Bard College at Simon's Rock
SPRING 2009 Course Listing
as of March 23, 2009
 
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
B.A. Seminar Top
All Offerings
  BAS310 NEW Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-201 B Conolly   15 11  
P Shields   15 11  
  BAS384 NEW Making Art in a Dangerous World 4 M 2:00- 4:45 pm DAC-023 A Hillman   15 15  
A Michel   15 15  
 
First Year Seminar Top
All Offerings
  FS101A . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-023 W Shifrin FY 14 15  
  FS101B . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-023 K Beaumont FY 14 13  
  FS101C . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 20  
  FS101D . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 B Rodgers FY 14 12  
  FS101E . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 I Bickford FY 14 13  
  FS101F . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-03 I Bickford FY 14 14  
  FS101G . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 B Mathews FY 14 10  
  FS101H . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 14 13  
  FS101J . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 M Vecchio FY 14 9  
  FS101K . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-02 P Filkins FY 14 9  
  FS101L . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 14 13  
  FS101M . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-13 C Callanan FY 14 14  
  FS101O . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 A Michel FY 14 8  
 
Sophomore Seminar Top
All Offerings
  SS251 . Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 A Iroh   14 13  
 
Anthropology Top
All Offerings
  ANTH212 . Anthropology Goes to the Movies 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 15 18  
  ANTH223 NEW Life Histories 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 15 5  
  ANTH228 NEW Preternatural Predilections 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 15 12  
  ANTH316 NEW Research-Led Creative Practice 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 A Iroh   15 4  
 
Art History Top
All Offerings
  ARTH218 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 3 2  
  ARTH318 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 11 15  
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH316M2 . The Arts, the Artist, and the Law 2 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-128 B Resnik   15 12  
 
Asian Studies Top
All Offerings
  ASIA234 . Traditional Chinese Scholars 3 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 J Weinstein FY 15 5  
 
Biology Top
All Offerings
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt FY 30 26  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 10  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 15  
  BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 11  
T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 11  
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis WP 20 14  
  BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   16 4  
  BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   16 10  
  BIO204 . Vertebrate Zoology 4 MW 10:00-11:25 am FSH-113 R Schmidt WP 15 8  
T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt WP 15 8  
  BIO205A . Marine Mammal Biology 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-201 J Lapseritis FY 15 15  
  BIO205B . Marine Mammal Biology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis FY 15 14  
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder   15 7  
TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder   15 7  
  BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 23  
 
Chemistry Top
All Offerings
  CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 18 7  
  CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 18 7  
  CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-128 P Dooley WP 12 9  
  CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 P Dooley WP 12 5  
  CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 E Dongala   12 3  
  CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 E Dongala   12 3  
 
Computer Science Top
All Offerings
  CMPT242 . Computer Science 1 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields FY 12 14  
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 5  
  CMPT312 . Programming Languages 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-112 P Shields   15 8  
 
Dance Top
All Offerings
  DANC107 . Moving Issues 2 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 1  
  DANC207 . Moving Issues 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 3  
  DANC114 . Ballet 2 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 21  
  DANC119 NEW Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 16  
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 8  
  DANC205 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and the Visual Arts 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 12  
 
Economics Top
All Offerings
  ECON100 . Microeconomics 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 F Unal FY 30 32  
  ECON107 NEW Economics and Technology 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 D Neilson FY 15 16  
  ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 F Unal FY 15 12  
 
Foreign Languages - Arabic Top
All Offerings
  ARAB101 . Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
 
Foreign Languages - Chinese Top
All Offerings
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 20 15  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 T 2:00- 3:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 20 15  
  CHIN203 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 20 6  
  CHIN303 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 20 5  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 15 6  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
All Offerings
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
  FREN205A . Intermediate French II 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 9  
  FREN217 NEW Paris on the Page 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 M Tebben WP 15 8  
 
Foreign Languages - German Top
All Offerings
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:25 pm CL3-09 C van Kerckvoorde WP 20 11  
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-10 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15 5  
 
Foreign Languages - Latin Top
All Offerings
  LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
  LATN205 . Intermediate Latin II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-201 C Callanan WP 20 6  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
All Offerings
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 MW 9:00-09:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 8  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 8  
  SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 MW 11:00-11:55 am CL3-14 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 21  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-14 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 21  
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-01 M Wong WP 15 11  
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-13 E Chamorro WP 15 9  
  SPAN211 . 20th-Century Latin American Short Story 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 15 5  
  SPAN321 NEW Del Bulevar a la caja: la novela realista y la economía del consumismo 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 15 5  
 
Gender Studies Top
All Offerings
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
 
Geography Top
All Offerings
  GEOG214 NEW Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-201 C Coggins FY 15 24  
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
  HIST260 NEW Mapping Power, Archiving Knowledge: The Cartography of Science, Capitalism, and the State 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 R Carey   15 17  
 
History Top
All Offerings
  HIST211 . Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-131 R Carey   15 6  
F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-112 R Carey   15 6  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  HIST260 NEW Mapping Power, Archiving Knowledge: The Cartography of Science, Capitalism, and the State 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 R Carey   15 17  
  HIST319 . Hegemony Is Hard Work: Domination/Agency/Resistance 4 R 2:00- 4:55 pm LIB-LSR R Carey   15 16  
 
Intercultural Studies Top
All Offerings
  INTC315 . The Mythic Imagination 4 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm DAC-023 M Vecchio   18 18  
 
Linguistics Top
All Offerings
  LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 M 3:00- 3:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
W 2:30- 3:25 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
F 12:00-12:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
 
Literature Top
All Offerings
  LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 15 14  
  LIT215 NEW Milton and Aftertimes 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-12 I Bickford FY 15 15  
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 T 3:00- 5:55 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
R 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
  LIT239 . Contemporary American Poetry 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 P Filkins FY 15 15  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT257 . Modern Drama : From Realism to the Absurd 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 14  
  LIT260 . Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 R Fiske FY 15 19  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  LIT288 . Fiction Workshop 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 B Mathews   12 12  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 12  
  LIT311 . American Modernism: Making It New 4 W 6:00- 8:30 pm CL3-10 B Rodgers   15 16  
 
Mathematics Top
All Offerings
  MATH099 . Core Mathematics   TR 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 30 10  
  MATH101A . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 15 14  
F 9:00-09:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 15 14  
  MATH101B . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 10:00-10:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 15 10  
F 10:00-10:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 15 10  
  MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 24 29  
  MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 MW 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-102 R Snyder WP 15 20  
F 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-112 R Snyder WP 15 20  
  MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-113 B Wynne WP 15 15  
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 20 12  
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 20 6  
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 15 11  
  MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-01 B Wynne   15 5  
 
Music Top
All Offerings
  MUS103 . Musicianship 2 WF 1:00- 1:55 pm KLG-B C Wu FY 15 9  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 99 29  
  MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 14  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  MUS203M2 . Renaissance Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 12 4
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 9  
  MUS210 . Composition 2 TR 7:30- 8:30 pm KLG-B C Wu WP 15 4  
R 7:30- 8:30 pm DAC-128 C Wu WP 15 4  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 4:45- 6:10 pm KLG-B L Bardo WP 12 10  
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 12 11  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 99 11  
  MUS309 . Theory IV: Analysis, Baroque Counterpoint, and Chromatic Harmony 4 MWF 11:00-11:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach WP 15 6  
  MUS310 . Composition 3 TR 7:30- 8:30 pm KLG-B C Wu WP 2 2  
R 7:30- 8:30 pm DAC-128 C Wu WP 2 2  
 
Philosophy Top
All Offerings
  PHIL175 . Ethics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15 16  
  PHIL203M2 NEW Philosophy of Religion 2 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 17 7
  PHIL208 . Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 18  
  PHIL231 . Islamic Philosophy 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-128 B Conolly   15 13  
 
Physics Top
All Offerings
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 20 17  
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 10 9  
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 10 8  
  PHYS204 . Physics of Sound & Music 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm LEC-LC D Sharpe FY 15 15  
  PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-113 E Kramer   15 4  
 
Political Science Top
All Offerings
  POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-11 A Abbas FY 15 18  
  POLS206 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas FY 15 13  
  POLS306 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas   1 2  
  POLS328 NEW The Democratic Imagination 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm CL3-12 A Abbas   15 17  
 
Psychology Top
All Offerings
  PSYC100 . Introduction to Psychology 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer FY 30 36  
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 L Anderson   15 11  
  PSYC209 . Human Sexuality 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 V Brush   15 12  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
  PSYC310 . Principles of Clinical Psychology 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 V Brush   15 7  
 
Social Science Top
All Offerings
  SOCS309 . Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences 4 R 2:00- 4:55 pm CL3-12 A Smith   15 14  
  SOCS321 . Prosem: Soc. Scientifc Inquiry 4 R 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A Abbas   12 7  
 
Studio Arts Top
All Offerings
  ARTH218 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 3 2  
  ARTH318 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 11 15  
  SART102A . Photography 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse FY 15 9  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  SART102B . Photography 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-025 A Hillman FY 15 14  
S1 SART106 . Introduction to Ceramics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-072 B Krupka FY 12 12  
S1 SART108M1 . The Art of Assemblage 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 13  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 13  
  SART166 NEW Design for Life 3 TR 10:30-12:00 pm DAC-074 B Krupka FY 12 13  
S1 SART219M2 . Jewelry Design and Fabrication 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 12 4  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 4  
  SART335 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 1 1  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1 1  
  SART435 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 2 2  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 2 2  
  SART237 . Illustration Studio 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 11 10  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 11 10  
  SART337 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 6 6  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 6 6  
  SART437 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 1    
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1    
  SART245 . Documentary Film/Video Production 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke FY 12 5  
  SART267 . Ceramic Studio 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   6 5  
  SART367 . Ceramic Studio 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   4 5  
  SART467 . Ceramic Studio 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   3 4  
  SART303 . Color Photography Studio 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-025 A Hillman WP 10 9  
  SART403 . Color Photography Studio 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-025 A Hillman WP 5 6  
  SART312 NEW Beyond 35mm Photography 4 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-025 L Tyler   12 9  
  SART445 . Documentary Film/ Video Produc 4 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke   1 1  
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
S2 You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
All Offerings
  THEA107M1 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 12  
  THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 11  
  THEA109 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 3 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully FY 9 6  
  THEA409 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 4 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully WP 3 3  
  THEA201 . Listening, Analysis & Characterization 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 12 9  
  THEA204 . Movement: Analysis of Expression 3 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont   12 15  
  THEA206 . Theater Production 3 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 12 9  
  THEA406 . Theater Production 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 3 4  
  THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-002 A Michel WP 12 11  
  THEA306 . Theater Production 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 1 1  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
Cultural Perspectives Top
All Offerings
  ANTH212 . Anthropology Goes to the Movies 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 15 18  
  ARAB101 . Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 15 6  
  GEOG214 NEW Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-201 C Coggins FY 15 24  
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
  HIST211 . Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-131 R Carey   15 6  
F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-112 R Carey   15 6  
  LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 M 3:00- 3:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
W 2:30- 3:25 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
F 12:00-12:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  PHIL208 . Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 18  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
 
Modular Courses Top
All Offerings
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH316M2 . The Arts, the Artist, and the Law 2 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-128 B Resnik   15 12  
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 12  
  MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 14  
  MUS203M2 . Renaissance Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 12 4
  PHIL203M2 NEW Philosophy of Religion 2 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 17 7
S1 SART108M1 . The Art of Assemblage 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 13  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 13  
S1 SART219M2 . Jewelry Design and Fabrication 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
  THEA107M1 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 12  
  THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 11  
 
 
 
 
 
Courses appropriate for first-year students
Home FOCUS Report
 
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
First Year Seminar Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  FS101A . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-023 W Shifrin FY 14 15  
  FS101B . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-023 K Beaumont FY 14 13  
  FS101C . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 20  
  FS101D . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 B Rodgers FY 14 12  
  FS101E . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 I Bickford FY 14 13  
  FS101F . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-03 I Bickford FY 14 14  
  FS101G . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 B Mathews FY 14 10  
  FS101H . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 14 13  
  FS101J . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 M Vecchio FY 14 9  
  FS101K . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-02 P Filkins FY 14 9  
  FS101L . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 14 13  
  FS101M . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-13 C Callanan FY 14 14  
  FS101O . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 A Michel FY 14 8  
 
Anthropology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ANTH212 . Anthropology Goes to the Movies 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 15 18  
 
Art History Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
 
Asian Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ASIA234 . Traditional Chinese Scholars 3 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 J Weinstein FY 15 5  
 
Biology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt FY 30 26  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 10  
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 15  
  BIO205A . Marine Mammal Biology 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-201 J Lapseritis FY 15 15  
  BIO205B . Marine Mammal Biology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis FY 15 14  
  BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 23  
 
Computer Science Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  CMPT242 . Computer Science 1 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields FY 12 14  
 
Dance Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  DANC107 . Moving Issues 2 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 1  
  DANC207 . Moving Issues 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 3  
  DANC114 . Ballet 2 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 21  
  DANC119 NEW Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 16  
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 8  
  DANC205 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and the Visual Arts 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 12  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Economics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ECON100 . Microeconomics 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 F Unal FY 30 32  
  ECON107 NEW Economics and Technology 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 D Neilson FY 15 16  
  ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 F Unal FY 15 12  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
 
Foreign Languages - Latin Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 MW 9:00-09:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
 
Gender Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
 
Geography Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  GEOG214 NEW Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-201 C Coggins FY 15 24  
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
 
Literature Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 15 14  
  LIT215 NEW Milton and Aftertimes 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-12 I Bickford FY 15 15  
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 T 3:00- 5:55 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
R 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 15 16  
  LIT239 . Contemporary American Poetry 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 P Filkins FY 15 15  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT257 . Modern Drama : From Realism to the Absurd 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 14  
  LIT260 . Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 R Fiske FY 15 19  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 12  
 
Mathematics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  MATH099 . Core Mathematics   TR 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 30 10  
  MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 24 29  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Music Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  MUS103 . Musicianship 2 WF 1:00- 1:55 pm KLG-B C Wu FY 15 9  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 99 29  
  MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 14  
  MUS203M2 . Renaissance Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 12 4
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 9  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 99 11  
 
Philosophy Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  PHIL175 . Ethics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15 16  
  PHIL203M2 NEW Philosophy of Religion 2 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 17 7
  PHIL208 . Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 18  
 
Physics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  PHYS204 . Physics of Sound & Music 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm LEC-LC D Sharpe FY 15 15  
 
Political Science Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-11 A Abbas FY 15 18  
  POLS206 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas FY 15 13  
 
Psychology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  PSYC100 . Introduction to Psychology 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer FY 30 36  
 
Studio Arts Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  SART102A . Photography 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse FY 15 9  
  SART102B . Photography 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-025 A Hillman FY 15 14  
S1 SART106 . Introduction to Ceramics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-072 B Krupka FY 12 12  
S1 SART108M1 . The Art of Assemblage 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 13  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 13  
  SART166 NEW Design for Life 3 TR 10:30-12:00 pm DAC-074 B Krupka FY 12 13  
S1 SART219M2 . Jewelry Design and Fabrication 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 12 4  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 4  
  SART335 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 1 1  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1 1  
  SART435 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 2 2  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 2 2  
  SART237 . Illustration Studio 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 11 10  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 11 10  
  SART337 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 6 6  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 6 6  
  SART437 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 1    
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1    
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  SART245 . Documentary Film/Video Production 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke FY 12 5  
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
S2 You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  THEA107M1 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 12  
  THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 11  
  THEA109 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 3 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully FY 9 6  
  THEA201 . Listening, Analysis & Characterization 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 12 9  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
Cultural Perspectives Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ANTH212 . Anthropology Goes to the Movies 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 15 18  
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  GEOG214 NEW Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-201 C Coggins FY 15 24  
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  PHIL208 . Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 M Naamon FY 15 18  
 
