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Anthropology
ANTH 151 PO. Gender in Prehistory. Ms.
Perry. Gender ideology and dynamics in different sociocultural contexts in
the past. Origins of gender-based division of labor. Definitions and
categories of gender in traditional societies. Matriarchal and matrilineal
societies. Examples will be drawn from a variety of contexts ranging from
the earliest humans to indigenous societies to historic empires. Fall 2009;
alternate fall semesters.
Art
ART 020 PO. Photography 1. Ms. Pinkel.
The text will stay the same except for the addition at the end of the
description: Film and/or digital camera suggested. Fall 2009.
ART 122 PO. Photography 11. Ms. Pinkel.
The text will stay the same except for the addition at the end of the
description: Prerequisite: 20 or other Introductory Photography course.
ART 123 PO. Documentary Photography. Ms.
Pinkel. The text will stay the same except for the addition at the end of
the description: Prerequisite: 20 or other Introductory Photography course.
ART 131 PO. Sculptural Function and Conceptual
Design. Mr. O’Malley. Sculptural Function and Conceptual Design
is an upper level sculpture course that investigates sculptural practice as
it re-imagines the pragmatic, functional objects of the built environment
while concurrently looking to design with its increased emphasis on
communicating ideas and making representations. Students will be expected to
learn wood and metal fabrication as well as the CNC Router and its attendant
software. May be taken two times for credit. Prerequisite: Sculpture 1
and/or 2 at Pomona. Letter grade only. Fall 2009.
Art History
ARHI 179 PO. Modern Architecture, City, Landscape,
and Sustainability. Mr. Gorse. Survey of "Modernist" traditions
of architecture and city planning (19th -21st C.), tracing the "roots" of
"sustainability" from the Spanish tradition through Arts & Crafts movement
to Bauhaus machine aesthetic to "post-modernism" and "sustainable
architecture" -- the new "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("total work of art"). Los
Angeles within these global contexts. Spring 2010.
Biology
BIOL 001H PO. Cloning and Stem Cells for Non
Majors. Ms. Hoopes. Reading and discussion on current issues in
cloning of humans and stem cell research for non-majors in biology and
molecular biology. Fall 2009; offered alternate fall semesters.
BIOL 189A PO. Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology.
Mr. Seligman. An in-depth analysis of fundamental molecular processes
including DNA replication, recombination, mutation, and repair. Specialized
topics such as DNA transposition and RNA interference will also be examined.
Students will present and discuss the primary literature. Prerequisite: 40.
Fall 2009.
Computer Science
CSCI 143 PO. Applied Algorithms. Ms.
Chen. What role do algorithms play in solving real world problems? In this
class we will consider general problem solving techniques, dealing with
NP-completeness, and issues concerning implementation and evaluation. The
topics examined may be motivated by problems in areas such as computational
biology, scientific computing, and networks. There will be a
research-oriented final project. Prerequisite: 140. Spring 2010; offered
alternate years.
CSCI 158 PO. Machine Learning. Ms. Sood.
An exploration of concepts and methods in machine learning including
decision trees, Markov models, and neural networks. Students will implement
Machine Learning methods, read and discuss contemporary research articles in
the space, and independently propose, research, and implement a Machine
Learning approach to a modern Artificial Intelligence problem. Prerequisite:
151. Spring 2010; offered alternate years.
CSCI 159 PO. Natural Language Processing.
Mr. Bruce. An introduction to the fundamental concepts and ideas in natural
language processing, sometimes called computational linguistics. The goals
of the field range from text translation and understanding to enabling
humans to converse with robots. We will study language processing starting
from the word level to syntactic structure to the semantic meaning of text.
Approaches include statistical as well as symbolic methods using logic and
the lambda calculus. Students will build and modify systems and will use
large existing corpora for validating their systems. Prerequisite: 81. Fall
2011; offered alternate years.
Dance
DANC 150B PO. Crossing the Iron Curtain: Dancing in
the Balkans. Mr. Shay. Dance traditions of Croatia, Slovenia,
Serbia, Greece and other Balkan countries. How issues of ethnicity,
nationalism, and political conflict are displayed in dance, music, and
costume. Acquisition of movement skill through practice of dynamic rhythmic
and movement patterns. Studio, lecture, and readings. Fall 2009; offered
alternate years.
