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The Curriculum ............................................... 3 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Africana Studies.............................................. 3 Studies ...................................................56 Anthropology.................................................. 3 Literature .......................................................57 Art History...................................................... 7 Mathematics ..................................................67 Asian Studies ................................................ 10 Music .............................................................69 Biology .......................................................... 13 Philosophy .....................................................80 Chemistry...................................................... 15 Physics ...........................................................82 Classics.......................................................... 17 Politics ...........................................................83 Computer Science ........................................ 17 Pre-Health Program (see Science and Dance ............................................................ 20 Mathematics).......................................100 Design Studies............................................... 25 Psychology .....................................................87 Economics..................................................... 25 Public Policy ..................................................95 Environmental Studies ................................. 30 Religion .........................................................96 Ethnic and Diasporic Studies........................ 31 Russian...........................................................99 Film History .................................................. 32 Science and Mathematics ...........................100 Filmmaking (See Visual Arts) .................... 118 Social Science..............................................101 Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Arts 34 Sociology .....................................................101 French ........................................................... 35 Spanish ........................................................103 Games, Interactivity, and Playable Media.... 38 Theatre ........................................................106 Geography..................................................... 39 Visual Arts ...................................................118 German ......................................................... 40 Architectural Design Global Studies............................................... 42 Drawing Greek (Ancient)........................................... 42 Filmmaking Health, Science, and Society........................ 43 New Media History........................................................... 43 Painting International Studies .................................... 51 Photography Italian............................................................ 51 Printmaking Japanese......................................................... 53 Sculpture Modern and Classical Languages and Visual Fundamentals Literatures ............................................. 53 Women’s Studies .........................................132 Latin.............................................................. 54 Writing.........................................................132 Latin American and Latino/a Studies .......... 55 Faculty......................................................... 145 Africana Studies (2012-2013) THE CURRICULUM 3 First-Year Studies: Global Africa: Theories and The Curriculum Cultures of Diaspora (p. 45), Mary Dillard History Ideas of Africa: Africa Writes Back (p. 50), Mary he Curriculum of the College as planned for Dillard History 2012-2013 is described in the following pages. Sickness and Health in Africa (p. 50), Mary Dillard All courses are planned as full-year courses, History Texcept as otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar Rethinking Civil Rights History and the Origins of descriptions include examples of areas of study in which Black Power (p. 47), Komozi Woodard History a student could concentrate for the conference portion Rethinking the Racial Politics of the New Deal and of the course. In a seminar course, each student not only the War on Poverty (p. 46), Komozi Woodard pursues the main course material but also selects a History related topic for concentrated study, often resulting in a First-Year Studies: Contemporary Africa Literatures: major paper. In this way, each seminar becomes both a Against the Single Story of Things Fall shared and an individual experience. Apart (p. 58), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature Writing Warrior (Wo)men: Mothering, Movements and Migration in Black Literature (p. 65), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature Africana Studies Ethnomusicology of Africa, Asia, and the Middle (2012-2013) East: Structures of Music, Structures of Power (p. 74), Jonathan King Music Africana Studies embraces a number of scholarly First-Year Studies: Child and Adolescent disciplines and subjects at Sarah Lawrence College, Development in North American and African including anthropology, architecture, art history, dance, Contexts: Opportunities and Inequalities (p. 87), economics, film, filmmaking, history, Islamic studies, Kim Ferguson Psychology law, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, Individualism and/or Diversity Reconsidered (p. 92), sociology, theatre, and writing. Students examine the Marvin Frankel Psychology experience of Africans and people of African descent in Environment, Race, and the Psychology of the diaspora, including Latin America, the Caribbean, Place (p. 90), Linwood J. Lewis Psychology North America, and beyond. Study includes the important cultural, economic, technological, political, and social intellectual interplay and exchanges of those peoples as they help make our world. Students will Anthropology explore the literature of Africans and peoples of African (2012-2013) descent in various languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. The dynamics of The study of anthropology traditionally covers four immigration and community formation are vital in this “fields”: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic field. Students will examine the art and architecture of anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology. Africa and the diaspora; their history, societies, and At Sarah Lawrence College, we concentrate on cultures; their economy and politics; the impact of Islam sociocultural and linguistic anthropology. and the Middle East; the processes of slavery; the slave Behind almost every aspect of our lives is a cultural trade and colonialism; as well as postcolonial literature realm: a shared construction that shapes assumptions in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The and determines much of how we perceive and relate to program also includes creative work in filmmaking, the world. Sociocultural anthropology is the study of theatre, and writing. that realm—its extent and its effects. As students learn to approach, with an anthropological eye, what they Courses offered in related disciplines this year are listed formerly might have taken for granted, they gain insight below. Full descriptions of the courses may be found into how social forces govern the ways in which we under the appropriate disciplines. relate to ourselves and each other: how we use words, how we define ourselves and others, how we make sense Kinship: An Anthropological Story (p. 4), Mary A. of our bodies, even how we feel emotions. Through Porter Anthropology examining the writings of anthropologists, viewing Africa Global: Arts From Around the Atlantic (p. 8), ethnographic films, and discussing these and other Susan Kart Art History materials in seminar and conference sessions, students Africa Contemporary: Art From 1950-Present (p. 8), develop a comprehensive and multipatterned sense of Susan Kart Art History the cultural dimensions of human lives. By studying the Hunger and Excess: Histories, Politics, and Cultures underpinnings of language, symbolic practices, race, of Food (p. 30), Charles Zerner Environmental gender, sexuality, policy and advocacy, medical systems, Studies, Persis Charles History cities, modernity, or social organization across a range of Anthropology (2012-2013) THE CURRICULUM 4 Western and non-Western settings, students come to era, European observers imagined that “primitive” understand better how meaning is made. With seminar societies had sparse social regulation. as they reported dynamics and content characteristic of graduate-level cases of “marriage by capture,” “primitive promiscuity,” work, Sarah Lawrence’s anthropology courses take and “paternity uncertainty.” In the postcolonial world, students in often unexpected and challenging directions. anthropologists and everyone else are deeply engaged in questions about kinship—which, in fact, strongly echo First-Year Studies: The 19th-century concerns. Now we frame the topics as Anthropology of Time and Memory queer families, gay marriage, unmarried mothers, Kathleen Kilroy-Marac interracial families, the absence of fathers, transcultural adoption, and new reproductive technologies. In this FYS yearlong lecture, we will draw upon many different kinds The way we perceive, reckon, and experience both time of sources, including ethnography, historical accounts, and memory is far from universal or static. Drawing on memoir, literature, archival documents,