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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2010-11 (and planned offerings in future years)

 
  

  • POLT 273 - American Political Development


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    New course added 05.05.10.

    This course will be an examination of some of the continuing trends that have shaped American politics. Attention will be devoted to questions of state formation, political culture and themes of continuity and change throughout American political history. Students will gain an understanding of many of processes and trends in American politics that have developed over time.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Gritter
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • POLT 305 - Seminar: The Presidency


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    The study of the American presidency provides an opportunity to examine the nature and interaction of historical, institutional, cultural, and political forces in the acquisition and exercise of political power. Specialized topics vary by year.

     

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. Dawson
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Two courses in American politics, one of which is POLT 204 or equivalent methodological training.

     
  

  • POLT 306 - Seminar: Current Controversies in Immigration


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS
    New course added 05.05.10.

    The United States is traditionally characterized as a nation of immigrants but immigration continues to arise as a prominent and controversial concern. This seminar will allow students to explore differing debates and currents regarding immigration. The history of immigration, the construction of immigration policy and continuing controversies over immigration will all be explored. Students will gain an understanding of contemporary challenges and trends and produce a substantial seminar paper.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Gritter
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 311 - Politics of Pluralism in MENA


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This class begins with a general discussion of approaches to identity and institutional design in countries with considerable ethno-religious pluralism. From there, it moves to an examination of Ottoman institutions, state formation, and post-conflict constitutions in MENA. The class examines five cases in depth: Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Research design and qualitative methods are covered throughout the semester. Students complete an article-length research paper during the course.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Milligan
    Consent of the Instructor Required? IN
  

  • POLT 313 - Seminar: The Transition to Capitalism in China


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: CD, 3SS, WR
    We analyze the achievements and problems of China’s ongoing efforts at structural ‘reform’ away from state socialism and toward capitalistic authoritarianism, sampling the latest studies of political economy (the role of the state in production, trade, and finance), political sociology (inequality, stratification, social problems) and politics (resistance, civil society and democracy). Students will write research papers on a topic of their choice; they and the instructor will present and critique drafts.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Blecher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: One course in comparative politics or consent of the instructor.

     

     
  

  • POLT 315 - Seminar: The Future of Organized Labor


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WP
     This seminar examines the challenges facing labor movements in advanced capitalist societies today, and the ways in which workers and labor unions are responding to those challenges. The focus will be upon organized labor in the United States and Western Europe. Among the issues explored will be: economic restructuring; globalization; changes in the composition of the working class, including immigration and the feminization of work; the role of the state; and new organizing strategies.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Howell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 317 - Seminar: The Transformation of the Welfare State


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    This seminar examines the emergence of new, qualitatively different kinds of welfare states across the advanced capitalist world in the past two decades. The seminar will be comparative, examining the causes and consequences of the crisis and transformation of the welfare state in Western Europe and North America. Topics will include: welfare and healthcare reform, the feminization of the labor force, and the impact of globalization on welfare states.



    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Howell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 318 - Seminar: Power and Resistance in Latin America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Examines traditional and new powerholders in the region, and popular and elite movements for change. Focus on 1930s to present, including movements and ideologies of populism, anti-imperialism, neoliberalism, indigenous rights. Cases from across the region.

     

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: K. Mani
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes

     
  

  • POLT 321 - Seminar: International Politics


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Law and Society
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    The seminar focuses on International Criminal Law (the law of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes), related domestic and international institutions (military tribunals, truth commissions, mixed courts, ad hoc international tribunals, and the International Criminal Court), and relevant international relations and international legal concepts (international norms, state sovereignty, universal jurisdiction, positive and natural law). Students will research and write a major paper throughout the course of the semester, engage in debate, discussion and presentations.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 13
    Instructor: B. Schiff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 326 - Seminar: National Security Policy and History in Northeast Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 SS
    As Northeast Asian states have deepened economic interdependence and cultural exchanges, the prospect for peace in the region is increasingly conditioned by how to interpret its shared history. The mini-course encourages in-depth thinking on historical issues and their foreign policy implications in China, Korea and Japan. Students are required to attend the Mellon/Shansi conference on History, Nationalism and National Security in Northeast Asia (April 8-9). and will have a chance to discuss papers by leading scholars.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: Ji-Young Lee
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 327 - African Foreign Policies


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    African conflicts, regional organizations, trade and aid issues will be examined. Case studies include: the Congo, Ethiopia, the African Union, the United States Africa Command, and evolving Chinese-African relations. Requirements: team assignments, memo writing, and a twenty page research paper.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Sandberg
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 328 - Seminar: Pirates, Priests and Protestors: Non-state Actors in International Politics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Non-state actors have long influenced international politics through the use of violence, the creation of norms, and the production of wealth. How do contemporary non-state actors challenge states, or reinforce state capacity? How do they influence norm building and policy making? The course examines the evolution of a range of non-state actors, including transnational advocacy networks, NGOs, transnational corporations, transnational criminal networks, private security providers, and terrorist groups.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: K. Mani
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 329 - Seminar: Globalization


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar will examine what is arguably the dominant trend of the post-Cold War world: the increasingly global nature of capitalism, together with the compression of the world through new technologies, and the consequences and reactions these trends have spurred. We will examine competing theoretical perspectives on globalization, and explore the impact on the Third World, labor, the environment, state sovereignty and world culture, as well as the rise of various movements as a result.