Modular Courses Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 12  
  MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 14  
  MUS203M2 . Renaissance Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 12 4
  PHIL203M2 NEW Philosophy of Religion 2 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 17 7
S1 SART108M1 . The Art of Assemblage 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 13  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 13  
S1 SART219M2 . Jewelry Design and Fabrication 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 11 5
  THEA107M1 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 12  
  THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 11  
 
 
 
 
 
Open Classes Only
Home FOCUS Report FOCUS Report
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
B.A. Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
  BAS310 NEW Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-201 B Conolly   15 11  
P Shields   15 11  
 
First Year Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
  FS101B . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-023 K Beaumont FY 14 13  
  FS101D . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 B Rodgers FY 14 12  
  FS101E . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 I Bickford FY 14 13  
  FS101G . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 B Mathews FY 14 10  
  FS101H . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 14 13  
  FS101J . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 M Vecchio FY 14 9  
  FS101K . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-02 P Filkins FY 14 9  
  FS101L . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 14 13  
  FS101O . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 A Michel FY 14 8  
 
Sophomore Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
  SS251 . Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 A Iroh   14 13  
 
Anthropology Top
Classes with seats available
  ANTH223 NEW Life Histories 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 15 5  
  ANTH228 NEW Preternatural Predilections 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 15 12  
  ANTH316 NEW Research-Led Creative Practice 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 A Iroh   15 4  
 
Art History Top
Classes with seats available
  ARTH218 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 3 2  
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH316M2 . The Arts, the Artist, and the Law 2 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-128 B Resnik   15 12  
 
Asian Studies Top
Classes with seats available
  ASIA234 . Traditional Chinese Scholars 3 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 J Weinstein FY 15 5  
 
Biology Top
Classes with seats available
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt FY 30 26  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 10  
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 16 15  
  BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 11  
T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 11  
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis WP 20 14  
  BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   16 4  
  BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   16 10  
  BIO204 . Vertebrate Zoology 4 MW 10:00-11:25 am FSH-113 R Schmidt WP 15 8  
T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt WP 15 8  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  BIO205B . Marine Mammal Biology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis FY 15 14  
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder   15 7  
TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder   15 7  
 
Chemistry Top
Classes with seats available
  CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 18 7  
  CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 18 7  
  CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-128 P Dooley WP 12 9  
  CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 P Dooley WP 12 5  
  CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 E Dongala   12 3  
  CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 E Dongala   12 3  
 
Computer Science Top
Classes with seats available
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 5  
  CMPT312 . Programming Languages 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-112 P Shields   15 8  
 
Dance Top
Classes with seats available
  DANC107 . Moving Issues 2 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 1  
  DANC207 . Moving Issues 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 12 3  
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 8  
  DANC205 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and the Visual Arts 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 15 12  
 
Economics Top
Classes with seats available
  ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 F Unal FY 15 12  
 
Foreign Languages - Arabic Top
Classes with seats available
  ARAB101 . Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
 
Foreign Languages - Chinese Top
Classes with seats available
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 20 15  
T 2:00- 3:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 20 15  
  CHIN203 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 20 6  
  CHIN303 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 20 5  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 15 6  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
Classes with seats available
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 20 18  
  FREN205A . Intermediate French II 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 9  
  FREN217 NEW Paris on the Page 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 M Tebben WP 15 8  
 
Foreign Languages - German Top
Classes with seats available
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:25 pm CL3-09 C van Kerckvoorde WP 20 11  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-10 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15 5  
 
Foreign Languages - Latin Top
Classes with seats available
  LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 20 16  
  LATN205 . Intermediate Latin II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-201 C Callanan WP 20 6  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
Classes with seats available
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 MW 9:00-09:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 18 7  
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 8  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 15 8  
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-01 M Wong WP 15 11  
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-13 E Chamorro WP 15 9  
  SPAN211 . 20th-Century Latin American Short Story 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 15 5  
  SPAN321 NEW Del Bulevar a la caja: la novela realista y la economía del consumismo 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 15 5  
 
Gender Studies Top
Classes with seats available
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
 
History Top
Classes with seats available
  HIST211 . Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-131 R Carey   15 6  
F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-112 R Carey   15 6  
 
Linguistics Top
Classes with seats available
  LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 M 3:00- 3:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
W 2:30- 3:25 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
F 12:00-12:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
 
Literature Top
Classes with seats available
  LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 15 14  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT257 . Modern Drama : From Realism to the Absurd 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 14  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 12  
 
Mathematics Top
Classes with seats available
  MATH099 . Core Mathematics   TR 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 30 10  
  MATH101A . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 15 14  
F 9:00-09:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 15 14  
  MATH101B . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 10:00-10:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 15 10  
F 10:00-10:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 15 10  
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 20 12  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 20 6  
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 15 11  
  MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-01 B Wynne   15 5  
 
Music Top
Classes with seats available
  MUS103 . Musicianship 2 WF 1:00- 1:55 pm KLG-B C Wu FY 15 9  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 99 29  
  MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 14  
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 9  
  MUS210 . Composition 2 TR 7:30- 8:30 pm KLG-B C Wu WP 15 4  
R 7:30- 8:30 pm DAC-128 C Wu WP 15 4  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 4:45- 6:10 pm KLG-B L Bardo WP 12 10  
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 12 11  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 99 11  
  MUS309 . Theory IV: Analysis, Baroque Counterpoint, and Chromatic Harmony 4 MWF 11:00-11:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach WP 15 6  
 
Philosophy Top
Classes with seats available
  PHIL231 . Islamic Philosophy 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-128 B Conolly   15 13  
 
Physics Top
Classes with seats available
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 20 17  
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 10 9  
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 10 8  
  PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-113 E Kramer   15 4  
 
Political Science Top
Classes with seats available
  POLS206 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas FY 15 13  
 
Psychology Top
Classes with seats available
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 L Anderson   15 11  
  PSYC209 . Human Sexuality 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 V Brush   15 12  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
  PSYC310 . Principles of Clinical Psychology 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 V Brush   15 7  
 
Social Science Top
Classes with seats available
  SOCS309 . Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences 4 R 2:00- 4:55 pm CL3-12 A Smith   15 14  
  SOCS321 . Prosem: Soc. Scientifc Inquiry 4 R 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A Abbas   12 7  
 
Studio Arts Top
Classes with seats available
  ARTH218 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 3 2  
  SART102A . Photography 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse FY 15 9  
  SART102B . Photography 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-025 A Hillman FY 15 14  
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 12 4  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 12 4  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
  SART237 . Illustration Studio 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 11 10  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 11 10  
  SART437 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 1    
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1    
  SART245 . Documentary Film/Video Production 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke FY 12 5  
  SART267 . Ceramic Studio 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   6 5  
  SART303 . Color Photography Studio 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-025 A Hillman WP 10 9  
  SART312 NEW Beyond 35mm Photography 4 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-025 L Tyler   12 9  
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
S2 You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
Classes with seats available
  THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 11  
  THEA109 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 3 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully FY 9 6  
  THEA201 . Listening, Analysis & Characterization 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 12 9  
  THEA206 . Theater Production 3 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 12 9  
  THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-002 A Michel WP 12 11  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
Cultural Perspectives Top
Classes with seats available
  ARAB101 . Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar   15 11  
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 15 6  
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  HIST211 . Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-131 R Carey   15 6  
F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-112 R Carey   15 6  
  LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 M 3:00- 3:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
W 2:30- 3:25 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
F 12:00-12:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   15 5  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 15 13  
  MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 15 11  
  PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   15 12  
 
Modular Courses Top
Classes with seats available
  ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 15 12  
  ARTH316M2 . The Arts, the Artist, and the Law 2 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-128 B Resnik   15 12  
  GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 13  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
  LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 7  
  LIT294M2 NEW
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Geography Top
Recent changes
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
  GEOG227M2B NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 10:00-12:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken . 15 5  
 
Literature Top
Recent changes
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
 
Theater Top
Recent changes
  THEA109 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 3 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully FY 9 6  
  THEA409 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 4 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully WP 3 3  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
Cultural Perspectives Top
Recent changes
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
 
Modular Courses Top
Recent changes
  GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 15 20 3
  GEOG227M2B NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 10:00-12:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken . 15 5  
  LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 15 3  
 
 
 
 
 
All Courses by Number of Enrolled Students
Home FOCUS Report
Course Number Title Days Time Room
RAP100B Aqua Energizer T 9:30-10:30 am KAC-PL
RAP100D Aqua Energizer R 9:30-10:30 am KAC-PL
RAP112 Red Cross Lifeguard Training T 6:00- 8:30 pm KAC-PL
RAP117A 20/20/20 M 8:00-09:00 am KAC-AR
RAP117B 20/20/20 W 8:00-09:00 am KAC-AR
RAP117C 20/20/20 F 8:00-09:00 am KAC-AR
RAP120A Pilates T 5:00- 6:00 pm KAC-AR
RAP122 Swim America Instructor M 6:00- 7:30 pm KAC-PL
S 10:20-12:00 pm KAC-PL
RAP124 Scuba S 10:00- 2:00 pm KAC-PL
RAP126 Swim Lessons T 7:00- 8:00 pm KAC-PL
RAP128 Squash Clinic F 4:00- 5:00 pm KAC-RB
RAP129 Weight Train 1 M 10:00-11:00 am KAC-AR
RAP132 Racquetball/Tennis R 3:30- 4:30 pm KAC-RB
RAP133 Water Polo W 7:30- 8:30 pm KAC-PL
RAP134 Weight Training T 6:00- 7:00 pm KAC-WR
RAP136A Gentle Yoga M 9:00-10:00 am KAC-AR
RAP136B Gentle Yoga T 11:00-12:00 pm KAC-AR
RAP136C Gentle Yoga R 11:00-12:00 pm KAC-AR
RAP138 Hatha Yoga T 6:00- 7:15 pm KAC-AR
RAP140 Integral Yoga U 9:00-10:30 am KAC-AR
RAP141 Indoor Soccer F 3:30- 5:00 pm KAC-GYM
RAP142 Kali Ray Yoga U 4:00- 5:30 pm KAC-AR
RAP144A Kripalu Yoga R 6:00- 7:15 pm KAC-AR
RAP144B Kripalu Yoga F 9:00-10:00 am KAC-AR
RAP150A Kickboxing W 5:00- 6:00 pm KAC-AR
RAP150B Kickboxing S 9:00-10:00 am KAC-AR
RAP158 Iyengar Yoga S 10:30-11:30 am KAC-AR
RAP300A Master's Swim Club M 6:00- 7:00 pm KAC-PL
RAP300B Master's Swim Club R 6:00- 7:00 pm KAC-PL
RAP300C Master's Swim Club S 9:00-10:00 am KAC-PL
 
 
 
 
 
