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Catalogue 2014-2015

Catalogue 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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American Studies: II. Intermediate
	AMST 258 - Studies in Sound Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 258 ) This course familiarizes students with the emerging field of sound studies. We spend the first eight weeks exploring the different facets of sound culture: histories and ethnographies of listening; theories of sound capture and reproduction; the political economy of recording media (particularly the MP3); the experience of the modern American soundscape. We conclude with case studies of contemporary sonic experiences: “glitch”-based digital music and the aesthetics of failure; new developments in sonic weaponry; art and activism that “listens” to drones and the US-Mexico border. Mr. Hsu. Prerequisite: 100-level course work within the multidisciplinary programs, or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 262 - Native American Women Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 262 ) In an effort to subjugate indigenous nations, colonizing and Christianizing enterprises in the Americas included the implicit understanding that subduing Native American women through rape and murder maintained imperial hierarchies of gender and power; this was necessary to eradicate Native people’s traditional egalitarian societies and uphold the colonial agenda. Needless to say, Native women’s stories and histories have been inaccurately portrayed, often tainted with nostalgia and delivered through a lens of western patriarchy and discourses of domination. Through class readings and writing assignments, discussions and films, this course examines Native women’s lives by considering the intersections of gender and race through indigenous frameworks. We expose Native women’s various cultural worldviews in order to reveal and assess the importance of indigenous women’s voices to national and global issues such as sexual violence, environmentalism, and health. The class also takes into consideration the shortcomings of western feminisms in relation to the realities of Native women and Native people’s sovereignty in general. Areas of particular importance to this course are indigenous women’s urban experience, Haudenosaunee influence on early U.S. suffragists, indigenous women in the creative arts, third-gender/two-spiritedness, and Native women’s traditional and contemporary roles as cultural carriers. Ms. McGlennen. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 266 - Art and Everyday Life in the United States Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 266 and ART 266 ) An exploration of material and expressive creations closely associated with everyday life from the era of the transatlantic slave trade to the present day. Focusing on objects, images, spaces, and lore intimately tied to African American lives, we examine these ordinary and extraordinary creations and expressions in relation to the histories, movements, beliefs, practices, and ideas that underlie them. Ms. Collins. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or coursework in Africana Studies, American Studies, Women’s Studies, or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 275 - Race and Ethnicity in America 1 unit(s) This course examines “white” American identity as a cultural location and a discourse with a history—in Mark Twain’s terms, “a fiction of law and custom.” What are the origins of “Anglo-Saxon” American identity? What are the borders, visible and invisible, against which this identity has leveraged position and power? How have these borders shifted over time, and in social and cultural space? How has whiteness located itself at the center of political, historical, social, and literary discourse, and how has it been displaced? How does whiteness mark itself, or mask itself? What does whiteness look like, sound like, and feel like from the perspective of the racial “other”? What happens when we consider whiteness as a racial or ethnic category? And in what ways do considerations of gender and class complicate these other questions? We read works by artists, journalists, and critics, among them Bill Finnegan, Benjamin DeMott, Lisa Lowe, David Roediger, George Lipsitz, Roland Barthes, Chela Sandoval, Eric Lott, bell hooks, Cherríe Moraga, Ruth Frankenberg, James Baldwin, Homi Bhabha, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, James Weldon Johnson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Alice Walker, and Don DeLillo. We also explore the way whiteness is deployed, consolidated and critiqued in popular media like film (Birth of a Nation, Pulp Fiction, Pleasantville) television (“reality” shows, The West Wing) and the American popular press. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 281 - Theirs or Ours? Repatriating Individuals and Objects Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as ANTH 281 ) Collecting Native American objects and human remains was once justified as a way to preserve vanishing cultures. Instead of vanishing, Native Americans organized and asked that their ancestors be returned, along with their grave goods, and other sacred objects. Initially, museums fought against the loss of collections and scientists fought against the loss of data. Governments stepped in and wrote regulations to manage claims, dictating the rights of all parties. Twenty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation remains a controversial issue with few who are truly satisfied with the adopted process. This course examines the ethics and logistics of repatriation from the perspectives of anthropology, art, history, law, museum studies, Native American studies, philosophy, and religion. Recent U.S. cases are contrasted with repatriation cases in other parts of the world, for repatriation is not just a Native American issue. Ms. Beisaw. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 283 - U.S. Consumer Culture Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as HIST 283 ) examines the rise of consumer culture in twentieth century America. This culture has flourished, in part, because consumer capitalism has continuously transformed everyday wants into needs. We explore how the growth of mass production, advertising, department stores, shopping malls, modern technologies, and imperialism have shaped the nation’s desire for goods and pleasure. Americans’ relationships with these commodities and services reveal how people have come to understand themselves as consumers (staking claims to the ability to consume as a function of citizenship) and how consumption has shaped their lives (where they have defined themselves by what they buy). We take a chronological and thematic approach to contextualize the culture of consumption, in its many forms, across time and space. Mr. Mills. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 290 - Field Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Permission of the director required.
	AMST 297 - Readings in American Studies Semester Offered: Fall 1/2 unit(s) Topic for 297.01: Native American Art. Selected readings in Native American art, with emphasis on the Inuit, Haudenosaune (Iroquois), Pueblo and Navajo peoples. Not offered in 2014/15. Topic for 297.02: Regional Cultures of Native North America. Directed reading of ethnographies on a particular region of North America to be chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Students will write brief reviews and comparative analyses of 3-4 ethnographies written about the same culture group. Topic for 297.03: Regional Prehistory of Native North America. Directed reading of field reports and syntheses of the prehistory of a particular region of North America to be chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Students will write brief analyses of the field reports and critique the synthesis based on more recent field reports. Topic for 297.04: Native American Memoir and the Premise of Memoir. Selected readings from Native authors, including Sherman Alexie, Kimberly Blaeser, Forest Carter, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Gordon Henry, Linda Hogan, Ignatia Broker, Janet McAdams, Molly McGlennen, N. Scott Momaday, Nasdijj, Leslie Marmon Silko, Stephanie Sellers, and Gerald Vizenor. Ms. Nichols. Topic for 297.05: Native American Philosophies and Religions. Directed reading of Indigenous North American philosophical and religious belief systems. Students will write brief reviews of chosen texts and a final research paper on a (related) topic of the student’s choice. Ms. McGlennen. Topic for 297.06: Native American Ethnobotany. Directed reading on the ways that Native Americans in North America (north of Mexico) perceive and interact with plants. Particular cultural groups and time periods to be chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Students will write brief reviews of chose texts and a final research paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	AMST 298 - Independent Study Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Permission of the director required.
American Studies: III. Advanced
	AMST 302 - Senior Thesis or Project Semester Offered: Fall 1/2 unit(s) Required of students concentrating in the program. The senior project is graded Distinction, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory. Yearlong course 302-AMST 303 .
	AMST 303 - Senior Thesis or Project Semester Offered: Spring 1/2 unit(s) Required of students concentrating in the program. The senior project is graded Distinction, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory. Yearlong course AMST 302 -303.
	AMST 313 - Multidisciplinary Research Methods Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course explores the challenges of conducting multi- and interdisciplinary inquiry within the field of American Studies. Drawing on key texts and innovative projects within the field, the course examines the ways in which varying disciplines make meaning of the world and puts specific modes of inquiry into practice. Students learn how to seek, produce, and evaluate different forms of evidence and how to shape this evidence in the direction of a broader project. Specific forms of inquiry may include: interpreting archival documents, conducting interviews, making maps, crafting field notes, analyzing cultural texts, among others. Mr. Simpson. Prerequisite or co-requisite: a discipline-specific methods course appropriate to the student. Required of all Junior American Studies majors.
	AMST 315 - Senior Project Seminar 1 unit(s) This course is required for all senior American Studies majors. The seminar engages current debates in the field of American Studies, as it prepares students to undertake the Senior Project. The course is designed to help students to identify a compelling research problem, locate appropriate critical resources, deepen their engagement with the disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods appropriate to their focus within the major, and locate their projects within a broader field of inquiry. Texts include Bruce Burgett and Glen Hendler, Keywords for American Culture Studies; Wayne Booth et al., The Craft of Research. Taught by the Director, Ms. Brawley. Corequisite: Senior Project; offered in the fall semester in the senior year. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 331 - Topics in Archaeological Theory and Method Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ANTH 331 ) The theoretical underpinnings of anthropological archaeology and the use of theory in studying particular bodies of data. The focus ranges from examination of published data covering topics such as architecture and society, the origin of complex society, the relationship between technology and ecology to more laboratory-oriented examination of such topics as archaeometry, archaeozoology, or lithic technology. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: From the Natural History Museum to Ecotourism: The Collection of Nature. From the rise of the Natural History Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, and early endeavors to create a national literature, the appropriation of American Indian lands and American Indians (as natural objects) offered Euro-Americans a means to realize their new national identity. Today, the American consumer-collector goes beyond the boundaries of the museum, national park, and zoo and into ecotourism, which claims to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate money, jobs, and the conservation of wildlife and vegetation. This course investigates historical and current trends in the way North Americans recover, appropriate, and represent non-western cultures, ‘exotic’ animals, and natural environments from theoretical and ideological perspectives. Course readings draw from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, museology, literature, and environmental studies. Ms. Pike-Tay. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology, or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
