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Undergraduate Catalogue
The Curriculum of the College as planned for 2013-2014 is described in the links below. All courses are full-year courses, except as otherwise indicated. Where possible, seminar descriptions include examples of areas of study in which a student could concentrate for the conference portion of the course. In a seminar course, each student not only pursues the main course material but also selects a related topic for concentrated study, often resulting in a major paper. In this way, each seminar becomes both a shared and an individual experience.
Africana Studies
Anthropology
Anthropology courses
- Anthropology and Photography
- First-Year Studies: Making Connections: Gender, Sexuality, and Kinship From an Anthropological Perspective
- Global Flows and Frictions in Southeast Asia and Beyond
- Migration and Experience
- Spaces of Exclusion, Places of Belonging
- Telling Lives: Life History Through Anthropology
- The Power of Words: Language, Hegemony, and Social Inequality
- Workshop in Photoethnographies
Art History
Art History courses
- Ancient Albion–Art and Culture in the British Isles from Stonehenge to the Viking Invasions
- East vs. West – Europe, the Mediterranean, and Western Asia from Antiquity to the Modern Age
- First-Year Studies: Archi/Texts: Buildings and Philosophies, Environments and Interactions From Periclean Athens to Contemporary Los Angeles and Beyond
- Islamic Art and Society: 632-2013
- The Paradox of Painting: Pictures and Practices, Histories and Theories in Renaissance and Baroque Art, 1500-1700
Asian Studies
Asian Studies courses
- Chinese History I: From Origins to the Mongol Empire
- Chinese History II: From the Ming Dynasty to Yesterday
- Crucible of History: China in World War II, 1937-45
- First-Year Studies: Chinese Philosophy and Daily Life
- Law and Order in Pre-Modern China
- Personal Narratives: Identity and History in Modern China
Courses in other disciplines related to Asian Studies
Biology
Biology courses
- Biology of Cancer
- Disease Ecology
- First-Year Studies: Brain and Behavior
- General Biology I: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- General Biology II: Anatomy and Physiology
- General Biology II: Organismal and Population Biology
- Giving, Taking, and Cheating: The Ecology of Symbiosis
- Introduction to Genetics
- Plant Physiology
Chemistry
Classics
Courses in other disciplines related to Classics
Computer Science
Dance
Dance courses
- African Dance
- Anatomy in Action
- Anatomy Seminar
- Ballet
- Composition
- Contact Improvisation
- Dance and Camera
- Dance History
- Dance Making
- Dance Meeting
- Dance/Movement Fundamentals
- Dance Training Conference
- Experimental Improvisation Ensemble
- Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement®
- First-Year Studies in Dance
- Improvisation
- Labanotation/Repertory
- Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
- Modern and Post-Modern Practice
- Performance Project
- Performance Project: Memories, Present Moments and Movements Merge
- Senior Seminar
- Teaching Conference
- Yoga
Design Studies
Economics
Economics courses
Environmental Studies
Ethnic and Diasporic Studies
Film History
Film History courses
Courses in other disciplines related to Film History
Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Arts
French
French courses
- Advanced Beginning French: From Language to Literature
- Beginning French: Language and Culture
- Intermediate French I: French Identities From Jeanne d’Arc to Zidane
- Intermediate French II: The Writing of Everyday Life in French 20th-Century Literature
- Intermediate III/Advanced French: Proust: A Reading Guide
Games, Interactivity, and Playable Media
Geography
German
Global Studies
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek courses
Health, Science, and Society
History
History courses
- 1919
- Art and the Sacred in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Based on a True Story? Latin American History Through Film
- Becoming Modern: Europe from 1760 to 1914
- Effort, Merit, Privilege
- Espionage in the 20th Century
- First-Year Studies: Inventing America: Cultural Encounters and American Identity, 1607-1877
- First-Year Studies: Place, Landscape, and Identity in the Middle East
- Global Africa: Theories and Cultures of Diaspora
- Imagining Race and Nation
- In Tolstoy’s Time
- Literature, Culture, and Politics in US History
- Popular Culture in the Modern Middle East
- Rethinking Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement: Imagination and Power
- Romanesque: A Research Seminar in Religious and Secular Iconography, the Language of Artistic Forms, and Medieval History
- Sickness and Health in Africa
- The American Revolution and Its Legacy: From British to American Nationalism