All Courses by Number of Enrolled Students
Home FOCUS Report
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Current Max Wait
SART437 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY   1  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY   1  
SART335 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 1 1  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 1 1  
SART445 . Documentary Film/ Video Produc 4 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke   1 1  
THEA306 . Theater Production 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 1 1  
DANC107 . Moving Issues 2 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 1 12  
POLS306 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas   2 1  
MUS310 . Composition 3 TR 7:30- 8:30 pm KLG-B C Wu WP 2 2  
R 7:30- 8:30 pm DAC-128 C Wu WP 2 2  
SART435 . Painting Studio 4 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 2 2  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 2 2  
ARTH218 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 2 3  
THEA409 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 4 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully WP 3 3  
CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 E Dongala   3 12  
CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 E Dongala   3 12  
DANC207 . Moving Issues 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-108 A Coote FY 3 12  
LIT242M2 NEW CP Congo as Metaphor 2 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 E Dongala FY 3 15  
SART467 . Ceramic Studio 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   4 3  
THEA406 . Theater Production 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 4 3  
SART235 . Painting Studio 3 R 9:00-11:25 am DAC-124 W Jackson FY 4 12  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 4 12  
ANTH316 NEW Research-Led Creative Practice 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 A Iroh   4 15  
MUS210 . Composition 2 TR 7:30- 8:30 pm KLG-B C Wu WP 4 15  
R 7:30- 8:30 pm DAC-128 C Wu WP 4 15  
PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-113 E Kramer   4 15  
BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   4 16  
SART367 . Ceramic Studio 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   5 4  
SART267 . Ceramic Studio 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-072 B Krupka   5 6  
CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 P Dooley WP 5 12  
SART245 . Documentary Film/Video Production 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-128 L Burke FY 5 12  
ANTH223 NEW Life Histories 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 5 15  
ASIA234 . Traditional Chinese Scholars 3 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 J Weinstein FY 5 15  
CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 5 15  
GEOG227M2B NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 10:00-12:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken . 5 15  
GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-10 C van Kerckvoorde WP 5 15  
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 M 3:00- 3:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   5 15  
W 2:30- 3:25 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   5 15  
F 12:00-12:55 pm LIB-LSR N Bonvillain   5 15  
MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-01 B Wynne   5 15  
SPAN211 . 20th-Century Latin American Short Story 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 5 15  
SPAN321 NEW Del Bulevar a la caja: la novela realista y la economía del consumismo 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-04 M Wong WP 5 15  
CHIN303 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 5 20  
SART403 . Color Photography Studio 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-025 A Hillman WP 6 5  
SART337 . Illustration Studio 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 6 6  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 6 6  
THEA109 . Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design 3 M 10:30- 1:25 pm DAC-125 D Scully FY 6 9  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 6 15  
HIST211 . Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-131 R Carey   6 15  
F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-112 R Carey   6 15  
MUS309 . Theory IV: Analysis, Baroque Counterpoint, and Chromatic Harmony 4 MWF 11:00-11:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach WP 6 15  
CHIN203 NEW Chinese Theater Performance 1 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein WP 6 20  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Current Max Wait
LATN205 . Intermediate Latin II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm FSH-201 C Callanan WP 6 20  
MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 6 20  
SOCS321 . Prosem: Soc. Scientifc Inquiry 4 R 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A Abbas   7 12  
BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder   7 15  
TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder   7 15  
LIT293M1 NEW Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 7 15  
PSYC310 . Principles of Clinical Psychology 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 V Brush   7 15  
CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 7 18  
CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-131 P Dooley WP 7 18  
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 MW 9:00-09:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 7 18  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 7 18  
PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 8 10  
FS101O . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-023 A Michel FY 8 14  
BIO204 . Vertebrate Zoology 4 MW 10:00-11:25 am FSH-113 R Schmidt WP 8 15  
T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt WP 8 15  
CMPT312 . Programming Languages 4 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-112 P Shields   8 15  
DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 8 15  
FREN217 NEW Paris on the Page 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 M Tebben WP 8 15  
SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 8 15  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-12 G Morales-Gotsch WP 8 15  
PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 9 10  
SART303 . Color Photography Studio 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-025 A Hillman WP 9 10  
CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-128 P Dooley WP 9 12  
SART312 NEW Beyond 35mm Photography 4 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-025 L Tyler   9 12  
THEA201 . Listening, Analysis & Characterization 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 9 12  
THEA206 . Theater Production 3 T 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Allen WP 9 12  
FS101J . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 M Vecchio FY 9 14  
FS101K . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-02 P Filkins FY 9 14  
FREN205A . Intermediate French II 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   9 15  
MUS103 . Musicianship 2 WF 1:00- 1:55 pm KLG-B C Wu FY 9 15  
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 9 15  
SART102A . Photography 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse FY 9 15  
SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-13 E Chamorro WP 9 15  
SART237 . Illustration Studio 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-024 W Jackson FY 10 11  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 10 11  
MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 4:45- 6:10 pm KLG-B L Bardo WP 10 12  
FS101G . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 B Mathews FY 10 14  
MATH101B . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 10:00-10:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 10 15  
F 10:00-10:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 10 15  
BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 10 16  
BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   M 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers   10 16  
MATH099 . Core Mathematics   TR 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 10 30  
MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 11 12  
SART219M2 . Jewelry Design and Fabrication 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 11 12 5
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 11 12 5
THEA107M2 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 11 12  
THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-002 A Michel WP 11 12  
ARAB101 . Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-14 G Asfar   11 15  
TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar   11 15  
BAS310 NEW Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm FSH-201 B Conolly   11 15  
P Shields   11 15  
BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 11 15  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Current Max Wait
BIO200 . General Botany 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-211 D Roeder WP 11 15  
MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 10:00-10:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 11 15  
MUS224 NEW Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America 3 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-102 R Bazinet FY 11 15  
PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-02 L Anderson   11 15  
SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-01 M Wong WP 11 15  
GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:25 pm CL3-09 C van Kerckvoorde WP 11 20  
MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 11 99  
LIT288 . Fiction Workshop 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-12 B Mathews   12 12  
SART106 . Introduction to Ceramics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-072 B Krupka FY 12 12  
THEA107M1 . Studies in Production: Performance 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 M Vecchio FY 12 12  
FS101D . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 WF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 B Rodgers FY 12 14  
ANTH228 NEW Preternatural Predilections 3 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-11 K Boswell WP 12 15  
ARTH224M1 NEW Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 12 15  
ARTH225M2 NEW African American Art and Performativity 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-125 J Caro FY 12 15  
ARTH316M2 . The Arts, the Artist, and the Law 2 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-128 B Resnik   12 15  
DANC205 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and the Visual Arts 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 12 15  
ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 F Unal FY 12 15  
LIT294M2 NEW Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-140 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 12 15  
MUS203M2 . Renaissance Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 12 15 4
PSYC209 . Human Sexuality 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 V Brush   12 15  
PSYC218 . CP Psychology of Women 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 L Anderson   12 15  
MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar WP 12 20  
SART108M1 . The Art of Assemblage 2 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm DAC-074 W Jackson FY 13 12  
DAC-139 W Jackson FY 13 12  
SART166 NEW Design for Life 3 TR 10:30-12:00 pm DAC-074 B Krupka FY 13 12  
FS101B . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-023 K Beaumont FY 13 14  
FS101E . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-04 I Bickford FY 13 14  
FS101H . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL1-04 J Weinstein FY 13 14  
FS101I . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 13 14  
FS101L . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MF 10:30-11:55 am CL1-03 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 13 14  
SS251 . Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 A Iroh   13 14  
GS210M1 NEW CP Gender & Violence I 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 13 15  
LIT279 NEW Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-10 M Roe FY 13 15  
PHIL231 . Islamic Philosophy 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-128 B Conolly   13 15  
POLS206 . Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 A Abbas FY 13 15  
CMPT242 . Computer Science 1 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-112 P Shields FY 14 12  
FS101F . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm CL1-03 I Bickford FY 14 14  
FS101M . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-13 C Callanan FY 14 14  
BIO205B . Marine Mammal Biology 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis FY 14 15  
LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson FY 14 15  
LIT257 . Modern Drama : From Realism to the Absurd 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 14 15  
MATH101A . Math & Its Applications 3 MW 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 R Snyder WP 14 15  
F 9:00-09:55 am FSH-112 R Snyder WP 14 15  
MUS202M1 . Medieval Music 2 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 14 15  
SART102B . Photography 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm DAC-025 A Hillman FY 14 15  
SOCS309 . Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences 4 R 2:00- 4:55 pm CL3-12 A Smith   14 15  
BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 J Lapseritis WP 14 20  
ARTH318 NEW Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography 4 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-025 T Marcuse WP 15 11  
THEA204 . Movement: Analysis of Expression 3 R 2:00- 4:55 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont   15 12  
FS101A . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 3:00- 4:25 pm DAC-023 W Shifrin FY 15 14  
BAS384 NEW Making Art in a Dangerous World 4 M 2:00- 4:45 pm DAC-023 A Hillman   15 15  
A Michel   15 15  
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Current Max Wait
BIO205A . Marine Mammal Biology 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm FSH-201 J Lapseritis FY 15 15  
GS211M2 NEW CP Gender & Violence II 2 MF 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-02 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 15  
LIT215 NEW Milton and Aftertimes 3 MW 1:30- 2:55 pm CL3-12 I Bickford FY 15 15  
LIT239 . Contemporary American Poetry 3 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 P Filkins FY 15 15  
MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-113 B Wynne WP 15 15  
PHYS204 . Physics of Sound & Music 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm LEC-LC D Sharpe FY 15 15  
BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 15 16  
CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MWF 2:00- 2:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 15 20  
T 2:00- 3:55 pm CL3-09 C Coggins WP 15 20  
DANC119 NEW Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 16 15  
ECON107 NEW Economics and Technology 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 D Neilson FY 16 15  
HIST319 . Hegemony Is Hard Work: Domination/Agency/Resistance 4 R 2:00- 4:55 pm LIB-LSR R Carey   16 15  
LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 T 3:00- 5:55 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 16 15  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 16 15  
R 3:00- 4:25 pm CL3-14 J Hutchinson FY 16 15  
FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 16 15  
LIT311 . American Modernism: Making It New 4 W 6:00- 8:30 pm CL3-10 B Rodgers   16 15  
PHIL175 . Ethics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 B Conolly FY 16 15  
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 16 20  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-09 C Callanan FY 16 20  
HIST260 NEW Mapping Power, Archiving Knowledge: The Cartography of Science, Capitalism, and the State 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am CL1-04 R Carey   17 15  
PHIL203M2 NEW Philosophy of Religion 2 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff FY 17 15 7
POLS328 NEW The Democratic Imagination 4 T 2:00- 4:55 pm CL3-12 A Abbas   17 15  
PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-113 E Kramer WP 17 20  
ANTH212 . Anthropology Goes to the Movies 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 18 15  
PHIL208 . Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 M Naamon FY 18 15  
POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:30-11:55 am CL3-11 A Abbas FY 18 15  
INTC315 . The Mythic Imagination 4 TR 4:30- 5:55 pm DAC-023 M Vecchio   18 18  
FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 MW 10:00-10:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 18 20  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-13 M Tebben FY 18 20  
LIT260 . Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible 3 MW 12:00- 1:25 pm CL3-10 R Fiske FY 19 15  
FS101C . First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life 4 TR 12:00- 1:25 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 20 14  
GEOG227M2 NEW Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock 2 F 2:00- 4:55 pm FSH-201 B McCracken FY 20 15 3
MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 MW 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-102 R Snyder WP 20 15  
F 1:00- 1:55 pm FSH-112 R Snyder WP 20 15  
DANC114 . Ballet 2 MW 10:30-11:55 am DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 21 15  
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 MW 11:00-11:55 am CL3-14 G Morales-Gotsch WP 21 15  
TR 10:30-11:55 am CL3-14 G Morales-Gotsch WP 21 15  
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:30- 2:55 pm CL1-02 M Naamon FY 23 15  
GEOG214 NEW Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography 3 TR 10:30-11:55 am FSH-201 C Coggins FY 24 15  
BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt FY 26 30  
MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 12:00-12:55 pm FSH-102 J Rizzuti FY 29 24  
MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 29 99  
ECON100 . Microeconomics 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 F Unal FY 32 30  
PSYC100 . Introduction to Psychology 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer FY 36 30  
 
 
 
 
 
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ANTH212: Anthropology Goes to the Movies Home
This course explores the ways that indigenous and non-Western peoples are portrayed in popular
commercial film. Through viewing films and texts about visual representation, we will consider
questions such as: From whose point of view is the story told? Whose voices dominate the film's
narrative and perspective? Are characters presented as multidimensional or stereotypical? The course
will also focus on the ways that social and political issues involving indigenous peoples are
presented. We will analyze the differences between films made with indigenous participation (as
writers or directors) and those with no significant non-Western influence. Prerequisite: One course
in Social Studies or Film.
 
ANTH223: Life Histories Home
This course examines the life history, a form of ethnographic literature. Life histories straddle
autobiography and biography, historiography and memoir, and constitute a chronicle of the
storyteller's life as it is communicated to their audience, the anthropologist. We will examine the
processes that lead to these informative, yet intimate, accounts of individual lives and so
understand the value life histories have to empower their narrators and to broaden our knowledge of
less examined populations, such as women, the sick, or the poor. We will champion life histories in
this course, but will consider critiques of this widely popular method nonetheless. Our reflection
on these texts will extend to the manner in which life histories exist as a testament to the
worthwhile, but complex, friendships that arise during fieldwork between the narrator and the
anthropologist. The course looks to life histories with an eye to content as well as construction,
and so students will have the opportunity to collect a life history over the course of the semester.
 
ANTH226: Contemporary African Diaspora and Transnationalism in Europe Home
People of Black African origin in North and South America have for long dominated African Diaspora
discourse. While this group's presence is predominantly connected to the historical event of forced
dispersal through slavery, an integral part of Africa's modernity is the constant voluntary as well
as forced movement of its people within and out of the continent. Europe is one of such locations
attracting a continuous flow of people from the African continent as well as from what Paul Gilroy
calls the 'black Atlantic'. The loyalties, identities and presences of these established and
emerging African constituencies shuttle between Europe and both the imagined and real Africa. These
transnational subjects are challenging the dominant notion of diaspora consciousness as a matter of
unrealised longing for return and establishment of strategically constructed ethnic solidarity under
particular systems of domination. This course is interested in exploring the history of this African
diaspora formation as well the social and political conditions under which it emerged. The course is
interested in the ways in which this ongoing demographic and cultural formation is changing the face
of Europe and how Europe is responding to this change. The course will utilise texts from a range
of disciplinary perspectives as well as a number of films that have been made on Africans in
Europe.
 
ANTH228: Preternatural Predilections Home
According to Evans-Pritchard, the Azande in Africa believed granaries collapsed, crushing their
victims, because they were directed to do so by a witch intent on harming the unsuspecting
individual seated nearby. Since Evans-Pritchard's pioneering work in the 1930s, a new generation of
scholars have emerged whose passions for the preternatural have led to the exploration of
witchcraft, sorcery, possession, divination, rumor and gossip as a means to explain the inexplicable
and restore equilibrium in an uncertain world. This course examines in a cross-cultural perspective
how people create meaning, form community, and devise interpretations of their everyday lives via
these diverse beliefs and practices. We will examine how witchcraft accusations are linked to ethnic
tensions within nation-states and how these indictments are commentary upon indigenous societies'
ambivalence toward modernity. Bewitchment, cannibalism, and zombification index the unequal
distribution of resources within families or regions where internal and transnational migration are
frequent and elsewhere have become a mode of expression in religious conversion narratives or
 
highlight gender inequities. This course will consider participation in the various cults, such as the bori, and participants' possession by spirits whose origins reach beyond their homeland and extend centuries back in time. Whether these beliefs and practices manifest in localized settings or envelop entire nations, recourse to the preternatural remains a potent and persistent form of expression and interaction in the contemporary world.
 
ANTH316: Research-Led Creative Practice Home
Contemporary societies and cultures are experiencing an intensity of visible and aesthetic forms
such as architecture, mass media, digital media, fashion, food products and more. Human subjects
animate, inhabit and utilise these forms in very creative and impressive ways. In looking at this
human relation to the social and material world, as cultural critics and social scientists, how can
we account for the elegance as well as disagreements that is the theatre of this contemporary
society? As artists, how can we imbue and inform our creative practice with the type of critical
rigor required for an immersive engagement with contemporary everyday life? These are questions this
interdisciplinary course asks. It seeks to make affect central to social science research agenda,
while locating fieldwork, textual and qualitative analysis within creative art practice. The course
will utilise texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives including visual anthropology, visual
culture, art and art history and cultural studies.
 
ARAB101: Accelerated Beginning Arabic II Home
This accelerated course introduces the rudiments of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic. In
addition to regular practice in writing the alphabet, word formation, elementary calligraphy, and
basic grammar, the course offers exercises in phonology, morphology, and syntax. By the second
semester, students can read and understand a variety of Arabic texts about customs and institutions
of the Middle East. The course also explores selected topics on Arab culture and civilization, such
as the role of classical Arabic in Muslim art and architecture and the connections between the
Arabic language and Islam. Successful completion of this year-long course fulfills the general
language requirement or the cultural perspectives requirement.
 
ARTH218: Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography Home
This course looks at the work of contemporary photographers in the context of the critical discourse
that both surrounds and fuels its creation. Among the topics to be discussed are the staged tableau,
still-life constructions, appropriation, the body/the self, photography and abstraction, new
narratives, reinventing the landscape, and the continual blurring of boundaries between photography
and other media. Students in this seminar have the chance to be active critics, writing exhibition
and book reviews, and conducting interviews with artists and curators. We will also use photographs
as a springboard for creative writing. Working together the class edits and compiles these writings
into an anthology entitledViewfinder. With permission from the instructor, students with the
prerequisite of Photography (SART 102) may take this class at the 300 level for 4 credits and
complete studio work as part of this course. While prior experience in the studio is not necessary,
the work of students in the class who are active photographers will serve as a resource for dialogue
and critique.
 
ARTH224: Harlem Renaissance Art and Politics Home
This course will explore the artistic, social and political goals of the Harlem Renaissance movement
of the 1920s and 1930s. We will read the works of writers and intellectuals and use case studies of
the careers of artists based in Harlem and elsewhere to address some of the contextual themes of the
movement including New Negro identity, modernism, primitivism, the uses of the folk, the role of the
black middle class, patronage and the relationship between cultural politics and the politics of
culture. No prerequisite.
 
ARTH225: African American Art and Performativity Home
This course will explore the theory of the performativity of identity and how it can be applied to
the critical analysis of works of African American art. Challenging the notion that identity is a
 
fixed state of being, performance theory describes identity as something that is constructed and maintained through the use of repeated gestures, or performances in one¿s daily life. Drawing insight from theoretical texts and the close study of works of art from various genres and media, students will learn to read visual images as enactments of racial, gender, class, religious and regional identity. No prerequisite.
 
ARTH316: The Arts, the Artist, and the Law Home
Problems have arisen in every culture about the artist's right to create, to control production, and
to choose subject matter. The focus of this course is both historical and contemporary because the
timeless concerns of liberty and creativity are at the heart of the matter. What is the significance
of the view that the "product" of artistic endeavor is property? Does it make a difference that in
the United States this "interest" in property is protected through contract and copyright law, while
in Europe these "interests" are considered both moral and economic? Do music and art pose different
legal, philosophical, and creative problems in regard to regulation and to protection of individual
rights? Also considered are the problems raised by museums and production rights, the role of
government and corporations in arts funding, and the impact of the law on the individual artist.
Works of art, music, and literature that have been the subject of controversy are addressed
specifically.
 