Economics
ECON 120A PO. Economics through its History:
Mercantilism to Marx. Mr. Hueckel. Development of economic theory
from the 17th century to 1870 with particular attention devoted to the
mercantilists, the physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, T.R. Malthus,
J.S. Mill, and Karl Marx. Readings are drawn from the original works and
evaluated in light of modern theory. Prerequisites: 51 and 52. Fall 2009;
offered alternate years.
ECON 125 PO. Natural Resource Economics and Policy.
Mr. Jurewitz. Positive and normative economic analysis of natural
resources and the institutions governing their uses. Economic theory of
non-renewable and renewable resources. Topics will include: tragedy of the
commons, mineral depletion, recycling, water allocation, fisheries,
agriculture, forestry, land use policies, valuation of ecosystem services,
international resource treaties, biodiversity and species extinction,
wilderness and habitat preservation, population economics, and economic
growth and sustainability. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 52. Spring 2010;
offered alternate years.
ECON 127 PO. Environmental Economics.
Mr. Cutter. Positive and normative issues involving the optimal regulation
of pollution. Analysis of environmental laws and policies and the
institutions that implement these policies. Examination of incentive-based
pollution control policies such as cap and trade and pollution taxes.
Consideration of economic and ecological approaches towards sustainability.
Prerequisites: 52 or 102. Each fall.
English
ENGL 050 PO. Modern British and Irish Fiction.
Mr. Dettmar. This course surveys some of the most significant trends, via
some of the most important novels, in the 20th Century British tradition.
Works studied include novels by Beckett, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Green,
Ishiguro, Joyce, Kelman, Orwell, Rhys, Rushdie, Smith and Woolf. Spring
2010; offered alternate spring semesters.
ENGL 055B PO. Topics in Contemporary Fiction:
Models and Makings. Ms. Craig. Part analytical seminar, part
salon, part generative laboratory, this course is an alternative to the
traditional workshop, and best suited to students who have experience
writing fiction. We will read, analyze, and mine contemporary novels, and
accrete ideas to apply to our own fiction writing. Letter grade only. Fall
2009; offered alternate fall semesters.
ENGL 057 PO. Modern British & Irish Poetry.
Mr. Dettmar. Readings in the most significant Irish poetry of the 20th and
21st Centuries, including the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins,
W. B. Yeats, Sigfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas,
Philip Larkin, Thomas Kinsella, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney,
Eavan Boland, Maebh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, and Carol Ann Duffy. Spring
2011; offered alternate spring semesters.
ENGL 077 PO. American Nature: Poetry in/and the
19th Century. Ms. Gravendyk. Investigates the entwined
development of nature poetry and national identity in the 19th Century.
Considers social and cultural features of 19th Century life, historical,
naturalist, and scientific texts, and selected critical theory. Readings
will include a wide range of poetry along with essays by Thoreau, Austin,
and Emerson. Fall 2009; offered alternate fall semesters.
ENGL 090 PO. The Pre-Modern for Postmoderns.
Ms. Worley. The Middle Ages and Renaissance form the buried foundation to
all later literary endeavor. This class frontloads a number of ideas and
events that are important for understanding the discipline. Organized in
segments, it will cover nationhood, authorship, literary fame, the evolution
of genre, postcoloniality, and climate change. Fall 2009; offered alternate
years.
ENGL 121 PO. Whitman, Dickinson and Poe.
Ms. Gravendyk. Primarily studies in the poetry and selected prose of Walt
Whitman and Emily Dickinson, the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and
relevant literary criticism. Special attention to publishing histories,
social contexts, relationships to other writers in the 19th Century, and
influence on the development of American poetics. Prerequisite: 67. Spring
2010; offered alternate spring semesters.
ENGL 126 PO. “A Made Place:” California Poetry.
Ms. Gravendyk. Considers the variety of myths, histories, imaginations, and
products (literary, cultural, material) that are produced or revised by
California poetry in 20th Century. Readings may include work by Rexroth,
Oppen, Miles, Jeffers, Miller, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Hejinian,
Hillman, Hass, and others. Spring 2010; offered alternate spring semesters.
ENGL 143 PO. American Poetic Modernisms.
Ms. Gravendyk. Readings in a diverse body of American poetry
identified as high-, late-, alternative-, or early-“modernist.” Premised on
the notion of multiple modernisms, this class uses readings in literary
theory and criticism to interrogate and refine the terms with which we
categorize poetry from the first half of the 20th Century. Readings will
include Moore, Eliot, Pound, Toomer, Oppen, Rukeyser, Williams, Hughes, and
others. Fall 2009; offered alternate fall semesters.
