2013-2014 Is Described in the Following Pages
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The Curriculum ............................................... 3 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Africana Studies.............................................. 3 Studies ...................................................55 Anthropology.................................................. 3 Literature .......................................................57 Art History...................................................... 7 Mathematics ..................................................68 Asian Studies ................................................ 11 Music .............................................................70 Biology .......................................................... 13 Philosophy .....................................................79 Chemistry...................................................... 15 Physics ...........................................................81 Classics.......................................................... 17 Politics ...........................................................83 Computer Science ........................................ 17 Pre-Health Program (see Science and Dance ............................................................ 20 Mathematics).......................................102 Design Studies............................................... 24 Psychology .....................................................87 Economics..................................................... 24 Public Policy ..................................................97 Environmental Studies ................................. 27 Religion .........................................................98 Ethnic and Diasporic Studies........................ 30 Russian.........................................................101 Film History .................................................. 30 Science and Mathematics ...........................102 Filmmaking (See Visual Arts) .................... 121 Social Science..............................................103 Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Arts 32 Sociology .....................................................103 French ........................................................... 33 Spanish ........................................................106 Games, Interactivity, and Playable Media.... 35 Theatre ........................................................108 Geography..................................................... 36 Visual Arts ...................................................121 German ......................................................... 38 Architectural Design Global Studies............................................... 39 Drawing Greek (Ancient)........................................... 40 Filmmaking Health, Science, and Society........................ 40 New Media History........................................................... 41 Painting International Studies .................................... 50 Photography Italian............................................................ 51 Printmaking Japanese......................................................... 52 Sculpture Modern and Classical Languages and Visual Fundamentals Literatures ............................................. 53 Women’s Studies .........................................134 Latin.............................................................. 54 Writing.........................................................135 Latin American and Latino/a Studies .......... 55 Faculty......................................................... 147 Africana Studies THE CURRICULUM 3 Sickness and Health in Africa (p. 48), Mary Dillard The Curriculum History Ideas of Africa: Africa Writes Back (p. 47), Mary he Curriculum of the College as planned for Dillard History 2013-2014 is described in the following pages. Gender, Education, and Opportunity in All courses are planned as full-year courses, Africa (p. 49), Mary Dillard History Texcept as otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar Imagining Race and Nation (p. 44), Komozi Woodard descriptions include examples of areas of study in which History a student could concentrate for the conference portion Rethinking Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement: of the course. In a seminar course, each student not only Imagination and Power (p. 48), Komozi Woodard pursues the main course material but also selects a History related topic for concentrated study, often resulting in a Women/Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film: History major paper. In this way, each seminar becomes both a and Theory (p. 50), Kathryn Hearst History shared and an individual experience. African American Literature: Constructing Racial Selves and Others (p. 60), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature “New” World Studies: Maroons, Rebels, and Pirates Africana Studies of the Caribbean (p. 66), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature Africana Studies embraces a number of scholarly “New” World Literatures: Fictions of the disciplines and subjects at Sarah Lawrence College, Yard (p. 67), Alwin A. D. Jones Literature including anthropology, architecture, art history, dance, Music and/as Social Identity: Ethnomusicology of the economics, film, filmmaking, history, Islamic studies, Atlantic Coasts (p. 71), Jonathan King Music law, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, First-Year Studies: Africa in the International sociology, theatre, and writing. Students examine the System (p. 83), Elke Zuern Politics experience of Africans and people of African descent in Democratization and Inequality (p. 86), Elke Zuern the diaspora, including Latin America, the Caribbean, Politics North America, and beyond. Study includes the Poverty in America: Integrating Theory, Research, important cultural, economic, technological, political, Policy, and Practice (p. 89), Kim Ferguson and social intellectual interplay and exchanges of those Psychology peoples as they help make our world. Students will Global Child Development (p. 94), Kim Ferguson explore the literature of Africans and peoples of African Psychology descent in various languages, including Spanish, First-Year Studies: Health, Illness, and Medicine in a Portuguese, French, and English. The dynamics of Multicultural Context: A Service Learning immigration and community formation are vital in this Course (p. 88), Linwood J. Lewis Psychology field. Students will examine the art and architecture of Intersections of Multiple Identities (p. 97), Linwood J. Africa and the diaspora; their history, societies, and Lewis Psychology cultures; their economy and politics; the impact of Islam Sex Is Not a Natural Act: Social Science Explorations and the Middle East; the processes of slavery; the slave of Human Sexuality (p. 88), Linwood J. Lewis trade and colonialism; as well as postcolonial literature Psychology in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The program also includes creative work in filmmaking, theatre, and writing. Anthropology Courses offered in related disciplines this year are listed below. Full descriptions of the courses may be found The study of anthropology traditionally covers four under the appropriate disciplines. “fields”: sociocultural anthropology, linguistic First-Year Studies: Making Connections: Gender, anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology. Sexuality, and Kinship From an Anthropological At Sarah Lawrence College, we concentrate on Perspective (p. 4), Mary A. Porter Anthropology sociocultural and linguistic anthropology. Telling Lives: Life History Through Behind almost every aspect of our lives is a cultural Anthropology (p. 6), Mary A. Porter Anthropology realm: a shared construction that shapes assumptions First-Year Studies: Introduction to International and determines much of how we perceive and relate to Development Studies: The Political Ecology of the world. Sociocultural anthropology is the study of Development (p. 36), Joshua Muldavin Geography that realm—its extent and its effects. As students learn Global Africa: Theories and Cultures of to approach, with an anthropological eye, what they Diaspora (p. 46), Mary Dillard History formerly might have taken for granted, they gain insight into how social forces govern the ways in which we Anthropology THE CURRICULUM 4 relate to ourselves and each other: how we use words, Anthropology and Photography how we define ourselves and others, how we make sense Robert R. Desjarlais of our bodies, even how we feel emotions. Through Lecture, Open—Fall examining the writings of anthropologists, viewing Walker Evans once referred to photography as offering ethnographic films, and discussing these and other “searing little spots of realism.” This course attends to materials in seminar and conference sessions, students the cultural and experiential glint of photographic develop a comprehensive and multipatterned sense of imagery by way of an anthropological exploration of the the cultural dimensions of human lives. By studying the social, political, and aesthetic dimensions of underpinnings of language, symbolic practices, race, photography in a range of distinct cultural settings. We gender, sexuality, policy and advocacy, medical systems, will engage in two main efforts: an anthropologically cities, modernity, or social organization across a range of informed inquiry into the phenomenon of photography Western and non-Western settings, students come to and photographic endeavors that might be called understand better how meaning is made. With seminar “photoethnography.” In terms of an anthropology of dynamics and content characteristic of