- The Cold War in History and Film
- The Contemporary Practice of International Law
- The Cuban Revolution(s) from 1898 to Today
- The Disreputable 16th Century
- The Evolution of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
- The Sixties
- Women, Culture, and Politics in US History
- Women and Gender in the Middle East
- Women/ Gender, Race and Sexuality in Film: History and Theory
- Women/Gender, Race and Sexuality in Film: History and Theory
Courses in other disciplines related to History
International Studies
Italian
Japanese
Japanese courses
Courses in other disciplines related to Japanese
Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Latin
Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies courses
Literature
Literature courses
- Abbreviated Wisdom: How the Short Story Works
- Acting Up: Theatre and Theatricality in 18th-Century England
- African American Literature: Constructing Racial Selves and Others
- After Eve: Medieval Women
- Declarations of Independence: American Literary Masterworks
- Dostoevsky and the Age of Positivism
- Eight American Poets
- 18th-Century Women of Letters
- Empire of Letters: Mapping the Arts and the World in the Age of Johnson
- Epic Vision and Tradition from the Odyssey to Walcott's Omeros
- First-Year Studies: Amid the Tears and Laughter: The Political Art of Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy
- First-Year Studies: Autobiography in Literature: Self/Life/Writing
- First-Year Studies: Calles y Plaza Antigua: The Country and the City in Literature and Film
- First Year Studies in History and Literature: The Two World Wars of the Twentieth Century
- First-Year Studies in Literature
- First-Year Studies: Japanese Literature: Ancient Myths to Contemporary Fiction
- First-Year Studies: Modern Myths of Paris
- First-Year Studies: The Three Crowns of Florence: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Beginnings of Modern
- Green Romanticisms
- Literary London
- Lorca’s World: From Granada to New York, Literature in Translation
- Modernism and Fiction
- New Media Literacies
- “New” World Literatures: Fictions of the Yard
- New World Studies: Maroons, Rebels, and Pirates of the Caribbean
- Romantic Poetry and Its Consequences
- Seventeenth-Century English Literature: Tradition and Transformation
- Sex in the Machine
- Small Circle of Friends: A Topic in Renaissance Literature
- Studies in the 19th-Century Novel
- The Forms and Logic of Comedy
- The Greco-Roman World: Its Origins, Crises, Turning Points, and Final Transformations
- The Making of Modern Theatre: Ibsen and Chekhov
- The Nonfiction Essay: Writing the Literature of Fact, Journalism, and Beyond
- The Poetics and Politics of Translation
- The Poetry Book: Text and Design
- Typology of the Narrator
- Warriors, Rogues, and Women in Breeches: Adventurous Lives in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature: Literature in Translation
Mathematics
Mathematics courses
- An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Analysis
- Calculus II: Modeling With Differential Equations
- Calculus I: The Study of Motion and Change
- Discrete Mathematics: A Gateway to Advanced Mathematics
- First-Year Studies: Mathematics in Context: Philosophy, Society, Culture, and Conflict
- Topics in Multivariable and Vector Calculus
- Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space
Music
Music courses
- Advanced Theory: Advanced Tonal Theory and Analysis
- Advanced Theory: Continuo Playing
- Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony
- Advanced Theory: Twentieth-Century Theoretical Approaches: Post-Tonal and Rock Music
- African Classics of the Post-Colonial Era
- Bluegrass Performance Ensemble
- Chamber Choir
- Chamber Music
- Chamber Music Improvisation
- Concert Attendance/Music Tuesdays Requirement
- Conducting
- Debussy and the French School
- First-Year Studies: Landmarks of Western Music
- Guitar Class
- Guitar Ensemble
- Intermediate and Advanced Aural Skills
- Introduction to Electronic Music and Music Technology
- Jazz Colloquium
- Jazz History
- Jazz Performance and Improvisation Workshop
- Jazz Vocal Ensemble
- Jazz Vocal Seminar
- Keyboard Lab
- Master Class
- MIDI: Sequencing, Recording, and Mastering Electronic Music
- Mozart and Beethoven: Music from 1720-1810
- Music and/as Language: Ethnomusicology of North America
- Music and/as Language: Ethnomusicology of North America
- Music and/as Social Identity: Ethnomusicology of the Atlantic Coasts
- Music and/as Social Identity: Ethnomusicology of the Atlantic Coasts
- Music of the Baroque
- Music Workshop
- Orchestra Projects
- Self-Discovery Through Singing
- Seminar in Vocal Performance
- Senior Recital
- Sight Reading for Instrumentalists
- So This Is Opera?