ENGL 170E PO. To Defeat Theater.
Mr. Kunin. Artists and philosophers often complain that theater
makes inappropriate demands for love. This class revisits the antitheatrical
tradition to explore ways of thwarting these demands, "to defeat theater"
(in Michael Fried's phrase) using the resources of theater. Readings
selected from Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Molière, Rousseau, Stein,
Brecht, Stanislavski, and others. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 67.
Spring 2011. Offered occasionally.
ENGL 170H PO. Singing to Each Other: 20th C.
Collaborative Art Works. Ms. Gravendyk. Examines collaborative
works in the 20th and 21st Centuries, attempting to theorize “hybridity,”
“experimentalism,” and “genre.” Texts will include the shared work of poets,
visual artists, graphic novelists, musicians, and screenwriters, alongside
projects that interact with pre-existing texts, “collaborate” with anonymous
sources or systems, or come out of editorial relationships. Letter grade
only. Prerequisite: 67. Fall 2010. Offered occasionally.
ENGL 170L PO. Genre Theory. Ms.
Regaignon. Exploration of genre as a category of analysis that provides not
only a means to define, describe, and catalogue kinds of texts, but also to
define, organize, and generate rhetorical and social action in a
textually-mediated world. Focus is on both literary and rhetorical theories
of genre; students will select the particular written genres and texts.
Prerequisite: 67. Spring 2010; offered every third year.
ENGL 170M PO. Irony in the Public Sphere.
Mr. Dettmar. Since the 1830s, two parallel developments in irony have
combined to create the kinds of large-scale public misreading of irony seen
in countless contemporary examples. We’ll survey the state of irony theory,
as well as the current (and past) states of ironic practice, striving to
complicate the traditional understanding of irony. Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: 67. Spring 2010. Offered occasionally.
Environmental Analysis
EA 27 PO. Cities by Nature: Times, Space, Place.
Mr. Miller. A cross-cultural, multi-continental examination of urbanization
from the ancient world to the present, exploring the changing nature of
urban life and its rituals and the impact urban development has had upon
environmental systems, and upon political, social, and economic structures.
EA 70 PO. Nature, Culture, and Society.
Mr. Miller, Mr. Davis. This required course for EA majors and minors draws
on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social
sciences to help students better understand how humans imagine, interpret,
value, and engage with nature (and “Nature”); and how these responses shape
the human condition and planetary health. Each fall.
EA 170 PO. US Environmental History. Mr.
Miller. An examination of the idea of nature and wilderness in American
history from colonial visions to contemporary ideologies. It will draw from
the work of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and
Michael Pollan, as well as modern historiography, environmental
documentaries, and material culture. Spring 2010.
EA 171 PO. Water in the West. Mr.
Miller. Seminar explores how communities, states and the federal government
developed the legal precedents, physical infrastructure, financial
mechanisms, environmental engineering, political will and social desire for
the construction of a hydraulic empire in the Trans-Mississippi West. Topics
will include Los Angeles’ water grabs, the plumbing of the Colorado River,
and how irrigation settled the West and contemporary urban water woes.
Spring 2010.
EA 180 PO. Green Urbanism. Mr. Bardacke,
Mr. Wells. A discussion-based seminar, restricted to senior EA majors, that
explores green urbanism and the incorporation of nature into urban design; a
reassessment of traditional notions about the interrelationship of the built
and natural environments with a look at environmental architecture as
exemplified by Green Corps, LEEDS, and other radical new initiatives. Each
fall.
EA 190 PO. Environmental Seminar. Mr.
Hazlett, Mr. Miller. A capstone, modular-based seminar in which senior
majors focus their various curricular backgrounds on environmental issues
and problems, including projects of practical nature developed by the Pomona
Office of Sustainability. Exchange of interdisciplinary perspectives is
encouraged throughout, with participants learning intensively from one
another in the process of undertaking research. Simulates real world
team-based investigations. Each spring.
French
FREN 105 PO. Culture, Phonetics, and Style.
Ms. Rolland. A hands-on course to improve written and oral fluency using a
variety of sources, including contemporary French films and popular culture.
Learn slang, develop vocabulary, and improve pronunciation through role
playing, translation and creative writing, as well as practical lessons for
studying abroad. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 44. Each fall.
