Anthropology 290B (3) -The Anthropology of American History - topical description - This course explores issues within historic American communities that ethnographers often investigate among living groups, including cultural values, religious ideologies, class structures, kinship networks, gender roles, and inter-ethnic relations. Although the communities of interest in this course ceased to exist generations ago, many of their characteristic dynamics are accessible through such means as archaeology, architectural history, and the study of documents. Case studies include early English settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts; the 18th-century plantation world of Virginia and South Carolina; the post-Revolutionary Maine frontier; and 19th-century California. Bell.

Anthropology 290C (3) - Shamanism, Spirit Possession, and the Occult - topical description - This seminar examines shamanism, spirit possession, witchcraft, and the occult in Siberia, indigenous North America, Latin America, and Africa. Special attention is devoted to how these religious practices relate to local culture, politics, and social conditions, as well as to the history of colonization and recent trends in globalization. Emphasis is placed on the developments in anthropological theory about these religions and the challenges anthropologists have faced studying them in the field. Goluboff.

Biology 295B (1) - A Biologists View of Creationism - topical description - What is creationism? How do biologists view creationism? Are science and religion necessarily at odds over the subject of evolution? These are some of the questions explored through discussions of two books: Pennock's Tower of Babel, and Miller's Finding Darwin's God. Knox

Biology 295C (1) - Medicinal Botany - topical description - From Taxol to Vitamin C plants provide important medicinal products for physicians as well as for shamans. This course discusses the utilization of plants by humans for medicinal purposes. Hamilton

Biology 330 (4) - Experimental Botany: Global Climate Change - revised course description - Prerequisites: Biology 111 and 112, or permission of the instructor. Lectures focus on the major impacts of global climate change (elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and elevated temperatures) on plant function (photosynthesis and respiration) and plant communities. Additional topics include global carbon budgets, plant carbon sequestration, and agricultural impacts. Students review the pertinent primary literature and conduct a term-long laboratory research project. Laboratory course. Hamilton

Chinese 111-112 (8) - First-year Chinese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Chinese 261-262 (8) - Second-year Chinese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Economics 297 (3) - Gender and Economics - topical description - This course offers economics majors an alternative perspective of the scope and methods of economics; it offers women's studies students an introduction to the application of economic reasoning to issues of gender. The first part of the course explores the impact gender has on economic experiences, examining differences between women and men in the labor force: participation rates, occupational choices, and earnings. It also examines the ways that government policies affect women's economic options and well-being, the ways that race and gender interact in the economy, and the issues faced by women in developing economies, including addressing how the economics of gender have changed over time and the differences between the economic histories of women and men. The second part of the course applies economic analysis beyond the market economy, including a study of gender's role in the economic functioning of the household by examining decision making and the division of paid and unpaid labor. This analysis is extended to a discussion of the importance of unpaid work in the reproduction of the economy, including the role that gender plays in community. Finally, the course examines how gender issues challenge our understanding of economic behavior. Readings include the work of feminist economists such as Lourdes Beneria, Nancy Folbre, Julie Matthaei, and Julie Nelson. Student evaluation is based on class participation, several short papers, and a final exam. Gignesi

English 105A (3) - Expository Writing: Fantasy Literature by Women - topical description - An examination of fantasy in poetry, fiction, and drama written by and about women. Miller

English 105B (3) - Expository Writing: Theory and Practice - topical description - A study of literature and composition from the vantage of the ever-present question of the relation between the idea or theory behind a text and its actual workings or practice. The course explores three general instances of this problem. First, the application of an outside theory, such as Aristotle's Poetics, to another author's text: here we look to the dramas of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dryden, Racine, Tom Stoppard, and Baz Luhrmann. Second, the application of a writer's own theorizings to his own practice: here we test the prose writings on poetry of such figures as Gray, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Whitman, Robinson, and Stevens against their actual poems. Finally, we look to how some texts seem to internalize or self-generate their theories: here various novels by writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Virginia Woolf constitute our texts for study. Adams

English 105C (3) - Expository Writing: On Misbehaving - topical description - This course examines a range of contemporary literature in English focusing on characters who misbehave, break rules, or otherwise transgress norms in their attempts to forge an identity. Through readings, discussion, and writing assignments, we investigate the relation between "good behavior" and social hierarchies defined by race, gender, sexuality, and class. We also think about what it means for texts, including student compositions, to behave or misbehave. Readings likely include poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Wole Soyinka, and Tom Andrews; stories and novels by Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Lorrie Moore, and Dorothy Allison; and at least one play and one film. Braunschneider