- Studio Class
- Studio Composition and Music Technology
- Survey of Western Music
- The Blues Ensemble
- Theory II: Basic Tonal Theory and Composition
- *Theory I: Materials of Music
- Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques
- Violin Master Class
- West African Percussion Ensemble Faso Foli
- Women’s Vocal Ensemble
Philosophy
Physics
Physics courses
Politics
Politics courses
- Democracy and Diversity
- Democratization and Inequality
- First-Year Studies: Africa in the International System
- Making Parties and Policy in a Polarized Era
- Presidential Leadership and Decision Making: Lincoln, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Obama
- Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of the ’80s
- The Legitimacy of Modernity? Basic Texts in Social Theory
- The Philosophy and Politics of (In)Equality
Pre-Health Program
Psychology
Psychology courses
- Art and Visual Perception
- First-Year Studies: Health, Illness, and Medicine in a Multicultural Context: A Service Learning Course
- First-Year Studies: Synapse to Self: Neuroscience of Self-Identity
- Framing the Body: The Intersection of Psychology and Medicine
- Global Child Development
- Home and Other Figments: Immigration, Exile, and Uprootedness
- Individualism and/or Diversity Reconsidered
- Intersections of Multiple Identities
- Language Research Seminar
- Mindfulness: Neuroscientific and Psychological Perspectives
- Moral Development
- Narrative Neuropsychology
- Parents and Peers in Children’s Lives
- Pathways of Development: Psychopathology and Other Challenges to the Developmental Process
- Personality Development
- Play in Developmental and Cultural Context
- Poverty in America: Integrating Theory, Research, Policy and Practice
- Principles of Psychology: Brains, Minds and Bodies
- Psychology of Religious Experience
- Sex is not a Natural Act: Social Science Explorations of Human Sexuality
- Telling One’s Story: Narratives of Development and Life Experience
- The Changing Self: Narratives of Personal Transformation
- The Developing Child: Perspectives from Experience, Observation, and Theory
- The Empathic Attitude
- The Neurobiology of Mental Health
- Theories of Development
- The Talking Cure: The Restoration of Freedom
- Trauma, Loss, and Resilience
Public Policy
Religion
Religion courses
Russian
Russian courses
Sociology
Spanish
Spanish courses
- Advanced Beginning Spanish
- Advanced Spanish: Hide and Seek: Playing With the Limits of the Imagination
- Beginning Spanish
- Intermediate Spanish I: Fiction and Nonfiction in Latin American and Iberian Culture
- Intermediate Spanish II: Grammar and Composition
- Intermediate Spanish III: Culture in the Information Age
- The Spanish Language Canon
Courses in other disciplines related to Spanish
Theatre
Theatre courses
Visual Arts
Visual Arts courses
- Advanced Painting I
- Advanced Painting II
- Advanced Photography
- Advanced Printmaking
- Animation Studio: Direct Techniques
- Artist Books
- Basic Analog Black-and-White Photography
- Basic Color Photography
- Beginning Painting: Form and Color
- Cinematography, Composition and Form
- Cinematography: Composition, Color and Style
- Color
- Concepts in Sculpture
- Contemporary Painting II: Discourse and Practice
- Contemporary Painting I: Studio Practice
- Digital Documentary Storytelling: Development and Process
- Digital Imaging Techniques
- Drawing for Animation: Light and Form
- Drawing Machines
- Drawing: Seeing in Reverse
- Experimental Animation: Hybrid Imaging
- Filmmaking Structural Analysis
- Filmmaking: Visions of Social Justice
- First-Year Studies in Printmaking
- First-Year Studies: Working With Performance For Screenwriters and Directors
- Interdisciplinary Studio/Seminar
- Intermediate Photography
- Kinetic Sculpture with Arduino
- Machines as Material
- Making the Genre Film: Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy
- Making the Independent Feature Film
- Media Sketchbooks
- Producing Independent Film, TV, and Video: A Real-World Guide, Part I
- Producing Independent Film, TV, and Video: A Real-World Guide, Part II
- Screenwriting: The Art and Craft of Film-Telling
- Screenwriting: The Art and Craft of Film-Telling
- Script to Screen
- Script to Screen
- Storyboard Drawing and Visualization for Film, Animation, and Interactive Media
- Sustainable Architecture Studio Lab
- The Director Prepares
- The Director Prepares
- Things and Beyond
- Third Screen: Playable Media for Mobile Devices
- Two-Dimensional Design
- Working With Light and Shadows
- Working With Light and Shadows
- Writing for the Screen
- Writing the Television Series
Women’s Studies
Writing
Writing courses
- A Question of Character: The Art of the Profile
- Awake and Dreaming: A Poetry Reading and Writing Seminar
- Crafting Fiction: Stories that Stick
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Essay Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- First-Year Studies: Poetic Forms/Forming Poetry
- First-Year Studies: The Distinctive Voice in Poetry
- Literary Journals and Writing
- Necessary Hero: A Fiction Workshop
- Nonfiction Laboratory
- PLAY Poetry Workshop
- Poetry Workshop: Focus On Poetic Tone
- Poetry Workshop: Rebels, Sirens, Outlaws
- Nonfiction Workshop: Recollected in Commotion
- Stories That Need to be Told
- The Enemies of Fiction: A Fiction-Writing Workshop
- The Source of Stories: Writing From Your Own Experience, Mixed-Genre Workshop
- Voice and Form
- Writing the Dark Side: Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery
Vera Wang '71 addresses Class of 2013; photos, videos, media clips available on Commencement site