| Summer 2010 |
Baerman,Noah
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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What is the difference between "cool jazz" and "hot jazz" or "bebop" and "hard bop?" What does the bass player do in a jazz group? How has that changed over time? Why is Louis Armstrong so important? If you have ever wondered about questions like these, you are not alone. Here in the 21st century, jazz has finally started to earn the respect it deserves, but not everyone understands how it works. The purpose of this course is to build this understanding. Each sub-topic will be examined within the broader context of jazz history
Our working knowledge of jazz will be built through class discussions, selected readings and assignments, and above all, extensive listening. Students will learn the roles of each member of a jazz ensemble and how these roles have evolved. They will learn the distinctions (and similarities) between various sub-categories and chronological periods in jazz. They will learn about great artists including those-like Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Count Basie-who epitomized certain movements in jazz, as well as restless, influential and difficult-to-categorize innovators like Earl Hines, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. Grades will be based on class participation, listening quizzes, and written assignments including brief research projects (such as examining the career of a noteworthy musician) and analyses of both written and live music.
Sound recordings will be the primary source material for this course, with occasional video footage. Students will be asked to purchase and download a "bundle" of recorded songs from iTunes.com that will be approximately equivalent in price to four CDs. Selected readings will be assigned and put on reserve (available at Olin Library or online).
Grades will be based on class participation, three brief listening quizzes, three essays based primarily on analyzing recordings, an essay based on a live performance, and a research project that will culminate in both an essay and an oral presentation.
While musical training and vocabulary are not prerequisites for this class, students should be comfortable with the idea of listening to music analytically. The ability to aurally distinguish instruments from one another (for example, hearing the difference between a saxophone and a trumpet) will be helpful.
Course tuition: $2022.
Noah Baerman (B.Mus., M.M. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University) is director of the Wesleyan jazz ensemble. He is also a jazz pianist who has recently released his fifth album, "Bliss." His best-known release is "Patch Kit," a trio album with Ben Riley and longtime Miles Davis associate Ron Carter. In March 2005 he was featured as a guest on the pubic radio program Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Alfred Publishing Company has released nine instructional books by Noah, most recently the Versatile Keyboardist, as well as a DVD, Beginning Jazz Keyboard. He is also a recent recipient of the Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation "New Works" grant. Click here for more information about Noah Baerman.
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Belanger,Marion
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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Using film or digital still cameras, students will spend the semester making pictures at Connecticut State Parks. Students should come to class with a specific park or group of parks in mind, and should have a sense of their interest around the theme of park, such as: portraits of those who utilize the park; the park as landscape; conceptually based work in which the idea of park is explored; or collage. Subject matter will vary with the specific interest of each student. In addition to class time, students will work individually in a location of their choice.
The entire class will produce a final project. For this, students will choose one or two of their strongest photographs from the term to contribute to a class portfolio. Students will collaboratively design the portfolio, and will print enough copies of their photographs so each student will be able to take home a copy of this limited edition portfolio. Collaborative portfolio work may be possible; examples of such works include "Wave Hill Pictured: Celebration of a Garden," "A City Seen," and the books by Wendy Ewald and the children she teaches.
Students will be responsible for keeping a journal, for class participation, and for producing two rolls of film or the equivalent per week. A final portfolio of 10 images is due for the final class.
At least one class meeting will be held offsite. A previous photography course is required for this course. Students must have at minimum either a 35mm camera that includes manual controls, or a high-quality digital camera that has manual controls.
Course tuition: $2022. Additional course fee: $50 for printing costs.
This course is not open to auditors.
Marion Belanger (B.F.A. Alfred University; M.F.A. Yale University) is a recent John Simon Guggenheim fellow and a widely exhibited photographer whose current projects focus on visualizing ecology. Her photographs were recently shown in Germany as a part of Contemporary American Photography, 7. Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, at the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery in Hartford and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. View her work at www.marionbelanger.com. Her forthcoming book, Everglades: Outside In, will be published by Center for American Places.
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| Summer 2010 |
Shinohara,Keiji
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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The monotype print is a free form of printmaking more akin to painting than to the traditional woodcut or etched print. It is also a process in which the artist encounters fewer technical difficulties than in other traditional printmaking methods. Students in this course will create images using engraving techniques on woodblocks and plexiglass, found flat objects such as leaves, and will print with watercolor and water-based and oil-based inks, using the equipment in Wesleyan University's printmaking studio. Students may choose the images they wish to print; the instructor will help students develop image-making technique and compositional skill.