	AMST 350 - Confronting Modernity 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2014/15.
	AMST 366 - Art and Activism in the United States 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 366 , ART 366 , and WMST 366 ) Vision and Critique in the Black Arts and Women’s Art Movements in the United States. Focusing on the relationships between visual culture and social movements in the U.S., this seminar examines the arts, institutions,and ideas of the Black Arts movement and Women’s Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Analyzing paintings, photographs, posters, quilts, collages, murals, manifestos, mixed-media works, installations, films, performances, and various systems of creation, collaboration, and display, we explore connections between art, politics, and society. Ms. Collins. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 367 - Artists’ Books from the Women’s Studio Workshop Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as ART 367 and WMST 367 ) In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore the limited edition artists’ books created through the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. Founded in 1974, the Women’s Studio Workshop encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, and women artists associated with the workshop have, since 1979, created over 180 hand-printed books using a variety of media, including hand-made paper, letterpress, silkscreen, photography, intaglio, and ceramics. Vassar College recently became an official repository for this vibrant collection which, in the words of the workshop’s co-founder, documents “the artistic activities of the longest continually operating women’s workspace in the country.” Working directly with the artists’ books, this seminar will meet in Vassar Library’s Special Collections and closely investigate the range of media, subject matter, and aesthetic sensibilities of the rare books, as well as their contexts and meanings. We will also travel to the Women’s Studio Workshop to experience firsthand the artistic process in an alternative space. Ms. Collins. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 370 - Transnational Literature Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ENGL 370 ) This course focuses on literary works and cultural networks that cross the borders of the nation-state. Such border-crossings raise questions concerning vexed phenomena such as globalization, exile, diaspora, and migration-forced and voluntary. Collectively, these phenomena deeply influence the development of transnational cultural identities and practices. Specific topics studied in the course vary from year to year and may include global cities and cosmopolitanisms; the black Atlantic; border theory; the discourses of travel and tourism; global economy and trade; or international terrorism and war. Topic for 2014/15a: Indigenous Transnationalisms. This course focuses on the ways in which transnational studies has become a more helpful tool in unpacking particular critical questions that both American Studies and literary/cultural criticism produce. In many ways, transnational literatures and visual culture continue to serve as a means to subvert dominant narratives of the nation-state as a static and stable territory. Many contemporary North American Indigenous writers and artists – across colonial and tribal borders alike – utilize their work to more accurately reflect the global flow of Indigenous peoples, ideas, texts, and products etc. and call into question the geo-political boundaries of colonial nation-states. Indigenous transnationalism as a theoretical position demonstrates how some Native American/First Nation/Indio literatures and visual culture produce a mobilizing force of shared cultural and political alliances across nationalistic lines while remaining steadfast to tribally-specific and inter-tribal identities and citizenships. In this way, many Indigenous artists are critiquing national identity and imperialism, and radically challenging the histories, geographies, and contemporary social relations that define the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. Ms. McGlennen. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 380 - Art, War, and Social Change 1 unit(s) (Same as SOCI 380 ) Can the arts serve as a vehicle for social change? In this course we look at one specific arena to consider this question: the issue of war. How is war envisioned and re-envisioned by art and artists? How do artists make statements about the meaning of war and the quest for peace? Can artists frame our views about the consequences and costs of war? How are wars remembered, and with what significance? Specifically, we look at four wars and their social and artistic interpretations, wrought through memory and metaphor. These are: The Vietnam War, its photography and its famous memorial; World War I and the desolation of the novels and poetry that portrayed it; World War 11 and reflections on Hiroshima; and the Spanish Civil War through Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica, the recollections of Ernest Hemingway, the memories of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and the photography of Robert Capa. By looking at both the Sociology of Art and Sociology of War we consider where the crucial intersections lie. Ms. Miringoff. Not offered in 2014/15.
	AMST 382 - Documenting America 1 unit(s) The demand for documentation, the hunger for authenticity, the urge to share in the experiences of others were widespread in the first half of the twentieth century. A huge world of documentary expression included movies, novels, photographs, art and non-fiction accounts. This course explores the various ways in which some of these artists, photographers, writers and government agencies attempted to create documents of American life between 1900 and 1945. The course examines how such documents fluctuate between utility and aesthetics, between the social document and the artistic image. Among the questions we consider are: in what ways do these works document issues of race and gender that complicate our understanding of American life? How are our understandings of industrialization and consumerism, the Great Depression and World War II, shaped and altered by such works as the photographs of Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange,the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, the films of Charlie Chaplin, the novels and stories of Chester Himes, William Carlos Williams and Zora Neale Hurston, the non-fictional collaboration of James Agee and Walker Evans. Ms. Cohen and Ms. Wallace. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 383 - Indigenous New York 1 unit(s) Over half of all Native American people living in the United States now live in an urban area. The United States federal policies of the 1950’s brought thousands of Indigenous peoples to cities with the promise of jobs and a better life. Like so many compacts made between the United States and Native tribes, these agreements were rarely realized. Despite the cultural, political, and spiritual losses due to Termination and Relocation policies, Native American people have continued to survive and thrive in complex ways. This seminar examines the experiences of Indigenous peoples living in urban areas since the 1950’s, but also takes into consideration the elaborate urban centers that existed in the Americas before European contact. Using the New York region as our geographical center, we examine the pan-tribal movement, AIM, Red Power, education, powwowing, social and cultural centers, two-spiritedness, religious movements, and the arts. We study the manner in which different Native urban communities have both adopted western ways and recuperated specific cultural and spiritual traditions in order to build and nurture Indigenous continuance. Finally, in this course, we understand and define “urban” in very broad contexts, using the term to examine social, spiritual, geographical, material, and imagined spaces in which Indigenous people of North America locate themselves and their communities at different times and in different ways. Ms. McGlennen. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 384 - Racial Borderlands Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Borders have been made to demarcate geographic and social spaces. As such, they often divide and separate national states, populations, and their political and cultural practices. However, borders also serve as spaces of convergence and transgression. Employing a comparative and relational approach to the study of American cultures, this seminar examines concepts, theories and methodologies about race and ethnicity that emerged along the U.S. racial borderlands between the 18th and 20th centuries. We also consider the historical and contemporary ways in which discourses about race have been used to define, organize, and separate different social groups within the U.S. racial empire state. Throughout the semester we ask the following questions: How does race emerge as an idea in the U.S. political and social landscape? What is the relationship between race, gender and empire? What are the relational and historical ways in which ideas about race have been used to arrange and rank distinct social groups in the U.S. imperial body? How have these hierarchies shifted across space and time and how have different groups responded to these racial formations? Lastly, this seminar considers the future potential and limits of solidarity as a practice organized around ideas about race and exclusion for different marginalized populations within the U.S. empire state. Mr. Alamo.
	AMST 385 - Seminar in American Art Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 385 and ART 385 ) Topic for 2014/15b: The Visual Culture of the American Civil War. Today, images of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine are ubiquitous; they appear online, in print, and on television. Press coverage was equally pervasive during the American Civil War, but, in the nineteenth century, illustrated newspapers, documentary photography, and figurative monuments were new media that had only recently been developed. This course explores how and why the American Civil War was represented in the fine arts and visual culture in order to understand the complex and reciprocal relationship between the visual arts and politics. How did painting, photography, sculpture, and print shape the ideologies and realities of the War, and how did the War define the possibilities and limitations of these media as well as the relationship between them? We explore these questions through seminar meetings on such topics as slavery, violence, soldiers and veterans, the homefront, landscape, and emancipation as well as through the work of major American artists like Mathew Brady, Frederic Church, Robert Duncanson, Winslow Homer, Edmonia Lewis, and Thomas Nast. Ultimately, our goal is to develop a better understanding of the Civil War and American art as well as an intellectual and historical context for evaluating the visual culture of war in the United States today. Ms. Elder. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 386 - Baseball and American Society Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Baseball has been more than merely a game in American life and history. It has permeated American culture, and reflected U.S. society. The more one peels away the layers of baseball’s history, the more one finds that baseball emerges as a barometer of American culture. From challenges to racial segregation to campaigns for labor rights, baseball has mirrored and engendered social, economic, and political change in America. This course grapples with the multifaceted meanings and experiences of baseball in American society, with a particular focus on how baseball reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges social inequalities. We work with diverse texts to explore baseball in relation to enduring questions about race, class, and gender as well as emergent debates about globalization, new statistical measures, performance enhancing drugs, and the growing sport-media complex. Exploring broad questions about sports, culture, and society, this course is not just for baseball fans. Mr. Hoynes. One 2-hour period.
