addition, we will consider the asks, “What can the theories of globalization, performative aspects of film and video productions. transnationalism, and diaspora contribute to the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film study of same-sex eroticisms in the cinema?” To Studies help us answer this question, we will base our Units: 1.0 investigation on a corpus of films drawn from across (Not Offered 2016-2017) the globe (mostly from non-US contexts) that deal with non-normative sexualities. ENGL B359 Dead Presidents ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory Framed by the extravagant funerals of Presidents Washington and Lincoln, this course explores the This is a topics course. Course content varies. cultural importance of the figure of the President Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin and the Presidential body, and of the 19th-century American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies preoccupations with death and mourning, in the U.S. Units: 1.0 cultural imaginary from the Revolutionary movement Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. through the Civil War. Fall 2016: Theory of the Ethnic Novel. This Units: 1.0 course traces the development of the U.S. ethnic (Not Offered 2016-2017) novel. We will examine novels by Native Americans, Chicana/os, and African Americans, focusing on ENGL B361 Literature of Dissent key formal innovations in their respective traditions. This course examines literary and historical texts We will be using – and testing -- core concepts engaged with the social, political, and religious developed by narrative theorists to understand the upheavals in late medieval England, including the Black genre of the novel. We will be using--and testing- Death, the Hundred Years War, the Peasants’ Revolt -core concepts in critical theory to understand the of 1381, the tyranny and deposition of Richard II, and genre of the novel and ethnic literary imaginaries. religious repression. In doing so, this course asks students to think about relationships between literary ENGL B347 Medievalisms production and political resistance, legal threat, and This course assesses how the “Middle Ages” has been social change. In what ways can literature formulate and continues to be constructed as a period of history, and foment social dissent? How does literature an object of inquiry, and a category of analysis. It comment on contemporary political, religious, or social considers how the past is formulated and called upon to controversies? What literary opportunities and forms conduct the ideological and cultural work of the present, emerged from the peculiar instability of this period? and it reads historical documents and literary texts in Suggested Preparation: At least one 200-level English dialogue with one another. Suggested Preparation: or literature course. At least one 200-level course in any area of medieval Units: 1.0 studies (although more than one course is preferred), Instructor(s): Taylor,J. or by permission of the instructors. Additionally, this (Spring 2017) course is not open to students who took ENG/HIST 246 in 2013. ENGL B362 African American Literature: Units: 1.0 Hypercanonical Codes (Not Offered 2016-2017) Intensive study of six 18th-21st century hypercanonical African American written and visual texts (and critical ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf responses) with specific attention to the tradition’s Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a long use of speaking in code and in multiple registers modernist, a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, simultaneously. Focus on language as a tool of opacity a victim of child abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a as well as transparency, translation, transliteration, creation of literary and popular history. We will try out invention and resistance. Previous reading required. all these approaches and examine the features of our Counts towards: Africana Studies contemporary world that influence the way Woolf, her Units: 1.0 work, and her era are perceived. We will also attempt to Instructor(s): Beard,L. theorize about why we favor certain interpretations over (Spring 2017) others. English 161

ENGL B364 Slum Fiction: From Dickens to The Wire loops to today’s celebrity sex tapes. We will examine the David Simon’s acclaimed television show The Wire ideological operations of sex in the cinema and aim to has repeatedly been related to the Victorian novel. comprehend the multifarious ways viewers, filmmakers, This course links Victorian London and 20th-century critics, and scholars respond to dominant conceptions Baltimore by studying: literary relations between of sex-sexuality through alternative cinematic production Dickens and Poe; slum writing; the rise of the state and critical scholarship. Units include: stag movies, institution; a genealogy of serial fiction from the the Production Code and ratings system, European nineteenth century novel to television drama. art cinema, sex ed, underground and the avant-garde, Units: 1.0 cult / sexploitation / blaxploitation, sexual revolution, Instructor(s): Thomas,K. hard core, women’s cinema, home video, queer (Spring 2017) cinema, HIV/AIDS, the digital revolution, feminist porn, and the Internet. Prerequisites: HART / COML B110: Identification in the Cinema; or ENGL / HART 205: ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New Introduction to Film; or ENGL B299 History of Narrative Media Cinema, 1945 to the Present. The course explores the role of pleasure in the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film production, reception, and performance of Asian Studies American identities in film, video, and the internet, Units: 1.0 taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian (Not Offered 2016-2017) Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, ENGL B379 The African Griot(te) we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find A focused exploration of the multi-genre productions objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage of Southern African writer Bessie Head and the critical analytically with all class material. To maintain an responses to such works. Students are asked to help atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the construct a critical-theoretical framework for talking participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. about a writer who defies categorization or reduction. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ENGL B368 Pleasure, Luxury, and Consumption ENGL B381 Post-Apartheid Literature Course will consider pleasure and consumerism in South African texts from several language communities English texts and culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. which anticipate a post-apartheid polity and texts by Readings will include classical and neoclassical contemporary South African writers which explore the philosophies of hedonism and Epicureanism, Defoe’s complexities of life in “the new South Africa.” Several “Roxana”, Mandeville’s “Fable of the Bees”, Pope’s films emphasize the minefield of post-apartheid “Rape of the Lock”, John Cleland’s “Memoirs of a reconciliation and accountability. Woman of Pleasure” and early periodical essays, among Counts towards: Africana Studies others. Secondary readings will include critical studies Units: 1.0 on cultural history and material culture. Prerequisites: at Instructor(s): Beard,L. least two 200-level English courses. (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 ENGL B388 Contemporary African Fiction (Not Offered 2016-2017) Noting that the official colonial independence of most African countries dates back only half a century, this ENGL B373 Masculinity in English Literature: From course focuses on the fictive experiments of the most Chivalry to Civility recent decade. A few highly controversial works from This course will examine images and concepts of the 90’s serve as an introduction to very recent work. masculinity as represented in a wide variety of texts Most works are in English. To experience depth as well in English. Beginning in the early modern period and as breadth, there is a small cluster of works from South ending with our own time, the course will focus on Africa. With novels and tales from elsewhere on the texts of the “long” 18th century to contextualize the huge African continent, we will get a glimpse of “living in relationships between masculinity and chivalry, civility, the present” in history and letters. manliness, and femininity. Counts towards: Africana Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B398 Senior Seminar ENGL B375 Sex on Screens Required preparation for ENGL 399 (Senior Essay). This course will provide a historical and theoretical Through weekly seminar meetings and regular writing overview of the ways moving image sex acts have been and research assignments, students will design a senior represented on screen, from early cinema’s silent film essay topic or topics of their choice, frame exciting and 162 English practical questions about it, and develop a writing plan Priority will be given to interested first- and second- for its execution. Students will leave the course with a year students; additional spaces will be made available departmentally approved senior essay prospectus, an to upper-year students with little or no experience in annotated bibliography on their chosen area of inquiry, creative writing. Students will write or revise work every and 10 pages of writing towards their senior essay. week; roughly four weeks each will be devoted to short Students must pass the course to enroll in ENGL 399. fiction, poetry, and drama. There will be individual Units: 1.0 conferences with the instructor to discuss their progress Instructor(s): Hemmeter,G., Schneider,B., Taylor,J. and interests. Half of class time will be spent discussing (Fall 2016) student work and half will be spent discussing syllabus readings. ENGL B399 Senior Essay Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Supervised independent writing project required of all Instructor(s): Reeves,C. English majors. Students must successfully complete (Spring 2017) ENGL 398 (Senior Conference) and have their Senior Essay prospectus approved by the department before they enroll in ENGL 399. ARTW B260 Writing Short Fiction I Units: 1.0 An introduction to fiction writing, focusing on the short Instructor(s): Hemmeter,G., Taylor,J. story. Students will consider fundamental elements of (Spring 2017) fiction and the relationship of narrative structure, style, and content, exploring these elements in their own work ENGL B403 Supervised Work and in the assigned readings in order to develop an understanding of the range of possibilities open to the Advanced students may pursue independent research fiction writer. Weekly readings and writing exercises are projects. Permission of the instructor and major adviser designed to encourage students to explore the material is required. and styles that most interest them, and to push their Units: 1.0 fiction to a new level of craft, so that over the semester (Fall 2016) their writing becomes clearer, more controlled, and more absorbing. ENGL B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and Units: 1.0 are developed by individual students, in collaboration Instructor(s): Torday,D. with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection ARTW B261 Writing Poetry I that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the In this course students will learn to “read like a writer,” classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding while grappling with the work of accomplished poets, gained through classroom study to work done in the and providing substantive commentary on peers’ work. broader community. Through diverse readings, students will examine craft Counts towards: Praxis Program strategies at work in both formal and free verse poems, Units: 1.0 such as diction, metaphor, imagery, lineation, metrical (Not Offered 2016-2017) patterns, irony, and syntax. The course will cover shaping forms (such as elegy and pastoral) as well ARTT B312 Ladies’ Voices Give Pleasure: Plays by as given forms, such as the sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, Women etc. Students will discuss strategies for conveying This course introduces students to the rich and the literal meaning of a poem (e.g., through sensory multifarious tradition(s) of dramatic literature (broadly description and clear, compelling language) and the construed) by women (broadly construed). Through concealed meaning of a text (e.g., through metaphor, close readings of texts that diverge from what some imagery, meter, irony, and shifts in diction and syntax). feminist critics have called the dominant “ejaculatory” By the end of the course, students will have generated model of dramaturgy rooted in Aristotelian teleology new material, shaped and revised draft poems, and and replicative of the male sexual experience, we will significantly grown as writers by experimenting with explore the formal and thematic preoccupations of 20th various aspects of craft. and 21st century playwrights who complicate notions Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of desire, community, history, identity, difference, Units: 1.0 and representation. Prerequisite: 200 level course in Instructor(s): Ahmed,D. Theater, English, or Comparative Literature. (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Rizzo,J. ARTW B262 Playwriting I (Fall 2016) An introduction to playwriting through a combination of reading assignments, writing exercises, discussions ARTW B159 Introduction to Creative Writing about craft and ultimately the creation of a complete This course is for students who wish to experiment with one-act play. Students will work to discover and three genres of creative writing: short fiction, poetry develop their own unique voices as they learn the and drama, and techniques specific to each of them. technical aspects of the craft of playwriting. Short writing English 163 assignments will complement each reading assignment. ARTW B266 Screenwriting The final assignment will be to write an original one-act An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art play. of storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) character, dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, Units: 1.0 sound. The course focuses on the film adaptation; (Not Offered 2016-2017) readings include novels, screenplays, and short stories. Films adapted from the readings will be screened. In ARTW B263 Writing Memoir I the course of the semester, students will be expected The purpose of this course is to provide students with to outline and complete the first act of an adapted practical experience in writing about the events, places screenplay of their own. and people of their own lives in the form of memoir. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Emphasis will be placed on open-ended investigation Counts towards: Film Studies into what we think we know (about ourselves and Units: 1.0 others) and how we think we came to know it. In (Spring 2017) addition to writing memoir of their own, and workshop discussions, students will also read and discuss works ARTW B268 Writing Literary Journalism by writers such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Freud, H.D., This course will examine the tools that literary writers J.R. Ackerley, Georges Perec, and more contemporary bring to factual reporting and how these tools enhance writing by writers such as Akeel Bilgrami, Elif Batuman, the stories they tell. Readings will include reportage, Emily Witt, Lawrence Jackson. Although little mention polemical writing and literary reviewing. The issues will be made of the master narratives of American of point-of-view and subjectivity, the uses of irony, memoir—Christian redemption, confession, captivity, forms of persuasion, clarity of expression and logic and slavery—the class will consistently struggle to come of construction will be discussed. The importance of to terms with their foundational legacy in American life context—the role of the editor and the magazine, the and letters. expectations of the audience, censorship and self- Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) censorship—will be considered. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ARTW B264 News and Feature Writing Students in this class will learn how to develop, ARTW B269 Writing for Children report, write, edit and revise a variety of news stories, In this course, students have the opportunity to hone the beginning with the basics of reporting and writing the craft of writing for children and young adults. Through news and advancing to longer-form stories, including reading, in-class discussion, peer review of student personality profiles, news features and trend stories, work, and private conferences with the instructor, we will and concluding with point-of-view journalism (columns, examine the specific requirements of the picture book, criticism, reported essays). The course will focus the middle-grade novel, and the young adult novel. This heavily on work published in The Philadelphia Inquirer analytical study of classic and contemporary literature and The New York Times. Several working journalists will inspire and inform students’ creative work in all will participate as guest speakers to explain their craft. aspects of storytelling, including character development, Students will write stories that will be posted on the plotting, world building, voice, tone, and the roles of class blog, the English House Gazette. illustration and page composition in story narration. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Ferrick,T. Instructor(s): Jensen,C. (Fall 2016) (Fall 2016)

ARTW B265 Creative Nonfiction ARTW B360 Writing Short Fiction II This course will explore the literary expressions of An exploration of approaches to writing short fiction nonfiction writing by focusing on the skills, process designed to strengthen skills of experienced student and craft techniques necessary to the generation and writers as practitioners and critics. Requires writing revision of literary nonfiction. Using the information- at least five pages each week, workshopping student gathering tools of a journalist, the analytical tools of pieces, and reading texts ranging from realist stories to an essayist and the technical tools of a fiction writer, metafictional experiments and one-page stories to the students will produce pieces that will incorporate short novella, to explore how writers can work within both factual information and first person experience. tight confines. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B260 or Readings will include a broad group of writers ranging work demonstrating equivalent expertise in writing short from E.B. White to Anne Carson, George Orwell to fiction. Students without the ARTW B260, must submit a David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion to James Baldwin, writing sample of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to among many others. the Creative Writing Program during the preregistration Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) period to be considered for this course. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Torday,D. Instructor(s): Liontas,A. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016) 164 English

ARTW B361 Writing Poetry II through interpretive approaches informed by modern This course assumes that reading and writing are critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, inextricably linked, and that the only way to write popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory intelligent and interesting poetry is to read as much enhances our understanding of the complexities of of it as possible. Writing assignments will be closely history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity. connected to syllabus reading, including an anthology Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) prepared by the instructor, and may include working Counts towards: International Studies in forms such as ekphrastic poems (i.e. poems about Units: 1.0 works of visual art or sculpture), dramatic monologues, (Not Offered 2016-2017) prose poems, translations, imitations and parodies. Suggested Preparation: ARTW B261 or work COML B398 Theories and Methods in Comparative demonstrating equivalent familiarity with the basic forms Literature of poetry in English. For students without ARTW B261, This course, required of all senior comparative literature a writing sample of 5-7 poems must be submitted to the majors in preparation for writing the senior thesis in instructor to be considered for this course. the spring semester, has a twofold purpose: to review Units: 1.0 interpretive approaches informed by critical theories that Instructor(s): Todd,J. enhance our understanding of literary and cultural texts; (Spring 2017) and to help students prepare a preliminary outline of their senior theses. Throughout the semester, students ARTW B362 Playwriting II research theoretical paradigms that bear on their own This course challenges students of playwriting to further comparative thesis topics in order to situate those topics develop their unique voices and improve their technical in an appropriate critical context. skills in writing for the stage. We will examine how great Units: 1.0 playwrights captivate a live audience through their (Not Offered 2016-2017) mastery of character, story and structure. Through a combination of weekly reading assignments, playwriting EDUC B244 Unsettling Literacy: Praxis exercises, theater explorations, artist-driven feedback, Taught, by teachers in the Education Program and and discussions of craft, this class will facilitate each English Department, each instructor is serving a “term student’s completion of an original, full-length play. professorship” at Bryn Mawr College, while doing Prerequisite: ARTW 262; or suitable experience in long(er) term instruction at Riverside Correctional directing, acting or playwriting; or submission of a Facility in North Philadelphia. We will offer these two work sample of 10 pages of dialogue. All students “walled communities” as comparative contexts for must complete the Creative Writing preregistration experiences and reflections on what it means to “learn questionnaire during preregistration to be considered for our letters”: What gives us access, to texts and selves? the course. What are the outcomes of such educational processes? Units: 1.0 Do we imagine “letters,” in Frederick Douglas’s words, Instructor(s): Feldman,L. as providing “the pathway from slavery to freedom,” (Fall 2016) and/or (as claimed by a contemporary criminologist) as “training good workers for a problematic system”? ARTW B364 Longer Fictional Forms Does becoming “lettered” enable learners to fill roles An advanced workshop for students with a strong in stratified, normalizing institutions, and/or give us background in fiction writing who want to write longer increased leeway in living our lives, perhaps even works: the long short story, novella and novel. Students opening up what educator Jean Anyon calls “radical will write intensively, and complete a long story, novel possibilities”? Co-requisite: Students must register for or novella (or combination thereof) totaling up to 20,000 both EDUC B244 and ENGL B244. words. Students will examine the craft of their work Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and of published prose. Suggested Preparation: ARTW Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive B260 or proof of interest and ability. For students without Counts towards: Praxis Program ARTW B260, students must submit a writing sample Units: 1.0 of 10-15 pages in length (prose fiction) to the Creative Instructor(s): Cohen,J. Writing Program during the preregistration period to be (Spring 2017) considered for this course. Units: 1.0 FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in Instructor(s): Torday,D. the Humanities (Spring 2017) An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and COML B293 The Play of Interpretation Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course Units: 1.0 focuses on common problems of text, authorship, Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. different cultural traditions and histories will be studied This course will be taught in English and focus English 165

on works of French feminist, postcolonial and technology across a wide range of visual culture post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical and popular media. Beginning with an exploration texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition of a set of aesthetic and cultural production that (namely French), and more or less distinctly includes 16th century woodcuts, 17th century circumscribed fields, we will also look at the cabinets of curiosity, 18th century magic lantern broader transcultural and translinguistic influences shows, and 19th century stereoscopes and that brought these “schools” into being and, most panoramas, the course will provide historical importantly, what fields of thinking they have context for a consideration of the role that various subsequently inspired across language traditions. forms of technology have played in shaping art, film and new media in the 20th and 21st century. HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the present ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in This course surveys the history of narrative film from the Humanities 1945 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze An examination in English of leading theories of a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course French New Wave, and other post-war movements content varies. and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) supplemented by more recent examples of global Units: 1.0 cinema. While historical in approach, this course (Not Offered 2016-2017) emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological 1945 dimensions of cinema. Readings will provide historical This is a topics course. Course content varies. context, and will introduce students to key concepts in Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the history Counts towards: Film Studies requirement or the introductory course requirement for Units: 1.0 the Film Studies minor. Instructor(s): Harte,T. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) Spring 2017: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Counts towards: Film Studies Russia & Beyond. This course will explore cinema Units: 1.0 from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the (Not Offered 2016-2017) end of the silent era. While the course will focus on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects HART B306 Film Theory of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films An introduction to major developments in film theory analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of methods that went into the direction and production film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic “author”; the of a variety of celebrated silent films from Russia, politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. These films will cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film social, and even philosophical, so that students can studies; the relation between film studies and other develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema’s disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week rapid evolution. of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. RUSS B277 Nabokov in Translation Class will be divided between discussion of critical A study of Vladimir Nabokov’s writings in various texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic genres, focusing on his fiction and autobiographical text. Prerequisite: A course in Film Studies (HART works. The continuity between Nabokov’s Russian B110, HART B299, ENGL B205, or the equivalent from and English works is considered in the context of the another college by permission of instructor). Russian and Western literary traditions. All readings and Counts towards: Film Studies lectures in English. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): King,H. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HART B334 Topics in Film Studies SPAN B332 Novelas de las Américas This is a topics course. Course content varies. What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film novel as “American” in the continental sense? What do Studies we learn by comparing novels from “this” America to Units: 1.0 classics of the “other” Americas? Can we find through Instructor(s): Feliz,M. this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these Fall 2016: Visual Culture and Technology. This questions by connecting and comparing major US course examines the intersections of art and 166 Environmental Studies novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and Kim Benston, English 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to Craig Borowiak, Political Science illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances and affinities. This course is taught in Spanish. Kaye Edwards, Interdisciplinary Programs Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Steve Finley, English Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Andrew Friedman, History Units: 1.0 Darin Hayton, History (Not Offered 2016-2017) Benjamin Le, Psychology Joshua Moses, Anthropology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Rob Scarrow, Chemistry Steven Smith, Economics Students may complete a minor in Environmental Studies as an adjunct to any major at Bryn Mawr, Jonathan Wilson, Biology Haverford, or Swarthmore pending approval of the Swarthmore student’s coursework plan by the home department and Elizabeth Bolton, English Literature the home-campus Environmental Studies director. Timothy Burke, History Faculty Peter Collings, Physics and Astronomy Giovanna DiChiro, Political Science Bryn Mawr Don Barber, Associate Professor of Geology on the E. Carr Everbach, Engineering Harold Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies Eric Jensen, Physics & Astronomy Peter Briggs, Professor of English José-Luis Machado, Biology Jody Cohen, Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Arthur McGarity, Engineering Haverford Education Program Rachel Merz, Biology Selby Cull-Hearth, Assistant Professor of Geology Carol Nackenoff, Political Science Anne Dalke, Term Professor of English Jennifer Peck, Economics Victor Donnay, Professor of Mathematics on the William Christine Schuetze, Sociology & Anthropology R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Chair of Environmental Studies Mark Wallace, Religion Robert Dostal, Rufus M. Jones Professor and Chair of Philosophy The Johanna Alderfer Harris Environmental Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College enables students and Jonas Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Chemistry faculty to come together to explore academic interests Karen Greif, Professor of Biology in the environment. The program sponsors speakers, special events, and field trips, and offers support for Carol Hager, Professor of Political Science on the student work during the summer, in the form of the Clowes Professorship in Science and Public Policy college’s competitive Green Grants. In addition, The and Director of the Center for Social Sciences Harris Environmental Studies Program is the Bryn Mawr Yonglin Jiang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies campus home for the Tri-College Environmental Studies Minor. The program benefits from two endowed chairs Gary McDonogh, Chair and Professor of Growth and in Environmental Studies, The Johanna Alderfer Harris Structure of Cities and on the Helen Herrmann and William H. Harris, M.D. Chair in Environmental Chair Studies, currently held by Growth and Structure of Pedro Marenco, Associate Professor of Geology Cities Associate Professor Ellen Stroud, and the Harold Tom Mozdzer, Assistant Professor of Biology Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies, currently held by Geology Associate Professor Donald Barber. Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Co-Director of International Studies and Co-Director of Health Studies The Tri-Co Environmental Studies Minor Sydne Record, Assistant Professor of Biology Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges offer Michael Rock, Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of Tri-College Environmental Studies Interdisciplinary Economic History Minor, involving departments and faculty from the David Ross, Associate Professor of Economics natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts on all three Bethany Schneider, Associate Professor of English campuses. The Tri-College Environmental Studies Minor Nathan Wright, Associate Professor of Sociology aims to bring students and faculty together to explore interactions among earth systems, human societies, and Haverford local and global environments. Helen White, Chemistry Environmental Studies 167

The Tri-Co ENVS Minor aims to cultivate in students • Every student should take a capstone course (397 the capacity to identify and confront key environmental or 091) during the senior year issues through a blend of multiple disciplines, Bryn Mawr encompassing historical, cultural, economic, political, scientific, and ethical modes of inquiry. Acknowledging ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies the reciprocal dimensions of materiality and culture ENVS 397 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar in the historical formation of “the” environment, this program is broadly framed by a series of interlocking Haverford dialogues: between the “natural” and the “built”; between ENVS 101 Case Studies in Environmental Issues the local and the global; and between the human and the nonhuman. ENVS 397 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar The minor consists of six courses, including an Swarthmore introductory course and capstone course, and ENVS 001 Introduction to Environmental Studies the courses may be completed at any of the three campuses (or any combination thereof). To declare ENVS 091 Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar the minor, students should contact the Environmental Studies director at their home campus. Approved Electives for the Environmental Studies Minor Minor Requirements • Two courses are required from each category (A The Environmental Studies Interdisciplinary Minor and B). consists of six courses, as follows: • At least one course in Category A should have a • A required introductory course to be taken prior lab. to the senior year. This may be ENVS 101 at Bryn Mawr or Haverford or the parallel course at • Only one course in each category may be a Swarthmore College (ENVS 001). Any one of these “cognate” course. Cognate courses, marked with courses will satisfy the requirement, and students an asterisk, are valuable for minor but are not may take no more than one such course for credit as centrally focused on environmental studies toward the minor. methodologies and materials as other courses on the list. • Four elective course credits from approved lists of core and cognate courses, including two credits in • Pay close attention to “double-counting” rules for each of the following two categories (A and B). No your major. You are encouraged to choose electives more than one cognate course credit may be used outside of your major. for each category (see course list below for more information about core and cognate courses). Category A) Environmental Science, Math and Engineering A) Environmental Science, Engineering & Math: courses that build understanding and knowledge Bryn Mawr of scientific methods and theories, and that explore BIOL 210 Biology and Public Policy how these can be applied in identifying and addressing environmental questions. At least one of BIOL 220 (L) Ecology the courses in this category must have a laboratory BIOL 225* Biology of Plants component. BIOL 250* Computational Methods B) Environmental Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts: courses that build understanding and BIOL 255 Microbiology knowledge of social and political structures as well BIOL 323 Coastal and Marine Biology as ethical considerations, and how these inform our individual and collective understandings of and BIOL 332 Global Change Biology responses to human and built environments. GEOL 101 (L) How the Earth Works • A senior seminar with culminating work that reflects tangible research design and inquiry, GEOL 102 Earth: Life of a Planet but which might materialize in any number of GEOL 103 (L) Earth Systems and the Environment project forms. Bryn Mawr College’s ENVS 397 (Environmental Studies Senior Seminar, co-taught GEOL 203 Paleobiology by faculty members from Bryn Mawr and Haverford GEOL 206* Energy Resources and Sustainability Colleges) and Swarthmore College’s ENVS 091 (Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar) satisfy GEOL 209 Natural Hazards & Human Populations the requirement. GEOL 302 Low Temperature Geochemistry Core Courses for the Environmental GEOL 314 Marine Geology Studies Minor MATH 210* Differential Equations w/ Apps • Every student should take an introductory course (Environmental Problems) (101 or 001) before the senior year 168 Environmental Studies

Haverford ENVS 090* Directed Reading in Environmental Studies BIOL 121D Perspectives in Biology: Poisons, Plagues, MATH 056* Modeling Pollution and Progess (half-credit) PHYS 002E* FYS: Energy BIOL 123* Perspectives in Biology: Scientific Literacy PHYS 024 (L) The Earth’s Climate and Global Warming (half-credit) BIOL 124* Perspectives in Biology: Tropical Infectious Category B) Environmental Disease (half-credit) Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts BIOL 132 Perspectives in Biology: Tropical infectious Bryn Mawr Disease (half-credit) ANTH 203 Human Ecology BIOL 310* Molecular Microbiology (half-credit) ANTH 210 Medical Anthropology BIOL 314* Photosynthesis (half-credit) ANTH 237 Environmental Health CHEM 112*(L) Chemical Dynamics ANTH 244 Global Perspectives on Early Farmers and CHEM 150 Intro to Oceanography Social Change CHEM 358 Topics in Environmental Chemistry (half- ARCH 104 Agriculture and Urban Revolution credit) ARCH 245 The Archaeology of Water PHYS 111b Energy Options and Science Policy CITY 201 Introduction to GIS for Social and Swarthmore Environmental Analysis BIOL 002 Organismal and Population Biology CITY 229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism - Global BIOL 009 Our Food Exurbia BIOL 016*(L) Microbiology CITY 250* U.S. Urban Environmental History BIOL 017*(L) Microbial Pathogenesis and Immune CITY 278 American Environmental History Response CITY 329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environments: BIOL 020*(L) Animal Physiology Sensing the City BIOL 025*(L) Plant Biology CITY 345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society - Environmental Studies BIOL 026*(L) Invertebrate Zoology EAST 352 China’s Environment: History, Policy, and BIOL 031* History and Evolution of Human Food Rights BIOL 034*(L) Evolution EAST 362 Environment in Contemporary East Asia BIOL 036 (L) Ecology ECON 225* Economics of Development BIOL 037* Conservation Genetics ECON 234 Environmental Economics BIOL 039 (L) Marine Biology ECON 242 Economics of Local Environmental BIOL 115E Plant Molecular Genetics - Biotechnology Programs BIOL 116* Microbial Processes and Biotechnology ECON 335 East Asian Development BIOL 137 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function EDUC 268 Educating for Environmental Literacy CHEM 001*(L) Chemistry in the Human Environment EDUC 285 Ecologies of Minds and Communities CHEM 043*(L) Analytical Methods and Instrumentation ENGL 204* Literatures of American Expansion CHEM 103 Topics in Environmental Chemistry ENGL 216 Re-creating Our World ENGR 003* Problems in Technology ENGL 218 Ecological Imaginings ENGR 004A Environmental Protection ENGL 251 Food For Thought ENGR 004B * Swarthmore and the Biosphere ENGL 268 Native Soil: Indian Land & American Lit 1588-1840 ENGR 004E Introduction to Sustainable Systems Analysis ENGL 275 Food Revolutions ENGR 035*(L) Solar Energy Systems HIST 212 Pirates, Travelers and Natural Historians ENGR 057*(L) Operations Research (also ECON 032) HIST 237* Urbanization in Africa ENGR 063 (L) Water Quality and Pollution Control PHIL 238 Science, Technology and the Good Life ENGR 066 (L) Environmental Systems PHIL 240 Environmental Ethics POLS 222 Introduction to Environmental Issues Environmental Studies 169

POLS 256 Global Climate Politics CHIN 087 Water Policies, Water Issues: China/Taiwan and the U.S. POLS 310* Comparative Public Policy CHIN 088 Governance and Environmental Issues in POLS 321* Technology and Politics China (also POLS 088) POLS 354* Comparative Social Movements ECON 076 Environmental Economics SOCL 165 Problems in the Natural and Built ENGL 009C FYS: Imagining Natural History Environment ENGL 070G Writing Nature SOCL 247 Environmental Social Problems ENGL 089 Race, Gender, Class and the Environment SPAN 203 La Naturaleza Como Identidad Politica ENVS 001 Introduction to Environmental Studies Haverford ENVS 002 Human Nature, Technology, and the ANTH 203 Imagining the Arctic: Reading Contemporary Environment Ethnographies of the North ENVS 003 Environmental Policy and Economics ANTH 224 Microbes-Animals-Humans: Tthnographic Adventures in Multispecies Worlds ENVS 004 Sustainable Community Action ANTH 252* State and Development in South Asia ENVS 005 Changemakers ANTH 263* Anthropology of Space: Housing and ENVS 043B Environmental Justice: Theory and Action Society ENVS 050 Sustainable Research Methods ANTH 281 Nature/Culture: Introduction to Environmental ENVS 070 Geographic Information Systems Anthropology ENVS 071 Remote Sensing of the Environment ANTH 302* Oil, Culture, Power ENVS 072 GIS for Public Health ANTH 309 Anthropology and Urban Ecology ENVS 090 Directed Readings in Environmental Studies ECON 229 New Institutional Economics and Natural Resources ENVS 092 Research Project ECON 234 Environmental Economics HIST 089 Environmental History of Africa ECON 334 Natural Resource Economics JPNS 035 Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan (part of 360°) ENGL 217* Humanimality LING 120* Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered ENGL 257* British Topographies Languages ENGL 356 Studies in American Environment and Place LITR 022G* Food Revolutions: History, Politics, Culture ENVS 201 Geographic Information Systems PHIL 035 Environmental Ethics ENVS 206 Introduction to Permaculture POLS 037 Introduction to GIS for Social Environmental HIST 119* International History of the United States Analysis HIST 214 Early American Environmental History POLS 043 Environmental Policy and Politics HIST 227* Geographies of the Occult and Witchcraft POLS 043B Environmental Justice: Theory and Action HIST 253 History of the US Built Environment POLS 048* The Politics of Population HIST 348 Walter Benjamin on Lancaster Avenue POLS 071 Applied Spacial Analysis with GIS (pre-reqs) POLS 261* Global Civil Society RELG 006 FYS: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days POLS 278 The Earth: Ethics, Politics and Economics RELG 022 Religion and Ecology POLS 370 Environmental Political Thought RUSS 086 Nature and Industry in Russian Literature WRPR 172 Ecological Imaginaries: Identity, Violence and Culture and the Environment SOAN 020M Race, Gender and Environment Swarthmore ANTH 023C Anthropological Perspectives on COURSES Conservation ANTH B210 Medical Anthropology ANTH 035* Pictured Environments: Japanese Landscapes and Cityscapes (part of 360°) This course examines the relationships between culture, society, disease and illness. It considers a ANTH 080B Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered broad range of health-related experiences, discourses, Languages knowledge and practice among different cultures and 170 Environmental Studies among individuals and groups in different positions of BIOL B220 Ecology power. Topics covered include sorcery, herbal remedies, A study of the interactions between organisms and healing rituals, folk illnesses, modern disease, scientific their environments. The scientific underpinnings of medical perceptions, clinical technique, epidemiology current environmental issues, with regard to human and political economy of medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH impacts, are also discussed. Students will also become 102 or permission of instructor. familiar with ecological principles and with the methods Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ecologists use. Students will apply these principles Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies through the design and implementation of experiments Units: 1.0 both in the laboratory and the field. Lecture three hours Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. a week, laboratory/field investigation three hours a (Fall 2016) week. There will be optional field trips throughout the semester. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL B110 or ANTH B237 Environmental Health B111 or permission of instructor. This course introduces principles and methods in Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) environmental anthropology and public health used to Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive analyze global environmental health problems globally Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and develop health and disease control programs. Environmental Studies Topics covered include risk; health and environment; Units: 1.0 food production and consumption; human health and Instructor(s): Mozdzer,T. agriculture; meat and poultry production; and culture, (Fall 2016) urbanization, and disease. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of instructor. BIOL B225 Biology and Ecology of Plants Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Plants are critical to numerous contemporary issues, Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies such as ecological sustainability, economic stability, and Units: 1.0 human health. Students will examine the fundamentals (Not Offered 2016-2017) of how plants are structured, how they function, how they interact with other organisms, and how they ANTH B244 Global Perspectives on Early Farmers respond to environmental stimuli. In addition, students and Social Change will be taught to identify important local species, and Throughout most of human history our ancestors will explore the role of plants in human society and practiced lifestyles focused upon the gathering and ecological systems. One semester of BIOL 110/111. hunting of wild plants and animals. Today, however, a Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) globalized agricultural economy supports a population Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; of over seven billion individuals. This course utilizes Environmental Studies information produced by archaeologists around the Units: 1.0 globe to examine this major historical transition while (Not Offered 2016-2017) asking big questions like: What impact did the adoption of agriculture have on communities in the past, and BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences how did farming spread to different world regions? A study of how and why modern computation methods We will also consider how the current farming system are used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic influences our own society. How does farming still affect principles of visualizing and analyzing scientific data our lives today, and how will the history of agricultural through hands-on programming exercises. The majority change shape our collective future? Counts toward of the course will use the R programming language and Environmental Studies minor. corresponding open source statistical software. Content Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six Counts towards: Environmental Studies hours of combined lecture/lab per week. Units: 1.0 Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative (Not Offered 2016-2017) Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive BIOL B210 Biology and Public Policy Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; A lecture/discussion course on major issues and Environmental Studies; Neuroscience advances in biology and their implications for Units: 1.0 public policy decisions. Topics discussed include (Not Offered 2016-2017) reproductive technologies, the Human Genome project, environmental health hazards, bioterrorism, BIOL B255 Microbiology and euthanasia and organ transplantation. Readings Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche include scientific articles, public policy and ethical on the planet. This course will examine how microbes considerations, and lay publications. Lecture three have become successful colonizers; review aspects hours a week. This class involves considerable writing. of interactions between microbes, humans and the Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111, or environment; and explore practical uses of microbes permission of instructor. in industry, medicine and environmental management. Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies The course will combine lecture, discussion of primary Units: 1.0 literature and student presentations. Three hours Instructor(s): Greif,K. of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. (Spring 2017) Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL 110 and CHEM B104. Environmental Studies 171

Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; (Not Offered 2016-2017) Environmental Studies; Health Studies Units: 1.0 CITY B241 Building Green: Sustainable Design Past Instructor(s): Chander,M. and Present (Spring 2017) At a time when more than half of the human population lives in cities, the design of the built environment is of BIOL B262 Urban Ecosystems key importance. This course is designed for students Cities can be considered ecosystems whose functions to investigate issues of sustainability in architecture. A are highly influenced by human activity. This course will close reading of texts and careful analysis of buildings address many of the living and non-living components and cities will help us understand the terms and of urban ecosystems, as well as their unique processes. practices of architectural design and the importance Using an approach focused on case studies, the course of ecological, economic, political, cultural, social will explore the ecological and environmental problems sustainability over time and through space. that arise from urbanization, and also examine solutions Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the that have been attempted. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 or Past (IP) B111 or ENVS B101. Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CITY B250 Topics: Growth & Spatial Organization of the City BIOL B323 Coastal and Marine Ecology This is a topics course. Course content varies. An interdisciplinary course exploring the ecological, Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) biogeochemical, and physical aspects of coastal and Counts towards: Environmental Studies marine ecosystems. We will compare intertidal habitats Units: 1.0 in both temperate and tropical environments, with a (Not Offered 2016-2017) specific emphasis on global change impacts on coastal systems (e.g. sea level rise, warming, and species CITY B278 American Environmental History shifts). In 2015 the course will have a mandatory field trip to a tropical marine field station and an overnight This course explores major themes of American field trip to a temperate field station in the mid-Atlantic. environmental history, examining changes in the Prerequisite: BIOL B220 (Ecology) American landscape, the history of ideas about nature Counts towards: Environmental Studies and the interaction between the two. Students will study Units: 1.0 definitions of nature, environment, and environmental (Not Offered 2016-2017) history while investigating interactions between Americans and their physical worlds. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) BIOL B332 Global Change Biology Counts towards: Environmental Studies Global changes to our environment present omnipresent Units: 1.0 environmental challenges. We are only beginning to (Not Offered 2016-2017) understand the complex interactions between organisms and the rapidly changing environment. Students will CITY B329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environments explore the effects of global change on ecosystems by analyzing the primary literature and the latest IPCC This is a topics course. Course content varies. report. In 2017, there will be a mandatory one-day Counts towards: Environmental Studies field trip to the Smithsonian Global Change Research Units: 1.0 Wetland. Prerequisites: BIOL B220, BIOL 225 or BIOL (Not Offered 2016-2017) B262, or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Environmental Studies CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Units: 1.0 Society Instructor(s): Mozdzer,T. This is a topics course. Topics vary. (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 CITY B201 Introduction to GIS for Social and (Not Offered 2016-2017) Environmental Analysis This course is designed to introduce the foundations EALC B352 China’s Environment of GIS with emphasis on applications for social and This seminar explores China’s environmental issues environmental analysis. It deals with basic principles from a historical perspective. It begins by considering of GIS and its use in spatial analysis and information a range of analytical approaches , and then explores management. Ultimately, students will design and carry three general periods in China’s environmental changes, out research projects on topics of their own choosing. imperial times, Mao’s socialist experiments during the Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) first thirty years of the People’s Republic, and the post- 172 Environmental Studies

Mao reforms. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. share the day-to-day challenges of coping with land use Counts towards: Environmental Studies planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and the Units: 1.0 provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program Units: 1.0 EALC B362 Environment in Contemporary East Instructor(s): Ross,D. Asia: China and Japan (Fall 2016) This seminar explores environmental issues in contemporary East Asia from a historical perspective. EDUC B285 Ecologies of Minds and Communities It will explore the common and different environmental This course will attend to students’ distinctive ways problems in Japan and China, and explain and interpret of seeing and being in the world, in the context of their causal factors and solving measures in cultural communitarian questions of identity, access, and traditions, social movements, economic growth, political power. How can we re-imagine ecological literacy more and legal institutions and practices, international deeply and fruitfully with and for diverse students and cooperation and changing perceptions. Prerequisite: communities? Sophomore standing or above. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016) ENGL B216 Re-creating Our World: Vision, Voice, ECON B225 Economic Development Value Examination of the issues related to and the policies To this shared project, the discipline of English literary designed to promote economic development in the studies will contribute an awareness of the limits developing economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and possibilities of representation, asking what is and the Middle East. Focus is on why some developing foregrounded, what backgrounded or omitted, in each economies grow faster than others and why some verbal, visual, aural or tactile re-presentation of the growth paths are more equitable, poverty reducing, world. Asking, too, what might be imagined that has and environmentally sustainable than others. Includes not yet been experienced, “Re-creating Our World” consideration of the impact of international trade and invites students both to create their own multi-modal investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange representations of the spaces they occupy, and to re- rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies create, in some way, the space that is Bryn Mawr. This (industry, agriculture, education, population, and course offers a shared exploration of imaginative images environment) on development outcomes in a wide range and texts, with a global reach and in a range of genres of political and institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON (photography, film, poetry, as well as multiple narratives, B105. in forms that will vary from satire to science fiction, from Counts towards: Environmental Studies; International apocalypse to utopia). On field trips to local sites, we Studies will also study “representations” of the world in the form Units: 1.0 of various “shaped spaces,” including The Center for Instructor(s): Rock,M. Environmental Transformation in Camden, the John (Fall 2016) Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, John James Audubon’s house @ Mill Grove, Wissahickon Valley ECON B234 Environmental Economics Park, Chanticleer (a pleasure garden in Wayne), and the Laurel Hill Cemetery. Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical the underlying behavioral causes of environmental Interpretation (CI) and natural resource problems and to evaluate policy Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and responses to them. Topics may include air and water Sexuality Studies pollution; the economic theory of externalities, public Units: 1.0 goods and the depletion of resources; cost-benefit (Not Offered 2016-2017) analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs; economic justice; and sustainable development. Prerequisites: ECON B105. ENGL B218 Ecological Imaginings Counts towards: Environmental Studies Re-thinking the evolving nature of representation, with a Units: 1.0 focus on language as a link between natural and cultural Instructor(s): Ross,D. ecosystems. We will observe the world; read classical (Spring 2017) and cutting edge ecolinguistic, ecoliterary, ecofeminist, and ecocritical theory, along with a wide range of ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental exploratory, speculative, and imaginative essays and Programs stories; and seek a variety of ways of expressing our own ecological interests. Considers the determinants of human impact on the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) environment at the neighborhood or community level Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and and policy responses available to local government. Sexuality Studies How can economics help solve and learn from the Units: 1.0 problems facing rural and suburban communities? The (Not Offered 2016-2017) instructor was a local township supervisor who will Environmental Studies 173

ENGL B268 Native Soil and American Instructor(s): Marenco,K., Cull-Hearth,S. Literature:1492-1900 (Fall 2016) This course will consider the literature of contact and conflict between English-speaking whites and Native GEOL B103 Earth Systems and the Environment Americans between the years 1492 and 1920. We will This integrated approach to studying the Earth focuses focus on how these cultures understood the meaning on interactions among geology, oceanography, and and uses of land, and the effects of these literatures of biology. Also discussed are the consequences of human encounter upon American land and ecology and vice- energy consumption, industrial development, and land versa. Texts will include works by Native, European- and use. Two lectures and one afternoon of laboratory or African-American writers, and may include texts by fieldwork per week. A required field trip is taken in April. Christopher Columbus, John Smith, William Bradford, Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Handsome Lake, Samson Occom, Lydia Maria Child, Counts towards: Environmental Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Units: 1.0 John Rollin Ridge, Mark Twain, Mourning Dove, Ella (Not Offered 2016-2017) Deloria and Willa Cather. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical GEOL B203 Invertebrate Paleobiology Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Environmental Studies We will explore how the Earth-life system has evolved Units: 1.0 through time by studying the interactions between (Not Offered 2016-2017) life, climate, and tectonic processes. During the lab component of the course, we will study important fossil groups to better understand their paleoecology and ENVS B101 Introduction to Environmental Studies roles in the Earth-life system. This interdisciplinary introduction to Environmental Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Studies Minor examines the ideas, themes and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive methodologies of humanists, social scientists, and Counts towards: Environmental Studies natural scientists in order to understand what they have Units: 1.0 to offer each other in the study of the environment, and Instructor(s): Marenco,P. how their inquiries can be strengthened when working in (Fall 2016) concert. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach GEOL B206 Energy Resources and Sustainability Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 An examination of issues concerning the supply Instructor(s): Barber,D., Rock,M. of energy required by humanity. This includes (Spring 2017) an investigation of the geological framework that determines resource availability, aspects of energy production and resource development and the science ENVS B397 Senior Seminar in Environmental of global climate change. Two 90-minute lectures a Studies week. Suggested preparation: one year of college In this capstone course, senior Environmental science. Studies minors from across the disciplines will draw Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) on the perspectives and skills gained from their Counts towards: Environmental Studies majors and from their preparatory work in the minor Units: 1.0 to collaboratively engage high-level questions of Instructor(s): Barber,D. environmental inquiry. Prerequisite: Open only to (Fall 2016) Environmental Studies minors who have completed all introductory work for the minor. GEOL B209 Natural Hazards Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 A quantitative approach to understanding the earth Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J. processes that impact human societies. We consider (Fall 2016) the past, current, and future hazards presented by geologic processes, including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, and hurricanes. The course includes GEOL B101 How the Earth Works discussion of the social, economic, and policy contexts An introduction to the study of planet Earth—the within which natural geologic processes become materials of which it is made, the forces that shape hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary its surface and interior, the relationship of geological and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. processes to people, and the application of geological Prerequisite: one semester of college science or knowledge to the search for useful materials. Laboratory permission of instructor. and fieldwork focus on learning the tools for geological Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative investigations and applying them to the local area and Readiness Required (QR) selected areas around the world. Three lectures and Counts towards: Environmental Studies one afternoon of laboratory or fieldwork a week. One Units: 1.0 required one-day field trip on a weekend. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR);

Scientific Investigation (SI) GEOL B302 Low-Temperature Geochemistry Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most 174 Environmental Studies important subfields of the Earth sciences for POLS B222 Environmental Issues understanding environmental and climatic change. In This is a topics course. Topics vary. this course, we will explore stable isotopic fundamentals Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and applications including a number of important case Counts towards: Environmental Studies studies from the recent and deep time dealing with Units: 1.0 important biotic events in the fossil record and major Instructor(s): Hager,C. climate changes. Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or GEOL 102, and at least one semester of chemistry or physics, Spring 2017: Movements, Controversies and or professor approval. Policy Making. An exploration of the ways in which Counts towards: Environmental Studies different cultural, economic, and political settings Units: 1.0 have shaped issue emergence and policy making. (Not Offered 2016-2017) We examine the politics of particular environmental issues in selected countries and regions, paying GEOL B314 Marine Geology special attention to the impact of environmental An introduction to oceanography, coastal processes, movements. We also assess the prospects for and the geomorphology of temperate and tropical international cooperation in addressing global shorelines. Includes an overview of the many environmental problems such as climate change. parameters, including sea level change, that shape coastal environments. Meets twice weekly for a POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on This course will introduce students to important political exercises, including a mandatory multi-day field trip to issues raised by climate change locally, nationally, and investigate developed and pristine sections of the Mid- internationally, paying particular attention to the global Atlantic US coast. Prerequisite: One 200-level GEOL implications of actions at the national and subnational course OR one GEOL course AND one BIOL course levels. It will focus not only on specific problems, but (any level), OR advanced BIOL major standing (junior or also on solutions; students will learn about some of senior). the technological and policy innovations that are being Counts towards: Environmental Studies developed worldwide in response to the challenges of Units: 1.0 climate change. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Environmental Studies PHIL B238 Science, Technology and the Good Life Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course considers questions concerning what is science, what is technology, and what is their relationship to each other and to the domains of ethics POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy and politics. We will consider how modern science A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across defined itself in its opposition to Aristotelian science. space and time. Focusing on particular issues such We will examine the Cartesian and Baconian scientific as health care, domestic security, water and land use, models and the self-understanding of these models we identify institutional, historical, and cultural factors with regard to ethics and politics. Developments in that shape policies. We also examine the growing the philosophy of science will be considered, e.g., importance of international-level policy making and the positivism, phenomenology, feminism, sociology of interplay between international and domestic pressures science. Biotechnology and information technology on policy makers. Prerequisite: One course in Political illustrate fundamental questions. The “science wars” Science or public policy. of the 1990s provide debates concerning science, Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies technology, and the good life. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP) Counts towards: Environmental Studies POLS B321 Technology and Politics Units: 1.0 A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology (Not Offered 2016-2017) in political and social life. We focus on the relationship between technological change and democratic PHIL B240 Environmental Ethics governance. We begin with historical and contemporary This course surveys rights- and justice-based Luddism as well as pro-technology movements around justifications for ethical positions on the environment. the world. Substantive issue areas include security and It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic surveillance, electoral politics, economic development value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian and women’s empowerment, warfare, social media, net and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to neutrality, GMO foods and industrial agriculture, climate future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere. change and energy politics. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Hager,C. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017) Film Studies 175

POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power the director of the Film Studies Program to develop a and Mobilization minor work plan when declaring the minor. A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political Minor Requirements opportunity structure facing potential activists, the In consultation with the program director, students mobilizing resources available to them, and the cultural design a program of study that includes a range of film framing within which these processes occur. Specific genres, styles, national cinemas, eras and disciplinary attention is paid to recent movements within and across and methodological approaches. Students are strongly countries, such as feminist, environmental, and anti- encouraged to take at least one course addressing globalization movements, and to emerging forms of topics in global or non-western cinema. The minor citizen mobilization, including transnational and global consists of a total of six courses and must include the networks, electronic mobilization, and collaborative following: policymaking institutions. Prerequisite: one course in POLS or SOCL or permission of instructor. • One introductory course in the formal analysis of Counts towards: Environmental Studies film Units: 1.0 • One course in film history or an area of film history (Not Offered 2016-2017) • One course in film theory or an area of film theory • Three electives. FILM STUDIES • At least one of the six courses must be at the 300 level. Courses that fall into two or more of Students may complete a minor in Film Studies. the above categories may fulfill the requirement of the student’s choosing, but may not fulfill more Steering Committee than one requirement simultaneously. Students should consult with their advisers to determine Timothy Harte, Chair and Associate Professor of which courses, if any, may count simultaneously Russian for multiple credentials. Final approval is at the Homay King, Professor of History of Art (on leave discretion of the program director. semester I) COURSES Hoang Tan Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies ARTW B266 Screenwriting Michael Tratner, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of An introduction to screenwriting. Issues basic to the art English of storytelling in film will be addressed and analyzed: Sharon Ullman, Chair and Professor of History (on leave character, dramatic structure, theme, setting, image, semesters I and II) sound. The course focuses on the film adaptation; readings include novels, screenplays, and short stories. Affiliated Faculty Films adapted from the readings will be screened. In the course of the semester, students will be expected Shiamin Kwa, Assistant Professor on the Jye Chu to outline and complete the first act of an adapted Lectureship in Chinese Studies (on leave semester screenplay of their own. I & II) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Roberta Ricci, Chair and Associate Professor of Italian Counts towards: Film Studies David Romberg, Lecturer Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) H. Rosi Song, Associate Professor of Spanish Film Studies is an interdisciplinary program of inquiry CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema bringing a range of analytical methods to bear upon This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course films, film audiences, and the social and industrial explores how contemporary film, a creative medium contexts of film and media production, distribution and appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like exhibition. The courses that comprise the minor in Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. film studies reflect the diversity of approaches in the Examining both films that are directly based on Greek academic study of cinema. The minor is anchored by plays and films that make use of classical material core courses in formal analysis, history and theory. without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we Elective courses in particular film styles, directors, will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed national cinemas, genres, areas of theory and criticism, and appropriated for modern audiences and how the video production, and issues in film and media culture classical past continues to be culturally significant. A add both breadth and depth to this program of study. variety of methodological approaches such as film and Film Studies is a Bryn Mawr College minor. Students gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will must take a majority of courses on the Bryn Mawr be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- campus; however, minors are encouraged to consider historical interpretation. courses offered in the Tri-College consortium and at the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) University of Pennsylvania. Students should work with Counts towards: Film Studies 176 Film Studies

Units: 1.0 screenings is mandatory. Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. EALC B212 Topics: Introduction to Chinese (Spring 2017) Literature This is a topics course. Topics may vary. ENGL B229 Movies and Mass Politics Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Movies and mass politics emerged together, altering Interpretation (CI) entertainment and government in strangely similar Counts towards: Film Studies ways. Fascism and Communism claimed an inherent Units: 1.0 relation to the masses and hence to movies; Hollywood (Not Offered 2016-2017) rejected such claims. We will examine films that allude to Communism and Fascism, seeking to understand EALC B240 Topics in Chinese Film how they join in political debates and comment upon the This is a topics course. Course content varies. mass experience of movie going. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B324 Topics in Shakespeare: Shakespeare on EALC B281 Food in Translation: Theory and Film Practice Films and play texts vary from year to year. The course This semester we will explore the connections between assumes significant prior experience of Shakespearean what we eat and how we define ourselves in the drama and/or Renaissance drama. context of global culture. We will proceed from the Counts towards: Film Studies assumption that food is an object of culture, and that our Units: 1.0 contemplation of its transformations and translations in Instructor(s): Gordon,C. production, preparation, consumption, and distribution will inform our notions of personal and group identity. Spring 2017: Global Shakespeare. We will read This course takes Chinese food as a case study, and Shakespearean drama alongside the global examines the way that Chinese food moves from its performance archives that update and remix host country to diasporic communities all over the Shakespeare for a world shaped by the War on world, using theories of translation as our theoretical Terror, globalization, occupation, and revolution. and empirical foundation. From analyzing menu By pairing original texts and their adaptations, this and ingredient translations to producing a short film course considers pressing issues in postcolonial based on interviews, we will consider the relationship theory, including cosmopolitanism; appropriation; between food and communication in a multilingual and colonial education and canon formation; multicultural world. Readings include theoretical texts on nationalism; and the global city. translation (Apter), recipe books and menus, Chinese and Chinese-American literature (Classic of Poetry, ENGL B336 Topics in Film Mo Yan, Hong Kingston). Films include Ian Cheney’s This is a topics course. Course content varies. “Searching for General Tso,” Wayne Wang’s “Soul of a Counts towards: Film Studies Banquet” and “Eat a Bowl of Tea,” Ang Li’s “Eat Drink Units: 1.0 Man Woman,” and Wong Karwai’s “In the Mood for Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. Love.” Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Fall 2016: Global Queer Cinema. This course Interpretation (CI) asks, “What can the theories of globalization, Counts towards: Film Studies transnationalism, and diaspora contribute to the Units: 1.0 study of same-sex eroticisms in the cinema?” To (Not Offered 2016-2017) help us answer this question, we will base our investigation on a corpus of films drawn from across the globe (mostly from non-US contexts) that deal ENGL B205 Introduction to Film with non-normative sexualities. This course is intended to provide students with the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings ENGL B355 Performance Studies of images and sounds, sections of films and entire Introduces students to the field of performance studies, narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical a multidisciplinary species of cultural studies which viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in theorizes human actions as performances that both film studies. The course introduces formal and technical construct and resist cultural norms of race, gender, units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and and sexuality. The course will explore “performativity” history that add up to the experiences and meanings we in everyday life as well as in the performing arts, and call cinema. Although much of the course material will will include multiple viewings of dance and theater both focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be on- and off-campus. In addition, we will consider the drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly Film Studies 177 performative aspects of film and video productions. GNST B255 Video Production Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film This course will explore aesthetic strategies utilized Studies by low-budget film and video makers as each student Units: 1.0 works throughout the semester to complete a 7-15 (Not Offered 2016-2017) minute film or video project. Course requirements include weekly screenings, reading assignments, ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New and class screenings of rushes and roughcuts of Media student projects. Prerequisites: Some prior film course The course explores the role of pleasure in the experience necessary, instructor discretion. production, reception, and performance of Asian Approach: Course does not meet an Approach American identities in film, video, and the internet, Counts towards: Film Studies taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Units: 1.0 Americans in works produced by Asian American artists Instructor(s): Romberg,D. from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, (Fall 2016) we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find GNST B302 Topics in Video Production objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage This is a topics course. Course content varies. analytically with all class material. To maintain an Prerequisite: GNST B255 or ENGL/HART B205 or atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the ICPR H243 or ICPR H343 or ICPR H278 or ANTH H207 participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. or an equivalent Video Production course, such as Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film Documentary Production or an equivalent critical course Studies in Film or Media Studies. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Film Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B375 Sex on Screens This course will provide a historical and theoretical HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual overview of the ways moving image sex acts have been Representation: Identification in the Cinema represented on screen, from early cinema’s silent film An introduction to the analysis of film through particular loops to today’s celebrity sex tapes. We will examine the attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving ideological operations of sex in the cinema and aim to images compel our fascination? How exactly do film comprehend the multifarious ways viewers, filmmakers, spectators relate to the people, objects, and places critics, and scholars respond to dominant conceptions that appear on the screen? Wherein lies the power of of sex-sexuality through alternative cinematic production images to move, attract, repel, persuade, or transform and critical scholarship. Units include: stag movies, its viewers? In this course, students will be introduced the Production Code and ratings system, European to film theory through the rich and complex topic of art cinema, sex ed, underground and the avant-garde, identification. We will explore how points of view are cult / sexploitation / blaxploitation, sexual revolution, framed in cinema, and how those viewing positions hard core, women’s cinema, home video, queer differ from those of still photography, advertising, cinema, HIV/AIDS, the digital revolution, feminist porn, video games, and other forms of media. Students and the Internet. Prerequisites: HART / COML B110: will be encouraged to consider the role the cinematic Identification in the Cinema; or ENGL / HART 205: medium plays in influencing our experience of a film: Introduction to Film; or ENGL B299 History of Narrative how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form Cinema, 1945 to the Present. of representation that creates interactions between Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film the spectator and the images on the screen. Film Studies screenings include Psycho, Being John Malkovich, Units: 1.0 and others. Course is geared to freshman and those (Not Offered 2016-2017) with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor GEOL B125 Focus: Geology in Film Introductory course or Theory course requirement. This is a half semester Focus course. Geologic Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the processes make for great film storylines, but filmmakers Past (IP) take great liberty with how they depict scientific “facts” Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive and scientists. We will explore how and why filmmakers Counts towards: Film Studies choose to deviate from science reality. We will study and Units: 1.0 view one film per week and discuss its issues from a Instructor(s): King,H. geologist’s perspective. (Spring 2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Counts towards: Film Studies HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the Units: 0.5 present Instructor(s): Marenco,P. This course surveys the history of narrative film from (Spring 2017) 1945 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the 178 Film Studies

French New Wave, and other post-war movements Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be Past (IP) supplemented by more recent examples of global Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film cinema. While historical in approach, this course Studies emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, Units: 1.0 and we will consider various methodological approaches (Not Offered 2016-2017) to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings will provide historical ITAL B212 Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, context, and will introduce students to key concepts in New Literature film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, This course, taught in English, will focus primarily the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the history on the works of the so-called “migrant writers” who, requirement or the introductory course requirement for having adopted the Italian language, have become a the Film Studies minor. significant part of the new voice of Italy. In addition to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the the aesthetic appreciation of these works, this course Past (IP) will also take into consideration the social, cultural, Counts towards: Film Studies and political factors surrounding them. The course will Units: 1.0 focus on works by writers who are now integral to Italian (Not Offered 2016-2017) canon – among them: Cristina Ali-Farah, Igiaba Scego, Ghermandi Gabriella, Amara Lakhous. As part of the HART B306 Film Theory course, movies concerned with various aspects of Italian An introduction to major developments in film theory Migrant literature will be screened and analyzed. and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic “author”; the Interpretation (CI) politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, Studies and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film Units: 1.0 studies; the relation between film studies and other (Not Offered 2016-2017) disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central ITAL B214 The Myth of Venice (1800-2000) principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. The Republic of Venice existed for over a millennium. Class will be divided between discussion of critical This course begins in the year 1797 at the end of the texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic Republic and the emerging of an extensive body of text. Prerequisite: A course in Film Studies (HART literature centered on Venice and its mythical facets. B110, HART B299, ENGL B205, or the equivalent from Readings will include the Romantic views of Venice another college by permission of instructor). (excerpts from Lord Byron, Fredrick Schiller, Wolfang Counts towards: Film Studies von Goethe, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni) and Units: 1.0 the 20th century reshaping of the literary myth (readings Instructor(s): King,H. from Thomas Mann, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, (Spring 2017) Gabriele D’Annunzio, Henry James, and others). A journey into this fascinating tradition will shed light on HART B334 Topics in Film Studies how the literary and visual representation of Venice, This is a topics course. Course content varies. rather than focusing on a nostalgic evocation of the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film death of the Republic, became a territory of exploration Studies for literary modernity. The course is offered in English; Units: 1.0 all texts are provided in translation. One additional hour Instructor(s): Feliz,M. for the students who are taking the course for Italian credit. Suggested Preparation: At least two 200-level Fall 2016: Visual Culture and Technology. This literature courses. course examines the intersections of art and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) technology across a wide range of visual culture Counts towards: Film Studies and popular media. Beginning with an exploration Units: 1.0 of a set of aesthetic and cultural production that Instructor(s): Monserrati,M. includes 16th century woodcuts, 17th century (Spring 2017) cabinets of curiosity, 18th century magic lantern shows, and 19th century stereoscopes and ITAL B229 Food in Italian Literature, Culture, and panoramas, the course will provide historical Cinema context for a consideration of the role that various forms of technology have played in shaping art, film Taught in English. A profile of Italian literature/culture/ and new media in the 20th and 21st century. cinema obtained through an analysis of gastronomic documents, films, literary texts, and magazines. We will HIST B284 Movies and America also include a discussion of the Slow Food Revolution, Movies are one of the most important means by which a movement initiated in Italy in 1980 and now with Americans come to know – or think they know—their a world-wide following, and its social, economic, own history. This class examines the complex cultural ecological, aesthetic, and cultural impact to counteract relationship between film and American historical self fast food and to promote local food traditions. Course fashioning. Film Studies 179 taught in English. One additional hour for students who disorder and how it depicts treatment for the disorder. want Italian credit . Prerequisite: ITAL 102 This cinematic presentation will be evaluated with Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical respect to current research on treatment for the Interpretation (CI) disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing Counts towards: Film Studies treatment for the disorder at the time the film was made. Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: PSYC B209. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Film Studies; ITAL B255 Uomini d’onore in Sicilia: Italian Mafia in Health Studies Literature and Cinema Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Rescorla,L. This course aims to explore representations of Mafia (Fall 2016) figures in Italian literature and cinema, with reference also to Italian-American films, starting from the ‘classical’ example of Sicily. The course will introduce students to RUSS B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and both Italian Studies from an interdisciplinary prospective Film and also to narrative fiction, using Italian literature This course focuses on Russian avant-garde painting, written by 19th, 20th, and 21st Italian Sicilian authors. literature and cinema at the start of the 20th century. Course is taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL B102 or Moving from Imperial Russian art to Stalinist aesthetics, permission of the instructor. we explore the rise of non-objective painting (Malevich, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Kandinsky, etc.), ground-breaking literature (Bely, Counts towards: Film Studies Mayakovsky), and revolutionary cinema (Vertov, Units: 1.0 Eisenstein). No knowledge of Russian required. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies ITAL B310 Detective Fiction Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) In English. Why is detective fiction so popular? What explains the continuing multiplication of detective texts despite the seemingly finite number of available plots? RUSS B217 The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky This course will explore the worldwide fascination with This course will probe the cinematic oeuvre of the great this genre beginning with European writers before Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who produced some turning to the more distant mystery stories from around of the most compelling, significant film work of the 20th the world. The international scope of the readings century. Looking at not only Tarkovsky’s films but also will highlight how authors in different countries have those films that influenced his work, we will explore developed their own national detective typologies while the aesthetics, philosophy, and ideological pressure simultaneously responding to international influence of underlying Tarkovsky’s unique brand of cinema. the British-American model. Italian majors taking this Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) course for Italian credit will be required to meet for an Counts towards: Film Studies additional hour with the instructor and to do the readings Units: 1.0 and writing in Italian. Suggested Preparation: One (Not Offered 2016-2017) literature course at the 200 level. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to Counts towards: Film Studies 1945 Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal Counts towards: Film Studies Psychology Through Films Units: 1.0 This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = Instructor(s): Harte,T. 16 students) deals with critical analysis of how various forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The Spring 2017: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet primary focus of the seminar will be evaluating the Russia & Beyond. This course will explore cinema degree of correspondence between the cinematic from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the presentation and current research knowledge about end of the silent era. While the course will focus the disorder, taking into account the historical period on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects in which the film was made. For example, we will of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic are presented and how representative the protagonist methods that went into the direction and production is of people who typically manifest this disorder based of a variety of celebrated silent films from Russia, on current research. We will also address the theory of Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. These films will etiology of the disorder depicted in the film, including be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, discussion of the relevant intellectual history in the social, and even philosophical, so that students can period when the film was made and the prevailing develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema’s accounts of psychopathology in that period. Another rapid evolution. focus will be how the film portrays the course of the 180 Fine Arts

RUSS B258 Soviet and Eastern European Cinema of cornerstone of all visual art disciplines. Cognition and the 1960s processing information are key skills for any discipline— This course examines 1960s Soviet and Eastern in the humanities or the sciences—and for this European “New Wave” cinema, which won worldwide reason art at Haverford is specifically geared towards acclaim through its treatment of war, gender, and enhancing visual perception. Such finely tuned skills can aesthetics. Films from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, benefit anyone professionally and personally. Poland, Russia, and Yugoslavia will be viewed and The fine arts courses offered by the department are analyzed, accompanied by readings on film history and structured to accomplish the following: theory. All films shown with subtitles; no knowledge of Russian or previous study of film required. • For students not majoring in fine arts: to develop a Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical visual perception of form and to present knowledge Interpretation (CI) and understanding of it in works of art. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive • For students intending to major in fine arts: beyond Counts towards: Film Studies the foregoing, to promote thinking in visual terms Units: 1.0 and to foster the skills needed to give expression to (Not Offered 2016-2017) these in a coherent body of art works. All Fine Arts studio courses are designed for students to SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in obtain motor skills, theoretical and critical thinking, and Latin American Film problem solving necessary to create art to the student’s Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as fullest ability along with developing their own original “emotional people”—often a euphemism to mean ideas and concepts. Students achieve these goals in irrational, impulsive, wildly heroic, fickle. This course individual interactions such as critiques and hands- takes this expression at face value to ask: Are there on instructions in small classroom settings. These particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, educational goals are augmented by outside speakers, conversely, do these “people” become such because visiting artists, exhibitions and non-studio courses in they share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation visual culture sponsored by the department or taught by between emotions and political trajectories? To answer its faculty. these questions, we will explore three types of films that seem to have, at different times, taken hold of the Major Requirements Latin American imagination and feelings: melodramas (1950s-1960s), documentaries (1970s-1990s), and “low- Fine Arts majors are required to concentrate in one key” comedies (since 2000s.) of the following: drawing, painting, photography, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) printmaking, and sculpture, as detailed here: Counts towards: Film Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies • four 100-level foundation courses in each discipline Units: 1.0 • two different 200-level courses outside the area of (Not Offered 2016-2017) concentration in the major • two 200-level courses and one 300-level course within the student’s chosen focal area within Fine FINE ARTS Arts • three art history/theory/criticism, or visual studies Students may complete a major in Fine Arts at courses (as approved by major advisor) Haverford College. • Senior Departmental Studies 499. For majors intending to do graduate work, we strongly Faculty recommend that they take an additional 300-level Markus Baenziger, Associate Professor studio course within their area of concentration and an additional art history course at Bryn Mawr. Christina Freeman, Visiting Assistant Professor Jonathan Goodrich, Visiting Instructor Minor Requirements Hee Sook Kim, Chair and Associate Professor • Minors must take four 100-level foundation courses in different disciplines. Ying Li, Professor of Fine Arts (on leave Fall 2015) • two 200-level courses and one 300-level course William E. Williams, Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau within the student’s chosen focal area within Fine Professor in the Humanities and Curator of Photography Arts (on leave Spring 2016) • one art history/theory/criticism, or visual culture In the Fine Arts department, the focus is on the courses. individual. Studio classes are small, and students from beginners to majors receive individual instruction. Study Abroad Every student is encouraged to develop the physical Credits from Study abroad or from outside the Fine Arts and critical skills necessary to create art. The philosophy department: of the department is that observational skills are the Fine Arts 181

Majors can take one 200-level course outside of a ARTS H108E Arts Foundation-Photography major’s concentration and any art history/theory/ Williams,William criticism, or visual culture courses, subject to approval by the chair of Fine Arts before the course is taken. ARTS H120E Foundation Printmaking: Silkscreen Minors can take one 200-level course outside of A seven-week course covering various techniques a minor’s area of study and one art history/theory/ and approaches to silkscreen, including painterly criticism, or visual culture courses, subject to approval monoprint, stencils, direct drawing and photo-silkscreen. by the chair of Fine Arts before the course is taken. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. COURSES Kim,Hee Sook

ARTS H101D Arts Foundation-Drawing (2-D) ARTS H124D Foundation Printmaking: Monotype A seven-week introductory course for students with Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. little or no experience in drawing. Students will first Painterly methods, direct drawing, stencils, brayer learn how to see with a painter’s eye. Composition, techniques for beginners in printmaking will be taught. perspective, proportion, light, form, picture plane Color, form, shape, and somposition in 2-D format and other fundamentals will be studied. We will work will be explored. Individual and group critiques will be from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and employed. masterwork. Kim,Hee Sook Li,Ying ARTS H225A Lithography: Materials and Techniques ARTS H103D Arts Foundation-Photography Kim,Hee Sook This class also requires a two-hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be determined during the ARTS H231A Drawing (2-D): All Media first class. Students are encouraged to experiment with various Williams,William drawing media and to explore the relationships between media, techniques and expression. Each student will ARTS H104E Arts Foundation-Sculpture strive to develop a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental issues of pictorial space, This is a seven week, half semester course designed to structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work from provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course and techniques. Skills associated with organizing and includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, constructing three-dimensional form will be addressed slide lectures, museum and gallery visits. through a series of projects within a contemporary Attributes: Humanities context. The first projects will focus on basic three- Li,Ying dimensional concepts, while later projects will allow for greater individual self-expression and exploration. Various fabrication skills including construction, ARTS H233A Painting: Materials and Techniques modeling, basic mold making, and casting will be Students are encouraged to experiment with various demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will painting techniques and materials in order to develop be covered in detail in class, and no prior experience is a personal approach to self-expression. We will required to successfully complete this course. emphasize form, color, texture, and the relationship Baenziger,Markus among them; influences of various techniques upon the expression of a work; the characteristics and limitations ARTS H106D Arts Foundation-Drawing of different media. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes This is a seven week introductory level course designed drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide to provide an overview of basic drawing techniques lectures, museum and gallery visits. addressing line, form, space, and composition. Various Li,Ying drawing methods will be introduced in class, and students will gain experience in drawing by working from still life, models, and architecture. ARTS H242A Introduction to Visual Studies Baenziger,Markus An introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Visual Studies, its methods of analysis and topical concerns. ARTS H107E Arts Foundation-Painting Traditional media and artifacts of art history and film theory, and also an examination of the ubiquity of A seven-week introductory course for students with images of all kinds, their systems of transmission, their little or no experience in painting. Students will be first points of consumption, and the very limits of visuality introduced to the handling of basic tools, materials itself. and techniques. We will study the color theory such Department staff,TBA as interaction of color, value & color, warms & cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, ARTS H243A Sculpture: Materials and Techniques imagination and masterwork. This course is designed to give students an in depth Li,Ying introduction to a comprehensive range of three- dimensional concepts and fabrication techniques. 182 French and Francophone Studies

Emphasis will be on wood and metal working, and FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE additional processes such as casting procedures for a range of synthetic materials and working with digital STUDIES tools including a laser cutter and CNC equipment will be introduced in class. Course may be repeated for credit. Students may complete a major or minor in French Baenziger,Markus and Francophone Studies with two possible tracks: Language and Literature or Transdisciplinary ARTS H251A Photography: Materials and Studies. Within the major, students may complete the Techniques requirements for the secondary education certification. Students are encouraged to develop an individual Students may, with departmental approval, complete an approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on the M.A. in the combined A.B./M.A. program of 4.0, 4.5 or creation of color photographic prints which express 5.0 years. plastic form, emotions and ideas about the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights Faculty into editing of individual student work and the use of the appropriate black-and-white photographic materials in Grace Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of analog or digital formats necessary to give coherence to French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and and Co-Director of the International Studies and museum exhibitions, lectures and a critical analysis Program (fall) of photographic sequences in books and a research Rudy Le Menthéour, Associate Professor of French project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition and Director of the Institut d’Etudes Françaises students produce a handmade archival box to house d’Avignon their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Brigitte Mahuzier, Chair and Professor of French Arts 103 or equivalent. Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Lecturer of French Williams,William Corine Ragueneau-Wells, Instructor

ARTS H333A Experimental Studio: Painting Marie Sanquer, Lecturer Students will build on the work done in 200 level Julien Suaudeau, Lecturer courses to develop further their individual approach to painting. Students are expected to create projects The Departments of French at Bryn Mawr and Haverford that demonstrate the unique character of their chosen Colleges offer a variety of courses and two options media in making their own art. Completed projects will for the major. The purpose of the major in French and be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will include Francophone Studies is to develop sophisticated critical weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ lecture and and analytical skills through the analysis of, among crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk other things, French and Francophone literature, history, and discussion of either their own work or the work of art, film, material culture, and/or institutions. Courses artists who influenced them. in the Language and Literature track serve students Li,Ying with primary interests in French and Francophone literature, film, critical theory and criticism. Additional ARTS H351A Experimental Studio: Photography courses in and outside the department serve the Students produce an extended sequence of their work Transdisciplinary track. A thorough knowledge of written in either book or exhibition format using black and and spoken French is a common goal for both literary white or color photographic materials. The sequence and transdisciplinary options. and scale of the photographic prints are determined 100-level courses introduce students to the study of the by the nature of the student’s work. Weekly classroom French language, French and Francophone literatures critiques, supplemented by an extensive investigation of and cultures, as well as exposing them to critical classic photographic picture books and related critical materials related to textual analysis conceived broadly. texts guide students to the completion of their course Courses at the 200-level treat French and Francophone work. This two semester course consists of the book literature and cultures across the historical spectrum. In project first semester and the exhibition project second addition, two 200-level courses are devoted to advanced semester. At the end of each semester the student may language training and one to the study of theory. exhibit his/her project. Advanced (300-level) courses offer detailed study either Williams,William of individual authors, genres and movements or of particular periods, themes and problems in French and ARTS H499A Senior Departmental Studies Francophone culture. In both major options, students The student reviews the depth and extent of experience are admitted to advanced courses after satisfactory gained, and in so doing creates a coherent body of work completion of two semesters of 200-level courses in expressive of the student’s insights and skills. At the end French. of the senior year the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work. All students who wish to pursue their study of French, regardless of level, must take a departmental placement examination prior to arriving at Bryn Mawr. Those students who enter beginning French have two options: intensive study of the language in the French and Francophone Studies 183 intensive sequence (001-002 Intensive Elementary year, students have the choice in semester II of writing and 005 Intensive Intermediate; or non-intensive study a thesis in French (40-50 pp.) under the direction of a of the language in the non-intensive sequence (001- faculty member or taking a 300-level course in which 002 Elementary; 003-004 Intermediate). Although it they write a Senior Essay in French (15-25 pp.) The first is possible to major in French using either of the two choice offers self-selected students who already have sequences, students who are considering doing so developed a clearly defined subject in semester I the and have been placed at the 001 level are strongly opportunity to pursue independent research and writing encouraged to take the intensive sequence. of the thesis with a faculty mentor. The second choice allows students, often double majors with another Major Requirements thesis or pre-medical students, the opportunity to produce a substantial, but shorter, piece of work within Requirements in the major subject are: the structure of their 300-level course in semester II. Departmental honors are awarded for excellence in the • French and Francophone Literature track: FREN Senior Experience after the oral defense of either the 005-102 or 005-105 or 101-102 or 101-105; the Senior Thesis or the Senior Essay. 200-level advanced language course, FREN 260; FREN 213 Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses For the Interdisciplinary Studies in French option: in the Humanities (BMC) or “Qu’est-ce que la Students take French 325 or 326, if they have not théorie” (HC);” three 200-level literature courses, already done so, and French 398 in Semester I of two 300-level literature courses, and the year- their senior year and, if they have not already done so, long Senior Experience, which consists of Senior complete the two 300-level courses required outside Conference (FREN 398) in the fall semester and the department. In semester II they write a thesis in either a Senior Thesis or a third 300-level course French or English under the direction of a member of culminating in the Senior Essay during the spring the French faculty and a mentor outside the department. semester. In either case, the work of the spring Departmental honors are awarded for excellence in the semester is capped by an oral defense. Senior Experience after the oral defense of the Senior • Transdisciplinary French and Francophone Studies: Thesis. FREN 005-102 or 005-105 or 101-102 or 101-105; the 200-level advanced language course, FREN Minor Requirements 260; two 200-level courses, within the department: Requirements for a French minor are FREN 005-102 e.g., FREN 291 or 299; two 200-level courses, or 005-105, or 101-102 or 101-105; the 200-level to be chosen by the student outside the French advanced language course; and four 200-level or departments (at BMC/HC or JYA), which contribute 300-level courses. At least one course must be coherently to her independent program of study; 300-level. FREN 325 or 326 Etudes avancées de civilisation, Senior Conference (FREN 398), plus two 300-level courses outside the departments; a thesis of one Teacher Certification semester in French or English. Students interested The Department of French and Francophone Studies in this track are encouraged to present the rationale offers a certification program in secondary teacher and the projected content of their transdisciplinary education. For more information, see the description of program for departmental approval during their the Education Program. sophomore year and to update their plan in junior year; they should have excellent records in French A.B./M.A. Program and the other subjects involved in their proposed program. Particularly well-qualified students may undertake work toward the joint A.B./M.A. degree in French. Such a • Both concentrations: all French majors are program may be completed in four, four and a half or expected to have acquired fluency in the French five years and is undertaken with the approval of the language, both written and oral. Unless specifically department, the Special Cases Committee and the exempted by the department, they are required Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. to take the 200-level advanced language course. Students may wish to continue from this course Study Abroad to hone their skills further in courses on debate, stylistics and translation offered at Bryn Mawr Students majoring in French may, by a joint College or abroad. Students placed at the 200-level recommendation of the deans of the Colleges and the by departmental examinations are exempted from Departments of French, be allowed to spend a semester the 100-level requirements. Occasionally, students of their junior year in France and/or a Francophone may be admitted to seminars in the graduate country under one of the junior-year plans approved by school. Bryn Mawr. • The Major Writing Intensive requirement may be Students wishing to enroll in a summer program may met by any one of the following courses: FREN apply for admission to the Institut d’Etudes Françaises 101, 102, 260, Senior Essay (in a 300-l. course). d’Avignon, held under the auspices of Bryn Mawr. The Institut is designed for selected undergraduates with a Honors and the Senior Experience serious interest in French and Francophone literatures For the French and Francophone Literature option: After and cultures; it will be particularly attractive for those taking Senior Conference in semester I of the senior who anticipate professional or graduate-school careers 184 French and Francophone Studies requiring knowledge of the language and civilization of FREN B105 Directions de la France contemporaine France and French-speaking countries. The curriculum An examination of contemporary society in France and includes general and advanced courses in French Francophone cultures as portrayed in recent documents language, literature, social sciences, history, art, and and film. Emphasizing the tension in contemporary economics. The program is open to students of high French-speaking societies between tradition and academic achievement who have completed a course in change, the course focuses on subjects such as family French at the third-year level or the equivalent. structures and the changing role of women, cultural and linguistic identity, an increasingly multiracial COURSES society, the individual and institutions (religious, political, educational), and “les loisirs”. In addition to FREN B005 Intensive Intermediate French the basic text and review of grammar, readings are The emphasis on speaking and understanding French chosen from newspapers, contemporary literary texts is continued; literary and cultural texts are read and and magazines, complemented by video materials. increasingly longer papers are written in French. In Prerequisite: FREN 005 or 101. addition to three class meetings a week, students Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) develop their skills in group sessions with the professors Units: 1.0 and in oral practice hours with assistants. Students Instructor(s): Peysson-Zeiss,A. use internet resources regularly. This course prepares (Spring 2017) students to take 102 or 105 in semester II. Open only to graduates of Intensive Elementary French or to students FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: placed by the department. Students who did not littérature et publics du Moyen Age complete Intensive Elementary French must take either Using literary texts, historical documents and letters 102 or 105 to receive language credit. Two additional as a mirror of the social classes that they address, hours of instruction outside class time required. this interdisciplinary course studies the principal Prerequisite: FREN B002IN (intensive) or Placement preoccupations of secular and religious women and exam. men in France and Norman England from the eleventh Approach: Course does not meet an Approach century through the fifteenth. Selected works from Units: 1.5 epic, lai, roman courtois, fabliau, theater, letters, and Instructor(s): Peysson-Zeiss,A., Sanquer,M. contemporary biography are read in modern French (Fall 2016) translation. Prerequisite: FREN 102 or 105. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the FREN B101 Introduction à l’analyse littéraire et Past (IP) culturelle I Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Presentation of essential problems in literary and Units: 1.0 cultural analysis by close reading of works selected Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. from various periods and genres and by analysis of (Spring 2017) voice and image in French writing and film. from female to male voices in Metropolitan France, Africa, Canada, FREN B204 Le Siècle des lumières and The Antilles. Participation in discussion and practice Representative texts of the Enlightenment with in written and oral expression are emphasized, as are emphasis on the development of liberal thought grammar review and exercises. Prerequisites: FREN as illustrated in the Encyclopédie and the works B004 or B005 or placement. Cross-Cultural Analysis of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. (CC) Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Le Menthéour,R.

FREN B102 Introduction à l’analyse littéraire et Spring 2017: La Liberté ou la mort. Current topic culturelle II description: TBA. Continued development of students’ expertise in literary and cultural analysis by emphasizing close reading FREN B205 Le Temps des prophètes as well as oral and written analyses of increasingly This is a topics course, course content varies. complex works chosen from various genres and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the periods of French and Francophone works in their Past (IP) written and visual modes. Readings include theater Units: 1.0 of the 17th or 18th centuries and build to increasingly Instructor(s): Mahuzier,B. complex nouvelles, poetry and novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Participation in guided discussion Fall 2016: Genius and Gender in Post-Revo and practice in oral/written expression continue to be France. A study of post-Revolutionary texts in emphasized, as is grammar review. Prerequisite: FREN which the prophetic voice of the “genius” is often 005 or 101. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) gendered feminine and/or other. On the syllabus Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Staël’s romantic and brainy Corinne ou l’Italie Units: 1.0 and Sand’s explosive feminist manifesto Indiana; Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le noir; Balzac’s Père (Spring 2017) French and Francophone Studies 185

Goriot; and finally two contentious figures, Flaubert broader transcultural and translinguistic influences and Baudelaire, whose works were put on trial in that brought these “schools” into being and, most 1857 for being dangerous to religion and public importantly, what fields of thinking they have morals. subsequently inspired across language traditions.