English 105D (3) - Expository Writing: London Calling: Writing the English Metropolis - topical description - Through readings that represent London across a broad historical and generic range, this course explores the varied imaginative responses to such questions as: What opportunities and challenges does urban society afford? How do "individuals" and "communities" of various stripes configure themselves amidst the boroughs of civic culture? How does "writing" engage with other representational modes in attempting to capture the density and flux of "metropolitan traffic?" In addition to our own responsive writings, readings may include verse by Chaucer, Jonson, Swift, Wordsworth, Eliot, The Clash; novels by Dickens, Zadie Smith; plays by Jonson, Gay, Kureishi, Stoppard. Wilson

English 105E (3) - Composition & Literature: Literature and the Environment - topical description - This course focuses on fiction, poetry, and drama in which the relationship between human and non-human nature is central. The texts treat this central relationship in several different ways, and the selections range from the Renaissance to the present. We read stories by Hawthorne and Barry Lopez; poems by 19th-century Americans like Bryant, Whitman, and Dickinson, and by the contemporary poet Pattiann Rogers; and plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov. Warren

English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature:  - topical description - 

English 105G (3) - Composition & Literature: Modern Love - topical description - This course examines the literature of love from various centuries, exploring changing attitudes toward courtship, marriage, gender, sexuality, and romance. As we discuss the variable nature of human relationships, we also examine the evolution or devolution of literary genres. The sonnets of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are followed by excerpts from George Meredith's MODERN LOVE and a few sonnets by E. E. Cummings. Plays range from Congreve's THE WAY OF THE WORLD to Caryl Churchill's CLOUD NINE. We also read one novel by Jane Austen and view some recent film adaptations of her work, asking what the recurrent interest in Austen reveals about the etiquette and economics of love in her day and our own. Brodie

English 105H (3) - Composition & Literature: Southern Voices - topical description - This course explores the fiction, drama, poetry and song of the 20th-century American South, forms that are deeply infused with the rhythms of oral culture. A frequent theme is that of "The Displaced Person" (the title of an O'Connor short story), the individual who must struggle to forge an identity -- whether racial, sexual, social, or religious -- in an often hostile and tradition-bound society that resists the change it cannot avoid. We thus attempt to hear and respond to the voices of the dispossessed, the disheartened, the disinherited, and the disturbed. Among the works we encounter are: short fiction by Faulkner, O'Connor, Capote and Walker; plays by Williams and McCullers; poetry by Dickey, Applewhite, Chappell and McFerren; the music of Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly and Billie Holiday; and the Coen Brother's film, O Brother Where Art Thou. As we hone our abilities to read perceptively and write effectively, we attend not only to the word on the page but also to the spoken word as an essential quality of Southern storytelling, poetry, and song, a cultural production that is deeply infused with the rhythms of oral culture. Hailey

English 105I (3) - Composition & Literature: Misfits, Rebels, and Outcasts - topical description - If extended, the title of this course might also include strangers, visionaries, fanatics, prophets, artists, lovers, criminals, transients, deviants, freaks, monsters, etc. We read stories, poems, and plays about individuals challenging the status quo, either directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously. We consider, among other things, what happens to the individual in the process, and what happens to the status quo. Oliver

English 105J (3) - Composition & Literature: 1960s in U.S. Literature - This course examines the turbulence of the 1960s as it was expressed and explored in literature. Through an examination primarily of narratives, students look at the seeds of revolt, the political faces of art and literature, and the complex responses to social upheavals. Kane

English 206 (3) - Poetry - Newly scheduled course

English 226 (3) - American Literature: Whitman to Faulkner - Newly scheduled course

English 233 (3) - Early Arthurian Narrative - topical description - Of the many precursors to the modern novel, perhaps none continues to fascinate modern readers more than the tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In this course, we investigate the historical origins of this vast body of literary works in the mists of sixth-century Britain, and its development over the next thousand years. We begin with the early chronicle tradition of Gildas and Nennius which prefigures the pseudo-history of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which in turn gives rise to the great romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the Welsh tales of the Mabinogian, the French Vulgate cycle, and eventually to Malory's Most piteous Tale of the Morte Arthur. A major focus of our discussions are the varied narrative strategies and thematic concerns of these early tellers of tales, and the ways they used these tales to talk about the concerns and anxieties of their own societies. Texts are read in translation. Hailey