    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Crowley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 331 - Seminar: Modernity and Postmodernity in Contemporary Political Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An intensive, critical examination of the works of several recent political theorists (Arendt, Habermas, Foucault, and some others). Particular attention will be given to issues raised in recent debates about modernity and postmodernity, such as the nature of history and the possibility of progress, the place of truth and knowledge in politics, and whether we can still talk of social emancipation.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Kruks
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 334 - Seminar: Theories of Justice and Democracy in Contemporary America


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar discusses some of the most important recent and contemporary American political theories, focusing on controversies about the nature of justice and the scope and extent of democracy in a political society of plurality and difference. Various approaches to political theory are represented, including the work of Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, Connolly, Young and others. Consent of instructor required. 



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: H. Wilson
    Consent of the Instructor Required? IN
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: At least one course in political theory, preferably POLT 232, 233 or 234.
  

  • POLT 402 - American Democracy: Law and Policy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course will focus on politics, the political and electoral process, and the courts. We will examine some of the key legal and policy issues framing the political landscape: the right to vote, money and politics, reapportionment and vote dilution. We also will look at the role of the political parties, the federal and state judiciary, and the voters, among other significant players. Prior coursework in constitutional law is strongly desired.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Krislov
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 403 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5SS
    Senior honors course requires consent of the instructor.
    Instructor: H. Hirsch
  

  • POLT 404 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5SS
    Senior Honors.



    Instructor: H. Hirsch
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 409 - Public Education, Policy and Law


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar will explore how law and policy interact in public education (K12 and higher education), focusing on significant Supreme Court constitutional rulings involving race and/or religion. We will grapple with several questions: 1) What theory of judicial review should the Court embrace? 2) How are Court decisions made? 3) What impact do Court decisions have on policy and practice? 4) To what extent does (or should) the law limit policy options in these areas? Limited to third and fourth year students.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Krislov
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 411 - Practicum in Applied Research


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Functioning as part of a small consultancy team, students will research and write on a topic that services the needs of an off-campus organization or government official. Students will learn about the management, ethical activities, and choices of political research consultants as a model for launching their own businesses or managing not-for-profits. Students will research best-management, innovation practices of four not-for-profits in NE Ohio and offer recognition to a not-for-profit with the best management innovation practice.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Sandberg
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 412 - Street Law


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1-2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS
    New course added 10.05.2009.

    The fall Street Law seminar teaches theory and pedagogy in practical law as training for the Oberlin High School teaching practicum the following semester. This year, we will focus on addressing the need for healthier, locally-sourced food in the Oberlin Schools through creative and artistic organizing techniques. We will learn how our own unique narratives define our ideal “lawyering” practice. We will also gain skills in teaching and organizing teens around food and the law.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Wu
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 413 - Advanced Street Law


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    New course added 02.02.11.

    The fall Street Law seminar teaches theory and pedagogy in practial law as training for the spring semester Oberlin High School teaching practicum. We will focus on addressing the need for healthier, locally-sourced food in the Oberlin Schools through creative and artistic organizing techniques. We will learn how our own unique narratives define our ideal “lawyering” practice. We will also gain skills in teaching and organizing teens around food and the law.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Wu
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 421 - Studies in Electoral Politics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3SS
    This is a research and writing seminar exclusively for Cole Scholars who have been selected to participate in the Oberlin Initiative in Electoral Politics. The seminar will prepare students for their summer internships and familiarize them with the major scholarly and practical literature concerning campaigns and elections.



    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Parkin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 422 - Projects in Electoral Politics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3SS
    This is a research ad writing seminar in which students analyze electoral politics in light of social science theories and field work. Enrollment is limited to Cole Scholars who have completed their summer internships under the auspices of the Oberlin Initiative in Electoral Politics.



    Enrollment Limit: 13
    Instructor: M. Parkin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • POLT 430 - Legal Advocacy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 0-2 Hours
    Attribute: 0-2 SS
    New course added 10.29.10.

    Topics include: Approaching a case and developing a core theory; information literacy and research skills; legal writing (pre-trial motions, legal research memoranda, oral arguments, and briefs); presenting oral arguments; court procedures and decorum; professional responsibility and ethics. Students will participate in an on-campus mock trial.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: W. Vodrey
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is open to students selected for the Oberlin Law Scholars Program.  Those interested in participating in Moot Court competitions will be given a priority in enrollment.
  

  • POLT 900 - OCEAN: International Relations


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    This course introduces major theoretical approaches to international relations, such as realism, institutionalism, and critical theories; basic concepts such as sovereignty, diplomacy, foreign policy-making, deterrence, compellance, human rights and globalization; challenging topics such as war, peace, poverty and wealth, international migration and environmental change; and centrally important organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, NATO and other regional organizations, and non-state actors such as Amnesty International.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Off Campus concurrent enrollment equivalent to Politics 120 or 121.
  