FREN B206 Topics: Le Temps des virtuoses FREN B248 Histoire des Femmes en France This a topics course. Course content varies. A study of women and gender in France from the Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Revolution to the present. The course will pay particular Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the attention to the role of women in the French Revolution Past (IP) (declarations, manifestos, women’s clubs, salons, etc.) Units: 1.0 and in the post-revolutionary era, as well as to the more contemporary feminist manifestations in France since Spring 2017: Beauty and the Beast in fin-de- Simone de Beauvoir’s Deuxième Sexe and the flow of sièc. The Belle Époque (1871-1914) appears to be feminist texts produced in the wake of May ‘68. a period characterized by optimism: exciting new Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the scientific discoveries and technologies, and intense Past (IP) artistic creativity. However, the prevailing sentiment Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies in fin-de-siècle literature often seems to be an Units: 1.0 impending sense of doom, decadence and the end (Not Offered 2016-2017) of civilization. Through readings of novelists such as Zola, Mirbeau, Colette, Gide and Proust, we will FREN B254 Teaching (in) the Postcolony: Schooling examine the inner tensions of French society in the in African Fiction so-called Belle Époque period. This seminar examines novels from Francophone and FREN B207 Introduction à la littérature du 20ème et Anglophone Africa, critical essays, and two films, in 21ème siècle order better to understand the forces that inform the African child’s experiences of education. This course is A study of selected works illustrating the principal literary taught in English. movements from 1900 to the present. Depending on Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the professor, this class will focus on various authors Counts towards: Africana Studies and literary movements of the 20th century such as Units: 1.0 Surrealism, Modernism, the Nouveau Roman, Oulipo, (Not Offered 2016-2017) as well as works from the broader Francophone world. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical FREN B260 Atelier d’écriture Interpretation (CI) Intensive practice in speaking and writing. Conversation, Units: 1.0 discussion, advanced training in grammar and stylistics. Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. Depending on the professor, there may be a praxis component through language exchange. Spring 2017: Literature of the Absurd. Beginning Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) with “Ubu, roi” literature of the absurd breaks (with) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive the mystical conception of art. After Alfred Jarry Counts towards: Praxis Program (the author of Ubu) diverse movements such as Units: 1.0 Surrealism, Existentialism, OULIPO, and numerous Instructor(s): Suaudeau,J. colonial and postcolonial Francophone writers use (Spring 2017) absurdist effects or a perspective borrowed from Jarry. In this course we will examine these diverse FREN B262 Débat, discussion, dialogue literary currents and try to come up with a coherent definition of the literature of the absurd while seeing This advanced study of oral communication develops where it exists today. students’ linguistic skills in narration, hypothesizing, persuasion or counseling, debate, negotiation, etc. Such FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in skills will be nurtured through enrichment of vocabulary, the Humanities reinforcement of accuracy in manipulation of complex grammatical structures, and enhancement of discursive An examination in English of leading theories of strategies. The authentic material (both print and film) interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and which serves as the basis of analytical discussion will Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course reflect issues of contemporary importance; for example, content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. France and Third World Francophone countries. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Prerequisite: FREN B212 or B260. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. This course will be taught in English and focus FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened on works of French feminist, postcolonial and Hygiene and Eugenics post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition common: the former is usually conceived as a good (namely French), and more or less distinctly management of our everyday conditions of life, whereas circumscribed fields, we will also look at the 186 French and Francophone Studies the latter is commonly reviled for having inspired culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et discriminatory practices (in Nazi Germany, but also la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Our inquiry will dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des explore how, in the context of the French Enlightenment, arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) was Crimes et criminalité; Ecrire la Grande Guerre: 1914-10; redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became Le “Rentrée Littéraire; Proust. hegemonic both in the medical field and in civil society. Units: 1.0 We will also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal led to the quest for the improvement of the human Spring 2017: Ecrire la Grande Guerre: 1917. species. We will compare the French situation with that 1917 in the history of the so-called “Great War” of other countries (mainly UK and the USA). Students is known as “l’année terrible” for all participtants : who wish to get credit in French will meet one extra patriotic consensus is gone, moral is low, desertion hour. and mutinies high, “war efforts” wavering; 1917 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the is also the year Russia switches sides, and the Past (IP) United States enters the conflict. Paying special Counts towards: Health Studies attention to that year, this course proposes to study Units: 1.0 the immediate as well as the long lasting impact of (Not Offered 2016-2017) WWI on French society, literature, art, history and memory. FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: FREN B326 Etudes avancées femmes écrivains des débuts An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical This study of selected women authors from Latin figure in French civilisation. The seminar topic rotates CE-Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, among many subjects: La Révolution française: histoire, Renaissance and 17th century—among them, Perpetua, littérature et culture; L’Environnement naturel dans la Hrotswitha, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et Madame de Lafayette—examines the way in which dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des they appropriate and transform the male writing arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists French film. within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to Units: 1.0 identifying recurring concerns and structures in their (Not Offered 2016-2017) works, and to assessing their importance to women’s writing in general: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and FREN B350 Voix médiévales et échos modernes sociopolitical engagement. Prerequisite: two 200-level A study of selected 19th- and 20th-century works courses or permission instructor. inspired by medieval subjects, such as the Grail and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Arthurian legends and the Tristan and Yseut stories, Units: 1.0 and by medieval genres, such as the roman, saints’ Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. lives, or the miracle play. Included are texts and films by (Spring 2017) Bonnefoy, Cocteau, Flaubert, Genevoix, Giono, Gracq, and Yourcenar. FREN B306 Libertinage et subversion Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) The libertine movement of the 18th century has long been condemned for moral reasons or considered of minor importance when compared to the Enlightenment. FREN B355 Variations sur le recit moderne Yet, the right to happiness (‘droit au bonheur’) For Francophone societies, whether traditional, pre- celebrated by the so-called ‘Philosophes’ implies a modern or modern, the production of narratives involves duty to experience pleasure (‘devoir de jouir’). This a complex interplay between practices associated with is what the libertine writers promoted. The libertine orality and writing. Among the texts studied are those by movement thus does not confine itself to literature, but Chrétien de Troyes, Margerite de Navarre, Tahar Ben also involves a dimension of social subversion. This Jelloun, and theoretical works by Genette and Ong. course will allow you to understand Charles Baudelaire’s Units: 1.0 enigmatic comment: “the Revolution was made by (Not Offered 2016-2017) voluptuaries.” Prerequisite: two 200-level courses or permission of instructor. FREN B356 Rousseau polémiste Units: 1.0 This course will explore Rousseau’s work not as a Instructor(s): Le Menthéour,R. closed system, but as a polemical reaction to major (Fall 2016) trends of the French Enlightenment. Although he was denying any taste for polemics, Rousseau fought FREN B325 Topics: Etudes avancées intellectual battles most of his life. The author of the An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical ultimate best-seller of the 18th century, he harshly figure in French civilization. This is a topics course. criticized novels. He also opposed theatre, established a Course content varies. The seminar topic rotates new form of pedagogy, and undermined the foundations among many subjects: La Révolution frantaise: histoire, of the Western political theory by stating that men are littérature et culture; L’Environnement naturel dans la not political animals. We will thus consider Rousseau French and Francophone Studies 187 not only as a philosopher, but also as one of the most Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies brilliant polemicists of his time. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) FREN B701 Supervised Work FREN B398 Senior Conference Units: 1.0 A weekly seminar examining major French and (Fall 2016) Francophone literary texts and the interpretive problems they raise. Theoretical texts will encourage students FREN B001 Elementary French to think beyond traditional literary categories and The speaking and understanding of French are disciplinary boundaries and to interrogate issues such emphasized particularly during the first semester, and as cultural memory, political and moral subversion, etc. written competence is stressed as well in semester This course prepares students for the second semester II. The work includes intensive oral practice sessions. of their Senior Experience, during which those not The course meets five hours a week in non-intensive writing a thesis are expected to choose a 300-level sections. This is a year-long course and students must course and write a long research paper, the Senior register for both semesters. Essay. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. Instructor(s): Ragueneau Wells,C., Suaudeau,J. (Fall 2016) (Fall 2016)

FREN B403 Supervised Work FREN B001IN Intensive Elementary French Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) French 001 Intensive Elementary is the first half of a two-semester beginning sequence designed to FREN B655 Rousseau polémiste help students attain a level of proficiency to function Jean-Jacques Rousseau n’a cessé de susciter des comfortably in a French-speaking environment. It is both polémiques. Aucun | écrivain n’a suscité autant de speaking-intensive (through pair work, group work and débats dans des domaines aussi variés, de l’esthétique drills) and writing-intensive (through blogs and essays). théâtrale à la pédagogie, en passant par la théorie In drill sessions, students develop the ability to speak politique et l’écriture romanesque. Ses sectateurs ont and understand increasingly well through songs, skits, vu en lui un grand peintre de la sensibilité humaine, debates, and a variety of activities. The course meets un partisan sincère de la justice républicaine, un nine hours per week. pédagogue révolutionnaire. A l’inverse, ses ennemis Approach: Course does not meet an Approach l’ont dépeint comme un paranoïaque idéaliste, un Units: 1.5 brillant plagiaire, ou encore comme le promoteur d’un Instructor(s): Peysson-Zeiss,A. régime totalitaire. (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) FREN B002 Elementary French The speaking and understanding of French are FREN B670 Hysterics, Saints, Mystics and Criminals emphasized particularly during the first semester, and in France’s Secular Republic written competence is stressed as well in semester II. The work includes intensive oral practice sessions. This course will approach the debate between science The course meets in non-intensive (five hours a week) and religion which flared up as France became more sections. This is a year-long course. secularized in the second part of the 19th century Approach: Course does not meet an Approach through such figures as hysterics, mystics, saints and Units: 1.0 criminals. The reading of medical treatises, court case Instructor(s): Suaudeau,J., Sanquer,M. reports, media and other cultural artifacts, along with (Spring 2017) literary works, will allow us to discuss the relevance of these figures in the imaginary cultural unconscious of the time, how their designation and diagnosis can FREN B002IN Intensive Elementary French also be read as symptoms of a broader culture malaise The second half of a two-semester beginning sequence concerning gender and sexuality, power and agency, designed to help students attain a level of proficiency to and the establisment of a special brand of secularism function comfortably in a French-speaking environment. or « laïcité » in the late 19th century. We will start with It is both speaking-intensive (through pair work, group Michel Foucault’s examination of a criminal case, that work and drills) and writing-intensive (through blogs and of Pierre Rivière, and will discuss medical treaties by essays). In drill sessions, students develop the ability to Charcot, Freud, Moreau de Tours, reports on « miracles speak and understand increasingly well through songs, » at pilgrimage sites such as Lourdes, popular religious skits, debates, and a variety of activities. Class meets literature, as well as canonical and popular texts such nine hours per week. as Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris, Flaubert’s Un cœur Approach: Course does not meet an Approach simple, Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Les Diaboliques, Zola’s Units: 1.5 Lourdes, Thérèse Martin’s Histoire de ma vie, and Instructor(s): Peysson-Zeiss,A. Bernanos’s Histoire de Mouchette. (Spring 2017) 188 Gender and Sexuality Studies

FREN B003 Intermediate French The Program in Gender and Sexuality is an The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing interdisciplinary, Bi-College program that can be French is continued; texts from French literature and integrated with any major or pursued independently. cultural media are read; and short papers are written in Students graduate from the program with a high level of French. Students regularly attend supplementary oral fluency and rigor in their understanding of the different practice sessions. The course meets in non-intensive ways issues of gender and sexuality shape our lives as (three hours a week) sections that are supplemented by individuals and as members of larger communities, both an extra hour per week with an assistant. This is a year- local and global. long course. Prerequisite: FREN B002 or placement Students choosing a concentration, minor or required. independent major in gender and sexuality plan their Approach: Course does not meet an Approach programs in consultation with the Gender and Sexuality Units: 1.0 coordinator on their home campus. Members of the Instructor(s): Mahuzier,B., Suaudeau,J. Gender and Sexuality steering committee serve as their (Fall 2016) individual mentors. All students in the program take the core course, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and FREN B004 Intermediate French Gender.” Other courses in the program allow them to The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing explore a range of approaches to gender and sexual French is continued; texts from French literature and difference: critical feminist theory; women’s studies; cultural media are read; and short papers are written in transnational and third-world feminisms; the experiences French. Students regularly attend supplementary oral of women of color; gender and science; the construction practice sessions. The course meets in non-intensive of masculinity; gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and (three hours a week) sections that are supplemented by transsexual studies; the history and representation of an extra hour per week with an assistant. This is a year- gender and sexuality in a global context. long course. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Minor and Concentration Requirements Units: 1.0 Six courses distributed as follows are required for the Instructor(s): Peysson-Zeiss,A., Suaudeau,J. minor: (Spring 2017) • An introductory course (including equivalent FREN B701 Supervised Work offerings at Swarthmore College or the University of Units: 1.0 Pennsylvania). (Not Offered 2016-2017) • The junior seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Gender (alternating fall semesters ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in between Bryn Mawr and Haverford). the Humanities • Four additional approved courses from at least two An examination in English of leading theories of different departments, two of which are normally interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and at the 300 level. Units of Independent Study (403) Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course may be used to fulfill this requirement. content varies. • Of the six courses, no fewer than two and no more Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) than three will also form part of the student’s major. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Requirements for the minor are identical to those for the concentration, with the stipulation that no courses in gender and sexuality will overlap with courses taken to

GENDER AND SEXUALITY fulfill requirements in the student’s major. Neither a senior seminar nor a senior thesis is required STUDIES for the concentration or minor; however, with the permission of the major department, a student may Students may complete a minor or concentration choose to count toward the concentration a senior in Gender and Sexuality. Students may submit an thesis with significant content in gender and sexuality. application to major in Gender and Sexuality through the Students wishing to construct an independent major independent major program. in gender and sexuality should make a proposal to the Committee on Independent Majors. Steering Committee COURSES Gregory Davis, Associate Professor of Biology Hoang Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and Film ANTH B239 Anthropology of Media Studies This course examines the impact of non-print media such as films, television, sound recordings, radio, cell H. Rosi Song, Associate Professor of Spanish and phones, the internet and social media on contemporary Acting Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies life from an anthropological perspective. The course Sharon Ullman, Professor of History and Director of will focus on the constitutive power of media at two Gender and Sexuality Studies (on leave semesters interlinked levels: first, in the construction of subjectivity, I and II) Gender and Sexuality Studies 189 senses of self, and the production of affect; and second, ANTH B287 Sex, Gender and Culture in collective social and political projects, such as Introduces students to core concepts and topics of building national identity, resisting state power, or giving the cultural anthropological study of gender, sexuality voice to indigenous claims. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or difference and power in today’s world. Focusing on the ANTH H103, or permission of instructor body as a site of lived experience, the course explores Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the varied intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies economics, class, location and sexual preference that Units: 1.0 produce different experiences for people both within and (Not Offered 2016-2017) across nations. Particular attention will be paid to how gender and other forms of difference are shaped and ANTH B248 Race, Power and Culture transformed by global forces, and how these processes This course examines race and power through a are gendered and raced. Topics include: scientific variety of topics including colonialism, nation-state discourses, femininity/masculinity, marriage and formation, genocide, systems of oppression/privilege, intimacy, media and childhood, gender and variance, and immigration. Students will examine how class, systems of inequality, race and ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and other social variables intersect to affect queer theory, labor, globalization and social change, individual and collective experiences of race, as well as and others. Prerequisites: ANTH 102 or permission of the consequences of racism in various cultural contexts. instructor. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction ANTH B268 Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and An examination of social and cultural constructions of Family reproduction, and how power and politics in everyday This course explores the family and marriage as basic life shapes reproductive behavior and its meaning in social institutions in cultures around the world. We will Western and non-Western cultures. The influence of consider various topics including: kinship systems in competing interests within households, communities, social organization; dating and courtship; parenting and states, and institutions on reproduction is considered. childhood; cohabitation and changing family formations; Prerequisite: ANTH B102 (or ANTH H103) or permission family planning and reproductive technologies; and of instructor. gender and the division of household labor. In addition Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and to thinking about individuals in families, we will consider Sexuality Studies; Health Studies the relationship between society, the state, and marriage Units: 1.0 and family. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. instructor. (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B316 Media, Performance, and Gender in Units: 1.0 South Asia (Not Offered 2016-2017) Examines gender as a culturally and historically constructed category in the modern South Asian ANTH B277 Biology and Gender context, focusing on the ways in which everyday This course will explore how ideas about sex and experiences of and practices relating to gender are gender influence scientific understanding of human informed by media, performance, and political events. evolution. It examines how biological research has been Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. influenced by social context and beliefs about evolution Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies over time and the legacy of such interaction for research Units: 1.0 on biology and sex differences today. Topics will range (Not Offered 2016-2017) from how Charles Darwin and his contemporaries were influenced by their social context, to current biological ANTH B322 Anthropology of the Body research and what the legacy of biases mean for how This course examines a diversity of meanings and biological research on sex differences is done today. interpretations of the body in anthropology. It explores Focusing on the importance of who gets to do science, anthropological theories and methods of studying this course culminates with a study of social factors the body and social difference via a series of topics affecting and impeding gender diversity in biology and including the construction of the body in medicine, other STEM fields. Prerequisite: At least sophomore identity, race, gender, sexuality and as explored through standing. cross-cultural comparison. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the permission of instructor. Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): VanSickle,C. Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016) 190 Gender and Sexuality Studies

ANTH B354 Identity, Ritual and Cultural Practice in Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, Contemporary Vietnam and film of both Europe and the United States, This course focuses on the ways in which recent extending from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy economic and political changes in Vietnam influence and Shakespearean drama, to Thomas Jefferson’s art and shape everyday lives, meanings and practices collection at Monticello and Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 there. It explores construction of identity in Vietnam epic film, Cleopatra. through topics including ritual and marriage practices, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the gendered socialization, social reproduction and memory. Past (IP) Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017)

ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East ARCH B303 Classical Bodies A survey of the social position of women in the ancient An examination of the conceptions of the human body Near East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, millennium B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the concepts of gender in archaeology and theories Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of of matriarchy. Case studies illustrate the historicity concepts of male and female standards of beauty and of gender concepts: women’s work in early village their implications; conventions of visual representation; societies; the meanings of Neolithic female figurines; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite visible expression of character and emotions; and the empire; the indirect power of women such as Semiramis formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later in the Neo-Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and times. more indirect archaeological evidence are the basis for Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies discussion. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Instructor(s): Donohue,A. Past (IP) (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle Eastern Studies ARTD B240 Dance History I: Roots of Western Units: 1.0 Theater Dance (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course investigates the historic and cultural forces affecting the development and functions of pre- ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity 20th-century Western theater dance. It will consider We investigate representations of women in different nontheatrical forms and applications as well, but will media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the give special emphasis to the development of theater cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that dance forms within the context of their relationship they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in to and impact on Western culture. The course, of the ancient world, the objects that they were associated necessity, will give some consideration as well to the with in life and death and their occupations. impact of global interchange on the development Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the of Western dance. It will also introduce students to Past (IP) a selection of traditional and more contemporary Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive models of historiography with particular reference to Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the changing modes of documenting, researching and Units: 1.0 analyzing dance. In addition to lectures and discussion, Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. the course will include film, video, slides, and some (Spring 2017) movement experiences. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B254 Cleopatra Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception Units: 1.0 of her legacy in the Early Roman Empire and the (Not Offered 2016-2017) western world from the Renaissance to modern times. The first part of the course explores extant literary ARTD B250 Performing the Political Body evidence regarding the upbringing, education, and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and This is a topics course. Course content varies. Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her Interpretation (CI) death by suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive constructions of Cleopatra in Roman literature, her Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies iconography in surviving art, and her contributions Units: 1.0 to and influence on both Ptolemaic and Roman art. Instructor(s): Caruso Haviland,L. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife of Gender and Sexuality Studies 191

Fall 2016: Dance and Power. Artists, activists, CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World politicos, regents, intellectuals and just ordinary This course explores practices of eating and drinking people have, throughout history and across in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- cultures, used dance and performance to support cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are political goals and ideologies or to perform social not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with or cultural interventions in the private and public whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider spheres. From a wide range of possibilities, we will implications of patterns of food production, preparation, focus on how dance is a useful medium for both consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues embodying and analyzing ideologies and practices like gender, health, financial situation, geographical of power, particularly with reference to gender, variability, and political status. Anthropological, class, and ethnicity. Students will also investigate archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches bodiedness as an active agent of social change and will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light political action. We will read excerpts from seminal on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and and contemporary theory of performing bodiedness, society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects ethnicity, and gender, as well as from theoreticians, our contemporary customs and practices and how our performers, and other practitioners more specifically identity is still shaped by what we eat. engaged with dance and performance. In addition Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) to literary, dance historical, anthropological and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies political texts, the course includes media, guest Units: 1.0 lecturers, and introductory group improvisation (Not Offered 2016-2017) and performance exercises; however, no prior training or experience in dance or performance CSTS B246 Eros in Ancient Greek Culture is necessary. In lieu of books, students will be assigned to see a dance performance (typical This course explores the ancient Greek’s ideas of love, costs: $12-30) but may take advantage of free Tri- from the interpersonal loves between people of the co performances. A previous dance lecture/seminar same or different genders to the cosmogonic Eros that course or a course in a relevant discipline such as creates and holds together the entire world. The course anthropology, sociology, or history is recommended examines how the idea of eros is expressed in poetry, but not required philosophy, history, and the romances. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical BIOL B214 The Historical Roots of Women in Interpretation (CI) Genetics and Embryology Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies This course provides a general history of genetics and Units: 1.0 embryology from the late 19th to the mid-20th century (Not Offered 2016-2017) with a focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played in the development of these sub- EALC B238 Chinese Culture and Society disciplines. We will look at the lives of well known and This course encourages students to think critically about lesser-known individuals, asking how factors such as major developments in Chinese culture and society their educational experiences and mentor relationships that have occurred during the twentieth and twenty-first influenced the roles these women played in the scientific centuries, with an emphasis on understanding both enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific cultural change and continuity in China. Drawing on contributions in historical context, requiring a review of ethnographic material and case studies from rural and core concepts in genetics and developmental biology. urban China over the traditional, revolutionary, and One facet of the course will be to look at the Bryn Mawr reform periods, this course examines a variety of topics Biology Department from the founding of the College including family and kinship; marriage, reproduction, into the mid-20th century. and death; popular religion; women and gender; the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP); Scientific Cultural Revolution; social and economic reforms and Investigation (SI) development; gift exchange and guanxi networks; Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies changing perceptions of space and place; as well as Units: 1.0 globalization and modernity. Prerequisite: Sophomore (Not Offered 2016-2017) standing or higher. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the CSTS B175 Feminism in Classics Past (IP) This course will illustrate the ways in which feminism Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; has had an impact on classics, as well as the ways in International Studies which feminists think with classical texts. It will have four Units: 1.0 thematic divisions: feminism and the classical canon; (Not Offered 2016-2017) feminism, women, and rethinking classical history; feminist readings of classical texts; and feminists EALC B264 Human Rights in China and the classics - e.g. Cixous’ Medusa and Butler’s This course will examine China’s human rights issues Antigone. from a historical perspective. The topics include diverse Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) perspectives on human rights, historical background, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies civil rights, religious practice, justice system, education, Units: 1.0 as well as the problems concerning some social groups (Not Offered 2016-2017) such as migrant laborers, women, ethnic minorities and peasants. 192 Gender and Sexuality Studies

Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the ENGL B203 Imagined Worlds: Utopia and Dystopia Past (IP) in Literature Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies When Thomas More coined the term “Utopia” in 1516, Units: 1.0 it meant both “good place” and “no place” – an ideal Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. society, and an unreachable one. Since then, the term (Fall 2016) (as well as its opposite, dystopia) has been applied to representations of imagined worlds that hold a mirror up ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and to our own. In this class, we’ll read texts from the early Inequality modern period (Utopia, The Blazing World) through the Explores the causes and consequences of present day (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Hunger Games) discrimination and inequality in economic markets. that use invented societies to critique the ‘real world.’ Topics include economic theories of discrimination and We will pay particular attention to how descriptions inequality, evidence of contemporary race- and gender- of imagined places explore very real tensions around based inequality, detecting discrimination, identifying class, gender and racial identities. Do these texts offer sources of racial and gender inequality, and identifying a path to better worlds, or do such fantasies always sources of overall economic inequality. Additionally, the remain out of reach? instructor and students will jointly select supplementary Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) topics of specific interest to the class. Possible topics Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies include: discrimination in historical markets, disparity Units: 1.0 in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) education gaps. Prerequisites: At least one 200-level applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances ECON 200 or 202. of Gender Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Readings chosen to highlight the construction and Units: 1.0 performance of gender identity during the period Instructor(s): Nutting,A. from 1550 to 1650 and the ways in which the gender (Fall 2016) anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century men and women differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will include EDUC B290 Learning in Institutional Spaces plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical This course considers how the institutions of schools writing of the period. and prisons operate as sites of learning. Beginning Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) with an examination of educational and penitential Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive institutions, we inquire into how these structures both Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies constrain and propel learning, and how human beings Units: 1.0 take up, challenge and change their surroundings. We (Not Offered 2016-2017) investigate the role of “voice”--speaking out, expressing, engaging in dialogue—in teaching and learning: In ENGL B215 Early Modern Crime Narratives: Vice, what ways can “voice” instigate understanding and Villains, and Law even change, and how is this notion also complex and This course taps into our continuing collective problematic? We consider explicit curriculae alongside obsession with criminality, unpacking the complicated implicit, even hidden curriculae; how do people inside web of feelings attached to crime and punishment these spaces collude with, subvert, and challenge through early modern literary treatments of villains, official agendas as they create their own agendas for scoundrels, predators, pimps, witches, king-killers, learning? poisoners, mobs, and adulterers. By reading literary Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) accounts of vice alongside contemporary and historical Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Praxis theories of criminal justice, we will chart the deep Program history of criminology and track competing ideas about Units: 1.0 punishment and the criminal mind. This course pays (Not Offered 2016-2017) particular attention the ways that people in this historical moment mapped criminality onto dynamics of gender, ENGL B193 Critical Feminist Studies race, sexuality, disability, religion, and mental illness Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger according to cultural conventions very different from questions about feminist forms of theorizing: three our own. Authors may include Shakespeare, Marlowe, fictional texts will be supplemented by a wide range of Massinger, Middleton, Dekker, Webster, and Behn. essays. Students will review current scholarship, identify Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) their own stake in the conversation, and define a critical Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies question they want to pursue at length. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Gordon,C. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B216 Re-creating Our World: Vision, Voice, Value To this shared project, the discipline of English literary studies will contribute an awareness of the limits Gender and Sexuality Studies 193 and possibilities of representation, asking what is from the early modern period to today. Through reading foregrounded, what backgrounded or omitted, in each British and American texts that feature the figure of the verbal, visual, aural or tactile re-presentation of the female outlaw (or picara), students will understand the world. Asking, too, what might be imagined that has ways in which literary content and literary form function not yet been experienced, “Re-creating Our World” together, and how they reflect cultural changes and invites students both to create their own multi-modal norms. Students will focus their readings through the representations of the spaces they occupy, and to re- role of the female outlaw to the more common picaro, create, in some way, the space that is Bryn Mawr. This male outlaw. Students will learn how the “female course offers a shared exploration of imaginative images picaresque” (as seen in novels, other writings, and and texts, with a global reach and in a range of genres visual texts) explores gender, changes in moral and (photography, film, poetry, as well as multiple narratives, aesthetic values, class, race, politics, colonialism, the in forms that will vary from satire to science fiction, from body, and sexuality. apocalypse to utopia). On field trips to local sites, we Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) will also study “representations” of the world in the form Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies of various “shaped spaces,” including The Center for Units: 1.0 Environmental Transformation in Camden, the John (Not Offered 2016-2017) Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, John James Audubon’s house @ Mill Grove, Wissahickon Valley ENGL B228 Silence: The Rhetorics of Class, Gender, Park, Chanticleer (a pleasure garden in Wayne), and the Culture, Religion Laurel Hill Cemetery. This course will consider silence as a rhetorical art and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical political act, an imaginative space and expressive power Interpretation (CI) that can serve many functions, including that of opening Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and new possibilities among us. We will share our own Sexuality Studies experiences of silence, re-thinking them through the Units: 1.0 lenses of how it is explained in philosophy, enacted in (Not Offered 2016-2017) classrooms and performed by various genders, cultures, and religions. ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Praxis bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the Program intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. Units: 1.0 We will focus on topics of shared concern among (Not Offered 2016-2017) Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, ENGL B232 Pirates in the Popular Imagination the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of This course will explore popular representations of migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, pirates from the seventeenth century to the present, in including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, films, memoirs, first-hand and fictional accounts (including activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of children’s literature), and films. The context will be Latinidad in the Americas. global, with an emphasis on the transatlantic world. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Topics will include slavery, gender/sexuality, captivity, Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality class/status, race, and imperialism/colonialism. Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B218 Ecological Imaginings ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Re-thinking the evolving nature of representation, with a This course examines representations of dictatorship focus on language as a link between natural and cultural in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore ecosystems. We will observe the world; read classical the relationship between narrative form and absolute and cutting edge ecolinguistic, ecoliterary, ecofeminist, power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use and ecocritical theory, along with a wide range of to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator exploratory, speculative, and imaginative essays and novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central stories; and seek a variety of ways of expressing our America, and the Southern Cone. own ecological interests. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Gender and American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ENGL B254 Female Subjects: American Literature ENGL B221 Roaring Girls & Ranting Widows: 1750-1900 Narratives of Crime This course explores the subject, subjection, and Narratives of Crime and Adventure will explore the figure subjectivity of women and female sexualities in U.S. of the female outlaw (picara), in literary and visual texts 194 Gender and Sexuality Studies literatures between the signing of the Constitution ENGL B284 Women Poets: Giving Eurydice a Voice and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. While This course covers English and American woman poets the representation of women in fiction grew and the of the 19th and 20th centuries whose gender was number of female authors soared, the culture found important for their self-understanding as poets, their itself at pains to define the appropriate moments for choice of subject matter, and the audience they sought female speech and silence, action and passivity. We will to gain for their work. Featured poets include Elizabeth engage a variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, women at the nexus of national narratives of slavery Lucille Clifton, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and freedom, foreignness and domesticity, wealth and Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, Anne power, masculinity and citizenship, and sex and race Sexton, and Gertrude Stein. “purity.” Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B293 Critical Feminist Studies: An ENGL B262 Survey in African American Literature Introduction Pairing canonical African American fiction with Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger theoretical, popular, and filmic texts from the late-19th questions about feminist forms of theorizing. Three book Century through to the present day, we will address the length texts will be supplemented by on-line readings. ways in which the Black body, as cultural text, has come Students will review current scholarship, identify their to be both constructed and consumed within the nation’s own stake in the conversation and define a critical imagination and our modern visual regime. question they want to pursue at length. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Units: 1.0 Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Beard,L. (Fall 2016) ENGL B297 Terror, Pleasure, and the Gothic Imagination ENGL B270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. Introduces students to the 18th-century origins of Gothic Literatures, 1690-1935 literature and its development across genres, media and time. Exploring the formal contours and cultural contexts This course will focus on the “American Girl” as a of the enduring imaginative mode in literature, film, art, particularly contested model for the nascent American. and architecture, the course will also investigate the Through examination of religious tracts, slave and Gothic’s connection to the radical and conservative captivity narratives, literatures for children and adult cultural agendas. literatures about childhood, we will analyze U. S. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) investments in girlhood as a site for national self- Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies fashioning. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 ENGL B301 Women on Top: Gender and Power in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Renaissance Drama From virtuous queens to scheming adulteresses ENGL B272 Queer of Color Critique and cross-dressed “Roaring Girls,” powerful female characters are at the center of a number of Renaissance Queer of color critique (QoCC) is a mode of criticism plays. This class will explore how playwrights such with roots in women of color feminism, post- as Shakespeare, Webster and Dekker represent both structuralism, critical race theory, and queer studies. fantasies and anxieties about tough women who take QoCC focuses on “intersectional” analyses. That is, charge of their destinies. We will read these plays first QoCC seeks to integrate studies of race, sexuality, in the context of the historical position of women in early gender, class, and nationalism, and to show how these modern England, and then turn to gender theory (e.g. categories are co-constitutive. In so doing, QoCC Butler, Sedgwick, Rubin) to examine constructions of contends that a focus on gay rights or reliance on gender identity and female agency. academic discourse is too narrow. QoCC therefore Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies addresses a wide set of issues from beauty standards Units: 1.0 to terrorism and questions the very idea of “normal.” (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course introduces students to the ideas of QoCC through key literary and film texts. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical ENGL B310 Confessional Poetry Interpretation (CI) Poetry written since 1950 that deploys an Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies autobiographical subject to engage with the Units: 1.0 psychological and political dynamics of family life and Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. with states of psychic extremity and mental illness. (Spring 2017) Gender and Sexuality Studies 195

Poets will include Lowell, Ginsberg, Sexton, and Plath. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film The impact of this`movement’ on late twentieth century Studies American poetry will also receive attention. A prior Units: 1.0 course in poetry is desirable but not required. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New (Not Offered 2016-2017) Media The course explores the role of pleasure in the ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal production, reception, and performance of Asian Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance American identities in film, video, and the internet, with tropes of immortality and eternity. Using recent taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian queer theory on temporality, and 19th and 20th century Americans in works produced by Asian American artists primary texts, we will explore topics such as: fame from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, and noteriety; feminism and mythology; epistemes, we will study graphic sexual representations, including erotics and sexual seasonality; the death drive and pornographic images and sex acts some may find the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for mummies and objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage seances. analytically with all class material. To maintain an Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the Units: 1.0 participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. Instructor(s): Thomas,K. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film (Fall 2016) Studies Units: 1.0 ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory (Not Offered 2016-2017) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin ENGL B368 Pleasure, Luxury, and Consumption American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Course will consider pleasure and consumerism in Units: 1.0 English texts and culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. Readings will include classical and neoclassical philosophies of hedonism and Epicureanism, Defoe’s Fall 2016: Theory of the Ethnic Novel. This “Roxana”, Mandeville’s “Fable of the Bees”, Pope’s course traces the development of the U.S. ethnic “Rape of the Lock”, John Cleland’s “Memoirs of a novel. We will examine novels by Native Americans, Woman of Pleasure” and early periodical essays, among Chicana/os, and African Americans, focusing on others. Secondary readings will include critical studies key formal innovations in their respective traditions. on cultural history and material culture. Prerequisites: at We will be using – and testing -- core concepts least two 200-level English courses. developed by narrative theorists to understand the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies genre of the novel. We will be using--and testing- Units: 1.0 -core concepts in critical theory to understand the (Not Offered 2016-2017) genre of the novel and ethnic literary imaginaries.

ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf ENGL B373 Masculinity in English Literature: From Chivalry to Civility Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, This course will examine images and concepts of a victim of child abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a masculinity as represented in a wide variety of texts creation of literary and popular history. We will try out in English. Beginning in the early modern period and all these approaches and examine the features of our ending with our own time, the course will focus on contemporary world that influence the way Woolf, her texts of the “long” 18th century to contextualize the work, and her era are perceived. We will also attempt to relationships between masculinity and chivalry, civility, theorize about why we favor certain interpretations over manliness, and femininity. others. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) ENGL B375 Sex on Screens ENGL B355 Performance Studies This course will provide a historical and theoretical Introduces students to the field of performance studies, overview of the ways moving image sex acts have been a multidisciplinary species of cultural studies which represented on screen, from early cinema’s silent film theorizes human actions as performances that both loops to today’s celebrity sex tapes. We will examine the construct and resist cultural norms of race, gender, ideological operations of sex in the cinema and aim to and sexuality. The course will explore “performativity” comprehend the multifarious ways viewers, filmmakers, in everyday life as well as in the performing arts, and critics, and scholars respond to dominant conceptions will include multiple viewings of dance and theater both of sex-sexuality through alternative cinematic production on- and off-campus. In addition, we will consider the and critical scholarship. Units include: stag movies, performative aspects of film and video productions. the Production Code and ratings system, European 196 Gender and Sexuality Studies art cinema, sex ed, underground and the avant-garde, Madame de Lafayette—examines the way in which cult / sexploitation / blaxploitation, sexual revolution, they appropriate and transform the male writing hard core, women’s cinema, home video, queer tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists cinema, HIV/AIDS, the digital revolution, feminist porn, within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to and the Internet. Prerequisites: HART / COML B110: identifying recurring concerns and structures in their Identification in the Cinema; or ENGL / HART 205: works, and to assessing their importance to women’s Introduction to Film; or ENGL B299 History of Narrative writing in general: among them, the poetics of silence, Cinema, 1945 to the Present. reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film sociopolitical engagement. Prerequisite: two 200-level Studies courses or permission instructor. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. ENGL B379 The African Griot(te) (Spring 2017) A focused exploration of the multi-genre productions of Southern African writer Bessie Head and the critical FREN B670 Hysterics, Saints, Mystics and Criminals responses to such works. Students are asked to help in France’s Secular Republic construct a critical-theoretical framework for talking This course will approach the debate between science about a writer who defies categorization or reduction. and religion which flared up as France became more Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality secularized in the second part of the 19th century Studies through such figures as hysterics, mystics, saints and Units: 1.0 criminals. The reading of medical treatises, court case (Not Offered 2016-2017) reports, media and other cultural artifacts, along with literary works, will allow us to discuss the relevance FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: of these figures in the imaginary cultural unconscious littérature et publics du Moyen Age of the time, how their designation and diagnosis can also be read as symptoms of a broader culture malaise Using literary texts, historical documents and letters concerning gender and sexuality, power and agency, as a mirror of the social classes that they address, and the establisment of a special brand of secularism this interdisciplinary course studies the principal or « laïcité » in the late 19th century. We will start with preoccupations of secular and religious women and Michel Foucault’s examination of a criminal case, that men in France and Norman England from the eleventh of Pierre Rivière, and will discuss medical treaties by century through the fifteenth. Selected works from Charcot, Freud, Moreau de Tours, reports on « miracles epic, lai, roman courtois, fabliau, theater, letters, and » at pilgrimage sites such as Lourdes, popular religious contemporary biography are read in modern French literature, as well as canonical and popular texts such translation. Prerequisite: FREN 102 or 105. as Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris, Flaubert’s Un cœur Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the simple, Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Les Diaboliques, Zola’s Past (IP) Lourdes, Thérèse Martin’s Histoire de ma vie, and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Bernanos’s Histoire de Mouchette. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Instructor(s): Armstrong,G. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) FREN B248 Histoire des Femmes en France GERM B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German A study of women and gender in France from the Literature and Culture Revolution to the present. The course will pay particular attention to the role of women in the French Revolution This is a topics course. Taught in English. Course (declarations, manifestos, women’s clubs, salons, etc.) content varies. Previous topics include, Women’s and in the post-revolutionary era, as well as to the more Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile, and Diasporas; contemporary feminist manifestations in France since Nation and Identity in Post-War Austria. Simone de Beauvoir’s Deuxième Sexe and the flow of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical feminist texts produced in the wake of May ‘68. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: This is a topics course. Course content varies. femmes écrivains des débuts Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies This study of selected women authors from Latin Units: 1.0 CE-Carolingian period through the Middle Ages, Instructor(s): Shen,Q. Renaissance and 17th century—among them, Perpetua, Fall 2016: Representing Diversity in German Hrotswitha, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine Cinema. This course examines a wide-ranging de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Gender and Sexuality Studies 197

repertoire of transnational films produced in Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the contemporary Germany. It presents an introduction Past (IP) to modern German cinema through a close analysis Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive of visual material and identity construction in the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies worlds of the real and the reel. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Saltzman,L. GNST B290 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on (Spring 2017) Gender and Sexuality This course offers a rigorous grounding for students HART B334 Topics in Film Studies interested in questions of gender and sexuality. Bringing This is a topics course. Course content varies. together intellectual resources from multiple disciplines, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film it also explores what it means to think across and Studies between disciplinary boundaries. Team-taught by Units: 1.0 Bryn Mawr and Haverford professors from different Instructor(s): Feliz,M. disciplines, this course is offered yearly on alternate campuses. Fall 2016: Visual Culture and Technology. This Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies course examines the intersections of art and Units: 1.0 technology across a wide range of visual culture (Not Offered 2016-2017) and popular media. Beginning with an exploration of a set of aesthetic and cultural production that GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides includes 16th century woodcuts, 17th century This course is designed to introduce the student to cabinets of curiosity, 18th century magic lantern two of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, shows, and 19th century stereoscopes and the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. panoramas, the course will provide historical These two writers set the terms in the disciplines of context for a consideration of the role that various philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers forms of technology have played in shaping art, film and historians today continue to grapple with their ideas and new media in the 20th and 21st century. and influence. The brilliant and controversial statesman HART B340 Topics in Baroque Art Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in this course (Plato’s Symposium and Thucydides’ History This is a topics course. Course content varies. of the Peloponnesian War), and we examine the ways Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies in which both authors handle the figure of Alcibiades Units: 1.0 as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying Instructor(s): Hertel,C. styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. Suggested Preparation: At least 2 years of college Fall 2016: Dutch Painting. This seminar examines Greek or the equivalent. the conceptual polarity of realism and illusionism Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) in paintings by Hals, Peeters, Steen, Rembrandt, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Ruisdael, Terborch, Vermeer, and others by way Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies of attending to genres (e.g., scenes of social Units: 1.0 life, portrait, still life, landscape) and modes of Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. representation (e.g., comedy, parody, vanitas), as (Fall 2016) well as cultural, social, and political practices (e.g., religion, colonialism, luxury consumption, gender roles, scientific exploration, and collection). HART B107 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations A study of artists’ self-representations in the context The course is designed to introduce students to the of the philosophy and psychology of their time, with history of African and African Diaspora societies, particular attention to issues of political patronage, cultures, and political economies. We will discuss the gender and class, power and desire. origins, state formation, external contacts, and the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the structural transformations and continuities of African Past (IP) societies and cultures in the context of the slave trade, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, urbanization, and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies westernization, as well as contemporary struggles over Units: 1.0 authority, autonomy, identity and access to resources. Instructor(s): Levine,S. Case studies will be drawn from across the continent. (Fall 2016) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) HART B108 Critical Approaches to Visual Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Studies Art Units: 1.0 An investigation of the history of art since the Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. Renaissance organized around the practice of women (Spring 2017) artists, the representation of women in art, and the visual economy of the gaze. 198 Gender and Sexuality Studies

HIST B156 The Long 1960’s Units: 1.0 The 1960s has had a powerful effect on recent US Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. History. But what was it exactly? How long did it last? (Fall 2016) And what do we really mean when we say “The Sixties?” This term has become so potent and loaded for so HIST B237 Topic: Modern African History many people from all sides of the political spectrum that This is a topics course. Course content varies. it’s almost impossible to separate fact from fiction; myth Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the from memory. We are all the inheritors of this intense Past (IP) period in American history but our inheritance is neither Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality simple nor entirely clear. Our task this semester is to Studies try to pull apart the meaning as well as the legend and Units: 1.0 attempt to figure out what “The Sixties” is (and what it Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. isn’t) and try to assess its long term impact on American society. This course satifies the History Major’s 100 level Spring 2017: African Economic Development. requirement. This course examines the political economy of Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the African development in historical perspectives. We Past (IP) will address the following questions: Why is the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies African continent, which is rich in natural resources, Units: 1.0 so poor? What are the causes of poverty in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Africa? The course will analyze the environmental, economic, political, and historical factors that HIST B209 Introduction to the History of Medicine have affected the development of Africa. We will discuss the impact of slavery, colonial exploitation, This course provides an introduction to the history foreign interventions, foreign aid, trade, and of medicine, from Hippocrates to the Black Plague democratic transitions on African development. We to contemporary struggles to combat HIV/AIDS. It will also explore the theories of development and examines topics including epidemic disease, the underdevelopment. processes of medical knowledge production, the hospital and the rise of clinical medicine, and issues HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of of hygiene and public health. We will focus on the Sexuality in Modern Europe intersecting social, political, and cultural histories of medicine, addressing themes of race, gender, and This course is a detailed examination of the changing constructions of biological difference; the history of the nature and definition of sexuality in Europe from the body; professionalization; and medical ethics. Disrupting late nineteenth century to the present. Throughout the straightforward narratives of medical progress, this semester we critically examine how understandings course will focus on the contingencies involved in of sexuality changed—from how it was discussed and medical knowledge production and situate elements of how authorities tried to control it to how the practice of historical medical practice, for example humoral theory sexuality evolved. Focusing on both discourses and or polypharmacy, within their appropriate historical lived experiences, the class will explore sexuality in the context. context of the following themes; prostitution and sex Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth Studies of the homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the Units: 1.0 “New Woman”; abortion and contraception; the “sexual Instructor(s): Black,S. revolution” of the 60s; pornography and consumerism; (Fall 2016) LGBTQ activism; concluding with considering sexuality in the age of cyber as well as genetic technology. In examining these issues we will question the role and HIST B233 Health and Disability in the U.S. influence of different political systems and war on This course examines how scientific, medical, and sexuality. By paying special attention to the rise of cultural discourses have shaped the construction of modern nation-states, forces of nationalism, and the health and disability in U.S. history. Paying attention to impacts of imperialism we will interrogate the nature the ways in which health and disability are constructed of regulation and experiences of sexuality in different in relationship to other social categories such as race, locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century to class, gender, sexuality, and nationality, we will examine the present. the processes through which certain bodies are defined Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the as healthy, useful and productive while others are Past (IP) marked as diseased, defective, and socially undesirable. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Topics will include eugenics, public health, immigration Units: 1.0 policies, birth control and sterilization, the women’s (Not Offered 2016-2017) health movement, AIDS activism, disability rights, mental health, obesity, biological citizenship, and health HIST B249 History of Global Health consumerism. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course examines the interrelated histories of public Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health health, international health, and global health from Studies the late 18th to the 21st centuries as part of a broader history of epidemics, empire, and global mobility. We Gender and Sexuality Studies 199 will pay particular attention this semester to the use of HIST B284 Movies and America architectural and spatial strategies for managing crises Movies are one of the most important means by which of contagion, disaster, and epidemic. The architectural Americans come to know – or think they know—their spaces to be examined will include urban-based own history. This class examines the complex cultural hospitals, public health infrastructure, and quarantine relationship between film and American historical self buildings as well as mobile architectural technologies fashioning. such as incubators, wartime pop-up surgical tents, and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the floating hospitals in both Western and non-Western Past (IP) environments. The course will trace the role of health Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film and medicine in mediating the relationships between Studies metropolis and colony, state and citizen, research Units: 1.0 practice and human subject. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health HIST B292 Women in Britain since 1750 Studies Units: 1.0 Focusing on contemporary and historical narratives, this (Not Offered 2016-2017) course explores the ongoing production, circulation and refraction of discourses on gender and nation as well as race, empire and modernity since the mid-18th century. HIST B252 American Popular Culture and Politics: Texts will incorporate visual material as well as literary 1900-present evidence and culture and consider the crystallization of From dance halls and silent film to comic books and the discipline of history itself. music videos, popular culture has been central to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the struggles over the meaning of national belonging, Past (IP) “freedom,” and democracy. Rather than drawing a Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies distinction between pop culture as a matter of private Units: 1.0 consumption and the more “serious” and public arena (Not Offered 2016-2017) of politics, this course will consider the role of popular culture in shaping the nation’s political history, and HIST B325 Topics in Social History in providing a lens to critically evaluate and rethink that history today. Exploring a wide range of popular This a topics course that explores various themes in cultural forms including amusement parks, vaudeville, American social history. Course content varies. fashion, music, film, photography, newspapers, and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies television, we will examine how popular culture has Units: 1.0 not only reflected but actively shaped the American Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. political landscape from the early twentieth century to Fall 2016: the present. Unruly Bodies and Forbidden Desires. This course explores how various forms of gender Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and sexual nonconformity have historically Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies served both as sites of regulation and as modes Units: 1.0 of resistance. From nineteenth-century cross- Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. dressing and anarchist “free love” movements (Fall 2016) to sex work and BDSM, we will investigate how certain practices, identities, and communities HIST B277 Food and Fitness in America have come to be seen as “problems” in particular This course investigates the centrality of food and historical moments, as well as how individuals fitness to national identity and culture in modern U.S. have developed their own strategies for working history. From the “physical culture” movement in the with and against dominant gender and sexual late nineteenth century and the rise of the diet industry norms. Focusing on historical contestation over in the 1920s to the aerobics craze of the 1980s and the the meanings of sexual “normality” and “deviance,” contemporary “slow food” movement, we will explore we will trace the transformations in the cultural how changing patterns of production and consumption meanings, politics, and social organization of sexual have shaped the role that food and fitness play as key and gender nonconformity over time. markers of identity and “lifestyle.” Paying particular Spring 2017: attention to how concerns about nutrition and exercise Queering Popular Culture. have historically indexed larger social anxieties HIST B332 Higher Education for Women: Bryn Mawr regarding race, class, gender, and sexuality, this course and Beyond asks students to think critically about food and fitness as contradictory sites of pleasure and self-control in U.S. This course will explore the history of women’s higher culture. learning in the United States from its origins in the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) antebellum female seminary movement through debates Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health about coeducation and the meaning of single-sex Studies education in the second half of the twentieth century. Units: 1.0 Drawing on the rich history of Bryn Mawr College as Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. our primary case study, we will focus on the expansion (Spring 2017) of social and professional opportunities for women, the workings of gender difference within American 200 Gender and Sexuality Studies educational institutions, and the experiences of diverse patriarchal world; b) women engaged in the women’s alumnae/i, faculty, and staff. Over the course of the movement of the 70’s and who continue to look at, and semester, we will gain experience in archives and rewrite, women’s stories of empowerment and solidarity; special collections research, oral history, and digital c) “divaism”, fame, via beauty and sex with a particular methods, and contribute to the building of contemporary emphasis on the ‘60s (i.e. Gina Lollobrigida, Sofia collections documenting Bryn Mawr campus life. Loren, Claudia Cardinale). Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Status. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450- PHIL B205 Medical Ethics 1800 The field of medicine provides a rich terrain for the study This course explores the emergence, development, and application of philosophical ethics. This course and challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and will introduce students to fundamental ethical theories blackness, that have been in place from the colonial and present ways in which these theories connect to period to the present. Through the reading of primary particular medical issues. We will also discuss what and secondary sources, we will explore various ways are often considered the four fundamental principles through which enslaved people imagined freedom, of medical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non- personal rights, community membership, and some maleficence, and justice) in connection to specific topics of the paths they created in order to improve their related to medical practice (such as reproductive rights, experiences and change the social order. In an attempt euthanasia, and allocation of health resources). to have a comparative approach, we will look at Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) particular events and circumstances that took place Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health in few provinces in the Americas, with an emphasis Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will Units: 1.0 also look at the methodological challenges of studying (Not Offered 2016-2017) and writing history of people who in principle, were not allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will PHIL B221 Ethics identify and underscore the contribution that people An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, moral theories and a discussion of important ancient, freedom, equality, and democracy. modern, and contemporary texts which established Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies relativism, emotivism, care ethics. This course considers Units: 1.0 questions concerning freedom, responsibility, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) obligation. How should we live our lives and interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a global ITAL B212 Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of New Literature practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, This course, taught in English, will focus primarily animal rights and the environment will be considered. on the works of the so-called “migrant writers” who, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical having adopted the Italian language, have become a Interpretation (CI) significant part of the new voice of Italy. In addition to Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; the aesthetic appreciation of these works, this course International Studies will also take into consideration the social, cultural, Units: 1.0 and political factors surrounding them. The course will Instructor(s): Bell,M. focus on works by writers who are now integral to Italian (Fall 2016) canon – among them: Cristina Ali-Farah, Igiaba Scego, Ghermandi Gabriella, Amara Lakhous. As part of the PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues course, movies concerned with various aspects of Italian The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and Migrant literature will be screened and analyzed. requires has become urgent in a context of increasing Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict Interpretation (CI) and war, high rates of poverty within and across Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. Studies This course examines prevailing theories and issues Units: 1.0 of justice as well as approaches and challenges by (Not Offered 2016-2017) non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and disability theorists. ITAL B235 Italian Women’s Movement and National Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Identity: Heroines In and Out of the Canon Interpretation (CI) Emphasis will be put on Italian women writers and film Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; directors, who are often left out of syllabi adhering to International Studies traditional canons. Particular attention will be paid to: Units: 1.0 a) women writers who have found their voices (through (Not Offered 2016-2017) writing) as a means of psychological survival in a Gender and Sexuality Studies 201

PHIL B252 Feminist Theory of power and politics in the context of domination, Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated oppression, and the arts of resistance. Our general and women have achieved equality have become topics will include authority, the moralization of politics, commonplace. We challenge these assumptions the dimensions of power, the politics of violence examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and (and the violence of politics), language, sovereignty, oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist emancipation, revolution, domination, normalization, theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and governmentality, genealogy, and democratic power. contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in Writing projects will seek to integrate analytical and different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of reflective analyses as we pursue these questions in the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the common. relevance of gender to philosophical questions about Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) identity and agency with respect to moral, social and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or Units: 1.0 permission of instructor. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) POLS B375 Gender, Work and Family Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies As the number of women participating in the paid Units: 1.0 workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, (Not Offered 2016-2017) it becomes increasingly important to study the issues raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine PHIL B344 Development Ethics the experiences of working and nonworking mothers This course explores the meaning of and moral issues in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of raised by development. In what direction and by what working mothers on children, and the policy implications means should a society “develop”? What role, if any, of women, work, and family. does the globalization of markets and capitalism Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and play in processes of development and in systems of Sexuality Studies discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and Units: 1.0 gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be (Not Offered 2016-2017) explored through an examination of some of the most prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual a philosophy, political theory or economics course or Analysis of the basic sociological methods, permission of the instructor. perspectives, and concepts used in the study of society, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive with emphasis on social structure, education, culture, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; the self, and power. Theoretical perspectives that International Studies focus on sources of stability, conflict, and change are Units: 1.0 emphasized throughout. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; PHIL B352 Feminism and Philosophy International Studies It has been said that one of the most important feminist Units: 1.0 contributions to theory is its uncovering of the ways Instructor(s): Nolan,B. in which theory in the Western tradition, whether of (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) science, knowledge, morality, or politics has a hidden male bias. This course will explore feminist criticisms SOCL B130 Sociology of Harry Potter of and alternatives to traditional Western theory by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is a worldwide examining feminist challenges to traditional liberal moral phenomenon that has sold hundreds of millions of and political theory. Specific questions may include how books and been translated into dozens of languages. to understand the power relations at the root of women’s Over the last decade, academic studies of Harry Potter oppression, how to theorize across differences, or have taken root in English and Theology departments, how ordinary individuals are to take responsibility for but very few sociologists have taken a scholarly look pervasive and complex systems of oppression. at the rich society Rowling has created. This course Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of Units: 1.0 sociology using the lens of the Harry Potter series. We (Not Offered 2016-2017) will explore questions of hierarchy, inequality, terrorism, consumption, race, class, and gender, and we will POLS B290 Power and Resistance discuss the ways in which stratification in the wizarding What more is there to politics than power? What is world compares and contrasts to similar issues in the the force of the “political” for specifying power as a Muggle world. Class discussions and exercises will practice or institutional form? What distinguishes power assume that students have read all seven Harry Potter from authority, violence, coercion, and domination? books. How is power embedded in and generated by cultural Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) practices, institutional arrangements, and processes of Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies normalization? This course seeks to address questions Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Nolan,B. (Spring 2017) 202 Gender and Sexuality Studies

SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology The definition of male and female social roles and of Deviance sociological approaches to the study of gender in the An examination of non-normative and criminal behavior United States, with attention to gender in the economy viewed from the standpoint of different theoretical and work place, the division of labor in families and perspectives on deviance (e.g., social strain, anomie, households, and analysis of class and ethnic differences functionalism, social disorganization, symbolic in gender roles. Of particular interest in this course is the interaction, and Marxism) with particular emphasis comparative exploration of the experiences of women of on social construction and labeling perspectives; color in the United States. and the role of subcultures, social movements and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) social conflicts in changing the normative boundaries Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and of society. Topics include robbery, homicide, sexual Sexuality Studies deviance, prostitution, white collar crime, drug addiction Units: 1.0 and mental disorders. Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 SOCL B205 Social Inequality (Not Offered 2016-2017) Introduction to the major sociological theories of gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequality with emphasis on the SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life relationships among these forms of stratification in the Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention contemporary United States, including the role of the to the body influence our understanding of social upper class(es), inequality between and within families, processes of subjectivity, interaction, and practice? in the work place, and in the educational system. While the body has long been an “absent presence” Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in sociology, multiple approaches to theorizing and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies researching the body have emerged in recent decades. Units: 1.0 A sociological approach to the body and embodiment Instructor(s): Nolan,B. provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between (Fall 2016) everyday experience and analyses of broad social structures which can seem disconnected from daily SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context life. In this course, we will examine the processes by A consideration of the family as a social institution in which individual bodies are shaped by and, in turn, the United States, looking at how societal and cultural shape social life. Key questions to be explored include: characteristics and dynamics influence families; how how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do the family reinforces or changes the society in which individuals perform the body and how does interactional it is located; and how the family operates as a social context influence this performance; what is the meaning organization. Included is an analysis of family roles of the body in social life; and is there a “right” body? and social interaction within the family. Major problems Suggested preparation: At least one course in the social related to contemporary families are addressed, such sciences. as domestic violence and divorce. Cross-cultural and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health subcultural variations in the family are considered. Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. Sexuality Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Wright,N. SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en la narrativa del (Fall 2016) siglo XIX A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men SOCL B225 Women in Society and women writers, to assess how they come together A study of the contemporary experiences of women of in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social color in the Global South. The household, workplace, domains, as the country is facing new challenges in its community, and the nation-state, and the positions of quest for modernity. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or women in the private and public spheres are compared B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another SPAN cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and 200-level course. self-esteem; globalization and transnational social Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) movements and tensions and transitions encountered Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive as nations embark upon development. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family Units: 1.0 Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, (Not Offered 2016-2017) Iberian and Latina/o Studies Units: 1.0 SPAN B265 Escritoras espaolas: entre tradicin, Instructor(s): Montes,V. renovacin y migracin (Spring 2017) Fiction by women writers from Spain in the 20th and 21st century. Breaking the traditional female General Studies 203 stereotypes during and after Franco’s dictatorship, the COURSES authors explore through their creative writing changing sociopolitical and cultural issues including regional GNST B048 Metacognition and the Transition to identities and immigration. Topics of discussion include College gender marginality, feminist studies and the portrayal The First Year Experience Seminar aims to support of women in contemporary society. Prerequiste: SPAN students in making the transition to higher education B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or by engaging them in the Bryn Mawr community, getting another SPAN 200-level course. to know themselves and the college. The seminar will Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) be a small, inquiry-based course that will promote and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin encourage intellectual confidence by developing student American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies success tactics including critical thinking, written and Units: 1.0 oral communication, research skills, self-reflection, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) self-regulation while addressing larger questions of justice, identity, and community. This course is offered SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del as an alternative to the traditional Wellness Seminar Siglo de Oro requirement; students will earn 2 PE credits (the A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, equivalent for Wellness) and 0.5 academic credits. and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics Units: 0.5 include the construction of gender; the idealization and (Not Offered 2016-2017) codification of women’s bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the GNST B103 Introduction to Swahili Language and performance of honor. The first half of the course will Culture I deal with representations of women by male authors The primary goal of this course is to develop an (Caldern, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second elementary level ability to speak, read, and write will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Swahili. The emphasis is on communicative competence Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María in Swahili based on the National Standards for Foreign de Zayas. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level Language Learning. In the process of acquiring the course. language, students will also be introduced to East Africa Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin and its cultures. No prior knowledge of Swahili or East American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Africa is required. Note: GNST B103/B105 do not fulfill Units: 1.0 the Bryn Mawr College language requirement. Instructor(s): Quintero,M. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 SPAN B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in Instructor(s): Mshomba,E. the Early Modern Iberian World (Fall 2016) The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, GNST B105 Introduction to Swahili Language and Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course Culture II is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in The primary goal of this course is to continue working power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and on an elementary level ability to speak, read, and write delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender Swahili. The emphasis is on communicative competence normativity). Course is taught in English and is open in Swahili based on the National Standards for Foreign to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one Language Learning. Students will also continue learning 200-level course in a literature department. Students about East Africa and its cultures. Prerequisite: GNST seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish B103 (Introduction to Swahili Language and Culture I) 110 and/or 120 and at least one other Spanish course at or permission of the instructor is required. Note: GNST a 200-level, or received permission from instructor. B103/B105 does not fulfill the Bryn Mawr College Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin language requirement. American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Africana Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Mshomba,E. (Spring 2017) GENERAL STUDIES GNST B260 Silent Spaces: a History of General studies courses focus on areas that are not Contemplation in the West usually covered in the Bryn Mawr curriculum and This course will trace contemplative traditions developed provide a supplement to the areas more regularly and preserved in the Western monastic tradition covered. These courses cut across disciplines and from the desert through the present. Topics include emphasize relationships among them. elected silence and the ways in which it has shaped communities in the Western contemplative tradition, and Many general studies courses are open, without the difference between enclosed contemplatives and prerequisite, to all students. With the permission of the contemplatives loose in the world. major department, they may be taken for major credit. 204 Geoarchaeology

Units: 1.0 Requirements for the Concentration Instructor(s): Francl,M. (Fall 2016) • Two 100-level units from Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (including ARCH GNST B290 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 135, a half-credit course) or Geology, of which one must be from the department outside the student’s Gender and Sexuality major This course offers a rigorous grounding for students interested in questions of gender and sexuality. Bringing • ARCH B270: Geoarchaeology together intellectual resources from multiple disciplines, • CITY B201 or CITY B328: GIS Course it also explores what it means to think across and between disciplinary boundaries. Team-taught by • Two elective courses, to be chosen in consultation Bryn Mawr and Haverford professors from different with the major advisor, from among current offerings disciplines, this course is offered yearly on alternate in Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern campuses. Archaeology and Geology. One of these two Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies courses must be from outside the student’s major. Units: 1.0 Suggested courses include but are not limited (Not Offered 2016-2017) to ARCH 135 (HALF-CREDIT: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods), ANTH 203 (Human Ecology), ANTH 220 (Methods and Theory), GNST B302 Topics in Video Production ARCH 330 (History of Archaeology and Theory), This is a topics course. Course content varies. ANTH 225 (Paleolithic Archaeology), ANTH 240 Prerequisite: GNST B255 or ENGL/HART B205 or (Traditional Technologies), ARCH 308 (Ceramic ICPR H243 or ICPR H343 or ICPR H278 or ANTH H207 Analysis), ARCH 332 (Field Techniques), GEOL 202 or an equivalent Video Production course, such as (Mineralogy), GEOL 205 (Sedimentology), GEOL Documentary Production or an equivalent critical course 310 (Geophysics), and GEOL 312 (Quaternary in Film or Media Studies. Climates). Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 COURSES (Not Offered 2016-2017) ANTH B220 Methods and Theory in Archaeology GNST B403 Supervised Work An examination of techniques and theories Units: 1.0 archaeologists use to transform archaeological data (Fall 2016) into statements about patterns of prehistoric cultural behavior, adaptation and culture change. Theory development, hypothesis formulation, gathering GNST B425 Praxis III - Independent Study of archaeological data and their interpretation and Counts towards: Praxis Program evaluation are discussed and illustrated by examples. Units: 1.0 Theoretical debates current in anthropological (Not Offered 2016-2017) archaeology are reviewed and the place of archaeology in the general field of anthropology is discussed. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of instructor. GEOARCHAEOLOGY Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Geoarchaeology Units: 1.0 Students may complete a concentration in Instructor(s): Barrier,C. Geoarchaeology. (Spring 2017)

Faculty ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban Don Barber, Associate Professor of Geology on the Revolutions Harold Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies This course examines the archaeology of the two most fundamental changes that have occurred in Peter Magee, Chair and Professor of Classical and Near human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and Eastern Archaeology and Director of the Middle urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near Eastern Studies Program East as far as India. We also explore those societies Arlo Weil, Chair and Professor of Geology that did not experience these changes. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the The geoarchaeology concentration allows students Past (IP) majoring in anthropology, archaeology or geology Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern to explore the connections among these fields with Studies respect to how our human ancestors interacted with Units: 1.0 past environments, and how traces of human behavior Instructor(s): Magee,P. are preserved in the physical environment. Students (Spring 2017) must complete paperwork to declare the concentration, in addition to declaring one of the above majors, and should consult with associated faculty for more information and course planning advice. Geology 205

ARCH B135 Focus: Archaeological Fieldwork and GEOL B310 Introduction to Geophysics Methods An overview covering how geophysical observations The fundamentals of the practice of archaeology of the Earth’s magnetic field, gravity field, heat flow, through readings and case studies and participatory radioactivity, and seismic waves provide a means to demonstrations. Case studies will be drawn from the study plate tectonics and the earth’s interior. Three class archives of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project hours a week with weekly problem sets. Prerequisite: and material in the College’s collections. Each week one year of college physics or with permission of there will be a 1-hour laboratory that will introduce professor. students to a variety of fieldwork methods and forms of Counts towards: Geoarchaeology analysis. This is a half semester Focus course. Units: 1.0 Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Geoarchaeology Units: 0.5 (Not Offered 2016-2017) GEOLOGY

ARCH B308 Ceramic Analysis Students may complete a major or minor in Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the Geology. Within the major, students may complete a relative chronology of archaeological sites and of concentration in geoarchaeology. understanding past human behavior. Included are theories, methods and techniques of pottery description, analysis and interpretation. Topics include typology, Faculty seriation, ceramic characterization, production, Don Barber, Associate Professor of Geology on the function, exchange and the use of computers in pottery Harold Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies analysis. Laboratory work on pottery in the department collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Selby Cull-Hearth, Assistant Professor of Geology Counts towards: Geoarchaeology Pedro Marenco, Associate Professor of Geology Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Magee,P. Arlo Weil, Chair and Professor of Geology (Spring 2017) The department seeks to give students a well-rounded earth science education that balances fundamental knowledge of geology with broadly applicable problem- GEOL B202 Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry solving and communication skills. The integrated The crystal chemistry of representative minerals science of geology combines biology, chemistry and as well as the relationship between the physical physics as they apply to the workings of Earth and other properties of minerals and their structures and planets. Well-trained geoscientists are increasingly chemical compositions. Emphasis is placed on mineral in demand to address the environmental challenges identification and interpretation. The occurrence and and natural resource limitations of the modern world. petrography of typical mineral associations and rocks A central tenet for understanding and predicting Earth is also covered. Lecture three hours, laboratory at processes and environmental change is the ability to least three hours a week. One required field trip on a decipher past Earth history from geologic records. Thus weekend. Prerequisite: introductory course in Geology the major in Geology includes study of the physics or Chemistry (both recommended, one required). and chemistry of Earth materials and processes; the Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); history of the Earth and its organisms; and the range Scientific Investigation (SI) of techniques used to investigate the past and present Counts towards: Geoarchaeology workings of the Earth system. Field and lab experiences Units: 1.0 are essential parts of geology training, and at Bryn Instructor(s): Cull-Hearth,S. Mawr field trips and lab work are part of all introductory (Fall 2016) courses, most other classes, and most independent research projects. GEOL B205 Sedimentary Materials and Environments Major Requirements An introduction to sediment transport, depositional Thirteen courses are required for the major: GEOL 101 processes, and stratigraphic analysis, with emphasis and 102 or 103; 202, 203, 204, and 205; at least two on interpretation of sedimentary sequences and the semesters of quantitative or computational coursework, reconstruction of past environments. Three lectures and e.g., MATH 101 and 102 or alternates approved by the one lab a week, plus a one-day field trip. Prerequisite: adviser; a two semester sequence of CHEM (103- GEOL 101, 102, or 103 or permission of instructor. 104) or PHYS (101-102 or 121-122); GEOL 399; and Recommended: GEOL B202 and B203. either two advanced geology courses or one advanced Approach: Course does not meet an Approach geology course and an additional upper-level course in Counts towards: Geoarchaeology biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or computer Units: 1.0 science. Instructor(s): Barber,D. (Spring 2017) The writing requirement for the major in Geology is fulfilled in GEOL 203. This course includes a semester- long research project culminating in a scientific 206 Geology manuscript based on material collected in the field by Requirements for the concentration: enrolled students. • Two 100-level units from Anthropology, Classical Additional courses in the allied sciences are strongly and Near Eastern Archaeology (including ARCH recommended and are required by most graduate 135, a half-credit course) or Geology, of which one schools. A student who wishes to follow a career in must be from the department outside the student’s geology should plan to attend a summer field course, major. usually following the completion of the 200-level courses. • ANTH/ARCH/GEOL 270: Geoarchaeology (Magee, Barber). All geology majors participate in a senior capstone • BIOL/ARCH/GEOL 328: Geospatial Data Analysis experience (GEOL 399), which is structured into a two- and GIS (staff). semester seminar that meets weekly for 1.5 hours for a total of 1.0 credit (0.5 credits per semester). The focus • Two elective courses, to be chosen in consultation of the capstone seminar is to reinforce students’ ability with the major advisor, from among current offerings to address geoscience questions and to communicate in Anthropology, Classical and Near Eastern their findings in writing and orally. The team-taught Archaeology and Geology. One of these two senior seminar integrates the student’s major curriculum courses must be from outside the student’s major. with weekly speakers or peer-led discussions on cutting Suggested courses include but are not limited edge research, and the impact and relevance of geology to ARCH 135 (HALF-CREDIT: Archaeological to modern society. Fieldwork and Methods), ANTH 203 (Human Ecology), ANTH 220 (Methods and Theory), Thesis ARCH 330 (History of Archaeology and Theory), ANTH 225 (Paleolithic Archaeology), ANTH 240 At the discretion of the department faculty, rising (Traditional Technologies), ARCH 308 (Ceramic seniors may undertake an independent thesis project Analysis), ARCH 332 (Field Techniques), GEOL 202 (GEOL 403) in addition to mandatory full participation (Mineralogy), GEOL 205 (Sedimentology), GEOL in the senior capstone seminar (GEOL 399). Student 310 (Geophysics), and GEOL 312 (Quaternary thesis projects must be supervised by a faculty advisor. Climates).Honors The senior thesis is modeled after a Master’s thesis Honors are awarded to students who have outstanding project, but is scaled down for the different time frame academic records in geology and allied fields, and (one year versus two years) and educational level of whose research is judged by the faculty of the a senior undergraduate student. The thesis project department to be of the highest quality. plan is initially developed and agreed upon through consultation between the supervising faculty member(s) and the student. Most of the research is conducted Minor Requirements independently by the student. The advisor serves A minor in geology consists of two 100-level geology as a source of ideas concerning scientific literature, courses, and any four of the 200- or 300-level courses methodologies and project support. The advisor may offered by the department. Two 0.5 credit courses visit and inspect the research sites, laboratory or may be combined to count toward one of the 100-level model, and offer advice on how the research should be courses. Alternatively, an additional 200- or 300-level conducted or modified. course may be substituted for one of the 100-level courses to meet the minor requirements. If approved to undertake a senior thesis, a student will enroll in GEOL 403 each of her final two semesters for a total of 1.0 credit (0.5 credits per semester). The thesis COURSES option adds the equivalent of one course to the standard Geology major requirements. The first semester will GEOL B101 How the Earth Works focus on thesis topic formulation, background research An introduction to the study of planet Earth—the and initiation of appropriate data acquisition. At the materials of which it is made, the forces that shape end of the first semester, the student must submit a its surface and interior, the relationship of geological formal written project proposal to department faculty processes to people, and the application of geological members. This research proposal must demonstrate knowledge to the search for useful materials. Laboratory the student’s ability to successfully complete her thesis and fieldwork focus on learning the tools for geological during the following semester. Following review of investigations and applying them to the local area and submitted proposals, students or faculty members may selected areas around the world. Three lectures and choose or recommend, respectively, not to complete the one afternoon of laboratory or fieldwork a week. One independent thesis, in which case the student would not required one-day field trip on a weekend. enroll for the second semester of GEOL 403. Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Concentration in Geoarcheology Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 The Departments of Anthropology, Classical and Instructor(s): Marenco,K., Cull-Hearth,S. Near Eastern Archaeology, and Geology offer a (Fall 2016) concentration in geoarchaeology for existing majors in these departments. Please consult with Professor GEOL B102 Earth: Life of a Planet Magee regarding this program. Please note that these requirements are separate from those for the major and The history of the Earth from its beginning, including cannot be double counted. its climate and tectonic history and the evolution of the Geology 207 living forms that have populated it. Three lectures, one GEOL B203 Invertebrate Paleobiology afternoon of laboratory a week. A required two-day (Sat- We will explore how the Earth-life system has evolved Sun) field trip is taken in April. through time by studying the interactions between Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) life, climate, and tectonic processes. During the lab Units: 1.0 component of the course, we will study important fossil (Not Offered 2016-2017) groups to better understand their paleoecology and roles in the Earth-life system. GEOL B103 Earth Systems and the Environment Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) This integrated approach to studying the Earth focuses Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive on interactions among geology, oceanography, and Counts towards: Environmental Studies biology. Also discussed are the consequences of human Units: 1.0 energy consumption, industrial development, and land Instructor(s): Marenco,P. use. Two lectures and one afternoon of laboratory or (Fall 2016) fieldwork per week. A required field trip is taken in April. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) GEOL B204 Structural Geology Counts towards: Environmental Studies An introduction to the study of rock deformation in Units: 1.0 the Earth’s lithosphere viewed from all scales - from (Not Offered 2016-2017) the microscopic (atomic scale) to the macroscopic (continental scale). This class focuses on building GEOL B110 Focus: Exploring Topics in the Earth a foundation of knowledge and understanding that Sciences will allow students to broaden their appreciation and This is a half -semester focus course. understanding of the complexity of the Earth system Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) and the links between geologic structures at all scales Units: 0.5 and plate tectonics. Three lectures and three hours of Instructor(s): Cull-Hearth,S. laboratory a week, plus a required three-day, weekend field trip. Prerequisite: GEOL 101 and MATH 101. Spring 2017: Exploring Mars. In this half-semester Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) class, we’ll examine the latest data from the two Units: 1.0 Mars rovers currently operating on the surface, Instructor(s): Weil,A. as well as satellite data from the many NASA (Spring 2017) and international missions in orbit around Mars right now. We’ll explore what we know about the GEOL B205 Sedimentary Materials and geologic history of Mars, including the presence of Environments past water, and the potential for past life. An introduction to sediment transport, depositional GEOL B125 Focus: Geology in Film processes, and stratigraphic analysis, with emphasis on interpretation of sedimentary sequences and the This is a half semester Focus course. Geologic reconstruction of past environments. Three lectures and processes make for great film storylines, but filmmakers one lab a week, plus a one-day field trip. Prerequisite: take great liberty with how they depict scientific “facts” GEOL 101, 102, or 103 or permission of instructor. and scientists. We will explore how and why filmmakers Recommended: GEOL B202 and B203. choose to deviate from science reality. We will study and Approach: Course does not meet an Approach view one film per week and discuss its issues from a Units: 1.0 geologist’s perspective. Instructor(s): Barber,D. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 0.5 Instructor(s): Marenco,P. GEOL B206 Energy Resources and Sustainability (Spring 2017) An examination of issues concerning the supply of energy required by humanity. This includes GEOL B202 Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry an investigation of the geological framework that determines resource availability, aspects of energy The crystal chemistry of representative minerals production and resource development and the science as well as the relationship between the physical of global climate change. Two 90-minute lectures a properties of minerals and their structures and week. Suggested preparation: one year of college chemical compositions. Emphasis is placed on mineral science. identification and interpretation. The occurrence and petrography of typical mineral associations and rocks Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) is also covered. Lecture three hours, laboratory at Counts towards: Environmental Studies least three hours a week. One required field trip on a Units: 1.0 weekend. Prerequisite: introductory course in Geology Instructor(s): Barber,D. or Chemistry (both recommended, one required). (Fall 2016) Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) GEOL B209 Natural Hazards Units: 1.0 A quantitative approach to understanding the earth Instructor(s): Cull-Hearth,S. processes that impact human societies. We consider (Fall 2016) 208 Geology the past, current, and future hazards presented by hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: GEOL B202, geologic processes, including earthquakes, volcanoes, CHEM B103 and B104 or consent of the instructor. landslides, floods, and hurricanes. The course includes Units: 1.0 discussion of the social, economic, and policy contexts (Not Offered 2016-2017) within which natural geologic processes become hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary GEOL B302 Low-Temperature Geochemistry and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most Prerequisite: one semester of college science or important subfields of the Earth sciences for permission of instructor. understanding environmental and climatic change. In Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative this course, we will explore stable isotopic fundamentals Readiness Required (QR) and applications including a number of important case Counts towards: Environmental Studies studies from the recent and deep time dealing with Units: 1.0 important biotic events in the fossil record and major (Not Offered 2016-2017) climate changes. Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or GEOL 102, and at least one semester of chemistry or physics, GEOL B260 Origin Stories: From the Big Bang to or professor approval. Mother Earth Counts towards: Environmental Studies This is a co-taught intermediate science course, Units: 1.0 instructed by a Geology and Physics professor, that (Not Offered 2016-2017) will focus on the core scientific principals related to Cosmology, Physics and Geology that help address GEOL B304 Tectonics fundamental questions regarding the origin of the Plate tectonics and continental orogeny are reviewed in Universe, the origin of time, the origin of stars and light of the geologic record in selected mountain ranges our own solar system, and the origin of Earth, its and certain geophysical data. Three hours of lecture and atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The course a problem session a week. Prerequisite: GEOL 204 or will be a mix of fundamental scientific principles used permission of instructor. to scaffold a deeper understanding of how scientists Units: 1.0 have come to understand and question stories of origin. Instructor(s): Weil,A. Group discussions will be informed by close reading of (Fall 2016) scientific texts, and occasional problem sets. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 GEOL B305 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Instructor(s): Weil,A., Schulz,M. The study of igneous and metamorphic rocks, including (Fall 2016) their origins and modes of occurrence. The focus is on understanding how these rocks form, and on applying GEOL B299 Geology Field Short Course a combination of field methods, laboratory techniques, and theoretical understanding to interpret the origins Geology majors choosing to participate in the annual of igneous and metamorphic rocks. The class will build Fall- or Spring-Break Geology Department Field Trip on the study of mineralogy by examining assemblages must enroll in GEOL B299. Enrollment in this class does of coexisting minerals, and what those assemblages not guarantee a spot on the field trip. Several pre-trip reveal about the pressure, temperature, and chemical class meetings help maximize student engagement on conditions under which a rock must have formed. For the trip by providing a forum for discussing the assigned a culminating term project we will conduct an intensive readings. During the week-long field trip, students are study of local metamorphic rocks. Three lecture hours exposed to geologic field methods while visiting sites weekly and one weekly lab. One weekend field trip. that exemplify different geology from that at sites near Prerequisites: GEOL 202. campus. Geologic methods introduced include proper Units: 1.0 field note-taking, mapping and measuring geologic (Not Offered 2016-2017) structures, and interpreting geologic history. Culminating work introduces students to geologic illustration and report writing. A passing grade requires full participation GEOL B310 Introduction to Geophysics and engagement by the student before, during and after An overview covering how geophysical observations the field trip. At least one post-trip meeting is held on of the Earth’s magnetic field, gravity field, heat flow, campus to synthesize the material covered, and to go radioactivity, and seismic waves provide a means to over students’ final reports. Prerequisite: GEOL B101, study plate tectonics and the earth’s interior. Three class B102 or B103; and GEOL B202, B203, B204 or B205. hours a week with weekly problem sets. Prerequisite: Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) one year of college physics or with permission of Units: 0.5 professor. Instructor(s): Weil,A. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

GEOL B301 High-Temperature Geochemistry GEOL B314 Marine Geology Principles and theory of various aspects of geochemistry An introduction to oceanography, coastal processes, in rock systems, focusing on applications of chemistry and the geomorphology of temperate and tropical to the study of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Three shorelines. Includes an overview of the many Geology 209 parameters, including sea level change, that shape oral and written communication skills. coastal environments. Meets twice weekly for a Units: 0.5 combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) exercises, including a mandatory multi-day field trip to investigate developed and pristine sections of the Mid- GEOL B403 Supervised Research Atlantic US coast. Prerequisite: One 200-level GEOL At the discretion of the department faculty, rising seniors course OR one GEOL course AND one BIOL course may undertake an independent thesis project in addition (any level), OR advanced BIOL major standing (junior or to mandatory full participation in the senior capstone senior). seminar. This student thesis is conducted under the Counts towards: Environmental Studies supervision of a faculty advisor(s). The undertaking Units: 1.0 of a thesis is modeled after a Master’s thesis project, (Not Offered 2016-2017) which is scaled down for the different time frame (one year versus two years) and educational level of a senior GEOL B350 Advanced Topics in Geology undergraduate student. The thesis project plan is initially This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent developed, and agreed upon by conference between the topics include Carbonate Petrology, Appalachian supervising faculty member(s) and the student. Most of Geology, Advanced Evolution, The Snowball the research is conducted independently by the student. Controversy, and Climate Change. The advisor serves as a source of ideas concerning Units: 1.0 scientific literature, methodologies, and financial Instructor(s): Marenco,P., Cull-Hearth,S., Barber,D., support. The advisor may visit and inspect the research Weil,A. sites, laboratory or model, and offer advice on how the research should be conducted or modified. Fall 2016: Seminal Ideas in Earth Science. Units: 0.5, 1.0 Investigation of the seminal ideas published over (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) the past 150 years that led modern Geology. Topics include radiogenic heat, isotopic age GEOL B425 Praxis III dating, isostasy, plate tectonics, seismic sequence stratigraphy, atmospheric CO2 & climate, evolution Independent or group projects with a significant and mass extinctions. Students read primary emphasis on community outreach and service. Projects literature articles chosen to explore the scientific usually focus on addressing environmental issues origins of these fundamental ideas. Weekly through collaborative work with off-campus practitioners. readings are the basis for in-class discussions. Prerequisites: advanced standing in the environmental studies concentration or permission of the instructor. Spring 2017: Acid Mine Drainage Systems. Counts towards: Praxis Program Acid Mine Drainage is a consequence of mining, Units: 1.0 affecting streams and ecosystems miles from the (Not Offered 2016-2017) abandoned mines that cause it. In this class, we’ll examine several AMD systems in Pennsylvania, BIOL B236 Evolution visiting the mines, sampling the AMD run-off , and analyzing our samples using Bryn Mawr’s A lecture/discussion course on the development of geochemistry tools. We’ll discuss the mineral evolutionary biology. This course will cover the history alteration processes that lead to these deposits, of evolutionary theory, population genetics, molecular and the consequences they can have for local and developmental evolution, paleontology, and communities and ecosystems. Prerequisite GEOL phylogenetic analysis. Lecture three hours a week.

202. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Spring 2017: Carbonate Environments. Students Units: 1.0 will study Earth’s changing environments by Instructor(s): Davis,G., Marenco,P. using geologic indicators preserved in carbonate (Spring 2017) rocks and sediments. The course is laboratory- based, with an emphasis on making predictions, BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences observations, and interpretations on samples collected by the class during field trips to ancient A study of how and why modern computation methods and modern carbonate environments. are used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic principles of visualizing and analyzing scientific data GEOL B399 Senior Capstone Seminar through hands-on programming exercises. The majority of the course will use the R programming language and A capstone seminar course required for all Geology corresponding open source statistical software. Content majors. All Geology seniors will be required to will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six participate in this two-semester seminar that meets hours of combined lecture/lab per week. weekly for 1.5 hours for a total of 1.0 credit (0.5 credits per semester). Enrollment required in two half-credit Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative courses, one in the fall and one in the spring semester Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) of the senior year. The focus of the seminar will be to Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive integrate the student’s major curriculum into open peer- Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; led discussions on cutting edge research in the many Environmental Studies; Neuroscience diverse fields of Geology, to discuss the impact and Units: 1.0 relevance of Geology to modern society, and to work on (Not Offered 2016-2017) 210 Geology

ENVS B397 Senior Seminar in Environmental discussion of the social, economic, and policy contexts Studies within which natural geologic processes become In this capstone course, senior Environmental hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary Studies minors from across the disciplines will draw and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. on the perspectives and skills gained from their Prerequisite: one semester of college science or majors and from their preparatory work in the minor permission of instructor. to collaboratively engage high-level questions of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative environmental inquiry. Prerequisite: Open only to Readiness Required (QR) Environmental Studies minors who have completed all Counts towards: Environmental Studies introductory work for the minor. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Goldsmith,J. GEOL B302 Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Fall 2016) Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most important subfields of the Earth sciences for GEOL B103 Earth Systems and the Environment understanding environmental and climatic change. In This integrated approach to studying the Earth focuses this course, we will explore stable isotopic fundamentals on interactions among geology, oceanography, and and applications including a number of important case biology. Also discussed are the consequences of human studies from the recent and deep time dealing with energy consumption, industrial development, and land important biotic events in the fossil record and major use. Two lectures and one afternoon of laboratory or climate changes. Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or GEOL fieldwork per week. A required field trip is taken in April. 102, and at least one semester of chemistry or physics, Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) or professor approval. Counts towards: Environmental Studies Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

GEOL B109 Quantitative Problems in the Earth PHYS B350 Computational Methods in the Physical Science Sciences An introduction to quantitative methods used for This course provides an introduction to a variety of solving problems in Earth science. We will examine computational tools and programming techniques a wide variety of geologic questions: seismicity and that physical science graduates might encounter in earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslide triggers, graduate work or employment in STEM-related fields. flooding patterns, and more. We will then practice a Tools explored will include both command-line and GUI range of quantitative techniques to approach those programming environments, both scripting and scientific questions, both from a broad, global perspective and by programming languages, basic programming concepts examining current, relevant case studies. Prerequisite: such as loops and function calls, and key scientific Quantitative Readiness Required. programming applications such as integration, finding of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative roots and minima/maxima, least-square fitting, solution Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) of differential equations, boundary-value problems, Units: 1.0 finite-element analysis, Fourier analysis, matrix (Not Offered 2016-2017) operations, Monte Carlo techniques, and possibly neural networks. Where possible, examples will be taken from multiple scientific disciplines, in addition to physics. This GEOL B206 Energy Resources and Sustainability course is intended for second semester sophomores, An examination of issues concerning the supply juniors and seniors. Co-requisite: MATH B203 and of energy required by humanity. This includes three units of science (Biology, Physics, Chemistry or an investigation of the geological framework that Geology). determines resource availability, aspects of energy Units: 1.0 production and resource development and the science (Not Offered 2016-2017) of global climate change. Two 90-minute lectures a week. Suggested preparation: one year of college ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban science. Revolutions Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Environmental Studies This course examines the archaeology of the two Units: 1.0 most fundamental changes that have occurred in Instructor(s): Barber,D. human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and (Fall 2016) urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near East as far as India. We also explore those societies that did not experience these changes. GEOL B209 Natural Hazards Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the A quantitative approach to understanding the earth Past (IP) processes that impact human societies. We consider Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern the past, current, and future hazards presented by Studies geologic processes, including earthquakes, volcanoes, Units: 1.0 landslides, floods, and hurricanes. The course includes Instructor(s): Magee,P. (Spring 2017) German and German Studies 211

ARCH B135 Focus: Archaeological Fieldwork and the ability to respond creatively to the challenges posed Methods by cultural difference in an increasingly global world. The fundamentals of the practice of archaeology Course offerings are intended to serve both students through readings and case studies and participatory with particular interests in German literature and demonstrations. Case studies will be drawn from the literary theory and criticism, and those interested in a archives of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project German Studies concentration that covers German and and material in the College’s collections. Each week German-speaking cultures from multiple perspectives, there will be a 1-hour laboratory that will introduce including those of history, history of ideas, history of students to a variety of fieldwork methods and forms of art and architecture, history of religion, institutions, analysis. This is a half semester Focus course. linguistics, mass media, philosophy, politics, and urban Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) anthropology. Counts towards: Geoarchaeology A thorough knowledge of German is a goal for both Units: 0.5 major concentrations. The objective of our language (Not Offered 2016-2017) instruction is to teach students communicative skills that enable them to function effectively in authentic ARCH B308 Ceramic Analysis conditions of language use and to speak and write in Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the idiomatic German. A major component of all German relative chronology of archaeological sites and of courses is the examination of issues that underline understanding past human behavior. Included are the cosmopolitanism as well as the specificity and theories, methods and techniques of pottery description, complexity of contemporary German culture. German analysis and interpretation. Topics include typology, majors can and are encouraged to take courses in seriation, ceramic characterization, production, interdisciplinary areas, such as comparative literature, function, exchange and the use of computers in pottery film, gender and sexuality studies, growth and structure analysis. Laboratory work on pottery in the department of cities, history, history of art, music, philosophy, and collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. political science, where they read works of criticism in Counts towards: Geoarchaeology these areas in the original German. Courses relating to Units: 1.0 any aspect of German culture, history, and politics given Instructor(s): Magee,P. in other departments can count toward requirements for (Spring 2017) the major or minor. College Foreign Language GERMAN AND GERMAN Requirement STUDIES The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied by the completion of two courses in German with an average grade of at least 2.0. Students may complete a major or minor in German and German Studies. Major Requirements Faculty The Department of German offers a two-track system for the completion of a major in German or in German Azade Seyhan, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities Studies. Both major tracks consist of 10 units. After and Chair and Professor of German and the completion of the German 101-102 sequence (or Comparative Literature its equivalent) the German language and literature concentration normally follows the sequence 201 and/ Qinna Shen, Assistant Professor of German or 202; 209 or 212, or 213; plus additional courses to The Bryn Mawr Department of German offers a fully complete the 10 units, two of them at the 300 level; and coordinated program of courses with the Haverford finally one semester of Senior Conference or either an College Department of German. By drawing upon additional 300 level seminar in German or German 403 the expertise of the German faculty at both colleges, (Supervised Work) for double majors. A German Studies the Department has established a broadly conceived major normally includes 223 or 245; one 200- and one German Studies program, incorporating a variety 300-level course in German literature; three courses (at of courses and major options. The purpose of the least one at the 300 level) in subjects central to aspects major in German and German Studies is to lay the of German culture, history, or politics; and one semester foundation for a critical understanding of German of GERM 321 (Advanced Topics in German Cultural culture in its contemporary global context and its larger Studies). Within each concentration, courses need to be political, social, and intellectual history. To this end we selected so as to achieve a reasonable breadth, but also encourage a thorough and comparative study of the a degree of disciplinary coherence. Within departmental German language and culture through its linguistic and offerings, GERM 201 and 202 (Advanced Training) literary history, systems of thought, institutions, political strongly emphasize the development of conversational, configurations, and arts and sciences. writing, and interpretive skills. German majors are The German program aims, by means of various encouraged, when possible, to take work in at least one methodological approaches to the study of another foreign language other than German. language, to foster critical thinking, expository writing The Department of German and German Studies offers skills, understanding of the diversity of culture(s), and Writing Attentive and Writing Intensive courses. Majors 212 German and German Studies are required to take two Writing Attentive courses to of their undergraduate studies. Various possibilities are help them develop critical writing skills and the ability available: summer work programs, DAAD (German to analyze literary texts in their historical and cultural Academic Exchange) scholarships for summer courses contexts. at German universities, and selected JYA (Junior Year Abroad) Programs. Senior Thesis Project COURSES All of our majors are required to write a senior thesis in German, or--if they are double majors--to produce GERM B101 Intermediate German a thesis in a related discipline that has significant overlap with their work in German. They typically take a Thorough review of grammar, exercises in composition 300-level seminar in fall and write a research term paper and conversation. Enforcement of correct grammatical which often becomes the foundation for their senior patterns and idiomatic use of language. Study of project. selected literary and cultural texts and films from German-speaking countries. Prerequisite: Completion Learning Goals of GERM 002 or its equivalent as decided by the In writing the senior thesis, the student should department and/or placement test. demonstrate a) the capacity to conceive a theoretically Approach: Course does not meet an Approach informed and well designed research project b) the Units: 1.0 language skills to research and evaluate primary and Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. secondary materials and to effectively synthesize (Fall 2016) these, and c) the analytical and methodological skills to produce an innovative and critically astute thesis. GERM B102 Intermediate German This course is the continuation of GERM 101 Assessment of Senior Thesis (Intermediate German). We will concentrate on all four The quality of the thesis is evaluated on the basis of the language skills--speaking, reading, writing, and listening following criteria: comprehension. We will build on the knowledge that students gained in the elementary-level courses and • Originality of topic then honed in GERM 101. This course will also provide • Mastery of analysis students with an introduction to selected aspects of German culture. Prerequisite: GERM 101 or its • Familiarity with primary and secondary literature equivalent as decided by the department • Creative application of relevant theoretical Approach: Course does not meet an Approach discourses Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Shen,Q. • Clarity of writing (Spring 2017) Honors GERM B202 Introduction to German Studies Any student whose grade point average in the major at the end of the senior year is 3.8 or higher qualifies for In this course, we will concentrate on all four language departmental honors. Students who have completed skills – speaking, reading, writing and listening a thesis and whose major grade point average at the comprehension. However, special emphasis will be end of the senior year is 3.6 or higher, but not 3.8, are placed on reading and writing skills. In addition, students eligible to be discussed as candidates for departmental will be introduced to different literary and non-literary honors. A student in this range of eligibility must be texts and practice writing in different genres. Through sponsored by at least one faculty member with whom newspaper articles, film reviews, short stories, poetry, she has done coursework, and at least one other faculty and selected film screenings, this course also offers an member must read some of the student’s advanced introduction to some of the most compelling debates work and agree on the excellence of the work in order about multiculturalism in Germany and exemplary for departmental honors to be awarded. If there is a representations of cultural diversity in contemporary sharp difference of opinion, additional readers will serve German life. Course taught in German. as needed. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Minor Requirements Units: 1.0 A minor in German and German Studies consists of six Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. units of work. To earn a minor, students are normally (Spring 2017) required to take GERM 201 or 202 or their equivalents, and four additional units covering a reasonable range GERM B212 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the of study topics, of which at least one unit is at the 300 Rhetoric of Modernity level. Additional upper-level courses in the broader area This course examines selected writings by Marx, of German Studies may be counted toward the six units Nietzsche, and Freud as pre-texts for a critique of with the approval of the department. cultural reason and underlines their contribution to questions of language, representation, history, ethics, Study Abroad and art. These three visionaries of modernity have Students majoring in German are encouraged to spend translated the abstract metaphysics of “the history some time in German-speaking countries in the course of the subject” into a concrete analysis of human German and German Studies 213 experience. Their work has been a major influence GERM B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German on the Frankfurt School of critical theory and has also Literature and Culture led to a revolutionary shift in the understanding and This is a topics course. Taught in English. Course writing of history and literature now associated with content varies. Previous topics include, Women’s the work of modern French philosophers Jacques Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile, and Diasporas; Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Nation and Identity in Post-War Austria. Lacan. Our readings will, therefore, also include short Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical selections from these philosophers in order to analyze Interpretation (CI) the contested history of modernity and its intellectual Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies and moral consequences. Special attention will be paid Units: 1.0 to the relation between rhetoric and philosophy and (Not Offered 2016-2017) the narrative forms of “the philosophical discourse(s) of modernity” (e.g., sermon and myth in Marx; aphorism and oratory in Nietzsche, myth, fairy tale, case hi/story GERM B320 Topics in German Literature and Culture in Freud). Course is taught in English. One additional This is a topics course. Course content varies. Previous hour will be added for those students wanting German topics include: Romantic Literary Theory and Literary credit. Cross-listed with Philosophy 204. Modernity; Configurations of Femininity in German Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Literature; Nietzsche and Modern Cultural Criticism; Past (IP) Contemporary German Fiction; No Child Left Behind: Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Education in German Literature and Culture, German Units: 1.0 Literary Culture in Exile (1933-1945). Taught in English. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Students wanting German credit will meet for additional hour per week. GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Instructor(s): Shen,Q., Seyhan,A. Recent topics include Remembered Violence, Global Masculinities, and Crime and Detection in German. Fall 2016: German Lit as World Lit This course The current topic will be taught in English with an investigates the connection of modern German additional meeting for students taking the class as Literature from the 18th century onward with world a German course. Current topic is Remembered literatures through literary trends, cultural networks, Violence. Description: As Germany was rebuilding from and translational contracts. The study of these two world war wars and the Holocaust, its history was sources illustrates how German literary trends being redefined in an international context where non- have crossed linguistic and cultural boundaries Germans were also confronting the legacy of violent and interacted with other cultural worlds. Readings conflict with Germany. We will explore the conditions range from the works of German Romanticism that raise the question of a central feature of memory to postwar German writing and contemporary in the modern era: does a common sense of history German–based trans-cultural and linguistic texts. emerge from this international dialogue or does the Current topic description: The major focus of this cultural legacy of violence come out of an ongoing course is the spatialization of memory and history in contest over divergent memories? exemplary novels and films on Berlin. These works Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical analyze the palimpsestic sites of the city as a mini Interpretation (CI) archive of political upheavals, public life, fine arts, Units: 1.0 the star-crossed German-Jewish symbiosis, World (Not Offered 2016-2017) War II, and the cultures of the two German post-war states. GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Spring 2017: Berlin in Literature and Film. The This course investigates the anthropological, major focus of this course is the spatialization of philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary memory and history in exemplary novels and films aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience on Berlin. These works analyze the palimpsestic and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines sites of the city as a mini archive of political the structure of the relationship between imagined/ upheavals, public life, fine arts, the star-crossed remembered homelands and transnational identities, German-Jewish symbiosis, World War II, and the and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and cultures of the two German post-war states. multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, Studies Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, This is a topics course. Course content varies. W. G. Sebald, and others. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Units: 1.0 Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Shen,Q. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Fall 2016: Representing Diversity in German Studies; International Studies Cinema. This course examines a wide-ranging Units: 1.0 repertoire of transnational films produced in Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. contemporary Germany. It presents an introduction (Spring 2017) 214 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

to modern German cinema through a close analysis post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical of visual material and identity construction in the texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition worlds of the real and the reel. (namely French), and more or less distinctly circumscribed fields, we will also look at the GERM B399 Senior Seminar broader transcultural and translinguistic influences Senior Seminar. Students are required to write a long that brought these “schools” into being and, most research paper with an annotated bibliography. importantly, what fields of thinking they have Units: 1.0 subsequently inspired across language traditions. Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. (Spring 2017) GERM B001 Elementary German Meets five hours a week with the individual class GERM B403 Supervised Work instructor, two hours with student drill instructors. Strong emphasis on communicative competence both in Units: 1.0 spoken and written German in a larger cultural context. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 GERM B421 German for Reading Knowledge Instructor(s): Shen,Q. This course will provide graduate and undergraduate (Fall 2016) students with the skills to read and translate challenging academic texts from German into English. We will GERM B002 Elementary German quickly cover the essentials of German grammar Meets five hours a week with the individual class and focus on vocabulary and constructions that one instructor, two hours with student drill instructors. Strong can encounter in scholarly writing from a variety of emphasis on communicative competence both in disciplines. Does not fulfill the Language Requirement. spoken and written German in a larger cultural context. Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: GERM 001 or its equivalent or permission (Not Offered 2016-2017) of instructor Approach: Course does not meet an Approach COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local Units: 1.0 Practices and Global Resonance Instructor(s): Shen,Q. The course is in English. It examines the ban on books (Spring 2017) and art in a global context through a study of the historical and sociopolitical conditions of censorship ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in practices. The course raises such questions as how the Humanities censorship is used to fortify political power, how it is An examination in English of leading theories of practiced locally and globally, who censors, what are interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and the categories of censorship, how censorship succeeds Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course and fails, and how writers and artists write and create content varies. against and within censorship. The last question leads Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and Units: 1.0 artists employ to translate the expression of repression, (Not Offered 2016-2017) trauma, and torture into idioms of resistance. German majors/minors can get German Studies credit. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing course. GREEK, LATIN, AND CLASSICAL Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o STUDIES Studies; Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 Students may complete a major in Greek, Latin, Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. Classical Languages, or Classical Culture and Society. (Fall 2016) Students may complete a minor in Greek, Latin, or Classical Culture and Society. Students may complete an M.A. in Greek or Latin in the combined A.B./M.A. FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in program. the Humanities An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Faculty Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Annette Baertschi, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. and Classical Studies and Director of the Graduate Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Group Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. Catherine Conybeare, Chair and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. Radcliffe Edmonds, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and This course will be taught in English and focus Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies (on on works of French feminist, postcolonial and leave semester II) Collin Hilton, Instructor Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 215