	AMST 389 - From the Natural History Museum to Ecotourism:The Collection of Nature 1 unit(s) (Same as ENST 389 ) From the rise of the Natural History Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, and early endeavors to create a national literature, the appropriation of American Indian lands and Amerian Indians (as natural objects) offered Euro-Americans a means to realize their new national identity. Today, the American consumer-collector goes beyond the boundaries of the museum, national park, and zoo and into ecotourism, which claims to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate money, jobs, and the conservation of wildlife and vegetation. This course investigates historical and current trends in the way North Americans recover, appropriate, and represent non-western cultures, ‘exotic’ animals, and natural environments from theoretical and ideological perspectives. Course readings draw from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, museology, literature, and environmental studies. Ms. Graham, Ms. Pike-Tay. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	AMST 399 - Senior Independent Work 1/2 to 1 unit(s)
Anthropology: I. Introductory
	ANTH 100 - Archaeology Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Popular media depicts archaeology as a search for lost treasures of an explicit or implied monetary value. In reality, an artifact’s value lies not in its gold or gemstone content but in the information that object provides about the past. This academic archaeology is a scientific pursuit with artifacts, things made or modified by people, as the primary data source. Instead of searching for ancient astronauts and the lost city of Atlantis, academic archaeologists are searching for evidence about how past communities were organized and how they dealt with cultural or environmental change. The answers to such questions allow us to learn from the past as we face our own challenges. This is the true value of archaeology. This course examines both popular and academic archaeology, critiquing them against the scientific method. Ms. Beisaw. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 120 - Human Origins Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course introduces current and historical debates in the study of human evolution. Primate studies, genetics, the fossil record and paleoecology are drawn upon to address such issues as the origins and nature of human cognition, sexuality, and population variation. Ms. Pike-Tay. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 140 - Cultural Anthropology Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) An introduction to central concepts, methods, and findings in cultural anthropology, including culture, cultural difference, the interpretation of culture, and participant-observation. The course uses cross-cultural comparison to question scholarly and commonsense understandings of human nature. Topics may include sexuality, kinship, political and economic systems, myth, ritual and cosmology, and culturally varied ways of constructing race, gender, and ethnicity. Students undertake small research projects and explore different styles of ethnographic writing. Ms. Lowe Swift and Mr. Smith. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 150 - Linguistics and Anthropology Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) This class introduces students to the multiple senses in which languages constitute “formal systems.” There is a focus on both theoretical discussions about, and practical exercises in, the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of human languages. We also consider the origins of natural languages in various ways: their ontogenesis, their relationship to non-human primate signaling systems, and their relationship to other, non-linguistic, human semiotic systems. Moreover, we examine the broader social and cultural contexts of natural languages, such as their consequences for socially patterned forms of thinking, and their relationship to ethnic, racial and regional variation. The course is intended both as the College’s general introduction to formal linguistics and as a foundation for advanced courses in related areas. Mr. Smith, Mr. Tavarez. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 170 - Topics in Anthropology 1 unit(s) Introduction to anthropology through a focus on a particular issue or aspect of human experience. Topics vary, but may include Anthropology through Film, American Popular Culture, Extinctions, Peoples of the World. The department. Open only to freshmen. Satisfies requirement for a Freshmen Writing Seminar. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
Anthropology: II. Intermediate
	ANTH 201 - Anthropological Theory Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) In this course we explore the history of intellectual innovations that make anthropology distinctive among the social sciences. We seek to achieve an analytic perspective on the history of the discipline and also to consider the social and political contexts, and consequences, of anthropology’s theory. While the course is historical and chronological in organization, we read major theoretical and ethnographic works that form the background to debates and issues in contemporary anthropology. Ms. Lowe Swift. Prerequisite or corequisite: ANTH 140 . Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 231 - Topics in Archaeology Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An examination of topics of interest in current archaeological analysis. We examine the anthropological reasons for such analyses, how analysis proceeds, what has been discovered to date through such analyses, and what the future of the topic seems to be. Possible topics include tools and human behavior, lithic technology, the archaeology of death, prehistoric settlement systems, origins of material culture. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: Maps, Culture, and Archaeology. Maps are used to document relationships between peoples, places, and the spaces in between. This course examines both the practical and hegemonic uses of maps while providing students with hands-on experiences creating maps from archaeological and historical data. The central case study focuses on the megalithic monument of Stonehenge. This site seems quite mysterious when considered alone, but when Stonehenge is placed within the landscapes of its past, its meaning(s) and purpose(s) become clearer. Nonetheless, most people insist on seeing Stonehenge as an isolated place within the contemporary landscape of England, for that image is central to their worldview, cultural identity, and/or political agenda. If Stonehenge’s landscape is as important as the individual site, there are real implications for the rights of local landowners, the obligations of heritage management and tourism, and the patrimony of cultures who see Stonehenge as a sacred site. Additional case studies will include community networks in the Native American southwest, the development of Euro-American towns in Maryland, and the layout of present-day Poughkeepsie. Ms. Beisaw. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 232 - Topics in Biological Anthropology Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course covers topics within the broad field of biological (or physical) anthropology ranging from evolutionary theory to the human fossil record to the identification of human skeletal remains from crime scenes and accidents. Bioanthropology conceptualizes cultural behavior as an integral part of our behavior as a species. Topics covered in this course may include human evolution, primate behavior, population genetics, human demography and variation, or forensic anthropology. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: The Anthropology of Death. Skeletal remains of past populations have been a focus of interest for biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and medical practitioners since the nineteenth century. This course introduces students to (1) biomedical archaeology: the study of health and disease, and the demographic, genetic, and environmental [natural, cultural and social] factors that affect a population’s risk for specific diseases; (2) forensic anthropology: the study of identifying the dead and the cause of death; (3) paleopathology: the study of injury and disease in ancient skeletons; and (4) cross-cultural attitudes toward death, including such things as issues of grave goods and monuments, and controversies that arise between bio-anthropologists, archaeologists and communities when the spiritual value of ancestral bones is pitted against their scientific value. Ms. Pike-Tay. Prerequisites: ANTH 100 , ANTH 120 , or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 235 - Area Studies in Archaeology Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course is a detailed, intensive investigation of archaeological remains from a particular geographic region of the world. The area investigated varies from year to year and includes such areas as Eurasia, North America, and the native civilizations of Central and South America. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15b: Historical Archaeology of North America. Historical archaeology differs from history by providing versions of the past that were unintentionally recorded through material remains, such as trash deposits. With historical archaeology we can test the documentary record and add to it. For example, historical archaeology allows us to reconstruct the daily lives of disenfranchised groups, such as illiterate immigrants, who did not leave their own documentary record. Historical archaeology also allows us to evaluate whether privileged groups actually followed their own documented rules and regulations. For example, individual orphanages, poor houses, asylums, and prisons deviated greatly in how they were run. Some orphanages were run like prisons while others provided children with a variety of toys to encourage play and to develop manners. Students learn the general method and theory of historical archaeology and receive hands-on experience analyzing artifacts from one or more sites. Ms. Beisaw. Prerequisites: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 240 - Cultural Localities Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Detailed study of the cultures of people living in a particular area of the world, including their politics, economy, worldview, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. Included is a critical assessment of different approaches to the study of culture. Areas covered vary from year to year and may include Europe, Africa, North America, and India. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: The Indian Ocean. This course is an introduction to the multiple cultures and peoples of the Indian Ocean. Using historical works, ethnographies, travel accounts, manuscript fragments, and film, we explore the complex trade networks and historical processes that have shaped the contemporary economies, cultures, and social problems of the region. We also examine how knowledge about this region has been produced. Although the course concentrates on northern Africa and the southwest Indian Ocean, we approach the region as a cultural, economic, and political sphere whose various regions were closely interconnected. Topics include: imperialism, globalization, labor and trade migrations, religion, race, gender, and creolization. Ms. Lowe Swift. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 241 - The Caribbean 1 unit(s) An overview of the cultures of the Caribbean, tracing the impact of slavery and colonialism on contemporary experiences and expressions of Caribbean identity. Using ethnographies, historical accounts, literature, music, and film, the course explores the multiple meanings of ‘Caribbean,’ as described in historical travel accounts and contemporary tourist brochures, as experienced in daily social, political, and economic life, and as expressed through cultural events such as calypso contests and Festival, and cultural-political movements such as Rastafarianism. Although the course deals primarily with the English-speaking Caribbean, it also includes materials on the French and Spanish speaking Caribbean and on diasporic Caribbean communities in the U.S. and U.K. Ms. Cohen. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	ANTH 243 - Mesoamerican Worlds Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as LALS 243 ) A survey of the ethnography, history, and politics of indigenous societies with deep historical roots in regions now located in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This course explores the emergence of Mesoamerican states with a vivid cosmology tied to warfare and human sacrifice, the reconfiguration of these societies under the twin burdens of Christianity and colonial rule, and the strategies that some of these communities adopted in order to preserve local notions of identity and to cope with (or resist) incorporation into nation-states. After a consideration of urbanization, socio-religious hierarchies, and writing and calendrical systems in pre-contact Mesoamerica, we will focus on the adaptations within Mesoamerican communities resulting from their interaction with an evolving colonial order. The course also investigates the relations between native communities and the Mexican and Guatemalan nation-states, and examines current issues—such as indigenous identities in the national and global spheres, the rapport among environmental policies, globalization, and local agricultural practices, and indigenous autonomy in the wake of the EZLN rebellion. Work on Vassar’s Mesoamerican collection, and a final research paper and presentation is required; the use of primary sources (in Spanish or in translation) is encouraged. Mr. Tavárez. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 245 ) This course introduces students to the methods employed in constructing and analyzing ethnographic materials through readings, classroom lectures, and discussions with regular field exercises. Students gain experience in participant-observation, fieldnote-taking, interviewing, survey sampling, symbolic analysis, the use of archival documents, and the use of contemporary media. Attention is also given to current concerns with interpretation and modes of representation. Throughout the semester, students practice skills they learn in the course as they design, carry out, and write up original ethnographic projects. Ms. Lowe Swift. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 247 - Modern Social Theory: Classical Traditions Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as SOCI 247 ) This course examines underlying assumptions and central concepts and arguments of European and American thinkers who contributed to the making of distinctly sociological perspectives. Readings include selections from Karl Marx, Emile Durheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, W.E.B. Du Bois and Erving Goffman. Thematic topics will vary from year to year. Ms. Harriford. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 250 - Language, Culture, and Society Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives in exploring a particular problem, emphasizing the contribution of linguistics and linguistic anthropology to issues that bear on research in a number of disciplines. At issue in each selected course topic are the complex ways in which cultures, societies, and individuals are interrelated in the act of using language within and across particular speech communities. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: Language, Culture and Society. This class offers an advanced introduction to the central problems of the relationship between language, culture and society. The first third of the class develops a distinctively anthropological approach to the formal and functional characteristics of human language (i.e., one that is comparative across species and attentive to the meaningfulness and motivated character of signs). The second third of the class provides the theoretical and methodological tools for understanding how linguistically-mediated interaction counts as a power-laden social action. The last third of the class considers how these theories can be used to illuminate the way in which language mediates large-scale social institutions (e.g., the relationship between language, race and prejudice in educational contexts in the United States, etc.) and social processes (e.g., the significance of digital media in processes of globalization). Students will also be trained in the methodology of scholars interested in language, culture, and society: the video-recording, transcription, and analysis of naturally occurring talk. Mr. Smith. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 255 - Language, Gender, and Media Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course offers a systematic survey of anthropological and linguistic approaches to the ways in which gender identities are implicated in language use, ideas about language, and the dynamic relationship between language and various forms of power and dominance. It is organized as a cross-cultural and cross-ethnic exploration of approaches that range from ground-breaking feminist linguistic anthropology and the study of gender, hegemony, and class, to contemporary debates on gender as performance and on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender identities. An important topic will be the representation of gender identities in various forms of media. However, we also investigate the multiple rapports among gender identities, socialization, language use in private and public spheres, forms of authority, and class and ethnic identities. Students will learn about transcription and analysis methods used in linguistic anthropology, and complete two projects, one based on spontaneous conversations, and another that focuses on mass media. Mr. Tavárez.
	ANTH 259 - Soundscapes: Anthropology of Music 1 unit(s) (Same as MUSI 259 ) This course investigates a series of questions about the relationship between music and the individuals and societies that perform and listen to it. In other words, music is examined and appreciated as a form of human expression existing within and across specific cultural contexts. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the social life of music, addressing historical themes and debates within multiple academic fields via readings, recordings, and films. Mr. Patch. Prerequisites: previous coursework in Anthropology or Music, or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	ANTH 260 - Current Themes in Anthropological Theory and Method Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) The focus is upon particular cultural sub-systems and their study in cross-cultural perspective. The sub-system selected varies from year to year. Examples include: kinship systems, political organizations, religious beliefs and practices, verbal and nonverbal communication. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: Language, Children, and Culture. This course surveys the ways that children figure into discussions about the relationship between language and culture. After reviewing the central theorists and paradigms that have examined these relationships–such as Lev Vygotsky, Margaret Mead, the language socialization paradigm, and theorists in childhood studies–we consider several topics that show how these proposals can shed light on the relationship between childhood and culture in social interaction: the pragmatics of “motherese,” the body-in-interaction in infancy, language usage in play, language and materiality in games, directives and social hierarchy in childhood discourse, multilingualism and identity in childhood, and children’s appropriation of mass-mediated forms of communication. In the last third of the class, we take up two case studies that focus on the encompassing political and sociocultural contexts of childhood: race, language and prejudice in the educational context, and the usage of digital media to sustain childhood friendships and communities across institutional or national boundaries. Mr. Smith. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 262 - Anthropological Approaches to Myth, Ritual and Symbol 1 unit(s) What is the place of myth, ritual and symbol in human social life? Do symbols reflect reality, or create it? This course considers answers to these questions in social theory (Marx, Freud and Durkheim) and in major anthropological approaches (functionalism, structuralism, and symbolic anthropology). It then reviews current debates in interpretive anthropology about order and change, power and resistance, the enchantments of capitalism, and the role of ritual in the making of history. Ethnographic and historical studies may include Fiji, Italy, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Seneca, and the U.S. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	ANTH 263 - Anthropology Goes to the Movies: Film, Video, and Ethnography 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 263 ) This course examines how film and video are used in ethnography as tools for study and as means of ethnographic documentary and representation. Topics covered include history and theory of visual anthropology, issues of representation and audience, indigenous film, and contemporary ethnographic approaches to popular media. Ms. Cohen. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or Film or Media Studies or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods, plus 3-hour preview laboratory.
	ANTH 264 - Anthropology of Art 1 unit(s) The Anthropology of Art explores the origins of art and symbolic behavior in human evolution as well as the practices of producing and interpreting art. The course moves from a survey of the earliest art of the Paleolithic (Stone Age) including cave paintings, engravings, body decoration and small portable sculptures to analyses of the form and function of art by early prehistorians and anthropologists through ethnoaesthetics, to the developing world market in the art objects traditionally studied by anthropologists. Among the topics explored in the course are connoisseurship and taste, authenticity, “primitive art,” and the ethnographic museum. Ms. Pike-Tay. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 266 - Indigenous and Oppositional Media 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 266 ) As audiovisual and digital media technologies proliferate and become more accessible globally, they become important tools for indigenous peoples and activist groups in struggles for recognition and self-determination, for articulating community concerns and for furthering social and political transformations. This course explores the media practices of indigenous peoples and activist groups, and through this exploration achieves a more nuanced and intricate understanding of the relation of the local to the global. In addition to looking at the films, videos, radio and television productions, and Internet interventions of indigenous media makers and activists around the world, the course looks at oppositional practices employed in the consumption and distribution of media. Course readings are augmented by weekly screenings and demonstrations of media studied, and students explore key theoretical concepts through their own interventions, making use of audiovisual and digital technologies. Ms. Cohen. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods, plus one 3-hour preview lab.
	ANTH 281 - Theirs or Ours? Repatriating Individuals and Objects Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 281 ) Collecting Native American objects and human remains was once justified as a way to preserve vanishing cultures. Instead of vanishing, Native Americans organized and asked that their ancestors be returned, along with their grave goods, and other sacred objects. Initially, museums fought against the loss of collections and scientists fought against the loss of data. Governments stepped in and wrote regulations to manage claims, dictating the rights of all parties. Twenty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation remains a controversial issue with few who are truly satisfied with the adopted process. This course examines the ethics and logistics of repatriation from the perspectives of anthropology, art, history, law, museum studies, Native American studies, philosophy, and religion. Recent U.S. cases are contrasted with repatriation cases in other parts of the world, for repatriation is not just a Native American issue. Ms. Beisaw. Two 75-minute periods.
	ANTH 290 - Field Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1.5 unit(s) Individual or group field projects or internships. May be elected during the college year or during the summer. Open to all students. The department.