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Jane Austen and Walter Scott - topical description - An introduction to the discipline of English literature through a close study of the two seminal British novelists of the early 19th century. In addition to reading several works by these writers and following their careers, the course takes up two major literary questions closely associated with these novelists: first, the matter of theories of the origin, rise, and dominance of the novel genre; and second, the canon debate. The latter is dramatized by the reverse trajectories of these two writers, namely, Scott's precipitous decline from world-wide popularity and cultural centrality to forgotten marginality versus Austen's meteoric rise from rejection and anonymity to secure canonical stardom. Adams

English 354 (3) - Modern British and American Drama - topical description - A survey of influential playwrights and theatrical innovations marking the twentieth- century stages of England, Ireland, and America. We address the changing relationships between authors, actors, and audiences; the place of theater in cultural politics; variations on realistic and expressionistic dramaturgy; theater's interrelation with other media such as film, music, and dance. Readings in Brecht and Artaud establish theoretical and theatrical contexts for plays by Yeats, Synge, Beckett, Friel, McDonagh; Shaw, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill; O'Neill, Miller, Mamet, Kushner, Taymor. Wilson

English 380A (3) - England's "Others": Imagining Difference in the 18th Century - topical description - This seminar examines how a variety of literary discourses participated in defining what was socially normative, legitimate, or valuable during the 18th century, a period which many scholars have argued gave rise to modern categories of social difference including race, gender, sexuality, and class. In discussion and writing assignments, we analyze the ways primary texts create and manipulate notions of normativity and difference when they take up cultural concerns specific to their time and place -- including shifts in medical and scientific knowledge about the human body, debates over religious and political differences within Great Britain, changing ideas about England's place in a world economy organized by colonialism and slavery, and questions about the role of women in this new world order. Readings include scholarship and criticism but draw primarily from 18th-century prose fiction, drama, and autobiographical writing. Among these are likely to be Behn's Oroonoko; Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Gay's The Beggar's Opera; Etherege's Man of Mode; Johnson's and Boswell's journals of their travels through Scotland; Montagu's record of her travels to Turkey; correspondence between Laurence Sterne and ex-slave Ignatius Sancho; African-born Olaudah Equiano's life narrative; Henry Fielding's indictment of a female husband; Charlotte Charke's autobiography of her itinerant life as a man; and Maria Edgeworth's end-of-the-century novel of colonialism and gender-bending, Belinda. Braunschneider

English 380B (3) - Medieval Dreamworks - topical description - This course introduces the large and varied body of medieval dream-visions. Medieval poets or "makers" used the framing fiction of a visionary dream as a vehicle for discussing a variety of subjects: love, fame, death, religious doctrine, and political economy among them, in forms ranging from debate to satire, and in tones which vary from deep seriousness to high comedy. We begin with Macrobius' commentary on the Dream of Scipio, which maps out the kinds and significance of dreams, and legitimizes the dream-vision as a fictive device capable of conveying weighty subject matter. We then consider in some depth the Middle-English poetry of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl-poet in relation to their sources and contemporaries. Hailey

History 329A (3) - Germany, 1789-1890 - topical description - Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Students who have already taken History 313 may NOT enroll in this course. Struggle for German unification from the French Revolution through the establishment and consolidation of the empire under Bismarck. Cecil

History 329B (3) - Renaissance - Newly scheduled course

Italian 111-112 (8) - Beginning Italian - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Italian 261-262 (3) - Intermediate Italian - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Japanese 261-262 (8) - Second-year Japanese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Mathematics 101Z (3) - Calculus I - reserved for students who have had some previous work in calculus

Mathematics 221A (3) - Multivariable Calculus - freshmen only

Russian 261-262 (8) - Intermediate - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Spanish 161-162 (6) - Intermediate Spanish - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Spanish 395 (3) - Antonio Machado: La palabra en el tiempo - topical description - This course concentrates on the poetry and prose of Antonio Machado (1876-1939) and traces his poetic evolution against the backdrop of the historic context of early 20th-century Spain. Analytical readings of his works, written comentarios and frequent oral presentations form the basis of student participation. Boetsch