Students will make a series of prints using 4-5 techniques, and will be graded on weekly assignments, a mid-term critique session, and a final project created from their best work in each technique.
Paintbrushes, paper, ink, and printing blocks will be supplied. Students should have previous image-making (drawing/painting) experience, but no previous printmaking experience is necessary. Due to the use of chemicals, students with chemical sensitivities or who are pregnant should avoid this course. Open studio hours will be Saturdays, 1-5 p.m.
Course tuition: $2022. Additional course fee: $250.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students. This course is not open to auditors.
Keiji Shinohara, a master Ukiyo-e woodcut printmaker, is visiting artist in art and East Asian studies. His work has been exhibited at the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Worcester Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Smithsonian. He is known for highly sculptural landscape prints, which speak to the spirit of Ukiyo-e in a modern voice. His Sumi-e paintings were featured in the collaborative artists' book, The Language of Her Body, with photos by Derek Dudek, fragments of text by Amy Bloom, and typography by Robin Price. Click here for more information about Keiji Shinohara and click here for more information about his work.
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| Summer 2010 |
Resnikoff,Robert
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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This is an advanced scene study course for those students who are trained actors interested in honing their Shakespearian technique, and for literature students interested in gaining a deeper insight into Shakespeare through the professional actor's perspective.
We will take a professional approach to performing scenes from Shakespeare's plays, including script analysis, building a character, playing the action, and using the body expressively. There will be emphasis on Shakespeare's language: scanning the verse, understanding when and why his works diverge from iambic pentameter, the use of vowel and consonant sounds to create rhythm and melody, and discovering how the music of Shakespeare's language guides the actor.
Along with various works by Shakespeare (Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure), we will also study the text Performing Shakespeare by Oliver Ford Davies.
Course requirements will include memorization, rehearsal and performance of assigned roles, as well as course reading assignments.
Course tuition: $2022.
A syllabus for this course is available at:
Course Syllabus
Robert Resnikoff (B.F.A., Boston University of Fine and Applied Arts) is a professional actor and teacher who has performed in plays by Shakespeare, Stoppard, Rice, Coward, Tolstoy and others in New York and on the road. He currently teaches at the Greater Hartford Arts Academy and serves as a teaching artist in the Oddfellows Summer Shakespeare Academy.
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Greene,Anne F.
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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In both fiction and nonfiction, the sounds of voices--talking or thinking--gives dramatic life to the work. This writing course offers students the chance to experiment with story-telling and commentary in a range of voices. Students interested in fiction writing may experiment with narrative voices, characterization, and point of view. Students interested in nonfiction might want to explore the uses of interviews, oral histories, family letters, or other material where voice is a prominent feature.
The syllabus offers a wide range of readings, including interviews by Studs Terkel; memoirs by Chris Offutt, Eudora Welty, and Chang-rae Lee; essays by Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf; collections of science and travel writing; and fiction by Grace Paley, Hemingway, W.G. Sebald, and Dostoevsky.
Course work includes both short writing exercises and one longer project, which might involve short fiction, a portion of a novel, a profile or biographical sketch, an interview collection, editorials, travel pieces, or analytical or personal essays. Students are invited to develop the assignments in a way that suits their interests.
Final grades will be based on students' progress in their written work and their contributions to class discussion.
New and experienced writers are both welcome.
Course tuition: $2022.
This course is not open to auditors.
Anne Greene (B.A. Radcliffe College, M.A. Brandeis University) is adjunct professor of English, director of writing programs, and director of the Wesleyan Writers Conference. She was awarded the 2006 Binswanger prize for excellence in teaching. Click here for more information about Anne Greene.
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| Summer 2010 |
Karamcheti,Indira
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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The last half of the 20th century has seen the establishment of a literary canon of classics from many places in the Third World: India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Some authors have become not only recognizable to, but indispensable for, the educated First World reader: Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Bharati Mukherjee are certainly some of these authors. How do these authors shape their worlds and what issues concern them? What in their works and formal methods appeals so much to the readers of the First World? In this regard, we will consider how canons come to be: what are the criteria by which certain books are selected to become classics?
We will explore such works as Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, and Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, among others. These are big books, in all senses of the term, "baggy monsters," as some would call them. We will also read some of the newer, up-and-coming writers, including Jhumpa Lahiri and Nuruddin Farah. We will read and discuss these works, as well as selected articles on canons and the idea of the classic.
Students will write two short papers and design a final project in consultation with the instructor.