Russell Scott, Doreen C. Spitzer Professor of Latin and of the language and a comprehension of Greek Classical Studies history, mythology, religion and the other basic forms Asya Sigelman, Assistant Professor of Greek, Latin and of expression through which the culture developed. Classical Studies The works of poets, philosophers, and historians are studied both in their historical context and in relation to Daniel Tober, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the subsequent Western thought. Humanities and Humanistic Studies Cooperating Faculty at Haverford Major Requirements College Requirements in the major are two courses in Greek at the introductory level, two courses at the 100 level, two Bret Mulligan, Chair and Associate Professor courses at the 200 level, one course at the 300 level (or Deborah H. Roberts, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of above) and the Senior Seminar and the thesis. Classics and Comparative Literature Also required are three courses to be distributed as Robert Germany, Associate Professor follows: one in Greek history, one in Greek archaeology, and one in Greek philosophy. Hannah Silverblank, Visiting Assistant Professor In addition to completing the course requirements for In collaboration with the Department of Classics at the Greek major, every student must fulfill the requisite Haverford College, the department offers four major training in writing within the discipline by taking as programs of study: Greek, Latin, Classical Languages, part of her major plan two courses that are designated and Classical Culture and Society. In addition to the as Writing Attentive or a single course designated as sequence of courses specified for each major, all majors Writing Intensive. The student may count a Writing are expected to have read through the Classics Reading Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the List before they participate in the Senior Seminar, a department if it is included in the major plan. required full-year course. In the first term, students By the end of the senior year, majors will be required refine their ability to read, discuss, and critique classical to have completed a sight translation examination from texts through engagement with scholarship from various Greek to English. fields of Classics while in the second term, they conduct independent research, culminating in a substantial Prospective majors in Greek are advised to take Greek thesis paper and a presentation to the department. in their first year. For students entering with Greek there Senior essays of exceptionally high quality may be is the possibility of completing the requirements for both awarded departmental honors at commencement. A.B. and M.A. degrees in four years. Those interested in pursuing advanced degrees are advised also to have a In addition to completing the course requirements for firm grounding in Latin. each type of major (Greek, Latin, Classical Languages, or Classical Culture & Society), every student must fulfill the requisite training in writing within the discipline Minor Requirements by taking as part of her major plan two courses that Requirements for a minor in Greek are two courses at are designated as Writing Attentive or a single course the introductory level, two courses at the 100 level, two designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count courses at the 200 level. a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the department if it is included in the major plan. COURSES Students, according to their concentrations, are GREK B010 Traditional and New Testament Greek encouraged to consider a term of study during junior year in programs such as the College Year in Athens or This is the first half of a year-long introductory course the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. to ancient Greek. It is designed to familiarize students with the basic elements of classical Greek grammar Courses in Greek (GREK) and Latin (LATN) involve the and syntax as well as to provide them with experience study of the ancient language and reading texts in that in reading short sentences and passages in both Greek language. Courses for which a knowledge of Greek or prose and poetry. Latin is not required are listed under Classical Studies Approach: Course does not meet an Approach (CSTS). Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. College Foreign Language (Fall 2016) Requirement GREK B011 Traditional and New Testament Greek The College’s foreign language requirement may be satisfied by completing two semesters of Greek with an This is the second half of a year-long introductory average grade of at least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or course to ancient Greek. It is designed to familiarize better in the second semester. students with the basic elements of classical Greek grammar and syntax. Once the grammar has been fully introduced, students will develop facility by reading parts GREEK of the New Testament and a dialogue of Plato. The sequence of courses in the ancient Greek Approach: Course does not meet an Approach language is designed to acquaint the students with the Units: 1.0 various aspects of Greek culture through a mastery Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. (Spring 2017) 216 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

GREK B101 Herodotus Their dramas, composed two-and-a-half millenia ago, Greek 101 introduces the student to one of the continue to be performed regularly on modern stages greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the historian, around the world and exert a profound influence on Herodotus. The “Father of History,” as Herodotus is current day theatre. We will read Sophocles’ Oedipus sometimes called, wrote one of the earliest lengthy Tyrannos and Euripides’ Bacchae in full, focusing on prose texts extant in Greek literature, in the Ionian language, poetics, meter, and performance studies. dialect of Greek. The “Father of Lies,” as he is also Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) sometimes known, wove into his history a number of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive fabulous and entertaining anecdotes and tales. His Units: 1.0 ‘historie’ or inquiry into the events surrounding the Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. invasions by the Persian empire against the Greek (Spring 2017) city-states set the precedent for all subsequent historical writings. This course meets three times a week with a GREK B403 Supervised Work required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: GREK Units: 1.0 B010 and B011 or equivalent. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 GREK B630 Euripides Instructor(s): Hilton,C. (Fall 2016) In this seminar we will look closely at several plays of Euripides, paying special attention to the tragedian’s language and meter. We will also read widely in 20th GREK B104 Homer and 21st century scholarship on Euripides. Greek 104 is designed to introduce the student to the Units: 1.0 epic poetry attributed to Homer, the greatest poet of Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. ancient Greece, through selections from the Odyssey. (Fall 2016) Since Homer’s poetic form is so important to the shape and texture of the Odyssey, we will examine the GREK B653 Athens in the Hellenistic Period mechanics of Homeric poetry, both the intricacies of dactylic hexameter and the patterns of oral formulaic Surveys of Athenian history tend to conclude if not composition. We will also spend time discussing the at the Battle of Chaeronea at any rate at the death characters and ideas that animate this text, since the of Alexander. Yet Athens did not disappear with value of Homer lies not merely in his incomparable the imposition of the Macedonian garrison in 322. mastery of his poetic form, but in the values and Democracy resurfaced periodically over the course of patterns of behavior in his story, patterns which the next century (in 318, 307, 288, and 229), and, more remained remarkably influential in the Greek world for to the point, even under periods of oligarchic rule and centuries. Macedonian control, Athenian institutions remained Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) intact, and Athenians continued to make significant Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive contributions to the greater Greek world. Indeed, Units: 1.0 the century that followed Alexander’s death saw the (Not Offered 2016-2017) flowering of Athenian historiography (e.g. Demochares, Diyllus, Philochorus, Timaeus, and Phylarchus) and new comedy (e.g. Menander and Poseidippus), as GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides well as the advent of important philosophical schools This course is designed to introduce the student to (Epicureanism and Stoicism). This course will focus on two of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, Athens between the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. and its liberation from Macedonian rule ca. 229 BCE. By These two writers set the terms in the disciplines of way of a variety of contemporary sources, we shall have philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers the opportunity to familiarize ourselves both with the and historians today continue to grapple with their ideas historical narrative and with the intellectual climate of the and influence. The brilliant and controversial statesman polis in the early Hellenistic period. Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in this Units: 1.0 course (Plato’s Symposium and Thucydides’ History (Not Offered 2016-2017) of the Peloponnesian War), and we examine the ways in which both authors handle the figure of Alcibiades ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. The often-praised achievements of the classical Suggested Preparation: At least 2 years of college cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This Greek or the equivalent. course surveys the rich body of material and textual Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family Units: 1.0 and social life. Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Fall 2016) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Donohue,A. GREK B202 The Form of Tragedy (Spring 2017) This course will introduce the student to two of the three great Athenian tragedians—Sophocles and Euripides. Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 217

ARCH B504 Archaeology of Greek Religion consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek like gender, health, financial situation, geographical religion by focusing on surviving archaeological, variability, and political status. Anthropological, architectural, epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches that dates from the Archaic and Classical periods. By will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light examining a wealth of diverse evidence that ranges, for on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and example, from temple architecture, and feasting and society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects banqueting equipment to inscriptions, statues, vase our contemporary customs and practices and how our paintings, and descriptive texts, the course enables identity is still shaped by what we eat. the participants to analyze the value and complexity of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the archaeology of Greek religion and to recognize its Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies significance for the reconstruction of daily life in ancient Units: 1.0 Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such (Not Offered 2016-2017) as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of animal sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema offerings and also the important position of festivals This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course and hero and mystery cults in ancient Greek religious explores how contemporary film, a creative medium thought and experience. appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like Units: 1.0 Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Examining both films that are directly based on Greek plays and films that make use of classical material CSTS B208 The Roman Empire without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed House of Constantine with focus on the evolution of and appropriated for modern audiences and how the Roman culture and society as presented in the surviving classical past continues to be culturally significant. A ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological. variety of methodological approaches such as film and Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will Units: 1.0 be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- (Not Offered 2016-2017) historical interpretation. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies CSTS B225 In Vino Veritas: Wine in the Literature Units: 1.0 and Cult of Ancient Greece & Rome Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. This course will explore ancient Greeks’ and Romans’ perception of wine-drinking as a sacral experience, often Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. of critical cultural, social, and even cosmic importance. We will study the cult of Dionysus and the role of wine CSTS B398 Senior Seminar in Greek and Latin poetry, drama, and philosophy. This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in We will then trace the development of these religious and discussion of selected topics in the various sub- and cultural trends in subsequent Western history, to fields of Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, the medieval tradition of the carnival and to twentieth- law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary century literature. critical approaches to the primary sources. Students Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) will also begin developing a topic for their senior thesis, Units: 1.0 composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary (Not Offered 2016-2017) presentation of their findings. Units: 1.0 CSTS B228 Utopia: Good Place or No Place? (Not Offered 2016-2017) What is the ideal human society? What is the role and status of man and woman therein? Is such a society CSTS B399 Senior Seminar purely hypothetical or should we strive to make it viable This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working in our modern world? This course will address these with individual advisors from the bi-college classics questions by exploring the historic development of the departments, students will continue to develop the topic concept of utopia. sketched out in the fall semester. By the end of the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) course, they will have completed at least one draft and Units: 1.0 a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which they (Not Offered 2016-2017) will give a final oral presentation. Units: 1.0 CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course explores practices of eating and drinking in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- GREK B101 Herodotus cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are Greek 101 introduces the student to one of the not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the historian, whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider Herodotus. The “Father of History,” as Herodotus is implications of patterns of food production, preparation, sometimes called, wrote one of the earliest lengthy 218 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies prose texts extant in Greek literature, in the Ionian current day theatre. We will read Sophocles’ Oedipus dialect of Greek. The “Father of Lies,” as he is also Tyrannos and Euripides’ Bacchae in full, focusing on sometimes known, wove into his history a number of language, poetics, meter, and performance studies. fabulous and entertaining anecdotes and tales. His Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) ‘historie’ or inquiry into the events surrounding the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive invasions by the Persian empire against the Greek Units: 1.0 city-states set the precedent for all subsequent historical Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. writings. This course meets three times a week with a (Spring 2017) required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: GREK B010 and B011 or equivalent. GREK B403 Supervised Work Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Hilton,C. (Fall 2016) GREK B601 Homer GREK B104 Homer We will focus on a careful reading of significant portions of the Homeric epics and on the history of Homeric Greek 104 is designed to introduce the student to the scholarship. Students will develop an appreciation both epic poetry attributed to Homer, the greatest poet of for the beauty of Homer’s poetics and for the scholarly ancient Greece, through selections from the Odyssey. arguments surrounding interpretation of these texts. Since Homer’s poetic form is so important to the Units: 1.0 shape and texture of the Odyssey, we will examine the (Not Offered 2016-2017) mechanics of Homeric poetry, both the intricacies of dactylic hexameter and the patterns of oral formulaic composition. We will also spend time discussing the GREK B603 Greek Patrology characters and ideas that animate this text, since the This course is an introduction to Greek patrology, with value of Homer lies not merely in his incomparable an emphasis on biblical interpretation. We shall start mastery of his poetic form, but in the values and from Philo and go on to read a selection of important patterns of behavior in his story, patterns which texts from the early Greek fathers, notably Origen, remained remarkably influential in the Greek world for Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom. centuries. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 GREK B609 Pindar & Greek Lyric (Not Offered 2016-2017) We will begin with a careful reading of Pindar’s shorter odes, then proceed to his most famous long odes GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides (Olympian 1, Pythian 3, Pythian 1) and then consider This course is designed to introduce the student to interpretative strategies (past, present, and future) as two of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, we survey the rest of the odes. One additional hour of the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. reading TBA. These two writers set the terms in the disciplines of Units: 1.0 philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers (Not Offered 2016-2017) and historians today continue to grapple with their ideas and influence. The brilliant and controversial statesman GREK B620 5th century Greek Historians Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in this This course will present a detailed reading of three course (Plato’s Symposium and Thucydides’ History or more books of Herodotus, with close study of his of the Peloponnesian War), and we examine the ways language, structure, and understanding of historical in which both authors handle the figure of Alcibiades causation. We shall also work to situate Herodotus as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying as an early prose writer in the tradition of the earlier styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. geographical and ethnographical writings and will to that Suggested Preparation: At least 2 years of college end read the fragments of Hecataeus as well as other Greek or the equivalent. early historians. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Instructor(s): Tober,D. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. (Fall 2016) GREK B623 Sophocles In this seminar we will conduct an in-depth reading of GREK B202 The Form of Tragedy several of Sophocles’ plays with special emphasis on the language and metrics of Greek tragedy. We will This course will introduce the student to two of the three also focus on the history of Sophoclean scholarship. great Athenian tragedians—Sophocles and Euripides. Secondary readings and in-class discussions will cover Their dramas, composed two-and-a-half millenia ago, topics such as the role of the chorus; lyric vs. narrative continue to be performed regularly on modern stages in drama; the Sophoclean hero; the role of time and around the world and exert a profound influence on oracles; the role of the divine; comparison of Sophocles’ Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 219 favorite themes and techniques with those of Aeschylus (Epicureanism and Stoicism). This course will focus on and Euripides. All students will complete a term paper Athens between the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) on a research topic of their choice by the end of the and its liberation from Macedonian rule ca. 229 BCE. By semester. way of a variety of contemporary sources, we shall have Units: 1.0 the opportunity to familiarize ourselves both with the (Not Offered 2016-2017) historical narrative and with the intellectual climate of the polis in the early Hellenistic period. GREK B639 Greek Orators:Classical Athens Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) The Attic orators provide a rich array of evidence for the social structures of men and women in ancient Athens, giving insights into aspects of personal life that LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature literary texts rarely touch upon. In this seminar, we will This is a topics course. Course content varies. explore the ideas of gender and citizenship as they are Prerequisites: at least two 200-level Latin courses or expressed in a number of the orations from 4th century permission of instructor. Athens. We will examine the ways in which rhetoric is Units: 1.0 used in the speeches, with close attention to the kind Instructor(s): Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. of social and personal dynamics that were central to the forensic arena of this time period. A close reading Fall 2016: Late Latin Poetry. This course will of the texts themselves in the original Greek will help survey the florescence of Latin poetry in the fourth provide insight into the language of the courts, while the and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the course readings from modern scholarship will allow us to probe will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for more deeply into some of the issues raised by the texts. example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; Units: 1.0 works by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and Paulinus of Nola may also be included. We shall analyze both the literary and (where GREK B644 Plato applicable) the theological properties of these great works. In this seminar, we will explore the central ideas of a Platonic dialogue as they are unfolded by the Spring 2017: Horace. Horace, Rome’s most varying voices of the interlocutors. In the “Phaedo”, versatile author, produced some of antiquity’s most Plato presents a poignant picture of the last hours of important and intriguing poems on themes ranging Socrates. Plato’s dialogues all prompt questions about from erotics to poetics, from political instability to how to read and understand the complex interchanges philosophy, from morality to myth. This course will between the interlocutors, but no dialogue presents focus on the poems published in his Epodes and the stakes of the discussion as vividly as the “Phaedo”, the four books of Odes, paying special attention to where the debates on the nature of death and the soul Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors are set against the background of Socrates’ imminent and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, execution. How ought one to live? What does it mean to his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and die? How is the life of philosophy a practice for death? his brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. In this seminar, we will explore the ideas of life and We will also consider some of his other works death, soul and body, philosophy and purification in such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order the “Phaedo”. In addition to a close reading of the text to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and itself, we will sample from the scholarly debates over his appropriation of the Greek heritage into Roman the understanding and interpretation of the Phaedo that cultural contexts. have gone on over the past two and a half millennia of reading Plato’s “Phaedo”. LATIN Units: 1.0 The major in Latin is designed to acquaint the student (Not Offered 2016-2017) with Roman literature, history and culture in all its aspects. Works in Latin language, ranging from its GREK B653 Athens in the Hellenistic Period beginnings to the Renaissance, are examined both Surveys of Athenian history tend to conclude if not in their historical context and as influences on post- at the Battle of Chaeronea at any rate at the death classical cultures and societies up to the present day. A of Alexander. Yet Athens did not disappear with number of courses in Latin at the 200-level are offered the imposition of the Macedonian garrison in 322. in rotation at Bryn Mawr and Haverford. They are based Democracy resurfaced periodically over the course of on authors and topics in Roman imperial literature the next century (in 318, 307, 288, and 229), and, more ranging from the Augustan Age to Late Antiquity and the to the point, even under periods of oligarchic rule and Middle Ages and are designed to illustrate the richness Macedonian control, Athenian institutions remained of this literary patrimony. intact, and Athenians continued to make significant contributions to the greater Greek world. Indeed, College Foreign Language the century that followed Alexander’s death saw the Requirement flowering of Athenian historiography (e.g. Demochares, The College’s foreign language requirement may be Diyllus, Philochorus, Timaeus, and Phylarchus) and satisfied by completing two semesters of Latin with an new comedy (e.g. Menander and Poseidippus), as average grade of at least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or well as the advent of important philosophical schools better in the second semester. 220 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Major Requirements Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. Requirements for the major are two courses in Latin at (Spring 2017) the 100 level, two literature courses at the 200 level, two literature courses at the 300 level, HIST 207 or 208, Senior Seminar and thesis, and two courses to be LATN B110 Intermediate Latin selected from the following: Classical and Near Eastern Intensive review of grammar, reading in classical prose Archaeology at the 100 level or above; Greek at the and poetry. For students who have had the equivalent of 100 level or above; French, Italian or Spanish at the several years of high school Latin or are not adequately 200 level or above. Courses taken at the Intercollegiate prepared to take LATN 101. This course meets three Center for Classical Studies in Rome are accepted as times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. part of the major. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 In addition to completing the course requirements for Instructor(s): Scott,R. the Latin major, every student must fulfill the requisite (Fall 2016) training in writing within the discipline by taking as part of her major plan two courses that are designated LATN B112 Latin Literature as Writing Attentive or a single course designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count a Writing In the second semester of the intermediate Latin Attentive or Intensive course that is taught outside the sequence, readings in prose and poetry are frequently department if it is included in the major plan. drawn from a period, such as the age of Augustus, that illustrate in different ways the leading political By the end of the senior year, majors will be required and cultural concerns of the time. The Latin readings to have completed successfully a sight translation and discussion are supplemented by readings in the examination from Latin to English. secondary literature. This course meets three times Students who place into 200-level courses in their a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. first year may be eligible to participate in the A.B./ Prerequisite: LATN 101 or 110 or placement by the M.A. program. Those interested should consult the department. department as soon as possible. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Minor Requirements Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. Requirements for the minor are normally six courses in Latin, including one at the 300-level. For non-majors, Spring 2017: Livy and Horace. two literature courses at the 200-level must be taken as a prerequisite for admission to a 300-level course. LATN B201 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature This is a topics course, course content varies. In this COURSES course typically a variety of Latin prose and poetry of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth centuries LATN B001 Elementary Latin CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may be featured in a given semester. Suggested Preparation: two years Latin 001 is the first part of a year-long course that of college Latin or equivalent. introduces the student to the language and literature Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of ancient Rome. The first semester focuses upon the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive grammar of Latin, developing the student’s knowledge Units: 1.0 of the forms of the language and the basic constructions Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. used. Exercises in translation and composition aid in the student’s learning of the language, while readings in Fall 2016: Vergil’s Aeneid. Few poems have been prose and poetry from the ancient authors provide the read steadily for over 2000 years. Fewer still have student with a deeper appreciation of the culture which become a school text soon after publication and used this language. a ‘classic’ of the Western canon, exerting a major Approach: Course does not meet an Approach influence on European literature, art, and politics. Units: 1.0 This course will attempt to reveal the enduring Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. appeal of Vergil’s Aeneid through study of all (Fall 2016) aspects of the work, from its engagement with the literary tradition to its relation to the Augustan LATN B002 Elementary Latin ideology to the author’s unique language, imagery, Latin 002 is the second part of a year-long course that and poetic style. introduces the student to the language and literature of ancient Rome. The second semester completes the LATN B202 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature course of study of the grammar of Latin, improving In this course typically a variety of Latin prose and the student’s knowledge of the forms of the language poetry of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth and forms of expression. Exercises in translation centuries CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may and composition aid in the student’s learning of the be featured in a given semester. This is a topics course, language, while readings in prose and poetry from course content varies. the ancient authors provide the student with a deeper Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) appreciation of the culture which used this language. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 221

Units: 1.0 Spring 2017: Horace. Horace, Rome’s most (Not Offered 2016-2017) versatile author, produced some of antiquity’s most important and intriguing poems on themes ranging LATN B203 Medieval Latin Literature from erotics to poetics, from political instability to philosophy, from morality to myth. This course will Selected works of Latin prose and poetry from the late focus on the poems published in his Epodes and Roman Empire through the 12th century. Prerequisite: the four books of Odes, paying special attention to At least one 200-level Latin course or equivalent. Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and Units: 1.0 his brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. (Not Offered 2016-2017) We will also consider some of his other works such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order LATN B305 Livy & the Conquest of the to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and Mediterranean his appropriation of the Greek heritage into Roman Close analysis of Livy’s account of the Second cultural contexts. Macedonian War, the Syrian War, and the origins of the third Macedonian War. Emphasis will be placed LATN B403 Supervised Work on Livy’s method of composition and reliability, of his Units: 1.0 general historical outlook, and that of other authors who (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) covered the period. The relevant sections of Polybius’ history, Plutarch’s biographies of Flamininus, the Elder LATN B613 Cicero Cato, and Aemilius Paullus as well as all relevant inscriptions will be dealt with in English. The public and private legal speeches and relevant Units: 1.0 letters of Cicero as advocate and politician. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) LATN B312 Roman Satire ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome Satire is the most slippery and subversive of genres. It is richly entertaining to read, but if we engage with The often-praised achievements of the classical it seriously it is often abrasive, shocking, shattering. cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This Reading Roman satire requires an energetic exercise in course surveys the rich body of material and textual cultural translation: we are confronted with the alienness evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans of the Roman world, as well as its perverse literary -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics vigour. This course will span four turbulent centuries of include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family Roman imperialism in its reading of Roman satire. We and social life. will range from the sharp minutiae of social observation Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the in Horace’s Sermones to the calculated public abuse of Past (IP) a eunuch consul in Claudian’s In Eutropium; from the Units: 1.0 swirling filthy riches of Persius and Juvenal to the nastily Instructor(s): Donohue,A. eloquent Christian condemnation of riches (and much (Spring 2017) else) in St Jerome. Students are warned: the language is difficult, the content often excoriating, even if CSTS B156 Roman Law in Action exquisitely expressed. Reading this material challenges An introduction to Roman public and private law from any comfortable separation between “literature” and the early republic to the high empire. The development “life”. of legal institutions, including the public courts, the Units: 1.0 role of the jurists and the importance of case law, is (Not Offered 2016-2017) stressed. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Instructor(s): Scott,R. Prerequisites: at least two 200-level Latin courses or (Fall 2016) permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic Instructor(s): Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. This course surveys the history of Rome from its origins to the end of the Republic, with special emphasis on Fall 2016: Late Latin Poetry. This course will the rise of Rome in Italy and the evolution of the Roman survey the florescence of Latin poetry in the fourth state. The course also examines the Hellenistic world and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the course in which the rise of Rome takes place. The methods of will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for historical investigation using the ancient sources, both example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; literary and archaeological, are emphasized. works by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, and Paulinus of Nola may also be included. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) We shall analyze both the literary and (where Units: 1.0 applicable) the theological properties of these great Instructor(s): Scott,R. works. (Spring 2017) 222 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

CSTS B225 In Vino Veritas: Wine in the Literature Counts towards: Film Studies and Cult of Ancient Greece & Rome Units: 1.0 This course will explore ancient Greeks’ and Romans’ Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. perception of wine-drinking as a sacral experience, often Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. of critical cultural, social, and even cosmic importance. We will study the cult of Dionysus and the role of wine CSTS B398 Senior Seminar in Greek and Latin poetry, drama, and philosophy. We will then trace the development of these religious This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in and cultural trends in subsequent Western history, to and discussion of selected topics in the various sub- the medieval tradition of the carnival and to twentieth- fields of Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, century literature. law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) critical approaches to the primary sources. Students Units: 1.0 will also begin developing a topic for their senior thesis, (Not Offered 2016-2017) composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary presentation of their findings. Units: 1.0 CSTS B228 Utopia: Good Place or No Place? (Not Offered 2016-2017) What is the ideal human society? What is the role and status of man and woman therein? Is such a society CSTS B399 Senior Seminar purely hypothetical or should we strive to make it viable in our modern world? This course will address these This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working questions by exploring the historic development of the with individual advisors from the bi-college classics concept of utopia. departments, students will continue to develop the topic Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) sketched out in the fall semester. By the end of the Units: 1.0 course, they will have completed at least one draft and (Not Offered 2016-2017) a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which they will give a final oral presentation. Units: 1.0 CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course explores practices of eating and drinking in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- LATN B110 Intermediate Latin cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with Intensive review of grammar, reading in classical prose whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider and poetry. For students who have had the equivalent of implications of patterns of food production, preparation, several years of high school Latin or are not adequately consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues prepared to take LATN 101. This course meets three like gender, health, financial situation, geographical times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. variability, and political status. Anthropological, Approach: Course does not meet an Approach archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches Units: 1.0 will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light Instructor(s): Scott,R. on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and (Fall 2016) society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects our contemporary customs and practices and how our LATN B112 Latin Literature identity is still shaped by what we eat. In the second semester of the intermediate Latin Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) sequence, readings in prose and poetry are frequently Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies drawn from a period, such as the age of Augustus, Units: 1.0 that illustrate in different ways the leading political (Not Offered 2016-2017) and cultural concerns of the time. The Latin readings and discussion are supplemented by readings in the CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema secondary literature. This course meets three times This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. explores how contemporary film, a creative medium Prerequisite: LATN 101 or 110 or placement by the appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like department. Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Examining both films that are directly based on Greek Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive plays and films that make use of classical material Units: 1.0 without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed Spring 2017: Livy and Horace. and appropriated for modern audiences and how the classical past continues to be culturally significant. A LATN B201 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature variety of methodological approaches such as film and gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will This is a topics course, course content varies. In this be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- course typically a variety of Latin prose and poetry of the historical interpretation. high and later Roman empire (first to fourth centuries Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may be featured in a given semester. Suggested Preparation: two years of college Latin or equivalent. Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 223

Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) else) in St Jerome. Students are warned: the language Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive is difficult, the content often excoriating, even if Units: 1.0 exquisitely expressed. Reading this material challenges Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. any comfortable separation between “literature” and “life”. Fall 2016: Vergil’s Aeneid. Few poems have been Units: 1.0 read steadily for over 2000 years. Fewer still have (Not Offered 2016-2017) become a school text soon after publication and a ‘classic’ of the Western canon, exerting a major LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature influence on European literature, art, and politics. This course will attempt to reveal the enduring This is a topics course. Course content varies. appeal of Vergil’s Aeneid through study of all Prerequisites: at least two 200-level Latin courses or aspects of the work, from its engagement with permission of instructor. the literary tradition to its relation to the Augustan Units: 1.0 ideology to the author’s unique language, imagery, Instructor(s): Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. and poetic style. Fall 2016: Late Latin Poetry. This course will LATN B202 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature survey the florescence of Latin poetry in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the course In this course typically a variety of Latin prose and will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for poetry of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; centuries CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may works by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, be featured in a given semester. This is a topics course, and Paulinus of Nola may also be included. course content varies. We shall analyze both the literary and (where Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) applicable) the theological properties of these great Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive works. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spring 2017: Horace. Horace, Rome’s most versatile author, produced some of antiquity’s most LATN B203 Medieval Latin Literature important and intriguing poems on themes ranging from erotics to poetics, from political instability to Selected works of Latin prose and poetry from the late philosophy, from morality to myth. This course will Roman Empire through the 12th century. Prerequisite: focus on the poems published in his Epodes and At least one 200-level Latin course or equivalent. the four books of Odes, paying special attention to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, Units: 1.0 his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) his brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. We will also consider some of his other works LATN B305 Livy & the Conquest of the such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order Mediterranean to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and Close analysis of Livy’s account of the Second his appropriation of the Greek heritage into Roman Macedonian War, the Syrian War, and the origins of cultural contexts. the third Macedonian War. Emphasis will be placed on Livy’s method of composition and reliability, of his LATN B403 Supervised Work general historical outlook, and that of other authors who Units: 1.0 covered the period. The relevant sections of Polybius’ (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) history, Plutarch’s biographies of Flamininus, the Elder Cato, and Aemilius Paullus as well as all relevant LATN B612 Tacitus inscriptions will be dealt with in English. Studies in the Annals of Tacitus. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Scott,R. (Fall 2016) LATN B312 Roman Satire Satire is the most slippery and subversive of genres. LATN B613 Livy & the Conquest of the It is richly entertaining to read, but if we engage with Mediterranean 2nd & 1st c. it seriously it is often abrasive, shocking, shattering. Close analysis of Livy’s account of the Second Reading Roman satire requires an energetic exercise in Macedonian War, the Syrian War, and the origins of cultural translation: we are confronted with the alienness the third Macedonian War. Emphasis will be placed of the Roman world, as well as its perverse literary on Livy’s method of composition and reliability, of his vigour. This course will span four turbulent centuries of general historical outlook, and that of other authors who Roman imperialism in its reading of Roman satire. We covered the period. The relevant sections of Polybius’ will range from the sharp minutiae of social observation history, Plutarch’s biographies of Flamininus, the Elder in Horace’s Sermones to the calculated public abuse of Cato, and Aemilius Paullus as well as all relevant a eunuch consul in Claudian’s In Eutropium; from the inscriptions will be dealt with in English. swirling filthy riches of Persius and Juvenal to the nastily Units: 1.0 eloquent Christian condemnation of riches (and much (Not Offered 2016-2017) 224 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

LATN B615 Roman Biography themes ranging from erotics to poetics, from political The course surveys the development of Roman instability to philosophy, from morality to myth. This Biography from the late Republic to the High Empire. course will focus on the poems published in his Epodes Authors read include Cornelius Nepos, Cornelius and the four books of Odes, paying special attention Tacitus, Plutarch, Suetonius Tranquillus and anonymous to Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors authors representative of both pagan and Christian and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, resistance literature. his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and his Units: 1.0 brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. We will (Not Offered 2016-2017) also consider some of his other works such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and his appropriation of the LATN B619 Roman Satire Greek heritage into Roman cultural contexts. This course will span four turbulent centuries of Roman Units: 1.0 imperilism in its reading or Roman satire. We will Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. range from the sharp minutiae of social observation in (Spring 2017) Horace’s Sermones to the calculated public abuse of a eunuch consul in Claudian’s In Eutropium; from the LATN B671 Fasti swirling filthy riches of Persius and Juvenal to the nastily eloquent Christian condemnation of riches (and much Ovid’s Fasti is a work that the poet was not able to else) in St Jerome. complete before being sent into exile by Augustus. Units: 1.0 Nevertheless, as it survives, it is an extraordinarily rich (Not Offered 2016-2017) work that blends the antiquarian religious research characteristic of the Augustan age with the subtle poetic craft for which the author is famous. LATN B637 Vergil Aeneid Units: 1.0 A complete reading and close study of Virgil, whose Instructor(s): Scott,R. “afterlife,” it has been said with little exaggeration, “is (Spring 2017) Western literature.” We read all of the certain poems- -Eclogues (c. 39 BCE), Georgics (c. 29 BCE), and LATN B673 Roman Civil War Aeneid (c. 19 BCE)--completely in English, substantial portions of each in the Latin, and scholarship and Civil war seemed to be Rome’s inescapable destiny criticism. Aiming at increased fluency in reading from the foundation of the city through the early empire. Latin poetry, we also seek to deepen our capacity to This course will assess its historical significance as respond to this astonishing ancient poet rigorously and well as its representation and commemoration in meaningfully. Attention is paid to some of Virgil’s models Roman literature. We will focus particularly on Lucan’s in Latin and Greek and to some imitators especially in Bellum civile recounting the strife between Caesar and the European epic tradition. Pompey, but also read other texts in both poetry and Units: 1.0 prose to trace the development of civil conflict at Rome (Not Offered 2016-2017) and its lasting influence on Roman identity and cultural memory. Units: 1.0 LATN B640 Topics: Imperial Latin Literature (Not Offered 2016-2017) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CLASSICAL LANGUAGES The major in Classical Languages is designed for the LATN B650 Topics in Latin Literature student who wishes to divide her time between the two languages and literatures. Topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Major Requirements (Not Offered 2016-2017) The requirements for the major, in addition to the Senior Seminar and the thesis, are eight courses in Greek LATN B658 Late Latin Poetry and Latin including at least two at the 200-level in one This course will survey the florescence of Latin poetry language and two at the 300-level or above in the other, in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the as well as two courses in ancient history and/or classical course will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for archaeology. In addition to completing the course example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; works requirements for the major in Classical Languages, by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, and Paulinus every student must fulfill the requisite training in of Nola may also be included. We shall analyze both the writing within the discipline by taking as part of her literary and (where applicable) the theological properties major plan two courses that are designated as Writing of these great works. Attentive or a single course designated as Writing Units: 1.0 Intensive. The student may count a Writing Attentive or Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. Intensive course that is taught outside the department (Fall 2016) if it is included in the major plan. There are two final examinations, a sight translation from Greek to English LATN B660 Horace, Odes and Epodes and another from Latin to English. 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COURSES GREK B653 Athens in the Hellenistic Period Surveys of Athenian history tend to conclude if not CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema at the Battle of Chaeronea at any rate at the death This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course of Alexander. Yet Athens did not disappear with explores how contemporary film, a creative medium the imposition of the Macedonian garrison in 322. appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like Democracy resurfaced periodically over the course of Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. the next century (in 318, 307, 288, and 229), and, more Examining both films that are directly based on Greek to the point, even under periods of oligarchic rule and plays and films that make use of classical material Macedonian control, Athenian institutions remained without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we intact, and Athenians continued to make significant will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed contributions to the greater Greek world. Indeed, and appropriated for modern audiences and how the the century that followed Alexander’s death saw the classical past continues to be culturally significant. A flowering of Athenian historiography (e.g. Demochares, variety of methodological approaches such as film and Diyllus, Philochorus, Timaeus, and Phylarchus) and gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will new comedy (e.g. Menander and Poseidippus), as be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- well as the advent of important philosophical schools historical interpretation. (Epicureanism and Stoicism). This course will focus on Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Athens between the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) Counts towards: Film Studies and its liberation from Macedonian rule ca. 229 BCE. By Units: 1.0 way of a variety of contemporary sources, we shall have Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. the opportunity to familiarize ourselves both with the historical narrative and with the intellectual climate of the Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. polis in the early Hellenistic period. Units: 1.0 CSTS B398 Senior Seminar (Not Offered 2016-2017) This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in and discussion of selected topics in the various sub- LATN B112 Latin Literature fields of Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary In the second semester of the intermediate Latin critical approaches to the primary sources. Students sequence, readings in prose and poetry are frequently will also begin developing a topic for their senior thesis, drawn from a period, such as the age of Augustus, composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary that illustrate in different ways the leading political presentation of their findings. and cultural concerns of the time. The Latin readings Units: 1.0 and discussion are supplemented by readings in the (Not Offered 2016-2017) secondary literature. This course meets three times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: LATN 101 or 110 or placement by the CSTS B399 Senior Seminar department. This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) with individual advisors from the bi-college classics Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive departments, students will continue to develop the topic Units: 1.0 sketched out in the fall semester. By the end of the Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. course, they will have completed at least one draft and a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which they Spring 2017: Livy and Horace. will give a final oral presentation. Units: 1.0 LATN B202 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature (Not Offered 2016-2017) In this course typically a variety of Latin prose and poetry of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth GREK B101 Herodotus centuries CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may Greek 101 introduces the student to one of the be featured in a given semester. This is a topics course, greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the historian, course content varies. Herodotus. The “Father of History,” as Herodotus is Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) sometimes called, wrote one of the earliest lengthy Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive prose texts extant in Greek literature, in the Ionian Units: 1.0 dialect of Greek. The “Father of Lies,” as he is also (Not Offered 2016-2017) sometimes known, wove into his history a number of fabulous and entertaining anecdotes and tales. His LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature ‘historie’ or inquiry into the events surrounding the This is a topics course. Course content varies. invasions by the Persian empire against the Greek Prerequisites: at least two 200-level Latin courses or city-states set the precedent for all subsequent historical permission of instructor. writings. This course meets three times a week with a Units: 1.0 required fourth hour to be arranged. Prerequisite: GREK Instructor(s): Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. B010 and B011 or equivalent. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Fall 2016: Late Latin Poetry. This course will Units: 1.0 survey the florescence of Latin poetry in the fourth Instructor(s): Hilton,C. and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the course (Fall 2016) will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for 226 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; COURSES works by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, and Paulinus of Nola may also be included. CSTS B156 Roman Law in Action We shall analyze both the literary and (where An introduction to Roman public and private law from applicable) the theological properties of these great the early republic to the high empire. The development works. of legal institutions, including the public courts, the Spring 2017: Horace. Horace, Rome’s most role of the jurists and the importance of case law, is versatile author, produced some of antiquity’s most stressed. important and intriguing poems on themes ranging Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) from erotics to poetics, from political instability to Units: 1.0 philosophy, from morality to myth. This course will Instructor(s): Scott,R. focus on the poems published in his Epodes and (Fall 2016) the four books of Odes, paying special attention to Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors CSTS B175 Feminism in Classics and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, This course will illustrate the ways in which feminism his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and has had an impact on classics, as well as the ways in his brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. which feminists think with classical texts. It will have four We will also consider some of his other works thematic divisions: feminism and the classical canon; such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order feminism, women, and rethinking classical history; to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and feminist readings of classical texts; and feminists his appropriation of the Greek heritage into Roman and the classics - e.g. Cixous’ Medusa and Butler’s cultural contexts. Antigone. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) CLASSICAL CULTURE AND SOCIETY Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies The major provides a broad yet individually structured Units: 1.0 background for students whose interest in the ancient (Not Offered 2016-2017) classical world is general and who wish to pursue more specialized work in one or more particular areas. CSTS B205 Greek History This course traces the rise of the city-state (polis) in the Major Requirements Greek-speaking world beginning in the seventh-century The requirements for the major, in addition to the Senior BC down to its full blossoming in classical Athens and Seminar and thesis, are nine courses distributed as Sparta. Students should gain an understanding of the follows: formation and development of Greek identity, from the Panhellenic trends in archaic epic and religion • Two courses in either Latin or Greek beyond the through its crystallization during the heroic defense elementary level against two Persian invasions and its subsequent • One course in Greek and/or Roman history disintegration during the Peloponnesian war. The class will also explore the ways in which the evolution of • Three courses, at least two of which are at political, philosophical, religious, and artistic institutions the 200 level or higher, in one of the following reflect the changing socio-political circumstances of concentrations: Greece. The latter part of the course will focus on archaeology and art history, Athens in particular: its rise to imperial power under philosophy and religion, Pericles, its tragic decline from the Peloponnesian literature and the classical tradition, War and its important role as a center for the teaching history and society of rhetoric and philosophy. Since the study of history • Three electives, at least one of which is at the involves the analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of the 200-level or higher, and one of which is must be sources available for the culture studied, students will among the courses counted toward the history/ concentrate upon the primary sources available for society concentration (except in the case of Greek history, exploring the strengths and weakness of students in that concentration) these sources and the ways in which their evidence can be used to create an understanding of ancient Greece. In addition to completing the course requirements for the Students should learn how to analyze and evaluate major in Classical Culture & Society, every student must the evidence from primary texts and to synthesize the fulfill the requisite training in writing within the discipline information from multiple sources in a critical way. by taking as part of her major plan two courses that Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) are designated as Writing Attentive or a single course Units: 1.0 designated as Writing Intensive. The student may count Instructor(s): Tober,D. a Writing Attentive or Intensive course that is taught (Fall 2016) outside the department if it is included in the major plan. Minor Requirements CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic The requirements for the minor are six courses drawn This course surveys the history of Rome from its origins from the range of courses counted toward the major. to the end of the Republic, with special emphasis on Of these, two must be in Greek or Latin beyond the the rise of Rome in Italy and the evolution of the Roman elementary level and at least one must be in classical state. The course also examines the Hellenistic world culture and society at the 200-level. in which the rise of Rome takes place. The methods of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 227 historical investigation using the ancient sources, both magic, and miracle. literary and archaeological, are emphasized. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Scott,R. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017) CSTS B225 In Vino Veritas: Wine in the Literature CSTS B208 The Roman Empire and Cult of Ancient Greece & Rome Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the This course will explore ancient Greeks’ and Romans’ House of Constantine with focus on the evolution of perception of wine-drinking as a sacral experience, often Roman culture and society as presented in the surviving of critical cultural, social, and even cosmic importance. ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological. We will study the cult of Dionysus and the role of wine Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) in Greek and Latin poetry, drama, and philosophy. Units: 1.0 We will then trace the development of these religious (Not Offered 2016-2017) and cultural trends in subsequent Western history, to the medieval tradition of the carnival and to twentieth- CSTS B213 Persia and The Greeks century literature. This Course explores interactions between Greeks Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and Persians in the Mediterranean and Near East from Units: 1.0 the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic Age. Through a (Not Offered 2016-2017) variety of sources (from Greek histories, tragedies, and ethnography, to Persian royal inscriptions and CSTS B228 Utopia: Good Place or No Place? administrative documents and the Hebrew Bible), we What is the ideal human society? What is the role and shall work to illuminate the interface between these status of man and woman therein? Is such a society two distinct yet complementary cultures. Our aim will purely hypothetical or should we strive to make it viable be to gain familiarity not only with a general narrative in our modern world? This course will address these of Greco-Persian history, from the foundation of the questions by exploring the historic development of the Achaemenid Empire in the middle of the sixth century concept of utopia. BCE to the Macedonian conquest of Persia some 250 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) years later, but also with the materials (archaeological, Units: 1.0 numismatic, epigraphical, artistic, and literary) from (Not Offered 2016-2017) which we build such a narrative. At the same time, we shall work to understand how contact between Persia CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World and the Greeks in antiquity has influenced discourse This course explores practices of eating and drinking about the opposition between East and West in the in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- modern world. cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with Past (IP) whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider Units: 1.0 implications of patterns of food production, preparation, (Not Offered 2016-2017) consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues like gender, health, financial situation, geographical CSTS B214 Remembering the Saints: Reading variability, and political status. Anthropological, Pilgrimage & Tourism archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches This course is divided into two parts. In the first half will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light of the semester, it will trace the rise and function of on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and the holy women and men of late antiquity (300–600 society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects CE), with an emphasis on the literary portrayal of their our contemporary customs and practices and how our lives, a genre called hagiography (sacred biography). identity is still shaped by what we eat. Methods for reading and interpreting this large body of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) literature will play a key role in this part of the course. In Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the second half of the semester, the focus will shift from Units: 1.0 saint to devotee. Saints were like magnets that set the (Not Offered 2016-2017) people of late antiquity into motion. By reading pilgrim travelogues and catalogues of miraculous healings, CSTS B237 Underworlds in Virgil & After studying the archeological and artistic evidence for What is a ‘literary tradition’, and what sense may we pilgrimage, we will explore the profound social and make of one? In this course we focus on an influential cultural impact the cult of the saints had on the peoples episode in the Western literary tradition: the hero’s of this period. In addition to gaining a familiarity with the journey into the underworld in Virgil’s epic poem, the history of early Christian saints and the cults that arose Aeneid. Keeping in mind a master metaphor by which around them, students will also investigate the many ‘underworld’ stands for ‘afterlife’, we consider that issues at stake in the study of late antique Christianity. perilous ‘journey below’ on its own, in context of the This includes but is not limited to: the conflict between complete poem, and in contexts provided by other history and literature in hagiography, gender and authors’ visions of ‘what lies beneath’, including Homer sanctity in late antiquity, self-harm as religious practice in early Christianity, and the intersection of medicine, 228 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

(Odyssey), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Dante (Inferno), plays and films that make use of classical material Milton (Paradise Lost), Shakespeare (The Tempest), without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth), will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness), J. R. R. Tolkien and appropriated for modern audiences and how the (The Hobbit), and the nameless author of the Epic of classical past continues to be culturally significant. A Gilgamesh. variety of methodological approaches such as film and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will Units: 1.0 be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- (Not Offered 2016-2017) historical interpretation. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) CSTS B242 Magic in the Greco-Roman World Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 Bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. amulets and talismans - from the simple spells designed to meet the needs of the poor and desperate to the Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. complex theurgies of the philosophers, the people of the Greco-Roman World made use of magic to try to CSTS B306 Choral Voice as Text and as influence the world around them. In this course students Performance will gain an understanding of the magicians of the This course engages students in close reading and ancient world and the techniques and devices they used analysis of several ancient Greek dramas in English to serve their clientele, as well as the cultural contexts translation. While these ancient scripts raise such in which these ideas of magic arose. We shall consider familiar and relevant issues as gender, identity, family- ancient tablets and spell books as well as literary structure, sexuality, loyalty, heroism, and euthanasia, descriptions of magic in the light of theories relating these issues are presented in a way distinct from the to the religious, political, and social contexts in which literary formats of Modernity: action is compressed magic was used. within the scope of one day; there are only three Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) actors despite there being many more roles; all the Units: 1.0 really intense action (e.g., murder, suicide) takes Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. place offstage; and, perhaps most obviously and most (Fall 2016) importantly, the thematic and aesthetic centerpiece of the play are not the protagonists but the singing and CSTS B246 Eros in Ancient Greek Culture dancing chorus, whose lyrics weave a dense web This course explores the ancient Greek’s ideas of love, of mixed metaphors, accumulated appositions, and from the interpersonal loves between people of the compound adjectives taking the place of verbs and same or different genders to the cosmogonic Eros that actions. Analysis of these lyrics will be key to addressing creates and holds together the entire world. The course one of the central questions of the course: how can examines how the idea of eros is expressed in poetry, a genre that is so focused on the incredibly complex philosophy, history, and the romances. choral lyrics be a performance genre? We will discuss Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical theories of how the plays were performed in fifth-century Interpretation (CI) Greece comparing and contrasting them with modern Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies adaptations of ancient choruses, as in the present-day Units: 1.0 productions of Theodoros Terzopoulos. Ultimately, (Not Offered 2016-2017) the aim of the course is to give students a first-hand experience with the manifold social, emotional, political, CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece and cultural implications of chorality, in both word (poetic and Rome script) and deed (performance). Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, Units: 1.0 including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic Instructor(s): Sigelman,A. competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and (Spring 2017) processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources and paying attention to art, archaeology and topography, this course explores the social, political and religious CSTS B310 Forming the Classics: From Papyrus to contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will Print be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment 17This course will trace the constitution of Classics and the representation of ancient spectacle in as a discipline in both its intellectual and its material contemporary film. aspects, and will examine how the works of classical Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) antiquity were read, interpreted, and preserved from the Units: 1.0 late Roman empire to the early modern period. Topics (Not Offered 2016-2017) will include the material production and dissemination of texts, the conceptual organization of codices (e.g. CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema punctuation, rubrication, indexing), and audiences This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course and readers (including annotation, marginalia, and explores how contemporary film, a creative medium commentary). Students will also learn practical appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like techniques for approaching these texts, such as Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. palaeography and the expansion of abbreviations. The Examining both films that are directly based on Greek course will culminate in student research projects using Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 229 manuscripts and early printed books from Bryn Mawr’s ARCH B102 Introduction to Classical Archaeology exceptional collections. Prerequisite: a 200 level course A historical survey of the archaeology and art of Greece, in Greek, Latin, or Classical Studies. Etruria, and Rome. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and (Fall 2016) fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World will see how some of these stories have been read and This course focuses on perceptions of animals in understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures ancient Greece from the Geometric to the Classical and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We periods. It examines representations of animals in will also explore some of the interpretive theories by painting, sculpture, and the minor arts, the treatment of which these tales have been understood, from ancient animals as attested in the archaeological record, and allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. The how these types of evidence relate to the featuring of student should gain a more profound understanding of animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, comedy, and the meaning of these myths to the Greeks themselves, medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing this of the cultural context in which they were formulated. At rich body of evidence, the course develops a context the same time, this course should provide the student in which participants gain insight into the ways ancient with some familiarity with the range of interpretations Greeks perceived, represented, and treated animals. and strategies of understanding that people of various Juxtaposing the importance of animals in modern cultures and times have applied to the Greek myths society, as attested, for example, by their roles as during the more than two millennia in which they have pets, agents of healing, diplomatic gifts, and even as been preserved. Preference to upperclassmen, previous subjects of specialized studies such as animal law and coursework in myth required. animal geographies, the course also serves to expand Units: 1.0 awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own (Not Offered 2016-2017) society as well as that of ancient Greece. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) CSTS B398 Senior Seminar Units: 1.0 This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in (Not Offered 2016-2017) and discussion of selected topics in the various subfields of Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, ARCH B215 Classical Art law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome critical approaches to the primary sources. Students from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa will also begin developing a topic for their senior thesis, 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary production are examined in historical and social context, presentation of their findings. including interactions with neighboring areas and Units: 1.0 cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are (Not Offered 2016-2017) highlighted. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the CSTS B399 Senior Seminar Past (IP) This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working Units: 1.0 with individual advisors from the bi-college classics Instructor(s): Donohue,A. departments, students will continue to develop the topic (Fall 2016) sketched out in the fall semester. By the end of the course, they will have completed at least one draft and ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which they We investigate representations of women in different will give a final oral presentation. media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the Units: 1.0 cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that (Not Offered 2016-2017) they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated CSTS B403 Supervised Work with in life and death and their occupations. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive ARCH B101 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Eastern Archaeology Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. A historical survey of the archaeology and art of the (Spring 2017) ancient Near East and Egypt. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B254 Cleopatra Counts towards: Africana Studies This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, Units: 1.0 the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception (Not Offered 2016-2017) 230 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies of her legacy in the Early Roman Empire and the theories, methods and techniques of pottery description, western world from the Renaissance to modern times. analysis and interpretation. Topics include typology, The first part of the course explores extant literary seriation, ceramic characterization, production, evidence regarding the upbringing, education, and function, exchange and the use of computers in pottery rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and analysis. Laboratory work on pottery in the department Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar collections. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her Counts towards: Geoarchaeology death by suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines Units: 1.0 constructions of Cleopatra in Roman literature, her Instructor(s): Magee,P. iconography in surviving art, and her contributions (Spring 2017) to and influence on both Ptolemaic and Roman art. A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife of ARCH B359 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, This is a topics course. Course content varies. and film of both Europe and the United States, Prerequisites: 200-level coursework in some aspect of extending from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy classical or related cultures, archeology or art history. and Shakespearean drama, to Thomas Jefferson’s art Units: 1.0 collection at Monticello and Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 (Not Offered 2016-2017) epic film, Cleopatra. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B516 Trade and Transport in the Ancient Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies World Units: 1.0 Issues of trade, commerce and production of export Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze (Spring 2017) Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome development of means of transport via maritime routes and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods The often-praised achievements of the classical and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while course surveys the rich body of material and textual bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics played in ancient trade and transport. include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family Units: 1.0 and social life. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) Units: 1.0 CSTS B156 Roman Law in Action Instructor(s): Donohue,A. An introduction to Roman public and private law from (Spring 2017) the early republic to the high empire. The development of legal institutions, including the public courts, the ARCH B304 Archaeology of Greek Religion role of the jurists and the importance of case law, is stressed. This course approaches the topic of ancient Greek Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) religion by focusing on surviving archaeological, Units: 1.0 architectural, epigraphical, artistic and literary evidence Instructor(s): Scott,R. that dates from the Archaic and Classical periods. By (Fall 2016) examining a wealth of diverse evidence that ranges, for example, from temple architecture, and feasting and banqueting equipment to inscriptions, statues, vase CSTS B205 Greek History paintings, and descriptive texts, the course enables This course traces the rise of the city-state (polis) in the the participants to analyze the value and complexity of Greek-speaking world beginning in the seventh-century the archaeology of Greek religion and to recognize its BC down to its full blossoming in classical Athens and significance for the reconstruction of daily life in ancient Sparta. Students should gain an understanding of the Greece. Special emphasis is placed on subjects such formation and development of Greek identity, from as the duties of priests and priestesses, the violence of the Panhellenic trends in archaic epic and religion animal sacrifice, the function of cult statues and votive through its crystallization during the heroic defense offerings and also the important position of festivals against two Persian invasions and its subsequent and hero and mystery cults in ancient Greek religious disintegration during the Peloponnesian war. The class thought and experience. will also explore the ways in which the evolution of Units: 1.0 political, philosophical, religious, and artistic institutions (Not Offered 2016-2017) reflect the changing socio-political circumstances of Greece. The latter part of the course will focus on ARCH B308 Ceramic Analysis Athens in particular: its rise to imperial power under Pericles, its tragic decline from the Peloponnesian Pottery is a fundamental means of establishing the War and its important role as a center for the teaching relative chronology of archaeological sites and of of rhetoric and philosophy. Since the study of history understanding past human behavior. Included are involves the analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of the Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 231 sources available for the culture studied, students will CSTS B228 Utopia: Good Place or No Place? concentrate upon the primary sources available for What is the ideal human society? What is the role and Greek history, exploring the strengths and weakness of status of man and woman therein? Is such a society these sources and the ways in which their evidence can purely hypothetical or should we strive to make it viable be used to create an understanding of ancient Greece. in our modern world? This course will address these Students should learn how to analyze and evaluate questions by exploring the historic development of the the evidence from primary texts and to synthesize the concept of utopia. information from multiple sources in a critical way. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Tober,D. (Fall 2016) CSTS B237 Underworlds in Virgil & After What is a ‘literary tradition’, and what sense may we CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic make of one? In this course we focus on an influential This course surveys the history of Rome from its origins episode in the Western literary tradition: the hero’s to the end of the Republic, with special emphasis on journey into the underworld in Virgil’s epic poem, the the rise of Rome in Italy and the evolution of the Roman Aeneid. Keeping in mind a master metaphor by which state. The course also examines the Hellenistic world ‘underworld’ stands for ‘afterlife’, we consider that in which the rise of Rome takes place. The methods of perilous ‘journey below’ on its own, in context of the historical investigation using the ancient sources, both complete poem, and in contexts provided by other literary and archaeological, are emphasized. authors’ visions of ‘what lies beneath’, including Homer Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) (Odyssey), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Dante (Inferno), Units: 1.0 Milton (Paradise Lost), Shakespeare (The Tempest), Instructor(s): Scott,R. Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth), (Spring 2017) Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness), J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit), and the nameless author of the Epic of CSTS B208 The Roman Empire Gilgamesh. Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) House of Constantine with focus on the evolution of Units: 1.0 Roman culture and society as presented in the surviving (Not Offered 2016-2017) ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) CSTS B242 Magic in the Greco-Roman World Units: 1.0 Bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, (Not Offered 2016-2017) amulets and talismans - from the simple spells designed to meet the needs of the poor and desperate to the CSTS B214 Remembering the Saints: Reading complex theurgies of the philosophers, the people of Pilgrimage & Tourism the Greco-Roman World made use of magic to try to This course is divided into two parts. In the first half influence the world around them. In this course students of the semester, it will trace the rise and function of will gain an understanding of the magicians of the the holy women and men of late antiquity (300–600 ancient world and the techniques and devices they used CE), with an emphasis on the literary portrayal of their to serve their clientele, as well as the cultural contexts lives, a genre called hagiography (sacred biography). in which these ideas of magic arose. We shall consider Methods for reading and interpreting this large body of ancient tablets and spell books as well as literary literature will play a key role in this part of the course. In descriptions of magic in the light of theories relating the second half of the semester, the focus will shift from to the religious, political, and social contexts in which saint to devotee. Saints were like magnets that set the magic was used. people of late antiquity into motion. By reading pilgrim Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) travelogues and catalogues of miraculous healings, Units: 1.0 studying the archeological and artistic evidence for Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. pilgrimage, we will explore the profound social and (Fall 2016) cultural impact the cult of the saints had on the peoples of this period. In addition to gaining a familiarity with the CSTS B246 Eros in Ancient Greek Culture history of early Christian saints and the cults that arose This course explores the ancient Greek’s ideas of love, around them, students will also investigate the many from the interpersonal loves between people of the issues at stake in the study of late antique Christianity. same or different genders to the cosmogonic Eros that This includes but is not limited to: the conflict between creates and holds together the entire world. The course history and literature in hagiography, gender and examines how the idea of eros is expressed in poetry, sanctity in late antiquity, self-harm as religious practice philosophy, history, and the romances. in early Christianity, and the intersection of medicine, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical magic, and miracle. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017) 232 Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece law, social history) and of how to apply contemporary and Rome critical approaches to the primary sources. Students A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, will also begin developing a topic for their senior thesis, including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic composing a prospectus and giving a preliminary competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and presentation of their findings. processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources Units: 1.0 and paying attention to art, archaeology and topography, (Not Offered 2016-2017) this course explores the social, political and religious contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will CSTS B399 Senior Seminar be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment This is the continuation of CSTS B398. Working and the representation of ancient spectacle in with individual advisors from the bi-college classics contemporary film. departments, students will continue to develop the topic Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) sketched out in the fall semester. By the end of the Units: 1.0 course, they will have completed at least one draft and (Not Offered 2016-2017) a full, polished version of the senior thesis, of which they will give a final oral presentation. CSTS B274 Greek Tragedy in Global Cinema Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course (Not Offered 2016-2017) explores how contemporary film, a creative medium appealing to the entire demographic spectrum like CSTS B610 Forming the Classics: From Papyrus to Greek drama, looks back to the ancient origins. Print Examining both films that are directly based on Greek This course will trace the constitution of Classics as a plays and films that make use of classical material discipline in both its intellectual and its material aspects, without being explicitly classical in plot or setting, we and will examine how the works of classical antiquity will discuss how Greek mythology is reconstructed were read, interpreted, and preserved from the late and appropriated for modern audiences and how the Roman empire to the early modern period. Topics will classical past continues to be culturally significant. A include the material production and dissemination of variety of methodological approaches such as film and texts, the conceptual organization of codices (e.g. gender theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory will punctuation, rubrication, indexing), and audiences be applied in addition to more straightforward literary- and readers (including annotation, marginalia, and historical interpretation. commentary). Students will also learn practical Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) techniques for approaching these texts, such as Counts towards: Film Studies palaeography and the expansion of abbreviations. The Units: 1.0 course will culminate in student research projects using Instructor(s): Baertschi,A. manuscripts and early printed books from Bryn Mawr’s exceptional collections. Prerequisite: a 200 level course Fall 2016: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film. in Greek, Latin, or Classical Studies. Units: 1.0 CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology (Not Offered 2016-2017) The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and CSTS B645 Ancient Magic elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see how some of these stories have been read and Magic – the word evokes the mysterious and the understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures marvelous, the forbidden and the hidden, the ancient and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We and the arcane. But what did magic mean to the people will also explore some of the interpretive theories by who coined the term, the people of ancient Greece and which these tales have been understood, from ancient Rome? Drawing on the expanding body of evidence for allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. The ancient magical practices, as well as recent theoretical student should gain a more profound understanding of approaches to the history of religions, this seminar the meaning of these myths to the Greeks themselves, explores the varieties of phenomena labeled magic in of the cultural context in which they were formulated. At the ancient Greco-Roman world. Bindings and curses, the same time, this course should provide the student love charms and healing potions, amulets and talismans with some familiarity with the range of interpretations - from the simple spells designed to meet the needs of and strategies of understanding that people of various the poor and desperate to the complex theurgies of the cultures and times have applied to the Greek myths philosophers, the people of the Greco-Roman world did during the more than two millennia in which they have not only imagine what magic could do, they also made been preserved. Preference to upperclassmen, previous use of magic to try to influence the world around them. coursework in myth required. The seminar examines the primary texts in Greek, the Units: 1.0 tablets and spell books, as well as literary descriptions (Not Offered 2016-2017) of magic, in the light of theories relating to the religious, political, and social contexts in which magic was used. Units: 1.0 CSTS B398 Senior Seminar Instructor(s): Edmonds,R. This is a bi-college seminar devoted to readings in (Fall 2016) and discussion of selected topics in the various subfields of Classics (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy, Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies 233

CSTS B675 Interpreting Mythology Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and Past (IP) fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and Units: 1.0 elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We (Not Offered 2016-2017) will see how some of these stories have been read and understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures HIST B368 Topics in Medieval History and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We This is a topics course. Topics vary. will also explore some of the interpretive theories by Units: 1.0 which these tales have been understood, from ancient (Not Offered 2016-2017) allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. The student should gain a more profound understanding of LATN B110 Intermediate Latin the meaning of these myths to the Greeks themselves, of the cultural context in which they were formulated. At Intensive review of grammar, reading in classical prose the same time, this course should provide the student and poetry. For students who have had the equivalent of with some familiarity with the range of interpretations several years of high school Latin or are not adequately and strategies of understanding that people of various prepared to take LATN 101. This course meets three cultures and times have applied to the Greek myths times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. during the more than two millennia in which they have Approach: Course does not meet an Approach been preserved. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Scott,R. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016)

CSTS B701 Supervised Work LATN B112 Latin Literature Units: 1.0 In the second semester of the intermediate Latin Instructor(s): Scott,R., Edmonds,R., Conybeare,C., sequence, readings in prose and poetry are frequently Baertschi,A., Sigelman,A. drawn from a period, such as the age of Augustus, (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) that illustrate in different ways the leading political and cultural concerns of the time. The Latin readings and discussion are supplemented by readings in the GREK B653 Athens in the Hellenistic Period secondary literature. This course meets three times Surveys of Athenian history tend to conclude if not a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. at the Battle of Chaeronea at any rate at the death Prerequisite: LATN 101 or 110 or placement by the of Alexander. Yet Athens did not disappear with department. the imposition of the Macedonian garrison in 322. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Democracy resurfaced periodically over the course of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive the next century (in 318, 307, 288, and 229), and, more Units: 1.0 to the point, even under periods of oligarchic rule and Instructor(s): Conybeare,C. Macedonian control, Athenian institutions remained intact, and Athenians continued to make significant Spring 2017: Livy and Horace. contributions to the greater Greek world. Indeed, the century that followed Alexander’s death saw the LATN B202 Topics: Advanced Latin Literature flowering of Athenian historiography (e.g. Demochares, In this course typically a variety of Latin prose and Diyllus, Philochorus, Timaeus, and Phylarchus) and poetry of the high and later Roman empire (first to fourth new comedy (e.g. Menander and Poseidippus), as centuries CE) is read. Single or multiple authors may well as the advent of important philosophical schools be featured in a given semester. This is a topics course, (Epicureanism and Stoicism). This course will focus on course content varies. Athens between the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) and its liberation from Macedonian rule ca. 229 BCE. By Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive way of a variety of contemporary sources, we shall have Units: 1.0 the opportunity to familiarize ourselves both with the (Not Offered 2016-2017) historical narrative and with the intellectual climate of the polis in the early Hellenistic period. LATN B312 Roman Satire Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Satire is the most slippery and subversive of genres. It is richly entertaining to read, but if we engage with it seriously it is often abrasive, shocking, shattering. HIST B224 High Middle Ages Reading Roman satire requires an energetic exercise in This course will cover the second half of the European cultural translation: we are confronted with the alienness Middle Ages, often called the High and Late Middle of the Roman world, as well as its perverse literary Ages, from roughly 1000-1400. The course has vigour. This course will span four turbulent centuries of a general chronological framework, and is based Roman imperialism in its reading of Roman satire. We on important themes of medieval history. These will range from the sharp minutiae of social observation include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social in Horace’s Sermones to the calculated public abuse of transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the a eunuch consul in Claudian’s In Eutropium; from the rise of the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; swirling filthy riches of Persius and Juvenal to the nastily urbanism and the growth of towns. eloquent Christian condemnation of riches (and much 234 Growth and Structure of Cities else) in St Jerome. Students are warned: the language Jennifer Hurley, Instructor is difficult, the content often excoriating, even if Gary McDonogh, Chair and Professor of Growth and exquisitely expressed. Reading this material challenges Structure of Cities and on the Helen Herrmann any comfortable separation between “literature” and Chair “life”. Units: 1.0 Thomas Morton, Visiting Assistant Professor (Not Offered 2016-2017) Samuel Olshin, Senior Visiting Studio Critic Liv Raddatz, Lecturer LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature This is a topics course. Course content varies. Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor of Growth and Prerequisites: at least two 200-level Latin courses or Structure of Cities (on leave semesters I & II) permission of instructor. Daniela Voith, Senior Lecturer in the Growth and Units: 1.0 Structure of Cities Program Instructor(s): Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. The interdisciplinary Growth and Structure of Cities major challenges students to understand the dynamic Fall 2016: Late Latin Poetry. This course will relationships connecting urban spatial organization survey the florescence of Latin poetry in the fourth and the built environment with politics, economics, and fifth centuries CE. At the heart of the course cultures and societies worldwide. Core introductory will be a study of some of Prudentius’ works, for classes present analytic approaches that explore example the Hamartigenia and the Cathemerinon; changing forms of the city over time and analyze the works by Claudian, Ausonius, Avitus, Dracontius, variety of ways through which women and men have and Paulinus of Nola may also be included. re-created global urban life across history and across We shall analyze both the literary and (where cultures. With these foundations, students pursue applicable) the theological properties of these great their interests through classes in architecture, urban works. social and economic relations, urban history, studies Spring 2017: Horace. Horace, Rome’s most of planning and the environmental conditions of urban versatile author, produced some of antiquity’s most life. Opportunities for internships, volunteering, and important and intriguing poems on themes ranging study abroad also enrich the major. Advanced seminars from erotics to poetics, from political instability to further ground the course of study by focusing on philosophy, from morality to myth. This course will specific cities and topics. focus on the poems published in his Epodes and the four books of Odes, paying special attention to Major Requirements Horace’s engagement with his poetic predecessors and the Greek and Latin literary tradition in general, A minimum of 15 courses (11 courses in Cities and his relationship with Maecenas and Augustus, and four allied courses in other related fields) is required his brilliant use of meter and Latin poetic diction. to complete the major. Two introductory courses (185, We will also consider some of his other works 190) balance sociocultural and formal approaches to such as the Ars Poetica and the Epistles in order urban form and the built environment, and introduce to appreciate more fully his poetic practices and cross-cultural and historical comparison of urban his appropriation of the Greek heritage into Roman development. The introductory sequence should be cultural contexts. completed with a broader architectural survey course (253, 254, 255) and a second social science course LATN B613 Cicero that entails extended analysis and writing (229). These courses should be completed as early as possible in The public and private legal speeches and relevant the first and second years; at least two of them must be letters of Cicero as advocate and politician. taken by the end of the first semester of the sophomore Units: 1.0 year. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Writing across multiple disciplines is central to the major, drawing on sources as varied as architectural GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF and visual studies, ethnographic fieldwork, archival and textual study, theoretical reflection and policy CITIES engagement. Students write and receive commentary on their arguments and expression from their Students may complete a major or minor in Growth and introductory classes through their required capstone Structure of Cities. Complementing the major, students thesis. While most courses in the major have important may complete a minor in Environmental Studies, or a writing components, at the moment City 229 acts as minor in Latin American, Latina/o, and Iberian Peoples our primary writing-intensive course, asking students and Cultures. Students also may enter the 3-2 Program to draw upon the breadth of their interests to focus on in City and Regional Planning, offered in cooperation researching, writing and rewriting within a comparative with the University of Pennsylvania. framework. We will be expanding our pedagogy in this area over time in conjunction with college initiatives and student feedback. At the same time, students Faculty are encouraged to use other classes within the major Jeffrey Cohen, Term Professor in Growth and Structure to develop a range of skills in methods, theory, and of Cities presentations, oral and written. Growth and Structure of Cities 235

In addition to these introductory courses, each develop a solid foundation in both the history of student selects six elective courses within the Cities architecture and urban form and the analysis of urban Department, including cross-listed courses. One of culture, experience, and policy. Careful methodological these should be a methods class. The student should choices, clear analytical writing, and critical visual also take the 0.5 credit junior seminar (298) during one analysis constitute primary emphases of the major. semester of their junior year. At least two must be at Strong interaction with faculty and other students are an the 300 level. In the senior year, a capstone course important and productive part of the Cities Department, is required of all majors. Most students join together which helps us all take advantage of the major’s in a research seminar, CITY 398, in the Fall of that flexibility in an organized and rigorous way. year. Occasionally, however, after consultation with the major advisers, the student may elect another 300-level Minor Requirements course or a program for independent research. This is often the case with double majors who write a thesis Students who wish to minor in the Cities Department in another field. Internships are also an important must take at least two out of the four required courses component of the program either in the summer or for and four cities electives, including two at the 300 level. credit with faculty supervision. Senior Seminar is not mandatory for fulfilling the cities minor. Finally, each student must also identify four courses outside Cities that represent additional expertise to 3-2 Program in City and Regional complement her work in the major. These may include courses such as physics and calculus for architects, Planning additional courses in economics, political science, Over the past three decades, many Cities majors sociology, or anthropology for students more focused have entered the 3-2 Program in City and Regional on the social sciences and planning, or courses that Planning, offered in conjunction with the University build on language, design, or regional interests. Any of Pennsylvania. Students interested in this program minor, concentration, or second major also fulfills this should meet with faculty early in their sophomore year. requirement. Cities courses that are cross-listed with other departments or originate in them can be counted COURSES only once in the course selection, although they may be either allied or elective courses. CITY B185 Urban Culture and Society Both the Cities Department electives and the four Examines techniques and questions of the social or more allied courses must be chosen in close sciences as tools for studying historical and consultation with the major advisers in order to create a contemporary cities. Topics include political-economic strongly coherent sequence and focus. This is especially organization, conflict and social differentiation (class, true for students interested in architectural design, ethnicity and gender), and cultural production and who will need to arrange studio courses (226, 228) as representation. Philadelphia features prominently well as accompanying courses in math, science and in discussion, reading and exploration as do global architectural history; they should contact the department metropolitan comparisons through papers involving chair or Daniela Voith in their first year. Likewise, fieldwork, critical reading and planning/problem solving students interested in pursuing a minor in Environmental using qualitative and quantitative methods. Studies or a concentration in Iberian, Latin American, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the and Latino/a themes or in Global Asian Studies should Past (IP) consult with faculty early in their career. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): McDonogh,G., Reyes,V. Students should also note that many courses in the (Fall 2016) department as well as cross-listed courses are not given every year. They should also note that courses CITY B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from may carry prerequisites in cities, art history, economics, Antiquity to the Present history, sociology, or the natural sciences. This course studies the city as a three-dimensional Programs for study abroad or off campus are artifact. A variety of factors—geography, economic and encouraged, within the limits of the Bryn Mawr and population structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics— Haverford rules and practices. In general, a one- are considered as determinants of urban form. semester program is strongly preferred. The Cities Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Department regularly works with off-campus and Past (IP) study-abroad programs that are strong in architectural Units: 1.0 history, planning, and design, as well as those that Instructor(s): Morton,T. allow students to pursue social and cultural interests. (Spring 2017) Students who would like to spend part or all of their junior year away must consult with the major advisers CITY B201 Introduction to GIS for Social and and appropriate deans early in their sophomore year. Environmental Analysis Cities majors have created major plans that have This course is designed to introduce the foundations allowed them to coordinate their interests in cities of GIS with emphasis on applications for social and with architecture, planning, ethnography, history, law, environmental analysis. It deals with basic principles environmental studies, mass media, social justice, of GIS and its use in spatial analysis and information medicine, public health, the fine arts, and other fields. management. Ultimately, students will design and carry No matter the focus, though, each Cities major must out research projects on topics of their own choosing. 236 Growth and Structure of Cities

Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism Counts towards: Environmental Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive CITY B207 Topics in Urban Studies Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o This is a topics course. Course content varies. Studies Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) Instructor(s): McDonogh,G. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spring 2017: Colonial and Post-Colonial Cities. Probing the relations of power at the heart of power and society in many cities worldwide, this CITY B217 Research Methods in the Social Sciences class uses case studies to test urban theory, forms This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current and practice. In order to grapple with colonialism topic description: In this course, we will focus on the and its aftermaths, we will focus on cities in processes of research and on “learning by doing.” North Africa, France, Ireland, Hong Kong and The course encompasses quantitative and qualitative Cuba, systematically exploring research, writing techniques, and we will compare the strengths and and insights from systematic interdisciplinary weaknesses of each. We will calculate descriptive comparisons. statistics and basic statistical analyses manually and with statistical software, followed by engagement with CITY B241 Building Green: Sustainable Design Past various methods (interviews, ethnographic observations, and Present document analysis). At a time when more than half of the human population Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) lives in cities, the design of the built environment is of Units: 1.0 key importance. This course is designed for students Instructor(s): Reyes,V. to investigate issues of sustainability in architecture. A (Spring 2017) close reading of texts and careful analysis of buildings and cities will help us understand the terms and CITY B218 Topics in World Cities practices of architectural design and the importance This is a topics course. Course content varies. An of ecological, economic, political, cultural, social introduction to contemporary issues related to the urban sustainability over time and through space. environment. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CITY B226 Introduction to Architectural Design This studio design course introduces the principles of CITY B250 Topics: Growth & Spatial Organization of architectural design. Suggested Preparation: drawing, the City some history of architecture, and permission of This is a topics course. Course content varies. instructor. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Voith,D., Olshin,S. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016) CITY B254 History of Modern Architecture CITY B227 Topics in Modern Planning A survey of the development of modern architecture This is a topics course. Course content varies. since the 18th century. The course focuses on Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the international networks in the transmission of Past (IP) architectural ideas since 1890. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Past (IP) Units: 1.0 CITY B228 Problems in Architectural Design Instructor(s): Morton,T. (Fall 2016) A continuation of CITY 226 at a more advanced level. Prerequisites: CITY B226 or permission of instructor. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach CITY B255 Survey of American Architecture Units: 1.0 This survey course examines architecture within Instructor(s): Voith,D., Olshin,S. the global framework of “the modern.” Through an (Spring 2017) introduction to an architectural canon of works and figures, it seeks to foster a critical consideration of modernity, modernization, and modernism. The course explores each as a category of meaning that framed the theory and practice of architecture as a cultural, Growth and Structure of Cities 237 political, social, and technological enterprise. It also disaster and rebuilding and a historical overview of uses these conjugates to study the modes by which architectural and urban history in Japan, this course architecture may be said to have framed history. We explores the reasons for historical transformations large will study practical and discursive activity that formed a and small. It specifically argues that rebuilding was dynamic field within which many of the contradictions mostly the result of traditions, whereas transformation of “the modern” were made visible (and visual) through of urban space occurred primarily as a result of political architecture. In this course, we will engage architectural and socio-economic change. Focusing on the period concepts and designs by studying drawings and since the Meiji restoration of 1868, we ask: How did buildings closely within their historical context. We will reconstruction after natural and man-made disasters examine spheres of reception for architecture and its shape the contemporary Japanese landscape? We theoretical, discursive, and cultural life through a variety will explore specifically the destruction and rebuilding of media: buildings of course, but also journals, books, after the 1891 Nobi earthquake, the 1923 Great Kanto and film. We will also investigate architecture as a site earthquake that leveled Tokyo and Yokohama, the and subject for critical inquiry. In particular, we will see bombing of more than 200 cities in World War II and what it may tell us about the globalization and politics their rebuilding, as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin of the twentieth century, and about history, theory, and earthquake that destroyed Kobe and its reconstruction. criticism as epistemological tracks. In the context of the long history of destruction and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the rebuilding we will finally explore the recent disaster in Past (IP) Fukushima 2011. Through the story of disaster and Units: 1.0 rebuilding emerge different approaches to permanence Instructor(s): Cohen,J. and change, to urban livability, the environment and (Spring 2017) sustainability. Units: 1.0 CITY B278 American Environmental History (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course explores major themes of American environmental history, examining changes in the CITY B306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places American landscape, the history of ideas about nature in Time and the interaction between the two. Students will study A workshop for research into the histories of places, definitions of nature, environment, and environmental intended to bring students into contact with some of the history while investigating interactions between raw materials of architectural and urban history. A focus Americans and their physical worlds. will be placed on historical images and texts, and on Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) creating engaging informational experiences that are Counts towards: Environmental Studies transparent to their evidentiary basis. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Cohen,J. (Spring 2017) CITY B298 Topics: Advanced Research Methods This is a topics course. Course content varies. CITY B318 Topics in Urban Social and Cultural Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Theory Units: 0.5 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Instructor(s): Reyes,V. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Hurley,J. Fall 2016: Junior Seminar. We will focus on bringing together methods, theories, data and Spring 2017: “Public” in Policy and Planning. research ethics in preliminary preparation for your Public participation is a common part of the policy senior thesis and/or summer research projects development, adoption, and implementation (HHG/CPGC). Class will for the first quarter/the first process in all levels of government and across a half of the semester. Weekly mini-assignments and wide range of issues, including urban planning, in-class exercises are designed to help you prepare transportation, environmental protection, education, for your final project - a research proposal. and public health. This course will explore who that Spring 2017: Jumior Seminar. We will focus on public is and how public participation interacts with bringing together methods, theories, data and the policy process, why it matters for the functioning research ethics in preliminary preparation for your of democracy, and how different ways of engaging senior thesis and/or summer research projects the public serve different interests. (HHG/CPGC). Class will for the first quarter/the first CITY B325 Topics in Social History half of the semester. Weekly mini-assignments and in-class exercises are designed to help you prepare This a topics course that explores various themes in for your final project - a research proposal. American social history. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 CITY B304 Disaster, War and Rebuilding in the (Fall 2016) Japanese City Natural and man-made disasters have destroyed CITY B329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environments Japanese cities regularly. Rebuilding generally ensued This is a topics course. Course content varies. at a very rapid pace, often as a continuation of the Counts towards: Environmental Studies past. Following a brief examination of literature on Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 238 Growth and Structure of Cities

CITY B335 Topics in City and Media and orchestrated planning. This course will explore that This is a topics course. Course content varies. conversation through varied examples, key models, and Units: 1.0 shaping conceptions over time. Instructor(s): McDonogh,G. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spring 2017: Public/Private/Control/Freedom. Cities demand and create information. Urbanism CITY B398 Senior Seminar has thrived on, through and by media from An intensive research seminar designed to guide monumental constructions to newspapers and film students in writing a senior thesis. to today’s social networks. This seminar explores Units: 1.0 global practices, major theoretical debates, social Instructor(s): McDonogh,G., Reyes,V., Morton,T. exclusions and resistance, and diasporic extensions (Fall 2016) of the mediated city. Looking through the prism of public, counter-public and private spheres we examine the dialectic of control and freedom these CITY B403 Independent Study Units: 1.0 urbane connections embody. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society CITY B415 Teaching Assistant This is a topics course. Topics vary. An exploration of course planning, pedagogy and Counts towards: Environmental Studies creative thinking as students work to help others Units: 1.0 understand pathways they have already explored in (Not Offered 2016-2017) introductory and writing classes. This opportunity is available only to advanced students of highest standing by professorial invitation. CITY B360 Topics: Urban Culture and Society Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Instructor(s): McDonogh,G., Reyes,V. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Morton,T. CITY B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Fall 2016: City of Rome. In this seminar we will study the city of Rome through time and space and Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and will start with the city’s mythical founding and work are developed by individual students, in collaboration our way through contemporary Rome. Focal points with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is will include: the Roman Empire, the urban planning distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite of the Baroque popes, Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome,’ organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection and the contemporary city of Renzo Piano, Richard that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the Meier, and Zaha Hadid. Throughout this discussion- classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding based course we will examine innumerable issues, gained through classroom study to work done in the such as the use and abuse of the past throughout broader community. the city’s long history. Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 1.0 CITY B365 Topics: Techniques of the City (Not Offered 2016-2017) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisite: Student must have taken at least one ANTH B210 Medical Anthropology social science course. This course examines the relationships between Units: 1.0 culture, society, disease and illness. It considers a Instructor(s): Reyes,V. broad range of health-related experiences, discourses, knowledge and practice among different cultures and Spring 2017: City and Military. This course is the among individuals and groups in different positions of social scientific examination of how the military and power. Topics covered include sorcery, herbal remedies, city interact. We will explore the social, cultural, healing rituals, folk illnesses, modern disease, scientific political, and geographic processes, interactions, medical perceptions, clinical technique, epidemiology and consequences of the military. and political economy of medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of instructor. CITY B377 Topics in Modern Architecture Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) This is a topics course on modern architecture. Topics Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies vary. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016)

CITY B378 Formative Landscapes: The Architecture ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban and Planning of American Collegiate Campuses Revolutions The campus and buildings familiar to us here at the This course examines the archaeology of the two College reflect a long and rich design conversation most fundamental changes that have occurred in regarding communicative form, architectural innovation, human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and Growth and Structure of Cities 239 urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near residential architecture, home decoration and furnishing, East as far as India. We also explore those societies wall painting, minor arts and craft and mercantile that did not experience these changes. activities within a Roman city. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern Studies ARCH B260 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome Units: 1.0 The often-praised achievements of the classical Instructor(s): Magee,P. cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This (Spring 2017) course surveys the rich body of material and textual evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans ARCH B203 Ancient Greek Cities and Sanctuaries -- famous and obscure alike -- lived and died. Topics A study of the development of the Greek city-states and include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure, and family sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is surveyed in its and social life. historic context. The political formation of the city-state Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the and the role of religion is presented, and the political, Past (IP) economic, and religious institutions of the city-states Units: 1.0 are explored in their urban settings. The city-state is Instructor(s): Donohue,A. considered as a particular political economy of the (Spring 2017) Mediterranean and in comparison to the utility of the concept of city-state in other cultures. ARCH B305 Topics in Ancient Athens Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the This is a topics course. Course content varies. Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. (Fall 2016) Fall 2016: Acropolis. This course is an introduction ARCH B215 Classical Art to the Acropolis of Athens, perhaps the best-known A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome acropolis in the world. We will explore its history, from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa understand and interpret specific monuments and 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic their sculptural decoration and engage in more production are examined in historical and social context, recent discussions, for instance, on the role of the including interactions with neighboring areas and Acropolis played in shaping the Hellenic Identity. cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are highlighted. ARCH B316 Trade and Transport in the Ancient Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the World Past (IP) Issues of trade, commerce and production of export Units: 1.0 goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze Instructor(s): Donohue,A. Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, (Fall 2016) Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the development of means of transport via maritime routes ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of A survey of the history, material culture, political and sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the great empires of the ancient Near East of the second transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the played in ancient trade and transport. Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian Units: 1.0 Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Iran. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B505 Topics in Ancient Athens Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Instructor(s): Helft,S. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A.

