DEAN'S TEACHING FELLOWSHIP COURSES

HISTORY

100.216 (H,S)
(W)

HISTORY DIGGING UP: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAST AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN 20TH CENTURY ASIA (3) Feng   Limit 15 This course uses archaeological discoveries as a window to explore the connection between the past and present in 20th century East Asia.  No Asian language or history background required.

T 2-5

100.223 (H,S)
(W)

CIVIL WAR TO KATRINA: RECONSTRUCTING NEW ORLEANS (3) Young Limit 20  Hurricane Katrina exposed how Mardi Gras existed alongside poverty and inequality to produce a national tragedy.  This course examines the city’s past of riots, corruption, and racial politics to today.

MW 2-3:30

100.234 (H,S)
 (W)

WOMEN, POLITICS, AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (3) Caradonna   Limit 15  This seminar will investigate the roles and representations of women in the political culture of the French Revolution.  Recommended: one previous course in European history. Course canceled 4/03/07

ThF 2-4

HISTORY OF ART

010.344 (H)   (W)

FROM VIRGIN TO VENUS: VENETIAN PAINTING AND THE INVENTION OF ART (3) Nygren  Limit 25   This course will introduce students to a variety of methods for interpreting Venetian Renaissance art. Traditional art historical approaches will be supplemented by speculative readings in philosophy, politics, gender theory and other disciplines.

ThF 10:30-12

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

140.356 (H,S) (W)

THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN INDIA (3) Salguero   Limit 25  A social and cultural history of medicine in India, from the earliest archaeological evidence, to Buddhist and Ayurvedic traditions, to the modern Yoga movement.

MTW 11

PHILOSOPHY

150.477 (H)   (W)

EXISTENTIALISM AND THE PROJECT OF CREATING ONESELF (3) Ievers    Limit 15   This course will be an examination of possibility and significance of self-definition in the context of existentialism via a consideration of works by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus.

ThF 10:30-12

SOCIOLOGY

230.303 (S) (W)

SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY (3) Villenas 
Limit 25  This course introduces students to themes within the sociology of disability by critiquing traditional notions of disability, and exploring how societal institutions influence the classification, significance, and experiences of diability.

Th 2-5