Course tuition: $2022.
Indira Karamcheti B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) is associate professor of English and American Studies. Her teaching and research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, the literature of the South Asian diaspora, and the writing of ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S. She has written on such authors as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Aime Cesaire. Click here for more information about Indira Karamcheti.
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Eggers,Will
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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This course will explore myths and legends - such as Robin Hood and King Arthur - originating in the British Isles and closely related surrounding cultures. From the dry wit to be found in Icelandic works such as "Hrafnkel's saga" and "Thrym's poem" to the passionate injustice in the Irish "Exile of the Sons of the Uisliu," these works will challenge the way that our society continues to circulate the figures of the virtuous outlaw, the heroic woman warrior, the chivalric knight, and the shape-shifting princess. Texts will be in translation, with a few selections in Middle English. In addition to reading the original texts and considering the rich social tapestry within which these characters were woven, we will consider modern versions of these figures in movies.
Texts for this course will include Robin Hood, Sir Gawain Tales, Hrafnkel's saga, Thrym's poem, Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Course tuition: $2022.
Will Eggers (A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut) is visiting instructor in English. Click here for more information about William Eggers.
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| Summer 2010 |
Curran,Andrew
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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While the term "libertine" is now generally associated with a lapse in sexual mores, its seventeenth-century connotation derived more specifically from the Latin word libertinus, which meant freed slave. In this seminar we will examine the evolution of the notion of the "libertine" as well as the larger question of libertinage in French literature. Beginning with those thinkers whose method and ideas inevitably came into conflict with more traditionally orthodox notions, this class will also analyze more thematically the various forms of libertinage that came into existence during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, e.g., religious libertinage and sexual libertinage.
Readings, in translation, will include Moliere, Dom Juan; La Fontaine, various short stories; Diderot, The Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage; Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom Casanova, and The Story of My Life.
Required course work will include one short paper, one term paper, and one class presentation.
Course tuition: $2022.
Andrew Curran (Ph.D., New York University) is a specialist of the French eighteenth century. His work has focused on a variety of topics related to Diderot, physical and moral monstrosity in eighteenth-century French thought, and the early-modern life sciences. He is currently at work on a book on the representation of Africa in Enlightenment thought. Professor Curran has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as the Mellon and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations. Click here for more information about Andrew.
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| Summer 2010 |
Fieldsteel,Adam
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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The natural numbers, 1, 2, 3, ... are the starting point of mathematics. They form a deceptively simple structure whose investigation has occupied mathematicians for thousands of years. This course will introduce students to some of the basic problems and methods of this subject. We will begin with a study of divisibility and properties of prime numbers. We will go on to study arithmetical functions, the algebra of congruence classes, and diophantine equations. As time permits, we will discuss special topics such as the distribution of the prime numbers and decimal and continued fraction representations of real numbers.
We will use the textbook, Elementary Number Theory by Charles Vanden Eynden.
There will be regular homework and written exams. Active class participation is expected.
No background beyond basic algebra is required.
Course tuition: $2022.
Adam Fieldsteel (A.B. Brown University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is professor of mathematics. His research focuses on ergodic theory and topological dynamics, and his recent publications include: (with A. Blokh), "Sets that force recurrence," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (2002); (with K. Dajani), "Equipartition of interval partitions and an application to number theory," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (2001); (with R. Hasfura), "Dyadic equivalence to completely positive entropy," Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1998). Click here for more information about Adam Fieldsteel.
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Mulvey,Irene
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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Topology, the branch of mathematics that makes posible a rigorous study of continuity and continuous distortion, is a core mathematical discipline that provides the foundation for much of advanced mathematics and is a fascinating subject in its own right.
Our course will focus on the essential elements of the subject: topological spaces and functions between them. We will begin our study with careful examination of metric spaces using familiar examples (the real line and the plane) as well as other, more complicated examples. In this setting, we will formalize what it means for two objects to be close together. We may intuitively know what it means for objects (numbers, n-tuples, or functions) to be close together, but within the context of metric spaces we can define a general notion of distance that works in many settings. This will lead us to see that much of analyis does not depend on the specific distance at all but rather depends on the sets that are open in the metric space.
In a natural way, we will see that a topological space is the appropriate setting for describing interior, closure, and boundary of a set as well as continuous functions and the topological properties of compactness and connectedness. We will study topological subspaces, product spaces, the separation axioms and homeomorphisms concluding with surprising and surprisingly beautiful theorems.