ARCH B252 Pompeii Fall 2016: Acropolis. This course is an introduction to the Acropolis of Athens, perhaps the best-known Introduces students to a nearly intact archaeological site acropolis in the world. We will explore its history, whose destruction by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 understand and interpret specific monuments and C.E. was recorded by contemporaries. The discovery of their sculptural decoration and engage in more Pompeii in the mid-1700s had an enormous impact on recent discussions, for instance, on the role of the 18th- and 19th-century views of the Roman past as well Acropolis played in shaping the Hellenic Identity. as styles and preferences of the modern era. Informs students in classical antiquity, urban life, city structure, 240 Growth and Structure of Cities

ARCH B516 Trade and Transport in the Ancient CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and World Society Issues of trade, commerce and production of export This is a topics course. Topics vary. goods are addressed with regard to the Bronze Counts towards: Environmental Studies Age and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Arabia, Units: 1.0 Iran and south Asia. Crucial to these systems is the (Not Offered 2016-2017) development of means of transport via maritime routes and on land. Archaeological evidence for traded goods CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece and shipwrecks is used to map the emergence of and Rome sea-faring across the Indian Ocean and Gulf while A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, bio-archaeological data is employed to examine the including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic transformative role that Bactrian and Dromedary camels competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and played in ancient trade and transport. processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources Units: 1.0 and paying attention to art, archaeology and topography, (Not Offered 2016-2017) this course explores the social, political and religious contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will ARTD B310 Performing the City: Theorizing Bodies be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment in Space and the representation of ancient spectacle in Building on the premise that space is a concern in contemporary film. performance, choreography, architecture and urban Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) planning, this course will interrogate relationships Units: 1.0 between (performing) bodies and (city) spaces. Using (Not Offered 2016-2017) perspectives from dance and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography, it will introduce ECON B136 Working with Economic Data space, spatiality and the city as material and theoretical Applies selected principles of economics to the concepts and investigate how moving and performing quantitative analysis of economic data; uses bodies and city spaces intersect in political, social and spreadsheets and other tools to collect and judge cultural contexts. Lectures, discussion of assigned the reliability of economic data. Topics may include readings, attendance at a live performance and 2-3 field measures of income inequality and poverty; trips are included. Prerequisites: One Dance lecture/ unemployment, national income and other measures of seminar course or one course in relevant discipline economic well-being; cost-benefit of public and private e.g. cities, anthropology, sociology or permission of the investments; construction of price indices and other instructor. government statistics; evaluating economic forecasts; Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive and the economics of personal finance. Prerequisites: Units: 1.0 Quantitative Readiness Required. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Units: 1.0 BIOL B262 Urban Ecosystems (Not Offered 2016-2017) Cities can be considered ecosystems whose functions are highly influenced by human activity. This course will ECON B208 Labor Economics address many of the living and non-living components Analysis of labor markets. Focuses on the economic of urban ecosystems, as well as their unique processes. forces and public policies that determine wage rates and Using an approach focused on case studies, the course unemployment. Specific topics include: human capital, will explore the ecological and environmental problems family decision marking, discrimination, immigration, that arise from urbanization, and also examine solutions technological change, compensating differentials, and that have been attempted. Prerequisite: BIOL B110 or signaling. Prerequisite: ECON B105. B111 or ENVS B101. Units: 1.0 Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Instructor(s): Nutting,A. Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ECON B213 Taming the Modern Corporation CITY B278 American Environmental History Introduction to the economics of industrial organization and regulation, focusing on policy options for ensuring This course explores major themes of American that corporations enhance economic welfare and the environmental history, examining changes in the quality of life. Topics include firm behavior in imperfectly American landscape, the history of ideas about nature competitive markets; theoretical bases of antitrust and the interaction between the two. Students will study laws; regulation of product and occupational safety, definitions of nature, environment, and environmental environmental pollution, and truth in advertising. history while investigating interactions between Prerequisite: ECON B105. Americans and their physical worlds. Units: 1.0 Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Instructor(s): Sfekas,A. Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Growth and Structure of Cities 241

ECON B214 Public Finance rates, and the macroeconomic implications of trade Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, and capital flows. Topics may include the economics emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs of free trade areas, world financial crises, outsourcing, on income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics immigration, and foreign investment. Prerequisites: include sources of inefficiency in markets and possible ECON B105. The course is not open to students who government responses; federal budget composition; have taken ECON B316 or B348. social insurance and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax Counts towards: International Studies structure and incidence. Prerequisites: ECON B105. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Health Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ECON B242 Economics of Local Environmental Programs ECON B215 Urban Economics Considers the determinants of human impact on the Micro- and macroeconomic theory applied to urban environment at the neighborhood or community level economic behavior. Topics include housing and land and policy responses available to local government. use; transportation; urban labor markets; urbanization; How can economics help solve and learn from the and demand for and financing of urban services. problems facing rural and suburban communities? The Prerequisite: ECON B105. instructor was a local township supervisor who will Units: 1.0 share the day-to-day challenges of coping with land use (Not Offered 2016-2017) planning, waste disposal, dispute resolution, and the provision of basic services. Prerequisite: ECON B105. Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Praxis Program ECON B225 Economic Development Units: 1.0 Examination of the issues related to and the policies Instructor(s): Ross,D. designed to promote economic development in the (Fall 2016) developing economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Focus is on why some developing ECON B243 Economic Inequality and Government economies grow faster than others and why some growth paths are more equitable, poverty reducing, Policy Choices and environmentally sustainable than others. Includes This course will examine the U.S. economy and the consideration of the impact of international trade and effects of government policy choices. The class will investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange focus on the potential trade-offs between economic rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies efficiency and greater economic equality. Some of the (industry, agriculture, education, population, and issues that will be explored include tax, education, and environment) on development outcomes in a wide range health care policies. Different perspectives on issues will of political and institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON be examined. Prerequisite: ECON B105. B105. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies; International (Not Offered 2016-2017) Studies Units: 1.0 ECON B253 Introduction to Econometrics Instructor(s): Rock,M. An introduction to econometric terminology and (Fall 2016) reasoning. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical inference. Particular emphasis ECON B234 Environmental Economics is placed on regression analysis and on the use Introduction to the use of economic analysis to explain of data to address economic issues. The required the underlying behavioral causes of environmental computational techniques are developed as part of the and natural resource problems and to evaluate policy course. Prerequisites: ECON B105 and a 200-level responses to them. Topics may include air and water elective. pollution; the economic theory of externalities, public Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) goods and the depletion of resources; cost-benefit Units: 1.0 analysis; valuing non-market benefits and costs; Instructor(s): Ross,D. economic justice; and sustainable development. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Prerequisites: ECON B105. Counts towards: Environmental Studies ECON B314 The Economics of Social Policy Units: 1.0 Introduces students to the economic rationale behind Instructor(s): Ross,D. government programs and the evaluation of government (Spring 2017) programs. Topics include health insurance, social security, unemployment and disability insurance, and ECON B236 The Economics of Globalization education. Additionally, the instructor and students An introduction to international economics through will jointly select topics of special interest to the class. theory, policy issues, and problems. The course surveys Emphasis will be placed on the use of statistics to international trade and finance, as well as topics in evaluate social policy. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON international economics. It investigates why and what a 253 or 304. nation trades, the consequences of such trade, the role Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive of trade policy, the behavior and effects of exchange Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 242 Growth and Structure of Cities

ECON B324 The Economics of Discrimination and discussion of the social, economic, and policy contexts Inequality within which natural geologic processes become Explores the causes and consequences of hazards. Case studies are drawn from contemporary discrimination and inequality in economic markets. and ancient societies. Lecture three hours a week. Topics include economic theories of discrimination and Prerequisite: one semester of college science or inequality, evidence of contemporary race- and gender- permission of instructor. based inequality, detecting discrimination, identifying Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative sources of racial and gender inequality, and identifying Readiness Required (QR) sources of overall economic inequality. Additionally, the Counts towards: Environmental Studies instructor and students will jointly select supplementary Units: 1.0 topics of specific interest to the class. Possible topics (Not Offered 2016-2017) include: discrimination in historical markets, disparity in legal treatments, issues of family structure, and GERM B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German education gaps. Prerequisites: At least one 200-level Literature and Culture applied microeconomics elective; ECON 253 or 304; This is a topics course. Taught in English. Course ECON 200 or 202. content varies. Previous topics include, Women’s Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile, and Diasporas; Units: 1.0 Nation and Identity in Post-War Austria. Instructor(s): Nutting,A. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical (Fall 2016) Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies ECON B335 East Asian Development Units: 1.0 Identifies the core economic and political elements of (Not Offered 2016-2017) an East Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) development model. Assesses the performance of GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural this development model in Northeast (China, South Studies Korea and Taiwan) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, This is a topics course. Course content varies. Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) in a Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies comparative perspective. Considers the debate over Units: 1.0 the impact of interventionist and selective development Instructor(s): Shen,Q. policies associated with this model on the development successes and failures of the East Asian NIEs. Fall 2016: Representing Diversity in German Evaluates the impact of democratization in several of Cinema. This course examines a wide-ranging these polities on both the core development model repertoire of transnational films produced in identified as well as on development performance. contemporary Germany. It presents an introduction Prerequisite:ECON 225; ECON 200 or 202; and ECON to modern German cinema through a close analysis 253 or 304; or permission of instructor. of visual material and identity construction in the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive worlds of the real and the reel. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) GNST B145 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures EDUC B266 Schools in American Cities A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and This course examines issues, challenges, and dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through possibilities of urban education in contemporary the contemporary New World. The class introduces America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, the methods and interests of all departments in the class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic at urban education nationally over several decades, histories, political economies, and creative expressions. we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) investigate through documents and school placements. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o This is a Praxis II course (weekly fieldwork in a school Studies; International Studies required) Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family Studies; Praxis Program GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, Units: 1.0 and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Instructor(s): Cohen,J. A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and (Spring 2017) dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through the contemporary New World. The class introduces GEOL B209 Natural Hazards the methods and interests of all departments in the A quantitative approach to understanding the earth concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity processes that impact human societies. We consider and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic the past, current, and future hazards presented by histories, political economies, and creative expressions. geologic processes, including earthquakes, volcanoes, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) landslides, floods, and hurricanes. The course includes Growth and Structure of Cities 243

Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Studies; International Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) HART B355 Topics in the History of London HART B212 Medieval Art & Architecture Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural This course takes a broad geographic and chronological concern in the history of London, emphasizing London scope, allowing for full exposure to the rich variety of since the 18th century. objects and monuments that fall under the rubric of Units: 1.0 “medieval” art and architecture. We focus on the Latin Instructor(s): Cast,D. and Byzantine Christian traditions, but also consider (Fall 2016) works of art and architecture from the Islamic and Jewish spheres. Topics to be discussed include: the HIST B237 Topic: Modern African History role of religion in artistic development and expression; This is a topics course. Course content varies. secular traditions of medieval art and culture; facture Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the and materiality in the art of the middle ages; the use Past (IP) of objects and monuments to convey political power Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality and social prestige; gender dynamics in medieval Studies visual culture; and the contribution of medieval art and Units: 1.0 architecture to later artistic traditions. Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) Spring 2017: African Economic Development. Units: 1.0 This course examines the political economy of (Spring 2017) African development in historical perspectives. We will address the following questions: Why is the HART B253 Survey of Western Architecture African continent, which is rich in natural resources, The major traditions in Western architecture are so poor? What are the causes of poverty in illustrated through detailed analysis of selected Africa? The course will analyze the environmental, examples from classical antiquity to the present. The economic, political, and historical factors that evolution of architectural design and building technology, have affected the development of Africa. We will and the larger intellectual, aesthetic, and social context discuss the impact of slavery, colonial exploitation, in which this evolution occurred, are considered. foreign interventions, foreign aid, trade, and Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) democratic transitions on African development. We Units: 1.0 will also explore the theories of development and Instructor(s): Cast,D. underdevelopment. (Spring 2017) HIST B249 History of Global Health HART B311 Topics in Medieval Art This course examines the interrelated histories of public health, international health, and global health from This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current the late 18th to the 21st centuries as part of a broader topic description: Topic TBA history of epidemics, empire, and global mobility. We Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies will pay particular attention this semester to the use of Units: 1.0 architectural and spatial strategies for managing crises (Spring 2017) of contagion, disaster, and epidemic. The architectural spaces to be examined will include urban-based HART B323 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art hospitals, public health infrastructure, and quarantine This is a topics course. Course content varies. buildings as well as mobile architectural technologies Units: 1.0 such as incubators, wartime pop-up surgical tents, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) floating hospitals in both Western and non-Western environments. The course will trace the role of health HART B339 The Art of Italian Unification and medicine in mediating the relationships between metropolis and colony, state and citizen, research Following Italian unification (1815-1871), the statesman, practice and human subject. novelist, and painter Massimo d’Azeglio remarked, “Italy Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) has been made; now it remains to make Italians.” This Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health course examines the art and architectural movements Studies of the roughly 100 years between the uprisings of Units: 1.0 1848 and the beginning of the Second World War, a (Not Offered 2016-2017) critical period for defining Italiantà. Subjects include the paintings of the Macchiaioli, reactionaries to the 1848 uprisings and the Italian Independence Wars, the HIST B325 Topics in Social History politics of nineteenth-century architectural restoration This a topics course that explores various themes in in Italy, the re-urbanization of Italy’s new capital Rome, American social history. Course content varies. Fascist architecture and urbanism, and the architecture Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies of Italy’s African colonies. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. 244 Growth and Structure of Cities

Fall 2016: Unruly Bodies and Forbidden Desires. Architecture, the Risorgimento, Futurism, Fascism, and This course explores how various forms of gender colonialism. Course readings include Vitruvius, Leon and sexual nonconformity have historically Battista Alberti, Giorgio Vasari, Jacob Burckhardt, and served both as sites of regulation and as modes Alois Riegl, among others. of resistance. From nineteenth-century cross- Units: 1.0 dressing and anarchist “free love” movements (Not Offered 2016-2017) to sex work and BDSM, we will investigate how certain practices, identities, and communities ITAL B340 The Art of Italian Unification have come to be seen as “problems” in particular Following Italian unification (1815-1871), the statesman, historical moments, as well as how individuals novelist, and painter Massimo d’Azeglio remarked, “Italy have developed their own strategies for working has been made; now it remains to make Italians.” This with and against dominant gender and sexual course examines the art and architectural movements norms. Focusing on historical contestation over of the roughly 100 years between the uprisings of the meanings of sexual “normality” and “deviance,” 1848 and the beginning of the Second World War, a we will trace the transformations in the cultural critical period for defining Italiantà. Subjects include meanings, politics, and social organization of sexual the paintings of the Macchiaioli, reactionaries to the and gender nonconformity over time. 1848 uprisings and the Italian Independence Wars, the Spring 2017: Queering Popular Culture. politics of nineteenth-century architectural restoration in Italy, the re-urbanization of Italy’s new capital Rome, HIST B368 Topics in Medieval History Fascist architecture and urbanism, and the architecture This is a topics course. Topics vary. of Italy’s African colonies. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ITAL B215 The City of Naples The city of Naples emerged during the Later Middle POLS B222 Environmental Issues Ages as the capital of a Kingdom and one of the most This is a topics course. Topics vary. influential cities in the Mediterranean region. What led to Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the city’s rise, and what effect did the city as a cultural, Counts towards: Environmental Studies political, and economic force have on the rest of the Units: 1.0 region and beyond? This course will familiarize students Instructor(s): Hager,C. with the art, architecture, culture, and institutions that made the city one of the most influential in Europe and Spring 2017: Movements, Controversies and the Mediterranean region during the Late Middle Ages. Policy Making. An exploration of the ways in which Topics include court painters in service to the crown, different cultural, economic, and political settings female monastic spaces and patronage, and the revival have shaped issue emergence and policy making. of dynastic tomb sculpture. We examine the politics of particular environmental Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) issues in selected countries and regions, paying Units: 1.0 special attention to the impact of environmental (Not Offered 2016-2017) movements. We also assess the prospects for international cooperation in addressing global environmental problems such as climate change. ITAL B219 Multiculturalism in Medieval Italy This course examines cross-cultural interactions in POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change medieval Italy played out through the patronage, This course will introduce students to important political production, and reception of works of art and issues raised by climate change locally, nationally, and architecture. Sites of patronage and production include internationally, paying particular attention to the global the cities of Venice, Palermo, and Pisa. Media examined implications of actions at the national and subnational include buildings, mosaics, ivories, and textiles. levels. It will focus not only on specific problems, but Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the also on solutions; students will learn about some of Past (IP) the technological and policy innovations that are being Units: 1.0 developed worldwide in response to the challenges of (Not Offered 2016-2017) climate change. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ITAL B330 Architecture and Identity in Italy: Counts towards: Environmental Studies Renaissance to the Present Units: 1.0 How is architecture used to shape our understanding (Not Offered 2016-2017) of past and current identities? This course looks at the ways in which architecture has been understood to POLS B321 Technology and Politics represent, and used to shape regional, national, ethnic, A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology and gender identities in Italy from the Renaissance in political and social life. We focus on the relationship to the present. The class focuses on Italy’s classical between technological change and democratic traditions, and looks at the ways in which architects governance. We begin with historical and contemporary and theorists have accepted or rejected the peninsula’s Luddism as well as pro-technology movements around classical roots. Subjects studied include Baroque Growth and Structure of Cities 245 the world. Substantive issue areas include security and net” in Europe, and the securitization of society in Latin surveillance, electoral politics, economic development America. The course addresses theoretical approaches and women’s empowerment, warfare, social media, net to crime control and the emergence of a punitive state neutrality, GMO foods and industrial agriculture, climate connected with pervasive social inequality. change and energy politics. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Studies Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Hager,C. (Spring 2017) SOCL B238 Perspectives on Urban Poverty This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to POLS B348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict 20th century urban poverty knowledge. The course is An examination of the role of culture in the origin, primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, escalation, and settlement of ethnic conflicts. This cultural, political, racial, social, spatial/geographical, course examines the politics of culture and how it and economic forces have either shaped or been left constrains and offers opportunities for ethnic conflict and out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. Of cooperation. The role of narratives, rituals, and symbols great importance, the course will evaluate competing is emphasized in examining political contestation knowledge systems and their respective implications over cultural representations and expressions such in terms of the question of “what can be known” about as parades, holy sites, public dress, museums, urban poverty in the contexts of social policy and monuments, and language in culturally framed ethnic practice, academic research, and the broader social conflicts from all regions of the world. Prerequisites: two imaginary. We will critically analyze a wide body of courses in the social sciences. literature that theorizes and explains urban poverty. Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights Course readings span the disciplines of sociology, Units: 1.0 anthropology, critical geography, urban studies, history, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and social welfare. Primacy will be granted to critical analysis and deconstruction of course texts, particularly SOCL B205 Social Inequality with regard to the ways in which poverty knowledge creates, sustains, and constricts channels of action in Introduction to the major sociological theories of gender, urban poverty policy and practice interventions. racial-ethnic, and class inequality with emphasis on the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) relationships among these forms of stratification in the Units: 1.0 contemporary United States, including the role of the (Not Offered 2016-2017) upper class(es), inequality between and within families, in the work place, and in the educational system. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) SOCL B259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies America Units: 1.0 An examination of resistance movements to the power Instructor(s): Nolan,B. of the state and globalization in three Latin American (Fall 2016) societies: Mexico, Columbia, and Peru. The course explores the political, legal, and socio-economic factors SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological underlying contemporary struggles for human and social Perspective rights, and the role of race, ethnicity, and coloniality play in these struggles. This course presents sociological perspectives on Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) various issues affecting black America as a historically Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o unique minority group in the United States: the legacy Studies of slavery and the Jim Crow era; the formation of urban Units: 1.0 black ghettos; the civil rights reforms; the problems (Not Offered 2016-2017) of poverty and unemployment; the problems of crime and other social problems in black communities; the problems of criminal justice; the continuing significance SOWK B554 Social Determinants of Health and of race; the varied covert modern forms of racial Health Equity discrimination experienced by black Americans; and the The purpose of this course is to provide students with role of race in American politics. knowledge and an understanding of how structural Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the factors (racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, Past (IP) discrimination, the built environment, poverty, working Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family conditions, and the unequal distribution of power, Studies income, goods, and services) contribute to racial/ Units: 1.0 ethnic and gender disparities in health and well-being. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Prerequisite: junior or senior status. Counts towards: Praxis Program SOCL B231 Punishment and Social Order Units: 1.0 A cross-cultural examination of punishment, from mass (Not Offered 2016-2017) incarceration in the United States, to a widened “penal 246 Health Studies

HEALTH STUDIES • One additional course, outside the student’s major. Students may choose either a core course (C) or one selected from a list of approved affiliate Students may complete a minor in Health Studies. courses (A), which deal with health issues, but not necessarily as their primary focus. Faculty • Health Studies Capstone Seminar. A capstone Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana course organized around a theme, such as Studies and History, Co-Director of International vaccines, AIDS, drug abuse, disability, etc. Students Studies and Co-Director of Health Studies will analyze current literature addressing the theme from their own disciplinary perspectives and will Susan White, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of develop research proposals and collaborative Health Studies projects.

The Health Studies Minor at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Sample Core Courses Colleges brings together courses and faculty members Please Visit Haverford’s Health Studies Web Page for in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities Updates to guide students through the biomedical, cultural, ethical, and political questions that relate to health Track M issues on local, regional and global scales. Our Colleges value the intersection of public health and ANTH B208: Human Biology social justice, and this new course of study will allow • ANTH B317: Disease and Human Evolution students to approach these vital issues with greater • BIOL B210: Biology and Public Policy knowledge and understanding. • BIOL B303: Human Physiology Given its multidisciplinary structure, the health studies minor will give scientific context to students in the social • CHEM B315: Medicinal Chemistry sciences and humanities who are interested in health • GNST B201: Nutrition, Smoking, and policy, public health, law, medical ethics, social services, Cardiovascular Health or health education. The minor also complements the curriculum for traditional science majors by providing • PSYC B209/H209: Abnormal Psychology important social and behavioral dimensions for those • PSYC B351: Developmental Psychopathology students planning to go into medicine, nursing, physical • PSYC B395: Psychopharmacology therapy, psychology and other clinical fields. • PSYC B346: Pediatric Psychology This is a Bi-College minor, and courses will be taught by Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College across • BIOL H121: Poisons, Plagues, Pollution and many disciplines. When approved by the faculty Progress steering committee, selected courses for the minor may • BIOL H125: Perspectives: Genetic Roil and Royal also be taken at Swarthmore College, University of Families 0.5 credits Pennsylvania and while studying abroad. • BIOL H128: Perspectives: How Do I Know Who I Am? 0.5 credits Minor Requirements • BIOL H308: Immunology 0.5 credits The minor consists of a total of six courses and must include the following: • BIOL H310: Molecular Microbiology 0.5 credits • ICPR H311A: Reproductive Health and Justice • A multidisciplinary introductory course taught by two faculty members from different academic divisions • PSYC H245: Health Psychology that must be taken before enrolling in the Health • PSYC H318B: Neurobiology of Disease Studies Capstone Seminar. Introduction to Health Studies (HLTH H115B). Track R • Three core courses from a list approved by the faculty steering committee. Two of these courses ANTH B210: Medical Anthropology must be elected from a Department outside of the • ANTH B237: Environmental Health student’s major and at least two of the courses should be at the non-introductory level. Students • ANTH B312: Anthropology of Reproduction must take one course in each of three areas: • ANTH B331: Advanced Topics in Medical M Track: Mechanisms of disease and the Anthropology maintenance of the health body (M) • PHIL B205: Medical Ethics R Track: Cultural and Literary Rrepresentations of • ANTH H260: Cultures of Health and Healing Health and Illness (R) • ANTH H200: Viruses, Humans, Vital Politics: An S Track: Responses of familial, social, civic and Anthropology of HIV & AIDS governmental Structures to issues of health and disease (S) • ICPR H281: Violence and Public Health Health Studies 247

Track S • WRPR H161: Written on the Body: Narrative and the Construction of contemporary Sexuality ANTH B210: Medical Anthropology Available only to HC first year students • ANTH B237: Environmental Health Track S • ANTH B312: Anthropology of Reproduction BIOL B215: Experimental Design and Statistics • BIOL B210: Biology and Public Policy • FREN B275/HIST B275: Improving Mankind: • ECON B214: Public Finance Enlightened Hygiene and Eugenics • EDUC B225: Topics: Empowering Learners. Topic: • HIST B303: Topics in American History. Topic: Health Literacies in Context History of Medicine in America • PEAC H201: Ethics and Justice: Applied Ethics of • HIST B336: Topics in African History. Topic: Social Peace, Justice and Human Rights and Medical History of Medicine in Africa COURSES • PSYC B231: Health Psychology • PSYC B340: Women’s Mental Health HLTH B115 Introduction to Health Studies • ANTH H200: Viruses, Humans, Vital Politics: An The multidisciplinary foundation for the health studies Anthropology of HIV & AIDS minor. Students will be introduced to theories and methods from the life sciences, social sciences, and • ICPR H311: Reproductive Health and Justice humanities and will learn to apply them to problems • PSYC H242: Cultural Psychology of health and illness. Topics include epidemiological, public health, and biomedical perspectives on health • PSYC H327: Supersized Nation: Understanding and disease; social, behavioral, and environmental and Managing America’s Obesity Epidemic determinants of health; globalization of health issues; cultural representations of illness; health inequalities, Affiliate Courses social justice, and the ethics of health as a human right. Track M Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Counts towards: Health Studies BIOL B201: Genetics Units: 1.0 • BIOL B215: Experimental Design and Statistics Instructor(s): White,S. (Spring 2017) • BIOL B216: Genomics • BIOL B255: Microbiology ANTH B208 Human Biology • BIOL B271: Developmental Biology This course will be a survey of modern human biological variation. We will examine the patterns of morphological • CHEM B242: Biological Chemistry and genetic variation in modern human populations and • SOWK B556: Adult Development and Aging discuss the evolutionary explanations for the observed • BIOL H352: Cellular Immunology 0.5 credits patterns. A major component of the class will be the discussion of the social implications of these patterns of • BIOL H360: Bacterial Pathogenesis 0.5 credits biological variation, particularly in the construction and • CHEM H357: Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry 0.5 application of the concept of race. Prerequisite: ANTH credits 101 or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Health Studies • PSYC H223: Psychology of Human Sexuality Units: 1.0 Track R (Not Offered 2016-2017) ITAL B208: Petrarca and Boccaccio in Translation ANTH B210 Medical Anthropology • ITAL B303: Petrarca and Boccaccio in Italian This course examines the relationships between • FREN B325: Topics: Etudes avancées. Topic: culture, society, disease and illness. It considers a Lumiéres et Medicine broad range of health-related experiences, discourses, knowledge and practice among different cultures and • PSYC B260: The Psychology of Mindfulness among individuals and groups in different positions of • PSYC B375: Movies and Madness power. Topics covered include sorcery, herbal remedies, healing rituals, folk illnesses, modern disease, scientific • ICPR H207A: Disability, Identity, Culture medical perceptions, clinical technique, epidemiology • ICPR H223: Mental Affliction: The Disease of and political economy of medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH Thought 102 or permission of instructor. • PEAC H201: Ethics and Justice: Applied Ethics of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Peace, Justice and Human Rights Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies Units: 1.0 • WRPR H120: Evolutionary Fictions Available only to Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. HC first year students (Fall 2016) 248 Health Studies

ANTH B237 Environmental Health ANTH B331 Advanced Topics in Medical This course introduces principles and methods in Anthropology environmental anthropology and public health used to The purpose of the course is to provide a survey of analyze global environmental health problems globally theoretical frameworks used in medical anthropology, and develop health and disease control programs. coupled with topical subjects and ethnographic Topics covered include risk; health and environment; examples. The course will highlight a number of sub- food production and consumption; human health and specializations in the field of Medical Anthropology agriculture; meat and poultry production; and culture, including genomics, science and technology studies, urbanization, and disease. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or ethnomedicine, cross-cultural psychiatry/psychology, permission of instructor. cross-cultural bioethics, ecological approaches to Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) studying health and behavior, and more. Prerequisite: Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies ANTH B102, ANTH H103, or permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Health Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction An examination of social and cultural constructions of BIOL B201 Genetics reproduction, and how power and politics in everyday This course focuses on the principles of genetics, life shapes reproductive behavior and its meaning in including classical genetics, population genetics and Western and non-Western cultures. The influence of molecular genetics. Topics to be covered include competing interests within households, communities, the genetic and molecular nature of mutations and states, and institutions on reproduction is considered. phenotypes, genetic mapping and gene identification, Prerequisite: ANTH B102 (or ANTH H103) or permission chromosome abnormalities, developmental genetics, of instructor. genome editing and epigenetics. Examples of genetics Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and analyses are drawn from a variety of organisms Sexuality Studies; Health Studies including Drosophila, C. elegans, mice and humans. Units: 1.0 Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. of BIOL B110 and CHEM B104. (Fall 2016) Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) ANTH B317 Disease and Human Evolution Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Pathogens and humans have been having an Health Studies “evolutionary arms race” since the beginning of our Units: 1.0 species. In this course, we will look at methods for Instructor(s): Davis,T. tracing diseases in our distant past through skeletal (Fall 2016) and genetic analyses as well as tracing the paths and impacts of epidemics that occurred during the historic BIOL B210 Biology and Public Policy past. We will also address how concepts of Darwinian A lecture/discussion course on major issues and medicine impact our understanding of how people might advances in biology and their implications for be treated most effectively. There will be a midterm, public policy decisions. Topics discussed include a final, and an essay and short presentation on a reproductive technologies, the Human Genome topic developed by the student relating to the class. project, environmental health hazards, bioterrorism, Prerequisite: ANTH B101 or permission of the instructor. and euthanasia and organ transplantation. Readings Counts towards: Health Studies, Biology include scientific articles, public policy and ethical Counts towards: Health Studies considerations, and lay publications. Lecture three Units: 1.0 hours a week. This class involves considerable writing. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110-111, or permission of instructor. ANTH B322 Anthropology of the Body Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies This course examines a diversity of meanings and Units: 1.0 interpretations of the body in anthropology. It explores Instructor(s): Greif,K. anthropological theories and methods of studying (Spring 2017) the body and social difference via a series of topics including the construction of the body in medicine, BIOL B215 Experimental Design and Statistics identity, race, gender, sexuality and as explored through An introductory course in designing experiments and cross-cultural comparison. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or analyzing biological data. This course is structured permission of instructor. to develop students’ understanding of when to Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health apply different quantitative methods, and how to Studies implement those methods using the R statistics Units: 1.0 environment. Topics include summary statistics, Instructor(s): Pashigian,M. distributions, randomization, replication, parametric (Fall 2016) and nonparametric tests, and introductory topics in multivariate and Bayesian statistics. The course is Health Studies 249 geared around weekly problem sets and interactive Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive learning. Suggested Preparation: BIOL B110 or B111 is Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; highly recommended. Health Studies Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Units: 1.0 Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Instructor(s): Davis,G. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Health Studies BIOL B303 Human Physiology Units: 1.0 A comprehensive study of the physical and chemical (Not Offered 2016-2017) processes in tissues, organs and organ systems that form the basis of animal and human function. BIOL B216 Genomics Homeostasis, control systems and the structural basis An introduction to the study of genomes and genomic of function are emphasized. Laboratories are designed data. This course will examine the types of biological to introduce basic physiological techniques and the questions that can be answered using large biological practice of scientific inquiry. Lecture three hours, data sets and complete genome sequences as well laboratory three hours a week. Prerequisites: One as the techniques and technologies that make such semester of BIOL 110-111, CHEM 103, 104 and one studies possible. Topics include genome organization 200-level biology course. and evolution, comparative genomics, and analysis Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive of transcriptomes and proteomes. Prerequisite: Counts towards: Health Studies One semester of BIOL 110-111. BIOL 201 highly Units: 1.0 recommended. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific Investigation (SI) BIOL B380 Topics in Cellular and Organismal Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Physiology Health Studies Physiology is the study of the normal functioning of a Units: 1.0 living organism and its components, including all its (Not Offered 2016-2017) physical and chemical processes. The integration of function across many levels of organization will be BIOL B255 Microbiology emphasized. Prerequisite: One semester of BIOL 110- Invisible to the naked eye, microbes occupy every niche 111, CHEM 103, 104 and one 200-level biology course on the planet. This course will examine how microbes Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive have become successful colonizers; review aspects Counts towards: Health Studies of interactions between microbes, humans and the Units: 1.0 environment; and explore practical uses of microbes (Not Offered 2016-2017) in industry, medicine and environmental management. The course will combine lecture, discussion of primary CHEM B242 Biological Chemistry literature and student presentations. Three hours The structure, chemistry and function of amino of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. acids, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides and nucleic Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL 110 and CHEM acids; enzyme kinetics; metabolic relationships of B104. carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids, and the control Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) of various pathways. Lecture three hours a week. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Prerequisite: CHEM B212 or CHEM H222. Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Environmental Studies; Health Studies Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Units: 1.0 Health Studies Instructor(s): Chander,M. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Malachowski,B., Miller,B. (Fall 2016) BIOL B271 Developmental Biology An introduction to embryology and the concepts ECON B214 Public Finance of developmental biology. Concepts are illustrated Analysis of government’s role in resource allocation, by analyzing the experimental observations that emphasizing effects of tax and expenditure programs support them. Topics include gametogenesis and on income distribution and economic efficiency. Topics fertilization, morphogenesis, cell fate specification and include sources of inefficiency in markets and possible differentiation, pattern formation, regulation of gene government responses; federal budget composition; expression, neural development, and developmental social insurance and antipoverty programs; U.S. tax plasticity. The laboratory focuses on observations structure and incidence. Prerequisites: ECON B105. and experiments on living embryos. Lecture three Counts towards: Health Studies hours, laboratory three scheduled hours a week; most Units: 1.0 weeks require additional hours outside of the regularly (Not Offered 2016-2017) scheduled lab. Prerequisite: one semester of BIOL 110- 111 or permission of instructor. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) 250 Health Studies

FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Hygiene and Eugenics Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in Studies common: the former is usually conceived as a good Units: 1.0 management of our everyday conditions of life, whereas Instructor(s): Black,S. the latter is commonly reviled for having inspired (Fall 2016) discriminatory practices (in Nazi Germany, but also in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Our inquiry will HIST B233 Health and Disability in the U.S. explore how, in the context of the French Enlightenment, This course examines how scientific, medical, and a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) was cultural discourses have shaped the construction of redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became health and disability in U.S. history. Paying attention to hegemonic both in the medical field and in civil society. the ways in which health and disability are constructed We will also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal in relationship to other social categories such as race, led to the quest for the improvement of the human class, gender, sexuality, and nationality, we will examine species. We will compare the French situation with that the processes through which certain bodies are defined of other countries (mainly UK and the USA). Students as healthy, useful and productive while others are who wish to get credit in French will meet one extra marked as diseased, defective, and socially undesirable. hour. Topics will include eugenics, public health, immigration Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the policies, birth control and sterilization, the women’s Past (IP) health movement, AIDS activism, disability rights, Counts towards: Health Studies mental health, obesity, biological citizenship, and health Units: 1.0 consumerism. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health GNST B201 Nutrition, Smoking, and Cardiovascular Studies Health Units: 1.0 The class explores the relationships between health, Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. national associations, and the federal government is (Fall 2016) they relate to the creation and implementation of laws and policies as well as the perception of what is healthy. HIST B249 History of Global Health The class focuses on health in the U.S. The course will This course examines the interrelated histories of public include a look at tobacco use through U.S. history as health, international health, and global health from a case study for how the federal government acts and the late 18th to the 21st centuries as part of a broader reacts to protect the public. Then, in turn, to evaluate history of epidemics, empire, and global mobility. We how the public reacts to pressures from the government will pay particular attention this semester to the use of and other national associations. From there, students architectural and spatial strategies for managing crises will be asked to examine current trends in nutrition and of contagion, disaster, and epidemic. The architectural cardiovascular health in order to draw parallels between spaces to be examined will include urban-based the previous function of government in the protection of hospitals, public health infrastructure, and quarantine the populace and the current efforts in these two areas. buildings as well as mobile architectural technologies Approach: Course does not meet an Approach such as incubators, wartime pop-up surgical tents, and Counts towards: Health Studies floating hospitals in both Western and non-Western Units: 1.0 environments. The course will trace the role of health (Not Offered 2016-2017) and medicine in mediating the relationships between metropolis and colony, state and citizen, research HIST B209 Introduction to the History of Medicine practice and human subject. This course provides an introduction to the history Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) of medicine, from Hippocrates to the Black Plague Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health to contemporary struggles to combat HIV/AIDS. It Studies examines topics including epidemic disease, the Units: 1.0 processes of medical knowledge production, the (Not Offered 2016-2017) hospital and the rise of clinical medicine, and issues of hygiene and public health. We will focus on the HIST B277 Food and Fitness in America intersecting social, political, and cultural histories of This course investigates the centrality of food and medicine, addressing themes of race, gender, and fitness to national identity and culture in modern U.S. constructions of biological difference; the history of the history. From the “physical culture” movement in the body; professionalization; and medical ethics. Disrupting late nineteenth century and the rise of the diet industry straightforward narratives of medical progress, this in the 1920s to the aerobics craze of the 1980s and the course will focus on the contingencies involved in contemporary “slow food” movement, we will explore medical knowledge production and situate elements of how changing patterns of production and consumption historical medical practice, for example humoral theory have shaped the role that food and fitness play as key or polypharmacy, within their appropriate historical markers of identity and “lifestyle.” Paying particular context. attention to how concerns about nutrition and exercise have historically indexed larger social anxieties Health Studies 251 regarding race, class, gender, and sexuality, this course PSYC B231 Health Psychology asks students to think critically about food and fitness as This course will provide an overview of the field of health contradictory sites of pleasure and self-control in U.S. psychology using lecture, exams, videos, assignments, culture. and an article critique. We will examine the current Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) definition of health psychology, as well as the theories Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health and research behind many areas in health psychology Studies (both historical and contemporary). The course will Units: 1.0 focus on specific health and social psychological Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. theories, empirical research, and applying the theory (Spring 2017) and research to real world situations. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105) or Foundations PHIL B205 Medical Ethics of Psychology (PSYC H100) The field of medicine provides a rich terrain for the study Approach: Course does not meet an Approach and application of philosophical ethics. This course Counts towards: Health Studies will introduce students to fundamental ethical theories Units: 1.0 and present ways in which these theories connect to Instructor(s): Peterson,L. particular medical issues. We will also discuss what (Fall 2016) are often considered the four fundamental principles of medical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non- PSYC B260 The Psychology of Mindfulness maleficence, and justice) in connection to specific topics This course focuses on psychological theory and related to medical practice (such as reproductive rights, research on mindfulness and meditative practices. euthanasia, and allocation of health resources). Readings and discussion will introduce students to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) modern conceptualizations and implementation of Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health mindfulness practices that have arisen in the West. Studies Students will be encouraged to engage in mindfulness Units: 1.0 activities as part of their involvement in this course. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Counts towards: Health Studies POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy Units: 1.0 A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across Instructor(s): Schulz,M. space and time. Focusing on particular issues such (Fall 2016) as health care, domestic security, water and land use, we identify institutional, historical, and cultural factors PSYC B331 Health Behavior and Context that shape policies. We also examine the growing This seminar will be devoted to a discussion of theory importance of international-level policy making and the and research in health psychology. We will investigate interplay between international and domestic pressures both historical and contemporary perspectives on the on policy makers. Prerequisite: One course in Political psychology of wellness and illness. We will begin with Science or public policy. a consideration of how psychosocial forces influence Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies health cognitions, behaviors, and physiological Units: 1.0 processes. The second half of the course will focus on (Not Offered 2016-2017) contextual factors, interventions, and emerging topics in research. We will debate the question of whether/ PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology how psychological forces influence health outcomes. This course examines the experience, origins and Prerequisite: PSYC B105 and PSYC B231 or PSYC consequences of psychological difficulties and B208, or by permission of the instructor. problems. Among the questions we will explore Counts towards: Health Studies are: What do we mean by abnormal behavior or Units: 1.0 psychopathology? What are the strengths and Instructor(s): Peterson,L. limitations of the ways in which psychopathology is (Fall 2016) assessed and classified? What are the major forms of psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat PSYC B346 Pediatric Psychology psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced This course uses a developmental-ecological by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties perspective to understand the psychological challenges and what are their consequences? How do we integrate associated with physical health issues in children. The social, biological and psychological perspectives on course explores how different environments support the causes of psychopathology? Do psychological the development of children who sustain illness or treatments (therapies) work? How do we study the injury and will cover topics including: prevention, effectiveness of psychology treatments? Prerequisite: coping, adherence to medical regimens, and pain Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 or H100). management. The course will consider the ways Approach: Course does not meet an Approach in which cultural beliefs and values shape medical Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health experiences. Suggested Preparations: PSYC B206 Studies highly recommended. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Schulz,M. (Spring 2017) 252 Health Studies

Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health Counts towards: Health Studies; Neuroscience Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Thomas,E. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017)

PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life This course will examine emotional and behavioral Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention disorders of children and adolescents, including autism, to the body influence our understanding of social attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, processes of subjectivity, interaction, and practice? obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anorexia, While the body has long been an “absent presence” and schizophrenia. Major topics covered will include: in sociology, multiple approaches to theorizing and contrasting models of psychopathology; empirical and researching the body have emerged in recent decades. categorical approaches to assessment and diagnosis; A sociological approach to the body and embodiment outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, and provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their everyday experience and analyses of broad social efficacy .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. structures which can seem disconnected from daily Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health life. In this course, we will examine the processes by Studies; Neuroscience which individual bodies are shaped by and, in turn, Units: 1.0 shape social life. Key questions to be explored include: (Not Offered 2016-2017) how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do individuals perform the body and how does interactional PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal context influence this performance; what is the meaning Psychology Through Films of the body in social life; and is there a “right” body? Suggested preparation: At least one course in the social This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = sciences. 16 students) deals with critical analysis of how various Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The Studies primary focus of the seminar will be evaluating the Units: 1.0 degree of correspondence between the cinematic Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. presentation and current research knowledge about (Fall 2016) the disorder, taking into account the historical period in which the film was made. For example, we will discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder SOWK B556 Adult Development and Aging are presented and how representative the protagonist The course broadly explores the biological, is of people who typically manifest this disorder based psychological, and social aspects of aging into middle on current research. We will also address the theory of and late adulthood for individual, families, communities, etiology of the disorder depicted in the film, including and society at large. This is accomplished through discussion of the relevant intellectual history in the exploration of a.) the psychological and social period when the film was made and the prevailing developmental challenges of adulthood, b.) the core accounts of psychopathology in that period. Another biological changes that accompany this stage of life, focus will be how the film portrays the course of the c.) research methodology for inquiry into aging, d.) the disorder and how it depicts treatment for the disorder. demands and impact on care givers and families, e.) This cinematic presentation will be evaluated with psychopathology common in older adults, f.) social respect to current research on treatment for the welfare policies and programs designed to ameliorate disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing stress and promote well-being among older adults, and treatment for the disorder at the time the film was made. g.) the political, social, and academic discourse around Prerequisite: PSYC B209. the concept of aging successfully in the 21st century. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Throughout the course, the experience of aging, and the Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Film Studies; ways in which this experience differs by race, ethnicity, Health Studies gender, class, culture, and sexual orientation are Units: 1.0 considered. This course builds on theory, knowledge, Instructor(s): Rescorla,L. and skills of social work with older adults introduced (Fall 2016) in Foundation Practice and Human Behavior in the Social Environment I and III. This course is relevant to PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology the clinical, management, and policy concentrations, in that it focuses on the concepts, theories, and policies A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- central to effective assessment and intervention behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological with older adults. Enrollment limited to 5 advanced basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological undergraduates. models of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the Counts towards: Health Studies treatment of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, Units: 1.0 depression, and psychosis; and the psychology and Instructor(s): Bressi,S. pharmacology of drug addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC (Fall 2016) B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC H217 or permission of instructor. History 253

HEBREW AND JUDAIC STUDIES and 4 taken elsewhere, lays a foundation for reading of Modern Hebrew literary works. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Modern Hebrew language instruction is available at Units: 1.0 Bryn Mawr through the elementary level. Students may Instructor(s): Sataty,N. take Intermediate Modern Hebrew at the University of (Spring 2017) Pennsylvania. At Swarthmore College biblical Hebrew is offered in a two-semester sequence through the first- year level, and additional reading in Classical Jewish HEBR B403 Supervised Work texts is available in directed reading, one-half-credit Units: 1.0 courses. At Haverford, Judaic Studies courses are (Fall 2016) offered by the Department of Religion. Bryn Mawr also offers several courses which complement Haverford’s ITAL B211 Primo Levi, the Holocaust, and Its offerings in Judaic Studies. All of these courses are Aftermath listed in the Tri-Co Course Guide under the heading A consideration, through analysis and appreciation of “Hebrew and Judaic Studies.” his major works, of how the horrific experience of the Holocaust awakened in Primo Levi a growing awareness Faculty of his Jewish heritage and led him to become one of the dominant voices of that tragic historical event, as Grace Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of well as one of the most original new literary figures of French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages post-World War II Italy. Always in relation to Levi and and and Co-Director of the International Studies his works, attention will also be given to Italian women Program (fall) writers whose works are also connected with the Nechama Sataty, Visiting Assistant Professor Holocaust. Course is taught in English. An extra hour will be scheduled for those students taking the course College Foreign Language for Italian or Romance Languages credit. Requirement Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 The College’s foreign language requirement may be Instructor(s): Patruno,N. satisfied by completing Hebrew 001 and 002 with a (Fall 2016) minimum grade of at least 2.0. POLS B283 Introduction to the Politics of the COURSES Modern Middle East and North Africa HEBR B001 Elementary Hebrew This course is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the politics of the region, using works This year-long course is designed to teach beginners of history, political science, political economy, film, the skills of reading, writing, and conversing in Modern and fiction as well as primary sources. The course will Hebrew. It will provide students with knowledge of the concern itself with three broad areas: the legacy of Hebrew writing system – its alphabet (Square letters colonialism and the importance of international forces; for reading, cursive for writing) and vocalization – as the role of Islam in politics; and the political and social well as core aspects of grammar and syntax. Diverse effects of particular economic conditions, policies, and means will be utilized: Textbook, supplementary printed practices. material, class conversations, presentations by students Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of dialogues or skits that they prepare in advance, Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies and written compositions. This course, followed by Units: 1.0 Semesters 3 and 4 taken elsewhere, lays a foundation Instructor(s): Fenner,S. for reading of Modern Hebrew literary works. (Spring 2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sataty,N. (Fall 2016) HISTORY

HEBR B002 Elementary Hebrew Students may complete a major or minor in History. This is a continuation of HEBR B001, year-long course is designed to teach beginners the skills of reading, Faculty writing, and conversing in Modern Hebrew. It will provide students with knowledge of the Hebrew writing system Assef Ashraf, Pre-Doctoral Fellow – its alphabet (Square letters for reading, cursive for Sara E. Black, Visiting Assistant Professor writing) and vocalization – as well as core aspects of grammar and syntax. Diverse means will be utilized: Karisa Butler-Wall, Visiting Assistant Professor Textbook, supplementary printed material, class Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Associate Professor of History conversations, presentations by students of dialogues Madhavi Kale, Acting Chair and Professor of History or skits that they prepare in advance, and written compositions. This course, followed by Semesters 3 Anita Kurimay, Assistant Professor of History (on leave semesters I & II) 254 History

Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana if students wish to do so, the department will authorize Studies and History, Co-Director of International and provide support for an independent study in order to Studies and Co-Director of Health Studies (on leave facilitate that ongoing work. (Majors taking History 299 semester I) will fulfill the College’s Writing Intensive requirement. ) Elly Truitt, Associate Professor of History (on leave The remaining nine history courses may range across semesters I & II) fields or concentrate within them, depending on how a Sharon Ullman, Professor of History and Director of major’s interests develop. Of these, at least two must be Gender and Sexuality Studies (on leave semesters seminars at the 300 level offered by the Departments I and II) of History at Bryn Mawr, Haverford or Swarthmore Colleges or the University of Pennsylvania. (It is strongly recommended that at least one of these advanced A primary aim of the Department of History is to deepen courses be taken with Bryn Mawr history faculty) At least students’ sense of time as a factor in cultural diversity one course, at any level, must concentrate on the period and change. Our program of study offers students the before 1800. opportunity to experience the past through attention to long-range questions, comparative history, and complex Only two 100-level courses may be counted toward the causation. Students learn about particular periods, major. Credit toward the major is not given for either the cultures, and historical moments alongside mastering Advanced Placement examination or the International the ability to consider multiple viewpoints, aggregate Baccalaureate. data, articulate research questions, marshal evidence, and construct arguments, and have opportunities to Honors engage with digital humanities and public history. Majors with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (general) The department’s 100-level courses, centered upon and 3.6 (history) at the end of their senior year qualify specific topics within the instructor’s field of expertise, for departmental honors. introduce students to a wide array of subjects and themes, and are open to all students, regardless of any Minor Requirements prior instruction in History. In the 200-level courses, the department offers students the opportunity to pursue The requirement for the minor is six courses, at interests in specific cultures, regions, policies, or least four of which must be taken in the Bryn Mawr societies, and enables them to experience a broad array Department of History, and include one course at any of approaches to history through attention to primary level that deals with the period before 1800, at least sources, introduction to historiography, and mastery of one 300-level course within the department, and two chronology. additional history courses within the department. No more than two course at the 100-level may count toward The department’s 300-level courses build on students’ the minor. knowledge gained in 200-level classes, and provide opportunities to explore topics at greater depth in COURSES a seminar setting. 300-level courses offer students opportunities to undertake significant intellectual HIST B101 The Historical Imagination projects based on research in primary and secondary sources. Explores some of the ways people have thought about, represented, and used the past across time and space. Introduces students to modern historical practices and Major Requirements debates through examination and discussion of texts Eleven courses are required for the History major, and and archives that range from scholarly monographs and two—Introduction to Historical Methods (HIST 299), documents to monuments, oral traditions, and other and Approaches to Historical Praxis (HIST 398)—must media. be taken at Bryn Mawr. In HIST 299, students will Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) be introduced to different historical frameworks and Units: 1.0 historiographic debates that animate the field. It is (Not Offered 2016-2017) intended to prepare advanced sophomores and juniors to do advanced work at the 300-level and in some HIST B102 Introduction to African Civilizations advanced 200-level courses. In HIST 398, which must The course is designed to introduce students to the be taken in Fall of senior year, the students complete a history of African and African Diaspora societies, series of focused assignments designed to give them cultures, and political economies. We will discuss the an opportunity to practice different ways of “doing origins, state formation, external contacts, and the history.” Students will work with professors as well as structural transformations and continuities of African other resources at the College (archivists, librarians, societies and cultures in the context of the slave trade, digital technologists, Praxis Program, etc.) to articulate colonial rule, capitalist exploitation, urbanization, and a historical question, research it, and produce a final westernization, as well as contemporary struggles over project. This final project may be a term paper, but authority, autonomy, identity and access to resources. might also take the form of a digital project, an exhibit, Case studies will be drawn from across the continent. a short film, a Praxis internship in a museum or archive, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the or something else. Upon successful completion of Past (IP) History 398, students may, if they wish, continue their Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality project into a second semester. This is not required, but Studies History 255

Units: 1.0 HIST B156 The Long 1960’s Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. The 1960s has had a powerful effect on recent US (Spring 2017) History. But what was it exactly? How long did it last? And what do we really mean when we say “The Sixties?” HIST B125 Amerindians, Europeans, and Slaves: This term has become so potent and loaded for so Early Modern Colonialism many people from all sides of the political spectrum that The course explores the way in which peoples, goods, it’s almost impossible to separate fact from fiction; myth and ideas from Africa, Europe, and the Americas were from memory. We are all the inheritors of this intense brought together within colonial systems to form an period in American history but our inheritance is neither interconnected Atlantic World. The course charts the simple nor entirely clear. Our task this semester is to manner in which an integrated system emerged in the try to pull apart the meaning as well as the legend and Americas in early modern period, rather than to treat attempt to figure out what “The Sixties” is (and what it Atlantic History as nothing more than an ‘expanded’ isn’t) and try to assess its long term impact on American version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American society. This course satifies the History Major’s 100 level history. The lived experiences of indigenous peoples, requirement. slaves, and free people of color are central topics and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the themes of the course. Past (IP) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HIST B127 Indigenous Leaders 1492-1750 HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Studies the experiences of indigenous men and women The aim of this course is to provide an understanding who exercised local authority in the systems established of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from by European colonizers. In return for places in the Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form colonial administrations, these leaders performed a an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course range of tasks. At the same time they served as imperial is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated officials, they exercised “traditional” forms of authority system was created in the Americas in the early modern within their communities, often free of European period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic presence. These figures provide a lens through which World as nothing more than an expanded version of early modern colonialism is studied. North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Past (IP) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights Peace, Justice and Human Rights Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HIST B128 Crusade, Conversion and Conquest HIST B209 Introduction to the History of Medicine A thematic focus course exploring the nature of Christian This course provides an introduction to the history religious expansion and conflict in the medieval period. of medicine, from Hippocrates to the Black Plague Based around primary sources with some background to contemporary struggles to combat HIV/AIDS. It readings, topics include: early medieval Christianity examines topics including epidemic disease, the and conversion; the Crusades and development of the processes of medical knowledge production, the doctrines of “just war” and “holy war”; the rise of military hospital and the rise of clinical medicine, and issues order such as the Templars and the Teutonic Kings; and of hygiene and public health. We will focus on the later medieval attempts to convert and colonize Eastern intersecting social, political, and cultural histories of Europe. medicine, addressing themes of race, gender, and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the constructions of biological difference; the history of the Past (IP) body; professionalization; and medical ethics. Disrupting Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies straightforward narratives of medical progress, this Units: 1.0 course will focus on the contingencies involved in (Not Offered 2016-2017) medical knowledge production and situate elements of historical medical practice, for example humoral theory HIST B129 The Religious Conquest of the Americas or polypharmacy, within their appropriate historical The course examines the complex aspects of the context. European missionization of indigenous people, and Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) explores how two traditions of religious thought/practice Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health came into conflict. Rather than a transposition of Studies Christianity from Europe to the Americas, something Units: 1.0 new was created in the contested colonial space. Instructor(s): Black,S. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 256 History

HIST B210 From Empire to Nation-State in the HIST B226 Topics in 20th Century European History Middle East This is a topics course. Course content varies. The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) the history of the Middle East from the late 18th century Units: 1.0 until the present. Islam and the classical Ottoman period (Not Offered 2016-2017) will be discussed to provide the requisite background for the modern period. From the late Ottoman period HIST B232 Nationalism and Conflict in Palestine and onward, we will consider the impact of a series of Israel events - from the incorporation of the Empire into During this course we will examine the interactions a global economic system, to the rise of ethnic and and changing relationships of the diverse ethnic and national politics, the Ottoman reform movement, colonial religious groups in Israel and Palestine, from the late expansion, the dissolution of the Empire, the emergence 19th century until the present. We will examine the roots of the modern system of states, the Cold War, and of ethnic identity and the influences of modernization the collapse of Soviet power. We will conclude with a and nationalism on the current Israel-Palestine conflict. discussion of the Arab Spring. Emphasis will be placed Important historical transformations will be stressed, on links, continuity, and transitions during this two- including: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the hundred year period. British Mandate, the establishment of the State of Israel, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the the 1948 and 1967 wars, the first intifada, the Oslo Past (IP) Accords, and the second intifada. Throughout we will Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies analyze the claims made by different groups of Israelis Units: 1.0 and Palestinians, and the competing narratives these (Not Offered 2016-2017) inspire and are inspired by. We will conclude with a discussion of the current opportunities and challenges to HIST B218 Memories, Memorials, and the peace process. Representations of World War I Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) The first World War was a cataclysmic event that took Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies millions of lives, shifted national boundaries, established Units: 1.0 new nations, and negatively-impacted others. After its (Not Offered 2016-2017) conclusion, the events of the War became personally and nationally memorialized across Europe -- a process HIST B233 Health and Disability in the U.S. that continues to this day. The course explores the This course examines how scientific, medical, and various social, cultural, and historical factors that cultural discourses have shaped the construction of influence how (and when) the events and impacts of the health and disability in U.S. history. Paying attention to war are remembered in modern Europe. the ways in which health and disability are constructed Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) in relationship to other social categories such as race, Units: 1.0 class, gender, sexuality, and nationality, we will examine (Not Offered 2016-2017) the processes through which certain bodies are defined as healthy, useful and productive while others are HIST B223 The Early Medieval World marked as diseased, defective, and socially undesirable. The first of a two-course sequence introducing medieval Topics will include eugenics, public health, immigration European history. The chronological span of this course policies, birth control and sterilization, the women’s is from the early 4th century and the Christianization health movement, AIDS activism, disability rights, of the Roman Empire to the early 10th century and the mental health, obesity, biological citizenship, and health disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. consumerism. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. (Fall 2016) HIST B224 High Middle Ages HIST B234 An Introduction to Middle Eastern History This course will cover the second half of the European Through the historical study of Islamism this course Middle Ages, often called the High and Late Middle will dispel the notion that this movement is a natural Ages, from roughly 1000-1400. The course has outgrowth of Islam. It will show that Islamism grew a general chronological framework, and is based as a native response to European nationalism and on important themes of medieval history. These imperialism. After examining the intellectual sources of include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social Islamism, this course will look to answer why Islamism transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the has proved so resilient in the face of intense local rise of the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; and foreign opposition and proved well suited for an urbanism and the growth of towns. increasingly global world. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Past (IP) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Ashraf,A. (Fall 2016) History 257

HIST B236 African History since 1800 locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century to The course analyzes the history of Africa in the last two the present. hundred years in the context of global political economy. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the We will examine the major themes in modern African Past (IP) history, including the 19th-century state formation, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies expansion, or restructuration; partition and resistance; Units: 1.0 colonial rule; economic, social, political, religious, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) cultural developments; nationalism; post-independence politics, economics, and society, as well as conflicts and HIST B242 American Politics and Society: 1945 to the burden of disease. The course will also introduce the Present students to the sources and methods of African history. How did we get here? This course looks at the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the stunning transformation of America after WWII. From Past (IP) a country devastated by economic crisis and wedded Counts towards: Africana Studies to isolationism prior to the war, America turned itself Units: 1.0 into an international powerhouse. Massive grass (Not Offered 2016-2017) roots resistance forced the United States to abandon its system of racial apartheid, to open opportunities HIST B237 Topic: Modern African History to women, and to reinvent its very definition as it This is a topics course. Course content varies. incorporated immigrants from around the world. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Simultaneously, American music and film broke free Past (IP) from their staid moorings and permanently altered Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality international culture. Finally, through the “War on Terror”, Studies starting after 9/11, America initiated an aggressive new Units: 1.0 foreign policy that has shattered traditional rules of Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. warfare and reoriented global politics. We will explore the political, social, and cultural factors that have driven Spring 2017: African Economic Development. modern American history. Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course examines the political economy of Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) African development in historical perspectives. We Units: 1.0 will address the following questions: Why is the (Not Offered 2016-2017) African continent, which is rich in natural resources, so poor? What are the causes of poverty in HIST B243 Topics: Atlantic Cultures Africa? The course will analyze the environmental, This is a topics course. Course content varies. economic, political, and historical factors that Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the have affected the development of Africa. We will Past (IP) discuss the impact of slavery, colonial exploitation, Counts towards: Africana Studies foreign interventions, foreign aid, trade, and Units: 1.0 democratic transitions on African development. We Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. will also explore the theories of development and underdevelopment. Fall 2016: Maroon Communities - New World. The course explores the process of self- HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of emancipation by slaves in the early modern Atlantic Sexuality in Modern Europe World. What was the nature of the communities that This course is a detailed examination of the changing free blacks forged? What were their relationships nature and definition of sexuality in Europe from the to the empires from which they freed themselves? late nineteenth century to the present. Throughout the How was race constructed in the early modern semester we critically examine how understandings period? Did conceptions of race change over time? of sexuality changed—from how it was discussed and how authorities tried to control it to how the practice of HIST B249 History of Global Health sexuality evolved. Focusing on both discourses and This course examines the interrelated histories of public lived experiences, the class will explore sexuality in the health, international health, and global health from context of the following themes; prostitution and sex the late 18th to the 21st centuries as part of a broader trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention history of epidemics, empire, and global mobility. We to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth will pay particular attention this semester to the use of of the homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the architectural and spatial strategies for managing crises “New Woman”; abortion and contraception; the “sexual of contagion, disaster, and epidemic. The architectural revolution” of the 60s; pornography and consumerism; spaces to be examined will include urban-based LGBTQ activism; concluding with considering sexuality hospitals, public health infrastructure, and quarantine in the age of cyber as well as genetic technology. In buildings as well as mobile architectural technologies examining these issues we will question the role and such as incubators, wartime pop-up surgical tents, and influence of different political systems and war on floating hospitals in both Western and non-Western sexuality. By paying special attention to the rise of environments. The course will trace the role of health modern nation-states, forces of nationalism, and the and medicine in mediating the relationships between impacts of imperialism we will interrogate the nature metropolis and colony, state and citizen, research of regulation and experiences of sexuality in different practice and human subject. 258 History

Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B274 Focus: Topics in Modern US History Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health This is a topics course in 20th century America social Studies history. Topics vary by half semester Units: 1.0 Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 0.5 HIST B252 American Popular Culture and Politics: (Not Offered 2016-2017) 1900-present From dance halls and silent film to comic books and HIST B277 Food and Fitness in America music videos, popular culture has been central to This course investigates the centrality of food and struggles over the meaning of national belonging, fitness to national identity and culture in modern U.S. “freedom,” and democracy. Rather than drawing a history. From the “physical culture” movement in the distinction between pop culture as a matter of private late nineteenth century and the rise of the diet industry consumption and the more “serious” and public arena in the 1920s to the aerobics craze of the 1980s and the of politics, this course will consider the role of popular contemporary “slow food” movement, we will explore culture in shaping the nation’s political history, and how changing patterns of production and consumption in providing a lens to critically evaluate and rethink have shaped the role that food and fitness play as key that history today. Exploring a wide range of popular markers of identity and “lifestyle.” Paying particular cultural forms including amusement parks, vaudeville, attention to how concerns about nutrition and exercise fashion, music, film, photography, newspapers, and have historically indexed larger social anxieties television, we will examine how popular culture has regarding race, class, gender, and sexuality, this course not only reflected but actively shaped the American asks students to think critically about food and fitness as political landscape from the early twentieth century to contradictory sites of pleasure and self-control in U.S. the present. culture. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Units: 1.0 Studies Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. (Spring 2017) HIST B258 British Empire: Imagining Indias This course considers ideas about and experiences of HIST B284 Movies and America “modern” India, i.e., India during the colonial and post- Movies are one of the most important means by which Independence periods (roughly 1757-present). While Americans come to know – or think they know—their “India” and “Indian history” along with “British empire” own history. This class examines the complex cultural and “British history” will be the ostensible objects of our relationship between film and American historical self consideration and discussions, the course proposes that fashioning. their imagination and meanings are continually mediated Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the by a wide variety of institutions, agents, and analytical Past (IP) categories (nation, religion, class, race, gender, to name Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film a few examples). The course uses primary sources, Studies scholarly analyses, and cultural productions to explore Units: 1.0 the political economies of knowledge, representation, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and power in the production of modernity. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the HIST B289 History of Modern France Past (IP) Counts towards: International Studies From the revolutionary storming of the Bastille in 1789 Units: 1.0 to the famous 1968 student protests at the Sorbonne (Not Offered 2016-2017) in Paris, popular uprisings have played a central role in the formation of modern France. This course explores themes of revolution, violence, nationalism, and HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas imperialism as it traces the turbulent political history The course explores the confrontations, conquests of France through five Republics, two Empires, one and accommodations that formed the “ground-level” Commune, and a vast network of overseas colonies. It experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout also explores social and cultural transformations that the Americas. The course is comparative in scope, had a profound impact on French society, including examining events and structures in North, South art and music, the rise of mass politics, the Universal and Central America, with particular attention paid Exhibitions, changing gender norms, popular culture, to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous and modernity. Examining the history of France beyond leadership in the colonial world of the 18th century. the French “hexagon,” this course situates France as Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) a colonial nation-state, enmeshed in an increasingly Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, globalized world. Iberian and Latina/o Studies Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. Instructor(s): Black,S. (Fall 2016) (Spring 2017) History 259

HIST B292 Women in Britain since 1750 taste for sweetness to the opium monopolies that Focusing on contemporary and historical narratives, this financed British and French colonialism in India and course explores the ongoing production, circulation and Indochina, the ever-increasing demand for “drug” refraction of discourses on gender and nation as well as commodities has shaped European imperialism race, empire and modernity since the mid-18th century. and global trade for over 400 years. This course Texts will incorporate visual material as well as literary examines the global exchange of commodities evidence and culture and consider the crystallization of loosely defined as “drugs,” including opium, the discipline of history itself. cocaine, tobacco, coffee, tea, and chocolate. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Focusing particularly on the intersections between Past (IP) drugs and European imperialism, it explores a wide Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies range of issues, including slavery and debates over Units: 1.0 “free labor”; imperial power; gender, class, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) consumer culture; global networks of exchange; addiction; and the politics of drug regulation. HIST B299 Exploring History Spring 2017: Women in the History of Science This course is designed to introduce history majors and Medicine. This seminar explores the contested to the debates governing the production of historical position of women as both subjects and objects in knowledge which dominate the discipline. Although the history of science and medicine. From healers undergraduates often read history monographs as in medieval Europe to contemporary scientific and finished and “complete” projects, in fact each of these medical researchers, it examines the experiences works is always deeply contested - both in terms of and contributions of female physicians and method and product. The goal of this course is to not scientists throughout history as well as the ways in only reinforce habits of critical textual reading but to which science and medicine have been deployed provide students the tools to critically “read” the entire to construct biological models of gender difference project of writing history. Required for History Majors used to justify the exclusion of women from and Minors. scientific knowledge production. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B320 Middle Eastern Migration, Diaspora and Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Nostalgia Units: 1.0 This course will trace Middle Eastern migration Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. movements from the 19th century to the present. After (Spring 2017) a discussion of historical migration patterns, we will examine theories of migration focusing on why people HIST B303 Topics in American History move and how their movement effects and affects social and economic statuses and processes in both This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent sending and receiving countries. Next we will consider topics have included medicine, advertising, and history theoretical and empirical studies on the integration of of sexuality. immigrants in host societies. Particular emphasis will be Units: 1.0 given to immigrants’ assimilation and/or integration, as (Not Offered 2016-2017) well as issues relating to immigrants’ identity reformation and the creation of Diasporas. We will interrogate HIST B307 Topics in European Cultural History Diaspora as a theoretical concept and consider its This is a topics course. Course content varies. relationship to absence and difference. Finally, we will Units: 1.0 consider how transnational communities perform identity Instructor(s): Black,S. and how this is connected to memory/forgetting and nostalgia. Spring 2017: The Individual and Mass Society, Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies 1914-1945. This seminar examines debates Units: 1.0 over the role of the individual in mass society in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Europe between 1914 and 1945. While examining competing visions of citizenship and ideas about HIST B325 Topics in Social History the individual’s relationship to the state, this course will explore topics and themes including violence, This a topics course that explores various themes in nationalism, gender politics, fascism, imperialism, American social history. Course content varies. anti-Semitism, revolution, communism, popular Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies culture, and the politics of memory. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Butler-Wall,K. HIST B319 Topics in Modern European History Fall 2016: Unruly Bodies and Forbidden Desires. This is a topics course. Course content varies. This course explores how various forms of gender Units: 1.0 and sexual nonconformity have historically Instructor(s): Black,S. served both as sites of regulation and as modes of resistance. From nineteenth-century cross- Fall 2016: From Chocolate to Cocaine:Drugs dressing and anarchist “free love” movements From the sugar produced & Eur. Imperialism. to sex work and BDSM, we will investigate how on Caribbean slave plantations that fed Europe’s certain practices, identities, and communities 260 History

have come to be seen as “problems” in particular HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450- historical moments, as well as how individuals 1800 have developed their own strategies for working This course explores the emergence, development, with and against dominant gender and sexual and challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and norms. Focusing on historical contestation over blackness, that have been in place from the colonial the meanings of sexual “normality” and “deviance,” period to the present. Through the reading of primary we will trace the transformations in the cultural and secondary sources, we will explore various ways meanings, politics, and social organization of sexual through which enslaved people imagined freedom, and gender nonconformity over time. personal rights, community membership, and some Spring 2017: Queering Popular Culture. of the paths they created in order to improve their experiences and change the social order. In an attempt HIST B327 Topics in Early American History to have a comparative approach, we will look at This is a topics course. Course content varies. particular events and circumstances that took place Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o in few provinces in the Americas, with an emphasis Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will Units: 1.0 also look at the methodological challenges of studying (Not Offered 2016-2017) and writing history of people who in principle, were not allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will identify and underscore the contribution that people HIST B332 Higher Education for Women: Bryn Mawr of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, and Beyond freedom, equality, and democracy. This course will explore the history of women’s higher Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality learning in the United States from its origins in the Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies antebellum female seminary movement through debates Units: 1.0 about coeducation and the meaning of single-sex (Not Offered 2016-2017) education in the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on the rich history of Bryn Mawr College as HIST B342 Food and Identity in the Middle East our primary case study, we will focus on the expansion of social and professional opportunities for women, This course will provide an introduction to the study the workings of gender difference within American of the Middle East through an examination of culinary educational institutions, and the experiences of diverse history and foodways. Particular attention will be paid to alumnae/i, faculty, and staff. Over the course of the food as a marker of class, ethnic, and religious identity. semester, we will gain experience in archives and A brief theoretical introduction to foodways literature special collections research, oral history, and digital will include Claude Fischler’s work on identity and methods, and contribute to the building of contemporary Bourdieu’s work on taste and class. An examination of collections documenting Bryn Mawr campus life. the cookery of the classical Islamic period, along with a Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Status. discussion of the culinary exchange between the Middle Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies East and the West will provide the historical and cultural Units: 1.0 background for the study of the modern era. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B336 Topics in African History This is a topic course. Course content varies. HIST B349 Topics in Comparative History Counts towards: Africana Studies; International Studies Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Topics vary. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Africana Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B337 Topics in African History This is a topics course. Topics vary. HIST B351 Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol Counts towards: Africana Studies Consumption in Mod Mideast Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. This class aims to show not only that people in the Middle East drink, that is irrefutable, but that the reasons Spring 2017: Hist of Global Health AfricaThe why they did so provide an interesting prism through course examines the histories of global health which to view the history of the region. It will show initiatives to deal with the burden of disease in that the alcohol consumption habits of residents of the Africa. It offers historical (and anthroplogical) Middle East between the years 600 and the present perspectives on the ways in which medicine and can serve as an excellent entry point for the discussion public health in Africa have been transformed under of many important historiographical issues including the pressures of broad forces and factors, including constructions of masculinity and femininity, identity colonial exploitation and rule, post-Second World formation, youth culture, leisure, and class formation. War initiatives, the postcolonial economic and Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies political liberalization and globalization, and rise of Units: 1.0 ‘para-states’ in Africa. (Not Offered 2016-2017) History 261

HIST B357 Topics in British Empire HIST B403 Supervised Work This is a topics course. Topics vary. Optional independent study, which requires permission Units: 1.0 of the instructor and the major adviser. Instructor(s): Kale,M. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Land, Labor, Migration. Focusing geographically and temporally on the British HIST B425 Praxis III: Independent Study “West Indies” from the 17th century, and British “East Indies” from the 19th, this course explores Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and migration in the British empire both as complex are developed by individual students, in collaboration “socio-historical processes,” and through what has with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is been said about such processes. One crucial site distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite of exploration is the making & reproduction of the organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection Atlantic slave trade and plantation slavery in the that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the British Caribbean. classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding gained through classroom study to work done in the HIST B364 Magical Mechanisms broader community. Counts towards: Praxis Program A reading and research seminar focused on different Units: 1.0 examples of artificial life in medieval cultures. Primary (Not Offered 2016-2017) sources will be from a variety of genres, and secondary sources will include significant theoretical works in art history, critical theory and science studies. Prerequisite: ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East at least one course in medieval history (HIST B223, A survey of the history, material culture, political and B224, or B246), or the permission of the instructor. religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five Units: 1.0 great empires of the ancient Near East of the second (Not Offered 2016-2017) and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian HIST B368 Topics in Medieval History Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in Iran. This is a topics course. Topics vary. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 HIST B371 Topics in Atlantic History: The Early Instructor(s): Helft,S. Modern Pirate in Fact and Fiction (Fall 2016) This course will explore piracy in the Americas in the period 1550-1750. We will investigate the historical BIOL B214 The Historical Roots of Women in reality of pirates and what they did, and the manner Genetics and Embryology in which pirates have entered the popular imagination This course provides a general history of genetics and through fiction and films. Pirates have been depicted embryology from the late 19th to the mid-20th century as lovable rogues, anti-establishment rebels, and with a focus on the role that women scientists and enlightened multiculturalists who were skilled in technicians played in the development of these sub- dealing with the indigenous and African peoples of the disciplines. We will look at the lives of well known and Americas. The course will examine the facts and the lesser-known individuals, asking how factors such as fictions surrounding these important historical actors. their educational experiences and mentor relationships Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive influenced the roles these women played in the scientific Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific Studies contributions in historical context, requiring a review of Units: 1.0 core concepts in genetics and developmental biology. (Not Offered 2016-2017) One facet of the course will be to look at the Bryn Mawr Biology Department from the founding of the College HIST B373 Topics: History of the Middle East into the mid-20th century. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP); Scientific Units: 1.0 Investigation (SI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1.0 HIST B398 Senior Thesis (Not Offered 2016-2017) Students research and write a thesis on a topic of their choice. Prerequisite: Senior History major. CITY B250 Topics: Growth & Spatial Organization of Units: 1.0 the City Instructor(s): Kale,M., Gallup-Diaz,I. This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Fall 2016) Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 262 History

CITY B254 History of Modern Architecture information from multiple sources in a critical way. A survey of the development of modern architecture Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) since the 18th century. The course focuses on Units: 1.0 international networks in the transmission of Instructor(s): Tober,D. architectural ideas since 1890. (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic Units: 1.0 This course surveys the history of Rome from its origins Instructor(s): Morton,T. to the end of the Republic, with special emphasis on (Fall 2016) the rise of Rome in Italy and the evolution of the Roman state. The course also examines the Hellenistic world CITY B278 American Environmental History in which the rise of Rome takes place. The methods of This course explores major themes of American historical investigation using the ancient sources, both environmental history, examining changes in the literary and archaeological, are emphasized. American landscape, the history of ideas about nature Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and the interaction between the two. Students will study Units: 1.0 definitions of nature, environment, and environmental Instructor(s): Scott,R. history while investigating interactions between (Spring 2017) Americans and their physical worlds. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) CSTS B208 The Roman Empire Counts towards: Environmental Studies Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the Units: 1.0 House of Constantine with focus on the evolution of (Not Offered 2016-2017) Roman culture and society as presented in the surviving ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological. CITY B329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environments Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CSTS B213 Persia and The Greeks This Course explores interactions between Greeks CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and and Persians in the Mediterranean and Near East from Society the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic Age. Through a This is a topics course. Topics vary. variety of sources (from Greek histories, tragedies, Counts towards: Environmental Studies and ethnography, to Persian royal inscriptions and Units: 1.0 administrative documents and the Hebrew Bible), we (Not Offered 2016-2017) shall work to illuminate the interface between these two distinct yet complementary cultures. Our aim will be to gain familiarity not only with a general narrative CSTS B205 Greek History of Greco-Persian history, from the foundation of the This course traces the rise of the city-state (polis) in the Achaemenid Empire in the middle of the sixth century Greek-speaking world beginning in the seventh-century BCE to the Macedonian conquest of Persia some 250 BC down to its full blossoming in classical Athens and years later, but also with the materials (archaeological, Sparta. Students should gain an understanding of the numismatic, epigraphical, artistic, and literary) from formation and development of Greek identity, from which we build such a narrative. At the same time, we the Panhellenic trends in archaic epic and religion shall work to understand how contact between Persia through its crystallization during the heroic defense and the Greeks in antiquity has influenced discourse against two Persian invasions and its subsequent about the opposition between East and West in the disintegration during the Peloponnesian war. The class modern world. will also explore the ways in which the evolution of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the political, philosophical, religious, and artistic institutions Past (IP) reflect the changing socio-political circumstances of Units: 1.0 Greece. The latter part of the course will focus on (Not Offered 2016-2017) Athens in particular: its rise to imperial power under Pericles, its tragic decline from the Peloponnesian CSTS B230 Food and Drink in the Ancient World War and its important role as a center for the teaching of rhetoric and philosophy. Since the study of history This course explores practices of eating and drinking involves the analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of the in the ancient Mediterranean world both from a socio- sources available for the culture studied, students will cultural and environmental perspective. Since we are concentrate upon the primary sources available for not only what we eat, but also where, when, why, with Greek history, exploring the strengths and weakness of whom, and how we eat, we will examine the wider these sources and the ways in which their evidence can implications of patterns of food production, preparation, be used to create an understanding of ancient Greece. consumption, availability, and taboos, considering issues Students should learn how to analyze and evaluate like gender, health, financial situation, geographical the evidence from primary texts and to synthesize the variability, and political status. Anthropological, archaeological, literary, and art historical approaches will be used to analyze the evidence and shed light History 263 on the role of food and drink in ancient culture and EALC B325 Topics in Chinese History and Culture society. In addition, we will discuss how this affects This is a topics course. Course content varies. our contemporary customs and practices and how our Units: 1.0 identity is still shaped by what we eat. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies EALC B352 China’s Environment Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) This seminar explores China’s environmental issues from a historical perspective. It begins by considering a range of analytical approaches , and then explores CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece three general periods in China’s environmental changes, and Rome imperial times, Mao’s socialist experiments during the A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, first thirty years of the People’s Republic, and the post- including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic Mao reforms. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and Counts towards: Environmental Studies processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources Units: 1.0 and paying attention to art, archaeology and topography, (Not Offered 2016-2017) this course explores the social, political and religious contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will ENGL B347 Medievalisms be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment and the representation of ancient spectacle in This course assesses how the “Middle Ages” has been contemporary film. and continues to be constructed as a period of history, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) an object of inquiry, and a category of analysis. It Units: 1.0 considers how the past is formulated and called upon to (Not Offered 2016-2017) conduct the ideological and cultural work of the present, and it reads historical documents and literary texts in dialogue with one another. Suggested Preparation: EALC B131 Chinese Civilization At least one 200-level course in any area of medieval A broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and studies (although more than one course is preferred), society from the Bronze Age to the 1800s, with special or by permission of the instructors. Additionally, this reference to such topics as belief, family, language, the course is not open to students who took ENG/HIST 246 arts and sociopolitical organization. Readings include in 2013. primary sources in English translation and secondary Units: 1.0 studies. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ENGL B359 Dead Presidents Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. Framed by the extravagant funerals of Presidents (Spring 2017) Washington and Lincoln, this course explores the cultural importance of the figure of the President and the Presidential body, and of the 19th-century EALC B263 The Chinese Revolution preoccupations with death and mourning, in the U.S. Places the causes and consequences of the 20th cultural imaginary from the Revolutionary movement century revolutions in historical perspective, by through the Civil War. examining its late-imperial antecedents and tracing how Units: 1.0 the revolution has (and has not) transformed China, (Not Offered 2016-2017) including the lives of such key revolutionary supporters as the peasantry, women, and intellectuals. FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Hygiene and Eugenics Past (IP) Units: 1.0 At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in (Not Offered 2016-2017) common: the former is usually conceived as a good management of our everyday conditions of life, whereas the latter is commonly reviled for having inspired EALC B264 Human Rights in China discriminatory practices (in Nazi Germany, but also This course will examine China’s human rights issues in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Our inquiry will from a historical perspective. The topics include diverse explore how, in the context of the French Enlightenment, perspectives on human rights, historical background, a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) was civil rights, religious practice, justice system, education, redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became as well as the problems concerning some social groups hegemonic both in the medical field and in civil society. such as migrant laborers, women, ethnic minorities and We will also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal peasants. led to the quest for the improvement of the human Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the species. We will compare the French situation with that Past (IP) of other countries (mainly UK and the USA). Students Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies who wish to get credit in French will meet one extra Units: 1.0 hour. Instructor(s): Jiang,Y. (Fall 2016) 264 History

Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the HIST B224 High Middle Ages Past (IP) This course will cover the second half of the European Counts towards: Health Studies Middle Ages, often called the High and Late Middle Units: 1.0 Ages, from roughly 1000-1400. The course has (Not Offered 2016-2017) a general chronological framework, and is based on important themes of medieval history. These GERM B223 Topics in German Cultural Studies include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social This is a topics course. Course content varies. transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the Recent topics include Remembered Violence, Global rise of the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; Masculinities, and Crime and Detection in German. urbanism and the growth of towns. The current topic will be taught in English with an Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the additional meeting for students taking the class as Past (IP) a German course. Current topic is Remembered Units: 1.0 Violence. Description: As Germany was rebuilding from (Not Offered 2016-2017) two world war wars and the Holocaust, its history was being redefined in an international context where non- HIST B364 Magical Mechanisms Germans were also confronting the legacy of violent A reading and research seminar focused on different conflict with Germany. We will explore the conditions examples of artificial life in medieval cultures. Primary that raise the question of a central feature of memory sources will be from a variety of genres, and secondary in the modern era: does a common sense of history sources will include significant theoretical works in art emerge from this international dialogue or does the history, critical theory and science studies. Prerequisite: cultural legacy of violence come out of an ongoing at least one course in medieval history (HIST B223, contest over divergent memories? B224, or B246), or the permission of the instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Units: 1.0 Interpretation (CI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B368 Topics in Medieval History This is a topics course. Topics vary. HART B211 Topics in Medieval Art History Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) LATN B305 Livy & the Conquest of the Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Mediterranean Close analysis of Livy’s account of the Second HART B311 Topics in Medieval Art Macedonian War, the Syrian War, and the origins of the third Macedonian War. Emphasis will be placed This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current on Livy’s method of composition and reliability, of his topic description: Topic TBA general historical outlook, and that of other authors who Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies covered the period. The relevant sections of Polybius’ Units: 1.0 history, Plutarch’s biographies of Flamininus, the Elder (Spring 2017) Cato, and Aemilius Paullus as well as all relevant inscriptions will be dealt with in English. HART B355 Topics in the History of London Units: 1.0 Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural (Not Offered 2016-2017) concern in the history of London, emphasizing London since the 18th century. POLS B283 Introduction to the Politics of the Units: 1.0 Modern Middle East and North Africa Instructor(s): Cast,D. This course is a multidisciplinary approach to (Fall 2016) understanding the politics of the region, using works of history, political science, political economy, film, HIST B223 The Early Medieval World and fiction as well as primary sources. The course will The first of a two-course sequence introducing medieval concern itself with three broad areas: the legacy of European history. The chronological span of this course colonialism and the importance of international forces; is from the early 4th century and the Christianization the role of Islam in politics; and the political and social of the Roman Empire to the early 10th century and the effects of particular economic conditions, policies, and disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. practices. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Past (IP) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Fenner,S. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017) History of Art 265

POLS B378 Origins of American Constitutionalism HISTORY OF ART This course will explore some aspects of early American constitutional thought, particularly in the periods Students may complete a major or minor in History of immediately preceding and following the American Art. Revolution. The premise of the course is that many of the questions that arose during that period—concerning, for example, the nature of law, the idea of sovereignty, Faculty and the character of legitimate political authority— David Cast, Professor of History of Art remain important questions for political, legal, and constitutional thought today, and that studying the Maeve Doyle, Lecturer debates of the revolutionary period can help sharpen Matthew Charles Feliz, Lecturer our understanding of these issues. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and previous course work in Christiane Hertel, Katharine E. McBride Professor American history, American government, political theory, Sylvia Houghteling, Assistant Professor of History of Art or legal studies. Units: 1.0 Homay King, Professor of History of Art and the Eugenia (Not Offered 2016-2017) Chase Guild Chair in the Humanities (on leave semester I) SOCL B284 Modernity and Its Discontents Steven Levine, Professor of History of Art and the Leslie This course examines the nature, historical emergence, Clark Professor in the Humanities dilemmas, and prospects of modern society in the Lisa Saltzman, Chair and Professor of History of Art west, seeking to build up an integrated analysis of and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the the processes by which this kind of society developed Humanities over the past two centuries and continues to transform Alicia Walker, Associate Professor of History of Art on itself. Its larger aim is to help students develop a the Marie Neuberger Fund for the Study of Arts and coherent framework with which to understand what Director of the Center for Visual Culture (on leave kind of society they live in, what makes it the way semesters I & II) it is, and how it shapes their lives. Some central themes (and controversies) will include the growth and transformations of capitalism; the significance of the The curriculum in History of Art immerses students democratic and industrial revolutions; the social impact in the study of visual culture. Structured by a set of a market economy; the culture of individualism and of evolving disciplinary concerns, students learn to its dilemmas; the transformations of intimacy and the interpret the visual through methodologies dedicated family; mass politics and mass society; and the different to the historical, the material, the critical, and the kinds of interplay between social structure and personal theoretical. Majors are encouraged to supplement experience. No specific prerequisites, but some courses taken in the department with history of art previous familiarity with modern European and American courses offered at Haverford, Swarthmore, and the history and/or with social and political theory would be University of Pennsylvania. Majors are also encouraged useful. to study abroad for a semester of their junior year. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Major Requirements (Not Offered 2016-2017) The major requires ten units, approved by the major adviser. A usual sequence of courses would include SPAN B323 Memoria y Guerra Civil at least one 100-level “critical approaches” seminar, A look into the Spanish Civil War and its wide-ranging which also fulfills the departmental writing intensive international significance as both the military and requirement, four 200-level lecture courses, three ideological testing ground for World War II. This course 300-level seminars, and senior conference I and II examines the endurance of myths related to this conflict in the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. In and the cultural memory it has produced along with the course of their departmental studies, students are the current negotiations of the past that is taking place strongly encouraged to take courses across media in democratic Spain. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN and areas, and in at least three of the following fields 200-level course. of study: Ancient and Medieval, Renaissance and Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Baroque, Modern and Contemporary, Film, and Global/ Studies Non-Western. Units: 1.0 With the approval of the major adviser, courses in fine (Not Offered 2016-2017) arts or with significant curricular investment in visual studies may be counted toward the fulfillment of the distribution requirements, such as courses in ancient art offered by the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology department or in architecture by the Growth and Structure of Cities department. Similarly, courses in art history taken abroad or at another institution in the United States may be counted. Generally, no more than 266 History of Art two such courses may be counted toward the major Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the requirements. Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive A senior thesis, based on independent research and Units: 1.0 using scholarly methods of historical and/or critical Instructor(s): Cast,D. interpretation must be submitted at the end of the spring (Fall 2016) semester. Generally 25-40 pages in length, the senior thesis represents the culmination of the departmental experience. HART B107 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France Honors A study of artists’ self-representations in the context of the philosophy and psychology of their time, with Seniors whose work is outstanding (with a 3.7 GPA in particular attention to issues of political patronage, the major) will be invited to submit an honors thesis. gender and class, power and desire. Two or three faculty members discuss the completed Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the thesis with the honors candidate in a one-half hour oral Past (IP) examination. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor Requirements Units: 1.0 A minor in history of art requires six units: one or two Instructor(s): Levine,S. 100-level courses and four or five others selected in (Fall 2016) consultation with the major adviser. HART B108 Critical Approaches to Visual COURSES Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art HART B102 Critical Approaches to Visual An investigation of the history of art since the Representation: Naturalism and the Supernatural in Renaissance organized around the practice of women South Asian Art artists, the representation of women in art, and the This course examines the coexistence of aniconic, visual economy of the gaze. figural and supernatural representations of gods, plants, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the humans and animals in the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Past (IP) Islamic artistic traditions of India. It will trace both the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive development of naturalistic representations, as well Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies as departures and embellishments on naturalism in Units: 1.0 the painting, sculpture, architecture, metalwork and Instructor(s): Saltzman,L. textiles of South Asia. In this course, we will study the (Spring 2017) central tenets of South Asian religious traditions and will read and listen to the epic narratives, Sufi poetry HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual and classical Indian music that influenced so much of Representation: Identification in the Cinema South Asia’s visual culture. With this foundation, the An introduction to the analysis of film through particular course will consider the spiritual, social, political and attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving creative motivations that led artists to choose naturalistic images compel our fascination? How exactly do film or supernatural forms of representation, reaffirming spectators relate to the people, objects, and places that the anti- and super-naturalistic elements of South that appear on the screen? Wherein lies the power of Asian art rarely resulted from a lack of skill but from the images to move, attract, repel, persuade, or transform conscious choice of the artist. In writing assignments, its viewers? In this course, students will be introduced students will be challenged to find words to describe to film theory through the rich and complex topic of the myriad representational strategies that South Asian identification. We will explore how points of view are artists have used over time to depict their own world, but framed in cinema, and how those viewing positions also to render other realms. This writing intensive (WI) differ from those of still photography, advertising, course will therefore emphasize the importance of using video games, and other forms of media. Students of precise and creative language in art historical visual will be encouraged to consider the role the cinematic analysis. medium plays in influencing our experience of a film: Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the how it is not simply a film’s content, but the very form Past (IP) of representation that creates interactions between Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive the spectator and the images on the screen. Film Units: 1.0 screenings include Psycho, Being John Malkovich, Instructor(s): Houghteling,S. and others. Course is geared to freshman and those (Spring 2017) with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor HART B104 Critical Approaches to Visual Introductory course or Theory course requirement. Representation: The Classical Tradition Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the An investigation of the historical and philosophical ideas Past (IP) of the classical, with particular attention to the Italian Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Renaissance and the continuance of its formulations Counts towards: Film Studies throughout the Westernized world. History of Art 267

Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Instructor(s): King,H. Past (IP) (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Houghteling,S. HART B211 Topics in Medieval Art History (Fall 2016) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the HART B250 Nineteenth-Century Art in France Past (IP) Close attention is selectively given to the work of Units: 1.0 Cézanne, Courbet, David, Degas, Delacroix, Géricault, (Not Offered 2016-2017) Ingres, Manet, and Monet. Extensive readings in art criticism are required. HART B212 Medieval Art & Architecture Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) This course takes a broad geographic and chronological Units: 1.0 scope, allowing for full exposure to the rich variety of Instructor(s): Levine,S. objects and monuments that fall under the rubric of (Spring 2017) “medieval” art and architecture. We focus on the Latin and Byzantine Christian traditions, but also consider works of art and architecture from the Islamic and HART B253 Survey of Western Architecture Jewish spheres. Topics to be discussed include: the The major traditions in Western architecture are role of religion in artistic development and expression; illustrated through detailed analysis of selected secular traditions of medieval art and culture; facture examples from classical antiquity to the present. The and materiality in the art of the middle ages; the use evolution of architectural design and building technology, of objects and monuments to convey political power and the larger intellectual, aesthetic, and social context and social prestige; gender dynamics in medieval in which this evolution occurred, are considered. visual culture; and the contribution of medieval art and Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) architecture to later artistic traditions. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Instructor(s): Cast,D. Past (IP) (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) HART B260 Modern Art This course will trace the history of modern art, from its HART B230 Renaissance Art origins to its ends. A survey of painting in Florence and Rome in the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the 15th and 16th centuries (Giotto, Masaccio, Botticelli, Past (IP) Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael), with particular Units: 1.0 attention to contemporary intellectual, social, and Instructor(s): Feliz,M. religious developments. (Fall 2016) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) HART B272 Since 1960: Contemporary Art and Units: 1.0 Theory (Not Offered 2016-2017) Lectures and readings will examine major movements in contemporary art, including Pop Art, Minimalism, HART B240 The Global Baroque Conceptualism, Performance, Postmodernism, and “The Global Baroque” examines artistic production in the Installation Art. We will examine the dialogue between seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the Baroque visual works and critical texts by Roland Barthes, Claire style spread far beyond its original European context to Bishop, Frederic Jameson, Adrian Piper, and Kobena Eastern Europe, the New World, the Ottoman Empire, Mercer, among others. the Kingdom of Kongo, India, Japan and China. We will Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) study the emergence in this period of new intellectual, Units: 1.0 artistic and social formations: the migration of artisans (Not Offered 2016-2017) and changes in the structure of guilds; the creation of princely collections of wonders; the invention, HART B273 Topics in Early China importation and use of exotic art materials; early modern This is a topics course. Course content varies. ethnography and representations of the “other”; and Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) the participation of art in early modern politics, religious Units: 1.0 missions and global trade. As a class, we will study the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Baroque as an invitation for emotional engagement, a response to the new material culture of global trade, as a style of power that was complicit in the violence and HART B274 Topics in Chinese Art inhumanity of European colonialism, and, paradoxically, This is a topics course. Course content varies. as a tool of cultural reclamation used by artists across Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the the world. We will ultimately interrogate how to construct Past (IP) an art history of “The Global Baroque” that also attends Units: 1.0 to the complex specificities of time and place. (Not Offered 2016-2017) 268 History of Art

HART B277 Topics: History of Photography dimensions of cinema. Readings will provide historical This is a topics course. Course content varies. context, and will introduce students to key concepts in Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, Units: 1.0 the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the history (Not Offered 2016-2017) requirement or the introductory course requirement for the Film Studies minor. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New Past (IP) Articulations Counts towards: Film Studies At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural Units: 1.0 history museum played an important role in constructing (Not Offered 2016-2017) and disseminating images of Africa to the Western public. The history of museum representations of Africa HART B300 The Curator in the Museum and Africans reveals that exhibitions—both museum exhibitions and “living” World’s Fair exhibitions— has This course provides an introduction to theoretical and long been deeply embedded in politics, including the practical aspects of museums and to the links between persistent “othering” of African people as savages practice and theory that are the defining characteristic of or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical the museum curator’s work today. The challenges and exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider opportunities confronting curators and their colleagues, how art museums are creating new constructions of peers, audiences, and constituents will be addressed Africa and how contemporary curators and conceptual through readings, discussions, guest presentations, artists are creating complex, challenging new ways of writings, and individual and group projects. understanding African identities. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Africana Studies; Museum Studies Units: 1.0 HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Strategies Instructor(s): Scott,M. This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Museum Studies; Praxis Program Units: 1.0 HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Instructor(s): Robbins,C. Practice Spring 2017: Exhibiting the Self. Mirroring the Using the museums of Philadelphia as field sites, Self, Exhibiting the Self is a two-semester cluster, this course provides an introduction to the theoretical building toward a student-curated exhibition of and practical aspects of museum studies and the art and artifacts from the College’s collections. foundations of the “new museology.” Students will learn: In the fall, participants will study the history and the history of museums as institutions of both education theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and and leisure; how the museum itself became a symbol self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from of prestige, power and sometimes alienation; debates antiquity to the present. They will research and write around the ethics and politics of collecting objects of catalogue entries on the objects they have selected art, culture and nature; and the qualities that make for exhibition. In the spring, students will explore an exhibition effective (or not). By visiting exhibitions museums and discuss theories of exhibition- and meeting with a range of museum professionals in making, learning to identify different curatorial art, anthropology and science museums, this course approaches. They will determine a curatorial offers a critical perspective on the inner workings of the agenda, produce didactic materials, develop public museum. programming, and install an exhibition. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) HART B306 Film Theory Counts towards: Museum Studies Units: 1.0 An introduction to major developments in film theory Instructor(s): Scott,M. and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of (Fall 2016) film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic “author”; the politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film present studies; the relation between film studies and other This course surveys the history of narrative film from disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week 1945 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the Class will be divided between discussion of critical French New Wave, and other post-war movements texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be text. Prerequisite: A course in Film Studies (HART supplemented by more recent examples of global B110, HART B299, ENGL B205, or the equivalent from cinema. While historical in approach, this course another college by permission of instructor). emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, Counts towards: Film Studies and we will consider various methodological approaches Units: 1.0 to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological Instructor(s): King,H. (Spring 2017) History of Art 269

HART B311 Topics in Medieval Art HART B350 Topics in Modern Art This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current This is a topics course. Course content varies. topic description: Topic TBA Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Instructor(s): Levine,S. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Mirroring the Self. Mirroring the Self, Exhibiting the Self is a 2-semester 360° cluster, HART B323 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art building toward a student-authored catalog & student-curated exhibition of College collections. This is a topics course. Course content varies. In the fall, history of self-representation & cosmetic Units: 1.0 self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from (Not Offered 2016-2017) antiquity to the present. In the spring, theory & practice of exhibitions, curatorial approaches, HART B334 Topics in Film Studies installation, and public programming. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film HART B355 Topics in the History of London Studies Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural Units: 1.0 concern in the history of London, emphasizing London Instructor(s): Feliz,M. since the 18th century. Units: 1.0 Fall 2016: Visual Culture and Technology. This Instructor(s): Cast,D. course examines the intersections of art and (Fall 2016) technology across a wide range of visual culture and popular media. Beginning with an exploration HART B370 Topics in Chinese Art of a set of aesthetic and cultural production that includes 16th century woodcuts, 17th century This is a topics course. Course content varies. cabinets of curiosity, 18th century magic lantern Units: 1.0 shows, and 19th century stereoscopes and (Not Offered 2016-2017) panoramas, the course will provide historical context for a consideration of the role that various HART B373 Contemporary Art in Exhibition: forms of technology have played in shaping art, film Museums and Beyond and new media in the 20th and 21st century. How does the collection and display of artwork create meanings beyond the individual art object? In recent HART B340 Topics in Baroque Art decades, enormous shifts have occurred in exhibition This is a topics course. Course content varies. design as artwork projected from the walls of the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies museum, moved outdoors to the space of the street, Units: 1.0 and eventually went online. We will study an array of Instructor(s): Hertel,C. contemporary exhibition practices and sites in their social and historical contexts, including the temporary Fall 2016: Dutch Painting. This seminar examines exhibition, “the white cube,” the “black box,” museum the conceptual polarity of realism and illusionism installations, international biennials, and websites. in paintings by Hals, Peeters, Steen, Rembrandt, During the seminar, we will examine how issues such Ruisdael, Terborch, Vermeer, and others by way as patronage, avant-gardism, globalization, and identity of attending to genres (e.g., scenes of social politics have progressively brought museums and other life, portrait, still life, landscape) and modes of exhibition spaces into question. representation (e.g., comedy, parody, vanitas), as Units: 1.0 well as cultural, social, and political practices (e.g., (Not Offered 2016-2017) religion, colonialism, luxury consumption, gender roles, scientific exploration, and collection). HART B374 Topics: Exhibition Seminar HART B345 Topics in Material Culture This is a topics course. Course content varies. Students This is a topics course. Course content varies. will gain practical experience in the production of an Units: 1.0 exhibition: conceiving a curatorial approach, articulating Instructor(s): Houghteling,S. themes, writing didactics, researching a checklist, designing gallery layout, producing print and web Fall 2016: Textiles of Asia. This course will delve materials, developing programs, and marketing the into more local questions including techniques of exhibit. Prerequisite: At least one previous HART course production, paths of circulation and contexts of at Bryn Mawr College. reception. Through close study of woven objects Units: 1.0 and visits to the Penn Museum and the Philadelphia (Not Offered 2016-2017) Museum of Art, this course will trace the history of textiles from the 9th century to the 18th century, HART B380 Topics in Contemporary Art encompassing Eastern and Western Asia, from This is a topics course. Course content varies. Chinese and Indonesian textile traditions to the Units: 1.0 weavings of Iran and Turkey. Instructor(s): Feliz,M. 270 History of Art

Fall 2016: Visual Culture & the Holocaust. HART B630 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art Poems, novels, films, photographs, paintings, This is a topics course. Course content varies. performances, monuments, memorials, even Units: 1.0 comics have engaged us with the traumatic history (Not Offered 2016-2017) of the Holocaust. Our task will be to examine such cultural objects, aided by the extensive body of HART B636 Vasari critical, historical, theoretical, and philosophical writings through which such work has been This seminar focuses on Giorgio Vasari as painter and variously critiqued and commended. architect and above all as a founder of the Florentine Academy and the writer of the first modern history of the Spring 2017: Latin American Conceptualisms. arts. Topics covered range across the arts of that time and then the questions any such critical accounting of HART B398 Senior Conference I the arts calls up, imitation, invention, the notion of the A critical review of the discipline of art history in artist and however it is possible to capture in words what preparation for the senior thesis. Required of all senior seems often to be beyond them. majors. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Cast,D., Saltzman,L. (Fall 2016) HART B673 Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond HART B399 Senior Conference II How does the collection and display of artwork create A seminar for the discussion of senior thesis research meanings beyond the individual art object? In recent and such theoretical and historical concerns as may be decades, enormous shifts have occurred in exhibition appropriate. Interim oral reports. Required of all majors; design as artwork projected from the walls of the culminates in the senior thesis. museum, moved outdoors to the space of the street, Units: 1.0 and eventually went online. We will study an array of Instructor(s): Cast,D., Levine,S. contemporary exhibition practices and sites in their (Spring 2017) social and historical contexts, including the temporary exhibition, “the white cube,” the “black box,” museum HART B403 Supervised Work installations, international biennials, and websites. Advanced students may do independent research under During the seminar, we will examine how issues such the supervision of a faculty member whose special as patronage, avant-gardism, globalization, and identity competence coincides with the area of the proposed politics have progressively brought museums and other research. Consent of the supervising faculty member exhibition spaces into question. and of the major adviser is required. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) ANTH B271 Museum Anthropology: History, Politics, HART B425 Praxis III Practices Students are encouraged to develop internship projects This course provides an in-depth exploration of in the college’s collections and other art institutions in museum anthropology: the critical study of museum the region. practices from an anthropological perspective. The Counts towards: Praxis Program course will fundamentally consider the role of museums Units: 1.0 in exhibiting culture—the politics of placing cultures (Not Offered 2016-2017) on display, from living humans and human remains to cultural objects and artifacts. The course will also consider changing practices in museum anthropology, HART B624 Topics in Dutch Painting including repatriation efforts, shifting notions of heritage This is a topics course. Course content varies. and identity and the emergence of community-curated Units: 1.0 exhibitions. This course complements the theoretical Instructor(s): Hertel,C. explorations of the museum with visits to area museums and hands-on work in Special Collections. Fall 2016: Realism and Illusionism This seminar Approach: Course does not meet an Approach examines the conceptual polarity of realism and Units: 1.0 illusionism in paintings by Hals, Peeters, Steen, (Not Offered 2016-2017) Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Terborch, Vermeer, and others by way of attending to genres (e.g., scenes of social life, portrait, still life, landscape) and ARCH B125 Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky modes of representation (e.g., comedy, parody, This course explores Greek and Roman mythology vanitas), as well as cultural, social, and political using an archaeological and art historical approach, practices (e.g., religion, colonialism, luxury focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of consumption, gender roles, scientific exploration, the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and and collection). transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment. History of Art 271

Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) production are examined in historical and social context, Units: 1.0 including interactions with neighboring areas and Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are (Fall 2016) highlighted. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the ARCH B204 Animals in the Ancient Greek World Past (IP) Units: 1.0 This course focuses on perceptions of animals in Instructor(s): Donohue,A. ancient Greece from the Geometric to the Classical (Fall 2016) periods. It examines representations of animals in painting, sculpture, and the minor arts, the treatment of animals as attested in the archaeological record, and ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity how these types of evidence relate to the featuring of We investigate representations of women in different animals in contemporary poetry, tragedy, comedy, and media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the medical and philosophical writings. By analyzing this cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that rich body of evidence, the course develops a context they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in in which participants gain insight into the ways ancient the ancient world, the objects that they were associated Greeks perceived, represented, and treated animals. with in life and death and their occupations. Juxtaposing the importance of animals in modern Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the society, as attested, for example, by their roles as Past (IP) pets, agents of healing, diplomatic gifts, and even as Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive subjects of specialized studies such as animal law and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies animal geographies, the course also serves to expand Units: 1.0 awareness of attitudes towards animals in our own Instructor(s): Lindenlauf,A. society as well as that of ancient Greece. (Spring 2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 ARCH B254 Cleopatra (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course examines the life and rule of Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the reception ARCH B205 Greek Sculpture of her legacy in the Early Roman Empire and the One of the best preserved categories of evidence western world from the Renaissance to modern times. for ancient Greek culture is sculpture. The Greeks The first part of the course explores extant literary devoted immense resources to producing sculpture evidence regarding the upbringing, education, and that encompassed many materials and forms and rule of Cleopatra within the contexts of Egyptian and served a variety of important social functions. This Ptolemaic cultures, her relationships with Julius Caesar course examines sculptural production in Greece and and Marc Antony, her conflict with Octavian, and her neighboring lands from the Bronze Age through the death by suicide in 30 BCE. The second part examines fourth century B.C.E. with special attention to style, constructions of Cleopatra in Roman literature, her iconography and historical and social context. iconography in surviving art, and her contributions Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the to and influence on both Ptolemaic and Roman art. Past (IP) A detailed account is also provided of the afterlife of Units: 1.0 Cleopatra in the literature, visual arts, scholarship, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and film of both Europe and the United States, extending from the papal courts of Renaissance Italy ARCH B206 Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture and Shakespearean drama, to Thomas Jefferson’s art collection at Monticello and Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 This course surveys the sculpture produced from the epic film, Cleopatra. fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the period, beginning with the death of Alexander the Past (IP) Great, that saw the transformation of the classical world Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies through the rise of Rome and the establishment and Units: 1.0 expansion of the Roman Empire. Style, iconography, Instructor(s): Tasopoulou,E. and production will be studied in the contexts of (Spring 2017) the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman society, and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman ARCH B303 Classical Bodies sculpture in the post-antique classical tradition. An examination of the conceptions of the human body Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, Past (IP) with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of Units: 1.0 concepts of male and female standards of beauty and (Not Offered 2016-2017) their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ARCH B215 Classical Art ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the A survey of the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome formulation of the “classical ideal” in antiquity and later from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa times. 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic 272 History of Art

Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies what it may tell us about the globalization and politics Units: 1.0 of the twentieth century, and about history, theory, and Instructor(s): Donohue,A. criticism as epistemological tracks. (Spring 2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ARCH B359 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Cohen,J. This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Spring 2017) Prerequisites: 200-level coursework in some aspect of classical or related cultures, archeology or art history. Units: 1.0 CITY B304 Disaster, War and Rebuilding in the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Japanese City Natural and man-made disasters have destroyed CITY B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from Japanese cities regularly. Rebuilding generally ensued Antiquity to the Present at a very rapid pace, often as a continuation of the past. Following a brief examination of literature on This course studies the city as a three-dimensional disaster and rebuilding and a historical overview of artifact. A variety of factors—geography, economic and architectural and urban history in Japan, this course population structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics— explores the reasons for historical transformations large are considered as determinants of urban form. and small. It specifically argues that rebuilding was Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the mostly the result of traditions, whereas transformation Past (IP) of urban space occurred primarily as a result of political Units: 1.0 and socio-economic change. Focusing on the period Instructor(s): Morton,T. since the Meiji restoration of 1868, we ask: How did (Spring 2017) reconstruction after natural and man-made disasters shape the contemporary Japanese landscape? We CITY B227 Topics in Modern Planning will explore specifically the destruction and rebuilding This is a topics course. Course content varies. after the 1891 Nobi earthquake, the 1923 Great Kanto Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the earthquake that leveled Tokyo and Yokohama, the Past (IP) bombing of more than 200 cities in World War II and Units: 1.0 their rebuilding, as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin (Not Offered 2016-2017) earthquake that destroyed Kobe and its reconstruction. In the context of the long history of destruction and CITY B254 History of Modern Architecture rebuilding we will finally explore the recent disaster in A survey of the development of modern architecture Fukushima 2011. Through the story of disaster and since the 18th century. The course focuses on rebuilding emerge different approaches to permanence international networks in the transmission of and change, to urban livability, the environment and architectural ideas since 1890. sustainability. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Morton,T. CITY B306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places (Fall 2016) in Time A workshop for research into the histories of places, CITY B255 Survey of American Architecture intended to bring students into contact with some of the This survey course examines architecture within raw materials of architectural and urban history. A focus the global framework of “the modern.” Through an will be placed on historical images and texts, and on introduction to an architectural canon of works and creating engaging informational experiences that are figures, it seeks to foster a critical consideration of transparent to their evidentiary basis. modernity, modernization, and modernism. The course Units: 1.0 explores each as a category of meaning that framed Instructor(s): Cohen,J. the theory and practice of architecture as a cultural, (Spring 2017) political, social, and technological enterprise. It also uses these conjugates to study the modes by which CITY B360 Topics: Urban Culture and Society architecture may be said to have framed history. We This is a topics course. Course content varies. will study practical and discursive activity that formed a Units: 1.0 dynamic field within which many of the contradictions Instructor(s): Morton,T. of “the modern” were made visible (and visual) through architecture. In this course, we will engage architectural Fall 2016: City of Rome. In this seminar we will concepts and designs by studying drawings and study the city of Rome through time and space and buildings closely within their historical context. We will will start with the city’s mythical founding and work examine spheres of reception for architecture and its our way through contemporary Rome. Focal points theoretical, discursive, and cultural life through a variety will include: the Roman Empire, the urban planning of media: buildings of course, but also journals, books, of the Baroque popes, Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome,’ and film. We will also investigate architecture as a site and the contemporary city of Renzo Piano, Richard and subject for critical inquiry. In particular, we will see Meier, and Zaha Hadid. Throughout this discussion- History of Art 273

based course we will examine innumerable issues, ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New such as the use and abuse of the past throughout Media the city’s long history. The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian CITY B377 Topics in Modern Architecture American identities in film, video, and the internet, This is a topics course on modern architecture. Topics taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian vary. Americans in works produced by Asian American artists Units: 1.0 from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, (Not Offered 2016-2017) we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find CITY B378 Formative Landscapes: The Architecture objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage and Planning of American Collegiate Campuses analytically with all class material. To maintain an The campus and buildings familiar to us here at the atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the College reflect a long and rich design conversation participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. regarding communicative form, architectural innovation, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film and orchestrated planning. This course will explore that Studies conversation through varied examples, key models, and Units: 1.0 shaping conceptions over time. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities EALC B212 Topics: Introduction to Chinese An examination in English of leading theories of Literature interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and This is a topics course. Topics may vary. Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. This course will be taught in English and focus ENGL B205 Introduction to Film on works of French feminist, postcolonial and This course is intended to provide students with post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition of images and sounds, sections of films and entire (namely French), and more or less distinctly narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical circumscribed fields, we will also look at the viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in broader transcultural and translinguistic influences film studies. The course introduces formal and technical that brought these “schools” into being and, most units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and importantly, what fields of thinking they have history that add up to the experiences and meanings we subsequently inspired across language traditions. call cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly Studies screenings is mandatory. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Shen,Q. Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. (Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Representing Diversity in German Cinema. This course examines a wide-ranging ENGL B336 Topics in Film repertoire of transnational films produced in This is a topics course. Course content varies. contemporary Germany. It presents an introduction Counts towards: Film Studies to modern German cinema through a close analysis Units: 1.0 of visual material and identity construction in the Instructor(s): Nguyen,H. worlds of the real and the reel.