ARTH318: Viewfinder: Issues in Contemporary Photography Home
This course looks at the work of contemporary photographers in the context of the critical discourse
that both surrounds and fuels its creation. Among the topics to be discussed are the staged tableau,
still-life constructions, appropriation, the body/the self, photography and abstraction, new
narratives, reinventing the landscape, and the continual blurring of boundaries between photography
and other media. Students in this seminar have the chance to be active critics, writing exhibition
and book reviews, and conducting interviews with artists and curators. We will also use photographs
as a springboard for creative writing. Working together the class edits and compiles these writings
into an anthology entitled Viewfinder. With permission from the instructor, students with the
prerequisite of Photography (SART 102) may take this class at the 300 level for 4 credits and
complete studio work as part of this course. While prior experience in the studio is not necessary,
the work of students in the class who are active photographers will serve as a resource for dialogue
and critique.
 
ASIA234: Traditional Chinese Scholars Home
This course examines how Chinese thinkers, writers, and artists have viewed the world and expressed
their views through their genres of choice. The first unit explores Chinese thought, focusing on
principal works of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Legalism. Students learn to debate both
historical and contemporary political and social issues through the ideas of these early Chinese
thinkers. The second unit focuses on Chinese poetry, primarily the regulated verse of major Tang
Dynasty poets including Wang Wei, Li Bo, Tu Fu, Tao Yuanming, and Tu Mu. Through characterby-
character glosses, students learn the principles of reading and writing Chinese poetry. The third
unit teaches the fundamental concepts underlying traditional Chinese theater, particularly Kunqu and
Beijing Opera. Both visual and oral aspects will be addressed, including a basic introduction to
performance techniques. This course assumes no background in Chinese language or culture.
 
BAS310: Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite Home
What, really, does it mean to be infinite? Is any actually existing thing really infinite? This
course will explore the role that the notion of the infinite plays in such diverse disciplines as
philosophy, theology, mathematics, logic, physics, and computer science. We will examine both the
different kinds of problems that arise in the distinct contexts of these disciplines, and how these
diverse disciplines have affected and influenced each other with respect to the concept of infinity.
The course will be both historical and topical, as we examine how the concept of "infinite" was
transformed from originally meaning "indefinite", and thus as entailing imperfection, into a concept
that entailed transcendent super-excellent perfection; how Aristotle's distinction between potential
 
and actual infinity led to the solution of a number of problems concerning time, space, and motion; how the development of the notion of the infinitesimal in the 17th century led directly to the discovery of the calculus by Newton and Leibniz; and how Georg Cantor's discovery that infinite sets come in different sizes was initially more welcomed by theologians than by other mathematicians.
 
BAS384: Making Art in a Dangerous World Home
This team-taught seminar examines the origins and processes of artists in a variety of creative
modes who are working in the twenty-first century. Held in conjunction with the Arts Division's
Bridges/Visiting Artists Program, we will focus on the work of five internationally known
artists/artist groups who will engage in short residencies on campus: the Tectonic Theater Group,
the Hilary Easton Dance Company, performance artist Tomas Kubinek, pianist Frederic Chiu, and
photographers Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison. Students will be expected to attend the formal
presentations, performances and receptions for these five artists/artist groups that will usually
occur on Saturdays. Readings, presentations and discussions will introduce and respond to each
artist's work, and students will write an essay on the work of each artist/artist group that focuses
on an area of interest as determined by the student in conference with the faculty. A final project
or paper will synthesize the semester's work. Faculty from other divisions of the college will be
invited to participate in the seminar, as we also explore topics relating to the arts as they
interact with public media, contemporary society, and the complex world within which we live.
 
BIO100: Introduction to the Life Sciences Home
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts, methods of observation,
and major currents of thinking in the life sciences today. The three major topics are the molecular
basis of cellular function, animal life strategies and evolution, and the flow of matter and energy
in the biosphere. Students enrolled in this course must participate in the laboratory.
 
BIO100L: Introduction to Life Sciences Lab Home
Either Bio 100LA or LB are required for students enrolled in BIO 100.
 
BIO200: General Botany Home
This course is an introduction to the plant kingdom, emphasizing major evolutionary trends and the
relationship between form and function in plants. Elements of economic botany, plant ecology,
physiology, and ecology are incorporated. Prerequisite: Biology 100 or permission of the instructor.
 
BIO201: Cell Biology Home
Understanding biological phenomena depends on critical analysis of form and function. Cell Biology
is a lecture and laboratory course designed to introduce the chemical and molecular basis of cells,
the structure and function of the cell membrane, the acquisition and utilization of energy by cells,
cellular activities, and biosynthesis. Laboratory work emphasizes acquiring skills in microscopy to
identify cellular structures and processes and in electrophoretic separation of proteins and DNA
fragments. Prerequisites: Biology 100 and high school chemistry, or permission of the instructor.
 
BIO201L: Cell Biology Lab Home
Students enrolled in BIO 201 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
BIO204: Vertebrate Zoology Home
This course is an introduction to the biology of the vertebrates, surveying the natural history,
behavior, ecology, and evolution of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Laboratories
familiarize students with the structure and diversity of vertebrates and emphasize observation.
Field trips emphasize local terrestrial and aquatic species. Lectures, discussions, laboratory, and
field trips are required. Prerequisite: Biology 100 or permission of the instructor.
 
BIO205: Marine Mammal Biology Home
Cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds, and some carnivores spend all, or part of their lives, living in
 
the ocean. The study of marine mammals integrates many subdisciplines of biology, including anatomy and physiology, behavior, biochemistry, biogeography, conservation, ecology, evolution, genetics, and taxonomy. An overview of marine mammal life will introduce students to each aspect of their study, with emphasis on hypothesis construction and observational research methods. Field trips will provide first-person experiences with local pinnipeds and cetaceans (additional fee).
 
BIO206: General Microbiology Home
This course introduces the biology of microorganisms with an emphasis on bacteria. It consists of
lectures, discussions of current topics in microbiology, and laboratory work. Topics covered include
diseases caused by microorganisms, immunology, microorganisms in the biosphere, treatment of waste
water and drinking water, and microbial uses in the food and dairy industry. There is a laboratory
fee.
 
BIO212: Disease and Community Ecology Home
This course will provide a survey of the patterns of health and illness from the Paleolithic era to
the present. The first portion of the course will explore prehistoric humans' interactions with the
environment. This will be followed by a study of the origins of both agriculture and urban
environments in the Neolithic era, and of the diseases that became evident in such environments
since then. Areas of particular concern will be the cities of Africa, Asia, and of medieval Europe.
The industrial period in Europe and later worldwide foreshadowed new patterns of urban settlement
which became the sites of new health problems and ways of dealing with them. The final portion of
the course will scrutinize the contemporary urban environment in developed and developing nations.
This course fulfills the science requirement and does not have prerequisites.
 
BIO306: Physiology I Home
Physiology is the study of biological function, the manifestation of dynamic interactions of many
specialized cell types as they perform as tissues, organs, and systems. This course presents a
mechanistic examination of mammalian physiology, integrating classical physiology with a molecular
and cellular approach. Emphasis will be placed on essential homeostasis, regulatory pathways, tissue
organization, and the organ systems of the human body. Comparative vertebrate models will be
employed in laboratory activities. Laboratory required; laboratory fee. Prerequisites: Biology 201,
Chemistry 101, or permission of the instructor.
 
CHEM101: Chemistry II Home
This course is a continuation of Chemistry 100. Topics covered include acid/base theory, equilibria,
kinetics, thermodynamics of chemical reactions, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, coordination
chemistry, and a brief introduction to organic chemistry. The laboratory experiments deal with
classic qualitative inorganic analysis. Laboratory fee. Prerequisite: Chemistry 100.
 
CHEM101L: Chemistry II Lab Home
Students enrolled in CHEM 101 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHEM303: Organic Chemistry II Home
This course is a continuation of Chemistry 302. Topics include conjugation, aromaticity, aromatic
substitution reactions, spectroscopy carbonyl compounds and their addition reactions, acids and acid
derivatives, (amines, alcohols), and pericyclic reactions. All topics are aimed toward synthesis,
and a understanding of the reaction mechanisms, both of and using the compounds of interest. The
laboratory experiments will deal with guided organic analysis, culminating in classical qualitative
organic analysis. Laboratory fee. Prerequisite: Chemistry 302.
 
CHEM303L: Organic Chemistry II Lab Home
Students enrolled in CHEM 303 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHIN101: Accelerated Beginning Chinese II Home
 
This accelerated course is designed for students with little or no previous language background of
Chinese. It provides a systematic and efficient study of Chinese grammar, vocabulary, oral/aural
skills, and reading and writing Chinese characters. The goal of the course is to enable the students
to function successfully in most of the basic communicative situations with a native Chinese.
Students are also exposed at the same time to Chinese cultural traditions through such activities as
viewing Chinese movies, listening to Chinese music, and tasting Chinese cuisine. The class meets
five times per week.
 
CHIN203: Chinese Theater Performance Home
Students read, rehearse, and perform a work from the modern Chinese dramatic repertoire as a means
of furthering developing skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Each student will
perform a role or combination of roles in the final production; written and oral assignments during
the rehearsal process and after the final performance will foster learning of both language skills
and performance skills. Students at the 203 level generally read only the portions of the play in
which their roles appear, and they will read them in the classroom under the instructor¿s guidance.
Students at the 303 level must be able to read an appropriate portion of the play on their own;
class time for them will be spent on discussion and rehearsal, but not on direct reading. Chinese
303 is suitable for both native and non-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite for Chinese 203:
Chinese 100 or equivalent language level, plus instructor's permission. Prerequisite for Chinese
303: Chinese 205 or equivalent language level, plus instructor's permission.
 
CHIN205: CP Intermediate Chinese II Home
This course continues to develop the four skills--speaking, listening, writing, and reading--of
Mandarin Chinese. By the end of the intermediate sequence, students will be familiar with all major
grammatical concepts and able to converse comfortably on a wide range of subjects. Students will be
able to write and recognize nearly 2000 characters in traditional and/or simplified forms. In
addition to the linguistic components, each student will select one or more research topics within
Chinese culture for oral, written, and web-based projects. Successful completion of this year-long
course fulfills either the language requirement or the cultural perspectives requirement.
Prerequisite: CHIN 101, or permission of the instructor.
 
CHIN303: Chinese Theater Performance Home
Student read, rehearse, and perform a work from the modern Chinese dramatic repertoire as a means of
furthering developing skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Each student will
perform a role or combination of roles in the final production; written and oral assignments during
the rehearsal process and after the final performance will foster learning of both language skills
and performance skills. Students at the 203 level generally read only the portions of the play in
which their roles appear, and they will read them in the classroom under the instructor¿s guidance.
Students at the 303 level must be able to read an appropriate portion of the play on their own;
class time for them will be spent on discussion and rehearsal, but not on direct reading. Chinese
303 is suitable for both native and non-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite for Chinese 203:
Chinese 100 or equivalent language level, plus instructor's permission. Prerequisite for Chinese
303: Chinese 205 or equivalent language level, plus instructor's permission.
 
CMPT242: Computer Science 1 Home
This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts of computer science, both as a prelude
to further study in the discipline and to serve broader educational goals. Focus will be on
principles of object-oriented programming and design, including the study of basic data types and
control structures, objects and classes, polymorphism and recursion. The course will use the Python
language. This course is offered at least once a year. No prerequisite.
 
CMPT243: Algorithms and Data Structures Home
This is the second course in the ACM computer science curriculum and lays the foundation for further
work in the discipline. Topics covered include algorithmic analysis, asymptotic notation, central
 
data structures such as lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, trees, sets, and graphs, and an introduction to complexity theory. It is not a language course and is intended for students who already have competence in a high level language such as C++ or Java. Offered yearly. Prerequisite: Computer Science 242 or permission of the instructor.
 
CMPT312: Programming Languages Home
An examination of the design and implementation of modern programming languages, covering such
paradigms as imperative languages, object-oriented languages, functional languages, and
logic-oriented languages. Topics will include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, grammars, parse trees,
types, bindings, scope, parameter passing, and control structures. Offered alternate years.
Prerequisite: Computer Science 243.
 
DANC107: Moving Issues Home
Moving Issues explores issue-based dance and choreography. The course investigates how personal and
cultural issues can be expressed through dance and, in turn, how dance can impact the experience of
those issues. Students learn to consider such issues and challenges from an artist's standpoint,
through the creation of both improvisational dance and set choreography. The course emphasizes
personal expression, the creative process, and the power of the arts to transform our experience of
the questions, challenges and concerns faced in our lives. The class includes warm-up exercises,
movement and choreography labs, performance opportunities, journaling, discussion, and the use of
other arts modalities. Readings and videos deepen the understanding and experience of class
material. Response journals, movement assignments and a final project/paper are required.
 
DANC114: Ballet Home
In this class, dancers acquire a traditional approach to ballet techniques along with an innovative
foundation which aims for anatomically friendly movement. It offers a flexible blend of classical
ballet, kinesiology, and Tai chi principles in order to encourage flow, efficiency, and a whole body
approach. Clear and efficient technique is developed through barre and center work, and an ongoing
emphasis on musicality, use of breath, awareness of the floor and space, and moving in relation to
others. Individual expression and movement quality are encouraged and developed.
 
DANC119: Chinese Sword Home
Chinese Sword Form, also known as Tai-Chi Sword, is a meditative movement art based on the same
principles as Taijiquan and Qigong. A symbolic wooden sword is used in slow exercises which explore
the concepts of advancing and yielding. There are 64 movements in the form, and over the course of
the semester we will explore a section of it. The class will include sitting and walking
meditation, then the meditation of the sword form itself. There are some readings which will be
discussed, but the focus of the course is on movement. The primary goal is a balance of relaxation
and resilience in motion.
 
DANC201: Intermediate Modern Dance Technique Home
This class introduces a modern dance technique that develops expressiveness, proper alignment,
efficient and clear movement, musicality, spatial awareness, coordination, flexibility, strength,
and the ability to dance with others. The course includes warm-up exercises, dance combinations,
anatomical information, and imagery and breathing exercises. Reading, written assignments, and films
help students formulate personal values regarding dance. The course is designed for students with
little or no previous training.
 
DANC205: Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and the Visual Arts Home
This class examines the connections and differences between dance and visual arts, such as painting
and photography. Formal areas explored include gesture, shape, scale, line, dimensionality, focus,
density, proximity, and energy quantity and quality. Issues of concern include stillness and flow,
context, point of view, theme and variation, contrast, and balance. Warm-ups; solo, partner, and
group improvisations; choreographed studies; and visual art work are the bases for exploration of
 
class themes. The class is open to any interested student.
 
DANC207: Moving Issues Home
Moving Issues explores issue-based dance and choreography. The course investigates how personal and
cultural issues can be expressed through dance and, in turn, how dance can impact the experience of
those issues. Students learn to consider such issues and challenges from an artist's standpoint,
through the creation of both improvisational dance and set choreography. The course emphasizes
personal expression, the creative process, and the power of the arts to transform our experience of
the questions, challenges and concerns faced in our lives. The class includes warm-up exercises,
movement and choreography labs, performance opportunities, journaling, discussion, and the use of
other arts modalities. Readings and videos deepen the understanding and experience of class
material. Response journals, movement assignments and a final project/paper are required.
 
ECON100: Microeconomics Home
An introduction to economics as a social science for students with essentially no background in
economics, this course presents basic concepts from both traditional and nontraditional perspectives
and critically evaluates their relevance to our understanding of the economic aspects of society.
The course starts with the evolution of societies in human history and the development of modern
economic thought. It then covers the basics of microeconomics, international economics, economic
growth, and the problem of energy and the environment.
 
