Examines the moral dilemmas that arise when opportunities afforded by basic freedoms or advances in technology clash with the ethical imperatives that issue from the Enlightenment and the social contract. Guiding questions include: When does the quest for knowledge legitimate transgression of prevailing morality? By what standard do we adjudicate the ambitions of the individual when they compete with the interests of the state? Taught in English. Approved for art and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Covers general psychological principles underlying social behavior. Analyzes major social psychological theories, methods, and topics, including attitudes, conformity, aggression, attraction, social perception, helping behavior, and group relations. Approved for GT-SS3. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 1001 (minimum grade C-).
Offers a cultural history of Greek and Roman religion. Students read ancient texts in translation and use evidence from archaeology to reconstruct the shift from paganism to Christianity in antiquity. No Greek or Latin required. Same as RLST 2614. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Includes analysis of independent and experimental animation and an introduction to various animation techniques (object, line, collage, sand or paint on glass, Xerox, cameraless, pixellation, etc.). Students produce exercise films and a final film exploring these techniques. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 2000 or FILM 2300 (minimum grade D-).
Required for students who are selected as flock leaders for the Kittredge honors residence program. Teaches skills and techniques to enable them to lead a small group in the unique environment of a residential honors program. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended requisite, consent of the Kittredge honors program associate director.
Introduces the literature, beliefs, practices, and institutions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, in historical perspective. Approved for GT-AH2. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Addresses the history and philosophy of yoga, beginning from its earliest articulations in Vedic India 1200 BCE up to contemporary understandings of yoga. Examines yoga's historical evolution from a primarily mental practice to a bodily centered practice. Also looks at the shifts yoga undergoes as it becomes popular in the modern West.
Eighteen films depict our capacities for good and evil. Topics addressed include the following: the Holocaust, Jung's concept of "The Shadow," the Seven Deadly Sins, altruistic and sociopathic personalities, capital punishment, the redemptive narrative, and the satanic in film. Same as FARR 2510. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Offers a cultural history of Greek and Roman religion. Students read ancient texts in translation and use evidence from archaeology to reconstruct the shift from paganism to Christianity in antiquity. No Greek or Latin required. Same as CLAS 2610. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Introduces the social and cultural construction of femininity and masculinity in America from 1500 to the present. Explores gender as a status acquired and performed through tasks, clothing, adornment and bodily movement. Examines gender ideals, expression and practices such as gender crossing, gender bending and gender plan. Approved for GT-HI1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Introduces literature, beliefs, practices, and institutions of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shintoism in historical perspective. Approved for GT-AH3. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Examines the multiple connections between Chinese history and other parts of the world over the course of China's long history. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Lect., lab, and rec. Introduces principles of ecology, emphasizing patterns and processes at various levelsof biological organization. Scope global, but examples often from local environment. Lab emphasizes techniques of field biology. Uses animals and/or animal tissues. Recommended prereqs., EBIO 1030 and EBIO 1040 and EBIO 1050 or EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 (min. grade C-). Credit not granted for this course EBIO 2040 or ENVS 2000.
Through selected readings in classical literature on ethics and through more contemporary readings and films, examines critical ethical issues relating to the competition of ambitions and the alternative styles of choosing between courses of action in adangerous world. Uses biographies of those whose lives illustrate both the complexities of the struggles and the profundity of possibilities. Considers the unconscious metaphors of national visions and ambitions, the competing ethics of ends and means, the conflicting ambitions in a pluralistic society, and the transcendent ambitions of visionaries. Same as HONR 2250. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
Chronological survey of the literature from Whitman to Faulkner. Continuation of ENGL 2655. Credit not granted for this course and ENGL 3664. Similar to ENGL 3665.
Introduces basic field techniques necessary to collect geologic data and samples, and necessary to map geologic units. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of GEOL 1010 and GEOL 1030 (all minimum grade D-).
Examines psychological research on gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class and other social categories. Points of emphasis include differences in cognition, attitudes, personality and social behavior. Conceptual themes include research methodologies, implicit and explicit attitudes, stigma and stereotypes. These elucidate such areas as close relationships, leadership, career success and mental health and happiness. Same as WMST 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 1001 or WMST 2000 (minimum grade C-).
Introduces religions of the peoples indigenous to the Americas. Concerns include ritual, mythology, and symbolism occurring throughout these cultures in such areas as art, architecture, cosmology, shamanism, sustenance modes, trade, and history. Same as ETHN 2703. Approved for GT-AH2. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values or human diversity.
Examines psychological research on gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class and other social categories. Points of emphasis include differences in cognition, attitudes, personality and social behavior. Conceptual themes include research methodologies, implicit and explicit attitudes, stigma and stereotypes. These elucidate such areas as close relationships, leadership, career success and mental health and happiness. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or PSYC 1001. Same as PSYC 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.
Investigates movement vocabulary and kinesthetic understanding through physical contact and weight-sharing between two or more dancers. Fundamental skills of contact will be introduced and employed in duets and larger group improvisations: rolling, falling, giving and receiving weight, and the use of momentum and gravity.
Introduces religions of the peoples indigenous to the Americas. Concerns include ritual, mythology, and symbolism occurring throughout these cultures in such areas as art, architecture, cosmology, shamanism, sustenance modes, trade, and history. Same as RLST 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values or human diversity.
Offers students at sophomore and junior levels an introduction to some of the forms, concerns, and genres of contemporary lesbian, bisexual, and gay writing in English. Same as LGBT 2707. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Offers students at sophomore and junior levels an introduction to some of the forms, concerns, and genres of contemporary lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and gay writing in English. Same as ENGL 2707. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