Fall 2016: Global Queer Cinema. This course HART B603 Advanced Research Methods asks, “What can the theories of globalization, Grounded in the foundational and emergent methods transnationalism, and diaspora contribute to the of the discipline, this seminar will immerse students in study of same-sex eroticisms in the cinema?” To the process of advanced art historical research and help us answer this question, we will base our writing. Designed to strengthen skills and facilitate the investigation on a corpus of films drawn from across timely completion of MA theses, if not also, should more the globe (mostly from non-US contexts) that deal advanced students be interested, dissertations, this with non-normative sexualities. seminar will be at once an incubator and a workshop. 274 History of Art

Units: 1.0 Fall 2016: Visual Culture & the Holocaust. Instructor(s): King,H. Poems, novels, films, photographs, paintings, (Spring 2017) performances, monuments, memorials, even comics have engaged us with the traumatic history HART B610 Topics in Medieval Art of the Holocaust. Our task will be to examine such cultural objects, aided by the extensive body of This is a topics course. Course content varies. critical, historical, theoretical, and philosophical Units: 1.0 writings through which such work has been (Not Offered 2016-2017) variously critiqued and commended.

HART B640 Topics in Baroque Art HART B701 Supervised Work This is a topics course. Course content varies. Supervised Work Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Houghteling,S. Instructor(s): Cast,D., Levine,S., Saltzman,L., King,H., Houghteling,S. Spring 2017: Tapestry. This course will examine (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) the technical origins, spatial functions and art historical contributions of the tapestry medium in the early modern world. ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities HART B645 Problems in Representation An examination in English of leading theories of This seminar examines, as philosophy and history, interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and the idea of realism, as seen in the visual arts since Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course the Renaissance and beyond to the 19th and 20th content varies. centuries. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HART B650 Topics in Modern Art ITAL B219 Multiculturalism in Medieval Italy This is a topics course. Topics vary. This course examines cross-cultural interactions in Units: 1.0 medieval Italy played out through the patronage, Instructor(s): Levine,S. production, and reception of works of art and architecture. Sites of patronage and production include Spring 2017: Monet and Modernisim. This the cities of Venice, Palermo, and Pisa. Media examined seminar considers a variety of approaches to the include buildings, mosaics, ivories, and textiles. work of Claude Monet and his contemporaries Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the in the context of Realism, Impressionism, Post- Past (IP) Impressionism, and Modernism. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HART B651 Topics: Interpretation and Theory This is a topics course. Course content varies. RUSS B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and Units: 1.0 Film Instructor(s): Saltzman,L. This course focuses on Russian avant-garde painting, literature and cinema at the start of the 20th century. Fall 2016: Approaches to Abstraction This course Moving from Imperial Russian art to Stalinist aesthetics, will examine a range of theoretical approaches to we explore the rise of non-objective painting (Malevich, abstraction. Kandinsky, etc.), ground-breaking literature (Bely, HART B671 Topics in German Art Mayakovsky), and revolutionary cinema (Vertov, Eisenstein). No knowledge of Russian required. This is a topics course. Topics vary. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Film Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HART B678 Portraiture This seminar on self-portraiture examines the RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to representation of the individual from the Renaissance 1945 to the present in painting, photography, and film. Artists This is a topics course. Course content varies. range from Artemisia Gentileschi and Poussin to Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cézanne and Cindy Sherman. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Film Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Harte,T. HART B680 Topics in Contemporary Art This is a topics course. Course content varies. Spring 2017: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Units: 1.0 Russia & Beyond. This course will explore cinema International Studies 275

from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the from specified tracks that reflect areas of strength in end of the silent era. While the course will focus faculty research and teaching. It allows students to on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects explore the descriptive and normative aspects of living of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films in a world characterized by the deep interconnections analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic of a globalized world. It thus draws on Bryn Mawr’s methods that went into the direction and production longstanding interest in promoting justice with its of a variety of celebrated silent films from Russia, already established coursework at the undergraduate Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. These films will level and at the Graduate School of Social Work and be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, Social Research and on its well established programs in social, and even philosophical, so that students can languages and cultures. develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema’s rapid evolution. The curricular content is relevant in preparing graduates to participate critically and effectively in the many integrated transnational and global institutional networks of production, services, creative expression, research INTERNATIONAL STUDIES and governance. Thus students with specialties in the Humanities, Social Sciences, or Sciences can Students may complete a major or a minor in benefit from a visible and structured flow of courses in International Studies. International Studies. The inter and multi-disciplinary approaches reflected in the structure for the major Co-Directors as well as for the minor reflect the kind of integrative thinking that is necessary for effective agency in the Grace Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of globalized world economy and society. Students in French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages International Studies will be made aware of both the and Co-Director of the International Studies distinct modes of inquiry that may transcend disciplines Program (Semester I) and the cumulative effects of convergent examinations Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Professor of Africana of phenomena from these different disciplinary Studies and History and Co-Director of International perspectives. Studies (Semester II) International Studies engages students in the Michael Allen, Professor of Political Science on the necessarily inter- and multi-disciplinary course Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science and work that will prepare them for productive roles in Co-Director of the International Studies Program transnational or intergovernmental institutions and (Semester II) in the areas of public policy, law, governance, public health, medicine, business, diplomacy, journalism, Steering Committee and development. Courses cover both theoretical perspectives and empirical issues in different areas of Carol Hager, Chair and Professor of Political Science the world. International Studies at Bryn Mawr provides and Director of the Center for Social Sciences (on a foundation for students interested in pursuing career leave semester I) opportunities in these areas or in entering graduate Yonglin Jiang, Chair and Associate Professor of East programs such as International Politics/Relations, Asian Studies International Political Economy/Development Studies, International Law and Institutions, and Organizational Robert Dostal, Rufus M. Jones Professor and Chair of Theory and Leadership. A Bryn Mawr graduate in Philosophy International Studies will be Mary Osirim, Provost and Professor of Sociology • Capable of integrative analysis from different Melissa Pashigian, Chair and Associate Professor of disciplinary perspectives Anthropology (on leave semester I) • Ethically literate Susan White, Professor of Chemistry • Prepared for work in related fields such as law, International Studies is the study of relationships among public health, medicine, business, and journalism people and states affected by increasingly permeable as well as for graduate study in International borders and facing global issues. International Studies Politics/Relations, International Political Economy/ aims to prepare students to be responsible citizens Development Studies, International Law and by introducing them to issues of importance in an Institutions, and Organizational Theory and increasingly interdependent world of global dynamics in Leadership politics, economics, ideas, language, and culture. • Able to contribute their knowledge and leadership skills within governmental and nongovernmental At Bryn Mawr, International Studies combines applied organizations at transnational, regional, or global and theoretical approaches by drawing from disciplines levels or in cross-cultural settings. in both the Social Sciences and Humanities. This broad conception of International Studies distinguishes Although language study is not required per se for the our program from many others. It builds from a core major or the minor, students can take advantage of Bryn of courses from politics, economics, and ethics, a Mawr’s traditional strength in the study of language branch of philosophy, and then incorporates electives and culture to enhance their study of non-Anglophone areas of the world. Those intending to study abroad 276 International Studies in a non- Anglophone area must meet the level of Economics proficiency required by the Junior Year Abroad program involved; and those intending to undertake graduate • Economic Development (ECON B225), or work in international studies should plan to acquire the Economic Development and Transformation: China advanced level of proficiency in one foreign language vs. India (ECON H240) (at the time of admission or graduation) required by • The Economics of Globalization (ECON B236) the most selective programs here and abroad. Since it began in 2005, the minor in International Studies • Democracy and Development (ECON B385), or has attracted a significant number of language majors Economics of Transition and Euro Adoption in who use their study of a particular language to select a Central and Eastern Europe (ECON H241) coherent set of electives under a relevant track in the NOTE: Introduction to Economics (ECON B105) is minor in order to pursue career and study opportunities a prerequisite for all other Economics courses. in the international arena. Philosophy Major Requirements • Global Ethical Issues (PHIL B225), or Human Rights and Global Politics (POLS H262) Students majoring in International Studies must complete a total of ten courses, which include a core • Applied Ethics of Peace, Justice and Human Rights of four courses, an elective track of four courses, and a (PEAC H201) senior capstone experience of either two courses (398 • Development Ethics (PHIL B344) and 399) OR 398 and an additional 300 level course. Students should work with their major adviser to identify • Global Justice (POLS H362) one writing intensive or two writing attentive courses to If none of the eligible core courses from a particular fulfill the major writing requirement. discipline in the Politics, Economics, and Philosophy core are available in any given year, substitutions will be Please note that some of the courses listed in the allowed with another allied course offered at Bryn Mawr, core have prerequisites, which may increase the total Haverford, Swarthmore or Penn, with the approval of an number of courses for the major in International Studies Advisor from International Studies. to eleven. Also note that no more than two courses in an International Studies major work plan can be Culture and Interpretation used to satisfy another major, minor, or concentration Also in the core, and unique to Bryn Mawr, Culture requirement. and Interpretation teaches how language, aesthetics, beliefs, values, and customs can shape possibilities Core Courses for cross-cultural understanding and dialogue in The Core is a mix of 100-300 level courses in globalizing polities, economies and societies. Courses International fields. Students must choose one course satisfying this requirement cover a broad perspective from among four eligible courses in EACH of Politics, that teaches students about differing cultures and what Economics, and Philosophy (at least one of which is at it means to interpret or make cross-cultural comparisons the 300 level). They must also choose one course from and engage in cross-cultural dialogue in the global among ten in Culture and Interpretation, a requirement context. The list of eligible courses is, therefore, drawn in the core that is unique to Bryn Mawr. The rationale from courses taught by Advisors from a range of key for the two parts of the Core (Politics, Economics, and disciplines in International Studies: Anthropology, Cities, Philosophy and Culture and Interpretation) are given Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy, Sociology, below along with corresponding lists of eligible courses and Languages and Area Studies. The course is meant under each. The disciplines of Politics, Economics, to be a broad analysis of culture and interpretation that and Philosophy have become central to International does not focus on a country or region in isolation from Studies programs since markets, conflicts, diplomacy this broad analysis. Each of the courses selected from and rules are nested in values and norms as much as in the range of disciplines capture this breadth and depth. state territories and institutional framings. The program Students interested in studying a specific region of the at Bryn Mawr is distinctive in having the requirement world separate from its global implications can pursue that students take an ethics course in which they this study in one of the tracks. The eligible courses for study topics in areas such as global ethical issues, the Culture and Interpretation component of the core development ethics, global justice, and human rights. are: The eligible courses for the Politics, Economics, and Philosophy component of the core are: • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH B102) • Culture and Interpretation (COML/PHIL B202, or Political Science COML/PHIL B323) • Introduction to International Politics (POLS B250), • The Play of Interpretation (COML B293/ENGL or International Politics (POLS H151) B292/PHIL B293) • Politics of International Law and Institutions (POLS • Chinese Perspectives on the Individual and Society B241) (at Haverford) (EAST H120) • International Political Economy (POLS B391) • La Mosaique France (FREN/CITY B251) • Topics in International Politics (POLS H350) • Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile (GERM/COML/ ANTH B231) International Studies 277

• Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from (but Peoples and Cultures (GNST B145) are not limited to) an approved list at www.brynmawr. • The Atlantic World 1492-1800 (HIST/ANTH B200) edu/internationalstudies. The listed courses are a starting point for collaboration between the student and • British Empire: Imagining Indias (HIST B258) the major advisor. • Society, Culture and the Individual (SOCL B102) Development • Introduction to African Civilization (HIST B102) Development is most often understood in terms of • Modern African History since 1800 (HIST B236) processes of economic growth, industrialization, and • Social and Cultural History of Medicine in Africa modernization that result in a society’s achieving a high (HIST B336) (per capita) gross domestic product. These descriptions of economic processes tend to embed assumptions With the approval of an Advisor from International about progress, transformation, and liberation as Studies, substitutions may be allowed in the case of the exemplified in concepts such as “underdeveloped” or ten eligible courses for the Culture and Interpretation “developing” countries. The student in International component of the core when none is available in any Studies who selects this track will study the concept given year. Electives of development in a broad sense by using a Elective Tracks allow students to focus on one theme or multidisciplinary approach that combines courses from area in greater depth across four courses, one of which disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Cities, must be at the 300 level. History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology to effectively understand development processes from The electives continue to anchor the major in inter- and multiple perspectives. One result is an exploration of multidisciplinary work while also adding flexibility so that development that broadens the study from describing students may be creative and purposeful in structuring economic deprivation in terms of levels of income, for their own work. What makes International Studies at example, to understanding the ways in which equality, Bryn Mawr unique is that it draws upon its established justice, well-being, and human flourishing are affected faculty research, resources, and reputations in the by growth and modernization processes. The student individual tracks at the same time as it offers flexibility selecting the Development track will become versed under clear advising for each of the individualized in the critical issues, problems, and achievements pathways of learning. Students should choose the four common not only to developing regions of the world but electives from the approved lists under one of the tracks also to developed countries and the world as a whole. identified below. The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from (but The FOUR elective courses are to be selected from are not limited to) an approved list at www.brynmawr. (but are not limited to) courses listed under the tracks edu/internationalstudies. The listed courses are a at www.brynmawr.edu/internationalstudies. The listed starting point for collaboration between the student and courses are a starting point for collaboration between the major advisor. the student and the major advisor. Students should also Global Social Justice check the International Studies Web site or the Tri- College Course Guide for information about courses that Efforts to realize social justice are increasingly are offered in the current year. necessary in global systems as much as they had always been in national and local ones. The Global Students may choose one of the following tracks: Social Justice track will allow students to make Gender connections at all these levels. They will be able to draw on the long tradition of focus on Social Justice at Bryn Mawr’s “proud history of global leadership for Bryn Mawr and Haverford and on collaboration with the women” makes gender an obvious choice as one of Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research the tracks enabling students to complete the Major in and its thrust on Social Welfare. Bryn Mawr’s mission International Studies. To make good on Bryn Mawr’s statement identifies the characteristics of a Bryn mission to prepare “students to be purposefully engaged Mawr education as “critical thinking, interdisciplinary citizens of an increasingly complex and interconnected perspective, engagement in a diverse community, and world”, the student in International Studies who selects purposeful vision of social justice”. The Global Social the Gender track will study gender and its intersections Justice track allows students to explore issues of social with factors such as race, class, ethnicity, sexual and political change in the context of economic and orientation, age, religion, and disability in order to political transition in the globalized world. Students analyze gender with respect to the workings of the gain insight into how global issues affect relationships global economy and globalization more generally. among people and cultures within and across national Although not always the case, many organizations at the boundaries and how global issues are in turn affected local, national, and global levels now understand gender by these relationships. They will study the ways in which to be a central factor in policies for alleviating poverty or dramatic economic disparities wrought by globalization promoting economic growth. The changes wrought by and the global economy affect social welfare and thwart measures such as improving health care for women and efforts to achieve social justice locally, nationally, and children and increasing access to education, property, globally. The FOUR elective courses are to be selected and work outside the home shows the importance from (but are not limited to) an approved list at: http:// of understanding gender and its intersections with www.brynmawr.edu/internationalstudies. The listed other forms of discrimination in a globalized and courses are a starting point for collaboration between interconnected world. the student and the major advisor. 278 International Studies

Independent Design from among four eligible courses in EACH of Politics, Economics, and Philosophy (at least one of which is at Students who are so inclined may develop an the 300 level). They must also choose one course from independent design in consultation with an Advisor from among ten in Culture and Interpretation, a requirement the Center for International Studies. An Independent in the core that is unique to Bryn Mawr. The rationale Design could include area studies that draw on Bryn for the two parts of the core (Politics, Economics, and Mawr’s strengths in the study of languages and cultures Philosophy and Culture and Interpretation) are given and on our programs in Africana Studies, East Asian below along with corresponding lists of eligible courses Studies and Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples under each. The disciplines of Politics, Economics, and Cultures. and Philosophy have become central to International Senior Capstone Experience Studies programs since markets, conflicts, diplomacy and rules are nested in values and norms as much as in The capstone experience consists of two 300 level state territories and institutional framings. The program courses, 398 and 399, OR 398 and an additional 300 at Bryn Mawr is distinctive in having the requirement level course in International Studies. that students take an ethics course in which they study The 398 seminar will have students do research, topics in global ethical issues, development ethics, presentations, and final essays that delve deeper into global justice, or human rights. topics from relevant courses in previously taken tracks The eligible courses for the Politics, Economics, and and may incorporate experiences in Praxis courses, Philosophy component of the core are: Summer internships, or Study Abroad. Should a student select to take 399 instead of an additional 300 level Political Science course, the 398 seminar could also be the basis for • Introduction to International Politics (POLS B250), students to identify and begin preliminary work on or International Politics (at Haverford)(POLS H151) research projects for 399 — including the exploration of theoretical perspectives and research methods that • Politics of International Law and Institutions (POLS will provide a framework for their research and the B241) matching of students with faculty serving as individual • International Political Economy (POLS B391) supervisors. While most individualized supervision for those taking 399 will be of students writing a senior • Topics in International Politics (at Haverford) (POLS thesis, designated advisors in International Studies H350) will work with those students who select to produce Economics an extended document using platforms such as DVD documentary, a website, or a PowerPoint talk with • Economic Development (ECON B225), or pictures and video clips instead of writing a senior Economic Development and Transformation: China thesis. vs. India (at Haverford) (ECON H240) Minor Requirements • The Economics of Globalization (ECON B236) • Democracy and Development (ECON B385), or The Minor in International Studies has been in place Economics of Transition and Euro Adoption in since 2005. Students who have declared a Minor Central and Eastern Europe (at Haverford) (ECON and have not yet graduated should consult with one H241) of the Co-Directors of the Center for International Studies to determine whether to continue under the old NOTE: Introduction to Economics (ECON B105) is requirements for the Minor, switch to doing a Major in a prerequisite for all other Economics International Studies, or make slight adjustments to the courses. requirements for the Minor in light of revisions that now have the core requirements for the Minor in line with Philosophy those for the Major. • Global Ethical Issues (PHIL B225), or Human The Minor has always attracted and will continue to Rights and Global Politics (POLS H262) attract students who major in a language, arts, an • Applied Ethics of Peace, Justice and Human Rights area study, Political Science, or Economics. It will be (PEAC H201) possible, however, for select students to pursue one of the tracks in the major under consultation with an • Development Ethics (PHIL B344) Advisor from International Studies. • Global Justice (POLS H362) Students minoring in International Studies must complete a total of seven courses, which include a If none of the eligible core courses from a particular required core of four courses and an elective track of discipline in the Politics, Economics, and Philosophy three courses. Please note that some of the courses core is available in any given year, substitutions will be listed in the core have prerequisites, which may allowed with another allied course offered at Bryn Mawr, increase the total number of courses for the minor in Haverford, Swarthmore or Penn, with the approval of an International Studies to eight. Advisor from International Studies. Also in the core, and unique to Bryn Mawr, Culture Core Courses and Interpretation teaches how language, aesthetics, The Core is a mix of 100-300 level courses in beliefs, values, and customs can shape possibilities for International fields. Students must choose one course cross-cultural understanding and dialogue in globalizing polities, economies and societies. International Studies 279

Courses satisfying this requirement cover a broad relationships from the perspective of the discipline of perspective that teaches students about differing Political Science. Through engagement with the most cultures and what it means to interpret or make cross- salient theoretical and policy debates, students may cultural comparisons and engage in cross-cultural focus upon such themes as globalization and resistance dialogue in the global context. The list of eligible to it, development and sustainability, nationalism and courses is, therefore, drawn from courses taught by sovereignty, human rights, conflict and peace, public Advisors from a range of key disciplines in International international law and institutions, and nongovernmental Studies: Anthropology, Cities, Comparative Literature, or civil society organizations and movements at History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Languages and regional, trans-regional and global levels. Area Studies. The course is meant to be a broad analysis of culture and interpretation that does not The three elective courses are to be selected in focus on a country or region in isolation from this broad consultation with an Advisor from International Studies. analysis. Each of the courses selected from the range International Economics of disciplines captures this breadth and depth. Students interested in studying a specific region of the world This track allows students to focus on various separate from its global implications can pursue this theoretical, empirical, and policy issues in international study in one of the tracks. economics. Each of the courses in the track—trade, open-economy macroeconomics, development, and The eligible courses for the Culture and Interpretation environmental economics—focuses on different component of the core are: economic aspects of the international or global economy. International trade looks at the major theories • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH B102) offered to explain trade and examines the effects • Culture and Interpretation (COML/PHIL B202, or of trade barriers and trade liberalization on welfare. COML/PHIL B323) International macroeconomics and international finance examines policy-making in open economies, exchange • The Play of Interpretation (COML/ENGL/GERM/ rate systems, exchange rate behavior, and financial PHIL B292) integration and financial crises. Development economics • Chinese Perspectives on the Individual and Society is concerned, among other things, with understanding (at Haverford) (EAST H120) how developing countries can structure their • La Mosaique France (FREN/CITY B251) participation in the global economy so as to benefit their development. Environmental economics uses economic • Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile (GERM/COML/ analysis to examine the behavioral causes of local, ANTH B231) regional, and global environmental and natural resource • Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian problems and to evaluate policy responses to them. Peoples and Cultures (GNST B145) The three elective courses are to be selected in • The Atlantic World 1492-1800 (HIST/ANTH B200) consultation with an Advisor from International Studies. • British Empire: Imagining Indias (HIST B258) Area Studies • Society, Culture and the Individual (SOCL B102) This track allows students to situate and apply the economic, political, and social theory provided in the With the approval of an Advisor from International core to the study of a particular geopolitical area. It Studies, substitutions may be allowed in the case of the provides students with a global frame of reference from ten eligible courses for the Culture and Interpretation which to examine issues such as history, migration, component of the core when none is available in any colonization, modernization, social change, and given year. development through an area study. A coherent set of courses can be achieved by selecting the three Electives electives from one of the following area studies: In addition to the four core courses listed, three electives Africana, European, East Asian, and Latin American, are required. Each of the four tracks identifies a major Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures. The three topic or theme in International Studies that builds on elective courses are to be selected in consultation with or develops the core. The tracks under the minor will an Advisor from International Studies. allow students who major in a discipline such as Political Language and Arts Science or Economics or in one of the Languages or Area Studies to have a minor that focuses their This track allows students to explore human interaction disciplinary work on International Studies. at the global level through language, literature, music, and the arts. Students in this track focus their Students should choose the three electives under studies on the forms of language and the arts that are one of the tracks identified below. Electives should generated through global processes and in turn affect demonstrate coherence and be approved by an advisor. the generation and exchange of ideas in and between Students should check the International Studies Web different societies and cultures. site or the Tri-College Course Guide for information A coherent set of courses can be achieved by selecting about courses that are offered in the current year. the three electives from one of the following: English, International Politics French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Dance and Music. This track allows students to focus on the dynamics and structures of intergovernmental and transnational 280 International Studies

The three elective courses are to be selected in focuses on common problems of text, authorship, consultation with an Advisor from International Studies. reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from COURSES different cultural traditions and histories will be studied through interpretive approaches informed by modern INST B398 Senior Seminar critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, This non-thesis capstone course is a seminar in popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory which students do research, presentations and a final enhances our understanding of the complexities of essay. These delve into topics from relevant courses history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity. in previously-taken tracks and may incorporate Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) experiences from Praxis, Summer, or Study Abroad. Counts towards: International Studies Counts towards: International Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Kale,M. EALC B238 Chinese Culture and Society (Fall 2016) This course encourages students to think critically about major developments in Chinese culture and society INST B399 Senior Project in International Studies that have occurred during the twentieth and twenty-first This involves the writing of a thesis or the production of centuries, with an emphasis on understanding both an extended document on platforms such as a DVD or cultural change and continuity in China. Drawing on a website with the guidance of a designated adviser in ethnographic material and case studies from rural and International Studies. urban China over the traditional, revolutionary, and Counts towards: International Studies reform periods, this course examines a variety of topics Units: 1.0 including family and kinship; marriage, reproduction, Instructor(s): Allen,M. and death; popular religion; women and gender; the (Spring 2017) Cultural Revolution; social and economic reforms and development; gift exchange and guanxi networks; INST B403 Supervised Work changing perceptions of space and place; as well as Units: 1.0 globalization and modernity. Prerequisite: Sophomore (Not Offered 2016-2017) standing or higher. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; An introduction to the methods and theories of cultural International Studies anthropology in order to understand and explain cultural Units: 1.0 similarities and differences among contemporary (Not Offered 2016-2017) societies. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) ECON B225 Economic Development Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Examination of the issues related to and the policies Sexuality Studies; International Studies designed to promote economic development in the Units: 1.0 developing economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Instructor(s): Weidman,A., Fioratta,S. and the Middle East. Focus is on why some developing (Spring 2017) economies grow faster than others and why some growth paths are more equitable, poverty reducing, ANTH B294 Culture, Power, and Politics and environmentally sustainable than others. Includes What do a country’s national politics have to do with consideration of the impact of international trade and culture? Likewise, how are politics hidden below the investment policy, macroeconomic policies (exchange surface of our everyday social lives? This course rate, monetary and fiscal policy) and sector policies explores questions like these through anthropological (industry, agriculture, education, population, and approaches. Drawing on both classic and contemporary environment) on development outcomes in a wide range ethnographic studies from the U.S. and around of political and institutional contexts. Prerequisite: ECON the world, we will examine how social and cultural B105. frameworks help us understand politics in new ways. Counts towards: Environmental Studies; International Topics will include states and political systems, Studies nationalism and citizenship, gender, violence, rumor and Units: 1.0 conspiracy theory, and non-state forms of governance. Instructor(s): Rock,M. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of the instructor. (Fall 2016) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: International Studies ECON B236 The Economics of Globalization Units: 1.0 An introduction to international economics through Instructor(s): Fioratta,S. theory, policy issues, and problems. The course surveys (Spring 2017) international trade and finance, as well as topics in international economics. It investigates why and what a COML B293 The Play of Interpretation nation trades, the consequences of such trade, the role Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies of trade policy, the behavior and effects of exchange and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic rates, and the macroeconomic implications of trade sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course and capital flows. Topics may include the economics International Studies 281 of free trade areas, world financial crises, outsourcing, GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, immigration, and foreign investment. Prerequisites: and Iberian Peoples and Cultures ECON B105. The course is not open to students who A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and have taken ECON B316 or B348. dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through Counts towards: International Studies the contemporary New World. The class introduces Units: 1.0 the methods and interests of all departments in the (Not Offered 2016-2017) concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic ECON B385 Democracy and Development histories, political economies, and creative expressions. From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) democracies grew from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o the collapse of communism and developmental Studies; International Studies successes in East Asia have led some to argue the Units: 1.0 triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late (Not Offered 2016-2017) 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 will question this phenomenon through the disciplines The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of economics, history, political science and sociology of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from drawing from theoretical, case study and classical Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 253 or 304; an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the system was created in the Americas in the early modern Instructor. period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice World as nothing more than an expanded version of and Human Rights North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Units: 1.0 Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Instructor(s): Rock,M. Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, (Spring 2017) Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Units: 1.0 This course investigates the anthropological, (Not Offered 2016-2017) philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience HIST B237 Topic: Modern African History and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines This is a topics course. Course content varies. the structure of the relationship between imagined/ Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the remembered homelands and transnational identities, Past (IP) and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the Studies psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and Units: 1.0 loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, Instructor(s): Ngalamulume,K. Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, Spring 2017: African Economic Development. W. G. Sebald, and others. This course examines the political economy of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical African development in historical perspectives. We Interpretation (CI) will address the following questions: Why is the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive African continent, which is rich in natural resources, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o so poor? What are the causes of poverty in Studies; International Studies Africa? The course will analyze the environmental, Units: 1.0 economic, political, and historical factors that Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. have affected the development of Africa. We will (Spring 2017) discuss the impact of slavery, colonial exploitation, foreign interventions, foreign aid, trade, and GNST B145 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, democratic transitions on African development. We and Iberian Peoples and Cultures will also explore the theories of development and A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and underdevelopment. dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through HIST B258 British Empire: Imagining Indias the contemporary New World. The class introduces the methods and interests of all departments in the This course considers ideas about and experiences of concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity “modern” India, i.e., India during the colonial and post- and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic Independence periods (roughly 1757-present). While histories, political economies, and creative expressions. “India” and “Indian history” along with “British empire” Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) and “British history” will be the ostensible objects of our Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o consideration and discussions, the course proposes that Studies; International Studies their imagination and meanings are continually mediated Units: 1.0 by a wide variety of institutions, agents, and analytical (Not Offered 2016-2017) categories (nation, religion, class, race, gender, to name 282 International Studies a few examples). The course uses primary sources, practice, must it answer to only one right interpretation? scholarly analyses, and cultural productions to explore In turn, if an object of interpretation is constituted by the political economies of knowledge, representation, interpretive practice, must it answer to more than one and power in the production of modernity. right interpretation? This course encourages active Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the discussions of these questions. Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: International Studies Counts towards: International Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HIST B336 Topics in African History PHIL B344 Development Ethics This is a topic course. Course content varies. This course explores the meaning of and moral issues Counts towards: Africana Studies; International Studies raised by development. In what direction and by what Units: 1.0 means should a society “develop”? What role, if any, (Not Offered 2016-2017) does the globalization of markets and capitalism play in processes of development and in systems of PHIL B221 Ethics discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of explored through an examination of some of the most moral theories and a discussion of important ancient, prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: modern, and contemporary texts which established a philosophy, political theory or economics course or theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, permission of the instructor. relativism, emotivism, care ethics. This course considers Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive questions concerning freedom, responsibility, and Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; obligation. How should we live our lives and interact with International Studies others? How should we think about ethics in a global Units: 1.0 context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of (Not Offered 2016-2017) practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics Interpretation (CI) An introduction to international relations, exploring Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; its main subdivisions and theoretical approaches. International Studies Phenomena and problems in world politics examined Units: 1.0 include systems of power management, imperialism, Instructor(s): Bell,M. globalization, war, bargaining, and peace. Problems and (Fall 2016) institutions of international economy and international law are also addressed. This course assumes a PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues reasonable knowledge of modern world history. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice requires has become urgent in a context of increasing and Human Rights globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict Units: 1.0 and war, high rates of poverty within and across Instructor(s): Wang,Z. borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. (Fall 2016) This course examines prevailing theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and POLS B241 The Politics of International Law and disability theorists. Institutions Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical An introduction to international law, which assumes a Interpretation (CI) working knowledge of modern world history and politics Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; since World War II. The origins of modern international International Studies legal norms in philosophy and political necessity are Units: 1.0 explored, showing the schools of thought to which the (Not Offered 2016-2017) understandings of these origins give rise. Significant cases are used to illustrate various principles and PHIL B323 Culture and Interpretation problems. Prerequisite: POLS B250. This course will discuss these questions. What are the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) aims of interpretation? Must we assume that, for cultural Counts towards: International Studies objects—like artworks, music, or literature—there Units: 1.0 must be a single right interpretation? If not, what is to Instructor(s): Allen,M. prevent one from sliding into an interpretive anarchism? (Spring 2017) What is the role of a creator’s intentions in fixing upon admissible interpretations? Does interpretation affect POLS B324 Politics of the Arab Uprisings the identity of the object of interpretation? If an object The recent uprisings in Arab countries have shocked of interpretation exists independently of interpretive the world. Long-entrenched authoritarian regimes Italian and Italian Studies 283 have fallen. US allies have been ousted. This seminar feminist, afro-descendant, indigenous, and other voices is designed to introduce the politics of these recent emerging in the Global South. uprisings. Their origins will be viewed through the lens Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of political and economic theories of authoritarianism Units: 1.0 and revolution. The outcomes will be assessed with an Instructor(s): Montes,V. eye toward existing ideas about democracy. The course (Spring 2017) will aim to establish what political science can tell us about these events, and how political science must grow SOWK B563 Global Public Health in reaction to them. Prerequisite: One course in political This course is open to graduate and undergraduate science or Middle East studies or consent of instructor. students and has relevance for students in Praxis, Counts towards: International Studies field education, study abroad and various internships Units: 1.0 (although these practice experiences are not required (Not Offered 2016-2017) for the course). Globalization increasingly dictates the availability of social and economic resources as well POLS B391 International Political Economy as access to them, and at the same time presents a This seminar examines the growing importance of shared set of problems such as violence (particularly economic issues in world politics and traces the against women and children), unemployment, HIV- development of the modern world economy from its AIDS, poverty and starvation, threats to indigenous origins in colonialism and the industrial revolution, populations, and environmental destruction, among through to the globalization of recent decades. Major others. Changes from globalization require new ways paradigms in political economy are critically examined. to conceptualize and implement the welfare state and Aspects of and issues in international economic an envisioning of social justice that crosses borders. A relations such as development, finance, trade, domestic perspective and the lens of cultural context migration, and foreign investment are examined in the are no longer adequate; they require expansion to light of selected approaches. This course is open to include geographic context as well as ideas and all students who have the prerequisites. It also serves practices to address troubles shared by nations (such as as a thesis prep course for political science seniors. assimilation) and by populations crossing borders (into Prerequisite: One course in International Politics or areas not always welcoming of them). Enrollment limited Economics is required. Preference is given to seniors to 5 advanced undergraduates. although juniors are accepted. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Instructor(s): Sousa,C. Counts towards: International Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Wang,Z. (Fall 2016) ITALIAN AND ITALIAN STUDIES

SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual Students may complete a major or minor in Italian and Analysis of the basic sociological methods, Italian Studies. perspectives, and concepts used in the study of society, with emphasis on social structure, education, culture, the self, and power. Theoretical perspectives that Faculty focus on sources of stability, conflict, and change are David Cast, Professor of History of Art emphasized throughout. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Michele Monserrati, Visiting Assistant Professor Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Nicholas Patruno, Katharine E. McBride Professor International Studies Units: 1.0 Pamela Pisone, Instructor Instructor(s): Nolan,B. Roberta Ricci, Associate Professor of Italian and Co- (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Director of Romance Languages Gabriella Troncelliti, Instructional Assistant SOCL B218 Sociology of International Development This course examines the persistent gap between the Based on an interdisciplinary approach that views Global North and Global South around problems such culture as a global phenomenon, the aims of the major as poverty, food insecurity, and access to health and in Italian Studies are to acquire a knowledge of Italian education. We will examine theories and perspectives language, literature, and culture, including cinema, art, that address this disparity and explore alternatives to journalism, pop culture, and music. The Department of Western models of social organization, as put forth by Italian Studies also cooperates with the Departments of social movements in the Global South. Throughout French and Spanish in the Romance Languages major the course, we will read key primary texts (manifestos, and with the other foreign languages in the TriCo for a communiqués, oral histories, and world financial major in Comparative Literature. The Italian Department institution reports) to understand the role of different cooperates also with the Center for International Studies players in the international development field, including (CIS). global economic and governance institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and—most importantly— 284 Italian and Italian Studies

College Foreign Language ICS/Track B Requirement Major requirements in ICS are 10 courses. Track B may Before the start of the senior year, each student must be appropriate for students with an interest in cultural complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of and interdisciplinary studies. The concentration is open foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement by to all majors and consists of both interdisciplinary and completing two sequential semester-long courses in one single-discipline courses drawn from various academic language, either at the elementary level or, depending departments at the college. Required: ITAL 101/102, on the result of their language placement test, at plus three courses conducted in Italian and five related the intermediate level. A student who is prepared for courses in English that may be taken either within advanced work may complete the requirement instead the department or in an allied-related fields in various with two advanced free-standing semester-long courses disciplines throughout the college, or courses taken in the foreign language(s) in which she is proficient. on BMC approved study-abroad programs, such as: Non-native speakers of English may choose to satisfy Culture, History, History of Art, English, Visual Art and all or part of this requirement by coursework in English Film Studies, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Cities, literature. Archaeology, Classics. *Faculty in other programs may be willing to arrange Major Requirements work within courses that may count for the major. Italian Language/Literature (ILL) and Italian Cultural Studies (ICS) Major Major with Honors The Italian Language/Literature major and the Italian Students may apply to complete the major with honors. Cultural Studies major consists of ten courses starting at The honors component requires the completion of a the ITAL 101/102 level, or an equivalent two-semester year-long thesis advised by a faculty member in the sequence taken elsewhere. The department offers department. Students enroll in the senior year in ITAL a two-track system as guidelines for completing the 398 and ITAL 399. Application to it requires a GPA in the major in Italian or in Italian Studies. Both tracks require major of 3.7 or higher, as well as a written statement, ten courses, including ITAL 101 -102. For students in to be submitted by the fall of senior year, outlining the either Track A or B we recommend a senior experience proposed project (see further below) and indicating the offered with ITAL 398 and ITAL 399, courses that are faculty member who has agreed to serve as advisor. required for honors. Students may complete either The full departmental faculty vets the proposals. track. Recommendations are included below --models of different pathways through the major: Thesis Majors are required to complete one Writing Intensive Students will write and research a 40-50 page thesis (WI) course in the major. The WI courses will prepare that aims to be an original contribution to Italian students towards their senior project and to competent scholarship. As such, it must use primary evidence and appropriate writing, manly in three ways: 1) Teach and also engage with the relevant secondary literature. the writing process – planning, drafting, revising, and By the end of the fall semester, students must have editing; 2) Emphasize the role of writing by allocating completed twenty pages in draft. In April they will give a substantial portion of the final grade to writing an oral presentation of their work of approximately one assignments; 3) Offer students the opportunity to hour to faculty and interested students. The final draft receive feedback from professors and peers (through is due on or around 30 April of the senior year and will class peer review sessions). In responding to the be graded by two faculty members (one of whom is the feedback, students will experience writing as a process advisor). The grade assigned is the major component of discovery (re-visioning) and meaning. The goal of of the spring semester grade. Proposals for the thesis the new WI course will be to get students to re-think should describe the questions being asked in the the argument, logical connection, focus, transition, research, and how answers to them will contribute to evidence, quotes, organization, and sources. scholarship. They must include a discussion of the primary sources on which the research will rest, as well ILL Major/ Track A as a preliminary bibliography of relevant secondary Major requirements in ILL are 10 courses. Track A may studies. They also must include a rough timetable be appropriate for students with an interest in literary indicating in what stages the work will be completed. It is and language studies. Required: ITAL 101/102, plus six expected that before submitting their proposals students courses (or more) conducted in Italian and two selected will have conferred with a faculty member who has from among a list of approved ICS courses in English agreed to serve as advisor. that may be taken in either within the department or in various other disciplines offered at the College (i.e. Study Abroad History, History of Art, English, Visual Art and Film Students who are studying abroad for the Italian major Studies, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Cities, for one year can earn two credits in Italian Literature and Archaeology, Classics). Adjustments will be made for two credits in allied fields (total of four credits). Those students taking courses abroad. Of the courses taken in who are studying abroad for one semester can earn no Italian, students are expected to enroll in the following more than a total of two credits in Italian Literature or areas: Dante (ITAL 301), Renaissance (ITAL 304 or one credit in Italian Literature and one credit in an allied 302), Survey (ITAL 307), and two courses on Modern field (total of two credits). Italian literature (ITAL 380, ITAL 310, ITAL 320) Italian and Italian Studies 285

University of Pennsylvania COURSES Students majoring at BMC cannot earn more than two ITAL B101 Intermediate Italian credits at the University of Pennsylvania in Italian. This course provides students with a broader basis for learning to communicate effectively and accurately Minor Requirements in Italian. While the principal aspect of the course Requirements for the minor in Italian Studies are ITAL is to further develop language abilities, the course 101, 102 and four additional units including two at also imparts a foundation for the understanding of the 200 level one of which in literature and two at the modern and contemporary Italy. Students will gain 300 level one of which in literature. With departmental an appreciation for Italian culture and be able to approval, students who begin their work in Italian at the communicate orally and in writing in a wide variety of 200 level will be exempted from ITAL 101 and 102. For topics. We will read newspaper and magazine articles courses in translation, the same conditions for majors to analyze aspects on modern and contemporary Italy. apply. We will also view and discuss Italian films and internet materials. Elective Courses Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 ARTW B240/COML B240 Literary Translation Instructor(s): Ricci,R. CITY B207 Topics in Urban Studies (Fall 2016)

CITY B360 Digital Rome ITAL B102 Intermediate Italian COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local This course provides students with a broader basis Practices and Global Resonance for learning to communicate effectively and accurately in Italian. While the principal aspect of the course COML B213 Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in is to further develop language abilities, the course the Humanities also imparts a foundation for the understanding of CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic modern and contemporary Italy. Students will gain an appreciation for Italian culture and be able to CSTS B208 The Roman Empire communicate orally and in writing in a wide variety CSTS B220 Writing the Self of topics. We will read a novel to analyze aspects on modern and contemporary Italy. We will also view and CSTS B223 The Early Medieval World discuss Italian films and internet materials. Prerequisite: ITAL B101 or placement. CSTS B310 Forming the Classics Approach: Course does not meet an Approach ENGL H385 Topics in Apocalyptic Writing – at Haverford Units: 1.0 College Instructor(s): Ricci,R. (Spring 2017) ENGL H220 Epic – at Haverford College HART B104-001 Critical Approaches to Visual ITAL B207 Dante in Translation Representation: The Classical Tradition A reading of the Vita Nuova (Poems of Youth) and The HART B253: Survey of Western Architecture: 1400-1800 Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in order to discover the subtle nuances of meaning in the text HART B323: Topics in Renaissance Art and to introduce students to Dante’s tripartite vision of HART B630:Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art: the afterlife. Dante’s masterpiece lends itself to study Mannerism from various perspectives: theological, philosophical, political, allegorical, historical, cultural, and literary. HART/RUSSIAN B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Personal journey, civic responsibilities, love, genre, Literature and Film governmental accountability, church-state relations, the tenuous balance between freedom of expression and HIST B208 The Roman Empire censorship—these are some of the themes that will HIST B212, Pirates, Travelers and Natural Historians frame the discussions. Course taught in English; One additional hour for students who want Italian credit (ITAL HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of 301). Sexuality in Modern Europe Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) HIST B319 Topics in Modern European History Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) MUSC H207 Italian Keyboard Tradition LATN 200 Medieval Latin Literature ITAL B211 Primo Levi, the Holocaust, and Its Aftermath SPAN 202 Introduction to Literary Analysis A consideration, through analysis and appreciation of his major works, of how the horrific experience of the Holocaust awakened in Primo Levi a growing awareness of his Jewish heritage and led him to become one of the dominant voices of that tragic historical event, as 286 Italian and Italian Studies well as one of the most original new literary figures of Units: 1.0 post-World War II Italy. Always in relation to Levi and Instructor(s): Monserrati,M. his works, attention will also be given to Italian women (Spring 2017) writers whose works are also connected with the Holocaust. Course is taught in English. An extra hour ITAL B215 The City of Naples will be scheduled for those students taking the course The city of Naples emerged during the Later Middle for Italian or Romance Languages credit. Ages as the capital of a Kingdom and one of the most Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) influential cities in the Mediterranean region. What led to Units: 1.0 the city’s rise, and what effect did the city as a cultural, Instructor(s): Patruno,N. political, and economic force have on the rest of the (Fall 2016) region and beyond? This course will familiarize students with the art, architecture, culture, and institutions that ITAL B212 Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, made the city one of the most influential in Europe and New Literature the Mediterranean region during the Late Middle Ages. This course, taught in English, will focus primarily Topics include court painters in service to the crown, on the works of the so-called “migrant writers” who, female monastic spaces and patronage, and the revival having adopted the Italian language, have become a of dynastic tomb sculpture. significant part of the new voice of Italy. In addition to Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) the aesthetic appreciation of these works, this course Units: 1.0 will also take into consideration the social, cultural, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and political factors surrounding them. The course will focus on works by writers who are now integral to Italian ITAL B219 Multiculturalism in Medieval Italy canon – among them: Cristina Ali-Farah, Igiaba Scego, This course examines cross-cultural interactions in Ghermandi Gabriella, Amara Lakhous. As part of the medieval Italy played out through the patronage, course, movies concerned with various aspects of Italian production, and reception of works of art and Migrant literature will be screened and analyzed. architecture. Sites of patronage and production include Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical the cities of Venice, Palermo, and Pisa. Media examined Interpretation (CI) include buildings, mosaics, ivories, and textiles. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in ITAL B229 Food in Italian Literature, Culture, and the Humanities Cinema An examination in English of leading theories of Taught in English. A profile of Italian literature/culture/ interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and cinema obtained through an analysis of gastronomic Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course documents, films, literary texts, and magazines. We will content varies. also include a discussion of the Slow Food Revolution, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) a movement initiated in Italy in 1980 and now with Units: 1.0 a world-wide following, and its social, economic, (Not Offered 2016-2017) ecological, aesthetic, and cultural impact to counteract fast food and to promote local food traditions. Course ITAL B214 The Myth of Venice (1800-2000) taught in English. One additional hour for students who The Republic of Venice existed for over a millennium. want Italian credit . Prerequisite: ITAL 102 This course begins in the year 1797 at the end of the Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Republic and the emerging of an extensive body of Interpretation (CI) literature centered on Venice and its mythical facets. Counts towards: Film Studies Readings will include the Romantic views of Venice Units: 1.0 (excerpts from Lord Byron, Fredrick Schiller, Wolfang (Not Offered 2016-2017) von Goethe, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni) and the 20th century reshaping of the literary myth (readings ITAL B235 Italian Women’s Movement and National from Thomas Mann, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Identity: Heroines In and Out of the Canon Gabriele D’Annunzio, Henry James, and others). A Emphasis will be put on Italian women writers and film journey into this fascinating tradition will shed light on directors, who are often left out of syllabi adhering to how the literary and visual representation of Venice, traditional canons. Particular attention will be paid to: rather than focusing on a nostalgic evocation of the a) women writers who have found their voices (through death of the Republic, became a territory of exploration writing) as a means of psychological survival in a for literary modernity. The course is offered in English; patriarchal world; b) women engaged in the women’s all texts are provided in translation. One additional hour movement of the 70’s and who continue to look at, and for the students who are taking the course for Italian rewrite, women’s stories of empowerment and solidarity; credit. Suggested Preparation: At least two 200-level c) “divaism”, fame, via beauty and sex with a particular literature courses. emphasis on the ‘60s (i.e. Gina Lollobrigida, Sofia Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Loren, Claudia Cardinale). Counts towards: Film Studies Italian and Italian Studies 287

Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This course will explore the worldwide fascination with Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies this genre beginning with European writers before Units: 1.0 turning to the more distant mystery stories from around (Not Offered 2016-2017) the world. The international scope of the readings will highlight how authors in different countries have ITAL B255 Uomini d’onore in Sicilia: Italian Mafia in developed their own national detective typologies while Literature and Cinema simultaneously responding to international influence of the British-American model. Italian majors taking this This course aims to explore representations of Mafia course for Italian credit will be required to meet for an figures in Italian literature and cinema, with reference additional hour with the instructor and to do the readings also to Italian-American films, starting from the ‘classical’ and writing in Italian. Suggested Preparation: One example of Sicily. The course will introduce students to literature course at the 200 level. both Italian Studies from an interdisciplinary prospective Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive and also to narrative fiction, using Italian literature Counts towards: Film Studies written by 19th, 20th, and 21st Italian Sicilian authors. Units: 1.0 Course is taught in Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL B102 or (Not Offered 2016-2017) permission of the instructor. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Film Studies ITAL B320 Nationalism and Freedom: The Italian Units: 1.0 Risorgimento in Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course deals with 19th century Italian poetry and literary movement for Italian unification inspired by the ITAL B301 Dante realities of the new economic and political forces at work after 1815. As a manifestation of the nationalism A reading of the Vita Nuova (Poems of Youth) and The sweeping over Europe during the nineteenth century, Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in order the Risorgimento aimed to unite Italy under one flag to discover the subtle nuances of meaning in the text and one government. For many Italians, however, and to introduce students to Dante’s tripartite vision of Risorgimento meant more than political unity. It the afterlife. Dante’s masterpiece lends itself to study described a movement for the renewal of Italian from various perspectives: theological, philosophical, society and people beyond purely political aims. political, allegorical, historical, cultural, and literary. Among Italian patriots the common denominator was a Personal journey, civic responsibilities, love, genre, desire for freedom from foreign control, liberalism, and governmental accountability, church-state relations, constitutionalism. The course will discuss issues such the tenuous balance between freedom of expression as Enlightenment, Romanticism, Nationalism, and the and censorship—these are some of the themes that complex relationship between history and literature in will frame the discussions. Prerequisite: At least two Foscolo, Manzoni, and Leopardi. This course is taught 200-level literature courses. in Italian. Prerequisite: one 200 level Italian course. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Ricci,R. (Spring 2017) ITAL B307 Insiders and Outsiders: Otherness in Italian Literature ITAL B330 Architecture and Identity in Italy: This course will introduce students to the most Renaissance to the Present representative works in Italian literature of all genres How is architecture used to shape our understanding --poetry, novels, scientific prose, theater, diaries, of past and current identities? This course looks at the narrative, epistolary-- with special emphasis on topics ways in which architecture has been understood to such as marginalization, exile, political persecution, represent, and used to shape regional, national, ethnic, national identity, memory, violence, and otherness. We and gender identities in Italy from the Renaissance will bring works of literature to the attention of students to the present. The class focuses on Italy’s classical who are interested in the key role played by Italian traditions, and looks at the ways in which architects culture in the development of a European civilization, and theorists have accepted or rejected the peninsula’s including the international debate on modernity and classical roots. Subjects studied include Baroque post-modernity. Readings and lectures will move from Architecture, the Risorgimento, Futurism, Fascism, and 14th century writers (Dante, Boccaccio) to Humanistic colonialism. Course readings include Vitruvius, Leon Thought (Florentine political revolution) and the Battista Alberti, Giorgio Vasari, Jacob Burckhardt, and Renaissance (Machiavelli); from the Enlightenment Alois Riegl, among others. (Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni) to modernity (Pirandello, Units: 1.0 Svevo) and post-modernism (Italo Calvino). (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Ricci,R. (Fall 2016) ITAL B340 The Art of Italian Unification Following Italian unification (1815-1871), the statesman, ITAL B310 Detective Fiction novelist, and painter Massimo d’Azeglio remarked, “Italy has been made; now it remains to make Italians.” This In English. Why is detective fiction so popular? What course examines the art and architectural movements explains the continuing multiplication of detective texts of the roughly 100 years between the uprisings of despite the seemingly finite number of available plots? 1848 and the beginning of the Second World War, a 288 Italian and Italian Studies critical period for defining Italiantà. Subjects include of the Baroque popes, Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome,’ the paintings of the Macchiaioli, reactionaries to the and the contemporary city of Renzo Piano, Richard 1848 uprisings and the Italian Independence Wars, the Meier, and Zaha Hadid. Throughout this discussion- politics of nineteenth-century architectural restoration based course we will examine innumerable issues, in Italy, the re-urbanization of Italy’s new capital Rome, such as the use and abuse of the past throughout Fascist architecture and urbanism, and the architecture the city’s long history. of Italy’s African colonies. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in Units: 1.0 the Humanities (Not Offered 2016-2017) An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and ITAL B380 Modernity and Psychoanalysis: Crossing Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course National Boundaries in 20th c. Italy and Europe content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. Designed as an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of Italy’s intellectual life, the course is organized Units: 1.0 around major literary and cultural trends in 20th Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. century Europe, including philosophical ideas and Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. cinema. We investigate Italian fiction in the global and This course will be taught in English and focus international perspective, from modernity to Freud and on works of French feminist, postcolonial and Psychoanalysis, going beyond national boundaries post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical and proposing ethical models across historical times. texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition Prerequisite: One 200-Level course in Italian (namely French), and more or less distinctly Units: 1.0 circumscribed fields, we will also look at the (Not Offered 2016-2017) broader transcultural and translinguistic influences that brought these “schools” into being and, most ITAL B398 Senior Seminar importantly, what fields of thinking they have This course is open only to seniors in Italian and subsequently inspired across language traditions. in Romance Languages. Under the direction of the instructor, each student prepares a senior thesis on an HART B339 The Art of Italian Unification author or a theme that the student has chosen. By the Following Italian unification (1815-1871), the statesman, end of the fall semester, students must have completed novelist, and painter Massimo d’Azeglio remarked, “Italy an abstract and a critical annotated bibliography to be has been made; now it remains to make Italians.” This presented to the department. See Thesis description. course examines the art and architectural movements Units: 1.0 of the roughly 100 years between the uprisings of Instructor(s): Ricci,R. 1848 and the beginning of the Second World War, a (Fall 2016) critical period for defining Italiantà. Subjects include the paintings of the Macchiaioli, reactionaries to the ITAL B399 Senior Conference 1848 uprisings and the Italian Independence Wars, the Under the direction of the instructor, each student politics of nineteenth-century architectural restoration prepares a senior thesis on an author or a theme in Italy, the re-urbanization of Italy’s new capital Rome, that the student has chosen. In April there will be an Fascist architecture and urbanism, and the architecture oral defense with members and majors of the Italian of Italy’s African colonies. Department. See Thesis description. Prerequisite: This Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive course is open only to seniors in Italian Studies and Units: 1.0 Romance Languages. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Ricci,R. HART B630 Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art (Spring 2017) This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 ITAL B403 Supervised Work (Not Offered 2016-2017) Offered with approval of the Department. Units: 1.0 HIST B238 From Bordellos to Cybersex History of (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Sexuality in Modern Europe This course is a detailed examination of the changing CITY B360 Topics: Urban Culture and Society nature and definition of sexuality in Europe from the This is a topics course. Course content varies. late nineteenth century to the present. Throughout the Units: 1.0 semester we critically examine how understandings Instructor(s): Morton,T. of sexuality changed—from how it was discussed and how authorities tried to control it to how the practice of Fall 2016: City of Rome. In this seminar we will sexuality evolved. Focusing on both discourses and study the city of Rome through time and space and lived experiences, the class will explore sexuality in the will start with the city’s mythical founding and work context of the following themes; prostitution and sex our way through contemporary Rome. Focal points trafficking, the rise of medicine with a particular attention will include: the Roman Empire, the urban planning Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 289 to sexology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis; the birth Coordinators of the homo/hetero/bisexual divide; the rise of the “New Woman”; abortion and contraception; the “sexual Jennifer Harford-Vargas, Assistant Professor of English revolution” of the 60s; pornography and consumerism; and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and LGBTQ activism; concluding with considering sexuality Iberian Studies Program in the age of cyber as well as genetic technology. In Veronica Montes, Assistant Professor of Sociology and examining these issues we will question the role and Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and influence of different political systems and war on Iberian Studies Program sexuality. By paying special attention to the rise of modern nation-states, forces of nationalism, and the Affiliated Faculty impacts of imperialism we will interrogate the nature of regulation and experiences of sexuality in different Inés Arribas, Senior Lecturer in Spanish locations in Europe from the late nineteenth century to Kaylea Berard, Lecturer in Spanish the present. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Associate Professor of History Past (IP) Martín Gaspar, Assistant Professor of Spanish (on leave Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies semesters I and II) Units: 1.0 Gary W. McDonogh, Chair and Professor of Growth (Not Offered 2016-2017) and Structure of Cities and on the Helen Herrmann Chair ITAL B001 Elementary Italian María Cristina Quintero, Chair and Professor of The course is for students with no previous knowledge Spanish, Co-Director of Comparative Literature, of Italian. It aims at giving the students a complete and Director of Romance Languages foundation in the Italian language, with particular attention to oral and written communication. The course Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Dorothy Nepper Marshall will be conducted in Italian and will involve the study of Professor of Hispanic and Hispanic-American all the basic structures of the language—phonological, Studies grammatical, syntactical—with practice in conversation, H. Rosi Song, Associate Professor of Spanish reading, composition. Readings are chosen from a wide range of texts, while use of the language is encouraged through role-play, debates, songs, and creative Minor Requirements composition. To fulfill the requirements, the student must complete: Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 • An introductory course, GNST 245: Introduction to Instructor(s): Troncelliti,G., Monserrati,M. Latin American, Latina/o and Iberian Studies or its (Fall 2016) Haverford equivalent: SPAN 240 Latin American and Iberian Culture and Civilization. ITAL B002 Elementary Italian II • Five courses that count toward the minor. At least This course is the continuation of ITAL B001 and is one of them should be at the 300-level. intended for students who have started studying Italian • In the spring of the senior year, an individual the semester before. It aims at giving the students presentation on an issue relevant to LAILS. Minors a complete foundation in the Italian language, with will present their individual projects in a conference- particular attention to oral and written communication. style panel. The course will be conducted in Italian and will involve the study of all the basic structures of the language— • It is strongly recommended that students seek phonological, grammatical, syntactical—with practice proficiency in one of the languages spoken by in conversation, reading, composition. Readings are peoples of Iberia or Latin America. chosen from a wide range of texts, while use of the language is encouraged through role-play, debates, COURSES songs, and creative composition. Prerequisite: ITAL B001 or placement. ANTH B219 Visual Anthropology, Latin America and Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Social Movements Units: 1.0 Focusing on indigenous communities and social Instructor(s): Troncelliti,G., Monserrati,M. movements, this course examines the cultural uses of (Spring 2017) visual art, photography, film, and new media in Latin America. Students will analyze a variety of materials to reconsider western conceptions of art. As well, students will explore how anthropologists employ visual methods LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND in ethnographic research. Prerequisites: Sophomore LATINA/O STUDIES standing or higher. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Students may complete a minor in Latin American, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Iberian and Latina/o Studies. Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 290 Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies

CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration This is a topics course. Course content varies. Gloria Anzalda has famously described the U.S.- Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Mexico border as an open wound and the border culture Past (IP) that arises from this fraught site as a third country. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o creatively represent different kinds of migrations across Studies geo-political borders and between cultural traditions to Units: 1.0 forge transnational identities and communities. We will Instructor(s): McDonogh,G. use cultural production as a lens for understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and language Spring 2017: Colonial and Post-Colonial Cities. shape the experiences of Latin American migrants and Probing the relations of power at the heart of their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative power and society in many cities worldwide, this metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge class uses case studies to test urban theory, forms anti-immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of and practice. In order to grapple with colonialism undocumented migrants and Latina/os in contemporary and its aftermaths, we will focus on cities in U.S. society. Over the course of the semester, we will North Africa, France, Ireland, Hong Kong and probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can Cuba, systematically exploring research, writing play in the struggle for migrants’ rights and minority civil and insights from systematic interdisciplinary rights, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can comparisons. contribute to social justice. We will examine a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented Practices and Global Resonance migration. The course is in English. It examines the ban on books Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical and art in a global context through a study of the Interpretation (CI) historical and sociopolitical conditions of censorship Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o practices. The course raises such questions as how Studies censorship is used to fortify political power, how it is Units: 1.0 practiced locally and globally, who censors, what are Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. the categories of censorship, how censorship succeeds (Spring 2017) and fails, and how writers and artists write and create against and within censorship. The last question leads ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and This course examines representations of dictatorship artists employ to translate the expression of repression, in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore trauma, and torture into idioms of resistance. German the relationship between narrative form and absolute majors/minors can get German Studies credit. power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator course. novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) America, and the Southern Cone. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Studies; Middle Eastern Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin Units: 1.0 American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion This is a topics course. Course content varies. bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies We will focus on topics of shared concern among Units: 1.0 Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of Fall 2016: Theory of the Ethnic Novel. This migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, course traces the development of the U.S. ethnic including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, films, novel. We will examine novels by Native Americans, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Chicana/os, and African Americans, focusing on Latinidad in the Americas. key formal innovations in their respective traditions. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) We will be using – and testing -- core concepts Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality developed by narrative theorists to understand the Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies genre of the novel. We will be using--and testing- Units: 1.0 -core concepts in critical theory to understand the Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. genre of the novel and ethnic literary imaginaries. (Fall 2016) ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 291 a victim of child abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a HIST B127 Indigenous Leaders 1492-1750 creation of literary and popular history. We will try out Studies the experiences of indigenous men and women all these approaches and examine the features of our who exercised local authority in the systems established contemporary world that influence the way Woolf, her by European colonizers. In return for places in the work, and her era are perceived. We will also attempt to colonial administrations, these leaders performed a theorize about why we favor certain interpretations over range of tasks. At the same time they served as imperial others. officials, they exercised “traditional” forms of authority Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies within their communities, often free of European Units: 1.0 presence. These figures provide a lens through which (Not Offered 2016-2017) early modern colonialism is studied. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Past (IP) This course investigates the anthropological, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience Units: 1.0 and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines (Not Offered 2016-2017) the structure of the relationship between imagined/ remembered homelands and transnational identities, HIST B129 The Religious Conquest of the Americas and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and The course examines the complex aspects of the multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the European missionization of indigenous people, and psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and explores how two traditions of religious thought/practice loss. Readings of works by Felipe Alfau, Julia Alvarez, came into conflict. Rather than a transposition of Sigmund Freud, Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Christianity from Europe to the Americas, something Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, new was created in the contested colonial space. W. G. Sebald, and others. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Interpretation (CI) Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o (Not Offered 2016-2017) Studies; International Studies Units: 1.0 HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. (Spring 2017) The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form GNST B145 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course and Iberian Peoples and Cultures is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and system was created in the Americas in the early modern dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic the contemporary New World. The class introduces World as nothing more than an expanded version of the methods and interests of all departments in the North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, histories, political economies, and creative expressions. Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Peace, Justice and Human Rights Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Units: 1.0 Studies; International Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas The course explores the confrontations, conquests GNST B245 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and accommodations that formed the “ground-level” and Iberian Peoples and Cultures experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and the Americas. The course is comparative in scope, dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through examining events and structures in North, South the contemporary New World. The class introduces and Central America, with particular attention paid the methods and interests of all departments in the to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity leadership in the colonial world of the 18th century. and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) histories, political economies, and creative expressions. Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Iberian and Latina/o Studies Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Units: 1.0 Studies; International Studies Instructor(s): Gallup-Diaz,I. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017) 292 Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies

HIST B327 Topics in Early American History Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Instructor(s): Montes,V. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o (Spring 2017) Studies Units: 1.0 SOCL B231 Punishment and Social Order (Not Offered 2016-2017) A cross-cultural examination of punishment, from mass incarceration in the United States, to a widened “penal HIST B339 The Making of the African Diaspora 1450- net” in Europe, and the securitization of society in Latin 1800 America. The course addresses theoretical approaches This course explores the emergence, development, to crime control and the emergence of a punitive state and challenges to the ideologies of whiteness and connected with pervasive social inequality. blackness, that have been in place from the colonial Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o period to the present. Through the reading of primary Studies and secondary sources, we will explore various ways Units: 1.0 through which enslaved people imagined freedom, (Not Offered 2016-2017) personal rights, community membership, and some of the paths they created in order to improve their SOCL B235 Mexican-American Communities experiences and change the social order. In an attempt For its unique history, the number of migrants, and to have a comparative approach, we will look at the two countries’ proximity, Mexican migration to the particular events and circumstances that took place United States represents an exceptional case in world in few provinces in the Americas, with an emphasis migration. There is no other example of migration with on Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will more than 100 years of history. The copious presence also look at the methodological challenges of studying of migrants concentrated in a host country, such as we and writing history of people who in principle, were not have in the case of the 11.7 million Mexican migrants allowed to produce written texts. Throughout, we will residing in the United States, along with another 15 identify and underscore the contribution that people million Mexican descendants, is unparalleled. The of African descent have made to the ideas of rights, 1,933-mile-long border shared by the two countries freedom, equality, and democracy. makes it one of the longest boundary lines in the world Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality and, unfortunately, also one of the most dangerous Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies frontiers in the world today. We will examine the different Units: 1.0 economic, political, social and cultural forces that have (Not Offered 2016-2017) shaped this centenarian migration influx and undertake a macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of analysis. At the HIST B371 Topics in Atlantic History: The Early macro-level of political economy, we will investigate Modern Pirate in Fact and Fiction the economic interdependency that has developed This course will explore piracy in the Americas in the between Mexico and the U.S. over different economic period 1550-1750. We will investigate the historical development periods of these countries, particularly, reality of pirates and what they did, and the manner the role the Mexican labor force has played to boosting in which pirates have entered the popular imagination and sustaining both the Mexican and the American through fiction and films. Pirates have been depicted economies. At the meso-level, we will examine different as lovable rogues, anti-establishment rebels, and institutions both in Mexico and the U.S. that have enlightened multiculturalists who were skilled in determined the ways in which millions of Mexican dealing with the indigenous and African peoples of the migrate to this country. Last, but certainly not least, we Americas. The course will examine the facts and the will explore the impacts that both the macro-and meso- fictions surrounding these important historical actors. processes have had on the micro-level by considering Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive the imperatives, aspirations, and dreams that have Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o prompted millions of people to leave their homes and Studies communities behind in search of better opportunities. Units: 1.0 This major life decision of migration brings with it a (Not Offered 2016-2017) series of social transformations in family and community networks, this will look into the cultural impacts in both the sending and receiving migrant communities. In sum, SOCL B225 Women in Society we will come to understand how these three levels of A study of the contemporary experiences of women of analysis work together. color in the Global South. The household, workplace, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) community, and the nation-state, and the positions of Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o women in the private and public spheres are compared Studies cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and Units: 1.0 self-esteem; globalization and transnational social Instructor(s): Montes,V. movements and tensions and transitions encountered (Fall 2016) as nations embark upon development. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) SOCL B246 Immigrant Experiences: Introduction to Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family International Migration Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies The twenty-first century began much as the twentieth century did for the United States with high levels of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 293 immigration. This has affected not only the nation, stories). Main focus on developing analytical skills with but the discipline of sociology. Just as early twentieth attention to improvement of grammar. This course is a century Chicago School sociology focused on requisite for the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, immigration and settlement issues, so too the first or placement. decade of the twenty-first century shows a flurry Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) of sociological imagination devoted to immigration Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive scholarship. This course will center on the key texts, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o issues, and approaches coming out of this renovated Studies sociology of immigration, but we will also include Units: 1.0 approaches to the study of immigration from history, Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. anthropology, and ethnic studies. While we will consider (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) comparative and historical approaches, our focus will be on the late twentieth century through the present, SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en Espaa and we will spend a good deal of time focusing on A study of the rich dramatic tradition of Spain from the longest running labor migration in the world, the Golden Age (16th and 17th centuries) to the 20th Mexican immigration to the U.S., as well as on Central century within specific cultural and social contexts. The American migrant communities in the U.S. Students course considers a variety of plays as manifestations with an interest in contemporary U.S. immigration will of specific sociopolitical issues and problems. Topics be exposed to a survey of key theoretical approaches include theater as a site for fashioning a national and relevant issues in immigration studies in the social identity; the dramatization of gender conflicts; and plays sciences. Current themes, such as globalization, as vehicles of protest in repressive circumstances. transnationalism, gendered migration, immigrant labor Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian markets, militarization of the U.S.-Mexican border, Peoples and Cultures Concentration. Prerequiste: SPAN U.S. migration policy, the new second generation and B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or segmented assimilation, and citizenship will be included. another SPAN 200-level course. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Past (IP) Past (IP) Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Montes,V. Instructor(s): Quintero,M. (Spring 2017) (Fall 2016)

SOCL B259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin SPAN B209 Lo que hemos comido: Identidades en America Espaa An examination of resistance movements to the power This course considers the relationship between the of the state and globalization in three Latin American food we eat and our sense of identity in the context of societies: Mexico, Columbia, and Peru. The course regional identity politics in Spain. We will review the explores the political, legal, and socio-economic factors historical tension as they surface in diverse linguistic underlying contemporary struggles for human and social and cultural communities and currently challenged by rights, and the role of race, ethnicity, and coloniality play the new wave of immigration to the peninsula. Amid this in these struggles. intersection of different cultures and practices, we will Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) study how each region as turned to its traditional cuisine Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o and local culinary products to strengthen their sense Studies of regional identity while strategizing to communicate Units: 1.0 this uniqueness beyond the brand of “Spain” to the (Not Offered 2016-2017) world. We will examine, for instance, how this new trend compares to the tourism industry endorsed by the SPAN B110 Introduccin al análisis cultural dictatorship in the 1960s. This discussion will serve as a An introduction to the history and cultures of the case study to explore how communities remember and Spanish-speaking world in a global context: art, narrate their own histories to themselves and to others, folklore, geography, literature, sociopolitical issues, and using concepts such as taste, terroir, memory, and multicultural perspectives. This course is a requisite identity. Students in the course will view films and read for the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or fiction, essays, and culinary essays from around Spain. placement. Prerequisite: SPAN 120 or SPAN 110. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Interpretation (CI) Studies Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Units: 1.0 Studies Instructor(s): Song,R., Angeles,F. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

SPAN B120 Introduccin al análisis literario SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores Readings from Spanish and Spanish-American works Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; of various periods and genres (drama, poetry, short other writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of 294 Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies texts, society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 among others: La Condesa de Merlín, Alexander and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another von Humboldt, Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima. SPAN 200-level course. Selective films by Fernando Pérez and other Cuban Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) directors. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 or SPAN B120. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 0.5 (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN B219 Focus: Imaginando Barcelona An introduction to the textual and visual representation SPAN B243 Temas de la literatura hispana of the city of Barcelona, a key geographical, historical, This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN political, and cultural referent for Spain and Catalonia. B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or In this course we will read past and present texts that another 200-level. narrate the origins and the symbolic significance of this Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) city and discuss recent films that capture the evolving Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive experience of its residents, as a global destination for Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o many and a city of immigrants. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 Studies or SPAN B120. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Song,R. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Spring 2017: Migration in the Hispanic World. Units: 0.5 An introduction to the narratives of immigration in (Not Offered 2016-2017) the Hispanic world starting from the 19th century to the present. Immigrants from Spain have populated SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en la narrativa del Latin American countries during different periods of the continent’s history. More recently, Latin siglo XIX Americans have migrated to the Iberian Peninsula A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men in large numbers challenging Spain’s notion of and women writers, to assess how they come together cultural and ethnic homogeneity. Offered in English. in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social For Spanish credit, students will do part of the domains, as the country is facing new challenges in its reading, discussion in some additional sessions quest for modernity. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or and all written assignments in Spanish. Current B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another SPAN topic description: An introduction to the history of 200-level course. immigration in the Hispanic world starting from Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) the 19th century to the present. Immigrants from Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Spain have populated Latin American countries Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin during different periods of the continent’s history. American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies More recently, Latin Americans have migrated to Units: 1.0 the Iberian Peninsula in large numbers challenging (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spain’s notion of cultural and ethnic homogeneity. Offered in English. For Spanish credit, students will SPAN B231 El cuento y novela corta en Espaa do part of the reading and all written assignments in Traces the development of the novella and short story Spanish. in Spain, from its origins in the Middle Ages to our time. The writers will include Pardo Bazán, Cervantes, SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Clarín, Don Juan Manuel, Matute, Zayas, and a number Latin American Film of contemporary writers such as Marina Mayoral and Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as Rosa Montero. Our approach will include formal and “emotional people”—often a euphemism to mean thematic considerations, and attention will be given to irrational, impulsive, wildly heroic, fickle. This course social and historical contexts. Prerequiste: SPAN B110 takes this expression at face value to ask: Are there and/or B120; or another SPAN 200-level course.Critical particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, conversely, do these “people” become such because Iberian, and Latino/a Studies. they share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) between emotions and political trajectories? To answer Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o these questions, we will explore three types of films Studies that seem to have, at different times, taken hold of the Units: 1.0 Latin American imagination and feelings: melodramas (Not Offered 2016-2017) (1950s-1960s), documentaries (1970s-1990s), and “low- key” comedies (since 2000s.) SPAN B233 Focus: La Habana y sus textos Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Film Studies; Latin American, Iberian La Habana (a historical, artistic and literary crossroad) and Latina/o Studies is studied in its intersemiotic complexity. Readings from Units: 1.0 the colonial period to the present. Authors included, (Not Offered 2016-2017) Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies 295

SPAN B265 Escritoras espaolas: entre tradicin, contemporaries, you will also be asked to write fictions renovacin y migracin about life “here and now.” Throughout, we will keep two Fiction by women writers from Spain in the 20th fundamental questions in mind: What is reality (here)? and 21st century. Breaking the traditional female What is the contemporary (now)? Prerequisite: at least stereotypes during and after Franco’s dictatorship, the one SPAN 200-level course. authors explore through their creative writing changing Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o sociopolitical and cultural issues including regional Studies identities and immigration. Topics of discussion include Units: 1.0 gender marginality, feminist studies and the portrayal (Not Offered 2016-2017) of women in contemporary society. Prerequiste: SPAN B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or SPAN B317 Poéticas del deseo y el poder en la lírica another SPAN 200-level course. del Siglo de Oro Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) A study of the evolution of the lyric in Spain during Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin the Renaissance and Baroque periods beginning with American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies the oral tradition and the imitation of Petrarch. Topics Units: 1.0 include: the representation of women as objects (Not Offered 2016-2017) of desire and pre-texts for writing, the political and national subtexts for lyric production, the self-fashioning SPAN B307 Cervantes and subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody A study of themes, structure, and style of Cervantes’ and imitation, and the feminine appropriation of the masterpiece Don Quijote and its impact on world Petrarchan tradition. Although concentrating on the literature. In addition to a close reading of the text and a poetry of Spain, reading will include texts from Italy, consideration of narrative theory, the course examines France, England and Mexico. Taught in Spanish. the impact of Don Quijote on the visual arts, music, film, Prerequisites: at least one 200-level course. Counts and popular culture. Counts toward the Latin American, toward Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Concentration. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Studies Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Units: 1.0 Studies Instructor(s): Quintero,M. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN B321 Surrealismo al afrorrealismo SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del Examines artistic texts that trace the development Siglo de Oro and relationships of surrealism, lo real maravilloso A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, americano, realismo mágico and afrorealismo. and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics Manifestos and literary works by Latin American authors include the construction of gender; the idealization and will be emphasized: Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo codification of women’s bodies; the politics of feminine Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the Laura Esquivel, Quince Duncan. Prerequisite: at least performance of honor. The first half of the course will one SPAN 200-level course. deal with representations of women by male authors Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o (Caldern, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second Studies will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Units: 1.0 Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María (Not Offered 2016-2017) de Zayas. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. SPAN B323 Memoria y Guerra Civil Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin A look into the Spanish Civil War and its wide-ranging American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies international significance as both the military and Units: 1.0 ideological testing ground for World War II. This course Instructor(s): Quintero,M. examines the endurance of myths related to this conflict (Fall 2016) and the cultural memory it has produced along with the current negotiations of the past that is taking place SPAN B315 El futuro ya lleg: relatos del presente in democratic Spain. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN en América Latina 200-level course. Taught in Spanish. In the 21st Century, “Here and Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o now” is not what it used to be. There is no single “here” Studies but instead multiple, coexisting realities (that of the Units: 1.0 cellphone, the street, the ‘world’.) There’s no clear (Not Offered 2016-2017) present when the “now” is multiple. In this course we will explore 21st century Latin American shorts-stories, SPAN B332 Novelas de las Américas films, works of art, and novellas that synchronize What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US with our contemporary circumstances—-fictions and novel as “American” in the continental sense? What do representations where realities alternate, identities we learn by comparing novels from “this” America to flow, and the world appears oddly out of scale. As 296 Linguistics classics of the “other” Americas? Can we find through Haverford College this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, Marilyn Boltz, Professor of Psychology interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these questions by connecting and comparing major US Jane Chandlee, Visiting Assistant Professor of novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and Computer Science 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to Danielle Macbeth, T. Wistar Brown Professor of illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances Philosophy and affinities. This course is taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Ana Lpez-Sánchez, Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies Units: 1.0 Swarthmore College (Not Offered 2016-2017) Theodore B. Fernald, Professor and Co-Chair SPAN B350 Lo fantástico y el cuento K. David Harrison, Professor hispanoamericano Donna Jo Napoli, Professor Special attention to the double, the fantastic and the Jamie A. Thomas, Assistant Professor sociopolitical thematics of short fiction in Spanish America. Authors include Quiroga, Borges, Carpentier, Jonathan North Washington, Assistant Professor Rulfo, Cortázar and Valenzuela. Prerequisite: at least Emily A. Gasser, Visiting Assistant Professor one SPAN 200-level course. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Patricia L. Irwin, Visiting Assistant Professor Studies Peter Klecha, Visiting Assistant Professor Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Linguistics is the scientific study of language, the medium which allows us to communicate and share our SPAN B351 Tradicin y revolucin: Cuba y su ideas with others. As a discipline, linguistics examines literatura the structural components of sound, form and meaning, An examination of Cuba, its history and its literature and the precise interplay between them. Modern with emphasis on the analysis of cultural and economic linguistic inquiry stresses analytical and argumentation transformations. Major topics include slavery and skills, which will prepare students for future pursuits in resistance; Cuba’s struggles for freedom; changing any field where such skills are essential. Linguistics is cultural policies and film of the Revolution. Prerequisite: also relevant to other disciplines, such as Psychology, at least one SPAN 200-level course. Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Science, Sociology Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o and Anthropology. (Some of our students have double Studies majored with one of them.) Units: 1.0 The primary goals of the linguistics major are to Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. introduce students to the field of linguistics proper (Fall 2016) through a series of foundation courses in linguistics theory and methodology; to provide training in the application of certain theoretical and methodological TRI-CO PROGRAM IN tools to the analysis of linguistic data; and to offer an array of interdisciplinary courses that allow students to LINGUISTICS explore other related fields that best suit their interests.