  • POLT 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS
    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: M. Blecher, S. Crowley, P. Dawson, H. Hirsch, C. Howell, R. Kahn, S. Kruks, K. Mani, M. Parkin, E. Sandberg, B. Schiff, H. Wilson
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private reading card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • PSYC 100 - The Study of Behavior


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 2NS, 2SS
    A survey of contemporary research and theory in the study of behavior. Topics include: social psychology, social perception, behavioral measurement and individual differences, biological bases of behavior, motivation, classical and instrumental conditioning, sensory processes, perception, memory, thinking, language, cognitive and personality development, psychopathology and psychotherapy.
    Enrollment Limit: 120
    Instructor: C. Frantz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This is a prerequisite course for most advanced courses in the department.
  

  • PSYC 106 - Visual Communication


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An introduction to visual communication. This course will address questions such as: How is information effectively presented? What are principles of good graphic design? Using computer technology, students will learn how to create and evaluate the effectiveness of two and three dimensional visual communications. Visual communications will take the form of print publications, web sites, PowerPoint presentations, videos, animations, or interactive CDs. Evaluation will include basic research design and data analysis.
    Instructor: S. Carrier
  

  • PSYC 108 - Psychobiologial Perspective of the Arts


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-H
    This course examines fundamental biological and psychological processes involved in the experience and creation of art. It adopts the perspective of the natural sciences to address questions such as: What are the biological and behavioral prerequisites for art? How and why did they evolve? How are sensory, perceptual, and cognitive systems organized to acquire and process information about the environment? How are motivational and emotional systems organized to direct and influence artistic behavior?
    Instructor: S. Carrier
  

  • PSYC 118 - Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course will introduce students to the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, an inter-disciplinary field that examines the causes of human aggression and conflict, with such conflict ranging in scale from the interpersonal to the international. We will survey the approaches of various disciplines to understanding violent conflict, explore potential links between violence and such factors as perceptions of injustice, and critically evaluate nonviolent means for resolving conflict.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Crowley, S. Mayer
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This courses is cross-listed with Politics 119.
  

  • PSYC 200 - Research Methods I


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 4 NS, QP-F
    This skills based course introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and basic principles of experimental and non-experimental research design. Topics include probability, chi-square, ANOVA, correlation and regression, sampling, measurement, and the systematic elimination of alternative hypotheses through statistical and experimental control. Scientific writing, use of SPSS, model building, and hypothesis testing are strongly emphasized. The course is intended to provide psychology majors with the core skills they need to carry out and interpret quantitative empirical research.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: N. Darling
    Prerequisites & Notes
    : PSYC 100, NSCI 201 or permission of instructor.
  

  • PSYC 204 - Cultural Psychology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    A survey of the rapidly growing field of cultural psychology, for students interested in the ways in which behavior, thoughts, and feelings of individuals are influenced by their cultural context. Specifically, the course will examine the impact that culture has on child development, cognitive processes, emotional experiences, social behavior, health-related behaviors, and psychopathology. Applications to psychotherapy, negotiation, and organizational/work settings will also be explored.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: S. Mayer
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
  

  • PSYC 206 - Sensory Processes and Perception


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Sensory systems evolved so that the organism could acquire information about its environment in order to survive and reproduce. This course explores the structure and function of sensory systems and includes topics such as: sensory receptors; transduction; mapping of sensory magnitude, space and time, movement, and stimulus qualities; the relationship between sensory processes and perceptual experience. Class meetings will be interactive, and used for a variety of exercises, demonstrations, presentations, and other activities.
    Instructor: S. Carrier
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 Note: Not open to students who have received credit for PSYC 210 or 212.
  

  • PSYC 211 - Personality: Theory and Research


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    A survey of historical theory and current research in adult personality. We will examine the conceptual origin and current body of empirical knowledge relevant to personality processes and individual differences. Topics covered will include emotionality, introversion-extraversion, the self system, self-consciousness, self-efficacy, androgyny and gender identity, personality and health, and interpersonal behavior. Personality assessment and socio-cultural influences will be considered as well.



    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: K. Sutton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100. Note: Not open to students who have received credit for PSYC 210 or 212.
  

  • PSYC 214 - Abnormal Psychology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society, Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A survey of the field of adult psychopathology, beginning with conceptual and methodological foundations of the study of disordered behavior, followed by an examination of the major categories of mental disorder. A scientific perspective will be emphasized throughout the course, although a variety of philosophical, socio-cultural, and legal controversies will be considered as well.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: A. Porterfield
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100; or NSCI 201 or 204. Recommended preparation: An introductory neuroscience course. PSYC and NSCI majors given registration priority.
  

  • PSYC 216 - Developmental Psychology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    Research, issues, and theories of human development. Psychological topic areas, such as cognition, personality, and social behavior, will be related to the different age periods from infancy to adolescence, with a brief consideration of adulthood. The final part of the course will be devoted to social policy concerns and childhood psychopathology.
    Instructor: W. Friedman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: An optional laboratory, PSYC 302, may be taken with or after this course. Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
  

  • PSYC 218 - Social Psychology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course surveys major theories and research traditions in social psychology. Topics covered will include: interpersonal attraction, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and helping behavior. Assignments are designed to encourage students to apply the ideas of social psychology to their own and others’ behavior. Research methodologies in social psychology will also be covered.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: C. Frantz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
  

  • PSYC 219 - Cognitive Psychology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    This course covers a variety of topics that deal with the scientific study of human cognition. Topics may include: perception, memory, learning, thinking, problem solving, language, and reasoning. Historical as well as contemporary perspectives will be discussed, and data from behavioral experiments, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling will be addressed.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Hanna
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or NSCI 201, or NSCI 204. Recommended Preparation: PSYC 200, or MATH 100, 113, or 114. Notes: An optional laboratory, PSYC 303, may be taken after this course.
  