FREN 153 PO. Taboo, Provocation, Desire: The Sexual
Underbelly of the Classical Age. Ms. Calhoun. Though the
Classical Age is famous for its codes of decorum, taste, and even
prudishness, the development of erotic literature violated these moral
values. Beginning with France's moral liberators (Ronsard, Montaigne),
questions of libertinage, nudity, obscenity, homosexuality, fetishism and
pornography in 16th and 17th Century poetry, prose, letters and drama.
Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 44. Fall 2009 only.
FREN 178 PO. Writing the Painter, Painting the
Writer. Ms. Pouzet-Duzer. The relation between painting and
literature, 1870-1939: what happens when writers and painters meet everyday
in cafés, fall in love with the same muses, share a similar passion for
strolling through the crowd? Texts by Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Mallarmé,
Valéry, Proust; paintings by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh. Letter grade
only. Prerequisite: 44. Fall 2009; offered alternate years.
FREN 185 PO. The Art of Modern Fiction.
Ms. Pouzet-Duzer. What happens when the almighty realist narrator
disappears? What is new about “Le Nouveau Roman”? How can “the death of the
author” keep the novel alive? Readings from the 20th Century and
contemporary French and Francophone authors such as Proust, Sartre, Gide,
Sarraute, Perecm Confiant, Modiano, Duras, Nothomb, and Le Clézio.
Prerequisite: 44. Letter grade only. Spring 2010; offered alternate years.
Geology
GEOL 129 PO. Geophysics with Laboratory.
Mr. Grosfils. Introduction to geophysical techniques and their application
to geological investigation of the subsurface at a variety of scales.
Computer applications, hands on field training and interactive discussions
provide insight into the principles of seismic, gravity, magnetic and other
key geophysical methods. Prerequisite: MATH 030 and one course from the GEOL
20 series. Letter grade only. Each fall.
GEOL 160 PO. Geomodeling. Mr. Grosfils.
Introduction to the use of numerical models for exploring geological
processes, with a strong emphasis placed on the finite element method and a
selected array of volcanological problems. Prerequisites: MATH 30 and GEOL
123, 125 or 127 or 129 or permission of instructor. Letter grade only. Fall
2010; offered alternate years.
German
GERM 189 PO.
German Language Component. Title change only.
German in Translation
GRMT 170 PO. The Culture of Nature: History and
Aesthetics of Green Movements. Mr. Rindisbacher. Historical,
cultural, and political emergence of Nature and green movements in their
European and American contexts. Course traces their roots from Protestantism
to Romanticism into the 21st Century global environmental crisis. Readings
from history, politics, literature, and the social sciences, with a special
view to framing discourses and green aesthetics. Fall 2009; offered
alternate years.
History
HIST 005 PO. Making European Civilizations I: to
1350. Mr. Woods. A survey of the ancient and medieval worlds of
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Western Europe stressing the
interactions of civilizations and peoples, the rise and fall of ancient
empires, innovation and technology, the sharing of religions, and
intellectual achievements. (Ancient and Medieval). Offered alternate fall
semesters.
HIST 006 PO. Making European Civilizations I: Since
1350. Mr. Woods. A survey of early-modern and modern European
society, emphasizing the shaping of common cultural communities and their
interactions with others, the growth of capitalist institutions,
technological innovations, colonization and empire, and the shaping of
modern Europe. (Europe Since the Renaissance). Offered alternate spring
semesters.
HIST 017 CH. Chicano/Latino History. Mr.
Summers Sandoval. Survey introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o historical
experiences across the span of several centuries, but focused on life in the
United States. Analyzes migration and settlement, community and identity
formation, and the roles of race, gender, class, and sexuality in social and
political histories. Letter grade only. Each fall.
HIST 100D PO. Political Protest and Social
Movements in Latin America. Mr. Tinker Salas. The political
landscape in Latin America has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when
neo-liberal policy predominated. The backlash to these policies has
transformed the political landscape in most countries where the rise of mass
movements and popular discontent has produced the election of reformers,
progressives, and even socialists. The seminar seeks to contextualize the
emergence of new social and political movements throughout Latin America.
Letter grade only. Spring 2010.