	ANTH 297 - Reading Course in Archaeological Field Methods Semester Offered: Spring 1/2 unit(s) Ms. Johnson.
	ANTH 298 - Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Individual or group project of reading or research. May be elected during the college year or during the summer. The department.
	ANTH 386 - Situating Blackness, Situating Vassar: Experience, Documentation, Transformation Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 386 ) This course encourages students to explore the meanings of blackness (and raced identity categories) as lived experience at Vassar College and beyond. It provides methodological tools for students to explore self-knowledge, conduct social analyses of current contexts, and represent blackness as a lived experience today. The uses of historical literature, ethnography, film, guest speakers, social justice workshops, and first-hand accounts of experiences at Vassar and other institutions (by former students and existing members of the community) help contextualize local experiences in the broader world and also explore the meanings of blackness. The course addresses how raced identity is experienced, and how it can be transformed in, and transformative to, social life at Vassar. A primary goal is to help students link pain and suffering to systemic inequality, social privilege, and collective transformation. Ms. Lowe Swift. Prerequisite: open to all qualified students with the permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
Anthropology: III. Advanced
	ANTH 300 - Senior Thesis Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) The department.
	ANTH 301 - Senior Seminar Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) A close examination of current theory in anthropology, oriented around a topic of general interest, such as history and anthropology, the writing of ethnography, or the theory of practice. Students write a substantial paper applying one or more of the theories discussed in class. Readings change from year to year. Ms. Cohen.
	ANTH 305 - Topics in Advanced Biological Anthropology Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) An examination of such topics as primate structure and behavior, the Plio-Pleistocene hominids, the final evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens, forensic anthropology, and human biological diversity. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15b: Forensic Anthropology. Forensic anthropology is the application of physical anthropology to medical or legal issues, such as crimes. This course introduces students to the basic methods of forensic anthropology, including how age, sex, race, and height of an individual can be determined from their bones. Recognition of skeletal anomalies can also reveal past health conditions and the cause and manner of death. Students gain experience in applying these methods by working with real and synthetic human bones. Special attention is given to the accuracy of each method and how to develop a biological profile that would stand up in a court of law. Ms. Beisaw. Prerequisite: ANTH 232 or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
	ANTH 331 - Topics in Archaeological Theory and Method Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 331 ) The theoretical underpinnings of anthropological archaeology and the use of theory in studying particular bodies of data. The focus ranges from examination of published data covering topics such as architecture and society, the origin of complex society, the relationship between technology and ecology to more laboratory-oriented examination of such topics as archaeometry, archaeozoology, or lithic technology. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: From the Natural History Museum to Ecotourism: The Collection of Nature. From the rise of the Natural History Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, and early endeavors to create a national literature, the appropriation of American Indian lands and American Indians (as natural objects) offered Euro- Americans a means to realize their new national identity. Today, the American consumer-collector goes beyond the boundaries of the museum, national park, and zoo and into ecotourism, which claims to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate money, jobs, and the conservation of wildlife and vegetation. This course investigates historical and current trends in the way North Americans recover, appropriate, and represent non-western cultures, ‘exotic’ animals, and natural environments from theoretical and ideological perspectives. Course readings draw from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, museology, literature, and environmental studies. Ms. Pike-Tay. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology, or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
	ANTH 351 - Language and Expressive Culture Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This seminar provides the advanced student with an intensive investigation of theoretical and practical problems in specific areas of research that relate language and linguistics to expressive activity. Although emphasizing linguistic modes of analysis and argumentation, the course is situated at the intersection of important intellectual crosscurrents in the arts, humanities, and social sciences that focus on how culture is produced and projected through not only verbal, but also musical, material, kinaesthetic, and dramatic arts. Each topic culminates in independent research projects. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15a: Language, Medicine, and Healing. This class examines the ways in which language mediates medical institutions and practices, with a special emphasis on healing. In the first third of the class, we consider the role that language has played in the historical emergence of Western biomedical practice, and focus on its characteristic textual/graphic routines and modes of classifying persons and disease, a practice we will understand as a form of governing persons and populations. In the second third of the class, we consider the varieties of language-mediated interaction understood across cultures as healing practices, such as psychotherapeutic discourse, Yucatec Mayan and Central American shamanism, herbalist practices in the Andes, and doctor/patient interactions. In the last third of the class, we consider some cases that reveal the ironies and political consequences of healing interventions into the subjectivities of vulnerable persons and populations. Students write a research paper and present their work in class. Mr. Smith. Prerequisite: ANTH 150 , ANTH 250 or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
	ANTH 360 - Problems in Cultural Analysis Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 360 ) Covers a variety of current issues in modern anthropology in terms of ongoing discussion among scholars of diverse opinions rather than a rigid body of fact and theory. The department. May be repeated for credit if topic has changed. Topic for 2014/15b: Global Diasporas. This course highlights aspects of globalization that put waves of people, ideas and money on the move, paying specific attention to diaspora and migration. Theories of globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism provide students with frameworks for analyzing what happens when people move across state boundaries, and for considering the “push and pull” factors influencing movements from the South to North, and from East to West and vice versa. The use of ethnography, film, and the novel help students better understand how such flows are experienced locally, how connections across space and time are sustained, and how “culture” is continually (re)made in and through movement and as a consequence of contact rather than isolation. The question that animates and organizes our inquiries is: How do global flows of human interaction challenge or complicate our understandings of such constructs as “culture”, “race” and “nation-state”? Ms. Lowe Swift. Prerequisites: previous coursework in Anthropology or International Studies, or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour seminar.
	ANTH 361 - Consumer Culture Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An examination of classic and recent work on the culture of consumption. Among the topics we study are gender and consumption, the creation of value, commodity fetishism, the history of the department store, and the effect of Western goods on non-Western societies. Ms. Goldstein. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor.
	ANTH 363 - Nations, Globalization, and Post-Coloniality 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 363 ) How do conditions of globalization and dilemmas of post-coloniality challenge the nation-state? Do they also reinforce and reinvent it? This course engages three related topics and literatures; recent anthropology of the nation-state; the anthropology of colonial and post-colonial societies; and the anthropology of global institutions and global flows. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	ANTH 364 - Travelers and Tourists 1 unit(s) The seminar explores tourism in the context of a Western tradition of travel and as a complex cultural, economic and political phenomenon with profound impacts locally and globally. Using contemporary tourism theory, ethnographic studies of tourist locales, contemporary and historical travel narratives, travelogues, works of fiction, post cards and travel brochures, we consider tourism as a historically specific cultural practice whose meaning and relation to structures of power varies over time and context; as a performance; as one of many global mobilities; as embodied activity; as it is informed by mythic and iconic representations and embedded in Western notions of self and other. We also address issues pertaining to the culture of contemporary tourism, the commoditization of culture, the relation between tourism development and national identity and the prospects for an environmentally and culturally sustainable tourism. Ms. Cohen. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. One 3-hour period.
	ANTH 365 - Imagining Asia and the Pacific 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 365 ) Does “the Orient” exist? Is the Pacific really a Paradise? On the other hand, does the “West” exist? If it does, is it the opposite of Paradise? Asia is often imagined as an ancient, complex challenger and the Pacific is often imagined as a simple, idyllic paradise. This course explores Western scholarly images of Asia (East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia) and of the island Pacific. It also traces the impact of Asian and Pacific ideas and institutions on the West. Each time offered, the seminar has at least three foci, on topics such as: Asia, the Pacific and capitalism; Asia, the Pacific and the concept of culture; Asia, the Pacific and the nation-state; Asia, the Pacific and feminism; Asia, the Pacific and knowledge. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Asian Studies/Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15.
	ANTH 366 - Memoirs, Modernities, and Revolutions 1 unit(s) (Same as JWST 366 ) Autobiographical narratives of growing up have been a popular way for Jewish and non-Jewish writers of Middle Eastern origin to address central questions of identity and change. How do young adults frame and question their attachments to their families and to their countries of birth? For the authors and subjects of the memoirs, ethnographies and films we consider in this class, growing up and momentous historical events coincide, just as they did for young people during the recent revolutions in the Middle East. In this seminar, the autobiographical narratives– contextualized with historical, political, and visual material–allow us to see recent events through the eyes of people in their twenties. A major focus of the course will be post-revolutionary Iran (readings include Hakkakian, Journey from the Land of No; Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran, Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz, and Varzi, Warring Souls). Ms. Goldstein. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or Jewish Studies. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour seminar.
