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DEAN'S TEACHING FELLOWSHIP COURSES

ANTHRPOLOGY

070.330 (H,S)

ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (3) Selby   Limit 15   This course examines the central debates on human rights, while emphasizing the contributions anthropology has made to those debates, and to providing innovations within the field of human rights scholarship.                                   

W 12-3

070.370 (H,S)

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK (3) Mulla   Limit 25   This course examines the social aspects of work in everyday life, specifically in relation to the religious belief systems and values that work rewards, conflicts with, perpetuates, imparts, or absorbs.   

ThF 9-10:30

070.381 (H,S)

TRANSFORMATIONS IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES (3) Fournier   Limit 25 This course examines the complexities of post-Soviet societies as they undergo radical social change.   It focuses on local engagements with Western constructs such as ‘market’, ‘democracy’, and ‘civil society’.

Th 1-4

BIOLOGY

020.336 (N)

STEM CELL BIOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT & DISEASE (3) Casper/Barrila   Limit 20
Lectures and discussion of primary literature will deepen students' understanding about the biology of various stem cell niches and explore how that knowledge is applied in treatment of disease.

TTh 1-2:30

CLASSICS

040.356 (H)

             (W)

ANCIENT GREEK DEMOCRACY: DEFENDERS AND CRITICS (3) Jones   Limit 25
This course surveys the theory, practices, and development of classical Athenian democracy by examining the competing perspectives of its critics and champions in both ancient and modern sources.

TTh 2-3:30

ENGLISH

060.223 (H)

             (W)

MARRIAGE PROBLEMS (3) Jarvis, Claire    Limit 18   Prereq: One English course   What is “marriage”?  This course reads a variety of historical literary texts to examine why “marriage” is currently such a vexed and contentious term.

MTW 1

060.384 (H)

             (W)

INTERRACIAL INTIMACY AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL (3) Conn    Limit 18
Must have taken one English literature course.   This course examines the novel of interracial intimacy in light of the social, legal, and literary context of intermarriage and interracial sex. Course readings include Faulkner, Baldwin, Kerouac, Himes, and others.

T 2-4:30

HISTORY

100.274 (H,S)

              (W)

SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE AMERICAS (3) Roberts   Limit 25 What is slavery? This course investigates definitions of slavery (and freedom) and the experience of enslavement throughout the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

Th 2-5

100.275 (H,S)

              (W)

ENTERPRISE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM: INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM (3) Beveridge
Limit 25  This course is designed to introduce the student to the historical development of American law with particular reference to the business corporation and to the fundamentals of legal reasoning. The emphasis will be on the nineteenth century establishment of a distinctly American position on the corporation, the evolution of that position in the twentieth century, and the changes that are currently taking place in the law related to business corporations.

MW 2-4

100.282(H,S)

              (W)

PRACTICING DIFFERENCE, PRODUCING SIMILARITY: NATIVE AMERICANS AND ENGLISH EXPLORERS IN EARLY AMERICA (3) Stern Spivey   Limit 15     This seminar provides an introduction to the history and historiography of Native American and British American encounters from early exploration to the American Revolution, while introducing interdisciplinary methods of studying cross-cultural encounters.

TTh 2-3:30

HISTORY OF ART

010.218 (H)

EXPRESSIONISM IS DEAD! THE RETURN TO REALISM BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS (3) Roth   Limit 25 This course examines the artistic and political diversity of controversial realist painting, photography, and graphic art in 1920's Germany, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, August Sander, among others. Course added 4/26/06

MTW 2

PHILOSOPHY

150.467 (H)

ABSTRACT PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICAL LIFE (3) Smith   Limit 20 This course examines the ways in which philosophical ideas about knowledge and reality can influence ethics, politics, and everyday life.  Readings will be from Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Hobbes, and William James.

MTW 2

POLITICAL SCIENCE

191.420 (S)

              (W)

SPEED AND POLITICS (3) Glezos   Limit 15  Prereq: Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor     A theoretical analysis of the effects of speed and thechnology on politics, specificall in the areas of Media, war and democaracy.  Will include readings by Virilio, Baudrillard, Negri, Kant and Schenerman. 

W 2-5

ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

212.369 (H)

SPANISH NEW YORK (3) Galasso    Limit 15
Prereq: 210.228 or 210.229 or Webcape placement in 210.326          This course traces New York's significance to the work of major Hispanic writers, examines the various ways in which New York has functioned as a complex contact zone for Spanish speakers (to the United States, to Anglophone U.S. culture and literature, and to each other), and interrogates the different constructions of Hispanic identity vis-à-vis New York. This course will be taught in Spanish.

M 1-4