HIST 100R CH. American Inequality: Race in the 20th
Century. Mr. Summers Sandoval. Reading seminar investigating the
role of race in 20th Century United States history. Analysis centers around
the lives of African American, Chicano and Latino, Asian American, and
Filipino populations, as well as their migrations and adaptations;
encounters with racial ideologies and structures; and struggles for
equality. Letter grade only. Fall 2010; offered alternate fall semesters.
HIST 110J PO. State, Citizen, and Subject in Modern
Japan. Mr. Yamashita. Same as course description for HIST 100J.
Letter grade only. Fall 2009; offered each fall.
HIST 115 PO. Edible Histories: Food, Culture and
the meaning of Eating. Mr. Eldevik. Historically, food has not
just been something to eat, but also something to think with. This seminar
will examine the politics of food in a historical and global context, from
the medieval spice trade to contemporary debates about genetically modified
organisms, and seek to understand how human societies have used food to
reproduce ideas about nature, gender, ethnicity, class and bodily purity.
Letter grade only. Fall 2009.
HIST 121 PO. Early America. Ms. Wall. No
change to course description. Letter grade only. Spring 2010; offered
alternate spring semesters.HIST 125 PO. The US
in the Middle East. Mr. Silverman. The US role in the making of
Southwest Asia and North Africa. Competing interpretations of the evolution
of American involvement with states and peoples, including the end of the
old Imperial systems, the European era, the Cold War, economic interests,
nationalist and cultural revolutions, wars, interventions, and the
Israeli-Arab conflict. Spring 2010.
HIST 128 PO. The US and the World Since 1890.
Mr. Silverman. A history of the interactions of Americans and foreigners
from the end of the Indian Wars to the end of the Cold War. Explores how and
why the United States changed from a regional to a world to a super power in
the context of the changing international system. Fall 2011; alternate fall
semesters.
HIST 134 PO. Drugs and Alcohol in the Modern World.
Mr. Silverman. Interpretations of social, political, and economic responses
around the world to alcohol and other mind-altering drugs from the rum and
tobacco trades to crack and the drug wars. Topics include substances and
society, drug markets, the opium wars, prohibition, 1960s drug cultures,
wars on drugs, legalization, addiction treatment, and recovery.
Prerequisite: any History course or permission of instructor. Fall 2009;
offered alternate fall semesters.
HIST 172 PO. History of Politics of Time.
Mr. Wilder. Will examine how time was organized, experienced, and theorized
economically, socially, culturally, and politically in modern European
history. Readings will include histories of time and philosophies of time.
We will explore the relationship between temporal structures and
consciousness, on the one hand, and epochal socio-political transformations,
on the other. Letter grade only. Fall 2009. Offered occasionally.
HIST 176 PO. European Intellectual History: Theory
and Method. Mr. Wilder. Focuses on different approaches to
European intellectual history through theoretical, methodological, and
historical writings. Compares textual and contextual approaches to political
thought, méntalités, concepts, culture, and discourse. Examines how
intellectual historians have treated the relationship between ideas and the
world, consciousness and society, forms of thought and social forms. Letter
grade only. Fall 2009.
Mathematics
MATH 135 PO. Functions of a Complex Variable.
Mr. Garcia. Topics may include Cauchy Riemann equations, harmonic functions,
Cauchy’s Theorem, Liouville’s Theorem, Cauchy’s Integral Formula, Maximum
Modulus Principle, Argument Principle, Rouche’s Theorem, series expansions,
isolated singularities, calculus of residues, and conformal mapping.
Prerequisites: 32 or 107, and 60; 101 or 131. Fall 2010; offered alternate
years.
MATH 173 PO. Advanced Linear Algebra.
Mr. Garcia. Topics may include approximation in inner product spaces,
similarity, the spectral theorem, Jordan canonical form, the Cayley Hamilton
Theorem, polar and singular value decomposition, Markov processes, and
behavior of systems of equations. Prerequisite: completion of a semester
course in linear algebra, a proof based course above 100, or consent of the
instructor. Spring 2011; offered alternate years.
Media Studies
MS 147D PO. Topics in Media Theory: Theories of the
Visual. Ms. Friedlander. This course examines ways of
understanding relationships between viewers and images through an
exploration of the cultural, political, and psychic mechanisms that
accompany the act of looking. It engages these issues though consideration
of painting, photography, film, television, science, and surveillance. It
provides students with a background in a range of foundational theoretical
perspectives—feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, phenomenological,
structuralist, and poststructuralist—that underpin scholarship in the fields
of Media Studies and Art History. Prerequisite: 49, 50, 51 or any ARHI
course. Fall 2010. Offered in rotation with other MS 147 courses.