  • PSYC 300 - Research Methods II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    A continuation of PSYC 200, covering advanced experimental and correlational designs. Analysis topics include factorial and repeated measurement analysis of variance, partial and multiple correlation/regression. Students are expected to complete complex data analysis projects using advanced SPSS statistical procedures.
    Enrollment Limit: 36
    Instructor: C. Frantz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: PSYC 200; or MATH 113 or 114 and consent of instructor. This course is intended for psychology and related majors and prospective majors. It should be taken in the semester following PSYC 200.
  

  • PSYC 301 - Advanced Methods in Personality/Social Psychology


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Projects designed to parallel closely the process of professional research in personality and social psychology. Students will conduct their own research in groups, thus gaining experience in the activities common to all psychological research: hypothesis generation; research design; data collection, analysis, and interpretation; and report writing. The lab group will also engage in the use of computerized statistical analysis.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Mayer
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 200. Prerequisite or corequisite: PSYC 211 or PSYC 218.
  

  • PSYC 302 - Advanced Methods in Developmental Psychology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    Experimental and naturalistic methods used to study children from infancy through adolescence. Content areas include: infant perception, attachment behavior, intelligence, cognitive development, moral development, and social interaction. Students will collect data, use computer routines to describe related data sets, and prepare laboratory reports. Number of credit hours relates to the number of reports required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: W. Friedman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: To be taken in conjunction with or subsequent to PSYC 216 and 300.
  

  • PSYC 303 - Advanced Methods in Cognitive Psychology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, WR
    This lab will introduce students to experimental methods used in cognitive psychology. Students will design experiments, collect data, and report research in the style and format of the American Psychological Association.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: P. deWinstanley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 200, and PSYC 219. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSYC 300.
  

  • PSYC 304 - Advanced Methods in Adolescent Development


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Advanced Methods in Adolescent Development is designed to give students a fuller understanding of adolescent development, the research process, and how research methods and statistics are applied in collecting and analyzing data. Students enrolled in this course will plan, pilot, and carry out a joint research project that involves interview, experimental, observational, and/or questionnaire methodologies.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: N. Darling
    Prerequisites & Notes
    To be taken subsequent to PSYC 200. It is recommended that students take this course in conjunction with or subsequent to PSYC 216.
  

  • PSYC 305 - Advanced Methods in Human Psychophysiolgy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Psychophysiology is concerned with physiological responses as reflections of psychological traits, states, and processes. In this combination lecture-laboratory introduction to the field, students will study the form and function of major physiological response systems and gain laboratory experience in the recording, analysis, and interpretation of cardiovascular, skin conductance, EMG, EEG, and event-related brain potential data.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Porterfield
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NSCI 201 or 204, PSYC 200, familiarity with MS Excel, and consent of instructor.
  

  • PSYC 430 - Seminar in Social Conflict


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society, Peace and Conflict Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Drawing from the fields of social, cognitive, and political psychology, this course explores the psychological processes that lead to, exacerbate, and ameliorate conflict. It examines biases in perceiving the ‘other’, the role of pride and face-saving, the influence of social identity, and shortcomings in decision-making. We will also explore methods of de-escalating conflict, negotiation as problem-solving, the process of mediation, and the role of gender and culture in negotiation.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: C. Frantz
  

  • PSYC 431 - Psychology of Law


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Psychology of law concerns the application of research from all subdisciplinary areas of psychology including cognitive, clinical, social, developmental, and physiological. Topics may include forensic assessment, eyewitness accuracy, jury decision making, special considerations surrounding juveniles, hypnosis, and repressed memory. Much of the content of the seminar will be determined by the students in consultation with the instructor.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. deWinstanley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to senior Psychology majors
  

  • PSYC 450 - Seminar in Psycholinguistics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar investigates the psychological study of language, from sound perception to actions we perform with language. Topics may include word recognition, sentence processing and production, discourse and conversation, creative language, bilingualism, and language disorders. Discussions will address issues such as modularity, ambiguity resolution, context effects, how people coordinate conversation, and how IQ tests and telephone voice recognition systems are affected by our conversational expectations. We’ll also discuss methodologies and new technologies such as head-mounted eye tracking.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Hanna
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 219 or consent of instructor.
  

  • PSYC 461 - Seminar in Adolescent Development


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar explores the empirical and theoretical literature on development from the end of elementary school through the transition to adulthood. The class will provide a brief overview of normative change and individual differences in biological and cognitive development and in family and peer relationships. During the second half of the semester, readings will explore two or more topics in depth. Topics may include romantic relationships and sexuality, identity, problem behavior, or developmental psychopathology.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: N. Darling
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pre-requisites: PSYC 216 or PSYC 217, or permission of instructor.
  