ECON107: Economics and Technology Home
This course considers the relationship between economics and technology from several viewpoints.
First, we look at the relationship between technological change and economic growth, both
historically, especially in the context of the Industrial Revolution, and in a contemporary setting.
We examine the role that technology plays in economic development and how different policy choices
succeed or fail to transfer technologies to the developing world. Next, we extend this
relationship to understand the effect that technology has had not only on economies, but on the
discipline of economics itself. Theorists are shaped by their times, and their theories are as well.
We ask how economics has developed with the economy, and how the future of economics might
be affected by technological changes taking place today. Finally, we study intellectual
property---the ownership of ideas---and the patent regime, which codifies and enforces that
ownership. We examine critically the arguments for and against the current intellectual-property
system, and consider possible alternatives. We study open-source software as an example of
innovation without intellectual property.
 
ECON209: Intermediate Political Economy Home
This course offers an introduction to theories of political economy, including radical economics,
which offer alternatives to the neoclassical view of the modern capitalist economy. Political
economy views the economy as a set of social relationships and processes which construct us, our
economy, and our society, and radical economics extends this to focus on the ways in which these
processes contribute to producing exploitation and inequality. Rooted in the theories of Karl Marx
and Thorstein Veblen, these approaches describe a diverse and often contested terrain of theories
and interpretations of the modern social landscape. In the century or so since Marx's death, radical
theories and ideas have emanated across the globe, crossing not only geographical, but intellectual,
cultural, and political boundaries, as well. Today, political economy would more aptly describe this
diversity of perspectives, including the critique of class dynamics, as well as the anti-racist,
anti-colonial, and feminist movements. This course will examine these evolving ideas during the
course of the semester. Prerequisites are Macroeconomics, Microeconomics or permission of instructor
(prior coursework in politics is recommended).
 
FREN101: Accelerated Beginning French II Home
This accelerated course is designed for students with little or no previous experience of French. It
enables them to fulfill the College's language requirement in one year and prepares them for entry
 
into upper-level courses. The class meets five hours per week.
 
FREN205: Intermediate French II Home
Designed for students whose background in French is not sufficient for a higher level, this course
provides a systematic review of French grammar, regular practice in listening and speaking, and
readings in French prose. By the end of the second semester students understand simple French prose
and speech and can express themselves in simple fashion, orally and in writing. Satisfactory
completion of both semesters of this course fulfills the language requirement.
 
FREN217: Paris on the Page Home
This course will explore the city of Paris as the center of French culture and as a world capital.
Course materials will investigate the physical and cultural essence of Paris, its history and
architecture, its literary portrait, and its relevance in the present day. The course will cover
Parisian history from the Middle Ages to the present, including images of Paris from Victor Hugo's
Notre Dame and Louis XIV's Versailles to Haussmann's reconception of the city. Students will read
excerpts from works of French literature, history, and journalism, and will view films having Paris
as a central character. In addition, students will prepare oral presentations detailing the visual
character of Paris in architecture, art, maps, and films. The course is organized around
reading/viewing and discussion of primary texts. Students will be required to complete daily
written responses, oral presentations, two short papers, two exams, and a final project. This
course is taught entirely in French. Prerequisite: French 205 or equivalent.
 
FS101: First-Year Seminar II: The Examined Life Home
All first-year students are required to take the two-semester First-Year Seminar. It introduces
students to the close reading of texts and the writing of substantive analytical essays that are the
basis of much college work. Students examine differing treatments of common situations, emotions,
conflicts, and questions that have engaged great writers over the centuries. The seminar focuses on
the themes of self-discovery, the relationship of the individual and society, and the nature of
values and responsibility. It draws on and develops the methods introduced in the Writing and
Thinking Workshop, fostering critical thinking and the effective articulation of ideas. In the fall
semester, readings for the course include The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle,
Plato's The Last Days of Socrates, Dante's Inferno, and a wide array of articles, essays, poems, and
stories chosen to enhance discussion of the major texts and the issues they raise, and to provide a
variety of topics for students to explore in writing. In the spring semester, students further
develop their writing and thinking skills through reading, discussion, and expository writing using
a variety of primary and supplementary texts, including Shakespeare's Hamlet, Mozart and Da Ponte's
Don Giovanni, Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass. The course continues to focus on values, self-discovery, cultural imperatives, freedom,
and understanding. Most of the primary texts studied are derived from the Western canon and
consequently an additional goal of the course is to train and encourage students to examine the
Western tradition critically and to raise questions concerning the sexism, racism, chauvinism, and
parochialism inherent in any given cultural tradition. Class sessions are supplemented by lectures
and other activities that provide background and context for the texts, presented by faculty from
all the divisions and by guest speakers.
 
GEOG214: Reading the Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Cultural Geography Home
Cultural geography is the interdisciplinary study of spatial practices through which individuals and
socio-cultural groups create meaningful environments and ascribe order to landscapes, nature, and
the terrestrial realm as a whole. Drawing from the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences, the discipline examines the ways in which humans experience, define, delimit, and shape
spaces and places through time. This course is a "hands on" introduction to major themes of cultural
geography, with regular project work and several field trips. Independent studies and several group
excursions in a variety of wild, agricultural, small town, and urban landscapes in the Berkshires
and beyond will provide practice in research techniques including field journal writing; the use of
 
narratives, oral histories, archives, and literary sources; map reading and interpretation; and basic cartography. Themes covered in the course include space, place, and power; property and public/private space; psychoanalytic perspectives on the body, space, and territory; national identity and cultural landscapes; the spatialization of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; critical perspectives on urban and regional development and planning; and geographies of globalization and empire.
 
GEOG227: Permaculture: Creating a Forest Garden at Simon's Rock Home
This course will focus on the creation of a sustainable forest garden for Simon's Rock. Students
will learn the basics of landscape design, review existing design plans, select elements of those
plans to develop a master plan for the garden area (which will include a detailed implementation
timeline), and begin the process of forest garden construction. Garden work will teach the skills
of habitat observation and analysis, soil testing, community mapping, and food and plant
cultivation. While doing the physical work of garden creation, we will also explore the food system
on campus and develop ways of making it more sustainable, focusing on native plant communities of
Berkshire County and the best ways to incorporate certain non-natives into an ecologically and
socially sustainable forest garden. Students will work together to develop a meaningful definition
of sustainable food production at Simon's Rock in light of the core values and practices of
permaculture - earth care, people care, and fair share. We will also explore how the Simon's Rock
Community Garden, as an emerging permaculture site, relates to the larger community.
 
GERM101: Accelerated Beginning German II Home
This accelerated course is designed for students with little or no background in German. It enables
them to fulfill the language requirement in one year and introduces students to German grammar and
basic vocabulary. Conversational German is stressed. Students also acquire reading skills through
exposure to short stories by such authors as Bichsel, Hesse, and Borchert. The class meets five
times per week. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor.
 
GERM205: Intermediate German II Home
Designed for students who have studied German but whose grammar background is not sufficient for a
more advanced level, this course presents a systematic review of German grammar and introduces
students to several short stories by contemporary German, Austrian, and Swiss authors. By the end of
the second semester students are able to understand simple German prose and speech and to express
themselves in a simple fashion, orally and in writing. This course fulfills the general language
requirement in one year. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
 
GS210: CP Gender & Violence I Home
Gendered violence is epidemic in our society, even in peacetime, but it often goes unrecognized as
such. When school shootings occur, for example, they are always committed by young men, but the
gender of the assailants is generally passed over by the press. Where violence is concerned, women
are more often the victims, men more often the actors: almost all sexual assault is committed by
men, and young men and boys are also more likely than young women to play violent video and computer
games and to be attracted to violent movies and pornography. They are also more likely than girls
to use violence self-destructively, through suicide. Why? Can we blame it all on testosterone, as a
"natural," biological phenomenon that won't go away no matter what we do? Or is the violent
tendency of boys learned behavior that can be unlearned, or at least not taught to successive
generations? What would have to change in our social relations in order for young men to grow up
less attracted to (and consumed by) violence? Through film, novels, essays and guest lectures, this
class will explore the effects of violence on both genders, focusing particularly on rape, sexual
assault, sex trafficking and pornography and looking for solutions to the global epidemic of
violence. Requirements will include weekly response journals to the reading, and an independent
research project with an accompanying class presentation.
 
GS211: CP Gender & Violence II Home
 
This class will focus on the ways in which masculinity is linked with violence in military culture,
in the media, in military academies and boot camp, and in the armed forces. We will explore how
women have fit into this culture as they have slowly but steadily increased their representation in
the military, and what tensions have arisen as a result of their presence. We will look at the
effects of war on the combatants as well as on civilian populations that come under fire, focusing
particularly on the Bosnian conflict, the Iraq war and the on-going civil wars in Africa. Readings
will include Evan Wright, Generation Kill, Chris Hedges, War is Force That Gives Us Meaning, and
Emmanuel Dongala, Johnny Mad Dog as well as many shorter excerpts and essays. Requirements will
include weekly response journals to the reading, and an independent research project with an
accompanying class presentation.
 
HIST211: Atlantic Slavery: History, Narrative, and Memory Home
Dominant narratives of American history tell of slavery's demise in 1865 and freedom's tortured
though eventual triumph. Yet the mutually constituted categories of blackness and slavery over 400
years ago suggest an altogether different narrative. So too does the present: the grossly
disproportionate rates of black incarceration in U.S. prisons, the near-stable link between
blackness and poverty, the outrageous underdevelopment of black Africa in comparison to the
industrialized North, and the existence of over 27 million enslaved people today. In short, the
simple fact of white overprivilege and concomitant black disadvantage which exists on a global scale
is powerful evidence against the progressive narrative of slavery in America. How can we move beyond
facile narratives of slavery and freedom to imagine new ways to think about the past's claims on the
present? This course takes as its central topic the rise of Atlantic African capitalist slavery, its
life in narratives, and its continuing life in contemporary memory. By examining the links between
the enslaved past and present, we will investigate the ways in which the "memory" of slavery still
weighs upon the present to shape our lives. The course will be broken into four sections, each
constituted by a pair of narratives, one historical and one contemporary: the African slave trade
that brought bodies into servitude; the middle passage which transmuted those bodies into legal
property; new world slavery which imparted racial dominance and resistance in the era of European
empire; and African-American slavery which provided the legal foundations for white domination and
freedom in the United States and the world. By examining how whites and enslaved peoples narrated
and lived slavery in the past, as well as how whites and blacks remember and live slavery today, our
hope is to acknowledge the complex and undying claims the past has on the present. Prerequisite for
300 level: Sophomore standing and two courses in either African-American Studies, History,
Anthropology, or Sociology, or permission of the instructor.
 
HIST260: Mapping Power, Archiving Knowledge: The Cartography of Science, Capitalism, and the State Home
In Heart of Darkness, the classic novel of imperial Britain, Joseph Conrad's arch-imperial
protagonist writes of the "blank spaces of delightful mystery" that were incompassed by and
constituted through maps. This course seeks to chart the place of maps in history and to explore
their role in the constitution of relations of power. Maps, as scholars have told us, are an
impressively aggressive system of knowledge production. They assert control and dominion. They
"clarify" and simplify the messiness of everyday materiality. Cartography's genius and its conceit
is that it can re-present reality on paper. Part of the process of cartography is an attempt to
abolish the distinction between the map and its representation-object. The map becomes what we see,
obliterating all that was once material by simple fact of its absence. In this way, the social is
written onto the landscape and the two become seemingly more solid and stable than they ever were.
It is a beautiful elision, but it is also a violence. Focusing on the modern period since the
enlightenment, we will interrogate maps and their place in Anglo-American culture. The course will
focus on the influence of maps in four historico-social institutions: the institution of western
science, the course of empire, the modern nation state, and the rise of corporate capitalism.
Beginning in the Enlightenment and continuing through the end of the twentieth century, the course
will be divided into five chronological/thematic components: I Cartography and the Enlightenment; II
Mapping and Empire; III Censuses, Biopower, and State Building; IV Knowing and Engineering Nature;
and V Capitalism and Cartography.
 
 
HIST319: Hegemony Is Hard Work: Domination/Agency/Resistance Home
What is power? Who has it, who doesn't, and why? How do the "haves" and the "have-nots" fight,
negotiate, and exterminate each other in a given society? This course examines these questions
through the lens of "hegemony" --the mass consent given to the established order of society, and the
simultaneous opposition that develops to that order--articulated by Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci
and subsequent scholars who have built on his work. Gramsci argued that although we may believe the
elite hold a privileged, or hegemonic, position in society, their power and domination are often
tenuous at best. As post-colonial theorist Stuart Hall once remarked, "hegemonizing is hard work."
We will investigate past societies and the world around us attempting to account for differences in
power, authority, prestige, the thickness of people's wallets and the bareness or bounty of their
cupboards. The course will engage literature that has focused on 1) the tools of the dominant group
used to maintain authority in society, 2) the agency of the oppressed, and how they have (or have
not) been able to shape the world around them to their best interests; and 3) the larger social
dialogue or interaction between those supposedly with power and those supposedly without. By
examining coercive violence and subtle tools of consent in view of revolutionary violence and subtle
forms of protest, we will be better able to understand how scholars have imagined domination,
oppression, resistance, and radical change. The class is not intended to offer a "best" theory, or
to impose a "progressive narrative" in which the most recent theory is the best. Each set of
theories is essentially a set of tools--some are better suited for some tasks than others, some may
be suggestive but flawed, others may seem to be useless for the tasks that interest you. But, with
each set of theories and concepts we acquire, we have a greater number of tools to draw on in our
research and writing. Prerequisite: Sophomore seminar or approval of instructor.
 
INTC315: The Mythic Imagination Home
If there is "not one single shred of evidence" to support the widely accepted theory that myths were
primitive explanations of natural phenomena, then the question remains, whence and wherefore myth?
In this course we will closely examine five complex models for understanding mythology. Carl Jung
broke from Freud with an alternate and equally influential theory involving "archetypes" in a
"collective unconscious," wherein, he said, could be found all the patterns of myth across all
cultures. In The Sacred and the Profane Mircea Eliade describes the people of myth-oriented
societies as homo religiosus, and compares and contrasts this mode of being in the world with a
contemporary secular common sense of reality. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's fugal
essay, "Hamlet's Mill," follows the single, very ancient myth of Hamlet all over the world, and
finds encoded in this myth the origins of human science. Do Kamo: Person and Myth in the Melanesian
World by anthropologist Maurice Leenhardt is a case study of a myth-oriented people that confronts
us with counterintuitive constructions of the human being, nature, and society. And in Saving the
Appearances (quoted above), English philosopher Owen Barfield proposes some far-reaching conclusions
based on premises from quantum physics, anthropology, and an historical examination of language. By
applying these authors' observations and meditations to a cross-section of traditional tales from a
variety of cultures, we will cultivate our faculty of imagining myth and thus engage mythology on
its own terms as a storehouse of meaning. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, or permission of the
instructor. Some previous study of mythology is recommended.
 
LATN101: Accelerated Beginning Latin II Home
Latin is the language not only of Vergil, Cicero, Horace, Catullus and Tacitus, but also of poets,
historians, scientists, philosophers and theologians through the time of St. Augustine down to the
Middle Ages and on into the Renaissance and beyond. It is the language in which western culture was
transmitted to Western Europe, beside being the source of a large proportion of English vocabulary.
Students with no (or relatively little) previous experience of Latin will acquire a working
knowledge of the language. Latin will be learned as a language spoken and heard in the classroom,
not as abstract rules and paradigms. We will speak, chant, sing and perform skits in Latin, in
addition to reading. Explanations will be given in English, and we will practice translating in
both directions. By the end of the spring continuation of this course, students will be able to
 
hold their own in conversation and also, with the aid of a dictionary, to read most Latin authors.
 