Students may major or minor in the Tri-Co Linguistics Major Requirements Department (Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore). The Tri-Co Linguistics Department offers two majors: Faculty Linguistics Shizhe Huang, Co-Chair and Associate Professor of • Linguistics Chinese and Linguistics; C.V. Starr Professor in • Linguistics and Language Asian Studies (Haverford) All Linguistics and Linguistics and Languages course Brook D. Lillehaugen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics majors must take one course or seminar from each of (Tri-College) (On leave, Fall 2016) the following three lists: Nathan Sanders, Visiting Assistant Professor of • Sounds: LING H115 at HC or LING045, 052 at SC Linguistics (Haverford) • Forms: LING H113 at HC or LING050 at SC Bryn Mawr College • Meanings: LING H114 at HC or LING026, 040 at Deepak Kumar, Professor of Computer Science SC Amanda Weidman, Chair and Associate Professor of All Linguistics and Linguistics and Languages course Anthropology majors are required to take the structure of a non- Indo-European Language, typically LING282 at HC, or LING061, 062, 064 at SC. Linguistics 297

All majors must take two elective courses in Linguistics Contact Information for Bi-Co students: Shizhe Huang, or related fields. Co-Chair of Tri-Co Linguistics Department: shuang@ haverford.edu. In addition, all Linguistics and Linguistics & Languages course majors are required to write a senior thesis in the fall of their senior year in LING100 (Research Seminar). COURSES This paper constitutes the comprehensive requirement. LING B101 Introduction to Linguistics The course can be taken for one or two credits. All Linguistics and Linguistics and Languages honors An introductory survey of linguistics as a field. majors are required to write a senior thesis in the fall of This course examines the core areas of linguistic the senior year in LING195 for two credits. structure (morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics), pragmatics, and language variation in relation to Honors majors do all of the above plus two research language change. The course provides rudimentary projects (each carries one credit) to be completed training in the analysis of language data, and focuses independently in the spring of their senior year and on the variety of human language structures and on the conclude with an oral examination question of universal properties of language. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Minor Requirements Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sanders,N. Students may minor in linguistics by completing six (Fall 2016) credits in the following three areas of study: A. Mandatory Foundation Courses (three credits) ANTH B281 Language in Social Context Studies of language in society have moved from the • LING H113 or LING S050 Introduction to Syntax idea that language reflects social position/identity • LING H114 or LING S040 Introduction to Semantics to the idea that language plays an active role in • LING H115 Phonetics and Phonology shaping and negotiating social position, identity, and experience. This course will explore the implications of this shift by providing an introduction to the fields of B. Synthesis Courses (choose one): sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. We will be • LING H282 Structure of Chinese particularly concerned with the ways in which language is implicated in the social construction of gender, race, • LING H382 Topics in Chinese Syntax and class, and cultural/national identity. The course will Semantics develop students’ skills in the ethnographic analysis • LING S060 Structure of Navajo of communication through several short ethnographic projects. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or • LING S062 Structure of American Sign Language permission of instructor. • LING S064 Structure of Tuvan Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) C. Elective Courses (choose two): Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights • LING/PSYC H238 The Psychology of Language Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Weidman,A. • LING B101 Introduction to Linguistics (Spring 2017) • LING/PHIL H253 Analytic Philosophy of Language • LING/PHIL H260 Historical Introduction to Logic CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics • LING/ANTH B281 Language in the Social Context Introduction to computational models of understanding and processing human languages. How elements of • LING/CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence • LING/SPAN H365 The Politics of Language in the can be combined to help computers process human Spanish-Speaking World language and to help linguists understand language through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, • LING/EAST H382 Topics in Chinese Syntax and semantics, pragmatics, generation and knowledge Semantics representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206 , or All linguistics courses offered at Swarthmore College will H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. be accepted for minor credit for various categories. Counts towards: Neuroscience Students who plan to declare either major in the Units: 1.0 Linguistics Department: (Not Offered 2016-2017)

• At the college level, students must fill out the SPAN B216 Introduccin a la lingística hispánica major declaration form as required by the A survey of the field of Hispanic linguistics. We will

Registrar’s Office of your college. explore the sounds and sound patterns of Spanish • At the departmental level, students must fill out (phonetics and phonology), how words are formed the Sophomore Paper, scan it and email it to (morphology), the structure and interpretation Shizhe Huang AND Dorothy Kunzig (dkunzig1@ of sentences (syntax and semantics), language swarthmore.edu). use (pragmatics), the history and dialects of the 298 Mathematics

Spanish language, and second language acquisition. The analysis and algebra sequences, MATH 301/302 Prerequisite: SPAN B110 or SPAN B120 or permission and MATH 303/304, both have a strong proof writing of the instructor. Critical Interpretation (CI) focus. Consequently, students often find it useful to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) take a course such as MATH 206 (Transition to Higher Units: 1.0 Mathematics) before they enroll in these sequences, (Not Offered 2016-2017) and in any case should consult with the instructor if they are unsure about their level of preparation. With the exception of Senior Conference, equivalent MATHEMATICS courses at Haverford or elsewhere may be substituted for Bryn Mawr courses with approval of the major Students may complete a major or minor in adviser. A student may also, in consultation with a major Mathematics. Within the major, students may complete adviser, petition the department to accept courses the requirements for secondary school certification. in fields outside of mathematics as electives if these Majors may complete an M.A. in Mathematics, if courses have serious mathematical content appropriate accepted into the combined A.B./M.A. program, or to the student’s program. may enter the 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied Mathematics majors are encouraged to complete their Science at the California Institute of Technology or the core requirements other than Senior Conference by 4+1 Partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s the end of their junior year. Senior Conference must School of Engineering and Applied Science. be taken during the senior year. Students considering the possibility of graduate study in mathematics or Faculty related fields are urged to go well beyond the minimum requirements of the major. In such cases, a suitable Leslie Cheng, Chair and Professor of Mathematics program of study should be designed with the advice of Victor Donnay, Professor of Mathematics on the William a major adviser. R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Director of Environmental Studies Major Writing Requirement Erica Graham, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Students will take MATH B301 and MATH B303, two Penelope Higgins Dunham, Visiting Professor writing attentive courses, to satisfy the major writing requirement. William Dunham, Visiting Professor Peter Kasius, Instructor in Mathematics Honors Paul Melvin, Professor of Mathematics (on leave A degree with honors in mathematics will be awarded semester I) by the department to students who complete the major Djordje Milicevic, Assistant Professor of Mathematics in mathematics and also meet the following further requirements: at least two additional units of work at Amy Myers, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Math the 300 level or above (which may include one or two Program Coordinator units of MATH 395/396 or MATH 403), completion of Walter Stromquist, Visiting Associate Professor a meritorious project consisting of a written thesis and an oral presentation of the thesis, and a major grade Lisa Traynor, Professor of Mathematics point average of at least 3.6, calculated at the end of the senior year. A draft of the written thesis should be The Mathematics curriculum is designed to expose submitted to the Math Department Office one week students to a wide spectrum of ideas in modern before the last day of classes. mathematics, train students in the art of logical reasoning and clear expression, and provide students Minor Requirements with an appreciation of the beauty of the subject and of its vast applicability. The minor requires five courses in mathematics at the 200 level or higher, of which at least two must be at the Major Requirements 300 level or higher. A minimum of 10 semester courses is required for the Advanced Placement major, including the six core courses listed below and four electives at or above the 200 level. Students entering with a 4 or 5 on the Calculus AB advanced placement test will be given credit for MATH 101 and should enroll in MATH 201 as their first Core Requirements mathematics course. Students entering with a 4 or 5 on MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus (H121 or H216) the Calculus BC advanced placement test will be given credit for MATH 101 and 102, and should enroll in MATH MATH B203 Linear Algebra (H215) 201 as their first mathematics course. All other students MATH B301 Real Analysis I (H317) are strongly encouraged to take the Mathematics MATH B303 Abstract Algebra I (H333) Placement Exam so they can be best advised. MATH B302 Real Analysis II (H318) or MATH B304 Abstract Algebra II (H334) A.B./M.A. Program For students entering with advanced placement credits it MATH B398 or B399 Senior Conference

Mathematics 299 is possible to earn both the A.B. and M.A. degrees in an transformations and their representation by matrices, integrated program in four (or possibly five) years. eigenvectors and eigenvalues, orthogonality, and applications of linear algebra. Prerequisite or 3-2 Program in Engineering and corequisite: MATH 102, or permission of the instructor. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Applied Science Units: 1.0 See the description of the 3-2 Program in Engineering (Spring 2017) and Applied Science, offered in cooperation with the California Institute of Technology, for earning both an MATH B205 Theory of Probability with Applications A.B. at Bryn Mawr and a B.S. at Cal Tech. The course analyzes repeatable “experiments,” such as coin tosses or die rolls, in which the short-term 4+1 Partnership with Penn’s School of outcomes are uncertain, but the long-run behavior Engineering and Applied Science is predictable. Such random processes are used as See the description of the 4+1 Partnership with Penn’s models for real-world phenomena to solve problems School of Engineering, offered in cooperation with the such as determining the effectiveness of a new University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering drug, or deciding whether a series of record-high and Applied Science, for beginning work on a Master’s temperatures is due to the natural variation in weather degree in Engineering while still enrolled as an or rather to climate change. Topics include: random undergraduate at Bryn Mawr. variables, discrete distributions (binomial, geometric, negative binomial, Poisson, hypergeometric, Benford), continuous densities (exponential, gamma, normal, COURSES Maxwell, Rayleigh, chi-squared), conditional probability, expected value, variance, the Law of Large Numbers, MATH B101 Calculus I and the Central Limit Theorem. Prerequisite: MATH A first course in one-variable calculus: functions, limits, B102 or the equivalent (merit score on the AP Calculus continuity, the derivative, differentiation formulas, BC Exam or placement). applications of the derivative, the integral, integration Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) by substitution, fundamental theorem of calculus. May Units: 1.0 include a computer component. Prerequisite: adequate (Not Offered 2016-2017) score on calculus placement exam, or permission of the instructor. Students should have a reasonable command MATH B206 Transition to Higher Mathematics of high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative An introduction to higher mathematics with a focus Readiness Required (QR) on proof writing. Topics include active reading of Units: 1.0 mathematics, constructing appropriate examples, (Fall 2016) problem solving, logical reasoning, and communication of mathematics through proofs. Students will develop skills while exploring key concepts from algebra, MATH B102 Calculus II analysis, topology, and other advanced fields. A continuation of Calculus I: transcendental functions, Corequisite: MATH 203; not open to students who have techniques of integration, applications of integration, had a 300-level math course. infinite sequences and series, convergence tests, power Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) series. May include a computer component. Math 102 Units: 1.0 assumes familiarity of the content covered in Math 101 (Spring 2017) or its equivalent. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B210 Differential Equations with Applications Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Ordinary differential equations, including general first- order equations, linear equations of higher order and systems of equations, via numerical, geometrical, and MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus analytic methods. Applications to physics, biology, and Vectors and geometry in two and three dimensions, economics. Co-requisite: MATH 201 or 203. partial derivatives, extremal problems, double and Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) triple integrals, vector analysis (gradients, curl and Units: 1.0 divergence), line and surface integrals, the theorems (Fall 2016) of Gauss, Green and Stokes. May include a computer component. Prerequisite: MATH 102 or permission of MATH B221 Introduction to Topology and Geometry instructor. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) An introduction to the ideas of topology and geometry Units: 1.0 through the study of knots and surfaces in three- (Fall 2016) dimensional space. The course content may vary from year to year, but will generally include some historical perspectives and some discussion of connections with MATH B203 Linear Algebra the natural and life sciences. Co-requisite: MATH 201 or Systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, 203. determinants, vector spaces and subspaces, Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) linear independence, bases and dimension, linear Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 300 Mathematics

MATH B225 Introduction to Financial Mathematics Lebesgue integral, dynamical systems, and calculus in Topics to be covered include market conventions and higher dimensions. Prerequisite: MATH 301. instruments, Black-Scholes option-pricing model, Units: 1.0 and practical aspects of trading and hedging. All (Spring 2017) necessary definitions from probability theory (random variables, normal and lognormal distribution, etc.) will MATH B303 Abstract Algebra I be explained. Prerequisite: MATH 102. ECON 105 is A first course in abstract algebra, including an recommended. introduction to groups, rings and fields, and their Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) homomorphisms. Topics covered: cyclic and dihedral Units: 1.0 groups, the symmetric and alternating groups, direct (Not Offered 2016-2017) products and finitely generated abelian groups, cosets, Lagrange’s Theorem, normal subgroups and quotient MATH B251 Chaotic Dynamical Systems groups, isomorphism theorems, integral domains, Topics to be covered may include iteration, orbits, polynomial rings, ideals, quotient rings, prime and graphical and computer analysis, bifurcations, symbolic maximal ideals. Possible additional topics include group dynamics, fractals, complex dynamics and applications. actions and the Sylow Theorems, free abelian groups, Prerequisite: MATH B102 free groups, PIDs and UFDs. Prerequisite: MATH 203. Units: 1.0 Some students also find it helpful to have taken a (Not Offered 2016-2017) transitional course such as MATH 206 before enrolling in this course. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive MATH B290 Elementary Number Theory Units: 1.0 Properties of the integers, divisibility, primality and (Fall 2016) factorization, congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, multiplicative functions, quadratic residues MATH B304 Abstract Algebra II and quadratic reciprocity, continued fractions, and applications to computer science and cryptography. A continuation of Abstract Algebra I. Vector spaces Prerequisite: MATH 102. and linear algebra, field extensions, algebraic and Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) transcendental extensions, finite fields, fields of Units: 1.0 fractions, field automorphisms, the isomorphism (Spring 2017) extension theorem, splitting fields, separable and inseparable extensions, algebraic closures, and Galois theory. Also, if not covered in Abstract Algebra I: group MATH B295 Select Topics in Mathematics actions and Sylow theorems, free abelian groups, free This is a topics course. Course content varies. groups, PIDs and UFDs. Possible additional topic: Prerequisite: MATH B102. finitely generated modules over a PID and canonical Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) forms of matrices. Prerequisite: MATH 303. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Stromquist,W. (Spring 2017) Fall 2016: Game Theory. MATH B308 Applied Mathematics I Spring 2017: TBD. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 MATH B301 Real Analysis I Instructor(s): Graham,E. A first course in real analysis, providing a rigorous (Spring 2017) development of single variable calculus, with a strong focus on proof writing. Topics covered: the real number MATH B310 Introduction to the Mathematics of system, elements of set theory and topology, limits, Financial Derivatives continuous functions, the intermediate and extreme An introduction to the mathematics utilized in the pricing value theorems, differentiable functions and the mean models of derivative instruments. Topics to be covered value theorem, uniform continuity, the Riemann integral, may include Arbitrage Theorem, pricing derivatives, the fundamental theorem of calculus. Possible additional Wiener and Poisson processes, martingales and topics include analysis on metric spaces or dynamical martingale representations, Ito’s Lemma, Black-Scholes systems. Prerequisite: MATH 201. Some students also partial differentiation equation, Girsanov Theorem and find it helpful to have taken a transitional course such as Feynman-Kac Formula. Prerequisite: MATH 201 or MATH 206 before enrolling in this course. permission of instructor. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016)

MATH B311 Partial Differential Equations MATH B302 Real Analysis II Heat and wave equations on bounded and unbounded A continuation of Real Analysis I: Infinite series, power domains, Laplace’s equation, Fourier series and the series, sequences and series of functions, pointwise Fourier transform, qualitative behavior of solutions, and uniform convergence, and additional topics computational methods. Applications to the physical and selected from: Fourier series, calculus of variations, the Mathematics 301 life sciences. Prerequisite: MATH 301 or permission of MATH B399 Senior Conference instructor. A seminar for seniors majoring in mathematics. Topics Units: 1.0 vary from year to year. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) MATH B312 Topology General topology (topological spaces, continuity, MATH B403 Supervised Work compactness, connectedness, quotient spaces), the Units: 1.0 fundamental group and covering spaces, introduction (Fall 2016) to geometric topology (classification of surfaces, manifolds). Typically offered yearly in alternation with MATH B501 Graduate Real Analysis I Haverford. Co-requisite: MATH 301, MATH 303, or permission of instructor. In this course we will study the theory of measure and Units: 1.0 integration. Topics will include Lebesgue measure, (Fall 2016) measurable functions, the Lebesgue integral, the Riemann-Stieltjes integral, complex measures, differentiation of measures, product measures, and Lp MATH B322 Functions of Complex Variables spaces. Analytic functions, Cauchy’s theorem, Laurent series, Units: 1.0 calculus of residues, conformal mappings, Moebius (Fall 2016) transformations. Prerequisite: MATH 301 or permission of instructor. MATH B502 Graduate Real Analysis II Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) This course is a continuation of Math 501. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) MATH B361 Harmonic Analysis and Wavelets A first introduction to harmonic analysis and wavelets. MATH B503 Graduate Algebra I Topics to be covered include Fourier series on the circle, Fourier transforms on the line and space, Discrete This is the first course in a two course sequence Wavelet Transform, Fast Wavelet Transform and filter- providing a standard introduction to algebra at the bank representation of wavelets. Prerequisite: MATH graduate level. Topics in the first semester will include B203 or permission of instructor. categories, groups, rings, modules, and linear algebra. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

MATH B395 Research Seminar MATH B504 Graduate Algebra II A research seminar for students involved in individual This course is a continuation of Math 503, the two or small group research under the supervision of courses providing a standard introduction to algebra the instructor. With permission, the course may be at the graduate level. Topics in the second semester repeated for credit. This is a topics course. Prerequisite: will include linear algebra, fields, Galois theory, and Permission of instructor. advanced group theory. Prerequisite: MATH B503. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., (Not Offered 2016-2017) Graham,E., Milicevic,D. (Fall 2016) MATH B505 Graduate Topology I This is the first course of a 2 semester sequence, MATH B396 Research Seminar covering the basic notions of algebraic topology. A research seminar for students involved in individual The focus will be on homology theory, which will be or small group research under the supervision of the introduced axiomatically (via the Eilenberg-Steenrod instructor. With permission, the course may be repeated axioms) and then studied from a variety of points of for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. view (simplicial, singular and cellular homology). The Units: 1.0 course will also treat cohomology theory and duality (on Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., manifolds), and the elements of homotopy theory. Graham,E., Milicevic,D. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017)

MATH B398 Senior Conference MATH B506 Graduate Topology II A seminar for seniors majoring in mathematics. Topics Math 505 and Math 506 offer an introduction to topology vary from year to year. at the graduate level. These courses can be taken in Units: 1.0 either order. Math 506 focuses on differential topology. (Fall 2016) Topics covered include smooth manifolds, smooth maps, and differential forms. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) 302 Mathematics

CHEM B221 Physical Chemistry I Quantitative Readiness Required. Introduction to quantum theory and spectroscopy. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Atomic and molecular structure; molecular modeling; Readiness Required (QR) rotational, vibrational, electronic and magnetic Units: 1.0 resonance spectroscopy. Lecture three hours. (Spring 2017) Prerequisites: CHEM B104 and MATH B201. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) MATH B425 Praxis III Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Francl,M. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Fall 2016) MATH B670 Graduate Perspectives in Mathematics CMSC B231 Discrete Mathematics Pedagogy An introduction to discrete mathematics with strong This course will cover a spectrum of topics in applications to computer science. Topics include mathematics pedagogy of importance for graduate propositional logic, proof techniques, recursion, set students serving as mathematics teaching assistants as theory, counting, probability theory and graph theory. well as those preparing to teach high school, community Co-requisites: CMSC B110 or H105 or H107. college, or university-level mathematics. It will meet Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) every other week for three hours following a seminar Units: 1.0 format combining some lectures and guest speakers Instructor(s): Xu,D. with extended discussion. (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CMSC B310 Computational Geometry A study of algorithms and mathematical theories that MATH B701 Supervised Work focus on solving geometric problems in computing, Units: 1.0 which arise naturally from a variety of disciplines such Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., as Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric Graham,E., Milicevic,D. Design, Computer Vision, Robotics and Visualization. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) The materials covered sit at the intersection of pure Mathematics and application-driven Computer Science MATH B701 Supervised Work and efforts will be made to accommodate Math majors and Computer Science majors of varying math/ Units: 1.0 computational backgrounds. Topics include: graph Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., theory, triangulation, convex hulls, geometric structures Graham,E., Milicevic,D. such as Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) as well as curves and polyhedra surface topology. Prerequisite: CMSC B231/ MATH B231. MATH B702 Research Seminar Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., (Not Offered 2016-2017) Graham,E., Milicevic,D. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) ECON B304 Econometrics The econometric theory presented in ECON 253 is MATH B702 Research Seminar further developed and its most important empirical Units: 1.0 applications are considered. Each student does an Instructor(s): Melvin,P., Cheng,L., Donnay,V., Traynor,L., empirical research project using multiple regression and Graham,E., Milicevic,D. other statistical techniques. Prerequisites: ECON 203 or (Fall 2016) 204 or 253; ECON 200 or both 202 and MATH 201. Units: 1.0 PHYS B306 Mathematical Methods in the Physical Instructor(s): Sfekas,A. Sciences (Spring 2017) This course presents topics in applied mathematics useful to students, including physicists, engineers, MATH B104 Basic Probability and Statistics physical chemists, geologists, and computer scientists This course introduces students to key concepts in studying the natural sciences. Topics are taken from both descriptive and inferential statistics. Students Fourier series, integral transforms, advanced ordinary learn how to collect, describe, display, and interpret and partial differential equations, special functions, both raw and summarized data in meaningful ways. boundary-value problems, functions of complex Topics include summary statistics, graphical displays, variables, and numerical methods. Lecture three correlation, regression, probability, the law of averages, hours and additional recitation sessions as needed. expected value, standard error, the central limit theorem, Prerequisite: MATH 201 and 203. hypothesis testing, sampling procedures, and bias. Units: 1.0 Students learn to use statistical software to summarize, Instructor(s): Schulz,M. present, and interpret data. This course may not be (Fall 2016) taken after any other statistics course. Prerequisite: Middle Eastern Studies 303

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES the region and its peoples. This may be a Social Science or Humanities course at the 100 or 200 level. Basic courses generally available include: Students may complete a concentration in Middle POLS B283 Politics of the Middle East and North Eastern Studies. America (Bryn Mawr), ANTH H253 Anthropology of the Middle East (Haverford), and SOAN 009C Faculty Cultures of the Middle East (Swarthmore). A basic course should be chosen with the student’s advisor. Peter Magee, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern The instructor in the basic course may recommend Archaeology and Director of the Middle Eastern a basic text for the student to use as a reference for Studies Program continuing study; Grace Armstrong, Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of • Three elective Middle Eastern topic courses, French and Director of Middle Eastern Languages including at least one at the 300 level in a specific and Co-Director of the International Studies area to be chosen in consultation with the student’s Program (fall) advisor. This area might be defined in terms of Assef Ashraf, Predoctoral Fellow in History conceptual, historical, or geographical interests and, in many cases, will be connected to work in Manar Darwish, Instructor of Arabic and Coordinator of the student’s major; the Bi-Co Arabic Program • Two additional Middle Eastern topic courses, at

Sofia Fenner, Lecturer in Political Science least one of which must be in either the Humanities Azade Seyhan, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities or Social Sciences if a student’s work in (1) and (2) and Chair and Professor of German and does not include one or the other of these; Comparative Literature • Of the six courses one must be pre-modern in Elly Truitt, Associate Professor of History (on leave content; semesters I & II) • Of the six courses only three may be in the Sharon Ullman, Professor of History and Director of student’s major. Gender and Sexuality Studies (on leave semesters I and II) Track 2 Alicia Walker, Associate Professor of History of Art on The second track consists of language study and other the Marie Neuberger Fund for the Study of Arts and courses. Students opting for this track must take the Director of the Center for Visual Culture (on leave equivalent of two years of study of a modern Middle semesters I & II) Eastern language or pass a proficiency exam in one of these languages, whereby they may also meet the Courses on the Middle East may contribute to majors in standard set for the A.B. degree for the foreign language other fields or serve as electives. In addition, students requirement. Four additional courses distributed as may complete a concentration in Middle East Studies. follows are required for the concentration: The Middle Eastern Studies Program focuses on the • A basic course that offers a broad introduction to study of the area from Morocco to Afghanistan from the region and its peoples. This may be a Social antiquity to the present day. Bryn Mawr students can Science or Humanities course at the 100 or 200 investigate the history, politics and cultures of the level. Basic courses generally available include: Middle East through coursework, independent study, POLS B283 Politics of the Middle East and North study abroad, and events here and at neighboring Africa (Bryn Mawr), ANTH H253 Anthropology institutions. In conjunction with courses at Haverford and of the Middle East (Haverford), and SOAN 009C Swarthmore, the Advisory Committee from Bryn Mawr Cultures of the Middle East (Swarthmore). A basic College co-ordinates courses and works with colleagues course should be chosen with the student’s advisor. from Haverford and Swarthmore College on tri-college The instructor in the basic course may recommend curricular planning. a basic text for the student to use as a reference for continuing study; The members of the Middle Eastern Studies Committee can help students who are interested in Middle Eastern • Three elective Middle Eastern topic courses, which topics plan coursework and independent study. meet the following conditions; • One course must be in the Social Sciences; There are two tracks to Middle East Studies Concentration; one requires study or competence in a • One course must be in the Humanities; Middle Eastern language, the other does not. • At least one course must be at the 300 level to be selected after consultation with the student’s Track 1 adviser so as to expose the student to in-depth The first track consists of six courses in the Humanities study of the Middle East with a geographic, or Social Sciences that focus on the ancient or modern conceptual, or particular historical focus; Middle East distributed in the following manner: • At least one course must be pre-modern in content; • A basic course that offers a broad introduction to • Of the four courses, only two may also form a part of the student’s major. 304 Middle Eastern Studies

For Arabic and Hebrew languages, please see those Islamic traditions will also be addressed. sections. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) COURSES Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 ARCH B104 Archaeology of Agricultural and Urban (Not Offered 2016-2017) Revolutions This course examines the archaeology of the two ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East most fundamental changes that have occurred in A survey of the history, material culture, political and human society in the last 12,000 years, agriculture and religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five urbanism, and we explore these in Egypt and the Near great empires of the ancient Near East of the second East as far as India. We also explore those societies and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the that did not experience these changes. Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in Past (IP) Iran. Counts towards: Geoarchaeology; Middle Eastern Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Instructor(s): Magee,P. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Helft,S. (Fall 2016) ARCH B224 Women in the Ancient Near East A survey of the social position of women in the ancient COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local Near East, from sedentary villages to empires of the first Practices and Global Resonance millennium B.C.E. Topics include critiques of traditional The course is in English. It examines the ban on books concepts of gender in archaeology and theories and art in a global context through a study of the of matriarchy. Case studies illustrate the historicity historical and sociopolitical conditions of censorship of gender concepts: women’s work in early village practices. The course raises such questions as how societies; the meanings of Neolithic female figurines; censorship is used to fortify political power, how it is the representation of gender in the Gilgamesh epic; practiced locally and globally, who censors, what are the institution of the “Tawananna” (queen) in the Hittite the categories of censorship, how censorship succeeds empire; the indirect power of women such as Semiramis and fails, and how writers and artists write and create in the Neo-Assyrian palaces. Reliefs, statues, texts and against and within censorship. The last question leads more indirect archaeological evidence are the basis for to an analysis of rhetorical strategies that writers and discussion. artists employ to translate the expression of repression, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the trauma, and torture into idioms of resistance. German Past (IP) majors/minors can get German Studies credit. Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing Eastern Studies course. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies; Middle Eastern Studies ARCH B230 Archaeology and History of Ancient Units: 1.0 Egypt Instructor(s): Seyhan,A. A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt (Fall 2016) from the Pre-Dynastic through the Graeco-Roman periods, with special emphasis on Egypt’s Empire and HART B311 Topics in Medieval Art its outside connections, especially the Aegean and Near This is a topics course. Course content varies. Current Eastern worlds. topic description: Topic TBA Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Africana Studies; Middle Eastern (Spring 2017) Studies Units: 1.0 HIST B128 Crusade, Conversion and Conquest (Not Offered 2016-2017) A thematic focus course exploring the nature of Christian religious expansion and conflict in the medieval period. ARCH B240 Archaeology and History of Ancient Based around primary sources with some background Mesopotamia readings, topics include: early medieval Christianity A survey of the material culture of ancient Mesopotamia, and conversion; the Crusades and development of the modern Iraq, from the earliest phases of state formation doctrines of “just war” and “holy war”; the rise of military (circa 3500 B.C.E.) through the Achaemenid Persian order such as the Templars and the Teutonic Kings; and occupation of the Near East (circa 331 B.C.E.). later medieval attempts to convert and colonize Eastern Emphasis will be on art, artifacts, monuments, religion, Europe. kingship, and the cuneiform tradition. The survival of the cultural legacy of Mesopotamia into later ancient and Middle Eastern Studies 305

Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the HIST B234 An Introduction to Middle Eastern History Past (IP) Through the historical study of Islamism this course Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies will dispel the notion that this movement is a natural Units: 1.0 outgrowth of Islam. It will show that Islamism grew (Not Offered 2016-2017) as a native response to European nationalism and imperialism. After examining the intellectual sources of HIST B210 From Empire to Nation-State in the Islamism, this course will look to answer why Islamism Middle East has proved so resilient in the face of intense local The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to and foreign opposition and proved well suited for an the history of the Middle East from the late 18th century increasingly global world. until the present. Islam and the classical Ottoman period Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) will be discussed to provide the requisite background Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies for the modern period. From the late Ottoman period Units: 1.0 onward, we will consider the impact of a series of Instructor(s): Ashraf,A. events - from the incorporation of the Empire into (Fall 2016) a global economic system, to the rise of ethnic and national politics, the Ottoman reform movement, colonial HIST B320 Middle Eastern Migration, Diaspora and expansion, the dissolution of the Empire, the emergence Nostalgia of the modern system of states, the Cold War, and This course will trace Middle Eastern migration the collapse of Soviet power. We will conclude with a movements from the 19th century to the present. After discussion of the Arab Spring. Emphasis will be placed a discussion of historical migration patterns, we will on links, continuity, and transitions during this two- examine theories of migration focusing on why people hundred year period. move and how their movement effects and affects Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the social and economic statuses and processes in both Past (IP) sending and receiving countries. Next we will consider Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies theoretical and empirical studies on the integration of Units: 1.0 immigrants in host societies. Particular emphasis will be (Not Offered 2016-2017) given to immigrants’ assimilation and/or integration, as well as issues relating to immigrants’ identity reformation HIST B223 The Early Medieval World and the creation of Diasporas. We will interrogate The first of a two-course sequence introducing medieval Diaspora as a theoretical concept and consider its European history. The chronological span of this course relationship to absence and difference. Finally, we will is from the early 4th century and the Christianization consider how transnational communities perform identity of the Roman Empire to the early 10th century and the and how this is connected to memory/forgetting and disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. nostalgia. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) HIST B342 Food and Identity in the Middle East This course will provide an introduction to the study HIST B232 Nationalism and Conflict in Palestine and of the Middle East through an examination of culinary Israel history and foodways. Particular attention will be paid to During this course we will examine the interactions food as a marker of class, ethnic, and religious identity. and changing relationships of the diverse ethnic and A brief theoretical introduction to foodways literature religious groups in Israel and Palestine, from the late will include Claude Fischler’s work on identity and 19th century until the present. We will examine the roots Bourdieu’s work on taste and class. An examination of of ethnic identity and the influences of modernization the cookery of the classical Islamic period, along with a and nationalism on the current Israel-Palestine conflict. discussion of the culinary exchange between the Middle Important historical transformations will be stressed, East and the West will provide the historical and cultural including: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the background for the study of the modern era. British Mandate, the establishment of the State of Israel, Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies the 1948 and 1967 wars, the first intifada, the Oslo Units: 1.0 Accords, and the second intifada. Throughout we will (Not Offered 2016-2017) analyze the claims made by different groups of Israelis and Palestinians, and the competing narratives these HIST B351 Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol inspire and are inspired by. We will conclude with a Consumption in Modern Mideast discussion of the current opportunities and challenges to This class aims to show not only that people in the the peace process. Middle East drink, that is irrefutable, but that the reasons Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) why they did so provide an interesting prism through Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies which to view the history of the region. It will show Units: 1.0 that the alcohol consumption habits of residents of the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Middle East between the years 600 and the present can serve as an excellent entry point for the discussion of many important historiographical issues including 306 Museum Studies constructions of masculinity and femininity, identity and practice. Students have the opportunities to learn formation, youth culture, leisure, and class formation. about the history of museums and their roles in society Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies as well as to engage with critical, theoretical museum Units: 1.0 scholarship. Through coursework and internships, (Not Offered 2016-2017) students will also have the opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience in Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections POLS B283 Introduction to the Politics of the as well as in museums in Philadelphia and beyond. Modern Middle East and North Africa This dynamic and inter-disciplinary program intersects disciplines such as the History of Art, Anthropology, This course is a multidisciplinary approach to Archaeology, History, Education, Cities, Biology and understanding the politics of the region, using works Geology. The Bryn Mawr Museum Studies program of history, political science, political economy, film, aims to empower students to become significant and fiction as well as primary sources. The course will contributors to various professions throughout concern itself with three broad areas: the legacy of museums, galleries and archives. colonialism and the importance of international forces; the role of Islam in politics; and the political and social The Museum Studies program calls upon the College’s effects of particular economic conditions, policies, and extensive collection of art and artifacts, rare books and practices. prints, photographs and manuscripts, which facilitates Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) research and experiential learning for students. Through Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections, students can draw Units: 1.0 upon the in-house expertise of a strong group of Instructor(s): Fenner,S. curators and other museum professionals working in (Spring 2017) the department. Bryn Mawr is in close proximity to the museum-rich Philadelphia region, and students have POLS B360 Islam and Politics the opportunity to work with distinguished and diverse This course will strive to answer but also to critique museum professionals across the city. common questions about the role of Islam in political life: Is Islam compatible with democracy? Is Islam Museum Studies Minor Curriculum bad for women’s or minority rights? Does Islam The requirements for the minor are six courses that cause violence? Will including Islamist organizations include: in democratic politics induce them to moderate their views? And what are the political consequences of • Core courses (2): “Museum Studies: History, asking and debating such questions? More broadly, this Theory, Practice” and one course with an exhibition course will consider evolving approaches to culture, planning component, including the “Exhibition religion, and ideology in political science, exploring not Seminar” just the effect of Islam on politics but also the ways in • Elective courses (2-3): These can be courses which politics have shaped the Islamic tradition over officially taught in museum studies as well as time. This course is open to all students who have the courses in other disciplines that include museum prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep course for studies content. Students also can take advantage political science senior majors. Prerequisite: POLS B131 of relevant courses at Haverford and Swarthmore. or instructor consent. The Director of Museum Studies in addition to the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Professor of the elective must deem the course Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies acceptable as a museum studies course. Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Fenner,S. • Experiential courses (2-3): Praxis courses and/or (Fall 2016) Fieldwork Seminar.

A student declares Museum Studies as a minor by MUSEUM STUDIES meeting with the Director of Museum Studies and completing a minor work plan. The student can major in any department. Student internships in museums are Students may minor in Museum Studies. considered vital “hands-on” learning opportunities for those who seek careers in museum practice. Students Steering Committee will also be encouraged to seek summer museum internships. Monique Scott, Director of Museum Studies Carrie Robbins, Curator, Academic Liaison for Art & Museum Studies Core Courses Artifacts • HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Lisa Saltzman, Chair and Professor of History of Art Practice and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities • HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Seminar • HART B200-level Fieldwork Seminar Museum Studies is a pilot program that offers students a rich and dynamic education in both museum theory Music 307

COURSES making, learning to identify different curatorial approaches. They will determine a curatorial HART B279 Exhibiting Africa: Art, Artifact and New agenda, produce didactic materials, develop public Articulations programming, and install an exhibition. At the turn of the 20th century, the Victorian natural history museum played an important role in constructing and disseminating images of Africa to the Western MUSIC public. The history of museum representations of Africa and Africans reveals that exhibitions—both museum The Department of Music is located at Haverford and exhibitions and “living” World’s Fair exhibitions— has offers well-qualified students a major and minor in long been deeply embedded in politics, including the music. For a list of requirements and courses offered, persistent “othering” of African people as savages see Music at Haverford. or primitives. While paying attention to stereotypical exhibition tropes about Africa, we will also consider how art museums are creating new constructions of Faculty Africa and how contemporary curators and conceptual Ingrid Arauco, Department Chair, Professor of Music artists are creating complex, challenging new ways of understanding African identities. Curtis Cacioppo, Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Music Counts towards: Africana Studies; Museum Studies Richard Freedman, John C. Whitehead Professor of Units: 1.0 Music Instructor(s): Scott,M. Heidi Jacob, Associate Professor of Music and Director (Fall 2016) of Orchestral and Instrumental Studies HART B281 Museum Studies: History, Theory, Thomas Lloyd, Professor of Music and Director of Practice Choral and Vocal Studies Using the museums of Philadelphia as field sites, Leonardo Dugan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music this course provides an introduction to the theoretical Christine Cacioppo, Visiting Instructor in Music and practical aspects of museum studies and the foundations of the “new museology.” Students will learn: the history of museums as institutions of both education The music curriculum is designed to deepen students’ and leisure; how the museum itself became a symbol understandi ng of musical form and expression through of prestige, power and sometimes alienation; debates the development of skill in composition and performance around the ethics and politics of collecting objects of joined with analysis of musical works and their place in art, culture and nature; and the qualities that make various cultures. A major in music provides a foundation an exhibition effective (or not). By visiting exhibitions for further study leading to a career in music. and meeting with a range of museum professionals in As a result of having majored in our department, art, anthropology and science museums, this course students exhibit proficiency in various skills appropriate offers a critical perspective on the inner workings of the to a specific area of the curriculum as listed below. But museum. beyond such competence, we seek to develop their Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the awareness of aesthetics and of their place in the history Past (IP) of musical performance, craft, and scholarship. Counts towards: Museum Studies Units: 1.0 Music Department faculty members are committed to Instructor(s): Scott,M. the education of the whole musician. This entails the (Fall 2016) study of performance, theory, and history, as we believe these disciplines support each other in a comprehensive HART B301 Topics in Exhibition Strategies understanding of music. Depending on the level of the This is a topics course. Course content varies. individual course, we aim for students to: Counts towards: Museum Studies; Praxis Program • Gain command of chosen instrument or voice, Units: 1.0 showing understanding of technical skills of Instructor(s): Robbins,C. musicianship Spring 2017: Exhibiting the Self. Mirroring the • Understand how to apply appropriate interpretive Self, Exhibiting the Self is a two-semester cluster, choices to a given musical work building toward a student-curated exhibition of • Analyze important aspects of musical style and art and artifacts from the College’s collections. structure, both in score and aurally In the fall, participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and • Demonstrate ability to deploy elements of melody, self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from harmony, and structure in original creations antiquity to the present. They will research and write • Develop rhetorical skills to speak and write about catalogue entries on the objects they have selected music with conviction, and the bibliographical skills for exhibition. In the spring, students will explore required to find works and critical perspectives that museums and discuss theories of exhibition- inform these judgements. 308 Music

Composition/Theory 3. One elective from the following: MUSC 149, 207, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 250, 254, 265, The composition/theory program stresses proficiency 266, 270, 303, 304, and 325. in aural, keyboard, and vocal skills, and written harmony and counterpoint. Composition following 4. MUSC 208, 209, 210 instrumental/vocal private important historical models and experimentation with study or Department ensemble participation for one contemporary styles are emphasized. year. 5. We expect minors to attend the majority of Musicology Department-sponsored concerts, lectures, and colloquia. The musicology program, which emphasizes European, North American, and Asian traditions, considers music COURSES in the rich context of its social, religious, and aesthetic surroundings. MUSC H102F Chorale Chorale is a large mixed chorus that performs major Performance works from the oratorio repertoire with orchestra and Haverford’s music performance program offers student soloists. Attendance at weekly two-hour opportunities to participate in the Haverford-Bryn Mawr rehearsals and dress rehearsals during performance Chamber Singers, Chorale, Orchestra, and chamber week is required. Entrance by audition. Students can ensembles. Students can receive academic credit for start Chorale at the beginning of any semester. their participation (MUSC 102, 214, 215, and 216), Lloyd,Thomas and can receive credit for Private Study (Music 208 for Instrumental Study, Music 209 for Voice Study, and MUSC H107F Introductory Piano Music 210 for Keyboard Study). Student chamber An introduction to the art of playing the piano and ensembles, solo instrumentalists, and vocalists also give the music written for it. No prior musical experience informal recitals during the year. Courses such as Art is required. This course consists of weekly hour- Song and Topics in Piano have a built-in performance long sessions in the form of either a class lecture/ component. workshop given on Tuesday evenings, or self-directed listening sessions posted on Moodle, as well as weekly Private Lessons 20-minute private lessons at an arranged time. It is Students can arrange private music lessons through the expected that the student will practice an hour each day, Department or independently. We have a referral list of six days a week, and keep a listening journal, giving many fine teachers in the Philadelphia area with whom personal responses to the required listening as well we are affiliated. The Department helps to subsidize the as to three professional concerts. The final exam is a cost of lessons for students with financial need who are performance of two or more short works on the class studying for academic credit. recital at the end of the term. Cacioppo,Christine Major Requirements MUSC H110A Introduction to Music Theory 1. Composition/Theory: MUSC 203, 204, 303. An intensive introduction to the notational and 2. Musicology: Three courses, MUSC 229, plus any theoretical materials of music, complemented by work two of MUSC 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, or 225. in sight-singing, keyboard harmony, and dictation. This course is appropriate for students who sing or play an 3. Two electives in Music, from: MUSC 149, 207, 220, instrument, but who have had little or no systematic 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 250, 254, 265, 266, instruction in music theory. Topics include time and 270, 304, and 325. pitch and their notation, scales, intervals, triads, 4. Performance: basic harmonic progressions, melodic construction, • Participation in a Department-sponsored harmonization of melody, non-harmonic tones, performance group for at least a year. transposition, and key change (modulation). Students who wish to explore the art of musical composition • MUSC 208, 209, or 210 instrumental or vocal will find this course especially useful, as two creative private study for one year. projects are assigned: the composition of a pair of • We strongly urge continuing ensemble melodies in the major and minor modes, and a 32-bar participation and instrumental or vocal private study. piece which changes key. Preparation for these projects is provided through listening and analysis of works in a 5. A Senior Project (as detailed below) variety of musical styles. Students having completed 6. We expect majors to attend the majority of this course will be prepared to enter Music 203, the first Department-sponsored concerts, lectures, and semester of the theory sequence for music majors. colloquia. Dugan,Leonardo

Minor Requirements MUSC H203A Tonal Harmony I 1. Composition/Theory: MUSC 203 and 204. The harmonic vocabulary and compositional techniques of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, 2. Musicology: MUSC 229; plus any one of 220, 221, and others. Emphasis is on composing melodies, 222, 223, 224, or 225. constructing phrases, and harmonizing in four parts. Music 309

Composition of minuet and trio, set of variations, or Requires attendance at three 80-minute rehearsals other homophonic piece is the final project. Three class weekly. Entrance by audition at the beginning of the Fall hours plus laboratory period covering related aural and semester each year. keyboard harmony skills. Lloyd,Thomas Arauco,Ingrid MUSC H215F Chamber Music MUSC H207A Topics in Piano Intensive rehearsal of works for small instrumental Combines private lessons and studio/master classes, groups, with supplemental assigned research and musical analysis, research questions into performance listening. Performance is required. Students enrolled practice and historical context, and critical examination in Chamber Music have the opportunity to receive of sound recorded sources. Requires preparation of coaching from visiting artists on the Concert Artist works of selected composer or style period for end- Series and from resident ensembles. Performances of-semester recital. Recent topics have included The take place at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, and Italian Keyboard Tradition, J.S. Bach and his Trans- other community venues.This course is available to Generational Impact, and American Roots. those students who are concurrently studying privately, Cacioppo,Curtis or who have studied privately immediately prior to the start of the semester. In addition, all students playing MUSC H208F Private Study: Instrumental orchestral instruments must participate concurrently in the Orchestra, unless granted permission by the music All students enrolled in the private study program should director. Entrance by audition only. be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble Jacob,Heidi Carolyn or activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their program supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long MUSC H216F Orchestra lessons with approved teachers for one-half credit, graded. All students in the private study program The Haverford-Bryn Mawr Orchestra has over seventy perform for a faculty jury at the end of the semester. members and performs a wide range of symphonic Students assume the cost of their lessons, but may repertory. Orchestra members are expected to attend apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of one two-and-a-half hour rehearsal per week, and each semester’s study through the department. are guided in sectional rehearsals by professional Attributes: Humanities musicians. There are three/four performances a year, Jacob,Heidi Carolyn including Parents/Family Weekend concerts. The spring Orchestra concert features the winner of the annual MUSC H209F Private Study: Voice student concerto competition. Entrance by audition only. Jacob,Heidi Carolyn All students enrolled in the private study program should be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble MUSC H223A Mozart’s World or activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their program supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long This course takes students on a musical tour of Europe lessons with approved teachers for one-half credit, in the eighteenth century. Traveling from Naples to graded. All students in the private study program Paris, London, and Vienna, we consider how politics, perform for a faculty jury at the end of the semester. religion, commerce, and technology shaped local Students assume the cost of their lessons, but may musical cultures. At the same time, we explore the apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of formation of a pan-European musical language, the each semester’s study through the department. galant style, in works by composers like Gluck, Haydn, Lloyd,Thomas Mozart, and early Beethoven. Pre-requisite(s): Music 110, 111, or consent of the instructor. MUSC H210F Private Study: Keyboard Gray,Myron All students enrolled in the private study program should be participating in a departmentally directed ensemble MUSC H229A Thinking about Music: Ideas, History, or activity (Chorale, Orchestra, etc.) as advised by their and Musicology program supervisor. Students receive ten hour-long lessons with approved teachers for one-half credit, Core concepts and perspectives for the serious study graded. All students in the private study program of music. Students explore music, meaning, and perform for a faculty jury at the end of the semester. musicological method in a variety of contexts through Students assume the cost of their lessons, but may a set of six foundational themes and questions: Music apply for private study subsidies at the beginning of and the Idea of Genius, Who Owns Music?, Music and each semester’s study through the department. Technology, The Global Soundscape, Music and the Cacioppo,Curtis State, and Tonality, Sense, and Reason. Each unit uses a small number of musical works, performances, or documents as a focal point. In each unit we also read MUSC H214F Chamber Singers current musicological work in an attempt to understand A 30-voice mixed choir that performs a wide range of the methods, arguments, and perspectives through mostly a cappella repertoire from the Renaissance which scholars interpret music and its many meanings. to the present day, in original languages. The choir This course is required of all music majors and minors in performs on and off campus, both public concerts their sophomore or junior year. Prerequisites: Music 110, and outreach concerts to underserved audiences. 111, or 203. International tours revolving around shared concerts Freedman,Richard with choirs in the cities visited happen every 3-4 years. 310 Neuroscience

MUSC H266A Composition Leslie Rescorla, Professor of Psychology on the Class Preparation of a portfolio of compositions for various of 1897 Professorship of Science and Director of instruments and ensembles. Weekly assignments Child Study Institute (on leave semester II) designed to invite creative, individual responses to a Anjali Thapar, Professor of Psychology variety of musical ideas; experimentation with harmony, Earl Thomas, Professor of Psychology form, notation, and text-setting. Performance of student works-in-progress and final reading/recording session with professional musicians. Recent classes have had The desire to understand human and animal behavior in their compositions read by Network for New Music, terms of nervous system structure and function is long percussionist Phillip O’Banion, and the Amernet String standing. Historically, this task has been approached Quartet. from a variety of disciplines including medicine, Arauco,Ingrid biology, psychology, philosophy and physiology. The field of neuroscience emerged as an interdisciplinary approach, combining techniques and perspectives from MUSC H303A Advanced Tonal Harmony these disciplines, as well as emerging fields such as Study of late 19th-century harmonic practice in selected computation and cognitive science, to yield new insights works of Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Fauré, Wolf, Debussy, into the workings of the nervous system and behavior. and Mahler. Exploration of chromatic harmony through analysis and short compositions; final composition project consisting of either art song or piano piece such Minor Requirements as nocturne or intermezzo. Musicianship lab covers • HC Psych 217 (Biological Psychology) or BMC related aural and keyboard harmony skills. Prerequisite: Psych 218 (Behavioral Neuroscience) or BMC Bio Music 204. 202 (Introduction to Neuroscience). Cacioppo,Curtis • Five credits from advanced courses on the following MUSC H480A Independent Study lists, with these constraints: Prerequisite: Approval of department and consent of The five credits must sample from three different instructor. disciplines. Jacob,Heidi Carolyn At least three of the five credits must be from List A Freedman,Richard (neuroscience courses); the remainder can be from Arauco,Ingrid List A or B (courses from allied disciplines). Lloyd,Thomas Cacioppo,Curtis At least one of the credits must be at the 300-level or higher. One of the five credits may come from supervised NEUROSCIENCE senior research in neuroscience. • With permission of major and minor advisers, a Students may complete a minor in Neuroscience as student may count no more than two of the six an adjunct to any major at Bryn Mawr or Haverford minor credits towards the student’s major. pending approval of the student’s coursework plan by their respective Neuroscience adviser. The minor in List of Courses Neuroscience is designed to allow students to pursue List A: Neuroscience courses their interests in behavior and the nervous system across disciplines. The first requirement for the minor BIOL B244 Behavioral Endocrinology is a course that acts as a gateway to the discipline and BIOL B304 Cell and Molecular Neurobiology should be taken early in a student’s academic plan BIOL B321 Neuroethology Advisory Committee/Faculty BIOL B326 From Channels to Behavior William (Dustin) Albert, Assistant Professor of BIOL B364 Developmental Neurobiology Psychology BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neural & Behavioral Douglas Blank, Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Science BIOL H309 Molecular Neurobiology Laura Been, Psychology at Haverford College BIOL H330 Laboratory in Neural and Behavioral Science Peter Brodfuehrer, Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology BIOL H350 Pattern Formation in the Nervous System Rebecca Compton, Psychology at Haverford College Karen Greif, Professor of Biology BIOL H357 Topics in Protein Science [protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease] Mary Ellen Kelly, Adviser Psychology at Haverford College BIOL H403 Senior Research Tutorial in Protein Folding and Design Roshan Jain, Biology at Haverford College BIOL H409 Senior Research Tutorial in Molecular Deepak Kumar, Professor of Computer Science Neurobiology Neuroscience 311

PSYC B323 Cognitive Neuroscience COURSES

PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology BIOL B202 Introduction to Neuroscience PSYC H240 Psychology of Pain and Pain Inhibition An introduction to the nervous system and its broad contributions to function. The class will explore PSYC H321: Revolutions in Neuroscience fundamentals of neural anatomy and signaling, sensory PSYC B355 Neurobiology of Anxiety and motor processing and control, nervous system development and examples of complex brain functions. PSYC H260 Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: One semester PSYC B401 Supervised Research in Neural and of BIOL 110-111 or permission of instructor. Behavioral Sciences Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; PSYC H370 Neuroscience of Mental Illness Neuroscience PSYC H394 Senior Research Tutorial in Biological Units: 1.0 Psychology Instructor(s): Greif,K. (Fall 2016) PSYC H395 Senior Research Tutorial in Cognitive Neuroscience BIOL B244 Behavioral Endocrinology List B: Allied disciplines An interdisciplinary-based analysis of the nature of hormones, how hormones affect cells and systems, and BIOL B250 Computational Models in the Sciences how these effects alter the behavior of animals. Topics BIOL H302 Cell Architecture will be covered from a research perspective using a combination of lectures, discussions and student BIOL H306 Inter and Intra Cellular Communication presentations. Prerequisites: One semester of BIOL BIOL H312 Development and Evolution 110-111 or one of the following courses: BIOL B202, PSYC B218 or PSYC H217. CMSC B250 Computational Models in the Sciences Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts towards: Neuroscience CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics Units: 1.0 CMSC B361 Emergence (Not Offered 2016-2017) CMSC B371 Cognitive Science BIOL B250 Computational Methods in the Sciences CMSC B372 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence A study of how and why modern computation methods CMSC B376 Developmental Robotics are used in scientific inquiry. Students will learn basic principles of visualizing and analyzing scientific data LING H113 Introduction to Syntax through hands-on programming exercises. The majority LING H114 Introduction to Semantics of the course will use the R programming language and corresponding open source statistical software. Content LING H245 Phonetics and Phonology will focus on data sets from across the sciences. Six hours of combined lecture/lab per week. PHIL B244 Philosophy and Cognitive Science Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative PHIL B319 Philosophy of Mind Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive PHIL H102 Rational Animals Counts towards: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; PHIL H106 Philosophy of Consciousness Environmental Studies; Neuroscience Units: 1.0 PHIL H110 Mind and World (Not Offered 2016-2017) PHIL H112 Mind, Myth, and Memory BIOL B321 Neuroethology PHIL H251 Philosophy of Mind This course provides an opportunity for students to PHIL B271 Minds and Machines understand the neuronal basis of behavior through the examination of how particular animals have evolved PHIL H351 Topics in Philosophy of Mind neural solutions to specific problems posed to them by PSYC B201 Learning Theory and Behavior their environments. The topics will be covered from a research perspective using a combination of lectures, PSYC B212 Human Cognition discussions and student presentations. Prerequisite: PSYC B350 Developmental Cognitive Disorders BIOL 202, PSYC 218 or PSYC 217 at Haverford. Counts towards: Neuroscience PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) PSYC H213 Memory and Cognition

PSYC H220 Psychology of Time BIOL B326 From Channels to Behavior PSYC H238 Psychology of Language Introduces the principles, research approaches, and methodologies of cellular and behavioral neuroscience. 312 Neuroscience

The first half of the course will cover the cellular CMSC B371 Cognitive Science properties of neurons using current and voltage clamp Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of techniques along with neuron simulations. The second intelligence in mechanical and organic systems. In half of the course will introduce students to state-of- this introductory course, we examine many topics the-art techniques for acquiring and analyzing data in from computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, a variety of rodent models linking brain and behavior. mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. Can a Prerequisites: one semester of BIOL 110-111 and one of computer be intelligent? How do neurons give rise to the following: PSYC B218/PSYC H217, or BIOL 202. thinking? What is consciousness? These are some Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive of the questions we will examine. No prior knowledge Counts towards: Neuroscience or experience with any of the subfields is assumed Units: 1.0 or necessary. Prerequisite: CMSC B206 or H106 and (Not Offered 2016-2017) CMSC B231 or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Neuroscience BIOL B364 Developmental Neurobiology Units: 1.0 A lecture/discussion course on major topics in the Instructor(s): Blank,D. development of the nervous system. Lecture three hours (Fall 2016) a week. Prerequisite: BIOL 201 or 271, BIOL 202 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. CMSC B372 Artificial Intelligence Counts towards: Neuroscience Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of Units: 1.0 how to program computers to behave in ways Instructor(s): Greif,K. normally attributed to “intelligence” when observed in (Spring 2017) humans. Topics include heuristic versus algorithmic programming; cognitive simulation versus machine BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural Laboratory or library research under the supervision of language understanding; scene analysis; learning; a member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for decision-making. Topics are illustrated by programs those with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of from literature, programming projects in appropriate instructor. languages and building small robots. Prerequisites: Counts towards: Neuroscience CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Neuroscience (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics Introduction to computational models of understanding PHIL B244 Philosophy and Cognitive Science and processing human languages. How elements of Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary approach to linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence the study of human cognition, spanning philosophy, can be combined to help computers process human linguistics, psychology, computer science, and language and to help linguists understand language neuroscience. A central claim of cognitive science is that through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, the mind is like a computer. We will critically examine semantics, pragmatics, generation and knowledge this claim by exploring issues surrounding mental representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206 , or representation and computation. We’ll address such H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. questions as: does the mind represent the world? Could Counts towards: Neuroscience our minds extend into the world beyond the brain and Units: 1.0 body? Is there a language of thought? (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Neuroscience CMSC B361 Emergence Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) A multidisciplinary exploration of the interactions underlying both real and simulated systems, such as ant colonies, economies, brains, earthquakes, PHIL B319 Philosophy of Mind biological evolution, artificial evolution, computers, and The conscious mind remains a philosophical and life. These emergent systems are often characterized scientific mystery. In this course, we will explore the by simple, local interactions that collectively produce nature of consciousness and its place in the physical global phenomena not apparent in the local interactions. world. Some questions we will consider include: How Prerequisite: CMSC 206 or H106 and CMSC 231 or is consciousness related to the brain and the body? permission of instructor. Are minds a kind of computer? Is the conscious mind Counts towards: Neuroscience something non-physical or immaterial? Is it possible to Units: 1.0 have a science of consciousness, or will consciousness (Not Offered 2016-2017) inevitably resist scientific explanation? We will explore these questions from a philosophical perspective that draws on relevant literature from cognitive neuroscience. Neuroscience 313

Counts towards: Neuroscience Spring 2017: Neurobiological Basis of Memory. Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology This course will examine emotional and behavioral PSYC B212 Human Cognition disorders of children and adolescents, including autism, This course provides an overview of the field of attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, Cognitive Psychology, the branch of psychology obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anorexia, that studies how we acquire, store, process and and schizophrenia. Major topics covered will include: communicate information. Over the semester we will contrasting models of psychopathology; empirical and survey classic and contemporary theory and findings categorical approaches to assessment and diagnosis; on a wide range of mental processes that are used outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, and every day in almost all human activities – from attention prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their and memory to language and problem solving – and efficacy .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. our goal will be to understand how the human mind Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health works! Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100 (Introductory Studies; Neuroscience Psychology), or instructor’s permission. Units: 1.0 Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Neuroscience Units: 1.0 PSYC B355 Neurobiology of Anxiety, Stress and Instructor(s): Thapar,A. Anxiety Disorders (Spring 2017) A seminar course examining the neurobiological basis of fear and anxiety and the stress that is often associated PSYC B218 Behavioral Neuroscience with these emotions. We will also consider anxiety and An interdisciplinary course on the neurobiological stress disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, bases of experience and behavior, emphasizing panic disorder, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive the contribution of the various neurosciences to the disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Implications understanding of basic problems of psychology. An for various forms of therapy for anxiety disorders, introduction to the fundamentals of neuroanatomy, including psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, will be neurophysiology, and neurochemistry with an emphasis addressed. Prerequisite: PSYC B218, PSYC B209, upon synaptic transmission; followed by the application BIOL B202 or permission of instructor. of these principles to an analysis of sensory processes Counts towards: Neuroscience and perception, emotion, motivation, learning, and Units: 1.0 cognition. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: Instructor(s): Thomas,E. Introductory Psychology (PSYC 105). (Fall 2016) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Counts towards: Neuroscience PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology Units: 1.0 A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- Instructor(s): Thomas,E. behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological (Spring 2017) basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological models of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the PSYC B323 Advanced Topics in Cognitive treatment of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, Neuroscience depression, and psychosis; and the psychology and A seminar course dealing with state-of-the-art pharmacology of drug addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC developments in the cognitive neuroscience of human B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC H217 or permission of memory. The goal of this course is to investigate the instructor. neuroanataomy of episodic memory and the cellular and Counts towards: Health Studies; Neuroscience molecular correlates of episodic memory. Topics include Units: 1.0 memory consolidation, working memory, recollection Instructor(s): Thomas,E. and familiarity, forgetting, cognitive and neural bases (Spring 2017) of false memories, emotion and memory, sleep and memory, anterograde amnesia, and implicit memory. PSYC B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience Within each topic we will attempt to integrate the Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. results from different neuropsychological approaches Students should consult with faculty members to to memory, including various psychophysiological and determine their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the functional imaging techniques, clinical studies, and semester prior to when they will begin. research with animal models. Prerequisite: a course in Counts towards: Neuroscience cognition (PSYC B212, PSYC H213, PSYC H260) or Units: 1.0 behavioral neuroscience (either PSYC B218 or PSYC (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) H217). Counts towards: Neuroscience Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Thapar,A. (Spring 2017) 314 Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies

PEACE, CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL to develop a plan of study. All concentrators are required to take three core courses: (1) an introductory course, JUSTICE STUDIES Introduction to Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights at Haverford or Introduction to Peace and Conflict Students may complete a concentration in Peace, Studies at Swarthmore; (2) a 200-level course (Conflict Conflict, and Social Justice Studies. and Conflict Management, International Law, Politics of Humanitarianism, or Forgiveness, Mourning, and Mercy in Law and Politics), and (3) a project involving Advisory Committee community participation and reflection by participation Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katherine Woodworth in bi-semester meetings, attendance at lectures/ Chair and Professor in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford workshops, and development of a portfolio in their junior Education Program and Director of Peace, Conflict and senior years. This constellation of this second and Social Justice option earns students a single credit that is awarded upon the successful completion of all components. Jill Stauffer, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of Peace, Justice & Human Rights, In addition, students are required to take three courses Haverford College chosen in consultation with their advisor, working out a plan that focuses this second half of their Lee Smithey, Associate Professor of Sociology and concentration regionally, conceptually or around a Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies, particular substantive problem. These courses might Swarthmore College include international conflict and resolution; social justice, diversity and identity, ethnic conflict in general The Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies program or in a specific region of the world (e.g. Southern reflects Bryn Mawr’s interest in the study of conflicts, Africa, the Middle East, Northern Ireland); a theoretical peacemaking, and social justice and offers students approach to the field, such as nonviolence, social the opportunity to design a course of study, to sustain justice movements, bargaining or game theory; an a thematic focus across disciplinary boundaries, and applied approach, such as reducing violence among to enrich their major program in the process. Students youth, the arts and peacemaking, community mediation are encouraged to draw courses from the programs at or a particular policy question such as immigration or Haverford and Swarthmore as well. bilingual education. Students in the concentration can pursue a wide range The following courses are pre-approved. To see if other of theoretical and substantive interests concerning courses might be counted toward the concentration, questions such as: intra-state and international causes contact the program coordinator, Alison Cook-Sather, of conflict; cooperative and competitive strategies of [email protected]. negotiation and bargaining; intergroup relations and the role of culturally constituted institutions and practices COURSES in conflict management; social movements; protests and revolutions; the role of religion in social conflict and ANTH B281 Language in Social Context its mitigation; human rights and transitional justice in Studies of language in society have moved from the post conflict societies; and social justice and identity idea that language reflects social position/identity questions arising from ethnic, religious and cultural to the idea that language plays an active role in diversity and the implications of these constructions shaping and negotiating social position, identity, and for the distribution of material and symbolic resources experience. This course will explore the implications in society as well as the practical capacities to of this shift by providing an introduction to the fields of engage individuals and groups across constructions sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. We will be of difference by linking practice and theory. A list of particularly concerned with the ways in which language courses student have included in their concentrations is implicated in the social construction of gender, race, can be found here: www.brynmawr.edu/peacestudies/ class, and cultural/national identity. The course will courseoptions.html. Below is a more general description develop students’ skills in the ethnographic analysis of the concentration requirements. of communication through several short ethnographic Students in the concentration are encouraged to explore projects. Prerequisite: ANTH B102, ANTH H103 or alternative conceptions of peace and social justice in permission of instructor. different cultural contexts and historical moments by Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical emphasizing the connections between the intellectual Interpretation (CI) scaffolding needed to analyze the construction of Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Peace, social identities and the social, political and economic Justice and Human Rights implications of these constructions for the distribution Units: 1.0 of material and symbolic resources within and between Instructor(s): Weidman,A. societies and the challenges and opportunities (Spring 2017) to engage individuals and groups to move their communities and societies towards peace and social ECON B385 Democracy and Development justice. From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of democracies grew from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” Concentration Requirements the collapse of communism and developmental Students who wish to take the concentration meet with successes in East Asia have led some to argue the a faculty advisor by the spring of their sophomore year Philosophy 315 triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late POLS B348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some An examination of the role of culture in the origin, fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We escalation, and settlement of ethnic conflicts. This will question this phenomenon through the disciplines course examines the politics of culture and how it of economics, history, political science and sociology constrains and offers opportunities for ethnic conflict and drawing from theoretical, case study and classical cooperation. The role of narratives, rituals, and symbols literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 253 or 304; is emphasized in examining political contestation and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior over cultural representations and expressions such Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the as parades, holy sites, public dress, museums, Instructor. monuments, and language in culturally framed ethnic Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice conflicts from all regions of the world. Prerequisites: two and Human Rights courses in the social sciences. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights Instructor(s): Rock,M. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

HIST B127 Indigenous Leaders 1492-1750 PSYC B358 Political Psychology of Ethnic Conflict Studies the experiences of indigenous men and women This seminar explores the common interests of who exercised local authority in the systems established psychologists and political scientists in ethnic by European colonizers. In return for places in the identification and ethnic-group conflict. Rational colonial administrations, these leaders performed a choice theories of conflict from political science will be range of tasks. At the same time they served as imperial compared with social psychological theories of conflict officials, they exercised “traditional” forms of authority that focus more on emotion and essentializing. Each within their communities, often free of European student will contribute a 200-300 word post in response presence. These figures provide a lens through which to a reading or film assignment each week. Students early modern colonialism is studied. will represent their posts in seminar discussion of Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the readings and films. Each student will write a final paper Past (IP) analyzing the origins and trajectory of a case of violent Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o ethnic conflict chosen by agreement with the instructor. Studies; Peace, Justice and Human Rights Grading includes posts, participation in discussion, and Units: 1.0 the final paper. Prerequisite: PSYC B208, or PSYC (Not Offered 2016-2017) B120, or PSYC B125, or one 200 level course in political science, or instructor’s permission. HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights The aim of this course is to provide an understanding Units: 1.0 of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from (Not Offered 2016-2017) Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated PHILOSOPHY system was created in the Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic Students may complete a major or minor in Philosophy. World as nothing more than an expanded version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Faculty Counts towards: Africana Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies; International Studies; Macalester Bell, Associate Professor of Philosophy Peace, Justice and Human Rights Robert Dostal, Rufus M. Jones Professor and Chair of Units: 1.0 Philosophy (on leave semester II) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Luke MacInnis, Visiting Assistant Professor

POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics Adrienne Prettyman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (on leave semesters I & II) An introduction to international relations, exploring its main subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Collin Rice, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Phenomena and problems in world politics examined include systems of power management, imperialism, The Department of Philosophy introduces students globalization, war, bargaining, and peace. Problems and to some of the most compelling answers to questions institutions of international economy and international of human existence and knowledge. It also grooms law are also addressed. This course assumes a students for a variety of fields that require analysis, reasonable knowledge of modern world history. conceptual precision, argumentative skill, and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) clarity of thought and expression. These include Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice administration, the arts, business, computer science, and Human Rights health professions, law, and social services. The major Units: 1.0 in Philosophy also prepares students for graduate-level Instructor(s): Wang,Z. (Fall 2016) 316 Philosophy study leading to careers in teaching and research in the Prerequisites discipline. No introductory-level course carries a prerequisite. The curriculum focuses on three major areas: the However, most courses at both the intermediate and systematic areas of philosophy, such as logic, theory advanced levels carry prerequisites. Unless stated of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics; otherwise in the course description, any introductory the history of philosophy through the study of key course satisfies the prerequisite for an intermediate- philosophers and philosophical periods; and the level course, and any intermediate course satisfies the philosophical explication of methods in such domains as prerequisite for an advanced-level course. art, history, religion, and science. he department is a member of the Greater Philadelphia COURSES Philosophy Consortium comprising 13 member institutions in the Delaware Valley. It sponsors PHIL B101 Happiness and Reality in Ancient conferences on various topics in philosophy and an Thought annual undergraduate student philosophy conference. What makes us happy? The wisdom of the ancient world has importantly shaped the tradition of Western Major Requirements thought but in some important respects it has been rejected or forgotten. What is the nature of reality? Can Students majoring in Philosophy must take a minimum we have knowledge about the world and ourselves, and, of 11 semester courses in the discipline and attend the if so, how? In this course we explore answers to these monthly noncredit departmental colloquia which feature sorts of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and leading visiting scholars. The following five courses political questions by examining the works of the two are required for the major: the two-semester Historical central Greek philosophers: Plato and Aristotle. We will Introduction (PHIL 101 and 102); Ethics (PHIL 221); consider earlier Greek religious and dramatic writings, Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 211), Metaphysics (PHIL a few Presocratic philosophers, and the person of 212), or Logic (PHIL 103); and Senior Conference (PHIL Socrates who never wrote a word. 398 and PHIL 399). At least three other courses at the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the 300 level are required, one of which must concentrate Past (IP) on the work of a single philosopher or a period of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive philosophy. Units: 1.0 All majors will be required to complete one writing Instructor(s): Bell,M., MacInnis,L. intensive course prior to the start of their senior year: (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) PHIL B101, B212, PHIL B228, or PHIL B231. PHIL B102 Science and Morality in Modernity Philosophy majors are encouraged to supplement their philosophical interests by taking advantage of courses In this course, we explore answers to fundamental offered in related areas, such as anthropology, history, questions about the nature of the world and our place history of art, languages, literature, mathematics, in it by examining the works of some of the central political science, psychology, and sociology. figures in modern western philosophy. Can we obtain knowledge of the world and, if so, how? Does God exist? What is the nature of the self? How do we Honors determine morally right answers? What sorts of policies Honors will be awarded by the department based on and political structures can best promote justice and the senior thesis and other work completed in the equality? These questions were addressed in “modern” department. The Milton C. Nahm Prize in Philosophy Europe in the context of the development of modern is a cash award presented to the graduating senior science and the religious wars. In a time of globalization major whose senior thesis the department judges to be we are all, more or less, heirs of the Enlightenment of outstanding caliber. This prize need not be granted which sees its legacy to be modern science and the every year. mastery of nature together with democracy and human rights. This course explores the above questions and Minor Requirements considers them in their historical context. Some of the philosophers considered include Descartes, Locke, Students may minor in Philosophy by taking six courses Hume, Kant, and Wollstonecraft. in the discipline at any level. They must also attend the Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the monthly noncredit department colloquia. Past (IP) Units: 1.0 Cross-Registration Instructor(s): MacInnis,L., Dostal,R., Rice,C. Students may take advantage of cross-registration (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) arrangements with Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. PHIL B103 Introduction to Logic Courses at these institutions may satisfy Bryn Mawr Logic is the study of formal reasoning, which concerns requirements, but students should check with the chair the nature of valid arguments and inferential fallacies. of the department to make sure specific courses meet In everyday life our arguments tend to be informal and requirements. sometimes imprecise. The study of logic concerns the structure and nature of arguments, and so helps to Philosophy 317 analyze them more precisely. Topics will include: valid others? How should we think about ethics in a global and invalid arguments, determining the logical structure context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of of ordinary sentences, reasoning with truth-functional practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, connectives, and inferences involving quantifiers and animal rights and the environment will be considered. predicates. This course does not presuppose any Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical background knowledge in logic. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Units: 1.0 International Studies Instructor(s): Rice,C. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) Instructor(s): Bell,M. (Fall 2016) PHIL B205 Medical Ethics The field of medicine provides a rich terrain for the study PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues and application of philosophical ethics. This course The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and will introduce students to fundamental ethical theories requires has become urgent in a context of increasing and present ways in which these theories connect to globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict particular medical issues. We will also discuss what and war, high rates of poverty within and across are often considered the four fundamental principles borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. of medical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non- This course examines prevailing theories and issues maleficence, and justice) in connection to specific topics of justice as well as approaches and challenges by related to medical practice (such as reproductive rights, non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and euthanasia, and allocation of health resources). disability theorists. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Interpretation (CI) Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Units: 1.0 International Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) PHIL B211 Theory of Knowledge Varieties of realism and relativism address questions PHIL B229 Concepts of the Self about what sorts of things exist and the constraints on Each of us is a person, who grows and changes our knowledge of them. The aim of this course is to throughout the span of a human life. This course develop a sense of how these theories interrelate, and explores metaphysical and epistemological issues that to instill philosophical skills in the critical evaluation arise out of this simple observation. What is a person, of them. Discussions will be based on contemporary and what makes you the same person over time? What readings. is the relation among person, self, and body? What are Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) you conscious of when you are self-conscious? Could Units: 1.0 the self be an illusion? What is self-knowledge and is Instructor(s): Rice,C. it a special kind of knowledge? We will address these (Fall 2016) issues by reading historical and contemporary sources from western and eastern philosophical traditions. PHIL B212 Metaphysics Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Metaphysics is inquiry into basic features of the world (Not Offered 2016-2017) and ourselves. This course considers two topics of metaphysics, free will and personal identity, and their relationship. What is free will and are we free? Is PHIL B238 Science, Technology and the Good Life freedom compatible with determinism? Does moral This course considers questions concerning what responsibility require free will? What makes someone is science, what is technology, and what is their the same person over time? Can a person survive relationship to each other and to the domains of ethics without their body? Is the recognition of others required and politics. We will consider how modern science to be a person? defined itself in its opposition to Aristotelian science. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) We will examine the Cartesian and Baconian scientific Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive models and the self-understanding of these models Units: 1.0 with regard to ethics and politics. Developments in (Not Offered 2016-2017) the philosophy of science will be considered, e.g., positivism, phenomenology, feminism, sociology of PHIL B221 Ethics science. Biotechnology and information technology illustrate fundamental questions. The “science wars” An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of of the 1990s provide debates concerning science, moral theories and a discussion of important ancient, technology, and the good life. modern, and contemporary texts which established Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, Past (IP) relativism, emotivism, care ethics. This course considers Counts towards: Environmental Studies questions concerning freedom, responsibility, and Units: 1.0 obligation. How should we live our lives and interact with (Not Offered 2016-2017) 318 Philosophy

PHIL B240 Environmental Ethics PHIL B317 Philosophy of Creativity This course surveys rights- and justice-based Here are some questions we will discuss in this justifications for ethical positions on the environment. course. What are the criteria of creativity? Is explaining It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic creativity possible? If it is, what model(s) of explanation value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian is appropriate for doing so? Should we understand and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to creativity in terms of persons, processes or products? future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere. What is the relation between creativity and skill? What Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical is the relation between the context of creativity and Interpretation (CI) the context of criticism? What is the relation between Counts towards: Environmental Studies tradition and creativity? What is creative imagination? Units: 1.0 Is there a significant relationship between creativity and (Not Offered 2016-2017) self-transformation? This course encourages active discussions arising from students’ non-graded entries PHIL B244 Philosophy and Cognitive Science into their journals that will address the application of Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary approach to their readings to their own related creative activities. the study of human cognition, spanning philosophy, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive linguistics, psychology, computer science, and Units: 1.0 neuroscience. A central claim of cognitive science is that (Not Offered 2016-2017) the mind is like a computer. We will critically examine this claim by exploring issues surrounding mental PHIL B319 Philosophy of Mind representation and computation. We’ll address such The conscious mind remains a philosophical and questions as: does the mind represent the world? Could scientific mystery. In this course, we will explore the our minds extend into the world beyond the brain and nature of consciousness and its place in the physical body? Is there a language of thought? world. Some questions we will consider include: How Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) is consciousness related to the brain and the body? Counts towards: Neuroscience Are minds a kind of computer? Is the conscious mind Units: 1.0 something non-physical or immaterial? Is it possible to (Not Offered 2016-2017) have a science of consciousness, or will consciousness inevitably resist scientific explanation? We will explore PHIL B252 Feminist Theory these questions from a philosophical perspective Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated that draws on relevant literature from cognitive and women have achieved equality have become neuroscience. commonplace. We challenge these assumptions Counts towards: Neuroscience examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and Units: 1.0 oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist (Not Offered 2016-2017) theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in PHIL B323 Culture and Interpretation different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the This course will discuss these questions. What are the relevance of gender to philosophical questions about aims of interpretation? Must we assume that, for cultural identity and agency with respect to moral, social and objects—like artworks, music, or literature—there political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or must be a single right interpretation? If not, what is to permission of instructor. prevent one from sliding into an interpretive anarchism? Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical What is the role of a creator’s intentions in fixing upon Interpretation (CI) admissible interpretations? Does interpretation affect Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies the identity of the object of interpretation? If an object Units: 1.0 of interpretation exists independently of interpretive (Not Offered 2016-2017) practice, must it answer to only one right interpretation? In turn, if an object of interpretation is constituted by PHIL B271 Minds and Machines interpretive practice, must it answer to more than one What is the relationship between the mind and the right interpretation? This course encourages active body? What is consciousness? Is your mind like a discussions of these questions. computer, or do some aspects of the mind resist this Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive analogy? Is it possible to build an artificial mind? In this Counts towards: International Studies course, we’ll explore these questions and more, drawing Units: 1.0 on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and (Not Offered 2016-2017) cognitive neuroscience. We will consider the viability of different ways of understanding the relationship PHIL B330 Kant between mind and body as a framework for studying The significance of Kant’s transcendental philosophy the mind, as well as the distinctive issues that arise in for thought in the 19th and 20th centuries cannot be connection with the phenomenon of consciousness. No overstated. His work is profoundly important for both prior knowledge or experience with any of the subfields the analytical and the so-called “continental” schools is assumed or necessary. of thought. This course will provide a close study of Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Kant’s breakthrough work: The Critique of Pure Reason. Units: 1.0 We will read and discuss the text with reference to (Not Offered 2016-2017) Philosophy 319 its historical context and with respect to its impact on PHIL B398 Senior Seminar developments in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy Senior majors are required to write an undergraduate of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion thesis on an approved topic. The senior seminar is a as well as developments in German Idealism, 20th- two-semester course in which research and writing are century phenomenology., and contemporary analytic directed. Seniors will meet collectively and individually philosophy. Prerequisite: PHIL 102 or at least one 200 with the supervising instructor. level Philosophy course. Units: 1.0 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Instructor(s): Bell,M. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Dostal,R. (Fall 2016) PHIL B399 Senior Seminar The senior seminar is a required course for majors in PHIL B338 Phenomenology: Heidegger and Husserl Philosophy. It is the course in which the research and This upper-level seminar will consider the two main writing of an undergraduate thesis is directed both proponents of phenomenology—a movement in in and outside of the class time. Students will meet philosophy in the 20th century that attempted to sometimes with the class as a whole and sometimes restart philosophy in a radical way. Its concerns with the professor separately to present and discuss are philosophically comprehensive: ontology, drafts of their theses. epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and so on. Units: 1.0 Phenomenology provides the important background for Instructor(s): Bell,M. other later developments in 20th-century philosophy and (Spring 2017) beyond: existentialism, deconstruction, post-modernism. This seminar will focus primarily on Edmund Husserl’s PHIL B403 Supervised Work Crisis of the European Sciences and Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. Other writings to be considered include Units: 1.0 some of Heidegger’s later work and Merleau-Ponty’s (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) preface to his Phenomenology of Perception. Units: 1.0 CMSC B325 Computational Linguistics (Not Offered 2016-2017) Introduction to computational models of understanding and processing human languages. How elements of PHIL B344 Development Ethics linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence This course explores the meaning of and moral issues can be combined to help computers process human raised by development. In what direction and by what language and to help linguists understand language means should a society “develop”? What role, if any, through computer models. Topics covered: syntax, does the globalization of markets and capitalism semantics, pragmatics, generation and knowledge play in processes of development and in systems of representation techniques. Prerequisite: CMSC 206 , or discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and H106 and CMSC 231 or permission of instructor. gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be Counts towards: Neuroscience explored through an examination of some of the most Units: 1.0 prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: (Not Offered 2016-2017) a philosophy, political theory or economics course or permission of the instructor. CMSC B372 Artificial Intelligence Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Survey of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the study of Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; how to program computers to behave in ways International Studies normally attributed to “intelligence” when observed in Units: 1.0 humans. Topics include heuristic versus algorithmic (Not Offered 2016-2017) programming; cognitive simulation versus machine intelligence; problem-solving; inference; natural PHIL B352 Feminism and Philosophy language understanding; scene analysis; learning; It has been said that one of the most important feminist decision-making. Topics are illustrated by programs contributions to theory is its uncovering of the ways from literature, programming projects in appropriate in which theory in the Western tradition, whether of languages and building small robots. Prerequisites: science, knowledge, morality, or politics has a hidden CMSC B206 or H106 and CMSC B231. male bias. This course will explore feminist criticisms Counts towards: Neuroscience of and alternatives to traditional Western theory by Units: 1.0 examining feminist challenges to traditional liberal moral (Not Offered 2016-2017) and political theory. Specific questions may include how to understand the power relations at the root of women’s COML B293 The Play of Interpretation oppression, how to theorize across differences, or Designated theory course. A study of the methodologies how ordinary individuals are to take responsibility for and regimes of interpretation in the arts, humanistic pervasive and complex systems of oppression. sciences, and media and cultural studies, this course Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies focuses on common problems of text, authorship, Units: 1.0 reader/spectator, and translation in their historical and (Not Offered 2016-2017) formal contexts. Literary, oral, and visual texts from different cultural traditions and histories will be studied 320 Philosophy through interpretive approaches informed by modern the contested history of modernity and its intellectual critical theories. Readings in literature, philosophy, and moral consequences. Special attention will be paid popular culture, and film will illustrate how theory to the relation between rhetoric and philosophy and enhances our understanding of the complexities of the narrative forms of “the philosophical discourse(s) of history, memory, identity, and the trials of modernity. modernity” (e.g., sermon and myth in Marx; aphorism Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) and oratory in Nietzsche, myth, fairy tale, case hi/story Counts towards: International Studies in Freud). Course is taught in English. One additional Units: 1.0 hour will be added for those students wanting German (Not Offered 2016-2017) credit. Cross-listed with Philosophy 204. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in Past (IP) the Humanities Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 An examination in English of leading theories of (Not Offered 2016-2017) interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) the Humanities Units: 1.0 An examination in English of leading theories of Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. content varies. This course will be taught in English and focus Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) on works of French feminist, postcolonial and Units: 1.0 post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical (Not Offered 2016-2017) texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition (namely French), and more or less distinctly PHIL B240 Environmental Ethics circumscribed fields, we will also look at the broader transcultural and translinguistic influences This course surveys rights- and justice-based that brought these “schools” into being and, most justifications for ethical positions on the environment. importantly, what fields of thinking they have It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic subsequently inspired across language traditions. value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to FREN B356 Rousseau polémiste future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical This course will explore Rousseau’s work not as a Interpretation (CI) closed system, but as a polemical reaction to major Counts towards: Environmental Studies trends of the French Enlightenment. Although he was Units: 1.0 denying any taste for polemics, Rousseau fought (Not Offered 2016-2017) intellectual battles most of his life. The author of the ultimate best-seller of the 18th century, he harshly criticized novels. He also opposed theatre, established a PHIL B425 Praxis III: Independent Study new form of pedagogy, and undermined the foundations Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and of the Western political theory by stating that men are are developed by individual students, in collaboration not political animals. We will thus consider Rousseau with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is not only as a philosopher, but also as one of the most distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite brilliant polemicists of his time. organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection Units: 1.0 that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the (Not Offered 2016-2017) classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding gained through classroom study to work done in the GERM B212 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the broader community. Rhetoric of Modernity Counts towards: Praxis Program Units: 1.0 This course examines selected writings by Marx, (Not Offered 2016-2017) Nietzsche, and Freud as pre-texts for a critique of cultural reason and underlines their contribution to questions of language, representation, history, ethics, POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, and art. These three visionaries of modernity have Greece, and the “West” translated the abstract metaphysics of “the history An introduction to the dialogic construction of of the subject” into a concrete analysis of human comparative political philosophy, using texts from experience. Their work has been a major influence several cultures or worlds of thought: ancient and on the Frankfurt School of critical theory and has also modern China, ancient Greece, and the modern West. led to a revolutionary shift in the understanding and The course will have three parts. First, a consideration writing of history and literature now associated with of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in ancient the work of modern French philosophers Jacques (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses Lacan. Our readings will, therefore, also include short to this development; and third, the current discussions selections from these philosophers in order to analyze and debates about globalization, democracy, and Philosophy 321 human rights now going on in China and the West. emancipation, revolution, domination, normalization, Prerequisite: At least one course in either Philosophy, governmentality, genealogy, and democratic power. Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or consent of the Writing projects will seek to integrate analytical and instructor. reflective analyses as we pursue these questions in Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical common. Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies Instructor(s): Salkever,S. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: POLS B300 Three Approaches to the Philosophy of Ancient and Early Modern Praxis: Nietzsche, Kant and Plato An introduction to the fundamental problems of political A study of three important ways of thinking about philosophy, especially the relationship between political theory and practice in Western political philosophy. life and the human good or goods. Readings from Prerequisites: POLS 228 and 231, or PHIL 101 and 201. Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Units: 1.0 Cicero, Epictetus, Machiavelli, and others. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 POLS B320 Topics in Greek Political Philosophy Instructor(s): MacInnis,L. This is a topics course, course content varies. Past (Fall 2016) topics include: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics and Thucydides,Plato, Aristotle. Prerequisites: POLS B231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: At least two semesters of philosophy or political theory, Modern including some work with Greek texts, or consent of the A continuation of POLS 228, although 228 is not a instructor. prerequisite. Particular attention is given to the various Units: 1.0 ways in which the concept of freedom is used in (Not Offered 2016-2017) explaining political life. Readings from Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Marx, Emma Goldman, Frantz Fanon, and POLS B327 Political Philosophy in the 20th Century others. A study of 20th- and 21st-century extensions of three Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) traditions in Western political philosophy: the adherents Units: 1.0 of the German and English ideas of freedom and the Instructor(s): MacInnis,L. founders of classical naturalism. Authors read include (Spring 2017) Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, and John Rawls. Topics include the relationship of individual POLS B245 Philosophy of Law rationality and political authority, the “crisis of modernity,” Introduces students to a variety of questions in the and the debate concerning contemporary democratic philosophy of law. Readings will be concerned with the citizenship. Prerequisites: POLS 228 and 231, or PHIL nature of law, the character of law as a system, the 101 and 201. ethical character of law, and the relationship of law to Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive politics, power, authority, and society. Readings will Units: 1.0 include philosophical arguments about law, as well as Instructor(s): Salkever,S. judicial cases through which we examine these ideas (Spring 2017) within specific contexts, especially tort and contracts. Most or all of the specific issues discussed will be taken POLS B350 Politics and Equality from Anglo-American law, although the general issues What is the relationship between democracy and considered are not limited to those legal systems. equality? Is equality a presupposition or precondition for Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) democracy? Is the problem of equality separable from Units: 1.0 equality? Are there any respects in which democracy (Not Offered 2016-2017) presupposes or relies on inequality? For all of these, an important sub-question to that of the relationship POLS B290 Power and Resistance of democracy and equality will be: equality of what? What more is there to politics than power? What is We will examine these various questions at both an the force of the “political” for specifying power as a abstract level (reading essays of political theory, moral practice or institutional form? What distinguishes power philosophy and such) and in the context of particular from authority, violence, coercion, and domination? problems of politics, law, and/or policy. While the How is power embedded in and generated by cultural instructor will be largely responsible for assigning practices, institutional arrangements, and processes of readings of the first sort, students will share the normalization? This course seeks to address questions responsibility for finding readings of the second. They of power and politics in the context of domination, will do this as part of their own semester-long research oppression, and the arts of resistance. Our general projects. This course is open to all students who topics will include authority, the moralization of politics, have the prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep the dimensions of power, the politics of violence course for political science senior majors. Suggested (and the violence of politics), language, sovereignty, Preparation: At least one course in political theory OR Political Science Senior OR consent of instructor. 322 Physics

Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive and 102) and MATH 101 and MATH 102. Students are Units: 1.0 encouraged to place out of MATH 101 and 102 if that Instructor(s): Elkins,J. is appropriate. Although College credit is given for a (Fall 2016) score of 4 or 5 on the AP tests and for a score of 5 or above on the IB examination, the AP and IB courses POLS B371 Topics in Political Philosophy are not equivalent to PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 and An advanced seminar on a topic in political or legal advanced placement will not, in general, be given. philosophy/theory. Topics vary by year. Prerequisite: However, students with a particularly strong background At least one course in political theory or philosophy or in physics are encouraged to take the departmental consent of instructor. placement examination either during the summer Units: 1.0 before entering Bryn Mawr or just prior to, or during, the (Not Offered 2016-2017) first week of classes. Then, the department can place students in the appropriate course. Students are not POLS B381 Nietzsche given credit for courses they place out of as a result This course examines Nietzsche’s thought, with of taking this placement exam. It is best for a student particular focus on such questions as the nature of considering a physics major to complete the introductory the self, truth , irony, aggression, play, joy, love, and requirements in the first year. However, the major morality. The texts for the course are drawn mostly from sequence is designed so that a student who completes Nietzsche’s own writing, but these are complemented the introductory sequence by the end of the sophomore by some contemporary work in moral philosophy and year can major in physics. philosophy of mind that has a Nietzschean influence. Units: 1.0 Major Requirements (Not Offered 2016-2017) The physics major provides depth in the discipline through a series of required courses, as well as the flexibility to choose from a range of electives in physics PHYSICS and related fields. This allows students to follow various paths through the major and thus tailor their program of study to best meet their career goals and scientific Students may complete a major or minor in Physics. interests. Within the major, students may complete a minor in educational studies or complete the requirements Beyond the two introductory physics courses and the for secondary education certification. Students may two introductory mathematics courses, ten additional complete an M.A. in the combined A.B./M.A. program. courses are required for the major. (Haverford courses may be substituted for Bryn Mawr courses where Faculty appropriate.) Five of the ten courses must be PHYS 201, 214, 306, and MATH 201, 203. In addition, either Peter Beckmann, Marion Reilly Professor of Physics (on PHYS 331 or 305 is required as well as the half-credit leave semester II) Senior Seminar, PHYS 398 offered each fall. PHYS 331 and PHYS 305 are Writing Intensive courses and by Xuemei Cheng, Associate Professor of Physics completing at least one of them, students can meet the Kathryne J. Daniel, Assistant Professor of Physics Writing Requirement in the major. The remaining three Mark Matlin, Senior Lecturer and Lab Coordinator of courses must be chosen from among the other 300-level Physics physics courses, one of which may be substituted with one course from among ASTR 342, 343, and 344, or a Elizabeth McCormack, Professor of Physics 300-level math course, with the approval of the major’s Michael Noel, Professor of Physics (on leave semester advisor. Other substitutions from related disciplines II) such as chemistry, geology, and engineering) may be possible. Please consult with the major’s advisor to David Schaffner, Assistant Professor of Physics discuss such options. Michael Schulz, Chair and Associate Professor of Physics Four-Year Plan meeting the minimum requirements for the major: The courses in Physics emphasize the concepts and 1st Year techniques that have led to our present way of modeling PHYS 121, 122 the physical world. They are designed both to relate the individual parts of physics to the whole and to treat MATH 101, 102 the various subjects in depth. Opportunities exist for 2nd Year interdisciplinary work and for participation by qualified PHYS 201, 214 majors in research with members of the faculty and their graduate students. In addition, qualified seniors may MATH 201, 203 take graduate courses. 3rd Year PHYS 306, 331 or 305, and one other 300-level physics Required Introductory Courses for the course Major and Minor 4th Year The introductory courses required for the physics major Two 300-level physics courses, plus 398 and minor are PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 (or PHYS 101 Physics 323

The physics program at Bryn Mawr allows for a student Minor in Educational Studies to major in physics even if the introductory courses are not completed until the end of the sophomore year. or Secondary-School Teacher Certification Three-Year Plan meeting the minimum requirements for Students majoring in physics can pursue a minor in the major: educational studies or state certification to teach at the 1st Year secondary-school level. Students seeking the minor need to complete six education courses including a MATH 101, 102 two-semester senior seminar, which requires five to 2nd Year eight hours per week of fieldwork. To earn secondary- school certification (grades 7-12) in physics, students PHYS 121, 122 must: complete the physics major plus two semesters MATH 201, 203 of chemistry and one semester as a teaching assistant in a laboratory for introductory or intermediate physics 3rd Year courses; complete six education courses; and student PHYS 201, 214, 306, 331 or 305 teach full-time (for two course credits) second semester of their senior year. For additional information, see the 4th Year “Education” section of the catalog. Three 300-level physics courses, plus 398 Pre-Health Professions Honors A major in physics can be excellent preparation for a career in the health professions. A recent (2010) study The degree of Bachelor of Arts is awarded with honors by the American Institute of Physics finds that “…as a in physics in recognition of academic excellence. The group, physics bachelor’s degree recipients achieve award, which is made upon the recommendation of the among the highest scores of any college major on the department, is based on the quality of a Senior Thesis entrance exams for medical school…” In addition to and on an achievement of a GPA of at least 3.4 in one year of physics, most medical and dental schools 200-level courses and above in physics, astronomy, and require one year of English, one year of biology, one mathematics at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges and year of general chemistry, and one year of organic an overall GPA of at least 3.0. chemistry. Students wishing to pursue this path should consult the physics major’s advisor early in their studies Study Abroad as well as the Health Professions Advising Office to Many physics majors participate in the College’s junior develop an appropriate major plan. For additional year study abroad program. Undergraduate physics information, see the “Education” section of the catalog. courses are surprisingly standardized throughout the world. The Majors Adviser will work with you to design Engineering Options an appropriate set of courses to take wherever you go. Although Bryn Mawr does not offer engineering courses, several options are available to students with an interest Minor Requirements in this field. The requirements for the minor, beyond the introductory sequence, are PHYS 201, 214 and 306; PHYS 331 A Physics Major With an Engineering or 305; MATH 201, 203; and one additional 300-level Focus physics course. The astronomy and mathematics courses described under “Major Requirements” may not A path through the physics major can be developed that be substituted for the one additional 300-level physics provides a solid preparation for further studies at the course. masters or doctoral level in engineering. This path can include coursework in engineering taken at Swarthmore Preparation for Graduate School College or the University of Pennsylvania. The department has been very successful in preparing 3-2 Program in Engineering and students for graduate school in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, engineering, and related Applied Science with Caltech fields. To be well prepared for graduate school, students Students can pursue engineering through the 3-2 should take, at a minimum, these upper-level courses: Program in Engineering and Applied Science, offered in PHYS 302, 303, 308, and 309. Students should also cooperation with the California Institute of Technology, take any additional courses in physics and allied earning both an A.B. at Bryn Mawr and a B.S. at fields that reflect their interests, and should engage in Caltech in five years. For additional information see the research with a member of the faculty by taking PHYS “Academic Opportunities” section of the catalog. 403. (Note that PHYS 403 does not count towards the 14 courses required for the major.) Seniors can 4+1 Program in Engineering with take graduate courses, usually PHYS 501: Quantum Mechanics or PHYS 503: Electromagnetism, to get a UPenn head start on graduate school. Students can pursue engineering through the 4+1 Program in Engineering and Applied Science offered in 324 Physics cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania, earning Units: 1.0 an A.B. at Bryn Mawr and an M.A. at U. Penn in five Instructor(s): Matlin,M., McCormack,E., Cheng,X. years. For additional information, visit www.brynmawr. (Fall 2016) edu/catalog/2016-17/program/opportunities/41penn_ engineering.html. PHYS B102 Introductory Physics II PHYS 101/102 is an introductory sequence intended A.B./M.A. Program primarily for students on the pre-health professions To earn an M.A. degree in physics in the College’s track. Emphasis is on developing an understanding of A.B./M.A. program, a student must complete the how we study the universe, the ideas that have arisen requirements for an undergraduate physics major and from that study, and on problem solving. Topics are also must complete six units of graduate level work in taken from among Newtonian kinematics and dynamics, physics. Of these six units, as many as two units may relativity, gravitation, fluid mechanics, waves and sound, be undergraduate courses at the 300 level taken for electricity and magnetism, electrical circuits, light and graduate credit (these same two courses may be used optics, quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear to fulfill the major requirements for the A.B. degree), at physics. An effective and usable understanding of least two units must be graduate seminars at the 500 algebra and trigonometry is assumed. Lecture three level, and two units must be graduate research at the hours, laboratory two hours. 700 level leading to the submission and oral defense of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative an acceptable M.A. thesis. Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Units: 1.0 Courses at Haverford College Instructor(s): Beckmann,P., Matlin,M., Schaffner,D. (Spring 2017) Many upper-level physics courses are taught at Haverford and Bryn Mawr in alternate years as PHYS B121 Modern Physics indicated in the listings of the specific courses below. These courses (numbered 302, 303, 308, 309, and This course presents current conceptual understandings 322) may be taken at either institution to satisfy major and mathematical formulations of fundamental ideas requirements. Haverford 335 and Bryn Mawr 325 are used in physics. Students will develop physical intuition both topics in advanced theoretical physics and they and problem-solving skills by exploring key concepts also tend to alternate. In addition, 100- and 200-level in physics such as conservation laws, symmetries and courses at Haverford can be used to replace 100- and relativistic space-time, as well as topics in modern 200-level courses at Bryn Mawr but these courses are physics taken from the following: fundamental forces, not identical and careful planning is required. nuclear physics, particle physics, and cosmology. This course can serve as a stand-alone survey of physics or as the first of a four-semester sequence designed for Introductory Physics Sequences those majoring in the physical sciences. Lecture three Students on a pre-health professions track wanting to hours, laboratory two hours. Co-requisite: MATH B101. take one year of physics should take PHYS 101 and Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative PHYS 102. Some students on a physical sciences Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) major track could take PHYS 121 and PHYS 122 and Units: 1.0 others might take PHYS 122 and PHYS 201. See your Instructor(s): Beckmann,P., Matlin,M., Daniel,K., major adviser and carefully note the math pre- and co- Schulz,M., Cheng,X. requisites for these courses. PHYS 121/122/201/214 (Fall 2016) is a coordinated, four-semester sequence in physics. Students are encouraged to place out of MATH 101 and PHYS B122 Classical Mechanics 102 if that is appropriate. The lecture material covers Newtonian Mechanics of single particles, systems of particles, rigid bodies, and COURSES continuous media with applications, one-dimensional systems including forced oscillators, scattering and orbit PHYS B101 Introductory Physics I problems. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours. PHYS 101/102 is an introductory sequence intended Prerequisites: PHYS 121 and MATH 101. Corequisite: primarily for students on the pre-health professions MATH 102. track. Emphasis is on developing an understanding of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative how we study the universe, the ideas that have arisen Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) from that study, and on problem solving. Topics are Units: 1.0 taken from among Newtonian kinematics and dynamics, Instructor(s): Matlin,M. relativity, gravitation, fluid mechanics, waves and (Spring 2017) sound, electricity and magnetism, electrical circuits, light and optics, quantum mechanics, and atomic and PHYS B142 The Search for Life in the Universe nuclear physics. An effective and usable understanding This course will investigate the biological, chemical, of algebra and trigonometry is assumed. First year and astrophysical factors believed to be necessary for students who will take or place out of MATH 101 should extraterrestrial life to exist, and perhaps to communicate take PHYS 121. Lecture three hours, laboratory two with us. It also will explore possible homes to such life in hours. both our solar system and the greater Milky Way galaxy. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours. Also see Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI PHYS B172 for the lecture only course. Physics 325

Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative PHYS B303 Statistical Mechanics and Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Thermodynamics Units: 1.0 This course presents the statistical description of the (Not Offered 2016-2017) macroscopic states of classical and quantum systems, including conditions for equilibrium, the microcanonical, PHYS B172 The Search for Life in the Universe canonical, and grand canonical ensembles, and Bose- This course will investigate the biological, chemical, Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, and Maxwell Boltzmann statistics. and astrophysical factors believed to be necessary for The statistical basis of classical thermodynamics is extraterrestrial life to exist, and perhaps to communicate investigated. Examples and applications are drawn from with us. It also will explore possible homes to such life in among solid state physics, low temperature physics, both our solar system and the greater Milky Way galaxy. atomic and molecular physics, electromagnetic waves, Also see PHYS B142 for the lecture/laboratory course. and cosmology. Lecture three hours and additional Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisite: PHYS B214 Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) or H214. Co-requisite: PHYS B306 or H213. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Daniel,K., Schulz,M. (Fall 2016) PHYS B201 Electromagnetism The lecture material covers electro- and magneto- PHYS B305 Advanced Electronics Lab statics, electric and magnetic fields, induction, This laboratory course is a survey of electronic Maxwell’s equations, and electromagnetic radiation. principles and circuits useful to experimental physicists Scalar and vector fields and vector calculus are and engineers. Topics include the design and analysis developed as needed. The laboratory involves passive of circuits using transistors, operational amplifiers, and active circuits and projects in analog and digital feedback and analog-to-digital conversion. Also covered electronics. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours. is the use of electronics for automated control and Prerequisite: PHYS 102 or 122. Corequisite: MATH 201. measurement in experiments, and the interfacing of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative computers and other data acquisition instruments Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI to experiments. Laboratory eight hours a week. Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: PHYS B201 Instructor(s): Schaffner,D. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) PHYS B214 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics An introduction to the principles governing systems PHYS B306 Mathematical Methods in the Physical at the atomic scale and below. Topics include the Sciences experimental basis of quantum mechanics, wave- This course presents topics in applied mathematics particle duality, Schrdinger’s equation and its solutions, useful to students, including physicists, engineers, and the time dependence of quantum states. Recent physical chemists, geologists, and computer scientists developments, such as paradoxes calling attention to studying the natural sciences. Topics are taken from the counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics, will Fourier series, integral transforms, advanced ordinary be discussed. Additional topics may be included at and partial differential equations, special functions, the discretion of the instructor. The laboratory involves boundary-value problems, functions of complex quantum mechanics, solid state physics, and optics variables, and numerical methods. Lecture three experiments. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours and additional recitation sessions as needed. hours. Prerequisite: MATH 201, PHYS 121 and 122, or Prerequisite: MATH 201 and 203. permission of the instructor. Corequisite: MATH 203. Units: 1.0 Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific Instructor(s): Schulz,M. Investigation (SI) (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Daniel,K. PHYS B308 Advanced Classical Mechanics (Spring 2017) This course presents kinematics and dynamics of particles and macroscopic systems using Newtonian, PHYS B302 Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics. Topics include Applications oscillations, normal mode analysis, inverse square laws, This course presents nonrelativistic quantum nonlinear dynamics, rotating rigid bodies, and motion in mechanics, including Schrodinger’s equation, the noninertial reference frames. Lecture three hours and eigenvalue problem, the measurement process, additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisite: the hydrogen atom, the harmonic oscillator, angular PHYS B201 or PHYS B214 or PHYS H214. Co- momentum, spin, the periodic table, perturbation theory, requisite: PHYS B306 or H213. and the relationship between quantum and Newtonian Units: 1.0 mechanics. Lecture three hours and additional recitation (Not Offered 2016-2017) sessions as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS B214 and PHYS B306 or PHYS H213 PHYS B309 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory Units: 1.0 This course presents electrostatics and magnetostatics, (Not Offered 2016-2017) dielectrics, magnetic materials, electrodynamics, 326 Physics

Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, and used in physics research laboratories in industry special relativity. Some examples and applications may and in universities. Students write papers in a format come from superconductivity, plasma physics, and appropriate for research publications and make a radiation theory. Lecture three hours and additional presentation to the class. Laboratory eight hours a recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS week. Corequisite: PHYS 214. B201 and B306 OR H213 and H214. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): McCormack,E. Instructor(s): Cheng,X. (Spring 2017) (Spring 2017)

PHYS B322 Solid State Physics PHYS B350 Computational Methods in the Physical This course presents the physics of solids and Sciences nanomaterials. Topics include crystal structure and This course provides an introduction to a variety of diffraction, the reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zones, computational tools and programming techniques crystal binding, lattice vibrations and normal modes, that physical science graduates might encounter in phonon dispersion, Einstein and Debye models for the graduate work or employment in STEM-related fields. specific heat, the free electron model, the Fermi surface, Tools explored will include both command-line and GUI electrons in periodic structures, the Bloch theorem programming environments, both scripting and scientific and band structure. Additional topics are taken from programming languages, basic programming concepts nanoscale structures (0-D nanodots, 1-D nanowires, such as loops and function calls, and key scientific and 2-D thin films), nanomagnetism, spintronics, programming applications such as integration, finding of superconductivity, and experimental methods for roots and minima/maxima, least-square fitting, solution fabrication and characterization of nanomaterials. of differential equations, boundary-value problems, Lecture three hours and additional recitation sessions finite-element analysis, Fourier analysis, matrix as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS B201 and PHYS B214 operations, Monte Carlo techniques, and possibly neural and B306 OR PHYS H213 and H214. networks. Where possible, examples will be taken from Units: 1.0 multiple scientific disciplines, in addition to physics. This (Not Offered 2016-2017) course is intended for second semester sophomores, juniors and seniors. Co-requisite: MATH B203 and PHYS B324 Optics three units of science (Biology, Physics, Chemistry or This course covers principles of geometrical and Geology). physical optics. Topics include electromagnetic waves Units: 1.0 and their propagation in both isotropic and anisotropic (Not Offered 2016-2017) media; interference, diffraction, and Fourier optics; coherence theory; ray optics and image formation; and, PHYS B380 Physics Pedagogy as time permits, an introduction to the quantum nature Students work with a faculty member as assistant of light. Prerequisites: PHYS B201 (or H106); Co- teachers in a college course in physics, or as assistants Requisites: PHYS B306 (or H213) to a faculty member developing new teaching materials. Units: 1.0 Students will be involved in some combination of the Instructor(s): Noel,M. following: directed study of the literature on teaching (Fall 2016) and learning pedagogy, construction and design of parts of a course, and actual teaching in a lecture course or PHYS B325 Advanced Theoretical Physics laboratory. Corequisite: PHYS 201 or 214. This course presents one or more of several subjects, Units: 1.0 depending on instructor availability and student (Fall 2016) interest. The possible subjects are (1) special relativity, general relativity, and gravitation, (2) the standard PHYS B390 Independent Study model of particle physics, (3) particle astrophysics and At the discretion of the department, juniors or seniors cosmology, (4) relativistic quantum mechanics, (5) may supplement their work in physics with the study of grand unified theories, (6) string theory, loop quantum topics not covered in regular course offerings. gravity, and causal set theory. Lecture three hours and Units: 1.0 additional recitation sessions as needed. Prerequisites: (Fall 2016) PHYS 306 and 308. Corequisite: PHYS 302. Units: 1.0 PHYS B398 Senior Seminar Instructor(s): Schulz,M. Required for senior Physics majors. Students meet (Spring 2017) weekly with faculty to discuss recent research findings in physics as well as career paths open to students PHYS B331 Advanced Experimental Physics with a major in Physics. Students are required to This laboratory course consists of set-piece experiments attend all colloquia and student research presentations as well as directed experimental projects to study a hosted by the Bryn Mawr College Physics department. variety of phenomena in atomic, molecular, optical, Prerequisite: Senior Standing. nuclear, and solid state physics. The experiments and Units: 0.5 projects serve as an introduction to contemporary Instructor(s): McCormack,E. instrumentation and the experimental techniques (Fall 2016) Physics 327

PHYS B399 Senior Seminar II PHYS B507 Statistical Mechanics I Required for senior Physics majors. Students meet Review of Thermodynamics; Equilibrium statistical weekly with faculty to discuss recent research findings mechanics -- microcanonical and canonical ensembles; in physics as well as career paths open to students Ideal gases, photons, electrons in metals; Phase with a major in Physics. Students are required to transitions; Monte Carlo techniques; Classical fluids, attend all colloquia and student research presentations Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. hosted by the Bryn Mawr College Physics department. Units: 1.0 Prerequisites: Senior Standing. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 0.5 (Not Offered 2016-2017) PHYS B522 Solid State Physics This course presents the physics of solids and PHYS B503 Electromagnetic Theory I nanomaterials. Topics include crystal structure and This course is the first semester of a year-long standard diffraction, the reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zones, sequence on electromagnetism. This semester begins crystal binding, lattice vibrations and normal modes, with topics in electrostatics, including Coulomb’s and phonon dispersion, Einstein and Debye models for the Gauss’s Laws, Green functions, the method of images, specific heat, the free electron model, the Fermi surface, expansions in orthogonal functions, boundary-value electrons in periodic structures, the Bloch theorem problems, and dielectric materials. The focus then and band structure. Additional topics are taken from shifts to magnetic phenomena, including the magnetic nanoscale structures (0-D nanodots, 1-D nanowires, fields of localized currents, boundary-value problems and 2-D thin films), nanomagnetism, spintronics, in magnetostatics, and the interactions of fields and superconductivity, and experimental methods for magnetic materials. The last portion of the course fabrication and characterization of nanomaterials. treats Maxwell’s equations, transformation properties Lecture three hours and additional recitation sessions of electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves and as needed. Prerequisites: PHYS B201 and PHYS B214 their propagation and, time permitting, the basics of and B306. waveguides. This course is taught in a seminar format, Units: 1.0 in which students are responsible for presenting much (Not Offered 2016-2017) of the course material in class meetings. Units: 1.0 GEOL B260 Origin Stories: From the Big Bang to Instructor(s): Matlin,M. Mother Earth (Fall 2016) This is a co-taught intermediate science course, instructed by a Geology and Physics professor, that PHYS B504 Electromagnetic Theory II will focus on the core scientific principals related to This course is the second semester of a two semester Cosmology, Physics and Geology that help address graduate level sequence on electromagnetic theory. fundamental questions regarding the origin of the Topics include electromagnetic radiation, multiple Universe, the origin of time, the origin of stars and fields, scattering and diffraction theory, special relativity, our own solar system, and the origin of Earth, its Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions, radiation atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The course from point particle motion, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, will be a mix of fundamental scientific principles used classical electron theory and radiation reaction. to scaffold a deeper understanding of how scientists Additional topics may be included at the discretion of have come to understand and question stories of origin. the instructor. This course is taught in a seminar format, Group discussions will be informed by close reading of in which students are responsible for presenting much scientific texts, and occasional problem sets. of the course material in class meetings. Prerequisite: Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) PHYS 503 Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Weil,A., Schulz,M. Instructor(s): Schulz,M. (Fall 2016) (Spring 2017) MATH B101 Calculus I PHYS B505 Classical Mechanics I A first course in one-variable calculus: functions, limits, This course will cover mechanics topics familiar continuity, the derivative, differentiation formulas, from the undergraduate curriculum, but from deeper applications of the derivative, the integral, integration theoretical and mathematical perspectives. Topics will by substitution, fundamental theorem of calculus. May include Lagrange & Hamilton methods, the central force include a computer component. Prerequisite: adequate problem, rigid body motion, oscillations, and canonical score on calculus placement exam, or permission of the transformations. Time permitting, other topics that might instructor. Students should have a reasonable command be explored include chaos theory, special relativity, of high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry. and the application of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative methods to continuous systems. This course is taught Readiness Required (QR) in a seminar format, in which students are responsible Units: 1.0 for presenting much of the course material in class (Fall 2016) meetings. Units: 1.0 MATH B102 Calculus II (Not Offered 2016-2017) A continuation of Calculus I: transcendental functions, techniques of integration, applications of integration, 328 Political Science infinite sequences and series, convergence tests, power reasoning will be taught in the context of the production series. May include a computer component. Math 102 and perception of music, emphasizing the historic and assumes familiarity of the content covered in Math 101 scientific interplay between physics and music. No or its equivalent. previous knowledge of physics or music is assumed. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Through learning the physical concepts used to Units: 1.0 describe music, students will be able to extend these to (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) understand many of the physical concepts of modern physics. Also see PHYS B106 for the lecture/laboratory MATH B201 Multivariable Calculus course. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Vectors and geometry in two and three dimensions, Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) partial derivatives, extremal problems, double and Units: 1.0 triple integrals, vector analysis (gradients, curl and (Not Offered 2016-2017) divergence), line and surface integrals, the theorems of Gauss, Green and Stokes. May include a computer component. Prerequisite: MATH 102 or permission of PHYS B701 Supervised Work instructor. Supervised Research Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Beckmann,P., Matlin,M., Noel,M., (Fall 2016) Schulz,M. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) MATH B203 Linear Algebra Systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, determinants, vector spaces and subspaces, THE CAROLINE MCCORMICK linear independence, bases and dimension, linear transformations and their representation by matrices, SLADE DEPARTMENT OF eigenvectors and eigenvalues, orthogonality, and POLITICAL SCIENCE applications of linear algebra. Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 102, or permission of the instructor. Students may complete a major or a minor in Political Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM) Science. Within the major, students may complete a Units: 1.0 minor in Environmental Studies. (Spring 2017)

MATH B251 Chaotic Dynamical Systems Faculty Topics to be covered may include iteration, orbits, Michael Allen, Chair (spring) and Professor of Political graphical and computer analysis, bifurcations, symbolic Science on the Harvey Wexler Chair in Political dynamics, fractals, complex dynamics and applications. Science (on leave semester I) Prerequisite: MATH B102 Jeremy Elkins, Associate Professor of Political Science Units: 1.0 (on leave semester II) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Sofia Fenner, Lecturer in Political Science PHYS B106 The Interplay of Physics and Music Marissa Golden, Interim Chair (fall) and Associate The course is intended for non-science majors and Professor of Political Science on the Joan Coward will explore the deep connection between physics Chair in Political Economics and music. Basic principles of physics and scientific Carol Hager, Professor of Political Science on the reasoning will be taught in the context of the production Clowes Professorship in Science and Public Policy and perception of music, emphasizing the historic and and Director of the Center for Social Sciences (on scientific interplay between physics and music. No leave semester I) previous knowledge of physics or music is assumed. Through learning the physical concepts used to Seung-Youn Oh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (on describe music, students will be able to extend their leave semesters I & II) understanding to additional examples of physical Stephen Salkever, Mary Katherine Woodworth phenomena. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours, Professor Emeritus in Political Science per week. Also see PHYS156 for the lecture only Joel Schlosser, Assistant Professor of Political Science course. (on leave semesters I & II) Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Scientific Investigation (SI) Zhiyuan (Sebastian) Wang, Lecturer Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Political Science is the study of justice and authority, peace and conflict, public policies and elections, PHYS B156 The Interplay of Physics and Music government and law, democracy and autocracy, The course is intended for non-science majors and freedom and oppression. More than any other social will explore the deep connection between physics science, Political Science uses a wide variety of and music. Basic principles of physics and scientific approaches to explain political phenomena and to Political Science 329 evaluate the actions of polities and leaders. The Political guide. They are also open to non-seniors and to Science major develops reading, writing, and thinking other majors, but they contain material designed skills necessary for a critical understanding of the specifically to help students formulate a thesis political world. The major prepares students to go on question and begin the research process. to public policy or law schools as well as to graduate • Senior Essay (399), to be taken in the spring work in Political Science. Majors in the department have semester of the senior year. pursued careers worldwide in public service, journalism, advocacy, law, and education, to name a few. • At least three courses, in addition to senior sequence, must be taken in the Bryn Mawr Political Major Requirements Science Department. Students who wish to declare Political Science as Major Credit for Courses Outside the a major should choose an advisor, who can be any Political Science Department member of the Political Science faculty. It is generally best to choose an advisor whose courses fall into at Up to three courses from departments other than least one substantive area in which the student intends Political Science may be accepted for major credit, if in to focus. Students should write a brief essay on the the judgment of the department these courses are an kinds of questions or problems that they would like to integral part of a student’s major plan. Decisions as to pursue in the study of politics. The essay should be which outside courses count for Political Science major submitted and discussed with the advisor. Based on credit are made by the faculty on a case by case basis. this discussion, the student and advisor will formulate a When in doubt, students should consult their major course plan for the major. advisor or the department chair. Ordinarily, 100-level courses taken in other departments may not be counted All Haverford Political Science courses count toward for major credit in Political Science. the Bryn Mawr major (the same is generally true for courses at Swarthmore and Penn). Majors in the Bryn We encourage students to spend a semester abroad Mawr department must take at least three of their major during their junior year. We generally count one course courses here, in addition to the senior sequence. taken abroad for credit toward the major. Courses taken abroad count at the 200 level only. The study of politics covers a wide ground, and the Political Science major is designed to give students an Writing Intensive and Writing Attentive opportunity to focus their study while also attending to questions, issues, and problems that run through the Courses study of politics more generally, and that connect the Students are required to take at least one writing study of politics to other disciplines. We have organized intensive course or two writing attentive courses in their the major along the lines of four general themes or fields major. Political Science generally offers one writing of concentration. They are: intensive course annually. In addition, a number of 300-level courses that count as writing attentive will be • Identity and Difference offered annually. • Policy Formation and Political Action • Interdependence and Conflict Departmental Honors • Political Theory Students who have done distinguished work in their courses in the major and who write outstanding senior essays will be considered for departmental honors. The Political Science major consists of a minimum of 10 courses: Minor Requirements • Two introductory-level courses, which prospective A minor in Political Science consists of six courses majors should complete by the end of their distributed across a minimum of two fields. At least four sophomore year, from this list: 101, 121, 123 (at of these courses must be at the 200 level or higher, and HC), 131, 141, 143 (at HC), 151 (at HC), 228, and at least two of them must be at the 300 level. At least 231. These courses may be taken in any order. three of the courses must be taken from the Bryn Mawr • Two concentrations, at least one of which should be Department of Political Science course offerings. from among the four general themes. The second The four fields are: concentration is normally also chosen from those themes, but it can be based on a more substantive • Identity and Difference focus (e.g. gender, environmental politics, or the politics of a particular region), to be determined • Policy Formation and Political Action in consultation with the student’s advisor. Each • Interdependence and Conflict concentration consists of three courses, at least • Political Theory one of which must be at the 300 level and all of which must be either at the 200 or 300 level. Course Designations • A 300-level thesis prep course, to be taken Almost every course offered in the Political Science in the fall semester of the senior year. Thesis Departments at Bryn Mawr and Haverford will count prep courses are marked as such in the course for at least one of the four fields of concentration, and 330 Political Science some may count for more than one (no single course, 222 Introduction to Environmental Issues: Policy Making however, may be counted as part of more than one field in Comparative Perspective of concentration). Many courses offered at Swarthmore H223 American Political Process: The Congress (H) and Penn will also count toward these. Students should consult their advisor for information on classifying any H224 The American Presidency (H) courses that do not appear on this list. H225 Mobilization Politics (H) Identity and Difference H226 Social Movement Theory (H) 123 American Politics: Difference and Discrimination (H) H227 Urban Politics (H) 131 Introduction to Comparative Politics H228 Urban Policy (H) 206 Conflict & Conflict Management H230 Topics in Comparative Politics (H) 220 Constitutional Law H235 African Politics (H) 226 Social Movement Theory (H) H237 Latin American Politics (H) 228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and 242 Women in War and Peace (H) Early Modern 248 Modern Middle East Cities 229 Latino Politics in the U.S. (H) H249 The Soviet System and Its Demise (H) 231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern 254 Bureaucracy and Democracy 235 African Politics (H) H257 The State System (H) 242 Women in War and Peace (H) 259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin American 245 Philosophy of Law 265 Politics, Markets and Theories of Capitalism (H) 248 Modern Middle East Cities 274 Education Politics and Policy 253 Feminist Theory 278 Oil, Politics, Society, and Economy 282 The Exotic Other 279 State Transformation/Conflict 285 Religion and the Limits of Liberalism (H) 288 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North 286 Religion and American Public Life (H) Africa 287 Media and Politics: The Middle East Transformed 287 Media and Politics: The Middle East Transformed 316 Ethnic Group Politics—Identity and conflict 308 Political Transformation in Eastern and Western Europe: Germany and Its Neighbors 320 Democracy in America (H) 310 Comparative Public Policy 336 Democracy and Democratization (H) 314 Strategic Advocacy: Lobbying & Interest Group 340 Postcolonialism and the Politics of Nation-building Politics in Washington, D.C. (H) (H) 315 Public Policy Analysis (H) 345 Islam, Democracy and Development (H) 320 Democracy in America (H) 348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict identity and conflict 321 Technology and Politics 354 Comparative Social Movements 325 Grassroots Politics in Philadelphia (H) 358 Political Psychology and Ethnic Conflict 333 Transformations in American Politics: late 20th-early 370 Becoming a People: Power, Justice, and the 21st century Political (H) 334 Politics of Violence (H) 375 Perspectives on Work, and Family in the U.S. 339 The Policymaking Process 379 Feminist Political Theory (H) 345 Islam, Democracy and Development (H) 383 Islamic Reform and Radicalism 354 Comparative Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Mobilization Policy Formation and Political Action 375 Perspectives on Work and Family in the U.S. 121 American Politics 378 Origins of American Constitutionalism H121 American Politics and Its Dynamics (H) 385 Democracy and Development 131 Introduction to Comparative Politics 393 US Welfare Politics: Theory and Practice 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 211 Politics of Humanitarianism Political Science 331

233 Perspectives on Civil War and Revolution: Southern 228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Europe and Central America (H) Early Modern 235 Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies 231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: Modern 239 The United States and Latin America (H) 234 Legal Rights in the Administrative State 240 Inter-American Dialogue (H) 245 Philosophy of Law 242 Women in War and Peace (H) 253 Feminist Theory 247 Political Economy of Developing Countries (H) 266 Sovereignty (H) 248 Modern Middle East Cities 272 Democratic Theory: Membership, Citizenship and Community (H) 250 International Politics 276 American Political Thought from Founding to Civil 252 International Politics of the Middle East (H) War (H) 253 Introduction to Terrorism Studies (H) 277 American Political Thought: Post Civil War (H) 256 The Evolution of the Jihadi Movement (H) 284 Modernity and its Discontents 258 The Politics of International Institutions (H) 300 Nietzsche, Kant, Plato: Modes of Practical 259 American Foreign Policy (H) Philosophy 261 Global Civil Society (H) 320 Greek Political Philosophy 262 Human Rights and Global Politics (H) 327 Political Philosophy: 1950-Present 264 Politics of Commodities 336 Democracy and Democratization (H) 265 Politics, Markets and Theories of Capitalism (H) 365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare 278 Oil, Politics, Society, and Economy 370 Becoming a People: Power, Justice, and the 279 State Transformation/Conflict Political (H) 283 Modern Middle East/North Africa 371 Topics in Legal and Political Philosophy 288 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North 378 Origins of American Constitutionalism Africa 379 Feminist Political Theory (H) 287 Media and Politics: The Middle East Transformed 380 Persons, Morality and Modernity 308 Political Transformation in Eastern and Western 381 Nietzsche, Self, and Morality Europe: Germany and Its Neighbors 392 State in Theory and History 316 Ethnic Group Politics—Identity and conflict 339 Transitional Justice (H) COURSES 347 Advanced Issues in Peace and Conflict POLS B121 Introduction to American Politics 340 Postcolonialism and the Politics of Nation-building An introduction to the major features and characteristics (H) of the American political system. Features examined include voting and elections; the institutions of 348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict identity and conflict government (Congress, the Presidency, the courts and 350 Topics in International Politics (H) the bureaucracy); the policy-making process; and the 357 International Relations Theory: Conflict and the role of groups (interest groups, women, and ethnic and Middle East (H) racial minorities) in the political process. Units: 1.0 358 The War on Terrorism (H) Instructor(s): Golden,M. 358 Political Psychology and Ethnic Conflict (Spring 2017) 361 Democracy and Global Governance (H) POLS B131 Introduction to Comparative Politics 362 Global Justice (H) This course is designed to provide an introduction to the discipline of comparative politics. We will explore 365 Solidarity Economy Movements (H) the primary approaches and concepts scholars employ 378 Origins of American Constitutionalism in order to systematically analyze the political world. In 379 The United Nations and World Order doing so, we will also examine the political structures, institutions, and behaviors of a number of countries 383 Islamic Reform and Radicalism around the world. Questions we will engage include: 385 Democracy and Development What is power and how is it exercised? What are the differences between democratic and authoritarian

392 State in Theory and History regimes? How do different countries develop their economies? What factors affect the way countries Political Theory behave in the international arena? By the end of this course, students will be equipped to answer these 171 Introduction to Political Theory: Democratic questions and prepared for further study in political Authority (H) science. 332 Political Science

Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Political Theory, or East Asian Studies, or consent of the Units: 1.0 instructor. Instructor(s): Fenner,S. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical (Fall 2016) Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics Instructor(s): Salkever,S. (Fall 2016) An introduction to international relations, exploring its main subdivisions and theoretical approaches. Phenomena and problems in world politics examined POLS B228 Introduction to Political Philosophy: include systems of power management, imperialism, Ancient and Early Modern globalization, war, bargaining, and peace. Problems and An introduction to the fundamental problems of political institutions of international economy and international philosophy, especially the relationship between political law are also addressed. This course assumes a life and the human good or goods. Readings from reasonable knowledge of modern world history. Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cicero, Epictetus, Machiavelli, and others. Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) and Human Rights Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): MacInnis,L. Instructor(s): Wang,Z. (Fall 2016) (Fall 2016) POLS B231 Introduction to Political Philosophy: POLS B220 Topics in Constitutional Law and Theory Modern Through a reading of (mostly) Supreme Court cases A continuation of POLS 228, although 228 is not a and other materials, this course takes up some prerequisite. Particular attention is given to the various central theoretical questions concerning the role of ways in which the concept of freedom is used in constitutional principles and constitutional review in explaining political life. Readings from Hobbes, Locke, mediating the relationship between public and private Adam Smith, Marx, Emma Goldman, Frantz Fanon, and power. others. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): MacInnis,L. (Spring 2017) POLS B222 Environmental Issues This is a topics course. Topics vary. POLS B241 The Politics of International Law and Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Institutions Counts towards: Environmental Studies An introduction to international law, which assumes a Units: 1.0 working knowledge of modern world history and politics Instructor(s): Hager,C. since World War II. The origins of modern international legal norms in philosophy and political necessity are Spring 2017: Movements, Controversies and explored, showing the schools of thought to which the Policy Making. An exploration of the ways in which understandings of these origins give rise. Significant different cultural, economic, and political settings cases are used to illustrate various principles and have shaped issue emergence and policy making. problems. Prerequisite: POLS B250. We examine the politics of particular environmental Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) issues in selected countries and regions, paying Counts towards: International Studies special attention to the impact of environmental Units: 1.0 movements. We also assess the prospects for Instructor(s): Allen,M. international cooperation in addressing global (Spring 2017) environmental problems such as climate change.

POLS B224 Comparative Political Phil: China, POLS B243 African and Caribbean Perspectives in Greece, and the “West” World Politics An introduction to the dialogic construction of This course makes African and Caribbean voices comparative political philosophy, using texts from audible as they create or adopt visions of the world that several cultures or worlds of thought: ancient and explain their positions and challenges in world politics. modern China, ancient Greece, and the modern West. Students learn analytical tools useful in understanding The course will have three parts. First, a consideration other parts of the world. Prerequisite: POLS 141 or 1 of the synchronous emergence of philosophy in ancient course in African or Latin American history. (Axial Age) China and Greece; second, the 19th century Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) invention of the modern “West” and Chinese responses Counts towards: Africana Studies to this development; and third, the current discussions Units: 1.0 and debates about globalization, democracy, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) human rights now going on in China and the West. Prerequisite: At least one course in either Philosophy, Political Science 333

POLS B245 Philosophy of Law Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Introduces students to a variety of questions in the Counts towards: Environmental Studies philosophy of law. Readings will be concerned with the Units: 1.0 nature of law, the character of law as a system, the (Not Offered 2016-2017) ethical character of law, and the relationship of law to politics, power, authority, and society. Readings will POLS B272 The Power of the People: Democratic include philosophical arguments about law, as well as Revolutions judicial cases through which we examine these ideas We often invoke “democracy” as the very ground of within specific contexts, especially tort and contracts. political legitimacy, but there is very little agreement on Most or all of the specific issues discussed will be taken what democracy means, why we might desire it, or how from Anglo-American law, although the general issues state institutions, law, and political culture might embody considered are not limited to those legal systems. it. In this seminar we will grapple with some recent and Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) influential accounts of democratic governance and Units: 1.0 democratic movements today. Our objective will be to (Not Offered 2016-2017) develop a critical vocabulary for understanding what democracy might mean, what conditions it requires, and POLS B249 Politics of Economic Development what “best practices” citizens committed to democracy How do we explain the variations of political and might enlist to confront political challenges such as the economic systems in the world? What is the relationship structural divisions that persist among class, gender, between the state and the market? To what extent does and race; persistent inequality and influence of money the timing of industrialization affect the viability of certain and corporations; and the potential for democratic, developmental strategies? This seminar introduces the grass-roots power as a vital ingredient to democratic intellectual history of comparative political economy and flourishing. development studies with readings on both comparative Approach: Course does not meet an Approach political economy and international political economy. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive First, we will examine the debates on the dynamics Units: 1.0 of the state and the market in the development and (Not Offered 2016-2017) globalization process. Second, we will explore specific case studies to discuss: 1) how the political and POLS B273 Race and the Law in the American economic processes have changed in response to the Context interaction of the domestic and international arenas, An examination of the intersection of race and law, 2) whether and how the late developers learned evaluating the legal regulations of race, the history from the experiences of early developers, 3) how the and meanings of race, and how law, history and the international economy and international financial crisis Supreme Court helped shape and produce those shaped domestic development strategies. Lastly, we will meanings. It will draw on materials from law, history, analyze the developmental concerns at the sub-national public policy, and critical race theory. level with financial liberalization. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) POLS B283 Introduction to the Politics of the POLS B251 Democracy, Politics and the Media Modern Middle East and North Africa A consideration of the mass media as a pervasive fact This course is a multidisciplinary approach to of U.S. political life and how they influence American understanding the politics of the region, using works politics. Topics include how the media have altered of history, political science, political economy, film, American political institutions and campaigns, how and fiction as well as primary sources. The course will selective attention to particular issues and exclusion of concern itself with three broad areas: the legacy of others shape public concerns, and the conditions under colonialism and the importance of international forces; which the media directly influence the content of political the role of Islam in politics; and the political and social beliefs and the behavior of citizens. Prerequisite: one effects of particular economic conditions, policies, and course in political science, preferably POLS 121. practices. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Instructor(s): Elkins,J. Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 Fall 2016: Global Era. Instructor(s): Fenner,S. POLS B256 Global Politics of Climate Change (Spring 2017) This course will introduce students to important political issues raised by climate change locally, nationally, and POLS B290 Power and Resistance internationally, paying particular attention to the global What more is there to politics than power? What is implications of actions at the national and subnational the force of the “political” for specifying power as a levels. It will focus not only on specific problems, but practice or institutional form? What distinguishes power also on solutions; students will learn about some of from authority, violence, coercion, and domination? the technological and policy innovations that are being How is power embedded in and generated by cultural developed worldwide in response to the challenges of practices, institutional arrangements, and processes of climate change. normalization? This course seeks to address questions 334 Political Science of power and politics in the context of domination, POLS B313 Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law oppression, and the arts of resistance. Our general This course will focus on cases that are on the Supreme topics will include authority, the moralization of politics, Court’s docket for decision in the current term. Through the dimensions of power, the politics of violence readings of cases and secondary material, students will (and the violence of politics), language, sovereignty, examine the background of the current controversies, emancipation, revolution, domination, normalization, and the political and social issues that they raise. As governmentality, genealogy, and democratic power. a part of the course, each student will participate in Writing projects will seek to integrate analytical and mock hearings on the cases, acting sometimes as an reflective analyses as we pursue these questions in advocate for one party and sometimes as a judge. In common. preparation for this, students will conduct research Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) under supervision. Students will also participate in Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies gathering materials on the broader political-social Units: 1.0 implications of the controversies which will be read (Not Offered 2016-2017) and discussed by the class. Prerequisite: one course requiring the reading of legal cases (POLS B220, POLS/ POLS B291 Arts of Freedom PHIL B245, POLS B273, POLS H215, H216) or consent Observing political life in the early United States, of instructor. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “It cannot be repeated Units: 1.0 too often: nothing is more fertile in wondrous effects (Not Offered 2016-2017) than the art of being free, but nothing is harder than freedom’s apprenticeship.” What is this “art of freedom” POLS B320 Topics in Greek Political Philosophy and how can we take up “freedom’s apprenticeship”? This is a topics course, course content varies. Past This course investigates questions of freedom in the topics include: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and contexts of democracy, oppression, and revolution. Politics and Thucydides,Plato, Aristotle. Prerequisites: Together we will study not just the historical meanings At least two semesters of philosophy or political theory, of freedom but also who has experienced freedom and including some work with Greek texts, or consent of the who struggles for freedom in concrete terms. Over the instructor. course of the semester, we will develop a theoretical Units: 1.0 vocabulary with which to analyze freedom in different (Not Offered 2016-2017) social and political contexts; we will, moreover, learn these concepts through their use, analyzing how they POLS B321 Technology and Politics function within theories of freedom and how different theorists and actors understand and actualize freedom. A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology All of this work will culminate in taking the theoretical in political and social life. We focus on the relationship insights we develop to contemporary politics and society between technological change and democratic by writing an extended reflective letter integrating the governance. We begin with historical and contemporary analytical work we have done over the course of the Luddism as well as pro-technology movements around semester (in short essays) and reflecting on the arts and the world. Substantive issue areas include security and apprenticeship of freedom in our own lives today. surveillance, electoral politics, economic development Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) and women’s empowerment, warfare, social media, net Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive neutrality, GMO foods and industrial agriculture, climate Units: 1.0 change and energy politics. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Environmental Studies Units: 1.0 POLS B300 Three Approaches to the Philosophy of Instructor(s): Hager,C. Praxis: Nietzsche, Kant and Plato (Spring 2017) A study of three important ways of thinking about theory and practice in Western political philosophy. POLS B327 Political Philosophy in the 20th Century Prerequisites: POLS 228 and 231, or PHIL 101 and 201. Units: 1.0 A study of 20th- and 21st-century extensions of three (Not Offered 2016-2017) traditions in Western political philosophy: the adherents of the German and English ideas of freedom and the founders of classical naturalism. Authors read include POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, and A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across John Rawls. Topics include the relationship of individual space and time. Focusing on particular issues such rationality and political authority, the “crisis of modernity,” as health care, domestic security, water and land use, and the debate concerning contemporary democratic we identify institutional, historical, and cultural factors citizenship. Prerequisites: POLS 228 and 231, or PHIL that shape policies. We also examine the growing 101 and 201. importance of international-level policy making and the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive interplay between international and domestic pressures Units: 1.0 on policy makers. Prerequisite: One course in Political Instructor(s): Salkever,S. Science or public policy. (Spring 2017) Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Political Science 335

POLS B334 Three Faces of Chinese Power: Money, presupposes or relies on inequality? For all of these, Might, and Minds an important sub-question to that of the relationship China’s extraordinary growth for the past 30 years of democracy and equality will be: equality of what? has confirmed the power of free markets, while We will examine these various questions at both an simultaneously challenging our thoughts on the abstract level (reading essays of political theory, moral foundations and limits of the market economy. philosophy and such) and in the context of particular Moreover, China’s ever-increasing economic freedom problems of politics, law, and/or policy. While the and prosperity have been accompanied by only limited instructor will be largely responsible for assigning steps toward greater political freedom and political readings of the first sort, students will share the liberalization, running counter to one of the most responsibility for finding readings of the second. They consistent patterns of political economic development will do this as part of their own semester-long research in recent history. This course examines China’s projects. This course is open to all students who unique economic and political development path, have the prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep and the opportunities and challenges it accompanies. course for political science senior majors. Suggested This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an in- Preparation: At least one course in political theory OR depth understanding of the political and economic Political Science Senior OR consent of instructor. development with Chinese characteristics, 2) to conduct Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive a comprehensive analysis of three dimensions of Units: 1.0 Chinese economic, political and cultural power, and 3) Instructor(s): Elkins,J. to construct a thorough understanding of challenges (Fall 2016) and opportunities for China from its extraordinary developmental path. Prerequisite: two courses either in POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power Political Science or East Asian Languages and Culture. and Mobilization Junior or Senior Standing required. A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and Units: 1.0 “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political (Not Offered 2016-2017) opportunity structure facing potential activists, the mobilizing resources available to them, and the cultural POLS B339 Race, Ethnicity, & Politics in the U.S. framing within which these processes occur. Specific This upper-level course examines the political attention is paid to recent movements within and across experience in the United States of the four principal countries, such as feminist, environmental, and anti- racial minority groups: blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans globalization movements, and to emerging forms of and American Indians. The importance of race and citizen mobilization, including transnational and global ethnicity in American politics, and the historical, legal, networks, electronic mobilization, and collaborative attitudinal, and behavioral experiences of these groups policymaking institutions. Prerequisite: one course in are explored in the context of a majority white nation POLS or SOCL or permission of instructor. via protest activity and conventional electoral politics. Counts towards: Environmental Studies We will describe and analyze how the structures of the Units: 1.0 American political system and its present operation (Not Offered 2016-2017) disadvantage and/or advantage these groups as they attempt to gain the full benefits of American society. A POLS B356 Topics in American Politics variety of theories are explored towards that end. This course helps prepare students for the senior thesis Units: 1.0 by exploring a gamut of “hot topics” in the study of (Fall 2016) American politics. Its focus is on points of contention- theoretical, empirical and methodological-between and POLS B348 Culture and Ethnic Conflict among the political scientists studying these topics. An examination of the role of culture in the origin, This course is open to all students who have the escalation, and settlement of ethnic conflicts. This prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep course for course examines the politics of culture and how it political science senior majors. constrains and offers opportunities for ethnic conflict and Major Writing Requirement: Writing AttentiveUnits: 1.0 cooperation. The role of narratives, rituals, and symbols Instructor(s): Golden,M. is emphasized in examining political contestation Fall 2016: over cultural representations and expressions such Debates in the Discipline. as parades, holy sites, public dress, museums, POLS B360 Islam and Politics monuments, and language in culturally framed ethnic conflicts from all regions of the world. Prerequisites: two This course will strive to answer but also to critique courses in the social sciences. common questions about the role of Islam in political Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights life: Is Islam compatible with democracy? Is Islam Units: 1.0 bad for women’s or minority rights? Does Islam (Not Offered 2016-2017) cause violence? Will including Islamist organizations in democratic politics induce them to moderate their views? And what are the political consequences of POLS B350 Politics and Equality asking and debating such questions? More broadly, this What is the relationship between democracy and course will consider evolving approaches to culture, equality? Is equality a presupposition or precondition for religion, and ideology in political science, exploring not democracy? Is the problem of equality separable from just the effect of Islam on politics but also the ways in equality? Are there any respects in which democracy which politics have shaped the Islamic tradition over 336 Political Science time. This course is open to all students who have the POLS B378 Origins of American Constitutionalism prerequisites. It also serves as a thesis prep course for This course will explore some aspects of early American political science senior majors. Prerequisite: POLS B131 constitutional thought, particularly in the periods or instructor consent. immediately preceding and following the American Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Revolution. The premise of the course is that many of Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies the questions that arose during that period—concerning, Units: 1.0 for example, the nature of law, the idea of sovereignty, Instructor(s): Fenner,S. and the character of legitimate political authority— (Fall 2016) remain important questions for political, legal, and constitutional thought today, and that studying the POLS B367 China and the World: Implications of debates of the revolutionary period can help sharpen China’s Rise our understanding of these issues. Prerequisites: In the 20th Century, China’s rise has been one of the sophomore standing and previous course work in most distinctive political affairs changing the landscape American history, American government, political theory, of regional and world politics. Especially, China’s or legal studies. breathtaking growth has challenged the foundations and Units: 1.0 limits of the market economy and political liberalization (Not Offered 2016-2017) theoretically and empirically. This course examines the Chinese economic and political development and its POLS B381 Nietzsche implications for other Asian countries and the world. This course examines Nietzsche’s thought, with This course has three aims: 1) to facilitate an in-depth particular focus on such questions as the nature of understanding of the Chinese Economic development the self, truth , irony, aggression, play, joy, love, and model in comparison to other development models, 2) to morality. The texts for the course are drawn mostly from conduct a comprehensive analysis of political and socio- Nietzsche’s own writing, but these are complemented economic exchanges of China and its relations with by some contemporary work in moral philosophy and other major countries in East Asia, and 3) to construct a philosophy of mind that has a Nietzschean influence. thorough understanding of challenges and opportunities Units: 1.0 for China from its extraordinary economic growth. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Prerequisite: junior or senior. Units: 1.0 POLS B391 International Political Economy (Not Offered 2016-2017) This seminar examines the growing importance of economic issues in world politics and traces the POLS B371 Topics in Political Philosophy development of the modern world economy from its An advanced seminar on a topic in political or legal origins in colonialism and the industrial revolution, philosophy/theory. Topics vary by year. Prerequisite: through to the globalization of recent decades. Major At least one course in political theory or philosophy or paradigms in political economy are critically examined. consent of instructor. Aspects of and issues in international economic Units: 1.0 relations such as development, finance, trade, (Not Offered 2016-2017) migration, and foreign investment are examined in the light of selected approaches. This course is open to POLS B374 Education Politics & Policy all students who have the prerequisites. It also serves This course will examine education policy through the as a thesis prep course for political science seniors. lens of federalism and federalism through a case study Prerequisite: One course in International Politics or of education policy. The dual aims are to enhance Economics is required. Preference is given to seniors our understanding of this specific policy area and our although juniors are accepted. understanding of the impact that our federal system of Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive government has on policy effectiveness. Counts towards: International Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Instructor(s): Wang,Z. (Fall 2016) POLS B375 Gender, Work and Family POLS B399 Senior Essay As the number of women participating in the paid workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, Units: 1.0 it becomes increasingly important to study the issues Instructor(s): Golden,M., Allen,M., Hager,C., Fenner,S. raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine (Spring 2017) the experiences of working and nonworking mothers in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of POLS B403 Supervised Work working mothers on children, and the policy implications Units: 1.0 of women, work, and family. (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B425 Praxis III: Independent Study Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is Political Science 337 distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite PHIL B238 Science, Technology and the Good Life organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection This course considers questions concerning what that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the is science, what is technology, and what is their classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding relationship to each other and to the domains of ethics gained through classroom study to work done in the and politics. We will consider how modern science broader community. defined itself in its opposition to Aristotelian science. Counts towards: Praxis Program We will examine the Cartesian and Baconian scientific Units: 1.0 models and the self-understanding of these models (Not Offered 2016-2017) with regard to ethics and politics. Developments in the philosophy of science will be considered, e.g., ARCH B244 Great Empires of the Ancient Near East positivism, phenomenology, feminism, sociology of A survey of the history, material culture, political and science. Biotechnology and information technology religious ideologies of, and interactions among, the five illustrate fundamental questions. The “science wars” great empires of the ancient Near East of the second of the 1990s provide debates concerning science, and first millennia B.C.E.: New Kingdom Egypt, the technology, and the good life. Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Assyrian and Babylonian Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Empires in Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire in Past (IP) Iran. Counts towards: Environmental Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 1.0 Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Counts towards: Middle Eastern Studies Units: 1.0 PHIL B240 Environmental Ethics Instructor(s): Helft,S. This course surveys rights- and justice-based (Fall 2016) justifications for ethical positions on the environment. It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic ECON B385 Democracy and Development value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian From 1974 to the late 1990’s the number of and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to democracies grew from 39 to 117. This “third wave,” future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere. the collapse of communism and developmental Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical successes in East Asia have led some to argue the Interpretation (CI) triumph of democracy and markets. Since the late Counts towards: Environmental Studies 1990’s, democracy’s third wave has stalled, and some Units: 1.0 fear a reverse wave and democratic breakdowns. We (Not Offered 2016-2017) will question this phenomenon through the disciplines of economics, history, political science and sociology PHIL B252 Feminist Theory drawing from theoretical, case study and classical Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated literature. Prerequisites: ECON 200; ECON 253 or 304; and women have achieved equality have become and one course in Political Science OR Junior or Senior commonplace. We challenge these assumptions Standing in Political Science OR Permission of the examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and Instructor. oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist Counts towards: International Studies; Peace, Justice theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and and Human Rights contemporary accounts of women’s place and status in Units: 1.0 different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of Instructor(s): Rock,M. the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the (Spring 2017) relevance of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency with respect to moral, social and PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and permission of instructor. requires has become urgent in a context of increasing Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict Interpretation (CI) and war, high rates of poverty within and across Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. Units: 1.0 This course examines prevailing theories and issues (Not Offered 2016-2017) of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and PHIL B344 Development Ethics disability theorists. This course explores the meaning of and moral issues Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical raised by development. In what direction and by what Interpretation (CI) means should a society “develop”? What role, if any, Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; does the globalization of markets and capitalism International Studies play in processes of development and in systems of Units: 1.0 discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and (Not Offered 2016-2017) gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be explored through an examination of some of the most 338 Political Science prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: the world. Substantive issue areas include security and a philosophy, political theory or economics course or surveillance, electoral politics, economic development permission of the instructor. and women’s empowerment, warfare, social media, net Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive neutrality, GMO foods and industrial agriculture, climate Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; change and energy politics. International Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Environmental Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Hager,C. PHIL B352 Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2017) It has been said that one of the most important feminist contributions to theory is its uncovering of the ways POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power in which theory in the Western tradition, whether of and Mobilization science, knowledge, morality, or politics has a hidden A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and male bias. This course will explore feminist criticisms “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political of and alternatives to traditional Western theory by opportunity structure facing potential activists, the examining feminist challenges to traditional liberal moral mobilizing resources available to them, and the cultural and political theory. Specific questions may include how framing within which these processes occur. Specific to understand the power relations at the root of women’s attention is paid to recent movements within and across oppression, how to theorize across differences, or countries, such as feminist, environmental, and anti- how ordinary individuals are to take responsibility for globalization movements, and to emerging forms of pervasive and complex systems of oppression. citizen mobilization, including transnational and global Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies networks, electronic mobilization, and collaborative Units: 1.0 policymaking institutions. Prerequisite: one course in (Not Offered 2016-2017) POLS or SOCL or permission of instructor. Counts towards: Environmental Studies POLS B222 Environmental Issues Units: 1.0 This is a topics course. Topics vary. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts towards: Environmental Studies PSYC B358 Political Psychology of Ethnic Conflict Units: 1.0 This seminar explores the common interests of Instructor(s): Hager,C. psychologists and political scientists in ethnic identification and ethnic-group conflict. Rational Spring 2017: Movements, Controversies and choice theories of conflict from political science will be Policy Making. An exploration of the ways in which compared with social psychological theories of conflict different cultural, economic, and political settings that focus more on emotion and essentializing. Each have shaped issue emergence and policy making. student will contribute a 200-300 word post in response We examine the politics of particular environmental to a reading or film assignment each week. Students issues in selected countries and regions, paying will represent their posts in seminar discussion of special attention to the impact of environmental readings and films. Each student will write a final paper movements. We also assess the prospects for analyzing the origins and trajectory of a case of violent international cooperation in addressing global ethnic conflict chosen by agreement with the instructor. environmental problems such as climate change. Grading includes posts, participation in discussion, and the final paper. Prerequisite: PSYC B208, or PSYC POLS B310 Comparative Public Policy B120, or PSYC B125, or one 200 level course in political A comparison of policy processes and outcomes across science, or instructor’s permission. space and time. Focusing on particular issues such Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights as health care, domestic security, water and land use, Units: 1.0 we identify institutional, historical, and cultural factors (Not Offered 2016-2017) that shape policies. We also examine the growing importance of international-level policy making and the SOCL B259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin interplay between international and domestic pressures America on policy makers. Prerequisite: One course in Political Science or public policy. An examination of resistance movements to the power Counts towards: Environmental Studies; Health Studies of the state and globalization in three Latin American Units: 1.0 societies: Mexico, Columbia, and Peru. The course (Not Offered 2016-2017) explores the political, legal, and socio-economic factors underlying contemporary struggles for human and social rights, and the role of race, ethnicity, and coloniality play POLS B321 Technology and Politics in these struggles. A multi-media analysis of the complex role of technology Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in political and social life. We focus on the relationship Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o between technological change and democratic Studies governance. We begin with historical and contemporary Units: 1.0 Luddism as well as pro-technology movements around (Not Offered 2016-2017) Psychology 339

SOCL B284 Modernity and Its Discontents provides a strong foundation for graduate work in This course examines the nature, historical emergence, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, dilemmas, and prospects of modern society in the physiological, and social psychology, as well as for west, seeking to build up an integrated analysis of graduate study in law, medicine, and business. the processes by which this kind of society developed over the past two centuries and continues to transform Major Requirements itself. Its larger aim is to help students develop a The major requirements in Psychology are PSYC 105 coherent framework with which to understand what (or a one-semester introductory psychology course kind of society they live in, what makes it the way taken elsewhere); PSYC 205; two half-credit 200-level it is, and how it shapes their lives. Some central laboratory courses (courses designated as PSYC themes (and controversies) will include the growth and 28X), six courses at the 200 and 300 level (at least two transformations of capitalism; the significance of the 200-level and two 300-level), one semester of Junior democratic and industrial revolutions; the social impact Brown Bag, and one Senior Requirement. Majors may of a market economy; the culture of individualism and elect to fulfill their Senior Requirement with PSYC 399 its dilemmas; the transformations of intimacy and the (Senior Seminar in Psychology) or by completing two family; mass politics and mass society; and the different semesters of supervised research (PSYC 398 or PSYC kinds of interplay between social structure and personal 401). experience. No specific prerequisites, but some previous familiarity with modern European and American Major Writing Requirement: Majors must complete the history and/or with social and political theory would be writing requirement prior to the start of the senior year. useful. The writing requirement can be met by completing two Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) half-credit 200-level writing intensive laboratory courses Units: 1.0 or a full credit writing intensive course. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Majors may substitute advance placement credit (score of 5 on the Psychology Advanced Placement exam) for PSYC 105. In general, courses at the 200 level survey PSYCHOLOGY major content areas of psychological research. With the exception of PSYC 205, all 200-level courses require Students may complete a major or minor in Psychology. PSYC 105 or the permission of the instructor. Courses Within the major, students also have the opportunity at the 300 level typically have a 200-level survey course to pursue an area of further study such as a minor as a prerequisite and offer either specialization within in Neuroscience, Child and Family Studies, or a content area or integration across areas. PSYC 398, Computational Methods. 399, and 401 are senior capstone courses and are intended to provide psychology majors with an intensive and integrative culminating experience in psychology. Faculty Majors are also required to attend a one-hour, weekly William (Dustin) Albert, Assistant Professor of brown bag in the junior year for one semester. This Psychology requirement is designed to sharpen students’ analytical Kimberly Wright Cassidy, President of the College and and critical thinking skills, to introduce students Professor of Psychology to faculty members’ areas of research, to provide additional opportunities for student-faculty interactions, Heejung Park, Assistant Professor of Psychology and to build a sense of community. Laurel Peterson, Assistant Professor of Psychology Leslie Rescorla, Professor of Psychology on the Class Advising of 1897 Professorship of Science and Director of The selection of courses to meet the major requirements Child and Family Studies and the Director of the is made in consultation with the student’s major Child Study Institute (on leave semester II) adviser. Any continuing faculty member can serve as a major adviser. It is expected that the student will Marc Schulz, Chair and Professor of Psychology and sample broadly among the diverse fields represented Rachel C. Hale Professor in the Sciences and in the curriculum. Courses outside the department Mathematics may be taken for major credit if they satisfy the above Anjali Thapar, Professor of Psychology descriptions of 200-level and 300-level courses and Earl Thomas, Professor of Psychology are approved by the student’s major adviser. Students should contact their major adviser about major credit Robert Wozniak, Professor of Psychology (on leave for a course outside the department before taking the semester I) course.

The department offers the student a major program that Honors allows a choice of courses from among a wide variety of Departmental honors (called Honors in Research in fields in psychology: clinical, cognitive, developmental, Psychology) are awarded on the merits of a report of health, physiological, and social. In addition to the research (the design and execution; and the scholarship considerable breadth offered, the program encourages exhibited in the writing of a paper based on the the student to focus on more specialized areas through research). To be considered for honors, students must advanced coursework, seminars and supervised have a grade point average in psychology of 3.6 or research. Students have found that the major program higher at the end of the fall semester of the senior year. 340 Psychology

Haverford College Courses that count be examined by studying both “normal” and “abnormal” behaviors in domains such as perception, cognition, toward the Major learning, motivation, emotion, and social interaction Certain psychology courses offered at Haverford thereby providing an overview of psychology’s many College may be substituted for the equivalent areas of inquiry. Bryn Mawr courses for purposes of the Bryn Mawr Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); psychology major (the same is true for psychology Scientific Investigation (SI) courses offered at Swarthmore and the University of Units: 1.0 Pennsylvania). Specifically, PSYC 100 at Haverford may Instructor(s): Peterson,L., Rescorla,L. be substituted for PSYC 105. PSYC 200 at Haverford (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) may be substituted for PSYC 205. Additionally, although the half-unit 300-level laboratory courses at Haverford PSYC B120 Focus: Psychology of Terrorism maybe substituted for the half-unit 200-level laboratory courses at Bryn Mawr, the Haverford laboratory courses Introduction to the psychology of terrorism. Each week will not count towards the new college-wide writing will include reading and a film introducing a different requirement in the major. For all other courses, a case history: Mohammed Atta, Timothy McVeigh and student should consult with her major advisor. Terry Nichols, Weather Underground, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Battle of Algiers, Shaheed, Al-Qaeda and bin Laden. Text is “Friction: How radicalization happens Minor Requirements to them and us” (McCauley & Moskalenko, 2011). A student may minor in Psychology by taking PSYC 105 Each student posts each week on Moodle a max-300- and PSYC 205 and any other four courses that meet the word essay identifying mechanisms of radicalization requirements of the major. in the case history, and a comment on one other student’s post. Grading includes clicker quizzes, posts, Minor in Neuroscience comments, and an optional final paper. This is a half- semester “focus course,” no prerequisites. Students majoring in psychology can minor in Units: 0.5 Neuroscience. The minor comprises six courses: (Not Offered 2016-2017) one gateway course (Behavioral Neuroscience BMC PSYC 218, Biological Psychology HC PSYC 217, or PSYC B125 Focus: Psychology of Genocide Introduction to Neuroscience BMC BIO 202), plus five additional courses. The five courses must sample from This is a half-semester “focus course.” Introduction to three different disciplines and at least one course must the psychology of genocide, including perpetrators, be at the 300-level or higher. Additional information leaders, and mass sympathizers. Each week will include for the minor is listed on the Psychology Department’s reading and a film introducing a difference case history: website. Cherokee Removal, Armenian Removal, Holocaust, Rwanda, Pol Pot, Khymer Rouge Killers, Darfur-Sudan. Text is “Why not kill them all? The logic and prevention Minor in Computational Methods of mass political murder” (Chirot & McCauley, 2010 Students majoring in psychology can minor in paperback). Each student posts each week on Moodle computational methods.The minor consists of one a max-300-word essay identifying mechanisms of gateway course (Introduction to Computer Science, radicalization in the case history, and a comment on one CS 110 or CS 205), a course in data structures (CS other student’s post. Grading includes clicker quizzes, 206) and discrete mathematics (CS 231), plus three posts, comments, and an optional final paper. additional courses. Additional information for the Units: 0.5 minor is listed on the Computer Science Department’s (Not Offered 2016-2017) website. PSYC B160 Focus: Psychology of Negotiations Minor in Child and Family Studies Explores the psychology, art, and science of Students majoring in psychology can minor in Child and negotiations. The core of the course is a series of Family Studies. The minor comprises six courses: one seven simulations designed to allow students to gateway course (Developmental Psychology PSYC 206, experiment with negotiation techniques. Debriefings Educational Psychology PSYC 203, Critical Issues in and discussions of negotiation theory and behavioral Education EDUC 200, or Study of Gender in Society research complement the simulations. This is a half- (SOCL 201), plus five additional courses, at least two of semester, 0.5 unit course. which must be outside of the major department and at Approach: Course does not meet an Approach least one of which must be at the 300 level. Additional Units: 0.5 information for the minor is listed on the Child and (Not Offered 2016-2017) Family Studies’s website. PSYC B203 Educational Psychology COURSES Topics in the psychology of human cognitive, social, and affective behavior are examined and related to PSYC B105 Introductory Psychology educational practice. Issues covered include learning How do biological predispositions, life experiences, theories, memory, attention, thinking, motivation, social/ culture, contribute to individual differences in human emotional issues in adolescence, and assessment/ and animal behavior? This biopsychosocial theme will learning disabilities. This course provides a Praxis Psychology 341

Level I opportunity. Classroom observation is required. psychopathology? What are the strengths and Prerequisite: PSYC B105 (Introductory Psychology) limitations of the ways in which psychopathology is Approach: Course does not meet an Approach assessed and classified? What are the major forms of Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Praxis psychopathology? How do psychologists study and treat Program psychopathology? How is psychopathology experienced Units: 1.0 by individuals? What causes psychological difficulties Instructor(s): Cassidy,K. and what are their consequences? How do we integrate (Fall 2016) social, biological and psychological perspectives on the causes of psychopathology? Do psychological PSYC B205 Research Methods and Statistics treatments (therapies) work? How do we study the effectiveness of psychology treatments? Prerequisite: An introduction to experimental design, general Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105 or H100). research methodology, and the analysis and Approach: Course does not meet an Approach interpretation of data. Emphasis will be placed on Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health issues involved with conducting psychological research. Studies Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, Units: 1.0 experimental design and validity, analysis of variance, Instructor(s): Schulz,M. and correlation and regression. Each statistical method (Spring 2017) will also be executed using computers. Lecture three hours, laboratory 90 minutes a week. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Scientific PSYC B212 Human Cognition Investigation (SI) This course provides an overview of the field of Units: 1.0 Cognitive Psychology, the branch of psychology Instructor(s): Albert,W., Thapar,A. that studies how we acquire, store, process and (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) communicate information. Over the semester we will survey classic and contemporary theory and findings PSYC B206 Developmental Psychology on a wide range of mental processes that are used every day in almost all human activities – from attention A topical survey of psychological development and memory to language and problem solving – and from infancy through adolescence, focusing on the our goal will be to understand how the human mind interaction of personal and environmental factors in the works! Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100 (Introductory ontogeny of perception, language, cognition, and social Psychology), or instructor’s permission. interactions within the family and with peers. Topics Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) include developmental theories; infant perception; Counts towards: Neuroscience attachment; language development; theory of mind; Units: 1.0 memory development; peer relations, schools and the Instructor(s): Thapar,A. family as contexts of development; and identity and (Spring 2017) the adolescent transition. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or PSYC H100 Approach: Course does not meet an Approach PSYC B214 Applied Behavior Analysis Counts towards: Child and Family Studies This course covers the basic principles of behavior and Units: 1.0 their relevance and application to clinical problems. Instructor(s): Albert,W. Applied Behavior Analysis is an empirically-based (Fall 2016) treatment approach focusing less on treatment techniques and more on treatment evaluation. The PSYC B208 Social Psychology course covers the techniques used (data gathering and analysis) to determine the effectiveness of A survey of theories and data in the study of human treatments while in progress. To do this, examples of social behavior. Special attention to methodological human problems may include eating disorders, anxiety issues of general importance in the conduct and disorders, addictive behavior, autistic behavior, attention evaluation of research with humans. Topics include deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional/conduct group dynamics (conformity, leadership, encounter disorder. groups, crowd behavior, intergroup conflict); attitude Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) change (consistency theories, attitudes and behavior, Units: 1.0 mass media persuasion); and person perception (Not Offered 2016-2017) (stereotyping, essentializing, moral judgment). Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100 (Introductory Psychology), or instructor’s permission. PSYC B218 Behavioral Neuroscience Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) An interdisciplinary course on the neurobiological Units: 1.0 bases of experience and behavior, emphasizing (Not Offered 2016-2017) the contribution of the various neurosciences to the understanding of basic problems of psychology. An PSYC B209 Abnormal Psychology introduction to the fundamentals of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry with an emphasis This course examines the experience, origins and upon synaptic transmission; followed by the application consequences of psychological difficulties and of these principles to an analysis of sensory processes problems. Among the questions we will explore and perception, emotion, motivation, learning, and are: What do we mean by abnormal behavior or 342 Psychology cognition. Lecture three hours a week. Prerequisite: Topics will include the evolutionary origins of altruism, Introductory Psychology (PSYC 105). social structures, language, domestic and intergroup Approach: Course does not meet an Approach violence, and religion. Prerequisite: ANTH101, BIOL110/ Counts towards: Neuroscience B111, ECON105, PSYCB105, PSYCH100, SOCL102, or Units: 1.0 permission of instructor Instructor(s): Thomas,E. Units: 1.0 (Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

PSYC B224 Cross-Cultural Psychology PSYC B250 Autism Spectrum Disorders Explores human behavior as a product of cultural Focuses on theory of and research on Autism Spectrum context. Why are some aspects of human behavior the Disorders (ASD). Topics include the history of autism; same across cultures, while others differ? Topics include classification and diagnosis; epidemiology and the relationships between culture and development, etiology; major theories; investigations of sensory and cognition, the self, and social behaviors. Discussions motor atypicalities, early social communicative skills, include implications of cross-cultural psychology for affective, cognitive, symbolic and social factors; the psychological theory and applications. Prerequisites: neuropsychology of ASD; and current approaches to ANTH101, PSYCB105, PSYCH100, SOCL102 or intervention. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology permission of instructor (PSYC 105). Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Instructor(s): Park,H. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Wozniak,R. (Spring 2017) PSYC B230 Forensic Psychology The major goal of this course is to provide students with PSYC B260 The Psychology of Mindfulness a broad overview of the field of forensic psychology and This course focuses on psychological theory and the numerous ways that psychology interacts with the research on mindfulness and meditative practices. law. Throughout this course, students will develop an Readings and discussion will introduce students to understanding of the nature, scope, and basic methods modern conceptualizations and implementation of used in forensic psychology and how these methods mindfulness practices that have arisen in the West. can be applied to a variety of legal questions. We will Students will be encouraged to engage in mindfulness begin with an introduction, which will encompass the activities as part of their involvement in this course. definition of the area, the scope of the field, and an Approach: Course does not meet an Approach overview of the relevant methods used in the practice Counts towards: Health Studies of forensic psychology. We will then consider a number Units: 1.0 of legal questions for which judges and attorneys can Instructor(s): Schulz,M. be informed by forensic psychological evaluation; these (Fall 2016) legal questions will include criminal, civil, and family law. Prerequisite: PSYC B105 or H100. PSYC B282 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology Units: 1.0 This laboratory course will provide hands-on experience (Not Offered 2016-2017) in designing and conducting research in cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on the study of memory PSYC B231 Health Psychology and cognition. Over the semester, students will have This course will provide an overview of the field of health the opportunity to develop specific research skills, such psychology using lecture, exams, videos, assignments, as understanding how to design a study appropriate and an article critique. We will examine the current to a research question, collecting data, conducting definition of health psychology, as well as the theories and interpreting statistical analyses, writing about and research behind many areas in health psychology research, etc. Other goals include practicing and further (both historical and contemporary). The course will developing critical thinking skills and communicating focus on specific health and social psychological research ideas and results both verbally and in theories, empirical research, and applying the theory writing. Students will be exposed to behavioral and and research to real world situations. Prerequisite: electrophysiological (EEG, ERP) techniques to study Introductory Psychology (PSYC B105) or Foundations memory and cognition. The course will culminate with of Psychology (PSYC H100) a final project in which students design and conduct a Approach: Course does not meet an Approach novel experiment, analyze the data, and prepare an APA Counts towards: Health Studies style research report. This class is a writing intensive Units: 1.0 class and, as a .5 unit class, is designed to meet half Instructor(s): Peterson,L. of the writing requirement in the major. Suggested (Fall 2016) Preparation: Past or concurrent enrollment in Statistics (PSYC B205 or equivalent). PSYC B240 Evolution of Human Nature Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Explores human nature as a product of evolutionary Units: 0.5 processes. The course will begin by introducing the Instructor(s): Thapar,A. evolutionary perspective and the roles of sex and mating (Fall 2016) strategies within the context of the animal kingdom. Psychology 343

PSYC B283 Laboratory in Developmental PSYC B288 Laboratory in Social Psychology Psychology This laboratory course will offer experience in designing This laboratory course is designed to provide students and conducting research in social psychology, statistical with hands-on exposure to the principles and practices analysis of research results, and research reporting in that guide scientific research on human psychological the style of a journal article in psychology. Each student development. We will examine the crucial steps in will participate in two research projects. This is a 0.5 the scientific research process, including developing unit course that meets for the full semester. Suggested research questions and hypotheses, identifying an Preparation: Statistics (PSYC 205 or equivalent). appropriate research design, insuring measurement Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); reliability and validity, collecting and analyzing data, and Scientific Investigation (SI) communicating results. Special attention will be given Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive to the research topics and methodological approaches Units: 0.5 important to the interdisciplinary field of developmental (Not Offered 2016-2017) cognitive neuroscience, which aims to elucidate the neurological changes underlying psychological PSYC B289 Laboratory in Clinical Psychology development. Through lab activities and group projects, At its core, this laboratory course is designed to explore students will gain specific exposure to the use of how it is that psychologists come to know (or think they neuroimaging methods to examine developmental know) things and how they communicate what they think questions. Prerequisite: Introduction to Psychology they know. The class focuses on the scientific principles (Psych 105). Suggested Preparation: Methods and and practices underlying research in psychology with Statistics (Psych 205) and Developmental Psychology an emphasis on techniques and topics important to the (Psych 206) are recommended. subfield of clinical psychology. This course is intended Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) to provide hands-on training in how to conduct research. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Through lab activities and class projects, students Units: 0.5 will learn about important methodological issues and Instructor(s): Albert,W. steps in the research process including how to identify (Spring 2017) important questions, measurement issues such as reliability and validity, different modes of data collection, PSYC B284 Laboratory in Health Psychology and how to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Special This laboratory/writing intensive/scientific inquiry quarter attention will be given to method issues relevant course will provide a hands-on experience conducting to observation, to the study of emotion, to couple health psychology research and writing APA-style relationships and to the collection of data across time. manuscripts. Students will be exposed to various This class is a writing intensive class and, as a .5 unit aspects of the scientific process such as: literature class, is designed to meet half of the writing requirement reviews, hypothesis-generation, data collection, in the major. Suggested Preparation: PSYC B205 and analysis, writing (drafting and polishing), peer-reviewing, PSYC B209. and oral dissemination of scientific findings. The course Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); will focus on biopsychosocial theory and challenge Scientific Investigation (SI) students to apply the theory to their own research Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive project(s) and write papers on the results. Suggested Units: 0.5 Preparation: PSYC B205. Instructor(s): Schulz,M. Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) (Spring 2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 0.5 PSYC B310 Advanced Developmental Psychology Instructor(s): Peterson,L. This course details theory and research relating to (Spring 2017) the development of children and adolescents with family, school, and cultural contexts. We examine PSYC B285 Laboratory in Cultural Psychology topics including (but not limited to): developmental This writing-intensive laboratory course will provide theory, infant perception, language, attachment, self- students an opportunity to learn the entire process of awareness, social cognition, symbolic thought, memory, psychological research in a small scale. Students will parent-child relations, peer relations, and gender issues. formulate unique research questions within the subfield Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or permission of the instructor. of cultural psychology, review the relevant literature, Units: 1.0 collect, code, and analyze data, and produce APA-style (Not Offered 2016-2017) manuscripts. This lab course will expose students to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches PSYC B312 History of Modern American Psychology to investigating research questions in cultural An examination of major 20th-century trends in psychology. Prerequisite: Introduction to Psychology American psychology and their 18th- and 19th-century (Psych 105) is required. Methods and Statistics (Psych social and intellectual roots. Topics include physiological 205) is recommended. and philosophical origins of scientific psychology; Approach: Scientific Investigation (SI) growth of American developmental, comparative, social, Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive and clinical psychology; and the cognitive revolution. Units: 0.5 Prerequisite: any 200-level survey course. Instructor(s): Park,H. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) (Not Offered 2016-2017) 344 Psychology

PSYC B322 Culture and Development brain, behavioral, cognitive, and social development This course focuses on adolescents and their families during adolescence; and (4) contemporary debates in cultural, social, and ecological contexts. Topics regarding age of adult maturity, and their implications include family dynamics, parent-adolescent relationship, for law and policy. Prerequisite: PSYC B206 socioeconomic status, immigration, social change, and (Developmental Psychology) or permission or instructor. globalization. Prerequisites: PSYC 105, and PSYC 206 PSYC B205 is recommended. or PSYC 224. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Child and Family Studies Instructor(s): Albert,W. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Park,H. (Spring 2017) PSYC B331 Health Behavior and Context This seminar will be devoted to a discussion of theory PSYC B323 Advanced Topics in Cognitive and research in health psychology. We will investigate Neuroscience both historical and contemporary perspectives on the A seminar course dealing with state-of-the-art psychology of wellness and illness. We will begin with developments in the cognitive neuroscience of human a consideration of how psychosocial forces influence memory. The goal of this course is to investigate the health cognitions, behaviors, and physiological neuroanataomy of episodic memory and the cellular and processes. The second half of the course will focus on molecular correlates of episodic memory. Topics include contextual factors, interventions, and emerging topics memory consolidation, working memory, recollection in research. We will debate the question of whether/ and familiarity, forgetting, cognitive and neural bases how psychological forces influence health outcomes. of false memories, emotion and memory, sleep and Prerequisite: PSYC B105 and PSYC B231 or PSYC memory, anterograde amnesia, and implicit memory. B208, or by permission of the instructor. Within each topic we will attempt to integrate the Counts towards: Health Studies results from different neuropsychological approaches Units: 1.0 to memory, including various psychophysiological and Instructor(s): Peterson,L. functional imaging techniques, clinical studies, and (Fall 2016) research with animal models. Prerequisite: a course in cognition (PSYC B212, PSYC H213, PSYC H260) or PSYC B346 Pediatric Psychology behavioral neuroscience (either PSYC B218 or PSYC This course uses a developmental-ecological H217). perspective to understand the psychological challenges Counts towards: Neuroscience associated with physical health issues in children. The Units: 1.0 course explores how different environments support Instructor(s): Thapar,A. the development of children who sustain illness or injury and will cover topics including: prevention, Spring 2017: Neurobiological Basis of Memory. coping, adherence to medical regimens, and pain management. The course will consider the ways PSYC B325 Judgment and Decision-Making in which cultural beliefs and values shape medical This course will explore the psychology of reasoning and experiences. Suggested Preparations: PSYC B206 decision-making processes in depth. We will examine highly recommended. affective, cognitive, and motivational processes, as well Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health as recent research in neuroscience. Among other topics, Studies we will discuss notions of rationality and irrationality, Units: 1.0 accuracy, heuristics, biases, metacognition, evaluation, (Not Offered 2016-2017) risk perception, and moral judgment. Prerequisites: ECONB136, ECONH203, PSYCB205 or PSYCH200, PSYC B351 Developmental Psychopathology and PSYCB212, PSYCH260 or permission of instructor. Units: 1.0 This course will examine emotional and behavioral (Not Offered 2016-2017) disorders of children and adolescents, including autism, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anorexia, PSYC B327 Adolescent Development and schizophrenia. Major topics covered will include: Is adolescence a biologically distinct stage of life, or contrasting models of psychopathology; empirical and a social “holding ground” invented by modern culture categorical approaches to assessment and diagnosis; for young people unready or unwilling to assume outcome of childhood disorders; risk, resilience, and the responsibilities of adulthood? Are adolescents prevention; and therapeutic approaches and their destined to make risky decisions because of their efficacy .Prerequisite: PSYC 206 or 209. underdeveloped brains? At what age should they be Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Health held accountable as adults in a court of law? This Studies; Neuroscience course will explore these and other questions about Units: 1.0 the biological, social, and legal forces that define the (Not Offered 2016-2017) boundaries and shape the experience of adolescents growing up in the modern world. Students will learn PSYC B353 Advanced Topics in Clinical Psychology about: (1) historical changes in understanding and treatment of adolescents; (2) puberty-related biological This course provides an in-depth examination of changes marking the beginning of adolescence; (3) research and theory in a particular area of clinical Psychology 345 psychology. Topics will vary from year to year. 16 students) deals with critical analysis of how various Prerequisite: PSYC 209 or 351 forms of psychopathology are depicted in films. The Units: 1.0 primary focus of the seminar will be evaluating the (Not Offered 2016-2017) degree of correspondence between the cinematic presentation and current research knowledge about PSYC B354 Asian American Psychology the disorder, taking into account the historical period in which the film was made. For example, we will This course will provide an overview of the nature and discuss how accurately the symptoms of the disorder meaning of being Asian American in the United States. are presented and how representative the protagonist We will examine the history, struggle, and success is of people who typically manifest this disorder based of Asian Americans, drawing upon psychological on current research. We will also address the theory of theory and research, interdisciplinary ethnic studies etiology of the disorder depicted in the film, including scholarship, and memoirs. Students will also learn to discussion of the relevant intellectual history in the evaluate the media portrayal of Asian Americans while period when the film was made and the prevailing examining issues affecting Asian American communities accounts of psychopathology in that period. Another such as stereotypes, discrimination, family relationships, focus will be how the film portrays the course of the dating/marriage, education, and health disparities. disorder and how it depicts treatment for the disorder. Prerequisite: Introduction to Psychology (Psych 105) is This cinematic presentation will be evaluated with required, Research Methods and Statistics (Psych 205) respect to current research on treatment for the is recommended.. disorder as well as the historical context of prevailing Units: 1.0 treatment for the disorder at the time the film was made. Instructor(s): Park,H. Prerequisite: PSYC B209. (Spring 2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Film Studies; PSYC B355 Neurobiology of Anxiety, Stress and Health Studies Anxiety Disorders Units: 1.0 A seminar course examining the neurobiological basis of Instructor(s): Rescorla,L. fear and anxiety and the stress that is often associated (Fall 2016) with these emotions. We will also consider anxiety and stress disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, PSYC B395 Psychopharmacology panic disorder, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive A study of the role of drugs in understanding basic brain- disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Implications behavior relations. Topics include the pharmacological for various forms of therapy for anxiety disorders, basis of motivation and emotion; pharmacological including psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, will be models of psychopathology; the use of drugs in the addressed. Prerequisite: PSYC B218, PSYC B209, treatment of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, BIOL B202 or permission of instructor. depression, and psychosis; and the psychology and Counts towards: Neuroscience pharmacology of drug addiction. Prerequisite: PSYC Units: 1.0 B218 or BIOL B202 or PSYC H217 or permission of Instructor(s): Thomas,E. instructor. (Fall 2016) Counts towards: Health Studies; Neuroscience Units: 1.0 PSYC B358 Political Psychology of Ethnic Conflict Instructor(s): Thomas,E. This seminar explores the common interests of (Spring 2017) psychologists and political scientists in ethnic identification and ethnic-group conflict. Rational PSYC B398 Senior Thesis choice theories of conflict from political science will be Senior psychology majors who are doing a thesis compared with social psychological theories of conflict should register for Senior Thesis (PSYC B398) with their that focus more on emotion and essentializing. Each adviser for both the Fall and Spring semester. Students student will contribute a 200-300 word post in response will receive one unit per semester. Prerequisite: to a reading or film assignment each week. Students Psychology major. will represent their posts in seminar discussion of Units: 1.0 readings and films. Each student will write a final paper Instructor(s): Wozniak,R., Rescorla,L., Schulz,M., analyzing the origins and trajectory of a case of violent Thapar,A., Peterson,L., Albert,W., Park,H. ethnic conflict chosen by agreement with the instructor. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Grading includes posts, participation in discussion, and the final paper. Prerequisite: PSYC B208, or PSYC B120, or PSYC B125, or one 200 level course in political PSYC B399 Senior Seminar science, or instructor’s permission. This seminar is intended to serve as a capstone Counts towards: Peace, Justice and Human Rights experience for senior psychology majors who have Units: 1.0 opted not to do a senior thesis. The focus of the seminar (Not Offered 2016-2017) will be on analyzing the nature of public discourse (coverage in newspapers, magazines, on the internet) PSYC B375 Movies and Madness: Abnormal on a variety of major issues, identifying material in Psychology Through Films the psychological research literature relating to these issues, and to the extent possible relating the public This writing-intensive seminar (maximum enrollment = discourse to the research. 346 Psychology

Units: 1.0 of multiple outcomes. Emphasis is placed on helping Instructor(s): Wozniak,R. students critically evaluate applications of these (Spring 2017) techniques in the literature and the utility of applying these techniques to their own work. Topics covered PSYC B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience include path modeling, ways of analyzing data collected over multiple points in time (e.g., a growth Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. curve capturing change in a developmental variable Students should consult with faculty members to during childhood), confirmatory factor analysis, and determine their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the measurement models. Students use existing data sets semester prior to when they will begin. to gain experience with statistical software that can be Counts towards: Neuroscience used for multivariate analyses. Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) PSYC B403 Supervised Research PSYC B508 Social Psychology Laboratory or field research on a wide variety of topics. Provides an introduction to basic social psychological Students should consult with faculty members to theories and research. Topics covered include: group determine their topic and faculty supervisor, early in the dynamics, stereotypes and group conflict, attitude semester prior to when they will begin. measurement, and attitudes and behavior. An emphasis Units: 1.0 is placed on research methods in the study of social (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) psychology. Units: 1.0 PSYC B425 Praxis III: Independent Study (Not Offered 2016-2017) Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and are developed by individual students, in collaboration PSYC B612 Historical Issues in Clinical with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is Developmental Psychology distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection Familiarizes students with 20th century developments in that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the clinical psychology and with the 18th and 19th century classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding social and intellectual trends from which they emerged. gained through classroom study to work done in the Topics include: Mesmerism and the rise of dynamic broader community. psychiatry in Europe and America; changing patterns Counts towards: Praxis Program in the institutionalization of the insane; the Bost Group Units: 1.0 (James, Prince, Sidis) and the development of abnormal (Not Offered 2016-2017) psychology and psychotherapy; the American reception of psychoanalysis; the Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance movements; the growth of psychometrics; PSYC B499 Junior Brown Bag personality theories and theorists; and trends in the Majors are also required to attend a one-hour, weekly professionalization of clinical psychology after WWII. brown bag in the junior year for one semester. This Units: 1.0 requirement is designed to sharpen students’ analytical (Not Offered 2016-2017) and critical thinking skills, to introduce students to faculty members’ areas of research, to provide PSYC B701 Supervised Work additional opportunities for student-faculty interactions, and to build a sense of community. Units: 1.0 Units: 0 Instructor(s): Rescorla,L., Schulz,M., Thapar,A. (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

BIOL B401 Supervised Research in Neuroscience PSYC B702 Supervised Research Laboratory or library research under the supervision of Units: 1.0 a member of the Neuroscience committee. Required for (Not Offered 2016-2017) those with the concentration. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. SOWK B556 Adult Development and Aging Counts towards: Neuroscience The course broadly explores the biological, Units: 1.0 psychological, and social aspects of aging into middle (Fall 2016) and late adulthood for individual, families, communities, and society at large. This is accomplished through PSYC B502 Multivariate Statistics exploration of a.) the psychological and social This course is designed to introduce students to developmental challenges of adulthood, b.) the core advanced statistical techniques that are becoming biological changes that accompany this stage of life, increasingly important in developmental, clinical and c.) research methodology for inquiry into aging, d.) the school psychology research. We focus on understanding demands and impact on care givers and families, e.) the advantages and limitations of common multivariate psychopathology common in older adults, f.) social analytic techniques that permit simultaneous prediction welfare policies and programs designed to ameliorate stress and promote well-being among older adults, and Religion 347 g.) the political, social, and academic discourse around Senior Colloquium with Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr the concept of aging successfully in the 21st century. Colleges, the Department seeks to fulfill the following Throughout the course, the experience of aging, and the learning goals: ways in which this experience differs by race, ethnicity, gender, class, culture, and sexual orientation are • Expose students to the central ideas, debates, considered. This course builds on theory, knowledge, scholars, methods, historiography, and approaches and skills of social work with older adults introduced to the academic study of religion. in Foundation Practice and Human Behavior in the • Analyze key terms and categories in the study Social Environment I and III. This course is relevant to of religion, and utilize the diverse vocabularies the clinical, management, and policy concentrations, in deployed among a range of scholars in religion and that it focuses on the concepts, theories, and policies related fields. central to effective assessment and intervention with older adults. Enrollment limited to 5 advanced • Develop critical thinking, analytical writing, and undergraduates. sustained engagement in theory and method, Counts towards: Health Studies together with the critical competence to engage Units: 1.0 sacred texts, images, ideas and practices. Instructor(s): Bressi,S. • Cultivate the learning environment as an integrative (Fall 2016) and collaborative process. • Expand intellectual opportunities for students to broaden and critically assess their worldviews. RELIGION • Encourage students to supplement their work in religion with elective languages (Arabic, Chinese, Students may complete a major in Religion at Haverford German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese, College Latin, Sanskrit, Yoruba). • Foster interdisciplinary methods and perspectives in Faculty the study of religion, while continuing to model this Molly Farnath, Assistant Professor through the curriculum. Supriya Ghandi, Visiting Assistant Professor • Prepare students for professional careers, for graduate studies in religion or related fields, and Tracey Hucks, Professor (on leave 2015–16) for leadership roles as reflective, critically-aware human beings. Kenneth Koltun-Fromm, Professor Like other liberal arts majors, the religion major is meant Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Chair and Associate Professor to prepare students for a broad array of vocational possibilities. Religion majors typically find careers in Anne M. McGuire, Kies Family Associate Professor in law, public service (including both religious and secular the Humanities organizations), medicine, business, ministry, and Terrance Wiley, Assistant Professor education. Religion majors have also pursued advanced graduate degrees in anthropology, history, political Travis Zadeh, Associate Professor science, biology, Near Eastern studies, and religious A central mission of the Religion Department is studies. to enable students to become critically-informed, independent, and creative interpreters of some of the Major Requirements religious movements, sacred texts, ideas, and practices The major in Religion is designed to help students that have decisively shaped human experience. In develop a coherent set of academic skills and expertise their coursework, students develop skills in the critical in the study of religion, while at the same time analysis of the sacred texts, images, beliefs, and encouraging interdisciplinary work in the Humanities and performances of various religions, including Judaism, Social Sciences. The Major consists of 11 courses with Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The Department’s the following requirements: programs are designed to help students understand how religions develop and change and how religious • Five courses within an area of concentration: Each texts, symbols, and rituals help constitute communities major is expected to fashion a coherent major and cultures. Thus, the major in Religion seeks to help program focused around work in one of three students develop a coherent set of academic skills in designated areas of concentration: the study of religion, while at the same time encouraging interdisciplinary work in the Humanities and Social • Religious Traditions in Cultural Context. The study Sciences. of religious traditions and the textual, historical, sociological and cultural contexts in which they The Haverford Religion major is unique in that it develop. Critical analysis of formative texts and provides students with a comprehensive curriculum that issues that advance our notions of religious includes carefully designed areas of concentrations, identities, origins, and ideas. specialized coursework, supervised research, a • Religion, Literature, and Representation. The study lengthy written research product, and a departmental of religion in relation to literary expressions and oral conversation with the entire department as the other forms of representation, such as performance, minimum requirements for fulfilling the major. Through music, film, and the plastic arts. coursework, senior thesis research, and the Tri-College 348 Religion

• Religion, Ethics, and Society. The exploration of other forms of representation, such as performance, larger social issues such as race, gender, and music, film, and the plastic arts. identity as they relate to religion and religious • Religion, Ethics, and Society. The exploration of traditions. Examines how moral principles, cultural larger social issues such as race, gender, and values, and ethical conduct help to shape human identity as they relate to religion and religious societies. traditions. Examines how moral principles, cultural The five courses within the area of concentration must values, and ethical conduct help to shape human include at least one department seminar at the 300 societies. level. Where appropriate and relevant to the major’s program, up to two courses for the major may be drawn • Religion 299, Theoretical Perspectives in the Study from outside the field of religion, subject to departmental of Religion. approval. • Junior Colloquium: An informal required gathering of the Junior majors once each semester. Students • Religion 299, Theoretical Perspectives in the Study should complete a worksheet in advance in of Religion. consultation with their major advisor and bring • Religion 398a and 399b, a two-semester senior copies of the completed worksheet to the meeting. seminar and thesis program. All 6 of courses must be taken in the Haverford religion • Three additional half-year courses drawn from department. In some rare cases, students may outside the major’s area of concentration. petition the department for exceptions to the minor requirements. Such petitions must be presented to the • Junior Colloquium: An informal required gathering department for approval in advance. of the Junior majors once each semester. Students should complete a worksheet in advance in consultation with their major advisor and bring Requirements for Honors copies of the completed worksheet to the meeting. The department awards honors and high honors in religion on the basis of the quality of work in the major • At least six of each major’s 11 courses must be and on the completed thesis. taken in the Haverford Religion department. • In some rare cases, students may petition the department for exceptions to the major requirements. Such petitions must be presented to Study Abroad the department for approval in advance. Students planning to study abroad must construct their • Final evaluation of the major program will consist programs in advance with the department. Students of written work, including a thesis, and an oral seeking religion credit for abroad courses must write a examination completed in the context of the Senior formal petition to the department upon their return and Seminar, Religion 398a and 399b. submit all relevant course materials. We advise students Advising for the major takes place in individual to petition courses that are within the designated area of meetings between majors and faculty advisors and in concentration. a departmental colloquium held once each semester. At this colloquium, majors will present their proposed COURSES programs of study with particular attention to their work in the area of concentration. All majors should RELG H107A Vocabularies of Islam fill out and bring the Religion Major Worksheet to the Provides students with an introduction to the colloquium. foundational concepts of Islam, its religious institutions, and the diverse ways in which Muslims understand Minor Requirements and practice their religion. We explore the vocabularies surrounding core issues of scripture, prophethood, law, The minor in Religion, like the major, is designed to help ritual, theology, mysticism, literature, and art from the students develop a coherent set of academic skills and early period to the present. expertise in the study of religion, while at the same time Zadeh,Travis encouraging interdisciplinary work in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Minor consists of 6 courses with RELG H110A Sacred Texts and Religious Traditions the following requirements: An introduction to Religion through the close reading • Five courses within an area of concentration, with of selected sacred texts of various religious traditions at least one at the 300 level: in their historical, literary, philosophical, and religious • Religious Traditions in Cultural Context. The study contexts. of religious traditions and the textual, historical, McGuire,Anne Marie sociological and cultural contexts in which they develop. Critical analysis of formative texts and RELG H222A Gnosticism issues that advance our notions of religious The phenomenon of Gnosticism examined through identities, origins, and ideas. close reading of primary sources, including the recently • Religion, Literature, and Representation. The study discovered texts of Nag Hammadi. Topics include the of religion in relation to literary expressions and relation of Gnosticism to Greek, Jewish, and Christian Romance Languages 349 thought; the variety of Gnostic schools and sects; the second half of the semester, the focus will shift from gender imagery, mythology and other issues in the saint to devotee. Saints were like magnets that set the interpretation of Gnostic texts. people of late antiquity into motion. By reading pilgrim McGuire,Anne Marie travelogues and catalogues of miraculous healings, studying the archeological and artistic evidence for RELG H258A Gender and Power in Modern Jewish pilgrimage, we will explore the profound social and and Christian Thought cultural impact the cult of the saints had on the peoples of this period. In addition to gaining a familiarity with the An exploration of gender in Judaism and Christianity history of early Christian saints and the cults that arose through a study of feminist and queer thinkers who around them, students will also investigate the many critique and contribute to these traditions. Topics include issues at stake in the study of late antique Christianity. sex/gender difference, the gender of God, and the This includes but is not limited to: the conflict between nature of divine authority. history and literature in hagiography, gender and Pre-requisite(s): Familiarity with philosophical and/or sanctity in late antiquity, self-harm as religious practice theoretical inquiry is recommended in early Christianity, and the intersection of medicine, Farneth,Molly magic, and miracle. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) RELG H299A Theoretical Perspectives in the Study Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive of Religion Units: 1.0 Description: An introduction to theories of the nature (Spring 2017) and function of religion from theological, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and sociological perspectives. Readings may include: Schleiermacher, ROMANCE LANGUAGES Marx, Nietzche, Freud, Tylor, Durkheim, Weber, James, Otto, Benjamin, Eliade, Geertz, Foucault, Douglas, Smith, Berger, Haraway. Students may complete a major in Romance Farneth,Molly Languages.