  • PSYC 470 - Seminar in Psychotherapy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An examination of theories, assumptions, and clinical procedures associated with the major approaches to individual psychotherapy. We will consider psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy, client-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, behavior modification, and cognitive-behavior therapy as well as therapies for special groups (e.g., children). The evaluation of therapeutic effectiveness and ethical issues will also be examined.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: K. Sutton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    : Prerequisite: PSYC 211. PSYC 214 is strongly recommended.
  

  • PSYC 490 - Seminar in Child Developmental Disorders


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3SS
    This course is canceled effective 10.19.10.

    This course combines a continuation of the field placement experience undertaken in PSYC 501: Practicum in Childhood Developmental Disorders, with an examination of the empirical and clinical literatures on the major childhood disorders. Students will continue to work with special needs children in the classroom while exploring the psychological and neuroscientific literatures on the etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of various childhood disorders.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: K. Sutton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: PSYC 501 or consent of instructor
  

  • PSYC 500 - Teaching Assistant


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1SS, WR
    Advanced majors may serve as teaching assistants in a lower-level course by invitation of the faculty member involved.
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP grading.
  

  • PSYC 501 - Practicum in Child Devlopmental Disorders


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    The practicum provides an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills by working with special needs children in a school setting. In a field placement, students will develop relationships with children diagnosed with such disorders as Autism and Asperger?s and work on educational and social skills. In class, we will examine the popular and descriptive literatures to better understand our classroom experiences. The practicum may be helpful with career decisions.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: K. Sutton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP grading. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PSYC 504 - Research Assistant


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    Students may serve as research assistants in faculty or Senior Honors research projects by invitation of the faculty sponsor involved.
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP grading.
  

  • PSYC 510 - Supervised Research in Memory and Learning


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2SS
    A class designed to involve students in the conduct of professional research. The research topics will include applications of memory research to classroom learning and metamemory. Metamemory refers to a person’s knowledge about memory processes and functions. Students will read the background literature, attend regular lab meetings to discuss the research, and conduct studies.
    Instructor: P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP grading.
  

  • PSYC 520 - Supervised Research in Social and Environmental Psychology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    A class designed to involve students in the conduct of professional research. Research issues will broadly fall within the areas of social conflict, social/environmental issues, prejudice and discrimination, and perspective taking.
    Instructor: C. Frantz, S. Mayer
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP grading. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PSYC 540 - Supervised Research in Cognitive Neuroscience


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3NS
    A class designed to involve students in the conduct of professional research. Research will address some aspect of human cognition or emotion, with an emphasis on physiological dependent measures. Students will master laboratory procedures and collect and process experimental data under the close supervision of the instructor. Some reading of relevant research papers and regular group meetings devoted to coordinating lab activities and discussing the ongoing research will be required.
    Instructor: A. Porterfield
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP grading. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PSYC 550 - Supervised Research in Psycholinguistics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3NS
    A class designed to involve students in the conduct of professional research. Research will address some aspect of human language comprehension. Students will master laboratory procedures (such as materials norming, sentence completion, word-by-word reading, and head-mounted eyetracking) and will collect and process experimental data under the close supervision of the instructor. Regular group meetings to discuss relevant research papers and current lab projects and activities will be required.
    Instructor: J. Hanna
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP grading. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PSYC 560 - Supervised Research in Adolescent Development


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    A class designed to involve students in the conduct of professional research. Research will address some aspect of adolescent development. Students will master research procedures which may include observational and survey techniques, behavioral coding, physiological assessment of emotional state, and data preparation and management. Students are expected to work as part of a larger group and to complete a small research project either independently or with another student. Students will participate in regular group meetings where project issues and related research are discussed.
    Instructor: N. Darling
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to all students with the consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PSYC 604 - Problems for Investigation


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    Designed for the student who wishes to pursue independent work on a topic not usually covered by formal offerings. Normally, a bibliographic or theoretical research paper will be part of the course requirement.
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
  

  • PSYC 606 - Independent Research Problems


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    Students may select an empirical research problem for individual investigation.
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or equivalent.
  

  • PSYC 608 - Empirical Honors Research


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    Honors Research
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program. Note: Not more than eight hours may be taken in PSYC 608.
  

  • PSYC 612 - Theoretical or Bibliographic Honors Research


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4SS
    Senior Honors Research.
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program. Note: Not more than six hours may be taken in PSYC 612.
  

  • PSYC 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: S. Carrier, N. Darling, C. Frantz, W. Friedman, J. Hanna, S. Mayer, A. Porterfield, K. Sutton, P. deWinstanley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of basic coursework in the selected topic area. Note: Available to junior and senior majors.
  

  • RELG 102 - Introduction to Religion: Roots of Religion in the Mediterranean World


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course introduces students to the academic study of religion and provides a historical framework for understanding the development and central ideas of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, beginning from their origins in the Mediterranean region. The foundation of the course will be close reading of primary texts, both the sacred texts of each tradition and reflections on these texts by classical interpreters from the second century to the medieval period.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Barnes
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 104 - Introduction to Religion: Asian Traditions


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    This course introduces the academic study of religion through the examination of three Asian traditions: Vaisnava Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism, and Confucianism. It will include a consideration of doctrine but focus particularly on narrative and the way in which it embodies and explicates a tradition’s metaphysical conceptions and ethical ideals, informing the religious lives of adherents of both mainstream and marginalized groups.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J Ritzinger
  

  • RELG 105 - Introduction to Religion: Bodily Disciplines and Transcendence


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course explores the many and various ways in which religious traditions engage bodies in the service of personal transcendence. Primary attention is given to Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism, though practices from other traditions are also examined. Readings include primary and secondary source material as well as critical discussions of the body and bodily practices in the contemporary study of religion and other fields. Topics considered include: ascetic, devotional, meditative and healing practices.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: T. Swan Tuite
  

  • RELG 108 - Introduction to Religion: Women and the Western Traditions


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An introduction to Judaism, Christianity and Islam that focuses on women’s experiences and gender roles. This course will examine representations of women in sacred texts; primary sources by and about women from various historical periods, and contemporary feminist voices within each religious tradition. Topics to be investigated include: rabbinic teachings on biblical women, the role of women in early Christian heretical movements, discourses of the veil in Islam.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Kamitsuka
  

  • RELG 109 - Introduction to Religion: Jerusalem: Negotiating Sacred Space


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    This course will provide an introduction to the history of Jerusalem and to the many and varied religious groups within Judaism, Christianity and Islam who have laid claim to its sacredness. Jerusalem in progressive historical periods will be the model through which students will explore notions of sacred space, the ideology of cartography, apocalypticism, pilgrimage and the role of archaeology in ‘uncovering’ and bolstering religious land claims.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
  

  • RELG 200 - Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination: Uses and Reinventions of the Pharaonic Past in the 19th and 20th Centuries


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    New course added 11.01.10.

    This discussion-based course examines the use of ancient Egypt in cultural, political, and religious contexts of the 19th-20th centuries. We will discuss the shifting access to, control over, and appropriation of the Pharaonic past by scholars and the general public alike. Reading a combination of primary texts, non-specialist literature, and historical fiction, we will address issues that include imperialism and national identity; Egypt in the American imagination; and “ownership” of the past, both materially and symbolically.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: L. Ambridge
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • RELG 202 - The Book of Job and its History of Interpretation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    The Book of Job has fostered centuries of theological and existential questioning on the nature of divine justice, the meaning of suffering, and the existence of evil. The course will consider the book of Job in its ancient Israelite context as it spoke to a conquered and exiled ?people of God.? It will also examine Jewish and Christian interpretations of Job that address different contexts of human alienation and suffering.



    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 231
  

  • RELG 203 - Religion and Culture in Ancient Egypt


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    The course situates Egyptian religion in its cultural and historical context, emphasizing the manifestations of religion in society, from kingship and state cults to personal piety and funerary rituals. Primary sacred texts of ancient Egypt (the Coffin Texts, the Book of the Dead) as well as non-elite texts (magical spells, personal devotions) will be examined. Material culture – architecture, artifacts, iconography, and the physical texts themselves – are also an important facet of this course.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: L. Ambridge
  

  • RELG 205 - Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern Context


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An introduction to the literature and history of ancient Israel as contained within the Hebrew Bible and to the methods of interpretation used by modern scholars to understand this ancient text. This course introduces the student to the skill of a close and critical reading of ancient texts and of modern scholarly interpretations of those texts. Thematic emphases will include the emergence of monotheism, the divine human relationship, the mediation of priest, prophet and king, and issues of canon.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 205.
  

  • RELG 208 - New Testament and Christian Origins


    Next Offered: 2011-12
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    An introduction to the academic study of the New Testament in its ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. This course explores early Christian writings as Jewish sectarian literature and as early Christian foundational scripture. Thematic emphases include: the diversity of early Christian writings, Christianity within first century Judaisms, the evolution of the Jesus narrative, and the rise of institutional Christianity. No previous knowledge of the New Testament is assumed.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 208.
  

  • RELG 217 - Christianity in the Early Medieval World: 150-1100


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    An interpretive study of the development of Christianity in the Greek east and Latin west, this course will focus on early medieval articulations of the relationship between God and the world through debates on corporeality, evil, martyrdom, asceticism, knowledge of God, and salvation. These debates will be contextualized and conceptualized through the historical developments of monasticism, mysticism, iconography, Christology, heresy, and Christianity as an imperial religion.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Barnes
  

  • RELG 218 - Christianity in the Late Medieval World: 1100-1600


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    An interpretive study of late-medieval Christianity through reform movements from the twelfth-century renaissance to the Protestant and Catholic reformations of the sixteenth century, all of which tried to retrieve an idealized past. Topics include clerical authority and abuse, the role of women, free will, grace, embodiment, asceticism, mysticism, and heresy. The background will be the changing landscape of medieval Europe through urbanization, crusades, plagues, and economic developments
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Barnes
  

  • RELG 225 - Modern Religious Thought in the West: Late 17th to Mid-19th Century


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An analysis of developments in Western philosophy of religion and theology from the end of the Thirty Years War to the mid 19th century. Of special interest will be how the emerging scientific worldview affected traditional religious beliefs including views of God, human nature, the authority of scripture, the legitimacy of religious institutions, and the true ‘essence’ of religion. Some of the thinkers to be studied include Pascal, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Mendelssohn, Schleiermacher, Feuerbach and Kierkegaard.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: D. Kamitsuka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 226 - Modern Religious Thought in the West: Mid-19th Century to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course analyzes our assumptions and judgments about religion in light of the clash of religious and secular frameworks. Topics to be examined include religious responses to modern scientific and historical consciousness, secular critical analyses of religion, debates on the human condition, efforts to address cultural and religious issues arising from the devastation of the two world wars, and the challenge of religious pluralism. Thinkers studied include Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich, Niebuhr and contemporary thinkers.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: D. Kamitsuka
  

  • RELG 229 - Contemporary Religious Thought in the Americas


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course offers a survey of progressive contemporary Christian thought in the Americas, encompassing a plurality of efforts to liberate from and get beyond modernity while, at the same time, attending to that which lay hidden from and hidden by modern thought: e.g., the body, nature, women and other “others.” Authors to be considered include: Enrique Dussel, Ivone Gebara, Catherine Keller, Rita Nakashima Brock, Kwok Pui-Lan, Mark Taylor, Monica Coleman and Sharon Betcher.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: T. Swan Tuite
  

  • RELG 231 - Rituals, Asceticism, and Devotion in Classical Hinduism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A study of the Hindu tradition in India, from its origins to the development of the later devotional movements. Textual study focuses on ritual hymns, renunciatory texts, devotional poems, and classical mythology. Attention is also paid to analysis of religious practices, especially as they vary according to social location and gender of adherents. Societal aspects of Hinduism to be explored include religious constructions of ‘caste,’ notions of religious kingship, and gendered perceptions of the divine. The last section looks at the ways in which the early Buddhist movement developed out of Hindu roots.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: P. Richman
  

  • RELG 233 - Modern India: Colonialism, Critique, and Conversion


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    A study of the effect of colonial rule and social change on Indian religious traditions. We examine theological tracts and debates, mythological and ritual texts, oral traditions, and contemporary novels about religion. Topics include: social mobility and orthodoxy, religious roots of the Gandhian movement for independence, changing rituals within the joint family, religion in the present-day political sphere, and Hinduism overseas.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: P. Richman
  

  • RELG 235 - Chinese Thought & Religion


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A historical survey of Chinese thought and religion from the mists of prehistory to the encounter with modernity. The course will focus on the “three teachings”—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—as well as popular religiosity and sectarian movements, with a special focus on their interaction and mutual influence. The course will examine Chinese conceptions of the universe and humanity’s place in it, situating them politically and socially through readings in a variety of genres.

     

     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Ritzinger
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with EAST 151
  

  • RELG 236 - Japanese Thought and Religion


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A historical survey of Japanese thought and religion from the dawn of literate culture to the ferment of the postwar period. The course will focus on the indigenous kami-based religiosity known as Shinto and imported religious thought and practice of Buddhism. The course will explore Japanese conceptions of the universe and humanity’s place in it, situating them politically and socially through readings in a variety of genres from both elite and popular traditions.
     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Ritzinger
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with EAST 152
  

  • RELG 237 - Women and Material Culture in Japanese Buddhism: Rags into Buddhas


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1.5 Hours
    Attribute: 1.5 HU, CD
    New course added 11.12.10.

    This course investigates how women actively shaped Japanese Buddhism as patrons, nuns, and wives, and their use of material culture in expressing their religious commitment. We will use written sources and evidence from material culture, including the practice of making Buddhist robes from discarded cloth. Participants will gain a fresh perspective on Japanese religious history and practice and develop new paradigms for understanding how women approach religious practice. This course will meet on Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30, for 5 weeks (2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/2, 3/9).
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Riggs
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with EAST 237
  

  • RELG 239 - Modern Buddhism in East Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will survey developments in the Buddhism of Japan, Korea, China/Taiwan, and Vietnam from the initial encounter with modernity in the 19th century through World War II and the postwar period. Through an examination of topics including social engagement, new doctrinal interpretations, nationalism, and relations with the modernizing state, we will consider how Buddhism responded to the challenges and opportunities of the modern era.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J Ritzinger
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 242 - Love and Its Critics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course examines the ethics of love in Western religious traditions with a specific emphasis upon self-sacrifice and criticisms of it. Readings are drawn from both pre-modern (Aquinas, and Luther) and modern (Barth and Rosenzweig) defenders of love, along with modern critics (Friedrich Nietzsche, naturalistic interpreters, and Freud among others). FInally, the course concludes with response to the love critics (Max Scheler, Simone Weil, Benedict XVI).
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Swan Tuite
  

  • RELG 243 - The Ethics of Ordinary Life in the Americas


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    This course examines the intersection of religious and moral practices through a consideration of ordinary practices of Evangelical Christianity, the Nation of Islam, and Judaism. Topics include practice theory as a model for describing religious life, consumption and self-control, making and sustaining social boundaries, healing practices, making and breaking commitments, clothing practices and spiritual exercises.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Swan Tuite
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 245 - Modern Moral Issues in Religious Perspective


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course examines select moral issues from the perspective of Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular traditions. Topics will include such issues as lying, euthanasia, abortion, sexual ethics, war and peace, and the death penalty. This course also offers an introduction to systematic ethical reasoning.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Swan Tuite
  

  • RELG 249 - Issues in Medical Ethics


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Next Offered: 2011-2012

    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course offers an analysis of selected issues in medical ethics and the methods of ethical reasoning used to study these issues, focusing on attendant religious, moral, and legal questions. The orientation of the course is clinical. Issues are framed and explored as issues addressed in a medical context, using case studies throughout. Topics to be addressed include such issues as psychiatric practice, medical research and human experimentation, privacy and informed consent, public health, and the allocation of scarce resources.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Swan Tuite
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 250 - Introduction to Judaism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Jewish Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A theoretical introduction to Judaism as a religious system. Special attention will be paid to the historical development of the religion through interpretation of traditional texts and ritual practices.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: G. Claussen
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 150
  

  • RELG 251 - Modern Jewish Thought


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    This course is canceled effective 11.01.10.