LATN205: Intermediate Latin II Home
Designed for students who have had, either in high school or college, the equivalent of one
semester's experience in reading extended Latin texts. The reading for this course is determined in
conjunction with the participating students. As a general rule, most of the reading is prose, as
Latin 204 focuses on poetry. By the end of this semester, students should be quite comfortable with
dealing on their own with virtually any Latin text. Prerequisite: Latin 204 or its equivalent (see
instructor for placement).
 
LING304: CP Native American Languages Home
This course examines the structures of Native American languages. It consists of readings that
present the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems of languages representing
each of the language families indigenous to North America. Prerequisite: Linguistics 100 or
equivalent.
 
LIT202: Art of Fiction: Short Story Home
Frank O'Connor once wrote that an inferior writer could still be a great novelist, but that no
inferior writer could ever be a great storyteller. After touching on the roots of storytelling in
fable, parable, and tale, we will focus on the work of major storytellers (a.k.a. short story
writers) of the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring their contributions to the ongoing evolution of
this literary genre. Writers studied include Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant, Chekhov, Joyce, Mansfield,
Kafka, Hemingway, O'Connor (Flannery), Borges, and Munro--as well as new voices from Jhumpa Lahiri
to Junot Diaz. Although this is a literature course and not a course in writing fiction, students
planning to major in creative writing will benefit from the discussions of literary craft and
exposure to the broad range of writers and stories.
 
LIT215: Milton and Aftertimes Home
This course takes its cue from John Milton's avowed ambition to 'leave something so written to
aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.' Along with intensive readings of Milton's
major poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes and his prose tract Areopagitica,
we will encounter an array of texts not only influenced by Milton but which succeed in one way or
another in preserving and renewing Miltonic principles, ideas, innovations, and tropes. These will
include (in excerpt or entirety) Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, William Blake's
Milton, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, Sergei Eisenstein's
Battleship Potemkin, Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, and Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, as well as
works by Alexander Pope, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ellen Gould White, Margaret Fuller, Mark Twain, T. S.
Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Jack Kerouac, Betty Friedan, Geoffrey Hill, and Bob Dylan.
 
LIT237: Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions Home
The Western, in either its literary or cinematic forms, was a staple of American popular culture
from the second half of the 19th century until the late 1960s. In recent decades, as writers and
filmmakers have begun questioning the romantic conventions and cultural ideologies that typically
dominated the genre, the Western has occasionally taken the form of what might be termed the
revisionist or "anti-Western." In addition, critics and cultural historians now see the Western as
expressing a range of often troubling or contradictory assumptions and attitudes about American
history and culture. In an effort to better understand the complexities of the Western's role in
representing and shaping American history and culture, as well as the ways in which literature and
film collaborate and diverge, we will read various works of fiction as well as the films to which
they gave rise. Central film/fiction pairings will include the following: Shane; "The Tin
Star"/High Noon; "Stage To Lordsburg"/Stagecoach; The Virginian; Horseman; Pass By/Hud; The Ox-Bow
Incident; Little Big Man; All the Pretty Horses; and Brokeback Mountain. We will also examine a few
additional films that have been central to the creation and redefinition of the genre (these might
include The Wild Bunch; Unforgiven; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly; My
 
Darling Clementine; The Searchers; and Red River).
 
LIT239: Contemporary American Poetry Home
Few eras have provided as many different kinds of poets and poetry as the second half of the 20th
century in America. From the muscled confessionals of Robert Lowell to the incandescence of Sylvia
Plath, followed by the winsome meditations of John Ashbery to the troubled landscapes of Elizabeth
Bishop, it's an era that has produced new voices and rich innovation. This course will survey a
number of these voices by reading a new poet each week. Students will have the opportunity to study
these poets and others in order to reflect on how contemporary readers might approach such a wide
array of voices, how those voices still speak to us, and what William Carlos Williams meant when he
said, "It is difficult to get the news from poems, but men die miserably every day for lack of what
is found there."
 
LIT242: CP Congo as Metaphor Home
In the writings of great philosophers of the Western world as well as in popular literature and
cinema, Africa has long been cited as the epitome of what is base, brutal, and corrupt in human
nature. In his "Philosophy of History" Hegel wrote: "The peculiarly African character is difficult
to comprehend, for the very reason that in reference to it, we must quite give up the principle
which naturally accompanies all our ideas--the category of Universality... What we properly
understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical, Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of
mere nature." To belittle the intelligence of those who questioned his view on socialism Lenin
wrote: "When people here say that socialism can be won without learning from the bourgeoisie, I
know this is the psychology of an inhabitant of Central Africa." And more recently, the trailer for
the 1995 movie "Congo", based on a novel by Michael Crichton, introduced the film as "Congo, where
you are the endangered species." In this seminar, we will show how Congo, being at the heart of
the continent, has been used as the central metaphor of humanity's savagery and moral decrepitude.
We will focus only on fiction and poetry. The reading list will include poems by Vachel Lindsay,
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend In the River," Barbara Kingsolver's "The
Poisonwood Bible." We will also examine the views of African writers by reading "The Fire of
Origins" by E. Dongala, as well as Chinua Achebe's essay on Conrad. No prerequisite.
 
LIT257: Modern Drama : From Realism to the Absurd Home
An intensive examination of writers, theories, and movements of 19th- and 20th-century drama.
Authors, texts, and subjects differ each time the course is taught, and may include the works of
writers such as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Strindberg, Pirandello, Lorca, O'Neill, Beckett, Brecht,
Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, Pinter, Miller, Williams, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, and Stoppard.
 
LIT260: Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible Home
Hermeneutics can be understood as the art of interpretation of sacred scripture. What is the meaning
of a text? How can that meaning be illuminated? What is the author's intent? What are the questions
one must ask when the author is divine? This course will center on the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five books offer richly textured and intricately woven
motifs, powerful inner structures of sound, echoes, allusions, repetitions, and complex narrative
and rhetorical force. Further, ideas of primeval history, patriarchy, deliverance, law, sacrifice,
ritual, holiness, rebellion, and the covenant find their home here. Over the last 20 years there has
been an explosion of literary study of the Hebrew Bible, and we will do both a close reading of the
text and an examination of some of the theoretical issues which are fundamental to it. We will read
secondary literature by biblical scholars such as Harold Bloom, Leslie Brisman, Martin Buber, Mary
Douglas, Everett Fox, Joel Rosenberg, and Gershom Scholem, and by creative writers such as Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, John Milton, and William Blake.
 
LIT279: Virtual Communities: Storytelling in the Americas Home
In the Americas the deep tradition of community storytelling has manifested itself dramatically in
recent, innovative narratives. These narratives combine aspects of oral and written cultures, of
 
native, ancient, and contemporary stories, and question the suitability and credibility of the written word even while they try to create new communities of readers. Reading a selection of North American, South American, and Caribbean novels in translation, this class aims to understand the at times critical, at times hopeful messages of these unusual texts and other media. Primary authors include Leslie Marmon Silko, Juan José Saer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Antoni, Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Chamoiseau and Subcomandante Marcos. Secondary readings will investigate the historical, anthropological, mythical, and political underpinnings of these stories and their complicated relationship to self, tradition, and artistry.
 
LIT288: Fiction Workshop Home
For students who have some experience in writing short fiction and want to give and receive helpful
criticism in a workshop atmosphere, this course combines structure and freedom: structure in the
form of assigned exercises drawing attention to the elements and techniques of fiction and freedom
in the form of longer, independently conceived stories. Some time is spent each week discussing
short fiction by contemporary writers as well as that of students in the workshop, with the goal of
sharpening our abilities as writers, editors, and critics. Admission to the course is selective;
candidates must submit samples of their writing to the instructor before registration. Prerequisite:
Literature 150 or permission of the instructor.
 
LIT293: Media Studies Practicum I: Reporting & Writing Techniques for Print Journalism Home
In this media studies practicum, students will learn and practice basic news gathering and writing
techniques as interviewing, sourcing, writing a lede and structuring a news or feature story, as
well as basic editing, copy-editing and proofreading skills. We will also analyze the difference
between objective and opinion-based reporting, and practice writing both types of stories.
Students will read widely in print journalism, both mainstream and alternative, and analyze others'
work as well as produce their own articles, with possible publication in The Llama Ledger or other
news media outlets a goal. In addition to weekly shorter writing assignments, students will work
towards the production of one substantial, polished article by the end of the class.
 
LIT294: Media Studies Practicum II: Explorations in Alternative Media Formats and Techniques Home
In this modular course, we will discuss the political uses (and abuses) of alternative media formats
such as blogs, zines and indie filmmaking, as well as delivery platforms such as You-Tube, Facebook
and many others. Have some media techniques that began as under-the-radar radical expressions of
freedom of speech now been domesticated by the mainstream media? How far outside the box of big
media does one have to go to find independent journalism--or is such a category even valid anymore?
Where do bigtime "alternative media" platforms like Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now!" or The Rachel
Maddow Show fit in? What is the role of the so-called alternative media today, and which media
outlets are best at performing this role? Students will be asked to undertake an independent
research project comparing and contrasting two media outlets--one mainstream, one alternative--or
two alternative media formats¿a zine and a blog, for example, or a blog and a documentary film--in
terms of (virtual) location, appearance, audience composition and impact, style and substance, and
will present their findings in class as well as in a six-page final paper. Other class requirements
will include response journals and the creation of a zine for campus distribution and a blog with
several substantive posts.
 
LIT311: American Modernism: Making It New Home
This course is a detailed examination of the literature of American modernism in its intellectual
and historical contexts. Students read Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, Eliot's The Waste Land, Stein's
Three Lives, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Hemingway's In Our Time, Faulkner's The Sound and the
Fury, and Toomer's Cane. They also study selected poems by Cullen, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, H.D.
Hughes, Masters, McKay, Moore, Pound, Sandburg, Stevens, W.C. Williams, and others. Topics
discussed include the movements (imagism, vorticism, symbolism, cubism, futurism, the Harlem
Renaissance), the attitudes (the postwar temper, the revolt against the village), the tenets (the
tradition of the new, the impersonality of poetry, the avant-garde role of the artist), the centers
 
(Chicago, Paris, London, New York), and the little magazines and papers (Poetry, Little Review, Blast, Others, The Crisis) that helped to define and shape the writing of the period.
 
MATH099: Core Mathematics Home
This course is a non-credit tutorial for those students who need to strengthen their background in
mathematics in preparation for, or while taking, one of the introductory mathematics courses: Math
101, Math 109, or Math 110. Students whose Mathematics Placement Test results indicated that they
need to strengthen their mathematics background are required to take this tutorial prior to, or
concurrently with, taking a mathematics course at Simon's Rock. This course covers topics normally
included in high school Algebra I & II and Geometry, including ratio & proportion, percents,
exponents, solving equations & inequalities, quadratic equations & the quadratic formula, graphs,
similar triangles, and the Pythagorean Theorem. Students should consult with the instructor prior to
registering for this course.
 
MATH101: Math & Its Applications Home
This course develops the mathematical and quantitative skills required of an effective citizen in
our complex society. The emphasis is on the interpretation of material utilizing mathematics, as
opposed to the development of simple numerical skills. Possible topics include the application of
elementary algebra to common practical problems; exponential growth, with applications to financial
and social issues; an introduction to probability and statistics; and the presentation and
interpretation of graphically presented information. Instruction in the uses of a scientific
calculator and of a computer to facilitate calculations is an integral part of the course.
 
MATH109: Elementary Functions Home
A transition from secondary school to college-level mathematics in both style and content, this
course explores the elementary functions. Topics include polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and
trigonometric functions; graphing; inequalities; data analysis; and the use of a graphing calculator
and/or computer. The course meets the College¿s mathematics requirement and also prepares students
for calculus. Prerequisite: Mathematics 101, or at least two years of high school mathematics and
adequate performance on the mathematics placement exam.
 
MATH110: Introduction to Statistics Home
This course offers an introduction to statistical methods for the collection, organization,
analysis, and interpreation of nuymerical data. Topics include probability, binomial and normal
distributions, sampling, hypotheses, testing, confidence limits, regression and correlation, and
introductory analysis of variance. The course is oriented toward the increasingly important
applications of statistics in the soical science. Prerequisite: Mathematics 101.
 
MATH210: Calculus I Home
A course in differential and integral calculus in one variable. Topics include an introduction to
limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications to max-min and related rate problems, the
mean value theorem, the definite integral, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Prerequisite:
Mathematics 109.
 
MATH211: Calculus II Home
This course is a continuation of Calculus I. Topics include techniques of integration, numerical
integration, applications of the definite integral, Taylor approximations, infinite series, and an
introduction to differential equations.
 
MATH221: Vector Calculus Home
This course deals with multivariable calculus and vector analysis. Topics include differentiation of
vector functions, multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, vector fields, and the theorems of
Stokes and Green. Applications to geometry and physics are considered as time permits.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 211 and 220.
 
 
MATH321: Modern Algebra II Home
This course is a continuation of Modern Algebra I. Topics include the theory of fields and Galois
Theory and the theory of linear groups. Prerequisite Math 320, Modern Algebra I.
 
MUS103: Musicianship Home
Students without previous experience in notation or those wishing to renew their acquaintance with
musical fundamentals should register for this course. It is recommended for all students taking
music lessons, as well as those taking music theory or composition courses. The course covers
melodic dictation, rhythmic drills, the composition of simple pieces, and instruction on recorders.
 
MUS117: Chorus Home
The rehearsal and reading of works from part-song and choral literature from the Middle Ages to
present. Chorus is open to all students and community members by audition. Previous singing
experience and some music reading ability are desirable preparation.
 
MUS202: Medieval Music Home
The music of the church (ca. 600-1400) in chants and early forms of harmony, the rich variety of
secular forms which address the broad range of the medieval experience, the evolution of musical
notation, the role of music in society: these topics are explored not only through recordings,
readings, and discussions, but through performances by the members of the class. No prior experience
is necessary, but those who do read musical notation can assist those who do not.
 
MUS203: Renaissance Music Home
"Nothing worth listening to was written until forty years ago," wrote Tinctoris, ca. 1500. At the
apex of the aristocracy, unhindered by a fragmented church, individual creativity was released in a
continuous celebration of human capacity and human experience by means of a new-found technical
sophistication in the arts. Music underwent a profound transformation as musicians discovered the
power of sensuously appealing tones to convey the intimacy and intensity of their private
experiences. The course covers the period from 1450 to 1600.
 
MUS207: Theory II: Tonal Harmony Home
Theory I introduces the tonal system through the composition and analysis of simple melodies. The
course gradually builds the picture of harmonized melody by developing bass-lines and inner voices
utilizing triads in all inversions. It also builds basic musical skills, emphasizing interval
identification and minimal keyboard familiarity. Theory II introduces the use of dissonance in the
form of suspension and seventh chords, and chromaticism in the form of secondary harmonies and
modulatory progressions. Chromatic harmonies (Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords) and enharmonic
relations complete the tonal picture. Short whole pieces from the Baroque period are used as first
examples of whole-piece analysis.
 
MUS210: Composition Home
Students present original compositions for examination, discussion, and performance by the class.
Course work includes writing for combinations of instruments or voices, with the possibility of
public performance available. Exercises in counterpoint and arranging are included. Where relevant,
contemporary compositions are studied through scores and recorded performances.
 
MUS224: Afro-Latin Music: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America Home
This course will survey musical activities among various communities throughout Latin America, with
a special focus on Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. In addition to
an examination of the ways in which descendants of Africans relate musically to their African
heritages, and what those musical practices sound/look like, the course will aim to intersect with
several larger themes, such as: race, ethnicity, gender, diaspora, identity, agency, etc. Readings
will include focused ethnomusicological studies, as well as theoretical works drawing on, among
 
other disciplines, cultural studies.
 
MUS278: Collegium Home
The Collegium (early music ensemble) will explore early music through playing period instruments
such as recorders and viols, and singing. Guitarists, violinists, and cellists may also be accepted.
Each semester will focus on music of a particular country or genre. Simon¿s Rock owns a tenor and
bass recorder as well as treble, tenor, and bass viols, which are free to the users. Students
wishing to play recorder should expect to bring their own soprano and/or alto recorders. Plastic
recorders, which work very well, can be purchased very inexpensively. Rental instruments may be
available for a modest fee. Music will usually be provided, with the caveat that during some
semesters students may be required to buy a particular collection of music as part of specific
studies. Participation in a final concert as well as regular class attendance is required for
receiving credit and a Pass/Fail grade. Students will be expected to practice outside of classes.
 
MUS280: Madrigal Group Home
This chamber choir of 6 to 10 voices will rehearse and perform a capella vocal music concentrating
on the vast repertoire of Renaissance madrigals and motets. It may also perform vocal music from the
middle ages and contemporary a capella madrigals. It is open to all students by audition. Previous
choral experience and basic music reading skills are required.
 
MUS289: Chamber Orchestra Home
The chamber ensemble is engaged in the reading, rehearsal, and performance of classical and modern
literature for larger chamber and smaller orchestral ensembles. It is open to students of
intermediate to advanced skill on orchestral instruments (strings, woodwind, brass). Individual
students may be selected to perform solo concertos with the ensemble.
 
MUS309: Theory IV: Analysis, Baroque Counterpoint, and Chromatic Harmony Home
This course is a continuation of both Theory II and Theory II. It includes the analysis of 18th- and
19th-century works of increasing complexity (Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy) following
the study of form and chromaticism in Theory II; and it extends the contrapuntal exercises of Theory
II to further work in tonal counterpoint, through short student compositions in the baroque style.
 
PHIL175: Ethics Home
In this class, we will examine foundational questions in ethics. We will discuss the objectivity of
morality, the nature of well-being, and the rules that govern right conduct. Is there an objective
fact about right and wrong, or is morality relative to persons or cultures? What is it to live a
good life? What rules--if any--determine what is right or wrong? How should we make moral decisions?
Three applications of ethical theory will help guide our discussion: our duties to the less
fortunate, ethical vegetarianism, and the value of the environment. Grades will be assigned on the
basis of papers, exams, and class participation. No prerequisites.
 
PHIL203: Philosophy of Religion Home
This course focuses on doctrines common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: that there is one,
powerful, just God who created the universe, who has revealed himself to his creatures, and who
requires certain conduct of them. We explore various questions raised by these doctrines, including:
Can God's existence be reconciled with the existence of evil? Is there compelling evidence for God's
existence? Should the believer in God have evidence for the existence of God? Should the believer in
God not have evidence for the existence of God? What is the connection between religion and
morality? Religion and science? Do we, or could we, have any evidence for the existence of miracles?
Is there an afterlife? Is an afterlife desirable?
 
PHIL208: Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices Home
This course will examine Buddhist experience and expression in its diversity and regional variation
encompassing forms found in South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. This is in an
 
interdisciplinary study that uses a combination of primary Buddhist texts in translation and selections from the secondary literature on Buddhism, film, and other media. We will trace the major threads of Buddhist thought, practices, and history while paying special attention to the ways in which this Indian religion adapted to a wide range of cultures in Asia and now in the West.
 
PHIL231: Islamic Philosophy Home
This course provides an introduction to the study of Islamic philosophy, by examining the
distinctive problems, doctrines, and arguments that characterize Islamic philosophy in its classical
period (c. 800-1200 C.E.) Students will thus become familiar with the teachings of Alfarabi, Ibn
Sina (Avicenna), Suhrawardi, al-Ghazali, and Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Among the topics to be covered in
the course are the attempts by some philosophers to reconcile Greek philosophical and scientific
learning with Islam, the distinction--and conflict--between philosophy and theology in Islam, the
role of reason in Islamic conceptions of human well-being, and the peculiarly Islamic philosophical
treatments of such classic problems in metaphysics as the nature of the soul and its relation to the
body, the eternity of the world, and the nature of causality. While some attention will be paid to
the influence of Islamic philosophy upon the course of later Western philosophy, the focus will
remain upon Islamic philosophy as its own distinctive tradition. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or
above.
 
PHYS101: Physics II Home
This course continues the calculus-based physics sequence begun in Physics 100. Topics include
thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, special relativity, and wave mechanics. Accompanying
laboratory required. Prerequisite: Physics 100. Corequisite: Mathematics 211.
 
PHYS101L: Physics II Lab Home
Students enrolled in PHYS 101 must also register for a lab section.
 
PHYS204: Physics of Sound & Music Home
This course investigates the physical and mathematical foundations of sound, musical scales, and
musical instruments. Acoustic spectra and the construction of instruments are studied, along with
sound reproduction and synthesis. Informal laboratory sessions demonstrate and investigate many of
the effects studied. Prerequisite: Placement in Mathematics 109.
 
PHYS303: Classical Mechanics Home
Classical mechanics is a study of matter and energy in the limits that the quantization of nature is
not observable and the speed of light can be considered to be infinitely fast. Topics include the
harmonic oscillator, celestial mechanics, rigid body motion, rotation, and the Lagrangian
formulation of mechanics. Other possible topics include fluids, statics, and nonlinear systems.
Prerequisite: Physics 101.
 
POLS100: Introduction to Politics Home
This course explores the concept of politics, its origins, its character, its various meanings, and
the territories it has carved for itself. It investigates what it means to think politically, to ask
political questions, and to engage in political action. It ventures into various articulations, in
the works of key political thinkers, of the relation between the self and the political order,
taking this to be fundamental to how we construe the subjects and objects of politics today.
Importantly, it sees politics as being characterized by an intense engagement with this question
among others, and looks to different instantiations of this process not only in contemporary
political and philosophical debates, but also in practical political action.
 
POLS206: Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics Home
This course is designed as a toolbox containing the various methods and approaches available, and
used by political scientists, to study major political problems, to compare them, to theorize about
them, and possibly also to figure out ways to solve them. It will involve a sustained look at the
 
importance, mechanics and problems of these practices as they pertain to issues of modernization, development and underdevelopment; violence and terrorism; globalization; revolution, protest and social movements; ethnicity and nationalism; democracy and democratization; authoritarianism and corruption; inequality; civil society; and political institutions.
 
POLS306: Issues & Approaches in Comparative Politics Home
This course is designed as a toolbox containing the various methods and approaches available, and
used by political scientists, to study major political problems, to compare them, to theorize about
them, and possibly also to figure out ways to solve them. It will involve a sustained look at the
importance, mechanics and problems of these practices as they pertain to issues of modernization,
development and underdevelopment; violence and terrorism; globalization; revolution, protest and
social movements; ethnicity and nationalism; democracy and democratization; authoritarianism and
corruption; inequality; civil society; and political institutions.
 
POLS328: The Democratic Imagination Home
This seminar will survey some of the major currents and problems in the history of modern democratic
thought. Is democracy an ideal, an ethos, a system. a judgment, a tool, or a mechanism, and what
determines this? We will address how democracy and its supposed associates, such as freedom,
equality, justice, self-government, are shaped in relation to each other in various historical and
geographic contexts, and how these appear in different models of democracy. We will also look at the
relation of democratic thought to notions of "the people," publics, deliberation, representation,
revolution, sovereignty, authority, legitimacy, etc. , and at how everyday framings of our relation
to the state and society emerge. While the course will begin with classical texts on the theory and
practice of democracy, works in contemporary democratic theory--such as those that deal with
deliberative, radical, liberal and agonistic conceptions of democracy--will help place longstanding
debates in a current context and help us ask and answer important questions about the possibilities
and promises of a real democracy. We will also consider how democracy has responded to endemic
exclusions over its history, and how we judge democracies today. Historical analysis of some major
events in the history of democratic practice will mediate this inquiry and we will see how the big
shifts in the democratic imagination are so keenly reflective of what people have pushed democracy
to do, and how these imaginings most organically straddle the supposedly separate realms of theory
and practice! In this regard, the relation between democracy and civil society in a global context
will also be addressed. Readings will draw on thinkers including, but not limited to, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Condorcet, Schumpeter, M.I. Finley, Gordon Wood, David Held, Seyla Benhabib, Jurgen
Habermas, Carole Pateman, Iris Young, Sheldon Wolin, Claude Lefort, Carl Schmitt, Ernesto Laclau,
Chantal Mouffe. Prerequisite: Intro to Politics, any 200 level course in the social sciences, or
permission of instructor.
 
PSYC100: Introduction to Psychology Home
A survey of the rich and varied determinants of human behavior, this course examines the biological
bases of behavior; the origins of perception, thought, emotion, and language; the components of
learning and how people develop over the life span; and the formation of personality, psychological
disorders, and forms of psychotherapy. It examines human beings as individuals and within the
context of society.
 
PSYC202: Developmental Psychology Home
This course covers the major issues in human development from the prenatal stage to adolescence,
introducing the concepts of behavioral, psychoanalytic, and Piagetian developmental theory. Topics
include genetic and prenatal influences, early parent/child interaction, cultural differences in
child-rearing, the acquisition of language, cognitive and moral development, sex-role development,
and social/cultural conditions affecting development. A volunteer experience at a local day-care
center may be substituted for a term paper. Prerequisite: Psychology 100.
 
PSYC209: Human Sexuality Home
 
This course covers a wide range of topics in human sexuality, beginning with sexual anatomy,
physiology, and basic functioning and including gender differentiation and gender roles;
menstruation and premenstrual syndrome (PMS); pregnancy and birth; contraception; resolving unwanted
pregnancy; sexual attraction and sexual fantasies; sexual dysfunctions, diseases, and disabilities;
sexual preference; coercive sexuality; violent pornography; atypical sexual behaviors; and loving
sexual interaction. The materials presented in lectures, films, slides, and the texts are quite
explicit, and students anticipating discomfort should consult the instructor before registering for
the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 100 or permission of the instructor.
 
PSYC218: CP Psychology of Women Home
Are women's ways of viewing themselves, others and the world around them, as well as their ways of
interacting with others, different from men's? This course aims to explore this question by
introducing students to the major theorists in the area of women's psychology. Additional readings
will also encourage students to examine the implications of these theories for understanding women's
experiences in a variety of contexts, including: across the stages of development (childhood,
adolescence and adulthood); in education (e.g., differential classroom experiences); as applied to
views on mental health and mental illness (e.g., "hysteria" and depression); women as subjects of
and participants in scientific research (e.g., is there a "feminist" methodology?), and in
interaction with race, ethnicity and culture.
 
PSYC310: Principles of Clinical Psychology Home
This course is designed for students considering advanced study and careers in mental health
professions. It provides an overview of the field of clinical psychology focusing on issues relevant
to research into and treatment of the psychological disorders. In particular, it covers ethical,
conceptual, and methodological issues facing psychologists regarding assessment, diagnosis, forms of
psychotherapy, and evaluation of psychological interventions. It stresses both the empirical
foundation of clinical psychology, such as research in therapy efficacy studies, and practical
experience in interviewing and testing. Additionally it addresses specific concerns and
controversies facing psychologists today, including prescription privileges for psychologists,
research into recovered memories, ethics and utility of personality and intelligence measurement,
and suicide and sexual reorientation interventions. Prerequisite: 206, 302, or permission of the
instructor.
 
SART102: Photography Home
Basic photographic equipment, darkroom techniques, and image-making are introduced. Independent work
in the darkroom is conducted and evaluated through lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and
critiques. The history of photography is studied through a series of slide and video presentations.
Students experiment with a variety of images and ideas before pursuing a specific direction. Each
student presents a portfolio of selected prints at the conclusion of the semester. Studio fee.
Students supply their own cameras, film, and printing paper.
 
SART106: Introduction to Ceramics Home
Students in this course will learn the fundamentals of clay forming techniques as they produce
bowls, mugs, vases, and lidded jars among other forms. The class will learn both hand building and
wheel throwing skills. A variety of glazing methods will be introduced. Structural integrity,
function, and aesthetic issues will be considered equally. The class will be introduced to
historical and contemporary trends and innovations in ceramics. Students will keep a sketchbook and
participate in a field trip.
 
SART108: The Art of Assemblage Home
This module surveys 20th-century assemblage art and includes a series of studio sessions designed to
extend this history and provide a range of firsthand creative experiences. Each student writes a
research paper on an assemblage artist and presents at least one research report on a specific
approach or technique. A series of 2-D and 3-D studio exercises prepares students to complete three
 
projects. This course satisfies one half of the arts requirement.
 
SART166: Design for Life Home
This course will explore three-dimensional design theory through a series of assignments that
encourage the student to focus on the conscious organization of visual space. We'll approach
design from both a conceptual and formal starting point, while expanding our knowledge of
the elements, principles, and dimensions of design. Studio work will involve individual projects
that explore architecture, lighting, casting, paper-manipulation, collaborative outdoor
site-specific installations (earthworks) and engineering. Students will engage in class critiques
and learn to present their work while communicating about concept, content and subject matter. There
will be a field trip to a contemporary art museum. Students will build a portfolio presenting the
artwork and writing produced in the class.
 
SART219: Jewelry Design and Fabrication Home
This course offers both a survey of 20th-century jewelry design, and a series of studio exercises
which is designed to extend this history and to provide a range of first-hand creative experiences.
Each student will write a research paper (12-15 pages) on the work of one designer or the evolution
of a fabrication technique and present at least one research report (oral or written) on a specific
approach/technique. A series of exercises and demonstrations will prepare students for the
development and completion of three small projects or one major project.
 
SART235: Painting Studio Home
Students explore materials, techniques, painting styles, and color theory. Painting with acrylics is
emphasized, though students may also work in oils and are urged to work also in watercolor, pastel,
casein, oil pastel, and all drawing media. The course requires an extensive sketchbook, the
completion of major projects, and additional work to be established with the instructor. Studio fee.
Gesso, lumber, and some materials are supplied; students supply paints, brushes, and canvas.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
 
SART237: Illustration Studio Home
At the 200 level, this course introduces a variety of illustration techniques and styles, determined
with each student, who carries out two or three major projects. Upper-level students develop more
advanced projects. The course stresses various approaches to selected problems. Students are
encouraged to carry out at least one project in a unified style. This might be the illustration of a
short novel, a series of short stories, a book of poems, a children's book, a scientific manual, or
a work of "how to" literature. Whatever the content, the task is to produce a series of images
suitable for publication. Studio fee.
 
SART245: Documentary Film/Video Production Home
This course is designed for students interested in film and video production, and documentary
filmmaking in particular. The students will be trained in the use of camera, sound, lighting, and
editing equipment, and will be assigned to work in small groups on the production of documentary
films. On a more intellectual and academic plane, the students will be expected to study and
critique various styles of documentary film production, and to adopt a specific approach that best
suits the portrayal of the subject matter. On a humanistic level, the students will be asked to
consider their moral obligations to the subject and to form an "ethical contract" with the persons
or organizations about whom they wish to make their films. They will also receive instruction in the
legal niceties of documentary filmmaking. Class work will be devoted to instruction in equipment and
shooting techniques, and viewing and discussion of existing documentaries, as well as of new student
works as they develop. Class discussion will always be grounded in the responsibility that the
filmmaker bears to his or her subject. Prerequisite: Studio Art 225 Survey of Documentary Film or
permission of the instructor.
 