MS 149D PO. Theories of Authorship. Ms.
Fitzpatrick. Exploration of authorship in a shifting technological and
mediated landscape; topics include poststructuralist theories of authorship,
auteur theory, corporate authorship, and battles over copyright.
Prerequisite: 49, 50, 51 or ENGL 67. Fall 2011; offered approximately every
other year.
MS 152 PO. Television Authorship. Ms.
Fitzpatrick, Mr. Blackwood. Exploration of key movements in recent
television, as represented by the work of prominent creators, with attention
to critical and theoretical questions of authorship in the medium. Fall
2009; offered approximately every other year.
MS 168 PO. Writing Machines. Ms.
Fitzpatrick. Exploration of the effects of new technologies of writing on
the development and dissemination of narrative, from hypertext to blogs, and
onward. Includes hands-on production. Prerequisite: 51 or permission of
instructor. Spring 2010; offered approximately every other year.
Music
MUS 068 PO. Listening to American Popular Music.
Mr. Rockwell. Examines the varied soundscape of popular music in
the United States. Through listening, analysis, and criticism, the course
draws connections between music and meaning in genres ranging from 19th
Century song through early blues, hillbilly music, rock, folk, funk, metal,
megapop, and rap. Fall 2009; offered alternate years.
Neuroscience
NEUR 101 PO. Introduction to Neuroscience.
Mr. Matsui, Mr. King. An introduction to the field of neuroscience.
Basic principles of neuroscience will be covered including how the cells in
the nervous system process signals and transmit information, basic brain
anatomy, and an introduction to human and comparative systems neuroscience.
Prerequisite: two semesters of Biology. Letter grade only. Each fall.
NEUR 110 PO. Developmental Neurobiology.
Mr. Matsui. This course focuses on the developing nervous system.
Topics include neural differentiation, cell birth and death, axon guidance,
establishing the appropriate connections in the developing brain, and adult
neurogenesis and repair. Emphasis will be placed on critical evaluating
readings from the primary literature, experimental design, and scientific
writing. Prerequisites: two semesters of Biology, 101 or permission of
instructor. Letter grade only. Spring 2010; offered each spring.
NEUR 143 PO. The Human Brain: From Neurons to
Behavior with Laboratory. Mr. Lewis, Ms. Weeks. An advanced
laboratory course in the relationships between structure and function that
exist in the human nervous system. We will critically analyze methods of
exploring the human nervous system including lesion, electrophysiological,
neurochemical, and neuroimaging approaches. Topics will include sensation
and perception, cognition and emotion, movement, regulatory systems, and
social behavior. Students will not receive credit for NEUR143 and PSYC143.
Prerequisite: 101. Each spring.
NEUR 189S PO. Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission.
Ms. Parfitt. In this seminar course, we will discuss readings
from the primary literature that address possible mechanisms by which
neurotransmitter release is regulated and postsynaptic mechanisms for
interpreting neurochemical signals. The readings will be relevant to
understanding learning and memory, addiction, neurodegenerative disease, and
basic neuropharmacology. Fall 2009.
Philosophy
PHIL 120 PO. Metaphysics. Mr. Atlas. An
advanced introduction to causality, the existence of God, freedom of the
will, the nature of particulars, attributes, and events. Offered 2009-10.
Offered alternate years.
PHIL 121 PO. Philosophy of Language. Mr.
Altas. An advanced introduction to truth, reference, meaning, speech acts,
and metaphor. Offered 2009-10. Offered alternate years.
Politics
POLI 046 PO. The Politics of Immigration and
Citizenship. Ms. Feldblum. Examines immigration and citizenship
politics in the US, from historical development of policy to contemporary
trends, with attention to comparative national policies and global migration
context. Topics include international migration theories, debates over
immigrant waves, controversies over citizenship, documented and undocumented
immigrants, highly skilled immigration, and second-generation immigrants.
Fall 2009.
POLI 061 PO. The Global Politics of Water.
Ms. Williams. Ice, freshwater, and oceans are vital to planetary
life. This course examines the interplay of human activities and political
systems with climate change and hydrologic forms. Changes in terrestrial
precipitation, glaciers, rivers, aquifers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and
oceans will be considered. Each fall.
POLI 097 PO. Writing about Justice in Politics.
Ms. Bromley. How do political theorists and political scientists
examine justice? What methods shape their modes of inquiry? In this course,
we will consider how scholars in political theory, international relations,
comparative politics, and American politics think, investigate, and write
about justice. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: at least one introductory
Politics course. Spring 2010; offered alternate spring semesters.
POLI 189F PO. The International Relations of the
United States and the Third World: 1945 to the Present. Mr.
Clement. Introduction to relations between the United States and Third World
governments and societies since the end of World War II. The course places
great importance on the critical perspectives of leaders in Africa, Asia,
and Latin America as they fought for independence from colonial powers. It
also covers the United States national security strategies and objectives in
the Third World during and after the Cold War. Spring 2010; offered each
spring.
Psychology
PSYC 143 PO. Neuropsychology. Mr. Lewis,
Ms. Weekes. Title change only. Each spring.
PSYC 178 PO. Research in Environmental Psychology.
Ms. Thompson. Psychological theory and research will be used to
identify the causes of environmentally relevant behavior and to learn how to
change behavior to increase sustainability. The course involves
seminar-style discussion, lecture, research experience, and presentations.
Prerequisite: 51. Spring 2010; offered alternate spring semesters.
PSYC 180C PO. Seminar in Cultural Neuroscience.
Ms. Goto, Mr. Lewis. Are cognitive processes of attention, memory,
categorization, and causal analysis the same for everyone? What is the role
of the brain and culture in understanding these emerging cultural
differences? We will critically read and discuss the theoretical and
empirical literature depicting cultural differences in the brain and
cognition with an eye toward understanding the neural mechanisms and
cultural constructs involved, ultimately developing a theoretical framework
for understanding how culture, the brain, and behavior interact. Letter
grade only. Prerequisite: 143 or Cultural Psychology course. Fall 2009;
offered alternate years.
PSYC 180M CH. Chicano/Latino Cultural Psychology.
Mr. Buriel. The cultural basis of Chicanos' and Latinos' psychobiology will
be examined in different areas, including immigration, acculturation,
identity formation, family life, and mental health. The immigrant student
paradox in behavior and education will constitute a central theme of the
seminar. Prerequisite: one Ethnic Studies Psychology course. Letter grade
only. Spring 2010; offered each spring.
Russian
RUSS 182 PO. Post-Soviet Russian Culture and
Society. Ms. Rudova. Examines main changes in Russian society
since the collapse of the USSR through fiction, popular media, and film.
Topics include, but not limited to, post-Soviet identity and nostalgia,
nationalism, wars in Chechnya, terrorism, control of the media, ecological
issues, new religiosity, and popular culture. Readings from the Russian
media and contemporary fiction. Films by Lungin, Balabanov, Khotinenko,
Muratova, Bodrov. Conducted in Russian. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: 44 or permission of instructor. Letter grade only. Spring
2011; offered alternate years.
Russian in Translation
RUST 080 PO. Literature, Art, and Culture in Russia
from 1900 to the Present. Ms. Rudova. Examines major movements
and trends in Russian literature and art together with critical readings and
cultural theory. Topics include Russian figurations of the utopia,
avant-garde literature and art, social engineering, Stalinist terror,
environmental issues, family and gender politics, post-Soviet popular
culture. Works by Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn,
Pelevin. Art by Malevich, Rodchenko, Mukhina, Komar and Melamid, Kabakov.
Critical readings include Marx, Bakhtin, Lukacs, Jameson, and Groys. Letter
grade only. Fall 2010.
RUST 175 PO, Empire and Ethnicity: The Case of
Modern Russia. Ms. Dwyer. Examines cultural production in Russia
through the lenses of empire and ethnicity. Emphasis on the formation of
national and imperial identities from the Petrine era to today. Topics
include Russian Orientalism in the Caucasus; Jews, Ukrainians, and Poles as
actors in Russian culture; and Russia's eastern frontier. Recommended: one
course in Russian history or literature. Spring 2010.
Sociology
SOC 121 PO. Radicals, Revolutionaries and
Terrorists. Mr. Beck. What can be learned about radicalism and
political violence by examining the lives of individuals? Figures discussed
range from historical to contemporary, from Che Guevara to Osama bin Laden.
Focus on causes and dynamics of terrorism, radical movements, and revolution
across comparative cases, including US, Middle East, and Latin America.