There are no specific prerequisites for the course; all the essential topics will be introduced in the course itself, and the course should be accessible to any student with a modest background in mathematics. Students will be expected to follow carefully reasoned arguments and active participation will be encouraged. Grades will be based on regularly assigned problem sets. Our text will be Introduction to Topology (third edition) by Bert Mendelson.
Our text will be Theodore Shifrin, Multivariable Mathematics / Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, and Manifolds.
Grades will be based on regularly assigned problem sets that will be roughly an equal mixture of computational problems and theoretical problems.
There are no specific prerequisites for the course; all the essential topics will be introduced in the course itself, and the course should be accessible to any student with a modest background in mathematics.
Course tuition: $2022.
Irene Mulvey (B.A., Stonehill College; Ph.D., Wesleyan University) is professor of mathematics at Fairfield University. Her recent publications include "Symbolic Representation for a Class of Unimodal Cycles," Topology and Its Applications (2002), and "Multi-modal Cycles with Linear Map Having Exactly One Fixed Point," International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (2001). Click here for more information about Irene Mulvey.
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Naegele,Janice R; Lombroso,Paul
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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Neuroscience is a discipline that seeks to understand how the brain and nervous system works to control behavior and emotions. It is a highly interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology, biology, philosophy, molecular biology, and psychiatry. This course introduces key concepts in understanding the basic organization of the brain, neuronal communication, neurotransmitters, and signal transduction. We then discuss current ideas about how the nervous system controls behaviors ranging from visual perception, the stress response, how we move, learning and memory, and how the brain develops. We highlight nervous system disorders including: developmental disorders, anxiety disorders, learning disorders, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and other neurological conditions.
Readings will come from Scientific American, Discover, and New Yorker Magazine, as well as from Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System; Purves and Lotto, Why We See What We Do; and Sapolsky, The Trouble with Testosterone and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.
Course requirements include class participation, written assignments, an exam, and a final project.
Course tuition: 2022.
Janice Naegele (B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is professor and chair of biology, and professor of neuroscience and behavior. Current work in the Naegele Lab focuses on the link between cell death, neurogenesis, and DNA repair in the developing and adult cerebral cortex and hippocampus. Recent publications include (with Choi, Lin, Lee, Kurup, Cho, Lombroso, and Obrietan) Status epilepticus-induced somatostatinergic hilar interneuron degeneration is regulated by striatal enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase (Journal of Neuroscience, 2007), Neuroprotective strategies to avert seizure-induced neurodegeneration in epilepsy (Epilepsia, 2007), and (with Navarro-Quiroga, Hernandez-Valdes, and Lin) Postnatal cellular contributions of the hippocampus subventricular zone to the dentate gyrus, corpus callosum, fimbria, and cerebral cortex (Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2006). Click here for more information about Janice Naegele.
Paul Lombroso (B.A., Harvard College; M.D., Albert Einstein School of Medicine) is Elizabeth Mear and House Jameson Professor for the Child Study Center at Yale University, School of Medicine. He is a molecular biologist and child psychiatrist whose recent publications include (with Paul, Nairn, and Wang) NMDA-mediated activation of the protein tyrosine phosphatase, STEP, regulates the duration of ERK signaling (Nature Neuroscience, 2003), and (with Karasawa, Yokokura, and Kitajewski) Frizzled-9 is activated by Wnt-2 and functions in Wnt/b-catenin signalling (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002). Click here for more information about Paul Lombroso.
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Foyle,Douglas C.
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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As the United States faces an ever-widening array of international challenges in the post-9/11 world, the challenge for the nation is to construct an effective foreign policy to support American interests while dealing with the threat of terrorism and managing the situation in Iraq. To evaluate a framework for the future, the course begins with an exploration of the traditions and processes of American foreign policy. We consider the successes and failures of American foreign policy in the post-World War II period ending with a consideration of the experience in Vietnam. We then focus our attention on the foreign policy process itself and the major actors shaping its formulation. The course concludes with a discussion of the major strategic choices available to policy makers.
Sources for the course include readings from: John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (2005), Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance (2007), Robert Gordon Kaufman, In Defense of the Bush Doctrine, and selections from journals such as Foreign Affairs and International Security, and other sources.
Students will be graded on three short essays, a take-home final, and participation.
Course tuition: $2022.