SART267: Ceramic Studio Home
 
This course is for those who want to expand on the hand building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills
developed in Studio Art 106. Students may choose whether to throw, hand build, or combine techniques
in order to fulfill assignments. Advanced glazing techniques will be explored. Kiln loading and
firing methods as well as mold making will be introduced. We will view and discuss slides of
historical and contemporary ceramics throughout the course. The class will involve keeping a
sketchbook, a field trip, and a group show of work. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SART303: Color Photography Studio Home
Seeing, thinking, and photographing in color are explored during this studio course. A variety of
color materials and processing methods, including digital photography, are introduced, with a major
focus on color negative printing. Independent work in the darkroom is explored and evaluated through
lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and critiques. The visual history of color photography and
alternative color approaches are studied through a series of presentations. Each student presents a
portfolio of prints and a slide portfolio at the conclusion of the semester. Studio fee. Students
supply their own camera, processed film, printing paper, and related supplies. Prerequisite: Studio
Art 102 or equivalent experience.
 
SART312: Beyond 35mm Photography Home
This course is intended as an introduction to medium and large format photography. The benefits of
a larger negative will be explored through demonstrations, slide lectures, discussions and
critiques. Early assignments will focus on the operation and technical abilities of Twin Lens
Reflex cameras and View Cameras, and later photographic work will make use of these techniques in a
longer term, self- determined project. Each student presents a portfolio of selected prints at the
conclusion of the semester. Cameras will be available for student use, but students must supply
their own film, printing paper and related supplies. A studio fee is also required. Photography
SART 102 is a prerequisite.
 
SART335: Painting Studio Home
Students explore materials, techniques, painting styles, and color theory. Painting with acrylics is
emphasized, though students may also work in oils and are urged to work also in watercolor, pastel,
casein, oil pastel, and all drawing media. The course requires an extensive sketchbook, the
completion of major projects, and additional work to be established with the instructor. Studio fee.
Gesso, lumber, and some materials are supplied; students supply paints, brushes, and canvas.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
 
SART337: Illustration Studio Home
At the 200 level, this course introduces a variety of illustration techniques and styles, determined
with each student, who carries out two or three major projects. Upper-level students develop more
advanced projects. The course stresses various approaches to selected problems. Students are
encouraged to carry out at least one project in a unified style. This might be the illustration of a
short novel, a series of short stories, a book of poems, a children's book, a scientific manual, or
a work of "how to" literature. Whatever the content, the task is to produce a series of images
suitable for publication. Studio fee.
 
SART367: Ceramic Studio Home
This course is for those who want to expand on the hand building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills
developed in Studio Art 106. Students may choose whether to throw, hand build, or combine techniques
in order to fulfill assignments. Advanced glazing techniques will be explored. Kiln loading and
firing methods as well as mold making will be introduced. We will view and discuss slides of
historical and contemporary ceramics throughout the course. The class will involve keeping a
sketchbook, a field trip, and a group show of work. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SART403: Color Photography Studio Home
Seeing, thinking, and photographing in color are explored during this studio course. A variety of
 
color materials and processing methods, including digital photography, are introduced, with a major focus on color negative printing. Independent work in the darkroom is explored and evaluated through lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and critiques. The visual history of color photography and alternative color approaches are studied through a series of presentations. Each student presents a portfolio of prints and a slide portfolio at the conclusion of the semester. Studio fee. Students supply their own camera, processed film, printing paper, and related supplies. Prerequisite: Studio Art 102 or equivalent experience.
 
SART435: Painting Studio Home
Students explore materials, techniques, painting styles, and color theory. Painting with acrylics is
emphasized, though students may also work in oils and are urged to work also in watercolor, pastel,
casein, oil pastel, and all drawing media. The course requires an extensive sketchbook, the
completion of major projects, and additional work to be established with the instructor. Studio fee.
Gesso, lumber, and some materials are supplied; students supply paints, brushes, and canvas.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
 
SART437: Illustration Studio Home
At the 200 level, this course introduces a variety of illustration techniques and styles, determined
with each student, who carries out two or three major projects. Upper-level students develop more
advanced projects. The course stresses various approaches to selected problems. Students are
encouraged to carry out at least one project in a unified style. This might be the illustration of a
short novel, a series of short stories, a book of poems, a children's book, a scientific manual, or
a work of "how to" literature. Whatever the content, the task is to produce a series of images
suitable for publication. Studio fee.
 
SART445: Documentary Film/ Video Produc Home
This course is designed for students interested in film and video production, and documentary
filmmaking in particular. The students will be trained in the use of camera, sound, lighting, and
editing equipment, and will be assigned to work in small groups on the production of documentary
films. On a more intellectual and academic plane, the students will be expected to study and
critique various styles of documentary film production, and to adopt a specific approach that best
suits the portrayal of the subject matter. On a humanistic level, the students will be asked to
consider their moral obligations to the subject and to form an ¿ethical contract¿ with the persons
or organizations about whom they wish to make their films. They will also receive instruction in the
legal niceties of documentary filmmaking. Class work will be devoted to instruction in equipment and
shooting techniques, and viewing and discussion of existing documentaries, as well as of new student
works as they develop. Class discussion will always be grounded in the responsibility that the
filmmaker bears to his or her subject. Prerequisite: Studio Art 225 Survey of Documentary Film or
permission of the instructor.
 
SART467: Ceramic Studio Home
This course is for those who want to expand on the hand building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills
developed in Studio Art 106. Students may choose whether to throw, hand build, or combine techniques
in order to fulfill assignments. Advanced glazing techniques will be explored. Kiln loading and
firing methods as well as mold making will be introduced. We will view and discuss slides of
historical and contemporary ceramics throughout the course. The class will involve keeping a
sketchbook, a field trip, and a group show of work. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SOCS109: Oppression and Liberation in the U.S. Home
This course explores the system of oppression in the United States and how it is maintained.
Methods of oppression and liberation are examined through the theoretical frameworks of the cycle of
socialization (Harro); models of identity formation (Cross, Tatum, Rogoff, Hardiman and Jackson);
Critical Liberation Theory (Love); and the various levels and types of oppression (Katz), through
which oppressive systems are maintained and sustained. Critical thinking and analytical skills are
 
exercised through the application of these models to each topic introduced. Students learn to employ self-analysis and gain insights into the ways in which the self assists in the maintenance of oppression. We closely examine social constructions of oppression and the means by which human beings are socialized to "agree" to and participate in spoken and unspoken cultural "norms" and oppressive practices. Self-analysis, individual focus, and self-reflection through regular writing assignments enable students to apply the theoretical models in a global context, extending beyond the particularities of one's individual subjective experience, geographic location, and social position. The major topics of the course are racism, classism, religious oppression and ableism. More specific themes include: internalized oppression and dominance, socialization, Freire and Freirian pedagogy, critical thinking, levels and types of oppression, spheres of influence and liberation. Primary authors include: Freire, hooks, Tatum, Yeskel, Zuniga, Love, Jackson and Hardiman, Cross, Bonilla-Silva, Kumashiro, McIntosh, Kivel, and Brookfield and Preskill, to name a few.
 
SOCS309: Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences Home
This course provides students with an introduction to research methods in the social sciences with a
focus on quantitative methods. Students read about and practice designing, implementing, and
presenting findings from various types of research methodologies, including survey, experiment, and
observation. In addition, this course covers some general issues related to social science research,
including forming a hypothesis, ethics, and sampling. This course is heavily weighted toward a
hands-on approach. The readings for the course are important and are required; however, it is
assumed that a great deal of the learning takes place in actually attempting to design the studies.
 
SPAN100: Accelerated Beginning Spanish I Home
This accelerated course fulfills the general language requirement in one year and prepares the
beginner for intermediate courses. Five class meetings a week. Enrollment by permission of
instructor.
 
SPAN101: Accelerated Beginning Spanish II Home
This accelerated course fulfills the general language requirement in one year and prepares the
beginner for intermediate courses. Five class meetings a week. Enrollment by permission of
instructor.
 
SPAN204: Intermediate Spanish I Home
Designed for students who have had two years of high school Spanish, this course offers an intensive
grammar review followed by oral and written practice. By the end of the year students are able to
understand clearly what they read and hear and to express themselves in simple fashion, orally and
in writing. This course fulfills the language requirement in one year for students with sufficient
background.
 
SPAN205: Intermediate Spanish II Home
Using films from Spain as the basis for our discussion and linguistic analysis, we will continue
our review of grammatical structures and oral and written practice in Spanish. We will focus on the
works of several directors Buñuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodóvar and watch their films outside of
class. Other course materials will include readings in Spanish from a variety of sources.
Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or permission of instructor.
 
SPAN211: 20th-Century Latin American Short Story Home
Some of the most influential Latin American writers of this century have cultivated the short story
as a preferred genre. The most notable are probably the Argentinians Jorge Luis Borges and Julio
Cortázar, but other well-known writers such as the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez and the Mexican
Juan Rulfo have also made important contributions to the art of the short story. This course gives
special consideration to the use of fantasy and the supernatural, to psychological and social
themes, and to political and philosophical issues.
 
 
SPAN321: Del Bulevar a la caja: la novela realista y la economía del consumismo Home
The realist novel served as an outlet for social and political commentary by the authors who sought
change in the midst of turmoil and revolt. In Spain, the realist novel also served, as its
counterpart in France, to criticize and expose the petty desires and materialism of the new
bourgeois class. The city, with the planning of Baron Haussmann, became the place to see and be
seen. Then came the building of the modern department store, which in turn, eliminated the
family-run establishments that had been handed down for generations. Consumerism and the role men
and women had in balancing the new power structure served as key elements in the success of the
department store, the source of the economic transition. This course examines several novels
written between 1850 - 1895 that deal with the emergence of the "modern" city and consumerist
culture. Each novel explores the impact of the newly-established department store on the lives of
the city bourgeoisie who were anxious to "see and be seen." We explore the attitudes of the men who
"wore" women and the women who bought the clothes men sold in Madrid and Paris and the effects this
had on the local businesses and recent rural migrants. Authors include: Rosalía de Castro, Benito
Pérez Galdós, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Leopoldo Alas Clarín, and Ángel Ganivet.
 
SS251: Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus Home
This seminar explores the development of some of the ideas central to our definition of the modern
world. Its focus is on how 19- and 20-century thinkers confronted the accepted order of things, how
they challenged accepted ideas, and how they constructed the radically different conceptions of the
world that we have inherited. Texts include Darwin's The Descent of Man, Marx and Engels's The
Communist Manifesto, Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents,
Forster's A Passage to India, DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway or To the
Lighthouse, and Kafka's The Trial. Class sessions are supplemented by lectures and other activities
that provide contexts of the readings, presented by faculty from all the divisions and by guests.
 
THEA107: Studies in Production: Performance Home
This module is concerned with the faculty-supervised, student-generated, dramatic endeavor. This
project is realized with limited technical support and is intended to be an intensive interface
between the student director, the student performers, and the faculty supervisor. The student actors
and stage managers involved are introduced to the principles and elements of performance without the
rigors of the faculty-directed, semester-long project. Generally, the content of the performance is
equivalent to a one-act play. This course includes some basic research and readings pertaining to
acting/directing theory and texts related to the performance material(s) themselves. A paper is due
at the end of the module and all students are expected to fulfill their assigned duties and adhere
to the rehearsal schedule. Almost all rehearsal occurs during class time, with the direct
supervision of the faculty instructor. This module is intended as an introductory course in the
theater program. It has no prerequisites for any participating student, except for the student
director. The student director must have the instructor's permission.
This module is concerned with the faculty-supervised, student-generated, dramatic endeavor. This
project is realized with limited technical support and is intended to be an intensive interface
between the student director, the student performers, and the faculty supervisor. The student actors
and stage managers involved are introduced to the principles and elements of performance without the
rigors of the faculty-directed, semester-long project. Generally, the content of the performance is
equivalent to a one-act play. This course includes some basic research and readings pertaining to
acting/directing theory and texts related to the performance material(s) themselves. A paper is due
at the end of the module and all students are expected to fulfill their assigned duties and adhere
to the rehearsal schedule. Almost all rehearsal occurs during class time, with the direct
supervision of the faculty instructor. This module is intended as an introductory course in the
theater program. It has no prerequisites for any participating student, except for the student
director. The student director must have the instructor's permission.
 
THEA109: Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design Home
 
Light is both a fundamental force of our universe and a fundamental part of our human existence.
Through light we experience our world, understand shape, know the time of day, and can be made to
feel elated, frightened, or angry. In the theatre, lighting has tremendous dramaturgical power. It
can tell us location, create mood, raise tension, or put us at peace. In this class we will learn
how to really see light, connect our experiences with light to a text and create lighting
environments to best express the dramaturgy of that text. Some theatre experiene is helpful but not
required.
 
THEA201: Listening, Analysis & Characterization Home
Text is the medium of the actor's art and must be thorougly understood by the performer. A clear
understanding is the result of careful analysis of the play as a whole: finding clues to the
character (the point of view), realizing the state of the character before and after the scene, and
an understanding of how each character contributes to the overall meaning of the play. Such analysis
along with the examination of acting theory developed after the turn of the century are the focus of
this course. Prerequisite: Theater 100 or Theater 117, or permission of the instructor.
 
THEA204: Movement: Analysis of Expression Home
This course, an introduction to movement as both therapy and expression, enables the performer to
understand relationships among thought, feeling, and gesture. Students learn a series of exercises,
analyze individual and group movement dynamics, keep journals, and participate in a final project
with a practical and a written component. A text serves as a springboard for practical and
philosophical investigation. Prerequisite: two 100-level Dance or Theater course.
 
THEA206: Theater Production Home
Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of theater by participating
in the college's productions as actors, directors, technicians, carpenters, designers, costumers,
and stage managers, as well as doing publicity and front-of-house management. Prerequisite THEA 115
Stagecraft or permission of the instructor.
 
THEA210: The American Musical Home
The musical is one of America's greatest contributions to world theater. In this course, students
study the American musical through performance experience, listening activities, and textual work on
musical theater history. The primary performance event is a book musical or revue, which will vary
from year to year. Smaller-scale concert performances of solos and ensembles selected by the
students may supplement the larger show. Written assignments incorporate dramatic, musical, and
dramaturgical research and analysis. Prerequisite: Theater 115, a 200-level Theater course, and an
audition.
 
THEA237: Shakesperean Scene Study Home
William Shakespeare is undoubtedly the most well-known and masterful playwright in the Western
Canon. His characters and texts present exciting challenges to students of the theater, both actors
and directors. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze scenes from several of Shakespeare's
plays, taking them from the page to the stage. We will explore tools for working on Shakespearean
scenes both for the actor and for the director--both by working on our feet and by observing how
other actors and directors have addressed and resolved the acting and directing challenges these
great plays present.
 
THEA406: Theater Production Home
Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of theater by participating
in the college's productions as actors, directors, technicians, carpenters, designers, costumers,
and stage managers, as well as doing publicity and front-of-house management. Prerequisite THEA 115
Stagecraft or permission of the instructor.
 
THEA409: Topics in Theatre: Lighting Design Home
 
Light is both a fundamental force of our universe and a fundamental part of our human existence.
Through light we experience our world, understand shape, know the time of day, and can be made to
feel elated, frightened, or angry. In the theatre, lighting has tremendous dramaturgical power. It
can tell us location, create mood, raise tension, or put us at peace. In this class we will learn
how to really see light, connect our experiences with light to a text and create lighting
environments to best express the dramaturgy of that text. Some theatre experiene is helpful but not
required.