Spring 2010; offered each spring.
SOC 124 AA. Global Asia/Asian America.
Mr. Thai. This course is about the challenges that globalization poses to
people of Asian descent living outside of their country of birth. We focus
on case studies, paying particular attention to education, sexuality,
citizenship, gender, family, and work. We will use these cases to question
new concepts, such as “flexible citizenship,” “cultural hybridity,” and
“transmigrant,” that have emerged to describe new forms of belonging in this
global age. Letter grade only. Spring 2010; offered alternate spring
semesters.
SOC 125 PO. Politics and Society. Mr.
Beck. Themes of political sociology. Issues include conceptions of power and
political structures, origins of modern nation-states, linkages between
state and society, impact of international system, political group formation
and participation, and trends in a globalized world. Emphasis on developing
conceptual understandings of state, society, and politics in the modern
world. Fall 2010; offered each fall.
SOC 130 PO. Sociology of Violence. Ms.
Rapaport. Sociological perspectives on the nature, causes, and consequences
of violence. Topics include gang violence, hate crimes, violence against
women, war, genocide, and violence in intimate relations, schools, sports,
and other institutions. Letter grade only. Fall 2010.
Spanish
SPAN 105 PO. Spanish Film: Tradition and
Transgression. Mr. Cahill. Explores a selection of representative
Spanish cinematic production and highlights the tension between tradition
and transgression. Class discussions situate these films within their
socio-historical context as well as within the context of the development of
Spanish film and the Spanish film industry. Emphasis on gender, aesthetics,
and politics. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Letter grade only. Spring 2010.
SPAN 130 PO. Reading Bodies in Contemporary Latin/o
Literature and Culture. Ms. Montenegro. Explores how fictions of
desire are played out in textual and sexual bodies that become grounds for
gendered, racial, and historical inscriptions. Analyze notions of body,
writing, and performance from theoretical and cultural perspectives.
Prerequisites: 101 and another upper-level Spanish course. Letter grade
only. Fall 2010; offered alternate years.
SPAN 160 PO. Spain at a Crossroads: Discourses of
Gender and Empire. Ms. Coffey. With the loss of empire in 1898,
Spanish writers embarked on an examination of Spain as modern nation. Male
writers tended to explore Spain's national identity through innovative
fictional works. Women writers produced largely popular literature dealing
with domestic issues. Both discourses are equally revealing as to the state
of a country that found itself at a historical crossroad with modernity. To
be offered 2010-2011; alternate years.
SPAN 170 PO. Don Quixote and Cultural Identity.
Mr. Cartagena-Calderon. Situates Don Quixote in its historical and cultural
moment while examining the intersections of literary representation and
highly charged cultural issues such as gender, sexual practices, unorthodox
forms of desire, power, “race,” class, ethnicity, marginality, crime, social
justice, imperialism, nation-building, and colonialism (Don Quixote as
“conquistador” and the conquistadores as “quixotic”). Prerequisite: 101.
Letter grade only. Fall 2009; offered alternate years.
SPAN 182 PO. Contemporary Spanish Poetry:
Experience and Experimentation. Mr. Cahill. Presents a selection
of recent Spanish poetic production and examines the problematic
relationship between personal and social experience and poetic expression.
Discussion of gender, politics, aesthetics, and the publishing industry.
Includes the work of Jaime Gil de Biedma, Ana Rossetti, and Luis García
Montero. Prerequisite: 101 or a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement
Spanish Literature exam. Letter grade only. Fall 2009.
SPAN 185 PO. The Avant-garde in Spain.
Mr. Cahill. Explores the unusual nature of the Spanish avant garde. Includes
the poetry of Lorca, Salinas, and Cernuda and the plays of Lorca and
Valle-Inclán. Studies the tension between dictatorship and society in the
work of Laforet and other authors. Will include poetry, narrative, and
drama. Prerequisite: 101 or a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement
Spanish Literature exam. Letter grade only. Offered 2010-11.
Theatre
THEA 001E PO. Basic Acting: Acting for Social
Change. Ms. Lu. An introduction to the fundamentals of acting,
drawing on different techniques such as psychological realism and physical
theatre. These techniques will then be applied in forms such as Augusto
Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre. Students perform a
self-written monologue, a two-person scene from a published script, and
present a work of documentary theatre or Playback Theatre. Each fall.
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