Douglas Foyle (A.B. Stanford; M.A. and Ph.D. Duke University) is the Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of Government with specialties in U.S. Foreign Policy, international security, and the influence of public opinion and elections on foreign policy. In addition to articles and book chapters on the 2003 Iraq War, world public opinion on the Bush Doctrine, and the diversionary use of force, his book Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 1999) considers the role that public opinion has on American foreign policy decision making. Among other projects including a case study of the 2006 Dubai Ports World crisis, he is currently working on a book examining the influence of elections in foreign policy decision making. Click here for more information about Douglas Foyle.
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McAlister,Elizabeth
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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This course examines how some religious groups in the U.S. herald the hastening of the End Times, when a Messiah will appear to cleanse the earth of all unrighteousness. We will focus on selected societies in U.S. history including Puritans, Messianic Jews, Christian Fundamentalists, Branch Davidians, Rastafari, the Nation of Islam and Christian Identity, and on genres of representation including fiction, film and popular music. Among the themes we will discuss will be Americanism, or the ways groups imagine the United States to be favored by God, religious politics, and the ways that American eschatologies ("end-of-the-world" theologies) are gendered and racialized.
Elizabeth McAlister (B.A. Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D. Yale University) is associate professor and chair of religion, and professor of African American studies and American studies. She is author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora (University of California Press, 2002). Click here for more information about Elizabeth McAlister.
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Greene,Nathanael
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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This course is an interpretive survey of major political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Our analysis will be chronological as we examine the origins of two world wars and the Cold War, the emergence and clash of ideologies antagonistic to democratic political and social values, and widespread social and economic changes after 1945, leading to the apparent stability of democratic regimes in most countries today. It will be thematic in an effort to identify forces and individuals central to Europe's descent into disaster, 1900-1945, and to its remarkable recovery after 1945. In so doing, we will concentrate our attention initially upon these challenges to understanding and interpretation: the crisis of liberal political and social systems on the eves of international conflict, 1900-1914, and 1933-1939; the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its international impact, especially the appeal of Soviet Communism; the extravagant styles and successes of Mussolini and Hitler; and the Second World War with its unprecedented human and material devastation. Our attention then will focus upon ways Europeans recovered their own destinies, chief among which are: the drama of decolonization; France and Germany together at the heart of the assertion of the idea of Europe and the emergence of the European Union; the stability of western European countries as contrasted with the strange collapse of the Soviet Union; and the remaking of eastern Europe. We will conclude with an examination of contemporary issues and problems.
Course readings will include studies such as Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism; Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution; short biographies of major figures, and documentary materials.
Students will be responsible for two take-home exams.
For an introduction and background information, students may wish to consult one or more of the following books: Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century; Richard Vinen, A History of Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century; and Robin Winks and John Talbott, Europe Since 1945.
Course tuition: $2022.
Nathanael Greene (B.A. Brown University; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University) is professor of history. He is author of Crisis and Decline: The French Socialist Party in the Popular Front Era (Cornell University Press); From Versailles to Vichy: The Third French Republic, 1919-1940 (Crowell); and is editor of Fascism: An Anthology (Crowell); and European Socialism Since World War I (Quadrangle Books). Click here for more information about Nathanael Greene.
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Rubenstein,Mary-Jane Victoria
06/28/2010 - 07/30/2010
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This course will explore a range of Christian teachings on, attitudes toward, and technologies of, gender and sexuality. We will read medieval and modern theologies of and about sex, as well as contemporary historical, cultural, biblical, and theological studies. Points of focus will include confession, mysticism, marriage, celibacy, reproduction, and queer and transgendered practices and identities.
Sources to be studied will include: The Holy Bible (RSV); Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality; Phyllis Trible, Genesis 2-3 Revisited; St. Augustine, City of God (excerpts); Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (excerpts); Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (excerpts); Mark Jordan, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology; Sandra Cisneros, Guadalupe: Sex Goddess; Caroline Bynum, The Body of Christ, Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion; Congregation for Catholic Education, "Concerning the Criteria of Vocational Discernment in People with Homosexual Tendencies;" Keith Boykin, "Bearing Witness: Faith in the Lives of Black Lesbians and Gays," The Gospel of Mary; and Rowan Williams, The Body's Grace.
Students will be graded on weekly response papers, one 6-8 page paper, one 4-page research paper proposal, and a final research paper.
Course tuition: $2022.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein (B.A., Williams College; M.Phil, Cambridge University; M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University) is assistant professor of religion. Click here for more information about Mary-Jane.
ENROLLMENT INFORMATION
Consent of Instructor Required: No
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Format: Seminar | Level: GLSP | Credits: 3 | Enrollment Limit: 18 |
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