	ANTH 384 - Indigenous Religions of the Americas 1 unit(s) (Same as LALS 384 ) The conquest of the Americas was accompanied by various intellectual and sociopolitical projects devised to translate, implant, or impose Christian beliefs in Amerindian societies. This course examines modes of resistance and accommodation, among other indigenous responses, to the introduction of Christianity as part of larger colonial projects. Through a succession of case studies from North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, the Andes, and Paraguay, we analyze the impact of Christian colonial and postcolonial evangelization projects on indigenous languages, religious practices, literary genres, social organization and gender roles, and examine contemporary indigenous religious practices. Mr. Tavarez. Prerequisite: prior coursework in Anthropology or Latin American Latino/a Studies or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. One 2-hour period.
	ANTH 389 - Identities and Historical Consciousness in Latin America Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as LALS 389 ) This senior seminar explores in a highly strategic fashion the emergence and constant renovation of historical narratives that have supported various beliefs and claims about local, regional, national and transnational identities in Latin America and Latino(a) societies since the rise of the Mexica and Inca empires until the present. By means of a variety of anthropological and historical approaches, we examine indigenous forms of historical consciousness and the emergence of new identity discourses after the Spanish conquest, major changes in collective identities before and after the emergence of independent nation-states, and some crucial shifts in national, regional and ethnic identity claims that preceded and followed revolutions and social movements between the late nineteenth century and the present. Students will complete an original research project, and the use of primary sources in Spanish or Portuguese is encouraged. Mr. Tavárez. Prerequisite: Senior Seminar. Open to juniors with permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ANTH 399 - Senior Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Individual or group project of reading or research. May be elected during the college year or during the summer. The department
Art: I. Introductory
	ART 105 - Introduction to the History of Art Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Art 105-ART 106 provide a yearlong introduction to the history of art and architecture. Presented chronologically, with members of the department lecturing in their fields of expertise, the course begins with the monuments of the ancient world and ends with a global survey of today’s video. Students see how the language of form changes over time, how it continually expresses cultural values and addresses individual existential questions. Art history is, by its nature, transdisciplinary—drawing on pure history, literature, music, anthropology, religion, linguistics, science, psychology and philosophy. The course, therefore, furnishes many points of entry into the entire spectrum of human creativity. Weekly discussion sections make extensive use of the Vassar College collection in the Loeb Art Center. The department. ART 106 may be taken in a later year but must be completed in order to receive credit for Art 105. NRO available for juniors and seniors. Open to all classes. Enrollment limited by class. Yearlong course 105-ART 106 . Three 50-minute periods and one 50-minute conference period.
	ART 106 - Introduction to the History of Art Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) ART 105 -106 provide a yearlong introduction to the history of art and architecture. Presented chronologically, with members of the department lecturing in their fields of expertise, the course begins with the monuments of the ancient world and ends with a global survey of today’s video. Students see how the language of form changes over time, how it continually expresses cultural values and addresses individual existential questions. Art history is, by its nature, transdisciplinary—drawing on pure history, literature, music, anthropology, religion, linguistics, science, psychology and philosophy. The course, therefore, furnishes many points of entry into the entire spectrum of human creativity. Weekly discussion sections make extensive use of the Vassar College collection in the Loeb Art Center. The department. Art 106 may be taken in a later year but must be completed in order to receive credit for ART 105 . NRO available for juniors and seniors. Open to all classes. Enrollment limited by class. Yearlong course ART 105 -106. Three 50-minute periods and one 50-minute conference period.
	ART 160 - Art and Social Change in the United States Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 160 ) In this first-year seminar, we explore relationships between art, visual culture, and social change in the United States. Focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century social movements, we study artists and communities who have sought to inspire social change–to cultivate awareness, nurture new ideas, offer new visions, promote dialogue, encourage understanding, build and strengthen community, and inspire civic engagement and direct action–through creative visual expression. Ms. Collins. Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 170 - Introduction to Architectural History 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 170 ) An overview of the history of western architecture from the pyramids to the present. The course is organized in modules to highlight the methods by which architects have articulated the basic problem of covering space and adapting it to human needs. Mr. Adams. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
Art: II. Intermediate
	ART 210 - Art, Myth, and Society in the Ancient Aegean Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 210 ) Greek Sacred Spaces: Sanctuaries and Ritual. Sanctuaries, filled with ornate buildings and famous works of art, were at the center of religious life in ancient Greece. This course examines these rich sacred spaces through the lens of the ritual activities which took place within their confines. Because cult activity was so varied in the Greek world, the course ranges from processions on the Athenian acropolis to oracles in the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, from athletic games at Olympia to healing rituals at Epidauros. The course focuses on the many ways the sanctuaries’ topography, architecture and art reflect the evolving rituals and religion of the ancient Greeks. Ms. Fisher. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or coursework in Greek & Roman Studies, or permission of the instructor. NRO available to non-majors. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 211 - Roman Art and Architecture 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 211 ) Sculpture, painting, and architecture in the Roman Republic and Empire. Topics include: the appeal of Greek styles, the spread of artistic and architectural forms throughout the vast empire and its provinces, the role of art as political propaganda for state and as status symbols for private patrons. Ms. D’Ambra. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or GRST 216 or GRST 217 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 215 - The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 215 ) Ancient Egypt has long fascinated the public with its pyramids, mummies, and golden divine rulers. This course provides a survey of the archaeology, art, and architecture of ancient Egypt from the prehistoric cultures of the Nile Valley through the period of Cleopatra’s rule and Roman domination. Topics to be studied include the art of the funerary cult and the afterlife, technology and social organization, and court rituals of the pharaohs, along with aspects of everyday life. Ms. D’Ambra. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 or GRST 216 or GRST 217 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 218 - The Museum in History, Theory, and Practice 1 unit(s) This course surveys the long evolution of the art museum, beginning with private wonder rooms and cabinets of curiosity in the Renaissance and ending with the plethora of contemporary museums dedicated to broad public outreach. As we explore philosophies of both private and institutional collecting (including that of the college and university art museum) we use the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center as our first point of reference for considering a range of topics, such as the museum’s role in furthering art historical scholarship and public education, its acquisition procedures, and challenges to the security, quality or integrity of its collections posed by theft, by the traffic in fakes and forgeries, or the current movement to repatriate antiquities to their country of origin. Assignments include readings and group discussions, individual research projects, and at least three one-day field trips to museums in our area (including Manhattan) to allow us to examine the many different approaches to museum architecture and installation. Ms. Kuretsky. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 220 - Medieval Architecture Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) A survey of the greatest moments in Western, Byzantine and Islamic architecture from the reign of Constantine to the late middle ages and the visual, symbolic and structural language developed by the masters and patrons responsible for them. Particular attention is paid to issues of representation: the challenge of bringing a medieval building into the classroom, that of translating our impressions of these buildings into words and images, and the ways in which other students and scholars have done so. Mr. Tallon. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , coursework in Medieval Studies, or permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 221 - The Sacred Arts of the Middle Ages Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) A selective chronological exploration of the art of western Europe from early Christian Rome to the late Gothic North, with excursions into the lands of Byzantium and Islam. Works of differing scale and media, from monumental and devotional sculpture, manuscript illumination, metalwork, to stained glass, painting and mosaic, are considered formally and iconographicallly, but also in terms of their reception. Students work directly with medieval objects held in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and with manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Vassar Library. Mr. Tallon. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 , coursework in Medieval Studies, or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 230 - Art in the Age of Van Eyck, Dürer and Bruegel Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) The Northern Renaissance. Early Netherlandish and German art from Campin, van Eyck and van der Weyden to Bosch, Bruegel, Dürer and Holbein. This transformative period, which saw the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century and the explosive turmoil of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, generated a profound reassessment of the role of images in the form of new responses toward human representation in devotional and narrative painting and printmaking as well as developments in secular subjects such as portraiture and landscape. Ms. Kuretsky. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 231 - The Golden Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer 1 unit(s) An exploration of the new forms of secular and religious art that developed during the Golden Age of the Netherlands in the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and their contemporaries. The course examines the impact of differing religions on Flanders and the Dutch Republic, while exploring how political, economic and scientific factors encouraged the formation of seventeenth century Netherlandish art. Ms. Kuretsky. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 235 - The Rise of the Artist, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci 1 unit(s) A survey of Italian art c. 1300 - c.1500, when major cultural shifts led to a redefinition of art, and the artist emerged as a new creative and intellectual power. The course considers painting, sculpture and decorative arts by artists including Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, and Leonardo. Our study of artworks and primary texts reveals how a predominantly Christian society embraced the revival of ancient pagan culture, elements of atheist philosophy, and Islamic science. We also discuss art in the context of nascent multiculturalism and consumerism in the new city-states; the importance of new communications systems, such as print; and artistic exchange with northern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean centers of Baghdad and Constantinople. Other topics include art theory and criticism; techniques and materials of painting and sculpture; experiments with multimedia and mass production; developments in perspective and illusionism; ritual and ceremonial; and art that called into question notions of sexuality and gender roles. Ms. Elet. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 236 - Art in the Age of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) An exploration of the works of these three masters and their contemporaries in Renaissance Italy, c. 1485 - c. 1565. The primary focus is on painting and sculpture, but the course also considers drawings, prints, landscape, gardens, and decorative arts, emphasizing artists’ increasing tendency to work in multiple media. We trace changing ideas about the role of the artist and the nature of artistic creativity; and consider how these Renaissance masters laid foundations for art, and its history, theory and criticism for centuries to come. Other topics include artists’ workshops; interactions between artists and patrons; the role of the spectator; ritual and ceremonial; and Renaissance ideas about beauty, sexuality and gender. Ms. Valiela. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 249 - Encounter and Exchange: American Art from 1565 to 1865 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 249 ) This course examines American art from European contact in the 16th century through the Civil War. It emphasizes the formative role of the international encounter and cross-cultural exchange to this art. The focus is on painting, photography, and prints, though a range of objects types including sculpture, architecture, moving panoramas, and wampum belts will also be explored. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 251 - Modern America: Visual Culture from the Civil War to WWII Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 251 ) This course examines American visual culture as it developed in the years between the Civil War and World War II. Attention is paid to the intersections among diverse media and to such issues as consumerism, abstraction, primitivism, femininity, and mechanized reproduction. Artists studied include Thomas Eakins, Timothy O’Sullivan, James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Edward Weston, and Aaron Douglas. Ms. Elder. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or a 100-level American Studies course or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 254 - The Arts of Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Africa 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 254 ) This course is organized thematically and examines the ways in which sculpture, painting, photography, textiles, and film and video function both historically and currently in relationship to broader cultural issues. Within this context, this course explores performance and masquerade in relationship to gender, social, and political power. We also consider the connections between the visual arts and cosmology, identity, ideas of diaspora, colonialism and post-colonialism, as well as the representation of the “Self,” and the “Other.” Mr. Leers. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 , one course in Africana Studies, or permission of the instructor. The Non-Recorded Option is available to non-majors. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 256 - The Arts of China 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 256 ) Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , one Asian Studies course, or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 258 - The Art of Zen in Japan Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 258 ) This course surveys the arts of Japanese Buddhism, ranging from sculpture, painting, architecture, gardens, ceramics, and woodblock prints. We will consider various socioeconomic, political and religious circumstances that led monks, warriors, artists, and women of diverse social ranks to collectively foster an aesthetic that would, in turn, influence modern artists of Europe and North America. Ms. Hwang. Prerequisite:ART 105 -ART 106 or a 100-level Asian Studies course, or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 259 - Art, Politics and Cultural Identity in East Asia 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 259 ) This course surveys East Asian art in a broad range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy, painting, architecture, and woodblock prints. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which China, Korea, and Japan have negotiated a shared “East Asian” cultural experience. The works to be examined invite discussions about appropriation, reception, and inflection of images and concepts as they traversed East Asia. Ms. Hwang. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 or one 100-level Asian Studies course, or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 262 - Art and Revolution in Europe, 1789-1848 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) A survey of major movements and figures in European art, 1789-1848, focusing on such issues as the contemporaneity of antiquity in revolutionary history painting, the eclipse of mythological and religious art by an art of social observation and political commentary, the romantic cult of genius, imagination, and creative self-definition, and the emergence of landscape painting in an industrializing culture. Mr. Lukacher. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 263 - Painters of Modern Life: Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) A survey of major movements and figures in European art, 1848-1900, examining the realist, impressionist, and symbolist challenges to the dominant art institutions, aesthetic assumptions, and social values of the period; also addressing how a critique of modernity and a sociology of aesthetics can be seen developing through these phases of artistic experimentation. Mr. Lukacher. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 264 - The Nature of Change: the Avant-Gardes 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 264 ) Radical prototypes of self-organization were forged by the new groups of artists, writers, filmmakers and architects that emerged in the early twentieth century as they sought to define the future. The course studies the avant-gardes’ different and often competing efforts to meet the changing conditions that industrialization was bringing to culture, societies and economies between 1889 and 1929, when works of art, design, and film entered the city, the press, the everyday lives and the wars that beset them all. Ms. Nesbit. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods and one weekly film screening.
	ART 265 - The New Order of Media, Message and Art, 1929-1968 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 265 ) When the public sphere was reset during the twentieth century by a new order of mass media, the place of art and artists in the new order needed to be claimed. The course studies the negotiations between modern art and the mass media (advertising, cinema, TV), in theory and in practice, during the years between the Great Depression and the liberation movements of the late 1960s-the foundation stones of our own contemporary culture. Neither the theory nor the practice has become obsolete. Ms. Nesbit. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 . Two 75-minute periods and one weekly film screening.
	ART 266 - Art and Everyday Life in the United States Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 266 and AMST 266 ) An exploration of material and expressive creations closely associated with everyday life from the era of the transatlantic slave trade to the present day. Focusing on objects, images, spaces, and lore intimately tied to African American lives, we examine these ordinary and extraordinary creations and expressions in relation to the histories, movements, beliefs, practices, and ideas that underlie them. Ms. Collins. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or coursework in Africana Studies, American Studies, Women’s Studies, or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 268 - The Activation of Art, 1968 - now 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 268 ) This course studies the visual arts of the last thirty years, here and abroad, together with the collective and philosophical discussions that emerged and motivated them. The traditional fine arts as well as the new media, performance, film architecture and installation are included. Still and moving images, which come with new theatres of action, experiment and intellectual quest, are studied as they interact with the historical forces still shaping our time into time zones, world pictures, narratives and futures. Weekly screenings supplement the lectures. Ms. Nesbit. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 . Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods and one weekly screening.
	ART 270 - Renaissance Architecture 1 unit(s) European architecture and city building from 1300-1500; focus on Italian architecture and Italian architects; encounters between Italian and other cultures throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Mr. Adams. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or ART 170 or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 271 - Early Modern Architecture 1 unit(s) Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or ART 170 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 272 - Buildings and Cities after the Industrial Revolution Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 272 ) Architecture and urbanism were utterly changed by the forces of the industrial revolution. New materials (iron and steel), building type (train stations, skyscrapers), building practice (the rise of professional societies and large corporate firms), and newly remade cities (London, Paris, Vienna) provided a setting for modern life. The course begins with the liberation of the architectural imagination around 1750 and terminates with the rise of modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century (Gropius, Le Corbusier). Mr. Adams. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 or permission of the instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 273 - Modern Architecture and Beyond 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 273 ) European and American architecture and city building (1920 to the present); examination of the diffusion of modernism and its reinterpretation by corporate America and Soviet Russia. Discussion of subsequent critiques of modernism (postmodernism, deconstruction, new urbanism) and their limitations. Issues in contemporary architecture. Mr. Adams. Prerequisite: ART 105 -ART 106 , or ART 170 , or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 275 - Rome: Architecture and Urbanism 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 275 ) The Eternal City has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course presents an overview of the history of the city of Rome in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and modern times. The course examines the ways that site, architecture, urbanism, and politics have interacted to produce one of the world’s densest urban fabrics. The course focuses on Rome’s major architectural and urban monuments over time (e.g., Pantheon, St. Peters, the Capitoline hill) as well as discussions of the dynamic forms of Roman power and religion. Literature, music and film also will be included as appropriate. Mr. Adams. ART 105 -ART 106 , or ART 170 or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2014/15. Two 75-minute periods.
	ART 290 - Field Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Projects undertaken in cooperation with approved galleries, archives, collections, or other agencies concerned with the visual arts, including architecture. The department. Prerequisites: ART 105 -ART 106 and one 200-level course. Open by permission of a supervising instructor. Not included in the minimum requirements for the major. May be taken either semester or in the summer.
	ART 298 - Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 to 1 unit(s) Open by permission of the instructor with the concurrence of the adviser in the field of concentration. Not included in the minimum for the major.