    Beginning with Spinoza in the 17th century, this course will examine intellectual and philosophical responses to the changing situation of Judaism in modernity. We will read thinkers-including Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Heschel, Kaplan, Plaskow, and Eisen-who addressed such questions as: How should Jews understand received tradition in the modern age? How should Jews relate to their non-Jewish neighbors? What is the role of ethics in Judaism? No prerequisites.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: Staff
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 151
  

  • RELG 254 - Jewish Ethics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    New course added 10.25.10.

    This course will explore traditional and contemporary Jewish approaches to ethics. Central topics will include questions regarding love and justice, sin and repentance, and the relationship between ethics and law. We will also examine how understandings of Jewish ethics have been shaped by modernity, and we will consider how classical Jewish sources might speak to a range of contemporary moral and political issues.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Claussen
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 254
  

  • RELG 262 - Religious Identity in Multicultural Perspective


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    How do factors such as sexuality, gender, race and nationality affect religious identity? This course investigates answers to that question by contemporary scholars from multiple religious traditions (Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Native American), especially in light of sexism, racism, heterosexism and colonialism. Students will gain familiarity with how current critical theories (standpoint, poststructuralist, feminist, queer, postcolonial) are employed to help articulate religious identity in an increasingly complex, globalized world.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Kamitsuka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 263 - Roots of Religious Feminism in North America


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course analyzes the religious views underpinning women’s literature, political advocacy, public speaking, and social reform work from colonial days to the 1970s, with a focus on primary sources. Students will apply the knowledge and methodology acquired during the course to pursue their own research interests in women’s religious history in North America. No previous study of religion, U.S. history, or gender theory is necessary.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Kamitsuka
  

  • RELG 270 - Islam


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course provides an introduction to Islam in its religious, intellectual, historical, socio-political and institutional dimensions.  It provides an overview of Muslim religious traditions for purposes of further historical study and for understanding contemporary Muslim societies.  Topics covered include elements that constitute Muslim traditions, cultures and identities such as: pre-Islamic Arab society and surrounding Persian and Roman civilizations, the Prophet and the Qur’an, Islamic theology, law, devotional rituals, art and literatures, mysticism, mosque and madrasa.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Mahallati
  

  • RELG 272 - Introduction to the Qur’an


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Introduction to the Qur’an, the sacred scripture of the Islamic religious tradition. Topics include: approaches to the idea of revelation and the history of the written text, its overall content and themes, the style of the Qur’an, the Life of Muhammad as a source for interpreting the Qur’an, and Muhammad and the Qur’an as the foundation of law, theology, aesthetics, politics, and practices of piety such as recitation. Emphasis on reading the Qur’an in English-language interpretation.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Mahallati
  

  • RELG 275 - Religion and Politics in the Modern Muslim World


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The vast geography of Islam extending from Indonesia to Morocco has been fertile and contentious meeting place of religion and politics, especially in the modern era. This course analyses the dynamic between religion and politics in the Muslim world focusing especially on the last fifty years. The Arab-Israeli war, the Islamic revolution in Iran, the rise of militant fundamentalism, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of the Islamist democratic parties in Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey will be among the case-studies examined.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Mahallati
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 279 - Approaches to Islamic Art and Architecture


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    New course added 10.29.2010.

    Examination of Muslim arts and architecture in relationship to the cultural, religious, and sociopolitical values and practices from Europe to South Asia in the period between the seventh and early-nineteenth centuries. Through visual analyses (including AMAM and Library visits), analysis of primary texts, and discussions of modern theories of aesthetics, students will develop an understanding of the theoretical foundations of Muslim art and an appreciation of art’s role in the everyday lives of Muslims.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: E. Askin
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 279
  

  • RELG 282 - Survey of American Christianity


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Introduction to major issues, figures and movements in American religious history and American Christianity. Attention will be given to persistent themes such as individualism, the search for community, religion and reform, religious conservatism and innovation, and the religious nature of American culture. Class, race, ethnicity and gender will also be addressed as we explore American religious experience in all its diversity. The goal is to better understand the place of religion in American society, and to evaluate its past impact and future role.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: A.G. Miller
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • RELG 284 - The History of the African-American Religious Experience


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    African American Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An introduction to the religious movements and institutions of African-Americans from the period of slavery to the present. Various topics including: African religions; slave religion; independent black Protestant churches; gender and race relations in American church life; politics in black churches; missionary efforts to Africa and the Caribbean; Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, Pentecostalism; the civil rights movement; modern role of religion in African-American life.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: A.G. Miller
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
 

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