RELG H308A Mystical Literatures of Islam Faculty Overview of the literary expressions of Islamic mysticism Brigitte Mahuzier, Chair and Professor of French through the study of poetry, philosophy, hagiographies, and anecdotes. Topics include: unio mystica; symbol María Cristina Quintero, Chair and Professor of and structure; love and the erotic; body / gender; Spanish, Co-Director of Comparative Literature and language and experience. Co-Director of Romance Languages Zadeh,Travis Roberta Ricci, Chair and Associate Professor of Italian

RELG H361A Hindus and Muslims in South Asia The Departments of French and Francophone Studies, Examines engagements between Hindus and Muslims Italian, and Spanish cooperate in offering a major in in South Asia from medieval to modern times, through Romance Languages that requires advanced work in at an exploration of historical and literary texts, film and least two Romance languages and literatures. Additional art, and theoretical writings on religious identities. work in a third language and literature is suggested. Introduces historical case studies of Hindu-Muslim relations, the formation of religious identities, and the Major Requirements ways in which these identities have been constructed The requirements for the major are a minimum of and contested in modern discourses on religion and nine courses, including the Senior Conference and/or politics. Senior Essay, described below, in the first language and Gandhi,Supriya literature and six courses in the second language and literature, including the Senior Conference in French, if RELG H398A Senior Thesis Seminar Part 1 French is selected as second. Students should consult A practical methodology course which prepares senior with their advisers no later than their sophomore year in Religion majors to write their senior theses. order to select courses in the various departments that Pre-requisite(s): Open to Senior Religion majors only complement each other. Koltun-Fromm,Naomi Students must complete a writing requirement in the major. Students will work with their major advisors in CSTS B214 Remembering the Saints: Reading order to identify either two writing attentive or one writing Pilgrimage & Tourism intensive course within their major plan of study. This course is divided into two parts. In the first half of the semester, it will trace the rise and function of Students should consult with their advisers no later than the holy women and men of late antiquity (300–600 their sophomore year in order to select courses in the CE), with an emphasis on the literary portrayal of their various departments that complement each other. lives, a genre called hagiography (sacred biography). Haverford students intending to major in Romance Methods for reading and interpreting this large body of Languages must have their major work plan approved literature will play a key role in this part of the course. In by a Bryn Mawr College adviser. 350 Romance Languages

The following sequence of courses is recommended century. Students should be able to read texts in two of when the various languages are chosen for primary the languages in the original. and secondary concentration, respectively (see the departmental listings for course descriptions). * In order to receive honors, students whose first language is Spanish should have a minimum 3.7 GPA in Spanish and are required to write a senior essay (SPAN Writing Requirement 399). Students must complete a writing requirement in the major. Students will work with their major advisors in ** For students whose first language is French, honors order to identify either two writing attentive or one writing are awarded on the basis of performance in Senior intensive course within their major plan of study. Conference and on a successfully completed thesis (FREN 403) or senior essay, the latter completed in a First Language and Literature third 300-l. course in semester II of senior year. French *** In order to receive honors, students whose first FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Four language is Italian are required to write a senior essay literature courses at the 200 level, including FREN 213. (ITAL 398 and ITAL 399) Advanced language course: FREN 260 (BMC) or 212 (HC). Two courses at the 300 level. COURSES Italian First Language and Literature ITAL 101, 102. Four courses at the 200 level. Three courses at the 300 level. French FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Four Spanish literature courses at the 200 level, including FREN 213. SPAN 110, SPAN 120. Four courses at the 200 level. Advanced language course: FREN 260 (BMC) or 212 Two courses at the 300 level. (HC). Two courses at the 300 level. Second Language and Literature Italian French ITAL 101, 102. Four courses at the 200 level. Three FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Two courses at the 300 level. literature courses at the 200 level. FREN 260 (BMC) or 212 (HC). One course at the 300 level. Spanish SPAN 110. SPAN 120. Four courses at the 200 level. Italian Two courses at the 300 level. ITAL 101, 102. Two literature courses at the 200 level. Two literature courses at the 300 level. Second Language and Literature Spanish French SPAN 110, SPAN 120. Two courses at the 200 level. FREN 101-102 or 101-105; or 005-102 or 005-105. Two Two courses at the 300 level. literature courses at the 200 level. FREN 260 (BMC) or In addition to the coursework described above, when 212 (HC). One course at the 300 level. the first language and literature is Spanish, majors in Romance Languages must enroll in SPAN 398 (Senior Italian Seminar).* When French is chosen as either the first or ITAL 101, 102. Two literature courses at the 200 level. second language, students must take the first semester Two literature courses at the 300 level. Senior Conference in French (FREN 398) in addition to the coursework described above.** When Italian is Spanish chosen, students must take ITAL 398 and ITAL 399, offered in consultation with the department, in addition SPAN 200 SPAN 202. Two courses at the 200 level. to the coursework described above in order to receive Two courses at the 300 level. honors.*** An oral examination (following the current In addition to the coursework described above, when model in the various departments) may be given in one the first language and literature is Spanish, majors in or both of the two languages, according to the student’s Romance Languages must enroll in SPAN 398 (Senior preference, and students follow the practice of their Seminar).* When French is chosen as either the first or principal language as to written examination or thesis. second language, students must take the first semester Please note that 398 does not count as one of the two Senior Conference in French (FREN 398) in addition required 300-level courses. to the coursework described above.** When Italian is Interdepartmental courses at the 200 or 300 level chosen, students must take ITAL 398 and ITAL 399, are offered from time to time by the cooperating offered in consultation with the department, in addition departments. These courses are conducted in English to the coursework described above in order to receive on such comparative Romance topics as epic, honors.*** An oral examination (following the current romanticism, or literary vanguard movements of the 20th model in the various departments) may be given in one or both of the two languages, according to the student’s Russian 351 preference, and students follow the practice of their Major Requirements principal language as to written examination or thesis. Please note that 398 does not count as one of the two A total of 10 courses is required to complete the major: required 300-level courses. two in Russian language at the 200 level or above; four in the area of concentration, two at the 200 level and Interdepartmental courses at the 200 or 300 level two at the 300 level or above (for the concentration in are offered from time to time by the cooperating area studies, the four courses must be in four different departments. These courses are conducted in English fields); three in Russian fields outside the area of on such comparative Romance topics as epic, concentration; and either RUSS 398, Senior Essay, or romanticism, or literary vanguard movements of the 20th RUSS 399, Senior Conference. century. Students should be able to read texts in two of the languages in the original. Russian majors have the option of fulfilling the College’s writing requirement through Writing Attentive (WA) * In order to receive honors, students whose first courses either through upper-level Russian language language is Spanish should have a minimum 3.7 GPA in courses, where the focus is on writing in Russian, or Spanish and are required to write a senior essay (SPAN through 200-level courses on Russian literature (in 399). translation), culture or film, where the focus is on writing in English. Majors also have the option of completing ** For students whose first language is French, honors one WA course in Russian and one WA course in are awarded on the basis of performance in Senior English. Conference and on a successfully completed thesis (FREN 403) or senior essay, the latter completed in a Majors are encouraged to pursue advanced language third 300-l. course in semester II of senior year. study in Russia in summer, semester, or year-long academic programs. Majors may also take advantage *** In order to receive honors, students whose first of intensive immersion language courses offered during language is Italian are required to write a senior essay the summer by the Bryn Mawr Russian Language (ITAL 398 and ITAL 399) Institute. As part of the requirement for RUSS 398/399, all Russian majors take senior comprehensive examinations that cover the area of concentration and RUSSIAN Russian language competence.

Students may complete a major or minor in Russian. Honors All Russian majors are considered for departmental Faculty honors at the end of their senior year. The awarding of honors is based on a student’s overall academic record Elizabeth Allen, Professor of Russian and Comparative and all work done in the major. Literature Dan Davidson, Professor of Russian on the Myra T. Minor Requirements Cooley Lectureship in Russian and Director of the Students wishing to minor in Russian must complete six Russian Language Institute (on leave semester II) units at the 100 level or above, two of which must be in Timothy Harte, Chair and Associate Professor of the Russian language. Russian Marina Rojavin, Lecturer COURSES

Jesse Stavis, Instructor RUSS B001 Elementary Russian Intensive Irina Walsh, Lecturer in Russian Study of basic grammar and syntax. Fundamental skills in speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension The Russian major is a multidisciplinary program are developed. Eight hours a week including designed to provide students with a broad conversation sections and language laboratory work. understanding of Russian culture and the Russophone Approach: Course does not meet an Approach world. The major places a strong emphasis on the Units: 1.5 development of functional proficiency in the Russian Instructor(s): Davidson,D., Stavis,J. language. Language study is combined with a specific (Fall 2016) area of concentration to be selected from the fields of Russian literature, history, economics, language/ RUSS B002 Elementary Russian Intensive linguistics, or area studies. Study of basic grammar and syntax. Fundamental skills in speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension College Foreign Language are developed. Eight hours a week including Requirement conversation sections and language laboratory work. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach The College’s foreign language requirement may be Units: 1.5 satisfied by completing RUSS 001 and 002 with an Instructor(s): Davidson,D., Stavis,J. average grade of at least 2.0 or with a grade of 2.0 or (Spring 2017) better in RUSS 002. 352 Russian

RUSS B101 Intermediate Russian underlying Tarkovsky’s unique brand of cinema. Continuing development of fundamental skills with Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) emphasis on vocabulary expansion in speaking and Counts towards: Film Studies writing. Readings in Russian classics and contemporary Units: 1.0 works. Five hours a week (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 RUSS B221 The Serious Play of Pushkin and Gogol Instructor(s): Stavis,J. This course explores major contributions to the modern (Fall 2016) Russian literary tradition by its two founding fathers, Aleksander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. Comparing RUSS B102 Intermediate Russian short stories, plays, novels, and letters written by these Continuing development of fundamental skills with pioneering artists, the course addresses Pushkin’s emphasis on vocabulary expansion in speaking and and Gogol’s shared concerns about human freedom, writing. Readings in Russian classics and contemporary individual will, social injustice, and artistic autonomy, works. Five hours a week. which each author expressed through his own distinctive Approach: Course does not meet an Approach filter of humor and playfulness. No knowledge of Units: 1.0 Russian is required. Instructor(s): Stavis,J. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) (Spring 2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) RUSS B201 Advanced Russian Intensive practice in speaking and writing skills using RUSS B223 Russian and East European Folklore a variety of modern texts and contemporary films and television. Emphasis on self-expression and a deeper This interdisciplinary course introduces students to understanding of grammar and syntax. Five hours a major issues in Russian and East European folklore week. including epic tales, fairy tales, calendar and life-cycle Approach: Course does not meet an Approach rituals, and folk beliefs. The course also presents Units: 1.0 different theoretical approaches to the interpretation of Instructor(s): Walsh,I. folk texts as well as emphasizes the influence of folklore (Fall 2016) on literature, music, and art. No knowledge of Russian is required. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical RUSS B202 Advanced Russian Interpretation (CI) Intensive practice in speaking and writing skills using Units: 1.0 a variety of modern texts and contemporary films and (Not Offered 2016-2017) television. Emphasis on self-expression and a deeper understanding of grammar and syntax. Five hours a RUSS B235 The Social Dynamics of Russian week. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach An examination of the social factors that influence the Units: 1.0 language of Russian conversational speech, including Instructor(s): Walsh,I. contemporary Russian media (films, television, and (Spring 2017) the Internet). Basic social strategies that structure a conversation are studied, as well as the implications of gender and education on the form and style of RUSS B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and discourse. Prerequisite: RUSS B201, RUSS 102 also Film required if taken concurrently with RUSS 201. This course focuses on Russian avant-garde painting, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) literature and cinema at the start of the 20th century. Units: 1.0 Moving from Imperial Russian art to Stalinist aesthetics, Instructor(s): Davidson,D., Walsh,I. we explore the rise of non-objective painting (Malevich, (Fall 2016) Kandinsky, etc.), ground-breaking literature (Bely, Mayakovsky), and revolutionary cinema (Vertov, RUSS B238 Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to Eisenstein). No knowledge of Russian required. 1945 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Film Studies This is a topics course. Course content varies. Units: 1.0 Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Counts towards: Film Studies Units: 1.0 RUSS B217 The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Instructor(s): Harte,T. This course will probe the cinematic oeuvre of the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who produced some Spring 2017: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet of the most compelling, significant film work of the 20th Russia & Beyond. This course will explore cinema century. Looking at not only Tarkovsky’s films but also from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the those films that influenced his work, we will explore end of the silent era. While the course will focus the aesthetics, philosophy, and ideological pressure on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects Russian 353

of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films RUSS B321 The Serious Play of Pushkin and Gogol analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic This course explores major contributions to the modern methods that went into the direction and production Russian literary tradition by its two founding fathers, of a variety of celebrated silent films from Russia, Aleksander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. Comparing Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. These films will short stories, plays, novels, and letters written by these be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, pioneering artists, the course addresses Pushkin’s social, and even philosophical, so that students can and Gogol’s shared concerns about human freedom, develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema’s individual will, social injustice, and artistic autonomy, rapid evolution. which each author expressed through his own distinctive filter of humor and playfulness. The course is taught RUSS B254 Russian Culture and Civilization jointly with Russian 221; students enrolled in 321 will A history of Russian culture—its ideas, its value and meet with the instructor for an additional hour to study belief systems—from the origins to the present that texts in the original Russian. integrates the examination of works of literature, art, and Units: 1.0 music. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Past (IP) RUSS B365 Russian and Soviet Film Culture Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 This seminar explores the cultural and theoretical trends (Not Offered 2016-2017) that have shaped Russian and Soviet cinema from the silent era to the present day. The focus will be on Russia’s films and film theory, with discussion of the RUSS B258 Soviet and Eastern European Cinema of aesthetic, ideological, and historical issues underscoring the 1960s Russia’s cinematic culture. Taught in Russian. No This course examines 1960s Soviet and Eastern previous study of cinema required, although RUSS 201 European “New Wave” cinema, which won worldwide or the equivalent is required. acclaim through its treatment of war, gender, and Units: 1.0 aesthetics. Films from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Instructor(s): Rojavin,M. Poland, Russia, and Yugoslavia will be viewed and (Fall 2016) analyzed, accompanied by readings on film history and theory. All films shown with subtitles; no knowledge of RUSS B375 Language and Identity Politics of

Russian or previous study of film required. Language in Europe and Eurasia Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical Interpretation (CI) A brief general introduction to the study of language Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive policy and planning with special emphasis on the Counts towards: Film Studies Russophone world, the newly independent states of Units: 1.0 the former Soviet Union. Surveys current theoretical (Not Offered 2016-2017) approaches to bilingualism and language shift. Analyzes Soviet language and nationality policy using published census data for the Soviet period through RUSS B271 Chekhov: His Short Stories and Plays in 1989. Focus on the current “language situation” and Translation policy challenges for the renewal of functioning native A study of the themes, structure and style of Chekhov’s languages and cultures and maintenance of essential major short stories and plays. The course will also language competencies, lingua franca, both within the explore the significance of Chekhov’s prose and drama Russian Federation and in the “Near Abroad.” in the English-speaking world, where this masterful Units: 1.0 Russian writer is the most staged playwright after (Not Offered 2016-2017) Shakespeare. All readings and lectures in English. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the RUSS B380 Seminar in Russian Studies Past (IP) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive An examination of a focused topic in Russian literature Units: 1.0 such as a particular author, genre, theme, or decade. Instructor(s): Harte,T. Introduces students to close reading and detailed critical (Fall 2016) analysis of Russian literature in the original language. Readings in Russian. Some discussions and lectures in Russian. Prerequisites: RUSS 102 and one 200-level RUSS B277 Nabokov in Translation Russian literature course. A study of Vladimir Nabokov’s writings in various Units: 1.0 genres, focusing on his fiction and autobiographical Instructor(s): Davidson,D., Walsh,I. works. The continuity between Nabokov’s Russian (Spring 2017) and English works is considered in the context of the Russian and Western literary traditions. All readings and RUSS B390 Russian for Pre-Professionals I lectures in English. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) This capstone to the overall language course sequence Units: 1.0 is designed to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency (Not Offered 2016-2017) in Russian to the advanced level or higher, preparing students to carry out academic study or research in 354 Sociology

Russian in a professional field. Suggested Preparation: RUSS B701 Supervised Work study abroad in Russia for at least one summer, Units: 1.0 preferably one semester; and/or certified proficiency Instructor(s): Davidson,D. levels of ‘advanced-low’ or ‘advanced-mid’ in two skills, (Fall 2016) one of which must be oral proficiency. Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Rojavin,M. SOCIOLOGY (Fall 2016) Students may complete a major or minor in Sociology. RUSS B391 Russian for Pre-Professionals II Second part of year long capstone language sequence Faculty designed to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency to the “advanced level,” preparing students to carry out Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Assistant Professor of Sociology advanced academic study or research in Russian in a David Karen, Professor of Sociology (on leave semester professional field. Prerequisite: RUSS 390 or equivalent. I) Major Writing Requirement: Writing Attentive Veronica Montes, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Units: 1.0 Co-Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and Instructor(s): Rojavin,M. Iberian Studies Program (Spring 2017) Bridget Nolan, Visiting Assistant Professor RUSS B398 Senior Essay Mary Osirim, Provost and Professor of Sociology Independent research project designed and conducted Robert Washington, Professor of Sociology (on leave under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. semester II) May be undertaken in either fall or spring semester of senior year. Nathan Wright, Chair and Associate Professor of Units: 1.0 Sociology Instructor(s): Harte,T., Walsh,I. (Spring 2017) The major in Sociology aims to provide understanding of the organization and functioning of modern society RUSS B403 Supervised Work by analyzing its major institutions, social groups, and values, and their connections to culture and power. To Units: 1.0 facilitate these analytical objectives, the department (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) offers rigorous preparation in social theory and problem- focused training in quantitative as well as qualitative FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in methodologies. the Humanities An examination in English of leading theories of Major Requirements interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course Requirements for the major are SOCL 102, 265, 302, content varies. Prerequisites: FREN 102 or 105. 303 (Junior Seminar), which fulfills the College writing Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) intensive requirement, 398 (Senior Seminar), five Units: 1.0 additional courses in sociology (one of which may be Instructor(s): Sanquer,M. at the 100 level and at least one of which must be at the 300 level). In addition, the student must take two Fall 2016: Critic Approaches to the World. additional courses in sociology or an allied subject; the This course will be taught in English and focus allied courses are to be chosen in consultation with the on works of French feminist, postcolonial and faculty adviser. The department strongly recommends post-structuralist theory. While our primary critical that majors take a history course focused on late 19th texts will draw from a particular linguistic tradition and 20th century American history. Students with an (namely French), and more or less distinctly interest in quantitative sociology are encouraged to circumscribed fields, we will also look at the elect as allied work further training in mathematics, broader transcultural and translinguistic influences statistics and computer science. Those with an interest that brought these “schools” into being and, most in historical or theoretical sociology are encouraged to importantly, what fields of thinking they have elect complementary courses in history, philosophy, and subsequently inspired across language traditions. anthropology. In general, these allied courses should be chosen from the social sciences. ITAL B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities Senior Experience An examination in English of leading theories of The Senior Seminar is required of all senior sociology interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and majors regardless of whether or not they wish to do a Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course thesis. Depending on the number of students, in some content varies. years the Senior Seminar will have two sections. The Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) content of the two sections may differ, but the structure Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Sociology 355 of the seminars will be the same. Students will focus on about the possibility of coursework at Haverford their writing in a series of assignments, emphasizing, as and Swarthmore Colleges and the University of the new college-wide writing requirement suggests, the Pennsylvania. process and elements of good writing. Minor Requirements Senior Thesis Requirements for the minor are SOCL 102, 265, 302, During senior year, seniors will have the option of doing and three additional courses within the department. a one-semester thesis in the fall, a one-semester thesis Students may choose electives from courses offered at in the spring, or a two-semester thesis (one grade for Haverford College. Bryn Mawr majors should consult the year). To become eligible to write a senior thesis, their department about major credit for courses taken at a student must have a minimum 3.0 GPA in sociology other institutions. (this will also be the minimum GPA for a student to do an independent study in sociology). Junior sociology Honors majors will need to approach a faculty member as early as possible about the possibility of advising their Honors in Sociology are available to those students who thesis and will need to indicate in their thesis proposal have a grade point average in the major of 3.5 or higher their “preferred adviser.” The department will attempt to and who write a senior thesis that is judged outstanding follow these preferences but will take responsibility for by the department. The thesis would be written under assigning an adviser. the direction of a Sociology faculty member. Rising seniors who wish to write a senior thesis will Concentrations Within the Sociology need to submit by June 30 to the Chair of sociology a 1-2 page thesis proposal that includes the following Major information: Gender and Society

1. Proposed term of thesis-writing: fall semester; Three courses are required for this concentration— spring semester; both semesters at least two of these courses must be in sociology. The remaining course can be in sociology or an 2. Timeline: brief indication of when the data will be allied social science field. Students who pursue this collected, when/how it will be analyzed, when the concentration are required to take at least one of the write-up will take place, etc. core courses in this area offered by the department: 3. Preferred adviser The Study of Gender in Society (SOCL 201) or Women in Contemporary Society: The Southern Hemisphere 4. Thesis proposal (should include the research (SOCL 225). The department encourages students question, its sociological significance, the proposed in this concentration to take courses that focus on method, plan of analysis, and anticipated value) the study of gender in both the Global North and the a. The thesis proposal should also state clearly Global South. In addition to taking courses in this field whether the research will require IRB approval, if at Bryn Mawr, students may also take courses towards approval has already been secured, or when it will this concentration in their study abroad programs be secure or at Haverford, Swarthmore, and the University of b. Please indicate if you have any previous Pennsylvania. Any course taken outside of the Bryn preparation/work in the thesis topic area. Mawr Department of Sociology must be approved by the department for concentration credit. Majors are urged to consult Mary Osirim about this concentration. The chair will distribute the proposals to department members, collect their comments, and inform the African American Studies student of a yes/no decision by July 15. Please note that Three courses are required for this concentration—at students who are not selected to do a senior thesis may least two of these courses must be in sociology. The still pursue independent work with a faculty member (if remaining course can be in either sociology or an their GPA in the major is 3.0 or above). If you are unsure allied field. Students who pursue this concentration of whether your topic is really “THESIS,” you should are required to take the core course offered by the discuss this with a faculty member. The following broad Bryn Mawr Department of Sociology: Black America categories of work have been considered in the past In Sociological Perspective (SOCL 229). Students are to be theses: students conduct an analysis of empirical encouraged to take courses on Black America listed data (this can be qualitative or quantitative; collected under the Bryn Mawr and Haverford Africana Studies by the student or by someone else; contemporary or Programs. Courses taken outside the Bryn Mawr historical; etc.) or students undertake to research a Department of Sociology must be approved by the question using already published evidence (so the department for concentration credit. Majors interested in thesis could be a very focused, extensive literature this concentration should consult Robert Washington for review). Students would be welcome to propose further information. developing further a research paper that they wrote in a course. This kind of proposal needs to be very specific as to what the new/additional goals are. COURSES The Department of Sociology offers concentrations in SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual gender and society and African American studies. In Analysis of the basic sociological methods, pursuing these concentrations, majors should inquire perspectives, and concepts used in the study of society, 356 Sociology with emphasis on social structure, education, culture, SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context the self, and power. Theoretical perspectives that A consideration of the family as a social institution in focus on sources of stability, conflict, and change are the United States, looking at how societal and cultural emphasized throughout. characteristics and dynamics influence families; how Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) the family reinforces or changes the society in which Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; it is located; and how the family operates as a social International Studies organization. Included is an analysis of family roles Units: 1.0 and social interaction within the family. Major problems Instructor(s): Nolan,B. related to contemporary families are addressed, such (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) as domestic violence and divorce. Cross-cultural and subcultural variations in the family are considered. SOCL B130 Sociology of Harry Potter Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is a worldwide Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and phenomenon that has sold hundreds of millions of Sexuality Studies books and been translated into dozens of languages. Units: 1.0 Over the last decade, academic studies of Harry Potter Instructor(s): Wright,N. have taken root in English and Theology departments, (Fall 2016) but very few sociologists have taken a scholarly look at the rich society Rowling has created. This course SOCL B218 Sociology of International Development will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of This course examines the persistent gap between the sociology using the lens of the Harry Potter series. We Global North and Global South around problems such will explore questions of hierarchy, inequality, terrorism, as poverty, food insecurity, and access to health and consumption, race, class, and gender, and we will education. We will examine theories and perspectives discuss the ways in which stratification in the wizarding that address this disparity and explore alternatives to world compares and contrasts to similar issues in the Western models of social organization, as put forth by Muggle world. Class discussions and exercises will social movements in the Global South. Throughout assume that students have read all seven Harry Potter the course, we will read key primary texts (manifestos, books. communiqués, oral histories, and world financial Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) institution reports) to understand the role of different Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies players in the international development field, including Units: 1.0 global economic and governance institutions, non- Instructor(s): Nolan,B. governmental organizations, and—most importantly— (Spring 2017) feminist, afro-descendant, indigenous, and other voices emerging in the Global South. SOCL B201 The Study of Gender in Society Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 The definition of male and female social roles and Instructor(s): Montes,V. sociological approaches to the study of gender in the (Spring 2017) United States, with attention to gender in the economy and work place, the division of labor in families and SOCL B219 Field Work / Qualitative Methods households, and analysis of class and ethnic differences Students will learn how to design and conduct a in gender roles. Of particular interest in this course is the qualitative research study. The course will introduce comparative exploration of the experiences of women of several types of research approaches (e.g. case study, color in the United States. grounded theory) and provide in-depth instruction Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) in various research methods, especially participant Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and observation, ethnography, and interviewing. Students Sexuality Studies will read published works that use field work, examining Units: 1.0 the connections between theories and methods. In Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. addition, each student will design and carry out a (Spring 2017) field-based study on a topic of her/his own choosing. Students will learn how to collect and analyze SOCL B205 Social Inequality qualitative data and write up research findings. Issues Introduction to the major sociological theories of gender, of positionality, subjectivity, and representativeness in racial-ethnic, and class inequality with emphasis on the qualitative research will also be discussed. relationships among these forms of stratification in the Units: 1.0 contemporary United States, including the role of the (Not Offered 2016-2017) upper class(es), inequality between and within families, in the work place, and in the educational system. SOCL B225 Women in Society Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) A study of the contemporary experiences of women of Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies color in the Global South. The household, workplace, Units: 1.0 community, and the nation-state, and the positions of Instructor(s): Nolan,B. women in the private and public spheres are compared (Fall 2016) cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and self-esteem; globalization and transnational social movements and tensions and transitions encountered as nations embark upon development. Sociology 357

Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) frontiers in the world today. We will examine the different Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family economic, political, social and cultural forces that have Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin American, shaped this centenarian migration influx and undertake Iberian and Latina/o Studies a macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of analysis. At the Units: 1.0 macro-level of political economy, we will investigate Instructor(s): Montes,V. the economic interdependency that has developed (Spring 2017) between Mexico and the U.S. over different economic development periods of these countries, particularly, SOCL B227 Sports in Society the role the Mexican labor force has played to boosting and sustaining both the Mexican and the American Using a sociological, historical, and comparative economies. At the meso-level, we will examine different approach, this course examines such issues as the institutions both in Mexico and the U.S. that have role of the mass media in the transformation of sports; determined the ways in which millions of Mexican the roles played in sports by race, ethnicity, class, and migrate to this country. Last, but certainly not least, we gender; sports as a means of social mobility; sports and will explore the impacts that both the macro-and meso- socialization; the political economy of sports; and sports processes have had on the micro-level by considering and the educational system. the imperatives, aspirations, and dreams that have Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) prompted millions of people to leave their homes and Units: 1.0 communities behind in search of better opportunities. (Not Offered 2016-2017) This major life decision of migration brings with it a series of social transformations in family and community SOCL B229 Black America in Sociological networks, this will look into the cultural impacts in both Perspective the sending and receiving migrant communities. In sum, This course presents sociological perspectives on we will come to understand how these three levels of various issues affecting black America as a historically analysis work together. unique minority group in the United States: the legacy Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) of slavery and the Jim Crow era; the formation of urban Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o black ghettos; the civil rights reforms; the problems Studies of poverty and unemployment; the problems of crime Units: 1.0 and other social problems in black communities; the Instructor(s): Montes,V. problems of criminal justice; the continuing significance (Fall 2016) of race; the varied covert modern forms of racial discrimination experienced by black Americans; and the SOCL B238 Perspectives on Urban Poverty role of race in American politics. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the 20th century urban poverty knowledge. The course is Past (IP) primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family cultural, political, racial, social, spatial/geographical, Studies and economic forces have either shaped or been left Units: 1.0 out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. Of (Not Offered 2016-2017) great importance, the course will evaluate competing knowledge systems and their respective implications SOCL B231 Punishment and Social Order in terms of the question of “what can be known” about A cross-cultural examination of punishment, from mass urban poverty in the contexts of social policy and incarceration in the United States, to a widened “penal practice, academic research, and the broader social net” in Europe, and the securitization of society in Latin imaginary. We will critically analyze a wide body of America. The course addresses theoretical approaches literature that theorizes and explains urban poverty. to crime control and the emergence of a punitive state Course readings span the disciplines of sociology, connected with pervasive social inequality. anthropology, critical geography, urban studies, history, Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o and social welfare. Primacy will be granted to critical Studies analysis and deconstruction of course texts, particularly Units: 1.0 with regard to the ways in which poverty knowledge (Not Offered 2016-2017) creates, sustains, and constricts channels of action in urban poverty policy and practice interventions. SOCL B235 Mexican-American Communities Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Units: 1.0 For its unique history, the number of migrants, and (Not Offered 2016-2017) the two countries’ proximity, Mexican migration to the United States represents an exceptional case in world migration. There is no other example of migration with SOCL B246 Immigrant Experiences: Introduction to more than 100 years of history. The copious presence International Migration of migrants concentrated in a host country, such as we The twenty-first century began much as the twentieth have in the case of the 11.7 million Mexican migrants century did for the United States with high levels of residing in the United States, along with another 15 immigration. This has affected not only the nation, million Mexican descendants, is unparalleled. The but the discipline of sociology. Just as early twentieth 1,933-mile-long border shared by the two countries century Chicago School sociology focused on makes it one of the longest boundary lines in the world immigration and settlement issues, so too the first and, unfortunately, also one of the most dangerous decade of the twenty-first century shows a flurry 358 Sociology of sociological imagination devoted to immigration SOCL B259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin scholarship. This course will center on the key texts, America issues, and approaches coming out of this renovated An examination of resistance movements to the power sociology of immigration, but we will also include of the state and globalization in three Latin American approaches to the study of immigration from history, societies: Mexico, Columbia, and Peru. The course anthropology, and ethnic studies. While we will consider explores the political, legal, and socio-economic factors comparative and historical approaches, our focus will underlying contemporary struggles for human and social be on the late twentieth century through the present, rights, and the role of race, ethnicity, and coloniality play and we will spend a good deal of time focusing on in these struggles. the longest running labor migration in the world, Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Mexican immigration to the U.S., as well as on Central Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o American migrant communities in the U.S. Students Studies with an interest in contemporary U.S. immigration will Units: 1.0 be exposed to a survey of key theoretical approaches (Not Offered 2016-2017) and relevant issues in immigration studies in the social sciences. Current themes, such as globalization, transnationalism, gendered migration, immigrant labor SOCL B265 Research Design and Statistical markets, militarization of the U.S.-Mexican border, Analysis U.S. migration policy, the new second generation and An introduction to the conduct of empirical, especially segmented assimilation, and citizenship will be included. quantitative, social science inquiry. In consultation with Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the the instructor, students may select research problems to Past (IP) which they apply the research procedures and statistical Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o techniques introduced during the course. Using SPSS, a Studies statistical computer package, students learn techniques Units: 1.0 such as cross-tabular analysis, ANOVA, and multiple Instructor(s): Montes,V. regression. Required of Bryn Mawr Sociology majors (Spring 2017) and minors. Non-sociology majors and minors with permission of instructor. SOCL B253 Fixing Inequality: History/Philosophy of Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM); Quantitative Social Intervention Readiness Required (QR) Units: 1.0 This course engages seminar participants in critical Instructor(s): Wright,N. and historical analysis of state attempts to fix inequality (Fall 2016) in capitalistic, liberal democratic society. Focusing primarily on the US and secondarily in international contexts, we will trace the evolution of philosophical, SOCL B275 Introduction to Survey Research moral, ideological, and political-economic forces that Methods have shaped the welfare state-building projects of the The purpose of this course is to give the students the 19th and 20th centuries. We will analyze how concepts tools necessary to critically evaluate survey collection such as labor regulation, federalism, veterans’ benefits, processes and the resulting data, as well as equip geopolitics, professionalism, civil society, private them with the skills to develop, execute, and analyze benefits, path dependencies, race, class, gender, and their own surveys to produce meaningful results. modern governance intersect with the formation and Topics include: proposal development, instrument reformation of policy and practice interventions designed design, question design, measurement, sampling to fix social inequality. techniques, survey pretesting, survey collection Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) media, interviewing, index and scale construction, Units: 1.0 data analysis, interpretation and report writing. The (Not Offered 2016-2017) course also examines the effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors in contemporary survey data SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology collection. of Deviance Approach: Quantitative Readiness Required (QR) Units: 1.0 An examination of non-normative and criminal behavior (Not Offered 2016-2017) viewed from the standpoint of different theoretical perspectives on deviance (e.g., social strain, anomie, functionalism, social disorganization, symbolic SOCL B284 Modernity and Its Discontents interaction, and Marxism) with particular emphasis This course examines the nature, historical emergence, on social construction and labeling perspectives; dilemmas, and prospects of modern society in the and the role of subcultures, social movements and west, seeking to build up an integrated analysis of social conflicts in changing the normative boundaries the processes by which this kind of society developed of society. Topics include robbery, homicide, sexual over the past two centuries and continues to transform deviance, prostitution, white collar crime, drug addiction itself. Its larger aim is to help students develop a and mental disorders. coherent framework with which to understand what Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) kind of society they live in, what makes it the way Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies it is, and how it shapes their lives. Some central Units: 1.0 themes (and controversies) will include the growth and (Not Offered 2016-2017) transformations of capitalism; the significance of the democratic and industrial revolutions; the social impact Sociology 359 of a market economy; the culture of individualism and phenomenon, but terrorism has become a distressing its dilemmas; the transformations of intimacy and the feature of social life during the last three decades in family; mass politics and mass society; and the different particular. Since the early 1980s, the world has seen kinds of interplay between social structure and personal over 10,000 separate acts of terror that have caused experience. No specific prerequisites, but some thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage. previous familiarity with modern European and American This seminar, taught by a former CIA counterterrorism history and/or with social and political theory would be officer, will give students a sociological perspective useful. on terrorism, including the ways in which the threat of Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) terrorism has changed over time, the motivations of Units: 1.0 different terrorist groups, and the circumstances under (Not Offered 2016-2017) which terrorism succeeds and fails. We will also explore America’s counterterrorism efforts and grapple with SOCL B302 Social Theory some of the most challenging questions facing the U.S. intelligence community today: what are the best ways This course focuses on the works and modern to combat terrorism? How do we define and recognize influences of classical social theorists. The theorists success and failure in the War on Terror? Prerequisite: include: George Herbert Meade, Emile Durkheim, Karl One Social Science course: Sociology, psychology, Marx, and Max Weber, Charles Cooley, C. Wright Mills, political science, and anthropology (students should Shulamith Firestone, Antonio Gramsci, Erving Goffman, assume a lot of sociology knowledge) Randall Collins, Robert Bellah, and Pierre Bourdieu. Units: 1.0 Among the theoretical conceptions examined: culture, Instructor(s): Nolan,B. religion and the sacred, alienation, bureaucracy, culture, (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) social deviance, social change, modernization, social class, social stratification, status groups, social conflict, and social psychology of the self. SOCL B318 Comparative Study of Deviance Units: 1.0 Deviant behaviors are among the most intriguing Instructor(s): Washington,R. and controversial aspects of human societies. This (Fall 2016) course is organized as a theoretically oriented seminar which explores selected topics of deviance. Its aims SOCL B303 Junior Conference: Discipline-Based are threefold: to compare cross national variations in Intensive Writing conceptions of deviant behavior such as homosexuality, abortion, prostitution, and domestic violence; to examine This course will introduce students to a range of the punishments for those behaviors; and to determine qualitative methods in the discipline and will require how social forces are challenging and changing national students to engage, through reading and writing, a conceptions of deviance in the contemporary era of wide range of sociological issues. The emphasis of the globalization. course will be to develop a clear, concise writing style, Units: 1.0 while maintaining a sociological focus. Substantive Instructor(s): Washington,R. areas of the course will vary depending on the instructor. (Fall 2016) Prerequisite: Required of and limited to Bryn Mawr Sociology Major, Junior Standing Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive SOCL B331 Global Sociology: Capital, Power, and Units: 1.0 Protest in World-Historical Perspective Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. This course examines the social, economic and (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) political dynamics underlying globalization. Through an analysis of global capitalism, the inter-state system, and SOCL B309 Sociology of Religion transnational social movements, we will trace the local- global connections at the basis of contemporary issues This course will investigate what sociology offers to an like natural resource extraction, human rights violations, historical and contemporary understanding of religion. and labor insecurity. Prerequisite: Previous course in Most broadly, the course explores how religion has fared social science; permission of instructor. under the conditions of modernity given widespread Units: 1.0 predictions of secularization yet remarkably resilient Instructor(s): Montes,V. and resurgent religious movements the world over. The (Fall 2016) course is structured to alternate theoretical approaches to religion with specific empirical cases that illustrate, test, or contradict the particular theories at hand. It SOCL B340 Race and Ethnic Relations in focuses primarily on the West, but situated within a Comparative Perspective global context. This seminar addresses one of the most complex and Units: 1.0 pervasive problems in the modern world --- the problem Instructor(s): Wright,N. of strained racial--ethnic relations within national (Spring 2017) societies. It begins by examining major theoretical perspectives on racial ethnic relations. Comparing SOCL B313 Sociology of Terrorism and the United States, Brazil, Great Britain, Malaysia, Counterterrorism South Africa, and Rwanda, it focuses on the historical backgrounds, current developments (including levels Terrorism -- the use or threat of violence to achieve of poverty, education, political representation, social political, religious, or social goals -- is a centuries-old integration, and intermarriage), and government 360 Sociology policies, with the objective of identifying the social Units: 1.0 conditions that have conduced to the worst and the Instructor(s): Karen,D., Washington,R. most successful ethnic- racial relations --- in terms of (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) social equality and human rights. Prerequisites: Open to juniors and seniors who have completed at least two SOCL B403 Supervised Work courses in Sociology, Political Science, or Anthropology. Students have the opportunity to do individual research Units: 1.0 projects under the supervision of a faculty member. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) SOCL B342 Bodies in Social Life Can social life exist without bodies? How can attention SOCL B425 Praxis III: Independent Study to the body influence our understanding of social Praxis III courses are Independent Study courses and processes of subjectivity, interaction, and practice? are developed by individual students, in collaboration While the body has long been an “absent presence” with faculty and field supervisors. A Praxis courses is in sociology, multiple approaches to theorizing and distinguished by genuine collaboration with fieldsite researching the body have emerged in recent decades. organizations and by a dynamic process of reflection A sociological approach to the body and embodiment that incorporates lessons learned in the field into the provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between classroom setting and applies theoretical understanding everyday experience and analyses of broad social gained through classroom study to work done in the structures which can seem disconnected from daily broader community. life. In this course, we will examine the processes by Counts towards: Praxis Program which individual bodies are shaped by and, in turn, Units: 1.0 shape social life. Key questions to be explored include: (Not Offered 2016-2017) how are bodies regulated by social forces; how do individuals perform the body and how does interactional context influence this performance; what is the meaning CITY B345 Advanced Topics in Environment and of the body in social life; and is there a “right” body? Society Suggested preparation: At least one course in the social This is a topics course. Topics vary. sciences. Counts towards: Environmental Studies Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Health Units: 1.0 Studies (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Coutinho-Sledge,P. EDUC B266 Schools in American Cities (Fall 2016) This course examines issues, challenges, and possibilities of urban education in contemporary SOCL B358 Higher Education: Structure, Dynamics, America. We use as critical lenses issues of race, Policy class, and culture; urban learners, teachers, and school This course examines the structure and dynamics of the systems; and restructuring and reform. While we look “non-system” of higher education in the US in historical at urban education nationally over several decades, and comparative perspective. Focusing on patterns of we use Philadelphia as a focal “case” that students access, graduation, and allocation into the labor market, investigate through documents and school placements. the course examines changes over time and how these This is a Praxis II course (weekly fieldwork in a school vary at different types of institutions and cross-nationally. required) Issues of culture, diversity (especially with respect to Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) class, race/ethnic, and gender), and programming will Counts towards: Africana Studies; Child and Family be examined. The main theoretical debates revolve Studies; Praxis Program around the relationship between higher education Units: 1.0 and the society (does it reproduce or transform social Instructor(s): Cohen,J. structure) in which it is embedded. (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) POLS B273 Race and the Law in the American Context SOCL B398 Senior Conference An examination of the intersection of race and law, This capstone course for the sociology major focuses evaluating the legal regulations of race, the history on major concepts or areas in sociology and requires and meanings of race, and how law, history and the students to develop their analytical and synthetic Supreme Court helped shape and produce those skills as they confront both theoretical and empirical meanings. It will draw on materials from law, history, materials. The Key emphasis in the course will be on public policy, and critical race theory. students’ writing. Through a variety of assignments (of Units: 1.0 different lengths and purposes), students will practice (Not Offered 2016-2017) the process (drafts) and elements (clarity and concision) of good writing. Specific topical content will vary by POLS B354 Comparative Social Movements: Power semester according to the expertise of the instructor and and Mobilization the interests of students. A consideration of the conceptualizations of power and “legitimate” and “illegitimate” participation, the political Spanish 361 opportunity structure facing potential activists, the Prerequisite: junior or senior status. mobilizing resources available to them, and the cultural Counts towards: Praxis Program framing within which these processes occur. Specific Units: 1.0 attention is paid to recent movements within and across (Not Offered 2016-2017) countries, such as feminist, environmental, and anti- globalization movements, and to emerging forms of citizen mobilization, including transnational and global networks, electronic mobilization, and collaborative SPANISH policymaking institutions. Prerequisite: one course in POLS or SOCL or permission of instructor. Students may complete a major or minor in Spanish. Counts towards: Environmental Studies Majors may pursue state certification to teach at the Units: 1.0 secondary level. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Faculty POLS B374 Education Politics & Policy Francisco Angeles, Lecturer This course will examine education policy through the lens of federalism and federalism through a case study Inés Arribas, Senior Lecturer in Spanish of education policy. The dual aims are to enhance Kaylea Berard, Senior Lecturer in Spanish our understanding of this specific policy area and our understanding of the impact that our federal system of Martín Gaspar, Assistant Professor of Spanish (on government has on policy effectiveness. leave semesters I & II) Units: 1.0 María Cristina Quintero, Chair and Professor of (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spanish, Co-Director of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Romance Languages POLS B375 Gender, Work and Family Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Dorothy Nepper Marshall As the number of women participating in the paid Professor of Hispanic and Hispanic-American workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, Studies it becomes increasingly important to study the issues Rosi Song, Associate Professor of Spanish and Acting raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies the experiences of working and nonworking mothers in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of working mothers on children, and the policy implications The major in Spanish offers a program of study in the of women, work, and family. language, literature, and culture of Spain, Latin America, Counts towards: Child and Family Studies; Gender and and U.S. Latino communities. The program is designed Sexuality Studies to develop linguistic competence and critical skills, Units: 1.0 as well as a profound appreciation of the culture and (Not Offered 2016-2017) civilization of the Hispanic world. Our graduates have gone on to pursue successful SOWK B408 Women and the Law careers in law, business, medicine, and translation, The course is designed to explore the ways in which among others. This major program prepares students changes in legal status of women have impacted appropriately for graduate study in Spanish. public policy. We will examine this in the context of 1) The language courses provide solid preparation and family law, family court proceedings, with an emphasis practice in spoken and written Spanish, including on family violence; 2) reproductive and sexual rights, a thorough review of grammar and vocabulary with an emphasis on the impact of legal restrictions contextualized by cultural readings and activities. SPAN to reproductive freedom that impact on poor and 110 and SPAN 120 prepare students for advanced young women, and 3) violence against women. Class work in literature and cultural studies while improving discussions will include the historical and cultural competence in the language. The introductory literature debates that have framed and shaped legal issues and courses treat a selection of the outstanding works public policy affecting women. Enrollment limited to 5 of Spanish and Spanish-American, and U.S. Latino advanced undergraduates. literature in various periods and genres. Three hundred- Units: 1.0 level courses deal intensively with individual authors, (Not Offered 2016-2017) topics, or periods of special significance.

SOWK B554 Social Determinants of Health and Students in all courses are encouraged to supplement Health Equity their coursework with study in Spain or Spanish America either in the summer or during their junior year. All The purpose of this course is to provide students with students who have taken Spanish at other institutions knowledge and an understanding of how structural and plan to enroll in Spanish courses at Bryn Mawr factors (racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, must take a placement examination. The exam is discrimination, the built environment, poverty, working offered online by the department and is available on our conditions, and the unequal distribution of power, website: www.brynmawr.edu/spanish/placement.html. income, goods, and services) contribute to racial/ ethnic and gender disparities in health and well-being. The Department of Spanish works in cooperation with the Departments of French and Italian in the Romance 362 Spanish

Languages major. It also collaborates with the Latin Minor Requirements American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies (LAILS). Requirements for a minor in Spanish are six courses in Spanish beyond Intermediate Spanish, at least one College Foreign Language of which must be at the 300 level. At least one course Requirement should be in Peninsular literature (Spain). Before the start of the senior year, each student must Minor in Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies complete, with a grade of 2.0 or higher, two units of (LAILS) foreign language. Students may fulfill the requirement by completing two sequential semester-long courses The Department of Spanish participates with other in one language, beginning at the level determined by departments in offering a minor in Latin American, their language placement. A student who is prepared for Iberian, and Latina/o Studies (LAILS). advanced work may complete the requirement instead with two advanced free-standing semester-long courses Teacher Certification in the foreign language(s) in which she is proficient. The department also participates in a teacher- certification program. For more information see the Major Requirements description of the Education Program. Requirements for the Spanish major are: COURSES • SPAN 110 (formerly 200, Introduccin al análisis cultural) SPAN B101 Intermediate Spanish I • SPAN 120 (formerly 202, Introduccin al análisis A thorough review of grammar with special emphasis literario) on speaking, listening, reading, and writing (group • four 200-level courses, activities and individual presentations). Readings from the Hispanic world. There is a required additional hour • three 300-level courses, conducted by a TA on Monday evenings. Prerequisite: • SPAN 398 (Senior Seminar) SPAN 002 or placement. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Units: 1.0 The prerequisite for 200-level Spanish courses is Instructor(s): Berard,K., Angeles,F. the completion of SPAN 110 and/or SPAN 120. The (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) prerequisite for 300-level courses is the completion of a 200-level course in Spanish. At least two courses for the major must be in Peninsular literature (Spain) SPAN B102 Intermediate Spanish II and at least two in Latin American literature; one of the Continuation of a thorough review of grammar with major courses should focus on pre-1700 literature. Two special emphasis on reading and writing. Selected courses must be writing intensive (WI). Students can readings from the Hispanic world. The class meets three satisfy the writing requirement by taking SPAN 120, days a week with the instructor. There is a required SPAN 243, and other 200-level courses designated additional hour, conducted with a student partner from as WI in any given semester. Students whose training Barcelona, Spain, via Skype. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 or includes advanced work may, with the permission of the placement. department, be exempted from taking SPAN 110 and/ Approach: Course does not meet an Approach or SPAN 120. SPAN 399 (Senior Essay) is optional for Units: 1.0 majors with a grade point average of 3.7 who seek to Instructor(s): Berard,K., Arribas,I. graduate with honors. It may not be counted as one of (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) the 300-level requirements. Please note: the department offers some courses SPAN B110 Introduccin al análisis cultural taught in English. In order to receive major and minor An introduction to the history and cultures of the credit, students must do substantial reading and written Spanish-speaking world in a global context: art, work in Spanish. No more than two courses taught in folklore, geography, literature, sociopolitical issues, and English may be applied toward a major, and only one multicultural perspectives. This course is a requisite toward a minor. for the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or placement. Independent research (SPAN 403) is offered to students Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) recommended by the department. The work consists of Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o independent reading, conferences, and a long paper. Studies Units: 1.0 Honors Instructor(s): Song,R., Angeles,F. Departmental honors are awarded on the basis of a (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) minimum grade point average of 3.7 in the major, the senior essay (SPAN 399), and the recommendation of SPAN B115 Focus: Taller del espaol escrito the department. This is a half-semester Focus course. This class encompasses a detailed review of Spanish grammar and writing techniques. We examine the most challenging grammar topics for non-native speakers. Spanish 363

A selection of readings is the point of departure for SPAN B209 Lo que hemos comido: Identidades en acquiring a greater control of grammar and expanding Espaa vocabulary through a diverse range of writing exercises. This course considers the relationship between the Prerequisite: SPAN B102 or Placement exam. food we eat and our sense of identity in the context of Approach: Course does not meet an Approach regional identity politics in Spain. We will review the Units: 0.5 historical tension as they surface in diverse linguistic Instructor(s): Arribas,I. and cultural communities and currently challenged by (Spring 2017) the new wave of immigration to the peninsula. Amid this intersection of different cultures and practices, we will SPAN B117 Focus: Spanish Conversation and study how each region as turned to its traditional cuisine Performance and local culinary products to strengthen their sense This is a half-semester focus course. Conducted of regional identity while strategizing to communicate in Spanish, this focus course further develops the this uniqueness beyond the brand of “Spain” to the audio-lingual skills that the students have acquired world. We will examine, for instance, how this new in their early Spanish language training. This trend compares to the tourism industry endorsed by the course, designed to enhance students’ fluency and dictatorship in the 1960s. This discussion will serve as a pronunciation in Spanish, combines a content-based case study to explore how communities remember and language instruction with an interactive task-based narrate their own histories to themselves and to others, approach. Students increase their aural/oral fluency using concepts such as taste, terroir, memory, and through the use of theater exercises, and through a identity. Students in the course will view films and read variety of communicative activities such as poetry fiction, essays, and culinary essays from around Spain. readings, dialogues, debates, group discussions, Prerequisite: SPAN 120 or SPAN 110. and presentations on a wide range of topics. Diverse Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical readings, audio recordings and video screenings Interpretation (CI) constitute the course materials. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Studies Units: 0.5 Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Arribas,I. (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Spring 2017) SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores SPAN B120 Introduccin al análisis literario Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; Readings from Spanish and Spanish-American works other writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of of various periods and genres (drama, poetry, short texts, society, and traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 stories). Main focus on developing analytical skills with and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another attention to improvement of grammar. This course is a SPAN 200-level course. requisite for the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102, Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) or placement. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Studies Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. Studies (Spring 2017) Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. SPAN B216 Introduccin a la lingística hispánica (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) A survey of the field of Hispanic linguistics. We will explore the sounds and sound patterns of Spanish SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en Espaa (phonetics and phonology), how words are formed A study of the rich dramatic tradition of Spain from (morphology), the structure and interpretation the Golden Age (16th and 17th centuries) to the 20th of sentences (syntax and semantics), language century within specific cultural and social contexts. The use (pragmatics), the history and dialects of the course considers a variety of plays as manifestations Spanish language, and second language acquisition. of specific sociopolitical issues and problems. Topics Prerequisite: SPAN B110 or SPAN B120 or permission include theater as a site for fashioning a national of the instructor. Critical Interpretation (CI) identity; the dramatization of gender conflicts; and plays Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) as vehicles of protest in repressive circumstances. Units: 1.0 Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian (Not Offered 2016-2017) Peoples and Cultures Concentration. Prerequiste: SPAN B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or SPAN B219 Focus: Imaginando Barcelona another SPAN 200-level course. An introduction to the textual and visual representation Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the of the city of Barcelona, a key geographical, historical, Past (IP) political, and cultural referent for Spain and Catalonia. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o In this course we will read past and present texts that Studies narrate the origins and the symbolic significance of this Units: 1.0 city and discuss recent films that capture the evolving Instructor(s): Quintero,M. experience of its residents, as a global destination for (Fall 2016) 364 Spanish many and a city of immigrants. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 linking the literary text with cultural, social, political, and or SPAN B120. historical processes. Prerequiste: SPAN B110 and/or Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another SPAN Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o 200-level course. Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Inquiry into the Units: 0.5 Past (IP) (Not Offered 2016-2017) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en la narrativa del siglo XIX SPAN B233 Focus: La Habana y sus textos A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men La Habana (a historical, artistic and literary crossroad) and women writers, to assess how they come together is studied in its intersemiotic complexity. Readings from in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social the colonial period to the present. Authors included, domains, as the country is facing new challenges in its among others: La Condesa de Merlín, Alexander quest for modernity. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or von Humboldt, Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima. B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or another SPAN Selective films by Fernando Pérez and other Cuban 200-level course. directors. Prerequisite: SPAN B110 or SPAN B120. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP) Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Inquiry into the Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive Past (IP) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Studies Units: 1.0 Units: 0.5 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017)

SPAN B225 La poesía hispanoamericana SPAN B242 José Martí y el equilibrio mundial Study of poetic language from the Avant-garde An introductory course on José Martí: the writer, the movements to the present. Special attention to key thinker, the revolutionary. Texts include selections from figures. Prerequiste: Spanish 120 or another 200-level La Edad de Oro (a magazine for children), essays on course. the arts, the United States, Nuestra América, political Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) struggle and interdependence (“world equilibrium”), a Units: 1.0 selection of his poetic works and a novella. Prerequiste: Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. SPAN B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); (Fall 2016) or another SPAN 200-level course. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) SPAN B231 El cuento y novela corta en Espaa Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) Traces the development of the novella and short story in Spain, from its origins in the Middle Ages to our time. The writers will include Pardo Bazán, Cervantes, SPAN B243 Temas de la literatura hispana Clarín, Don Juan Manuel, Matute, Zayas, and a number This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN of contemporary writers such as Marina Mayoral and B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or Rosa Montero. Our approach will include formal and another 200-level. thematic considerations, and attention will be given to Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) social and historical contexts. Prerequiste: SPAN B110 Major Writing Requirement: Writing Intensive and/or B120; or another SPAN 200-level course.Critical Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin American, Studies Iberian, and Latino/a Studies. Units: 1.0 Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Instructor(s): Song,R. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Spring 2017: Migration in the Hispan World. An Units: 1.0 introduction to the narratives of immigration in the (Not Offered 2016-2017) Hispanic world starting from the 19th century to the present. Immigrants from Spain have populated Latin American countries during different periods SPAN B232 Encuentros culturales en América Latina of the continent’s history. More recently, Latin This course introduces canonical Latin American Americans have migrated to the Iberian Peninsula texts through translation scenes represented in them. in large numbers challenging Spain’s notion of Arranged chronologically since the first encounters cultural and ethnic homogeneity. Offered in English. during the conquest until contemporary times, the For Spanish credit, students will do part of the readings trace different modulations of a constant reading, discussion in some additional sessions linguistic and cultural preoccupation with translation and all written assignments in Spanish. Current in Latin America. Translation scenes are analyzed topic description: An introduction to the history of through close reading, and then considered as immigration in the Hispanic world starting from barometers for understanding the broader cultural the 19th century to the present. Immigrants from climate. Special emphasis is placed on key notions for Spain have populated Latin American countries literary analysis and translation studies, as well as for during different periods of the continent’s history. Spanish 365

More recently, Latin Americans have migrated to honor, historical self-fashioning and the politics of the the Iberian Peninsula in large numbers challenging corrales, and palace theater. Prerequisite: at least one Spain’s notion of cultural and ethnic homogeneity. SPAN 200-level course. Offered in English. For Spanish credit, students will Units: 1.0 do part of the reading and all written assignments in (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spanish. SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura espaola del SPAN B252 Compassion, Indignation, and Anxiety in Siglo de Oro Latin American Film A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, Stereotypically, Latin Americans are viewed as and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics “emotional people”—often a euphemism to mean include the construction of gender; the idealization and irrational, impulsive, wildly heroic, fickle. This course codification of women’s bodies; the politics of feminine takes this expression at face value to ask: Are there enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the particular emotions that identify Latin Americans? And, performance of honor. The first half of the course will conversely, do these “people” become such because deal with representations of women by male authors they share certain emotions? Can we find a correlation (Caldern, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second between emotions and political trajectories? To answer will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de these questions, we will explore three types of films Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María that seem to have, at different times, taken hold of the de Zayas. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level Latin American imagination and feelings: melodramas course. (1950s-1960s), documentaries (1970s-1990s), and “low- Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin key” comedies (since 2000s.) American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Film Studies; Latin American, Iberian Instructor(s): Quintero,M. and Latina/o Studies (Fall 2016) Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN B311 Crimen y detectives en la narrativa hispánica contemporánea SPAN B265 Escritoras espaolas: entre tradicin, renovacin y migracin An analysis of the rise of the hard-boiled genre in contemporary Hispanic narrative and its contrast to Fiction by women writers from Spain in the 20th classic detective fiction, as a context for understanding and 21st century. Breaking the traditional female contemporary Spanish and Latin American culture. stereotypes during and after Franco’s dictatorship, the Discussion of pertinent theoretical implications and the authors explore through their creative writing changing social and political factors that contributed to the genre’s sociopolitical and cultural issues including regional evolution and popularity. Prerequisite: at least one identities and immigration. Topics of discussion include SPAN 200-level course. gender marginality, feminist studies and the portrayal Units: 1.0 of women in contemporary society. Prerequiste: SPAN Instructor(s): Song,R. B110 and/or B120 (previously SPAN B200/B202); or (Spring 2017) another SPAN 200-level course. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin SPAN B315 El futuro ya lleg: relatos del presente American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies en América Latina Units: 1.0 Taught in Spanish. In the 21st Century, “Here and (Not Offered 2016-2017) now” is not what it used to be. There is no single “here” but instead multiple, coexisting realities (that of the SPAN B307 Cervantes cellphone, the street, the ‘world’.) There’s no clear present when the “now” is multiple. In this course we A study of themes, structure, and style of Cervantes’ will explore 21st century Latin American shorts-stories, masterpiece Don Quijote and its impact on world films, works of art, and novellas that synchronize literature. In addition to a close reading of the text and a with our contemporary circumstances—-fictions and consideration of narrative theory, the course examines representations where realities alternate, identities the impact of Don Quijote on the visual arts, music, film, flow, and the world appears oddly out of scale. As and popular culture. Counts toward the Latin American, contemporaries, you will also be asked to write fictions Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Concentration. about life “here and now.” Throughout, we will keep two Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. fundamental questions in mind: What is reality (here)? Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o What is the contemporary (now)? Prerequisite: at least Studies one SPAN 200-level course. Units: 1.0 Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o (Not Offered 2016-2017) Studies Units: 1.0 SPAN B308 Teatro del Siglo de Oro: negociaciones (Not Offered 2016-2017) de clase, género y poder A study of the dramatic theory and practice of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the treatment of 366 Spanish

SPAN B317 Poéticas del deseo y el poder en la lírica SPAN B326 Voces trasplantadas: teoría y práctica del Siglo de Oro de la traduccin A study of the evolution of the lyric in Spain during Taught in Spanish. Translation has been argued to be the Renaissance and Baroque periods beginning with both impossible and inevitable. Theoretically impossible, the oral tradition and the imitation of Petrarch. Topics because no two languages are perfectly equivalent; include: the representation of women as objects practically inevitable, because cultures, and human of desire and pre-texts for writing, the political and beings, are constantly interpreting one another—and national subtexts for lyric production, the self-fashioning understanding themselves in the process. This course is and subjectivity of the lyric voice, theories of parody an introduction to translation as a practice with linguistic, and imitation, and the feminine appropriation of the literary, and cultural implications. It is organized in three Petrarchan tradition. Although concentrating on the steps. We will begin by exploring the linguistic aspect poetry of Spain, reading will include texts from Italy, of translation: the theories (and myths) about language France, England and Mexico. Taught in Spanish. difference and equivalence, and how they can be put Prerequisites: at least one 200-level course. into practice. Then we will focus on translating literary Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o texts of different genres (from canonical epics to film, Studies from poems to short stories and proverbs), and we will Units: 1.0 simultaneously examine how the various types of texts Instructor(s): Quintero,M. have spurred very different opinions about what is a (Spring 2017) good or bad translation, what is desirable, and what is not. Finally, we will trace the role of translation in SPAN B321 Surrealismo al afrorrealismo cultural exchanges, as well as its defining presence in Examines artistic texts that trace the development contemporary debates on “world literature.” Prerequisite: and relationships of surrealism, lo real maravilloso At least one 200 level Spanish course. americano, realismo mágico and afrorealismo. Units: 1.0 Manifestos and literary works by Latin American authors (Not Offered 2016-2017) will be emphasized: Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, SPAN B332 Novelas de las Américas Laura Esquivel, Quince Duncan. Prerequisite: at least What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US one SPAN 200-level course. novel as “American” in the continental sense? What do Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o we learn by comparing novels from “this” America to Studies classics of the “other” Americas? Can we find through Units: 1.0 this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, (Not Offered 2016-2017) interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these questions by connecting and comparing major US SPAN B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and the Early Modern Iberian World 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, and affinities. This course is taught in Spanish. Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course Prerequisite: at least one SPAN 200-level course. is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and Studies delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender Units: 1.0 normativity). Course is taught in English and is open (Not Offered 2016-2017) to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature department. Students SPAN B350 Lo fantástico y el cuento seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish hispanoamericano 110 and/or 120 and at least one other Spanish course at a 200-level, or received permission from instructor. Special attention to the double, the fantastic and the Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin sociopolitical thematics of short fiction in Spanish American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies America. Authors include Quiroga, Borges, Carpentier, Units: 1.0 Rulfo, Cortázar and Valenzuela. Prerequisite: at least (Not Offered 2016-2017) one SPAN 200-level course. Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o SPAN B323 Memoria y Guerra Civil Studies A look into the Spanish Civil War and its wide-ranging Units: 1.0 international significance as both the military and (Not Offered 2016-2017) ideological testing ground for World War II. This course examines the endurance of myths related to this conflict SPAN B351 Tradicin y revolucin: Cuba y su and the cultural memory it has produced along with literatura the current negotiations of the past that is taking place An examination of Cuba, its history and its literature in democratic Spain. Prerequisite: at least one SPAN with emphasis on the analysis of cultural and economic 200-level course. transformations. Major topics include slavery and Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o resistance; Cuba’s struggles for freedom; changing Studies cultural policies and film of the Revolution. Prerequisite: Units: 1.0 at least one SPAN 200-level course. (Not Offered 2016-2017) Spanish 367

Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Units: 1.0 Studies Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. Units: 1.0 (Fall 2016) Instructor(s): Sacerio-Garí,E. (Fall 2016) ENGL B236 Latina/o Culture and the Art of Migration Gloria Anzalda has famously described the U.S.- SPAN B398 Senior Seminar Mexico border as an open wound and the border culture The study of special topics, critical theory and that arises from this fraught site as a third country. approaches with primary emphasis on Hispanic This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os literatures. A requirement for all Spanish Majors. Some creatively represent different kinds of migrations across topics and readings will be prepared in consultation with geo-political borders and between cultural traditions to the students. forge transnational identities and communities. We will Units: 1.0 use cultural production as a lens for understanding how Instructor(s): Song,R. citizenship status, class, gender, race, and language (Fall 2016) shape the experiences of Latin American migrants and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative SPAN B399 Senior Essay metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of Available to Spanish majors whose proposals are undocumented migrants and Latina/os in contemporary approved by the department. U.S. society. Over the course of the semester, we will Units: 1.0 probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can (Not Offered 2016-2017) play in the struggle for migrants’ rights and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can SPAN B403 Supervised Work contribute to social justice. We will examine a number Independent reading, conferences, and a long paper; of different genres, as well as read and apply key offered to senior students recommended by the theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented department. migration. Units: 1.0 Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Critical (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Interpretation (CI) Counts towards: Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o COML B232 Encuentros culturales en América Studies Latina Units: 1.0 Instructor(s): Harford Vargas,J. This course introduces canonical Latin American (Spring 2017) texts through translation scenes represented in them. Arranged chronologically since the first encounters during the conquest until contemporary times, the ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas readings trace different modulations of a constant This course examines representations of dictatorship linguistic and cultural preoccupation with translation in in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore Latin America. Translation scenes are analyzed through the relationship between narrative form and absolute close reading, and then considered as barometers for power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use understanding the broader cultural climate. Special to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator emphasis is placed on key notions for literary analysis novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central and translation studies, as well as for linking the America, and the Southern Cone. literary text with cultural, social, political, and historical Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) processes. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or B120 Counts towards: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Latin (previously SPAN B200/B202). American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Units: 1.0 Units: 1.0 (Not Offered 2016-2017) (Not Offered 2016-2017) SPAN B001 Beginning Spanish I ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Develops basic communicative skills in both oral and This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion written Spanish. Introduces students to different aspects bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the of Hispanic and Latino cultures. Assumes no previous intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. study of Spanish. The Tuesday class is a mandatory We will focus on topics of shared concern among practice session with a teaching assistant. Latino groups such as struggles for social justice, the Approach: Course does not meet an Approach damaging effects of machismo and racial hierarchies, Units: 1.0 the politics of Spanglish, and the affective experience of Instructor(s): Arribas,I., Angeles,F. migration. By analyzing a range of cultural production, (Fall 2016) including novels, poetry, testimonial narratives, films, activist art, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of SPAN B002 Beginning Spanish II Latinidad in the Americas. Second course of the First-year Spanish language Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI) sequence. Designed to develop basic communicative Counts towards: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality skills in both oral and written Spanish. Students are Studies; Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies 368 Board of Trustees exposed to different aspects of Hispanic and Latino THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES cultures. The Tuesday class is a mandatory practice session with a teaching assistant. Prerequisite: SPAN OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE B001 or placement. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach Ann Logan, Chair of the Board of Trustees Units: 1.0 Cynthia Archer, Vice Chair Instructor(s): Arribas,I., Angeles,F., Berard,K. Cheryl Holland, Vice Chair (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) Denise Hurley, Vice Chair Amy Loftus, Vice Chair Susan L. MacLaurin, Vice Chair Margaret M. Morrow, Vice Chair Janet L. Steinmayer, Vice Chair Justine D. Jentes, Secretary of the Board of Trustees

Trustees

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Arlene Joy Gibson FACULTY Hanna Holborn Gray Johanna Alderfer Harris EMERITI Alan Hirsig Harris Wofford, J.D. (Yale University), President Fern Hunt Emeritus of the College Beverly Lange Jacqueline Koldin Levine Mary Patterson McPherson, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Roland Machold President Emeritus of the College Jacqueline Badger Mars Nancy J. Vickers, Ph.D. (Yale University), President and Ruth Kaiser Nelson Professor Emeritus Dolores G. Norton David W. Oxtoby Jane McAuliffe, Ph.D. (University of Toronto), President Robert Parsky Emeritus of the College Shirley D. Peterson R. Anderson Pew Alfonso Albano, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University, State William E. Rankin University of New York), Marion Reilly Professor Alice Mitchell Rivlin Emeritus of Physics Barbara Paul Robinson Jeffrey S. Applegate, Ph.D. (Boston College), Professor Sally Shoemaker Robinson Emeritus of Social Work and Social Research Willa E. Seldon Susan Savage Speers Dana Becker, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor Barbara Janney Trimble Emeritus of Social Work and Social Research Betsy Havens Watkins Carol L. Bernstein, Ph.D. (Yale University), Mary E. James Wood Garrett Alumnae Professor Emeritus of English and Sally Hoover Zeckhauser Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Special Representatives to the Board Sandra Berwind, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor Emeritus of English Drew Gilpin Faust Cynthia Bisman, Ph.D. (Univesity of Kansas), Professor Linda A. Hill Emeritus of Social Work and Social Research Allan Richard (Rick) White III, Chair, Board of Managers, Haverford College Charles Brand, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Professor Emeritus of History Ex Officio Merle Broberg, Ph.D. (American University), Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Kimberly Wright Cassidy, President of the College Research Jane Caplan, D.Phil. (University of Oxford), Majorie Officers of the Corporation Walter Goodhart Professor Emeritus of European Ann Logan, Chair of the Board History Cynthia Archer, Vice Chair Isabelle Cazeaux, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Alice Cheryl Holland, Vice Chair Carter Dickerman Professor Emeritus of Music Denise Lee Hurley, Vice Chair Maria DeOca Corwin, Ph.D. (Smith College), Associate Amy Loftus, Vice Chair Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Susan L. MacLaurin, Vice Chair Research Margaret M. Morrow, Vice Chair Janet L. Steinmayer, Vice Chair Maria Luisa Crawford, Ph.D. (University of California, Justine D. Jentes, Secretary of the Board Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Geology and Kimberly Wright Cassidy, President of the College Curator of the Geology Mineral Collection Mary Osirim, Provost William A. Crawford, Ph.D. (University of California, Kari Fazio, Treasurer and Chief Financial and Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Geology Administrative Officer Ruth Lindeborg, Secretary of the College Richard Davis, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor Samuel B. Magdovitz, College Counsel Emeritus of Anthropology Christopher Davis, B.A. (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Arts Susan Dean, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor Emeritus of English Gregory W. Dickerson, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Professor Emeritus of Greek Nancy C. Dorian, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Professor Emeritus of Linguistics in German and Anthropology 370 Faculty

Richard B. Du Boff, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Ethel Wildey Maw, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor Emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Human Development Economic History Clark McCauley, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Richard S. Ellis, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago), Professor Emeritus of Psychology Professor of Emeritus of Classical and Near Stella Miller-Collett, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Rhys Eastern Archaeology Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Noel J.J. Farley, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor Eastern Archaeology Emeritus and Harvey Wexler Professor Emeritus of Carolyn E. Needleman, Ph.D. (Washington University), Economics Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Julia H. Gaisser, Ph.D. (The University of Edinburgh), Research Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus of the Harriet B. Newburger, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin- Humanities and Professor of Latin Milwaukee), Associate Professor Emeritus of Stephen Gardiner, Ph.D. (Univesity of North Carolina, Economics Chapel Hill), Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Biology George S. Pahomov, Ph.D. (New York University), Helen Grundman, Ph.D. (University of California, Professor Emeritus of Russian Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Nicholas Patruno, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University Michel Guggenheim, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of New Jersey), Professor Emeritus of Italian Emeritus of French Lucian B. Platt, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor Richard Hamilton, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Emeritus of Geology Arbor), Paul Shorey Professor Emeritus of Greek Judith D.R. Porter, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Margaret M. Healy, L.H.D. (Villanova University), Professor Emeritus of Sociology Treasurer Emeritus of the College David J. Prescott, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Christiane Hertel, Ph.D. (Eberhard Karls-Universität Professor Emeritus of Biology Tbingen), Professor Emeritus of History of Art Marc Howard Ross, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), Rhonda J. Hughes, Ph.D. (University of Illinois), Helen William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Political Science Thomas H. Jackson, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor Stephen Salkever, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Emeritus of English Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor Emeritus in Political Science Anthony R. Kaney, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago), Professor Emeritus of Biology W. Bruce Saunders, Ph.D. (The University of Iowa), Class of 1897 Professor Emeritus of Science and Toba Kerson, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Mary Professor Emeritus of Geology Hale Chase Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences Judith Shapiro, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor Dale Kinney, Ph.D. (New York University), Eugenia Emeritus of Anthropology Chase Guild Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History of Art Jenepher Price Shillingford, M.S.Ed. (Temple University), Director Emeritus of Physical Education Christine Koggel, Ph.D. (Queens College, The City University of New York), Harvey Wexler Professor Elliot Shore, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Emeritus of History Joseph E. Kramer, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr Professor Emeritus of English College), Rhys Carpenter Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Michael Krausz, Ph.D. (University of Toronto), Milton C. Nahm Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Elizabeth G. Vermey, M.A. (Wesleyan University), Director Emeritus of Admissions Catherine Lafarge, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor Emeritus of French Nancy J. Vickers, Ph.D. (Yale University), President and Professor Emeritus Barbara Miller Lane, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities Matthew Yarczower, Ph.D. (University of Maryland), and Professor Emeritus of History Professor Emeritus of Psychology Philip Lichtenberg, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve Greta Zybon, D.S.W. (Case Western Reserve University), Mary Hale Chase Professor Emeritus of University), Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Social Science, Social Work and Social Research Work and Social Research and Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Research PROFESSORS Frank B. Mallory, Ph.D. (California Institute of Raymond L. Albert, J.D. (University of Connecticut), Technology), W. Alton Jones Emeritus Professor of Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Chemistry Social Work Faculty 371

Leslie Alexander, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor Alice Donohue, Ph.D. (New York University Institute of of Social Work and on the Mary Hale Chase Chair Fine Arts), Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical in the Social Sciences, Social Work and Social and Near Eastern Archaeology Research Robert Dostal, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Michael Allen, Ph.D. (University of London), Chair Rufus M. Jones Professor and Chair of Philosophy (spring) and Professor of Political Science on the Radcliffe Edmonds, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago), Harvey Wexler Chair in Political Science Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Professor of Elizabeth Allen, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Russian and Comparative Literature Michelle Francl, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine), Grace Armstrong, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Eunice Professor of Chemistry on the Rosabeth Moss M. Schenck 1907 Professor of French and Director Kanter Change Master Fund of Middle Eastern Languages and and Co-Director Karen Greif, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), of the International Studies Program (fall) Professor of Biology Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve Carol Hager, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego), University), Dean of the Graduate School of Social Professor of Political Science on the Clowes Work and Social Research and Special Assistant to Professorship in Science and Public Policy and the President for Community Partnerships at Bryn Director of the Center for Social Sciences Mawr College Jane Hedley, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), K. Laurence Jim Baumohl, D.S.W. (University of California, Stapleton Professor of English Berkeley), Professor of Social Work Madhavi Kale, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Peter Beckmann, Ph.D. (The University of British Acting Chair and Professor of History Columbia), Marion Reilly Professor of Physics David Karen, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Professor of Peter Briggs, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Sociology English Homay King, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Peter Brodfuehrer, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Eleanor Professor of History of Art and the Eugenia Chase A. Bliss Professor of Biology Guild Chair in the Humanities Sharon Burgmayer, Ph.D. (The University of North Deepak Kumar, Ph.D. (University at Buffalo, State Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dean of Graduate Studies University of New York), Professor of Computer and the W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry Science Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Ph.D. (University of Steven Levine, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Professor of Pennsylvania), President of the College and History of Art and the Leslie Clark Professor in the Professor of Psychology Humanities David Cast, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor of Julia Littell, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago), Professor History of Art of Social Work Janet Ceglowski, Ph.D. (University of California, Mark Lord, M.F.A. (Yale University), Alice Carter Berkeley), Professor of Economics on the Harvey Dickerman Director of the Arts Program and Wexler Chair of Economics Professor of the Arts on the Theresa Helburn Chair Leslie Cheng, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh), Chair and of Drama and Director of the Theater Program Professor of Mathematics Peter Magee, Ph.D. (The University of Sydney), Chair Catherine Conybeare, Ph.D. (University of Toronto), and Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Chair and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Archaeology and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Studies Program Alison Cook-Sather, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Brigitte Mahuzier, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Chair and Mary Katherine Woodworth Chair and Professor Professor of French in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program Bill Malachowski, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann and Director of Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Arbor), Associate Provost and Professor of Program Chemistry Dan Davidson, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Professor James Martin, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh), of Russian on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship in Professor of Social Work Russian and Director of the Russian Language Institute Elizabeth McCormack, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Physics Tamara Davis, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Professor of Biology Gary McDonogh, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), Chair and Professor of Growth and Structure of Victor Donnay, Ph.D. (New York University), Professor Cities and on the Helen Herrmann Chair of Mathematics on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Director of Environmental Studies Paul Melvin, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Professor of Mathematics 372 Faculty

Michael Noel, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), Professor James Wright, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Professor of of Physics Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Mary Osirim, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Provost and Dianna Xu, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Chair Professor of Sociology and Professor of Computer Science María Cristina Quintero, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Chair and Professor of Spanish, Co-Director ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Annette Baertschi, Ph.D. (Humboldt-University of Romance Languages Berlin), Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Leslie Rescorla, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Graduate Psychology on the Class of 1897 Professorship of Group Science and Director of Child and Family Studies Don Barber, Ph.D. (University of Colorado Boulder), and the Director of the Child Study Institute Associate Professor of Geology on the Harold Michael Rock, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh), Samuel Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies and Etta Wexler Professor of Economic History Linda-Susan Beard, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Ph.D. (Yale University), Dorothy Associate Professor of English and Director of Nepper Marshall Professor of Hispanic and Africana Studies Hispanic-American Studies Macalester Bell, Ph.D. (The University of North Carolina Lisa Saltzman, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Chair and at Chapel Hill), Associate Professor of Philosophy Professor of History of Art and the Andrew W. Douglas Blank, Ph.D. (Indiana University Bloomington), Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities Associate Professor of Computer Science Marc Schulz, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Sara Bressi, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Chair and Professor of Psychology and Rachel C. Associate Professor of Social Work Hale Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics Linda Caruso Haviland, Ed.D. (Temple University), Russell Scott, Ph.D. (Yale University), Doreen C. Spitzer Director and Associate Professor of Dance Professor of Latin and Classical Studies Monica Chander, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut), Azade Seyhan, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Chair and Associate Professor of Biology Fairbank Professor in the Humanities and Chair and Professor of German and Comparative Literature Xuemei Cheng, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), Associate Professor of Physics Janet Shapiro, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Professor of Social Work and Director for the Gregory Davis, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago), Center for Child and Family Wellbeing Associate Professor of Biology Anjali Thapar, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve Jeremy Elkins, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), University), Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Political Science Earl Thomas, Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor of Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Psychology Associate Professor of History Michael Tratner, Ph.D. (University of California, Marissa Golden, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of Berkeley), Interim Chair (fall) and Associate English Professor of Political Science on the Joan Coward Chair in Political Economics Lisa Traynor, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University, State University of New York), Professor of Mathematics Jonas Goldsmith, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Associate Professor of Chemistry Sharon Ullman, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), Professor of History and Director of Timothy Harte, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Chair and Gender and Sexuality Studies Associate Professor of Russian Thomas Vartanian, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), Yonglin Jiang, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), Co-Chair Professor of Social Work and Chair of Economics and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Robert Washington, Ph.D. (The University of Chicago), Rudy Le Menthéour, Ph.D. (Université de Grenoble), Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of French and Director of the Institut d’Etudes Françaises d’Avignon Arlo Weil, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Chair and Professor of Geology Astrid Lindenlauf, Ph.D. (University College London), Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Susan White, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), Archaeology Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of Health Studies Pedro Marenco, Ph.D. (University of Southern California), Associate Professor of Geology Robert Wozniak, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Professor of Psychology Faculty 373

Kalala Ngalamulume, Ph.D. (Michigan State University), C.J. Gordon, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Assistant Professor of English History, Co-Director of International Studies and Erica Graham, Ph.D. (University of Utah), Assistant Co-Director of Health Studies Professor of Mathematics Hoang Nguyen, Ph.D. (University of California, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Berkeley), Associate Professor of English and Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of Director of Film Studies the Latin American, Latina/o and Iberian Studies Melissa Pashigian, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Program Angeles), Associate Professor of Anthropology Sylvia W. Houghteling, Ph.D. (Yale University), Assistant Roberta Ricci, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), Professor of History of Art Associate Professor of Italian and Co-Director of Yan Kung, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Romance Languages Technology), Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Ross, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), Associate Anita Kurimay, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University of Professor of Economics New Jersey), Assistant Professor of History Bethany Schneider, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Shiamin Kwa, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Assistant Associate Professor of English Professor of East Asian Studies on the Jye Chu Michael Schulz, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Chair and Lectureship in Chinese Studies Associate Professor of Physics Djordje Milicevic, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Assistant Rosi Song, Ph.D. (Brown University), Associate Professor of Mathematics Professor of Spanish and Acting Coordinator of Veronica Montes, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Gender and Sexuality Studies Barbara), Assistant Professor of Sociology and Co- Jamie Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Director of the Latin American, Latina/o and Iberian Associate Professor of English Studies Program Kate Thomas, Ph.D. (University of Oxford), Chair and Thomas Mozdzer, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Associate Professor of English Assistant Professor of Biology Daniel Torday, M.F.A (Syracuse University), Associate Andrew Nutting, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Professor of Economics Elly Truitt, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Associate Heejung Park, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Professor of History Angeles), Assistant Professor of Psychology Amanda Weidman, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Chair Laurel Peterson, Psy.D. (George Washington and Associate Professor of Anthropology University), Assistant Professor of Psychology Nathan Wright, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), Chair Adrienne Prettyman, Ph.D. (University of Toronto), and Associate Professor of Sociology Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sydne Record, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts), ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Assistant Professor of Biology William (Dustin) Albert, Ph.D. (Temple University), Victoria Reyes, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Assistant Assistant Professor of Psychology Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Casey Barrier, Ph.D. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Colin Rice, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, Columbia), Assistant Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Philosophy Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Ph.D. (The University of David Schaffner, Ph.D. (California State University), Chicago), Assistant Professor of Sociology Assistant Professor of Physics Selby Cull-Hearth, Ph.D. (Washington University), Joel Schlosser, Ph.D. (Duke University), Assistant Assistant Professor of Geology Professor of Political Science Kathryne J. Daniel, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University), Jason Schmink, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut), Assistant Professor of Physics Assistant Professor of Chemistry Richard Eisenberg, M.S. (Harvard University), Lecturer Maja Seselj, Ph.D. (New York University), Assistant in Computer Science Professor of Anthropology Sofia Fenner, M.A. (The University of Chicago), Lecturer Joshua Shapiro, Ph.D. (Williams College), Assistant in Political Science Professor of Biology Susanna Fioratta, Ph.D. (Yale University), Assistant Qinna Shen, Ph.D. (Yale University), Assistant Professor Professor of Anthropology of German Martín Gaspar, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Assistant Asya Sigelman, Ph.D. (Brown University), Assistant Professor of Spanish Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies 374 Faculty

Catharine Slusar, M.F.A. (Goddard College), Assistant Terry McLaughlin, M.S. (Hofstra University), Senior Professor of Theater Lecturer and Head Athletic Trainer, Athletics and Physical Education Cindy Sousa, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Assistant Professor of Social Work on the Amy Myers, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College), Senior Lecturer Alexandra Grange Hawkins Lectureship in Social in Mathematics and Math Program Coordinator Work Maryellen Nerz-Stormes, Ph.D. (University of Alicia Walker, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Associate Pennsylvania), Senior Lecturer in Chemistry Professor of History of Art on the Marie Neuberger Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Ph.D. (Michigan State Fund for the Study of Arts and Director of the University), Lecturer of French Center for Visual Culture Nicole Kimberly Reiley, B.A. (Seton Hall University), Instructor and Head Coach of Volleyball OTHER FACULTY ON CONTINUING APPOINTMENT Jennifer Skirkanich, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Inés Arribas, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Lecturer in Biology Senior Lecturer in Spanish Julien Suaudeau, M.A. (Institut d’Études Politiques de Kelly Barnes (St. Joseph’s University), Lecturer and Paris), Lecturer Head Coach of Lacrosse, Athletics and Physical Katie Tarr, M.S. (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Education Lecturer and Head Lacrosse Coach and Senior Kaylea Berard, Ph.D. (Georgetown University), Senior Woman’s Administrator, Athletics and Physical Lecturer in Spanish Education Carol Bower, M.S. (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Rebecca Tyler, M.A. (Concordia University, Irvine), Lecturer and Head Rowing Coach Lecturer and Head Coach of Basketball Victor Brady, M.S. (Smith College), Lecturer and Head Daniela Voith, M.Arch. (Yale University), Senior Lecturer Field Hockey Coach in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program Madeline Cantor, M.F.A. (University of Michigan Ann Irina Walsh, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Lecturer in Arbor), Associate Director and Term Professor of Russian Dance Doanh Wang, M.S. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jeffrey Cohen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Term Lecturer and Head Tennis Coach Professor in Growth and Structure of Cities Lisa Hernandez-Cuebas Watkins, Ph.D. (Drexel Jody Cohen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Term University College of Medicine), Lecturer in Professor in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Chemistry Program Nikki Whitlock, M.S. (West Chester University of Anne Dalke, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Term Pennsylvania), Senior Lecturer and Head Professor of English Swimming Coach and Aquatics Director, Athletics and Physical Education Manar Darwish, M.A. (University of Washington), Instructor and Coordinator of Bi-Co Arabic Program Michelle Wien, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Lecturer in Biology Gail Hemmeter, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University), Senior Lecturer in English and Director Changchun Zhang, M.A. (Villanova University), of Writing Instructor of Chinese Jason Hewitt, M.S. (Springfield College), Lecturer and Head Coach of Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field, Athletics and Physical Education Olga Karagiaridi, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), Lecturer in Chemistry Peter Kasius, M.A. (Princeton University), Instructor in Mathematics Laura Kemper, M.S. (University of Delaware), Lecturer and Assistant Athletic Trainer, Athletics and Physical Education Alice Lesnick, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Director and Term Professor in the Bryn Mawr/ Haverford Education Program Mark Matlin, Ph.D. (University of Maryland), Senior Lecturer and Lab Coordinator of Physics Administration 375

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Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Ph.D. (University of OFFICE Pennsylvania), President of the College and Deborah Alder, M.A. (West Chester University), Access Professor of Psychology Services Coordinator Raymond L. Albert, J.D. (University of Connecticut), Judith Weinstein Balthazar, Ph.D. (University of Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Faculty Pennsylvania), Dean of Studies Diversity Liaison, Staff Issues Liaison, Equal Opportunity Officer and Professor of Social Work Isabelle Barker, Ph.D. (Rutgers University), Assistant Dean Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University), Dean of the Graduate School of Social Theresa Cann, M.Ed. (Widener University), Assistant Work and Social Research Dean and Director of International Education Richard Barry, Ph.D. (The Graduate Center of the City Vanessa Christman, M.F.A. (Brooklyn College of the University of New York), Director of Institutional City University of New York), Assistant Dean and Research Director of Leadership and Community. Nina N. Bisbee, M.U.P. (University of Michigan), Director Raima Evan, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), of Facilities Services Assistant Dean Sharon Burgmayer, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina), Rachel Heiser, M.Ed. (Temple University), Academic Dean of Graduate Studies and W. Alton Jones Support and Learning Resources Specialist Professor of Chemistry Charles Heyduk, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr College), Associate Vanessa Christman, M.F.A. (Brooklyn College, Dean City University of New York), Assistant Dean Michelle Mancini, Ph.D. (University of California, and Director of Leadership and Community Berkeley), Associate Dean Development Stephanie Nixon, M.Ed. (University of Virginia), Emily C. Espenshade, Ed.M. (Harvard University), Chief Assistant Dean of Staff, Office of the President Christina Rose, Ed.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Kari A. Fazio, M.P.A. (Columbia University), Treasurer Assistant Dean and Chief Financial Officer Jennifer L. Walters, D.Min. (Episcopal Divinity School), Jesse Gale, Ph.D. (Yale University), Chief Dean of the Undergraduate College Communications Officer Ruth H. Lindeborg, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Secretary of the College OFFICERS OF THE Samuel B. Magdovitz, J.D. (Yale University), College ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Counsel Saskia Subramanian ’88, M.A. ’89, President Martin A. Mastascusa, M.B.A. (Temple University), Penny Pollister Price ’90, Vice President Director of Human Resources Sarah Herlihy ’94, Secretary Robert A. Miller, B.A. (Elizabethtown College), Chief Development Officer Vicky Tsilas ’90, Treasurer Pelema I. Morrice, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Chief Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D. ’05, Representative, Graduate Enrollment Officer School of Social Work and Social Research Stephanie Nixon, M.Ed. (University of Virginia), Deborah Diamond ’85, Representative, At Large Assistant Dean, Title IX Coordinator, and Director of Amanda Glendinning ’05, Representative, At Large Diversity, Social Justice and Inclusion Trisha Hall ’98, Representative, Bryn Mawr Fund Mary J. Osirim, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Provost and Professor of Sociology Alison Kosakowski ’01, Representative, Alumnae Communications Gina M. Siesing, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin), Chief Information Officer Bonnie Osler ’79, Representative, At Large Kathleen Tierney, B.S. (State University of New York Joanna Pinto-Coelho ’09, Representative, At Large at Brockport), Director of Athletics and Physical Robyn Ruffer Nelson ’90, Chair, Committee on Education Leadership Development Jennifer L. Walters, D. Min. (Episcopal Divinity School), Sarah Sarnelli ’94, Representative, Clubs & Affinity Dean of the Undergraduate College Groups Erica Seaborne ’09, Representative, At Large Celia Schultz, M.A. ’94, Ph.D. ’99, Representative, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 376 Index

INDEX Comparative Literature ...... 123 Computer Science ...... 131 3-2 Program in City and Regional Planning ...... 48 Computing ...... 9 3-2 Program in Engineering and Applied Science ...... 48 Conduct of Courses ...... 41 360º ...... 53 Contact and Website Information ...... 4 4+1 Partnership with Penn’s School of Engineering Continuing Education Program...... 52 and Applied Science ...... 48 Cooperation with Neighboring Institutions ...... 40 4+1 Program in Bioethics with the University of Costs of Education ...... 20 Pennsylvania ...... 48 Course Options...... 40 4+2 Master’s Program in China Studies with Zhejiang University...... 49 Credit for Test Scores ...... 45 A Brief History of Bryn Mawr College ...... 5 Credit for Work Done Elsewhere ...... 44 About Bryn Mawr College ...... 4 Credit/No Credit ...... 39 Academic Awards and Prizes ...... 56 Cumulative Grade Point Averages ...... 44 Academic Opportunities ...... 47 Curriculum ...... 34 Academic Program ...... 34 Customs Week ...... 14 Academic Regulations ...... 39 Departure from the College ...... 45 Academic Support Services ...... 14 Directory Information ...... 13 Access Services ...... 14 Distinctions ...... 44 Administration ...... 375 Distribution Requirement ...... 35 Admission ...... 16 East Asian Languages and Cultures ...... 134 Africana Studies ...... 62 Economics ...... 140 Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps...... 51 Education...... 145 Anthropology ...... 67 Eligibility to Participate in Commencement ...... 39 Arabic ...... 76 Emily Balch Seminar Requirement ...... 35 Architecture, Preparation for Careers in ...... 50 Emily Balch Seminars...... 52 Areas of Study ...... 59 English ...... 150 Arts Program ...... 76 Environmental Studies...... 166 Arts in Education ...... 77 Equality of Opportunity ...... 13 Arts Program: Creative Writing ...... 77 Facilities for the Arts ...... 12 Arts Program: Dance ...... 80 Faculty ...... 369 Arts Program: Theater ...... 85 Film Studies ...... 175 Astronomy ...... 89 Financial Aid ...... 22 Athletics and Physical Education...... 53 Fine Arts ...... 180 Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center ...... 12 Focus Courses ...... 53 Billing and Payment Due Dates ...... 20 Foreign Language Requirement ...... 35 Billing, Payment, and Financial Aid ...... 20 French and Francophone Studies ...... 182 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...... 91 Gender and Sexuality ...... 188 Biology ...... 97 General Studies ...... 203 Board of Trustees ...... 368 Geographical Distribution of Students ...... 7 Calendars, Academic...... 3 Geoarchaeology ...... 204 Campus Center ...... 12 Geology ...... 205 Campus Crime Awareness/Clery Act ...... 13 German and German Studies...... 211 Centers for 21st Century Inquiry...... 51 Grading and Academic Record...... 42 Chemistry ...... 104 Greek, Latin and Classical Studies...... 214 Child and Family Studies ...... 109 Growth and Structure of Cities ...... 234 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology ...... 114 Half-semester Courses ...... 40 Collaboration with the Graduate Schools ...... 55 Health Center ...... 15 Combined A.B./M.A. Degree Programs ...... 47 Health Professions, Preparation for Careers in the ...... 50 Combined Master’s/Teacher Certification Programs ....48 Health Studies ...... 246 Index 377

Hebrew and Judaic Studies ...... 253 Special Collections ...... 8 History ...... 253 Special Research Resources ...... 9 History of Art ...... 265 Student Advising ...... 14 The Honor Code ...... 12 Student Financial Services ...... 20 Independent Major Program ...... 37 Student Residences ...... 16 International Studies ...... 275 Student Responsibilities and Rights ...... 12 Italian and Italian Studies ...... 283 Study Abroad in the Junior Year ...... 49 Laboratories...... 9 Summer Language Programs ...... 49 Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies ...... 289 Teacher Certification ...... 51 Law, Preparation for Careers in ...... 51 When a Student Withdraws ...... 20 Leadership, Innovation, and the Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) ...... 14 Libraries ...... 8 Linguistics ...... 296 Loan Funds...... 24 Major...... 36 Mathematics ...... 298 McBride Scholars Program...... 52 Middle Eastern Studies...... 303 Minors and Concentrations...... 47 Mission of Bryn Mawr College ...... 4 Museum Studies ...... 306 Music ...... 307 Neuroscience...... 310 Peace, Conflict, and Social Justice Studies ...... 314 Philosophy ...... 315 Physical Education Requirement...... 38 Physics ...... 322 Political Science ...... 328 Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program ...... 52 Praxis Program ...... 54 Privacy of Student Records ...... 13 Psychology ...... 339 Quantitative Requirement ...... 35 Quizzes, Examinations and Extensions ...... 41 Registration ...... 39 Religion...... 347 Repeating Courses ...... 42 Required Forms and Instructions ...... 22 Requirements for the A.B. Degree ...... 35 Residency Requirement ...... 39 Right-to-Know Act ...... 13 Romance Languages ...... 349 Russian...... 351 Satisfactory Academic Progress ...... 42 Scholarship Funds ...... 26 Scholarships for Medical Study ...... 59 Sociology ...... 354 Spanish...... 361