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Course Descriptions

AMST 258 - Studies in Sound

AMST 262 - Native American Women

AMST 266 - Art and Everyday Life in the United States

AMST 275 - Race and Ethnicity in America

AMST 281 - Theirs or Ours? Repatriating Individuals and Objects

AMST 283 - U.S. Consumer Culture

AMST 290 - Field Work

AMST 297 - Readings in American Studies

AMST 298 - Independent Study

AMST 302 - Senior Thesis or Project

AMST 303 - Senior Thesis or Project

AMST 313 - Multidisciplinary Research Methods

AMST 315 - Senior Project Seminar

AMST 331 - Topics in Archaeological Theory and Method

AMST 350 - Confronting Modernity

AMST 366 - Art and Activism in the United States

AMST 367 - Artists’ Books from the Women’s Studio Workshop

AMST 370 - Transnational Literature

AMST 380 - Art, War, and Social Change

AMST 382 - Documenting America

AMST 383 - Indigenous New York

AMST 384 - Racial Borderlands

AMST 385 - Seminar in American Art

AMST 386 - Baseball and American Society

AMST 389 - From the Natural History Museum to Ecotourism:The Collection of Nature

AMST 399 - Senior Independent Work

ANTH 100 - Archaeology

ANTH 120 - Human Origins

ANTH 140 - Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 150 - Linguistics and Anthropology

ANTH 170 - Topics in Anthropology

ANTH 201 - Anthropological Theory

ANTH 231 - Topics in Archaeology

ANTH 232 - Topics in Biological Anthropology

ANTH 235 - Area Studies in Archaeology

ANTH 240 - Cultural Localities

ANTH 241 - The Caribbean

ANTH 243 - Mesoamerican Worlds

ANTH 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft

ANTH 247 - Modern Social Theory: Classical Traditions

ANTH 250 - Language, Culture, and Society

ANTH 255 - Language, Gender, and Media

ANTH 259 - Soundscapes: Anthropology of Music

ANTH 260 - Current Themes in Anthropological Theory and Method

ANTH 262 - Anthropological Approaches to Myth, Ritual and Symbol

ANTH 263 - Anthropology Goes to the Movies: Film, Video, and Ethnography

ANTH 264 - Anthropology of Art

ANTH 266 - Indigenous and Oppositional Media

ANTH 281 - Theirs or Ours? Repatriating Individuals and Objects

ANTH 290 - Field Work

ANTH 297 - Reading Course in Archaeological Field Methods

ANTH 298 - Independent Work

ANTH 386 - Situating Blackness, Situating Vassar: Experience, Documentation, Transformation

ANTH 300 - Senior Thesis

ANTH 301 - Senior Seminar

ANTH 305 - Topics in Advanced Biological Anthropology

ANTH 331 - Topics in Archaeological Theory and Method

ANTH 351 - Language and Expressive Culture

ANTH 360 - Problems in Cultural Analysis

ANTH 361 - Consumer Culture

ANTH 363 - Nations, Globalization, and Post-Coloniality

ANTH 364 - Travelers and Tourists

ANTH 365 - Imagining Asia and the Pacific

ANTH 366 - Memoirs, Modernities, and Revolutions

ANTH 384 - Indigenous Religions of the Americas

ANTH 389 - Identities and Historical Consciousness in Latin America

ANTH 399 - Senior Independent Work

ART 105 - Introduction to the History of Art

ART 106 - Introduction to the History of Art

ART 160 - Art and Social Change in the United States

ART 170 - Introduction to Architectural History

ART 210 - Art, Myth, and Society in the Ancient Aegean

ART 211 - Roman Art and Architecture

ART 215 - The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

ART 218 - The Museum in History, Theory, and Practice

ART 220 - Medieval Architecture

ART 221 - The Sacred Arts of the Middle Ages

ART 230 - Art in the Age of Van Eyck, Dürer and Bruegel

ART 231 - The Golden Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer