fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 10 Introduction to African American Studies Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An exploration of some of the key texts and issues in African American Studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Members of the faculty deliver guest lectures in their own areas of specialization. Required of concentrators in the African American Studies track. Students who transfer into the concentration after their sophomore year may substitute another African and African American Studies course already taken if they satisfy the Director of Undergraduate Studies that it establishes a basic familiarity with the materials covered in African and African American Studies 10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Henry Louis Gates Jr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 11 Introduction to African Studies Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course introduces students to the general outlines of African geography and history, as well as key controversies in the study of African health, social life, arts, and politics. Our aim is to give students a fundamental vocabulary and interdisciplinary methodology for the study of Africa. Throughout, we assume that Africa is not a unique isolate but a continent bubbling with internal diversity, historical change, and cultural connections beyond its shores. Required of concentrators in African Studies track. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 13 Introduction to Black Political Thought Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduces the key texts and figures in the African American political tradition from the antebellum period through the black power era. In addition to the more familiar black liberal and nationalist traditions, attention will be given to black conservatism, black feminism, and black leftist thought. N Tommie Shelby fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 16 Sociology of the Black Community Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines issues of race, class, gender, and identity in the Afro-American community. Topics of special emphasis include the contemporary situation of the black family, class stratification and the conditions and prospects of the modern black middle class, black feminist thought, black educational performance, and the dynamics of race. Our objective is to arrive at a deeper sociological analysis and appreciation of the changing life experiences awaiting African Americans. N Lawrence Bobo fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 20 Introduction to African Languages and Cultures Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to African languages and cultures. Explores language use by sub-Saharan Africans to understand, organize, and transmit indigenous knowledge to successive generations. Language serves as a road map to understanding how social, political, and economic institutions and processes develop: from kinship structures, the evolution of political offices, trade relations, to the transfer of environmental knowledge. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r African Language Tutorials Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of an African language at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number. For instruction in languages that are not listed, please consult the Director of the African Language Program. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.a Amharic Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.b Bamanakan Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Bamanakan at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.c Cape Verdean Creole Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Cape Verdean Creole at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.d Chichewa Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Chichewa at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.e Dinka Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Dinka at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.g Haitian Creole Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Haitian Creole at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.h Hausa Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Hausa at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.i Igbo Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Igbo at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.j Kinyarwanda Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Kinyarwanda at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.k Luganda Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Luganda at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.m Somali Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Somali at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.o Wolof Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Wolof at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.p Xhosa Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Xhosa at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.q Zulu Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Zulu at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.s Krio Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Krio at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.t Shona Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Shona at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.u Sudanese Arabic Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Sudanese Arabic at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.v Pulaar Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Pulaar at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of the Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.w Ibibio Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Ibibio at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.x Setswana Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Setswana at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 90 r.y Kikongo Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Kikongo at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult the Director of Language Programs for more information. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students wishing to enroll must petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project. Y Tommie Shelby Tommie Shelby spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 97 Sophomore Tutorial: The African City Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This seminar investigates critical issues in Africa's rich urban centers. Architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and new art markets will be examined. For 2011-12, please register for AAAS 174, which will satisfy the sophomore tutorial requirement. N Suzanne Blier fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 98 a Junior Tutorial - African Studies Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students wishing to enroll must petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project. Completion of African and African American Studies 11, or a substitute course approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Tommie Shelby Tommie Shelby fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 98 Junior Tutorial - African American Studies Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students wishing to enroll must petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project. Completion of African and African American Studies 10, or a substitute course approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Tommie Shelby Tommie Shelby full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 99 Senior Thesis Workshop Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Thesis supervision under the direction of a member of the Department. Enrollment limited to honors candidates. Y Tommie Shelby Tommie Shelby spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 102 The Hip Hop Generation and Post-Civil Rights Black Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The representatives of this new day (sporting baggy clothes and spitting rap lyrics) seem to contrast with the public image of Civil Rights icons like Martin Luther King, Jr. (the clean cut, orator). But despite surface dissimilarities these figures bear an eerie resemblance. Both the emcee and the orator assume that black male leadership is a reliable index for the fate of the black community. This course mixes a diverse set of readings with music and film to interrogate the specific generational tensions that structure popular and intellectual discourses concerning the "hip-hop generation" and the perceived demise of contemporary black politics. N Laurence A Ralph fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 103 From Plantations to Prisons: An Overview of the U.S. Punishment System Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 W., 10-1 Kaia Stern This course serves as an introduction to the current crisis of mass incarceration. Specifically, it focuses on the religio-historical roots of the U.S. penal industry, the unprecedented prison population explosion (in terms of race, gender and class), and the relevance of major social problems in American cities to democracy, community and family. A visit to at least one Massachusetts state jail/prison will be incorporated into the curriculum. N Kaia Stern fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 104 x Gender and Sexuality in Black Atlantic Religions Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students will be introduced to the complexities of Black Atlantic religious practices and experiences through a critical engagement with questions of gender and sexuality. We will examine the production of masculinities, femininities, moral and ethical selves, queer and transgendered bodies, and racialized subjects within differently situated religious and spiritual practices. The course will primarily focus on Haitian Vodun, Brazilian Candomble, Cuban Santeria and Palo Mayombe, as well as others. Offered jointly with Divinity School as HDS 2738. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 104 y Transnational Feminisms Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Typically understood as an unbound field, transnational feminisms comes together as a paradigm that calls attention to the intersections of globalizations, race, sexuality, diasporas and nationalisms from a transnational perspective. Mostly from third world and women of color feminists, we will examine this unwieldy designation in relation to methodologies, analytics, contentions and silences. Where and when does the emergence of this term come to be? How does it differ from other feminist and internationalist/globalization perspectives? What role (if any) does religion or spirituality play in the differing theoretical frameworks? Offered jointly with Divinity School as HDS 2749. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 104 z Voodooizations and the Politics of Representation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will examine the process by which representations of Black spiritualities in film and media have constructed a genre of "voodoo" as well as "voodooizations" of different religious and spiritual beliefs. This class will not be about vodou or vodun the spiritual/religious belief system. Instead, we will address differing politics of representation, we will engage in theories of reception and commodification, cultural studies, performance theory, postcolonial theories, critical feminist and queer media studies. Offered jointly with Divinity School as 2735. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 104 Witchcraft, Rituals and Colonialism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore the coming together of ideas on witchcraft and rituality as discourses and practices of power, gender, race, and sexuality in colonial and imperial moments. We will examine history, literature, films, and social theory dealing with different forms of self-identified and interpellated forms of "witchcraft" such as questions of sorcery, brujeria, shamanism, voodoo/hoodoo, and santeria/palo - all as complex and multivalent sites of productive power. We will look at how discourses and experiences marked and claimed "witchcraft" intersect with ideas and practices of rituals in the everyday lives and perceptions of colonial, postcolonial, national, and transnational subjects in different locations. Students will take into consideration these questions in relation to broader topics such as colonialism/postcolonialism, imperialisms, and transnationalisms, as well as within critiques of modernisms versus traditionalisms. This course will specifically focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and African diasporic contexts. Offered jointly with Divinity School as 2736. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 109 Using Film for Social Change Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course New technology and democratized access to digital media powerfully impact strategies aiming to heighten global awareness of local issues and are integral to efforts seeking to inspire empathy, political engagement, social activism, and charitable giving. With a focus on race, gender, and identity, this course will explore the portrayal of the human condition across cultures in feature films, documentaries, and photography. Students will have the opportunity to create their own multimedia projects. N Joanna Lipper spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 111 Spectral Fictions, Savage Phantasms: Race and Gender in Anti-Racist South African and African American Drama, Fiction and Film Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Th., 1-3 Biodun Jeyifo Why have social orders like Apartheid South Africa and White Supremacy in segregated America that are based on extreme racial, gender and national oppression always generated often violent, hallucinatory fictions of the racial and gender identities of the oppressed? And why have the oppressed in turn often internalized these sorts of fictions and also produced counter-fictions that more or less conform to the same violent, phantasmic logic? In this course, we will explore how these fictions and counter-fictions are reproduced and challenged in some of the most powerful, canonical works of drama, fiction and cinema by South African and African American authors and filmmakers. As the Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe once famously remarked: "where one thing stands, another thing will stand beside it." To this end, we will pay special attention in the course to how, both in form and in content, race and gender always seem, constitutively, to intersect in these fictions and counter-fictions. The course is thus a study in the dark, violent but generative cultural unconscious of modern racialized and gendered identities. N Biodun Jeyifo fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 115 HBO's The Wire and its Contribution to Understanding Urban Inequality Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 Although journalists and media critics around the world have heaped deserved acclaim on The Wire, many people do not recognize its contribution to social science. Students in this seminar will watch, critique, and discuss selected episodes of The Wire along with assigned readings on urban inequality that relate to these episodes. The assigned readings will feature academic books and research articles that describe and analyze life and experiences in inner city neighborhoods, as well as the social, economic, political, and cultural factors that shape or influence these experiences. N William Julius Wilson fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 117 x Of Mean Streets and Jungle Fevers: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Against the background of radical theories of racial formation and identity politics in America, this course will comparatively explore controversial images of African Americans and Italian Americans in selected films of two of the most important contemporary American filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. On their road to becoming iconic figures in America's contemporary cinematic and artistic avant-garde, Scorsese and Lee radically transformed received or conventional perceptions of Italian Americans and African Americans in mainstream American film. In this course, we will explore both similar and contrastive styles and approaches by the two filmmakers. Special attention will be paid to popular and scholarly discourses that the selected films of Scorsese and Lee have generated. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Biodun Jeyifo spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 118 The History of African Americans From the Slave Trade to the Great Migration Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Topics include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of freedom; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the Civil War; Reconstruction; African Americans in the Jim Crow South; and the Great Migration. Thematically, we explore the meaning of freedom, the dynamic between black struggle and white resistance, and the ways in which factors like gender and geography complicated any notions of a single black experience. N Kellie C Jackson fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 121 Please, Wake Up! - Race, Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the Early Films of Spike Lee Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore how the intersection of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in the early cinema of Spike Lee works to give his social vision and artistic temper the qualities now commonly associated with his cinematic style. Race seems to be the central pivot of social identity in Lee's films, but in this course we will explore his remarkable attentiveness to other indices of identity and subjectivity. We will pay special attention to the tension between Lee's passionate oppositional politics and his intensely personal, experimental, and playful approach to film and its expressive idioms, techniques, and styles. Films to be studied include "She's Gotta Have It," "School Daze," "Do the Right Thing," "Mo Better Blues," and "Jungle Fever". This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Biodun Jeyifo spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 128 Black Nationalism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Critically examines the family of African American social philosophies generally classified under the broad rubric "black nationalism." Topics to be explored include the meaning of black collective self-determination; the relationship between black identity and black solidarity; and the significance of Africa for black nationalist ideals. Authors to be discussed include Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, and some contemporary representatives of the tradition. N Tommie Shelby fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 130 W. E. B. Du Bois: Social and Political Writings Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the writings of Du Bois, with a focus on his social theory and political philosophy. In addition to various journal articles and editorials from The Crisis, texts to be examined include The Philadelphia Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater, Black Reconstruction in America, and Dusk of Dawn. N Tommie Shelby fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 131 African American Literature from the Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Sejour, Lydia Maria Child, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) "Post-bellum, pre-Harlem": Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. We examine diverse genres-from slave narratives, novels, and poems to plays, speeches, and song lyrics and end with Jean Toomer's Cane. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Werner Sollors fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 133 Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates the development of Wright's sociological and Hurston's anthropological imagination, with special emphasis on gender, politics, and literary form. Readings include most published and some unpublished writings (fiction and non-fiction), against the background of selected criticism. N Werner Sollors Glenda Carpio spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 136 Black Religion and Economic Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., 2-4 Marla F. Frederick Since Emancipation African American religious leaders and their congregants have employed religion not only as a means of achieving social and political mobility, but also as a means of securing economic growth and independence in light of the conditions created under American capitalism. These approaches have varied from the pragmatic strategies of Booker T. Washington, the socialist leanings of Rev. George Washington Woodbey, the "poor people's campaign" of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the increasingly popular prosperity ministries of today's neo-Pentecostal and Word of Faith communities. Such changes in strategies often coincide with changes in America's political economy over the past century. This course attempts to interrogate the development of these various strands of economic thought using texts by scholars like Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), E. Franklin Frazier (The Black Bourgeoisie), and David Harvey (An Introduction to Neoliberalism) as anchoring texts to frame the social, economic and political contexts in which these strategies emerge. Other texts, including autobiographies, ethnographies, and histories offer details of how these religious understandings are framed and practiced. N Marla Frederick fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 137 Literature and Its Cultural `Others' - America, Africa and the Caribbean, 1950s-80s Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In the historic contexts of the civil rights struggles in the United States and the decolonizing liberation struggles in Africa and the Caribbean, this course explores how utopian or emancipatory aspirations in diverse media like literature, popular music, oratory, non-scripted street or community theatre, and popular visual media like poster art, murals, and graffiti impact people of different social classes and backgrounds. N Biodun Jeyifo fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 138 The Child Left Behind: Language, Race, and Education Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The goal of this course is to explore the wide range of issues affecting educational policy and classroom practice in multicultural settings. This course explores linguistic diversity among children and young adults in school and social and cultural settings. In particular it reviews and analyzes African American English in educational settings. It examines several theories and texts about language, race, education, and youth culture. It explores youth language in public and urban settings, and educational and literacy issues and controversies. Lectures and assignments will focus on African American English, creole languages, bilingualism, and youth culture. This course is ideal for those who want to teach in urban areas and those interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse. General topics include language and culture, linguistics, soiciolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, discourse, and interaction. N Marcyliena Morgan spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 139 x Power, Struggle, and Abolition in the Atlantic World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course History is often interpreted as the struggle for power. This course examines how resistance plays a central role in the formation of individual and collective identities among black historical actors in the Atlantic world. The course focuses on the power struggles and efforts by black people to affect social and political change particularly during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In this class students will cover the significance of major slave rebellions, revolutions, and abolitionist movements within the Atlantic World. Among the questions we consider are: How do powerless people acquire and exercise power? What are the obstacles they must overcome? How do black people living in the Atlantic world perceive, predict, and procure power? How do they define their own empowerment? The course will offer insights on the complexity of the region's peoples, and will contribute to students' critical thinking. In papers, students will discuss interpretive questions that focus specifically on the representations, historiographical debates, and the theory of Atlantic world history. N Kellie C Jackson spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 142 Hiphop and Don't Stop: Spirituality and Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., at 11 Marcyliena Morgan Hiphop is a global phenomenon that influences social life far beyond the music and entertainment industries. Yet beyond descriptions and critiques of its mass appeal, few have considered hip-hop's development of standards and evaluations across all artistic areas and culture. Moreover, the consequences of an audience trained in the changing standards of hip-hop and charged with upholding them, has not been thoroughly explored. This course provides a critical examination of hip-hop in the US and its role as a cultural, political and artistic resource for youth. It will explore the artistic, social, cultural, linguistic and political implications of hip-hop. It is taught from the perspective of cultural and linguistic anthropology and media studies. Each year the course will include a special topic with guest lecturers. Topics include: gender and sexuality, spirituality, health, psychology, philosophy, education, politics, art, nationalism, etc. N Marcyliena Morgan fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 143 Representing Blackness: Media, Technology and Power Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the concept of race and ethnicity through the analysis of media systems and institutions, communication frames and symbolic representations and social constructions. N Marcyliena Morgan fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 144 Urban Speech Communities Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces students to basic concepts of speech communities and qualitative methods in the social sciences including ethnographic fieldwork and the analysis of face-to-face communication. It focuses on the details of everyday activities across communities of African descent and other communities and interactive environments. It is meant to provide a bridge between communications, the social sciences, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology through the introduction of concepts and analytical techniques that privilege observation, participation, video recording, and transcription of spontaneous interaction (as opposed to experimental tasks or introspection). Topics include language socialization, education, literacy, music and the visual arts, the power of language, miscommunication, and universal and culture-specific properties of human communication. N Marcyliena Morgan spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 147 Racial Identity, Politics, and Public Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines how race and perceived racial difference affect political discourse, mobilization, representation, and political outcomes. We will examine the fate of policies such as affirmative action and welfare reform, and the prospects for multiracial coalition politics. We will also consider the role of elected representatives, the media, and the traditional racial divide in affecting political outcomes of importance to African Americans and to other communities of color. N Lawrence Bobo fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 154 Language and Discourse: Race, Class and Gender Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Our purpose is to study, analyze, and critique theories concerning the discursive construction of identity(s) and forms of representation of cultures. We explore the relationship between power and powerful speech through reviews and critiques of theories of language, culture, and identity as they relate to ethnicity, race, and social class. Our focus is on language, ideology, and analysis of discourse styles used in the construction of regional, national, and global communities. N Marcyliena Morgan spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 160 Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a historical survey of the centuries-old Christian traditions in Africa. It begins with an outline of the trajectory of Christianity's origins and presence in Africa from its beginning in ancient Mediterranean lands through the early period of European missionaries to the contemporary period. The course provides the ethnography of the old mission churches, indigenous independent African churches, and contemporary evangelical and Pentecostal Charismatic movements. The course explores the role of Christianity in relation to historical, cultural, social, and material realities of the African continent. It examines a broad range of topical issues related to conversion, missionization, and the development and growth of Christian agencies in Africa in relation to the construction of social, theological, and religious identities, as well as Christianity's response to cultural pluralism, nationhood, citizenship, and civil society. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2337. N Jacob Olupona spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 161 Religion, Diaspora, and Migration: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar explores critical and interdisciplinary approaches to the place of religion and the emergence of the new immigrant and diaspora communities in the modern world, and the discourses emerging from the practice of diaspora and migration scholarship. Using historical, ethnographic, and textual sources, the course will illuminate the lived religious experiences of immigrant and diaspora communities in the United States and elsewhere. It introduces critical perspectives on forms of interaction between religion and other aspects of social identity - ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, age, and sexuality, as well as transnational and global influences on social and cultural identity. The course also examines the complex networks of economic, cultural, and technological innovations that the "new" diaspora and immigrant communities have developed to make sense of their spiritual and cultural lives in new situations. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3702. N Jacob Olupona spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 162 Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar explores historical, theoretical, methodological, and conceptual issues central to the study of indigenous religions of the world. It examines the critique of indigeneity and explores emerging topics about the role that religion plays in indigenous peoples' lives, communities, and societies. Special topics will explore issues related to land, environment, conversion, health, the state, gender, aggression, violence, justice, and human rights. The seminar examines the interface of indigenous religions and modernity, colonial and postcolonial conditions, and local and global forces that shape the practices of indigenous traditions in various regions of the world. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3703. N Jacob Olupona fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 165 Black Urban Ethnography Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines anthropological theory, research, and practice that relates to constructions of blackness as well as African-diasporic identities. African-diasporic contributions to anthropology as well as anthropological research and theory concerning Africana identities will be explored. N Marcyliena Morgan fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 170 The African Past: Art and History to 1800 Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course takes up key issues in the history of ancient Africa as framed principally around divergent forms of visual culture. In addition to exploring core writings and theoretical issues, students also will explore underlying interrelationships between localities, regions, and more broadly continental forms and events as seen through the interplay of geography, socio-economics, and cultural dynamics. N Suzanne Blier spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 172 Protest, Rebellion and Power in East African History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Th., 1-3 Caroline M. Elkins Examines African responses to the imposition of colonial rule and to the impact of the post-colonial period in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Themes include initial African resistance to colonial rule, organized protests and violent rebellion against colonial institutions, and post-colonial struggles for power in the region. Case studies include popular rebellion in Zanzibar, the Mau Mau Emergency, the regime of Idi Amin, and the Rwandan genocide. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or for Historical Study B but not both. N Caroline Elkins spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 174 The African City Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar investigates critical issues in Africa's rich urban centers. Architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and new art markets will be examined. N Suzanne Blier fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 178 Health, Society, and Subjectivity in the American Context Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course While diseases are often imagined to be scientific, medical conditions, they are also social constructs. In the nineteenth century, for example, the condition of Dysaesthesia Aethiopis (an ailment that made its sufferers "mischievous") was considered nearly universal among free blacks. Today, diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis are often associated with personal attributes, while the social forces at work to structure risk for acquiring these illnesses are glossed over. This course examines the ways people reproduce and challenge contemporary visions of society through the lens of social injury, and in the process cultivate subjectivities that are marked by race, gender, class. N Laurence A Ralph spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 179 Jazz, Freedom, and Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the history of jazz improvisation as a musical process, as well as, the cultural, aesthetic, and social debates that shaped the development of the music. On the one hand, jazz fashioned itself as the ultimate modern music with freedom and justice for all, and, on the other, provided an arena in which complex debates about race, cultural ownership, and social disparity repeatedly took place. Understanding of the process of improvisation is paramount, as the freedom of musical expression in jazz is contrasted with the lack of freedom provided by the social and legal contexts in which the music developed. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Ingrid Monson spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 180 x Race, Class and the Making of American Religion Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class explores the ways in which both race and class are implicated in the development and practice of religion in the U.S. Through historical, anthropological and sociological works we explore the theoretical underpinnings of race and class and ponder their influence upon varying expressions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2599. N Marla Frederick fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 182 From R & B to Neo Soul: Black Popular Music and Cultural Transformation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course focuses on the history of African American popular music from Ray Charles to P-Funk to Erykah Badu with particular emphasis on its long-term impact on American culture. The rise of classic R&B, Soul, Motown, Funk, the Philly Sound and Neo-Soul are featured. Key artists include Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Supremes, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Michael Jackson, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Usher, and D'Angelo. The course is especially concerned with tracing the interrelationships among music, politics, spirituality, and race relations during the Civil Rights and Black Power years and their legacy for today. During these years the sound of African America indelibly shaped mainstream American popular culture in far reaching and transformative ways. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course, when take for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Ingrid Monson fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 187 African Religions Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a basic introduction to the history and phenomenology of traditional religions of the African peoples. Using diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, the course will explore various forms of experiences and practices that provide a deep understanding and appreciation of the sacred meaning of African existence: myth, ritual arts, and symbols selected from West, East, Central, and Southern Africa. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3690. N Jacob Olupona spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 191 x African American Lives in the Law Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar focuses on biographical and autobiographical writings in a historical examination of the role of the individual in the American legal process. We will seek to understand how specific African Americans (as lawyers, judges, and litigants) made a difference-how their lives serve as a "mirror to America"-and also to understand the ways personal experience informs individual perspectives on the law and justice. N Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 192 x Religion and Society in Nigeria Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The seminar examines the historical development of religion in Nigeria and explores its intersection with ethnic identity, culture, and society in pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary periods. The course provides an understanding of various cultural tradition, historical events, and social forces that have shaped Nigeria's religious express. Many topical issues will be explored such as indigenous religious culture, Christian and Muslim identities, civil religion, and civil society and democratization, as well as religion and politics in present-day Nigeria. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3704. N Jacob Olupona spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 197 Poverty, Race, and Health Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course critically examines the health status of the poor, and of African Americans and other socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups in the US. Attention will be focused on the patterned ways in which the health of these groups is embedded in the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts, and arrangements of US society. Topics covered include the meaning and measurement of race, the ways in which racism affects health, the historic uses of minorities in medical research, how acculturation and migration affects health, and an examination of the specific health problems that disproportionately affect nondominant racial groups. N David Williams fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 214 Ethnography of the African Diaspora: Race, Gender and Power Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate seminar examines how ethnographic accounts have conceptualized the African diaspora. By taking a non-regional approach we will explore intersecting topics of religion, race, sexuality, and transnationalism-as methodological lenses into the practice of ethnography. Specifically we will ask how one practices ethnography of African diaspora-a complex and constantly shifting category. What are the benefits and problems in conceptualizing diaspora through different ideas of Africanness? What relationships of power and discourses are involved and how do these play out within different connectivities? Through an in-depth focus on crucial aspects of revisionist and critical anthropology we will examine cross-conversations between scholars within the field. We will read revisionist approaches, exploring the methodological and theoretical concerns of conducting research on multiple diverging and intersecting African diasporas. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2726. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 218 Topics in African American History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 2-4 Instructor to be determined. This graduate readings seminar surveys African American history from the slave trade through the early twentieth century. We will examine the experiences of African Americans alongside the history of race relations in a larger American context. Topics include slavery, abolition, and the transition to freedom; regional and cultural differences among African Americans; black politics; and issues of gender and class in black communities. We will also discuss the nature of historical inquiry and differing modes of historical interpretation. N fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 231 Topics in African American Literature and Arts Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Classic studies and new research challenges. Topics include race and ethnicity, the memory of slavery, the Harlem Renaissance in its international contexts, the culture of racial segregation, European totalitarianism and American desegregation, stereotypes and black humor, archival research, and new directions in scholarship. Graduate students are expected to produce a research paper of publishable quality in this course. N fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 241 Topics in African American Social Science: The Psychology of Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course provides an in-depth and comprehensive exposure to the theoretical and methodological issues within the social psychology of racism and prejudice research. Approaches will include sociology, political science, and anthropology. N fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 301 Graduate Proseminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Students are introduced to major themes, classic texts, and representative current work in the broad interdisciplinary field of African and African American Studies, with a focus on the Humanities (Literature, Art, Music, and Religion). Required for all graduates in African and African American Studies in their first year. Y Jacob Olupona spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 302 Graduate Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Students are introduced to major themes, debates and texts in the broad interdisciplinary field of African and African American Studies. African and African American Studies 302, in the spring term, focuses on the social sciences. Required for all graduates in African and African American Studies in their first year. Ordinarily, only graduate students affiliated with the program will be permitted to attend. Y James Sidanius fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 310 Individual Reading Tutorial Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Allows students to work with an individual member of the faculty in a weekly tutorial. Students may not register for this course until their adviser and the faculty member with whom they plan to work have approved a program of study. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 390 Individual Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Requires students to identify and carry out a research project under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Graduate students may use this course to begin work on the research paper required for admission to candidacy. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 391 Directed Writing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Requires students to identify a major essay and carry it out under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Graduate students may use this course to begin to work on the research paper that is a requirement of admission to candidacy. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies African and African American Studies 398 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Permission of the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies is required for enrollment. Y full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Gikuyu A Elementary Gikuyu Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Gikuyu is a Bantu language spoken by Kenya's most populous ethnic group. The Gikuyu are among Africa's most recognized peoples because of the Mau Mau freedom fighters who were mainly Gikuyu. The course is designed primarily for students who have no prior knowledge of Gikuyu; however, students with minimal knowledge of the language may also register for the course. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Gikuyu B Intermediate Gikuyu Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Continuation of Gikuyu A. Gikuyu is a Bantu language spoken by Kenya's most populous ethnic group. The Gikuyu are among Africa's most recognized peoples because of the Mau Mau freedom fighters who were mainly Gikuyu. Gikuyu A or the equivalent of one year's study in Gikuyu. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Gikuyu 101 ar Reading in Gikuyu Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Gikuyu. Gikuyu B or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Gikuyu 101 br Reading in Gikuyu II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Gikuyu II. Gikuyu 101ar or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Swahili A Elementary Swahili Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course A study of the lingua franca of East Africa at the elementary level. Contact hours supplemented by language lab sessions. Emphasis on written expression, reading comprehension, and oral fluency. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Swahili B Intermediate Swahili Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Continuation of Swahili A. A study of the lingua franca of East Africa at the elementary level. Contact hours supplemented by language lab sessions. Emphasis on written expression, reading comprehension, and oral fluency. Swahili A or the equivalent of one year's study of Swahili. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Swahili 101 ar Reading in Swahili Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Swahili. Swahili B or equivalent. N John M Mugane spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Swahili 101 br Reading in Swahili II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Swahili II. Swahili 101ar or equivalent. N John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Twi A Elementary Twi Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Twi is one of the regional languages of the Akan speaking peoples of Ghana, constituting the largest ethnic group in Ghana. Twi is fast becoming the lingua franca of the country. This course aims to help students acquire the Twi language at the basic or elementary level. The course is designed primarily for students who have no prior knowledge of Twi; however, students with minimal knowledge of the language may also register for the course. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Twi B Intermediate Twi Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Continuation of Twi A. Twi is one of the regional languages of the Akan speaking peoples of Ghana constituting the largest ethnic group in Ghana. Twi is fast becoming the lingua franca of the country. The Akan people are well known for their art and culture, especially the traditional colorful Kente cloth. Twi A or the equivalent of one year's study of Twi. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Twi 101 ar Reading in Twi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Twi. Twi B or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Twi 101 br Reading in Twi II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Twi II. Twi 101ar or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Yoruba A Elementary Yoruba Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Yoruba is spoken in the West African countries of Nigeria, Benin Republic, and parts of Togo and Sierra Leone, therefore constituting one of the largest single languages in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba is also spoken in Cuba and Brazil. Students will acquire the Yoruba language at the basic or elementary level. Primarily designed for students who have no prior knowledge of Yoruba. However, students with minimal knowledge of the language may also register for the course. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane full year Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Yoruba B Intermediate Yoruba Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Continuation of Yoruba A. Yoruba is spoken in the West African countries of Nigeria, Benin Republic, and parts of Togo and Sierra Leone, therefore constituting one of the largest single languages in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba is also spoken in Cuba and Brazil. Students will acquire the Yoruba language at the basic or elementary level. Yoruba A or the equivalent of one year's study of Yoruba. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Yoruba 101 ar Reading in Yoruba Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Yoruba. Yoruba B or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of African and African American Studies African and African American Studies Yoruba 101 br Reading in Yoruba II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in Yoruba II. Yoruba 101a or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N John M Mugane John M Mugane fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 91 xr Supervised Reading and Research in Archaeology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Special study of selected topics in archaeology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the department. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/fail. To enroll, a student must submit a petition form (available from the Anthropology Undergraduate Office or downloadable from the department's Anthropology/Archaeology website), signed by the adviser under whom he or she wishes to study, and a proposed plan of study. Y Richard H. Meadow Richard H. Meadow fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 91 zr Supervised Reading and Research and Research in Social Anthropology Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Special study of selected topics in Anthropology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the Department. May be taken for a letter grade or Pass/Fail. To enroll, a student must submit to the Anthropology Undergraduate Office, William James 352, a course form signed by the adviser under whom s/he wishes to study and a proposed plan of study. Anthro 91zr form available from the Undergrad Office, or the department website. N Steven Caton Steven Caton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 92 xr Archaeological Research Methods in Museum Collections Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum collections directly supervised by a faculty member and a member of the curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a museum collection and developed in consultation with the supervisors. Must be taken for a letter grade. Priority given to students in Anthropology and related departments. To enroll, submit a petition form (available on the Anthropology [Archaeology] website), signed by both supervisors and the Head Tutor for Archaeology and including a proposed research agenda, during the term preceding the term of enrollment. See the Head Tutor for Archaeology or members of the Peabody Museum curatorial staff for more information. Y Richard H. Meadow Richard H. Meadow fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 92 zr Social Anthropology Research Methods in Museum Collections Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Special (individual) study of Peabody Museum collections directly supervised by a faculty member and a member of the curatorial staff. Requires a project involving a Harvard Museum collection, developed in consultation with the supervisors. Must be taken for a letter grade. Priority given to students in Anthropology and related departments. To enroll, submit a petition form (available from the Undergraduate Office, William James 352), signed by both supervisors, a proposed research agenda, during the term preceding the term of enrollment. Information sheets with Museum contacts available in William James 352. N Steven Caton Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 97 x Sophomore Tutorial in Archaeology Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will focus on archaeological thinking, the cognitive skeleton of the discipline of archaeology, the principles and the logic that are the foundation of all archaeological conclusions and research. Central to this is an understanding of research design, archaeological theory and interpretation, culture and material culture; as well as an understanding of how to examine and construct an archaeological argument. Required of all concentrators in Archaeology. Y Gary Urton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 97 z Sophomore Tutorial in Social Anthropology Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., 1-2:30 Michael Herzfeld The sophomore tutorial provides an in-depth exploration and critique of major theoretical approaches in social and cultural anthropology, the historical context of their emergence, and their contribution and relation to the discipline as a whole. Seminar members will have a chance to read and discuss selected works by key theorists, and to see how their ideas have shaped ethnographic description and analysis. Required of all concentrators. N Michael Herzfeld fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 98 xa Junior Tutorial in Archaeology Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The junior tutorial provides a background in archaeological method and theory through critical analysis of selected issues and debates particularly focusing on more complex societies. Specific topics include the origins of agriculture and the domestication of animals, the development of complexity and "civilization," post-colonial and historical archaeology, and related ethical and theoretical issues. Weekly readings (drawn from current journal literature), discussions, and several short writing assignments. Required of all concentrators in Archaeology. Y Richard H. Meadow spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 98 xb Junior Tutorial in Archaeology Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Hours to be arranged Richard H. Meadow This individual tutorial for archaeology students intending to write a senior thesis is normally undertaken with a member of the faculty during the second term of junior year. To enroll, a student must submit a petition form (available from the Anthropology Undergraduate Office, or downloadable from the department's Anthropology/Archaeology website) with a proposed course plan of study and the tutorial adviser's signature. Required of candidates for honors in Archaeology. Y Richard H. Meadow fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 98 z Junior Tutorial in Social Anthropology Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Junior tutorials in Social Anthropology explore critical theoretical issues related to a single ethnographic region (eg. South Asia, Africa, Latin America). The issues and areas change from year to year, but the purpose remains the same: to give students a chance to grapple with advanced readings and to experience the ways that ideas and theories can be applied and critically analyzed in ethnographic studies. N Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 98 zb Junior Tutorial for thesis writers in Social Anthropology Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This individual tutorial is for social anthropology students intending to write a senior thesis, and is normally undertaken with an advanced graduate student during the second term of junior year. Students will have weekly meetings with the project advisor for the purposes of developing the appropriate background research on theoretical, thematic, regional, and methodological literature relevant to their thesis topic, and fully refining their summer research proposal. The tutorial's final paper will be comprised of a research proposal representing the research undertaken during the semester. Strongly recommended for any social anthropology junior intending to write a senior thesis. Taken in addition to the required fall term group junior tutorial, Anthropology 98za (formerly 98z). N Steven Caton full year Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 99 x Thesis Tutorial in Archaeology - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing of the Senior Thesis. Limited to honors candidates. Signature of the faculty adviser required. Y Richard H. Meadow Richard H. Meadow full year Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 99 z Thesis Tutorial in Social Anthropology - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing of the Senior Thesis. Limited to honors candidates. N Steven Caton Steven Caton fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1010 The Fundamentals of Archaeological Methods & Reasoning Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 150 A comprehensive introduction to the practice of archaeology and major themes from our human past: how do archaeologists know where to dig? How do we analyze and understand what we find? What do we know about the origins of the human species, agriculture, cities, and civilization? The course integrates methods and theory, and utilizes Peabody Museum collections, to show how we reconstruct ancient diet, trade, and political systems. We also explore the role of archaeology in colonialism, modern politics, and film. One 2 hour section per week. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Rowan K. Flad Matthew Joseph Liebmann spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1025 r Museum Anthropology, Thinking with Objects: Kayaks: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 By considering early Peabody Museum kayak collections from Alaska, students will explore the history of anthropology and museum collecting, representation of indigenous people in museum display, and modern stewardship of museum collections. Students will take part in a conservation and exhibition consultation project between the Peabody Museum and Alaska Native consultants. Students will utilize knowledge gained from the consultations, readings, and demonstrations to contribute to the modern conservation and exhibition of kayaks and related collections. N Patricia Capone spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1040 Origins of the Food We Eat Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on arguably the most significant transition in the human past, namely, that from hunting-gathering to agriculture and pastoralism. Covers the emergence of cultivation, adoption of plant foods, and domestication of animals in key regions of Asia and Latin America. Considers the spread of foods across the world during pre- and early history and beginning ca 1500 AD. Discusses the contributions of archaeology, climatology, botany, zoology, genetics, and linguistics to these topics. Given in alternate years. N Ofer Bar-Yosef Richard H. Meadow spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1060 Archaeological Science Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., 7-10 pm Richard H. Meadow Focus on physical science and engineering methods and techniques used by archaeologists in the reconstruction of time, space, and human paleoecology, and analysis of archaeological materials. Topics include 14C dating, ice core and palynological analysis, stable isotope chemistry of paleodietary foodwebs, soil micromorphology and site formation, Pb isotope sourcing of metal artifacts, and microstructural and mechanical analyses of cementitious materials used in ancient monumental buildings. One year of college-level chemistry or physics. Meets at MIT. N Richard H. Meadow fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1065 The Ancient Near East Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From the earliest urban and literate civilizations to the formation of empire we shall review the political, economic, and religious beliefs of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians. These early civilizations will then be discussed in the context of the first internationalism that brought them into contact with their near and distant neighbors from eastern Europe to Central Asia, Africa, and South Asia. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1080 North American Archaeology: Lost Tribes and Ancient Capitals of North America Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Archaeology and culture history of Native North America, from the first appearance of humans over 12,000 years ago to the arrival of Europeans. Topics include intellectual and scientific contexts of the discipline's development; theories and debates over the arrival of modern humans in the New World; adaptations to changing Holocene environmental conditions; trends in cultural evolution on a continental scale; the development of agriculture and emergence of complexity; dynamic contact period interactions; and current political debates and ethical issues relating to the archaeology of North America. N Matthew Joseph Liebmann fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1085 Six Great Discoveries in New World Archaeology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The class will use six important archaeological sites as case studies by which to understand prehistory in the Ancient Americas and to learn of changing approaches to studying the past. From three major culture regions, two sites important for specialists and a wider audience will be examined in depth. They are North America: Cahokia and Chaco Canyon; Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan and Copan; and Central Andes: Moche Huacas and Cuzco-Machu Picchu. Class designed primarily for undergraduates with no previous experience in archaeology but it may also be taken by graduate students. N Jeffrey Quilter fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1086 Alternative Archaeology: Archaeological Hoaxes, Frauds and Mysteries Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will investigate cases of pseudoarchaeology. Pseudoarchaeology is characterized by non-scientific analysis that can result in both intentional and unintentional misrepresentations of the past. This course critically examines a number of archaeological frauds, myths, and mysteries and assesses the flaws in the purported evidence for each claim by applying scientific reasoning. In investigating the evidence, this course will consider whether or not we can we really be certain of what we think we know. N Sarah Louise Ralph fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1090 Ethnography and Archaeology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Archaeologists often draw on ethnographic studies of Western and non-Western societies as sources of explanation for ancient cultural practices. But the questions remain: how valid is the use of ethnographic analogy in the study of the past? What assumptions do archaeologists make about past social processes in their uses of ethnographic studies? These are some of the questions addressed in this course. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Gary Urton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1095 Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the development and structure of the earliest state-level societies in the ancient world. Archaeological approaches are used to analyze the major factors behind the processes of urbanization and state formation in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Central Asia, the Indus Valley, and Mesoamerica. The environmental background as well as the social, political, and economic characteristics of each civilization are compared to understand the varied forces that were involved in the transitions from village to urbanized life. Discussion sections utilize archaeological materials from the Peabody Museum and Semitic Museum collections to study the archaeological methods used in the class. No previous knowledge of archaeology is necessary. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1125 The Moche of Ancient Peru: Politics, Economy, Religion and Art Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will be a focused examination of the ancient Moche (ca. C.E. 100-800) of the north coast of Peru with particular attention paid to the nature of Moche political economy and its religious-ceremonial-artistic manifestations. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts B, but not both. N Jeffrey Quilter fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1130 Archaeology of Harvard Yard Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Archaeological data recovered from Harvard Yard provide a richer and more nuanced view of the 17th through 19th century lives of students and faculty in Harvard Yard, an area that includes the Old College and Harvard Indian College. Students will excavate in Harvard Yard, process and analyze artifacts, and report on the results. Additional topics to be covered include regional historical archaeology, research design, surveying, archival research, stratigraphy, and artifact analysis. N Patricia Capone Christina J. Hodge Diana Loren spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1131 Archaeology of Harvard Yard II: Laboratory Methods and Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Open to students who participated in the fall term investigations in Harvard Yard, this course focuses on the detailed analysis of the materials recovered in the excavations, within the context of archival and comparative archaeological and historical research. The analysis will also include an evaluation of the results of the ground-penetrating radar surveys conducted prior to the excavations, as part of the research design for the next season of investigations of the Indian College site. Anthropology 1130, Archaeology of Harvard Yard. N Diana Loren Christina J. Hodge fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1150 Ancient Landscapes Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Archaeological approaches to settlement and land use at the regional scale. Issues will include settlement systems, agricultural and pastoral systems, the role of humans environmental change, and also the methods used to investigate them. N Jason Alik Ur spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1155 Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The world's first cities emerged in Mesopotamia and were the defining characteristic of ancient civilizations in what is today Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They were inhabited by large populations, powerful kings, and the gods themselves. The course will consider the origins, ecology, spacial arrangement, socioeconomic religious organization, religious institutions, and collapse of cities from Gilgamesh to Saddam. Through archaeology and ancient texts, students will become familiar with cities such as Uruk, Babylon, Nineveh, and Baghdad. N Jason Alik Ur fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1158 Maya Narratives: Gods, Lords, and Courts Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course highlights the continuing investigation of Classic Maya texts and images and how it changes our understanding of the Maya civilization. The Classic Maya of Mexico and Central America are the only Pre-Columbian civilization with a substantial corpus of inscriptions produced well before any contact with the Old World. Maya written and visual narratives reveal details of history and myth, life at the courts of lords and nobles, religion and worldview. Their testimonies are often striking, unique, and hard to understand, but they are not mediated by non-indigenous interpreters and open a window into a world long gone. N Alexandre Andreevich Tokovinine spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1165 Digging the Glyphs: Adventures in Decipherment Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on the method and theory of archaeological decipherment. Major decipherments are studied in-depth (Egyptian hieroglyphs, the cuneiform scripts, Linear B, Maya and Aztec glyphs), as are various undeciphered scripts (Linear A, Isthmian and Rongorongo) and a number of deciphered systems encoding extinct languages (Etruscan, Meroitic and Sumerian). Other topics include the origins, development, and sociopolitical uses of writing in the ancient world. N Alexandre Andreevich Tokovinine fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1166 Amerindian Languages and Literatures Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course surveys the indigenous literatures (both Precolumbian and Colonial) of several New World civilizations (the Aztecs, Inka and Maya) from a comparative anthropological perspective. Included are brief introductions to the languages of these early documents (Nahuatl, Quechua and Mayan), as well as a discussion of their literary conventions, contents, and significance for an understanding of the cultures that produced them. A particular focus will be on the diachronic changes in these literatures since Precolumbian times, indicative of the complex and contested landscape of Spanish Colonization. N Alexandre Andreevich Tokovinine fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1168 Introduction to Classic Maya Writing and Art Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course offers an introduction to the written and visual tradition of the Late Classic Maya of Mexico and Central America (A.D. 600-900). The main goal is to master the basics of Classic Maya hieroglyphs and iconography, explore the connections between the written and visual languages, and to review several key topics in the study of Maya inscriptions and art. The course combines theoretical discussions with "hands on" training in epigraphy and iconography. N Alexandre Andreevich Tokovinine fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1175 The Archaeology of Ethnicity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Ethnic identity and conflict are among the most powerful processes and relations shaping the world we live in today. Questions addressed include: What can we understand about ethnic identity and relations in the prehistoric world on the basis of the archaeological record? For example, how might differences in material culture represent and reflect markers of ethnic identity? The Peabody Museum collections will provide materials for study and analysis. N Gary Urton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1190 Encountering the Conquistadors Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the effects of the Spanish Conquest on indigenous peoples of the Americas between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, providing an introduction to the archaeology of first encounters in the Caribbean, Southeast and Southwest US, Central Mexico, highland and lowland Mesoamerica, the Amazon basin, and in the Andes. Topics addressed include the roles of disease, indigenous politics, native rebellions, and ecological change in the colonization of the 'New' World. N Matthew Joseph Liebmann spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1202 Forensic Archaeology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore the developing role of the archaeologist and anthropologist in forensic investigations (both ancient and modern). It will follow the process undertaken by forensic specialists during their investigation and look at their role in a number of contexts ranging from missing persons to crimes against humanity. It will consider the ethical responsibilities of the archaeologist/anthropologist and the presentation of their findings. N Sarah Louise Ralph spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1205 The Archaeology of Violence and Conflict Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course examines evidence of violence and conflict from prehistory through to present-day. Course analyses a range of material (e.g. osteological, artifactual, and iconographic data) in order to understand role of violence and conflict in social and political change. N Sarah Louise Ralph spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1210 The Archaeology of Ancient China Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the archaeology of China from the origins of humans during the Palaeolithic into the Bronze Age (ca. 220 BCE), with an emphasis on the origins of agriculture and the emergence of complex society during the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. We survey important archaeological finds from these periods and examine relevant issues in anthropological archaeology. Sections will involve the discussion and use of materials from the Peabody and Sackler Museums. N Rowan K. Flad spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1245 Introduction to Human Osteology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course will provide an introduction to the study of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. The course will discuss methodologies used and the types of information that can be gleaned from human skeletal remains in order to develop a biological profile of an individual(s). The course emphasizes the importance of professional standards and ethics when studying human remains. At least Anthropology 1010 N Sarah Louise Ralph Michele Morgan spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1250 The Pyramids of Giza: Technology, Archaeology, History: Seminar Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., at 11 Peter Der Manuelian Focuses on the Pyramids, Sphinx, and tombs at Giza (ca. 2500 BC), in the context of ancient Egyptian history, art, and archaeology. The HU-MFA Expedition excavated Giza, resulting in today's Giza Archives Project. Seminar consists of introductory lectures, followed by student presentations. Topics range from challenges of archaeological information processing to issues of ownership and repatriation. Students may also contribute to the Giza Archives Project, at Harvard and/or the MFA. N Peter Der Manuelian spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1600 The Ethnographic Encounter: An Introduction to Social Anthropology Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a critical introduction to the premises, vocabulary, and methods of the anthropological dialogue with people of other cultures. Lectures and discussions revolve around several themes central to the discipline, such as "cultural relativism," "social structure," "interpretation," "gender," "the invention of tradition," and "reflexivity." At the same time, we will seek some fair-minded insights into the collective lives of people who work, play, fight, speak, eat and pray in ways different from our own. In the end, we will see ourselves more clearly and fairly as well. Open to freshmen. This course may fulfill the `Entry Course' requirement for Social Anthropology. N Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1610 Ethnographic Research Methods Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Introduction to methodology for contemporary ethnographic field research in anthropology. Students complete assigned and independent research projects relying on a variety of ethnographic methods, under supervision of department faculty. Open to undergraduates only. Preference given to anthropology concentrators. Y Edward Akintola Hubbard spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1624 The Anthropology of Politics: Power, Domination and the State Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The modern state increasingly governs, regulates and intervenes in what was hitherto considered private domains of life. This course will explore how modern power is produced and exercised. However, from an anthropological perspective it will also examine other non-modern state forms. Themes that will be considered in class include power, domination, resistance, and the shifting relationship between public and private. N Asad A. Ahmed spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1628 Governing India: The Raj Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course is designed to provide a broad overview of colonial ideologies, forms of knowledge and administrative strategies under Company and Crown rule. It understands colonialism as both an epistemological and cultural phenomena that has complex and lasting consequences for the self-understandings and practices of the colonized. Through readings on religion, race and caste amongst others we investigate how the history and ethnography of India was produced. Graduate students allowed with permission of the instructor. N Asad A. Ahmed fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1640 Language and Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces key theoretical issues in the anthropological study of language use, focusing in particular on communication, social(inter)action, representation, and cultural conceptualization. Topics include structuralism, semiotics, poetics, pragmatics and metapragmatics, text and context, paralinguistics, linguistic relativity, sociolinguistics, and language ideology. Authors include Peirce, Saussure, Jakobson, Sapir, Whorf, Bakhtin, Austin, Silverstein, among others. No previous knowledge of linguistics or of anthropology is required. This course may fulfill the `Entry Course' requirement for Social Anthropology. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Nicholas H. Harkness spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1656 Anthropology of Pakistan: Beyond the Headlines : seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Often described as one of the most dangerous places in the world, Pakistan has been characterized by religious militancy, global terror networks, endemic corruption, gender oppression, authoritarianism and extreme social inequality. This course will move beyond journalistic representations and provide an anthropological perspective on both the everyday and the extraordinary. N Asad A. Ahmed fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1665 Humans and Animals: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Seminar on cultural and political ecology, concentrating on the spectrum of relationships between humans and animals, both wild and domesticated, that exist across cultures and throughout history. Attention will be on behavioral, material, affective, symbolic, and ideological aspects of human-animal relationships, as well as both the animalic nature of humanity and humanity's inclination to anthropomorphize animality. We shall consider anthropological, scientific, and literary texts, as well as artistic iconography and works of cinema. Limited to undergraduates. Y Jill Constantino fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1667 Africa, Modernity and Ethnography: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines colonialism and the dialectics of modernity on the African continent. Through classic and contemporary ethnography, we consider accounts of "traditional" African culture, especially the centrality accorded to religion, witchcraft and ritual. Rather than approaching these worlds as without history, we track their complex relations to transnational and trans-local forces to the production of new cultural schemes, forms of politics and identity. In doing so, we also attend to processes of decolonization, recent revolutions and the impact of global neoliberalism in the making of the current world order. N Kerry R. Chance spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1672 Legal Anthropology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to the study of law. This includes a survey of the historical development of the anthropology of law, and current research concerns in the field, including disputes and adjudication; legal institutions and practices; transitional justice; legal pluralism; and law and human rights. Using both classic and contemporary texts we explore the salience of the legal across a range of social and cultural contexts. N Kimberly Theidon spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1682 Gangsters and Troublesome Populations Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The term "gang" has been used to describe all kinds of collectives, from well-dressed mobsters to petty criminals to juvenile delinquents. About the only thing that has remained consistent about gangs is their characterization as the internal Other. This class will investigate how the category of "the gang" serves to provoke discourses of "dangerous" subjects in urban enclaves. More broadly, we will examine the methods and means by which liberal democratic governments maintain their sovereign integrity through the containment of threatening populations. N Laurence A Ralph fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1710 Memory Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An engagement with an interdisciplinary set of readings that analyze the relationship between memory and social reconciliation, and the role that theories of truth, justice, and redress play in this equation. We analyze truth commissions, forms of justice, and debates regarding reparations, and the points of conjuncture and disjuncture between national discourses and subaltern concepts of truth, justice, and reconciliation. Case studies include Rwanda, South Africa, Guatemala, Peru, and El Salvador. N Kimberly Theidon spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1713 Economic Rights and Wrongs Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Amid ongoing financial crisis and recent political uprisings in various parts of the globe, newly assertive groups are articulating demands for "rights" with a material premise, raising questions about democratic governance, its inclusions and exclusions today. This course discusses the "socio-economic" within a human rights paradigm, and, more broadly, through classic and contemporary social theory. We will examine current debates over socio-economic rights from housing to health to environment, and the terrain "social, economic and political" upon which they are articulated. N Kerry R. Chance spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1714 Violence and Democracy: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines political violence under conditions of democratization and economic liberalization. In much of the world, pro-democracy struggles were waged and public culture forged upon the notion that popular sovereignty would diminish, if not cancel, the violent arbitrary functions of the state. While democratic transitions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries have constituted new relations between states and citizens, both locally and globally, prerogative power has not so much been destroyed as redeployed with new mechanisms of force and consent. Through contemporary political theory and ethnography, we examine distinct forms of violence that liberal democracy engenders. N Kerry R. Chance fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1720 Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Focuses on feature-length commercial film (rather than ethnographic or documentary film) and some of the culture industries (Hollywood, Iran, and Egypt) that produce them, paying particular attention to the Middle East. What might an anthropology of film look like? Film theory and cultural studies will be examined for their contributions to the answer to that question. Topics include the culture industry, critical theory, the ethnographic gaze, orientalism, media studies, modernity, nationalism, and transnationalism. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1726 Ethnography of South Korea Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We read full-length ethnographies of contemporary South Korea, supplemented by older ethnographic accounts, to explore major socio-cultural themes in Korean society, such as urbanization, capitalism, kinship, gender, social mobility, and political participation. Our discussions also will focus on developments in anthropological theory, types of anthropological evidence, and ethnographic methods and writing. N Nicholas H. Harkness spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1742 Housing and Heritage: Conflicts over Urban Space Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The celebration of national and local forms of heritage often rides roughshod over the interests of the local citizenry it is intended to serve. In this course we look at how such conflicts play out in several cities - notably Athens, Bangkok, Beijing, Istanbul, Jerusalem and Rome - and address the ethical, practical, and architectural conflicts that arise from an anthropological perspective. N Michael Herzfeld spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1755 Creole Pop Iconographies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Creole is a term loosely applied to social entities (societies, persons, products) that are the result of racial, cultural and linguistic mixing of two or more distinct peoples. This course considers how creolity is mobilized in popular culture. It showcases ten pop icons from the Caribbean and Latin America, and considers how their iconic status is shaped by questions, assertions and debates that have also defined creolization as a concept in anthropology, literary theory and politics. N Edward Akintola Hubbard fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1756 The Horror of Anthropology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this course, we will critically examine the anthropologist and ethnographic research as conventions of the horror film. With the history of anthropology as a backdrop to our ongoing viewings and discussions, we will consider the anthropologist as a liminal figure in popular culture -- a hapless intermediary between science and superstition, between modernity and arcane tradition -- who grapples methodically with both rationalist and non-rationalist epistemes. We will examine cinematic representations of ethnographic fieldwork as a terrifying, ill-advised crossing of socioeconomic, cultural, geopolitical, temporal and sexual boundaries. Films include Ganja and Hess (1973), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Candyman (1992), and The Relic (1997). N Edward Akintola Hubbard fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1758 Globalization and Popular Culture Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the mediascapes of cinema, television, music, art and design, advertising, social networking, blogging, video and audio sharing and considers their global impact on political and consumer consciousness. We survey various theoretical approaches to popular culture, including British culturalism, Frankfurt School marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism and poststructuralism. We also examine how the globalization of media and information technologies - for instance, the fact that people across the world can now ?broadcast themselves? - has radically altered the form, content and flow of pop culture. N Edward Akintola Hubbard spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1760 Nationalism and Bureaucracy: Corruption, Intimacy, and the Nation-State Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Descriptions of the nation-state often ignore how people "muddle through," resist or simply collude with bureaucrats in pursuing ends that conflict with their professed democratic values. We examine these processes in cross-cultural practices, and especially look at how `corruption' often secures citizen loyalty to the state and its officials in areas in which formal allegiance fails to do so. N Michael Herzfeld spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1790 Violence in the Andes: Coca, Conflict, and Control Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this course we address the politics of coca and conflict in the Andean Region. We will trace different historical understandings of coca, ranging from the "miracle drug" to "moral panic". Our readings will allow us as to analyze the complex dynamics of coca production, counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency efforts in the Andes, moving between state and non-state actors as well as domestic and international interests. We will address the rise of indigenous movements within this context, and their potential to redefine political agendas in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. N Kimberly Theidon spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1795 The Politics of Language and Identity in Latin America Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces theory and research in linguistic anthropology in the context of ethnographic research, film and popular music, from cumbia to hip-hop in Latin America. Examines how the multiplicity and contention of language ideologies play out in the everyday practices. What are the social, linguistic and discursive means by which social identity is constructed? How do ways of speaking, such as border talk and code switching, link face to face communities to the national and transnational spheres? Texts include regional ethnographies, music and documentaries from the region as well as the literature in the burgeoning new field of linguistic anthropology. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Catalina Laserna spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1820 Japan in the Ethnographic Gaze: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 We examine ethnographies of Japan from the 1930s to the present to illuminate how Japan, as a cultural and social "whole," has been ethnographically problematized and re-problematized in different eras, from different theoretical interests such as culture-and-personality, modernization, and tradition, structuralist, post-structuralist, and cultural studies. No prerequisites; open to all concentrators, esp. in Anthropology, East Asian Studies, and Music. N Theodore C Bestor fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1828 Medical Ethics in a Global World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This interdisciplinary course explores scholarship in the fields of Anthropology, History, Sociology and Public Health on the blurred line between medical care and research when it comes to Africans, African Americans, and other globally marginalized groups. Students will be encouraged to pursue field research that explores topics of ethics, subjectivity, and claims to citizenship in querying the history of medical inclusion in various global contexts. N Duana Fullwiley spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1836 aar Sensory Ethnography I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course 10 First half of a year-long sequence in which students apply media anthropological theory and conduct ethnography using film, video, sound, and/or still photography. Students must also attend all VES 158ar classes. Emphasis is on pre-production and production in the spring, and on post-production in the fall. Interview with instructor and teaching assistant required for admission. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Verena Paravel fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1845 Mediterranean Becoming: Historical Anthropology of North Africa and Southern Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This interdisciplinary course examines colonial and postcolonial perspectives on North Africa, Southern Europe, and the Mediterranean. The main purpose of this course is to understand these regions against the connections, conflicts, and flows of people, commodities, and ideas around the Mediterranean. Class discussions include: environmental transformations, uses of the past, state formation and social transformations, migration, cosmopolitanism and urban change, and treatments of the recent political revolutions in the region. N Naor Ben-Yehoyada fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1850 Ethnography as Practice and Genre Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For sociocultural anthropologists, ethnography is both a way of studying human communities and a way of writing about them. Ethnographic fieldwork raises issues of participation, power, and perspective; cultural relativism; the nature of evidence; and the ethics of engagement. Writing ethnography highlights other issues, such as the politics of representing "others." This course explores these and related issues through close reading and intensive discussion of selected texts. This course fulfills the undergraduate "Methods" requirement for Social Anthropology. N Mary M. Steedly spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1875 Moving Pictures: An Anthropology of Images Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Most people today live in an environment awash with images in motion. This course explores, from an anthropological point of view, the implications of this media-saturated environment in a range of ethnographic and historical contexts. Issues to be addressed include: technologies and mediation; global and subglobal circuits of transmission; the nature of image-based publics and publicity; media temporalities; visibility, visualization and surveillance. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Mary M. Steedly spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1882 The Woman and the Body Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course probes the culture and politics of the body in America today, stressing America's role as a center of bodily ideals that now dominate global imaginations. Emphasizing the intersections of gender with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality, the course examines the diverse notions of beauty, bodily practices, and body politics embraced by American women (and, to a lesser extent, men) of different classes, ethnicities, and sexualities. It deals with critical issues facing our society in the early 21st century -- the growing prevalence of eating disorders, the normalization of cosmetic surgery, rising levels of childhood and adult obesity using contemporary theory to tease out their complex sources and effects. Lying at the intersection of the anthropology of the body, medical anthropology, and women's/gender studies, the course outlines an important new arena for critical inquiry. Limited to upperclass undergraduates. N Susan Greenhalgh fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1886 Sense and Sensibility: William and Henry James in Anthropological Perspective Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is the centenary year of William James' death (d. 1910), and it is fitting that we should look back on the work of this great Harvard psychologist and philosopher and his many contributions to American thought. A retrospective on some of the ideas and work of his brother, the great novelist Henry James, is included. To capture what William James was after we use the term "sense," in both the empirical and the value-laden meanings for experience. For Henry James, we will speak of "sensibility." We will attempt to understand their varied projects in their own as well as their contemporaries' terms but also offer a modern anthropological interpretation and appreciation of them. Weekly readings will be supplemented with occasional field trips to relevant sites of interest. N Arthur Kleinman Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1912 Political Economy: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this course, we will combine a close reading of foundational texts in social theory by classical economists and their contemporary critics with ethnographies from post-WWII Anthropology. Our aims will be to learn the intellectual and political context in which the bearings of political economy as a mode of inquiry were shaped, to see what major debates in social science reformulated the framework of political economy in recent decades, and to examine in what ways this direction can be applied in current anthropology. N Naor Ben-Yehoyada fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1935 Secularism in Question: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Secularism, once understood as a normative political arrangement that promoted social peace and multiple religiosities, has recently been critiqued for circumscribing or denying people's abilities to live according to their religious understandings. However, such arguments have also stimulated strident responses that re-instantiate secular values and the enlightenment critique of religion as divisive and irrational. This course will examine recent controversies in France, India, the US and Turkey that have put secularism into question. N Asad A. Ahmed spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1948 Historical Anthropology of Israel/Palestine Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This interdisciplinary course examines the historical anthropology of Israel/Palestine and the wider Levant. The main purpose of this course is to understand the country against the connections, conflicts, and flows of people, commodities, and ideas around the Mediterranean. Class discussions include: political and environmental transformations, distant and recent pasts, collective memory, regional conflicts, reproductive practices, demography, migration, urban change, law and legal regimes, and literature. The readings will focus on the interconnectedness of economic, political and cultural phenomena in the country's history. N Naor Ben-Yehoyada spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1986 Art, Anthropology, and Aesthetics Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students pursue creative projects that explore the interstices of anthropology and art in a variety of media and genres. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1995 Food, Culture, and Society Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Food is an entirely mundane but simultaneously elaborate aspect of human life, both pragmatic necessity and symbolic statement. This course examines how cultural systems of meaning and belief interact with social institutions and material reality. Lectures, films, discussions, fieldtrips, and ethnographic research assignments focus on the myriad ways in which food shapes (and reflects) identity (national, ethnic, religious, gendered, class-based), and how in turn how social institutions (from domestic units to the global food system) shape and transform food and its meanings, drawing on examples from many parts of the globe, both historically and contemporaneously. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Theodore C Bestor spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 1996 Angels, Ghosts, and Hustlers: Bangkok Live Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This ethnographic exploration of a huge Asian metropolis emphasizes the changing role of markets and temples; the impact of tourism and new transportation systems; religious doctrine and popular worship; and urban political dynamics. N Michael Herzfeld fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2000 Osteoarchaeology Lab Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Introduction to the osteoarchaeological analysis. Identification of animal bones and teeth from archaeological sites using comparative materials and their characterization employing visual, metric, and microscopic methods. Given in alternate years. Open to qualified undergraduates. Fulfills laboratory course requirement for archaeology graduate students and archaeological science requirement for undergraduate concentrators. Y Richard H. Meadow fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2010 ar Materials in Ancient Societies: Ceramics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar-laboratory subject provides in-depth study of the technologies of ancient societies. Open to senior undergraduates with permission of instructor. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2010 br Materials in Ancient Societies: The Production of Metal Objects Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar-laboratory subject provides in-depth study of the technologies of ancient societies. Given in the CMRAE Lab, MIT 16.536. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2020 GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 8 An introduction to the GIS and remote sensing methods used by archaeologists to document and analyze datasets at the regional scale. This class will involve the hands-on use of maps, aerial photography, satellite imagery, digital terrain models and GPS-based observations to frame and approach archaeological research questions. Labs will use sample datasets from a variety of regions but students will be responsible for assembling a GIS database for their own region of interest. Y Jason Alik Ur fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2055 European Prehistory: From the Neolithic to the Iron Age: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Course examines archaeological evidence dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in northern, central and southern Europe. Themes considered include ritual, monumental and domestic architecture, space and places, burial, and identity. N Sarah Louise Ralph spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2062 Religions of Latin America Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., 2-4 David L. Carrasco Examines the history of religions in Latin America including pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary mythologies, ritual practices and symbols integrating archaeological, artistic, documentary, and ethnographic source materials. Topics to be investigated include cosmology and worldview, ritual violence and sacred landscapes, saints and shamanism, miracles and religious healing, indigenous ancestor worship and African diasporic devotions, goddesses and women's roles, liberation theology and Latino/a religious themes. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3705. N David Carrasco fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2070 a Archaeological Method and Theory: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The class covers archaeological method and theory emphasizing the 1950s onwards. Large-scale trends in social theory will be balanced with attention to the ideas and writings of significant anthropologists and archaeologists. Required of graduate students in the Archaeology Program of Anthropology; this class is designed for graduate students but enthusiastic and energetic undergraduates are most welcome. Y Matthew Joseph Liebmann spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2070 b Case Studies and Research Proposal Preparation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar for graduate students that will focus on grant and paper writing, and will also include selected case studies. Anthropology 2070a is commonly taken before Anthropology 2070b, but is not a prerequisite. Required of students in the Archaeology Program of Anthropology; open to other graduate students and advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. N William Fash spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2085 Archaeology of Ritual and Religion Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate seminar exploring ritual and religious practices in archaeological contexts. Topics to be covered include anthropological perspectives on religion; origins of religion; religion and political economy; burial practices; materiality in/of ritual practice; and revitalization movements. N Rowan K. Flad Matthew Joseph Liebmann spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2090 Economic Archaeology: Culture Contact Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar on economic archaeology focused on culture contact. Topics include trade (particularly trade diasporas), world-systems, ethnicity, shared material culture, and regional religious traditions. N Rowan K. Flad fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2092 Early China: Archaeology and Texts Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A comprehensive introduction to Bronze Age China focusing on both archaeological discoveries from the second and first millennia and textual material including oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, excavated texts, and traditional accounts. Advanced undergraduates welcome. N Rowan K. Flad Michael Puett fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2177 South American Archaeology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides an overview of Pre-Columbian civilizations on the continent of South America from the earliest record of human habitation to the time of the European invasion, in the sixteenth century. Focuses on the archaeology of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, the Andes, and the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. Extensive use will be made of the South American collections in the Peabody Museum. N Gary Urton fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2210 Archaeology and the Ancient Economy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Numerous theories are advanced for the structure of the ancient economy. Different perspectives on the nature of trade, the market, reciprocity-redistribution, etc. will be reviewed. An evolutionary and global perspective will be pursued from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Open to undergraduates. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2250 a Proseminar in Archaeology Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate seminar reviews critical issues in archaeological approaches to small-scale societies, including methods and interpretations relating to the study of mobility, sedentism, seasonality, plant and animal exploitation, and migration. N Richard H. Meadow Rowan K. Flad fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2250 b Proseminar in Archaeology Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate seminar reviews critical issues in archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies, including writing, trade, craft specialization, technology, landscape, urbanism, and political organization. N C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Gary Urton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2360 r Topics in Paleolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Selected topics in Old World paleoanthropology. Topics include Homo erectus and modern human dispersions, Eurasian colonization, of the Neanderthals and their demise, radiometric techniques, transition to Upper Paleolithic, changes in technology and typology of stone tools. N Ofer Bar-Yosef spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2626 Research Design Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Seminar focuses on weekly writing assignments leading to complete dissertation research proposals; defining theoretical and ethnographic contexts of research problem; reviewing literature; explaining site selection, methodology, timetable, human subjects protection; preparing budget; identifying grant sources. By permission only. Limited to doctoral candidates, with preference given to second and third year students in Anthropology. Y Theodore C Bestor fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2635 Image/Media/Publics: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Explores the relations among technologies of image production and circulation, the nature and intensity of the circulating image, and the generation of publics and counter-publics. Questions of scale, mediation, publicity, and mobilization will be considered. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Mary M. Steedly fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2638 Political Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course South Asia's colonial legacy includes liberal political ideologies and institutions as well as forms of knowledge and governance that are at odds with liberal assumptions. This course explores these trajectories in the postcolonial present. N Asad A. Ahmed spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2645 Reconfiguring Regimes: Power, Law and Governance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Studies changing concepts of law, power and governance within contemporary global politics. Combines theoretical readings with ethnographic inquiries of the state, the legal, the magical, and the just. N Kimberly Theidon fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2650 a History and Theory of Social Anthropology: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A critical review of the major theoretical approaches in social anthropology. In conjunction with Anthropology 2840 in 2009-10, required of candidates for the PhD in Social Anthropology. Limited to, and aimed at, doctoral candidates. Not open to undergraduates. Y Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2650 b History and Theory of Social Anthropology: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., 10-1 Mary M. Steedly Continuation of Anthropology 2650a. Required of candidates for the PhD in Social Anthropology. Not open to undergraduates. Y Mary M. Steedly spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2652 Psychological Anthropology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course explores the historical development of psychological anthropology. We will read classic texts in the field, and then turn to current debates regarding emotions, mental illness, violence and its legacies, perpetrator motivations and victimhood. N Kimberly Theidon fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2660 The Anthropology of Knowledge: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Comparative exploration of local epistemologies from craft apprentices and skilled manual workers to schoolchildren, journalists and scientists, emphasizing the embodiment, inculcation, and transmission of practical knowledge and the relationships among cosmology, social context, and pragmatic understanding. N Michael Herzfeld spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2674 Legal Anthropology and Modern Governance Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is split into two parts. The first part introduces classic themes and texts in legal anthropology and the second part examines debates on the expansion of law as a means of modern governance. N Asad A. Ahmed fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2678 The Anthropology of Secularism Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Secularism, understood as the normative arrangement for modern societies, has remained immune from anthropological investigation. In addition to examining secularism as an institutional arrangement this course will explore it as a form of subjectivity. N Asad A. Ahmed spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2688 The Frankfurt School, Film, and Popular Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Focus in the Frankfurt School and such concepts as the culture industry, critical theory and research, art and mass media reproduction, negative dialective, public sphere, and other of its contributions to social and aesthetic theory. N Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2690 Middle East Ethnography: Discourse, Politics, and Culture Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 18 The discursive construction of culture and its complex politics are examined in a wide range of ethnographies that have been written recently on countries in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, and Iran. Among the theoretical topics to be considered are orientalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, nationalism, self, gender, and tribalism. Open to undergraduates. N Steven Caton spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2695 Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 This course will examine the intersections between design and anthropology. In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design, which has traditionally been concerned with objects, has been moving toward the understanding of objects as part of a greater milieu. This course explores the common ethnographic ground. No background in anthropology or design required. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as GSD 3336 N Steven Caton Gareth Gerard Doherty fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2704 Linguistic Pragmatics and Cultural Analysis in Anthropology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Exploring classic theory and recent innovations in linguistic anthropology and the semiotic anthropology of communication, we connect the social life of language to its role in culture. Limited to graduate students, who will also be expected to attend all Anthropology 1640 lectures. Limited to graduate students, who will also be expected to attend all Anthropology 1640 lectures. N Nicholas H. Harkness fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2706 Disease, Disability, and the Body Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will theorize the ways in which disability and disease become linked to inequality. We will explore the social factors that produce forms of suffering, as well as kinds of violence that people experience when social difference is mapped onto the materiality of their bodies. N Laurence A Ralph fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2712 Ethnographies of Food Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course We will discuss the "food turn" in anthropology through reading contemporary (and classic) ethnographies of food in contexts of production, distribution, social exchange, gender, and science. Note: Undergraduates encouraged to participate. Instructor's permission required. Y Theodore C Bestor fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2735 The Anthropology of Science: Methods and Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course provides a survey of ethnographies of science in global scientific settings. It explores issues of nationalism, humanitarianism, various body politics, and broad issues regarding the porous relation between science and society. On method, it examines practicalities of access, analysis, as well as questions of ethics and representation within anthropology more generally. Y Duana Fullwiley spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2736 Medical Anthropology of Contemporary Africa Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will examine the health effects of larger problems facing Africa today, including military and humanitarian HIV/AIDS interventions, genetic studies and offshore clinical trials, ethnic and state violence, economic crisis, resource extraction and migration. N Duana Fullwiley spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2740 Culture, Mental Illness, and the Body Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Briefly reviews the figure of mental illness in Western thought and the social sciences, then focuses on themes in cross-cultural studies of psychopathology: culture and diagnosis; cultural influences on depression, schizophrenia, and dissociation; madness in non-Euroamerican healing systems; and transnational aspects of psychiatry. N Byron Good spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2750 Local Biologies: Perspectives on the Interaction Between Culture and Biology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reviews the variety of anthropological perspectives on the interactions between culture and biology. Topics include mind-brain-society interaction in pain; cross-cultural studies of menopause; sociosomatics of depression; the new genetics and eugenics; research on stress and trauma. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Arthur Kleinman fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2765 Gender in Conflict: Violence, Militarism and War Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course In this seminar we will combine theoretical texts with classic and contemporary ethnographies to explore the anthropological study of ethics and ethical resources as related to debates that have animated the field of medical anthropology. N Kimberly Theidon spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2785 Theories of Subjectivity in Current Anthropology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theoretical positions and anthropological debates concerning subjectivity. Freud, Lacan, Butler, Agamben, Zizek, Foucault, and Mbembe read alongside ethnographic texts on violence, suffering, governmentality, and the state. N Byron Good spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2795 Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides a critical reading of the history of medical anthropology to the present. Focuses on theoretical perspectives and debates, as well as methodologies and positioning of actors in the field. N Byron Good Mary Jo DelVecchio Good spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2805 Biopolitics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 The modern era has seen the rise of a new field of knowledge and power that takes as its object human life itself, in the biological sense. This course traces the emergence of an anthropology of biopolitics, teasing out the concepts, problems, and ethnographic practices by which this domain is being studied. Through explorations of biological and therapeutic citizenship, new practices of biosociality and biosecurity, and the creation of world-quality populations and persons, the course identifies new assemblages of technologies, logics, and ethics that are emerging in different spaces in an increasingly globalized world. Students will be required to attend selected lectures of the undergraduate course The Woman and the Body. N Susan Greenhalgh fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2816 Law for Anthropologists, Anthropology for Lawyers Reading Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theoretical and practical ideas, old and new, about law in society. Looking at the academic literature and at ethnographic description. The uses of the legal in fieldwork. Interpreting the place, shape, claims and efficacy of law in particular social and cultural contexts. N Sally Falk Moore spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2826 Foucault in the Colonies: Power, Colonialism and the Law Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Foucault had little interest in colonialism or law. Yet historians and anthropologists have used his ideas productively in colonial and postcolonial settings. This course explores the possibilities and limits of Foucauldian concepts and methods. N Asad A. Ahmed fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2830 Creative Ethnography Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A writing-intensive seminar in which students explore various genres and styles of ethnographic representation by sharing work in progress. A range of supplemental readings provide descriptive models and theoretical orientations. Y Mary M. Steedly spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2832 Voice and Voicing Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course We explore various literal and tropic conceptualizations of "voice" and "voicing " in anthropological theory and related disciplines,including linguistics, music, philosophy, semiotics, and sociology. Anthropology 2704 highly recommended N Nicholas H. Harkness fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2836 r Sensory Ethnography II: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 Second half of a year-long sequence in which students apply media anthropological theory and conduct ethnography using film, video, sound, still photography, and/or hypermedia. Students must also attend all VES 158br classes. Emphasis is on pre-production and production in the spring, and on post-production in the fall. Interview with instructor and teaching assistant required for admission. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Ernst Karel fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2837 Media Archaeology of Place Studio Primarily for Graduates Half course Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films, maps, sound recordings, and other media artifacts are treated as archaeological objects and are re-interpreted for exhibition. Admission by interview with instructor. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Ernst Karel fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2840 Ethnography and Personhood Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Intensive, critical review of major ethnographies, exploring the relationship between society and personhood, examining ethnographic writing and its relation to other genres (including biography); and tracing anthropological theory through changes in descriptive and analytic practice. Given in alternate years. Required in 2009-10 of all first year Social Anthropology doctoral students. N Michael Herzfeld fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2845 Media Anthropology Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar offering a critical overview of the field of media anthropology, as it has developed over the last half century. Attention will be on the media as both an object and a genre of anthropology. Students must attend all VES 189 classes. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2850 r Practicum in Foreign-Language Ethnography Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in ethnographic and related theoretical works written in a selected foreign language; discussion, class presentations, and final papers will be in that language also. Offered when demand and availability permit. Primarily for doctoral students. Y Michael Herzfeld Michael Herzfeld fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2855 Deep China: What Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry Contribute to the Study of China Today Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course What do accounts of depression, suicide, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, SARS, HIV/AIDS, starvation and the personal and family trauma of political violence teach us about China and the Chinese over the last few decades? Open to undergraduates. N Arthur Kleinman fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2856 Biography, the Novel, Psychotherapy and Ethnography: Deep Ways of Knowing the Person in the Moral Context Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Compares deep ways of knowing the person in his/her cultural, political, economic and, most especially, moral context. Reads strong examples from each field to learn about individual and collective experience under uncertainty and danger. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Y Arthur Kleinman spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2862 Anthropology of Biomedicine Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the culture, history, institutional arrangements, social relationships, technology, training, political economy and local worlds of contemporary biomedicine. Readings are from medical anthropology, anthropology of science, history of medicine, and sociology and political science. For graduate students and advanced undergraduates N Arthur Kleinman fall term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2870 Transgressive Texts: Contemporary Latin American Ethnography Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A reading seminar of ethnographic accounts of globalization, identity formation, and political action in Latin America. We explore cultural forms and materials conditions, locating the politics of representation within fields of power and conflict. N Kimberly Theidon spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2876 New Ethnographies in the Anthropology of Social Experience Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course New ethnographies of social experience and subjectivity are remaking anthropology. Students critically examine studies of illness, violence, and cultural responses to other human problems. Emphasis is on the methodology, writing, and ethics of such ethnographies. Open to advanced undergraduates. N Arthur Kleinman spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 2980 "Culture" Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course "Culture" is one of anthropology's key concepts, but there has never been agreement as to the term's meaning. We tour the work of culture's key theorists, with an emphasis on American anthropological perspectives. Is culture still a useful concept in anthropological analysis? For first-year graduate students, or by permission of instructor. In 2009-10 (only), counts as second part of Social Anthropology Proseminar course requirement. N Mary M. Steedly fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3000 Reading Course Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Special reading in selected topics under the direction of members of the Department. Consult the appropriate member of the Department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3001 Reading for General Examination Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Individual reading in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. Restricted to candidates for the PhD degree and ordinarily to those who have completed at least one year in residence. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3100 Old World Archaeology (Europe, Asia, and Africa) Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ofer Bar-Yosef Richard H. Meadow C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Ofer Bar-Yosef Richard H. Meadow C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3111 Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnography Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Rowan K. Flad C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Lawrence Stager Rowan K. Flad C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Lawrence Stager fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3120 Scientific Archaeology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Noreen Tuross Richard H. Meadow Richard H. Meadow fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3130 Archaeology and Ethnography of the Near and Middle East Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ofer Bar-Yosef C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Ofer Bar-Yosef C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3140 Methods and Theory in Archaeology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Noreen Tuross Ofer Bar-Yosef Richard H. Meadow C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Ofer Bar-Yosef Richard H. Meadow C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3300 Supervised Field Work in Anthropology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course General instruction in field methods and practice in the various divisions of anthropology, including archaeology, ethnography, and physical anthropology. Instructional personnel and location of course vary with the research program of the staff. Lectures, conferences, field and laboratory work. May be taken by graduate students for academic credit, but since it is tuition-free, does not count for residence credit leading to reduced tuition. Open to students with adequate previous training in the subject. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3400 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Consult the appropriate member of the Department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3500 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Consult the appropriate member of the Department. Y spring term Department of Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology 3502 Thesis Writing Workshop (China dissertations) Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James L. Watson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Design 300 Reading and Research in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or Urban Planning Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Design 304 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Architecture Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Design 307 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Landscape Architecture Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y K. Michael Hays Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Richard T.T. Forman John R. Stilgoe K. Michael Hays Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Richard T.T. Forman John R. Stilgoe fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning Design 310 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations in Urban Planning Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Council on Asian Studies Programs Asian Studies Programs Regional Studies _ East Asia 300 Thesis Research and Writing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Candidates for the A.M. degree in Regional Studies-East Asia may undertake A.M. thesis reading and research in an approved area of their choice under the direction of a member of the Faculty. Permission of the faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies of the RSEA program required. Only one course graded SAT/UNSAT may be used to fulfill the RSEA course requirement. Y fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 2 Celestial Navigation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 30 Never be lost again! Find your way on sea, land, or air by employing celestial and terrestrial techniques. Acquire expertise in using navigators' tools (sextant, compass, and charts) while learning the steps to the celestial dance of the sun, moon, stars, and planets. This 108-year-old course continues to rely on practical skills and collaborative problem-solving, while utilizing historical artifacts (instruments, maps, captains' logs) and student-built devices. Culminating in a day-long cruise to practice navigation skills. Minimal lecturing; predominantly practical activities with individual attention from teaching staff. Math beyond high school trigonometry and geometry unnecessary. N Philip M. Sadler spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 16 Stellar and Planetary Astronomy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course provides an introduction to the physical principles describing the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary companions. Topics include thermal radiation and stellar spectra; telescopes; energy generation in stars; stellar evolution; orbital dynamics; the Solar system; and exoplanets. This course includes an observational component: students will determine the distance to the Sun, and use the Clay Telescope atop the Science Center to study stellar evolution and detect exoplanets. An introductory course in mechanics, which may be taken concurrently, satisfied by Physics 11a, or Physics 15a, or Physics 16. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N David Charbonneau fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 17 Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course provides an introduction to the physical principles describing galaxies and the composition and evolution of the Universe. Topics include the interstellar medium; star clusters; the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way; other galaxies; clusters of galaxies; active galaxies and quasars; cosmology; and the early universe. This course includes an observational component: In addition to observing galaxies with the Science Center Clay Telescope, students will use the millimeter-wavelength telescope at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to measure the rotation velocity of the Milky Way galaxy and to determine its mass. An introductory course in mechanics, which may be taken concurrently, satisfied by Physics lla, or Physics 15a, or Physics 16. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N Christopher William Stubbs fall term; repeated spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading and research in a subject of astrophysics that is not normally included in the regular course offerings of the department. Astronomy 16 or Astronomy 17. Students must arrange for course supervision with an individual member of the Department. The course may be counted only once toward the concentration requirements, and may not be taken more than twice. Y James M. Moran Alicia M. Soderberg James M. Moran Alicia M. Soderberg spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 98 Research Tutorial in Astrophysics Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This tutorial introduces students to research at the forefront of astrophysics, and provides opportunities for students to meet with research scientists and individuals active in science policy, education, and journalism. Students meet weekly for a lecture and discussion over dinner with a guest speaker, preceded by a reading and a preparatory seminar. Students will be mentored throughout the term on a research project of their choosing. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is home to one of the largest groups of astronomers in the world, providing extensive opportunities for undergraduate research. Astronomy 16 or Astronomy 17. Open to students pursuing the concentration or secondary field in astrophysics, and in special cases to concentrators in other physical sciences. Y Edo Berger full year Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 99 Senior Thesis in Astrophysics Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For honors candidates in Astrophysics. Individually supervised reading and research leading to the senior thesis. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is home to one of the largest groups of astronomers in the world, providing extensive opportunities for undergraduate research. Astronomy 98. Y David Charbonneau David Charbonneau spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 100 Methods of Observational Astronomy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this course we will learn the basic tools of modern astronomical research, including telescopes, detectors, imaging, spectroscopy, and common software. Emphasis will be placed on both the theory behind telescopes and their use, and hands-on experience with real data. Using this basic knowledge we will analyze science-level astronomical data from a wide range of telescopes and review the basic properties of stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects of interest. The course includes a trip to the F. L. Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, to gather data with various telescopes. Astronomy 16 or Astronomy 17, either of which may be taken concurrently. This course is similar in content to Astronomy 97 (no longer offered). Students who have taken Astronomy 97 may not take Astronomy 100 for credit. N Alicia M. Soderberg fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 110 Exoplanets Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the rapidly-evolving field of the detection and characterization of planets orbiting other stars. Topics includes proto-stellar collapse and star formation; comets, meteorites, and protoplanetary disk structure; models of planet formation; methods of detecting extrasolar planets; composition and physical structure of planets; planetary atmospheres; habitable zones; greenhouse effect; biosignatures. Astronomy 16. N David Charbonneau spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 120 Stellar Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Stars are the basic building blocks of galaxies and are responsible for the nucleosynthesis of most of the elements. Topics include stellar structure; energy transport in stars; stellar atmospheres; astroseismology; nuclear fusion in stars; stellar evolution; nucleosynthesis of the elements; stellar death and supernovae; the degenerate remnants of stars; black holes. This course will make use of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics, but will review these subjects as necessary. Astronomy 16. Physics 15c strongly recommended. N Alicia M. Soderberg spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 130 Cosmology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The physical model describing the initial conditions, evolution, and ultimate fate of the Universe. Topics include cosmic dynamics; the Robertson-Walker Metric; curvature; estimating cosmological parameters; the accelerating universe; dark matter; gravitational lensing; the cosmic microwave background; nucleosynthesis; inflation and the very early universe; formation of structure. Note: Offered in alternate years. Astronomy 17 or Physics 15c. Offered in alternate years. N Douglas Finkbeiner fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 150 Radiative Processes in Astrophysics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course offers a survey of radiative processes of astrophysical importance from radio waves to gamma rays. Topics include thermal and non-thermal processes, including bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, and Compton scattering; radiation in plasmas; atomic and molecular spectra. Physics 143a. Open to seniors concentrating in Astrophysics or Physics. Juniors considering this course should contact the instructor. N Ramesh Narayan spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 151 Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Fluid and gas dynamics with applications drawn from astrophysical phenomena. Topics include: kinetic theory, diffusive effects, incompressible fluids, inviscid and viscous flows, boundary layer theory, accretion disks, fluid instabilities, turbulence, convection, gas dynamics, linear (sound) waves, method of characteristics, Riemann invariants, supersonic flow, non-linear waves, shocks, similarity solutions, blast waves, radiative shocks, ionization fronts, magnetohygrodynamics, hydromagnetic shocks, dynamos, gravitational collapse, principles of plasma physics, Landau damping, computational approaches, stability criteria, particle based (Lagrangian) methods, adaptive mesh refinement, radiation hydrodynamics. Offered in alternate years. N Lars Eric Hernquist fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 191 Astrophysics Laboratory Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Laboratory and observational projects in astrophysics. Students design and undertake two projects from a selection including: observational studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation, molecules in interstellar clouds, the rotation of the galaxy, galactic molecular sources with the submillimeter array (SMA), stars and clusters with the Clay Telescope; and laboratory experiments including super-conducting submillimeter detectors, x-ray CCDs, and hard x-ray imaging detectors and telescopes. Astronomy 16 or 17, or Physics 15c or equivalent. Primarily for concentrators in astrophysics or combined concentrators with physics. Students with physics as their primary concentration, but with a serious interest in astrophysics, may take this to satisfy their laboratory requirement (in lieu of Physics 191) upon petition to the Head Tutor in Physics. N John M Kovac Jonathan E. Grindlay spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 193 Noise and Data Analysis in Astrophysics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How to design experiments and get the most information from noisy, incomplete, flawed, and biased data sets. Basic of Probability theory; Bernoulli trials: Bayes theorem; random variables; distributions; functions of random variables; moments and characteristic functions; Fourier transform analysis; Stochastic processes; estimation of power spectra: sampling theorem, filtering; fast Fourier transform; spectrum of quantized data sets. Weighted least mean squares analysis and nonlinear parameter estimation. Bootstrap methods. Noise processes in periodic phenomena. Image processing and restoration techniques. The course will emphasize a Bayesian approach to problem solving and the analysis of real data sets. Mathematics 21b or equivalent. N James M. Moran fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 201 a Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Stars are studied as the elementary baryonic building blocks of the Universe, and the main source of the evolution of baryonic matter (nucleosynthesis). Planetary systems are studied in terms of the stellar environments for their formation and survival. Astronomy 150 (may be taken concurrently). N Dimitar Sasselov spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 201 b Interstellar Medium and Star Formation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Nature of the Interstellar Medium (ISM): composition, energetics, densities and interactions; observations and theory. Processes leading to the formation of stars and planets, as well as studies of the feedback on the ISM from stellar deaths. N Alyssa A. Goodman fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 202 a Galaxies and Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An overview of extragalactic astronomy. Galaxy formation, evolution and properties, galactic dynamics, clustering, gas dynamics, star formation and other topics at the frontiers of extragalactic astronomy. Offered in alternate years. N Daniel James Eisenstein spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 202 b Cosmology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The cosmological principle: isotropy and homogeneity, cosmological world models, thermal history of the Big Bang, the microwave background, inflation, growth of density fluctuations, large scale structure and other topics at the frontiers of cosmology. Offered in alternate years. N Abraham Loeb fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 218 Radio Astronomy Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Historical development; diffraction theory of antennas and interferometers; signal detection and measurement techniques. Thermal, synchrotron and spectral-line emission in the context of radio observations of the sun, planets, pulsars, masers, hydrogen clouds, molecular clouds, ionized regions, active galaxies, quasars, and the cosmic background. Observational projects and laboratory exercises carried out with the Submillimeter Array, Haystack Observatory and the CMB Laboratory. Astronomy 150 or Physics 153 recommended. Offered in alternate years. N James M. Moran spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 219 High Energy Astrophysics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Discussion of relativistic and high-energy astrophysical phenomena and observational techniques. Accretion onto compact stars (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes); active galactic nuclei, galaxy clusters. Gamma-ray bursts and cosmic rays. X-ray and gamma-ray background. Offered in alternate years. N Edo Berger Ramesh Narayan spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 224 Solar System Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to techniques of modern solar system dynamics, applied to our own solar system as well as to extra solar planetary systems. Research component focuses on applications of solar system dynamics to data from Pan-STARRS-1. Physics 11a, 15a or 16. Y Matthew J. Holman fall term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 251 Quantum Mechanics for Astrophysics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Quantum mechanics with applications to atomic and molecular processes important in astronomical environments. Atomic and molecular structure; spectroscopy (selection rules, oscillator strengths, photoionization); scattering theory (elastic, inelastic, approximate methods); line broadening; collision processes (cross sections, rate coefficients) involving electrons, ions, atoms, and molecules. Physics 143a or the equivalent, or permission of instructor. N Lars Eric Hernquist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 300 Topics in Modern Astrophysics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A seminar, reading, or research course may be arranged with any of the faculty listed. Students can also arrange to obtain Astronomy 300 credit for reading or research with scientific staff members of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; consult Astronomy Department office. Y full year Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 301 hf Journal Club Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Each week two speakers (faculty, lecturers, and students) will report on current research in astronomy, providing students with an opportunity to practice the organization and presentation of technical material. A minimum of one presentation will be expected from each student each year focused on their own research or new results in the literature. Faculty will similarly discuss recent results from the literature, as well as their own research as a way to provide an overview of research activities at the Harvard Astronomy Department. The course is intended as an opportunity for substantive discussion, as an opportunity to find out about research activities, and to foster interaction between the students and faculty. Y Edo Berger Alicia M. Soderberg Edo Berger Alicia M. Soderberg spring term Department of Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy 302 Scientists Teaching Science Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Learn the secrets of lecturing well, leading discussions, connecting to real-world applications, and creating tests in any scientific discipline as we focus on relevant educational research and case studies, plus engage in practical classroom activities. Experience as a teaching fellow or tutor. Open to graduate students in all areas of science. Assignments help illustrate research findings from life, earth, and physical science education. Undergraduates with an interest in teaching at the pre-college level may be admitted with instructor permission. Y Philip M. Sadler fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine 300 Research with Faculty Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bjorn R. Olsen Bjorn R. Olsen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 201 r Laboratory Rotations Research Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course Members of the Division of Biological Sciences offer hands-on experimental methods of research in biological sciences. Students write a paper and give an oral presentation regarding their 10-week laboratory project. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as DBS 300. Y Marianne Wessling-Resnick Marianne Wessling-Resnick fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 206 Advanced Respiratory Physiology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Respiratory measurements are an integral part of public health research. We will critically discuss their scientific bases, noting practical considerations and pitfalls, and their interpretations and inferences about physiological status and disease. EH 205 or equivalent, or signature of instructor indicating suitable background required. College-level physiology. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 223. N James P. Butler spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 207 Advanced Topics in Physiology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will focus on the intersection of biomechanics, cell biology and disease, with particular attention to the role the mechanical environment plays in pathogenesis of cardiorespiratory diseases and cancer biology. Current knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying mechanotransduction will be emphasized throughout the course. The course will meet twice a week, with one day of lecture and the other dedicated to critical reading and discussion of classic and current primary literature. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 225. N Daniel Tschumperlin fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 208 Human Physiology Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the principles governing function in the human body designed to provide a framework in physiology for future public health researchers and professionals who have not taken college level physiology courses. Emphasis on the concept of homeostasis and on integrative aspects of physiology. Examples of pathophysiology and environmental physiology highlight these processes. College-level introductory biology or permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 205. Required lab. N Stephanie Shore fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 209 Introduction to Computational Genomics for Infectious Disease Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course The study of infectious diseases is being revolutionized by the availability of genomic data for many pathogenic organisms. These data include genome sequences and annotation, comparative sequence data and population data, expression data, and metabolic data. For these data to be maximally useful to infectious disease researchers, familiarity with the appropriate analysis, methods, and concepts must be acquired. This course will be an introduction to computational genomics methods with selected applications to infectious disease. Offered jointly with School of Public Health and MIT. N Dyann F. Wirth spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 210 Pathophysiology of Human Disease Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Surveys major human disease problems in the cardiovascular, respiratory, hematopoietic, reproductive, and gastrointestinal systems. Emphasis on understanding the pathophysiologic basis of common disease manifestations and the pathogenesis of the disease process. A college-level human physiology course. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BPH 729.0 and with the School of Public Health as EH 208. N Lester Kobzik spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 212 Cellular and Molecular Biology of Parasites Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 35 We cover aspects of biochemistry, cell and molecular biology of protozoan parasites of humans, including: malaria, toxoplasma, leishmania, trypanosomes, amoebae, and giardia. Includes in-depth discussions on comparative mechanisms of pathogenesis; unique parasite biochemistry and organelles; strategies/molecular basis for host immune invasion; bioinformatics approaches to molecular pathogenesis. Coursework in biochemistry, genetics, or microbiology. Given in alternate years. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BPH 721.0 and with the School of Public Health as IMI 216. Y Barbara Burleigh Matthias Marti Manoj T. Duraisingh fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 215 Principles of Toxicology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Emphasizes mechanisms of injury and clinical consequences following exposures to environmental and occupational chemicals. Examines actions at the molecular, cellular, organ system, and organismal levels. Discusses methods for detecting, evaluating, analyzing, and combating toxic effects. Organic chemistry and mammalian physiology or equivalent. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 504. N Robert Wright spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 216 Immunology of Infectious Diseases Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course 35 Covers in detail the interactions of pathogens with the host immune system, including innate and protective responses and those immune responses that are deleterious. Topics include: overview of immune responses; response of mucosal-secretory immune system to pathogens; innate immunity "the collectins"; innate immunity "Th2 PAMPs"; pathogen regulation of host immune responses; pathogen evasion of immune effector mechanisms; polarization of CD4+ T helper cell subsets and relationship to disease outcome; resistance to HIV; HIV and co-infection with other pathogens; mechanisms of immunopathogenesis; and development of vaccines. Pathogens covered in detail include: HIV, cholera, TB, staph/strep, toxoplasma, intestinal protozoa, malaria, and helminths. An immunology course. Given in alternate years. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BPH 724.0 and with the School of Public Health as IMI 208. Each lecture requires reading several relevant papers and completion of a problem set. Y Samuel M Behar spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 222 The Science of Human Nutrition Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course A review of the biochemistry of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals in the context of human disease. Contemporary topics are emphasized. Particular emphasis given to current knowledge of the mechanisms that may explain the role of diet in the causation and/or prevention of ischemic heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cancer. Recommended dietary intakes of selected nutrients are discussed in order to understand their limitations. Introductory nutrition course. Prior familiarity with nutrition and the health sciences expected, as well as a basic knowledge of biochemistry and human physiology. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BPH 733.0 and with the School of Public Health as NUT 202. N Frank M. Sacks Clifford W. Lo fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 225 r Advanced Topics in Biological Sciences in Public Health: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A series of discussions and seminars each running for a half term (7-8 weeks). Y Marianne Wessling-Resnick Marianne Wessling-Resnick spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 301 qc Molecular Basis for Nutritional & Metabolic Diseases Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course Students have an opportunity to review and analyze key papers that provide physiological and molecular evidence that bears on a topic of current interest in human nutrition and related disorders. Additionally, students learn skills necessary for critical thinking, and oral and written presentations. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as ID 512. Y Chih-Hao Lee Gokhan S. Hotamisligil fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 301 Biological Sciences Seminars Seminar Graduate Course Half course Faculty present seminars on their current research in the biological sciences and direct a student discussion of the logic and experimental design of this research. Topics include chemical and viral carcinogenesis, DNA damage and repair, immunology, molecular biology, metabolism, cardiovascular disease, parasitology, and how these areas apply to public health issues. Required for first-year students in the BPH program. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as DBS 205. Y Marianne Wessling-Resnick spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 302 qc Interdisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Sciences Part II Research Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course The intersection of environment and health is by necessity an interdisciplinary focus. The most promising advances in lung biology and respiratory disease are resulting from teams of scientists with diverse disciplinary training, including biology, medicine, engineering, and physics. In addition to a strong foundation in a specific discipline, the ability to recognize and act upon opportunities presented by outside disciplines is a crucial skill. This course is designed to train scientists to approach lung biology and respiratory diseases with an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular by bridging the gap between life sciences and physical/engineering sciences. With a focus on laboratory sciences and on mechanistic levels of understanding, course materials will cover 3 main problem areas: asthma, air pollution, and lung infection. The course consists of weekly course-meetings (lectures and case-studies) plus weekly research seminars from the physiology program. Students will gain skills in recognizing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different disciplinary approaches applied to pulmonary sciences, in designing interdisciplinary experiments effectively, and in interpreting interdisciplinary results critically. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 513. Y Quan Lu Lester Kobzik spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 303 qc Critical Reading in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases Reading Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course The objectives of this course are to enhance and supplement knowledge of pathophysiology learned in the main course. This course will use critical reading to explore primary literature, and is especially intended for graduate students in the biological sciences. The course materials and discussions will provide a deeper understanding of the application and translation of basic pathophysiology, as found in current biomedical research. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as EH 526. Y Lester Kobzik fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 304 qc Ecological and Epidemiological Control of Parasitic Diseases Reading Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course Provides an introduction to ecological and epidemiological concepts basic to the control of infectious agents. Considers important parasitic diseases of particular significance in the developing areas of the world. Epidemiological principles of vector-associated diseases are elucidated through study of entities such as malaria and schistosomiasis. Background in biology required; knowledge of pathogenesis of infectious diseases desirable. Offered jointly with School of Public Health as IID 201. Y Matthias Marti Dyann F. Wirth fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 305 qc Interdisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Sciences Part 1 Reading Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course The intersection of environment and health is by necessity an interdisciplinary focus. The most promising advances in lung biology and respiratory disease are resulting from teams of scientists with diverse disciplinary training, including biology, medicine, engineering, and physics. In addition to a strong foundation in a specific discipline, the ability to recognize and act upon opportunities presented by outside disciplines is a crucial skill. This course is designed to train scientists to approach lung biology and respiratory diseases with an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular by bridging the gap between life sciences and physical/engineering sciences. With a focus on laboratory sciences and on mechanistic levels of understanding, course materials will cover 3 main problem areas: asthma, air pollution, and lung infection. The course consists of weekly course-meetings (lectures and case-studies) plus weekly research seminars from the physiology program. Students will gain skills in recognizing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different disciplinary approaches applied to pulmonary sciences, in designing interdisciplinary experiments effectively, and in interpreting interdisciplinary results critically. Offered jointly with School of Public Health as EH 512. Y Quan Lu Lester Kobzik spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 306 qc Tuberculosis Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course This is a comprehensive survey course on tuberculosis featuring lectures by some of the leading authorities in the field. The first half of the course focuses on population issues (TB epidemiology in the US and the world), transmission, modeling, and programmatic issues (the essentials of good TB control both here and in high burden countries). The second month deals more with the biomedical aspects of TB, immunology, genetics, diagnosis, decision analysis, and treatment, again, both here and abroad. There is a field trip to the Massachusetts State Laboratory. Because of involvement of several of the faculty, special attention is paid to the global problem of multidrug resistant TB, and the work of Partners in Health, an NGO associated with the medical school. During the second month, medical students join the SPH students for an elective course involving patient interviews at the state TB hospital. They present these cases and related topics in class during the second month. SPH students are evaluated on the basis of class participation and one or more presentations on relevant TB topics of interest. The course ends on or near World TB Day, with optional TB-related activities in the Boston area. Offered jointly with School of Public Health as IID 202. Y Eric Rubin Dr Edward Anthony Nardell Sarah Fortune spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 308 qc Molecular Signals to Understand Exposure Biology Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course This course will offer students a deeper understanding of molecular signals often termed, as "Biomarkers" that serve as highly useful tools for understanding the biology of the disease as well as nature and extent of human exposure from environmental contaminants and drugs. The course is divided in 4 modules: 1) Biomarker discovery, 2) Organ/Disease specific biomarkers, 3) Multiscale technologies for biomarker quantitation, and 4) Clinical and statistical considerations in biomarker research. Offered jointly with School of Public Heath as EH 527. Y Dr Vishal S. Vaidya fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 309 qc Tumor Cell Signaling and Metabolism Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 15 This course will focus on the metabolic reprogramming of cells as they undergo the transformation from normal to cancer cells. Emphasis will be placed on the unique nutrient and energy demands of growing tumors, the molecular mechanisms by which oncogenic signaling pathways alter cellular metabolism, and therapeutic opportunities arising from the profound differences in the metabolism of normal versus tumor cells. This course consists of one lecture and one session of critical reading of current primary literature related to the lecture each week. Preference given to PhD students in HILS-affiliated programs (e.g., BPH, BBS, etc.) This course will be taught every other year (odd years). Y Brendan Manning fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 310 qc Molecular Mechanisms of Aging Reading Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course We will explore molecular mechanisms underlying aging and aging-related disease. Topics will include nutrient signaling and energy metabolism, genome stability and proteostasis, interventional approaches to extended longevity, and theories of aging including the free radical theory. Recent and classic literature will be critically discussed. Offered jointly with HSPH. Y James Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 312 Regulation of the Cellular Uptake of Macromolecular Nutrients Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marianne Wessling-Resnick Marianne Wessling-Resnick fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 315 Molecular Genetic Analysis of Gene Expression and Drug Resistance in Parasitic Protozoan, Including Leishmania and Malaria Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dyann F. Wirth Dyann F. Wirth fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 317 Gene-Environment Interactions in Human Lipoprotein Metabolism Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Hannia Campos Hannia Campos fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 319 Signaling Mechanisms of Peptide Hormones, Genetic and Molecular Basis of Obesity and Diabetes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gokhan S. Hotamisligil Gokhan S. Hotamisligil fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 322 Study of Epidemiologic and Biological Characteristics of HIV Viruses in Africa Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Phyllis Kanki Phyllis Kanki fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 323 Human Lipoprotein Metabolism: Biochemistry and Metabolic Modeling Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frank M. Sacks Frank M. Sacks fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 325 Assessment of the Impact of Workplace Pollutants on Health Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David C. Christiani David C. Christiani fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 365 Virulence Factors of Mycrobacteria; Acquisition of Virulence Determinants of Vibrio Cholerae; Generalized Mutagenesis Systems for Bacteria Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Rubin Eric Rubin fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 366 Theoretical, Statistical, and Experimental Approaches to Population Biology and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marc Lipsitch Marc Lipsitch fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 368 Host-pathogen Interactions of Shigella Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marcia Goldberg Marcia Goldberg fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 372 Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Pathogenesis of Human Malaria Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Manoj T. Duraisingh Manoj T. Duraisingh fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 375 Signaling Pathways Underlying Tumorigenesis and Metabolic Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brendan Manning Brendan Manning fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 376 Secretion and pathogenesis in M. tuberculosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sarah Fortune Sarah Fortune fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 377 Host-Pathogen Interactions in Malaria Parasites Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Matthias Marti Matthias Marti fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 378 The Role of Chromatin Structure and Epigenetics in DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Laboratory Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brendan Price Brendan Price fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 379 Transcriptional Mechanisms that Regulate Inflammatory Gene Expression Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tiffany Horng Tiffany Horng fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 380 Interplay Between the Innate Immune System/Intestinal Microbial Communities Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wendy Garrett Wendy Garrett fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biological Sciences in Public Health Biological Sciences in Public Health BPH 382 Aging, Stress Resistance and Dietary Restriction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James Mitchell James Mitchell fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 101 Computational Biology Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Integrating knowledge, research tools in new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, etc. Interplays of biophysical, ecological, economic, social/ethical modeling are explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports. Section times will be determined at first class. Offered in alternate years. N George Church fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 170 Quantitative Genomics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In-depth study of genomics: models of evolution and population genetics; comparative genomics: analysis and comparison; structural genomics: protein structure, evolution and interactions; functional genomics, gene expression, structure and dynamics of regulatory networks. Meets at MIT N Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev Dr Isaac Samuel Kohane Leonid Mirny spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 204 Structural Biology From Molecules to Cells Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Imaging of molecules and of molecular localization in cells, including x-ray and electron crystallography, electron microscopy of single molecules, and high-resolution light microscopy. Lectures and student presentations of selected papers from the literature. N Stephen C. Harrison spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 205 Computational and Functional Genomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Experimental functional genomics, computational prediction of gene function, and properties and models of complex biological systems. The course will primarily involve critical reading and discussion rather than lectures. Molecular Biology (MCB 52 or equivalent), solid understanding of basic probability and statistics. N Martha Bulyk Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev Suzanne Gaudet fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 242 r Special Topics in Biophysics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course New Biophysical topics emerging from research in faculty laboratories, topics in areas of special interest not normally available in the established curriculum. This year's focus on Electron Microscopic methods including TEM,STEM, SEM, etc. Weekly lectures with discussion sections. N James M. Hogle David C. Bell fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 300 Introduction to Laboratory Research Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Introductory lectures by associated Biophysics faculty members. Lectures Fall semester only accompanied by three periods of instruction in laboratories of structural biology, cell and membrane biophysics, molecular genetics and development, neurobiology, bioinformatics, and physical biochemistry. Fall semester only: meets on both the Cambridge and HMS campuses. Contact department for fall course schedule. Y James M. Hogle James M. Hogle fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 301 Quantitative Proteomics of Cancer Progression Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jarrod Marto Dr Jarrod Marto fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 302 Quantitative Analysis of Regulatory Networks Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Erin K O'Shea Erin K O'Shea fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 303 NMR Studies of Macromolecular Structure and Function Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerhard Wagner Gerhard Wagner fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 305 Experimental Atomic Physics, Biophysics, and Soft Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ronald L. Walsworth Ronald L. Walsworth fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 306 Quantitative Models of Cellular Behavior to Investigate Protein Function Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jagesh Shah Jagesh Shah fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 307 Dynamics of Network Motifs in Single Living Human Cells Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Galit Lahav Galit Lahav fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 308 System-level Genetic Networks Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roy Kishony Roy Kishony fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 309 Motile Behavior of Bacteria Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Howard C. Berg Howard C. Berg fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 310 Sensory Information in Neuronal Processes Thesis Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Naoshige Uchida Naoshige Uchida fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 311 Digital Computer Applications in Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y William H. Bossert William H. Bossert fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 312 Multiphoton Microscopy in Imaging Alzheimer's Disease Thesis Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y James M. Hogle Dr Brian Bacskai James M. Hogle Dr Brian Bacskai fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 313 Neurobiology of Vocal Learning Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bence Patrik Olveczky Bence Patrik Olveczky fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 314 Structure of Viruses and Viral Proteins Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James M. Hogle James M. Hogle fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 315 Structural Molecular Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stephen C. Harrison Stephen C. Harrison fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 316 Structural Biology of ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andres Leschziner Andres Leschziner fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 317 Biophysical Aspects of the Visual System Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John E. Dowling John E. Dowling fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 318 Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms, Bioluminescence Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y J. Woodland Hastings J. Woodland Hastings fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 319 Analysis of Structure and Function of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Adam Ezra Cohen Adam Ezra Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 320 Single Molecule Studies of Cellular Motors Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Samara Reck-Peterson Samara Reck-Peterson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 321 Molecular and Mechanical Analysis of Chromosomes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nancy Kleckner Nancy Kleckner fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 322 Structural Diversification of Very Long-Chain Fatty Acids Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Vladimir Denic Vladimir Denic fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 323 Transcriptional Regulatory Circuits and Neuronal Circuits in Visual Recognition Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Gabriel Kreiman Dr Gabriel Kreiman fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 324 Conformational Changes in Macromolecules Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Collin Stultz Collin Stultz fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 325 Physics of Macromolecular Assemblies and Subcellular Organization Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Needleman Daniel Needleman fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 326 Statistical and Continuum Mechanics of Macromolecular Assemblies Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 327 Molecular Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederick M. Ausubel Frederick M. Ausubel fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 328 Mechanics and Morphogenesis of Plant Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jacques Dumais Jacques Dumais fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 329 Computational and Functional Genomics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y George Church George Church fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 330 Principles of Self vs. Non-self RNA Discrimination by the Immune System Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Sun Hur Dr Sun Hur fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 331 Communication of Information In and Between Cells and Organisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Erel Levine Erel Levine fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 332 Function of Neuronal Circuits Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Markus Meister Markus Meister fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 333 Topics in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian Seed Brian Seed fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 334 Decision Making in Cells and Organisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sharad Ramanathan Sharad Ramanathan fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 335 Developing novel single-molecule methods to study multi-protein complexes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joseph John Loparo Dr Joseph John Loparo fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 336 Mass Spectrometric and Proteomic Studies of the Cell Cycle Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Hanno Steen Dr Hanno Steen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 337 Membrane Structure and Function Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Keith Miller Keith Miller fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 338 Foundation of Information Directed Molecular Technology: Programming Nucleic Acid Self-Assembly Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Peng Yin Dr Peng Yin fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 339 Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Study Genetic Variation within Populations Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael M Desai Michael M Desai fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 340 Novel Theory and Experiments in NMR Spectroscopy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew J.M. Kiruluta Andrew J.M. Kiruluta fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 341 Structure and Function of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan Cohen Jonathan Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 342 Development and Application of Optical Detection, Treatment and Monitoring Approaches Targeting Major Human Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Conor L. Evans Conor L. Evans fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 343 Theoretical Protein Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eugene Shakhnovich Eugene Shakhnovich fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 344 Directed Evolution and Design of Simple Cellular Systems Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jack Szostak Jack Szostak fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 346 Biofilm Dynamics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roberto Kolter Roberto Kolter fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 347 Membrane Dynamics; Membrane Structure Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Golan David Golan fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 348 Protein Kinases, Reversible Protein Phosphorylation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Raymond L. Erikson Raymond L. Erikson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 349 Structural Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Intracellular Membrane Traffic Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tomas Kirchhausen Tomas Kirchhausen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 351 Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lewis Cantley Lewis Cantley fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 353 Molecular Genetics of Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Ruvkun Gary Ruvkun fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 354 Structural Biology and Cancer Drug Discovery Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gregory Verdine Gregory Verdine fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 355 Chemical Genetics and Genomics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stuart L. Schreiber Stuart L. Schreiber fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 361 Rational Drug Design; Biomaterials Science; Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y George M. Whitesides George M. Whitesides fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 362 Molecular Physiology of Ion Channels Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Yellen Gary Yellen fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 363 Biophysics of Receptor-Ligand Interactions Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Stephen C. Blacklow Dr Stephen C. Blacklow fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 364 Systems Cell Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Pamela A. Silver Pamela A. Silver fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 365 Visual Processing in Primates Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Assad John Assad fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 366 Imaging, Optics, and Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Clapham David Clapham fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 367 Structure Biology of Cytoplasmic Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael Eck Michael Eck fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 369 Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Molecular Evolution Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David R. Liu David R. Liu fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 374 High-Resolution Electron Microscopy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Thomas Walz Thomas Walz fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 375 Single-Molecule Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Xiaoliang Sunney Xie fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 376 Functional and Computational Genomics Studies of Transcription Factors and Cis Regulatory Elements Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Martha Bulyk Martha Bulyk fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 377 Statistical Theory and Inference for Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Bioinformatics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jun Liu Jun Liu fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 378 Structural and Cellular Biology of Insulin Signal Transduction Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Steven E. Shoelson Dr Steven E. Shoelson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 379 Theoretical Population Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Wakeley John Wakeley fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 380 Microarray Data: Issues and Challenges Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James M. Hogle Leonid Mirny James M. Hogle Leonid Mirny fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 381 Single-Molecule Biophysics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 382 Regulation of Synaptic Transmission and Dendritic Function in the Mammalian Brain Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bernardo Sabatini Bernardo Sabatini fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 386 Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Networks Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Florian Engert Florian Engert fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 388 Structural Studies of Nucleo-Protein Assemblies Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Jeruzalmi David Jeruzalmi fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 391 Computational Methods in Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 392 Biophysics of Mechanosensation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Corey David Corey fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 393 The Mechanics and Regulation of Mitosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Steven Pellman Dr David Steven Pellman fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 396 Behavioral Neuroscience and Neurophysiology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Aravinthan Samuel Aravinthan Samuel fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 397 Research in Integrin Signaling, Cytoskeleton, and Control of Angiogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Donald Elliott Ingber Dr Donald Elliott Ingber fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biophysics Biophysics Biophysics 399 Biomolecular Nanotechnology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr William Shih Dr William Shih fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 230 Probability Theory and Applications I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Axiomatic foundations of probability, independence, conditional probability, joint distributions, transformations, moment generating functions, characteristic functions, moment inequalities, sampling distributions, modes of convergence and their interrelationships, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, and stochastic processes. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO230. Y Christopher D Barr spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 231 Statistical Inference I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Exponential families, sufficiency, ancillarity, completeness, method of moments, maximum likelihood, unbiased estimation, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems, information inequality, Neyman-Pearson theory, likelihood ratio, score and Wald tests, uniformly and locally most powerful tests, asymptotic relative efficiency. Biostatistics 230 or signature of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO231. Y Rebecca Betensky fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 232 Methods I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introductory course in the analysis of Gaussian and categorical data. The general linear regression model, ANOVA, robust alternatives based on permutations, model building, resampling methods (bootstrap and jackknife), contingency tables, exact methods, logistic regression. Signature of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO232. Y Xihong Lin spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 233 Methods II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Intermediate course in the analysis of Gaussian, categorical, and survival data. The generalized linear model, Poisson regression, random effects and mixed models, comparing survival distributions, proportional hazards regression, splines and smoothing, the generalized additive model. Biostatistics 232 or signature of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO233. Y Sebastien Haneuse fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 235 Regression and Analysis of Variance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An advanced course in linear models - regression and analysis of variance. Estimation (maximum likelihood and least squares) and inference (confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of residuals) are presented from a theoretical and data analysis perspective. Biostatistics 230 and Biostatistics 232. Background in matrix algebra and linear regression required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO235. Y Tianxi Cai spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 238 Principles and Advanced Topics in Clinical Trials Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course This course focuses on selected advanced topics in design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials, including study design; choice of endpoints (including surrogate endpoints); interim analyses and group sequential methods; subgroup analyses; and meta-analyses. BIST 230, and BIST 231 (may be taken concurrently) or signature of instructor required. //Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO 238. N James H. Ware spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 244 Analysis of Failure Time Data Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Discusses the theoretical basis of concepts and methodologies associated with survival data and censoring, nonparametric tests, and competing risk models. Much of the theory is developed using counting processes and martingale methods. Biostatistics 231 and Biostatistics 233. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO244. N Judith Lok spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 245 Analysis of Multivariate and Longitudinal Data Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10:30-12:20 David Wypij (Public Health) The multivariate normal distribution, Hotelling's T2, MANOVA, repeated measures, the multivariate linear model, random effects and growth curve models, generalized estimating equations, multivariate categorical outcomes, missing data, computational issues for traditional and new methodologies. Biostatistics 231 and Biostatistics 235. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO245. N David Wypij fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 249 Bayesian Methodology in Biostatistics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course General principles of the Bayesian approach, prior distributions, hierarchical models and modeling techniques, approximate inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, model assessment and comparison. Bayesian approaches to GLMMs, multiple testing, nonparametrics, clinical trials, survival analysis. Biostatistics 231 and Biostatistics 232, or signature of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO249. Offered in alternate years. Y Francesca Dominici fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 250 Probability Theory and Applications II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic set theory, measure theory, Riemann-Stieltjes and Lebesgue integration, conditional probability, conditional expectation (projection), martingales, Radon-Nikodym derivative, product measure and Fubini's Theorem, limit theorems on sequences of random variables, stochastic processes, weak convergence. Biostatistics 230 and Biostatistics 232, or signature of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO250. Y Robert Gray spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 251 Statistical Inference II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced topics in statistical inference. Limit theorems, multivariate delta method, properties of maximum likelihood estimators, saddle point approximations, asymptotic relative efficiency, robust and rank-based procedures, resampling methods, nonparametric curve estimation. Biostatistics 231. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO251. N Dr Armin Schwartzman spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 257 Advanced Statistical Genetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This survey course, intended for a wide audience, will provide an introduction to analytic techniques for modern genomics and genetics. Topics include genome sequencing, DNA microarrays, proteomics, genetic epidemiology and gene mapping for complex disease. BIO 231 and BIO 233, or permission of instructor required. //Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO 257. N Christoph Lange spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 291 Statistical Methods for Causality Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory of directed acyclic graph models. Identifiability of causal contrasts. Theory and applications of locally semiparametric efficient doubly-robust estimation in two models for counterfactual variables: marginal structural models and structural nested models. BIO 231, or permission of instructor required. //Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO 291. N Andrea Rotnitzky spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 297 Genomic Data Manipulation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to genomic data, computational methods for interpreting these data, and a survey of current functional genomics research. Covers biological data processing, programming for large datasets, high-throughput data (sequencing, proteomics, expression, etc.), and related publications. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO508. N Curtis Huttenhower spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 298 Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic problems, technology platforms, algorithms and data analysis approaches in computational biology. Algorithms covered include dynamic programming, hidden Markov model, Gibbs sampler, clustering and classification methods. STAT 110 or equivalent, CS 50 or equivalent, or Biostatistics major. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO512. N Xiaole (Shirley) Liu fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 299 Advanced Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Students will explore current topics in computational biology in a seminar format with a focus on interpretation of 'omics data. They will develop skills necessary for independent research using computational biology. Biostatistics 298 or permission of instructor required. Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BIO513. N Winston Hide Guocheng Yuan fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Biostatistics Biostatistics Biostatistics 350 Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course For doctoral candidates who have passed their written qualifying examination and who are undertaking advanced work along the lines of fundamental or applied dissertation research in the department. Y Victor De Gruttola Victor De Gruttola fall term; repeated spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Instruction and direction of reading on topics not treated in regular courses of instruction. Y Simon Roy Innes Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna Simon Roy Innes Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 101 The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the ways in which the hero is represented in early Irish sources, especially in the saga literature. The texts reflect the ideology and concerns of a society which had been converted to Christianity, but continued to draw on its Indo-European and Celtic heritage. The biographies of the Ulster hero, Cu Chulainn, of his divine father, Lug, and of certain king-heroes are studied in depth. The wisdom literature, and archaeological and historical evidence will be taken into account. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Tomas O Cathasaigh spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 103 Celts: People or Myth? Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the ways that an elusive population group called "The Celts" has been constructed from antiquity to the present. We study the linguistic, archaeological, genetic, mythological, literary and institutional bases of "Celticity" in the light of recent critiques of the ways in which these different kinds of evidence have been asked to walk hand in hand with one another in the service of certainty about Celtic identity. // All texts are read in translation. N Catherine McKenna fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 106 The Folklore of Gaelic Scotland Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the oral traditions of Gaelic Scotland and Nova Scotia, including narrative and song. The process of collecting is explored, and various folkloristic theories and approaches applied in order to gain a deeper understanding of the material. No knowledge of Gaelic required. N Simon Roy Innes fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 109 The Finn Cycle Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the 'sprawling forest' of Gaelic literature from Ireland and Scotland surrounding Finn mac Cumaill (otherwise known as Finn MacCool). Finn is variously portrayed as a hunter-warrior-seer and is the leader of the intrepid fiana war-band. We survey this Fenian literature as it is presented to us by medieval and early modern Gaelic manuscript tradition. We also engage with the rich modern Fenian folklore of Scotland, Ireland and Nova Scotia. This includes the study of important texts such as Acallam na Senorach ('The Dialogue of the Ancients') and Toraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghrainne ('The Pursuit of Diarmait and Grainne'). We also consider the impact of this literature on the rest of Europe by examining the English-language-works published by James MacPherson in the 1760s and the ensuing Ossian controversy. All readings in English translation. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 114 Early Irish Historical Tales Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to early Irish story-material about legendary and historical persons and events. Attitudes to kingship and views of history in the tales are explored. All texts are read in English translation. N Tomas O Cathasaigh fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 118 The Gaelic World: 12th Century to 17th Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the history and culture of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, with particular attention to Gaelic literary sources and outsiders' views of the Gaels. All readings in English translation. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 119 The Gaelic World: 17th Century to the Present Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the later history and culture of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, with particular attention to Gaelic literary sources and outsiders' views of the Gaels. Language decline and revitalization efforts are also explored. All readings in English translation. N Simon Roy Innes fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 137 Celtic Mythology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the sources for the study of Celtic mythology, with special attention to selected texts from early Ireland and Wales. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. All texts are read in English translation. N Tomas O Cathasaigh fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 138 Narrative Traditions of Medieval Wales Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Welsh Arthurian romances and tales, and the bardic lore associated with them, in the context of the literary culture of Wales in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. All texts are read in English translation. N Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 151 The Literature of Medieval Celtic Christianity: The Hagiographical Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of selected texts associated with medieval saints' cults in Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Scotland, including saints' lives, voyage and vision narratives, hymns, prayers and poetry, in the context of the history of Christianity in the Celtic lands. All texts are read in English translation. N Catherine McKenna fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 184 The Tain Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the exuberant Irish prose epic Tain Bo Cuailnge (`Cattle-Raid of Cooley'). Text read in English translation. N Tomas O Cathasaigh fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 194 Celtic Bards and Their Poems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the role of the bard, or professional poet, in the Celtic-speaking societies of Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Through the study of narrative sources concerning the origin and nature of poets and poetry, theoretical and legal texts, and, most especially, bardic poems from the early Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, we examine the physical, public and political power of a medium-poetic verse-now associated with "power" in the private and emotional sense only. We study bardic poems in various modes - eulogistic, satiric, commemorative, prophetic - and we examine the circumstances that support the institution of bardic poetry and those that contribute to its decline. Among the issues to be considered are patronage, convention, the relationship of rhetoric and truth, and the functions of poetic form. All readings in English translation, but there will be some exposure to the forms of bardic poetry in the original languages. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. All texts are read in English translation. N Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 195 Modern Scottish Gaelic Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the interplay between innovation and tradition in Scottish Gaelic literature, and in particular poetry, since the nineteenth century. Topics include poetry of place, war poetry and contemporary poetry. No knowledge of Gaelic required. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 222 The Gaelic Manuscript Tradition Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course explores the central role of Gaelic manuscripts for Celtic Studies. We examine form, content and usage while also considering historical context. Practice with traditional and non-traditional Gaelic hands form an important part of this course. We cover a wide range of periods and Gaelic manuscript traditions; from the earliest Irish glosses to early modern Scottish and Irish manuscripts. Issues to be explored include: transmission, patronage, scribal practice and modern editorial methodology. Some knowledge of either Irish or Scottish Gaelic (of any period). Students with a knowledge of Latin may be admitted in consultation with the course instructor. N Simon Roy Innes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Simon Roy Innes Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna Simon Roy Innes Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna fall term; repeated spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic 305 Preparation of Doctoral Dissertation Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna Tomas O Cathasaigh Catherine McKenna fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 132 Introduction to Modern Irish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to Irish as it is spoken and written today. Class work is participatory, and includes conversational role play and games as well as grammar study and drills. Audio and audiovisual resources reinforce pronunciation and aural comprehension. Songs, proverbs, and poems are an integral part of the course, introducing students to the vibrant oral and literary tradition of Gaelic Ireland. The combination of Celtic 132 and 133r satisfies the language requirement. It is recommended in any case that this course be followed by Celtic 133r. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 133 r Intermediate Modern Irish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Celtic 132, developing students' fluency in spoken and written Irish. As our knowledge of the language expands, we venture into storytelling, journal writing and writing and performing short skits. Internet, audio and video resources complement the study of grammar and select prose texts. Celtic 132 or permission of instructor. This course, when taken following Celtic 132, satisfies the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Simon Roy Innes fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 160 Advanced Modern Irish Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Geared to the interests and aptitudes of the participants, this course enhances students' confidence in using Irish as a medium of oral and written communication and introduces them to the Gaelic literary tradition. Celtic 133r or permission of instructor. It is suggested that this course be followed by Celtic 161. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 161 Continuing Advanced Modern Irish Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M. through W., F., at 12 Simon R. Innes and others Continuation of the fall term course. Celtic 160 or permission of instructor. N Simon Roy Innes fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 200 Introduction to Old Irish Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the language of the eighth and ninth centuries, with elementary readings in prose texts. It is suggested that this course be followed by Celtic 201. N Tomas O Cathasaigh spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 201 Continuing Old Irish Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Further grammatical study, with continued reading of saga texts. Celtic 200 or permission of the instructor. N Tomas O Cathasaigh fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 204 r Readings in Early Irish Poetry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in selected texts. Celtic 200 or permission of the instructor. N Tomas O Cathasaigh spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Irish 205 r Readings in Early Irish Prose Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in selected texts. Celtic 200 or permission of the instructor. N Tomas O Cathasaigh fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Scottish Gaelic 130 Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) as it is spoken and written today. This course surveys the grammar while also emphasizing practice in speaking the language. This class is highly participatory; students are encouraged to take part in a range of communicative activities which enhance oral/aural ability. Translation exercises develop skills in the written language. A range of audio/ audiovisual materials and online resources is used to support student learning. Some attention is also given to the rich Gaelic song tradition, where it can assist with specific language points. The combination of Celtic 130 followed by Celtic 131 satisfies the language requirement. It is recommended in any case that this course be followed by Celtic 131. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Simon Roy Innes spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Scottish Gaelic 131 Intermediate Scottish Gaelic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Direct continuation of the fall term course Celtic 130. Celtic 130 or equivalent. This course, when taken following Celtic 130, satisfies the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Simon Roy Innes fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 128 Introduction to Modern Welsh Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the Welsh language as spoken and written today, designed for those with little or no prior knowledge of this vibrant Celtic language. Intensive conversation practice is provided, and students learn to write fluently. Internet, audio and video exercises using dialogue, music and film augment a contextualized grammatical survey, and use of authentic literary texts increases as the course progresses. The combination of Celtic 128 followed by Celtic 129r satisfies the language requirement. It is recommended in any case that this course be followed by Celtic 129r. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 129 r Intermediate Modern Welsh Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Direct continuation of Celtic 128, developing and deepening students' knowledge of, and skill in, the modern spoken and written language. By the end of the semester students will be able to converse, read and write in a number of registers of idiomatic Welsh (academic, literary, informal). Various media, featuring dialogue, music and film, augment the advanced grammatical survey. Central cultural and historical issues are discussed. Celtic 128 or permission of instructor. This course, when taken following Celtic 128, satisfies the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Catherine McKenna fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 225 a Medieval Welsh Language and Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the language and culture of medieval Wales, with particular attention to narrative prose literature and its Celtic, Welsh and Norman contexts. By the end of the term we will have read in the original one of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and selections from other texts. It is suggested that this course be followed by Celtic 225b. N Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 225 b Medieval Welsh Poetry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to Welsh poetry down to 1400. Continued study of grammar and practice in translation, as well as an introduction to the manuscript sources of the poetry and their cultural contexts, and the intricacies of medieval Welsh poetics. Celtic 225a or equivalent preparation in Middle Welsh. N Catherine McKenna fall term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 226 r Readings in Middle Welsh Prose Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An exploration of the enormous variety of medieval Welsh prose literature: selections from tales and romances, chronicles, laws, and lore. Celtic 225b or permission of the instructor. N Catherine McKenna spring term Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Celtic Languages and Literatures Welsh 227 Seminar: Welsh Bardic Poetry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings from the hengerdd, the beirdd y tywysogion and the beirdd yr uchelwyr; consideration of the social and political contexts of their poetry, its forms, and its relationship to other medieval European poetic traditions. Knowledge of Welsh or permission of the instructor. N Catherine McKenna fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 201 Introduction to Scientific computing with Python and Matlab Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This course is targeted at scientists who have little or no experience with computer programming or computational techniques for data processing, analysis, algorithm/model development, or visualization. Participants will be equipped with the tools to integrate disparate data sources, analyze data, and produce publication-quality graphics. Foundations in computer programming and scripting will also be covered. The course will primarily utilize Python, with some topics using Matlab. N Dr Ian Stokes-Rees Piotr Sliz spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 207 Molecular Approaches to Drug Action, Discovery, and Design Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 3:30-5:30 Donald M. Coen (Medical School), Nathanael Gray (Medical School), Suzanne Walker (Medical School), Timothy J. Mitchison (Medical School) and members of the Committee Application of molecular, systems, and structural biology, genetics, genomics, enzymology, and chemistry to drug action and development of new therapies. Analyzes molecular underpinnings of pharmacological principles. Examples drawn from diseases including cancer and AIDS. N Donald Coen Suzanne Walker Timothy Mitchison Nathanael Schiander Gray full year Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 300 hf Introduction to Chemical Biology Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Lectures introduce the research areas of current program faculty in Chemical Biology. Y Suzanne Walker Suzanne Walker fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 350 Chemical Biology Research Laboratory Research Graduate Course Half course Upper level Chemical Biology students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI. Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 370 Advanced Topics in Chemical Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Two seminars, which can taken in different terms, are required for credit. Y Daniel Kahne Suzanne Walker Daniel Kahne Suzanne Walker fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 399 Introduction to Laboratory Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course This course is intended for Chemical Biology lab rotations. Y Suzanne Walker Daniel Kahne Suzanne Walker Daniel Kahne spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Chemical Biology Chemical Biology Chemical Biology 2200 Introduction to Chemical Biology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 This course will provide a survey of major topics, technologies, and themes in Chemical Biology, with hands-on exposure to a variety of experimental approaches. Intended for first-year graduate students in the Chemical Biology Program; permission of the instructor required for all others. Y James Elliott Bradner Ralph Mazitschek fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Undergraduate Degrees in Chemical and Physical Biology Chemical and Physical Biology Chemical and Physical Biology 91 r Introduction to Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Laboratory research in topics related to the CPB concentration under the direction of, or approved by, members of the Board of Tutors in CPB. A paper must be submitted to the laboratory sponsor and to the CPB Student Affairs Office for review by the Head Tutor and Course Director. Limited to CPB concentrators; written permission of both the tutor and laboratory sponsor must be submitted to the CPB Concentration Office prior to enrolling in the course. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. Y Thomas Torello Thomas Torello full year Committee on Undergraduate Degrees in Chemical and Physical Biology Chemical and Physical Biology Chemical and Physical Biology 99 Laboratory Research for Honors Thesis Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For honors candidates writing a thesis in CPB. Indivisible for students enrolling in the fall term. Students intending to enroll in the fall are required to submit a written proposal to the Course Director. Students may enter the course at midyear only with the permission of the Course Director. The thesis proposal must be approved by the Course Director and Head Tutors prior to enrolling in CPB 99. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. Y Thomas Torello Thomas Torello fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 17 Principles of Organic Chemistry Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to organic chemistry, with an emphasis on structure and bonding, reaction mechanisms, and chemical reactivity. Open to freshmen with a score of 750 or higher in the College Boards or the Chemistry Placement Examination; to students who scored 4 or 5 on the Chemistry Advanced Placement Examination; and to students who achieved a grade of B or higher in either Physical Sciences 1 or another college-level introductory chemistry course. Others may enter only by permission of the instructor. The Chemistry 17/27 sequence is intended primarily for students in the life sciences, who have completed LS1a and PS1. The Chemistry 20/30 sequence is intended primarily for students planning a concentration in Chemistry or the physical sciences. Either sequence satisfies the organic chemistry requirement for medical school. Students may not count both Chemistry 17 and Chemistry 20 for degree credit. On the other hand, Chemistry 27 and Chemistry 30 cover different material, so students may choose to take both courses for degree credit; students should ordinarily take the third half course only after completing either the 17/27 or 20/30 sequence. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Eric N. Jacobsen spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 20 Organic Chemistry Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to structure and bonding in organic molecules; mechanisms of organic reactions; chemical transformations of the functional groups of organic chemistry; synthesis; determination of chemical structures by infrared and NMR spectroscopy. Open to students who scored 4 or 5 on the Chemistry Advanced Placement Examination, or who earned an A or A- grade in Life Sciences 1A or Life and Physical Sciences A. Others should contact the instructor to discuss their preparation. Chemistry 20/30 is an integrated two-semester sequence that prepares students to study chemistry and other physical sciences, whereas the Chemistry 17/27 sequence focuses on application of organic chemistry concepts to the life sciences. Either sequence satisfies the organic chemistry requirement for medical school and the chemistry concentration. The content of Chemistry 17 is accelerated and overlaps with topics from both Chemistry 20 and 30. Students may not count both Chemistry 17 and 20 toward the degree. However, Chemistry 27 and Chemistry 20/30 cover different material, so students may choose to take Chemistry 27 after completing the 20/30 sequence. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Ryan Michael Spoering spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 27 Organic Chemistry of Life Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Chemical principles that govern the processes driving living systems are illustrated with examples drawn from biochemistry, cell biology, and medicine. The course deals with organic chemical reactivity (reaction mechanisms, structure-reactivity relationships), with matters specifically relevant to the life sciences (chemistry of proteins, nucleic acids, drugs, natural products, cofactors, signal transduction), and with applications of chemical biology to medicine and biotechnology. An understanding of organic reactions and their "arrow" pushing mechanisms is required. Chemistry 17 or Chemistry 30 or Chemistry 20 with permission of the instructor. Chemistry 27 and 30 may both be taken for degree credit. See note for Chemistry 17. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science A. N George M. Whitesides fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 30 Organic Chemistry Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Chemistry 20. Fundamental principles and advanced topics in organic chemistry. Carbonyl chemistry and pericyclic reactions are covered in particular detail, using principles of stereochemistry, stereoelectronic theory, and molecular orbital theory as a foundation. Students learn about strategies in multi-step organic synthesis and are given an introduction into organometallic chemistry. Laboratory: an introduction to organic chemistry laboratory techniques and experimental organic synthesis. Chemistry 20 or equivalent. Chemistry 27 and 30 may both be taken for degree credit. See note for Chemistry 17. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Andrew G. Myers spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 40 Inorganic Chemistry Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., F., at 9 Theodore A. Betley An introduction to basic concepts of inorganic chemistry. Develops principles of chemical bonding and molecular structure on a basis of symmetry, applying these concepts to coordination chemistry (highlighting synthesis), organometallic chemistry (applications to catalysis), materials synthesis, and bioinorganic processes. Chemistry 17 or 20. N Theodore A. Betley fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 60 Foundations of Physical Chemistry Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A compact introduction to major principles of physical chemistry (statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics ), concurrently providing mathematical and physical foundations for these subjects and preparation for Chemistry 160 and 161. Physical Sciences 1 or equivalent; completion or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 21a or Applied Mathematics 21a; completion or concurrent enrollment in Physics 11a or equivalent. N Roy G. Gordon fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 91 r Introduction to Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Reading and/or laboratory work related to one of the research projects under way in the department. Open to a limited number of chemistry concentrators who are accepted as research students without having taken Chemistry 98. Written permission of the sponsor must be filed at the Office of the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry. Any student enrolling in this course must register the name of his or her research mentor with the course head whose signature must appear on each student's study card. Y Gregory Tucci Eric N. Jacobsen Gregory Tucci fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 98 r Introduction to Research-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Research under the direction of, or approved by, a member of the faculty of the Department of Chemistry. Open with permission of the instructor to junior chemistry majors who have satisfactorily completed the non-credit Introduction to Research Tutorial in the spring term of the sophomore year. In that non-credit spring term tutorial, taught Tu., Th., 1-2:30, students will attend introductory lectures and research seminars in order to acquaint themselves with departmental research programs. In the junior year, students who complete the non-credit tutorial and obtain placement in a research laboratory will undertake research as Chemistry 98r. Written permission of the research adviser must be filed at the office of the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry. Any student enrolling in this course must register the name of his or her research mentor with the course head whose signature must appear on each student's study card. Y Gregory Tucci Gregory Tucci fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 99 r Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Research under the direction of, or approved by, a member of the faculty of the Department of Chemistry. Open to seniors accredited by the Department as honors candidates. Students enrolled in Chem 99r have the option of writing a thesis. Written permission of the research adviser must be filed at the office of the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry. Any student enrolling in this course must register the name of his or her research mentor with the course head whose signature must appear on each student's study card. Y Gregory Tucci Gregory Tucci fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 100 Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A laboratory course where students carry out research. Projects will be drawn directly from faculty covering a range of methodologies in chemistry and chemical biology. Students will discuss their progress and write formal reports. Chemistry 30 or Chemistry 27, and permission of the instructor. Open to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, regardless of concentration, and suitable for students either with or without extensive laboratory experience. Y Ryan Michael Spoering Ryan Michael Spoering fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 101 Organic Synthesis Towards a Genomic Medicine Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Organic Synthesis Towards a Genomic Medicine teaches advanced students in chemistry and chemical biology: 1) the principles that underlie modern organic synthesis, chemical biology and genome biology, and 2) the resulting development of a new interdisciplinary field -- genomic medicine. Genomic medicine aims to understand human biology and to transform human health by using small molecules that target the root causes of disease. For example, the course will explore how organic synthesis is enabling patient-based drug discovery, where genetic signatures of disease are related to drug sensitivity in the context of cancer, diabetes, infectious disease and psychiatric disease, among others. Chemistry 17/27, Chemistry 20/30, or the equivalent N Stuart L. Schreiber fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 106 Advanced Organic Chemistry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will survey modern organic chemistry from a fundamental perspective. The foundations of structure and bonding, donor-acceptor interactions, and conformational analysis will be considered in the context of pericyclic reactions and cyclic and acyclic stereocontrol. The behavior of reactive intermediates, the basis for enantioselective catalysis, and patterns in functional group reactivity will also be discussed. Chemistry 30 or permission of instructor. Y Eugene Elliott Kwan fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 115 Advanced Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of Complex Molecules Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An integrated course in complex synthetic problem solving that focuses on the development of principles and strategies for synthesis design with a concurrent, comprehensive review of modern synthetic transformations. A grade of A in Chemistry 30. Y Matthew Shair spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 117 Practical NMR Spectroscopy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the application of modern NMR spectroscopic techniques to the structural elucidation of small molecules. Both the practical and theoretical aspects of 1D and 2D NMR experiments will be explored. Topics include: the chemical shift; coupling constants; the nuclear Overhauser effect and relaxation; chemical exchange; 2D homonuclear and heteronuclear correlation; analysis of complex molecules with overlapping signals and data tabulation; analysis of reactive intermediates; kinetics by NMR; the Fourier transform; quadrature detection; phase-sensitive detection; the vector model; the density matrix and the product operator formalism; pulsed field gradients; and spectrometer instrumentation. Chem 17/27 or 20/30 or equivalent. The course is designed for organic chemists who do not have an extensive math or physics background. In fact, no prior knowledge of NMR spectroscopy is assumed. It is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students. N Eugene Elliott Kwan spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 135 Experimental Synthetic Chemistry Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to experimental problems encountered in the synthesis, isolation, purification, characterization, and identification of inorganic and organic compounds. Students work on projects in chemical synthesis, encouraging technical proficiency and simulating actual research. Preference given to concentrators in Chemistry. Recommended as an efficient preparation for research in experimental inorganic and organic chemistry and related sciences such as biochemistry and pharmacology. Normally follows Chemistry 27 or 30 and is strongly recommended as preparation for Chemistry 98r and 99r. N Ryan Michael Spoering Eugene Elliott Kwan fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 153 Organotransition Metal Chemistry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to transition metal-mediated chemistry. Topics include organometallic reaction mechanisms and transition metal catalysis in synthesis. Design, development, and presentation of research ideas, relevant to contemporary catalysis and the current literature will be taught as part of the course. Primarily for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in chemistry. N Tobias Ritter spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 154 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Transition element chemistry will be discussed with an emphasis on synthesis, structure, bonding, and reaction mechanisms. Connections between molecular structure and electronic structure and how that parlays into reactivity will be emphasized throughout. Advanced problems of interest to inorganic chemistry will be discussed in the context of catalysis, organometallics, and bioinorganic processes. The course will be discussion driven with a heavy reliance on the current literature. N Theodore A. Betley spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 156 Chemistry of Positron Emission Tomography Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will provide exposure to translational imaging from a unique chemical perspective. The focus of the course will be radiotracer chemistry but additional topcs such as imaging physics, imaging equipment, and probe design based on biology, pharmacokinetics, and image analysis will be covered. Students will leave the course with working knowledge of radiotracer design and human translational imaging. One year of Organic Chemistry. Laboratory sessions may be arranged. N Dr Jacob M Hooker spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 158 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Topics include: bottom-up versus top-down paradigms; synthesis and fabrication of zero-, one-and two-dimensional materials; physical properties of nanostructures, including electronic and optical properties; hierarchical organization in two and three dimensions; functional devices circuits and nanosystems; applications with emphasis on nano-bio interface and electronics. Chemistry 40, or equivalent. For advanced undergraduate and graduate students. N Charles M. Lieber fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 160 Physical Chemistry Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to modern theories of the structure of matter, including the principles of quantum mechanics, the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, chemical bonding, and atomic and molecular spectra. The course will offer an introduction to the practical aspects of modern computational quantum chemistry methods such as density functional theory. Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, Mathematics 21a and 21b, or equivalent preparation in calculus and differential equations; Physical Sciences 1 or equivalent preparation in chemical bonding and fundamental principles; Physical Sciences 2 or Physics 11a, and Physical Sciences 3 or Physics 11b. N Eric J. Heller spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 161 Statistical Thermodynamics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics with applications to problems in chemistry and biology. Chemistry 160 or Phys 143a, or equivalent. Math 21a, or equivalent. N Xiaowei Zhuang fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 163 Frontiers in Biophysics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Emerging physical tools are changing the way biological problems are addressed. This interdisciplinary course will introduce new experimental advances, microscopy and spectroscopy in particular, together with underlying principles, in molecular and cellular biophysics. Chemistry 160, Chemistry 161, or permission of the instructor. Primarily for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students with either biological or physical backgrounds. N Xiaoliang Sunney Xie spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 165 Experimental Physical Chemistry Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hands-on introduction to physical methods and techniques used widely in chemistry and chemical physics research laboratories. Computer-based methods of data acquisition and analysis are used throughout. Chemistry 7, or Physical Sciences 1, or equivalent; Applied Mathematics 21a or Mathematics 21a; one full course in physics or equivalent. Recommended: Chem 160, Physics 143a or similar, a course in Quantum Mechanics. Recommended as an efficient preparation for research in experimental chemistry, chemical physics, engineering sciences, and related disciplines. Y Conor L. Evans fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 170 Chemical Biology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Applying chemical approaches to problems in biology. Topics include: protein engineering and directed evolution; RNA catalysis and gene regulation; chemical genetics, genomics, and proteomics; drug action and resistance; rational and combinatorial approaches to drug discovery; metabolic engineering. A strong background in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Y Alan Saghatelian spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 171 Biological Synthesis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will examine synthesis from a biological perspective, focusing on how organisms construct and manipulate metabolites, as well as how biological catalysts and systems can be used for small molecule production. Topics to be covered include mechanistic enzymology, biosynthetic pathways and logic, biocatalysis, protein engineering, and synthetic biology. N Emily Patricia Balskus spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 185 Human Disease Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will address both the molecular basis of human disease, and the biological and chemical foundation of therapeutic intervention. The course will include lectures by prominent experts, and analysis of the primary literature. Chemistry 20/30 or 17/27, Life Sciences 52 or their equivalents. May not be taken concurrently with MCB 185. May not be taken for credit if MCB 185 or Chem 285 has already been taken. Credit cannot also be received for MCB 185. Y Gregory Verdine fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 190 Statistical Mechanics in Chemistry and Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will cover interdisciplinary aspects of Chemistry and Biology where Statistical Mechanics played a pivotal role. Topics include: Polymers in solution and condensed phases, equilibrium and dynamics of self-assembly -layers and micelles, protein folding, structure and bioinformatics, reaction dynamics on complex energy landscapes, dynamic and evolution of complex networks. Chem 161or Physics 181 or equivalent. N Eugene Shakhnovich spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 205 Advanced Physical Organic Chemistry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An in-depth perspective on mechanistic organic chemistry, with analysis of fundamental organic and organotransition metal reaction mechanisms, reactive intermediates, catalysis, stereochemistry, non-covalent interactions, and molecular recognition. Classical and modern tools of physical-organic chemistry, including reaction kinetics, computer modeling, isotope effects, and linear free-energy relationships will be evaluated in the context of literature case studies. Chem 206 or an equivalent upper-level course in organic chemistry, and Chem 160/161 or an equivalent sequence in physical chemistry; or permission of the instructor. N Eric N. Jacobsen fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 207 Advanced Organic Synthesis and Reactions Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course presents reactivity principles of organic molecules. Topics include frontier molecular orbital theory, stereoelectronic effects, conformational analysis, cationic, anionic, radical, and carbene intermediates. These reactivity principles are used in a presentation of target-oriented synthesis. Strategies and tactics for assembling complex organic molecules are presented. Undergraduates must take Chem 30 as a prerequisite. N Matthew Shair fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 240 Statistical Thermodynamics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics with strong emphasis on applications to problems in chemistry and biology. Topics include: thermodynamics and statistical properties of gases, liquids and crystals, critical phenomena, elements of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications to Chemistry and Biophysics such as theories for biopolymers and chemical reactions. Chemistry 160 and Chemistry 161, or permission of instructor. Y Eugene Shakhnovich fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 242 Quantum Mechanics for Physical Chemistry Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Review of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics: Hilbert spaces, operator algebra, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and interaction pictures. Approximate methods of solution of the Schrodinger equation: Perturbation, mean-field theories and the variational principle. Theory of chemical bonding: Effective Hamiltonian theories and molecular orbital theory. Symmetry and spectroscopy: Electronic, vibrational and NMR spectroscopy. Time-dependent quantum phenomena and its applications to chemical reaction dynamics: transition state theory and Marcus theory of electron transfer. Theory and applications of modern molecular electronic structure: Hartree Fock theory, density functional theory and Moller-Plesset Perturbation theory. Chemistry 160 or Physics 143, Physics 11 or 12, and Applied Mathematics 105a and 105b, or Mathematics 21, or equivalent. Y Roy G. Gordon spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 243 Applied Quantum Mechanics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course The course will cover the application of quantum mechanical principles to contemporary problems in chemistry and physics. The topics covered in the course will include: chemical bonding and the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, atom/molecule-photon interaction (including second quantization and the dressed-state approach), Quantum Optics, and solid-state and nano-science (band theory, Fermi liquid theory, and electron transport). Two semesters of quantum mechanics (Chemistry 160 / Chemistry 242, or Physics 143a / 143b, or equivalent). Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in chemistry, physics, and applied physics. Y Hongkun Park spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 245 Classical, Quantum, and Semiclassical Dynamics and Scattering Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics taken from advanced classical mechanics which specifically tie into a better understanding of quantum mechanics, including quantum and semiclassical scattering theory, and quantum and semiclassical dynamics, semiclassical propagators, Feynman path intergral, chaos and quantum chaos, underpinnings of statistical mechanics, quantum tunneling and decoherence, semiclassical theory of spectroscopy, plus topics by agreement with the class. Take Home exams. N Eric J. Heller spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 255 Practical Crystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Due to great technical advances, crystal structure analysis plays an increasingly important role in the structure determination of complex solids. This course involves the basic principles of crystallography and covers advanced aspects of practical crystal structure refinement. Topics include crystal symmetry, space groups, geometry of diffraction, structure factors, and structure refinement. Students will gain a working knowledge of x-ray crystallographic techniques, including how to: grow quality crystals, collect data, reduce data, determine a structure, visualize structure, utilize structural databases, publish crystallographic results. Chemistry 40 or equivalent. N Shao-Liang Zheng spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 267 Surface and Interfacial Phenomena Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course General principles governing surface and interfacial phenomena are developed using treatment of surface electronic and geometric structure as a foundation. The course will treat both theoretical and experimental tools for the investigation of surface structure. Selected spectroscopic techniques will also be treated, with emphasis on surface phenomena. The latter part of the course will develop principles of absorption, reaction, and growth phenomena illustrated through current literature topics. Chemistry 160 and 161 or equivalent; Applied Mathematics 21a or Mathematics 21a; one full course in physics or equivalent. Recommended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Chemistry, Applied Physics, and related areas with interest in Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Surface Chemistry, Applied Physics, and other areas dependent on properties and behavior of interfaces. N Cynthia Friend fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 300 Research and Reading Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work under the supervision of members of the Department. Y James G. Anderson James G. Anderson full year Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 301 hf Scientific Teaching and Communications: Practicum Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course This course will teach graduate students how to communicate scientific concepts in the classroom. Students will focus on becoming effective teachers in discussion sections and in the laboratory. The course will emphasize hands-on experience in teaching and explaining scientific concepts. Required of all first-year graduate students in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Y Gregory Tucci Ryan Michael Spoering Matthew Shair Gregory Tucci Ryan Michael Spoering Matthew Shair fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 302 Organometallic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric N. Jacobsen Eric N. Jacobsen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 303 Organic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Evans David A. Evans fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 311 Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 315 Photochemistry and Kinetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James G. Anderson James G. Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 318 Organic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y George M. Whitesides George M. Whitesides fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 320 Chemical Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Emily Patricia Balskus Emily Patricia Balskus fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 323 Organic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stuart L. Schreiber Stuart L. Schreiber fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 325 Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Cynthia Friend Cynthia Friend fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 330 Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Adam Ezra Cohen Adam Ezra Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 331 Approaches Toward Understanding and Treating Human Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gregory Verdine Gregory Verdine fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 336 Physical and Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roy G. Gordon Roy G. Gordon fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 340 Inorganic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Theodore A. Betley Theodore A. Betley fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 350 Theoretical Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eugene Shakhnovich Eugene Shakhnovich fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 386 Theoretical Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Alan Aspuru-Guzik Alan Aspuru-Guzik fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 387 Organic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Matthew Shair Matthew Shair fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 388 Organic Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew G. Myers Andrew G. Myers fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 389 Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Xiaoliang Sunney Xie fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 391 Physical Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Hongkun Park Hongkun Park fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 393 Physical Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 396 Organic Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Kahne Daniel Kahne fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 397 Organic Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Suzanne Walker Suzanne Walker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 398 Organic and Organometallic Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tobias Ritter Tobias Ritter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry 399 Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Alan Saghatelian Alan Saghatelian fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Life and Physical Sciences A Foundational Chemistry and Biology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course introduces fundamental concepts in chemistry and biology. Topics in chemistry include stoichiometry, acids and bases, aqueous solutions, gases, thermochemistry, electrons in atoms, and chemical bonding. Topics in biology include the transfer of information from DNA to RNA to protein, genetic inheritance, mitosis and meiosis, and cell structure. Students should use their scores on the Chemistry and Biology Placement Tests to determine whether to enroll in Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a. This course assumes fluency with high school algebra. Students who have completed Life Sciences 1a, Physical Sciences 1, Chemistry 17 or Chemistry 20 may not take Life and Physical Sciences A for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education Requirement for Science of Living Systems. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Science A or Science B, but not both. N Gregory Tucci Tamara Jane Brenner Sirinya Matchacheep spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Physical Sciences 1 Chemical Bonding, Energy, and Reactivity: An Introduction to the Physical Sciences Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course covers the chemistry and physics underlying molecular phenomena in the world around you. Starting from a single electron, we will build up to atoms, molecules, and materials. We will study interactions of molecules through thermochemistry, equilibria, entropy and free energy, acids and bases, electrochemistry, and kinetics. We will apply these concepts to (1) world energy demands and global climate change (2) application of physical principles in biology, and (3) modern materials and technology. A few operations of calculus are developed and used. Fluency in pre-calculus secondary school mathematics is assumed. Students are expected to have AP or honors level high school chemistry, or have completed Life and Physical Sciences A (LPS A) with a satisfactory grade. This course is part of an integrated introduction to the physical science intended for students who plan to pursue a concentration in the physical or life sciences and/or satisfy pre-medical requirements in Chemistry. May not be counted toward a degree in addition to the former Chemistry 7. Students interested in Physical Sciences 1 should take the Chemistry Placement Exam. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N Hongkun Park Alan Aspuru-Guzik fall term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Physical Sciences 10 Chemistry: A Microscopic Perspective on Molecules, Materials, and Life Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the fundamental theories of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics and their role in governing the behavior of matter. The course begins with the quantum behavior of a single electron and develops the elements of the periodic table, the nature of the chemical bond, and the bulk properties of materials. Applications include seminconductor electronics, solar energy conversion, medical imaging, and the stability and dynamism of living systems. Calculus will be used extensively. A strong background in chemistry (Chemistry AP score of 5, or Physical Sciences 1, or equivalent preparation), mathematics at the level of Mathematics 1b (may be taken concurrently), and some familiarity with physics (force, energy, work, and electric charge). Physical Sciences 10 and Physical Sciences 11 may be taken in any order. The general chemistry requirement for medical school can be satisfied with any two of the following courses: Life and Physical Sciences A, Life Sciences 1a, Physical Sciences 1, Physical Sciences 10, or Physical Sciences 11. N Adam Ezra Cohen Logan Stewart McCarty spring term Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chemistry and Chemical Biology Physical Sciences 11 Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry: A Molecular and Global Perspective Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The Physical Sciences hold the key to solving unprecedented problems at the intersection of science, technology, and an array of rapidly emerging global scale challenges. The course emphasizes a molecular scale understanding of energy and entropy; free energy in equilibria, acid/base reactivity, and electrochemistry; molecular bonding and kinetics; catalysis in organic and inorganic systems; the union of quantum mechanics, nanostructures, and photovoltaics; and the analysis of nuclear energy. Case studies are used both to develop quantitative reasoning and to directly link these principles to global strategies. A strong background in chemistry. Students are expected to have had Honors or AP-level high school chemistry preparation or a placement score of 650 or better on the Harvard Chemistry Placement exam. A few operations of calculus are developed and used. Fluency in pre-calculus secondary school mathematics is assumed. Physical Sciences 10 and Physical Sciences 11 may be taken in any order. The general chemistry requirement for medical students can be satisfied with any two of the following courses: Life and Physical Sciences A, Life Sciences 1a, Physical Sciences 1, Physical Sciences 10, or Physical Sciences 11. N James G. Anderson Gregory Tucci fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 211 Mysticism and Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Trends and debates in the comparative study of mystical literature. Primary works by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Also modern authors (Borges, Eliot) and literary theorists (DeCerteau). Permission of instructor required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3802. Y Luis M. Giron Negron spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 214 Islandology: Isolating Definitions and Defining Islands Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Islands, both a part of and apart from the main, offer ready-made laboratories for linguistic, biological and political investigation; islandness as such encourages national literature, philosophy, and vacation. Our seminar focuses on fictional islands as well as Canadian ice floes, Hormuz (Persia),Maine islets, and urban Venice. Aristotle, Plato, Darwin,Melville, Hesiod, Homer, Rabelais, More, Shakespeare, and Flaherty (director). N Marc Shell spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 215 Comparative Literature and Intellectual History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines implications of intellectual history for comparative literature, especially in regard to epistemology, methodology, aesthetics, and dynamics of historical influence and change. Authors include: Vico, Hegel, Cassirer, Blumenberg, Gadamer, Foucault, Skinner, Eco, Deleuze, and Agamben. N Christopher D. Johnson fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 225 Literature of War and Peace: Imagining and Representing the End of World War II in Europe Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course How were the last phase of the war and the beginning of the postwar era represented in novels, films, letters, diaries, reportage, wire recordings, and research notes by scholars from 1945 to 1955? How do later popular images of the period differ? This course examines such questions with a focus on the American occupation of West Germany. N Werner Sollors spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 227 Comparative Modernism Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of major works of modernist fiction in global context, going from early and 'high' modernism to late modernism and its aftermath, together with critical and theoretical readings on modernism and modernity. Readings in Baudelaire, Rilke, Lu Xun, Bely, Proust, Barnes, Kafka, Asturias, Zhang Ailing, Yourcenar, and Mishima. N David Damrosch fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 230 The Poetics of Empire: Colonization, Translation, and Literary Rewriting Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores how (post)colonial writers from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and writers from (former) imperial powers have reconfigured one another's literatures. Rethinks concepts of world literature and cultural negotiation. N Karen Laura Thornber fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 240 Paradoxes of the Secular-Sacred in Modernism Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines secular modernism's paradoxical attraction to mystery, transcendent and transformative experience in the context of its obsession with difficulty, with puzzles, riddles, unanswered-and often unanswerable-questions and quests for their solutions. Readings including Woolf, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Forster, Adorno, William James, Benjamin, Derrida, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein. N Karen Zumhagen-Yekple spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 242 Text, Image, Public Sphere Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The course examines relationship between verbal and visual communication in public realm through the analysis of literature, film, photography, architecture and public art. Focus on the new public media and on aesthetic and politics of the visual culture. Open to qualified undergraduates and GSD students N Svetlana Boym spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 245 Intertextuality Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores theories of intertextuality developed by Kristeva, Jauss, Bloom, Gilbert and Gubar, Genette, and others, and asks why the debates they have provoked have had such resonance in contemporary literary studies. A series of literary texts ranging from classical antiquity to the present will provide test cases for the various theories. Attention to such questions as influence, imitation, allusion, quotation, and plagiarism. N Judith L. Ryan spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 246 The Critic in Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This class will examine the interplay of scholarly analysis and cultural critique in a range of major modern critics and theorists, exploring their stylistic and essayistic strategies as they seek to find - or create - an audience for their ideas. Readings in Nietzsche, Foucault, Benjamin, Kobayashi, Woolf, Adorno, Barthes, Cixous, Said, Miyoshi, Minh-ha, Anzaldua, Penley, and Agamben. N David Damrosch spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 247 Baroque and Neo-Baroque Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the Baroque as a literary style, historical period, and mode of thought. Focuses on 17th century European, Colonial American, and contemporary "Neo-Baroque" texts. Analogies between the literary, visual, and musical arts are explored. Note: All readings available in translation, but students are encouraged to work in the original language. N Christopher D. Johnson spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 248 American Multilingual Literature in a Transnational Context Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This Longfellow Institute seminar works with original source materials in several different languages. Special focus is on the historiographic and critical treatment of non-Anglophone texts, on general and theoretical problems of an ongoing multilingual American tradition, on the recuperation and editing of texts, and on issues of translation. N Werner Sollors fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 250 Theories of Security Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigates the broader significance of the term "security" that has coursed through philosophical, literary and artistic productions across various historical and cultural traditions. Discussions address that which remains implicit, latent, or unthought in current political and governmental issues of security and biopolitics. Readings include: Sophocles, Plato, Seneca, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Heidegger, Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Virilio. N John T. Hamilton spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 251 Literary Criticism and Theory: Antiquity to the Renaissance Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An historical and critical examination of key issues and debates in poetic theory, rhetoric, and literary interpretation. Topics include mimesis, catharsis, expression, performance, allegoresis, typology, semiotics, hermeneutics, verisimilitude, genre, decorum, and the sublime. N John T. Hamilton fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 252 The Literatures of Medieval Iberia: Approaches and Debates in their Comparative Study Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The cultural interactions in premodern Spain between Muslims, Christians and Jews shaped the literary history of Arabic, Hebrew and the Ibero-Romance vernaculars. Our seminar examines selected scholarly debates on the comparative study of these literatures. N Luis M. Giron Negron fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 253 Literature, Art and Exile Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Does exile enable or stifle artistic creativity? How does the experience of exile shape the attitude towards local and global culture?The course examines forms of diasporic conscience in literature and visual arts focusing on the issues of estrangement and nostalgia, comparative modernities and exilic devices, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, immigrant aesthetic and conceptions of freedom. Special topic include America through the eyes of exile, text and image in the writing of the diaspora, reconsideration of the critical theory from the perspective of exile. Works by Nabokov. Brodsky, Cortazar, Borges, Arendt, Pamuk, Rushdie, Kis, Kafka. All texts are available in English but reading in the original languages is encouraged. N Svetlana Boym spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 254 Modernist Polemics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Modernism's theories of itself - manifestoes, polemics, strident declarations, urbane repudiations of the old-fashioned-tested against Modernist practice, in literature, music, and painting. I welcome students from disparate graduate programs in the university. N Daniel Albright spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 256 Archeology of Modernity and Visual Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Explores contradictions of the modern experience in literature, philosophy, arts and architecture. Topics for 2010: nostalgia and modernization, public freedom and cross-cultural memory, archeology and the creative mapping of the urban space, culture and politics. Special attention to the relationship between critical theory and creative practice. Reading from Benjamin, Simmel, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Kafka, Arendt, Certeau, Lyotard, Derrida. N Svetlana Boym fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 257 Trauma, Memory, and Creativity Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course We will examine classic and contemporary theories of psychic trauma in individual and collective contexts and explore the relations between trauma, resilience, play, and artistic innovation with special attention to modern literary autobiography; fiction; some attention to film and visual narrative. Good reading knowledge of at least one non-English language. Open to qualified juniors and seniors with permission of the instructor. Y Susan R. Suleiman fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 260 Renaissance and Baroque Drama Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Compares late Renaissance dramas by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, Racine, Moliere, Tirso de Molina, Calderon, Bruno, and Gryphius. Old and new critical approaches considered as well. Some knowledge of French, Italian, German, and/or Spanish helpful. N Christopher D. Johnson spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 261 Fragments of a Material History of Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Literary studies studied from the perspective of the practices that have shaped ideas concerning literature, writing, speech, and communication: from scrolls and codices to the rise of printing and typewriting to digital writing. N Jeffrey Schnapp spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 263 Journey, Exile, and Displacement in Modern Arabic Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The course examines narratives of journey, exile, and displacement in modern Arabic literature that trespass geographical, political and linguistic boundaries, and create new literary spaces that define and reshape modern Arab identities. Theoretical readings will include Pratt, Said, Rushdie and Kaplan. Arabic helpful but not required. Undergraduates welcome. N William Granara spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 264 Thinking and Writing Transculturally Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores approaches to transculturation in the production and evaluation of literature in light of new understandings of human and textual border-crossings. Topics include the ethics of dividing cultural products along ethnic, linguistic, and national lines on the one hand and classifying phenomena as global on the other, and the ramifications of cross-cultural comparison. We also examine the relationship between creative production and such topics as empire, travel/diaspora, translingualism, and literary reconfiguration. N Karen Laura Thornber spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 265 A World Lost, A World Regained: German Intellectuals in America Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will investigate the fruitful yet traumatic encounter between Europe and America in the works of German emigres to the United States in the twenties and thirties. What did they see, what did they fail to see and why. N Tamar Abramov fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 266 Irony Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores major European philosophical and aesthetic discourses on irony as well as literary manipulations of the trope from Greek antiquity to postmodernism. N Panagiotis Roilos spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 269 Broken English: English Language Literature in a Postmodern, Postcolonial Frame Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 2-4 Biodun Jeyifo An exploration of a range of experimental writings in the English Language predicated on the varieties of "englishes" spoken and used as idioms of writing and performance around the world. Special attention will be paid to theoretical and critical attempts to both assimilate these currents of expression into recognizable patterns and to create new categories of analysis, appropriation and legitimation. This course is also listed as English 266, with catalog number 18837. N Biodun Jeyifo fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 273 Approaches to Modernity: The Metropolis Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the relationship between urban experience and debates on modernity/postmodernity in art, architecture and social theory. Topics: nostalgia and modernization, cultural archeology and architecture of transition, memorial, museum and public art, national identity and cosmopolitan imagination, metropolis and megapolis. Students in this class will be encouraged to attend lectures and screenings for VES 184 and develop individual research and/or creative projects. N Svetlana Boym fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 275 Theory of Narrative: Conference Course Conference Course Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Studies of selected narratives (fictional, psychoanalytic, historical, sacred) as semiotic structures, representations, rhetorical gambits, and cultural phenomena. Readings by Jakobson, Barthes, Bakhtin, Iser, Lukacs, Foucault and others. Open to advanced undergraduates and graduates. Recommended for potential teaching fellows. N William Mills Todd III spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 276 Renaissance Poetics and Rhetoric Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines Renaissance literary criticism and theory in the context of the arts of poetry and rhetoric. Topics include: imitation, translation, genre, decorum, and the conceit. Authors include: Petrarch, Tasso, Du Bellay, Sidney, and Gracian. N Christopher D. Johnson spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 277 Literature and Diaspora Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines creative and critical discourse from and about the African, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Jewish, and Korean diasporas. Explores the relationship between diaspora and constructions of artistic and cultural identities, transculturation, translation, and multilingualism. N Karen Laura Thornber fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 278 Failure and Change Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Analysis of the failure of models and testing of limits in reflection about change, as well as the dialogue among literary, theological, socio-political, artistic, and philosophical discourses. Topics include authority, freedom, equality, sentiment, reason, fanaticism, tolerance. Readings include works from St. Augustine, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Proust, Koselleck, Rorty, Beauvoir, Sartre, Kofman, Beckett. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates; it will also contain an arts component. N Christie McDonald fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 280 History of Literary Criticism: Antiquity to the Renaissance Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Closely examines theoretical texts in the Classical Tradition on a vast array of topics and concepts: mimesis, poiesis, performance, rhetoric, exegesis, allegoresis, enthusiasm and the sublime. Readings from Greco-Roman antiquity to the European Renaissance. // N John T. Hamilton fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 286 Metaphor Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores the theory and practice of metaphor in literature, philosophy, and science. Topics include: the aesthetic, heuristic, and epistemological functions of metaphor; metaphor's relation to allegory, irony, and other "major tropes." Authors include: Aristotle, Tesauro, Nietzsche, Jakobson, Freud, Ricoeur, Blumenberg, Kofman, Derrida, Eco. All readings will be available in translation, but students are encouraged to work in the original languages. N Christopher D. Johnson spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 288 The Ancients and the Moderns: Modern Critical Theory and the Classics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores the impact of classical literature and culture on the formation of modern critical theory. Topics include: construction of power; trafficability of art; ritual theory; sexuality; gender studies; irony; orality and literacy. N Panagiotis Roilos fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 299 ar Theory and Comparative Literature: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An investigation into current trends in comparative literature, literary history and comparative philology, with an emphasis on methodology and theory. Note: Required of first-year graduate students in Comparative Literature; others may be admitted by permission of the instructor. Required of first-year graduate students in Comparative Literature; others may be admitted by permission of the instructor. Y John T. Hamilton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 396 Preparation for the General Examinations Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 397 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Comparative Literature 399 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Candidates for the doctoral degree in Comparative Literature may pursue advanced studies under the individual supervision of these instructors. Permission of the instructor and the Chairman of the Department required. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A graded, supervised course of reading and research to be conducted by a person approved by the Committee. Permission of Director of Studies required. Y Sandra Naddaff Sandra Naddaff fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 96 Introduction to Literary Studies Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 An introduction to the basic issues of literary culture. How do we talk about what we read? How do texts relate to their cultural and economic contexts? Authors include a wide range of literary and theoretical readings including Homer, Nabokov, Woolf, Barthes, and Anne Carson. N Francois Proulx spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion of Literature 97 is required of all concentrators in their sophomore year. Y Sandra Naddaff fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 98 a Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion of one term of Literature 98a is required of all concentrators in their junior year. Y Sandra Naddaff spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 98 b Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion of one term of Literature 98b is required of all concentrators in their junior year. Y Sandra Naddaff fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 99 a Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion of one term of Literature 99a is required of all concentrators in their senior year. Y Sandra Naddaff spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 99 b Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion of one term of Literature 99b is required of all concentrators in their senior year. Y Sandra Naddaff spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 101 Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (from 1750 to the present) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of world literature in the modern period through a series of international styles and literary ideological movements. In lectures, discussions, and close readings of theoretical and imaginative texts from around the world, we will examine "world literature" as an emerging concept in relation to such forces as censorship, propaganda, translation, centers, contact zones, and canon formation. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N William Mills Todd III fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 103 Writing Across Cultures: Literatures of the World (to 1750) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of world literatures from the earliest texts to the Enlightenment, treating multi-ethnic classical literatures, the formation of ethnic vernacular literatures, and zones in which literary cultures met. Will examine how cultural identity has been constructed in literature. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Stephen Owen fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 104 On Theory Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 What is theory? What is the difference between literary, critical and cultural theory? What is the relation between theory and reading? This course introduces students to various concepts of theory (Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Balibar, Adorno, Benjamin, Freud, Saussure, Cixous, Kristeva, Butler and others). Focuses on theoretical texts and will bring in literary texts where necessary. Y Verena Conley spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 106 On Lyric Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Explores the history of Western lyric poetry and how lyric gives voice to the recurrent themes of love and death, and serves as a vehicle of self-discovery. Poetic techniques and forms will be examined, as will the roles that lyric has played as a vehicle for intellectual and cultural values. Poets to be read include Sappho, Catullus, Ovid, Bertran de Born, Dante, Petrarch, Donne, Quevedo, Sponde, Labe, Blake, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Holderlin, Rimbaud, Celan, Pound, Akhmatova, and Carson. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y Christopher D. Johnson spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 108 On the Essay Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the aesthetics, motives, and history of the literary essay. Attention will be given to the essay's forms (and formlessness), styles, subjectivities, receptions, and some of its characteristic content. Exemplary essayists to be studied include: Montaigne, Bacon, Johnson, Voltaire, the Schlegels, De Quincy, Beaudelaire, Woolf, Turgenev, Lu Hsun, Emerson, Thoreau, Benjamin, Borges, Mencken, Baldwin, Davenport, Sontag, Suleri, Berry, Eco, Dillard, and Foster Wallace. N Christopher D. Johnson fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 109 On Translation Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Examines theories of translation from various periods (Dryden, Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, Benjamin, de Man, among others). Also looks closely at specific translated texts (e.g., various English translations of The Thousand and One Nights), and considers such topics as the notion of "unequal languages," the problem of cultural translation, translation post-9/11, and the possibility of untranslatability. Final project involves an original translation and commentary. Reading knowledge of one foreign language. Preference given to Literature concentrators. Y Sandra Naddaff spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 110 Introduction to Experimental Criticism Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What can literary analysis tell us about emerging textual practices: cooperation and co-authorship on Wikipedia, the usage of Twitter during protest movements, self-fashioning on Facebook, review culture on Amazon.com, and fundamentally, about the deluge of information that accompanies the advent of the information age? In this course, taught in conjunction with a graduate seminar sponsored by Harvard's metaLab, we will learn to think big about digital archives, information architectures, live data, and large-scale textual corpora. Y Dennis Tenen fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 113 Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines problems of existence in relation to self and other in the world from the early Christian era to our days. It shows how existence preoccupies major writers who have approached its implications (and the dilemmas it inspires) in different ways. At stake are the redemptive powers of religion, thoughts about the death of God, the limits of atheism, and philosophies of becoming. Texts by Saint Augustine, Montaigne, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Gide, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Verena Conley fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 116 Literature and Science Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Explores how literature in different historical periods represents and reshapes the ideas, methods, and language of science. Compares the ways reason and the imagination function in literature and science. Considers how literature rethinks the cultural and historical significance of the scientific enterprise. Primary texts include Lucretius, Copernicus, Donne, Kepler, Cavendish, Fontenelle, M. Shelley, Goethe, Darwin, Calvino, and Lem. Y Christopher D. Johnson fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 119 On Comparative Arts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 Is there one Art, or are there many arts? We will consider affinity and difference among literature, painting, music, and other arts. Student projects will investigate works of art that submit to or reject a particular material medium. Theory from Plato (Ion), Aristotle, Lessing, Burke, Diderot, Rousseau, Hegel, Pater, Greenberg, Heidegger; examples from Homer, Leonardo, Turner, Monet, Rossetti, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Apollinaire, Schoenberg--and others. Y Marc Shell Daniel Albright fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 121 1001 Nights: Adaptations, Transformations and Translations Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Examines how the 1001 Nights is transformed and adapted for different media and genres. Focuses on a variety of films, (e.g., The Thief of Baghdad, Chu Chin Chow, Aladdin), illustrations/images (eg., Dore, Chagall, Matisse), musical and balletic renditions (e.g., Rimsky-Korsakov, Fokine), translations (e.g., Galland, Lane, Burton, Haddawy), and re-tellings of stories (e.g., Poe, Barth, Mahfouz, Sebbar, Zimmerman). Also considers the role of the 1001 Nights in contemporary popular culture. This course, when taken for a latter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y Sandra Naddaff fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 122 Fictional Encyclopedias Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the aesthetic and philosophic virtues of fictional encyclopedias by Rabelais, Sterne, Flaubert, Stein, Woolf, Borges, Eco, Queneau, Calvino, Kis, and Gadda. Considers also the mythic, historical, and material aspects of such encyclopedism. N Christopher D. Johnson fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 125 The Desire for Narrative: Across Cultures, Forms and Media Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of the cultural roots of the powerful human desire both to tell and be told stories, in full and not in fragments. We will range across diverse societies and cultural forms and media like fiction, drama, film, television and oral performances. N Biodun Jeyifo fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 127 Futurisms Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From its foundation in 1909 through WWII, futurism developed into the first international cultural-political avant garde. Its aim was the revolutionary transformation of all spheres of life, and its influence extended from Europe to the Americas to Asia. Topics include machines and culture; poetics and war; futurism's ties to bolshevism and fascism. Media: poetry, performance, music, painting, photography, radio, and film. Writers: Marinetti and Mayakovsky. Visual artists: Boccioni, Bragaglia, Russolo, Malevich, and El Lissitzky. N Jeffrey Schnapp fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 129 Reading the 18th Century Through 21st-Century Eyes Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Why read texts from the French Enlightenment today and how? Analysis of works from the 18th century juxtaposed with novels, plays, media events, and films of the 20th-21st centuries that explore debates in literature and philosophy about cultural differences, universality, and the search for belief and confidence in a society undergoing dramatic change. Readings include Beaumarchais, Beauvoir, Derrida, Diderot, Foucault, Franklin, Graffigny, Kant, Kundera, Laclos, Lyotard, Rousseau, Obama, Potocki, Voltaire. N Christie McDonald spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 130 European Romanticism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A comparative study of German, French, and English projects of literary experimentation, philosophical reflection, and political critique grouped under the term Romanticism, with a dual focus on the original historical contexts around 1800 and subsequent theoretical accounts. // N John T. Hamilton fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 131 The Arab-American Experience in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Since 9/11, there has been an explosion of work about the Arab-American experience. This course will explore that experience as expressed in various cultural forms-fiction, film, comedy acts, graphic novels, memoirs, art installations, and new media. We will pay particular attention to contemporary works, although we will also consider the work of early 20th-century Arab-American writers. Topics include mapping the exilic experience, translation and bilingualism, and the semiotics of food. No knowledge of Arabic is required. Y Sandra Naddaff spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 136 The historical novel after modernism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Modernism emphasized ruptures with the past and the uncertainty of historical knowledge; one consequence of this emphasis was a general turning away from the historical novel, seen as the most deluded form of nineteenth-century realism. This situation began to change around the time of World War II, when a growing number of novelists schooled in modernism began to write serious historical fiction. This course will explore the motives for such writing and the strategies of research, structure, style, dialogue, and characterization that once again made historical fiction a compelling enterprise, on the far side of the modernist critique of history. Readings in Borges, Yourcenar, Tolkien, Rhys, Endo, Mishima, Morrison, Calvino, Pamuk, and the Tibetan postmodernist Jamyang Norbu. N David Damrosch spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 140 Literature and Politics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies interactions between literature and politics in psalms, poems, novels, polemics, etc. Using examples from the often contentious history of Jewish national sovereignty, investigates how variously literature advances and complicates political developments. Seminar format. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 141 Comparative Modern Anglophone Drama - A Seminar on Genealogy Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will explore Anglophone drama in diverse areas of the English-speaking world. Through an attention to the genealogical filiations in the works of Irish, African, Caribbean and U.S. playwrights like Friel, Soyinka, Fugard, Walcott and Shange, the seminar will be organized around two principal issues: the use of folk, ritual, vernacular and carnivalesque performance idioms to transform the received genre of Western literary drama; themes of empire, colony and postcolony in the making of the modern world. Some knowledge of classical and avant-garde theories of drama and theatre would be useful, but is not a prerequisite for this course. N Biodun Jeyifo spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 146 Space and Place in Postmodern Culture Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Focuses on renewed awareness of space in contemporary theory, literature and film. Examines notions of space and place under the impact of consumerism and electronic technologies in a global world. Texts and films include Lefebvre, Godard, de Certeau, Wenders, Baudrillard, Perec, Tati, Auge, Deleuze and Guattari, Virilio and Verhoeven. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. Y Verena Conley spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 150 Mediterranean Spaces Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on transformations of colonial and post-colonial spaces in North Africa that include Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria by way of fiction, film, critical and cultural theory. Explores shifting relations between North Africa and France but also Italy and Spain with special attention to concepts of nation, community, migration, transnationalism and translation. Readings and viewings of works by Bowles, Camus, Choukri, Cixous, Djebar, Genet, Lakous, Maalouf, Memmi, Taia and others. N Verena Conley spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 152 Epic and Opera Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Comparisons in form and content, allowing for a wide variety of interpretations and methods. Composers to be studied range from Homer and Virgil to Mozart and Monteverdi to Wagner and Borodin. Special topics include romantic heroism, from Achilles in the ancient Greek "Song of the Ethiopians" to Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata". Besides pre-set readings and audio/video assignments, students will be encouraged to develop their own material for study and their own comparisons. No prerequisites in language or music skills. Relevant points of interest include genres that transcend classical notions of epic or opera, such as Korean "p'ansori" and medieval French "chantefable". N Gregory Nagy fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 153 Saul Bellow and the New York Intellectuals Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies Bellow's major works in the context of the intellectual and literary community that constituted America's first European style "intelligentsia." Considers work of Isaac Rosenfeld, Delmore Schwartz, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, writers of Partisan Review and Commentary. Class is conducted in a modified seminar format. N Ruth Wisse fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 154 Music, Literature, and the Voice Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A comparative examination of select works of French and German literature that deal with music and the problem of the voice. Topics: verbal and musical form; musical meaning; reading and listening; music and psychoanalysis; evanescence and silence. Readings in: Diderot, Kleist, Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Balzac, Mallarme, Thomas Mann, Bernhard, Lacan, and Quignard. Texts may be read in English translation. N John T. Hamilton fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 155 Furor Poeticus: Madness, Inspiration, Genius Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Considers the classical conception of mania as a divine source of prophecy, ecstasy, poetic creation, and erotic desire; then traces its complex actualizations and afterlife in ancient tragedy and philosophy, Neoplatonism, Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and Film. // N John T. Hamilton spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 156 Joyce/Beckett Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We examine these two great modernists through an in-depth study of Ulysses, which is followed by a discussion of Beckett, with particular attention to drama. Topics include exile, translation, experimentation, theatrical performance, and literary style. N Martin Puchner spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 157 From Type to Self in the Middle Ages Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Luis M. Giron Negron It has been argued that the poetic "I" in premodern literatures is not a vehicle for self-representation, but an archetype of the human. The course will examine this thesis against the rise of autobiographical writing in medieval and early modern Europe. Readings include spiritual autobiographies (Augustine, Kempe, Teresa of Avila), letter collections, maqama literature, troubadour lyric, Hispano-Jewish poetry, pilgrimage narratives, medieval allegories, Dante and the picaresque novel. Theoretical perspectives by Spitzer, Lejeune, Zumthor and DeCerteau. All readings in English translation. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Luis M. Giron Negron spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 160 Literary Forgeries and Mystifications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines literary forgeries and mystifications from the late 18th century to the present, focusing on their poetics, their ideological motivation and their role in modern political mythmaking (some texts considered: Ossian, The Igor Tale, the Czech manuscripts, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Ern Malley). Also considers the psychology and esthetics of simulation and mystification as reflected in the works of Gide, Borges, Nabokov, Pavic, Eco, and Calvino. All readings in English. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 162 Theory and Methods in Comparative Oral Traditions: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Genres, forms, and themes of oral traditions in poetry and prose. Theories of performance and composition. Comparative metrical and formulaic analysis. Knowledge of Greek not required. N Gregory Nagy spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 163 Jewish Languages and Literature Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What is a Jewish language? What is Jewish literature? General topics are alphabetization, translation, oral tradition and diaspora. Languages worldwide include Hebrew as well as Judeo-Spanish, -Aramaic, -Arabic, -French, -Greek, -Italian, -Persian, -Spanish, -Malayalam, Yiddish, and other secular Jewish languages. Readings usually include love stories, medical and philosophic texts, and writings on science, travel, and music. Guest scholars visit most weeks. No language requirement. Language credit can be arranged. N Marc Shell spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 164 The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Psychological, mythic, "catastrophist," and comic tendencies in the Eastern and Central European novel between the two World Wars (1918-1939). Focus on Kafka, Capek, Zamiatin, Bulgakov, Platonov, Schulz, Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Gombrowicz and Nabokov. All texts can be read in English translation. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 165 The Holocaust and Problems of Representation Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Can the story of the Holocaust be told? Is there such a thing as "the story" of the Holocaust? Who is authorized to tell it, and how? Do aesthetic categories apply to Holocaust art? Are some representations unacceptable? We explore these and other questions raised by a wide range of works (oral and written testimonies, novels, essays, comic strips, films, poetry, monuments) produced from 1945 to the present in Europe, Israel, and the US. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Susan R. Suleiman fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 166 The Comic Tradition in Jewish Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Jews are probably best known in America today for their roles in the Holocaust and in Humor. What, if anything, is the relation between these spheres? Does Jewish humor make fun of the Jews, or does it make fun of those who make fun of the Jews? Studies some of the theories and uses of Jewish humor, some of its leading practitioners and outstanding works. Invites comparison with other comic traditions and investigation of "national" humor. Readers of Yiddish may take this course as Yiddish 200. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Ruth Wisse fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 173 The Politics of Aesthetics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines and compares the relation between politics and aesthetics in major texts by Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno, Deleuze, Nancy, Ranciere, Badiou and Zizek. N Verena Conley spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 174 Realism, Fantasy, and the Grotesque: Hoffmann and Balzac Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close reading of select works by E.T.A. Hoffmann and his reception in the work of Balzac focuses on Realism's indebtedness to the imaginative realms of the fantastic and the grotesque. Topics: music and inspiration; societal decadence and caricature; magic and the uncanny; experience, observation and expression. Texts may be read in English translation. N John T. Hamilton spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 175 The Moment in Modernism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores theories of time in literature and visual culture, emphasizing the instances of revelation, epiphany, banality and boredom that become a pressing category in the ethical and aesthetic projects of modernism. Readings include texts by Proust, Woolf, Faulkner, Mann, Borges, Deleuze, Mulvey, Doane, Trotter, Gunning and films by Lumiere, Melies, Eisenstein, Vertov, Lang, Dorsky. N Karen Zumhagen-Yekple fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 181 Kafka, Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines selected works of two major modern writers, Franz Kafka and the South African Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, exploring their unique brands of literary realism, fantasy, and philosophical ethics and treatments of crises of identity, language, faith, authority and empire. N Karen Zumhagen-Yekple fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 183 Unhappy in their Own Way: Hebrew and Yiddish as a Literary Family Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The relationship between modern Hebrew and Yiddish literatures and Jewish culture has famously been described as "two languages, one literature." This course aims to evaluate that opinion by exploring some of the startling variety in these literatures' language, forms, and themes. Reading selected works in translation from these two languages together enriches and enhances our understanding of the vibrancy of modern Jewish culture. N Jordan David Finkin fall term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 184 Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting. Topics to be mapped out include: cities and modernity, metrophilia and metrophobia, the museum and cultural archaeology, the ruin and the construction site, interior space and public sphere, technology and virtual cities. We will focus on the European city, as we travel through Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Naples, and Rome Students who have taken VES 184 previously may not take this course for credit. Cannot be taken concurrently with VES 184. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4353. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Giuliana Bruno Svetlana Boym spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 185 Jewish Humor and Its Discontents Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Humor has long been noted as a distinctive element of European Jewish culture. While this has been exaggerated as part of Jewish stereotypes, nevertheless humor, jokes, satire, and parody all feature prominently in modern Jewish literatures and culture. This course will look at some of the primary ideas about Jewish humor and how this distinctive Jewish "wit" appears in various texts. We will unpack why Jewish humor is funny and when it is no laughing matter. N Jordan David Finkin spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 187 r Selected Topics in Poetics and Rhetoric: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Comparative approaches to poetics and rhetoric. All readings for this course will be in English translations. Special arrangements for those who opt to read in the original languages. Selected texts include Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric. Knowledge of Greek not required. Y Gregory Nagy spring term Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature Literature 190 Literary Realisms in China and Russia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course examines the development of a realist literary mode in Russia and China and considers it in the context of both empires' struggle with belated modernity. N Roy Chan fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 101 Introduction to Theatre Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction and overview of the major creative elements in professional theater including: acting, directing, playwriting, and designing. Special attention given to productions by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), the A.R.T. Institute and other productions in the Boston area. Students have the opportunity to attend and analyze at least five different productions and to engage in creative work throughout the term. Additionally, theater professionals from the A.R.T. give guest lectures in their areas of expertise. N Scott Zigler spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 105 Production Dramaturgy: A.R.T. 2011-12 Season Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Principles of dramaturgy introduced and explained in the context of full productions of performance events. Focusing on productions in the American Repertory Theater's 2011-12 season, students will apply literary research and analysis techniques to the preparation of scripts for performance. Specific A.R.T. productions will serve as examples for studying historical background, dramatic structure, new play development, and action theory as they are handled by directors, actors, and dramaturgs in the rehearsal hall. Y Ryan Scott McKittrick fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 110 a Acting Lab: The Fusion of Intellect and Imagination for the Stage Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Following guidelines without a prescribed text, students will work on physical and vocal invention, exploring the many ways and styles in which dynamic and compelling stories can be told. In this course, we will aim to heighten imagination and observation, build confidence, and enhance extemporaneous speech and thought through exercises, exploring impulses, and imaginative courage. Techniques used will include both individual and group activities, Grotowski exercises, mask work, and classical commedia dell'arte. Enrollment determined by audition. Students will audition for the course with a short improvisation described by the professor at the first class meeting. Y Thomas Derrah spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 110 Beginning Acting Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 An exploration of the basic techniques of acting, beginning with exercises that flex the imagination and heighten observation; the course will then move towards work on rhythm, an actor's instincts, focus, concentration, and character with an ongoing emphasis in improvisation. The texts of Anton Chekhov will be used as a point of reference for the work. The latter part of the course will concentrate on selected scene study from Chekhov's major plays. Enrollment determined by audition. Students will audition for the course with a short improvisation described by the professor at the first class meeting. Y Thomas Derrah spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 111 Acting: 20th Century Texts Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An expansion of basic acting techniques, with an emphasis on the actor's work done during rehearsal: creating a character, building a role and finding one's own way of preparing for and making the most of rehearsal time. Actors will use exercises and improvs to help explore character and sharpen instincts, and do monologue and scene work using contemporary texts, both comic and dramatic. Enrollment determined by audition. N Karen L. MacDonald fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 112 r Advanced Acting: 20th-Century Texts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For actors interested in working in television, film and theater, this is a course of advanced acting techniques using 20th-century dramatic texts for scene work. The emphasis is on action based acting and the creation of an acting process that is specifically tailored to the individual actor. Includes character work -- making physical and vocal changes. Emphasis also on learning how to audition better, includes helping actors assemble a group of working monologues to use in auditions. Enrollment determined by audition on the first day of class. Y Marcus Stern fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 114 Practical Aesthetics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 Practical Aesthetics Acting Technique was developed by playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy, based on the work of the American acting teacher Sandford Meisner and the Russian acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. In this course, students will focus on rigorous text analysis combined with emphasis on enhancing the actor's spontaneity through training in Meisner's "Repetition Exercise." Students will do scene work drawn from a wide selection of plays. Dramatic Arts course in Acting, previous study in Practical Aesthetics, or extensive undergraduate performance experience. Enrollment will be determined by lottery at the first class meeting. Y Scott Zigler spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 115 Acting Shakespeare Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Investigation of the texts of Shakespeare as theatre, developing an American approach to verse speaking and character analysis. Scenes are rehearsed to interpret the verse and prose by the light of modern experience. Explores the imagination of the playwright in order to develop the imagination of the student. Y Jeremy Geidt spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 116 Acting Workshop: Comedy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 A course developing the actor's approach to and playing of comedy and humor. Using characters and scenes from Shakespeare, Moliere, Shaw, and contemporary writers from Christopher Durang to Steve Martin, the course focuses on the universality of comic technique and the specific demands of comic playing. The question of humor is explored with respect to dramatic situations and characters that are inherently serious. Student scenes will occasionally be critiqued by members of the A.R.T. Company. Enrollment determined by audition on the first day of class. Students are asked to prepare a 30 second comic monologue, classical or contemporary, for the audition. Y William Stephen Lebow fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 117 Acting Chekhov Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 14 An exploration of Chekhov's plays from an actor's point of view in order to develop a practical approach to any dramatic text. We will balance the use of analytical skills - playable actions, active verbs, subtext and beats - with the need to free the actor's creative imagination, through exercises and improvisations. A variety of acting techniques will be used in scene work from the plays, including the techniques of Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Strasberg, Adler and Meisner as well as non-text-based approaches. Enrollment determined by audition. Each student will be asked to read a selection from one of Chekhov's plays. No memorization required. Y Mr Remo Francisco Airaldi fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 119 Vocal Production for the Stage Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 Whether one is performing in a play, speaking professionally, teaching a class or leading a group, the ability to use one's voice effectively is a primary element of the success of the presentation. Using several major techniques of speaking training, students learn not only how to use the voice, but how these various approaches to voice training correspond to specific performance challenges. Enrollment determined by interview. N Nancy Houfek fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 120 Introduction to Choreography Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This introductory choreography course utilizes movement exploration to tap into the participant's aesthetic and interpretive skills as they are challenged to make dances. Explorations into the use of time, weight and space inform their creative process. Through a combination of readings, writings, discussions, videos and dance improvisation, the course focuses on how movement choices develop dances that are kinesthetic, dramatic, and artistic for both the performer and the audience. No previous dance experience necessary. Enrollment determined by interview during the first week of class. N fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 130 r Directing Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 9 A directing class for directors interested in theater, television and film, as well as for actors, dramaturgs, and designers investigating all aspects of theater. The class accommodates beginning to advanced levels of work. Students may bring in video or film scenes as part of the class work. Through constant scene work the course examines the directorial tools of text analysis, staging, design, and working with actors. The focus is on how to tell a story clearly and effectively. Enrollment determined by short interviews to be conducted on the first day of class. Y Marcus Stern Marcus Stern spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 131 Directing Lab Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This class is designed for students interested in expanding their understanding of directing for theater. The course will focus on the work of American experimental theater artists from the 1960's to the present, examining the various ways avant-garde directors and ensembles have experimented with form to seek out radical new modes of storytelling. Students will create work inspired by the artists and productions studied, applying theory to practice in rehearsals and presentations. Y Shira Milikowsky spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 135 Design for the Theatre: History and Practice Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 The practice of designing scenery for the theatre is explored through the history of stage design and the architecture of the theater building. Students complete projects of research and design for plays from various periods. The projects will introduce basic techniques in drawing, drafting, and model making. No previous experience in design or art necessary. Y J. Michael Griggs spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 136 Designing for the Stage Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Students prepare and present for criticism stage design projects based on play texts that suggest varying interpretive and stylistic problems. Focus is on examining ideas through research of visual material and analysis of text. Through their design projects, students also complete assignments in perspective drawing, drafting, model making, and lighting design. No previous experience in design or art necessary. Y J. Michael Griggs fall term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 163 x Puppetry in Performance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 This course focuses on the practice, theory and history of puppetry in the context of distinct performing object forms. How do we combine objects, movement, text, music and light together to create theater? Discussion sessions will consider historical and theoretical texts and contexts, from Plato and Ibn al-Jazari to Edward Gordon Craig, Oskar Schlemmer, and Sherry Turkle, in order to develop ideas and questions related to the workshop sessions. The workshop sessions will be focused on the design and creation of performances in four different forms: performing object theater, machine performance, toy theater, and bunraku-style puppetry. N John T. Bell spring term Committee on Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts Dramatic Arts 164 x Playing in the Material World: Puppet and Object Theater as Global Traditions Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar will study the history and theory of puppetry as a global tradition with compelling applications for 21st century performance. Our goal is to understand puppet performance as a network of linked traditions - hybrid responses to cultural developments in specific communities. We will consider classic Asian forms (Bunraku, tolu bommalata and wayang kulit); European traditions (medieval giants, Pulcinella, Petrushka, and Punch); picture performance (from Indian and Persian par forms to 19th-century panorama); avant-garde rediscoveries (Symbolism, Dada, Bauhaus, and Russian Revolutionary performance); American puppet modernism (Little Theater Movement and 1930s popular culture); and automata and robots (from karakuri ningyo to Survival Research Laboratories). N John T. Bell fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 21 The Dynamic Earth: Geology and Tectonics Through Time Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students will learn how the Earth works and how critical events in Earth history shaped their surroundings. We will explore what the Earth is made of, why there are continents and oceans, and how plate tectonics provides a unifying model to explain geological observations. Topics covered include the discovery of deep time, the relationship between geology and topography, the geology of our surroundings, plate tectonics, magnetism, chemical differentiation at subduction zones and mid-ocean ridges, mountain building, basin formation, isostasy, heat flow, convection, and feedbacks with the fluid Earth. Ultimately we will use physical processes to explain the patterns of nature. Our treatment will be quantitative with applications to other phenomena, and based on sound physics. Field trips provide opportunities to learn how to read rocks, to see data in the field, and to interpret observations in terms of their possible history and forces acting in and on the Earth. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. Students who have taken EPS 7 cannot take EPS 21 for credit. N Francis Alexander Macdonald Richard J. O'Connell spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 22 The Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (formerly EPS 5) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduces students to the fluid Earth, emphasizing Earth's weather and climate, the carbon cycle, and global environmental change. Course begins with the physical concepts necessary for understanding the structure, motion and energy balance of the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere, and then applies these concepts in exploring major earth processes. Examples from Earth's past history, on-going changes in the climate, and implications for the future are highlighted. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. Students who have taken EPS 5 cannot take EPS 22 for credit. N Peter John Huybers Steven C. Wofsy Hillary S. Jenkins fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 74 Field Experiences in Earth and Planetary Sciences Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Attend a domestic or overseas geological summer field school of 3-6 weeks duration to learn methods of obtaining, synthesizing, and interpreting field observations. Field schools are selected individually by students with the advice and approval of the instructor. Students must notify the instructor and Academic Administrator of intention to enroll by Study Card Day of the preceding spring term. Y Francis Alexander Macdonald Francis Alexander Macdonald fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading and research on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Usually intended for junior or senior concentrators in Earth and Planetary Sciences; open to sophomore concentrators under some circumstances. To enroll students must submit a registration form, which includes permission of their faculty sponsor, to the Academic Administrator. N Ann Pearson Ann Pearson full year Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing of the senior thesis under faculty direction. Senior honors candidates must take at least one term of this course (fall or spring) if writing a thesis; an oral presentation is required. Enrollment includes an informal tutorial series on how to get the most from your thesis experience. To enroll students must submit a registration form, which includes permission of their faculty sponsor, to the Academic Administrator. N Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay Ann Pearson Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay Ann Pearson spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 100 The Missing Matlab Course: An Introduction to Programming and Data Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of modern computational tools with applications to the Earth Sciences. Introduction to the MATLAB programming and visualization environment. Topics include: statistical and time series analysis, visualization of two- and three-dimensional data sets, tools for solving linear/differential equations, parameter estimation methods. Labs emphasize applications of the methods and tools to a wide range of data in Earth Sciences. Mathematics 1a, b; or equivalent. Given in alternate years. N Miaki Ishii spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 109 Earth Resources and the Environment Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of the Earth's energy and material resources. Following introductions to hydrocarbons, nuclear fuels, and other economically important ores, the course emphasizes methods used to exploit these resources and the environmental impacts of these operations. Topics include: coal and acid rain; petroleum, photochemical smog, and oil spills; nuclear power and radioactive hazards; alternative energies; metals and mining. Labs emphasize methods for discovering and exploiting resources, as well as environmental remediation approaches. EPS 7, 8; or permission of the instructor. Given in alternate years. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N John H. Shaw spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 121 Terrestrial Planets Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The physical and chemical processes that influence the initial condition, evolution, and current state of terrestrial planets, focusing on the comparative evolution of Venus, Earth, Mars, and large moons. Topics include: planet formation, evolution of atmospheres, interior composition and equations of state, core formation, differentiation, thermal evolution, and major surface modification processes. Physics 11a, b; or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 131 Introduction to Physical Oceanography and Climate Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Basic observations and theoretical understanding of ocean phenomena from local surface beach waves to the effects of the oceans on global climate. Observations and dynamics of ocean waves, currents, turbulence, temperature and salinity distributions; basic fluid dynamics equations; the ocean's role in climate: wind-driven circulation and the Gulf stream, thermohaline circulation and the potential instability of Europe's climate, El Nino, the oceans and global warming. Applied Mathematics 21a, b; Physics 11 or 15; or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. When offered, a field trip to Cape Cod and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will be included. N Eli Tziperman spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 132 Introduction to Meteorology and Climate Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Physical concepts necessary to understand atmospheric structure and motion. Phenomena studied include the formation of clouds and precipitation, solar and terrestrial radiation, dynamical balance of the large-scale wind, and the origin of cyclones. Concepts developed for understanding today's atmosphere are applied to understanding the record of past climate change and the prospects for climate change in the future. Mathematics 21 or Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b; Physics 11 or 15; or permission of instructor. N Brian F. Farrell spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 133 Atmospheric Chemistry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 11:30-1 Daniel J. Jacob Physical and chemical processes determining the composition of the atmosphere and its implications for climate, ecosystems, and human welfare. Origin of the atmosphere. Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, trace metal cycles. Climate and the greenhouse effect. Atmospheric transport and turbulence. Stratospheric ozone. Oxidizing power of the atmosphere. Regional air pollution: aerosols, smog, acid rain. Physical Sciences 1, 2, Mathematics 1b; or equivalents. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe and the Core area requirement for Science A. N Daniel J. Jacob spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 134 Global Warming Debates: The Reading Course Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is now the highest it has been in at least 800,000 years, raising concerns regarding possible future climate changes. This seminar will survey the science of global change from the perspective of scientific debates within climate community. Specifically, the course will involve guided reading and discussion of papers that present contentious view points on the science of global change, with the goal of students learning how to scientifically evaluate these claims. Laboratories will provide students with hands on experience with some climate models and data. Applied Mathematics 21a or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Peter John Huybers Eli Tziperman fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 135 Physics and Chemistry: In the Context of Energy and Climate at the Global and Molecular Level Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A solution to the problems set by the intersection of global energy demand and climate feedbacks requires the teaching of physics and chemistry in that context. Core topics include thermodynamics, free energy, entropy, acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions, electrochemistry, electromagnetic induction, circuit theory, AC and DC circuits, the nature of photons and of electromagnetic radiation, photochemistry, materials, catalysis, kinetics, molecular bonding, and biological processes for energy conversion and storage. Physical Sciences 1 or permission of instructor. N James G. Anderson fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 141 Isotope and Trace Element Geochemistry and Geochronology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The origin of the element and isotope distribution in the Earth and the Solar System. Closed system radioactive decay, isotope fractionation, mass balance and mixing. Application of Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, Re-Os and K-Ar isotope systems for geochronology and as tracers for geological processes. Noble gas geochemistry. Extinct nuclides. Cosmogenic nuclides. U-Th-series nuclides. Planetary isotopic evolution. Stable isotope geochemistry. Application of H, C, N, O, and S isotopes as tracers of geochemical and biogeochemical processes. A course in college-level chemistry or equivalent; EPS 7 or equivalent (recommended). Given in alternate years. N Stein B. Jacobsen spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 145 Introduction to Igneous Petrology and Petrogenesis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How igneous rocks form and reveal the processes and fluxes involved in the circulation of the solid Earth. The course begins with the essential elements of igneous petrology-rock description and nomenclature, mineralogy, phase diagrams, processes of melting and crystallization, trace elements. We then consider the formation of igneous rocks at modern igneous settings-spreading centers, convergent margins and ocean islands. We conclude with investigations of igneous phenomenon of the past, such as large igneous flood basalt provinces, anorthosites, komatites and the igneous history of the Moon. Given in alternate years. N Charles Langmuir spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 146 Ocean Ridges and the Earth System Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course will present our current knowledge of the ocean ridge system where two thirds of Earth's crust is continually being created. We will examine the progressive understanding of ocean ridges from a historical perspective, emphasizing the process of scientific discovery. Topics include melt generation in the mantle, magmatic processes in the crust, formation of ocean ridge topography, faulting and tectonics, hydrothermal systems, manifestations in the overlying water column, and the unique ecosystems associated with vents. Approaches must be inherently interdisciplinary, including geochemistry, geophysics, geology, hydrothermal systems, and biology. The place of the ocean ridge system within the overall Earth system will be emphasized. One of: EPS 5, EPS 7, EPS 8, EPS 21, or SPU 14; or permission of instructor. N Charles Langmuir fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 150 Geology and Composition of Planetary Crusts Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course explains how and why solid planets develop crusts. Chemical and isotopic analyses of rocks and minerals are used to understanding the origin and evolution of planetary crust and their surface environments. Through the study of primitive meteorites, martian meteorites, lunar samples and terrestrial rocks, it is shown how timescales, origin and evolution of planets and their crusts can be inferred from studies of rocks and minerals. It is shown that the Earth's crust is likely the only one in the Solar System that can support an advanced civilization and also that the Earth's crust has more than sufficient resources and energy for its human population for the foreseeable future. The principles of mineral structures, phase equilibria, and the origin of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks covered in the course are essential for students of geology, geochemistry, planetary science and astrobiology. EPS 7 and a course in college-level chemistry or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Stein B. Jacobsen spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 161 Planetary Physics and Global Tectonics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Study of the physics and tectonic processes that govern the properties and evolution of the Earth and other planets. Covers: properties of planets and their interiors; plate tectonics on the Earth; magnetic fields of the Earth and planets; deformation and heat flow and planetary thermal evolution; melting and volcanism in planets; gravity and tidal interaction. Introductory physical science and math or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Richard J. O'Connell fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 166 Introduction to Seismology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of the basic observations and methods of seismology. Earthquake detection, geometry, characteristics and relation to tectonics. Seismic stations and different types of data (body waves, surface waves, and normal modes). One-dimensional and three-dimensional structures of the Earth as inferred from seismology and implications for composition and dynamics. Seismic methods used in oil/gas exploration and environmental geophysics. Mathematics 21a, b or Applied Mathematics 21a, b (may be taken concurrently); or equivalent. Given in alternate years. N Miaki Ishii fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 171 Structural Geology and Tectonics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the deformation of Earth materials, including the processes of mountain building and plate tectonics, faulting and earthquakes, folding, and ductile deformation. Structures are examined using geologic maps, balanced cross sections, seismic reflection data, satellite imagery, microscopic analysis, analog experiments, and numerical methods. Labs emphasize the applications of structural geology in the energy and environmental industries, and for assessing earthquake hazards. EPS 7 or 8; or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N John H. Shaw fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 181 Historical Geobiology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A focused inquiry on the interactions of life and environment through geologic history. In 2011 we will focus on the evolution of the modern biota over the past 250 million years. EPS 8, OEB 10; or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Andrew Knoll spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 182 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Techniques in interpreting paleo-environmental information from sedimentary rocks, covering grain-flow, carbonates, glacial deposits, terrestrial, marginal marine, and deep-sea environments, and culminating with cyclo-stratigraphy and basin dynamics. Given in alternate years. N Francis Alexander Macdonald fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 186 Low Temperature Geochemistry I: Introduction to biogeochemical cycles Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to low temperature biogeochemistry. We will focus on key biogeochemical elements and look to understand the linkages between the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. The course begins with a description of marine geochemistry (alkalinity and chemical fluxes) and works toward understanding isotopic fractionation and what it can tell us about the environment. We will explore biogeochemistry over a range of physical and temporal scales. A course in college chemistry is recommended. Given in alternate years. N David T Johnston spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 187 Low Temperature Geochemistry II: Modern and ancient biogeochemical processes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to biological and organic chemistry of the Earth's environment. Primary focus on formation, processing, and preservation of organic carbon, with emphasis on paleoenvironmental applications and on processes occurring at the molecular level. This class is intended to be taken in series with EPS 186, Light Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry. A course in college-level chemistry or equivalent. Chemistry 17 or 27 strongly recommended. EPS 186 strongly recommended. Given in alternate years. N Ann Pearson spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 189 Analytical and Field Methods in Geobiology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Hours to be arranged. Regular meetings plus a three-hour weekly lab. David T. Johnston and Francis Alexander Macdonald Introduction to geobiological research methods: We will learn low temperature geochemical techniques, light stable isotope mass-spectrometry, and other microbiology methods commonly used in geobiological research. The focus will be on the cycling of biogeochemical elements (O, C, S, and Fe) in marine sediments throughout Earth history. This is a lab-based course that will be complemented with lectures. EPS 186 and EPS 187 (or equivalent) recommended. Given in alternate years. Y David T Johnston Francis Alexander Macdonald fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 200 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Atmospheric physics and chemistry: stratospheric and tropospheric transport, photochemistry, and aerosols; stratospheric ozone loss, tropospheric pollution; biogeochemical cycles. Applied Mathematics 105b (may be taken concurrently), Physics 11 a, b or 15; a course in college-level chemistry or equivalent, or more advanced courses; or permission of the instructors. Students specializing in this area are expected to take EPS 200 and 236. These courses may serve as an introduction to atmospheric and oceanic processes for other students with strong preparation. N Steven C. Wofsy Zhiming Kuang spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 201 Physics of the Earth's Interior Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The properties and processes of the solid Earth: Continuum mechanics; structure and state of the Earth's interior; gravity and the geoid; viscous creep and mantle flow; rotational dynamics; heat transport and mantle convection. Applied Mathematics 105a, b; Physics 15 or equivalent. Preparation should be discussed with the instructor. Given in alternate years. N Richard J. O'Connell spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 202 Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the mechanics of fluids and solids, organized around earth and environmental phenomena. Conservation laws, stress, deformation and flow. Inviscid fluids and ocean gravity waves; Coriolis dominated large scale flows. Viscosity and groundwater seepage; convective cells; boundary layers. Turbulent stream flows; flood surges; sediment transport. Elasticity and seismic waves. Poro-mechanics and consolidation. Creep and glacial flow. Cracking and faulting. Landslides and debris flows. Calculus-based introductory physics at level of Physics 11a, b or 15a, b and Mathematics at the level of Applied Mathematics 21a, 21b, and 105b (may be taken concurrently). Given in alternate years. N James R. Rice fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 203 Earthquakes and Faulting Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Earthquake phenomenology in the context of plate tectonics. Continuum mechanics and elastic deformation; seismic wave radiation. Earthquake cycle models and constraints from tectonic geodesy. Earthquake geology and paleoseismology. Source physics, fault friction, rupture dynamics. Deformation rates and fault system structure. Quantitative seismic hazard analysis. Applied Mathematics 21a, b. Given in alternate years. N Brendan J. Meade John H. Shaw James R. Rice fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 204 Global Seismology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamental concepts used in seismology as a tool in studying the Earth's deep interior. Topics include stress/strain/elasticity theory, the seismic wave equation, ray theory, surface waves and normal modes, source theory, and inverse methods. Applied Math 105b (may be taken concurrently), or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. N Miaki Ishii spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 205 Geophysics: A Primer Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introductory treatment of solid Earth geophysics for graduate students in all EPS and SEAS disciplines. The course will cover a sampling of topics that all Earth scientists should have knowledge of, whether to facilitate applications to their own research or to simply follow departmental seminars in geophysics. Topics include: the Earth's composition and internal boundaries; qualitative and quantitative plate tectonics; the Earth's energy budget isostasy; Earth rheology, with examples from seismology, tides, glacial isostatic adjustment and mantle convection; the Earth's gravity field and geodesy; planetary rotation. Physical concepts will be emphasized over mathematical derivations. While there are no formal pre-requisites for the course, some training in calculus, ordinary and partial differential equations would be helpful. Extra class time and material will be available for students without this background. Given in alternate years. N Jerry X. Mitrovica fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 207 r Geochemical Oceanography Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics in low-temperature geochemistry, oceanography, and climatology will be discussed. Students will read and present journal articles on relevant topics, and will rotate responsibility for leading discussions. Given in alternate years. Y Daniel P. Schrag fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 208 Physics of Climate Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Overview of the basic features of the climate system (global energy balance, atmospheric general circulation, ocean circulation, and climate variability) and the underlying physical processes. Applied Mathematics 105b (may be taken concurrently), Physics 11a, b or 15; or permission of the instructor. N Zhiming Kuang spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 209 Tides and Milankovitch Forcing in the Climate System Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tidal and solar insolation forcing are both directly dependent upon the orbital configuration of the Earth and sun and they are the only near-periodic drivers of the environment. This course will discuss these phenomena in parallel, and use them as examples of the application of quantitative time series analysis and modeling methods suitable for the analysis of instrumental and paleoclimate records. EPS 131, EPS 132, or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. This subject will be taught jointly with the MIT course by same name. N Peter John Huybers fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 210 Introduction to Isotope and Trace Element Geochemistry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course emphasizes the principles of isotope and trace element geochemistry and their application to relevant problems in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Problems to be addressed include planet formation and differentiation, ocean chemistry, and climate reconstruction. Y Sujoy Mukhopadhyay spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 231 Climate Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Climate and climate variability phenomena and mechanisms using a hierarchical modeling approach. Basics: El Nino and thermohaline circulation, abrupt, millennial and glacial-interglacial variability, equable climates. Background in geophysical fluid dynamics or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. Y Eli Tziperman fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 232 Dynamic Meteorology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The atmosphere understood as a fluid dynamical system. Observations of atmospheric motions related to weather and climate. Application of the equations of atmospheric dynamics to explaining phenomena such as jet streams, cyclones and fronts. Applied Mathematics 105b; or permission of instructor. N Brian F. Farrell spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 233 Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Earth and Planetary Sciences, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the challenge that global sea level rise poses for the Boston metropolitan area. Students will be exposed to a range of issues including: the underlying science of climate change as it applies to projections of sea level rise and storm intensity and frequency; the engineering and infrastructure that currently protects cities around the world from flooding, including examples from London, the Netherlands, New Orleans and Venice; planning issues associated with building large infrastructure in urban areas; the governance of urban interventions, and the interplay between city, state and federal regulations; and the capacity to respond to disasters following a large flooding event. The class will meet for two hours per week, with additional time devoted to group projects on different components of a strategy to improve the resilience of the Boston area. Jointly offered by the Design School as SCI-06370-00 and the Law School as LAW 96112A. Y Daniel P. Schrag spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 236 Environmental Modeling Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Chemical transport models: principles, numerical methods. Inverse models: Bayes' theorem, optimal estimation, Kalman filter, adjoint methods. Analysis of environmental data: visualization, time series analysis, Monte Carlo methods, statistical assessment. Students prepare projects and presentations. Applied Mathematics 105b (may be taken concurrently); a course in atmospheric chemistry (EPS 133 or 200 or equivalent); or permission of the instructors. Students specializing in this area are expected to take EPS 200 and 236. These courses may serve as an introduction to atmospheric and oceanic processes for other students with strong preparation. N Steven C. Wofsy Daniel J. Jacob spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 238 Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer of Planetary Atmospheres Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Absorption, emission, and scattering of planetary atmospheres, emphasizing Earth. Atmospheric spectroscopic properties for various measurement geometries. Quantitative spectroscopy and atmospheric structure are reviewed. Radiative transfer modeling and simulation and interpretation of atmospheric spectra from microwave through ultraviolet. Ability to program in a high-level computer language (may be learned in parallel with the permission of the instructor). Given in alternate years. N Kelly Chance fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 239 The Consequences of Energy Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course provides an introduction to the physical and chemical impacts of energy choices on human society and natural ecosystems. Topics will include the carbon cycle, climate, air and water pollution, impacts of energy systems on health, land use consequences of energy technologies, and nuclear waste and proliferation. College level chemistry and physics and permission of instructor. This course is a requirement for the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment. N Daniel P. Schrag spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 240 Geochemical Transport and Kinetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Irreversible thermodynamics, heat flow and diffusion. K-U-Th geochemistry. Mass transfer between geochemical reservoirs; modeling of mantle melting, mantle and crustal evolution, geochemical cycles. Determination of temperature-time-pressure histories of rocks from radiogenic isotopes and phase equilibria. Mathematics 21a, b or Applied Mathematics 21a, b. Applied Mathematics 105a, b are recommended. Given in alternate years. N Stein B. Jacobsen spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 241 r Isotope Geochemistry and Processes of Planetary Evolution Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The composition and the evolution of the Solar Nebula. Application of radiogenic and stable isotopes to study the processes of formation and evolution of planetary crusts, mantles, and cores. Given in alternate years. N Stein B. Jacobsen spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 242 Low Temperature Geochemistry (formerly Biogeochemistry of Light Stable Isotopes) Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 Introduction to the theory and methodology of stable isotope biogeochemistry. Topics include isotope ratio mass spectrometry, biological fractionation of carbon and nitrogen isotopes, distribution of isotopes in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and applications to climate reconstruction. Given in alternate years. N Daniel P. Schrag fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 243 Geochemical and Cosmochemical Thermodynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The laws of thermodynamics. Equilibrium and spontaneous transformations in systems of variable chemical composition. Components, phase rule and petrogenetic grids. Calculation of phase diagrams. Applications to cosmochemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, and environmental geochemistry. A course in college-level chemistry or equivalent; Mathematics 21a or Applied Mathematics 21a (may be taken concurrently). Given in alternate years. N Stein B. Jacobsen spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 245 Petrological Approaches to Understanding the Earth's System Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The course studies the igneous processes at spreading centers, convergent margins and hot spots, and explores their influences on mantle, crust, ocean and atmosphere and the constraints they provide for the plate tectonic geochemical cycle. EPS 145 or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years. Y Charles Langmuir spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 250 r Topics in Planetary Sciences Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar on current problems in planetary sciences. Topics: impact processes, planetary surface processes, planet formation, and subjects related to current spacecraft missions. Given in alternate years or upon announcement. N Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 255 r Topics in Tropical Dynamics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar on current problems in tropical dynamics. Students will read and present journal articles on relevant topics, and will rotate responsibility for leading discussions. N Zhiming Kuang spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 260 Topics in Geophysics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar on current important problems on the state and processes of the solid Earth. Topics may include mantle structure and geochemistry, the core-mantle boundary, the continental lithosphere. This course is coordinated with a research course at MIT. N Richard J. O'Connell Miaki Ishii spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 261 Sea Level Change Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The physical processes responsible for sea level changes over time scales extending from hours to hundreds of millions of years. Long-term sea-level change and dynamic topography. Glacial isostatic adjustment. Recent global sea-level rise and fingerprinting. Ocean tides. Applied Mathematics 21a, b; Physics 11 or 15; or permission of instructor. Given in alternate years N Jerry X. Mitrovica fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 262 Theoretical Seismology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theoretical aspects of seismology with strong emphasis on global free-oscillation seismology. Topics include continuum mechanics, equations of motion, linearization, perturbation theory, elasticity & anelasticity, rotation & ellipticity, spheroidal & toroidal modes of the Earth, mode splitting, and multiplet coupling. Applied Mathematics 202 or equivalent, or permission of instructor; EPS 204. Y Miaki Ishii spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 265 r Mantle Convection and Earth Evolution Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics in the dynamics of processes and properties in the Earth's interior, including: thermal convection and flow in the mantle, rheology of the mantle, plate motions, plate deformation, physical properties of rocks and minerals, isotope geochemistry, chemical and isotopic evolution of the Earth. Given in alternate years. N Richard J. O'Connell Stein B. Jacobsen Sujoy Mukhopadhyay fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 269 r Topics in Crustal Dynamics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar on current problems of tectonics, faulting, and earthquake occurrence at the Pacific-North America plate boundary in California. Emphasis on the identification of extant problems that may be resolved with contemporary geologic, geophysical, and geodetic data analysis and process based modeling. Given in alternate years. Y Brendan J. Meade John H. Shaw spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 270 r Structural Interpretation of Seismic Data Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Methods of interpreting complex geologic structures imaged in 2- and 3-dimensional seismic reflection data. Methods of integrated geologic and remote sensing data will be described. Students will complete independent projects analyzing seismic data on workstations. EPS 171 or equivalent. Given in alternate years. N John H. Shaw fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 272 r Topics in Structural Geology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar course investigating recent advances in structural geology and exploration geophysics with applications in earthquake science and the petroleum industry. Specific topics vary from year to year. EPS 171 or equivalent. Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students involved in structural geology research. Given in alternate years. N John H. Shaw spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 274 Field Geology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Field-based course in the Mojave Desert during January term. Students will learn how to identify, measure, and interpret geological data and synthesize their data with previous studies. Specific skills and topics include: mineral/lithological identification, structural microfabrics, macro-structure, mapping, regional geology, tectonics, sedimentary structures, and stratigraphy. This is a project-based class in which students will be assigned individual map areas and will analyze data, digitize maps, and complete a geological report during the spring term. Approximately one third of the course work will be done during the spring term. Given in alternate years. Y Francis Alexander Macdonald spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 281 r Great Papers in Earth Sciences Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 3-5 Peter John Huybers and Eli Tziperman A survey and discussion of groundbreaking papers from across the Earth sciences. N Peter John Huybers Eli Tziperman fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 282 r Topics in Stratigraphy and Earth History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings and discussions on current problems in stratigraphy and Earth history. Students will read and present journal articles on relevant topics, and will rotate responsibility for leading discussions. N Francis Alexander Macdonald fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 286 r Current Topics in Biogeochemistry I: Electron budgets through time Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An intensive reading course that will systematically track the evidence for O2, SO4, NO3, and Fe3+ budgets through Earth history. We will evaluate the sharpness of various proxies, while building models for the budgets of key electron acceptors in the ocean and atmosphere system. This will be a seminar class focused on discussion rather than lecture. Assessment will be based on participation, 2-3 modeling projects, and a term paper. EPS 186 and 187/137 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. This class, together with EPS 287, replace EPS 237 Advanced Biogeochemistry. EPS 286 and 287 can be taken in series or individually. Given in alternate years. Y David T Johnston Ann Pearson spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 287 Current Topics in Biogeochemistry II: Role of the biological pump in the carbon cycle Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An intensive reading course that will compare modern oceanographic approaches to the biological pump with concepts of the size and function of the biological pump over geologic time. We will review the carbon cycle; carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope proxies; and will stress simple calculations and limited box models. This will be a seminar class focused on discussion rather than lecture. Assessment will be based on participation, several short problem sets, and a term paper. EPS 186 and 187/137 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Meets once a week for three hours. Given in alternate years. Y Ann Pearson David T Johnston fall term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 290 Scientific Communication Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Teaches students how to effectively, communicate scientific concepts focusing on short oral presentations based on current journal articles drawn from Earth and Planetary Sciences. Technical presentation skills (planning, delivery, managing nervousness, etc.) developed through weekly practice and detailed feedback. Recommended for EPS graduate students in their 1st or 2nd year. Topics include: differences between written and oral communication; structure and organization of short vs. long and general vs. technical talks; and effective use of visualizations including poster presentations. N Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 320 Topics in Planetary Sciences Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay Sarah Toby Stewart Mukhopadhyay fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 330 Climate Atmospheric Chemistry and Free Radical Kinetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James G. Anderson James G. Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 331 Atmospheric Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel J. Jacob Daniel J. Jacob fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 332 Dynamic Meteorology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian F. Farrell Brian F. Farrell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 333 Environmental Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Scot T. Martin Scot T. Martin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 334 Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael B. McElroy Michael B. McElroy fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 335 Climate Dynamics and Physical Oceanography Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eli Tziperman Eli Tziperman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 336 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eli Tziperman Eli Tziperman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 337 Biological Oceanography Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 338 Atmospheric Chemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Steven C. Wofsy Steven C. Wofsy fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 339 Biogeochemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ann Pearson Ann Pearson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 340 Topics in Isotope Geochemistry: Research Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stein B. Jacobsen Stein B. Jacobsen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 341 Isotope Geochemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stein B. Jacobsen Stein B. Jacobsen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 342 Topics in Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Zhiming Kuang Zhiming Kuang fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 343 Topics in Quantitative Analysis of the Climate Record Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter John Huybers Peter John Huybers fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 344 Topics in Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Geochemical Oceanography Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel P. Schrag Daniel P. Schrag fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 345 Solid Earth Geochemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles Langmuir Charles Langmuir fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 346 Topics in Noble Gas Geochemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sujoy Mukhopadhyay Sujoy Mukhopadhyay fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 347 Topics in Environmental Policy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y John P. Holdren John P. Holdren fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 348 Topics in Microbial Geochemistry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Colleen Hansel Colleen Hansel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 362 Dynamo Theory: Research Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jeremy Bloxham Jeremy Bloxham fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 363 Mechanics of Earth and Environmental Processes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 364 Geophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jeremy Bloxham Jeremy Bloxham fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 365 Geophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Richard J. O'Connell Richard J. O'Connell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 367 Global Geodynamics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Jerry X. Mitrovica Jerry X. Mitrovica fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 368 Seismology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Miaki Ishii Miaki Ishii fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 369 Topics in Active Tectonics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brendan J. Meade Brendan J. Meade fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 370 Structural Analysis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John H. Shaw John H. Shaw fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 380 Topics in Geology and Earth History Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Francis Alexander Macdonald Francis Alexander Macdonald fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 381 Topics in Stable Isotope Geobiology and Earth History Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David T Johnston David T Johnston fall term; repeated spring term Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences 387 Paleobotany Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Knoll Andrew Knoll fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Aab Intensive Elementary Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course 20 Intensive introduction to modern standard (Mandarin) Chinese pronunciation, grammar, conversation, reading, and writing. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Ba Elementary Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Non-intensive introduction to modern Chinese pronunciation, grammar, conversation, reading, and writing. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Qiu Yu Wang Jennifer Li-Chia Liu spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Bb Elementary Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese Ba. Chinese Ba or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Qiu Yu Wang Jennifer Li-Chia Liu fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Bx Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For students with significant listening and speaking background. Introductory Modern Chinese language course, with emphasis on reading and writing. Covers in one term the equivalent of Chinese Ba and Bb. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Students must pass a test in listening and speaking to take the course. Y Emily Huang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 106 a Introduction to Literary Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Basic grammar and the reading of simple historical narrative. At least one year of modern Chinese, or familiarity with Chinese characters through knowledge of Japanese or Korean. An additional lecture slot may be added if enough students enroll, with times to be arranged. N Chen Zhang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 106 b Introduction to Literary Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to pre-Qin philosophical texts. Chinese 106a or permission of instructor. An additional lecture slot may be added if enough students enroll, with times to be arranged. N Chen Zhang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 107 a Intermediate Literary Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A second-year course designed to prepare students for reading and research using materials written in Literary Chinese. The focus in the fall semester will be prose from the Tang and Song dynasties. One year of literary Chinese (Chinese 106 or equivalent). N Chen Zhang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 107 b Intermediate Literary Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Chinese 107a, introducing more prose styles as well as poetry and lyric. Chinese 107a or equivalent. N Chen Zhang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 120 a Intermediate Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Modern texts, conversation, reading, and composition. Chinese Bb or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Xuedong Wang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 120 b Intermediate Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese 120a. Chinese 120a, or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Xuedong Wang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 123 xb Intermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese Bx. Covers in one term the equivalent of Chinese 120a and 120b. Chinese Bx, or instructor's permission. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Emily Huang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 125 ab Intensive Intermediate Modern Standard Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course 20 Continuation of Chinese Aab. Chinese Aab, or Chinese Bb, or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 130 a Advanced Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of writings selected from modern Chinese literature, academic works and newspaper articles, aimed at enhancing and further developing the student's proficiency in modern Chinese language. Two years of modern Chinese. Conducted in Chinese. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Lei Yan spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 130 b Advanced Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese 130a. Chinese 130a. Conducted in Chinese. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Lei Yan fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 130 xa Advanced Modern Chinese for Heritage Students Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Designed for heritage learners and covers the equivalent of Chinese 130a and other materials for reading and writing. Chinese 120b, Chinese 123xb, Chinese 125ab, or with permission of instructor. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Binnan Gao spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 130 xb Advanced Modern Chinese for Heritage Students Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Designed for heritage learners and covers the equivalent of Chinese 130b and other materials for reading and writing. Chinese 130xa. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Binnan Gao fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 140 a Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Rapid reading of selections from books and articles. Chinese 130b, Chinese 130xb Conducted in Chinese. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Miaomiao Wang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 140 b Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese 140a. Chinese 140a. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. N Miaomiao Wang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 142 a Advanced Conversational Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Spoken Chinese for advanced students. Chinese 130b, Chinese 130xb, or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. No native speakers allowed. May not be used for citation. Y Hongyun Sun spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 142 b Advanced Conversational Chinese Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Spoken Chinese for advanced students. Chinese 140a, Chinese 142a, or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. No native speakers allowed. May not be used for citation. Y Hongyun Sun fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 150 a Formal Chinese Writing and Speaking Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 The purpose of this course is to enable students to acquire a comprehensive written grammar with sufficient formal vocabulary in modern Chinese. Formal patterns generated by combining single characters are used for the foundation of written grammar. This course also offers students authentic academic readings in order to improve their abilities in academic writing and formal speech. Students are required to write and present their essays in formal Chinese. Chinese 140b or equivalent. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Y Ye Tian spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 150 b Formal Chinese Writing and Speaking Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Continuation of Chinese 150a. Chinese 150a. No auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Y Ye Tian fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 163 Business Chinese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Designed for students interested in international business or for students who intend to work or travel for business in Chinese-speaking communities (including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), or for students who desire to improve their Chinese language proficiency. An introduction to business and economic climates, practices and customs of these communities. Students learn specialized business and economic vocabulary and the principles of business correspondence. At least three years of modern Chinese or equivalent (with permission of instructor). Conducted in Chinese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Y Hongyun Sun Hongyun Sun spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 183 Being Chinese: Contemporary Cultural Debates Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A seminar that explore a series of contemporary cultural debates in China that are all concerned about the "Chinese identity," "national learning" (guoxue), and the notion of "greater cultural China" in the age of globalization. Readings for this course draw on critical writings published in current Chinese literary and cultural journals as well as on blog entries and discussions from the Chinese Internet. In relation to the course reading, students will also watch films from 1980s into the 21st century. Four years of Mandarin or equivalent (with permission of instructor). Class discussions in Chinese. Most readings in Chinese. Counts toward Language Citation in Modern Chinese. N Xiaofei Tian spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 187 Art and Violence in the Cultural Revolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the cultural implications of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). We will examine how art was violent towards people and how violence was turned into an art. We will also consider the link between violence, trauma, memory and writing. Materials include memoir, fiction, essay, "revolutionary Peking Opera," and film. Four years of Mandarin or equivalent (with permission of instructor). Most readings in Chinese. Discussions in Chinese. Count toward Language Citation in Modern Chinese. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Xiaofei Tian fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 113 Society and Culture of Late Imperial China Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a survey of the social and cultural history of China from the Song to the mid-Qing (roughly from 1000 to 1800). The main topics discussed include urbanization and commerce; gender; family and kinship; education and the examination system, and religion and ritual. The main goal of the course will be to explore the relationship between social and cultural changes and political and intellectual developments. N Michael Szonyi fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 125 Rebels with a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 In spring 1989, millions of Chinese took to the streets calling for political reforms. The nationwide demonstrations and the college students' hunger strike on Tiananmen Square ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed civilians. Student leaders and intellectuals were purged, imprisoned, or exiled. Discussion about "Tiananmen" remains a political taboo in China today despite the Tiananmen Mothers' struggle to keep the forbidden memory alive. This course will explore the Tiananmen Movement in history and memory. N Rowena Xiaoqing He fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 200 r Computational Methods for Historical Analysis Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course History takes place through the actions of people who live in time and space. Modern computational methods provide means of analyzing changes in patterns of behavior and thought among large numbers of people spread across many regions. This course introduces the use of GIS, relational databases, social network analysis, text-mining, and topic modeling for the analysis of geographic information, biographical data, and the content of texts. Separate labs will provide introductory instruction in various computational techniques. N Peter K. Bol fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 224 Introduction to T'ang and Sung Historical Sources Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the reading and interpretation of sources useful in the study of T'ang and Sung history. Recent scholarship and methodological issues are also discussed. One year of literary Chinese or equivalent. N Peter K. Bol spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 225 r Topics in Song History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines various topics in the political, social, and intellectual history of Song China. Knowledge of literary Chinese. N Peter K. Bol fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 228 Introduction to Neo-Confucianism Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduces major Neo-Confucian texts for close reading and analysis. Selections from the writings and records of spoken instruction by Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, Zhu Xi, Liu Jiuyuan, and others. N Peter K. Bol spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 229 Topics in Ming Intellectual History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines various topics in the intellectual and cultural history of Ming China. Knowledge of literary Chinese N Peter K. Bol fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 232 r Topics in Han History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines various topics in the history of the Han Dynasty. N Michael Puett fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 235 r Topics in Warring States History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Close reading of texts from the Warring States period. N Michael Puett fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 253 Topics in Late Imperial History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Review of historical scholarship on China from roughly 1500 to the early 20th century. This course is designed to aid in preparations for the general examinations and in developing a dissertation topic. N Mark C. Elliott Michael Szonyi fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 255 Popular Religion in Late Imperial China: Historiography Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course We will explore current writings on the relationship between Chinese popular religion and the Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian traditions since the Song dynasty. We will discuss religion and ritual as important aspects of social experience, which interact with and shed light on other aspects of social relations. Topics discussed will include: syncretism, state regulation and cultural integration; local cults and Daoism. N Michael Szonyi spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese History 265 r Topics in the History of China and Inner Asia Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Review of scholarship on the history of China's Inner Asian frontiers from pre-imperial times to the present. The focus in particular years may vary. This course is designed to aid in preparations for the general examinations and in developing a dissertation topic. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 114 Authority and the Claims of the Individual in Chinese Literary Culture Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the role Chinese literary texts have played in articulating the place of the individual as part of, or against, the authority of community and state. Beginning with the celebrations of social integration in the early parts of the Classic of Poetry (early first millennium BC), we will follow the increasingly complex role literature came to play, both as a critic of authority and as establishing a domain of private life. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts A, but not both. N Xiaofei Tian spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 115 Gender and Power in Chinese Literature: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Uses conceptions of gender and representations of women to examine shifting paradigms of virtues and vices, notions of rhetoric and agency, ideas about politics, power and historical explanations, and boundaries of supernatural realms and religious transcendence. N Wai-Yee Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 152 Masterworks of Chinese Fiction: Tradition and Modernity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the masterworks of Chinese fiction from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Beyond close readings of excerpts from some of the best known Ming-Qing novels, we will explore the contexts that establish their cultural significance: the traditions they build on, their social and intellectual contexts, the commentaries and sequels they generate, and their reverberations in contemporary culture. Readings are in both Chinese and English. For works in classical Chinese, students are allowed to consult translations into modern Chinese or English. The course will be taught in Chinese and counts towards the Chinese language citation. It also fulfills the requirement for the EAS junior tutorial. N Wai-Yee Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 171 Shanghai: A Cultural History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Excavates the cultural and historical memories of Shanghai, the great Chinese metropolis that began as an international treaty port in the 1840s. Topics covered include literary and cinematic representations, publishing and film industries, architecture and urban spaces, rural migrants and foreign expatriates, Shanghai in wartime and under Socialism, everyday life and consumer culture. These themes will be explored through history, literature, ethnography, music, photography, films, urban planning, and the Internet. All required course materials available in English. Students with Chinese ability may choose to work with original sources. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Jie Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 201 a History of Chinese Literature: Beginnings through Song Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course In-depth, scholarly introduction to history of Chinese literature and literary culture from antiquity through 1400. Also examines state of the field and considers issues for future research. Includes bibliography. Essential for generals preparation. N Xiaofei Tian spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 201 b History of Chinese Literature: 900-1900: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Chinese Literature 201a. Provides an in-depth overview of the development of Chinese literature during the late imperial period, with special (but not exclusive) emphasis on the development of vernacular literature. N Wai-Yee Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 226 Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) and Its Contexts: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A close reading of the masterpiece of Chinese fiction, Honglou meng, drawing on commentary traditions and modern interpretations. We will explore how Honglou meng sums up and rethinks various aspects of the Chinese tradition. Open to undergraduates. N Wai-Yee Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 227 r Early Chinese Historical Writings: Shiji: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Studies the Shiji (Records of the Historian) in the context of Warring States and Han thought and historical developments. Uses the text to explore conceptions of rhetoric, narrative, history, and interpretation in early China. Readings are in classical Chinese, but some of the materials will also be available in English translation. Reading knowledge of classical Chinese. N Wai-Yee Li spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 229 r Literature and Culture of Early Medieval China: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Survey of literature and culture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317-589). Major issues include travel, landscape, visualization, pursuit of transcendence and sagehood, construction of "South" and North," and implications of manuscript culture. N Xiaofei Tian spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 230 The Vernacular Short Story (huaben xiaoshen): Historical and Critical Approaches Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Deals with the development of the vernacular short story, focusing on Feng Menglong's Sanyan (1620-1627), a compilation of 120 stories old and new. This course also looks at vernacular narratives of the Tang as found in Dunhuang and follows the development of the genre throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. N Wai-Yee Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 231 Late-Ming Literature and Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Surveys writings from second half of sixteenth century until fall of Ming, including prose (including "informal essays"), poetry, drama, fiction. Examines late-Ming literary-aesthetic sensibility (and questions how such a category may be justified.) Reading knowledge of classical and pre-modern vernacular Chinese required. N Wai-Yee Li spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 232 Early Qing Literature and Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines works in Qing prose, poetry, fiction, and drama. Focuses on memory and representation of the fall of the Ming in early Qing. Explores how this preoccupation merges and co-exists with developments in this period. Reading knowledge of classical and pre-modern vernacular Chinese required. N Wai-Yee Li spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 242 From Fiction into History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar deals with the dialogics between historical dynamics and literary manifestation at select moments of twentieth century China. It focuses on two themes: history and representation; modernity and monstrosity. N David Der-Wei Wang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 245 r Topics in Sinophone Studies - Modern Chinese Fiction on the Periphery Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Survey of modern Chinese fiction and narratology from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese Diaspora: polemics of the canon, dialogues between national and regional imaginaries, and literary cultures in the Sinophone world. N David Der-Wei Wang spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 248 Modern Chinese Literature: Theory and Practice: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Survey of the concepts, institutions, canons, debates, experiments, and actions that gave rise to, and continually redefined, modern Chinese literature. Equal attention given to theories drawn from Chinese and Western traditions. N David Der-Wei Wang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 266 r Topics in Ancient Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This term we will read selected works from the Chuci and Han texts in the Chuci tradition. Two years of literary Chinese or equivalent. The first class will take place on Friday, September 2, in room 214 at 2 Divinity Avenue, from 1pm - 4 pm. N Stephen Owen spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 267 r Topics in Tang Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the three centuries of Tang literature, with special attention to critical issues arising in the study of Tang literature. Two years of literary Chinese or equivalent. N Stephen Owen fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 268 r Topics in Song and Yuan Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The topic this semester will be Northern Song prose and classical poetry. Two years of literary Chinese or equivalent. N Stephen Owen fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 270 From History into Fiction Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar on how literature helped to "emplot" modern Chinese history from the late Qing era to the Cultural Revolution. Discussion focuses on the fictional making of a national history, gendered subjectivity, and nativist vision. N David Der-Wei Wang fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chinese Literature 271 Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores Chinese films from the 1930s to the present that project revolutionary visions or memories. The materials are divided into three units: the "Golden Age" of 1930s left-wing films; Maoist cinema from the 1950s through the Cultural Revolution; and post-Socialist cinema that remake or reflect upon the revolutionary experience. Some films and readings only in Chinese. Four years of modern Chinese or equivalent. N Jie Li fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 240 r Japanese Buddhist Doctrine and Monastic Culture: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate seminar aimed at improving students' ability to read and analyze scriptural sources in the context of textual, artistic, and other cultural productions centered around large monasteries in premodern Japan. Major theme for this semester: Buddhist cultural exchange between medieval Japan and China. Classical Japanese and Kambun are required. N Ryuichi Abe fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 241 Major Issues in the Study of East Asian Buddhism Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate seminar that critically examines major academic works in English on East Asian Buddhism. It is aimed at preparing EALC graduate students for their general examinations in the fields relevant to Buddhism. N Ryuichi Abe spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 243 Buddhism in Twentieth-Century Chinese Philosophy: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will investigate the polemics on the Awakening of the Faith (Dasheng Qixin Lun), one of the most influential Buddhist texts, to see how the text was appropriated for the various religious and philosophical purposes in twentieth-century China. N spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 245 r Ritual and Text in Japanese Buddhist Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the way in which rituals are approached, described, and interpreted in primary Japanese Buddhist texts. Students will acquire skills allowing them to move freely in their reading of texts from diverse literary genres. Classical Japanese and Kambun. N Ryuichi Abe fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 255 Readings on Chinese Religions: Recent Scholarship on Chinese Buddhism: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar aims to discuss significant new works in the field of Chinese Religions by focusing on the historical, doctrinal, and philosophical development of the Buddhist tradition in China. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3232. N James Robson spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 256 Chinese Buddhist Texts--Readings in Medieval Buddho-Daoist Documents: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar focuses on the careful textual study and translation of a variety of Chinese Buddho-Daoist texts through the medieval period. Reading knowledge of classical Chinese required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3233. N James Robson Ryuichi Abe fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Buddhist Studies 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James Robson Ryuichi Abe Janet Gyatso James Robson Ryuichi Abe Janet Gyatso fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Independent reading and research in East Asian Studies. Open to students who have given evidence of ability to do independent reading and research. May be taken on an individual basis or by small groups of students interested in working on the same topic. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Michael Szonyi Michael Szonyi spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 97 ab Introduction to East Asian Civilizations Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course looks at some of the elements (philosophy and religion, art and literature, statecraft and technology) that are shared by the various regional cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), and the ways in which these vary in each of these cultures. We also look at the way in which the countries of East Asia have impacted each other in the process of modernization, and at their divergent paths towards globalization. Required of sophomore concentrators and secondary field candidates. Open to freshmen. N Michael Szonyi spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 a Tutorial--Junior Year: State-Society Relations in Modern China Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Junior Tutorial for students in the China Social Science track. EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators. Preference to EAS concentrators but open to Government concentrators. N Elizabeth J. Perry fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 b Junior Tutorial--State and Society in Contemporary Japan Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Junior Tutorial for students in the Japan Social Science track. For students with an interest in the society, economy, politics, and popular culture of contemporary Japan. EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators. Preference to EAS students but open to Government concentrators. N Susan J. Pharr fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 d Junior Tutorial--The Political Economy of Modern China Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Junior Tutorial for students with an interest in China Social Sciences. After an introduction to the historical context of China's development, this course will focus on the political economy of reform in the post-Mao period. Some of the topics covered include democracy, the 1989 Tiananmen protests, the rise of entrepreneurs, the role of labor, rural-urban migration, and the Internet. EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators. Preference to EAS students but open to Government concentrators. N Nara Dillon fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 f Junior Tutorial -The Study of East Asian Religions Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This tutorial is designed to deepen and extend the student's knowledge of the study of East Asian religions. It will build on the student's foundational understanding of the development and history of Buddhism, Daosim, Confucianism, Shinto, and various forms of popular religion, by situating that material in the context of larger issues in the study of East Asian religions. The overarching concern within this tutorial will be on reading and discussing methodologically oriented scholarship that will introduce the student to new and intellectually engaging approaches to the various traditions covered. Culture and Belief 33: Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions. If students have not previously taken this course, they are required to attend those lectures concurrently with this tutorial. EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators N James Robson fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 g Junior Tutorial: What is "Japanese Modernity"?: Modern Japanese Literature and Culture Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, the course examines how modernity has been articulated in Japanese literary and intellectual discourses since the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The topics include: nation-building, imperial expansion, conceptualization of modernity versus pre-modernity, Japan and the West, Japan and Asia, class and gender construction, urbanization and mass culture, anti-modernism. Most of the reading assignments are in English but we will read some selected materials in Japanese. EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators. N Tomiko Yoda spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 98 h Junior Tutorial--Visions and Voices of Modern Korea Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Focus on documents, diaries, literature, film, and other primary materials reflecting a variety of perspectives in the history of modern Korea, from the late 19th century to the present. Societies of the World 27: The Two Koreas, or equivalent. (Societies of the World 27 may be taken simultaneously in Spring 2012). Note: EAS 98a, 98b, 98d, 98g, 98h or a substitution approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required for all EAS concentrators. N Carter J. Eckert full year Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Thesis guidance under faculty direction. All students writing an EAS or joint EAS thesis will attend a research and writing workshop that meets twice each term. Y Michael Szonyi Michael Szonyi spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 120 East Asian Cinema Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Takes a vicarious journey through modern China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through celebrated works of cinema that address significant social changes and historical experiences. Apart from watching films by Bong Joon-ho, Itami Juzo. Jiang Wen, Kim Ki-young, Kurosawa Akira, Ang Lee, Ozu Yasujiro, Wong Kar-wai, Edward Yang, Zhang Yimou and others, students are encouraged to collaborate on their own short films inspired by the styles and visions of these directors. All films subtitled in English. No prior knowledge of East Asian history or film studies necessary. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Jie Li spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 121 Global Cities in East Asia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines urbanization and globalization in East Asia, focusing first on the development of Tokyo as a global city, then turning to the socialist cities of contemporary China, before concluding with an examination of uneven development in Southeast Asian cities. In each section of the course, we will examine how urbanization and globalization affect major social groups (in particular, entrepreneurs and women) who have both propelled and been marginalized by these processes. N Nara Dillon fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 123 From Kabuki to Anime: Japanese Cinema and Performance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This survey examines the influence of theater and performance styles on Japanese cinema and media. Does Japanese cinema have a "theatrical tradition"? How do we compare screen and stage, and their use of space and frame? Do anime and otaku culture require radically different concepts of representation, reception, and performance? We'll consider relevant critical and historical perspectives for further exploration of these issues, debating how distinctions between related media are drawn. Films by Ichikawa Kon, Kurosawa Akira, Shinoda Masahiro, Oshima Nagisa, and others. Special emphasis on representations of gender and the body, and the films of Mizoguchi Kenji. N Diane Wei Lewis spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 130 Letter, Mail and Texting: The History of Promises in Epistolary Spaces: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 This course gives an overview of historical sources that are classified as "letters," and demonstrates various ways of interpreting them. It includes materials from a wide range of societies and investigates the different roles of letters from a theoretical standpoint. Emphasis will be on the way that letters were transported from one place to another and how such practices created a new "epistolary space." Using the concept of promise as a main analytical lens, this class is designed to offer a historical narrative of promises in epistolary spaces. Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Y Tomoko L. Kitagawa fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 131 (Math+History) in East Asia: Time Behind Circles: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the ideas behind various "circles" that reflect the history of East Asian civilizations. The themes emphasized are the importance of time and metaphysics behind the mathematical ideas, the revolutionary developments in the field of geometry in East Asia, and the cultural exchange and influence of mathematical reasoning. The aim of the course is to learn the history of mathematics; instead of solving math problems, we will read various writings on mathematics, including passages from math textbooks, scribble notes, and biographies. This class also introduces the techniques in digital humanities for individual projects. No background knowledge in mathematics is required. Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. N Tomoko L. Kitagawa spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 133 The Limits of China: Imaginations of Affinity and Estrangement in Local, National, and Global Worlds: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Our goal in this seminar is to investigate conceptions of "Chineseness" (both past and present, within China and beyond China) by focusing on the long arc of China's historical and social transformations--from imperial polity to nation-state to its global diaspora. Through our investigation of this arc and its multiple accompanying social, cultural, and political transformations, we seek to identify telltale clues for examining the negotiated limits of Chinese imaginings of affinity and estrangement in local, national, and global worlds as well as the social and political effects of those imaginings. Y Nicole Dejong Newendorp Kevin N. Caffrey spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 140 Major Religious Texts of East Asia Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course aims at enabling students to read and analyze in depth major religious texts of East Asia, representing diverse traditions and genres. The course encourages students to take up their reading of texts not only as ways to acquire knowledge on Asian religious traditions, but as practice, labor, and play in which their ordinary way of understanding/experiencing the world and themselves will be challenged, reaffirmed, and renewed. N Ryuichi Abe spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 160 Writing Asian Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 M., 1-3 David McCann Readings in selected Chinese, Japanese, and Korean verse forms, and composition or imitation in English. Study of Li Po and Tu Fu (Chinese couplet), Basho (haiku and haibun mixed prose and poetry), Yun Son-do and other Korean poets (shijo), and composition/imitation. Final project, an extended suite of poems or mixed prose and poetry. No Asian language knowledge is required; all writing will be in English. Y David McCann spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 191 Zen: History, Culture, and Critique Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is an introduction to the religious history, philosophy and practices of Zen Buddhism. Zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chan, which is itself a transcription of the Sanskrit word dhyana, meaning meditation. While meditation is the backbone of the Zen tradition, we will see that Zen has a number of different faces and will examine the rich diversity of the Zen tradition as it developed in China, Korea, and Japan. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3012. N James Robson fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 200 The Uses and Meaning of the New Arts of Presentation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Exploration of the new horizons of communication created by current media technology and their implications for the future of teaching and scholarship. The seminar will combine theoretical readings and reflection with practical, hands-on experiments using podcasts, media-intensive lectures, and iMovies for conveying academic research. Limited enrollment. N Shigehisa Kuriyama fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 205 Approaches to the Comparative History of Medicine and the Body Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar devoted to the theory and methods, possibilities and challenges of cross-cultural studies in the history of medicine and the body. Students will also be expected to attend lectures for Culture and Belief 11. N Shigehisa Kuriyama fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 211 Historical Theory and Methods Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theories and methods for research in East Asian history. Covers approaches to social, cultural, intellectual, and political history, analyzing significant works in each field and applications to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials. N Michael Puett Shigehisa Kuriyama fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 220 r Medieval Japanese Picture Scrolls Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the rich tradition of medieval Japanese picture scrolls (emaki). Provides training in the reading of scroll texts (kotobagaki), the analysis of paintings, and the examination of the production contexts of important scrolls from the 12th to the 16th century. Aims to make picture scrolls available as a primary source for graduate research in many different disciplines within Japanese studies. N Melissa McCormick spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 230 r The History of East Asian Medicine: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course In 2011-12, the course will focus chiefly on selected Chinese and Japanese (kambun) medical texts from the eighteenth century. At least one year of classical Chinese. N Shigehisa Kuriyama spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies 240 Arts of Asia (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores Asian art pedagogy through original research of museum objects and a survey of the scholarship on Asian art. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. N Melissa McCormick fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Ba Elementary Japanese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course aims to develop a basic foundation in modern Japanese leading to proficiency in the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Emphasis is placed on the use of these skills to communicate effectively in authentic contexts of daily life. Mastery of hiragana, katakana, and approximately 45 Kanji (Chinese characters). N Yuko Kageyama-Hunt spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Bb Elementary Japanese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese Ba, with an approximately 130 additional Kanji. Japanese Ba or equivalent. N Yuko Kageyama-Hunt fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 106 a Classical Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to classical grammar and texts. Japanese 130b. N Edwin A. Cranston spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 106 b Kambun Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., F., at 11 Edwin A. Cranston Introduction to Kambun. Japanese 106a or equivalent. N Edwin A. Cranston spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 106 c Later Classical Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Post-Heian writings in Classical Japanese. Japanese 106a or equivalent. N Edwin A. Cranston fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 120 a Intermediate Japanese I Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Second-year intermediate level course aimed at consolidation of the basic grammatical patterns of Japanese and development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to the level necessary for communication in everyday life in Japanese society. Introduction of approximately 300 Chinese characters beyond those introduced in Bb. Japanese Bb or equivalent. N Yasuko Matsumoto spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 120 b Intermediate Japanese I Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese 120a. Approximately 300 additional Chinese characters. N Yasuko Matsumoto fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 130 a Intermediate Japanese II Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Third-year intermediate advanced course. Development of skills in reading authentic materials from contemporary Japanese media and fiction and in aural comprehension of contemporary television news and drama with decreased reliance on pedagogical aids. Development of speaking and writing skills to an increasingly sophisticated level. Introduction of approximately 300 additional Chinese characters beyond those introduced in 120b. Japanese 120b or equivalent. N Satomi Matsumura spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 130 b Intermediate Japanese II Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese 130a. Approximately 300 additional Chinese characters. N Satomi Matsumura fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 140 a Advanced Modern Japanese Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings of modern texts in both rapid and in-depth modes. Comprehension of media news and drama. Advanced conversation and composition on topics related to the preceding. Japanese 130b. N Emi Yamanaka spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 140 b Advanced Modern Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese 140a. N Emi Yamanaka fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 150 a Readings and Discussion in Japanese Social Sciences Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Selected readings and discussion in contemporary Japanese on topics in social studies, culture, education, politics, business, economy, psychology, and anthropology, supplemented by selections from audiovisual materials on current social issues. Japanese 140b. Conducted in Japanese. N Emi Yamanaka spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 150 b Readings and Discussion in Japanese Social Sciences Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese 150a. Japanese 150a. N Emi Yamanaka fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 210 a Reading Scholarly Japanese for Students of Chinese and Korean Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Development of skills in reading and translating academic genres of Japanese, with special attention to Japanese scholarship on Chinese and Korean studies. Introduction to old kana usage and classical forms commonly used in scholarly writing. Japanese 120b, and graduate standing in some field of Chinese or Korean studies. N Wesley Mark Jacobsen spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 210 b Reading Scholarly Japanese for Students of Chinese and Korean Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Japanese 210a. Japanese 210a. N Wesley Mark Jacobsen fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 115 Religion and Society in Edo and Meiji Japan Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examination of religion and society in Japan from 1600-1912, beginning with an era of state control over religious institutions and religious affiliations of the populace, followed by the demise of the Edo-period system and diversification of religious practice in context of rapid social change, modernization, and imperialism during the Meiji period. Separate section for students able to utilize primary sources in Japanese will explore the Maruzen Meiji Microfilm collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library. General knowledge of Japanese history and religion is helpful. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3957. N Helen Hardacre spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 120 Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Japan Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of religion and society from the end of the Meiji period (1912) to the present. This course explores the meaning of the modern in Japanese religions, the development of the public sphere and religion's relations with it, religion and nationalism, and the interconnections of religion and social change with materialism, consumerism, pacifism, and spiritualism. General knowledge of Japanese history and religion is helpful. Enrollment in Japanese History 115 recommended but not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3958. N Helen Hardacre spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 126 Shinto: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of Shinto, emphasizing its concepts of deity (kami), patterns of ritual and festival, shrines as religious and social institutions, political culture and interactions with party politics, and its contribution to contemporary youth culture. General knowledge of Japanese history and religion is helpful. Japanese language is not required, but several meetings will be held for students able to use Japanese-language sources. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3960. N Helen Hardacre spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 145 Lady Samurai in Medieval Japan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will offer a look at gender representation found in original historical records such as letters and diaries, and examine women's roles in society, ways of life, and sexuality in Japan from the 8th century to the end of 16th century with a comparison to their male contemporaries - the Samurai. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Tomoko L. Kitagawa fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 146 Kyoto: The Diplomacy, 1542-1642 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the various cultural elements of medieval Kyoto. The main focus will be on international diplomacy and domestic politics during the unification of Japan. The assignments include creative writing, group collaborations, podcasts, and iMovies. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Tomoko L. Kitagawa fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 150 Early Modern Japan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Japan in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. This was the Tokugawa period, the age of samurai rule, in which many elements of modern Japanese culture took familiar form. It was also the time when the roots of Japan's emergence as a modern state were laid. N David L Howell spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 255 Topics in the Study of Shinto Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course State Shinto: an examination of aspects of Shinto history and practice, 1868-1945, emphasizing recent scholarship seeking to clarify the proper use and definition of the term State Shinto. Reading knowledge of modern Japanese. //Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3959. N Helen Hardacre spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 260 r Topics in Japanese Cultural History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus for 2009-10: the imagination of money, and its relationship to the science, pictures, and writings of the Edo period. Special attention to the transition from cultures of curiosity to cultures of irony. Advanced reading knowledge of Japanese with some acquaintance with (or at least concurrent study of) bungo and kambun. N Shigehisa Kuriyama fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 265 The Muromachi Period: Culture and Context Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate seminar surveys the most significant scholarly literature on the cultural history of Japan's Muromachi period (ca. 1392-1573), with an emphasis on recent publications. Topics to be explored include the built environment of the capital and its institutions; cultural patronage and politics; gender and representation; the material culture of death rituals, funerals, and religious ritual; and the status of the imperial institution during this period. N Melissa McCormick fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 270 Early Modern Japanese History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar surveys the recent English-language literature on the history of early modern Japan, roughly from the late sixteenth century to around 1875. N David L Howell spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese History 271 "Compassion" in Early Modern Japan: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar deals with the politics, society, and culture of Japan around 1700, focusing particularly on the so-called Laws of Compassion. Readings will include primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English. N David L Howell spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 124 The Tale of Genji in Word and Image Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces students to The Tale of Genji, often called the world's first novel, authored by the court lady Murasaki Shikibu around the year 1000 CE. In addition to a close reading of the tale, topics for examination include Japanese court culture, women's writing, and the tale's afterlife in painting, prints, drama, manga, and film. N Melissa McCormick fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 126 The Karma of Words: Buddhism and Japanese Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The goal of this course is to enable students to analyze the impact of Buddhism on Japanese literature as well as how Japanese literature reshaped Buddhism in Japan. Rather than merely reading Japanese literature in light of the Buddhist tradition, it examines how the tradition was expressed, appropriated, denied and affirmed within the literary arts. The course begins by introducing students to the vocabulary of the tradition: its ideas, motifs, paradigms and images and then moves to analyze the impact of the tradition in a variety of literary genres, from classical court poetry and medieval Noh drama to pre-modern haiku and modern fiction. N Christopher Thane Callahan fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 133 Gender and Japanese Art Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the role of gender in the production, reception, and interpretation of visual images in Japan from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries. Topics include Buddhist conceptions of the feminine and Buddhist painting; sexual identity and illustrated narratives of gender reversals; the dynamics of voyeurism in Ukiyo-e woodblock prints; modernization of images of "modern girls" in the 1920s; and the gender dynamics of girl culture in manga and anime. N Melissa McCormick spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 162 Girl Culture, Media, and Japan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course examines the ways in which girlhood and girl culture have figured in the construction of gender, nation, and popular medias in modern to contemporary Japan, from the 1920s to the present. We will study visual and textual mediums, including novels, magazines, films, manga, and animation, paying attention to principal transformations that have marked the history of modern girl culture in Japan. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is expected. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Tomiko Yoda spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 233 r Nara and Heian Court Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 2-5 Edwin A. Cranston Topic: To be decided. Japanese 106a or equivalent. N Edwin A. Cranston fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 270 Topics in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar course on the history, theory, and practice of modern to contemporary Japanese fiction. The course will be organized around a specific theme, time period, a cluster of writers, critics, or genres. N Tomiko Yoda spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Literature 271 Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar course that studies the constructions of gender and gender relations in Japan through the examination of various forms of expressive culture (visual, textual, sonic) in their historical contexts. N Tomiko Yoda fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Ba Elementary Korean Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to modern Korean: basic grammar, reading of simple texts, conversational skills, and writing short letters. After successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to handle a limited number of interactive, task-oriented, and social situations and to have sufficient control of the writing system to interpret written language in areas of practical needs. N Sang-Suk Oh spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Bb Elementary Korean Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean Ba. Korean Ba or equivalent. N Sang-Suk Oh fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Bxa Elementary Korean for Advanced Beginners Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Designed for students with some listening and speaking background, either from prior formal learning or previous exposure to a Korean speaking community. Introductory Korean course, with emphasis on reading and writing. After successful completion of this course, students are expected be able to understand main ideas and/or some facts from the simple connected texts dealing with basic personal and social needs and to be able to meet a number of practical writing needs. N Mi-Hyun Kim spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Bxb Elementary Korean for Advanced Beginners Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Korean Bxa. N Mi-Hyun Kim fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Independent reading and research in Korean Language. Korean 150b and permission of course head. Open to students who have completed Korean 150b and given evidence of ability to do independent reading and research. May be taken on an individual basis or by small groups of students interested in working on the same topic. Y Sang-Suk Oh Sang-Suk Oh fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 120 a Intermediate Korean Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of elementary Korean to consolidate students' knowledge of the fundamental grammatical structures of Korean with an aim to increase their abilities to communicate using Korean in a wide range of daily-life transactional situations. After successful completion of second-year Korean, students are expected to handle most uncomplicated communicative tasks and social situations and read consistently with understanding of simple connected texts dealing with personal and social needs. Korean Bb or equivalent. N Mi-Hyun Kim spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 120 b Intermediate Korean Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean 120a. Korean 120a or equivalent. N Mi-Hyun Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 130 a Pre-advanced Korean Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of intermediate Korean, to consolidate the student's knowledge of the grammatical structures of Korean with an aim to increase their abilities to communicate using Korean in a wide range of familiar and everyday topics, current societal events, and factual and concrete topics relating to personal interests. After successful completion of third-year Korean, students are expected to be able to describe and narrate about concrete and factual topics of personal and general interest. Korean 120b or equivalent. N Sang-Suk Oh spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 130 b Pre-advanced Korean Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean 130a. Korean 130a or equivalent. N Mi-Hyun Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 140 a Advanced Korean Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Development of skills in reading materials from contemporary Korean media and fiction and in aural comprehension of contemporary television news and drama with decreased reliance on pedagogical aids. After successful completion of fourth-year Korean, students should be able to satisfy the requirements of various everyday, school, and work situations and follow essential points of written discourse which are abstract and linguistically complex, and also to write about a variety of topics in detail with precision. Korean 130b or equivalent. N Mi-Hyun Kim spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 140 b Advanced Korean Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean 140a. Korean 140a or equivalent. N Sang-Suk Oh fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 150 a Readings in Cultural Studies Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Selected readings in contemporary Korean on topics in art, film, drama, and cultural studies, supplemented by selections from audio-visual media on traditional and current cultural events. After completion of Korean 150a and 150b, students are expected to be able to participate in most formal and informal conversations on practical, social, professional, and abstract topics and read with almost complete comprehension and at normal speed expository prose on unfamiliar subjects and a variety of literary texts. Korean 140b or equivalent. N Sang-Suk Oh spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 150 b Readings in Cultural Studies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean 150a. Korean 140b or equivalent. N Sang-Suk Oh fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Carter J. Eckert David McCann Sun Joo Kim Sang-Suk Oh spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 105 Introduction to Korean Art Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is an introduction to the arts of Korea, covering from the Neolithic period to 1910 C.E. Focusing on major works of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, crafts and architecture, we will analyze the visual characteristics of the works of art and place them in their historical and cultural context. New archeological findings of ancient art, the introduction and the transformation of Buddhist art, and the development of landscape painting will be discussed. The class will include close examination of art collections in Harvard Art Museums. N Insoo Cho fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 111 Traditional Korea Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Survey of the history of Korea, from earliest times to the 19th century. Examines various interpretive approaches and issues in the political, social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic history of premodern Korea. N Sun Joo Kim spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 118 Social History of Premodern Korea Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., 1-3 Sun Joo Kim This seminar is designed to take a comprehensive look at social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). The seminar will use "Confucianism" and diglossic culture as two main analytical tools to discuss changing political and intellectual culture, family structure and ritual practices, popular culture, gender, language and writing, perceptions of Korea, East Asia and the world, and conceptions of individual and national self. N Sun Joo Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 130 The Recurring Past--Early Korea and Northeast Asia as History and Identity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course With a focus on Korea's proto-historic and early historic periods, this course will explore the question of history as shaper of identity, looking at the ways the remote past surfaces repeatedly in modern context. We will examine international disputes over historical interpretation, the popularization of the ancient past in popular culture, and the politicization of history in both North and South Korea. N Mark Edward Byington spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 230 r Readings in Premodern Korean History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of social, political, economic, and intellectual history of premodern Korea reviewing major scholarship in the field. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination. All readings are in English. Korean History 111 or equivalent. N Sun Joo Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 231 ar Documents and Research Methods for the Study of Premodern Korea I: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction of the different types of primary sources and research methodologies useful for study of Choson Korea. Students are required to write a research paper. Korean History 111 or equivalent and reading proficiency in Korean. Reading ability in literary Chinese and Japanese helpful. N Sun Joo Kim spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 231 b Documents and Research Methods for the Study of Premodern Korea II: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Continued training in reading and interpreting primary sources and exploring innovative research methodologies. Students are required to write a research paper based on original sources on a topic of their choosing. Korean History 231a or instructor's permission. N Sun Joo Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 240 r Selected Topics in Premodern Korean History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading and research of selected primary sources and secondary works on premodern Korean history. Korean History 111 or equivalent and reading proficiency in Korean. Reading ability in classical Chinese and Japanese helpful. N Sun Joo Kim fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 253 r Modern Korean History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to some of the current issues in modern Korean history through selected readings. Designed for entering graduate students and undergraduates with a basic knowledge of modern Korean History (Societies of the World 27, "Two Koreas" or its equivalent). N Carter J. Eckert full year Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 255 r Modern Korean History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Readings and research in modern Korean history. Students are required to write a seminar paper based largely on primary materials Korean History 253r or equivalent, and reading proficiency in Korean. Y Carter J. Eckert Carter J. Eckert fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 260 r Readings in Modern Korean History I Reading Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores the history of the field through an examination of major scholarship. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination. N Carter J. Eckert spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 261 Readings in Modern Korean History II Reading Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Korean History 260. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination. N Carter J. Eckert spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean History 270 Readings in Early Korean and Northeast Asian History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course involves close readings in various topics related to early Korean History, reinforcing the view of early Korea as an active component in a very dynamic East Asian cultural matrix. Reading proficiency in classical Chinese and one of either Korean, Chinese or Japanese. N Mark Edward Byington spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Literature 132 Korean Literature in Translation: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides a comprehensive overview of Korean culture as it is represented in Korean fiction and poetry from pre-modern to contemporary period. It delves into the question of how Korea, as a society and nation, has responded to cultural transformations and changing conceptions of the land, the people, and the nation over time. The course highlights different genres of Korean literature from mythologies of Korea's birth, literary works in Japanese written under Colonial Korea, to contemporary pop culture and literature in films. The concepts of state, gender, class, nostalgia, modernity, and revolutionary aesthetics will be at the forefront of our discussions. All readings will be in English. No prior knowledge of Korea or the Korean language is required. This course will include an exam. N David McCann fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Literature 210 r Pre-Modern Korean Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Close reading in a number of literary forms, including the essay, histories, prose fiction, songs, poetry, and p'ansori. Korean Literature 132 or equivalent. Readings in English and Korean. N David McCann fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Korean Literature 212 Modern Korean Poetry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Major and minor voices in 20th and 21st-century Korean poetry. Attention to the practices of reading and translation, and to the political contexts of modern Korean poetry. Korean Literature 132 or equivalent. Readings in English and Korean. N David McCann fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu A Elementary Manchu Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Manchu grammar with elementary readings in Manchu script. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu B Elementary Manchu Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Mark C. Elliott Readings in a variety of historical and literary texts with emphasis on Manchu documentary sources, with and without diacritical marks. N Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu 120 a Intermediate Manchu Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in a wide variety of Manchu texts. English to Manchu translation exercises. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu 120 b Advanced Manchu Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intensive reading in Manchu archival materials, other historical texts and literary texts. Some texts in pre-diacritical form. English to Manchu translation exercises. N Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu 210 a Introduction to Sources for Manchu Studies Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduces a range of Manchu and Chinese texts used for research in Manchu studies. After reviewing the history and present state of Manjuristics, we will consider different source materials each week. Students will present oral reports and write a bibliographic essay on a topic of potential research interest. Ability in literary Chinese and Manchu, background in Qing history. Reading ability in Japanese strongly preferred but not required. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu 210 b Introduction to Sources for Manchu Studies Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research papers prepared on the basis of primary sources. Manchu 210a. N Mark C. Elliott fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Manchu 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mark C. Elliott Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Mongolian 120 a Intermediate Written Mongolian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in classical and modern Mongolian texts. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Mongolian 120 b Advanced Written Mongolian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Mongolian 120a. N Mark C. Elliott fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Mongolian 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mark C. Elliott Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Tibetan History 100 A Cultural and Political History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture class will examine the rich history of the Tibetan Plateau. Special attention will be paid to the rise of the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th centuries), the period when "Tibet" was part of the "Great Mongol Land" (1240-ca. 1350), and the formation of Ganden Podrang government in Lhasa (1643-1959), headed by the Dalai Lamas. The historical development of Tibetan Buddhism will also be examined, together with several of its most noteworthy institutions, including that of the reincarnate lama as exemplified by especially the Dalai and Panchen Lamas. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Uyghur A Elementary Uyghur Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Uyghur, the Turkic language spoken in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and throughout Central Asia. Course covers grammar, reading and writing (in the modified Arabic alphabet adopted in the PRC), and conversation practice. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Uyghur B Elementary Uyghur Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Uyghur A. Completion of basic Uyghur grammar, listening and speaking practice with the aid of audio-visual materials, selected readings from Uyghur literature and academic prose. N Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Uyghur 120 A Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Additional training in modern Uyghur, with attention to improvement of spoken fluency and comprehension. Extensive readings in a range of genres, including historical writing and academic prose as well as religious texts. Uyghur B or permission of instructor. N Mark C. Elliott spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Uyghur 120 B Intermediate/Advanced Uyghur Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Uyghur 120A. Uyghur 120A or permission of instructor. N Mark C. Elliott fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Uyghur 300 Readings in Uyghur Language and Literature Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Guided readings in advanced Uyghur-language texts. May be repeated for credit. Uyghur 120B or permission of instructor. Y Mark C. Elliott Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese Ba Elementary Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys the fundamentals of Vietnamese phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary to provide students with basic ability to understand, speak, read, and write Vietnamese. Conversational ability is stressed through an interactive, communication-oriented approach. N Binh Ngo spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese Bb Elementary Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Vietnamese Ba, with introduction of additional Vietnamese texts and excerpts from Vietnamese newspapers to enhance reading skills. Vietnamese Ba or permission of the instructor. N Binh Ngo fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 120 a Intermediate Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Further development of speaking, reading, writing, and aural comprehension. Texts and dialogues on Vietnamese geography, history, culture, and customs will be used, as well as audiotapes and videos. Students are expected to speak Vietnamese in all class discussions. Vietnamese Bb or permission of instructor. Conducted entirely in Vietnamese. N Binh Ngo spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 120 b Intermediate Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Vietnamese 120a. Vietnamese 120a or permission of instructor. Conducted entirely in Vietnamese. N Binh Ngo fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 130 a Advanced Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Development of high proficiency in Vietnamese. Introduction of complex grammar and vocabulary, using authentic Vietnamese texts, videos, and translation of English news articles into Vietnamese. Discussions focus on selected short stories and poems. Vietnamese 120b or permission of instructor. Conducted entirely in Vietnamese. N Binh Ngo spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 130 b Advanced Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Vietnamese 130a. Vietnamese 130a or permission of instructor. Conducted entirely in Vietnamese. N Binh Ngo fall term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 140 a Advanced-High Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Development of near-native fluency in oral and written expression. Modern Vietnamese literature, including short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems in the original, that were published in Vietnam from the 1930s to the present day is used to introduce the complex grammar, idioms, proverbs and some slang expressions commonly used in contemporary Vietnamese. Discussion focuses on Vietnamese culture and issues related to Vietnamese society during that period. Vietnamese 130b N Binh Ngo spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 140 b Advanced-High Vietnamese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Vietnamese 140a. Vietnamese 140a N Binh Ngo fall term; repeated spring term Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Languages and Civilizations Vietnamese 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Binh Ngo Binh Ngo full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 10 Principles of Economics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Introduction to economic issues and basic principles and methods of economics. Fall term focuses on microeconomics: how markets work, market efficiency and market failure, firm and consumer behavior, and policy issues such as taxation, international trade, the environment, and the distribution of income. Spring term focuses on macroeconomics: economic growth, inflation, unemployment, the business cycle, the financial system, international capital flows and trade imbalances, and the impact of monetary and fiscal policy. Microeconomics (taught in the fall term) is a prerequisite for macroeconomics (taught in the spring term). Students may elect to take only the fall microeconomics course and receive a half-course credit. Taught in a mixture of lectures and small sections. No calculus is used, and there is no mathematics background requirement. Designed for both potential Economics concentrators and those who plan no further work in the field. The Department of Economics strongly encourages students considering concentration to take the full-year course in their freshman year. This is a required course for all economics concentrators and a prerequisite for higher level courses in economics. This course, when both semesters are taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or United States in the World, but not both. This course, when either semester is taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. Students may not take both Social Analysis 10 and Economics 10 for credit. N N. Gregory Mankiw N. Gregory Mankiw fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 910 r Supervised Reading and Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading leading to a long term paper on a topic or topics not covered by regular courses. Does not count for concentration credit and may not be taken Pass/Fail. Requires signatures of the adviser and of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Application available at the Economics Undergraduate Office at Littauer Center, North Yard. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 970 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A series of small seminars taught in section focusing on applications of economic theory to real problems. Both terms of Social Analysis 10 (or equivalent); Statistics 100, 104, or 110; Economics 1010a or 1011a and current enrollment in Economics 1010b or 1011b. One term required of all Economics concentrators. Enrollment limited to concentrators. Y Jeffrey Miron fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 975 Tutorial - Theory Review Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A thorough review of intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics. Required of and limited to concentrators who received below a B-/C+ average in the Economics 1010/1011 sequence. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 b Education in the Economy Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 18 An exploration of the role of education in the economy using historical, comparative, and current policy perspectives. Topics include the theory of human capital, role of education in economic growth and distribution, the educational production function, vouchers, charter schools, class size, standards, school equalization, for-profit educational institutions, and the gender gap in college completion. A serious research paper is required, as are several short critical essays of the literature. Y Claudia Goldin Lawrence F. Katz fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 d The Rise of Asia and World Economy Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Limited enrollment. This course may not be repeated for credit. N Dale W. Jorgenson spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 e Corporate Governance Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Hours to be arranged Efraim Benmelech This seminar investigates the different approaches to optimal governance structures of firms. We will survey current research on agency problems, the market for corporate control, executive compensation, corporate boards and tunneling. Economics 1745 is recommended but not required. Y Efraim Benmelech fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 m Market Design Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course studies the design of organized markets, focusing on efficient organization and the incentives created by market rules. Applications include online auction markets, online advertising, government auctions of natural resources, and matching markets (students to classes or schools, medical residents to hospitals, kidneys to recipients). The analysis relies on a mix of documenting the rules of real-world markets, game theoretic analysis, empirical analysis, and experimental work. Y Susan Athey fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 p International Trade Policy Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides a discussion of the economic impacts of international trade policies and the political economy of trade policy formation. The course will focus on analytical methods and therefore requires knowledge of calculus. Y Elhanan Helpman spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 s The Historical Origins of Middle Eastern Development Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., 2:30-4 Eric Chaney Middle Eastern countries enjoyed world economic leadership during the Middle Ages, and continue to play an important role in the world economy. This course will explore the historical development of Middle Eastern economies. Topics include the effects of colonialism, natural resource endowments and religion on economic growth. The course will emphasize how these and other historical factors continue to influence development prospects in the region today. Y Eric Chaney spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 t Decision Theory Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 18 W., 1-3 Tomasz Strzalecki An introduction to formal models of decision making in economics, including both classical and psychologically-motivated approaches. Topics include risk, uncertainty, ambiguity, and temptation. Y Tomasz Strzalecki fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 u Immigration Economics Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course There has been a resurgence of international migration in the past few decades. This course explores the economic determinants and consequences of these population flows. Specific topics include the study of how immigrants are non-randomly selected from the population of the sending countries, the measurement of assimilation in the receiving country, the impact on the labor markets of both receiving and sending countries, and the calculation of the economic benefits from immigration. Y George J. Borjas fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 v Household Finance Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course explores the financial decisions of households. Relative to firms, households confront distinct financial challenges, including investments in assets like housing and education that are illiquid and poorly diversified, and constraints on borrowing. Specific topics include household financial literacy, the trade-off between consumption and saving, participation in financial markets and utilization of financial products (e.g., equity markets, housing markets, payday lending, credit cards), household asset allocation, insurance against household risks, and personal bankruptcy. N Brigitte Madrian spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 980 w Policy Options in Health and Environmental Economics Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The seminar will focus on policy issues in two areas; health economics, and environmental economics. We will read papers on an assortment of policy options and formulate frameworks for analyzing their likely impacts on outcomes of interest. Examples from health care include the analysis of mergers in hospital markets and the choice of capitation vs fee for service contracts. Examples from environmental economics include the choice between tradeable pollution permits and pollution taxes. Where possible we will use data and do the analysis quantitatively. Some knowledge of microeconomic and statistical tools, particularly those related to industrial organization, will be assumed. N Ariel Pakes full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 a Research in Microeconomics Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in theoretical and applied microeconomics. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 c Research in Labor Economics Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in labor economics and related topics. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 d Research in Economic Development Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in the areas of economic history and economic development, including health and population issues. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodologies, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 e Research in Macroeconomics Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in the fields of monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, and economic growth. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 f Research in International Trade and Finance Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in international trade and finance. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Richard N. Cooper Richard N. Cooper full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 g Research in Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in behavioral and experimental economics. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 h Research in Financial Markets Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in finance. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honor thesis are required. Topics include asset pricing and corporate finance. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 985 k Research in Public Economics Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Workshop for seniors writing theses in public economics. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and data sources. Written and oral presentations of work in progress leading toward completion of a major research paper or senior honors thesis are required. Topics have included taxation, health economics, environmental and resource economics, and education. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 990 Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For students writing a senior thesis out of sequence. Students who are writing a senior thesis out of sequence (i.e., beginning in the spring) must enroll in Economics 990 in the spring and complete the course in the fall. Students must write a 25-page paper at the end of the first term of Economics 990. Students currently enrolled in Economics 985 may not enroll in Economics 990. Y Jeffrey Miron Jeffrey Miron fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1010 a Microeconomic Theory Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on the optimizing behavior of individual consumers and firms and coordination of individual decisions through markets, including the evaluation of market outcomes. Social Analysis 10 and Mathematics 1a or their equivalents. Economics 1010a fulfills the intermediate microeconomic theory requirement for Economics concentrators. Students may take either Economics 1010a or Economics 1011a for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Jeffrey Miron Marc J. Melitz spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1010 b Macroeconomic Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theories and evidence on economic growth and fluctuations. Determination of gross domestic product, investment, consumption, employment, and unemployment. Analysis of interest rates, wage rates, and inflation. Roles of fiscal and monetary policies. Social Analysis 10. While no specific mathematics course is required, knowledge of calculus at the level of Mathematics 1a is assumed. Economics 1010b fulfills the intermediate macroeconomic theory requirement for Economics concentrators. Students may take either Economics 1010b or Economics 1011b for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Christopher L. Foote fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1011 a Microeconomic Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Economics 1011a is similar to Economics 1010a, but more mathematical and covers more material. The course teaches the basic tools of economics and to apply them to a wide range of human behavior. Mathematics 21a or permission of the instructor. Economics 1011a fulfills the intermediate microeconomic theory requirement for Economics concentrators. Students may take either Economics 1010a or Economics 1011a for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Edward Glaeser spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1011 b Macroeconomic Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The same topics as in 1010b, but with a more mathematical approach. Economics 1011a, Mathematics 21a, or permission of the instructor. Economics 1011b fulfills the intermediate macroeconomic theory requirement for Economics concentrators. Students may take either Economics 1010b or Economics 1011b for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Elias Papaioannou Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1017 A Libertarian Perspective on Economic and Social Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 200 Tu., Th., 10&#8211;11:30 Jeffrey A. Miron Analyses the libertarian perspective on economic and social policy. This perspective differs from both liberal and conservative views, arguing for minimal government in most arenas. Policies addressed include drug prohibition, gun control, public education. Social Analysis 10, or Economics 10 (fall term) and concurrent enrollment in Economics 10 (spring term). Analyses the libertarian perspective on economic and social policy. This perspective differs from both liberal and conservative views, arguing for minimal government in most arenas. Policies addressed include drug prohibition, gun control, public education, abortion rights, gay marriage, income redistribution, and campaign finance regulation. N Jeffrey Miron fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1018 Cultural Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the importance of culture on economic outcomes, focusing on how heterogeneity of preferences affects economic choices and where those differences come from. Theoretical topics include group identity, social interactions and networks, evolutionary selection Economics 1010a or 1011a, and Economics 1123. Explores the importance of culture on economic outcomes, focusing on how heterogeneity of preferences affects economic choices and where those differences come from. Theoretical topics include group identity, social interactions and networks, evolutionary selection, the importance of the family. Empirical applications include international investment, savings, occupational choices, ethical norms, economic development, fertility decisions. N Alberto Alesina spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1030 Psychology and Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 100 Tu., Th., 1&#8211;2:30 David I. Laibson and Tomasz Strzalecki Psychological concepts include social preferences, impulsivity, bounded rationality, loss-aversion, over-confidence, self-serving biases, hedonics, and neuroscience. Economic concepts include arbitrage, equilibrium, rational choice, utility maximization, Bayesian beliefs, game theory. Social Analysis 10 and knowledge of univariate calculus. Psychological concepts include social preferences, impulsivity, bounded rationality, loss-aversion, over-confidence, self-serving biases, hedonics, and neuroscience. Economic concepts include arbitrage, equilibrium, rational choice, utility maximization, Bayesian beliefs, game theory. Integrates these psychological and economic concepts to understand behavioral phenomena such as portfolio choice, saving, procrastination, addiction, asset pricing, auction bidding, labor supply, cooperation, persuasion. N David I. Laibson Tomasz Strzalecki fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1032 The Packing Problem: The Behavioral Economics of Scarcity Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Why do highly successful people have a rush of energy and get things done at the last minute? Why didn't they have that rush earlier? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why is obesity rampant? This course argues that all these questions can be understood by understanding the behavioral economics of scarcity. The lectures will span concepts from mathematics of computation, psychology, evolutionary biology to numerous economic applications. Social Analysis 10, an introductory course in Psychology, and Statistics 100, 101 or 104. A research paper is required. This course meets the concentration writing requirement. N Sendhil Mullainathan spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1051 Introduction to Game Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Presents an introduction to the modern game theory, focusing on its use in economics. Main ideas of game theory are introduced and illustrated using examples from industrial organization, labor economics, and macroeconomics. Economics 1010a or 1011a. Students may not take both Economics 1051 and Economics 1052 for credit. N spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1052 Game Theory and Economic Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to game theory and its economic applications with more rigor than in Economics 1051. Topics include extensive-form and strategic-form games, Nash equilibrium, subgame-perfect equilibrium, Bayesian equilibrium, and applications to long-term cooperation, auctions, bargaining, and mechanism design. Economics 1010a or 1011a and Mathematics 21a or permission of the instructor Students may not take both Economics 1051 and Economics 1052 for credit. N Eric Maskin fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1056 Market Design Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 This course studies the design of organized markets, focusing on efficient organization and the incentives created by market rules. Applications include online auction markets, government auctions of natural resources, procurement auctions, matching markets (students to classes or schools, medical residents to hospitals, kidneys to recipients). The analysis relies on a mix of documenting the rules of real-world markets, game theoretic analysis, empirical analysis, and experimental work. A research paper is optional with advance permission of instructor. Economics 1011a and either 1051, 1052, 1060, 1070, 1640, or 1641, or permission of instructor. N Susan Athey spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1059 Decision Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to formal models of decision making in economics, including both classical and psychologically-motivated approaches. Topics include risk, uncertainty, ambiguity, and temptation. Economics 1010a or 1011a and Mathematics 21a. N Tomasz Strzalecki spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1060 Contracts and Organizations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores theoretical and empirical work on incentive problems within and between organizations (with more emphasis on the theory). Topics include agency problems arising from moral hazard and asymmetric information, team problems, career concerns, relational contracts, incomplete contracts, boundaries of the firm, authority and delegation, financial contracting, public ownership. Economics 1010a or 1011a, Mathematics 20. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Oliver Hart fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1070 Normative Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Voting theory, social choice, mechanism design, bargaining theory, cooperative game theory, equitable cost allocation, fair division, welfare analysis of taxation, public expenditures and risk bearing. This course offers a rigorous approach to normative economics. Students should have an interest and ability to work with abstract mathematics and axiomatic reasoning. Mathematical sophistication and interests in abstract reasoning is required, but there are no specific prerequisites. A graduate level of this course is being offered at the same time, therefore graduate students will be present in the class. N Jerry R. Green fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1123 Introduction to Econometrics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to multiple regression techniques with focus on economic applications. Discusses extensions to discrete response, panel data, and time series models, as well as issues such as omitted variables, missing data, Statistics 100. Students may take either Economics 1123 or Statistics 139 for credit. Statistics 139 will not count as econometrics requirement. Also, Economics 1123 may not be taken for credit if taken after Economics 1126, but credit will be given for both courses if Economics 1123 is taken first. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or Core requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N James H. Stock Eric Chaney spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1126 Quantitative Methods in Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Topics include elements of statistical decision theory and related experimental evidence; some game theory and related experimental evidence; maximum likelihood; logit, normal, probit, and ordered probit regression models; panel data models with random effects Statistics 100 or preferably 110; Mathematics 20. Economics 1123 may not be taken for credit if taken after Economics 1126, but credit will be given for both courses if Economics 1123 is taken first. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Gary Chamberlain spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1127 Statistical Methods for Evaluating Causal Effects Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 11:30-1 Cassandra Pattanayak Statistical methods discussed for inferring causal effects from data from randomized experiments or observational studies. Students will develop expertise to assess the credibility of causal claims and the ability to apply the relevant statistical methods for causal analyses. Examples will come from many disciplines: economics, education, other social sciences, epidemiology, and biomedical science. Evaluations of job training programs, educational voucher schemes, changes in laws such as minimum wage laws, medical treatments, smoking, military service. Statistics 100 or preferably Statistics 111; Mathematics 20. N Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1310 The Economy of China Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course critically examines China's remarkable economic performance in the post-Mao era and places this performance in historical and comparative context. Topics covered include China's economic structure, institutions, inequality, trade, population, and public policy. Economics 10 N Terry Sicular spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1340 World Economic History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 80 This course provides an overview of world economic history since the Neolithic revolution. It analyzes the main theories which have been proposed to explain these facts. Questions discussed are: why did the Neolithic revolution Social Analysis 10 or Economics 10. N James Robinson fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1341 The Historical Origins of Middle Eastern Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Middle Eastern countries enjoyed world economic leadership during the Middle Ages, and continue to play an important role in the world economy. This course will explore the historical development of Middle Eastern economies. Topics include the effects of colonialism, natural resource endowments and religion on economic growth. The course will emphasize how these and other historical factors continue to influence development prospects in the region today. Social Analysis 10. A research paper is required. This course meets the concentration writing requirement. N Eric Chaney fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1356 Economics of Work and Family Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How are the most personal choices and life transitions decided? When and whom do you marry, how many children do you have, how much education should you obtain, and which careers or jobs will you pursue? Much will be explored in terms of change over time, particularly concerning the economic emergence of women and the growing role of government. Readings draw on economic theory, empirical analyses, history, and literature from the 19th century to the present. Economics 1010a or Economics 1011a or equivalent, and Economics 1123 or Economics 1126 or equivalent or permission of instructor. A research paper is required for this course. This course cannot be taken Pass/Fail. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis." N Claudia Goldin fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1357 Historical Perspectives on Economic Ascendancy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to economic history broadly construed, focusing on economic growth and development. Covers topics such as the industrial revolution, institutions and property rights, financial markets and regulation, the1930s Great Depression, migration and labor markets, inequality, health, and environmental change. Emphasis on students learning to generate and implement ideas for new research. Social Analysis 10 or permission of the instructor. Concentrators may not take pass/fail. Short research proposals are required, with an option to expand one into a longer paper that satisfies the concentration writing requirement. N Richard A. Hornbeck fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1370 Media, Democracy and Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 This course will analyze the role of media in political and economic development. Topics covered are the history of the relationship between media and the state, media and democracy today, laws governing the media and its practice, legal and political pressures on the media, media as an economic object, ownership of media and its effects, media coverage on elections and in developing countries, competition and truth in the market for news, the current mainstream media, and journalistic ethics. Social Analysis 10. N Philippe Aghion Benedicte Berner-eyde full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 1376 hf Closing the Global Gender Gap Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Building on insights from Behavioral Decision Making and Development Economics, the course provides a framework for understanding to what degree public policy and management can close these gender gaps. Using program evaluation techniques, students learn how to combine analysis and data to design and test specific interventions. The alternative format maximizes student learning, interaction with faculty and guest experts, and opportunities to share insights with decision makers in the field. Advanced Statistics/Econometrics such as API-202 or API-210 or permission of the instructor. Jointly offered with the Kennedy School as PED-317. The course is co-taught and conceived as a year-long course with a period of intense training and interaction in January. Course satisfies the PPOL public management field requirement for HKS Ph.D students. Open to Economics Concentrators who satisfy the prerequisites. N Rohini Pande Iris Bohnet Rohini Pande Iris Bohnet spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1389 Economics of Global Health Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines health issues in developing countries from the standpoint of applied microeconomic research. Specific topics include: identifying the effect of health on growth and development and identifying the causal relationships between income, poverty, and health. We will also discuss health care delivery and human resource issues, the challenges of healthcare financing and health insurance, and the tension between equity and efficiency in the allocation of health resources. Economics 1010a (or 1011a) and 1123 (or 1126). Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-518. N Guenther Fink spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1393 Poverty and Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies the relationship between economic growth, poverty, and income distribution. Discusses how globalization affects poverty and inequality. Studies the main theories of economic growth and the main potential sources of economic development, from physical capital accumulation, to education, to technology, to the role of government. Discusses various global issues such as public global health (e.g. the impact of malaria and AIDS on Africa), corruption and institutions, natural resources, the environment, international donor institutions, and population growth. Economics 1010a (or 1011a) and 1010b (or 1011b). It is recommended that students have taken Ec 1123 or equivalent. N Nathan Nunn spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1410 Public Economics: Designing Government Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course analyzes what role the government should play in a market economy. It covers topics such as tax and welfare policy, unemployment insurance, environmental protection, education policy, social security Economics 1010a or 1011a or permission of instructor. Students should have some knowledge of basic calculus and statistics, but there is no formal mathematics prerequisite. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-125. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Martin S. Feldstein Nadarajan Chetty fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1415 Analytic Frameworks for Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course develops abilities in using analytic frameworks in the formulation and assessment of public policies. It considers a variety of analytic techniques, particularly those directed toward uncertainty and interactive decision problems. It emphasizes the application of techniques to policy analysis, not formal derivations. Students encounter case studies, methodological readings, modeling of current events, the computer, a final exam, and challenging problem sets. Economics 1011a or permission of instructor. Jointly offered by HKS as API-302. N Richard Zeckhauser Richard Zeckhauser spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1420 American Economic Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analyzes major issues in American economic policy including taxation, Social Security, health care reform, budget policy, monetary and fiscal policy, and exchange rate management. Current economic issues and policy options discussed Economics 1010a or 1011a, or permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-126. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Martin S. Feldstein Jeffrey B. Liebman spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1425 Political Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Discusses several research areas in political economy, including the origins of the state, comparative political systems, theories of economic reform, fiscal problems in democracies, rule of law, privatization, and regulation. Economics 1010a or 1011a. A research paper is required. This course meets the concentration writing requirement. N Andrei Shleifer spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1430 Macroeconomics and Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Topics include the political economy of economic growth, including the roles of democracy and legal institutions; inflation, monetary policy, and fiscal policy; interplay between religion and political economy; and analyses of economic and monetary unions. Economics 1010b or 1011b, or permission of the instructor. N Robert J. Barro fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1432 Economics of European Integrations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The aim of the course is to give students familiarity with a broad range of European policy issues: integration of markets (for goods, services, and labor), monetary union (ECB) and its consequences for fiscal policy, financial sector regulation as well as supervision. It is offered for students who would like to employ the tools they have learned in principles of economics and introductory micro and macro courses on real world cases. This implies to write and present a paper (mandatory writing requirement). N Johann Helmut Kotz spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1435 Macroeconomic Policy in the Global Economy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rate policy, and financial regulation. Emphasizes both short-term stabilization goals and longer-term policy objectives. Considerable attention to recent policy. Students taking this course should have taken an intermediate macroeconomics class (1010b or 1011b). Knowledge of univariate calculus and basic statistics will be assumed. N Emmanuel Farhi fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1450 r Religion and Political Economy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Recent research on religion has stressed social-science approaches. Parts of the work assess effects of economic and other forces on religious participation and beliefs. This topic includes models of secularization and of competition among alternative forms of religion, including analyses of the Reformation. Religious conversion and the club model of religious participation will be considered. Other aspects of the research analyze effects of religiosity on microeconomic variables, including work effort, thrift, education, health, and violence. Parts consider the impact of religion on macroeconomic outcomes, including economic growth. Additional work considers the interplay between religion and political institutions, including the role of state religion and interactions with Communism and democracy. Intermediate Macroeconomics and Microeconomics: Ec1010a/1011a and Ec1010b/1011b. Satisfies writing requirement. N Robert J. Barro spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1460 Economics of Health Care Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Policy issues related to the following: the demand for medical care services, especially as a function of insurance; the demand for insurance and issues of selection; reimbursement policies of Medicare and other payers toward health plans, hospitals, and physicians; effects of health maintenance organizations and managed care; and malpractice and tort reform. Focus on federal policy, although state and local perspectives will receive some attention. Economics 1010a or 1011a. A statistics course is highly desirable. Students may not take both Economics 1460 and Quantitative Reasoning 24: Health Economics and Policy for credit. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-572. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Joseph P. Newhouse fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1490 Growth and Crisis in the World Economy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 This course assesses the future of the tri-polar world economy - Asia, Europe, and North America. The course analyzes the resurgence of the US economic growth, the emergence of asset pricing bubbles, and the ensuing financial and economic crisis. We will discuss the sources of Asian growth miracles and the convergence and subsequent divergence of Europe and North America. What growth rate is sustainable and who will lead? What are the forces that threaten long-term prosperity? Economics 1010a (or 1011a) and 1010b (or 1011b). This course satisfies the Economics concentration writing requirement. Students who would like to enroll should submit the application form available on the course website. N Dale W. Jorgenson fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1530 International Monetary Economics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is an intermediate level international finance and macroeconomics course that uses a mix of theoretical, empirical and policy frameworks to analyze topical problems in international finance. The topics include exchange rate determination, currency interventions, monetary policy coordination, capital flows and currency crises. Economics 1010b or 1011b. May not be taken for credit with Economics 1531. N Richard N. Cooper spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1531 Economics of International Financial Policy Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the macroeconomics of open economies. It covers models appropriate to major industrialized countries. Topics include the foreign exchange market, devaluation, and import and export elasticities; simultaneous determination of the trade balance, national income, balance of payments, money flows, and price levels; capital flows and our increasingly integrated financial markets; monetary and fiscal policy in open economies; international macroeconomic interdependence; supply relationships and monetary policy targets; exchange rate determination; and international portfolio diversification. Economics 1010/1011. Knowledge of international trade theory and econometric techniques is also desirable, but not essential. Students must be very comfortable with algebra. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as ITF-220. May not be taken for credit with Economics 1530. N Jeffrey A. Frankel spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1535 International Trade and Investment Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analyzes the causes and consequences of international trade and investment. Focuses on the interplay of economic theory and empirical descriptions of foreign trade and direct investment patterns. Economics 1010a or 1011a. N Pol Antras spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1540 Topics in International Trade Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Covers advanced topics in international economics with a special emphasis on an analytical approach to the recent process of globalization. Topics include the role of multinational firms in the global economy, the effect of international outsourcing on wages, and trade and industrial development. Economics 1535 and basic knowledge of calculus and econometrics. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Pol Antras fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1542 International Trade Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides a discussion of the economic impacts of international trade policies and the political economy of trade policy formation. The course will focus on analytical methods and therefore requires knowledge of calculus. Economics 1010a or 1011a, or permission of instructor. N Elhanan Helpman fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1545 International Financial and Macroeconomic Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary international macroeconomic policy issues in both industrialized and developing economies. Topics include exchange rates, international capital flows, debt crises, growth, and policy coordination. Economics 1010b or 1011b. N Kenneth S. Rogoff spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1630 Economics of Sports and Entertainment Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 80 The markets for professional and amateur sports and entertainment are analyzed. Impacts of market organization and public policy on attendance, salaries, and profits are examined. Social Analysis 10. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Stanley Engerman fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1635 Technology Innovation and Economic Growth Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides a solid conceptual foundation for understanding how technology affects the economy, how economic forces reciprocally influence technological changes, and the decision-making processes through which innovation occurs. Examined in turn are productivity growth, markets for innovations and high-technology talent, basic science, the management and financing of R&D, the patent system, Schumpeterian hypotheses, technology diffusion processes, government science and technology policy, and the impact of technological change on international trade and labor markets. API-101 or Economics 1010a or equivalent. Jointly offered by HKS as BGP-213 N F. M. Scherer spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1640 Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 Hours to be arranged Instructor to be determined Theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary topics in industrial organization. Uses economic theory to analyze important issues facing firms, and examines the practical challenges of empirical applications of theory. Economics 1010a or 1011a. Students may not take both Economics 1640 and Economics 1641 for credit. N spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1642 Advanced Industrial Organization Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theory and modern empirical techniques in industrial organization. Topics may include static analysis and estimation of market equilibrium; dynamic models of entry and investment; price discrimination, collusion, mergers and vertical control, with applications to antitrust policy; and issues in auctions and market design. Economics 1010a or 1011a; Economics 1123 or 1126. This is a hands-on course, and students will be expected to use Stata or other statistical software to perform data analysis. N Gregory Lewis spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1661 Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides a survey, from the perspective of economics, of environmental and natural resource policy. Combines lectures on conceptual and methodological topics with examinations of public policy issues. Social Analysis 10 or permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as ENR-201. This course offers an optional writing requirement which if completed will satisfy the concentration writing requirement. N Robert Stavins spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1687 Advanced Economics of the Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., 1-2:30; and a weekly recitation T., 4-5:30 Martin L. Weitzman Survey of foundations and applications of the modern theory of environmental and natural-resource economics. What are the basic models and what are they suggesting about policy? Externalities, public goods, common property, strategies for controlling pollution. Dynamics of renewable resources (fisheries, forestry) and dynamics of non-renewable resources (minerals like oil). Discounting, uncertainty, cost-benefit analysis, investment criteria for environmental projects, green accounting, sustainability. Basic economic analysis of climate change as prototype example. Economics 1010a. Students from other concentrations are welcome to take this course for credit. N Martin L. Weitzman fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1723 Capital Markets Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the economic analysis of investment decisions and financial markets. Concepts include time discounting, market efficiency, risk, and arbitrage. These concepts are applied to fixed-income securities, equities, and derivative securities. Statistics 100 and Economics 1010a or 1011a. N Alp Simsek spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1745 Corporate Finance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to corporate finance, including capital budgeting, capital structure of firms, dividend policy, corporate governance, and takeovers. Economics 1010a or 1011a, Mathematics 20, and Statistics 100. N Efraim Benmelech spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1759 The Financial Crisis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides a detailed examination of events in financial markets during the crisis period that began in August of 2007. Topics include: the housing bubble and mortgage markets Economics 1723 or 1745. N Jeremy C. Stein spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1760 Behavioral Finance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theory and empirical evidence on selected questions in financial economics, with an emphasis on current research. Topics include behavioral finance, market efficiency, and corporate investment and financing decisions. Economics 1723 N Owen A. Lamont fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1776 Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the influence of religious thinking on the intellectual revolution, associated with Adam Smith and others, that created economics as we know it as an independent discipline; also examines how the lasting resonances from these early religious influences continue to shape discussion of economic issues and debates about economic policy down to our own day. Social Analysis 10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Benjamin M. Friedman spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1815 Social Problems of the American Economy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines selected social and economic problems of the US and evaluates market and governmental solutions. Topics include discrimination, income and wage inequality, welfare reform, antipoverty strategy (including education and training programs), homelessness, crime, and charitable behavior. Social Analysis 10 or permission of the instructor. A research paper is required. This course meets the concentration writing requirement. N Lawrence F. Katz fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1816 Race in America Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 Examines the causes and consequences of racial inequality in America and evaluates the efficacy of various market and non-market solutions. Topics include: the racial achievement gap in education, the impact of crack cocaine on inner cities, racial differences in health, crime and punishment, labor market discrimination, social interactions and the effects of peer groups, affirmative action, and more. Social Analysis 10. Offered in alternate years. N Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1818 Economics of Discontinuous Change Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores discontinuous changes in the economic position of groups and countries and presents mathematical and computer simulation models designed to illuminate these changes. Examples include growth/decline of trade unions, segregation of groups, development of linkages on the internet, changes in corporate work culture, growth of social pathologies in neighborhoods, and Malthusian concerns about the environment. Models include nonlinear simulations, neural networks, finite automata, evolutionary stable strategies, causal conjunctures, agent-based simulations, and genetic algorithms. Social Analysis 10. A research paper is required. Students should have some mathematical background, but there is no prerequisite. N Richard B. Freeman fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 1936 Keynes's General Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the birth, death, and resurrection of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money from the Great Depression (1929-1939) to the Great Recession (2008-?). A major goal is to lay out a coherent argument that, for all its theoretical innovation, The General Theory did not deliver: the argument why a market system, even an idealized system with all of the warts removed, may fail to provide jobs for willing workers. In the process we will examine the orthodoxy that Keynes attacked and that resurfaced in the 1960s and 70s; the key concepts underlying the models implicit in The General Theory; and the attempts of the Keynesian mainstream to make peace with both Keynes and orthodoxy. We will also explore the applicability of The General Theory to the long run. A final section will view the present economic difficulties through a Keynesian lens. Pre-requisites: introductory economics at the level of Economics 10 or United States in the World 17; a year of college calculus allowing students to understand mathematical notation and concepts (derivatives, maximization, etc) even though mathematics will be used very sparingly. N Stephen A. Marglin full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2001 Research in Behavior in Games and Markets Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Full course Presents current research in the Behavioral and Experimental Economics field. N David I. Laibson David I. Laibson full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2005 hf Research in Contracts and Organizations Reading Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in contracts and organizations and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics. N Oliver Hart Oliver Hart fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2010 a Economic Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers the theory of individual and group behavior. Topics include consumer theory, producer theory, behavior under uncertainty, externalities, monopolistic distortions, game theory, oligopolistic behavior, and asymmetric information. Mathematics 116 or equivalent; can be taken concurrently. Enrollment is limited to students in the Economics and Business Economics PhD programs. Y Edward Glaeser Jerry R. Green spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2010 b Economic Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics include social choice theory, signaling, mechanism design, general equilibrium, the core, externalities, and public goods. Economics 2010a. N Oliver Hart Jerry R. Green fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2010 c Economic Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics include discrete-time and continuous-time dynamic programming, consumption, investment, economic growth, and business cycles. Enrollment is strictly limited to PhD students in the Economics Department, Business Economics program, and PEG program. Qualified Harvard undergraduates may also enroll. No other students may take the course for credit or as auditors. N David I. Laibson Robert J. Barro spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2010 d Economic Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course M., W., 8:30-10, and a 90-minute section to be arranged. Emmanuel Farhi and Kenneth Rogoff A basic course in graduate macroeconomics, including models of business fluctuations, analyses of monetary and fiscal policy, and introduction to open economy macroeconomic issues. Mathematics 116 or the equivalent; can be taken concurrently. Enrollment is strictly limited to PhD students in the Economics Department, Business Economics program, and PEG program. Qualified Harvard undergraduates may also enroll. No other students may take the course for credit or as auditors. N Emmanuel Farhi Kenneth S. Rogoff fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2020 a Microeconomic Theory I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 102 A comprehensive course in economic theory designed for doctoral students in all parts of the University. Consumption, production, uncertainty, markets, general equilibrium. Applications to policy analysis and business decisions. Emphasizes the use of economic theory in practical research. Two years of calculus and one course in probability theory. Thorough background in microeconomic theory at the intermediate level. Undergraduates with the appropriate background are welcome. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-111 and with the Business School as 4010. Y Christopher Avery Elon Kohlberg spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2020 b Microeconomic Theory II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of Economics 2020a. Topics include game theory, economics of information, incentive theory, and welfare economics. Economics 2010a or 2020a. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-112 and with the Business School as 4011. Y Christopher Avery Julian Jamison fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2030 Psychology and Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores economic and psychological models of human behavior. Topics include bounded rationality, intertemporal choice, decision making under uncertainty, inference, choice heuristics, and social preferences. Economic applications include asset pricing, corporate finance, macroeconomics, labor, development, and industrial organization. Knowledge of multivariable calculus and econometrics. Primarily for graduate students but open to undergraduates. N Andrei Shleifer David I. Laibson spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2040 Experimental Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 48 An introduction to experimental economics, and some of the major subject areas that have been addressed by laboratory experiments. We concentrate on series of experiments, to see how experiments build on one another. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4160. N Alvin E. Roth fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2051 r Mathematical Methods in Economic Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course In the first part, basic concepts of measure theory will be introduced, and fundamental results will be discussed. The exposition will follow a graduate text in mathematics. This material will be illustrated with recently studied, economic applications: 1) the possibility of strategic manipulation of empirical tests; 2)the role of higher-order beliefs. The second part focuses on the continuous-time approach to dynamic contracts, repeated games, and general equilibrium with financial frictions. This approach allows for clear characterizations of equilibria, effective computational methods and a rich language to capture volatility dynamics. Mathematically, the analysis will involve stochastic calculus, optimal control and differential equations. N Wojciech Olszewski Yuliy Sannikov spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2052 Game Theory I: Equilibrium Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Equilibrium analysis and its applications. Topics vary, but typically include equilibrium refinements (sequential equilibrium), the equilibria of various classes of games (repeated games, auctions, signaling games) and the definition and application of common knowledge. Economics 2010a or permission of the instructor. N Syed nageeb Ali fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2054 Social Choice and Welfare Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A basic course in social choice theory and its philosophical foundations. An examination of "impossibility" results, collective rationality, domain restrictions, interpersonal comparability, and the role of rights and liberties. N Amartya Sen Anthony Barnes Atkinson fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2056 a Market Design Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Deals with the theory and practice of market design, with prominent examples drawn from auctions, labor markets, school choice, and kidney exchange. Game theory. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructors. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4150. N Alvin E. Roth Peter Andrew Coles spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2056 b Topics in Market Design Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Studies topics in market design, focusing on auctions, auction-based marketplaces and platform markets. Covers methods and results from theory, empirical work, econometrics and experiments, highlighting practical issues in real-world design. N spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2057 Rationality and Choice Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 25 The course involves critical examination of alternative approaches to rationality, which is a central concept in economics, politics and the other social sciences, moral and political philosophy, and legal theory, including law and economics. N Amartya Sen spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2058 Networks and Social Capital Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides a rigorous theoretical introduction into network models. Discusses the emerging empirical literature on economic and social networks. Topics include the role of networks in technological progress, buyer-supplier networks, and social capital. N spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2059 Decision Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course focuses on classical models of choice in abstract settings, as well as uncertain and intertemporal environments. We will also study recent models that incorporate insights from psychology, such as temptation and self-control. N Tomasz Strzalecki fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2060 Contract Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Recent developments in contract theory. Includes hidden action and hidden information models, dynamic agency issues, incomplete contracts, and applications of contract theory to theories of the firm and corporate financial structure. N Philippe Aghion fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2070 Normative Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course offers a rigorous approach to normative economics. Voting, bargaining, cooperative game theory, social choice, mechanism design, equitable cost allocation, fair division, welfare analysis of taxation, and more. Students should have an interest and ability to work with abstract mathematics and axiomatic reasoning. Y Jerry R. Green fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2080 Economics and Politics: The Foundations of Economics in Political Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Offers graduate students in relevant disciplines the chance to study the historical origins of central ideas in modern economics and to discuss their philosophical character. A basic knowledge of economics is assumed. N Benjamin M. Friedman Richard Tuck fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2085 Economics of Inequality and Poverty Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 25 A general course on the evaluation and axiomatic measurement of inequality and poverty, and on the analysis of contemporary economic problems in that light. N Amartya Sen full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2087 hfr Advanced Topics in Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The class will read and discuss current research in economics with a focus on game theory and decision theory. Students will be expected to make a verbal presentation. Economics 2010a or permission of the instructor. Y Drew Fudenberg Drew Fudenberg fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2110 Introductory Probability and Statistics for Economists Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to probability and statistics. Emphasis on general methods applicable to both econometrics and economic theory. Topics include probability spaces, random variables, limit laws, estimation, hypothesis testing, and Bayesian methods. Statistics (Stat 100), Linear Algebra and Calculus (Math 21a and 21b), and Real Analysis (Math 112). N Rustam Ibragimov spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2120 Introduction to Applied Econometrics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to methods employed in applied econometrics, including linear regression, instrumental variables, panel data techniques, generalized method of moments, and maximum likelihood. Economics 2110 or API-209 or the equivalent. Enrollment limited to PhD candidates in economics, business economics, health policy, public policy, and political economy and government (PEG). Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-217. N Gary Chamberlain spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2140 Econometric Methods Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Econometric methods for cross-section and panel data. Topics include generalized method of moments, empirical likelihood, instrumental variables, bootstrapping, clustering, treatment effects, selection bias, difference-in-differences, qualitative choice, quantile regression, nonparametric methods, and semiparametric methods. Economics 2120 or equivalent. N Guido Imbens fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2142 Time Series Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of modern time series econometrics. Topics include univariate models, vector autoregressions, linear and nonlinear filtering, frequency domain methods, unit roots, structural breaks, empirical process theory asymptotics, forecasting, and applications to macroeconomics and finance. N James H. Stock spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2144 Advanced Applied Econometrics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the theory and application of recently developed econometric techniques used in advanced applied work. Simulation techniques, estimation subject to inequality restrictions, as well as semiparametric and nonparametric tools will be studied in a variety of empirical contexts. N Ariel Pakes fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2146 Topics in Financial Econometrics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar course in financial econometrics. The topics covered include testing stylized facts in finance, robust inference, testing return predictability and market efficiency, inference in consumption-based asset pricing models and applications to real data. Economics 2120 or equivalent. N Rustam Ibragimov fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2149 Computational Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate introduction to computational approaches for solving economic models. Formulate economic problems in computationally tractable form and use techniques from numerical analysis to solve them. Computational techniques in the current economics literature will be examined. Topics include solving dynamic optimization problems, computing equilibria of games and estimating structural models. N Che-lin Su full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2162 Research in Econometrics Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Full course Participants discuss recent research in econometrics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics. N Guido Imbens Guido Imbens fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2325 Comparative Historical Economic Development Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course examines the historical origins of differences in the economic and social development of societies. Participants discuss recent research in the field and present their own work in progress. This course fulfills the distribution requirement. Undergraduates make take this course with permission of the instructor. N Nathan Nunn spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2327 Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and Evidence Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides a graduate-level overview of the theory of and evidence on economic development from a policy-oriented perspective. Aim is to allow students to analyze policy debates surrounding development from a broad and rigorous analytical base. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as PED-101. N Dani Rodrik Rema N. Hanna fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2328 The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A Comparative and Historical Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Overview and analysis of comparative economic development during the last half millennia. Examines the emergence of modern economic growth in Europe after 1500, and the forces that led to the great divergence in prosperity in the 19th century. Also considered: colonialism, communism, fascism, and revolution. N James Robinson spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2330 History and Human Capital Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores a range of subjects concerning human capital, historically and comparatively. Topics include fertility, mortality, health, immigration, women's work, child labor, retirement, education, inequality, slavery, unionization, and governmental regulation of labor, all within the broader context of economic history. Satisfies the graduate distribution requirement. Open to undergraduates on a limited basis with permission of instructor. N Claudia Goldin Lawrence F. Katz spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2333 Historical Perspectives on Current Economic Issues Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Comparative economic history emphasizing sources of economic growth and development. Topics include technological change and industrialization, institutions, the Great Depression and financial regulation, migration and adjustment to economic shocks, public infrastructure, labor markets and wage inequality, and health. Each topic is motivated by a current concern and develops methods for historical analysis to inform modern economic questions. Satisfies the graduate distribution requirement. Open to undergraduates on a limited basis with permission of instructor. N Richard A. Hornbeck full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2339 Research in Economic History Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Full course Participants discuss recent research in economic history and present their own work in progress. Primarily, but not exclusively, for doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Popularly known as The History Tea. Y Eric Chaney Claudia Goldin Richard A. Hornbeck Nathan Nunn Claudia Goldin Richard A. Hornbeck Eric Chaney Nathan Nunn spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2350 Workshop in Religion, Political Economy, and Society Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics on the interplay between religion and the social sciences. N Rachel M. McCleary Edward Glaeser Robert J. Barro fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2390 b Development Economics I: Microeconomic Issues Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics include agricultural issues such as peasant behavior, land tenancy, interlinked markets; credit and insurance market problems and institutions; health, nutrition, and productivity; gender bias; education; and technology adoption. N Michael R. Kremer spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2390 c Development Economics II: Macroeconomic Issues Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The first part will cover macro-economic topics including aggregative and non-aggregative growth models, growth and development accounting and models of technology diffusion and choice. The second part will evaluate the role of governance/institutional design in affecting development. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School of Government as PED-319. N Michael R. Kremer Shawn Cole full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2390 dhf Research in Economic Development Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in development economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Popularly known as the Development Lunch. Y Sendhil Mullainathan Sendhil Mullainathan spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2393 The Design of Development Policy: From Research to Practice Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Development research is fascinating in part because it has a direct impact on public policy. Yet the pathways to impact are very different, from shaping how we evaluate public and non-profit programs to setting countrywide goals. This course will take a micro-economic perspective and critically review the distinct ways in which research affects and is affected by public policy. General topics will include: the debate over randomized evaluations, the creation and diffusion of policy innovations, the tension between micro and macro policy approaches and the role of theory. Specific areas covered will include Finance, Education and Public health and Governance. The course will presumes knowledge of an advanced statistics course. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructor. Jointly listed with the Kennedy School as PED-330. N Sendhil Mullainathan Rohini Pande fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2410 a Topics in Macroeconomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigates the effect of financial market imperfections on aggregate investment and asset prices. Topics include financial persistence and amplification mechanisms, fire sales and limits to arbitrage, leverage cycles, asset price bubbles, financial fragility and financial contagion. N spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2410 c Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigates the effect of financial market imperfections on aggregate investment and asset prices. Topics include financial persistence and amplification mechanisms, fire sales and limits to arbitrage, leverage cycles, asset price bubbles, financial fragility and financial contagion. N Alp Simsek fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2412 a Political Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Discusses several research areas in political economy, including the origins of the state, comparative political systems, theories of economic reform, fiscal problems in democracies, rule of law, privatization, regulation, and elections and the economy. N Alberto Alesina spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2412 b Law, Economics, and Politics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 2&#8211;4 Andrei Shleifer and Elias Papaioannou The course will discuss a range of topics covering political economy and law and economics. The topics will include: determinants of economic growth, social capital, legal systems and traditions, regulation, courts, public and private ownership, and economic transition. N Andrei Shleifer Elias Papaioannou spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2412 c Introduction to Formal Political Economy Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Instructor to be determined This class tries to familiarize students with the basics in formal political economy, and give a sense of the research frontier. Topics include models of collective choice, information aggregation in elections, legislative decision-making, and lobbying. N full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2420 hf Research in Macroeconomics Thesis Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in macroeconomics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Popularly known as the Macro Lunch. Y Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2421 Reading Course in Monetary and Fiscal Policy Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A reading course that allows students to discuss and evaluate recent research in the analysis of monetary and fiscal policies. Students will be expected to participate in formally presenting, and critiquing, unpublished or newly published papers. Students taking the course for credit will also be expected to undertake research papers of their own. N Benjamin M. Friedman Woodford Michael fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2450 a Public Economics and Fiscal Policy I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers basic issues in the optimal design of tax and social insurance policies, with emphasis on combining theoretical models with empirical evidence. Topics include efficiency costs and incidence of taxation, income taxation, transfer and welfare programs, public goods and externalities, optimal social insurance, and welfare analysis in behavioral models. Economics 2010a and 2010b or Economics 2020a and 2020b. N Jeffrey B. Liebman spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2450 b Public Economics and Fiscal Policy II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers theoretical and empirical applications of public economics to policy debates. Topics include education, local public finance, fiscal federalism, housing policy, corporate and international taxation, social security, and macroeconomic stabilization using fiscal policy. Economics 2010a and 2010b or Economics 2020a and 2020b. Students are strongly encouraged to take Economics 2450a before taking 2450b. N Martin S. Feldstein Edward Glaeser fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2455 r Imperfect Knowledge in Macroeconomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Consequences for macroeconomic modeling of departures from the full-information/rational-expectations paradigm. Topics include models of sticky information, rational inattention, coordination failures and global games, adaptive learning, and agent-based computational models. Particular attention will be given to applications to analyses of price adjustment and the effects of monetary policy, to implications of bounded rationality for the choice of a desirable monetary policy, and to explanations of asset-pricing anomalies and ?bubbles.? N Woodford Michael spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2460 Health Economics Workshop Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course Focuses on theory, econometric models, and public policy of health care. Frontier work in health economics presented and discussed by instructors and outside speakers. May be taken for credit only by dissertation students writing a research paper. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-951. N Joseph P. Newhouse Amitabh Chandra David Cutler spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2465 Health Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course surveys topics in health economics. It touches on public sector issues, the industrial organization of health care markets, interactions between health and labor markets, and health in developing countries. Theory and empirical work are presented. N David Cutler full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2480 Research in Public Economics and Fiscal Policy: Research Seminar Research Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Participants discuss recent research in public economics and fiscal policy and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. N Nadarajan Chetty David Cutler Martin S. Feldstein Nadarajan Chetty David Cutler Martin S. Feldstein spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2490 The Economics of National Security Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers a range of issues relating to national security, including bioterrorism, the market for nuclear weapons, the defense industry, the dependence on imported oil, intelligence, sanctions, etc. Speakers will be both experts with experience in this field and economists doing research on these issues. Seminar participants will be economics department faculty and selected graduate students. Y Martin S. Feldstein fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2530 a International Trade Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides a broad overview of theory and evidence concerning international trade, direct foreign investment, and trade policy. Economics 2010a and 2010b. Strongly recommended as preparation for Economics 2530b. Open to undergraduates only with permission of instructor. N Elhanan Helpman spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2530 b International Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Financial aspects of growth and income determination in open economies. Topics include international business cycle, monetary and exchange rate regimes, capital flows, and current issues in international macroeconomic policy. Economics 2530a provides extremely useful background. N Gita Gopinath spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2535 Advanced Topics in International Trade Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers advanced theoretical and empirical topics concerning the determinants of world trade patterns. Economics 2530a or permission of instructor. N Pol Antras fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2537 International Trade Policy: Issues and Analysis Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Develops expertise with economic models used for the analysis of international trade policies. Focuses on theoretical and empirical work relating to trade patterns, income distribution, growth, development, industrial policy, political economy, and the WTO. Graduate level microeconomics and econometrics. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as ITF-345. Students are expected to make presentations and write a research paper. N Dani Rodrik full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2540 hf Research in International Economics Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in international economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Popularly known as the International Lunch. Y Kenneth S. Rogoff Kenneth S. Rogoff fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2610 Industrial Organization I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Applied work in industrial organization. Static analysis (theory, estimation): demand systems, cost functions, and game theoretic concepts of equilibrium and their application. Dynamic analysis (theory, computation, estimation): single agent problems, dynamic games and their application. N Ariel Pakes spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2611 Industrial Organization II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Application of industrial organization to problems of public policy. Applied analysis of antitrust policy, network industries, vertical relationships, auctions, and other topics depending on interest. Students are urged to take Economics 2610 before Economics 2611. N Gregory Lewis full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2640 hf Research in Industrial Economics Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants present their own research in progress in an informal setting. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their general examinations and are in the early stages of their dissertations. Y Ariel Pakes Susan Athey Gregory Lewis Ariel Pakes Susan Athey Gregory Lewis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2665 The Economics of Organizations Workshop Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Speakers present current research in the field in a seminar setting. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4230. N Oliver Hart Oliver Hart spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2670 Organizational Economics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theoretical and empirical work on organizations. Topics include agency problems inside organizations, boundaries of the firm, relational contracting, authority, hierarchies, delegation, decentralization, and nonstandard organizational arrangements (including joint ventures, venture capital, and public ownership). Economics 2020. //Offered jointly with the Business School as 4180. N fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2680 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic theory and models. Externalities, common property, public goods, pollution control, renewable and non-renewable resources, discounting, uncertainty, cost-benefit analysis, green accounting, sustainability, climate change. Graduate price theory at level of Economics 2010 or 2020. Students welcome from other departments and programs. There is a choice of a research paper or final exam. Will not be offered in 2011-12. N Martin L. Weitzman full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2690 hf Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Selected topics in environmental and resource economics. Emphasizes theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications. Includes invited outside speakers. Graduate-level course in microeconomic theory. Primarily for graduate students in economics or related fields with environmental interests. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as API-905Y. Y Robert Stavins Martin L. Weitzman Robert Stavins Martin L. Weitzman fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2723 Asset Pricing I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to financial economics emphasizing discrete-time models and empirical applications. Reviews basic asset pricing theory. Discusses empirical topics including predictability of stock and bond returns, the equity premium puzzle, and intertemporal equilibrium models. Economics 2010a or 2020a, or permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4209. N John Y. Campbell spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2725 Corporate Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory and empirical evidence on capital structure, dividends, investment policy, and managerial incentives. Topics include banking, corporate governance, and mergers. Economics 2060. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4223. N Efraim Benmelech David Stuart Scharfstein spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2726 Theoretical and Empirical Perspective on Entrepreneurship: Economics and Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon that has attracted little academic attention. This course explores the emerging work in this area. Students taking the course for credit will be expected to complete two referee reports and a paper. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4350. N Josh Lerner William Robert Kerr spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2727 Empirical Methods in Corporate Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines empirical research in corporate finance. Covers empirical research methodology, financial institutions, and financial policy. Major emphasis is on how to do well-executed and persuasive research in corporate finance. Structured to minimize overlap with Economics 2725. Seminar format; students write referee reports and a research paper. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4220. N Paul A. Gompers Robin Marc Greenwood Josh Lerner spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2728 Behavioral Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Deals with theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of financial markets using psychological or behavioral ideas. Topics include limited arbitrage, predictability of security returns, and trading volume. N Jeremy C. Stein full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2770 hf Research in Financial Economics Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in financial economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4601. Y John Y. Campbell Jeremy C. Stein Efraim Benmelech John Y. Campbell Jeremy C. Stein Efraim Benmelech fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2810 a Labor Market Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theoretical and empirical research on labor markets. Wage determination covers equalizing differences, human capital, job mobility, and incentive models. Labor supply covers life-cycle models. Labor demand includes minimum wage and union models. N Lawrence F. Katz spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2811 Social Economics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Applies the tools of economics to explore social issues including crime, discrimination, racial and gender differences, poverty, family structure, urban problems, social interactions and peer effects, and intergenerational mobility. N Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 2812 hf Research in Labor Economics Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Participants discuss recent research in labor economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their oral examinations. Y Lawrence F. Katz Lawrence F. Katz Claudia Goldin Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. Edward Glaeser spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2880 Economics of Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Analyzes economic issues regarding the role of science and RD in the economy and in the deployment and productivity of scientists, engineers, and highly skilled technical workers. Topics include: wage levels/employment prospects; stipend policy, education/recruitment, student unionization/post-doc organization, career choices/trajectories, with reference to women; scientific competition/collaboration. N Richard B. Freeman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 2888 r Economics of Science and Engineering Workshop Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus on work force and career issues. Topics include: Effects of globalization on work force and innovation, growth of networks in work; impact of career incentives on productivity; university policies; mobility between academe and industry; link between ideas and outputs. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4245. N Richard B. Freeman Richard B. Freeman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3000 Research Paper Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Intended to fulfill the Research Paper Requirement for the PhD degree in Economics. Ordinarily, this course is taken during the spring term of the second year of graduate study. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3005 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work or work in small groups (with a professor or lecturer in residence) in preparation for the general examination for the PhD degree, or work on special topics not included in course offerings. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3010 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course In all cases, the dissertation topic must have been formally submitted to, and approved by, a dissertation adviser. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3011 The Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop Reading Seminar Graduate Course Half course For students with an interest in economic theory. Faculty presentations by Harvard and MIT economists and invited guests. The location alternates between Harvard and MIT. Economics 2010a (or 2020a) and 2010b (or 2020b). Y David I. Laibson Tomasz Strzalecki Alvin E. Roth David I. Laibson Tomasz Strzalecki Alvin E. Roth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3086 The Theory Workshop Research Seminar Graduate Course Half course For students with an interest in economic theory. Faculty presentations by Harvard and MIT economists and invited guests. The location alternates between Harvard and MIT. Y Susan Athey Tomasz Strzalecki Drew Fudenberg Alvin E. Roth Susan Athey Tomasz Strzalecki Drew Fudenberg Alvin E. Roth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3087 Applied Theory: Research Workshop Research Workshop Graduate Course Half course Presentations of current research in the Applied Theory Field. Y Oliver Hart Andrei Shleifer Philippe Aghion Oliver Hart Andrei Shleifer Philippe Aghion full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3163 hf The Econometrics Workshop Reading Seminar Graduate Course Half course Outside speakers and faculty present current research topics in theory and applications of econometrics. Y Guido Imbens Guido Imbens full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3336 hfr Economic History Workshop Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Intended for students writing dissertations related to economic history themes and/or methodology and for others with interests in economic history. Discusses research papers presented by scholars at Harvard and elsewhere. Y Claudia Goldin Eric Chaney Nathan Nunn Claudia Goldin Eric Chaney Nathan Nunn full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3390 hf Economic Development Workshop Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Fall speakers cover issues in growth and development. Spring speakers alternate between "growth and institutions," focusing on the macro aspects of growth and development, and "labor and development," focusing on the micro aspects. Y Michael R. Kremer Michael R. Kremer full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3410 The Monetary and Fiscal Policy Seminar Research Seminar Graduate Course Full course Seminar speakers present papers on macroeconomic topics, including issues relating to monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth, the role of institutions, and other research issues in the field. Popularly referred to as the Macro Seminar. Y Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3450 hf The Public Economics and Fiscal Policy Seminar Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Invited speakers present theoretical and empirical research on a broad range of topics related to the design of government policy. Y David Cutler Lawrence F. Katz Nadarajan Chetty Edward Glaeser David Cutler Lawrence F. Katz Nadarajan Chetty Edward Glaeser fall term Department of Economics Economics Economics 3460 c Research in Health Economics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Participants discuss recent research in health economics. Course may also include presentation of original research by participants. Open to doctoral students only. Y Joseph P. Newhouse full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3530 hf The International Economics Workshop Research Seminar Graduate Course Half course Outside speakers and faculty present research papers in all aspects of international economics, including theory, econometrics, and policy. Y full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3650 hf The Industrial Organization Workshop Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Speakers present current research in the field in a seminar setting. Y Susan Athey Gregory Lewis Ariel Pakes Susan Athey Gregory Lewis Ariel Pakes full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3660 hf The Law, Economics, and Organizations Workshop Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course The presentation of work in progress in the field of law, economics, and organizations. Presentations by members of the various Harvard faculties, outside speakers, and graduate students. Offered jointly with the Law School as 96250-11 and with the Business School as 4670. Y full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3680 hf Research in Environmental Economics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Participants discuss recent research in environmental and natural resource economics and present their own work in progress. Open to doctoral students only. Y Robert Stavins Robert Stavins full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3723 hfr The Financial Economics Workshop Research Seminar Graduate Course Half course Outside speakers present current research in the field in a seminar setting. Y Jeremy C. Stein Alp Simsek John Y. Campbell Efraim Benmelech Jeremy C. Stein Alp Simsek John Y. Campbell Efraim Benmelech full year Department of Economics Economics Economics 3810 chfr The Labor Economics Workshop Research Workshop Graduate Course Half course Outside speakers present research concerning the operation of labor markets. Y Lawrence F. Katz Richard B. Freeman Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. Lawrence F. Katz Richard B. Freeman Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 21 a Mathematical Methods in the Sciences Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Complex numbers. Multivariate calculus: partial differentiation, directional derivatives, techniques of integration and multiple integration. Vectors: dot and cross products, parameterized curves, line and surface integrals. Vector calculus: gradient, divergence and curl, Green's, Stokes' and Gauss' theorems, including orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. Applications in electrical and mechanical engineering. Mathematics 1b or equivalent. May not be taken for credit by students who have passed Mathematics 21a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Evelyn Hu spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 21 b Mathematical Methods in the Sciences Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Linear algebra: matrices, determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, Markov processes. Optimization and least-squares analysis. Ordinary differential equations. Infinite series and Fourier series. Orthogonality and completeness. Introduction to partial differential equations. Applications in electrical and mechanical engineering. Applied Mathematics 21a or equivalent. May not be taken for credit by students who have passed Mathematics 21b. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Dr Margo S Levine spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 50 Introduction to Applied Mathematics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the problems and issues of applied mathematics. This will be accomplished both through the reading of papers that use mathematical arguments to have substantial impact on some field of human activity, as well as guest lecturers from around Harvard to discuss how mathematics is used in their field. N Marie Dahleh Mauricio Santillana fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An individual project of guided reading and research culminating in a substantial paper or other piece of work which can be meaningfully evaluated to assign a letter grade; may not be taken on a PA/FL basis. Students engaged in preparation of a senior thesis ordinarily should take Applied Mathematics 99r instead. May be taken as a half course in either term; normally may not be taken for more than two terms. Applications may be obtained at Pierce Hall 110. Students should consult their advisers and concentration literature for further information and guidance. Applications must be signed by the student, by the faculty member supervising the project (who will recommend the grade), and by the Director of Undergraduate Studies, who will sign the student's study card once the project and its method of evaluation have been approved. Y Marie Dahleh Dr Margo S Levine Marie Dahleh Dr Margo S Levine fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 99 r Thesis Research Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides an opportunity for students to engage in preparatory research and the writing of a senior thesis. Graded on a SAT/UNS basis as recommended by the thesis supervisor. The thesis is evaluated by the supervisor and by two additional readers. May be taken as a half course in either term; normally may not be taken for more than two terms. The Director of Undergraduate Studies will sign the student's study card once a faculty member has agreed in writing to supervise preparation of the thesis, and reaffirmed this agreement if the course is to be repeated. Applications may be obtained at Pierce Hall 110. Students should consult their advisers and concentration literature for further information and guidance. Y Marie Dahleh Dr Margo S Levine Marie Dahleh fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 101 Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introductory statistical methods for students in the applied sciences and engineering. Random variables and probability distributions; the concept of random sampling, including random samples, statistics, and sampling distributions; the Central Limit Theorem and its role in statistical inference; parameter estimation, including point estimation and maximum likelihood methods; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; simple linear regression; and multiple linear regression. Introduction to more advanced techniques as time permits. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b or equivalent. May not be taken in addition to Engineering Sciences 101. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Miranda C Holmes-Cerfon fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 104 Complex and Fourier Analysis Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Complex Analysis: complex numbers, functions, mapping, differentiation, integration, branch cuts, series expansions, residue theory. Fourier Analysis: Fourier series, Fourier and Laplace transforms, applications to differential equations and data analysis. Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Mathematics 21a and 21b. N Efthimios Kaxiras spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 105 Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Ordinary differential equations: power series solutions; special functions; eigenfunction expansions. Review of vector calculus. Elementary partial differential equations: separation of variables and series solutions; diffusion, wave and Laplace equations. Brief introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems and to numerical methods. Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Mathematics 21a and 21b. N Eli Tziperman fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 106 Applied Algebra Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to abstract algebra and its applications. Sets, subsets, and partitions; mappings, operations, and equivalence relations; groups, rings, and fields, polynomials, encryption, computer coding, application of modular arithmetic, combinatorial designs, lattices, application of trellis representation of lattices, fast algorithms. Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Mathematics 21a and 21b N Salil P. Vadhan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 107 Graph Theory and Combinatorics Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Topics in combinatorial mathematics that find frequent application in computer science, engineering, and general applied mathematics. Specific topics taken from graph theory, enumeration techniques, optimization theory, combinatorial algorithms, and discrete probability. N Leslie G. Valiant spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 111 Introduction to Scientific Computing Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Many complex physical problems defy simple analytical solutions or even accurate analytical approximations. Scientific computing can address certain of these problems successfully, providing unique insight. This course introduces some of the widely used techniques in scientific computing through examples chosen from physics, chemistry, and biology. The purpose of the course is to introduce methods that are useful in applications and research and to give the students hands-on experience with these methods. Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Mathematics 21a and 21b, or permission of instructor. N Jenny Suckale fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 115 Mathematical Modeling Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Abstracting the essential components and mechanisms from a natural system to produce a mathematical model, which can be analyzed with a variety of formal mathematical methods, is perhaps the most important, but least understood, task in applied mathematics. This course approaches a number of problems without the prejudice of trying to apply a particular method of solution. Topics drawn from biology, economics, engineering, physical and social sciences. Mathematics at least at the level of Applied Mathematics 21a, b but preferably at the level of Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b). Additional skills in analysis, algebra, probability, statistics and computer programming will increase the value of the course to students. N William H. Bossert Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Brendan J. Meade fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 120 Applicable Linear Algebra Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An algorithmic approach to topics in matrix theory which arise frequently in applied mathematics: linear equations, pseudoinverses, quadratic forms, eigenvalues and singular values, linear inequalities and optimization, linear differential and difference equations. Applied Mathematics 21b, or Mathematics 21b, or equivalent. N Mauricio Santillana spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 121 Introduction to Optimization: Models and Methods Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 60 Introduction to basic mathematical ideas and computational methods for solving deterministic and stochastic optimization problems. Topics covered: linear programming, integer programming, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut, Markov chains, Markov decision processes. Emphasis on modeling. Examples from business, society, engineering, sports, e-commerce. Exercises in AMPL, complemented by Maple or Matlab. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b (linear algebra) and some knowledge of probability and statistics at the level of Statistics 110 or Applied Mathematics 101 or permission of instructor. May not be taken in addition to Engineering Sciences 102. N Ozlem Ergun fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 147 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to nonlinear dynamical phenomena, covering the behavior of systems described by ordinary differential equations. Topics include: stability; bifurcations; chaos; routes to chaos and universality; approximations by maps; strange attractors; fractals. Techniques for analyzing nonlinear systems are introduced with applications to physical, chemical, and biological systems such as forced oscillators, chaotic reactions, and population dynamics. Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b. N Dr Margo S Levine fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 201 Physical Mathematics I Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to methods for developing accurate approximate solutions for problems in the sciences that cannot be solved exactly, and integration with numerical methods and solutions. Topics include: approximate solution of integrals, algebraic equations, nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their stochastic counterparts, and partial differential equations. Introduction to "sophisticated" uses of MATLAB. Applied Mathematics 104 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105a), Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b) or equivalent. N Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 202 Physical Mathematics II Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory and techniques for finding exact and approximate analytical solutions of partial differential equations with numerical evaluation: eigenfunction expansions, Green functions, variational calculus, transform techniques, perturbation methods, characteristics, line asymptotic methods and selected nonlinear PDE's. Applied Mathematics 104 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105a) and Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b) or equivalent. N Michael P. Brenner fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 205 Advanced Scientific Computing: Numerical Methods Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course An examination of the mathematical foundations of a range of well-established numerical algorithms, exploring their use through practical examples drawn from a range of scientific and engineering disciplines. Emphasizes theory and numerical analysis to elucidate the concepts that underpin each algorithm. There will be a significant programming component. Students will be expected to implement in Matlab a range of numerical methods through individual and group-based project work to get hands-on experience with modern scientific computing. Familiarity with linear algebra and calculus; basic programming knowledge at the Computer Science 50 level. N David J Knezevic fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 206 Advanced Applied Algebra Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Sets, subsets, and partitions; mappings, operations, and equivalence relations; groups, rings, and fields, polynomials, encryption, computer coding, application of modular arithmetic, combinatorial designs, lattices, application of trellis representation of lattices, fast algorithms; selected readings. Meets with Applied Mathematics 106. Students enrolled in Applied Mathematics 206 will be assigned additional readings. N Salil P. Vadhan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 207 Advanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Optimization Methods Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Develops skills for computational research with focus on stochastic approaches, emphasizing implementation and examples. Stochastic methods make it feasible to tackle very diverse problems when the solution space is too large to explore systematically, or when microscopic rules are known, but not the macroscopic behavior of a complex system. Methods will be illustrated with examples from a wide variety of fields, ranging from simulating the immune system to strategies for investing in financial markets. Basic knowledge of a computer programming language (such as C or/and Python). N Pavlos Protopapas fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 210 Elementary Functional Analysis Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to functional analysis and its applications: metric, Banach and Hilbert spaces; linear operators, spectral theory; differentiation and integration. Applied Mathematics 104 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105a) and Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b) or equivalent.; and Applied Mathematics 120 or Mathematics 121, or equivalent. Offered in alternate years. N fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 211 Introduction to Numerical Mathematics Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Principles and techniques of numerical analysis, synthesis and computation: interpolation and approximation, numerical quadrature and differentiation, linear and nonlinear equations, optimization, differential and integral equations. Applied Mathematics 105a and 105b; Applied Mathematics 111 or 120 would be helpful, but not required. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 215 Fundamentals of Biological Signal Processing Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 The course will introduce Bayesian analysis, maximum entropy principles, hidden markov models and pattern theory. These concepts will be used to understand information processing in biology. The relevant biological background will be covered in depth. A strong background in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Fourier Analysis, complex analysis at the advanced undergraduate level and an introductory knowledge of probability theory is required. Knowledge of Statistical Mechanics and comfort with programming will be useful. Y fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 221 Advanced Optimization Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced techniques for modeling and solving large and difficult optimization problems as well as the core theory and geometry of linear inequalities, integer programming and combinatorial optimization. Topics covered: geometry and theory of linear programming, solving large scale optimization problems using column and constraint generation, network flows, computational complexity, basic integer programming models and algorithms, paths and trees, matchings, integrality of polyhedra, and matroids. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding of the core theory and solution methods. Exercises and the class project will involve developing and implementing optimization algorithms possibly using standard solvers such as AMPL. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b (linear algebra) and AM 121 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Comfort with programming. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4460. N Ozlem Ergun spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 272 r Kinetic Methods for Fluids: Theory and Applications Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Systematic introduction to kinetic methods for studying fluids, based on the lattice Boltzmann equation. Emphasizes theory, including discrete dynamics and symmetry, as well as hands-on programming of basic algorithms for fluid flow simulations, paying attention to understanding of the theoretical basis and connection to real fluid physics. The course lays the foundation for further research on the method extensions, particularly in complex fluids and micro/nano-fluidics and presents specific applications in various science and engineering problems. Knowledge of basic classical physics, fluid dynamics, and numerical methods are desirable. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 274 Computational Fluid Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A theoretical and practical introduction to the key tools in computational fluid dynamics. The course will examine a range of numerical algorithms relevant to fluids modeling, analyzing the stability, convergence and accuracy of each. Students will implement an extensive range of CFD algorithms. Topics include the hyperbolic partial differential equations and conservation laws, with a focus on numerical discretization via finite volume methods, followed by simulation of viscous incompressible fluids via the finite element method. A first course in scientific computing, e.g. Applied Mathematics 111 or 205, and knowledge of computer programming. N David J Knezevic spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 275 Computational Design of Materials Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will provide the background and an extensive set of examples showing how computational methods are applied to modern design of materials with desired functionality. The methods will span multiple length and time scales, including molecular dynamics simulations, first-principles approaches, stochastic methods for optimization and sampling, and continuum elasticity theory. Examples will include problems in electronic and photonic devices, materials for energy conversion, storage, and environmental protection, and those related to mechanical strength of materials. Undergraduate coursework in quantum mechanics, solid state physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is recommended. Knowledge of physical chemistry and solid mechanics is required. N Zhenyu Zhang spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 298 r Special Topics in Applied Mathematics: Self Assembly Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will study the theoretical and mathematical basis for self assembly, focusing on what is required to make engineering-based self assembly a reality. Three parts: foundations, engineering solutions, and biological assembly. Undergraduate statistical mechanics or permission of the instructor. N Michael P. Brenner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 299 r Special Topics in Applied Mathematics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervision of experimental or theoretical research on acceptable applied mathematics problems and supervision of reading on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Open to graduate students and AB/SM candidates only. Students must arrange such work with a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This course is graded and is ordinarily taken with the approval of the Committee on Higher Degrees. Applicants must file a project sheet before study cards are filed. Project sheets may be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110. N Efthimios Kaxiras Efthimios Kaxiras fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 311 Numerical Mathematics: Analysis, Synthesis and Computation Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Donald G.M. Anderson Donald G.M. Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 312 Numerical Mathematics: Analysis, Synthesis and Computation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donald G.M. Anderson Donald G.M. Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 315 Stochastic Processes, Dynamical Systems, Applied Differential Geometry Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Roger W. Brockett Roger W. Brockett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 316 Stochastic Processes, Dynamical Systems, Applied Differential Geometry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roger W. Brockett Roger W. Brockett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 317 Special Topics in Physical Mathematics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course (on leave 2011-12) Y Michael P. Brenner Michael P. Brenner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 319 Topics in Macroscopic Physics and Quantitative Biology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 320 Topics in Macroscopic Physics and Quantitative Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 321 Biological Applications of Mathematics and Automatic Computers Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y William H. Bossert William H. Bossert fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 322 Biological Applications of Mathematics and Automatic Computers Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y William H. Bossert William H. Bossert fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 331 Theoretical Mechanics in the Earth and Engineering Sciences Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 332 Theoretical Mechanics in the Earth and Engineering Sciences Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 341 Applied Probability and Statistical Inference, Classical and Quantum Information Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Navin Khaneja Navin Khaneja fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Mathematics 342 Applied Probability and Statistical Inference, Classical and Quantum Information Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Navin Khaneja Navin Khaneja fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 195 Introduction to Solid State Physics Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Free electron Fermi gas. Crystals. Band structure. Metals, insulators, semiconductors. Phonons; thermal properties. Electron transport. PN junctions. Heterojunctions. Low dimensional systems. Transistors. Optical properties of solids. Optoelectronic devices. Magnetism. Spintronics. Superconductivity Note: Applied Physics 195 is a first course in solid-state physics for undergraduate and graduate students with knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics. Students who have not taken a formal solid state physics course are strongly advised to take Applied Physics 195 before an advanced solid-state physics course. N Federico Capasso fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 216 Modern Optics and Quantum Electronics Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course We cover the fundamental physics of light and of light-matter interactions. The field has great importance in many active research areas. Topics include quantization of the electromagnetic field, Fourier optics, lasers, optics with nanostructures, and optics in biology. A class in electromagnetism/electrodynamics. N Lene V. Hau fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 217 Applications of Modern Optics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Optical systems and lasers have recently revolutionized both technology and basic research. We cover simple models of light-matter interactions, Fourier optics and holography, light scattering, and optics in biology: single-molecule studies, optical coherence tomography, nonlinear imaging techniques. An undergraduate course in electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. N Vinothan N Manoharan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 218 Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course M., W., 1-2:30 Shriram Ramanathan Classical and quantum description of electrical, optical and magnetic properties, and their fundamental physical origins; experimental techniques. Properties of compositionally complex materials such as ceramics. Structure-property relations. Applications in semiconductor, information storage, and energy industries. Introductory solid-state physics or equivalent course. N Shriram Ramanathan fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 225 Introduction to Soft Matter Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to soft condensed matter, or "complex fluids," including polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and biological structures. Emphasis on physical principles that govern bulk behavior. Students will understand the concepts, experimental techniques, and open questions. Knowledge of thermodynamics with basic statistical mechanics and some familiarity with Fourier transforms and differential equations. N Ian D Morrison spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 226 Introduction to Soft Matter - Capillarity and Wetting Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Consider phenomena strongly influenced by surface tensions, high curvatures, thin films, diffusion, adsorption, wetting, which are variously mobile, dynamic, polymeric, transient, and fragile. Emphasis on the physics, thermodynamics, rheological, and scaling laws that govern bulk behavior. Knowledge of thermodynamics and basic statistical mechanics and some familiarity with phase diagrams and differential equations. N Ian D Morrison spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 235 Chemistry in Materials Science and Engineering Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Select topics in materials chemistry, focusing on chemical bonds, crystal chemistry, organic and polymeric materials, hybrid materials, surfaces and interfaces, self-assembly, electrochemistry, biomaterials, and bio-inspired materials synthesis. Introductory thermodynamics, chemistry or equivalent. N Joanna Aizenberg fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 282 Solids: Structure and Defects Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Bonding, crystallography, diffraction, phase diagrams, microstructure, point defects, dislocations, and grain boundaries. Intended for students in applied mechanics, materials science, condensed matter physics, and chemistry. N Frans A. Spaepen fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 284 Statistical Thermodynamics Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic principles of statistical physics and thermodynamics, with applications including: the equilibrium properties of classical and quantum gases, phase transitions and critical phenomena, as illustrated by the liquid-gas transition and simple magnetic models. Our treatment will include Bose-Einstein condensation and degenerate Fermi gases. Ordinarily, Physics 143a, b, and Physics 181 or Engineering Sciences 181. Students may wish to take Physics 262 when this course is bracketed. N David R. Nelson spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 291 Electron Microscopy Laboratory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Lectures and laboratory instruction on transmission electron microscopy(TEM) and Cs corrected, aberration-correction microscopy and microanalysis. Lab classes include; diffraction, dark field imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, electron energy-loss spectroscopy, atomic imaging, materials sample preparation, polymers, and biological samples. Primarily for graduate students planning to use TEM for their research. N David C. Bell spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 292 Kinetics of Condensed Phase Processes Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Kinetic principles underlying atomic motions, transformations, and other atomic transport processes in condensed phases. Application to atomic diffusion, continuous phase transformations, nucleation, growth, coarsening, and other kinetic phenomena in bulk, thin film, and surface states. An undergraduate-level course in thermodynamics. Will not be offered in 2012-13. Offered in alternate years. N Frans A. Spaepen fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 293 Dielectric, Magnetic, Electrical, Thermal and Mechanical Composites Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Composites of two or more materials offer a greater range of properties than the constituents alone exhibit and, in some cases, different physical properties. Models for composite behavior, approaches for calculating composite properties and design rules for property optimization will be discussed. Knowledge of thermodynamics, electromagnetism and elements of crystal structure. N David Clarke full year Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 294 hfr Materials Science Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Special topics in materials science. See instructor. Y Michael J. Aziz David Clarke Frans A. Spaepen Michael J. Aziz David Clarke Frans A. Spaepen spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 295 a Introduction to Quantum Theory of Solids Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Properties of solids, electrical, optical, thermal, magnetic, mechanical, are treated based on an atomic scale picture and using the single electron approximation. Metals, semiconductors, and insulators are covered, including special topics such as superconductivity. Applied Physics 195 or equivalent, and one full quantum mechanics graduate level course similar to Physics 251a. Physics 251b may be taken concurrently. N Efthimios Kaxiras fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 295 b Quantum Theory of Solids Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Instructor to be determined Theoretical description of solids focusing on the effects of interactions between electrons, including dielectric response, magnetism, and superconductivity. Also, subjects from the physics of strongly correlated systems, such as quantum antiferromagnetism and high temperature superconductors. Applied Physics 295a, Physics 251a, and 251b, or permission of instructor. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 298 r Interdisciplinary Chemistry, Engineering and Physics: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Materials-related topics chosen from: Structure and Self-Assembly; Mechanical Properties; Surfaces and Interfaces; Biomaterials; Synthesis and Fabrication; Characterization Techniques; Soft Materials, and Complex Fluids. The class will be divided into teams and each team will spend 4 weeks investigating a current research problem posed by a faculty member. This will entail reading and lab work and will be followed by a presentation to the full class. Each team will work on 3 problems through the term. Suitable for graduate students with undergraduate concentrations in chemistry, engineering, or physics having present or potential research interests in this field. The course will provide an introduction to current research problems as well as the methodology of research and presentation. A final paper based on one theme will also be required. Taught by faculty from Chemistry, Physics, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who are associated with Harvard's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. N David A. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 299 r Special Topics in Applied Physics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervision of experimental or theoretical research on acceptable applied physics problems and supervision of reading on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Open to graduate students and AB/SM candidates only. Students must arrange such work with a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This course is graded and is ordinarily taken with the approval of the Committee on Higher Degrees. Applicants must file a project sheet before study cards are filed. Project sheets may be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110. N Eric Mazur Eric Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 301 Ultrafast Electronic Devices Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Donhee Ham Donhee Ham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 302 Ultrafast Electronic Devices Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donhee Ham Donhee Ham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 304 Materials Science of Biological Inorganic Nanostructures Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joanna Aizenberg Joanna Aizenberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 321 Materials Physics and Engineering Reading Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Y David Clarke David Clarke fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 323 Topics in Materials Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Shriram Ramanathan Shriram Ramanathan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 324 Topics in Materials Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Shriram Ramanathan Shriram Ramanathan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 331 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Robert M. Westervelt Robert M. Westervelt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 332 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert M. Westervelt Robert M. Westervelt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 333 Electronic Properties of Nanostructures, Interaction of Biomolecules with Nanostructures, and X-Ray Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Jene A. Golovchenko Jene A. Golovchenko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 334 Electronic Properties of Nanostructures, Interaction of Biomolecules with Nanostructures, and X-Ray Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jene A. Golovchenko Jene A. Golovchenko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 335 Theoretical Study of the Structure and Electronic Properties of Nanoscale Materials and Biological Macromolecules Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Efthimios Kaxiras Efthimios Kaxiras fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 336 Theoretical Study of the Structure and Electronic Properties of Nanoscale Materials and Biological Macromolecules Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Efthimios Kaxiras Efthimios Kaxiras fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 337 Growth and Properties of Nanostructures and Nanostructure Assemblies; Development and Application of New Probe Microscopies; Biophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 338 Growth and Properties of Nanostructures and Nanostructure Assemblies; Development and Application of New Probe Microscopies; Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 339 Topics in Electromagnetic Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Tai T. Wu Tai T. Wu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 340 Topics in Electromagnetic Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tai T. Wu Tai T. Wu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 341 Nano-Lasers and Single-Photon Sources Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Marko Loncar Marko Loncar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 342 Nano-Lasers and Single-Photon Sources Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marko Loncar Marko Loncar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 343 Topics in Electromagnetic Theory and Molecular Spectroscopy Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Patrick Thaddeus Patrick Thaddeus fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 344 Topics in Electromagnetic Theory and Molecular Spectroscopy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Patrick Thaddeus Patrick Thaddeus fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 347 Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 348 Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 351 Statistical and Condensed Matter Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Paul C. Martin Paul C. Martin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 352 Statistical and Condensed Matter Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paul C. Martin Paul C. Martin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 357 Nanophotonics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Kenneth B. Crozier Kenneth B. Crozier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 358 Nanophotonics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kenneth B. Crozier Kenneth B. Crozier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 359 Nonlinear Laser Physics and Materials Engineering Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Mazur Eric Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 360 Nonlinear Laser Physics and Materials Engineering Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Mazur Eric Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 361 Photonics, Quantum Devices and Nanostructures Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Federico Capasso Federico Capasso fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 362 Photonics, Quantum Devices and Nanostructures Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Federico Capasso Federico Capasso fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 363 Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Weitz David A. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 364 Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Weitz David A. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 365 Experimental Condensed Matter: Ballistic Transport in Semiconductors, Nanostructures, and Tunneling Microscopy Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Narayanamurti Venkatesh Narayanamurti fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 366 Experimental Condensed Matter: Ballistic Transport in Semiconductors, Nanostructures, and Tunneling Microscopy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Narayanamurti Venkatesh Narayanamurti fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 367 Topics on Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David R. Nelson David R. Nelson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 368 Topics on Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David R. Nelson David R. Nelson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 369 Experimental Condensed Matter: Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Studies of Interfacial Phenomena (Liquids and Solid) Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Peter S. Pershan Peter S. Pershan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 370 Experimental Condensed Matter: Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Studies of Interfacial Phenomena (Liquids and Solid) Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter S. Pershan Peter S. Pershan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 371 Biological Physics and Quantitative Biology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Needleman Daniel Needleman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 372 Biological Physics and Quantitative Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Needleman Daniel Needleman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 383 Topics in Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Zhiming Kuang Zhiming Kuang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 384 Topics in Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Zhiming Kuang Zhiming Kuang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 391 Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Vinothan N Manoharan Vinothan N Manoharan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 392 Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Vinothan N Manoharan Vinothan N Manoharan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 393 Experimental Studies of Interfaces and Surfaces Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Cynthia Friend Cynthia Friend fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 394 Experimental Studies of Interfaces and Surfaces Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Cynthia Friend Cynthia Friend fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 395 Topics in Materials Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Michael J. Aziz Michael J. Aziz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 396 Topics in Materials Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael J. Aziz Michael J. Aziz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 397 Materials Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Frans A. Spaepen Frans A. Spaepen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 398 Materials Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frans A. Spaepen Frans A. Spaepen spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 1 Great Ideas in Computer Science Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the most important discoveries and intellectual paradigms in computer science, designed for students with little or no previous background. Explores problem-solving using high and low-level programming languages; presents an integrated view of computer systems, from switching circuits up through compilers and GUI design. Examines theoretical and practical limitations related to unsolvable and intractable computational problems, and the social and ethical dilemmas presented by such issues as software unreliability and invasions of privacy. May not be taken for credit after completing Computer Science 50. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Henry H. Leitner spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 20 Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Widely applicable mathematical tools for computer science, including topics from logic, set theory, combinatorics, number theory, probability theory, and graph theory. Practice in reasoning formally and proving theorems. Covers material used in Computer Science 121 and Computer Science 124. Students planning to take one of these computer science theory courses in the academic year 2012-2013 should consider taking Computer Science 20 in the spring of 2012. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Harry R. Lewis spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 42 Controlling Cyberspace Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Why does the Internet environment exist in the form it does today? What does its future, and the future of online life in general, look like? To what extent is this future malleable? Governments, corporate intermediaries, and hackers are empowered to different degrees by the space, and their interests and strengths are often in tension. This class uses academic as well as non-traditional texts to engender a broader understanding of Internet culture and technology, with an eye towards mapping informed choices about the future. Permission of instructor required after submission of an <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en-US&formkey=dHotTDJ2S00zUlR2RkZLc3N3S1F0bkE6MQ#gid=0">application form</a>. Offered jointly with the Law School as Law 2433. The course will be assisted by Kendra Albert. Y Jonathan L. Zittrain fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 50 Introduction to Computer Science I Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, encapsulation, data structures, databases, memory management, security, software development, virtualization, and websites. Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and HTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience. This course may be taken pass/fail or for a letter grade. When taken for a letter grade, this course meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. This course will also meet F., 1-2:30 on September 2, 2011 and September 9, 2011 only. Students with conflicts should watch those lectures online. N David J. Malan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 51 Introduction to Computer Science II Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Abstraction and design in computation. Topics include: Functional and object-oriented styles of programming; software engineering in the small; models of computation. Goal: understanding how to design large programs to make them readable, maintainable, efficient, and elegant. Exercises in ML and Java. Computer Science 50 or equivalent. N John Gregory Morrisett fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 61 Systems Programming and Machine Organization Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine organization and design. Topics include C and assembly language programming, program optimization, memory hierarchy and caching, virtual memory and dynamic memory management, concurrency, threads, and synchronization. CS50 or some experience programming in C. N Stephen Chong fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised individual study of advanced topics in computer science. A student wishing to enroll in Computer Science 91r must be accepted by a faculty member who will supervise the course work. A form available from the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110, must be filled out and signed by the student and faculty supervisor. Students writing theses may enroll in this course while conducting thesis research and writing. At most two terms of Computer Science 91r may be taken for academic credit. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Students wishing more information about the range of suitable projects or faculty supervisors should consult the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Harry R. Lewis Harry R. Lewis spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 96 System Design Projects Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Cooperative design, development, and testing of a sizable and realistic computer system. Students work as a group with a client on a real-world open-ended problem, and gain experience in problem definition, software development, and system lifecycle issues, and in the area of application. Students work in groups; both student participation in the classroom and effective group cooperation outside the classroom are stressed. Computer Science 51 or 61. Y Stuart M. Shieber fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 105 Privacy and Technology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 What is privacy, and how is it affected by recent developments in computer technology? Course critically examines popular concepts of privacy and uses a rigorous analysis of technologies to understand the policy and ethical issues at play. Case studies: RFID, database anonymity, research ethics, wiretapping. Course relies on some technical material, but is open and accessible to all students, especially those with interest in economics, engineering, political science, computer science, sociology, biology, law, government, philosophy. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement Social Analysis. Y James H Waldo fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 121 Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course General introduction to formal systems and the theory of computation, teaching how to reason precisely about computation and prove mathematical theorems about its capabilities and limitations. Finite automata, Turing machines, formal languages, computability, uncomputability, computational complexity, and the P vs. NP question. Starting in the fall of 2012, Computer Science 121 will assume background from Computer Science 20. N Harry R. Lewis spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 124 Data Structures and Algorithms Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Design and analysis of efficient algorithms and data structures. Algorithm design methods, graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, and randomized algorithms are covered. Computer Science 50 or equivalent; Computer Science 51 is helpful. Some exposure to discrete applied mathematics, such as Applied Mathematics 106 or 107 or Computer Science 121 or Statistics 110, is also helpful. Starting in the spring of 2013, Computer Science 124 will assume background from Computer Science 20. N Michael D. Mitzenmacher fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 141 Computing Hardware Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the design, structure, and operation of digital computers; logic circuits and digital electronics; computer arithmetic; computer architecture; and machine language programming. Consideration of the design interactions between hardware and software systems. Programming experience required. N David Brooks fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 143 Computer Networks Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Principles, design, implementation, and performance of computer networks. Topics include: Internet protocols and routing, local area networks, TCP, performance analysis, congestion control, network address translation, voice and video over IP, switching and routing, mobile IP, peer-to-peer overlay networks, network security, and other current research topics. Programming assignments on protocol implementation and analysis. Computer Science 51 and 61. N H.T. Kung spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 144 r Networks Design Projects Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cooperative design and development of advanced network-based systems with both technology and business considerations. Students will work in 2 person teams. Student work will include reading assignments, homework sets, a project proposal, and project reports and presentations. At the end of the class, all teams will defend their approaches and results in front of the class and invited guests. Computer Science 143 or equivalent experience. Preference given to upper-class undergraduates or graduate students in computer science or in business. N H.T. Kung spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 146 Computer Architecture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Review of the fundamental structures in modern processor design. Topics include computer organization, memory system design, pipelining, and other techniques to exploit parallelism. Emphasis on a quantitative evaluation of design alternatives and an understanding of timing issues. Computer Science 141. N David Brooks spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 148 Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 Presentation of concepts and techniques for the design and fabrication of VLSI systems and digital MOS integrated circuits. Topics include: basic semiconductor theory; MOS transistors and digital MOS circuits design; synchronous machines, clocking, and timing issues; high-level description and modeling of VLSI systems; synthesis and place and route design flows; and testing of VLSI circuits and systems. Various CAD tools for design, simulation, and verification are extensively used. Computer Science 141 or permission of instructor. Y Gu-Yeon Wei spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 152 Programming Languages Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Comprehensive introduction to the principal features and overall design of both traditional and modern programming languages, including syntax, formal semantics, abstraction mechanisms, modularity, type systems, naming, polymorphism, closures, continuations, and concurrency. Provides the intellectual tools needed to design, evaluate, choose, and use programming languages. Computer Science 51; Computer Science 121 is recommended. Students must have good programming skills, be comfortable with recursion, basic mathematical ideas and notations. N John Gregory Morrisett fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 153 Compilers Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Implementation of efficient interpreters and compilers for programming languages. Associated algorithms and pragmatic issues. Emphasizes practical applications including those outside of programming languages proper. Also shows relationships to programming-language theory and design. Participants build a working compiler including lexical analysis, parsing, type checking, code generation, and register allocation. Exposure to run-time issues and optimization. Computer Science 51 or 61. N John Gregory Morrisett spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 161 Operating Systems Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The fundamental principles of resource management and abstraction in modern operating systems. Control abstractions: threads, processes, scheduling, synchronization. Storage abstractions: dynamic memory allocation, virtual memory, file system design. Communication abstractions: interprocess communication, networking. Case studies. Design and implementation of parts of a multiuser multitasking virtual-memory operating system. Computer Science 51 and 61. N Margo I. Seltzer spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 164 Mobile Software Engineering Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to principles of software engineering for mobile devices and best practices, including code reviews, source control, and unit tests. Topics include Ajax, encapsulation, event handling, HTTP, memory management, MVC, object-oriented design, and user experience. Languages include HTML5, JavaScript, Objective-C, and PHP. Projects include mobile web apps and native iOS apps. Computer Science 50 or equivalent. Students are encouraged, but not required, to have a Mac (running Lion) as well as an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch; students without a Mac will have access to Macs in labs on campus. Students will work on projects in pairs; students are encouraged to enroll with a friend. Enrollment may be limited. May be omitted in 2012-2013. N David J. Malan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 165 Information Management Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Covers the fundamental concepts of database and information management. Data models: relational, object-oriented, and other; implementation techniques of database management systems, such as indexing structures, concurrency control, recovery, and query processing; management of unstructured data; terabyte-scale databases. Computer Science 51. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 171 Visualization Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to key design principles and techniques for visualizing data. Covers design practices, data and image models, visual perception, interaction principles, tools from various fields, and applications. Introduces programming of interactive visualizations. Students are expected to have basic programming experience (e.g., Computer Science 50). This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Hanspeter Pfister fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 175 Computer Graphics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The computational aspects of computer graphics. Two major themes are image rendering (viewing transformations, clipping, visible-surface processing, raster algorithms, reflection models, lighting models, surface shading, antialiasing, ray tracing, radiosity, and volume rendering) and scene modeling (modeling transformations, curves and surfaces, texture mapping, data-amplification techniques, constructive solid geometry, scalar- and vector-field data, and animation). Ancillary topics include color compression, image compression, image compositing, graphical user interfaces, and special machine architectures for computer graphics. Computer Science 51, Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b. N Steven J. Gortler spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 179 Design of Usable Interactive Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 48 Usability and design as keys to successful technology. Covers user observation techniques, needs assessment, low and high fidelity prototyping, usability testing methods, as well as theory of human perception and performance, and design best practices. Focuses on understanding and applying the lessons of human interaction to the design of usable systems; will also look at lessons to be learned from less usable systems. The course includes several small and one large project. Y Krzysztof Z Gajos spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 181 Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to artificial intelligence, focusing on problems of perception, reasoning under uncertainty, and especially machine learning. Supervised learning algorithms. Decision trees. Ensemble learning and boosting. Neural networks, multi-layer perceptrons and applications. Support vector machines and kernel methods. Clustering and unsupervised learning. Probabilistic methods, parametric and non-parametric density estimation, maximum likelihood and maximum a posteriori estimates. Bayesian networks and graphical models: representation, inference and learning. Hidden Markov models. Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning. Computational learning theory. Computer Science 51, Computer Science 121, and Statistics 110. N Krzysztof Z Gajos fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 182 Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions, and Plans Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to AI, focused on problems in reasoning about action and rational decision making. Search: constraint satisfaction; informed search and optimization; game playing. Knowledge representation and logical inference. Planning: representation, search and heuristics. Bounded rationality, situated agents. Multiagent systems. Discussion of relevant work in philosophy, economics, and decision theory. Applications to scheduling, robotics and e-commerce. Computer Science 51; Computer Science 121 (may be taken concurrently). N Radhika Nagpal fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 186 Economics and Computation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The interplay between economic thinking and computational thinking as it relates to electronic commerce, social networks, collective intelligence and networked systems. Topics covered include: game theory, peer production, reputation and recommender systems, prediction markets, crowd sourcing, network influence and dynamics, auctions and mechanisms, privacy and security, matching and allocation problems, computational social choice and behavioral game theory. Emphasis will be given to core methodologies, with students engaged in theoretical, computational and empirical exercises. Applied Math 21b, Computer Science 51 or equivalent, Statistics 110, and one of Computer Science 181, Computer Science 182, Economics 1011a, or Economics 1056. N David Parkes spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 187 Computational Linguistics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to computational linguistics, the study of human language using the tools and techniques of computer science, with applications to a variety of natural-language-processing problems. Representing syntactic structure: context-free, augmented context-free, and trans-context-free grammars. Representing semantic structure: first-order and higher-order logics. Computing with syntactic and semantic representations: Prolog programming; parsing and generation algorithms. Low-level language processing with finite-state methods. Computer Science 121. N Stuart M. Shieber spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 189 r Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Building autonomous robotic systems requires understanding how to make robots that observe, reason, and act. Each component uses many engineering principles: how to fuse, multiple, noisy sensors; how to balance short-term versus long-term goals; how to control one's actions and how to coordinate with others. This year, we will study these questions in the context of a project to develop autonomous robot soccer teams. The class format will mix seminar and lab formats. Preference will be given to students with experience in AI (e.g. CS181 or CS182 and/or robotics ES159). Y spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 199 r Special Topics in Computer Science Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 Y spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 201 Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property: Advanced Problem Solving Workshop Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 Students in this experimental capstone course will work in teams to solve a series of hard problems-based cases related to cyberlaw and intellectual property. Here is the link to the application form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en-US&formkey=dHhTYVBjTEdVZkl6RlIxM3E5R0pKcXc6MA#gid=0">CS 201hf Application</a>. Offered jointly with the Law School as Law 2315, and will meet at the Law School. Y Jonathan L. Zittrain John Gorham Palfrey VII full year Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 203 hf A Better Internet: Policy and Practice Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Students will propose ideas for a better Internet, test them with stakeholders, prototype them for industries and organizations, and attack difficult implementation problems in a problem-solving capstone. Half course through the year, meeting in January at Stanford University. Offered jointly offered at Law School as LAW-34285A. Here is the link to the application form: <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtVekdHTE9Nblljck5aQ2xEbUZRTWc6MQ ">CS 203hf Application.</a> Applications are due July 31, with admissions on a rolling basis. Y Jonathan L. Zittrain Jonathan L. Zittrain fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 205 Computing Foundations for Computational Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An applications course highlighting the use of computers in solving scientific problems. Students will be exposed to fundamental computer science concepts such as computer architectures, data structures, algorithms, and parallel computing. Fundamentals of scientific computing including abstract thinking, algorithmic development, and assessment of computational approaches. Students will learn to use open source tools and libraries and apply them to data analysis, modeling, and visualization of real scientific problems. Emphasizes parallel programming and "parallel thinking." Students are expected to have basic programming experience (e.g., Computer Science 50). N Hanspeter Pfister spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 207 Systems Development for Computational Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This is a project-based course emphasizing designing, building, testing, maintaining and modifying software for scientific computing. Students will work in groups on a number of projects, ranging from small data-transformation utilities to large-scale systems. Students will learn to use a variety of tools and languages, as well as various techniques for organizing teams. Most important, students will learn to fit tools and approaches to the problem being solved. Students are expected to have basic programming experience (Computer Science 50) and have completed Computer Science 205. N Eddie Kohler Cristopher Cecka fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 220 r Cryptography: Trust and Adversity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Modern cryptography. Mathematical tools. Public-key encryptions, digital signatures, key exchanges, zero-knowledge proofs, authentication, oblivious transfer, practical zero-knowledge proofs and financial cryptography, secure multi-party computation, provably secure encryptions. Foundations: Probabilistic encryption and semantic security. Attacks and countermeasures. N Michael O. Rabin spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 221 Computational Complexity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A quantitative theory of the resources needed for computing and the impediments to efficient computation. The models of computation considered include ones that are finite or infinite, deterministic, randomized, quantum or nondeterministic, discrete or algebraic, sequential or parallel. Computer Science 121 or equivalent. N Leslie G. Valiant fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 222 Algorithms at the Ends of the Wire Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers topics related to algorithms for big data, especially related to networks. Themes include compression, cryptography, coding, and information retrieval related to the World Wide Web. Requires a major final project. Computer Science 124. N Michael D. Mitzenmacher fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 223 Probabilistic Analysis and Algorithms Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Probabilistic techniques and tools for the design and analysis of algorithms. Designed for all first-year graduate students in all areas. Computer Science 124. Preferably additional probability, such as in Computer Science 226r, Statistics 110, or Mathematics 191. N Michael D. Mitzenmacher spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 225 Pseudorandomness Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Efficiently generating objects that "look random" despite being constructed using little or no randomness. Connections and applications to computational complexity, cryptography, and combinatorics. Pseudorandom generators, randomness extractors, expander graphs, error-correcting codes, hash functions. Exposure to randomized algorithms (as in Computer Science 124), computational complexity (as in Computer Science 121), and algebra (as in Applied Mathematics 106, Mathematics 123, or Computer Science 226r). N fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 226 r Efficient Algorithms Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Important algorithms and their real life applications. Topics include combinatorics, string matching, wavelets, FFT, computational algebra number theory and geometry, randomized algorithms, search engines, page rankings, maximal flows, error correcting codes, cryptography, parallel algorithms. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 228 Computational Learning Theory Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Possibilities of and limitations to performing learning by computational agents. Topics include computational models, polynomial time learnability, learning from examples and learning from queries to oracles. Applications to Boolean functions, automata and geometric functions. Computer Science 121 or equivalent. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 229 r Topics in the Theory of Computation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Students read, present, and critically evaluate current research papers in theoretical computer science. See syllabus and web site for specific topics of focus. Computer Science 121 or equivalent. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 244 r Networks Design Projects Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The contents and course requirements are similar to those of Computer Science 144r, with the exception that students enrolled in Computer Science 244r are expected to do substantial system implementation and perform graduate-level work. Computer Science 143 or equivalent experience. Preference given to upper-class undergraduates or graduate students in computer science or in business who are proficient in computer programming or in business software. N H.T. Kung spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 246 Advanced Computer Architecture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The contents and course requirements are similar to those of Computer Science 146, with the exception that students enrolled in Computer Science 246 are expected to undertake a substantial course project. Computer Science 141. N David Brooks spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 247 r Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar course exploring recent research in computer architecture. Topics vary from year to year and will include subjects such as multi-core architectures, energy-efficient computing, reliable computing, and the interactions of these issues with system software. Students read and present research papers, undertake a research project. Computer Science 146 or 246 or permission of the instructor. N David Brooks spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 248 Advanced Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 The contents and course requirements are similar to those of Computer Science 148, with the exception that students enrolled in Computer Science 248 are expected to do a substantial design project and paper discussions on advanced topics. Computer Science 141 or permission of instructor. Y Gu-Yeon Wei fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 252 r Advanced Topics in Programming Languages Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar course exploring recent research in programming languages. Topics vary from year to year. Students read and present research papers, undertake a research project. Computer Science 152 or permission of the instructor. N John Gregory Morrisett Stephen Chong fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 253 r Virtual Machines Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Computer Science 153 or equivalent. Preference given to graduate students or upper-class concentrators. N fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 261 Research Topics in Operating Systems Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A quantitative approach to operating system design and evaluation. Discussion of recent research including extensible operating system architectures, distributed systems, and performance analysis. Overview of research techniques and methodology. Computer Science 161, or equivalent. N Eddie Kohler spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 262 Introduction to Distributed Computing Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examination of the special problems associated with distributed computing such as partial failure, lack of global knowledge and protocols that function in the face of these problems. Emphasis on causal ordering, event and RPC-based systems. Computer Science 161 or permission of instructor. N James H Waldo spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 263 r Wireless Sensor Networks Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Computer Science 161 or Computer Science 143. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 264 Massively Parallel Computing Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is an introduction to several modern parallel computing approaches and languages. Covers programming models, hardware architectures, multi-threaded programming, GPU programming with CUDA, cluster computing with MPI, cloud computing, and map-reduce using Hadoop and Amazon's EC2. Students will complete readings, programming assignments, and a final project. N fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 265 Database Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A research-oriented introduction to Database Management systems. First third covers database design, implementation, and use. Topics include: network, relational, and object oriented database models, system architectures, transaction processing, system implementation, and SQL. Remaining two-thirds address research literature surrounding database systems, including an historical perspective, the emergence of relational and object-oriented systems, concurrency control, and distributed systems. Students will be expected to undertake a final research project. CS 165 or permission of instructor. N spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 266 Biologically-Inspired Distributed and Multi-Agent Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Surveys biologically-inspired approaches to designing distributed systems. Focus is on algorithms, analysis, and programming paradigms. Topics: swarm intelligence, amorphous computing, immune-inspired systems, synthetic biology. Discussion of research papers and a research project required. Experience with algorithms (e.g. Computer Science 124) and programming (e.g. Computer Science 51). Geared toward graduate students of all levels as well as advanced undergraduates. Preference given to graduate students or upper-level concentrators. Y Radhika Nagpal spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 277 Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced seminar in computer graphics focusing on geometric representations and processing. Topics include: direct manipulation, implicit surfaces, spline presentations, recursively subdivided surfaces, model simplification, surface parameterization and processing, mesh generation, and motion capture processing. Computer Science 175. N Steven J. Gortler spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 278 Rendering and Image Processing in Computer Graphics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced course in computer graphics focusing on image rendering and processing. Topics include: light transport, efficient rendering, image based rendering, texture processing, interactive image processing. Computer Science 175 or permission of instructor. N Steven J. Gortler fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 279 r Topics in User Interfaces Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Current topics and research methods in HCI. Course involves discussion of primary literature, lectures, and research-oriented project. The focus is on developing skills to conduct novel research involving design and evaluation of interactive systems. Y Krzysztof Z Gajos fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 281 Advanced Machine Learning Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced statistical machine learning and probabilistic data analysis. Topics include: Markov chain Monte Carlo, variational inference, Bayesian nonparametrics, text topic modeling, unsupervised learning, dimensionality reduction and visualization. Requires a major final project. Students should feel comfortable with basic linear algebra and probability theory. Students will be expected to implement algorithms in a programming language such as Matlab, Python or R. N Ryan Prescott Adams fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 283 Computer Vision Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional signal processing; image enhancement and restoration; feature analysis; image segmentation; structure from motion, texture, and shading; multiple view geometry; pattern classification; and applications. N Todd Zickler fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 285 Multi-Agent Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Algorithmic, game-theoretic and logical foundations of multi-agent systems, including distributed optimization and problem solving, non-cooperative game theory, learning and teaching, communication, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, negotiation, coalitional game theory, logics of knowledge and belief, collaborative plans and social systems. Computer Science 181 or 182, or permission of instructor. N David Parkes fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 286 r Topics at the Interface between Computer Science and Economics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Interplay between computation and economics. Topics in electronic commerce, computational social choice, computational mechanism design, peer production, prediction markets and reputation systems. Readings in AI, theoretical CS, multi-agent systems, economic theory, and operations research. Mathematics 21b, Applied Mathematics 21b, or equivalent; Computer Science 124, and 181 or 182, or equivalents; or permission of instructor. N Yiling Chen spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 287 r Natural Language Processing Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course In-depth investigation of natural-language-processing techniques. Topics include: finite-state, context-free, and trans-context-free formalisms, syntactic analysis, semantic interpretation, weighted automata and transducers. Students discuss research papers and undertake a significant research project. Computer Science 187 or permission of instructor. N Stuart M. Shieber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 299 r Special Topics in Computer Science Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervision of experimental or theoretical research on acceptable computer science problems and supervision of reading on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Open to graduate students and AB/SM candidates only. Students must arrange such work with a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This course is graded and is ordinarily taken with the approval of the Committee on Higher Degrees. Applicants must file a project sheet before study cards are filed. Project sheets may be obtained from the Academic Office, Pierce Hall 110. N Michael D. Mitzenmacher Michael D. Mitzenmacher fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 301 qc iLaw: Internet Technology, Law, and Policy Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course Internet Technology, Law, and Policy. Intensive four-day course on the current state of the Internet, its problems, and its path. Privacy, property, speech, and governance. A rigorous survey course with a final work product required of students. Y Jonathan L. Zittrain fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 303 Statistical Machine Learning Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Ryan Prescott Adams Ryan Prescott Adams fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 304 Statistical Machine Learning Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ryan Prescott Adams Ryan Prescott Adams fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 311 Collaborative Systems, AI Planning, and Natural Language Processing Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Barbara J. Grosz Barbara J. Grosz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 312 Collaborative Systems, AI Planning, and Natural Language Processing Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Barbara J. Grosz Barbara J. Grosz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 313 Visual Computing Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Hanspeter Pfister Hanspeter Pfister fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 314 Visual Computing Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Hanspeter Pfister Hanspeter Pfister fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 315 Social Computing: Computation and Economics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Yiling Chen Yiling Chen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 321 Databases, Operating System, and Software Design Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Margo I. Seltzer Margo I. Seltzer fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 322 Databases, Operating System, and Software Design Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Margo I. Seltzer Margo I. Seltzer fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 323 Human-Computer Communication through Natural, Graphical, and Artificial Languages Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Stuart M. Shieber Stuart M. Shieber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 324 Human-Computer Communication through Natural, Graphical, and Artificial Languages Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stuart M. Shieber Stuart M. Shieber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 325 Intelligent Interactive Systems and Human-Computer Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Krzysztof Z Gajos Krzysztof Z Gajos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 326 Intelligent Interactive Systems and Human-Computer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Krzysztof Z Gajos Krzysztof Z Gajos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 327 Mathematical Logic, Theory of Computation Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Harry R. Lewis Harry R. Lewis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 328 Mathematical Logic, Theory of Computation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Harry R. Lewis Harry R. Lewis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 345 High-Performance Computer Systems Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Michael D. Smith Michael D. Smith fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 346 High-Performance Computer Systems Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael D. Smith Michael D. Smith fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 347 Computer Vision Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Todd Zickler Todd Zickler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 351 Cryptography: Unbreakable Codes and Financial Cryptography Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Michael O. Rabin Michael O. Rabin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 352 Cryptography: Unbreakable Codes and Financial Cryptography Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael O. Rabin Michael O. Rabin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 355 Computational Complexity, Parallel Computation, Computational Learning, Neural Computation Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Leslie G. Valiant Leslie G. Valiant fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 356 Computational Complexity, Parallel Computation, Computational Learning, Neural Computation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Leslie G. Valiant Leslie G. Valiant fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 357 Computational Complexity, Cryptography, and Pseudorandomness Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Salil P. Vadhan Salil P. Vadhan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 358 Computational Complexity, Cryptography, and Pseudorandomness Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Salil P. Vadhan Salil P. Vadhan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 359 On-line Algorithms and Randomized Algorithms Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Michael D. Mitzenmacher Michael D. Mitzenmacher fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 360 On-line Algorithms and Randomized Algorithms Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael D. Mitzenmacher Michael D. Mitzenmacher fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 361 Programming Languages and Semantics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y John Gregory Morrisett John Gregory Morrisett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 362 Programming Languages and Semantics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Gregory Morrisett John Gregory Morrisett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 363 Programming Languages and Security Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Stephen Chong Stephen Chong fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 364 Programming Languages and Security Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stephen Chong Stephen Chong spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 365 SEAS Teaching Practicum Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Gain effective skills for teaching applied sciences. Topics: presentation and communication, lesson planning, classroom practice, office hours and 1-on-1 interactions, feedback, assessment, and working with course staff. Seminar style with an emphasis on observation, practice, feedback, discussion, and reflection. Y John Gregory Morrisett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 375 Computer Graphics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Steven J. Gortler Steven J. Gortler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science 376 Computer Graphics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Steven J. Gortler Steven J. Gortler spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 1 Introduction to Engineering Sciences Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An integrative introduction to engineering sciences. Combines classroom discussion with activity-based learning, and emphasizes concepts that span multiple disciplines. Covers topics having direct societal impact, and presents them in historical context. Involves qualitative and quantitative analysis, mathematical modeling, and design. Introduces common engineering software and hardware tools. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Kenneth B. Crozier spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 6 Environmental Science and Technology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the role of technology in the environmental sciences, with foci on energy and water topics. The basic scientific principles underlying human use and control of the environment are emphasized. The course includes several field trips. The course presumes basic knowledge in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the high school level. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Scot T. Martin Anas Chalah Chad D. Vecitis spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 20 How to Create Things and Have Them Matter Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 40 This aspirational design course teaches students to generate, develop and realize breakthrough ideas in the arts, sciences, and engineering. Students learn basic skills of engineering design, brainstorming, prototyping, and public presentations. Funding is available for continued project development following the course. This year's theme is "Virtual Worlds." Open to all students by permission of instructor. Y David A. Edwards Bethanne Altringer fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 21 The Innovator's Practice: Finding, building and leading good ideas with others Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 25 Students gain experience overcoming many under-represented challenges of becoming an innovator, including: identifying your intrinsic motivations, finding related good ideas, working effectively with others to develop them, and leading innovative professional projects to implementation. Students apply human-centered design processes (observing, interpreting, ideating, testing, refining, planning) to stimulate innovation, negotiate, strategize, and build and lead cooperative teams. Features guest speakers from industry, academia, and involves collaborating with cutting-edge companies. Y Bethanne Altringer spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 50 Introduction to Electrical Engineering Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A discussion of topics of central importance to the fields of electronics, communications and intelligent systems. The material concerns both qualitative and quantitative analysis, as well as laboratory experiments and computer simulations. Examples of topics to be discussed range from relatively simple modules such as analog amplifiers and digital adders, to complex devices such as cell-phones and their supporting infrastructure. Students who have taken 100-level courses in electrical engineering will not be allowed to enroll in Engineering Sciences 50. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. Y Marko Loncar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 51 Computer-Aided Machine Design Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A first course in the design and construction of mechanical and electromechanical devices. Engineering graphics and sketching; dimensions and tolerances. Introduction to materials selection and structural design. Machine elements and two-dimensional mechanisms; DC motors. Design methodology. Emphasis on laboratory work and design projects using professional solid modeling CAD software and numerically controlled machine tools. Mathematics 1b (may be taken concurrently); high school physics. Intended for freshmen and sophomores. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Science A. Y Dr Conor J Walsh Dr Conor J Walsh Samuel Benjamin Kesner fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 53 Quantitative Physiology as a Basis for Bioengineering Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A foundation in human organ systems physiology, including cardiac, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, and neural systems. Quantitative description of organ systems function and control in terms of physical principles and physiologic mechanisms. Simple mathematical models representing key aspects of organ systems function. Emphasis will be given to understanding the ways in which dysfunction in these systems gives rise to common human disease processes. Open to freshmen. N Maurice Smith Sujata K Bhatia fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Guided reading and research. Normally open to candidates accepted for work on a specific topic by a member of the teaching staff of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Normally may not be taken for more than two terms; may be counted for concentration in Engineering Sciences if taken for graded credit. Applicants should file a project sheet before study cards are filed. Project sheets may be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110. Y Evelyn Hu Evelyn Hu spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 96 Engineering Problem Solving and Design Project Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 40 Semester-long team project that provides engineering experience working with clients on real-world problems. Projects provide exposure to problem definition, performance measurement, quantitative analysis, modeling, generation of creative solutions, engineering design trade-offs, and documentation/communication skills. Ordinarily taken in the spring term of the junior year. Preference given to SB candidates. Y Woodward Yang Kevin Kit Parker David Mooney Fawwaz Habbal full year Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 100 hf Engineering Design Projects Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Individual design projects, with multiple realistic constraints, selected to provide experience in the processes and practice of engineering design. Requires proficiency in electronic circuit construction, mechanical fabrication techniques, or software engineering. Students will develop a solution to an open-ended engineering problem which will be demonstrated at the end of the course. *Engineering Sciences 96. Ordinarily taken in the senior year. Enrolled students are required to file a proposed project form with the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110, early in the term. Project approval rests with the faculty Engineering Design Review Board. Y Robert J. Wood Robert J. Wood fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 100 Engineering Design Projects Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Individual design projects, with multiple realistic constraints, selected to provide experience in the processes and practice of engineering design. Requires proficiency in electronic circuit construction, mechanical fabrication techniques, or software engineering. Students will develop a solution to an open-ended engineering problem which will be demonstrated at the end of the course. *Engineering Sciences 96. Ordinarily taken in the senior year. This one-term version of Engineering Sciences 100hf is open only to students in special circumstances. Enrolled students are required to file a proposed project form with the Student Affairs Office, Pierce 110, early in the term. Project approval rests with the faculty Engineering Design Review Board. Y Robert J. Wood Robert J. Wood spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 103 Spatial Analysis of Environmental and Social Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces the fundamental statistical and mapping tools needed for analysis of environmental systems. Topics will be linked by environmental and social themes and will include GIS concepts; data models; spatial statistics; density mapping; buffer zone analysis; surface estimation; map algebra; suitability modeling. Students will acquire technical skills in both mapping and spatial analysis. Software packages used will include ArcGis. There will be guest lectures by researchers and practitioners who use GIS for spatial analysis. Applied Mathematics 21 or equivalent. N Sumeeta Srinivasan fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 110 Science, Engineering, and the Community Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Activity-based course for beginning/intermediate science and engineering undergraduates. Combines readings and discussions on techniques for learning science and engineering design with implementation in an 8th grade science class in Cambridge. Students work directly with the 8th graders to guide how they learn. Students apply what they discover to improve their own understanding of college-level science and engineering. Interest in science, engineering, learning, and outreach. Offered in alternate years. N Vinothan N Manoharan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 120 Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A first course in the mechanical sciences which introduces elements of continuum mechanics and explains how materials and structures stretch, bend, twist, shake, buckle, and break. Stress-strain behavior of materials. Statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Stress and strain, equations of motion or equilibrium, strain-displacement relations. Torsion. Beam theory with applications to beam deflections, vibrations, and buckling. Three laboratory sessions required. Physics 11a or 15a, and Applied Mathematics 21a or Mathematics 21a (previously) and Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b (previously or concurrently). N Joost J. Vlassak fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 122 Cellular Engineering Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Summary of the physical laws governing cellular homeostasis; role of the tissue microenvironment on cell life, death, and differentiation; control of cellular function and genetic programs by adhesion to substrates; signal transduction pathways and cellular metabolic control; mechanochemical and mechanoelectrical signal transduction; cell motility; clinical and industrial applications of engineered cells. The course will contain a laboratory section that will introduce students to basic cell culture techniques, micropatterning of extracellular matrix, and microfluidics. Students are expected to participate in all lecture and laboratory exercises. Assignments will include a presentation on a cellular engineering topic of their choosing, subject to instructor approval, with handouts, homework, and examination questions. Organic chemistry, cell biology, physics, and mathematics at the level of Applied Mathematics 21 or Mathematics 21. Suggested courses include inorganic chemistry and molecular biology. Y Neel S. Joshi spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 123 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Transport Processes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 48 Dimensional analysis. Basic elements of steady and unsteady thermal conduction and mass diffusion. Statics and dynamics of fluids. Buoyancy-stability and hydrostatics. Laminar viscous flows, potential flows, origin of lift, and basic aspects of boundary layers. Navier-Stokes and continuity equations. Applications in aerodynamics, chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, and physics. Applied Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 21a,b. Y Edward Sun Ahn fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 125 Mechanical Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Modeling and analysis of mechanical and electromechanical systems. Topics include 3D rigid body dynamics, resonance, damping, frequency response, Laplace transform methods, Lagrange's equations, multiple degree-of-fredom systems and an introduction to nonlinear vibration, continuous systems, and control. Analytical modeling will be supplemented with numerical simulations and lab experiments. Laboratory exercises will explore vibration, stabilization, and nonlinear systems using data acquisition systems. Applied Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 23a,b; Physics 11a or 15a. N Katia Bertoldi spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 128 Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to finite element methods for analysis of steady-state and transient problems in solid, structural, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Implementation of simple MATLAB codes and use of existing general-purpose programs (ABAQUS and COMSOL). Engineering Sciences 120 or equivalent introduction to the mechanics of deformable materials and fluids. Engineering Sciences 123 may be taken concurrently. N Katia Bertoldi spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 130 Tissue Engineering Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Fundamental engineering and biological principles underlying field of tissue engineering, along with examples and strategies to engineer specific tissues for clinical use. Students will prepare a paper in the field of tissue engineering, and participate in a weekly laboratory in which they will learn and use methods to fabricate materials and perform 3-D cell culture. Biochemistry or cell biology background. N Debra T. Auguste fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 135 Physics and Chemistry: In the Context of Energy and Climate at the Global and Molecular Level Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 A solution to the problems set by the intersection of global energy demand and climate feedbacks requires the teaching of physics and chemistry in that context. Core topics include thermodynamics, free energy, entropy, acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions, electrochemistry, electromagnetic induction, circuit theory, AC and DC circuits, the nature of photons and of electromagnetic radiation, photochemistry, materials, catalysis, kinetics, molecular bonding, and biological processes for energy conversion and storage. Physical Sciences 1 or permission of instructor. N James G. Anderson fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 139 Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores factors and conditions contributing to innovation in science and engineering; how important problems are found, defined, and solved; roles of teamwork and creativity; and applications of these methods to other endeavors. Students receive practical and professional training in techniques to define and solve problems, and in brainstorming and other individual and team approaches. Taught through a combination of lectures, discussions, and exercises led by innovators in science, engineering, arts, and business. N David A. Weitz fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 145 Physiological Systems Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of systems theory with applications from bioengineering and physiology. Analysis: differential equations, linear and nonlinear systems, stability, the complementary nature of time and frequency domain methods, feedback, and biological oscillations. Applications: nerve function, muscle dynamics, cardiovascular regulation. Laboratory: neural models, feedback control systems, properties of muscle, cardiovascular function. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b or equivalent. Physiology at the level of Engineering Sciences 53 suggested. N Daniel M Merfeld spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 149 Neural Control of Movement Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Maurice A. Smith Approaches from robotics, control theory, and neuroscience for understanding biological motor systems. Analytical and computational modeling of muscles, reflex arcs, and neural systems that contribute to motor control in the brain. Focus on understanding how the central nervous system plans and controls voluntary movement of the eyes and limbs. Learning and memory; effects of variability and noise on optimal motor planning and control in biological systems. Mathematics 21b or Applied Mathematics 21b or equivalent, probability and statistics, Physics 11a or equivalent. Offered in alternate years. N Maurice Smith spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 150 Introduction to Probability with Engineering Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces students to probability theory and statistics, and their applications in communications, signal processing, networking and computer engineering. Topics include: random variables, distributions and densities, conditional expectations, Bayes' rules, laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, Markov chains, Bayesian statistical inferences and parameter estimations. The goal of this course is to prepare students with adequate knowledge of probability theory and statistical methods, which will be useful in the study of several advanced undergraduate/graduate courses (e.g. digital communications, signal processing, control theory, detection and estimation, information theory, communication networks) and in formulating and solving practical engineering problems. Mathematics 21a or Applied Mathematics 21a, and Mathematics 21b or Applied Mathematics 21b. N Yue Lu spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 151 Applied Electromagnetism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Electromagnetism and its applications in science and technology. Topics: Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic waves (e.g., light, microwaves, etc.); wave propagation through media discontinuity; transmission lines, waveguides, and microwave circuits; radiation and antennae; interactions between electromagnetic fields and matters; optics of solids; optical devices; origin of colors; interference and diffraction; lasers and masers; nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI; radio astronomy; wireless networking; plasmonic wave (charge density wave). Basic electromagnetism (Physics 11b or 15b or equivalent), basic vector calculus (Applied Math 21a or equivalent), basic differential equations (Applied Math 21b or equivalent) and familiarity with Fourier analysis (Applied Math 21b or equivalent). N Donhee Ham fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 154 Electronic Devices and Circuits Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Design of electronic circuits (including integrated circuits) using semiconductor transistors. Topics: the physics of electrical conduction; the physics of semiconductors; bipolar transistors; field effect transistors; single- and multi-stage amplifiers; operational amplifiers; frequency responses and stability; feedback circuits; the physics of noise; self-sustained oscillators; phase-locked loops. Familiarity with differential equations and Fourier analysis (Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b), familiarity with basic electricity (Physics 11b or 15b). N Donhee Ham spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 156 Signals and Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Time and frequency domain representations and analysis of signals and systems. Convolution and linear input-output systems in continuous and discrete time. Fourier transforms and Fourier series for continuous- and discrete-time signals. Laplace and Z transforms. Analog and digital filtering. Modulation. Sampling. FFT. Applications in circuit analysis, communication, control, and computing. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b. N Robert J. Wood spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 159 Introduction to Robotics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 1-2:30 Robert J. Wood Introduction to computer-controlled robotic manipulators. Topics include coordinate frames and transformations, kinematic structure and solutions, statics and dynamics of serial and parallel chain manipulators, control and programming, introduction to path planning, introduction to teleoperation, robot design, and actuation and sensing devices. Laboratory exercises provide experience with industrial robot programming and robot simulation and control. Computer Science 50, and either Engineering Sciences 125 or 156. N Robert J. Wood spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 162 Hydrology and Environmental Geomechanics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Study of water as a critical resource and as a factor in Earth surface and near-surface processes. Focus on development of relevant mechanics and physics. Hydrologic cycle, surface and groundwater, evapotranspiration, soil physics. Flow in porous media, Darcy law, contaminant transport, remediation strategies. Poroelasticity, subsidence, well hydraulics. Seepage forces, landslides, dam failures, sediment liquefaction. Glacial processes. Stream flows, turbulence concepts. Gravity waves, flood control; tsunamis; erosion and sediment transport. Applied Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 21a,b and Physics 11a,b or 15a,b. N James R. Rice fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 164 Soil and Environmental Chemistry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Basic concepts, principles, and applications of environmental chemistry for students in Earth and environmental sciences. We will investigate a variety of environmental chemistry topics relevant for soil environmental systems, including soil mineralogy, water chemistry, redox reactions, precipitation/dissolution, and ion sorption. The principal goal is to explore and apply the fundamental chemical principles to understand Earth processes and solve complex environmental problems. Physical Sciences 1 or permission of the instructor. Cannot be taken for credit by students who have already taken ENG-SCI 264. N Colleen Hansel Scot T. Martin fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 165 Water Engineering Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces engineering technologies for the control of the environment and relates them to underlying scientific principles. Efficient design of environmental management facilities and systems. Cases from aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments discussed. Exposure to the material in Applied Mathematics 21a or 21b or equivalent. For undergraduates or graduates without background in environmental engineering. N Chad D. Vecitis Anas Chalah Colleen Hansel spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 173 Introduction to Electronic and Photonic Devices Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will focus on physical principles underlying semiconductor devices: electrons and holes in semiconductors , energies and bandgaps, transport properties of electrons and holes, p-n junctions, transistors, light emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells and thermoelectric devices. Physics 11a and b, or Physics 15a and b or equivalent (mechanics; electromagnetism); undergraduate level quantum mechanics. N Evelyn Hu spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 174 Photonic and Electronic Device Laboratory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Physics and fabrication of photonic and electronic devices. Laboratory experiments and lectures on semiconductor lasers, photodetectors and optical fibers. Students use cleanroom to fabricate MOSFETs. Fabrication lectures on lithography, deposition, etching, oxidation, implantation, diffusion and electrical characterization. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students wishing to gain fabrication experience. Physics 11a and Physics 11b; or Physics 15a and 15b. N Kenneth B. Crozier fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 176 Introduction to MicroElectroMechanical System Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 This course introduces student to the rapidly emerging, multi-disciplinary and exciting field of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). It teaches fundamentals of micro machining and Micro fabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithography and soft-lithography techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and surface, bulk, and electroplating micro machining technologies. Physics 11a,b or 15a,b; College Chemistry at the level of Life Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1. Y Fawwaz Habbal Anas Chalah fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 181 Engineering Thermodynamics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to engineering thermodynamics with emphasis on classical thermodynamics. Topics: zeroth law and temperature. Properties of single-component gases, liquids, and solids; steam tables. Equations of state for ideal and simple nonideal substances. First law, heat and heat transfer, work, internal energy, enthalpy. Second law, entropy, free energy. Third law. Heat engines and important engineering applications such as refrigerators, power cycles. Properties and simple models of solutions. Phase and chemical equilibrium in multicomponent systems; chemical potential. Laboratory included. Physics 11 or 15 and Applied Mathematics or Mathematics 21; chemistry at the level of a good secondary school course or Chemistry 5. N Zhigang Suo fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 190 Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the structure, properties, and applications of materials. Crystal structure and defects. Phase transformations: phase diagrams, diffusion, nucleation and growth. Mechanisms of deformation and fracture. Effect of microstructure on properties. Examples from a variety of engineering applications will be discussed. Physics 11 or 15, and Applied Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 21a,b. N Shriram Ramanathan spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 201 Decision Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Mathematical analysis of decision making. Bayesian inference and risk. Maximum likelihood and nonparametric methods. Algorithmic methods for decision rules: perceptrons, neural nets, and back propagation. Hidden Markov models, Blum-Welch, principal and independent components. Applied Mathematics 21a,b or Mathematics 21a,b, and Statistics 110 or equivalents. N Navin Khaneja fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 202 Estimation and Control of Dynamic Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Study of dynamical systems with deterministic and stochastic inputs. Controllability and observability, linear quadratic control, dynamic programming and the Pontryagin maximum principle, Stochastic models and Kalman-Bucy filtering. Applications from engineering and economics. Linear differential equations, matrix algebra, and introductory probability as covered in Mathematics 21a, b and Engineering Sciences 150 or equivalents. N Navin Khaneja spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 203 Stochastic Control Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the theory of stochastic differential equations based on Wiener processes and Poisson counters, and an introduction to random fields. The formulation and solution of problems in nonlinear estimation theory. The Kalman-Bucy filter and nonlinear analogues. Identification theory. Adaptive systems. Applications. Applied Mathematics 104 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105a), Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b), or equivalent. Some prior exposure to probability; Engineering Sciences 202 desirable but not essential. N fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 207 Communicating Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Climate change, health insurance reform, space exploration, the teaching of science and a host of other issues - today Americans confront more and more important public debates in which the argument hangs on technical issues. On the whole, however, they have difficulty dealing with these issues, in large part because the scientists and engineers who could help them are missing from the debate. This course is designed for graduate students in engineering and the biological and physical sciences who are interested in learning how to engage with the public on these and other issues. It also offers useful guidance on how to explain their own work - writing, speaking and online - intelligently and intelligibly. Y Cornelia Dean fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 209 Nonlinear Control Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Study of nonlinear input-output systems including controllability, observability, uniqueness of models, stability, and qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. Differential geometry and Lie theory methods developed to study control of classical and quantum mechanical systems. N Roger W. Brockett fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 210 Mathematical Programming Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to basic optimization techniques. Linear programming: the simplex method and related algorithms, duality theory, interior-point methods. Unconstrained optimization, nonlinear programming, convexity. Applied Mathematics 104 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105a) and Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b); Applied Mathematics 120 or Mathematics 121, would be helpful, but not required. Expected to be omitted in 2012-2013. N Donald G.M. Anderson fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 211 Cardiac Biophysics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An in depth review of contemporary theories in the physics of the heart. The class begins with an overview of cardiac physiology, including an in depth examination of cardiac excitation and excitation-contraction coupling. Cardiac membrane channels, the action potential (Hodgkin-Huxley and Luo-Rudy models), and action potential propagation (cable and bidomain models). Arrhythmias, drugs, and defibrillation. The class will rely heavily on the current literature in the field. Electromagnetic fields, calculus, cell biology, physiology, and MATLAB programming experience is helpful, but not necessary. Y Kevin Kit Parker fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 212 Quantitative Cell Biology: Self-Organization and Cellular Architecture Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Cell biology - from foundations to current research topics. Intended for students without cell/molecular biology training. Cell architecture, molecular and phenomenological aspects, signaling, organelle form/function, trafficking, quantitative experimental techniques, models of cellular organization and dynamics. N Daniel Needleman fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 220 Fluid Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuum mechanics fundamentals for fluids; conservation of mass and momentum, thermodynamics; stress, kinematics, and constitutive equations; vector and tensor calculus as required. Dimensional analysis and scaling, drag forces, Reynolds number. Navier-Stokes equations, solutions for simple flow states. Low Reynolds number flows; seepage; electroosmosis; lubrication theory. Euler inviscid equations, Kelvin circulation theorem and Bernoulli integrals; gravity waves, effective mass, depth-averaged flow models, large scale Coriolis effects. Compressible fluids and shock waves. Airfoil theory, conformal maps. Boundary layer concepts. Flow instabilities including thermal convection. Turbulence and shear resistance in wall-bounded flows. Familiarity with dynamics, vectors, multivariable calculus, and partial differential equations. An undergraduate course in fluid dynamics or other continuum mechanics is strongly recommended. N James R. Rice spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 221 Drug Delivery Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 30 M., W., 2:30-4 Debra T. Auguste Methods to deliver molecules to the human body. Physiological obstacles and engineering solutions. Characterization techniques for drug delivery synthesis and in vitro analysis. Case studies of current pharmaceutical products. Mathematics 21a,b or Applied Mathematics 21a,b, and Chemistry 5 or Life Sciences 1a. Y Debra T. Auguste fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 222 Advanced Cellular Engineering Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Summary of the physical laws governing cellular homeostasis; role of the tissue microenvironment on cell life, death, and differentiation; control of cellular function and genetic programs by adhesion to substrates; signal transduction pathways and cellular metabolic control; mechanochemical and mechanoelectrical signal transduction; cell motility; clinical and industrial applications of engineered cells. The course will contain a laboratory section that will introduce students to basic cell culture techniques, micropatterning of extracellular matrix, and microfluidics. Students are expected to participate in all lecture and laboratory exercises. Assignments will include a presentation on a cellular engineering topic of their choosing, subject to instructor approval, with handouts, homework, and examination questions. Final projects will be based on either the completion of an original laboratory experiment or an NIH-style proposal of original research. Undergraduates may enroll in this course with approval from the instructor. Organic chemistry, cell biology, physics, and mathematics at the level of Applied Mathematics 21 or Mathematics 21. Suggested courses include inorganic chemistry and molecular biology. Y Neel S. Joshi spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 224 Laboratory in Engineering and Physical Biology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course A project-oriented laboratory course which will integrate genetic, molecular, biochemical and cytological approaches from the life sciences with optical, magnetic and mechanical approaches from the physical sciences. Interesting and original experiments will be organized around a common theme which, this year, will be "Biomechanics of E. coli." Intended primarily for first year graduate students in the EPB PhD track but available to other graduate students and advanced undergraduates as space and resources permit. N Nancy Kleckner spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 226 r Special Topics in Neural Engineering: Learning and Memory in Neural Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Course will present classical findings and new research that give insight into mechanisms of learning and memory formation in neural systems. Learning and memory will be studied both as neurobiological phenomena and as computational challenges. Applied Mathematics 105a and 105b, probability and statistics. Offered in alternate years. N Maurice Smith spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 227 Medical Device Design Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 Project-based course on the design of medical devices to address needs identified by hospital-based clinicians. Students work in teams with physicians to develop a novel device. The design process includes: needs finding; problem identification; prior art searches; strategy and concept generation; estimation; sketching; sketch modeling; machine elements, ergonomics and prototyping. ES 51, ES 96 or machine design experience. Graduate course, but open to qualified junior and senior undergraduates. Y Dr Conor J Walsh spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 228 Biomaterials Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Overview of materials for biomedical devices and therapies. Polysaccharide- and protein-based polymers as building blocks. Biological templating of inorganic structures. Emerging frontiers in protein and DNA self-assembly. Molecular scale origin of materials properties for naturally occurring biological materials and the use of this information to rationally design new biomaterials for specific applications. Organic chemistry (1 semester), Molecular biology, Physics at the level of Physics 11a,b. Mathematics at the level of Applied Math 21 or Mathematics 21. N Neel S. Joshi spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 230 Advanced Tissue Engineering Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamental engineering and biological principles underlying field of tissue engineering, along with examples and strategies to engineer specific tissues for clinical use. Student design teams prepare a research proposal and participate in a weekly laboratory. Biochemistry or cell biology background. N David Mooney spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 231 Energy Technology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 35 Principles governing energy generation and interconversion. Current and projected world energy use. Selected important current and anticipated future technologies for energy generation, interconversion, storage, and end usage. One semester of calculus based college physics and familiarity with chemistry at the high school advanced placement level. Y Michael J. Aziz fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 232 Understanding Manufacturing Technology and Industry Evolution: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate seminar on historical evolution of steel, semiconductor, and auto industries and to explore relationships between manufacturing processes, technological innovations, and industry structure. Group project to analyze another major industry. Undergraduate level background in Physics, Chemistry, and/or Engineering and in Economics. Open to undergraduates by permission of instructor. N Woodward Yang fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 233 Health Care Computer-Assisted Innovations Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course provides a hands-on approach to work at the intersection of technology, business, and health care. Students will work in teams to prepare a business plan and working prototype of a device or IT application in the domain of health care. Offered jointly with the Business School as 6180. Y Margo I. Seltzer fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 239 Advanced Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course Conference Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Students are expected to meet all the requirements of Engineering Sciences 139 and in addition are required to prepare an individual term project with significant analytic emphasis in an area of scientific or technological innovation. N David A. Weitz fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 240 Solid Mechanics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Foundations of continuum mechanics, development of elasticity theory, and introduction to plasticity and creep. Elastic waves. Basic elasticity solutions. Variational principles. Applied Mathematics 105 (formerly Applied Mathematics 105b) or equivalent; introduction to solid mechanics at the level of Engineering Sciences 120, or Earth and Planetary Sciences 108 or 166, or Applied Physics 293. N Joost J. Vlassak spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 241 Advanced Elasticity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Zhigang Suo Finite deformation; instabilities; thermodynamics;thermoelasticity; poroelasticity; electroactive polymers, hydrogels, polyelectrolyte gels Engineering Sciences 240 and Applied Mathematics 201 or equivalents. Offered in alternate years. N Zhigang Suo spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 242 r Solid Mechanics: Advanced Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic: Beams, Plates and Shells. Equations governing the linear and nonlinear behavior of these structures will be derived and investigations will be made of how these structures deform, vibrate and buckle. Engineering Sciences 240 or equivalent. N John W. Hutchinson fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 246 Plasticity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Phenomenological theories for strain hardening materials; flow and deformation theories. Variational principles and other general theorems. Mechanisms of plastic deformation, physical theories for strain hardening materials, and polycrystals. Ideal plasticity. Boundary value problems, plastic collapse, buckling of structures. Engineering Sciences 240, or equivalent. N Joost J. Vlassak spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 247 Fracture Mechanics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamentals of fracture with applications in materials and structural mechanics. Micromechanics of fracture in ceramics, metals, and polymers. Fracture of composite materials. Interfacial fracture mechanics. Fatigue crack propagation. Engineering Sciences 240 or equivalent. N Michael P. Brenner spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 249 Advanced Neural Control of Movement Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Maurice A. Smith Students expected to meet all of the requirements of Engineering Sciences 149 and in addition to submit a term project with significant analytic content. Mathematics 21b or Applied Mathematics 21b or equivalent, probability and statistics, Physics 11a or equivalent. Offered in alternate years. N Maurice Smith fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 250 Information Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamental concepts of information theory and applications to signal processing, communications, statistics. Entropy, differential entropy, mutual information; data compression and rate distortion theory; channel capacity, coding, the Gaussian channel. Contemporary research topics as time permits. Probability theory in Engineering Sciences 150, Statistics 110, or equivalent; or permission of instructor. N Patrick J. Wolfe spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 251 r Advanced Topics in Inference, Information, and Statistical Signal Processing Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced machine learning, from the unifying perspective of inference and regularization. Statistical learning theory, kernel methods; connections to information theory and data compression. Model fitting and stochastic computation for high-dimensional and non-Euclidean data. Background equivalent to Computer Science 228, 281, or Engineering Sciences 201, or permission of instructor. Equal emphasis on theory, algorithms, and applications. N Patrick J. Wolfe fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 252 Micro/Nano Robotics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Motivations and methods for the development of robotic devices on the micro and nano scale. Topics include sensors, actuators, fabrication paradigms, and the physics of scaling. Examples from surgical robotics, mobile microrobots, and micro/nano manipulation. N Robert J. Wood fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 255 Detection and Estimation Theory and Applications Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Statistical decision theory; hypothesis testing; linear and non-linear estimation; maximum likelihood and Bayes approaches; stochastic processes and systems; signal detection and estimation in noise; Wiener and Kalman filtering; applications to physical, chemical, and biological systems. Knowledge of probability theory and calculus. N Yue Lu spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 259 Advanced Introduction to Robotics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 1-2:30 Robert J. Wood Course requirements are similar to Engineering Sciences 159, with the exception that students enrolled in Engineering Sciences 259 are required to prepare a term project analyzing current research in a specific problem area within Robotics. Computer Science 50 and either Engineering Sciences 125 or 156. N Robert J. Wood fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 261 Design of Water Resource Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Design of evaluation and management systems for water resources. Uses techniques of operations research for planning integrated water resources systems. Applications to water supply, irrigation hydropower, environmental protection, and conservation of wildlife. Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b or equivalent. Offered in alternate years. N Peter P. Rogers spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 263 Microbial Geochemistry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course explores advanced concepts in microbe-metal-mineral interactions. Topics include microbial metabolism, bioenergetics, biomineralization, energy generation, and pollutant degradation, discussed within the context of Earth systems and environmental remediation. Knowledge of undergraduate level chemistry and microbiology required (minimum of Life Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1or equivalent courses) or permission of instructor. Offered in alternate years. N Colleen Hansel spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 264 Advanced Aqueous and Environmental Chemistry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Content and requirements are similar to ES 164, with the exception that students enrolled in ES 264 are assigned more demanding problem sets and are required to prepare a term project or presentation in applied environmental chemistry. Physical Sciences 1 or permission of the instructors. Cannot be taken for credit by students who have already taken ENG-SCI 164. N Colleen Hansel spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 265 Advanced Water Treatment Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced Water Treatment will give students detailed instruction in emerging technologies for municipal wastewater treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, wastewater reclamation and reuse, desalination, and groundwater remediation. The course will begin by introducing wastewater quality, effluent water quality endpoints, and conventional treatment methodologies. The theoretical focus of the course will be on the fundamental biology, chemistry, and physics of processes including nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, membrane bioreactors, denitrification and phosphate removal, ozonolysis, UV photolysis, photocatalysis, and sonolysis. We will also discuss wastewater-to-energy processes including microbial fuel cells, anaerobic digestion, and electrochemical waste-to-hydrogen. Engineering Sciences 165 N Chad D. Vecitis fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 267 Aerosol Science and Technology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Physics and chemistry of aerosol particles. Concepts: size, shape, and density; number size distributions; uniform, accelerated, and Brownian motion; electrical properties; measurement instrumentation; condensation/evaporation; coagulation; and optical properties. Taught by reference to topical problems. Offered in alternate years. N Scot T. Martin fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 268 Chemical Kinetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Time rate of change of chemical species. Rate constants. Formulating a coupled chemical system. Numerical analysis of complex systems. Offered in alternate years. N Scot T. Martin spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 269 Environmental Nanotechnology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduces students to the environmental aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. We will study the fundamental physical chemical properties, characterization, environmental implications, and environmental applications of nanoparticles and nanomaterials. Case studies from recent publications on engineered carbon nanomaterials such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene will be discussed. College-level chemistry course or equivalent and Physical Sciences 1 or equivalent. N Chad D. Vecitis fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 271 r Topics in Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar course that reviews research and development of various topics in integrated circuits and systems for low-power and/or high-performance computing. Computer Science 148 or equivalent, and Computer Science 146 or equivalent, or with permission of instructor. N Gu-Yeon Wei David Brooks spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 272 RF and High-Speed Integrated Circuits Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Design of RF and high speed integrated communication circuits at both transistor and system levels. Solid-state devices and analog circuits (Engineering Sciences 154 or equivalent), basic electromagnetism (Physics 11b or 15b or some part of Engineering Sciences 151 or equivalent), basic differential equations (Applied Mathematics 21b or equivalent), and Fourier analysis (some part of Applied Mathematics 105a or Engineering Sciences 156 or equivalent). N Donhee Ham fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 273 Optics and Photonics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics include: review of electromagnetism, negative index materials, optical beams and free-space optics, guided wave optics (including optical fiber), optical resonators, perturbation and couple mode theory, transfer matrix methods, periodic optical structures, plasmons, nonlinear optics. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. N Marko Loncar spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 274 Quantum Technology I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers concepts of device physics, including semiconductors, photonic devices, related quantum concepts. Seminconductor heterostructures: band structure engineering. Quantum wells, superlattices; resonant tunneling; Stark effect. Diode lasers; quantum well lasers, modulators and detectors; quantum cascade lasers. Undergraduate level quantum mechanics such as Physics 143a or equivalent. N Federico Capasso fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 275 Nanophotonics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Recent developments in micro- and nano-photonic materials, devices and microscopy. Computational electromagnetics. Photonic crystals. Optical properties of metal nanostructures. Optical forces. Scanning near-field optical microscopy. Term-long research project. Electromagnetism (Physics 11b or 15b or Engineering Sciences 151 or equivalent). Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. N Kenneth B. Crozier fall term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 276 Introduction to MicroElectroMechanical System Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 25 This course introduces student to the rapidly emerging, multi-disciplinary and exciting field of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). It teaches fundamentals of micro machining and Micro fabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithography and soft-lithography techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and surface, bulk, and electroplating micro machining technologies. Physics 11a,b or 15a,b; College Chemistry at the level of Life Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1. Y Fawwaz Habbal Anas Chalah spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 298 r Quantum Electronics and Photonics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is designed for engineers who are interested to learn applied quantum mechanics to study quantum behavior of electron, photon and their interaction. The course content is a mix of topics usually covered in more conventional courses such as quantum electronics and quantum optics to invite a wide range of audiences who are working on areas such as optoelectronics, quantum photonics, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, spintronics, and in general quantum devices and systems. The course emphasizes on the fundamental concepts and engineering applications without a need for previous exposure to quantum mechanics. Examples and problems are designed to address the applications of the course contents to real problems. N Amirhamed Majedi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 299 r Special Topics in Engineering Sciences Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervision of experimental or theoretical research on acceptable engineering and applied science problems and supervision of reading on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Open to graduate students and AB/SM candidates only. Students must arrange such work with a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This course is graded and is ordinarily taken with the approval of the Committee on Higher Degrees. Applicants must file a project sheet before study cards are filed. Project sheets may be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Pierce Hall 110. N Gu-Yeon Wei Gu-Yeon Wei fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 301 Nanophotonics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Kenneth B. Crozier Kenneth B. Crozier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 302 Nanophotonics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kenneth B. Crozier Kenneth B. Crozier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 303 Topics in Electronic Materials and Semiconductor Heterostructure Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Narayanamurti Venkatesh Narayanamurti fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 304 Topics in Electronic Materials and Semiconductor Heterostructure Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Narayanamurti Venkatesh Narayanamurti fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 307 Control Theory, Robotics, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Machines Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Roger W. Brockett Roger W. Brockett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 308 Control Theory, Robotics, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Machines Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roger W. Brockett Roger W. Brockett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 309 Design, Sensing, and Control Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Robert D. Howe Robert D. Howe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 310 Design, Sensing, and Control Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert D. Howe Robert D. Howe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 311 Systems and Control, Quantum Information and Quantum Control, Computational Vision, Image Analysis and Understanding Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Navin Khaneja Navin Khaneja fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 313 Image Processing and Computer Vision Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Todd Zickler Todd Zickler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 314 Image Processing and Computer Vision Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Todd Zickler Todd Zickler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 315 Wireless Computing and Networking Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y H.T. Kung H.T. Kung fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 316 Wireless Computing and Networking Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y H.T. Kung H.T. Kung fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 319 Microrobotics and Bio-inspired Autonomous Robotic Systems Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Robert J. Wood Robert J. Wood fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 320 Microrobotics and Bio-inspired Autonomous Robotic Systems Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert J. Wood Robert J. Wood fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 323 Statistical Signal Processing Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Patrick J. Wolfe Patrick J. Wolfe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 324 Statistical Signal Processing Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Patrick J. Wolfe Patrick J. Wolfe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 325 Mixed-Signal VLSI Design Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Gu-Yeon Wei Gu-Yeon Wei fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 326 Mixed-Signal VLSI Design Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gu-Yeon Wei Gu-Yeon Wei fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 327 Circuit Design and Scientific Instrumentation Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Paul Horowitz Paul Horowitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 328 Circuit Design and Scientific Instrumentation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paul Horowitz Paul Horowitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 330 Wireless Communication and Networking Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Vahid Tarokh Vahid Tarokh fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 331 RF/Microwave/Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits and Ultrafast Electronics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Donhee Ham Donhee Ham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 332 RF/Microwave/Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits and Ultrafast Electronics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donhee Ham Donhee Ham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 333 Mechanics and Materials in Small Structures Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Zhigang Suo Zhigang Suo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 334 Mechanics and Materials in Small Structures Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Zhigang Suo Zhigang Suo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 335 Mechanics of Engineering Materials and Small Devices Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Joost J. Vlassak Joost J. Vlassak fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 336 Mechanics of Engineering Materials and Small Devices Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joost J. Vlassak Joost J. Vlassak fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 337 Mechanics of Solids and Fluids: Earthquake Seismology and Environmental Geomechanics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 338 Mechanics of Solids and Fluids: Earthquake Seismology and Environmental Geomechanics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Rice James R. Rice fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 343 Deformation and Fracture of Materials Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y John W. Hutchinson John W. Hutchinson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 344 Deformation and Fracture of Materials Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John W. Hutchinson John W. Hutchinson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 345 Neural Control of Movement Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Maurice Smith Maurice Smith fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 346 Neural Control of Movement Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Maurice Smith Maurice Smith fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 349 Materials Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Roy G. Gordon Roy G. Gordon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 350 Materials Science Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roy G. Gordon Roy G. Gordon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 351 Engineering Mammalian Cell Phenotype Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David Mooney David Mooney fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 352 Engineering Mammalian Cell Phenotype Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Mooney David Mooney fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 353 Cellular Biophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Kevin Kit Parker Kevin Kit Parker fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 354 Cellular Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kevin Kit Parker Kevin Kit Parker fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 357 Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Steven C. Wofsy Steven C. Wofsy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 358 Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Steven C. Wofsy Steven C. Wofsy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 359 Stratospheric Chemistry and Transport Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Steven C. Wofsy Steven C. Wofsy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 360 Stratospheric Chemistry and Transport Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Steven C. Wofsy Steven C. Wofsy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 361 Atmospheric Chemistry Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel J. Jacob Daniel J. Jacob fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 362 Atmospheric Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel J. Jacob Daniel J. Jacob fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 363 Dynamic Meterology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Brian F. Farrell Brian F. Farrell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 364 Dynamic Meterology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian F. Farrell Brian F. Farrell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 365 Topics in Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Zhiming Kuang Zhiming Kuang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 366 Topics in Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Zhiming Kuang Zhiming Kuang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 367 Environmental Science Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Michael B. McElroy Michael B. McElroy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 369 Urban and Regional Systems Analysis Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Peter P. Rogers Peter P. Rogers fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 370 Urban and Regional Systems Analysis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter P. Rogers Peter P. Rogers fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 371 Environmental Microbiology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Colleen Hansel Colleen Hansel fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 375 Environmental Biology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Ralph Mitchell Ralph Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 376 Environmental Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ralph Mitchell Ralph Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 377 Transport Phenomena and Biomaterials for Drug Delivery Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Edwards David A. Edwards fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 378 Transport Phenomena and Biomaterials for Drug Delivery Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Edwards David A. Edwards fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 379 Biomaterials Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Debra T. Auguste Debra T. Auguste fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 380 Biomaterials Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Debra T. Auguste Debra T. Auguste fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 390 Environmental Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Scot T. Martin Scot T. Martin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 393 Microelectronics and VLSI Systems Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Woodward Yang Woodward Yang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 394 Microelectronics and VLSI Systems Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Woodward Yang Woodward Yang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 395 Nanoscale Optics, NEMS and Nanofabrication Technology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Marko Loncar Marko Loncar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 396 Nanoscale Optics, NEMS and Nanofabrication Technology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marko Loncar Marko Loncar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 397 Multidimensional Signal Processing, Sensor Networks, and Computational Imaging Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Yue Lu Yue Lu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Sciences 398 Multidimensional Signal Processing, Sensor Networks, and Computational Imaging Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yue Lu Yue Lu spring term Department of English English English Calr Dramatic Screenwriting II Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course will build up writing muscles of students seriously interested in screenwriting. Students will write and re-write scenes; alter and develop characters; solve story problems; re-write dialogue; give and receive pitches; do film analysis; workshop written materials; perform exercises related to the actual work done by professional screenwriters. By the end of the course students will have completed several short film scripts and the first act of an original feature length script. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Daniel J. Rubin spring term Department of English English English Camr Advanced Playwriting: Production Workshop Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This workshop-based course is for advanced playwrights who have already completed a full -length or one-act play. Students will write a new play, developed through several drafts in a collaborative process that models professional practice. Each student will be paired with a director, actors, and a graduate dramaturge from the Advanced Institute of Theatre Training (I.A.T.T.), culminating in rehearsed public readings of the plays as part of the annual Harvard Playwrights' Festival. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Christine Mary Evans spring term Department of English English English Capr Poetry Workshop Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Please submit a portfolio including a letter of interest, ten poems, and a list of classes (taken at Harvard or elsewhere) that seem to have bearing on your enterprise. Class lasts 3 hours and includes the study of poetic practice in conjunction with the discussion of student work. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Jorie Graham fall term Department of English English English Casr Playwriting: Adaptation for the Stage Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This workshop-based course introduces students to art of literary adaptation for the stage. Students will adapt a literary, historical or fact-based work for performance, in the context of wide-ranging reading and discussion of the theory and practice of adaptation and the specific requirements of both literary and dramatic genres. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Christine Mary Evans fall term Department of English English English Cbbr Poetry Workshop Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Poetry workshop open by application to undergraduates and graduates. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Lucie Brock-Broido fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Chcr Poetry Workshop Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Poetry workshop open by application to undergraduates and graduates. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Henri Cole Henri Cole fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Ckr Introduction to Playwriting Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Plays, unusual beasts in the world of writing, are design templates for live performance. This workshop based course introduces students to a range of structural and aesthetic approaches to playwriting always with live performance in mind. It combines intensive weekly writing and discussion of student work with play analysis and dramatic theory. All students will complete a one act play and several shorter pieces. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Christine Mary Evans Christine Mary Evans fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Clr Dramatic Screenwriting I Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This workshop introduces the art, craft, and business of screenwriting. Students will complete short scripts and off-beat writing exercises focused on dramatic structure, character development, dialogue, theme, and tone; students will also analyze films and screenplays. By exploring visual storytelling, personal versus commercial sensibilities, and alternative approaches to script creation through the writing of short screenplays, students will acquire the tools, skills, and confidence to create feature film scripts. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Daniel J. Rubin Daniel J. Rubin fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Cnfr Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Whether in essay, memoir or reportage, creative nonfiction employs many of the same literary techniques as fiction: narrative structure, character development, scene-setting, extended dialogue, emphasis on voice and point of view. In addition to workshopping student writing, we discuss examples of the genre by writers such as Virginia Woolf, William Maxwell, Joan Didion, and John McPhee. Assignments include two 10-15 page narratives, an extensive revision, and typed critiques of classmates' work. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Darcy Frey Darcy Frey fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Cnnr Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 In any long-form nonfiction (essay, memoir, travelogue, journalism), there are countless ways of structuring and telling a true story. In this workshop, students examine various techniques for giving nonfiction material dramatic and suspenseful energy: chronology, argument, juxtaposition, retrospection, evolving revelation. In addition to workshopping student writing, we discuss examples of the genre by writers such as Julia Blackburn, Truman Capote, Spalding Gray, and Janet Malcolm. Assignments include two 10-15 page narratives, an extensive revision, and typed critiques of classmates' work. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Darcy Frey Darcy Frey spring term Department of English English English Cpwr Poetry Workshop Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Tu., 1-4 Jorie Graham Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Please submit a portfolio including five poems, a letter explaining your interest in the class, and a list of relevant classes taken at Harvard or elsewhere. Class includes the discussion of literary texts as well as work written by students. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Jorie Graham fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Crr Fiction Writing Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An introduction to fundamental aspects (technical and conceptual) of writing fiction, beginning with short exercises and moving toward the completion and revision of original work. Readings include Munro, Welty, Diaz, Lahiri, and others, and explore how practicing writers negotiate character, narrative structure, setting, voice, etc. Individual reading assignments are also devised on a per project basis. As the term continues, increasing amounts of time are devoted to the discussion of student work. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Bret Anthony Johnston Bret Anthony Johnston spring term Department of English English English Ctr Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Writers will become familiar with more sophisticated aspects (technical and conceptual) of writing fiction, beginning with short exercises and moving toward the completion and revision of original work. Readings include Munro, Welty, Diaz, Lahiri, and others, and we will explore how practicing writers negotiate character, narrative structure, setting, voice, etc. Individual reading assignments are also devised on a per project basis. As the term continues, increasing amounts of time are devoted to the discussion of student work. Students in this course will be expected to revise work often and to a very high standard. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Bret Anthony Johnston fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Cwar Advanced Fiction Workshop Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Members of the advanced fiction workshop will aim to raise their levels of performance on the page, largely through guided revisions and continued reading to see the ways outstanding writers solved similar problems. Two complete stories with revisions are required during the term, as well as weekly critiques of colleagues' work. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Amy Hempel Amy Hempel fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English Cwfr Introductory Fiction Workshop Workshop Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An introduction to the short story with emphasis on amplifying the idea of what a story can be. We will look at a range of contemporary narrative strategies that exploit--in the best sense of the word--voice, character, place, logic, and (always) language. Readings will include Barry Hannah, Tillie Olsen, Leonard Michaels, Mark Richard, Mary Robison, Yasunari Kawabata, and selected poets. Short assignments will aim to strengthen writing at the sentence level, and suggest personal ways into the largest concerns. Students should expect to complete and revise two stories, and be prepared to discuss the work of colleagues each week. Admission based on submitted samples of writing. For information on specific application requirements, please see the English Department's Creative Writing web page. Y Amy Hempel Amy Hempel spring term Department of English English English 40 Arrivals Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 An introduction to major works in English literature from Beowulf through the seventeenth century, the course will explore various ways that new literatures are created in response to cultural forces that shape poets, genres, and group identity. We will hone close reading skills, introduce rhetorical tropes, and develop techniques of critical writing. Y Daniel G. Donoghue fall term Department of English English English 41 Arrivals Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 Across the period 700-1700 the shapes of British culture were absorbed from different centers of Western Europe. These cultural forms are conflicted among themselves, and conflicted across time. This course will delineate the principal cultural forces (e.g. religious, political, social) that shaped England in particular. We will look to the ways in which those vibrant yet opposed forces find expression in the shape, or form, of literary works. Y W. James Simpson fall term Department of English English English 42 Arrivals Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 A study of central genres of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern literature in tandem with the development of ideas of nation and community, with a special emphasis on poetic narratives. Key texts include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and The Pilgrim's Progress. Students will also attend one of two course sections on Thursday afternoons (3-4 or 4-5). Y Nicholas James Watson fall term Department of English English English 50 Poets: Ode, Elegy, Epigram, Fragment, Song Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 Forms, modes, and ways of thinking about lyric poetry and its competitors from the Romantic period up to our own; with examples from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Emily Bronte, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Moore, Ashbery, Armantrout, and Muldoon. Y Stephen Louis Burt spring term Department of English English English 54 Poets: English Romantic Poets Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 Readings in Blake, Baillie, Coleridge, Clare, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others. Lyric and narrative forms. Close aesthetic readings linked to thematic considerations. Social and political contexts. Romanticism as an artistic movement and cultural era. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y James Engell fall term Department of English English English 56 Narrative Poetry Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 This course is a general introduction to reading poetry, with a focus on narrative poetry. We begin with Milton's epic, Paradise Lost, and then turn to eighteenth-century mock epics and verse narratives by Pope and Swift, and work by the Romantics, particularly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. The course will end with Byron's satiric masterstroke, Don Juan, and TS Eliot's toppled epic, The Waste Land. Y Andrew Warren spring term Department of English English English 59 Poets: The American Lyric Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 A study of the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Bishop. Y Helen Vendler spring term Department of English English English 60 Diffusions: Fictions of America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 This course will treat America as it was imagined and re-imagined between the 16th-21st centuries by successive waves of Europeans, Africans and their descendants. The course explores how evolving fictions of America's purpose, changing notions of America's geography and conflicting ideas of American character inform an emerging literary tradition. Readings list likely to include non-fiction by Harriot, Rowlandson, Mather, Franklin, Jacobs; shorter fiction by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville and Stein; novels by Cather, Norris and Morrison. Y Elisa New Joanne van der Woude fall term Department of English English English 63 Diffusions: The Global Bildungsrom Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 27 M., W., at 1 Amanda Claybaugh Established by Goethe at the end of the eighteenth century, the bildungsroman (or novel of education) has since travelled around the world; this course will explore its appearance in Britain, the United States, and Nigeria, focusing on the new forms that the genre takes as it enters these new cultures and interacts with their existing literary traditions. Authors may include: Achebe, Adichie, Dickens, Ellison, Eliot, Emecheta, Ishiguro, Kunkel, Plath, and Roth. Y Amanda Claybaugh fall term Department of English English English 90 ca Set in Motion: Contemporary American Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The urge to move, whether in pursuit of love, truth, or another life, and the potential for escape and transformation are crucial concerns in each of the post-1960 novels and short stories examined in this course. These works reflect a range of styles, from realism to postmodernism, and thematic interests, from war to suburbia, yet they all engage with contemporary anxieties about globalization, consumerism, and environmental destruction by exploring the possibility of going elsewhere. Y Ju Yon Kim spring term Department of English English English 90 dd Dickens: The Early Years: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Dickens published his first literary sketch at the age of 21. By 24, he was famous. Focusing on the first decade of his career, we will examine the journalism, novels, and American travel writings of this preeminent Victorian author. Y Matthew Kaiser spring term Department of English English English 90 ea Interracial Encounters in Contemporary Ethnic American Narratives: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines representations of "interracial encounters" in contemporary U.S. American novels and plays. It explores how these works conceive, question, and reimagine the relationships not only between differently racialized groups, but also between race and nation, individual and community, and art and politics. Topics include competing narratives of indigeneity, migration, and contact; cultural imitations and appropriations; cross-racial performances; and interracial encounters in a transnational context. Y Ju Yon Kim fall term Department of English English English 90 ep The English Epic Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An introduction to the tradition of epic verse in English, focusing on Spenser, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Students will read, write about, and imitate the various poetic forms of these authors. Y Stephen Boyd Hequembourg spring term Department of English English English 90 gt The Age of Johnson: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 will examine the works of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (Johnson's biographer), Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edward Gibbon, Oliver Goldsmith, Frances Burney, Robert Burns, and others. Essays, biography, political and historical writing, poetry, and the novel. Y James Engell fall term Department of English English English 90 hb Four Shakespeare Plays: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This is a survey course of Shakespeare plays. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the Department of English Shakespeares Common Ground requirement. Y Marc Shell spring term Department of English English English 90 hs Satire: Augustan and Modern: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A study of satire in poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Authors covered are Blake, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gay, Voltaire, Orwell, Brecht, Vonnegut, and West. Y Michael Shinagel fall term Department of English English English 90 kb Poems of Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Written a century apart, the poems of Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy create an urgent call and response between earth and under-earth. The poets share metrical virtuosity, compressed lyric forms, the unfolding of personal history within public crisis and transformation, and the recognition that the acuity of sentience - the daily practice of exquisitely precise perceptual acts - is the ethical center of our brief stay above ground. Y Elaine Scarry spring term Department of English English English 90 kw The American Civil War: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Studies in the literature of the American Civil War, from letters, speeches, poetry, and photography to diaries, stories, and novels. We consider aesthetic, historical, and intellectual dimensions and focus in particular on national and section identities; the shift from romanticism to realism; and dilemmas of slavery, race, and freedom. Authors include Melville, Whitman, Douglass, Lincoln, Stowe, Alcott, Twain, Crane, Mary Chesnut, Bierce, and others. Y John Stauffer fall term Department of English English English 90 lm Literature of Mourning: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do you write about what doesn't exist (anymore)? The course considers texts that were prompted by personal or professional grief, looking at how loss both structures and prevents expression. Issues of temporality, permanence, and immortality are central concerns. Students are invited to contribute readings and undertake analyses of mourning, broadly conceived. Texts include Milton's Lycidas, Shakespeare's King Lear, poems by Wordsworth and Keats, Kieslowski's Blue, Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, and Morrison's A Mercy. Y Joanne van der Woude fall term Department of English English English 90 lv Consciousness from Austen to Woolf: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A look at the complex ways in which writers represent their characters' thought in texts by Austen, Flaubert, James, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Giovanni Verga, and Woolf. More broadly, traces the development of stream-of-consciousness, from Austen's incipient mastery of free indirect style, through Flaubert's more sophisticated use of it, to Woolf's full-blown inner monologues, seeing this development as not merely a fact of English and American literature, but as a phenomenon of world literature and an element of our modernity. Y James Wood spring term Department of English English English 90 n Gender, Sex, and Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A study of changing representations of gender roles and sexual relations in literature of the long eighteenth century. We examine questions concerning love and marriage, seduction and consent; property and self-ownership, female friendship, gender and politics, and cross-racial ties. Authors include Behn, Finch, Astell, Congreve, Pope, Defoe, Hawyood, Sarah Scott, Burney, Sheridan, Wollstonecraft, Amelia Opie, and Austen. Y Melissa Ganz fall term Department of English English English 90 pf Poets: Ballads, Sonnets, Literary History, and Poetic Form Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will study a range of ballads and sonnets from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Century. We will explore questions of poetic form and literary history within two of the most enduring yet continuously evolving kinds of poetry in English and in other languages. Y Peter Sacks fall term Department of English English English 90 py The Poetry of W.B. Yeats: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A study of the major poems of W.B. Yeats, emphasizing genre and development. Y Helen Vendler spring term Department of English English English 90 qo T.S. Eliot: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will study the poetry of T.S. Eliot, while also attending to selections of his critical and dramatic writings. Y Peter Sacks spring term Department of English English English 90 qp 20th-Century American Poetry: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 W., 1-3 Peter Sacks This course attends to the work of several American poets whose careers span much of the second half of the 20th century. Poets include Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Randall Jarrell, Adrienne Rich, A. R. Ammons, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and others. Y Peter Sacks spring term Department of English English English 90 sa The Idea of a Theatre: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar explores what theatre has meant, as a medium, throughout history, in any of its many cultural settings. Starting with the ancient Greeks (Oedipus Rex), we will study six major "theatres" and how each represented "the idea of a theatre" in its time and place. Terence's Eunuchus, several cantos from Dante's Purgatorio, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Racine's Andromaque, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Ibsen's Rosmersholm, and O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night provide our focal moments. Y Robert Scanlan spring term Department of English English English 90 sm Renaissance Theatricality: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 English Renaissance drama is filled with meta-theatrical moments: disguises and dissimulation, confidence tricks, ceremonies, masques, and plays-within-the-play. Reading Shakespeare alongside his rivals and peers (Kyd, Marlowe, and Jonson, among others), this seminar examines how early modern theater meditates on the idea of theatricality. We will explore how questions of performance impinge on representations of decorum, desire, revenge, evil, power, and ideology. Plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Hamlet, Othello, and others. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the Department of English Shakespeares Common Ground requirement. Y Suparna Roychoudhury spring term Department of English English English 90 sp Place, space and region: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will look at place, space, region and locality in poetry, nonfiction and prose fiction: how does an author, a book, belong to a region? How does geography turn into literature? Likely authors, among others: Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams, John Edgar Wideman and C. D. Wright. We may look at much earlier literature (e.g. John Donne in London) as well. Y Stephen Louis Burt fall term Department of English English English 90 we David Foster Wallace & Environs: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course looks at the scene of contemporary American fiction via the work of someone whom many--perhaps controversially--have called the writer of his generation: David Foster Wallace. Other writers may include John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Cynthia Ozick, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Aimee Bender, David Markson, Jhumpa Lahiri, or Junot Diaz. Particular attention will be paid to Wallace's Infinite Jest. Y Andrew Warren spring term Department of English English English 90 wm Paradise Lost: World-Making in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar will situate Milton?s great epic at the intersection of two contemporary lines of thinking about ?world-making?: the scientific descriptions of world-origins and theories of poetic creativity. Paradise Lost will be read in the context of Sidney, Puttenham, Galileo, Descartes, the hexameral tradition, and translations of Lucretius. Y Stephen Boyd Hequembourg spring term Department of English English English 90 ww Poetry of the First World War: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An undergraduate seminar examining poetry of the first world war. Y Peter Sacks spring term Department of English English English 90 xa The Contemporary Novel in English: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An introduction to the most important novels of the past decade and to the art of the book review. Novelists are likely to include Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Alan Hollinghurst, Ha Jin, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, and Richard Powers; reviewers, Zadie Smith, James Wood, and Marco Roth. Y Amanda Claybaugh fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. A graded course. May not be taken more than twice and only once for concentration. Y Stephen Louis Burt Stephen Louis Burt fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised small group tutorial in the study of literature in English. Limited to honors concentrators. Y Stephen Louis Burt Stephen Louis Burt fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 99 r Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised individual tutorial in an independent scholarly or critical subject. Satisfactory completion of one term of English 98r, completion of an undergraduate seminar (90-level) taken in the junior year or earlier, and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. Two terms required of all thesis honors seniors. To enroll, students must submit for approval a Thesis Proposal. Y Stephen Louis Burt Stephen Louis Burt spring term Department of English English English 110 An Introductory Humanities Colloquium Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course is designed for students interested in concentrating in a Humanities discipline. We cover major works of literature and ideas from Homer's Odyssey to Joyce's Ulysses. Many of the texts have thematic connections; we hope that all of them will stimulate interest in the kinds of issues addressed in humanistic studies. Ninety-minute lecture-discussion, plus one-hour section led by the instructors. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Stephen Greenblatt Louis Menand spring term Department of English English English 115 b Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the most famous work of English literature before Shakespeare, both as a work of art and as a product of its place (London) and time (the 1390s). N Nicholas James Watson spring term Department of English English English 121 cg Shakespeare After Hamlet Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Written at the midpoint of Shakespeare's career (1600-01), Hamlet marks the culmination of an experiment in representing the inner life with remarkable human sympathy. Hamlet also marks the beginning, in the comedies as much as in the famous tragedies, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, of a new and disturbing interest in the human mysteries of sadism, power, eroticism and loss. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the Department of English Shakespeares Common Ground requirement. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Gordon Teskey spring term Department of English English English 125 m The Metaphysical Poets Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the lives and works of John Donne, Ben Johnson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and others, as well as the major critical writing that helped shape the idea of a "metaphysical" style in English verse. N Stephen Boyd Hequembourg fall term Department of English English English 125 s Shakespeare and Identity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hamlet, Iago, Cleopatra, Prospero: Shakespeare's most beguiling creations are consummate performers, able to engender illusions, enchant other people, and conceal their own motives. What can they teach us about the creation, evolution, or loss of identity? What does it mean to be a person, or to know another person? This course surveys some of Shakespeare's greatest artistic achievements, including Twelfth Night, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, the sonnets, and others. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the Department of English Shakespeares Common Ground requirement. N Suparna Roychoudhury fall term Department of English English English 131 John Milton: An Introduction to His Life and Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is an introduction to the work of John Milton, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, as well as the major prose on questions of religion, politics, and censorship. N Stephen Boyd Hequembourg spring term Department of English English English 141 The 18th-Century Novel Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the novel's emergence and development in England from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. We examine formal innovations as well as questions concerning sex and gender, freedom and bondage, sympathy and sensibility, and the growth of market culture. In addition, we consider debates (still relevant today) about the dangers and pleasures of novel-reading. Authors include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Radcliffe, Austen, and Edgeworth. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Melissa Ganz fall term Department of English English English 151 The 19th-Century Novel Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How and why the novel became the central genre of modern culture. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Gaskell, North and South, Dickens, Bleak House, Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Trollope, The Warden, and Eliot, Middlemarch. Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Leah Price spring term Department of English English English 153 The Comic Enlightenment Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Against the eighteenth century's so-called progress of Reason ran a countercurrent that emphasized the irrational, the emotional, and the ridiculous. Beginning with Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the course will read comic works by authors such as Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Lawrence Sterne, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Jane Austen. Alongside these, we will also examine traditional Enlightenment texts by thinkers such as Bacon, Hume or Wollstonecraft. N Andrew Warren fall term Department of English English English 154 Literature and Sexuality Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Over the last 300 years, "sexuality" has gradually displaced "soul," "mind," and "character" as the most essential and salient ingredient in modern subjectivity, as the "truth" of the self. How has Western literature grappled with, embraced, or stubbornly resisted the sexualization of subjectivity? From Freud to Foucault, Venus in Furs to Story of O, D. H. Lawrence to Dennis Cooper, we will map the uneasy alliance between--and intertwining histories of--literature and sexuality. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Matthew Kaiser spring term Department of English English English 156 Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Victorian middle classes were both titillated and repelled by transgression and abnormality: from Jack the Ripper to the Elephant Man, from venereal disease to self-murder. In an era marked by unprecedented prosperity and widespread poverty, the Victorians aggressively policed--and clandestinely crossed--increasingly porous and unstable boundaries. Across a range of literary genres, we will map the nineteenth-century British obsession with crime and horror, with phenomena that rattle one's sense of self. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Matthew Kaiser fall term Department of English English English 157 The Classic Phase of the Novel Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A set of major works of art produced at the peak of the novel's centrality as a literary form: Sense and Sensibility, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, The Brothers Karamazov, Buddenbrooks. Society, family, generational novels and the negations of crime and adultery; consciousness and the organization of narrative experience; the novel of ideas and scientific programs; realism, naturalism, aestheticism and the interruptions of the imaginary. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Philip Fisher fall term Department of English English English 158 Crime and Punishment in English Fiction Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., at 12 Melissa Ganz A study of English crime narratives from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, focusing on changing literary conventions as well as changing ideas about the causes and consequences of illicit acts. We examine the value and limits of transgression, the origins of the human capacity for evil, the role of gender and class in the criminal imagination, and the relationship between law and literature. Authors include Defoe, Godwin, Dickens, Stevenson, Doyle, Conrad, and Atwood. N Melissa Ganz spring term Department of English English English 165 Proust, Joyce, Woolf: Aestheticism and Modernism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Topics include: modernism; aesthetic experience; the life of art; the city; and novelistic form; the moment and memory within temporal experiences. Joyce, Dubliners and Ulysses; Proust, Swann's Way; and Within a Budding Grove; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Kawabata, Snow Country. Writings of Pater, Simmel, T.S. Eliot, and sections from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Philip Fisher spring term Department of English English English 168 d Postwar American and British Fiction Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines a range of works, including novels and stories by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Henry Green, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Martin Amis. Attempts to situate these books in their larger historical traditions, while emphasizing that we are reading a living literature. Some of the selected authors may visit and address our class. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N James Wood fall term Department of English English English 170 aw American Women Writers Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class considers American women's writing from its origins to now. We will look at the flourishing of a female literary tradition despite male (dis)approval, and consider gendered perspectives on religion, race, and class. How did certain genres (like the seduction novel) develop from risque to mainstream and how do women continue to upset the male-dominated canon? Authors include Bradstreet, Wheatley, Alcott, Dickinson, Chopin, Larsen, Plath, Morrison. N Joanne van der Woude spring term Department of English English English 179 j Alice, Henry, and William James Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The writings of the Jameses as a window on the social, intellectual, and literary worlds of their time. Henry James, The Europeans, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and selected essays, stories, and novellas; William James, selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism; Alice James, diaries and letters. N Louis Menand fall term Department of English English English 179 American Drama Since 1945 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A lecture course surveying the shifting socio-historical context of American playwriting after WWII. Playwrights covered include Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Arthur Kopit, Neil Simon, The Living Theater, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Maria Irene Fornes, Eve Ensler, Tony Kushner, Chuck Mee, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, John Guare, Lynn Nottage, and many others. N Robert Scanlan fall term Department of English English English 181 a Introduction to Asian American Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is both a survey of Asian American literature and an introduction to ongoing debates about what constitutes Asian American literature. How do we determine that a literary work is "Asian American" when the term has been continuously revised and expanded since it came into common usage in the late 1960s? How important are considerations of a work's thematic concerns, its relationship to specific cultural forms and traditions, or its author's biography? N Ju Yon Kim spring term Department of English English English 182 a American Drama: 1787 to the Present Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Whether lamenting the death of the "noble savage" or challenging the myth of the American Dream, theater in the United States has served as a critical site for debating pressing questions of national identity and its relation to inequity and difference. This course examines various dramatic styles, including melodrama, expressionism, and theater of the absurd, next to the themes of economic disillusionment, racial otherness, and estranged family relations that have preoccupied the American stage. N Ju Yon Kim spring term Department of English English English 199 a Literature and Memory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What is the role of memory in transnational Anglophone literature? How does recollection aid the creation of continuity in narratives that extend across geographic or cultural borders? This course considers themes such as trauma, nostalgia, introspection, and myth in relation to contemporary representations of colonialism, cosmopolitanism, expatriation, and diaspora. We will read novels, memoirs, and poems from the last half-decade by authors from all over the world, including Nabokov, Rushdie, Ishiguro, Ondaatje, and others. N Suparna Roychoudhury fall term Department of English English English 204 Heroic poetry and its afterlife in saga: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course After an introductory tour of the heroic (and heroic-elegiac) poetry in Old English, Old Norse, and Old High German, we will read selections from the Icelandic saga literature with the problem of continuity in mind. Y Joseph C. Harris spring term Department of English English English 210 Early Middle English Identities: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Post-Conquest literature in England witnessed the formation of new linguistic and national identities. At times retrospective and nostalgic, at times innovative, it was a period of ambivalence on many levels. We will read through a variety of genres, with facing page translations for the more difficult texts, but always with attention to the language. Texts include Lawman's Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, various lyrics, the South English Legendary, Sir Orfeo, Dame Sirith, and others. Y Daniel G. Donoghue spring term Department of English English English 211 The Making of the Early English Canon 1350-1950: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course (W.), 1-3 Nicholas Watson A study of medieval literary canon-formation through history, from Chaucer's self-canonization to the early modern and modern search for alternative origins to the English literary tradition from the ballad to The Book of Margery Kempe. Y Nicholas James Watson fall term Department of English English English 220 ge Shakespeare's Creative Development (Graduate Seminar in General Education): Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course How can Shakespeare be taught to undergraduates as a developing artist, solving problems from one play to the next? The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates Y Gordon Teskey fall term Department of English English English 222 Renaissance Life Studies: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate level seminar of Renaissance life studies. Y Stephen Greenblatt spring term Department of English English English 227 Fictions of Kin and Kind: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The literature and rhetoric of kinship. Special attention to the incest taboo, orphanhood, the human-animal distinction, and social fictions of nationhood. Readings include texts by modern theorists of language as well as by Sophocles, Marguerite of Navarre, Elizabeth Tudor, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Racine, Schiller, Goethe, Melville, and Nabokov. Y Marc Shell spring term Department of English English English 229 s Spenser: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to Spenser's poetry, concentrating on The Faerie Queene. We discuss such problems as the theory of allegory and the question of poetic thinking. Y Gordon Teskey fall term Department of English English English 242 Restoration and 18th-Century Texts: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, Montagu, and others; the lyric, periodical literature, satire, biography, and drama; relations of engaged literature with politics, religion, history; issues of audience, gender, class, genre, and canon. An intensive introduction to 18th-century literature at the graduate level. Presupposes no previous acquaintance with field. Graduate students who have studied 18th-century literature should consult with the instructor. Open to qualified honors undergraduates. Y James Engell spring term Department of English English English 250 Late Romantic Poetry: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course reads two Second-Generation Romantics, Byron & Shelley. Other writers will likely include Wordsworth & Coleridge, Burke & Wollstonecraft, de Quincey, the Schlegels, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.). Y Andrew Warren spring term Department of English English English 256 n The Victorian Novel: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory and practice of the Victorian novel. Fiction by Austen, Bronte, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Collins, Trollope, read against contemporaneous criticism and classic genre and narrative theory Y Leah Price spring term Department of English English English 260 The Outer Edge of the Novel: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings include works by Henry James, George Meredith, Walter Pater, Thomas Bernhard, Anne Carson, W. G. Sebald, David Markson, Thomas Bernhard, John Ashbery, Kenzaburo Oe. Y Philip Fisher fall term Department of English English English 264 x Sensation and Moral Action in Thomas Hardy: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Approaches Hardy's novels, stories, and narrative poems through the language of the senses (hearing, vision, touch) and through moral agency (philosophic essays on "luck" and "action"). Open to upper-level undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Elaine Scarry spring term Department of English English English 268 The Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Topics: Harmonium and "the whole of Harmonium"; stylistic variation; Stevens' genres, from the epigram to the sequence; second-order poetry; the social and the imaginative; allegorical personae. Y Helen Vendler spring term Department of English English English 270 a Early Atlantic World: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings from Britain, America, and the Caribbean focusing on ideas of race, revolution, and sentiment from the late 17th to early 19th century. Authors include Behn (Oroonoko), Equiano, Addison, Jefferson, Wheatley, and Rowson. Y fall term Department of English English English 272 19th-Century American Fiction Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The nineteenth century American literary career, with attention to the development of fictional modes (sketch, tale, romance, novel), exigencies of publication (the periodical press, transatlantic distribution networks) and evolving notions of fiction's place in American culture. Emphasis on Hawthorne, Melville and James but some attention to other authors. Y Elisa New spring term Department of English English English 290 9/11: A Moment in Culture and Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will examine a cluster of disciplinary responses to 9/11. We will start by considering various philosophical frameworks that have laid out a range of political, ethical, and psychological issues implicated in the event. We will move on to consider the "culture" of 9/11 by examining a range of discourses and genres -- novels, blogs, artworks, journalistic accounts, film -- that have contributed to the narrative of 9/11 and its aftermath. Y Homi Bhabha fall term Department of English English English 294 Realism and Naturalism: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the defining instances of realism and naturalism (Balzac, Eliot, Howells; Zola, Gissing, Dreiser), as well as the landmark works of criticism on the two modes. Y Amanda Claybaugh fall term Department of English English English 296 Play: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of play studies. An exploration of the aesthetic, philosophical, and political history of the ludic in the West. A workshop for producing conference papers and articles. Y Matthew Kaiser fall term Department of English English English 297 a Machine Art: Graduate Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate level seminar. Y Martin Puchner full year Department of English English English 300 hf Old and Middle English: Doctoral Conference Reading Course Graduate Course Half course The Conference focuses upon dissertations in progress and other research topics of mutual concern. Membership limited to faculty members teaching or conducting research in medieval English language and literature and to graduate students working in this field. Enrollment is open to all graduate students but is required of those who have been admitted to candidacy for the PhD and who intend to work on a medieval subject. Y W. James Simpson Joseph C. Harris Daniel G. Donoghue Nicholas James Watson W. James Simpson Joseph C. Harris Daniel G. Donoghue Nicholas James Watson full year Department of English English English 302 hf Renaissance: Doctoral Conference Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course The Conference focuses upon dissertations in progress and other research topics of mutual interest. Limited to faculty members teaching or conducting research in Renaissance literary studies and to graduate students working in the field. Enrollment is open to all such students, and is required of those who have been admitted to candidacy for the PhD and who intend to work on Renaissance topics. Y Marjorie Garber Stephen Greenblatt Gordon Teskey Marjorie Garber Stephen Greenblatt Gordon Teskey full year Department of English English English 304 hf The Extended 18th-Century: Doctoral Conference Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Focuses on dissertations, dissertations in progress, and research topics of mutual interest. Required of graduate students working, or intending to work, on the Restoration, 18th century, or Romanticism (the periods 1660-1830), and who have been admitted to candidacy for the PhD. Open to other students working on topics in Restoration and 18th-century literature. Y James Engell Leah Price Michael Shinagel James Engell Leah Price Michael Shinagel full year Department of English English English 306 hf 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature: Doctoral Conference Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Leah Price Leah Price full year Department of English English English 308 hf Drama: Doctoral Conference Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Focuses on research topics related to dramatic literature, theatre, and performance. Open to all faculty members and graduate students teaching or conducting research in the field. Y Marjorie Garber Elaine Scarry Marjorie Garber Elaine Scarry full year Department of English English English 310 hfr American Literature and Culture: Doctoral Conference Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Colloquium open to all graduate students working in the area of American literature and culture. Papers delivered by students writing seminar papers or dissertations, faculty members, and visiting scholars. Y Elisa New Werner Sollors Elisa New Werner Sollors fall term Department of English English English 350 Teaching Colloquium Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course The craft of teaching (discussion, lectures, tutorials, course descriptions, syllabi). This colloquium, designed for third-year graduate students, also considers issues related to the field exam, prospectus, and other aspects of advanced graduate study in English. Required of all third-year graduate students. Y Elisa New fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 397 Directed Study Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 398 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Normally limited to students reading specifically in the field of a proposed doctoral dissertation. Open only by petition to the Department; petitions should be presented during the term preceding enrollment, and must be signed by the instructor with whom the reading is to be done. All applicants for admission should first confer with the Director of Graduate Studies. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of English English English 399 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Conducted through regular conferences and assigned writing. Limited to students reading specifically on topics not covered in regular courses. Open only by petition to the Department; petitions should be presented during the term preceding enrollment, and must be signed by the instructor with whom the reading is to be done. All applicants for admission should first confer with the Director of Graduate Studies. Y spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 10 Environmental Policy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 40 This course develops the concepts and skills needed to design effective public policy for managing interactions between environmental, social and economic systems. The course is organized around cases of real-world policy analysis, some from the US and some involving developing countries. We will examine the environmental, social and economic substance of the cases, the interests of stakeholders, the policy and political processes, the ways in which trade-offs are perceived and evaluated, and the outcomes and impacts. Intended for interested students from all concentrations. N John Briscoe fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 78 Environmental Politics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the history, organization, goals, and ideals of environmental protection in America. Examines the shift in emphasis from nature protection to pollution control to sustainability over the 20th century and develops critical tools to analyze changing conceptions of nature and the role of science in environmental policy formulation. Of central interest is the relationship between knowledge, uncertainty, and political or legal action. Theoretical approaches are combined with case studies of major episodes and controversies in environmental protection. N Sheila Jasanoff fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 a Energy, Technology, and the Environment Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The seminar will provide an account of the technologies that shape our world with a perspective on how they evolved, the benefits that ensued and the environmental challenges that arose as a consequence. Topics include prospects for renewable energy and options to minimize damage from conventional sources of energy. Specific attention is directed to challenges faced by large developing economies emphasizing the need for a cooperative approach to ensure an equable, environmentally sustainable, global future. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. Y Michael B. McElroy spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 c Ecology and Land-Use Planning Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Investigation of how local and regional human activities such as housing, agriculture, water supply, and natural resource use can be arranged in the landscape so that environmental processes are not disrupted and ecosystems are maintained for the long term. The focus is on learning and applying spatial and ecological principles to land-use planning with the intention of regional biodiversity conservation, maintenance of water quality, and addressing other environmental issues. Y Richard T.T. Forman spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 e Conservation Paleobiology Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Conservation Paleobiology applies paleobiological and other historical knowledge to the conservation of species and ecosystems. The course will begin with deep-time perspectives on extinction and ecological responses to climate change, but will concentrate primarily on near-time perspectives on the history of human influences in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Students will be challenged to answer the question: How confidently can we predict extinction vulnerability and ecological responses to climate change from studies of the past? We will cover diverse methodological approaches drawn from paleontology, geochronology, biogeography, and macroecology. Local field trips within New England to be arranged. Y Helen Frances James fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 j Environmental Crises and Population Flight Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course War, disaster, drought, or famine force people to flee their land. The humanitarian consequences of this loss of place and livelihood are filled with complexity, relating to the extent and permanence of environmental destruction wrought by these crises, people's attachment to their homes and ecosystems, the circumstances of departure, the destinations of refuge, and the possibilities for return. These issues will be examined through case studies and review of literature on forced migration and calamity. Y Jennifer Leaning James J. McCarthy fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 p Biotechnology, Sustainability and Public Policy Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This seminar examines the implications of biotechnology for sustainability. Using case studies, it focuses on policy approaches for maximizing the benefits of biotechnology and minimizing their risks. It addresses the following themes: (1) scientific and technological advances in biotechnology and sustainability; (2) social responses to the use of biotechnology; (3) application of biotechnology specific sectors such as agriculture; industry; energy; bioremediation and species conservation; (4) socio-economic impacts; and (5) policy and institutional considerations. Y Calestous Juma fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 q Conservation and Evolution Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Traditionally, conservation biologists have assumed that evolution was not an important issue. However, recent realization that evolutionary change can occur rapidly has led to investigation of the importance of evolution for conservation. Additionally, other aspects of modern evolutionary biology, including genome sequencing and consideration of the phylogenetic tree-of-life, are increasingly seen as relevant. This course will explore the extent to which conservation and evolutionary biology need to be integrated to preserve the world?s biological diversity. Y Jonathan Losos spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 s The Technology, Economics, and Public Policy of Renewable Energy Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 50 Energy is the lifeblood of economic activity, and there is little prospect of this changing. However, the planet's stores of easily accessed fossil fuels are limited, and the climatological cost of continuing to rely on fossil fuels is high. This course examines the long run and short run prospects for renewable energy. We start by understanding the technology of hydro, solar, wind, and biomass. We then examine the economics of these technologies, and how subsidies and taxes affect their viability. Special attention will be paid to the interaction of technology, economics, and public policy. Economics 10a. This course will be offered in a seminar format with an enrollment limit of 50. Y George P. Baker III spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 t Environmental Health: Your World and Your Life at Risk Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Through the seminar course students will be introduced to ongoing environmental health research. They will read published articles and interview faculty. Studies will include birth outcomes and heavy metals; neurological and cognitive development in children exposed to lead; dietary interventions and pesticide exposure; asthma and public housing; air pollution and cardiovascular health; exposures and effects of plasticizers, flame retardants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), bisphenol A (BPA) and other synthetic organic compounds; cell phone use and brain cancer; respiratory effects of biomass cooking and heat fuels on children and women; heat waves and heat stress mortality; and land-use factors and obesity. N John D. Spengler fall term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 90 u The Impact of Climate Change on the Global Food System Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This seminar consists of case studies and readings that review the impact of climate change on the global food system and its ability to respond to the nutritional, food security, food safety, heath, environmental, and economic development needs of society. The decision makers in these cases are from the public, private, and NGO sectors. We will examine each manager's efforts to work together and be proactive in responding to future needs in managing land and water resources. N Ray A. Goldberg fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading and research on topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Students must complete a registration form, including permission from their faculty sponsor, with the concentration office before course enrollment. A final paper describing the research/reading completed during the term is due in duplicate to the Head Tutor on the first day of reading period. Intended for junior and senior concentrators in Environmental Science and Public Policy; open to sophomore concentrators only under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the Head Tutor is required for enrollment. May be counted for concentration only with the special permission of the Head Tutor. Y James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy full year Committee on Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy Environmental Science and Public Policy 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing of the senior thesis under faculty direction. Senior honors candidates must take at least one term of this course while writing a thesis. The signature of the faculty adviser is required. Y James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .001 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Patricia Bellanca fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .002 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Elizabeth Leah Greenspan fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .003 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Karen Heath fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .004 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Thomas Jehn fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .005 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Courtney Bickel Lamberth fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .006 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Courtney Bickel Lamberth fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .007 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Jane Rosenzweig fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .008 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Zachary C Sifuentes fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .009 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Zachary C Sifuentes fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .010 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Rebecca Summerhays fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .011 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Rebecca Summerhays fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .012 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Vernon Tad Davies fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .013 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N Vernon Tad Davies fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .014 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N William Weitzel fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .015 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N William Weitzel fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 .016 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A rigorous, intensive elective that helps students prepare for the demands of college writing. In small classes, students work closely with instructors on developing and organizing ideas, analyzing sources, and writing clear, engaging essays. Students also meet frequently in individual conferences with instructors to discuss their work. Assignments are based on sources from a range of disciplines and genres. N James Herron fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 10 Introduction to Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course After taking Expository Writing 10, a student must pass Expository Writing 20 to meet the College's Expository Writing requirement. N Karen Heath fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .001 Human Death and Disease Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 All humans, from every time and place, experience death and disease. In this course, we will examine selected topics surrounding the human experience with morbidity and mortality as approached in the biological sciences. Using historical and contemporary science source materials, including primary research articles and persuasive essays, we will explore biological processes of illness, behaviors and knowledge about mortality, and death as a mechanism of change. N Jerusha T Achterberg fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .002 Human Death and Disease Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 All humans, from every time and place, experience death and disease. In this course, we will examine selected topics surrounding the human experience with morbidity and mortality as approached in the biological sciences. Using historical and contemporary science source materials, including primary research articles and persuasive essays, we will explore biological processes of illness, behaviors and knowledge about mortality, and death as a mechanism of change. N Jerusha T Achterberg spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .003 Human Death and Disease Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 All humans, from every time and place, experience death and disease. In this course, we will examine selected topics surrounding the human experience with morbidity and mortality as approached in the biological sciences. Using historical and contemporary science source materials, including primary research articles and persuasive essays, we will explore biological processes of illness, behaviors and knowledge about mortality, and death as a mechanism of change. N Jerusha T Achterberg spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .004 Human Death and Disease Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 All humans, from every time and place, experience death and disease. In this course, we will examine selected topics surrounding the human experience with morbidity and mortality as approached in the biological sciences. Using historical and contemporary science source materials, including primary research articles and persuasive essays, we will explore biological processes of illness, behaviors and knowledge about mortality, and death as a mechanism of change. N Jerusha T Achterberg fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .005 Narrating the American Past Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores how social memory shapes what it means to be an American by examining the public representation of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the Trail of Tears, and a third event which students will select themselves. Students will write three essays in which they progressively develop their arguments about how and why these historical narratives are constructed, disputed, and ultimately, what they tell Americans about who they are today. N Laura Adams spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .006 Narrating the American Past Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores how social memory shapes what it means to be an American by examining the public representation of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the Trail of Tears, and a third event which students will select themselves. Students will write three essays in which they progressively develop their arguments about how and why these historical narratives are constructed, disputed, and ultimately, what they tell Americans about who they are today. N Laura Adams spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .007 Narrating the American Past Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores how social memory shapes what it means to be an American by examining the public representation of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the Trail of Tears, and a third event which students will select themselves. Students will write three essays in which they progressively develop their arguments about how and why these historical narratives are constructed, disputed, and ultimately, what they tell Americans about who they are today. N Laura Adams fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .012 The Rise of Pop Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The idea that there is a hierarchy separating high and low art extends as far back as Aristotle, but during the past fifty years American culture has depended upon destroying this hierarchy. This course examines what happens to art and society when the boundaries separating high and low art are gone. We will examine Thomas Pynchon, Andy Warhol, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show along with cultural theorists such as Adorno, Benjamin, Sontag, and Bakhtin. N Kevin Brian Birmingham spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .013 The Rise of Pop Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The idea that there is a hierarchy separating high and low art extends as far back as Aristotle, but during the past fifty years American culture has depended upon destroying this hierarchy. This course examines what happens to art and society when the boundaries separating high and low art are gone. We will examine Thomas Pynchon, Andy Warhol, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show along with cultural theorists such as Adorno, Benjamin, Sontag, and Bakhtin. N Kevin Brian Birmingham fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .018 Representations of American Democracy and Government Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action. N Vernon Tad Davies fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .019 Representations of American Democracy and Government Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action. N Vernon Tad Davies spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .020 Representations of American Democracy and Government Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action. N Vernon Tad Davies spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .021 Representations of American Democracy and Government Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action. N Vernon Tad Davies spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .034 Modern Cities in Crisis Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the challenges and contradictions of urban life. We examine fictional and non-fictional accounts of ghettos and slums to investigate relationships between class, race, violence, the family, and politics. Our texts include the HBO series The Wire; an ethnography of the drug trade in NYC; and a journalistic account of the Mumbai slums. We explore the arguments these texts make about the problems plaguing cities, and discuss possible solutions. N Elizabeth Leah Greenspan spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .035 Modern Cities in Crisis Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the challenges and contradictions of urban life. We examine fictional and non-fictional accounts of ghettos and slums to investigate relationships between class, race, violence, the family, and politics. Our texts include the HBO series The Wire; an ethnography of the drug trade in NYC; and a journalistic account of the Mumbai slums. We explore the arguments these texts make about the problems plaguing cities, and discuss possible solutions. N Elizabeth Leah Greenspan fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .036 Writing Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie). N Gregory A. Harris fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .037 Writing Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie). N Gregory A. Harris spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .038 Writing Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Our desires and perceptions take shape not just individually but through shared systems of meaning: culture. How can we see culture, though, when our own often seems transparently natural (like water to a fish, one anthropologist observed), and others' intrinsically alien? Short answer: through encounter. With the aim of writing original cultural analysis of Harvard and other subjects, we'll study anthropologists (Geertz, Rosaldo), social theorists (Williams, James), and other writers (McCarthy, Didion, Alexie). N Gregory A. Harris fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .041 Shakespeare's Inventions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will first examine what Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet can tell us about how individuals-in particular Shakespeare himself-actively invent and renegotiate their identities within the confines of a given culture. In the third unit we will look at Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and Shakespeare in Love in order to assess the extent to which we rely on the re-invention of Shakespeare's works for our own cultural identity. N Jonah M Johnson fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .042 Shakespeare's Inventions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will first examine what Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet can tell us about how individuals-in particular Shakespeare himself-actively invent and renegotiate their identities within the confines of a given culture. In the third unit we will look at Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and Shakespeare in Love in order to assess the extent to which we rely on the re-invention of Shakespeare's works for our own cultural identity. N Jonah M Johnson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .043 Shakespeare's Inventions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will first examine what Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet can tell us about how individuals-in particular Shakespeare himself-actively invent and renegotiate their identities within the confines of a given culture. In the third unit we will look at Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and Shakespeare in Love in order to assess the extent to which we rely on the re-invention of Shakespeare's works for our own cultural identity. N Jonah M Johnson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .044 Shakespeare's Inventions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will first examine what Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet can tell us about how individuals-in particular Shakespeare himself-actively invent and renegotiate their identities within the confines of a given culture. In the third unit we will look at Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and Shakespeare in Love in order to assess the extent to which we rely on the re-invention of Shakespeare's works for our own cultural identity. N Jonah M Johnson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .045 Imagination and Genius Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course traces the concepts of the imagination and genius through ancient Greek thought, through the Enlightenment and Romanticism, into the post-modern era. Finally, it turns to most recent studies of the cognitive sciences to give an empirically informed, and alternative, way of conceiving of genius. This course will be fashioned in order to highlight the various aspect of expository essay writing while it explores the origin and development of the imagination in the Western intellectual tradition. Students will grapple with the classics of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Dostoyevsky while integrating more recent studies of the imagination by Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio. N John Jacob Kaag fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .046 Darwinian Dating Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine patterns of human attraction, using an evolutionary perspective to better understand mate choice. In the first unit, we will explore the roles of biology versus culture in human behavior. Next, we will address female attraction and attempt to determine whether women prefer "nice guys" or "bad boys." In the final unit, students will have an opportunity to undertake independent research as they explore the nature of male attraction. N Elissa Krakauer fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .047 Darwinian Dating Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine patterns of human attraction, using an evolutionary perspective to better understand mate choice. In the first unit, we will explore the roles of biology versus culture in human behavior. Next, we will address female attraction and attempt to determine whether women prefer "nice guys" or "bad boys." In the final unit, students will have an opportunity to undertake independent research as they explore the nature of male attraction. N Elissa Krakauer spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .048 Darwinian Dating Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine patterns of human attraction, using an evolutionary perspective to better understand mate choice. In the first unit, we will explore the roles of biology versus culture in human behavior. Next, we will address female attraction and attempt to determine whether women prefer "nice guys" or "bad boys." In the final unit, students will have an opportunity to undertake independent research as they explore the nature of male attraction. N Elissa Krakauer spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .049 Darwinian Dating Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine patterns of human attraction, using an evolutionary perspective to better understand mate choice. In the first unit, we will explore the roles of biology versus culture in human behavior. Next, we will address female attraction and attempt to determine whether women prefer "nice guys" or "bad boys." In the final unit, students will have an opportunity to undertake independent research as they explore the nature of male attraction. N Elissa Krakauer fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .050 Sound, Noise, Music Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Music is everywhere around us-entangled with (and a part of) the many noises we experience. And yet we tend to think of music as distinct from other sounds, isolating it in our minds even when we can't with our ears. In this course, we will question that isolation, and examine music as an aspect of its greater environment - natural, social, and technological-rather than apart from it. N Damon Krukowski fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .051 Sound, Noise, Music Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Music is everywhere around us-entangled with (and a part of) the many noises we experience. And yet we tend to think of music as distinct from other sounds, isolating it in our minds even when we can't with our ears. In this course, we will question that isolation, and examine music as an aspect of its greater environment - natural, social, and technological-rather than apart from it. N Damon Krukowski spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .052 Sound, Noise, Music Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Music is everywhere around us-entangled with (and a part of) the many noises we experience. And yet we tend to think of music as distinct from other sounds, isolating it in our minds even when we can't with our ears. In this course, we will question that isolation, and examine music as an aspect of its greater environment - natural, social, and technological-rather than apart from it. N Damon Krukowski spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .053 Sound, Noise, Music Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Music is everywhere around us-entangled with (and a part of) the many noises we experience. And yet we tend to think of music as distinct from other sounds, isolating it in our minds even when we can't with our ears. In this course, we will question that isolation, and examine music as an aspect of its greater environment - natural, social, and technological-rather than apart from it. N Damon Krukowski fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .059 Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 According to civil rights scholar Charles Payne, "Our understanding of social change, our conceptions of leadership, our understanding of the possibilities of interracial cooperation are all affected by how we remember the movement." In this seminar, we investigate the work of remembering and interpreting the mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement. We consider both popular and scholarly accounts, and we focus on the use of speeches, memoirs, and newspapers to reconstruct the events of the past. N Ariane Mary Aphrodite Liazos fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .060 Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 According to civil rights scholar Charles Payne, "Our understanding of social change, our conceptions of leadership, our understanding of the possibilities of interracial cooperation are all affected by how we remember the movement." In this seminar, we investigate the work of remembering and interpreting the mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement. We consider both popular and scholarly accounts, and we focus on the use of speeches, memoirs, and newspapers to reconstruct the events of the past. N Ariane Mary Aphrodite Liazos spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .061 Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 According to civil rights scholar Charles Payne, "Our understanding of social change, our conceptions of leadership, our understanding of the possibilities of interracial cooperation are all affected by how we remember the movement." In this seminar, we investigate the work of remembering and interpreting the mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement. We consider both popular and scholarly accounts, and we focus on the use of speeches, memoirs, and newspapers to reconstruct the events of the past. N Ariane Mary Aphrodite Liazos spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .062 Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 According to civil rights scholar Charles Payne, "Our understanding of social change, our conceptions of leadership, our understanding of the possibilities of interracial cooperation are all affected by how we remember the movement." In this seminar, we investigate the work of remembering and interpreting the mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement. We consider both popular and scholarly accounts, and we focus on the use of speeches, memoirs, and newspapers to reconstruct the events of the past. N Ariane Mary Aphrodite Liazos fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .063 Gothic Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the meaning and function of Gothic literature, a genre characterized by secrecy, perversion, madness, and death. In our first unit, short stories-of various centuries and nations-will allow us to develop a working definition of Gothic. In unit two we'll interpret Jane Austen's Gothic spoof Northanger Abbey in the context of both popular fiction and eighteenth-century debates about reading. The third unit introduces research methods that focus on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. N Michele C. Martinez spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .064 Gothic Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the meaning and function of Gothic literature, a genre characterized by secrecy, perversion, madness, and death. In our first unit, short stories-of various centuries and nations-will allow us to develop a working definition of Gothic. In unit two we'll interpret Jane Austen's Gothic spoof Northanger Abbey in the context of both popular fiction and eighteenth-century debates about reading. The third unit introduces research methods that focus on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. N Michele C. Martinez spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .065 Gothic Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the meaning and function of Gothic literature, a genre characterized by secrecy, perversion, madness, and death. In our first unit, short stories-of various centuries and nations-will allow us to develop a working definition of Gothic. In unit two we'll interpret Jane Austen's Gothic spoof Northanger Abbey in the context of both popular fiction and eighteenth-century debates about reading. The third unit introduces research methods that focus on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. N Michele C. Martinez fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .066 Cross-Cultural Contact Zones Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How does fiction represent cross-cultural encounters between Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric worlds? In what ways do the specific social and political circumstances under which these contacts occur influence the nature of the cross-cultural encounters? Do issues of power, class, and gender function differently in cross-cultural environments for the racial groups involved than they would within a single culture? In exploring literature about three kinds of cross-cultural encounters-transient, colonial/postcolonial, and immigrant-we'll pose such resonant questions. N Sri Mukherjee fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .067 Cross-Cultural Contact Zones Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How does fiction represent cross-cultural encounters between Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric worlds? In what ways do the specific social and political circumstances under which these contacts occur influence the nature of the cross-cultural encounters? Do issues of power, class, and gender function differently in cross-cultural environments for the racial groups involved than they would within a single culture? In exploring literature about three kinds of cross-cultural encounters-transient, colonial/postcolonial, and immigrant-we'll pose such resonant questions. N Sri Mukherjee spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .068 Cross-Cultural Contact Zones Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How does fiction represent cross-cultural encounters between Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric worlds? In what ways do the specific social and political circumstances under which these contacts occur influence the nature of the cross-cultural encounters? Do issues of power, class, and gender function differently in cross-cultural environments for the racial groups involved than they would within a single culture? In exploring literature about three kinds of cross-cultural encounters-transient, colonial/postcolonial, and immigrant-we'll pose such resonant questions. N Sri Mukherjee spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .069 Cross-Cultural Contact Zones Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How does fiction represent cross-cultural encounters between Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric worlds? In what ways do the specific social and political circumstances under which these contacts occur influence the nature of the cross-cultural encounters? Do issues of power, class, and gender function differently in cross-cultural environments for the racial groups involved than they would within a single culture? In exploring literature about three kinds of cross-cultural encounters-transient, colonial/postcolonial, and immigrant-we'll pose such resonant questions. N Sri Mukherjee fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .070 The Ethics of Human Experimentation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 To learn about human biology and behavior, researchers often use people as research subjects. Although such research has produced many social benefits, it sometimes comes at a cost to study participants. In this course, you will weigh the costs and benefits of a controversial psychological study, take a psychological approach to understanding why unethical research practices occur, and consider how research can be done to maximize its impact while minimizing the risks to human participants. N Donna L Mumme fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .071 The Ethics of Human Experimentation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 To learn about human biology and behavior, researchers often use people as research subjects. Although such research has produced many social benefits, it sometimes comes at a cost to study participants. In this course, you will weigh the costs and benefits of a controversial psychological study, take a psychological approach to understanding why unethical research practices occur, and consider how research can be done to maximize its impact while minimizing the risks to human participants. N Donna L Mumme spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .072 The Ethics of Human Experimentation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 To learn about human biology and behavior, researchers often use people as research subjects. Although such research has produced many social benefits, it sometimes comes at a cost to study participants. In this course, you will weigh the costs and benefits of a controversial psychological study, take a psychological approach to understanding why unethical research practices occur, and consider how research can be done to maximize its impact while minimizing the risks to human participants. N Donna L Mumme spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .073 The Ethics of Human Experimentation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 To learn about human biology and behavior, researchers often use people as research subjects. Although such research has produced many social benefits, it sometimes comes at a cost to study participants. In this course, you will weigh the costs and benefits of a controversial psychological study, take a psychological approach to understanding why unethical research practices occur, and consider how research can be done to maximize its impact while minimizing the risks to human participants. N Donna L Mumme spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .078 Jewish Identity in American Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will examine representations of Jews in American culture and the evolution of Jewish-American culture since World War II, as well as how shifts in the cultural conversation about minorities in America have affected our understanding of Jewish identity. We will question how recent works of literature, art, film, and television challenge and reinforce Jewish stereotypes, and how they continue to shape our ideas about assimilation, the Holocaust, ethnicity, and religious practice in America. N Jane Rosenzweig fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .079 Tales of Murder Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder. N Emily Shelton fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .080 Tales of Murder Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder. N Emily Shelton spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .081 Tales of Murder Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder. N Emily Shelton spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .082 Tales of Murder Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder. N Emily Shelton spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .083 Poetry at the Limit Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Poetry has long been a space for solace and contemplation, particularly throughout the wars of the twentieth century. How has poetry changed in the past 100 years as it attempts to apprehend atrocity, genocide and total war? We read poems that describe ruthless violence, that respond to works of art, and that address contemporary refugee camps and HIV hospices. In such forlorn environments, can poetry remain "poetic"? N Zachary C Sifuentes fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .084 Urban America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course addresses questions about the past and present urban experience by analyzing American cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts. N Lindsay M. Silver Cohen fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .085 Urban America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course addresses questions about the past and present urban experience by analyzing American cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts. N Lindsay M. Silver Cohen spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .086 Urban America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course addresses questions about the past and present urban experience by analyzing American cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts. N Lindsay M. Silver Cohen fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .087 The Moral Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal. N Paul Sludds fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .088 The Moral Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal. N Paul Sludds spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .089 The Moral Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal. N Paul Sludds spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .090 The Moral Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal. N Paul Sludds spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .091 Art and the Emotional Bond Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do you know what another person feels? Why would you want to know? Are there social or political advantages to the ability to relate emotionally to others? This class explores these central questions through select pieces of fiction, visual art, film, and criticism from such diverse writers and artists as Adam Smith, George Eliot, Ang Lee and Susan Sontag. Together, these texts scrutinize how and why we attempt to connect emotionally. N spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .092 Art and the Emotional Bond Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do you know what another person feels? Why would you want to know? Are there social or political advantages to the ability to relate emotionally to others? This class explores these central questions through select pieces of fiction, visual art, film, and criticism from such diverse writers and artists as Adam Smith, George Eliot, Ang Lee and Susan Sontag. Together, these texts scrutinize how and why we attempt to connect emotionally. N fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .093 Contemporary Immigrant Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Some of the most exciting recent fiction is by or about immigrants. Much of it explores the complexities of contemporary life on the move, through challenging stories and experimental form. In this course, we examine these experiments with an eye to what they show us about individual identity and forms of belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational). Readings include American and German fiction by Jen, Hemon, Akin, and Diaz, as well as anthropological and sociological theory. N Michelle Syba fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .094 Contemporary Immigrant Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Some of the most exciting recent fiction is by or about immigrants. Much of it explores the complexities of contemporary life on the move, through challenging stories and experimental form. In this course, we examine these experiments with an eye to what they show us about individual identity and forms of belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational). Readings include American and German fiction by Jen, Hemon, Akin, and Diaz, as well as anthropological and sociological theory. N Michelle Syba spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .095 Contemporary Immigrant Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Some of the most exciting recent fiction is by or about immigrants. Much of it explores the complexities of contemporary life on the move, through challenging stories and experimental form. In this course, we examine these experiments with an eye to what they show us about individual identity and forms of belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational). Readings include American and German fiction by Jen, Hemon, Akin, and Diaz, as well as anthropological and sociological theory. N Michelle Syba spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .096 Contemporary Immigrant Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Some of the most exciting recent fiction is by or about immigrants. Much of it explores the complexities of contemporary life on the move, through challenging stories and experimental form. In this course, we examine these experiments with an eye to what they show us about individual identity and forms of belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational). Readings include American and German fiction by Jen, Hemon, Akin, and Diaz, as well as anthropological and sociological theory. N Michelle Syba fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .097 HIV/AIDS in Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English. N Joaquin Sebastian Terrones fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .098 HIV/AIDS in Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English. N Joaquin Sebastian Terrones spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .099 HIV/AIDS in Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English. N Joaquin Sebastian Terrones spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .100 HIV/AIDS in Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English. N Joaquin Sebastian Terrones fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .101 The Voice of Authority Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is authority? First, we will read the controversial One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, closely investigating that explosive novel's complex treatment of authority. Next, we will read and meet two "at-risk" writers, comparing and analyzing effects and expressions of artistic challenges to governmental and cultural authority. Finally, our ongoing inquiry into authority will shape research topics as we investigate issues arising out of authority's relation to education, rhetorical strategy, politics, human rights, and art. N Jane Unrue fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .102 The Voice of Authority Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is authority? First, we will read the controversial One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, closely investigating that explosive novel's complex treatment of authority. Next, we will read and meet two "at-risk" writers, comparing and analyzing effects and expressions of artistic challenges to governmental and cultural authority. Finally, our ongoing inquiry into authority will shape research topics as we investigate issues arising out of authority's relation to education, rhetorical strategy, politics, human rights, and art. N Jane Unrue spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .103 The Voice of Authority Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is authority? First, we will read the controversial One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, closely investigating that explosive novel's complex treatment of authority. Next, we will read and meet two "at-risk" writers, comparing and analyzing effects and expressions of artistic challenges to governmental and cultural authority. Finally, our ongoing inquiry into authority will shape research topics as we investigate issues arising out of authority's relation to education, rhetorical strategy, politics, human rights, and art. N Jane Unrue spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .104 The Voice of Authority Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is authority? First, we will read the controversial One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, closely investigating that explosive novel's complex treatment of authority. Next, we will read and meet two "at-risk" writers, comparing and analyzing effects and expressions of artistic challenges to governmental and cultural authority. Finally, our ongoing inquiry into authority will shape research topics as we investigate issues arising out of authority's relation to education, rhetorical strategy, politics, human rights, and art. N Jane Unrue fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .105 Contemporary Theatre Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Since the 1950s, theatre has refused to shy away from controversial issues, provoking audiences to reconsider their beliefs and re-imagine the world. This course will grapple with the plays of influential and provocative playwrights from the past five decades, and debate issues of politics, ethics, race, and sexuality. Playwrights will include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane. N Ken Urban fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .106 Contemporary Theatre Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Since the 1950s, theatre has refused to shy away from controversial issues, provoking audiences to reconsider their beliefs and re-imagine the world. This course will grapple with the plays of influential and provocative playwrights from the past five decades, and debate issues of politics, ethics, race, and sexuality. Playwrights will include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane. N Ken Urban spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .113 Into the Wild Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is wilderness? Do you have to explore wilderness to care about it? Who enters the wilderness and why? We will look at expeditions into the Kalahari Desert, remote Alaska, and the central African and Amazon rainforests and examine the place of expeditionary culture in current dilemmas about global wilderness. The course will include films, websites, periodicals, and blogs, paying particular attention to such threatened biomes as the Congolese Basin and Guyana Shield as domains of conspicuous urgency. N William Weitzel spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .114 Into the Wild Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is wilderness? Do you have to explore wilderness to care about it? Who enters the wilderness and why? We will look at expeditions into the Kalahari Desert, remote Alaska, and the central African and Amazon rainforests and examine the place of expeditionary culture in current dilemmas about global wilderness. The course will include films, websites, periodicals, and blogs, paying particular attention to such threatened biomes as the Congolese Basin and Guyana Shield as domains of conspicuous urgency. N William Weitzel fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .115 On Liberty Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics. N Wesley Lyons Erdelack fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .116 On Liberty Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics. N Wesley Lyons Erdelack fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .119 Family Matters Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic, political, or sociological writing which often shapes larger narratives about identity politics and the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them. N Aliza H Watters fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .120 Family Matters Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic, political, or sociological writing which often shapes larger narratives about identity politics and the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them. N Aliza H Watters spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .121 Family Matters Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Tu., Th., at 10 Aliza H. Watters This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic, political, or sociological writing which often shapes larger narratives about identity politics and the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them. N Aliza H Watters spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .122 Family Matters Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Tu., Th., at 12 Aliza H. Watters This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic, political, or sociological writing which often shapes larger narratives about identity politics and the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them. N Aliza H Watters spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .123 Urban America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 M., W., at 1 Lindsay M. Silver Cohen This course addresses questions about the past and present urban experience by analyzing American cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts. N Lindsay M. Silver Cohen fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .125 Obsession Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the cultural representation of obsession - in film, literature, and psychoanalytic case histories - asking how artistic accounts of aberrant emotions, compulsions, and habits might intersect with or diverge from scientific accounts of obsession and its potential manifestations. Under what conditions is obsession considered a virtue, and when does it become pathological? What can a study of obsession reveal about our conceptions of normality, attachment, perfectionism, and paranoia, and their place in contemporary society? N Matthew T Levay fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .126 Obsession Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the cultural representation of obsession - in film, literature, and psychoanalytic case histories - asking how artistic accounts of aberrant emotions, compulsions, and habits might intersect with or diverge from scientific accounts of obsession and its potential manifestations. Under what conditions is obsession considered a virtue, and when does it become pathological? What can a study of obsession reveal about our conceptions of normality, attachment, perfectionism, and paranoia, and their place in contemporary society? N Matthew T Levay spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .127 Obsession Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the cultural representation of obsession - in film, literature, and psychoanalytic case histories - asking how artistic accounts of aberrant emotions, compulsions, and habits might intersect with or diverge from scientific accounts of obsession and its potential manifestations. Under what conditions is obsession considered a virtue, and when does it become pathological? What can a study of obsession reveal about our conceptions of normality, attachment, perfectionism, and paranoia, and their place in contemporary society? N Matthew T Levay spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .128 Obsession Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the cultural representation of obsession - in film, literature, and psychoanalytic case histories - asking how artistic accounts of aberrant emotions, compulsions, and habits might intersect with or diverge from scientific accounts of obsession and its potential manifestations. Under what conditions is obsession considered a virtue, and when does it become pathological? What can a study of obsession reveal about our conceptions of normality, attachment, perfectionism, and paranoia, and their place in contemporary society? N Matthew T Levay spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .129 Contemporary Theatre Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Since the 1950s, theatre has refused to shy away from controversial issues, provoking audiences to reconsider their beliefs and re-imagine the world. This course will grapple with the plays of influential and provocative playwrights from the past five decades, and debate issues of politics, ethics, race, and sexuality. Playwrights will include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane. N Ken Urban spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .130 Contemporary Theatre Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Since the 1950s, theatre has refused to shy away from controversial issues, provoking audiences to reconsider their beliefs and re-imagine the world. This course will grapple with the plays of influential and provocative playwrights from the past five decades, and debate issues of politics, ethics, race, and sexuality. Playwrights will include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane. N Ken Urban fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .131 Philosophy of the State Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course inquires into the origin and nature of the state, its forms and functions, its duties and powers in connection with its members, and its ethical implications. Readings to be discussed and written on are taken from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. Throughout the course, students adjudicate between different conceptions of the state and their ends, and examine the source of power of the state. N Owen Chen fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .132 Philosophy of the State Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course inquires into the origin and nature of the state, its forms and functions, its duties and powers in connection with its members, and its ethical implications. Readings to be discussed and written on are taken from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. Throughout the course, students adjudicate between different conceptions of the state and their ends, and examine the source of power of the state. N Owen Chen spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .133 Philosophy of the State Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course inquires into the origin and nature of the state, its forms and functions, its duties and powers in connection with its members, and its ethical implications. Readings to be discussed and written on are taken from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. Throughout the course, students adjudicate between different conceptions of the state and their ends, and examine the source of power of the state. N Owen Chen spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .134 Philosophy of the State Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course inquires into the origin and nature of the state, its forms and functions, its duties and powers in connection with its members, and its ethical implications. Readings to be discussed and written on are taken from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. Throughout the course, students adjudicate between different conceptions of the state and their ends, and examine the source of power of the state. N Owen Chen fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .135 Art & the Nude Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores how the representation of the nude in modern art broke with the past and fundamentally reshaped the cultural landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taught in conjunction with the "Degas and the Nude" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, we first consider the tradition of the flawless goddess, how artists like Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso transgressed it, and, finally, how contemporary artists continue to radically transform the nude today. Y Justine De Young fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .136 Art & the Nude Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores how the representation of the nude in modern art broke with the past and fundamentally reshaped the cultural landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taught in conjunction with the "Degas and the Nude" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, we first consider the tradition of the flawless goddess, how artists like Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso transgressed it, and, finally, how contemporary artists continue to radically transform the nude today. Y Justine De Young spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .137 Art & the Nude Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores how the representation of the nude in modern art broke with the past and fundamentally reshaped the cultural landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taught in conjunction with the "Degas and the Nude" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, we first consider the tradition of the flawless goddess, how artists like Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso transgressed it, and, finally, how contemporary artists continue to radically transform the nude today. Y Justine De Young spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .138 Art & the Nude Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores how the representation of the nude in modern art broke with the past and fundamentally reshaped the cultural landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taught in conjunction with the "Degas and the Nude" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, we first consider the tradition of the flawless goddess, how artists like Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso transgressed it, and, finally, how contemporary artists continue to radically transform the nude today. Y Justine De Young fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .139 The Experience of Class Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the subjective experience of social class in the U.S. from an ethnographic perspective. We will examine how members of the working and professional classes define themselves and view the classes above and below them. We will focus in particular on how class position influences beliefs about work, achievement, and taste. We will also consider the role of elite educational institutions such as Harvard in shaping the class system. N James Herron spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .140 The Experience of Class Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the subjective experience of social class in the U.S. from an ethnographic perspective. We will examine how members of the working and professional classes define themselves and view the classes above and below them. We will focus in particular on how class position influences beliefs about work, achievement, and taste. We will also consider the role of elite educational institutions such as Harvard in shaping the class system. N James Herron spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .141 Portraits of Madness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Writers and filmmakers have long been fascinated by the artistic challenge of representing madness. What can those portraits tell us about the relationship of illness and identity, the ease of losing touch with rationality, the nature of the mind, and our own relative sanity? We will study Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted; Patrick McGrath's gothic novel Spider and its film adaptation; and the films Donnie Darko, The Hours, and The Silence of the Lambs. N Karen Heath fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .142 Jane Austen, Then and Now Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will consider Austen in her own historical context and ours, and as an author whose importance lies both inside and outside the university. In our first unit we will undertake a close reading of Persuasion; in unit 2 we'll compare Pride and Prejudice to several of its film adaptations, and in unit 3 students will develop independent research topics to engage with Austen scholarship and cultural commentary that assesses her work's contemporary relevance. N Tess O'Toole fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .143 Jane Austen, Then and Now Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will consider Austen in her own historical context and ours, and as an author whose importance lies both inside and outside the university. In our first unit we will undertake a close reading of Persuasion; in unit 2 we'll compare Pride and Prejudice to several of its film adaptations, and in unit 3 students will develop independent research topics to engage with Austen scholarship and cultural commentary that assesses her work's contemporary relevance. N Tess O'Toole spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .144 Jane Austen, Then and Now Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will consider Austen in her own historical context and ours, and as an author whose importance lies both inside and outside the university. In our first unit we will undertake a close reading of Persuasion; in unit 2 we'll compare Pride and Prejudice to several of its film adaptations, and in unit 3 students will develop independent research topics to engage with Austen scholarship and cultural commentary that assesses her work's contemporary relevance. N Tess O'Toole spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .145 Jane Austen, Then and Now Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will consider Austen in her own historical context and ours, and as an author whose importance lies both inside and outside the university. In our first unit we will undertake a close reading of Persuasion; in unit 2 we'll compare Pride and Prejudice to several of its film adaptations, and in unit 3 students will develop independent research topics to engage with Austen scholarship and cultural commentary that assesses her work's contemporary relevance. N Tess O'Toole fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .146 The Problem of the Mind Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course introduces some central concerns of philosophy of mind. Students will learn about the historical framing of philosophical problems about the mind. They will then study various approaches to solving these issues that have been attempted during the twentieth century and until today, critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of these theories, in philosophical, scientific, and cultural terms. Finally, the notion of the self and its relation to the mind will be examined. N Eoin Ryan fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .147 The Problem of the Mind Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course introduces some central concerns of philosophy of mind. Students will learn about the historical framing of philosophical problems about the mind. They will then study various approaches to solving these issues that have been attempted during the twentieth century and until today, critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of these theories, in philosophical, scientific, and cultural terms. Finally, the notion of the self and its relation to the mind will be examined. N Eoin Ryan spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .148 The Problem of the Mind Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course introduces some central concerns of philosophy of mind. Students will learn about the historical framing of philosophical problems about the mind. They will then study various approaches to solving these issues that have been attempted during the twentieth century and until today, critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of these theories, in philosophical, scientific, and cultural terms. Finally, the notion of the self and its relation to the mind will be examined. N Eoin Ryan spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .149 The Problem of the Mind Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course introduces some central concerns of philosophy of mind. Students will learn about the historical framing of philosophical problems about the mind. They will then study various approaches to solving these issues that have been attempted during the twentieth century and until today, critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of these theories, in philosophical, scientific, and cultural terms. Finally, the notion of the self and its relation to the mind will be examined. N Eoin Ryan fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .150 Lovesickness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the concept of love as an illness as it developed in literature and other disciplines from classical antiquity to the Renaissance to the present. Is lovesickness a scientific phenomenon or a poetic invention? From Plato, to Shakespeare, to Freud, and beyond, we will cover a wide range of works in literature, philosophy, and medicine to trace the changing vocabulary of lovesickness and its persistent role in contemporary culture. N Yulia Ryzhik fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .151 Lovesickness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the concept of love as an illness as it developed in literature and other disciplines from classical antiquity to the Renaissance to the present. Is lovesickness a scientific phenomenon or a poetic invention? From Plato, to Shakespeare, to Freud, and beyond, we will cover a wide range of works in literature, philosophy, and medicine to trace the changing vocabulary of lovesickness and its persistent role in contemporary culture. N Yulia Ryzhik spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .152 Lovesickness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the concept of love as an illness as it developed in literature and other disciplines from classical antiquity to the Renaissance to the present. Is lovesickness a scientific phenomenon or a poetic invention? From Plato, to Shakespeare, to Freud, and beyond, we will cover a wide range of works in literature, philosophy, and medicine to trace the changing vocabulary of lovesickness and its persistent role in contemporary culture. N Yulia Ryzhik spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .153 Lovesickness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the concept of love as an illness as it developed in literature and other disciplines from classical antiquity to the Renaissance to the present. Is lovesickness a scientific phenomenon or a poetic invention? From Plato, to Shakespeare, to Freud, and beyond, we will cover a wide range of works in literature, philosophy, and medicine to trace the changing vocabulary of lovesickness and its persistent role in contemporary culture. N Yulia Ryzhik fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .154 Resistance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What constitutes an act of resistance? What role do individual beliefs, collective action, public protest, art and literature have in resistance movements? What can the study of resistance teach us about the past and about the world we live in today? This course will explore these questions through case studies drawn from contemporary politics and culture, the apartheid era in South Africa, and Harvard history. N Kelsey Williams McNiff fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .155 Resistance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What constitutes an act of resistance? What role do individual beliefs, collective action, public protest, art and literature have in resistance movements? What can the study of resistance teach us about the past and about the world we live in today? This course will explore these questions through case studies drawn from contemporary politics and culture, the apartheid era in South Africa, and Harvard history. N Kelsey Williams McNiff spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .156 Resistance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What constitutes an act of resistance? What role do individual beliefs, collective action, public protest, art and literature have in resistance movements? What can the study of resistance teach us about the past and about the world we live in today? This course will explore these questions through case studies drawn from contemporary politics and culture, the apartheid era in South Africa, and Harvard history. N Kelsey Williams McNiff spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .157 Resistance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What constitutes an act of resistance? What role do individual beliefs, collective action, public protest, art and literature have in resistance movements? What can the study of resistance teach us about the past and about the world we live in today? This course will explore these questions through case studies drawn from contemporary politics and culture, the apartheid era in South Africa, and Harvard history. N Kelsey Williams McNiff fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .158 Immigration in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Critics of immigration argue that a growing foreign-born population endangers economic health, threatens democratic traditions, and undermines cultural unity. Proponents respond that immigration is central to America's national identity and crucial for prosperity. Often, these debates hinge on perceptions of how today's immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. This course first examines popular and scholarly debates over immigrant adaptation, then analyzes the efficacy of U.S. policies aimed at facilitating this process. N Abigail Fisher Williamson fall term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .159 Immigration in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Critics of immigration argue that a growing foreign-born population endangers economic health, threatens democratic traditions, and undermines cultural unity. Proponents respond that immigration is central to America's national identity and crucial for prosperity. Often, these debates hinge on perceptions of how today's immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. This course first examines popular and scholarly debates over immigrant adaptation, then analyzes the efficacy of U.S. policies aimed at facilitating this process. N Abigail Fisher Williamson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .160 Immigration in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Critics of immigration argue that a growing foreign-born population endangers economic health, threatens democratic traditions, and undermines cultural unity. Proponents respond that immigration is central to America's national identity and crucial for prosperity. Often, these debates hinge on perceptions of how today's immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. This course first examines popular and scholarly debates over immigrant adaptation, then analyzes the efficacy of U.S. policies aimed at facilitating this process. N Abigail Fisher Williamson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .161 Immigration in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Critics of immigration argue that a growing foreign-born population endangers economic health, threatens democratic traditions, and undermines cultural unity. Proponents respond that immigration is central to America's national identity and crucial for prosperity. Often, these debates hinge on perceptions of how today's immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. This course first examines popular and scholarly debates over immigrant adaptation, then analyzes the efficacy of U.S. policies aimed at facilitating this process. N Abigail Fisher Williamson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .162 Gothic Fiction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the meaning and function of Gothic literature, a genre characterized by secrecy, perversion, madness, and death. In our first unit, short stories-of various centuries and nations-will allow us to develop a working definition of Gothic. In unit two we'll interpret Jane Austen's Gothic spoof Northanger Abbey in the context of both popular fiction and eighteenth-century debates about reading. The third unit introduces research methods that focus on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. N Patricia Bellanca spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .163 Cities and Globalization Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course investigates how "the global city" brings to the fore the opportunities and challenges of contemporary globalization. How do economic and cultural forms link cities like New York, Paris, and Mumbai? How is urban protest a response to globalization? We will answer these questions by reading a variety of texts - including theoretical works by Saskia Sassen and Ulf Hannerz, and literary non-fiction by Suketu Mehta - and viewing artistic interpretations, including the film "La Haine." N Elizabeth Leah Greenspan spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .164 Tragedy and Everyday Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine tragedies both ancient and modern, focusing on problems such as self-knowledge, certainty, intra- and interpersonal conflict, and loneliness. We will explore tragedy both as a form and as a collection of themes, and we will compare the idiosyncratic ways in which terms such as "tragedy" and "tragic" have developed within academic as well as mainstream contexts. Readings and screenings will include works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Bergman, and Hitchcock. N Jonah M Johnson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .165 Tragedy and Everyday Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this course we will examine tragedies both ancient and modern, focusing on problems such as self-knowledge, certainty, intra- and interpersonal conflict, and loneliness. We will explore tragedy both as a form and as a collection of themes, and we will compare the idiosyncratic ways in which terms such as "tragedy" and "tragic" have developed within academic as well as mainstream contexts. Readings and screenings will include works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Bergman, and Hitchcock. N Jonah M Johnson spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .166 East Meets West Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The East-as idea, symbol, and source for inspiration, knowledge, and methods-has long fascinated American writers, filmmakers and scientists. When East meets West in one's imagination or daily life, what are the consequences of this encounter? In this course we will analyze the different ways American thinkers interpret the East. We will also investigate collisions between Eastern and Western ideas about medicine and healing. Our texts will include poems, films, essays, and other readings. N Susan Carlisle spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .167 Social Worlds of Friendship Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Most of us appreciate the importance of friendship, but do we really understand how friendships are formed and how they shape our lives? This course explores the meaning and significance of friendship, particularly in terms of personal identity, community building, and social transformation. We will explore classical readings and delve into contemporary issues such as friendship and difference, changes in personal networks, and the challenge that friendship poses to social inequalities. N Dwight Fee spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .168 Social Worlds of Friendship Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Most of us appreciate the importance of friendship, but do we really understand how friendships are formed and how they shape our lives? This course explores the meaning and significance of friendship, particularly in terms of personal identity, community building, and social transformation. We will explore classical readings and delve into contemporary issues such as friendship and difference, changes in personal networks, and the challenge that friendship poses to social inequalities. N Dwight Fee spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .169 Imagining Animals Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What might the world look like to an animal? To what extent can we as humans even imagine such a perspective? First, we will develop a working understanding of the problem of imagining animals; next, we will test certain philosophical claims against the personal accounts of scientists. In Unit III, we will more directly confront the practical question of how to live with animals, evaluating arguments from ethics, food journalism, and interspecies theory. N David Hahn spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .170 Imagining Animals Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What might the world look like to an animal? To what extent can we as humans even imagine such a perspective? First, we will develop a working understanding of the problem of imagining animals; next, we will test certain philosophical claims against the personal accounts of scientists. In Unit III, we will more directly confront the practical question of how to live with animals, evaluating arguments from ethics, food journalism, and interspecies theory. N David Hahn spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .171 Boston in Words and Images Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will explore various cultural myths about Boston: Unit 1 will consider the myth of Boston as the most "European" city in America by analyzing Henry James's The Europeans; Unit 2 will examine the fantasy of Boston as a dark underworld of crime in films like Clint Eastwood's Mystic River and Martin Scorsese's The Departed; and in Unit 3 students will undertake independent research on Boston as the ultimate symbol of Ivy League privilege. N Christina Kim Becker spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .172 Is Poetry Necessary? Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Poetry has traditionally exemplified the greatest height of artistic expression, but it is also the art with the longest history of having its authority and integrity called into question. This course examines emblematic works in prose and verse that grapple with perennial disputes over the significance of poetry. We'll consider both modern and classical conceptions of poetry's purpose and value as we question why so many poets have found it necessary to defend and justify their art. N David C. Barber spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .173 On Risk and Reason Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Scientific findings about human health and behavior are often described in terms of risk. However, reasoning about risk turns out to be a complex task. In this course, we will explore why messages about risk are challenging to understand. We will focus on what cognitive capacities are involved in thinking about and making decisions based on information presented in terms of risk. N Adrienne Leigh Tierney spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .174 Reading the Body Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What does it mean-and what has it meant-to have a body? How does the way we think about our bodies depend upon the technologies we use to manage and measure them and the artistic forms we use to represent them? We will explore Harvard's collection of medical curiosities and instruments, analyze how Lamarck, Paley, Darwin, and Byatt theorize the human body, and explore contemporary representations of the body in many contexts, from films to athletics. N Rebecca Summerhays spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 .175 Reading the Body Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What does it mean-and what has it meant-to have a body? How does the way we think about our bodies depend upon the technologies we use to manage and measure them and the artistic forms we use to represent them? We will explore Harvard's collection of medical curiosities and instruments, analyze how Lamarck, Paley, Darwin, and Byatt theorize the human body, and explore contemporary representations of the body in many contexts, from films to athletics. N Rebecca Summerhays fall term; repeated spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 20 Expository Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students must pass one term of Expository Writing 20 to meet the College's Expository Writing requirement. N Thomas Jehn Thomas Jehn fall term; repeated spring term Expository Writing, Subcommittee of the Core Program Expository Writing Expository Writing 40 Public Speaking Practicum Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 30 This course develops and strengthens the skills necessary for successful public speaking. Students learn strategies for impromptu speaking, preparing and delivering presentations, formulating and organizing persuasive arguments, cultivating critical thinking, engaging with an audience, using the voice and body, and building confidence in oral expression. Besides refining their skills, students receive training as public speaking tutors in preparation for serving as peer tutors for the Derek Bok Center's Program in Speaking and Learning. See the <a href="http://writingprogram.fas.harvard.edu">Writing Program</a> for admission information. Y Elise R. Morrison Elise R. Morrison fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 90 h Hero and Trickster Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Human imagination has conjured two enduring mythic characters, which create habitable worlds for people in stories from cultures all over the world. Sometimes branded Hero, sometimes Trickster, these two share traits and antics, yet they seem to endorse fundamentally different values. This seminar examines both hero and trickster in several cultural contexts, comparing them with each other and with their correlates worldwide, primarily in oral traditions, but also where each has migrated to other media. N Deborah Foster spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 90 i Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 28 Traces the migration of traditional tales from communal storytelling circles into the literary culture of childhood and into new media. How are powerful cultural myths about innocence and seduction, monstrosity and compassion, or hospitality and hostility recycled in fairy-tale fashion? How do fantasy worlds-both utopian and dystopic-provide children with portals for exploring counterfactuals and worst-case scenarios? Authors include the Brothers Grimm, Andersen, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, and J.K. Rowling. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y Maria Tatar spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 90 j American Folklore: Plants and People Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This seminar invites participants to explore the complex relationship between people and plants in the American environment and especially, the American imagination. We will read texts by Michael Pollan, William Bartram, Annie Proulx, Susan Orleans and Leslie Marmon Silko, explore traditional Native American plant stories, and get out on the ground with the people who work most closely with plants. N Lisa T. Brooks fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Instruction and direction of reading on material not treated in regular courses of instruction; special work on topics in folklore, mythology, and oral literature. Normally available only to concentrators in Folklore and Mythology. Applicants must consult the Chairman or the Head Tutor of the Committee. The signature of the Chairman or the Head Tutor is required. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 96 r Senior Projects Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Designed for seniors completing their (non-thesis) senior project to meet the requirement for the concentration's senior project option. Students must secure the written approval for the project from the faculty member with whom they wish to work as well as the signature of the Head Tutor. May be repeated with the permission of the Head Tutor. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 97 Fieldwork and Ethnography in Folklore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduces concentrators to the study of traditions - their performance, collection, representation and interpretation. Both ethnographic and theoretical readings serve as the material for class discussion and the foundation for experimental fieldwork projects. Required of all, and limited to, concentrators. Y Deborah Foster fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 98 a History and Theory of Folklore Methodology Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The development of folklore and mythology as fields of study, with particular attention to the methodological approaches suited to their areas of enquiry. Surveys the study of folklore and mythology in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but focuses especially on theoretical contributions to the study of folklore, mythology, and oral literature in recent decades. Readings from Bauman, Bronner, Dundes, Georges, Lord, Oring, Propp, Tedlock, and Zumwalt among many others. Required of all, and limited to, concentrators. Y Joseph C. Harris fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 98 b Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of all concentrators. The signature of the Head Tutor or Chairman of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology required. Normally taken in the second term of the junior year. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster full year Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Required of all thesis writers. The signature of the Head Tutor or Chairman of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology required. Graded Sat/Unsat. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 114 Embodied Expression/Expressive Body: Dance in Cultural Context Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 An examination of the ways in which the dancing body internalizes and communicates cultural knowledge to both dancer and observer. By participating in dance workshops, watching dance performances (live and on film), and reading ethnographic and theoretical texts, we attempt to understand the emergent meaning of dance performances from multiple perspectives. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief and the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Deborah Foster fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 126 Continuing Oral Traditions in Indigenous Communities Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Rather than textual artifacts of a cultural past, Indigenous oral literatures are living traditions in particular landscapes, activities in which communities are engaged. Features trips to local Native places and engagement with communal tellings and literary texts from around the globe, emphasizing the interdependent relationship between the spoken and the written word, and the importance of local knowledge in an increasingly global indigenous network. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Lisa T. Brooks fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 145 The Heroic Epic in Northern Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Surveys the principal heroic monuments of northern Europe, including Beowulf, The Lay of Hildebrand, The Lay of the Nibelungs, The Saga of the Volsungs, and the Sigurd poetry of the Poetic edda, and their interpretations. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y Stephen A. Mitchell fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 170 Folk Art in the Modern World Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Folk art is a world-wide phenomenon, with a lasting importance to modern culture and to national identities. But what are the commonalities and variations in how folk art is defined, what types are prized, and how is it studied, perpetuated, and preserved? N Felicity Lufkin spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 171 Chinese New Year Pictures: Folk Art and Visual Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The colorful woodcut prints now commonly known as New Year pictures or nianhua are one of China's best known folk arts, thriving into the 20th c. We will look at how these prints were made and distributed, the roles they played in everyday life, and what they can tell us about the interactions of high and low, rural and urban, and tradition and modernity within Chinese culture and art. N Felicity Lufkin fall term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 172 Quilts and Quiltmaking Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Are quilts the great American (folk) art? From intricately stitched whole-cloth quilts, to the improvisational patchworks of Gee's Bend; from the graphic simplicity of Amish quilts to the cozy pastels of depression-era quilts; from the Aids Quilt to art quilts; quilts have taken on extraordinary significance in American culture. This class surveys the evolution of quilt-making as a social practice, considering the role of quilts in articulations of gender, ethnic, class and religious identities, and their positions within discourses of domesticity, technology, consumerism, and cultural hierarchy. N Felicity Lufkin spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 174 Chinese Folk Arts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will introduce several types of Chinese (visual) folk art. We will consider them comparatively, and pay special attention to the position of folk art in contemporary Chinese society. N Felicity Lufkin fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology Folklore and Mythology 191 r Supervised Reading and Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 o The Neurophysiology of Visual Perception Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 How do the eyes and brain of higher mammals (including humans) deal with visual information originating in the outside world? Starts with brief survey of mammalian brain neuroanatomy and cell-level neurophysiology (nerve conduction, synapses). Covers neurophysiology of the visual path from retina to cortex, with emphasis on transformations in information that occur at each successive level. Studies main components of visual perception: form, color, movement, depth, and considers the bearing of these on art. Meets at the Medical School. Open to Freshmen only. Y David Hunter Hubel fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 p Materials, Energy, and Society Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Advances in materials and energy technology have paced the development of Society from the Stone Age to the present. Today, we are facing an over-reliance on fossil fuels, a growing population, and its consequences on Global Warming. Starting with our current and anticipated future energy needs, this course, which includes substantial weekly laboratory content, explores the role of materials in evolving alternative energy technologies as well as their impact on worldwide resources. Open to Freshmen only. Y David Clarke spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 q Biological Impostors: Mimicry and Camouflage in Nature Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Plants and animals imitate one another and their surroundings to escape notice and avoid predators. This seminar explores the evolution of mimicry and camouflage using case studies that reveal the range of visual, behavioral, acoustical, and chemical means by which this deception is accomplished. Open to Freshmen only. Y Michael Ross Canfield fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 s Germs Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Germs are responsible for the disruption of whole civilizations and for the maintenance of the ecological balance on planet Earth. Explores the importance of germs as causative agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants and emerging diseases. Investigates why epidemics occur, the role of germs in the control of the ecological balance on Earth -- how microbes affect the cycling of elements, and climate control. Are there dangers to inserting microbial genes into crops? Open to Freshmen only. Y Ralph Mitchell fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 u Calculating Pi Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Focuses on mathematical, computational, and historical aspects of calculating pi. Many great mathematicians, including Archimedes, Newton, Gauss, and Euler, worked on the problem. Explores a wide variety of methods for computing pi and their implementation in Mathematica on a personal computer. Geometry and calculus used to prove the correctness of these methods and assess their accuracy, and then methods used to calculate pi to a large number of decimal places. Calculus Open to Freshmen only. Y Paul Bamberg spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 w Research at the Harvard Forest: Global Change Ecology-Forests, Ecosystem Function, the Future Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 11 This course explores state-of-the-art research, tools and measurements used to investigate and predict climate change through ongoing studies at the Harvard Forest's 3,000 acre outdoor laboratory in Petersham, MA. The seminar consists of three weekend-long field trips (Friday evening-Sunday) to the Harvard Forest and a final on-campus meeting. Students develop skills for evaluating, discussing, and presenting the ecological evidence for climate change, including feedbacks between forests and the atmosphere and long-term impacts on forest ecosystems. Open to Freshmen only. Four weekends at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA (Fri, 3pm-Sun, late afternoon) dates TBA. Transportation, accommodations, and meals at the Harvard Forest will be provided. Y David R. Foster fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 21 y The Art and Politics of Molecular Biology Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Objectivity is important in carrying out scientific research, yet it is clear that there are elements of creativity and politics than shape the practice and communication of science. This course explores how individual creativity and political behavior influence scientific pursuits in molecular biology. Harold Varmus' memoir "The Art and Politics of Science" is read and discussed, followed by diverse activities, including viewing and discussing films that broach scientific topics, e.g. "DNA Story" and "GATTACA". Open to Freshmen only. Y Roberto Kolter fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 g Plants and Climate Change Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Plants are remarkable organisms: they convert the sun's energy into chemical bonds that provide food for the biosphere's consumers, including humans. This seminar focuses on questions related to the effects of climate change on the world of plants. We will discuss impacts of climate change on the ecology of both natural and managed ecosystems and ask how these impacts may influence human societies and the health of our planet. Climate change skeptics are welcome. Open to Freshmen only. Y Andrew Richardson fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 i The Science of Sailing Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Explores basic physical principles through sailing. Sailboats are driven by the flow of wind across their sails. How does this generate a driving force, how is that force balanced, and how does it scale with the size of the sailboat? Studies the environment in which a sailboat operates, including the origin and variability of the wind, and the interaction of wind with water. Addresses questions of strategy and tactics faced by sailors on race courses. Participants in this seminar should have a good high school physics background and have some knowledge of sailing. Open to Freshmen only. Y Jeremy Bloxham spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 j Seeing by Spectroscopy Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores diverse topics and areas of science in which spectroscopy-the observation of energy emitted from a radiant source-plays a leading role. Concentrates on selected topics from chemistry, physics, astronomy, and atmospheric science. Emphasizes spectroscopy as the basis for remote sensing, choosing the grand topic of looking out-astronomical observations and seeing what is in the universe. Participants also will study (Nuclear) Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a model for looking in. Open to Freshmen only. Y William Klemperer fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 m The Human Brain Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Investigates human brain function through famous neurological cases and what we have learned from them: Broca's patient "Tan" whose case led to the identification of one of the brain's language areas; Phineas Gage, whose injury to a specific brain region changed his personality dramatically; and patient HM who, after brain surgery, no longer could remember things for more than a few minutes. Readings will be from my book Creating Mind. High school science. Open to Freshmen only. This seminar is designed for non-science concentrators. Y John E. Dowling fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 u E. coli in Motion Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The bacterium Escherichia coli lives in your gut. It is a model system for understanding how cells monitor their environment and respond by moving in a purposeful manner. We will learn about the microscopic world in which E. coli lives and the mechanisms that it has devised to make its way in this world. A reasonably strong background in high-school science, mainly math and chemistry. Open to Freshmen only. Y Howard C. Berg spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 22 w Environmental Epigenetics Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Why do plants flower in spring, but not in fall? Why don't identical twins get the same diseases? How do early life chemical exposures affect disease susceptibility or severity in adults? The course will explore the concepts, phenomena, and mechanisms of epigenetics. We will consider the implications of epigenetics for disease prevention. Finally, we will consider the evolutionary implications of the possibility that experiences of the parent can be molecularly transmitted to offspring. Open to Freshmen only. Y Nicole Francis spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 e The Scientific Method: A Roadmap to Knowledge Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of the scientific method, thereby fostering development of fundamental skills in logic and experimental design. The various forms of reasoning (deductive, inductive, abductive) will be discussed in context of the practice of science. Through critical analysis of historical and contemporary scientific reports, students will gain an understanding of creating appropriate hypotheses, of controlled experimentation, and of the breadth and limits of conclusions drawn from experimental data. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Robert Sackstein spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 k Insights from Narratives of Illness Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A physician occupies a unique perch, regularly witnessing life's great mysteries; it is no wonder that narratives of illness have been of interest to both physician and non-physician writers. Examines and interrogates both literary and journalistic dimensions of medical writing from Tolstoy to Oliver Sacks as well as newspapers and periodicals. Studies not only mainstream medical journalists, but so called alternative medical writers such as Andrew Weil also. Work with different forms of medical writing. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Jerome Elliot Groopman spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 l Medicine, Law, and Ethics: An Introduction Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores medical, legal, and ethical aspects of medical care, with particular attention to medical decision-making at the beginning and end of life, participants in research on human subjects, human reproductive technologies, mental illness, and experimentation on animals. Historical background of present-day medical practices and relevant law to be discussed. All students are welcome, but this seminar is particularly geared to pre-medical and pre-law students. Students are advised that this course is intended to be introductory. Students who have participated in debate or who are looking for an advanced debate course should not take this course. Open to Freshmen only. Y Shahram Khoshbin fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 m Nutrition and Public Health Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduction to the critical reading of technical nutrition and medical literature; surveys current issues in public health and public policy relating to nutrition. Critical analysis of different types of medical literature: historical monographs, metabolic laboratory observations, clinical case reports, epidemiological surveys, prospective randomized controlled trials, metaanalyses, and literature reviews. Prepares science and non-science concentrators to examine critically current controversies for themselves; requires active participation and presentation by students. Open to Freshmen only. Clinical rounds with Nutrition Support Services at Children's Hospital are optional. Y Clifford W. Lo fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 n Evolutionary Arms Races-From Genes to Societies Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Competition and conflict are common in biology - e.g. predator-prey or host-pathogen interactions - with important implications in evolution and human health. Conflicts of interest almost inevitably set in motion perpetually evolving counterstrategies, a pattern similar to the arms races in human society. This seminar will focus on these patterns in biology and compare and contrast them with those in society. We will consider outcomes, and explore the utility of using such analogies across systems. Open to Freshmen only. Y Kirsten Bomblies spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 23 y All Physics in 13 Days Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 13 This seminar will introduce 13 key pieces of knowledge about our physical world: 1) Boltzmann factor and thermal equilibrium, 2) Turbulence, 3) Reaction rates, 4) Indistinguishable particles, 5) Quantum waves, 6) Linearity, 7) Entropy and information, 8) Discharges, ionization, 9) Relativity, 10) Nuclear binding energies, 11) Photon modes, 12) Diffraction, 13) Resonance. Each week we will discuss one of these principles and see how we might gain an understanding of our physical and technological world. Prerequisite: either Mechanics 11a, 15a, or 16. Open to Freshmen only. Y John Doyle fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 e The Physics and Applied Physics Freshman Research Laboratory Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Exposes students considering careers in science or engineering to environment of a modern research laboratory. Research teams construct, perform, analyze, and report on cutting-edge experiments in physical, engineering, and biological sciences. Projects provide insight into the mathematical, mechanical, electronic, chemical, computational, and organizational tools and skills that characterize modern experimental science. Past projects focused on atomic, nuclear, and solid state physics, materials science, dynamical systems, and biophysical science. Projects highlight both team and individual effort. Open to Freshmen only. Y Jene A. Golovchenko fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 g A Brief History of Surgery Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In this seminar, students explore the historical foundation of modern surgical practice. They will study the medical notions of the ancients, and then see these notions overturned in The Enlightenment. Advances of the 19th century will be studied in detail. We will end with a session on combat casualty care, aided by an experienced combat surgeon. Students will write a 5 page paper on a topic in surgical history and will present their work to the class. Open for Freshmen only. Y Dr Frederick H. Millham spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 k The Surprising Science of Happiness Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 After a century of studying how to cure mental illness, scientists have started to explore what makes us happy. What have they discovered? In this course, we will critically examine the findings from the new science of happiness revealing how they are altering our understanding of what happiness is, the optimal ways to achieve and increase it, the role of circumstance in its occurrence, its effect on our bodies, and its place in human nature. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Nancy Lee Etcoff fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 n Child Health in America Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Reviews history of children's health care in the United States; explores the impact of geography, environment, nutrition, clean water, as well as scientific discoveries of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries and the emergence of high technology care in middle and late 20th century. Does America provide children the best possible health care available? Compares United States epidemiology with that of other developed and developing nations. Explores how child health delivery is financed. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sean Palfrey Judith Palfrey fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 p Getting to Know Charles Darwin Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 We will read Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species, paying close attention to the man behind the science as revealed by his writing. We will get to know Darwin, the avid breeder of pigeons, lover of barnacles, devoted father and husband, gifted correspondent and tactician, and remarkable backyard scientist. Together, the class will reproduce several of Darwin's classic Down House experiments that were central to his case for natural selection and evolution in Origin. Open to Freshmen only. Y William Friedman spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 s Chance Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Probability is a subject that grew up in gambling dens, and yet is most likely (?) to repeatedly touch your life (!). In this seminar we will use examples to look at probability from the perspective of how empirical observations are distilled into quantitative measurements, causal models and theories. This will naturally lead us to consider the role of probability in the sciences and technology, from its earliest algebraic underpinnings to its current manifestations with application areas that include gambling and games of chance, all the way to risk and uncertainty in health care, environment, conflict, war and peace. Elementary programming skills, elementary single variable calculus. Open to Freshmen only. Y Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 u "How Did I Get Here?"--Appreciating "Normal" Child Development Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do we conceptualize "normal" growth and development? In this seminar, we will examine stages of child development from many vantage points: neurobiological, physical, cultural, and psychological. Readings will include classic papers on development, textbook chapters that provide overviews of specific developmental stages, recently published research articles on brain development and genetic inheritance, selected contemporary children's and young adult literature, personal memoirs, and short stories written about childhood. We will also examine clips from contemporary films. Assignments will consist of three short response papers and a longer final paper. There are no prerequisites for this course. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Laura Marie Prager spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 24 w Minds, Brains, and Computers: The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar will examine the project of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the idea of understanding the mind/brain as a computing machine. Can machines come to have mental capacities, thought, language, emotions, a sense of self? Are we simply machines ourselves, but a different (biological and non-digital) kind? What makes human beings uniquely what we are? We will study these questions in the works of both AI researchers (past and present) and their various philosophical critics. Open to Freshmen only Y Guven Guzeldere fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 g The Impact of Infectious Diseases on History and Society Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Mankind's journey- farming, urbanization, exploration, trade, globalization -has been marked by devastating encounters with infectious diseases. Infections have affected wars, political dynasties, global balance of power, social structure, public health policy, economics, and the arts. This course explores these themes by studying infections such as plague, syphilis, smallpox, malaria, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, cholera, yellow fever, polio, and influenza. It investigates how the epidemiology of these diseases, and society's response, inform contemporary policy and future threats. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Donald Alan Goldmann fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 i On the Witness Stand: Scientific Evidence in the American Courts Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Scientific evidence serves as a powerful witness in the courts. This seminar focuses on social, historical and theoretical problems in the interaction of law and science. The course coverage includes scientific evidence such as x-rays, fingerprinting, ballistics, lie detectors and DNA. Particularly, the seminar investigates the legal strategies used to demarcate pseudo-science from legitimate science, to establish expertise and legitimize both scientific and legal authority. In turn, the seminar considers recent proposals for reform. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sean Tath O'Donnell fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 k You Are What You Eat Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What does food do to our bodies? What does a healthy diet entail? What is known about the role of nutrition in preventing or curing disease? Explores and critically evaluates diet recommendations, current knowledge about the role of diet in maintaining health, and use of nutrition to treat disease. Discusses how studies are conducted to understand the impact of nutrition. Explores different diets and the obesity epidemic, its causes and its implications for the next decades. Open to Freshmen only. Y Karin Michels fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 n Understanding Psychological Development, Disorder and Treatment: Learning through Literature and Research Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Deepens understanding of human development and how individuals cope with serious emotional or social difficulties (neglect, bipolar disorder, autism, depression). We will use multiple perspectives: medical texts that provide practical knowledge, narrative readings to understand how patients experience the meaning of illness, speaking with patients about their experiences, and portrayals of development-related mental illness in the press. Examines the fundamental need for tenderness and making meaning, the resourcefulness required for resiliency and the context of vulnerability. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Nancy Rappaport spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 p Neurotoxicology: Biological Effects of Environmental Poisons Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores wide range of environmental neurotoxic substances and effects on human and animal populations. Attention to pediatric exposure to neurotoxic agents and associated neurodevelopmental disabilities, as well as neurobehavioral and immunological changes. Examines impact of lead and mercury poisoning, PCBs. Investigates neurophysiology and neurochemistry of a number of other neurotoxins, including arsenic, tetrodotoxin, saxitoxin, botulinum, curare, cocaine, and "nerve gas." What dangers do these toxins pose? What can or should be done to prevent exposure? Open to Freshmen only. Y S. Allen Counter fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 u The Atomic Nucleus on the World Stage Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Traces some of the history leading to understanding of the properties of nuclei and the possibility of the heavier ones to undergo fission while releasing vast amount of energy. Studies wartime project that developed both nuclear power sources and weapons; readings supplemented by instructor's own recollections of this project. Investigates formidable problems posed by control of nuclear weapons, development of nuclear reactors, and a hope that thermonuclear reactions may provide an abundant and clean source of energy. Open to Freshmen only. Y Roy J. Glauber fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 25 w Responsibility, the Brain, and Behavior Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores philosophical and legal bases of the concept of individual responsibility as applied in the criminal justice system. Examines how forensic mental health professionals assess an individual's mental state at time of an alleged criminal act, the legal standards applied, and the social and political forces that help shape the legal decision. Considers the insanity defense; examines modern concepts of the biological basis of behavioral disorders and their relationship to existing standards of criminal responsibility. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Ronald Schouten spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 f Dreams: Our Mind by Night Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines dreams with an emphasis on their relation to the creative process and problem solving. It draws on psychology predominantly--neurophysiology, clinical, and personality research. The course also includes perspectives from history, religion, art, literature, and anthropology. We'll visit a sleep laboratory and attend a dream-related arts event. Students will keep a dream journal, participate in experiential exercises with their dreams, and write a term on a dream-related topic of their choice. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Deirdre Leigh Barrett spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 s Mathematical Structures and Godel's Completeness Theorem Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Mathematics is about structures. Some examples of structures are: the integers, the real numbers, and Euclidian plane geometry. Model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, provides a useful definition of structure. Godel's completeness theorem shows how logically consistent definitions imply the existence of arbitrary mathematical structures. Model theory is applicable to problems that arise in algebra. An example is: the elementary theory of the real numbers is decidable. High school algebra and a strong interest in fundamental mathematical problems. Open to Freshmen only. Y Gerald E. Sacks fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 u What is Mental Illness? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Introduces students to the nature of mental illness based on recorded interviews of people suffering from a variety of psychiatric conditions. Investigates what illness and treatment are like from patient's perspective. Interviews supplemented by readings which include a variety of patient narratives. Provides background on categories of mental illness, the varieties of treatment available, and the nature of the illness experience itself. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Michael William Kahn fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 v Blood: From Gory to Glory Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Humans have long understood that the blood flowing in their veins was imperative to their health and well-being. This course will examine the history, attitudes and beliefs surrounding blood. We will study human beliefs about blood and its uses in cultural beliefs and ceremonies. We will examine the science associated with blood: the production and the function of blood in the body, ideas of blood regarding medicine, healing, blood-related illnesses, biotechnology, nanotechnology and stem cell research. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr David Thomas Scadden spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 w The Biology and Science of Cancer and Its Treatments: From Empiric to Scientific to Humanistic Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 "Cancer" represents hundreds of different diseases with a wide variety of causative mechanisms. We will study the biology of cancer and what makes a normal cell become a cancer one, delving into acquired and inherited genetic abnormalities and effects of environmental factors, such as nutrition, radiation, and tobacco. Current approaches to cancer will be discussed from prevention and early detection to treatment of survivorship. Open to Freshmen only. Y David S. Rosenthal Dr George Daniel Demetri fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 x The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in the Developing World: A Silent Epidemic Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will look at the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in the developing world, which accounts for almost 80% of worldwide CVD deaths. Specifically, the course will investigate the particular economic challenges, cultural appropriateness, resource availability, policy tools, and challenges to successful implementation of interventions to reduce CVD. Attention will also be paid to the simultaneous battle against infectious diseases or other local health challenges in these resource poor settings. For Freshmen only. Y Dr Thomas Andrew Gaziano fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 y Science, History, and Theatre Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The course will examine a number of theatrical pieces (plays, musicals, opera) dealing with issues relating to science, from the 19th century to the present. The physical sciences, natural sciences and applied sciences such as medicine will all be considered, if more chronologically than thematically, and both texts and critical commentaries will be discussed contextually, along with screened performances attendance at staged plays and guest lectures by specialists in the fields under study. Theatrical workshops and a staged readings/staging by the members of the class of a work discussed will be an integral element of the course. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student performance as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y John Mathew fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 26 z What is Life? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar considers the conditions of a cell necessary to support life. The proposal is to find a definition for a living system using information and principles of biology, chemistry and physics to characterize some central properties of living cells, like energy and material uptake and use, cellular crowding, diffusion and molecular interactions, homeostasis and growth. Open to Freshmen only. Y Guido Guidotti fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 27 e Big Ideas Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 30 This course aims to introduce freshman to some of the world's most important ideas and disciplines. It is the conceit of this course that there are precious few important ideas that have relevance beyond their specific disciplines, but it is these very ideas that form a foundation for a modern college education. The course is designed to give students an introduction to a variety of concentrations in a way that allows them to explore unfamiliar territory and ask leading questions, and look at a variety of subjects in a new light, before choosing any pre-determined field to study in college. Open to Freshmen only. Y Douglas Melton spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 27 f Is Privacy Dead? Does It Matter? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The death of privacy has been announced many times, but adoption of invasive technologies took at least a generation. This time widespread adoption of the Internet, online social networking, and other forms of communications technology has occurred in little over a decade. These technologies enable the creation of detailed dossiers of their users. Is privacy dead? Does it matter? We will examine tradeoffs and risks in the context of government and business surveillance. Open to Freshmen only Y Susan Landau spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 27 g Microbes and the Media Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How has journalism shaped our perspectives on science? In this course, we will critically examine the science behind newspaper articles with an emphasis on microbes making news in disease outbreaks, public policy, and technology developments, focusing on scientific fidelity, the motivation behind publication, and impact on public opinions. We will cover newspaper articles and scientific literature through weekly group discussions. No prior knowledge of microbiology is needed; this class requires a basic (high school) understanding of biology. Students interested in journalism or science are encouraged to participate. Open to Freshmen only. Y Karine Alexine Gibbs fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 30 l George Balanchine: Russian-American Master Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Addresses the life and major works of the Russian-American ballet master George Balanchine. Focus on his view of dance and on analysis of the ballets that he made in a career that spanned some sixty years in Russia, Europe, and the United States. Considers the relationship of his works to the intellectual and cultural climate in which they were made. Over 20 ballets to be examined. Open to Freshmen only. Y John E. Malmstad fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 30 n Uncle Tom's Cabin and Moby Dick Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Reads Uncle Tom's Cabin rapidly-situating it within wide range of pertinent cultural and literary contexts-and then Moby Dick slowly, relying on inspection of artifacts (nineteenth-century bibles, scrimshaw, maritime portraits, rope, coins, oil lamps, whale calls), its own interpretive resources, and student-led discussion to penetrate its thickness. Investigates what can be learned from studying these works in each other's perspective and what these readings reveal about nineteenth-century American literature. A field trip to the Annual Moby Dick marathon may be scheduled. Open to Freshmen only. Y Elisa New spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 30 o What is College and What is It For? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Seminar asks students to think and write critically about American higher education--its history, purpose and ongoing challenges. Considers "the uses of the university" from a variety of perspectives: historical, sociological, economic, and developmental. Addresses questions: What constitutes a liberal arts education? What are its goals? How should students be assessed? What role do extracurricular activities play in a college education? Does bachelor's degree certify a vocational education, a cultural one, or a moral one? Open to Freshmen only. Y Paul Barreira fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 31 g The Pleasures of Japanese Poetry: Reading, Writing, and Translation Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Reads classical waka, its modern descendant the tanka, and examples of linked verse (renga) and modern poems in free and prose-poem forms. (And haiku too!) Focuses on themes such as desire, renunciation, time, memory, war, death, sorrow, and receptivity. Students keep a diary of their encounters with the new poetry, practice the art of sequencing, and make their own translations based on literal renderings and explanations of Japanese originals. Open to Freshmen only. Y Edwin A. Cranston fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 31 j Skepticism and Knowledge Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What can we know; how can we know it? Can I know that I am not a brain in a vat being manipulated into thinking that I have a body? Can I know that Lincoln was assassinated, that E=MC2, that Hamlet is better than Harry Potter, that the sun will rise tomorrow? This seminar will study skeptical arguments and responses to skepticism to explore the nature and scope of knowledge. Open to Freshmen only. Y Catherine Z. Elgin fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 31 n Beauty and Christianity Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Jesus has inspired great works of art, literature, and music, but Christians have not always agreed on the function of beauty. This seminar will consider Christian aesthetics, art (Italian Renaissance), and music (Bach, Messiaen, and spirituals), but the focus will be on literary works of St. Francis, Dante, Herbert, Donne, Hopkins, Hawthorne, Melville, C.S. Lewis, and O'Connor. The abiding question will be: In what ways does aesthetic form-- beauty-- enhance, qualify, complicate, or obscure the gospel? Open to Freshmen only. Y Robert J. Kiely fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 31 v The Beasts of Antiquity and Their Natural History Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A study of the animals of the ancient Mediterranean basin, offering parallel introductions to the classics and to organismal and evolutionary biology. Animals played a central role in Greco-Roman culture. Their appearance and behavior, as recorded in ancient literature and art, are tested against 21st-century knowledge of their anatomy, physiology, sociobiology and habits. Includes first-hand study of specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and coins and artifacts from Harvard's collection of antiquities. Open to Freshmen only. Y Kathleen M. Coleman Farish A. Jenkins Jr. fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 32 n What Does It Mean?: An Introduction to Humanist Inquiry Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The course has three goals: to introduce students to the problems and challenges of humanistic inquiry through multiple and collective practical engagements with cultural objects; to equip them with tools for future engagements; and to surprise ourselves and have some intellectual fun. Objects will be assigned for interpretation, along with brief readings on theoretical and methodological issues. Students will also work individually on an object and submit a paper at the end of the semester. Open to Freshmen only. Y Louis Menand spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 32 u H. P. Lovecraft Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 H. P. Lovecraft wrote stories, essays, and poems of the sci-fi/horror genre published in pulp magazines in his lifetime but now enshrined in the Library of America. His dream landscapes and cosmic chronicles of the Necronomicon and Cthulhu cycle suffuse popular culture. The seminar explores writings, sources, and mythological archetypes, from Poe, Machen, and Near Eastern magical texts. Open to Freshmen only. Y James R. Russell spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 32 v The Art of Storytelling Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Tu., 2-4 Deborah D. Foster People everywhere tell stories to express both the verities and contradictions found in experiences of everyday life. Based on storytelling traditions, a narrator shapes the story to reflect his or her own intentions, making it personally expressive as well as publicly meaningful to a particular audience. This seminar examines the nature of storytelling, its enduring appeal, and its ability to adapt to multiple technologies (print, film, internet). Participants engage in the storytelling process itself. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Deborah Foster spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 32 x Topics in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Through the study of Tibetan Buddhism, students will consider important issues of cultural contact by investigating a series of interrelated topics that have played a significant role in Tibetan history and that are connected to Tibet's acculturation to Buddhism in the eighth and ninth centuries. After developing a sense of the historic role of Buddhism in Tibetan life, students will consider the role of Buddhism and the Dalai Lama in contemporary Tibetan culture and society. Open to Freshmen only. Y Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 33 g Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This seminar is an introduction to Roman rhetoric, Cicero's Rome, and the active practice of speaking well. Participants read a short rhetorical treatise by Cicero, analyze one of his speeches as well as recent speeches by Obama, and watch the latter's oratorical performance. During the remainder of the term they practice rhetoric, prepare and deliver in class two (short) speeches, and write an essay. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student speaking projects as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Christopher Krebs fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 33 o Animation--Getting Your Hands On Time Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Experimentation with a variety of animation techniques leads to new perspectives on time in this practice-based seminar. Practical assignments using drawing, pixillation, strata-cut and time-lapse will build into students making a short animated film, individually or in groups. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Ruth Stella Lingford fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 33 q Global Pop Music Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 In this course, we consider a variety of popular musics from around the world- from banda to bhangra to reggaeton- in light of questions about authenticity, identity, tradition and hybridity. We will ask how patterns of migration influence musical production, and we will probe the effects of globalization on contemporary popular music. Readings are drawn from a broad range of disciplines, and musical examples hail from diverse geographies. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sindhumathi Revuluri fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 33 v Buddhist Visualization in a Chinese Cave: Body, Time, and Cosmos Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The seminar is an introduction to Buddhism and art history by focusing on a fifth-century Chinese cave. The images therein show episodes from the Buddha's past and present lives (his bodily sacrifices and demon-subjugation, etc.), which involve key concepts of Buddhism, including body, time, and cosmos. Poor visibility in the cave calls for inquiries into modes of cognition and religious functions. The interdisciplinary study explores issues of art, religion, anthropology, and cognitive psychology. Open to Freshmen only. Y Eugene Yuejin Wang fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 33 x Complexity in Works of Art: Ulysses and Hamlet Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Do inherited forms found in literature permit only certain variations within experience to reach lucidity? Investigates literature's limits in giving account of mind, everyday experience, thought, memory, full character, and situation in time. Studies Shakespeare's Hamlet and Joyce's Ulysses, a modern work of unusual complexity and resistance to both interpretation and to simple comfortable reading. Reading these two works suggests potential meanings for terms like complexity, resistance, openness of meaning, and experimentation within form. Open to Freshmen only. Y Philip Fisher fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 34 g Renaissance Art and Science at the Harvard Art Museums: An Exhibition and Its Making Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The seminar will focus on the exhibition, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, presented at Harvard's Sackler Museum during the Fall 2011 term. The exhibition is an investigation of the role played by celebrated northern European artists in the scientific investigations of the sixteenth century and includes over 100 prints, drawings, books, maps, globes, and scientific instruments. With the curator of the exhibition, the students will explore its overarching themes, the objects exhibited, as well as the dynamics of its production and presentation. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-related projects as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Dr Susan Mary Dackerman fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 34 i Girl Talk: Reflections on Gender and Youth in America Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar explores what women have to say about growing up female in contemporary America. Sources analyzed include memoirs, documentary films, photographs, and diaries. These sources both depict individual experiences and reflect more broadly on the role gender plays in American society. Topics considered include the various ways gender impacts the experience of athletics, academic achievement, illness, self-esteem, body image, and family dynamics. Open to Freshmen only. Y Laura K. Johnson fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 34 x Language and Prehistory Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Explores use and misuse of linguistic evidence. The 19th-century identification of the Indo-European language family misled some intellectuals to posit the now rejected idea of a genetically and culturally superior Aryan "race". Linguistic evidence still plays an important role in prehistoric studies. What does the fact that languages are related tell us about their speakers? How can genuine cases of linguistic borrowing or "influence" be distinguished from resemblances that come about through pure chance? Open to Freshmen only. Y Jay H. Jasanoff spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 34 z Pressing the Page: Making Art with Letters, Paper & Ink Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This seminar makes art out of language, letter, and type. We print poetry with a vintage letterpress, turn poems into drawings, and transform books into sculptures. To make this art, we rely on a variety of tools: metal type, disappearing inks, and even drill bits will help us physically expose how poetry uses language. In the process, we learn to work with a variety of limits to see constraint as fundamental to creativity. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Zachary C Sifuentes fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 35 e What is Beauty? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Beauty teaches the conditional nature of values and the revocability of absolutes: it is a most effective training for tolerance and innovation. Selections from Plato, Kant, and other classics of aesthetics are discussed in the first part of this seminar. The second part explores the representation of beauty in Italian literature, art, opera, cinema, and design. Topics include the Renaissance "invention" of art, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Fellini's La dolce vita, and Benetton's advertising campaigns. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Francesco Erspamer fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 35 n The Art and Craft of Acting Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 14 M., 4-6 Remo Francisco Airaldi Provides an introduction to acting by combining elements of a discussion seminar with exercises, improvisations and performance activities. Uses improvisation to develop characters, improve group/ensemble dynamics and to minimize habitual behaviors. Explores a range of historical and contemporary acting techniques including those of Stanislavsky, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, Jerzy Grotowksi, Peter Brook and others. Students also attend and critique performances at the Loeb Drama Center. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Mr Remo Francisco Airaldi spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 35 o Archives of Childhood: Growing Up with the United States Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The United States is a young nation. As both historical actors and evocative symbols, children and ideas about childhood are and have been a central part of American history and cultural life. This interdisciplinary seminar draws upon many different archives of childhood from diaries and photographs to toys and memorials to consider the ways diverse children's experiences and representations have shaped American life from the eighteenth century through the 1970s. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sarah Anne Carter fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 35 p Stories of Addiction Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the role of storytelling in the study of addiction. Much of what is known about addiction is expressed through the medium of the life-story, whether told by addicts, researchers, or imaginative writers. At the same time, stories of addiction and recovery have helped to define modern society's deepest beliefs about the nature of the self and the qualities of the well-lived life. Readings will include memoirs, research publications, fiction, and film. Open to Freshmen only. Y Eoin Francis Cannon spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 35 s Movement and Meaning: Dance, Culture, and Identity in the 20th Century Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the history of Western theatrical and social dance through the course of the twentieth century, including the development of modern dance, contemporary ballet, popular dance, and dance in film and television. Students will be invited to think critically about dance and also to dance themselves (no prior dance experience required). Artists under consideration include Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey, Judson Church Dance Theater, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, among many others. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Jessica Berson fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 36 g The Creative Work of Translating Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Translation makes literary culture possible, permitting movement between languages and art forms. Readings in English from Aigi, Benjamin, Brodsky, Carson, Chekhov, Dickinson, Ginsberg, Hawkey, Howe, Jabes, Khlebnikov, Nabokov, Sappho, Sebald, Trakl; music by Adams and Berio; artwork by Piper, Bervin; the films Chekhovian Motifs, Despair, and Howl. We will also translate texts, transpose aesthetic material, create homophonic translations, and play telephone, working individually and collaboratively. Requires knowledge of one language besides English. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Stephanie Sandler fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 36 n Dickens in America Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The seminar investigates Charles Dickens's visit to the United States in 1842. Readings will include Dickens's bitter and controversial account of that trip, American Notes; an American parody called English Notes; Dickens's American novel, Martin Chuzzlewit; and accounts of his visit by Americans, in diaries, letters, and newspapers. We'll also read other antebellum travel narratives, including those of Frances Trollope and Alexis de Tocqueville, and, after a field trip, we'll write some Dickensian travel narratives of our own. Open to Freshmen only. Y Jill Lepore fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 36 s Comparative Historical Mythology Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Deals with an innovative approach to comparative mythology by incorporating an historical approach, not by the commonly assumed archetypes or diffusion. Working backwards from our earliest written sources (Egypt, etc.), successively earlier stages are detected through repeated reconstructions. Recent developments in genetics, archaeology, linguistics support the proposed historical model that tentatively reaches back to the "African Eve". Testing the proposal offers a wide scope for students participation and research in texts and in the sciences. Open to Freshmen only. Y Michael Witzel fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 36 t Gods, Myths, and Rituals: Polytheism in Ancient Greece Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Greeks had no word for religion and no sacred books, but their gods were a ubiquitous presence in public and private life, particularly through the transmission of myth and the performance of ritual. Drawing on a wide selection of original sources and modern interpretations of Greek religion, this seminar will offer an introduction to all aspects of the religious experience in ancient Greece and will explore ways to rethink the boundaries of human religiosity. For Freshmen only. Y Albert M. Henrichs fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 g Improvisational Theory and Practice Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course investigates improvisation in order to better apprehend its vast potential as a practical tool for the creation of performance works and texts (both historical and contemporary) and to uncover its utility as a critical tool for reading and understanding performance of all varieties, including fully-scripted works. Class time is divided evenly between textual discussion based on readings and full-bodied practical work inspired by key "periods" of intensity in the history of improvisation. Performance practices considered include: Commedia dell'Arte, early Shakespearean practices, Jazz, Brecht, 20th-century Avant Garde Film & Theatre, and everyday life. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y James A. Dennen spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 j Memory and Memoir Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar explores memoirs that highlight memories and occasionally "forgettings." Our approach considers twentieth-century and contemporary memoirs at the intersection of literature and history, exploring everyday life and the relations between self, memory, story, and history. We also examine the fictive nature of memoirs, relations between senses and memories, and whether contemporary media are forms of memoirs. Authors include Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Oliver Sacks, M.F.K. Fisher, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Marjane Satrapi. Open to Freshmen only. Y fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 m American Dissent Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Dissent is a central to our culture, but it rests on a striking paradox. America has served as a summons to both radicalism and to chauvinism, individualism and conformity. Can there be a nation of rebels? What does it mean to protest in the hope of restoring the past? We will examine such questions from a literary-cultural perspective, in a variety of works ranging from the Revolution to the present. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sacvan Bercovitch fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 q Great Jewish Books Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course is an entry into the world of Judaism, from antiquity to modern times, through reading and analyzing great Jewish books. These books address some of the large questions in the history of Judaism: what exactly is Judaism? What does it mean to be Jewish? How does Judaism compare with other religions? Authors and books include Josephus, the Mishnah, Judah HaLevi, Maimonides, the Zohar, Spinoza, Herzl, and Mordecai Kaplan. For Freshmen only. Y Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 s Tea Parties: Race, Populism, and Politics in U.S. History Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Few political symbols in the United States rival the power of the Boston Tea Party. Successfully claiming kinship to those riotous revolutionaries has helped political movements authenticate their connection to the nation and the people, that imagined community of producers and patriots defined, historically, not only by its virtue but by the whiteness of its skin. In exploring the Tea Party moments of the last two centuries the course will examine the Boston-area accents of the country's populist tendencies and also outline populism's translational economic and cultural connections. Open to Freshmen only. Y Eric D. Larson spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 w The Worlds of Alexander the Great Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will introduce students to the remarkable history of Alexander the Great, his campaign of conquest from Greece to India, its background in the organization and ideologies of the Macedonian and Persian kingdoms, and its afterlife in various classical and Near Eastern literary traditions. Students will become familiar with the complexity of the ancient world, the variety of the extant evidence, and the various methodologies by which historians seek to make sense of it. Open to Freshmen only. Y Paul Joseph Kosmin fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 37 x The Poetry of Emily Dickinson Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The seminar members will read extensively in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. They will also read the Sewall biography, and some contemporary articles on the poet. We will consider Dickinson's sentences, stanzas, and structures, as well as her principal themes, with some comparisons to her contemporaries, Whitman and Melville. Open to Freshmen only. Y Helen Vendler spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 i Morality: That Peculiar Institution Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 What, if anything, is the ultimate basis for morality? This seminar will explore a cluster of philosophical arguments that raise worries for almost any attempt at securing a foundation for morality, whether it be by means of the will of God, the dictates of science, the authority of self-evident truths, or the whimsies of subjective desires. Authors to be read include Plato, Hume, Moore, Mackie, Camus, Nagel, and Korsgaard. Open to Freshmen only. Y Selim Berker fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 k Cinema in Theory and Practice Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar is intended for students who want to get a deeper understanding of cinema through theory and practice. The students will not only study movies and video installations, they will also be making five short movies in order to explore through practice fundamental cinematic elements such as framing, point of view, duration, camera movement, and relations of image, sound, and text. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-making as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Dominique Bluher fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 l Introduction to Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, or How To Read Like a College Professor Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Investigates major theoretical movements (e.g., structuralism, deconstruction, postcolonialism) in literary and cultural studies. Students gain a nuanced critical vocabulary, enhancing their ability to interpret aesthetic and social texts. Divided into three parts (mimesis, author, reader) and surveying texts from Plato to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the course examines how meaning is generated and disseminated and how social structures, historical moments, and cultural beliefs contextualize acts of interpretation. Open to Freshmen only. Y Joanna Nizynska spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 n Dead and Loving It?: The Cult of the Saints in the Late Antique and Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course will introduce students to the literature, history, and religious life of the late ancient and medieval Mediterranean through the lens of a highly significant socio-cultural phenomenon: the Christian cult of the saints. Students will have the opportunity to engage with a variety of primary source texts in translation, while examining the subject from the perspectives of anthropology, religious studies, material culture, history and literary studies, to approach this rich topic through an interdisciplinary framework. Open to Freshmen only. Y Sarah Elizabeth Insley spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 u Sex and Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Literature Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines themes of decadence and transgression in works from the end of the last three centuries in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States. Questions include the history of sexuality and concepts of "deviance"; the aesthetics of shock and obscenity; and the roles of scandal. Readings by Laclos, Sade, Huysmans, Wilde, Wedekind, and others; opera and films by Strauss, Greenaway, Araki. Open to Freshmen only. All readings are in English. The seminar will meet weekly for two hours. In addition, every two weeks, we will meet for a required film screening or to view selected materials from museum and rare books collections. Y Francois Proulx fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 w Narratives of Conflict and Revolution in 20th Century Ireland Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar provides a window into twentieth-century Irish history and literature through an in-depth look at different ways of narrating and remembering two cataclysmic events: the revolution of 1916-1923, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland of 1968-1994. We will discuss poetry, stories, memoirs, films, and scholarly work and explore issues of religion, nationalism, and gender as well as memory and aesthetics. The semester will culminate with students' own creative representations of Irish conflict. Open to Freshmen only. Y Mo Moulton spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 38 x Work: an Audio/Visual Exploration Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 A video and audio production course, the class explores the nature, contours, and experience of working people in the City of Cambridge. Film screenings, readings, and journal writing augment the central activity of the class, which is to find aural and visual ways to expressively explore a range of work-experiences. No previous production experience is necessary to take this class, and the class can be considered a gateway course for admission into the Department of Visual and Environment. Open to Freshmen only. Y Robb Moss spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 40 i The Supreme Court in U.S. History Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Often described as the world's most powerful court, the US Supreme Court has not always enjoyed high prestige or unquestioned authority. The Court's significance has waxed and occasionally waned, with the variations typically depending on surrounding currents in the nation's social and political history. Examines the history of the Court from the nation's founding to the present. Highlights relation between constitutional law and ordinary politics, and the ways in which they influence one another. Open to Freshmen only. Y Richard Fallon spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 40 j Advice to Young Leaders Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Many classics of western political and ethical theory, among them, works by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, Burke, James, Weber, and Woolf, were addressed to young people about to enter public service or positions of authority. This class will encourage students to think rigorously about their own imminent responsibilities as citizens and leaders by engaging with arguments directed to rising generations like their own in Greece, Rome, early modern Europe, and more recent centuries. Open to Freshmen only. Y David R. Armitage fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 41 p American Presidential Campaigns and Elections 1960-2012 Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What can we learn from modern presidential campaigns and elections about our own political era? In this Seminar, we examine changes in campaigns and elections since 1960; demographic shifts of the last fifty years; nature and structure of American public opinion; ways American news media transmit information and people learn about matters in the public sphere - and use all these perspectives to understand the remarkable 2008 presidential campaign and our own times, issues and society. Open to Freshmen only. Y Maxine Isaacs spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 42 k Comparative Law and Religion Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Investigates the use of legal processes in addressing religion-based conflicts, a leading source of tension in modern societies. The seminar will explore theoretical approaches to accommodating religious diversity and examine existing models of religion-state relationships. Drawing on legal cases from the US, Turkey, India, Israel, Spain, Canada, and England, the seminar will also familiarize participants with contemporary debates involving religion: the wearing of Islamic headscarf, religion and education, the funding of religious institutions, etc. Open to Freshmen only. Y Ofrit Liviatan spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 42 n Comparative National Security of Middle Eastern Countries Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The course surveys the national security threats and opportunities facing the primary countries of the Middle East, from their perspective. Issues discussed include the domestic sources of national security considerations, including regime change, relations with regional and international players, military doctrine, foreign policy principles. The seminar is an interactive, "real world" exercise, in which students play the role of leaders in the countries of their choosing and write practical policy recommendations on current affairs. Open to Freshmen only. Y Charles Freilich fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 42 q Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: A Latin American Perspective Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In the long history of globalization, cosmopolitanism has been put forth as an ethical and aesthetical antidote against the dangers of jingoistic nationalism, but also of global uniformity. In Latin America, cosmopolitan discourses have expressed aesthetic, cultural and political modern aspirations. We read Kant, Marx, Bhabha, Garcia Canclini, Appadurai, Nussbaum, Borges, Bolano, Buarque, Bellatin, watch films by Di Tella and Eimbcke, and listen tangos, Caetano Veloso and The Beatles. Open to Freshmen only. This course includes student art-related projects as part of the Elson Family Arts Initiative. Y Mariano Siskind fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 42 u The Laws of War and the War on Terrorism Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do the "laws of war" regulate the conduct of the United States in the "Global War on Terrorism?" This seminar examines the historical development of two legal concepts: jus ad bellum, which determines the legitimacy of the use of armed force; and jus in bello, which defines the duties of soldiers and belligerent states. Drawing on this background, the seminar explores how these laws have influenced U.S. military and anti-terrorism operations since 9/11. Open to Freshmen only. Y Gregg Andrew Peeples fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 42 v Human Rights Between Rhetoric and Reality Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines radically different perspectives on the question of whether human rights discourse is merely rhetorical or captures a significant dimension of reality for peoples in diverse cultures. Topics include compatibility of human rights with contending philosophical systems and religions, feminism, and critical theory; challenges to human rights from various scientific perspectives, including evolutionary biology, genetic engineering, and brain research; and the relative significance of human rights in law and government, economics, and foreign policy. Open to Freshmen only. Y Stephen Marks fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 e Mind-Body Problems Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Am I a mind, a body, or both? Can mind affect body just by thinking? Can our mental life be reduced to brain activity? This seminar explores the nature of mind and its puzzling relation to the body through three different disciplines: philosophy, psychiatry, and literature. We will read both historical and contemporary works, including selections from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Nagel, Jackson, Freud, Kramer, and Proust. Open to Freshmen only. Y Alison Simmons fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 k American Bodies Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This class examines body ideals over the past century by focusing on four body-shaping techniques in American culture: fitness and body building, weight reduction, surgical alterations, and surface adornments. Through these topics the course will explore changing ideals of femininity and masculinity, and evolving notions of the self. The course will pay close attention to the racial and sexual politics of these bodily ideals, and the ways in which people have either affirmed or transgressed bodily norms. Open to Freshmen only. Y Karen P. Flood fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 l Happiness in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Everyone wants to be happy. But do we even know what we want when we say that we desire happiness? Few questions generate so much existential anxiety and overwhelming philosophical interest. For without knowledge of happiness, how can we know what it means to live a good life? This course examines these questions as they have been considered variously in philosophy and psychoanalysis. Readings include works by Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Castoriadis. Open to Freshmen only. Y Lucas S Fain fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 m Psychology of Religion Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course addresses some of the fundamental issues of the nature of the self, issues which appear at the intersection of religion and psychology. The course will focus on issues of narrative as well as "world construction," the ways in which both individuals and cultures create frameworks of meaning. The readings explore philosophical, psychological, and literary perspectives on religious experience and include works by William James, Freud, Jung, Dostoevsky, Flannery O'Connor, Malcolm X and others. Open to Freshmen only. Y Dr Jon Wesley Boyd fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 s Gender, Race, and Ethics in the 21st Century Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What does it mean to be a "good" person? Do women and men have different moral beliefs? Does our race or ethnicity change the way that we perceive social problems? This course will ask how it is possible to develop an ethics that takes account of human difference, especially difference in identity. We will discuss contemporary American social problems, including: Gay marriage, racial segregation and school reform, multiculturalism, and the gender wage gap and discrimination in hiring. Open to Freshmen only. Y Gina Helfrich fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 y Where Does Your Morality Come From? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What are the sources of morality, law and rights? This seminar explores these sources through a variety of readings: The Brothers Karamazov, excerpts from the Old and New Testaments and the Koran as well as from my book, The Genesis of Justice), psychology (Steven Pinker, Marc Hauser), philosophy (Robert Nozick, Socrates, Cicero), jurisprudence (my book, Rights From Wrongs, Ronald Dworkin) and positive law (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and foundational documents from other countries). Open to Freshmen only. Y Alan M. Dershowitz fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 43 z Cyberspace in Court: Law of the Internet Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How collisions of interests in online space play out in lawsuits or in proposals before legislatures -- controversies involving Google, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, MySpace. Examines broad questions of social and technology policy through the lens of law and specific lawsuits. Topics: copyright and fair use, peer-to-peer file sharing, digital rights management, and the DMCA; online speech, anonymity, and privacy; citizen journalism and new media; competition and antitrust; pornography, child protection, and online gambling; security, phishing, and spyware. Open to Freshmen only. Y Phillip Robert Malone fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 44 g Public Policy Approaches to Global Climate Change Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Reviews what is known about greenhouse gas emissions' possible impact on climate. Explores possible impact of climate change on social and economic conditions over the next century. Investigates possible public policy responses to these developments, including actions both to adapt to and to mitigate climate change. What would be the costs of adaptation? Would an investment in mitigating the changes be worthwhile? Are there possibilities for international cooperation in dealing with the problem? Open to Freshmen only. Y Richard N. Cooper spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 44 j The Aztecs and Maya: 2012 and Beyond Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores Aztec and Maya culture, history, religion from insider and outsider (Spanish) perspectives. Analyzes how religion fueled genesis and expansion of Aztec empire as well as the Conquistadors' activities. Examines approaches used to piece back together puzzles of how a magnificent cultural tradition, the Maya, took root and thrived in tropical forest setting .Examines how modern scholars and students explore world-view, social relations, and history of other cultures including Maya and Aztec peoples today. Open to Freshmen only. Y David Carrasco William Fash spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 44 n Communication, Advocacy, and Public Affairs Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course provides students with information and insights about strategic communication: how messages are created and framed, why we respond to messages the way we do, and how to employ communications strategies to advance political and public policy goals. The aim is to give students practical experience in developing and executing communications and advocacy strategies to create or change policy. Through guest lecturers, it will introduce students to the perspectives of different critical actors in the policymaking process. For Freshmen only. Y Christine M Heenan fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 44 s Neanderthals and Human Evolutionary Theory Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course explores the origins and development of human evolutionary theory in parallel with the discovery and study of our "cousins," the Neanderthals. Readings and discussions highlight breakthroughs in evolutionary theory since the 17th century, ranging from the Darwinian revolution to the field of "evo-devo." The recent history of the Neanderthals is explored in detail, which mirrors intellectual developments in biological anthropology ranging from the re-conceptualization of race to innovations in recovering ancient DNA. For Freshmen only. Y Tanya Smith fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 44 t The Atomic Bomb in History and Culture Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The explosion of the atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 ushered in a new era of warfare, of scientific prominence, of civic anxiety, and political challenge. Explores the interaction of science, politics, strategy, and culture in the studies of historians as well as in the literature, films, and theater from the early years of the twentieth century through the 1970s and 1980s dealing with the atom and the atom bomb. Open to Freshmen only. Y Everett Mendelsohn spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 45 g Human, Animals, and Cyborgs Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 How do we fit among the animals, plants, and materials around us? In this seminar, we will examine the historical construction of the human category. How do our morals, science, and media blur human and animal groups? How do machines, drugs, and synthetics transform us? What does it mean when computers think like we do and when medicines make us happy, strong, and beautiful? Should we consider ourselves humans, animals, or cyborgs? Open to Freshmen only. Y Jill Constantino fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 45 m The Concept of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Studies how biologists, anthropologists, and physicians took up the questions of racial classifications, race differences, and race mixing. How did these ideas change as new tools such as genetics and evolutionary theory were developed? What is the relationship between scientific debates about race and other debates about identity and citizenship in the larger US context? How do new ideas about genetic variation among/between human groups enlist or resist concepts of race today? Open to Freshmen only. Y Evelynn M. Hammonds fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 45 n The Normans in European History: Vikings, Normans, Norman Conquests, and Achievements, 850-1204 Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Readings, discussions, reports, and writings on one of the formative subjects of European history. This seminar is designed for ALL students, whatever their interests or intended concentrations. It will also introduce historical study at Harvard, including the Middle Ages. How Vikings became Normans, how Normans conquered England, what we learn from the Bayeux Tapestry (women-made, one of human history's greatest records): these are some of our questions. Reports and (normally) one paper, in programs planned individually with students. Open to Freshmen only. Y Thomas N. Bisson spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 45 u Suicide and Violence: a Public Health Perspective Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Th., 3-5 Matthew J. Miller (Public Health) Approximately one million people die by suicide each year - or one death every 40 seconds. Another million die by violence directed at others: 600,000 by homicide and 400,000 in armed conflicts. In the United States too, annual suicide deaths outnumber homicide deaths, but both take a large and disproportionate toll on young people. This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of suicide and violence in the United States and abroad from a public health perspective. Open to Freshmen only. Y Matt Miller spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 45 z Imagining the American Suburb Post-World War II Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course considers the powerful fantasies of "the suburbs" since World War II, how these fantasies have changed over time, and what these fantasies and changes tell us about American culture, politics, and identity. We will examine "Suburbia's" association with the ephemeral American Dream, conformity, hetero-normative gender performance, teen rebellion, racial tension, sprawl, and urban decay. Texts include histories, novels, films, television, and graphic novels. There will be 3 out-of class film viewings. Open to Freshmen only. Y Paige L. Meltzer fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 e The Germans and Their History Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Can earlier centuries shed light on the present ones? The seminar will reach back to the first century C.E. and forward to the twenty-first century in search of continuities and discontinuities in the political and cultural life of Germans. The goal will be to discover defining experiences in German history and memory and to ask what they promise, or portend, for a united and democratic Germany facing new demographic, economic, and geo-political crises. Open to Freshmen only. Y Steven E. Ozment spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 j Freedom of Expression: Is It the Primary Right? The Divide Between Europe and the United States Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Why must speech be free? Must speech enjoy a special protection compared to other freedoms? The course will discuss the divide between Europe and United States on the protection of freedom of expression. It will study case law of the Supreme Court of the USA and of the European Court of Human rights and other European institutions. Cases studies will include hate speech, pornography, the Islamic scarf ban in France, the Danish cartoons and reality shows. Open to Freshmen only. Y Ioanna Tourkochoriti spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 n Beyond the Great Immigration Debate Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 M., 1-3 Rebecca B. Galemba The seminar explores the historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context of immigration and how it becomes contested and meaningful to diverse groups in society. We employ a global comparative perspective to examine how immigration is politicized throughout the world and embedded in larger global networks of socioeconomic and cultural relations. We focus on the experiences of immigrants themselves in order to understand how class, ethnicity, race, and gender identities are reconfigured as people move across borders. Open to Freshmen only. Y Rebecca B Galemba fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 p Human Rights in Peace and War Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Studies how human rights perspective illuminates relations between state authority and individuals and defines standards of behavior that societies agree to aspire to reach. Topics include the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rights in political and economic spheres, the rights of women, children, and refugees, international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and the state, regional, and international processes and structures that establish and monitor the regime of international human rights law. Meets at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Open to Freshmen only. Y Jennifer Leaning Jacqueline Bhabha fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 t Rebels With a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In spring 1989, millions of Chinese took to the streets calling for political reforms. The nationwide demonstrations and the college students' hunger strike on Tiananmen Square ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed civilians. Student leaders and intellectuals were purged, imprisoned, or exiled. ?Tiananmen? remains a political taboo in China today despite the Tiananmen Mothers' struggle to keep the forbidden memory alive. This course will explore the Tiananmen Movement in history and memory. Open to Freshmen only. Y Rowena Xiaoqing He spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 w Leadership and Negotiation Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The critical problems threatening community safety and wellbeing, terrorism, climate change or access to health care, frequently look different to the diverse stakeholders who are party to them. Legislators, business owners, and disenfranchised group members don't always see the same things even when brought together to address the common problem they share. This course will explore how leaders negotiate these challenges so that their communities can make real progress. Open to Freshmen only. Y Kimberlyn Rachael Leary fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 x American Apartheids? The Social Dynamics of Ghettoes, Enclaves and Ethnoburbs Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Should American social geographies be characterized as "American Apartheids"? What forms have racial and ethnic divisions in space taken in the late 20th and early 21st centuries? To examine these central questions, this course considers the social dynamics of ghettoes, ethnic enclaves, and ethnic suburbs known as "ethnoburbs". We look broadly at the forces that have led to the creation of these racial/spatial forms while also looking closely at lives of residents. Open to Freshmen only. Y Jennifer Rene Darrah fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 46 y Bodies for Sale: Global Traffic in Human Beings, from Forced Labor to Stolen Cells Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course introduces students to the wide range of cultural and ethical questions surrounding the trade in humans. We will consider issues ranging from the traffic in women and children to the trade in human organs. We will especially explore the cultural, racial, class, and gender issues inherent in transactions in human beings and their flesh. Who is selling their organs on the international market and why? Whose babies go to whom in international adoption, and who decides what the best interests of the children are? Whose bones are sold to museums, and what do such transactions mean? Open to Freshmen only. Y Keridwen Luis fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 g Science Fiction: How We Imagine the Posthuman Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will examine some of the anxieties and hopes clustered around the emerging idea of the posthuman as its been played out in contemporary novels and films, in conjunction with a number of significant philosophical and scientific essays that attempt to frame the posthuman. Central to our investigation will be the idea of technological modernity as both utopian promise and apocalyptic threat. Open to Freshmen only. Y Patrick Pritchett fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 j Mapping the British Empire Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 According to the maps created at its height, the British Empire once covered a quarter of the globe. How was this territory mapped, and what role did maps themselves play in the creation and maintenance of the empire? This seminar will explore the relationships between cartography and control, surveying and surveillance, and will ask how the appearance of an empire on a map reflected and affected the experience of empire on the ground. Open to Freshmen only. Y Alistair William Sponsel fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 m Nationalism and the Modern World Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines the emergence of nationalism; its Impact on the economy, religion, and literature; and the extent to which it is currently being eroded by the dynamics of globalization. Emphasis on differences between types of nationalism, the importance of national intellectuals, the circulation of ideas and of their means of transmission. Case-studies from Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Requires one class presentation and a short research paper. Open to Freshmen only. Y Nicolas Prevelakis spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 p Just Friends: I Don't Love You Like That Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Tell someone that you just want to be friends and it will be taken as an assertion that you are slotting them into a secondary role-they are not seen as suitable for the highest levels of affection, i.e., romantic love. But friendship has not always been seen as a lesser relation of romance. This raises some important questions about the nature of friendship, and this course will examine these and other related topics. Open to Freshmen only. Y Bonnie M Talbert fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 w Fantastic Cities: Urban Landscapes as Filtered through Memory, Imagination, and Dreams Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 "Fantastic Cities" is an interdisciplinary seminar mapping the different ways that people have imagined cities via artistic media, creating urban imaginaries of the past, of unfamiliar presents, and of the (near) future. We will investigate versions of Rome, Berlin, London, New York, Lagos, and fantastical counter-factual cities as presented in novels, art, film, philosophy, history, and autobiography. Students will develop their skills in textual analysis, visual analysis, critical thinking, and ways of integrating the three, in order to learn how to pursue comparative projects in the humanities. Open to Freshmen only. Y Christina Lynne Svendsen spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 47 z Picturing the Great War: Visual Culture in World War I Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar explores many forms of visual culture during the war, and studies how they contribute to our understanding of the First World War and its impact on modern European history. Reading includes selections from works by historians and scholars of visual culture, but the focus of the course is primary visual sources such as propaganda posters, soldiers' sketches, political caricature, advertising, military maps, children's books and animation, aerial photography, avant-garde art and medical film. Open to Freshmen only. Y Juliet Clare Wagner spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 e Gender, Health, and Mental Health Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course adopts interdisciplinary perspectives toward understanding how gender differences and similarities in health and mental health are manifest, if and how common patterns are changing, and what circumstances and context impact outcomes. We also examine differences within genders based on race/ethnicity and other personal and social characteristics. Topics include depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, sexual activity and gender-based violence. Throughout, we traverse the boundary between health and illness in order to explore the role of individuals, their social support networks, and health care professionals in developing and guiding strategies for coping and healing. Y Mary Ruggie fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 g Fascism From Mussolini to Today Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What is fascism, what did look like in practice, and does it still exist today? This seminar explores fascism from its origins in the early twentieth century through its present-day deployment in politics and popular culture. The political, racial, and gender policies of fascism in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy are compared to postwar movements and to the proliferating uses of fascist vocabulary today. Readings and assignments facilitate the interdisciplinary study of history. Open to Freshmen only Y Brendan Jeffrey Karch fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 k Political Legitimacy and Resistance: What Happened in Montaigne's Library on the Night of October 23, 1587, and Why Should Political Philosophers Care? Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Explores the theories of political legitimacy and justified resistance to authority developed by the persecuted Protestants during the French Wars of Religion, and traces the influence of these ideas about political obligation and religious conscience on some of the major figures in modern political philosophy from Hobbes to Kant. Students should be prepared to engage in both historical detective work and philosophical reflection. All required reading will be in English. Open to Freshmen only. Y Arthur Applbaum spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 p Islam and Revolution: From Algerian Independence to the Arab Revolution Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course interrogates the relationship between Islam, political theory, and the process of revolution in Muslim societies, examining three cases in particular: the Algerian war of 1954-1962 against French colonial rule; the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the green movement of 2009; and the Arab revolutions of 2011 beginning in Tunisia. Are these revolutions Islamic? Where revolutionary movements aim for power, how do they negotiate Islamic principles and identities on the one hand and political theory and practice on the other? Open to Freshmen only. No prior knowledge of Islam is required. Knowledge of French or Arabic is helpful but not required; all texts will be made available in English translation. Y Hassanaly Ladha spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 s Schools, Selves, and Society Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In both addressing and going beyond current debates about education in the U.S., this course investigates what really supports students' learning and teachers' teaching by exploring how various academic, social and cultural practices in schools cultivate different experiences of individuals' selves and shape society in particular ways. Through examining the relationship between schooling, individuals and society, this course presents a space where students can critically and productively explore interests in education, reflect upon their own educational experiences, position in and relationship to society for present and future social engagement. Open to Freshmen only. Y Chiwen Bao fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 48 w Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Historical Encounter Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar examines the history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in American wars going back before the concept of PTSD was invented. The seminar consists of two parts: the first, a historical survey of PTSD (or its historical equivalent) since the time of the Civil War; the second, a critical discussion of the sources and methods historians use to excavate the past. Do modern medical diagnoses have a historical dimension? Is there evidence that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder existed prior to the mid-20th century? How can we investigate historical evidence to support such a claim? Open to Freshmen only Y Jonathan M. Hansen fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 49 n Measurements of the Mind: The Creation and Critique of the Psychological Test Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Introduces the history of psychological tests, from the perspective of the psychologists using them, the people tested, and the general public. Examines the creativity within psychology in the making of such tests, as well as the drawbacks and dangers of the (mis)uses of these instruments. Explores tests in current use, as well as tests contained in various Harvard archives. Final project for this seminar involves the design of an original psychological test. Open to Freshmen only. Y Ms Marla Diane Eby fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 49 p What If? Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and the Literary Culture of Childhood Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Graham Greene once observed that nothing we read as adults can equal the "excitement and revelation" of the "first fourteen years". This seminar will explore the aesthetics and ethics of narratives written for children, with a focus on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. We will branch out into other possible worlds constructed by authors of children's books. Open to Freshmen only. Y Maria Tatar fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminars Freshman Seminar 49 y Amateur Athletics Freshman Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The study of sports as a lens through which to explore social and ethical paradoxes of American life. Does the amateur ideal make sense today? The history of athletics in ancient Greece, Victorian England, and America. College, Olympic, and professional athletics. Athletic competition as a social, spiritual, educational, and commercial institution. The relation of recent trends, including the democratization and internationalization of higher education, to the amateur ideal. Open to Freshmen only. Y Harry R. Lewis fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 11 Poetry Without Borders Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Studies poetry as a cultural practice that requires and perversely challenges visual, linguistic, geographic, and aesthetic borders. Main topics are translation (poems crossing borders), emigration/exile (poets crossing borders), and poetry and other arts (poems joining with music, film, photography, and philosophy). Poems and prose by Bernstein, Bei Dao, Brodsky, Grunbein, Howe, Kaminsky, Nabokov, Sebald, and Wright, among others; theoretical texts, sound recordings, visual images, films, and poetry performances. Frequent short written work. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Stephanie Sandler spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 12 Poetry in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Surveying 300+ years of poetry in America, from the Puritans to the avant-garde poets of this new century, the course covers individual figures (Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Williams, Hughes), major poetic movements (Firesides, Modernist, New York, Confessional, L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E) and probes uses of poetry across changing times. Who, and what, are poems for? For poets? Readers? To give vent to the soul? To paint or sculpt with words? Alter consciousness? Raise cultural tone? Students will read, write about and also recite American poems. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Elisa New fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 13 Cultural Agents Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explore the arts as social and professional resources! Whether you pursue medicine, law, engineering, business, government, etc., the arts will enhance your work and your citizenship. Active citizens construct opportunities for positive social change. A lecture series by a range of professionals demonstrates that change in practically any field depends on art. Theoretical readings (Schiller, Kant, Dewey, Freire, Gramsci, Ranciere, Mockus, Boal, Nussbaum, Pasolini, inter alia) are grounded in concrete cases of agency. The final project will be a design for a creative social intervention, including reflections on creating the design. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Doris Sommer Francesco Erspamer spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 14 Putting Modernism Together Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Just as a pine or a willow is known from the shape of its branching, so human culture can be understood as a growth-pattern, a ramifying of artistic, intellectual, and political action. This course tries to find the center of the Modernist movement (1872-1927) by studying the literature, music, and painting of the period, to see whether some congruence of effort in all these media can be found. By looking at the range of artistic production in a few key years, we come to know this age of aesthetic extremism, perhaps unparalleled in Western history. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Daniel Albright fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 15 Elements of Rhetoric Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 100 Rhetorical theory, originating with Aristotle, in contemporary applications. The nature of rhetoric in modern culture; practical examples drawn from American history and literature 1765 to the present; written exercises and attention to public speaking; the history and educational importance of rhetoric in the West; stresses theory and practice as inseparable. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N James Engell spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 16 Openings: The Illuminated Manuscript Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course In an age of mechanical - and now virtual - reproduction, we have lost sight of the basic visual unit that structures our experience of the book: the opening. Employing old and new technologies, this course focuses on medieval books, their decoration and their readers in the Middle Ages (ca. 300-1500), when the book as we have known it, along with allied institutions, such as the university itself, first came into being. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Jeffrey F. Hamburger spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 17 Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Many musical traditions at the turn of the 21st century cross geographic boundaries. Nowhere are diverse music traditions more prominently represented in public performance and maintained in private practice than in North America, where centuries of immigration and an increasingly multiethnic population have given rise to a complex musical environment. "Soundscapes" explores a cross-section of the different musical styles that coexist and interact in today's society, examining their relationship to their historical homelands and to their present-day settings. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Kay K. Shelemay spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 20 Poems, Poets, Poetry Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A study of poetry as the history and science of feeling: readings in major lyric poems of England and America. Emphasis on problems of invention and execution, and on the poet's choice of genre, stance, context, and structure. Other topics to be raised include the process of composition, the situating of a poem in its historical and poetic contexts, the notion of a poet's development, the lyric as dramatic speech, and the experimental lyric of the 20th century. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Helen Vendler spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 21 Virgil: Poetry and Reception Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Begins with the Aeneid, paradigmatic epic of the West, from various perspectives, involving literary aesthetics and translation theory, Homeric and other intertextuality, concepts of heroism and anti-heroism, individual choice vs. public responsibility, critique of empire then, now, and in between. Concurrent attention to Virgil tradition in early Christianity, Dante, Milton, Dryden, the Romantics, post-WWI Modernists; influence on music, art, and iconography. Subsequent focus on the Eclogues and Georgics, their place in the traditions of European pastoral and didactic, status as works of early Augustan poetry, and reception from Petrarch to Heaney. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Richard F. Thomas spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 23 Interracial Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines a wide variety of literary texts on black-white couples, interracial families, and biracial identity, from classical antiquity to the present. Works studied include romances, novellas, plays, novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction, as well as films and examples from the visual arts. Topics for discussion range from interracial genealogies to racial "passing," from representations of racial difference to alternative plot resolutions, and from religious and political to legal and scientific contexts for the changing understanding of race. Focus is on the European tradition and the Harlem Renaissance. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Werner Sollors fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 24 First Nights: Five Performance Premieres Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A study of five famous pieces of music, both as timeless works of art and as moments of cultural history. Close attention is given to techniques of musical listening, and to the details of the first performance of each work, with a consideration of the problems involved in assembling such a picture. Works studied are Beethoven, Symphony no. 9; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique; Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps; Handel, Messiah; Monteverdi, Orfeo. The course concludes with the first performance of a new work especially commissioned for this course. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Thomas Forrest Kelly fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 25 Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics between the Wars Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An overview of Surrealism in the context of European culture and politics of the 20th century. Focus on major works of writers, artists, and filmmakers associated with the Surrealist movement, chiefly in the period between the two world wars; some attention also paid to earlier works and movements, and to the influence of and reactions to Surrealism after 1945. Discussion of works by Breton, Aragon, Tzara, Lautreamont, Artaud, Eluard, Carrington, Bunuel and Dali, Dulac, Magritte, Tanning, Ernst, Man Ray, Bellmer, and others. Includes examination of rare books and original art works in Houghton Library and the University art museums. //This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Susan R. Suleiman fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 26 Race, Gender, and Performance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to performance studies as it intersects with studies of gender, sexuality, and race. What does it mean to say gender is "performed"? How does performance - both on- and offstage - construct and deconstruct power? Topics include transgressive and normative gender, feminist and queer theatre, athletics, gender in everyday life, drag, AIDS, and weddings. Texts include Eve Ensler, Ntozake Shange, Judith Butler, Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, David Henry Hwang, Bertolt Brecht, Guillermo Gomez-Pena. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Robin Bernstein spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 29 Modern Jewish Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Great works of fiction become universal and remain able to surprise, delight, inform, or otherwise overwhelm current readers. What gives them this power? How do writers become adjectives like Babelian, Bellovian, or Kafkaesque? This course moves through the twentieth century through the literature of a multilingual people, with works in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, Italian, and English. We see how variously Jewish writers interpret modern history and their own situation within it. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Ruth Wisse fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 30 Love In A Dead Language: Classical Indian Literature and Its Theorists Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An exploration of love in five genres of classical South Asian literature-epic history, story literature, plays, poetic miniatures, and court poetry. We will pay particular attention to the nature of literary genres and practices and how they were theorized by South Asian intellectuals. Especially relevant are theories of poetic language, aestheticized emotion (especially love), and literary ornamentation. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 31 American Musicals and American Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 150 Tu., Th., at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged. Carol J. Oja (Music) During much of the 20th century, the Broadway musical stood at the center of American culture, producing tunes and tales that became the hits of their day. It commented-wittily, satirically, relentlessly-on the ever-shifting social and political landscape, with subjects ranging from new immigrants to poverty, power, westward expansion, and issues of race. This course explores the musical artistry and cultural resonances of a cluster of iconic Broadway musicals on stage and screen, including Shuffle Along, Show Boat, Stormy Weather, The Cradle Will Rock, Oklahoma!, and Pacific Overtures. Readings focus on primary sources drawn from Harvard's illustrious Theatre Collection. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Carol J. Oja fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 33 Ancient Fictions: The Ancient Novel in Context Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Did the Greeks and Romans read novels? Fictional prose narratives about adventure and romance in exotic lands were immensely popular in antiquity. We will explore this tradition by reading the five surviving Greek novels, the Golden Ass of the Roman Apuleius, and selected other texts, along with works by contemporary theorists and critics. Topics include: definitions of the "novel;" ancient representations of desire; gender and class politics; relationships between secular and religious narratives. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N David Franklin Elmer fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 34 The Art of Interpretation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores the practices and procedures of interpretation for verbal, visual, and performance arts. Is interpretation of an artwork equivalent to its object, with all meaning made legible, translated from artistic discourse into "plain" language? Does interpretation add content to an artwork? Is interpretation in the humanities a technique? An art? An act? What are its aims? What are the relevant interpretive contexts for a given artwork? How can we determine whether an interpretation is valid? This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Julie Buckler fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 35 Forms in Korean Cultural History Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course starts with Korea's self-presentation through the Korea Wave, then turns to the features of twentieth century modernity. The third part examines historical case studies in cultural survival. Korea Indigenous pursues two modes of study, academic and aesthetic: the study of texts, pictures and other formulations of Korean identities, through discussions and writing; and the creation of the aesthetic, for example through writing poems in the Korean sijo form. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N David McCann spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 36 Buddhism and Japanese Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is designed to enable students to analyze a wide range of Japanese cultural creations-including the traditional Noh theater, modern Japanese paintings, and contemporary anime-by illustrating the influence of Buddhism both on their forms and at their depths. The first part of the course is a study of major Buddhist philosophy and its impact on Japanese literature. The second part observes Buddhist ritual practices and their significance for Japanese performing arts. The last part traces the development of Japanese Buddhist art, and considers the influence of Buddhism on diverse contemporary popular Japanese art media. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Ryuichi Abe fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 37 Introduction to the Bible in the Humanities and the Arts Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A course on the structure of the Bible, which William Blake called "the great code of art." Major themes include the invention of God, the invention history, and the invention of the city (or rather, of two cities, that of the devil and that of God). About two-thirds of the Authorized Version (King James) of 1611 will be read. The course does not count for the English concentration pre-1800 requirement. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Gordon Teskey fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 38 The English Language as Literature Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will recount the development of English literature, from Caedmon's hymn to Ulysses, as a story about the development of the English language, its new musculatures: how the steady accretion of linguistic and word-musical possibilities (French and Latin vocabulary, Italian stanza forms, Germanic and Celtic archaisms, finally a sort of pan-European synthesis) shaped the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Swift, MacPherson, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hopkins, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Daniel Albright spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 39 Old Tales for New Times: The Appropriation of Folklore in Modern and Contemporary China Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This class will look at China's most famous traditional tales, such as Mulan, The White Snake, Meng Jiangnu and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (the Butterfly Lovers?). We will study both the richness and variety of these tales in premodern times, and look into their modern and contemporary manifestations in fiction, stage, cinema and other popular media. Special emphasis is put on tradition and modernity, gender and moral dynamics, regionalism and nationalism. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Wilt Idema David Der-Wei Wang fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 40 Monuments of Islamic Architecture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged. Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar (History of Art and Architecture) and David J. Roxburgh (History of Art and Architecture) An introduction to ten iconic monuments of the Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to the early modern period. The course introduces various types of building-mosques, palaces, multifunctional complexes-and city types and the factors that shaped them, artistic, patronal, socio-political, religio-cultural, and economic. Each case study is divided into two lectures. The first presents the monument or city by "walking" through it. The second is devoted to themes elicited from the example, developed in light of comparative monuments, sites, and/or written sources, and to problems of patronage, production, audience and meaning as they pertain to architectural history. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar David J. Roxburgh spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 41 How and What Russia Learned to Read: The Rise of Russian Literary Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A study of the emergence of a secular literary tradition in the Russian imperial period. Focus on cultural institutions (religion, art, literature), issues of the aesthetic and social critique, and problems of interpretation for contemporary and modern readers. Analysis of novels by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. No knowledge of Russian required. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N William Mills Todd III spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 42 Literature and Revolution: Great Books in Moments of Cultural Transformation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What is the function of literary texts in moments, from Plato to the Russian Revolution, that promise total, enlightened societal transformation? Each week, this course will focus on two texts related to selected "revolutionary" moments, one philosophical and one literary. Literary texts do not participate easily in the revolutionary order. They resist the textual simplicities of philosophy. Which do we trust: philosophy or literature? Texts include many found in traditional "Great Books" courses: Plato, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, Luther, Milton, Swift, Rousseau, Twain, Kant, Marx, and Chekov, among others. Students who have taken Culture and Belief 18 may not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N W. James Simpson spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 43 Visual Culture of the Ottoman Empire Between East and West (15th - 17th Centuries) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course "Golden Age" of Ottoman-Islamic visual culture in the 16th century, considered within its ceremonial and historical contexts, focusing on architecture, miniature painting, and decorative arts. Stresses the transformation of Byzantine Constantinople into Ottoman Istanbul, formation of an imperial architectural style, and cross-cultural artistic contacts with contemporary European and Islamic courts. Considers art and architecture of Safavid Iran and Mughal India as a comparative backdrop. Discusses the role of centralized court ateliers in propagating canons of taste, the emphasis on decorative arts in a culture that rejected monumental sculpture and painting, and representations of the East by European artists in the Orientalist mode. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 44 Arts of Asia Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged. Melissa M. McCormick (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), Yukio Lippit (History of Art and Architecture), and Eugene Wang (History of Art and Architecture) Examines the materials and artistic processes of artifacts from China, Korea, and Japan, as well as the historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts in which they were produced. Each week focuses on a different type of object (ceramics, prints, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and performance art) linked to different types of spaces (the tomb, household, palace, temple, shrine, and the city). Emphasizes up-close analysis of objects selected from the Harvard Art Museum's collections. Students will work from the beginning of the semester toward a final project consisting of mounting their own (virtual) exhibition of East Asian art. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Melissa McCormick Yukio Lippit Eugene Yuejin Wang fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 45 Art and Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course examines the relationship between art and politics in twentieth century Russia and Eastern Europe through visual culture, literature, and film. We move chronologically from the Russian revolution and the period of artistic experimentation to the art of Stalin's era, Gulag and the Cold War, examining writer's trials and dissent in Russia and Eastern Europe as well as the non-conformist art of the late twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on close analysis and aesthetic interpretation in a broader political and historical context. We read works by Malevich, Chagall, Eisenstein, Babel, Brodsky, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Havel, Kundera, Arendt, Vajda and Nabokov. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Svetlana Boym spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 46 Modernisms 1865-1968 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course introduces the complex and contradictory history of modernism in the visual arts of Europe and the US, focusing on central figures (e.g. Manet, Picasso, Duchamp, Warhol) and movements (e.g. Cubism, Dada, Soviet Avant-garde), as much as on the key concepts of that history. Lectures will emphasize the methodological diversity developed within recent art history to theorize and historicize Modernism. Readings will comprise key texts by artists, historians, and critics. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Benjamin Buchloh spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 47 Forbidden Romance in Modern China Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course introduces a unique dimension of Chinese modernity: amorous engagement in fiction and lived experience, its discursive and visual representations, and its institutional implementation (gender, marriage, family, law, nation/state, etc.), censorship, and transgression. It examines how the modern lure of free will and emancipated subjectivity drove Chinese to redefine terms of affect, such as love, feeling, desire, passion, sexuality, loyalty, dedication, revolution and sacrifice. It also looks into how the moral, legal and political consequences of affect were evoked in such a way as to traverse or fortify consensual boundaries and their manifestations. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N David Der-Wei Wang fall term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 49 The Medieval Imagination: Visions, Dreams, and Prophecies Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The medieval imagination was the ambiguous mediator between the world and the mind: a mental space in which either prophetic truths or dreams and diabolic deceptions might be experienced, in which material and spiritual realities were reflected as in a mirror, and in which those complex constructs we call "fictions" found their source. This course investigates dream poetry and visionary writing in the context of medieval psychological theory. Texts to be read include Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, The Romance of the Rose, Dante's Divine Comedy, John of Morigny's Book of Flowers, and works by Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Nicholas James Watson spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 50 Literature and Medicine Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged. Karen Thornber (Comparative Literature) Examines the relationship between literature and medicine through creative texts that question understandings, shatter binaries, and reconceptualize notions of normality/disability, health/disease, and life/death. Pays particular attention to the work of physician-writers and narratives by patients. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Karen Laura Thornber spring term Committee on General Education General Education Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 53 Anime as Global Popular Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines a wide range of contemporary animated films and TV series made in Japan through their generic conventions, formal aesthetics, and narrative themes. Special attention will be paid to the relations between anime and various other commercial as well as non-commercial mediums such as manga, live-action films, video games, pop music, character merchandises, and fanzines. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Tomiko Yoda fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 11 Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Comparative historical exploration of the striking differences and unexpected similarities between traditional conceptions of the body in East Asian and European medicine; the evolution of beliefs within medical traditions; the relationship between traditional medicine and contemporary experience. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Shigehisa Kuriyama spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 12 For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Cultures Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course surveys the literary and artistic dimensions of the devotional life of the world's Muslim communities, focusing on the role of literature and the arts (poetry, music, architecture, calligraphy, etc.) as expressions of piety and socio-political critique. An important aim of the course is to explore the relationships between religion, literature, and the arts in a variety of historical and cultural contexts in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe, and America. No prior knowledge of Islam required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3627. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Ali Asani spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 13 The Contested Bible: The Sacred-Secular Dance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A short history of the Bible. Questions addressed include how the Bible became a book, and how that book became sacred; the advantages and burdens of a sacred text; Jewish-Christian disputations; how interpretive efforts helped create and reinforce powerful elites; how that text became the object of criticism; and how the Bible fared after the rise of criticism. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Jay M. Harris fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 14 Human Being and the Sacred in the History of the West Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A culture's understanding of what it is to be human interacts with its understanding of what is sacred. Great works of art in the culture typically reflect or articulate these notions. This course will explore the themes of human being and the sacred as they are manifested in some of the greatest works in the history of the West. Readings chosen from among Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, the New Testament, Augustine, Dante, Luther, Pascal, Kant, Melville, and others. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Sean D Kelly spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 15 The Presence of the Past Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores how the physical presence of the past embodied in places such as public architecture, war memorials, and cultural heritage tourist sites help create contemporary cultural landscapes and how societies variously construct and employ "a usable past." Examples from United States, post-Soviet sphere, Europe and postcolonial states illustrate the workings of cultural politics, collective memory, museums, monuments, memorials, souvenirs, memorabilia, and commemorative practices. Literary texts, artworks, and film suggest diverse cultural meanings of the past as presence. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Julie Buckler fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 16 Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used in their study. Analyzes how folklore shapes national, regional, and ethnic identities, as well as daily life; considers the function of folklore within the groups that perform and use it, employing materials drawn from a wide range of areas (e.g., South Slavic oral epics, American occupational lore, Northern European ballads, witchcraft in Africa and America, Cajun Mardi Gras). Required of Concentrators and for the Secondary Field in Folklore and Mythology. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Stephen A. Mitchell fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 17 Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Gladiatorial combat, beast fights, staged hunts, mock naval battles, and exposure of criminals to wild animals were defining features of the culture of ancient Rome. Examining texts and images from across the Roman world, this course seeks to identify and probe the values, attitudes, and social, political, and economic factors that contributed to the popularity of institutionalized violence as public entertainment for six hundred years from the Punic Wars until the Christianization of the Empire. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Kathleen M. Coleman fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 19 Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Islam and the role that religious ideas and institutions play in Muslim communities around the world. Its main concern is to develop an understanding of the manner in which diverse notions of religious and political authority have influenced Muslim societies politically, socially and culturally. Through specific case studies of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the course considers the role played by ideologies such as jihad, colonialism, nationalism, secularism, and globalization in shaping the ways in which Muslims interpret and practice their faith today. The course briefly considers the contemporary situation of Muslim minorities in Europe and the United States. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Historical Study A, but not both. N Ali Asani fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 20 Reason and Faith in the West Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines from an historical perspective one of the central themes in the Western intellectual tradition: the desire to reconcile rational philosophy with religious and biblical authority. Discusses the transformations in conceptions of reason, science, biblical interpretation, and divine intervention (among other themes) in the context of the long period of change from medieval to modern. Readings emphasize primary sources-including, for example, Augustine, Aquinas, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and Darwin. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Ann M. Blair spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 21 Pathways through the Andes-Culture, History, and Beliefs in Andean South America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course explores the arts and cultures of Andean South America from the Pre-Columbian through Colonial periods. Emphasis is on the place of objects-textiles, ceramics, sculptures, and books-in the construction of meanings, identities and values as these changed over time. Readings are drawn from archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnology, art history and original sources. Students will work with Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean artifacts in the collections of the Peabody Museum. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Gary Urton Thomas B.F. Cummins fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 22 Concepts of the Hero in Classical Greek Civilization Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The readings, all in English translation, are the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, seven tragedies (Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy, Sophocles' two Oedipus dramas, and Euripides' Hippolytus and The Bacchic Women), and two dialogues of Plato (the Apology and the Phaedo, both centering on the last days of Socrates); also, selections from the New Testament, especially from the Gospel according to Mark, and from the dialogue On Heroes by an eminent thinker in the "second sophistic" movement, Philostratus. Students who have taken Literature and Arts C-14 may not take this course for credit. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Gregory Nagy fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 23 From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, From the Old Testament to Christianity Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The Hebrew Scriptures, what Christians call the "Old Testament" and Jews call the "Bible," are the basis of both Judaism and Christianity. In this course we shall survey how this work of literature, through interpretation and re-interpretation, spawned two different cultural systems. Topics to be surveyed include: canon and prophecy; exegesis and Midrash; Shabbat and Sunday; temple, synagogue, church; the Oral Torah and the Logos; sin and righteousness; messiah and redemption. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 24 Gregorian Chants Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A study of the intricate mechanisms of the medieval liturgy, and the beauty of its expression in song. The texts are those of Gregorian chant; students will learn to sing, memorize, teach, and compose chant, as was done in the early middle ages. The course will study the layers of development, stylistic, cultural, and theological, and will use the resources of the Houghton Library. No previous experience or ability to read music is expected. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Thomas Forrest Kelly spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 25 Studying Buddhism, Across Place and Time Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A critical introduction to key ideas, values, people and practices in Buddhist traditions. The course offers a chance to explore Buddhism's distinctive doctrines about human experience, to appreciate the richness of its disciplinary and meditative practices, and to read its best literary gems. It highlights the way that Buddhism shifted as it spread across Asia and adapted to new cultural contexts, a process that still continues, now across the world. This allows us to study both the historical contributions of Buddhism to the philosophies and self-cultivation traditions of Asia, and the new ways it serves as a global human heritage today. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3830. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Janet Gyatso spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 26 The Culture of Everyday Life in China Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An inquiry into social and cultural life in China, past and present, through an exploration of the patterns of everyday life over the last thousand years in a single region, now known as Jinhua. We use writings from local women and men in the past, interviews with their descendants today, the ancestral halls and genealogies of multi-generational families, shrines and temples of local gods, and extensive photo documentation as sources for understanding how life was experienced by the inhabitants of a community, farmers and scholars alike, and how that community was related to the larger world. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Peter K. Bol Michael Szonyi fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 27 Among the Nations: Jewish History in Pagan, Christian and Muslim Context Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Can we trace an "authentic" Jewish identity through history, as distinct from many "cultures" of Jews in the multitude of times and places in which they have lived? This course provides an overview of major trends in Jewish civilization from biblical times through the early modern era (to approximately the 17th century), with this and related questions in mind, by engaging in close readings of traditional Jewish sources on the one hand and seeking contextual understandings of Jews and Judaism within various non-Jewish settings on the other. Required of all secondary concentrators in Jewish Studies, unless excused by the DUS. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Rachel L. Greenblatt fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 28 Hindu Worlds of Art and Culture Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An exploration of the narratives and arts of the Hindu tradition, considering the great gods-Vishnu, Krishna, Shiva, and Devi-that give expression to a profound vision of the world, the images through which the gods are envisioned, the temples and pilgrimage places where they are worshipped, and the rituals and festivals that are part of Hindu life. Readings include the Ramayana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Gita Govinda, the Shiva Purana, and the Devi Mahatmya. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3412. Students who have taken Literature and Arts C-18 may not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Literature and Arts C or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Diana L. Eck spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 29 "Strange Mutations": Wonder, Faith, Skepticism, and Disbelief in Western Antiquity and the Renaissance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How does metamorphosis encourage belief and disbelief? This course examines the experience of change and transformation as represented by major writers in the Western literary, philosophic, and theological traditions. We will explore the diverse meanings given to metamorphosis in antiquity and consider how and why such meanings are remade in the Renaissance. Authors include Sappho, Homer, Plato, Ovid, Augustine, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Christopher D. Johnson fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 30 Seeing is Believing: A History of Photography Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Modern society is unthinkable without the photograph, and yet we rarely have occasion to ponder what photographs are, what they do, and how they do it. In this course, we will consider photography from its origins to the digital era, paying particular attention to its role as an engine of belief in various cultural domains. Our goal will be to understand more incisively how photographs define and shape relations between their subjects and their viewers. Students who have taken Literature and Arts B-24 may not take this course for credit. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Robin Kelsey spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 31 Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the history of intellectual reflection on religion and belief in the western tradition. We will read roughly a half dozen perennial works drawn from authors ranging from St. Augustine of Hippo to Friedrich Nietzsche. Along the way, we will think, discuss, and write about topics such as the nature of sin, the origin of evil, the attributes of God, the argument from design, and the relationship between religion and morality. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Jeffrey K. McDonough spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 32 Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores themes of journey and quest in world literature and the interplay between their literary and religious dimensions. Considers the relationship between physical and interior journeys, home and exile, quest and peregrination. Emphasis will be on careful reading of, and thoughtful essays on, texts such as Gilgamesh, the Bible, Quest of the Holy Grail, Walden, and works by Tolkien, Dante, Teresa of Avila, Ashvaghosha, Hesse, Basho, Shusako Endo, Charles Johnson, Virginia Woolfe, and Cormac McCarthy. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2490. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Stephanie Paulsell William A. Graham fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 33 Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course provides an introduction to the study of East Asian religions. It covers the development of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Shinto. It is not a comprehensive survey, but is designed around major conceptual themes, such as ritual, image veneration, mysticism, meditation, death, and category formation in the study of religion. The emphasis throughout the course is on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and East Asian religions in particular. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3010. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N James Robson fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 34 Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Psychiatry is one of the most intellectually and socially complex and fraught fields of medicine today, and history offers one powerful strategy for better understanding why. Topics covered in this course include the invention of the mental asylum, early efforts to understand mental disorders as disorders of the brain or biochemistry, the rise of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and war, the rise of psychopharmacology, the making of the DSM, anti-psychiatry, and more. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Anne Harrington spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 35 Classical Mythology Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The myths of the Greeks and Romans: creation myths, Greek gods, Greek heroes and Roman myths. Their relationship to the mythology of neighboring people (Hittites, Babylonians, Hebrews). Their importance for Greek and Roman societies and cultures. Their reception in literature and art from the ancient world to 21st century, and their importance as a foundation of our own modern culture and society. The course will be focused on the analysis of primary sources (read in translation) and works of art (literature, painting, sculpture, movies); ancient mythology will also be studied under the light of modern theories on mythology. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Andreas Thomas Zanker fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 37 The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A critical investigation of the genre's enduring popularity, beginning with Austen's satirical Northanger Abbey and three novels credited with providing narrative templates for contemporary romances (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights). We will then read twentieth-century revisions of these works (Rebecca, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bridget Jones's Diary). Topics: the female writer and reader/consumer of literature; moral warnings against romance, "sensation," and titillation; the commodification of desire; Harlequins; the relationship between high culture and low. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Linda Schlossberg fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 38 Icon, Ritual, Text: Reading the Culture of Medieval Rus' Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the culture of the medieval East Slavs (precursors of the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians) as viewed through the prism of Eastern Orthodox belief. The course examines icon and fresco painting, architecture, ritual, music, folklore, and literature in historical and social context for clues to the evolution of an apocalyptic worldview, extending from the Christianization of Rus' in the 10th century, through the reign of Ivan the Terrible, to the advent of Peter the Great at the end of the 17th century. All readings in English. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Michael S. Flier fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 39 The Hebrew Bible Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is a survey of the major books and ideas of the Hebrew Bible (commonly called the Old Testament). The course will also treat the historical contexts in which the Bible emerged, and the Bible's role as canonical scripture in Judaism and Christianity. All readings in translation. No prior knowledge of the subject is assumed. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Shaye J.D. Cohen fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 40 Popular Culture and Modern China Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines "popular culture" as a modern, transnational phenomenon and explores its manifestation in Chinese communities (in People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and North America) and beyond. From pulp fiction to film, from "Yellow Music" to "Model Theater", from animations to internet games, the course looks into how China became modern by participating in the global circulation of media forms, and how China helps in her own way enrich the theory and practice of "popular culture". This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N David Der-Wei Wang spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 41 Gender, Islam, and Nation in the Middle East and North Africa Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will focus on how concepts of woman and gender have defined meanings of religious and national communities in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa. It will survey changes in these concepts historically through reading a variety of sources-religious texts and commentaries, literary and political writings, books of advice, women's writings, and films-and will look at how contemporary thinkers and activists ground themselves differently in this historical heritage to constitute contesting positions regarding gender and national politics today. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Historical Study A, but not both. N Afsaneh Najmabadi spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 42 Communism and the Politics of Culture: Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines how the intense political pressures of invasion, occupation, and revolution shape a country's intellectual life and are shaped by it in turn, looking at Czechoslovakia's literature, drama, film, and music from the 1948 Communist takeover, through the Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of 1968, to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, a hallmark of the peaceful overthrow of Communism in Central Europe. We consider works by Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal, Vaclav Havel; films by Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel; theories of political dissident and the "anti-politics" of Charter 77; and questions of historical memory in contemporary Prague. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 43 The World of Yiddish Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores the culture and way of life of what was, before World War II, the largest Jewish community in the world, whose descendants still constitute the majority of American Jews. Its common language, Yiddish, spread with its speakers from Western to Eastern Europe from the 14th century onward. Through interdisciplinary approach, including history, literature, music, popular culture, course examines Yiddish as vehicle of Jewish tradition and modernization. Often associated with humor, its speakers were main victims of Hitler's Final Solution. We will try to identify paradoxical features of Yiddish culture that may account for its exceptional fate. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Ruth Wisse Yuri Vedenyapin spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 44 The Cradle of History: Ancient Historians and their Afterlives Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., at 12, and a weekly section on Friday at 12 Christopher B. Krebs (The Classics) 2500 years ago a Greek writer chose the word "history" to characterize his account of the Persian Wars. Why? We still use the word today; but what does it mean to us, and how has that meaning developed from the works of our western forebears? This course offers a lively introduction to the ancient historians' works, lives, and afterlives with particular attention to the nature of historical truth, changing ideas of history in their cultural contexts, the role and relevance of history in ancient and modern life, and the cultural legacy of the Greek and Roman world. Readings from Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Nietzsche. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Christopher Krebs spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 45 The History and Structure of the English Language Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Everyone who uses English has reason to wonder about its idiosyncrasies. How can words with such different spellings as "eight" and "ate" be pronounced alike? Where do dialects come from? Who decides whether a split infinitive is correct or not? What did Shakespeare's English sound like? Why does English lack grammatical gender? Why is "long i" really a diphthong? What happened to "thou"? Is American English destined to grow more distinct? What does the future of English look like? This course addresses such questions as it surveys the changes across the centuries. Lectures will be supplemented by exercises from the course website. Besides addressing everyone's curiosity about the features of the language, this course can help students understand the literature of earlier periods and can give greater confidence in reading and writing. It argues, finally, that English is not the property of anyone or any group, but belongs instead to any and all of us who use it today. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Daniel G. Donoghue spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 46 Music, Debate, and Islam Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course focuses on the arts of sound practiced by Muslims and on debates associated with "music" in a range of Islamic contexts. The purposes are to understand from a musically informed perspective a set of interrelated musical practices that cut across regions (especially South and West Asia); and how different ideologies, philosophies, and texts-associated with Islam locally, nationally, and internationally-shape local understandings and constructions of sound. The content of classes will include lectures, discussions, live musical demonstrations and careful review of audio-visual materials. Students will also have the opportunity to learn to play or sing Persian music. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Richard Kent Wolf fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 47 The Darwinian Revolution Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Why is evolutionary theory so controversial in the public sphere? This course looks to the history of cultural changes in the West for answers. We cover the intellectual structure and social context of evolutionary ideas as they emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Darwinism as a major transformation in Western thought. Topics include an introduction to origin stories in different cultures; the natural history tradition in the West; evolutionary thought before Darwin; key aspects of Darwin's ideas; the comparative reception of Darwinism in Britain, US, Germany, Russia and France; social Darwinism, eugenics and racial theories; early genetics and the search for the gene; religious controversy then and now. The course alternates every year with Culture and Belief 20. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief and fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Janet Browne Alistair William Sponsel spring term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 48 God, Justice, and the Book of Job Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An examination of the biblical book of Job along with related texts, ancient, medieval, and modern, that allow us to establish the literary and philosophical traditions in which Job was composed and the literary and philosophical legacy it has left. Particular focus on the ways the texts play off one another in literary form and expression and in their treatment of such themes as divine justice, human piety, and the nature of the divine-human encounter. This course fulfills the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief and the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Peter Machinist fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 49 American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This interdisciplinary course examines the rich tradition of progressive protest literature in the US from the American Revolution to the rise of Hip Hop, globalization, and modern-day slavery. Using a broad definition of "protest literature," it focuses on the production and consumption of dissent as a site of progressive social critique, using a wide variety of print, visual, and oral forms. We examine the historical links between modes of protest and meanings of literature, and explore how various expressions of dissent function as aesthetic, performative, rhetorical, and ideological texts within specific cultural contexts. "Readings" range from novels to photographs and music. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N John Stauffer Timothy Patrick McCarthy fall term Committee on General Education General Education Culture and Belief 50 The European Postwar: Literature, Film, Politics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What happened in the last half century in European culture and politics? How can we read history through culture, and culture through history? This undergraduate lecture survey explores the cultural and intellectual history of post-war Europe, with an emphasis on literature, film, and the role of intellectuals and artists in public and political debate. In this course we will explore some of the greatest works of postwar film and literature, tracing out the transformation of European modernism and the rise of post-modernism, in conjunction with the rise of new modalities of political discourses concerning communism, democracy, colonialism, and sexuality. The course includes seven classic novels by postwar European author, and seven of the greatest postwar films by noteworthy European directors. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Peter E. Gordon spring term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 11 Making Sense: Language, Logic, and Communication Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What is meaning, and how do we use it to communicate? We address the first of these questions via the second, presenting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human languages. We investigate language as the product of a natural algorithm, that is, a computational facility which grows spontaneously in our species and enables us to expose our thoughts and feelings. Our investigation uses formal models from logic, linguistics, and computer science. These models will also shed light on human nature and basic philosophical issues concerning language. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Gennaro Chierchia Stuart M. Shieber fall term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 13 Analyzing Politics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A commonsensical survey of rational theories of politics comprised of: (1) individual choice, (2) group choice, (3) collective action, and (4) institutions. The underlying theme is that politics may be described and understood as rational, goal-seeking behavior by citizens, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups in various settings. Students are encouraged to think deeply about current events, history, and public life generally, as well as to analyze the politics of private life--in families, clubs, firms, churches, universities, even Harvard Houses--since private politics, like public politics, may be understood in terms of rational behavior. Instruction is by lecture, small-group section interactions, and experiments. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Kenneth A. Shepsle spring term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 14 Fat Chance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course has three objectives: to learn to calculate probabilities precisely, when we can; to learn how to estimate them, when we can't; and to say exactly what we can and can't infer from these calculations. The course is not mathematically demanding--we assume no mathematical background beyond high-school algebra--but the goal is serious: given that we're asked everyday to make consequential decisions on the basis of incomplete knowledge, an understanding of basic probability is an essential tool for life. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Joseph D. Harris fall term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 15 Medical Detectives Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Why is there confusion in the scientific community as to whether butter or margarine is worse for your health? How do epidemiologists find out whether cell phone use increases your risk for brain cancer? What is your risk of contracting diabetes? Discover how researchers draw on quantitative skills to detect causes of acute disease outbreaks and chronic diseases. This course introduces the techniques and methods for empirically based analyses, decisions, and actions in the context of current public health problems. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Karin Michels fall term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 16 Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Discover an appreciation of statistical principles and reasoning via "Real-Life Modules" that can make you rich or poor (financial investments), loved or lonely (on-line dating), healthy or ill (clinical trials), satisfied or frustrated (chocolate/wine tasting) and more. Designed for those for whom this may be their only statistics course as well as those who want to be inspired to learn more from a subject that intimately affects their chance for happiness (or misery) in life. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Xiao-Li Meng Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak fall term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 17 Deductive Logic Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The concepts and principles of symbolic logic: valid and invalid arguments, logical relations of statements and their basis in structural features of those statements, the analysis of complex statements of ordinary discourse to uncover their structure, the use of a symbolic language to display logical structure and to facilitate methods for assessing arguments. Analysis of reasoning with truth-functions ("and", "or", "not", "if...then") and with quantifiers ("all", "some"). Attention to formal languages and axiomatics, and systems for logical deduction. Throughout, both the theory underlying the norms of valid reasoning and applications to particular problems will be investigated. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Edward J Hall spring term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 18 What are the odds? Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course There is the mathematics behind statistics, and then there are the concepts - without a proper grasp of which you will all too likely fall prey to confusion, error, and even outright deception. This course will teach you a bit about the math, and a lot about the concepts. Take it and achieve enlightenment about such topics as the difference between probability and risk, the nature of statistical inference, and the connections between correlation and causation. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Edward J Hall Andrew Murray spring term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 19 The Art of Numbers Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course focuses on the insight into quantitative information offered by graphs, tables, charts, maps, and other illustrations. We analyze which of these tools are best for communicating what kinds of data, and why. Ideas about causality, approximation, statistical significance, credibility, and dimensionality will be addressed by analyzing real data and their display. The data will be drawn from medical, astronomical, social-science, aerospace, financial, and geographic examples. Approximately one-third of the course will focus on web, interactive, and live presentations of data. Much of the course's philosophy is based on the work of Edward Tufte. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Alyssa A. Goodman fall term Committee on General Education General Education Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 20 The Business and Politics of Health Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Health and medical care pervade every aspect of our lives. This course uses quantitative methods (graphical analysis, algebra, data analysis) to examine issues related to health, disease, and systems for delivering health care. Topics to be covered include differences in health between rich and poor countries, differences in types of medical care and who receives it, and the political context for reforming health care policy. Techniques for analysis will be developed and demonstrated in class and section. The course uses examples from a variety of international settings, but focuses mainly on health and health care in the US. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or United States in the World, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N David Cutler spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 11 Human Rights: A Philosophical Introduction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What are human rights? Why would individuals have such rights? How can rights be universal, and what rights are universal? How can human rights rhetoric be criticized? This course will approach these and related questions philosophically, but with an eye to international politics. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Mathias Risse spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 12 Political Justice and Political Trials Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Criminal trials have served throughout history to enforce revolutionary change, to impose conformity and stifle dissent, or, alternatively, to advance democracy. Students examine trials in their historical and moral context to weigh such issues as who can prosecute; can crimes be defined after the fact; can punishing speech be justified? Cases include Socrates, Louis XVI, General Dyer, the Soviet purges, Nuremberg, Eichmann, American cold-war hearings, and today's international tribunals and truth commissions. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Charles S. Maier fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 13 Self, Freedom, and Existence Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How is human freedom possible? Does acting freely mean acting in accordance with reasons or acting arbitrarily, or neither? Are values chosen, discovered, or invented? How is self-knowledge possible and how is it different from the knowledge of others? Specific issues to be discussed include: self-deception and bad faith; the nature of freedom and autonomy; subjectivity and our relation to others; rationality and irrationality. Readings, which will provide an introduction to a few of the major texts of Existentialism, will be drawn from Kant, Sartre, Dostoevsky, and various contemporary writers. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Richard Moran spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 14 Issues in Ethics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Is pleasure the only ultimate good? Are individuals' preferences the only basis for assessing the quality of their lives? What makes acts wrong? Is moral blame applicable only to agents who have free will? Should we accept moral relativism? Readings mainly from contemporary philosophers. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Thomas Scanlon fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 15 "If There is No God, All is Permitted:" Theism and Moral Reasoning Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will examine the ways in which a concept of God has informed Western moral discourse trying to help students engage the literature as they consider why one might think "if there is no God, all is permitted" and why one might think if there is a God, human moral achievement is impossible. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Jay M. Harris spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 16 Slavery in Western Political Thought Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The ownership of one man by another is an obvious and profound affront to many of our fundamental ideas about morality, and yet for much of human history it was defended-and often by the greatest moral and political philosophers. How was this possible? The course will trace the theme of slavery through the arguments of political theorists from the ancient world to the present and will study the way in which the rejection of slavery became intellectually possible. These theoretical arguments will be considered in the context of the changing history of slavery as an institution. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Richard Tuck spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 17 Comparative Religious Ethics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Predicated on the assumption that global concerns are manifest in highly particularized cultural and religious circumstances, this course seeks to understand Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian framings of and prospective solutions to the problem of communal violence in the modern world. Topics examined in each tradition include: conceptions of moral subjectivity, frameworks for moral education, close readings of novels that grapple with the moral challenges (especially new forms of violence) wrought by colonization and globalization, and explicitly religious responses to such violence in the work of Gandhi, Buddhist monastic communities in Sri Lanka, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Anne E. Monius fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 18 Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How should one make moral choices? What is the best way to live a moral life? How should the state be organized to best encourage proper human behavior? And what happens if the state comes to be formed as an empire? What are the proper moral ways to respond? Questions such as these were at the heart of classical Chinese philosophical debates. This course will be the study of how the classical Chinese thinkers wrestled with these questions and what responses they gave. As we will quickly see, the views that arose in China were among the most powerful and influential in human history. Regardless of whether one agrees with these views or not, they should be studied and taken seriously by anyone who cares about ethics and politics. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Michael Puett spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 19 The Good Life In Classical India Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What is a good life? How does it relate to personal happiness, to being a good ruler, citizen, or lover? What is the relative value of justice, citizenship, loyalty, friendship, personal profit, and pleasure? Is the good life the same for everyone? This course is devoted to investigating how classical South Asian intellectuals approached such questions and to thinking critically about their responses. As we will see, far from being mere artifacts from someone else's historical past, classical South Asian texts provide powerful frameworks for thinking about our own lives and the ways in which we reason about them. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 20 Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability: West and East Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An inquiry into basic moral beliefs and their metaphysical assumptions in the high cultures of Western and Eastern civilizations. The background concern is our struggle, in philosophy, religion, and art, with nihilism: the fear that our lives and the world itself may be meaningless. The foreground theme is the contrast between two answers to the question about how to live one's life: stay out of trouble and look for trouble. How speculative thought has dealt with the limits of insight into what matters most. Exemplary writings from several traditions: modern European, ancient Greek, Chinese, South Asian. Extended take-home examination. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW-46261A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Roberto Unger fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 21 Moral Reasoning about Social Protest Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An examination of moral questions that arise in the context of social protest in the US during the 20th century, including the central question of political philosophy: How can political authority be justified? After studying the Attica prison revolt of 1971, we will consider the following questions: Is there an obligation to obey the law? What, if any, are the moral limits to this obligation? Can civil disobedience be justified, and does it always need to be? Texts include classic excerpts from Plato, Hobbes, Rawls, and Marx. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Susanna Siegel fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 22 Justice Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 1000 A critical analysis of selected classical and contemporary theories of justice, with discussion of present-day practical applications. Topics include affirmative action, income distribution, same-sex marriage, debates about rights (human rights and property rights), arguments for and against equality, debates about political obligation and the claims of community. Readings include Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, and Rawls. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Michael J. Sandel spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 23 Trust, Vision, and Doubt in Ethics, Politics, and Law Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course explores the interplay of trust, vision, justification and doubt in ethical, political, and legal thought. It examines how some of the characteristic moral, political and legal faiths of the last few centuries have been transformed under the pressure of skepticism or of a crisis of faith. In this way, it introduces students to the problems and opportunities of reasoning in all the normative disciplines. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Scott Brewer spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 24 Bioethics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Bioethics is the study of ethical issues arising in efforts to maintain and restore health, and, more broadly, with charting humankind's future in an era of both technological advances and unmet need. We will try to reason our way through moral dilemmas that pit health against freedom, prevention against rescue, and the claims of those with competing needs when life itself hangs in the balance. The course will emphasize ethical issues involving health that arise at the global and population levels, particularly those involving peoples and regions with the greatest burden of disease. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Daniel Wikler spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 26 The Ethics of Atheism: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged. Peter J. Burgard (Germanic Languages and Literatures) Examines the Western secular tradition through the work of three seminal figures whose critiques of religion-in social and political theory, philosophy, and psycho-analysis and anthropology-are motivated by ethical concerns. Brief introductory readings of Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach ground analysis of Marx's, Nietzsche's, and Freud's ethical atheism. Students do not develop or debate formulae for behavior, but rather become critically aware of ethical considerations that underlie actions and that are negotiated vis-a-vis prevailing moral codes. Readings include The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Ethical Reasoning or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Peter J. Burgard spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 27 Ethics and International Relations Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course explores the problem of morality in international relations. Starting from an overview of different theoretical perspectives concerning moral argumentation in international affairs, it proceeds to consider the ethical dimensions of more specific international issues such as the use of force, human rights, and distributive justice. Contemporary cases will be used when relevant. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Stanley Hoffmann J. Bryan Hehir fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 28 Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course considers how Tolstoy and Dostoevsky take up moral inquiry in their fiction, introduces students to philosophical texts that informed their major fiction, and asks why the novel as a literary genre may be a good forum for the discussion of ethics. We will read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and The Brothers Karamazov, as well as selected texts from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Justin M. Weir spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 29 Social Theory, the Humanities, and Philosophy Now Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Th., 5-7 p.m. Michael J. Puett (East Asian Languages & Civilizations; Study of Religion) and Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard Law School) A sustained discussion of the obstacles and the opportunities that the established traditions of Western philosophy, social theory and the humanities present to those who see time as real, history as open, novelty as possible, and social and cultural transformation as imperative. The central theme is how thought deals with the creation of the new. Special attention to three European philosophers -- Hegel, Marx, and Bergson, as well as to those strands in contemporary philosophy and social thought that bear most closely on our concerns. No prerequisites other than willingness to consider a wide range of problems, materials, and ideas. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW-46211A. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Michael Puett Roberto Unger fall term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 30 The Just World Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Globalization is changing the world. What do wealthy countries have to do to contribute towards the creation of a just world? We start by exploring different approaches to the question of whether obligations of justice apply only to those who share a country. We will then assess whether the global order harms the poor. Next we look at human rights and ask whether liberal values should be promoted as universal human rights. We will complete the course by exploring three additional subjects: moral obligations arising from trade (specifically whether labor standards should be linked with human rights standards), immigration, environmental justice. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Mathias Risse spring term Committee on General Education General Education Ethical Reasoning 31 The Philosopher and the Tyrant Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Philosophers and politicians alike struggle to set the terms for living a good life in a world of conflict. How do court counselors and professional philosophers speak truth to power? How do rulers - and citizens like ourselves - weigh the competing demands of liberty and order, self-fulfillment and self-restraint? Moving from Plato and the Bible to responses to Hitler's Mein Kampf, this course will examine particularly rich examples of relations between the pursuit of wisdom and the pursuit of power, from the extremes of conflict (the executions of Socrates, Jesus, Sir Thomas More) to the opposite dream of the philosopher king. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N David Damrosch fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 11 Molecules of Life Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Molecules form the basis of heredity, govern how our bodies develop, allow us to respond to changes in our environment, and carry our thoughts. This course explores the roles of molecules through case studies of our bodies' messengers, modern drugs, and the future of medicine. Examples include sexual development, metabolism, diabetes, nerve transmission, psychiatric disease, infectious disease, cancer, aging and stem cells. Students will connect to lecture material in discussion section through hands-on activities and role-playing scenarios. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. // N Jon Clardy David R. Liu spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 12 Understanding Darwinism Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An interdisciplinary exploration of Darwin's ideas and their impact on science and society. The course links the history of Darwin's ideas with the key features of modern evolutionary biology. Darwin's celebrated book On the Origin of Species provided a compelling solution to one of science's most prominent problems-the origins of biological diversity and of our own species-and a whole new way of viewing the world. The course reviews the development of the main elements of the theory of evolution, highlighting the areas in which Darwin's ideas have proved remarkably robust and areas in which subsequent developments have significantly modified the theory. By also analyzing the historical context of the development of evolutionary thought beyond Darwin, the course emphasizes the dynamic interplay between science and society. // This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Janet Browne Andrew Berry fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 15 Developmental Psychology: Origins of Knowledge Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course explores the origins and development of knowledge in the human child, in relation to two larger time scales: biological evolution and historical/cultural change. Drawing on evidence from experimental, comparative, and developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and history of science, it focuses on the development of knowledge of objects, number, space, language, agency, morality and the social world. Questions include: How does human biology constrain and support human cognition? How variable are human knowledge systems across different cultures and times? What aspects of knowledge are unique to humans? How does knowledge change as children grow and adults gain expertise? Students who have taken Psychology 16 may not take this course for credit. For Psychology concentrations, this course meets a Foundation Course requirement. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Elizabeth Spelke Susan Carey spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 16 Human Evolution and the Human Body Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How and why did humans evolve to be the way we are, and what are the implications of our evolved anatomy and physiology for human health in a post-industrial world? To address these questions, this course reviews the major transitions that occurred in human evolution, from the divergence of the ape and human lineages to the origins of modern humans. Also considered are the many effects of recent cultural and technological shifts such as agriculture and industrialization on human health. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Daniel E. Lieberman spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 17 The Human Organism Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 75 The physiology and pathology of the human body are presented with an emphasis on cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and reproductive biology. Besides learning human biology, students will explore critical determinants of their own health as well as the health of diverse communities in rich and poor countries. Topics include the normal functioning of the human body and its responses to infection, injury, and environmental stress. We will analyze the relative power of diagnosis and treatment of disease (medicine) versus primary prevention of disease (public health) in promoting global health. Activities include classroom discussions and demonstrations, laboratories, and a directed term paper. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Joseph D. Brain Stephanie Shore fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 18 Evolutionary Biology: Sex, Survival, and the Orgy of Species (formerly Science B-65) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Five to ten million species roam the earth today--or maybe ten times that many. Where did these species come from? What processes regulate their diversity? We now know that Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is correct, but many other processes also affect evolutionary change. Competition for mates is particularly important and evolutionary divergence of species is often driven by differences in reproductive biology. This course will examine theories of how evolution occurs, including runaway sexual selection, sperm competition, adaptive radiation, disruptive selection, sympatric speciation and host-parasite interactions. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Jonathan Losos spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 19 Nutrition and Global Health Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 250 This course will introduce students to nutrition and global health problems through exploration of demographic, epidemiological, biological, social, political, and economic determinants of nutritional status. Emphasis will be placed on the role of nutritional status and dietary intake, both as a determinant and as a consequence, of these health problems. Students will be encouraged to think critically about the major challenges to improve nutrition and health at a global level, with a focus on nutrition and infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and chronic diseases. Nutritional assessment, study design, and efficacy of nutrition interventions, will be explored in detail. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Christopher Duggan Wafaie W. Fawzi Clifford W. Lo fall term; repeated spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 20 Psychological Science Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 510 An introduction to the sciences of mind, including foundational concepts from neuroscience, evolution, genetics, philosophy, and experimental methods, and specific topics such as perception, memory, reasoning and decision-making, consciousness, child development, psychopathology, personality, language, emotion, sexuality, violence, morality and social relations. Students who have taken Science B-62 or Psychology 1 may not take this course for credit but may use those courses to satisfy the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. This course, as well as Science B-62 and Psychology 1, meet the Tier 1 requirement for Psychology. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Daniel Gilbert Steven Pinker spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 21 Evolutionary Medicine Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., 10&#8211;11:30, and a weekly section to be arranged. Charles Nunn (Human Evolutionary Biology) and Peter Ellison (Human Evolutionary Biology) Evolutionary medicine is a new field seeking to apply the principles of evolution to understanding human health and disease. This course will involve lectures and case studies. Lectures will focus on general principles including: elements of evolutionary theory; interpreting data in relation to specific hypotheses; major human infectious, chronic, and genetic diseases; and human anatomy and physiology in evolutionary perspective. Case studies will be chosen to illustrate these principles and will engage students in small discussion groups and independent research. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Charles Lindsay Nunn Peter Ellison fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 22 Human Influence on Life in the Sea Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Many important marine fish stocks are over-harvested and their futures are in doubt. Other human activities, such as pollution and anthropogenic climate change, are also affecting the stability and productivity of marine ecosystems. This course will ask what we need to know about the causes and effects of anthropogenic change to best protect marine ecosystems and ensure sustainable harvests from the sea. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Robert M. Woollacott James J. McCarthy fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 24 From Neurons to Nations: The Science of Early Childhood Development and the Foundations of a Successful Society Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is designed to bridge the science of child development and the formulation of social policies. It begins with an overview of basic concepts of embryonic and neurobiological development, with attention focused on experience-dependent changes in brain architecture, and proceeds to investigate how early experiences influence lifelong learning, behavior, and health. Over the semester, students learn how broader understanding and effective translation of these scientific concepts can inform evidence-based policies and practices that: (1) advance the healthy development of children, families, and communities; (2) reduce disparities in lifelong outcomes; and (3) bring high returns to all of society. Faculty affiliated with Center on the Developing Child. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Holly Schindler Dr Charles A. Nelson III Jack Shonkoff spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of Living Systems 25 Trees, Forests and Global Change Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Forests cover nearly one third of the earth's land surface area. They provide a vast range of products and services to human civilization, and are important for economic and cultural reasons. This class will provide students with an introduction to the biology and ecology of forest ecosystems. An overarching theme throughout the course will be to understand how climate change will affect forests and the ecological services we derive from them, and in turn how forests can affect their own growth environment and climate change itself. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Donald H. Pfister Andrew Richardson spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 12 Natural Disasters Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods, claim thousands of lives and cause tens of billions of dollars in damage each year. Moreover, changes in Earth's climate are raising sea level, changing precipitation patterns, and likely causing an increase in the occurrence of damaging storms, putting more of our global population at risk. In this course we develop an understanding of these natural hazards from an earth science perspective, and examine several case studies to assess their catastrophic impacts. Given our scientific understanding of these phenomena, we examine ways to assess and forecast future natural disasters, and to mitigate the adverse impacts to our societies. Sections will emphasize the use of GIS technology to measure the impacts of natural hazards. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N John H. Shaw fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 13 The Physics of Music and Sound Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 60 Sound and music are integral parts of all human cultures, and play critical roles in communications and social interactions. In this course, we explore the science of the production, transmission, and perception of sound, with the aim of expanding both scientific and artistic horizons. Topics will include the nature of waves, vibrations, sound production, resonance, interference, harmony, dissonance, voice, musical instruments, sound spaces, and human auditory response. Physical principles are worked into the course as topics arise; emphasis is placed on an intuitive grounding in these subjects. The mathematical background of students is assumed to be at the level of high school algebra and trigonometry. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Eric J. Heller fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 14 How to Build a Habitable Planet Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The story of the earth from the Big Bang to humankind. Topics covered include the Big Bang, origin of the elements, formation of minerals, origin of the solar system, formation of planets, climate regulation, origin of life, co-evolution of ocean, atmosphere, solid earth and biosphere, development of plate tectonics, the modern Earth as an interconnected system, and the human era and its consequences for the planet. . Finally we consider whether Earth may be a microcosm reflecting laws of planetary evolution that may be common to a class of planets throughout the universe, or alternatively may be a low probability accident. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Charles Langmuir spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 15 Reality Physics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What flows from electrical wall sockets, cell phones, and power lines? What are the risks? How do magnetic resonance imaging, X-rays, and CT scans take pictures within our bodies, and with what danger? What are the lasers that inhabit grocery store checkout counters and CD players? What are atomic clocks? How have they and GPS satellites revolutionized navigation for backpackers and ships? How does Einstein's famous formula describe the energy release from nuclei? What are nuclear reactors and nuclear waste? This quantitative study of the physics of daily life is intended to enable more informed choices in our society. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. // N Gerald Gabrielse spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 17 The Einstein Revolution Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Albert Einstein has become the icon of modern science. Following his scientific, cultural, philosophical, and political trajectory, this course aims to track the changing role of physics in the 20th- and 21st- centuries. Addresses Einstein's engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, and technology, and raises basic questions about what it means to understand physics and its history. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Peter Galison fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 18 Time Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course We study how our understanding of time and of related issues, such as the predictability of the future, have evolved over the past three centuries. We start with Newtonian mechanics, which envisions a universal time, symmetric between past and future. This leads to the concept of a clockwork universe. We then see how developments in the 19th and 20th centuries destroy this view of time. In the 19th century, the distinction between past and future emerges from considerations of statistical processes. In the 20th century, the theory of relativity forces fundamental changes in the concept of time. Time ceases to be universal and becomes entangled with space and gravity. Quantum mechanics limits the predictability of the future and introduces verified effects so weird that Einstein wrote of them, "No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this." Some knowledge of secondary school physics useful, but not required. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Gary Feldman spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 19 The Energetic Universe Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 325 The nature and history of matter revealed by astronomical observation and experimental physics. Explores the Big Bang and models of the universe, stellar evolution and supernova explosions, evidence for invisible matter, and the development of structure in the universe. Demonstrates the physical principles used to interpret astronomical data and to construct a model for the evolution of the universe on the microscopic and cosmic scales. Examines the way microscopic properties of matter determine properties of people, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Robert P. Kirshner fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 20 What is Life? From Quarks to Consciousness Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course views life through multiple lenses. Quantum physics involves uncertainty and randomness, and yet paradoxically it explains the stability of molecules, such as DNA, that encode information and are critical to life. Thermodynamics is about the universe's ever increasing disorder, and yet living systems remain ordered and intact. This course will examine how these physical laws underpin life and how life itself has diversified since originating 3.5 billion years ago. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Science of Living Systems, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Science A or Science B, but not both. N Logan Stewart McCarty Melissa Franklin Andrew Berry fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 21 Measuring the Universe with Stars Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Direct measurements of the stars and Sun with telescopes on the Science Center to learn how we can understand our solar system, galaxy and the distant universe from stars, the basic building blocks and markers of cosmic evolution. In small sections, students conduct both visual and computer-assisted observations to measure physical properties of stars and formulate their own cosmic understanding from physical laws. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Jonathan E. Grindlay spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 22 The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus and Beyond Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Science is like well-woven, ever-expanding fabric, designed to (un)cover Nature's secrets. This course emphasizes the strong connections between subfields of science, showing it as the never-ending and greatest detective story ever told, with evidence always the arbiter. These characteristics are exhibited in the semi-historical treatment of three themes: unveiling the universe, the earth and its fossils, and the story of life. Opportunities include working with Harvard's scientific facilities and making short films. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Science of Living Systems, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Science A or Science B, but not both. N Irwin I. Shapiro spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 24 Introduction to Technology and Society Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 60 From the digital revolution to bio informatics, from global warming to sustainability, and from national security to renewable energy, technology plays a critical role in shaping our lives. In this course, the students will be exposed to applied science and engineering concepts that span disciplines and examine broadly how technology shapes society and vice versa. It will emphasize qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis, modeling and the conceptual basis of some of the grand challenges facing society. Permission of the instructor is required. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. Y Venkatesh Narayanamurti spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 25 Energy: Perspectives, Problems and Prospects Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course provides an historical account of the evolution of the modern energy system, from early dependence on human and animal power, to the subsequent use of wind and water, to more recent reliance on fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas - and even more recently to the development of the ability to tap the energy contained in the nucleus. It will discuss the important historical advances in the applications of energy, notably in the production and distribution of electricity and in the transportation sector - where oil-derived products provide the motive force for cars, trucks, trains, ships and planes. It will highlight the energy related problems we confront today, with particular emphasis on air pollution, on the threat of global climate change, on the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and on the risks to national security imposed by our increasing reliance on imported sources of oil. It concludes with a discussion of options for a more sustainable energy future. Students are expected to have a background of high school algebra and trigonometry. Students who have taken Science A-52 may not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Michael B. McElroy fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 26 Primitive Navigation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course We use the theme of primitive navigation to open the eyes of students to the physical world in a direct and palpable manner. Basic principles include human cognition of physical and mental maps, dead reckoning, direction finding from nature. The course includes the basics of astronomy, including planetary orbits, meteorology, thermodynamics, bird behavior, electromagnetic radiation, optics, waves, tides, water transport and chemistry. Navigational practices in Polynesian, Arabic, Aboriginal and Norse cultures provide a focus. Some facility with algebra and trigonometry is useful. A series of hands-on projects are employed to understand navigational practices discussed in lecture. Students who have taken Freshman Seminar 22f may not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Science A or Quantitative Reasoning, but not both. N John Huth fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 27 Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 300 This course is a collaboration between world-class chefs and Harvard professors. Each week, a chef will lecture about some aspect of gastronomy. This lecture will introduce and motivate a lecture about the science of soft materials by a Harvard professor. The course will cover the basic concepts in the science of soft materials, providing a solid understanding of their properties and behavior. All food is made of soft materials, and cooking relies on many of their fundamental properties. The course will also include laboratory work that uses concepts of cooking to understand and motivate experimental measurements on soft materials. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N David A. Weitz fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 28 Invisible Worlds Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What we perceive as "reality" is the best effort of our senses to interpret a deeper, largely invisible, reality that is unnervingly strange. This course will survey the world of very small things, objects with dimensions of nanometers and micrometers. The behaviors of these objects are often entirely counterintuitive; they can also be quite useful. Micro- and nanostructures are the basis both of fundamentally new science, and of ubiquitous technologies: quantum dots, computers, the biological nanomotors that power muscle, buckyballs, tools for examining single mammalian cells, lasers. The course will describe these objects and how they function; it will also touch on issues of commercialization, economics, public policy, and ethics that spring from the avalanche of discovery and invention in this area. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Mara Prentiss George M. Whitesides fall term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 29 The Climate-Energy Challenge Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will examine future climate change in the context of Earth history, and then consider various strategies for what might be done to deal with it. The likely impacts of continued greenhouse gas emissions will be explored, emphasizing the scientific uncertainties associated with various predictions, and how this can be understood in the context of risk. In the latter third of the class, the question of how to mitigate climate change will be discussed, including an examination of various options for advanced energy systems. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Daniel P. Schrag spring term Committee on General Education General Education Science of the Physical Universe 30 Life as a Planetary Phenomenon Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course considers the relationship between life and the planet on which it resides. It examines the scientific quest to understand where life might thrive beyond Earth. On Earth, life was born of planetary processes and has been sustained by plate tectonics and other physical processes. Through evolution, life has in fact emerged as major influence on our planet's surface. Fundamental features of terrestrial life and evolution are addressed in the context of astronomy, planetary physics and chemistry. These, in turn, provide a basis for the exploration for other habitable planets, both within our solar system and in the greater universe. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Dimitar Sasselov spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 11 Germany in the World, 1500-2000 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines how German-speaking Europe and its inhabitants have interacted with the wider world in the five hundred years since the age of discoveries and the Reformation. We shall be looking not only at political and military dimensions, but at flows of goods and people, ecological exchanges, travel, exploration, colonialism, and cultural transfers. The course, in which visual materials play an integral part, seeks to show how a national history can be seen in new ways when viewed through a transnational perspective. Students who have taken Historical Study A-76 may not take this course for credit. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N David Blackbourn fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 12 China: Traditions and Transformations Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Modern China presents a dual image: a society transforming itself through economic development and social revolution; and the world's largest and oldest bureaucratic state, coping with longstanding problems of economic and political management. Whatever form of modern society and state emerges in China will bear the indelible imprint of China's historical experience, of its patterns of philosophy and religion, and of its social and political thought. These themes are discussed in order to understand China in the modern world, and as a great world civilization that developed along lines different from those of the Mediterranean. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study A or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Peter K. Bol William C. Kirby spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 13 Japan in Asia and the World Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Japan is a collection of islands, but its past and present unfolds through continuous interaction with wider worlds. This course places Japan in contexts of Asian and global history. It begins with the people, institutions, and ideas of premodern Japan, from the emergence of a court-centered state 1500 years ago to a warrior-dominated society centuries later. We then examine the tumultuous process of change from the 19th century through the present and explore how people in Japan have dealt with the dilemmas of modernity that challenge us all. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study A or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Andrew D. Gordon David L Howell spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 14 The British Empire Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Less than a century ago the British Empire ruled a quarter of the world. This course surveys the extraordinary reign of the British Empire from the American Revolution to World War II. Course presents a narrative of key events and personalities, introduces major concepts in the study of British imperial history, and considers the empire's political and cultural legacies. Readings include works by Niall Ferguson, Linda Colley, Winston Churchill, and Mahatma Gandhi. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Maya Jasanoff fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 15 The Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Focus on the insurrectionary war, the consolidation of power, Fidel Castro's role, the role of organized labor and the peasantry, the US-Cuban conflict, the alliance with the Soviet Union, the choice of economic strategy, the "remaking of human beings," the role of intellectuals, and the support for revolutions in Africa and Latin America. The instructor debates himself, presenting two or more views on each topic. Readings include original documents in translation. Sections offered in English or Spanish. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study B or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Jorge I. Dominguez fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 18 Europe Since the Second World War Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Considers the political, economic, social and cultural development of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Examines post-war reconstruction; decolonization and the Cold War; the development of social democracy, new social movements, and the welfare state; the birth and expansion of the European Union; the emergence and importance of "immigrant politics" and new extreme-right movements; the events of 1989 and their significance. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Mary D. Lewis fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 19 Western Ascendancy: The Mainsprings of Global Power from 1600 to the Present Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course From the scientific revolution to the industrial revolution, from representative government to the consumer society, from capitalism to nationalism and socialism, the ideas and institutions of "the West" (meaning Europe and its colonies of settlement) came to dominate the world in the five centuries after around 1500. But what were the mainsprings of Western power? Taking a comparative historical approach, this course seeks to identify the key economic, cultural, social, political and military differences between the West and "the Rest." This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 21 China's Two Social Revolutions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A general overview of the patterns of social life in China and how these have changed since the revolution in 1949. The socialist transformations led by Mao Zedong after 1949 and the market and other reforms led by Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death receive equal emphasis. Topics covered include political institutions, work organizations, village life, cities, religion, family life, population control, gender relations, inequality, and schooling. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Martin K. Whyte spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 22 Asia in the Making of the Modern World Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course spotlights familiar aspects of everyday life in contemporary America, and reveals how a deeper understanding of them often requires study of peoples and events in distant places and times. In addition to making startling discoveries about global history, students will also learn the creative use of electronic databases and archival resources, and gain experience with multimedia presentations (mini-documentaries, podcasts). This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Shigehisa Kuriyama Ian Jared Miller spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 24 Global Health Challenges: Complexities of Evidence-Based Policy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 180 This course introduces the global health challenges posed by failure to adequately reduce infections, malnutrition, and maternal-child health problems in the most vulnerable populations, escalating rates of non-communicable diseases/injuries, and emerging health risks that cross national boundaries. We will assess social responses to these challenges at the community, national, and global levels. Through an understanding of population health measures, we will examine patterns of disease/mortality between and within countries, capture important time trends, and identify determinants of health inequalities. While emphasizing science driven policy, comparative case examples will illuminate influential systemic factors, health system performance, and the economic/social/political climate. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Societies of the World or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Social Analysis or Quantitative Reasoning, but not both. N Sue Goldie fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 25 Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines, through lecturers and case-based discussions, a collection of global health problems rooted in rapidly changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Students will explore case studies (addressing AIDS, tuberculosis, mental illness, and other topics) and a diverse literature (including epidemiology, anthropology, history, and clinical medicine), focusing on how a broad biosocial analysis might improve the delivery of services designed to lessen the burden of disease, especially among those living in poverty. Course counts as Social Anthropology. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Arthur Kleinman Dr Anne E. Becker Paul Farmer Salmaan Keshavjee spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 26 Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Understanding Africa as it exists today requires an understanding of the broader historical trends that have dominated the continent's past. This course will provide an historical context for understanding issues and problems as they exist in contemporary Africa. It will offer an integrated interpretation of sub-Saharan African history from the middle of the 19th century and the dawn of formal colonial rule through the period of independence until the present time. Particular emphasis will be given to the continent's major historical themes during this period. Selected case studies will be offered from throughout the continent to provide illustrative examples of the historical trends. This course fulfills the AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies course requirement for a concentration or secondary field in African and African American Studies. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study A or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Caroline Elkins spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 27 The Two Koreas Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course seeks to provide a broad historical context in which to understand the contemporary political division on the Korean peninsula. It examines key historical forces that have created and shaped the two Koreas before, during, and after the actual partition of the country in 1945. Topics include nascent nation-building efforts between 1876 and 1910, the impact of Japanese colonialism and the Cold War, and North/South development and interaction after 1948. The course interweaves political, socioeconomic, and cultural themes within an historical framework centered on nation-building while also highlighting a number of major historiographical issues in modern Korean history. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Carter J. Eckert fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 28 Exploration and Empire Building Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course studies the relationships between scientific study, aesthetic representation, and imperial power. Students will examine documentary and visual records of encounters between indigenous peoples, agents of rival empires, and the physical environment along the vast Siberian and Pacific frontiers. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with the Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Kelly A. O'Neill spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 29 Inequality and Society in 21st Century East Asia Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course East Asian economies burst onto the center stage of global capitalism in the late 20th century. How were the lives of ordinary people in this part of the world affected? Who has gained and lost in the process of economic development? This course uses ethnography as well as "hard data" to study these questions in Japan, South Korea, and China and to familiarize students with how social scientists study social and economic inequality. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Mary C. Brinton fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 30 Moctezuma's Mexico: Then and Now Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explorations of the mythical and social origins, glory days and political collapse of the Aztec Empire and Maya civilizations followed by study of the sexual, religious and racial interactions of the "Great Encounter" between Mesoamerica and Europe. Focus on the archaeology, cosmovision, human sacrifice, divine kingship, the mystery of 2012 and rebellion in Mesoamerican cities and in colonialism. Hands-on work with objects at the Peabody Museum aid in examining new concepts of race, nation and the persistence of Moctezuma's Mexico in Latino identities in the Mexico-US Borderlands. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Societies of the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N David Carrasco William Fash spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 31 Political Economy After The Crisis Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Alternative ways of thinking about contemporary market economies and their reconstruction. Three connected themes: the worldwide financial and economic crisis and the response to it, the effort to advance socially inclusive economic growth in richer as well as in poorer countries, and the future of globalization. What economics is and should become. This year the central topic will be crisis and the struggle for recovery as provocations to insight and as opportunities for reform. Students should have some acquaintance with economics, but no advanced training is required. Addressed to undergraduate and graduate students outside as well as within economics. Extended take-home examination. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as PED-233 and the Law School as LAW-44599A. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Roberto Unger Dani Rodrik fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 32 The Making of Modern Politics: The Development of Democracy in Europe from the Middle Ages to the European Union Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How are democracies created and why do they collapse? What causes revolution? What were the consequences of the industrial revolution? What roles do ideas, institutions and interests play in processes of political change? This course examines the long-term historical developments behind the creation of modern politics. Focusing on Britain, France, Germany and Italy from the 1600s to the 2000s, it explores the lessons Europe offers for the development of democracy. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Peter A. Hall fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 33 Tokyo Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tokyo has been one of the world's great metropolitan centers since the 17th century, both the urban hub of Japanese society and culture, and the intersection between Japanese domestic society and trends of global influence. This course examines trajectories of change in Tokyo's urban culture, lifestyles, social structure, and spatial environment across the city's history, using ethnography, history, literature, diaries, architecture, photography, art, cartography, animation, film, and the Internet to explore Tokyo as an urban culture in comparative perspectives drawn from anthropology, history, and other social sciences. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Societies of the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Theodore C Bestor fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 34 The Caribbean: Globalization, Socio-Economic Development & Cultural Adaptation Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Caribbean societies are largely the economic and political creations of Western imperial powers and are among the earliest products of globalization. Though in the West, they are only partly of it, and their popular cultures are highly original blends of African, European and Asian forms. The course examines the area as a system emerging through genocide, piracy, plantation slavery, colonialism and globalization, from a situation of great social and cultural diversity to the present tendency toward socio-economic and cultural convergence. Patterns of underdevelopment and government are explored through national case studies (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica & Haiti) and selected, region-wide modern issues (hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters; migration & transnationalism; crime & drug trafficking), as are cultural adaptations through studies of Afro-Caribbean religions, folkways, and music. America's special role in the region is emphasized. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Orlando Patterson spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 35 Conditional Equality: The Case of the Jews of Europe in Modern Times Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is a study in the relations between majorities and minorities in modern Europe, using the Jews as a focus. It will examine the ways in which the equal status of a minority is negotiated through cultural and political interaction, both subtle and blunt. It will further focus on the role that such negotiations have in the formation of identities of both the majority and the minority. Finally, it will examine the ways in which majorities can exercise control over minorities rendering them conditionally rather than fully equal participants in the national projects of the age. Students who have taken Historical Study A-44 may not take this course for credit. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Jay M. Harris fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 36 Modern India and South Asia Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course provides the historical depth and the comparative context in which to understand contemporary South Asia through an historical inquiry into the making and multiple meanings of modernity. It explores the history, culture, and political economy of the subcontinent which provides a fascinating laboratory to study such themes as colonialism, nationalism, partition, the modern state, economic development, refashioning of religious identities, center-region problems and relations between Asia and the West. Significant use of primary written sources (in English) and multi-media presentations. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study A or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Sugata Bose Amartya Sen fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 37 The Chinese Overseas Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course introduces the emigration of people from China to other parts of the world over the last five centuries. It considers the causes of emigration, the ties that emigrants retained to China, and the communities that Overseas Chinese created abroad. It compares the experiences of emigrants and their descendants in Southeast Asia and in North America. Last, it tries to situate the recent wave of Chinese migration to North America in global and historical context. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Michael Szonyi fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 38 Pyramid Schemes: The Archaeological History of Ancient Egypt Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Surveys ancient Egyptian pharaonic civilization. Emphasizes Egyptian material culture: pyramids, temples, tombs, settlements, and artifacts. Explores major developmental themes that defined the Egyptian state: the geographical landscape, kingship, social stratification, and religion. Follows a chronological path with excursions into Egyptian art, history, politics, religion, literature, and language (hieroglyphs). Also touches on contemporary issues of object repatriation, archaeology and cultural nationalism, and the evolution of modern Egyptology. Includes field trips to the Egyptian collections of the Peabody Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, along with immersive 3D computer models in Harvard's Visualization Center. No prior experience in Egyptology expected. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Peter Der Manuelian spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 39 Slavery and Slave Trade in Africa and the Americas Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course begins with the question of terminological precision and the definition of slavery and other forms of servile labor-especially in Africa. The course then examines the institution of slavery in Africa and the Americas within this wider historical context, analyzing the political economies and ideologies that underpin slavery and the crucial role of slave trade in reproducing slave communities that were barely able to reproduce themselves naturally. The course explores the impact of slavery on political, economic, social, and cultural life in Africa and the Americas and ends with a discussion of the legacy of slavery and the global nature of the African diaspora. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Emmanuel Akyeampong fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 40 The Incas: The Last Great Empire of Pre-Columbian South America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course directs students on an exploration of the largest and arguably most complex civilization of the Pre-Columbian Americas-the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In addition to lectures, discussions, and films, students will experience the products of Inca civilization directly through study of Inca artifacts housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Gary Urton fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 41 Medieval Europe Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will examine the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world, and the evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes include: the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam, the Vikings, the Crusades, commerce and agriculture, the Feudal Revolution, the Twelfth Century Renaissance, spirituality and persecution, the origins of law and government, the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Societies of the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Michael McCormick fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 42 The World Wars in Global Context, 1905-1950 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines the origins, military history, and successive postwar settlements of World Wars I and II in the framework of evolving empires, fascist, communist, and democratic ideological mobilization, forced resettlement and cultures of mass violence, ongoing economic and social change (and persistence). Attention to Asian and African as well as European and American transformations. Students who have taken Historical Study B-53 or Historical Study B-54 may not take this course for credit. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Charles S. Maier fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 43 Japan's Samurai Revolution Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course On July 8, 1853, Commodore Mathew C. Perry steamed into Japan's Edo Bay with four heavily armed US Navy warships. Two were the so-called "black ships," ominously painted coal-burning steamships of the latest design. There, within view of a stunned populace, Perry issued an ultimatum: open the country to trade or face unstoppable bombardment. Thus began Japan's modern engagement with the outside world, a new chapter in the broader encounter between "East" and "West." Through primary sources, discussion and lecture, this course examines Japan's rapid development from samurai-led feudalism into the world's first non-Western imperial power. No Japanese language skills required. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Ian Jared Miller spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 44 Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged Orlando Patterson (Sociology) This course surveys the nature, types and extent of modern servitude, distinguishing broadly between those resulting from international trafficking such as trans-national prostitution, human smuggling into bonded labor, child soldiering and organ trafficking, and more intra-national forms such as debt-bondage and the domestic exploitation of women and other vulnerable groups. Examines the conceptual and theoretical issues raised in attempts to distinguish among these types of differential power relations; the empirical difficulties of estimating the magnitude of what are inherently secretive processes; and the ideological controversies surrounding the subject. Explores ethical, socio- political and practical issues raised by these trends. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Orlando Patterson fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 45 Beyond the Great Wall: China and its Nomadic Other Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The interaction between sedentary and nomadic civilizations is one of the great themes of human history. This course focuses on the classic case of relations between China and Inner Asia from ancient times to the 21st century. Approaching the problem from historical and theoretical perspectives, the course addresses the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the storied Great Wall frontier. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Mark C. Elliott fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 46 The Anthropology of Arabia Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The Arabian Peninsula in the twentieth century (Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Oman and Yemen) is the focus of this course. Among topics to be addressed are: tribal organization and its continuing importance; gender relations; varieties of Islam and their influence; old and new forms of urbanism. Primary reading materials are all ethnographic. No background in anthropology or Middle East studies required. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Steven Caton fall term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 47 Contemporary South Asia: A Survey of Intractable Problems and Innovative Solutions Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Home to one-fifth of humanity, South Asia has witnessed remarkable development in the last two decades. Nevertheless, the region continues to struggle with a range of socioeconomic problems. This survey course studies several issues faced by the region, particularly in education, health, financial inclusion, and telecommunications, and examines case studies of companies, NGOs, and regulatory interventions addressing these issues. The goal is to understand ways in which entrepreneurial action can effectively tackle major socioeconomic problems in South Asia, by combining knowledge of historical causes, qualitative and quantitative evidence, and context-specific knowledge of the commonalities and differences across South Asian countries. Unlike other General Education courses, this course assumes advanced coursework in a relevant social science and thus is open to freshmen and sophomores only with permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Business School as 1266, the School of Public Health as GHP 568, the Kennedy School as PED-338, and the Graduate School of Education as A-819. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Tarun Khanna spring term Committee on General Education General Education Societies of the World 48 The Future of Globalization: Issues, Actors, and Decisions Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines the economic, political, and social issues raised by globalization including its impact on jobs, inequality, poverty, and the environment. These issues are addressed with a focus on the economic interests and political powers of the actors that constitute the international system and the structures within which those actors operate. We provide conceptual and empirical foundations, and use analytical frameworks to understand issues such as Greece and the Euro crisis and the rise of China. We do this through lectures, in-class debates, and simulation exercises that place students in the shoes of the decision-makers. There are no prerequisites. Jointly offered with the Kennedy School as ITF-225. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Lant Pritchett Lawrence H. Summers fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 11 American Health Care Policy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Health care in America poses fundamental policy challenges to our ability to protect low income Americans from the costs of illness; to produce high quality care; to efficiently use health care resources, and to allow Americans to die without pain, in the company of family, as they desire. This course aims to offer students a solid understanding of the American health care system, the potential impact of new reform legislation, and challenges that will remain in the future. Students who have taken General Education 186 or Extra-Departmental Courses 186 may not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Richard Frank spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to early American art from a transnational, cross-cultural perspective. We begin with the global struggle for control of the North American continent, tracing the colliding artistic traditions of multiple European colonial powers, Native American groups, and slave cultures. We then examine the cultural constitution of U.S. nationhood as it developed through (and against) the visual and material cultures of Europe and the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Icons of a seemingly familiar national heritage-such as Washington's portrait on the dollar bill-are revealed as complex formal negotiations emerging from international dynamics of commerce, politics, religion, science, and migration. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Literature and Arts B or Historical Study B, but not both. N Jennifer L. Roberts spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 13 Medicine and Society in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Surveys major developments in the history of American medicine since 1500. Emphasis on setting the practice of medicine and the experience of health and disease into broad social, cultural, and political contexts. Topics include the social and cultural impact of epidemic disease; the nature of demographic and epidemiological change; the development of medical therapeutics and technologies; the growth of health care institutions; the rise of the medical profession; and debates about the allocation of health care resources. Evaluates the role of medicine in addressing social needs as well as the social and economic determinants of patterns of health and disease. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Jeremy Alan Greene fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 15 Is the American Racial Order Being Transformed? Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Is a fundamental transformation occurring in the American racial order? If so, are these changes for the better or the worse? We first briefly explore the history of American racial and ethnic dynamics, then examine four transformative forces: immigration, multiracialism, genomics, and the movement of young adults into political and economic power. We then consider blockages to transformation: incarceration of young black men, wealth disparities, and treatment of Muslims and undocumented immigrants. We conclude by considering various ideal futures for race and ethnicity in the U.S. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Jennifer L. Hochschild fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 16 Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course offers historical perspective on the social relations and relative power of the sexes, tracing changes and continuities over the past century in family lives, work, popular culture and politics. We will look at sexuality, masculinity, and femininity, centering these in US social, cultural and political history in the context of a wider world. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Nancy F. Cott fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 17 Economics: A Critical Approach Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course critically examines the assumptions of modern economics and how these assumptions mold the ideas and conclusions of the discipline. A principal question is the appropriate scope of the market. This question will be examined both theoretically and through examples drawn from both microeconomics and macroeconomics; possible examples include health care, the environment, international trade, social security, and financial crisis and unemployment. Primarily taught in lectures, with section meetings offering a chance both to clarify concepts and to discuss applications. Calculus is not used, and there is no mathematics prerequisite. Unlike Economics 10, this course does not fulfill the introductory course requirement for the Economics Department. Moreover, most upper level courses in Economics normally require Economics 10 as a prerequisite; without this prerequisite, enrollment is at the discretion of the instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Stephen A. Marglin spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 18 Thinking About the Constitution Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 150 What difference does the U.S. Constitution make? Does it matter whether we think about it as a text, as living practice, or as a set of mostly unwritten principles? This course will explore such questions through the lens of several concrete constitutional controversies-about desegregation, abortion and death; about the federal legislation penalizing failure to purchase health insurance; about same-sex intimacy and marriage; about free speech and church-state relations; about informational privacy; and about the limits of executive power in times of emergency. Readings will be drawn from judicial and other writings about the Constitution, its history, and its interpretation. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Laurence H. Tribe spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 19 American Food: A Global History Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 90 Europeans "discovered" America in search of foodstuffs, specifically spices. And food has been central to the American experience from the starving time in early Virginia to the problem of obesity in the United States today. But what is American about American food? How have individual food choices and national food policies connected Americans to the larger world, both the social worlds of other human beings and the natural world of all other living beings? This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Joyce E. Chaplin spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 20 The Theory and Practice of Republican Government Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A theoretical and historical survey of the evolution of republican (representative) government, with a particular focus upon Anglo-American institutions. We will alternate between philosophical treatments and empirical studies of republican regimes. Questions include: How did republican government evolve centuries before mass elections? Did arguments for legislative supremacy prefigure the rise of parliamentary authority? If so, how? What is the role of virtue in a democratic republic? How can government ensure the "rule of the wise" without fostering autocratic power? What institutions besides elections keep the ruled attuned to the people? What critique might republican theory advance of emerging "populist" arrangements? This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either United States in the World or Ethical Reasoning, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Daniel Carpenter spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 23 Art and Thought in the Cold War Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Culture of the early Cold War (1945-1965) in the context of political events and intellectual developments. We will be particularly interested in the unintended consequences of Cold War policies and in trans-Atlantic cultural exchange. Subjects include the literature of totalitarianism, Abstract Expressionism, the Beats, the philosophy of higher education, the Warren Court, film noir, and the French New Wave. No auditors permitted without permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Louis Menand fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 24 Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course American cities have changed in extraordinary ways. In the last half of the 20th century, there was gloom about urban life and many cities were projected to decline and decay. Many did but Boston and other cities blossomed, becoming models of urban renaissance. Using Boston as a case, this course considers issues of economic change, technology, neighborhood inequality, political governance, elite relations, cultural institutions, crime, race and ethnic relations, immigration, gentrification and suburbanization. Regular guest speakers. Requirements: 5 short memos on neighborhood visits; 1 term paper; midterm essay and take-home final exam. May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Robert J. Sampson David Luberoff spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 26 Sex and the Citizen: Race, Gender, and Belonging in the United States Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Even before the formal establishment of the United States, assumptions about sex have helped determine who is entitled to - and not entitled to - the privileges and protections of full citizenship. This course investigates the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality have played in configuring notions of citizenship over time as well as the ways in which sexual rights remain a site of contestation and struggle in the modern United States. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Caroline Light fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 28 Slavery/Capitalism/Imperialism: The US in the Nineteenth Century Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course treats the history of the 19th-century US and the Civil War in light of the history of US imperialism, especially the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s. Likewise, it relates the history of slavery in the US to the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Indian removal, Atlantic cotton, land and money markets, and the hemispheric history of antislavery. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Walter Johnson spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 29 Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced as the product of design and planning decisions informed by cultural and economic forces, and in relationship to utopian and pragmatic efforts to reinterpret urban traditions in search of contemporary alternatives. Topics include: persistent ideals such as the single-family home, attitudes toward public and private space, the rise of suburbs and suburban sprawl, cycles of disinvestment and renewed interest in urban centers, and impacts of mobility and technology on settlement patterns. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Alex Krieger spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 30 Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged. Laurel Ulrich (University Professor; History) and Ivan Gaskell (History) People make history through the things they make, collect, exhibit, exchange, throw away, or ignore. Over four centuries, Harvard has not only amassed books and manuscripts but art works, scientific instruments and specimens, ethnographic objects, and historical relics of all sorts. By learning how and why particular things arrived in Cambridge and what happened to them when they got here, students will discover how material objects have shaped academic disciplines, reinforced or challenged social boundaries, and defined America's place in the world. This is an interactive course, with weekly visits to museums and close-up investigation of specimens and artifacts. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Laurel Ulrich Ivan Gaskell spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 31 American Society and Public Policy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged. Theda Skocpol (Government) and Mary C. Waters (Sociology) In the US compared to other major nations, how have social problems been defined and redefined in recent decades; why do they appear differently to various groups; and how are public policies about problematic social conditions debated, devised, and changed? This course synthesizes various kinds of evidence-demographic, attitudinal, ethnographic, and institutional-to probe the creation and impact of major public policies about social support for families and workers; immigration and citizenship, and access to higher education. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Theda R Skocpol Mary C. Waters fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 32 The World's Religions in Multicultural America: Case Studies in Religious Pluralism Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 56 An exploration of the dynamic religious landscape of the US with special focus on Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions in the most recent period of post-1965 immigration. How are faith and freedom negotiated in a more complex society? In what contexts do minority religious communities encounter long-dominant Christian and Jewish communities? How is America changing as religious communities struggle with civic, constitutional, ethical, and theological issues, especially in the post-9/11 period? Readings, films, discussion, and class projects will focus on particular cases and controversies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3847. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either United States in the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. Y Diana L. Eck fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 33 Religion and Social Change Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Religion has inspired new understandings of social and political engagement. From early protest oriented struggles for civil rights in the US to the more recent personal responsibility calls of neo-pentecostal discourses, this course takes African American religious engagement with the process of democracy as a starting point for thinking about how other communities around the world have employed religion as a means of advancing social change. Through ethnography, auto/biography, and documentary film, this class compares and contrasts the influence that religious moods and motivations have had on calls for democracy and social change in places like Latin America, the Middle East and West Africa. In each instance the course questions the place of the US government and US religious bodies in these global efforts towards change. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3700. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either United States in the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Marla Frederick spring term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 34 The Civil War from Nat Turner to Birth of a Nation Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This interdisciplinary course reframes traditional understandings of the Civil War in three ways. First, by showing that civil conflict in the United States began well before 1861 and ended well after 1865, taking the form of slave uprisings and Klan terrorism, as well as conventional war. Second, by showing that the former Confederacy won this longer Civil War by establishing a new order of black freedom. And third, by placing this war in the context of international politics and trade. "Readings" range from fiction, film, letters, and speeches to poetry, pamphlets, prints and photographs, songs, and history. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N John Stauffer Amanda Claybaugh fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 35 Taking a Stand: Dilemmas of Equity and Excellence in American K-12 Education Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 50 Events such as Teach for America's 20th anniversary and films like Waiting for Superman highlight urgent concerns about the quality and reach of American schooling in the 21st century. Against this backdrop, the course grapples with several dilemmas that have defined American K-12 education throughout history. What constitutes educational excellence? Can excellence be achieved for everyone? Why do we have schools and what is their purpose? Given that families, politicians, and the courts often disagree vehemently about the answers to these questions, the course considers who and what will define the future of American education and its role in society. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Katherine K. Merseth fall term Committee on General Education General Education United States in the World 36 Innovation and Entrepreneurship: American Experience in Comparative Perspective Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 95 What gives rise to entrepreneurial opportunity and innovative activity? How do innovators and entrepreneurs think about the world? How are organizations born and how do they grow? How can innovation and entrepreneurship address the major challenges facing the world? The course will address these questions by bringing together faculty members of Harvard University to provide a diverse set of perspectives on the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship. The course has three complementary pedagogical methods. Members of the Harvard Business School faculty will provide a set of interactive lectures using case studies that illustrate how for-profit and not-for-profit organizations recognize and capitalize on opportunities. Second, faculty members from around the University will provide lectures on specific areas related to their expertise. Third, a set of group projects that allow students to work in the field with sponsoring organizations will be completed over the course of the semester. Unlike other General Education courses, this course assumes advanced coursework in a relevant social science and thus is open to freshmen only with permission of the instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Mihir A. Desai Joseph B. Lassiter III fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Studies 204 The Germanic Epic Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the principal epic monuments of medieval northern Europe and their interpretations. N Stephen A. Mitchell full year Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German A Beginning German Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course An introduction to German language and culture designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Encompasses all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class sessions emphasize the development of oral proficiency. Instruction is supplemented by literary and non-literary texts, videos, and Internet activities. The first half of this course may not be taken as a half course for credit toward the AB degree; there are no exceptions to this rule. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Lisa Caroline Parkes Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German Ax German for Reading Knowledge Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Development of reading proficiency for students with little or no knowledge of German. Emphasizes translation of academic German prose into English. Not open to auditors. N Charles Lutcavage Charles Lutcavage fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German Bab Beginning German (Intensive) Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of German. Provides an introduction to German language and culture encompassing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Class sessions emphasize the development of oral proficiency. Instruction is supplemented by literary and non-literary texts, videos, and Internet activities. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Lisa Caroline Parkes Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German Ca Intermediate German: Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Reading, and Writing Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Aims at enhancing students' proficiency in all four skills, with special emphasis on speaking/discussion. The course also offers a thorough grammar review. Course materials consist of literary and non-literary texts and films that address a broad range of cultural topics. Conducted in German. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Lisa Caroline Parkes spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German Cb Intermediate German: Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Reading, and Writing Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of German Ca. Discussion materials include literary and non-literary texts and film. Emphasis on speaking proficiency and on strengthening writing skills. Course includes a review of selected grammatical structures and exercises in vocabulary building. German Ca or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German Dab Intermediate German (Intensive): Speaking, Listening Comprehension, Reading, and Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course M., W., F., at 12, Tu., Th., 9-11 Lisa Parkes and members of the Department A complete second-year course in one term for students with a basic knowledge of German. Focuses on enhancing students' proficiency in all four skill areas with special emphasis on speaking/discussion. Extensive vocabulary-building exercises, a thorough grammar review, and an introduction to various cultural topics of the German-speaking countries through the use of literary and non-literary texts, Internet, multimedia resources, and film. German A, German Bab, a score of 450 or above on the Harvard placement test, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Lisa Caroline Parkes Lisa Caroline Parkes spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 50 German Drama and Theater Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course focuses on the full production of a German play. Introduction to performance theories and practices and intensive pronunciation practice. Students participate on stage and collaborate on different aspects of the production, including costumes, set, sound, and program. Two performances take place at the end of the term. German C (or equivalent), German 115, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. N Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 61 Advanced Grammar and Reading Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Advanced instruction in German through systematic study of the rules of grammar, their nuances, and their exceptions. Application of this knowledge through readings of short selections of sophisticated texts (Goethe, Kant, Kleist, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka, Mann) prepares students for courses and academic work requiring advanced German reading comprehension. Further application through writing exercises. German C, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. Not open to auditors. N Peter J. Burgard spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 62 Advanced Conversation and Composition - Berlin Stories Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Framed as a composition and conversation workshop, this course explores the city of Berlin through literary, filmic, and personal narratives. Besides practicing the rhetorical strategies of various written and spoken genres, students will broaden and refine their vocabulary and idiom, become sensitized to different registers, as well as refine points of grammar. German 61, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. N Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 65 Wirtschaftsdeutsch Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Communication, reading, and writing skills for a business environment. Attention to grammar and specialized vocabulary, as well as cultural and political issues relevant to conducting business in German-speaking countries. Writing practice includes business correspondence and job applications. Supplemented by articles from the German-language press, the Internet, and videos. German Cb, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Charles Lutcavage spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 66 Deutschland und Europa Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced language course focusing on current events in Germany and the European Union. Readings, discussions, and projects based on a variety of contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural topics. Materials from various sources, including the German-language press, the Internet, videos, and television news. German 61, German 62, German 65, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Not open to auditors. N Charles Lutcavage fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 71 German Literature from Goethe to Nietzsche Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Through close readings of central texts from the Age of Goethe to the late 19th century, this course introduces students to key concepts of literary analysis. Readings include Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Buchner, Heine, Fontane, and Nietzsche. German 61, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. Readings and discussions in German. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Markus Wilczek spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 72 German Literature from Kafka to Jelinek Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course focuses on central texts in 20th-century German literature. Readings include Kafka, Doblin, Brecht, Celan, Bachmann, and Jelinek. The course provides an historical overview, sharpens German reading skills, and introduces basic concepts in literary analysis. German 61, equivalent preparation, or permission of the instructor. German 71 is not a prerequisite for 72. Conducted in German. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Markus Wilczek fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required. Y Markus Wilczek Markus Wilczek full year Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required. Y Markus Wilczek Markus Wilczek fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 115 German Comedy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What provokes laughter in German culture? This course explores the genre of comedy through major dramatists from the 18th to 20th century. Students will study forms, techniques, and theories of comedy and relate each drama to its broader cultural context. Students will also be introduced to performance theory and participate in theatrical workshops. Part of the final project consists of an interpretive presentation from one of the plays. German 61, 62, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in German. N Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 120 Age of Goethe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Major movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Mendelssohn, Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Schlegel, Novalis. Readings in German, discussions in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Peter J. Burgard spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 144 Readings in Classical Film Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Close analysis of seminal reflections on the experience of cinema and a nascent visual culture: the formalist perspectives of Arnheim and Eisenstein, the realist initiatives of Balazs and Bazin, and the ideological critiques of Kracauer, Benjamin, and Horkheimer/Adorno. Conducted in English. Readings in English; students with German-language proficiency read texts in the original. N Eric Rentschler spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 147 Nietzsche Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings and discussions of Nietzsche's major works (in translation), including The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely Meditations, Human, All Too Human, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo. No knowledge of German required. All readings and discussions in English. N Peter J. Burgard fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 149 Neurosis, Hysteria and the Schizoid - Pathologies of the Subject in Literature and Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of theories of madness in the 20th century, this course examines inventions and conceptualizations of the "insane" subject in psychoanalysis and otherwise. Particular attention will be paid to the literary history of these pathologies as well as to the creative potential of the unreasonable subject and its exemplary function in literary avantgarde and critical thought. Theoretical readings include Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, Kristeva, Deleuze, and Guattari. Readings and discussion in English. N Oliver Simons spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 152 Introduction to Cultural Studies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cultural Studies has developed at the intersection of a range of fields, drawing on literary criticism, ethnography, the history of science, media studies, and others. Situating Cultural Studies as an academic discipline, this course examines methods for the analysis of a society's creation of cultural meaning and knowledge. The course provides an introduction to essential tools and basic concepts for interdisciplinary inquiries in the humanities. Readings and discussion in English. N Oliver Simons fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 159 Robert Musil: Writing Modernity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore the complex relations between literature and science in one of the most prominent novels of modernity, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities (1930-1942). An archive of contemporaneous knowledge and culture, this influential novel refers to discourses such as the theory of relativity, mathematics of probability, and experimental psychology among others. Selected literary and scientific texts will supplement our examination of how these discourses are translated into Musil's unique poetics. Discussions and readings in German. N Oliver Simons spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 163 Advanced German Translation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Study of characteristic issues in translating between English and German. Translation exercises include not only literary selections, but also texts of general interest in other fields. German 61 or permission of the instructor. N Judith L. Ryan fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 165 Literary and Visual Culture of Weimar Germany Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores literary and artistic production in the years immediately preceding the Weimar Republic up to the Nazi era. Authors include Thomas Mann, Hesse, and Brecht. Films include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, and M. We will also focus on drawings and paintings by George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann, as well as on the Dada movement. Course conducted in English. Students have the option of reading the literary texts in German or in English. Seminar with enrollment limited to 15. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Maria Tatar fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 166 Storytelling Cultures: The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Investigates the folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and the literary fairy tales and novellas of Hans Christian Andersen. We will consider the origins of the tales, analyze their staying power, and explore their global reach. Readings and discussion in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Maria Tatar spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 170 Before Modernity: Buchner and Stifter Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course While both Georg Buchner and Adalbert Stifter have been acknowledged as modernists avant la lettre, their work could hardly be more different. Through a comparison of Buchner's and Stifter's treatment of themes such as history, nature, violence, and the body as well as a comparison of their stylistic peculiarities (i.e., caesuras and repetition), this course examines two seemingly irreconcilable traditions in the formulation of modernity. Readings and discussions in German. N Markus Wilczek spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 182 German Music in Culture and Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the relationship between `German' music, history, society and politics from 1800 to present. By analyzing texted (vocal) music, this course revisits important and often controversial moments in German musical history, and traces the lives and afterlives of composers' works in political and cultural history. Linguistic and musical analysis of various genres, including the Lied, folk song, the choral symphony, opera, cabaret, and modern popular music. Reading and listening in German and English; discussion in German. An ability to read musical notation is not required. N Lisa Caroline Parkes fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 210 Baroque Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the literature of the German Baroque and the art of the European Baroque. Focuses on questions of systems, identity, and excess in poetry, drama, narrative, architecture, painting, and sculpture. Readings in German, discussions in English. N Peter J. Burgard fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 226 r Theories of Literature: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Hermeneutics, structuralism, discourse analysis, deconstruction, and gender theory are among the approaches to literature examined for their points of contact and divergence. Attention is also paid to the problem of "applying" theories to literary analysis. Discussions and readings in English. N Oliver Simons spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 231 The Limits of Enlightened Discourse Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines how the tensions between secularization and religion, science and emotion as well as rationality and madness shape the project of Enlightenment. Readings include Kant, Herder, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Adorno/Horkheimer, and Foucault. Conducted in German. N Markus Wilczek spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 232 E.T.A. Hoffmann: Fairy Tales and Gothic Fictions Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Begins with oral storytelling traditions, then turns to Hoffmann's fairy tales and novellas, as well as to the afterlife of those works in nineteenth-century fiction. N Maria Tatar fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 234 The Voice: Between Media and Immediacy Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Traces the interplay of literary, philosophical, and technological discourses in the cultural history of `voice.' Readings include Hoffmann, Kafka, and Thomas Mann as well as treatises of rhetoric, theories of orality, and approaches from media studies. Discussions in English, readings in English and German. N Markus Wilczek fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 242 Rainer Maria Rilke: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focuses on Rilke's Paris period, 1902-1910. Close study of Rilke's novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, and his collection of poems, Neue Gedichte, as well as other lesser-known texts from the period. Undergraduates admitted with permission of the instructor. Not expected to be given in 2012-13. Readings in German, discussion in English. Reading knowledge of French helpful but not required. N Judith L. Ryan fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 269 German Film: Analysis/History/Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Indepth formal analysis of exemplary German features will accompany an equally careful investigation of the historical meanings and functions of individual film texts as well as nuanced consideration of pertinent theoretical intertexts. Conducted in English. Some readings in German. N Eric Rentschler fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 284 Literature & Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Detailed examination of concepts such as exactitude, objectivity, probability, experiments, and the observer in literary poetics and scientific practices from the 18th to the 20th century. Readings include Goethe, Buchner, Benn, Doblin, Foucault, Serres, Snow. Readings and discussions in English. N Oliver Simons spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 288 German Novels Since Reunification: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of German novels since 1990, viewed within their social and cultural context and against the backdrop of contemporary literary theory. Authors include Beyer, Brussig, Drawert, Hein, Hilbig, Maron, Timm, and Wolf. Readings in German, discussions in English. N Judith L. Ryan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures German 300 Special Reading Programs and Research Problems for Advanced Students Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Philology 300 Special Reading Programs and Research Problems for Advanced Students Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joseph C. Harris Stephen A. Mitchell Jay H. Jasanoff Joseph C. Harris Stephen A. Mitchell Jay H. Jasanoff spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 65 Crime, Power and Politics in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines recent works of Scandinavian culture (for example crime novels, films, television shows, advertising, and hip hop music and/or videos) against the emergence of new nationalistic movements, "culture wars" and the political triumphs of anti-immigration parties. Naturally the course will address the phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and provide cultural, historical, and theoretical frameworks for examining how societies with relatively low crime rates generate a wealth of crime narratives for an ever-expanding market. All readings and discussions in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Ursula Lindqvist Stephen A. Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 90 r Scandinavian Language Tutorial Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of a Scandinavian language at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number. For instruction in languages that are not listed (for example, modern Icelandic or Faroese), please consult Dr. Ursula Lindqvist. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 90 r.a Danish Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Danish at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult Dr. Ursula Lindqvist for more information. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 90 r.b Finnish Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Finnish at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with a language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult Dr. Ursula Lindqvist for more information. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 90 r.c Norwegian Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of Norwegian at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. This course is offered only when there is demonstrated curricular and academic need on the part of the student. Please consult Dr. Ursula Lindqvist for more information. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and acquaint students with appropriate analytical methods. Open to concentrators in the Scandinavian option. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 98 Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Group or individual tutorial designed to supplement course work and to develop analytical techniques. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist full year Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Open to concentrators writing an honors thesis under faculty supervision. Students are expected to enroll for the entire year. Permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Ursula Lindqvist Ursula Lindqvist spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 102 Scandinavian Folklore: Trolls, Trolldom and the Uses of Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines Scandinavian folklore and folk life, with an emphasis on narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, and the anti-colonial and nation-building uses of these traditions. N Stephen A. Mitchell spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 142 Nordic Theater and Drama Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Two Nordic playwrights, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, are widely considered pioneers of modern drama, and filmmakers Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann have also been celebrated for their work in theater. This course examines the global legacy of these pioneers and the Nordic region's subsequent innovations in theater and drama. Topics: national romanticism, realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, and feminist and diasporic theater. We will study each play as performance as well as text. All readings and discussions in English. N Ursula Lindqvist spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 150 The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the historical events in Europe A.D. 800 to A.D. 1100, and the resulting heroic legacy in medieval poetry and Icelandic sagas. The course focuses on Viking Age figures as warriors, kings, poets, outlaws and adventurers; pre-Christian religion, the viking raids and the Norse experience in "Vinland" carefully considered. All readings and discussions in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Stephen A. Mitchell fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 160 a Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: The Viking Legacy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Introduction to the language and literary culture of medieval Scandinavia, emphasizing works treating the Viking Age and their valorization of an heroic ideal. In addition to basic language skills, students acquire familiarity with key critical tools of the field. Readings include scaldic poetry, selections from Egils saga and the Vinland sagas, and various runic monuments. May be counted toward the Folklore and Mythology 90 requirement. N Stephen A. Mitchell spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 160 br Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: Mythology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Builds on Scandinavian 160a, continuing the language study and cultural survey of the first term, but now considers mythological texts relating to Viking religious life, mainly selections from the prose and poetic Eddas. Special attention is paid to scholarly tools and debates concerned with the interpretation of these cultural monuments. Scandinavian 160a or equivalent. May be counted toward the Folklore and Mythology 90 requirement. N Stephen A. Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 191 r Supervised Reading and Research Research Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced readings in topics not covered in regular courses. Y Stephen A. Mitchell Stephen A. Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Scandinavian 300 Special Reading Programs and Research Problems for Advanced Students Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joseph C. Harris Stephen A. Mitchell Joseph C. Harris Stephen A. Mitchell fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Swedish Aa Beginning Swedish Language and Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A basic course focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. During fall term, pronunciation and listening comprehension will be emphasized, as well as regular writing assignments. Literary, film, music and other cultural texts will be introduced relatively early on. By semester's end, students will have achieved a basic literacy in everyday Swedish. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Swedish Ab Beginning Swedish Language and Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of the basic course focusing on a basic mastery of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. During spring term, the emphasis is on more advanced conversation and an exploration of Sweden's culture and civilization through selected texts and video. By semester's end, students will be able to carry on conversations in everyday Swedish, read news articles, and write letters and produce substantial creative work. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist fall term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Swedish Ba Intermediate Swedish: Childhood in Swedish Literature and Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Sweden and Swedish Finland have produced some of the most translated and beloved works of children's fiction in the world. In this intermediate Swedish language course, we will review the essentials of Swedish grammar and vocabulary as we explore some of these classic works of children's fiction, film, and comic books and the aspects of Swedish culture they illuminate. The final project for this class involves producing your own work of children's fiction or film. Swedish Ab or equivalent. Conducted in Swedish. Not open to auditors. N Ursula Lindqvist spring term Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Germanic Languages and Literatures Swedish Bbr Special Topics in Swedish Literature and Culture: The Multi-Ethnic Society Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Spring 2012 special topic: The multi-ethnic society. These days one-ninth of Sweden's people are born outside the country. This has led to a new body of literature, film and drama exploring the issues of ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity, especially among second-generation Swedes. Swedish Ba or equivalent. Conducted in Swedish. Not open to auditors. May be repeated for credit. N Ursula Lindqvist spring term Standing Committee on Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy 50 The Quality of Health Care in America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 35 Offers information and experiences regarding most important issues and challenges in health care quality. Overview of the dimensions of quality of care, including outcomes, overuse, underuse, variation in practice patterns, errors and threats to patient safety, service flaws, and forms of waste. Each session focuses on one specific issue, exploring patterns of performance, data sources, costs, causes, and remedies. Explores desirable properties of health care systems that perform at high levels in many dimensions of quality. This course may not be taken for credit by students who have already taken either General Education 187 or Extra-Departmental Courses 187. Y Dr Warner Vincent Slack Howard Hiatt fall term Standing Committee on Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy 60 Negotiation and Conflict Management: From the Interpersonal to the International Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 40 Around the world, conflict imposes profound direct and indirect costs on global health, ranging from death and injury to trauma, the loss of social networks, and destabilization of political systems. Rather than focusing on how to address the aftermath of conflict and violence, this course examines ways of preventing destructive conflict. Explores theory, frameworks, and tools to negotiate the substantive, emotional, and identity-based dimensions of conflict. Applies the theory to a diversity of real-life negotiations, ranging from interpersonal disputes between friends to international conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. This highly interactive course aims to improve students' skill in resolving conflicts, and draws on a variety of learning methodologies, including lecture, case simulations, self-reflection exercises, and application of negotiation frameworks to conflicts depicted in movies. May not be taken for credit by students who have already completed Freshman Seminar 45s. Y Daniel Louis Shapiro fall term; repeated spring term Standing Committee on Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Reading and Research Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading leading to a long term paper on a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. May not be taken Pass/Fail. To enroll in the course, a written proposal and signature of advisor and chair of GHHP Committee is required. Y David Cutler David Cutler spring term Standing Committee on Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy Global Health and Health Policy 99 Research in Global Health and Health Policy Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores research topics and methods that are critical to evaluating current issues in national and global health care policy. Students will develop and execute an original research project that utilizes quantitative or qualitative research approaches to studying a domestic and global health policy topic of their interest. Such topics may include: the elements of health care reform, cost containment, quality measurement and improvement, racial and ethnic disparities in care, politics of health care, comparative health systems, global health, and organizational influences on quality. This course fulfills the research requirement of the Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy and enrollment is ordinarily limited to seniors in the GHHP Secondary Field. Underclass GHHP students may petition to take the course if all other Secondary Field requirements have been met. Course is primarily taught by graduate students in the PhD in Health Policy program and guest lecturers. May not be taken pass/fail. Y David Cutler spring term Department of Government Government Government 10 Foundations of Political Theory Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course investigates the central problems of political theory that concern the justification of democracy. Is democratic rule the uniquely just form of collective decision-making? What political institutions best express the democratic values of equality, deliberation, and participation? What are the moral responsibilities of citizens - whose representatives exercise political power in their name? Is democracy a human right? Readings integrate contemporary work in political philosophy with canonical thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and J.S. Mill. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Eric Beerbohm fall term Department of Government Government Government 20 Foundations of Comparative Politics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides an introduction to key concepts and theoretical approaches in comparative politics. Major themes include the causes of democratization, economic development, ethnic conflict, and social revolutions; as well as the role of the state, political institutions, and civil society. Examines and critically evaluates different theoretical approaches to politics including modernization, Marxist, cultural, institutionalist, and leadership-centered approaches. Compares cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America to provide students with grounding in the basic tools of comparative analysis. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Steven R. Levitsky spring term Department of Government Government Government 30 American Government: A New Perspective Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides an overview of contemporary American politics, showing how recent changes in elections and media coverage have helped shape key aspects of American government. From the courts, Congress, and the Presidency, to the workings of interest groups and political parties, and, also to the making of public policy, the pressure on political leaders to run permanent campaigns has altered governmental institutions and processes. The course explains how and why. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere Paul E. Peterson spring term Department of Government Government Government 40 International Conflict and Cooperation Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Why do states wage war? Why do they cooperate? Have the answers changed historically? Are economic globalization, ecological interdependence, and global civil society eroding traditional state sovereignty? Or do nationalism, protectionism, and power politics firmly limit the spread of world order? The course begins with the Peloponnesian War, the European state system, imperialism, the spread of free trade, and the two World Wars. It continues after 1945 with the spread of democracy and human rights, trade liberalization, international law, and ecological cooperation, as well as enduring sources of conflicts like the Cold War, nuclear weapons, civil strife, and rogue states. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Stephen P. Rosen fall term Department of Government Government Government 50 Introduction to Political Science Research Methods Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This class will introduce students to techniques used for research in the study of politics. Students will learn to think systematically about research design and causality, how data and theory fit together, and how to measure the quantities we care about. Students will learn a `toolbox' of methods---including statistical software---that enable them to execute their research plans. This class is highly recommended for those planning to write a senior thesis. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Muhammet Bas fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 a Contemporary British Politics: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Focuses on changes in economy, society, and politics in the transition from empire to small country. Topics include the evolving party system, electoral behavior, and a range of policy questions involving economic management, the welfare state, the European Community, race relations, and Northern Ireland. Y James E. Alt spring term Department of Government Government Government 90 bw Markets and Morals Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The seminar will examine controversial cases of commodification, and ask whether there are some things money cannot or should not buy. Topics to include organ sales, surrogacy, college financial aid, pollution permits, for-profit prisons, mercenary armies, and others. Some previous course work in political theory is recommended but not required. Y Michael J. Sandel spring term Department of Government Government Government 90 da Democracy, Alienation, and Muslims in the West Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This seminar develops an in-depth understanding of modern democratic citizenship and political identity, examining Western Muslim communities as an evocative case study. We first consider the shifting foundations of democratic participation and political alienation in a globalizing world. We then illustrate new developments by exploring the experiences of Muslim communities' in Western democratic polities. Finally, these concepts and observations are applied to understand three contemporary socio-political phenomena - global Islam, transnational Muslim politics, and terrorist networks. Y Justin Daniel Gest fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 hm The Constitutional Politics of The Federalist Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 A study of The Federalist, with the Anti-Federalists, attendant documents, Locke, Montesquieu and Tocqueville, to consider the political science and the statesmanship of the Constitution. Y Harvey C. Mansfield spring term Department of Government Government Government 90 hu Human Rights Scholars Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This seminar is open to juniors in any concentration interested in human rights research. During the first half of the semester, we will review key theoretical concepts and discuss various disciplinary approaches to and methodologies for conducting human rights scholarship. During the second half, students will develop and workshop a research prospectus on a human rights topic in which they are interested. Preference will be given to students intending on writing a senior thesis. Preference given to juniors considering writing a senior thesis on human rights related topic (from all concentrations) or engaged in a serious research project on a human rights topic Y Cheryl B. Welch spring term Department of Government Government Government 90 nf Athenian Democracy and its Critics Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course investigates the ancient Athenian experience of democracy through the writings of some of its staunchest supporters and fiercest critics. Topics covered include Athenian democratic ideals in theory and practice; the relationship between democracy and tyranny; Athenian democracy and imperialism; and the role of rhetoric in democracy. Readings include Athenian historians, philosophers, dramatists, and rhetoricians, as well as modern scholars. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 of Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Examines the role of law in the governance of cultural diversity drawing on examples from the USA, Western Europe, India and Israel. Central themes at the intersection of law and politics will be explored, including: the impact of courts on rights protections, law's function as a venue of conflict resolution, and courts' relationship with other political institutions. Specific attention will be given to contemporary controversies such as Islamic veiling, abortion and same sex marriage. Y Ofrit Liviatan fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 ps The Police State: Power, Politics, and Authority Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 This course examines what can be characterized as `police state policies.' We will develop an analytical framework for understanding why different regime types adopt such policies, the international and domestic limitations to their adoption, and how these policies spread globally. Three categories of police state policies will be considered: detention regimes; enhanced interrogation techniques; responses to protest and insurgency. The final two weeks will consist of in-depth case studies of the U.S. and Iran. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 q US-Latin American Relations: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 A study of political and economic relations between the United States and Latin American countries, and of the international relations of Latin America since 1960. Attention also given to foreign policy decision making in the US and Latin America, and to alternative approaches to the study of international relations and foreign policy. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. Y Jorge I. Dominguez spring term Department of Government Government Government 90 sa Political and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 8 The Middle East has witnessed significant socio-cultural, political, and economic transformations in recent decades. This seminar will explore the role of both state and non-state actors in these processes. In the face of globalization, liberalization, democratization, conflicts, and regional instability, what social movements have emerged and in what specific contexts? Additionally, how have civil society, the mass media, global discourses, and Islamist institutions and ideologies shaped the contemporary reality? What are the prospects for peace, prosperity, and pluralism in the region? These are central questions we will attempt to address in this course. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 sb Public Law and American Democracy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Public law structures the institutions of American democracy, while also providing a terrain in which substantive debates over policy-from civil rights to economic regulation-play out in democratic politics. The class explores major topics in public law, focusing on this dual role of law as a creator of institutions, and as a catalyst for moral and political debate. The seminar also highlights different approaches to the study of public law: historical, institutional, and normative. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 ti Adorno Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) was a thinker of extraordinary breadth: at once a philosopher, social theorist, musicologist and critic. His writing is dense, complex and allusive. The aim of this course is to take some of Adorno's best-known writings and to see them as part of the thinking of someone who, however much he moved from field to field, had a consistent underlying vision of politics, art and society. Y Michael Rosen fall term Department of Government Government Government 90 vm Democratic Theory and Electoral Law Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 An exploration of the theoretical dimensions of contemporary controversies about the electoral process in the U.S. Among the topics considered are the right to vote, the regulation of campaign finance, equality in racial districting, free choice in a two-party system, and majoritarianism in the governance of elections. Readings in political theory and election law. Y Dennis F. Thompson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Government Government Government 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading leading to a term paper in a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Limited to juniors and seniors. Does not count for concentration credit. Offered at the discretion of the individual instructors. Written proposal and signature of Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Cheryl B. Welch Cheryl B. Welch spring term Department of Government Government Government 97 Tutorial-Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This one-semester course is designed to provide all Government Department concentrators with a unified and challenging intellectual experience in the study of politics. The course covers a selection of topics on the theme of "Democracy" and draws on materials ranging from classics in political theory to cutting edge research in the discipline today. Y Daniel Ziblatt Nancy L. Rosenblum spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 al Global Distributive Justice Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This course examines how concerns about socio-economic justice apply beyond the limits of the domestic state. Do we have reason to care about equality at the international level? If so, should we care about the relative standing of individuals, or of nation-states? Who, if anyone, is responsible for addressing global inequalities? Topics covered include the moral relevance of borders, natural resource distribution, immigration policy, climate change, the international status of women, and global institutional design. Y Katie Gallagher fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 au Political Economy Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Examines modern theories of political economy and their applications to macro problems in advanced democracies. Why do some governments and countries generate better economic performance than others? Why are some economies more egalitarian than others? How do politicians manipulate the economy for partisan gain, and how are politicians constrained by institutions and the global economy? We seek to answer these questions using the most promising theories in political science and economics. Y Torben Iversen fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 bw Markets and Morals Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The seminar will examine controversial cases of commodification, and ask whether there are some things money cannot or should not buy. Topics to include organ sales, surrogacy, college financial aid, pollution permits, for-profit prisons, mercenary armies, and others. Some previous course work in political theory is recommended but not required. Y Michael J. Sandel fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 cw Classics of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Discussions of the potential conflicts between democracy and justice, of the nature of rights, and of liberal "imperialism" often presuppose knowledge of nineteenth-century classic texts. This seminar looks closely at some of these foundational texts - in particular the works of Bentham, J. S. Mill, Constant, and Tocqueville. Students will be encouraged to develop research topics either in the history of political thought or on issues central to debates about the nature of liberal democracy. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 dn Mapping Social and Environmental Space Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This seminar will use mapping as a methodological technique to examine social and environmental issues. Students will be expected to use mapping software to examine spatial data for a location and topic of their choice for their final paper. Weekly discussions will be conducted in class on various mapping related topics. References will range from books like "How to lie with Maps" to current journal articles examining the use of GIS in social science. Y Sumeeta Srinivasan fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 dt Theory and Research in Domestic Politics and International Relations Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The course will cover foundational material on the relationship between domestic politics and international relations. The course material will cover both security and economic relations between states, and emphasize the ways domestic political groups influence these relations. We will cover different methodological approaches to this relationship, including public opinion surveys, analysis of legislative voting, and game theoretic modeling. Y Dustin Tingley fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 dz Is Democracy Possible Everywhere? Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Can democracy be "downloaded" everywhere, or should we be worried about backlash, repression, and long setbacks to democratic development? This course explores democracy's tumultuous history in crisis-ridden Europe between 1918 and 1933 to examine this contemporary question. We explore regime breakthroughs, breakdowns and democratic survival in Germany , Italy, France, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere in Europe to analyze general conditions under which democracy consolidates. Y Daniel Ziblatt spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 ef Black Politics in the Post Civil Rights Era Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Course examines shift among African Americans from protest to politics. Emphasis is on development and use of political resources as the means to achieve policy objectives in the post-Civil Rights Era. Beginning with 1965 Voting Rights Act, course will explore the issues, opportunities, and challenges that have defined African American political life in the last forty years, as well as the attitudes and debates that have shaped efforts to increase African American influence over the political process. Y Claudine Gay fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 ej Comparing India and China: An Examination of State-Society Relations Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 In this course we will move beyond the dominant mode of thinking about the India-China comparison, through a purely economic lens-- for example, in terms of the two countries' increasingly important place in the global economy or in terms of the differences in the structure of their economies or the sources and patterns of their economic growth -- to instead explore state-society relations in these two Asian giants. As is well known, in the late 1940s, India witnessed a peaceful transition to democracy, while China experienced a Communist revolution. We will explore the ways in which power has been consolidated and distributed under these very different regimes and the implications this has had for a range of socio-political and economic outcomes. We will travel back in time to examine differences in pre-colonial legacies, of experiences with colonization and the history of the formation of the modern Indian and Chinese states and move on to the contemporary period, analyzing variations in the capacity of the two states to undertake economic and social development and mobilize their citizenry. Through the course we will draw extensively on theories of comparative politics and keep a keen eye on the way in which a comparison of India and China can be enriched by and in turn contribute to debates about other parts of the developing world. Y Prerna Singh fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 ek Globalization and Private Governance Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This research seminar examines the impact of globalization on labor and environmental standards in developing nations. Topics include: the rules of the World Trade Organization and various preferential trade agreements, including NAFTA, and how these affect regulatory standards set by governments; the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) measures, including corporate codes of conduct; the effectiveness of activist campaigns, and; the impact of voluntary certification and labeling schemes such as Fair Trade. Y Michael J. Hiscox fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 fg Presidents, Governors, and Mayors: Chief Executive Power in Comparative Perspective Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Analyzes the foundation, development, and exercise of chief executive power at the national, state, and local levels of government in the United States. Examines the applicability of different political science theories of presidential power to the broader exercise of chief executive power. Explores the sources and limits of executive authority, the roles and responsibilities of political chief executives at different levels of government, and the way in which institutions affect the exercise of chief executive power. Y Carlos E. Diaz Rosillo spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 fh Politics at the Grassroots: Rights, Resources, and Democratic Equality in Brazil Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Introduces students to researching politics and society in Latin America's largest and most unequal country through an examination of an array of grassroots movements and initiatives organized to redress inequality, including women's, landless, environmental, and religious movements; racial quotas, and participatory budgeting experiments. Seminar focuses on citizenship rights under neoliberalism and how social movements intersect with formal political institutions, political parties, and unions and other organizations to reorder the national political and policy agendas. Y Frances Hagopian fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 gl Inhuman Wrongs: Crimes Against Humanity in Theory, Politics, and Law Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 After considering some analytical perspectives on extraordinary cruelty in modern political thought-on abuses whose wrongness has been called "morally overdetermined"-we turn to nineteenth-century cases of scandals against humanity: slavery, extermination, barbarous warfare. We then trace the legalization of the metaphor of a crime against humanity in the twentieth century and consider contemporary debates about how to prevent, punish, or repair inhuman wrongs. Y Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 hk The Early Development of American Political Institutions and Organizations Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Survey of developments in the party system, social movements, Congress, the presidency and the bureaucracy from the colonial period through the Civil War. Rise of the two-party system, the mass party and changes in voting rights; congressional committees and their power; building of the Constitution and the federal judiciary; abolitionism and new social movements, the emergence of early bureaucratic institutions, and the presidency -- studied using three theoretical approaches (rational choice, historical institutionalism, and critical theory). Y Daniel Carpenter spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 ia Sino-US Relations in an Era of Rising Chinese Power Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Assesses theoretical arguments and empirical evidence concerning the implications of Chinese economic and military modernization for conflict and cooperation between China and the US. Some issues examined include global arms control, trade, the environment, and regional security. Y Alastair Iain Johnston spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 jk International Organizations in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The rise of international organizations in the twentieth century has given rise to vigorous debate over their purposes and their actions. This course will acquaint students with the formal structure of the League of Nations, the United Nations, the European Union, and NATO, as well as examining the activities of these organizations. In addition, as a research seminar, this course will help prepare students to write a senior thesis in the Department of Government. Y Joseph Stanley Kochanek spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 jm Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Introduction to key constitutional concepts using a cross-national examination of religious freedom issues. Topics include: processes of constitution-making, constitutional accommodation of diversity and the relationship between societies and their constitutions. Drawing upon legal cases from the US, Turkey, India, Israel, Spain, Canada, and England, the seminar will also familiarize participants with contemporary debates involving religion: the wearing of Islamic headscarf, religion and education, the funding of religious institutions, etc. Y Ofrit Liviatan spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 mb Rationalist Sources of International Conflict and War Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 How do we explain war and peace among states? Why do states resort to violent means and fight costly wars in international relations? In answering these fundamental questions, this seminar will examine theories that focus on strategic interaction of rational actors in international politics. Y Muhammet Bas fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 mg The Politics of Migration Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 W., 2-4:30 Justin Daniel Gest This seminar examines the challenges posed by global migration and the political responses of local communities. We first consider the history of migration, and theoretical understandings that attempt to explain the dynamics of migration, border control and integration. We next engage in a variety of policy debates about migrants and their inclusion, labor, rights, families, and legal status. We then apply this knowledge to four contemporary case studies which showcase divergent histories and approaches to immigration. Y Justin Daniel Gest spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 ni Topics in African Politics Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This seminar surveys major issues in contemporary African politics. Topics include democratization, civil conflict, economic development, and ethnicity. The course draws on readings from several disciplines and covers multiple methodological approaches to the social scientific study of Africa. Y Nahomi Ichino fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 nk Voters, Parties, and Elections in Comparative Perspective Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Why do people vote the way they do? What role do parties play in democracies? Which electoral system is 'best'--- and why? This seminar seeks answers to these questions and is divided into three sections dealing with the fundamentals of modern democracy: voters, parties and elections. Readings will be both theoretical and empirical, and will cover voting behavior, party organization and strategy, electoral systems and electoral reform. Substantive focus will be on Western Europe. Y Arthur P Spirling spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 nm Race and Representation Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This course explores the fundamental question of whether black members of Congress provide the highest potential quality of representation for their black constituents. Beginning with Reconstruction and continuing throughout the present Congress, we chart how the nature of black representation has changed in accordance with broader changes among black Americans themselves. Y Matthew B. Platt fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 oa Inequality and American Democracy Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The "rights revolutions" of the 1960s and 1970s removed barriers to full citizenship for African Americans, women, and other formerly marginalized groups. But inequalities of wealth and income have grown since the 1970s. How do changing social and economic inequalities influence American democracy? This seminar explores empirical research and normative debates about political participation, about government responsiveness to citizen preferences, and about the impact of public policies on social opportunity and citizen participation. Y Theda R Skocpol fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 pd Polling and Democracy in America Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 One early promise of public opinion polling was to allow democratic leaders to hear the true voice of the American people. The legacy of polling, however, seems to be something less. This course will consider the implications of conflating polling data with public opinion; how public opinion can be manipulated by leaders through polling; whether polls provide all Americans a say in policy making; and the role pollsters play in democratic responsiveness. Y Patrick J. Moynihan spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 qa Community in America Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Has the social fabric of America's communities and the civic engagement of its citizens changed over the last generation? Why? Does it matter? What lessons might we find in American history? These questions are at the focus of this seminar. Y Robert D. Putnam fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 sl Cycles of War and Peace Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This research seminar engages students in the theoretical and conceptual literature on conflict and peacemaking with applications to contemporary conflicts. It is intended for students preparing to write senior honors theses. The course covers four topics: the causes of conflict, the organization of violence, the institutionalization of war, and bargaining for peace through diplomacy and intervention. Students will work on group projects, and write individual research papers that bridge theory with evidence and research design. Y Shawn Ling Ramirez spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 sm Political Regimes around the World Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 French Revolution, Rise of Nazism, breakdown of USSR. Do these transformations involve a change of government, or regime or of state? What are the causes? Would you like to be confident in answering such questions, and deepen your ability to analyze big political events? If so, this course is for you. It will cover: the conceptualization of political regime, democracy and authoritarianism; the characterization of political regimes around the world; the explanations of regime change. Y Sebastian Lucas Mazzuca spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 sp Future of War Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Examines the character and implications of political and technological factors that could affect the future conduct of war. Y Stephen P. Rosen fall term Department of Government Government Government 98 vg Topics in Recent Political Theory Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 An exploration of some central themes of recent work in English-language political philosophy, including Rawls and his critics, egalitarianism, and the nature of rights. Other topics will reflect the individual interests of students who enroll. This course is designed to help participants to make the transition from being critical readers of political thought to being independent contributors to debate. Y Michael Rosen spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 vm Contemporary Democratic Theory: Seminar Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 A critical examination of three prominent theories of democracy. The seminar is intended for juniors who plan to write a senior thesis on some aspect of democratic theory. In the first half of the seminar, students read the work of theorists and their critics, and consider several challenges faced by all democratic theories, such as the potential conflict between democracy and justice, the scope of citizenship, and obligations to future generations. In the second half of the seminar, students present in class a prospectus for a thesis, and a draft of the final paper for the course, which may also be a possible chapter for their thesis. Y Dennis F. Thompson spring term Department of Government Government Government 98 wd Islam and Secular Public Spaces: Case Studies from Pakistan, Egypt and the West Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The course will address the secularization of Islamic Religion both in Muslim countries and in the West. It will start with a study of the current theoretical debates on secularization, discussing recent renewed approaches brought by scholars like Jose Casanova and Talal Asad, who question the central assumptions of decline of religion and of privatization of religious identities. All materials to understand the situation in specific Muslim countries will be provided in class. Y Jocelyne Cesari fall term; repeated spring term Department of Government Government Government 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course One half course of Government 98. Taken as two half courses by those who have elected the honors program and in order to write their senior theses. Y Cheryl B. Welch Cheryl B. Welch fall term Department of Government Government Government 1000 Quantitative Methods for Political Science I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to statistical research in political science with a focus on applied multiple linear regression. Gov. 50, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Frequently taken by graduate students satisfying department requirements. Also open to qualified undergraduates. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. Y Adam Glynn spring term Department of Government Government Government 1002 Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces theories of inference underlying most statistical methods and how new approaches are developed. Examples include discrete choice, event counts, durations, missing data, ecological inference, time-series cross sectional analysis, compositional data, causal inference, and others. Government 2000 or the equivalent. N Gary King fall term Department of Government Government Government 1008 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces Geographical Information Systems and their applications. GIS is a combination of software and hardware with capabilities for manipulating, analyzing and displaying spatially referenced information. The course will meet two times a week. Every week, there will be a lecture and discussion as well as a laboratory exercise where students will work with GIS software on the computer. No prerequisites. N Sumeeta Srinivasan spring term Department of Government Government Government 1009 Advanced Geographical Information Systems Workshop Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a workshop for students who have taken the introductory Geographical Information Systems course and want to explore detailed applications. The course will meet two times a week for a lecture and a laboratory exercise. N Sumeeta Srinivasan fall term Department of Government Government Government 1010 Survey Research Methods Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of survey research, designed to help students better understand, interpret and critically evaluate surveys and public opinion polls. N Patrick J. Moynihan spring term Department of Government Government Government 1013 Election Polling and Public Opinion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will provide students an opportunity to examine the intersection between research methods and political discourse by focusing attention on election and public opinion polls, particularly as reported in the media and used as a source of political information by both the general public and political leaders. Students will gain practical skills in survey design and evaluation by analyzing and critically assessing current opinion polls, designing survey questions and interpreting results. Jointly offered with the Kennedy School. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI 615. Y Patrick J. Moynihan spring term Department of Government Government Government 1016 Spatial Models for Social and Environmental Policy Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces the fundamental statistical and mapping tools needed for analysis of environmental and social policy. Topics are linked by environmental and social themes and include spatial statistics; surface estimation; raster algebra; suitability modeling and remote sensing. Students acquire technical skills in both mapping and spatial models. Software packages used include STARS - Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems, GeoVISTA, ArcGIS, Geoda and MULTISPEC. Some prior experience with GIS and knowledge of basic statistics. N Sumeeta Srinivasan fall term Department of Government Government Government 1019 Basic Mathematics for Social Scientists Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The aim of this course is to provide the students of social sciences with a conceptual understanding of the basic notions of calculus and matrix algebra. N Pedram Safari spring term Department of Government Government Government 1020 Intermediate Mathematics for Social Scientists Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is geared toward graduate students of social sciences (such as government, education, psychology, etc.). The focus is on a conceptual understanding of vector calculus and probability, as well as applications. N Pedram Safari fall term Department of Government Government Government 1052 History and Freedom in German Idealism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The high period of German Idealism (from 1781, the date of the publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, to the death of Hegel in 1831) is one of the most revolutionary in the history of philosophy. We shall study the period using the central ideas of history and freedom as our guide and trace how modern ideas regarding freedom, the self, and the historical character of knowledge have their origins in the Idealists' thought. N Michael Rosen fall term Department of Government Government Government 1060 Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Classical and medieval political philosophy, from Plato to Thomas Aquinas, with special attention to the question of natural right. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Harvey C. Mansfield spring term Department of Government Government Government 1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Political philosophy from Machiavelli to Nietzsche, with attention to the rise and complex history of the idea of modernity. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Nancy L. Rosenblum fall term Department of Government Government Government 1072 Moral Issues in Contemporary Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is intended to help students think critically about the controversial ethical questions which are being debated in American politics today. We will weigh both sides of arguments over such issues as economic redistribution, the rights of women and racial minorities, the political status of the family, the regulation of the beginning and end of life, and the conduct of foreign policy. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Michael Frazer fall term Department of Government Government Government 1082 What is Property? Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will investigate the major theories of property in the Western political tradition and address such key questions as: How do we come to own things? What claims do others have on the things we own? Is the community the ultimate owner of all goods? Do property rights really exist, and, if so, what is their source? Readings will include the Bible, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, More, Harrington, Locke, Marx, and Nozick. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Eric Matthew Nelson spring term Department of Government Government Government 1092 Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The past and future agenda of progressives, whether liberals or leftists. What should they propose now that they no longer believe that governmental direction of the economy works or that redistributive social programs suffice? A basic concern is the relation of programmatic thought to the understanding of change and constraint. Draws on several disciplines and considers examples from many contexts. The central theme this year will be innovation, education, capabilities, and creativity, as well as the policies and institutions that they require. Co-taught (through video conferencing) with Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia University and Laurence Tubiana, at Sciences Po, Paris. Extended take-home examination. Offered jointly with the Law School as 44605A. N Roberto Unger spring term Department of Government Government Government 1093 Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the moral, political, and scientific implications of new developments in biotechnology. Does science give us the power to alter human nature? If so, how should we exercise this power? The course examines the science and ethics of stem cell research, human cloning, sex selection, genetic engineering, eugenics, genetic discrimination, and human-animal hybrids. May not be taken concurrently with LS 60. May not be taken for credit if LS 60 has already been taken. Ethical Reasoning 22 (Justice) is recommended as a background. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Michael J. Sandel Douglas Melton spring term Department of Government Government Government 1094 The Jewish Political Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Jews existed as a stateless people for nearly two thousand years. Yet, throughout this period, they continued to make rich contributions to the theory and practice of politics. This course will examine the history of Jewish political thought, beginning with the Hebrew Bible itself and concluding with the birth of Zionism. Special attention will be paid to the influence of Jewish political writing in Christian Europe and in the early American republic. N Eric Matthew Nelson fall term Department of Government Government Government 1100 Political Economy of Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Comparative analysis of political economy of development drawing on case studies from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Robert H. Bates spring term Department of Government Government Government 1109 Comparative Institutional Design Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Institutional choices are vital for effective peace-building and for strengthening the quality of democratic governance. This course compares: (i) the principles and goals of constitutional design; (ii) the mechanisms of institutional design (electoral rules, parliamentary and presidential executives, decentralization, and minor reforms); (iii) political processes determining institutional choices; and (iv) the consequences (for political behavior, economic performance, regime stability, the quality of governance, democracy and democratization). Materials draw upon global comparisons and selected cases from long-standing and younger liberal democracies, as well as from countries emerging from conflict. N Pippa Norris II spring term Department of Government Government Government 1111 Democratic and Authoritarian Institutions: How Regimes Work Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course broadly examines how formal political institutions vary across countries, why these differences matter, and how these institutions change. Topics covered include regime type, presidentialism, parliaments and legislatures, government formation, rules governing elections, the franchise, political parties, the judiciary, bureaucracy, and federalism. N spring term Department of Government Government Government 1115 Social Movements, Protest and Politics in Comparative Perspective Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Hours to be arranged Grzegorz Ekiert Reviews the contemporary literature on collective action, protest, and social movements. Focuses primarily on political factors facilitating protest, repertoires of contention, the role of cultural factors and the construction of identities through collective action, and methods of studying collective action. Cases will be drawn from different regions and historical periods. Y Grzegorz Ekiert spring term Department of Government Government Government 1132 Comparative Political Economy, Developed Countries Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a survey of topics and theories in comparative political economy with a focus on developed democracies in Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. The course applies insights from both political science and economics to explain why economic performance, distribution, and economic policies vary across countries. The course complements "Comparative Political Economy, Developing Countries", although one is not a prerequisite for the other. N Torben Iversen spring term Department of Government Government Government 1170 Nation-Building and Democracy in the Development of Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course introduces students to the political development of western and eastern Europe, providing students with key historical context for understanding the challenges of ongoing European integration and enlargement. The main focus will be on the issues of feudalism, state-formation, revolution, industrialization, nationalism, and democracy to explore the origins and consequences of the historic divide between the two halves of Europe. N Daniel Ziblatt spring term Department of Government Government Government 1187 The Political Economy of Europe and the Eurozone: Domestic and International Aspects Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course intends to decipher the political economy of Europe as a major actor in the world economy. It is policy oriented and designed to offer a better understanding of European structures and methods to all those who will have to deal with Europe in the private or public sectors. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-662. Meets at HKS. Y Jacques Mistral spring term Department of Government Government Government 1197 The Political Economy of Africa Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The basic social science literature on Africa's development. Particular emphasis on political economy. N James Robinson spring term Department of Government Government Government 1203 Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course General introduction to East European politics focusing on the countries outside the former Soviet Union. Examines critical periods and dynamics of political and economic changes in the region from the end of World War I to the recent enlargement of the European Union. N Grzegorz Ekiert fall term Department of Government Government Government 1207 Comparative Politics of the Middle East Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines politics in the Middle East, including the political impact of Islam, the legacy of the great empires and Western imperialism, sociocultural divisions, Israeli politics, monarchies and civilian authoritarian political institutions, political economies, the role of women in politics, Islamization, democratization, regional conflict, great power interests, and recent revolutionary upheavals. N Kirk Beattie fall term Department of Government Government Government 1243 Russian Politics in Transition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of politics in the Russian Federation since the collapse of Soviet communism, focusing on the factors promoting and impeding the development of a stable democratic regime. Topics include the general dynamics of political and economic transformation, leadership, institution building, political culture, regionalism and federalism, electoral and party politics, state-society relations and interest groups, and Russian nationalism and neo-imperialism. N Timothy J. Colton fall term Department of Government Government Government 1255 The Politics of India Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will introduce students to politics in the world's largest democracy, focusing on themes both important to India and to a general study of politics in developing countries. How does one make sense of democracy in a poor multi-ethnic setting? How has democratic politics shaped and been shaped by a society divided along a caste, class, linguistic and religious lines? And how well has India fared in promoting economic development, both growth and equity? N Prerna Singh spring term Department of Government Government Government 1270 Government and Politics of Modern Japan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 An introduction to political life in contemporary Japan. Explores the interaction of political parties, the bureaucracy, interest groups, the media and the government, with an emphasis on the ongoing transformation of the Japanese political system. Special attention will be paid to current policy issues, such as disaster preparedness and nuclear power; foreign policy; and administrative and political reform. N Amy Louise Catalinac fall term Department of Government Government Government 1280 Government and Politics of China Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course General introduction to the politics of contemporary China. Basic objectives are to provide a working knowledge of Chinese political programs and practices, and to encourage a critical evaluation of the positive and negative aspects of China's socialist experiment. N Nara Dillon fall term Department of Government Government Government 1291 The Politics of Social Policy in Brazil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Assesses Brazil's social policy failures and successes, focusing on education, health, social security, and poverty alleviation. Introduces students to Brazil's political institutions; political and social actors; and state reforms. Identifies factors, including program design, power of privileged groups, and widespread political clientelism in the social services, that have contributed to Brazil's weak social welfare state and policy failures, and examines changes that have improved social policy outputs and the lingering obstacles to further progress. N Frances Hagopian spring term Department of Government Government Government 1294 Latin American Politics and Economy in the Long Run Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Sebastian Lucas Mazzuca This course examines political and economic change in Latin America. It focuses on five macro-processes: the creation of states and markets in 1850-1900, the design of oligarchic power-sharing institutions at the beginning of the 20th century, industrialization and the emergence of mass politics in 1920-1950, the widespread collapse of democracy and establishment of military regimes in 1960-1980, and contemporary processes of democratization and economic liberalization. In the search for causes and consequences, we consider multiple theoretical perspectives. N Sebastian Lucas Mazzuca spring term Department of Government Government Government 1295 Comparative Politics in Latin America Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines dynamics of political and economic changes in modern Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. Topics include the rise of populism and import-substituting industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary movements, the causes and consequences of military rule, the politics of economic reform, democratic transitions, and democratic consolidation. The course analyzes these phenomena from a variety of different theoretical perspectives, including cultural, dependency, institutionalist, and leadership-centered approaches. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Steven R. Levitsky spring term Department of Government Government Government 1310 Introduction to Congress Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course seeks to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to Congress. The first half of the course addresses the nuts and bolts of how Congress operates in terms of foundational theories, the committee system, congressional elections, and congressional procedures. In the second half of the course we will apply this knowledge to an exploration of how and why Congress pays attention to certain issues rather than others. Students are encouraged to view Congress not only as an institution unto itself but also as an institution that interacts with a variety of actors to shift public policy. N Matthew B. Platt fall term Department of Government Government Government 1328 Electoral Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Elections are the foundation of American democracy. This course focuses on the simple questions: Who wins elections and why? Answers to these questions guide the interpretation of elections and evaluation of how well government represents the public preferences. The first half of the course presents the basic explanations and models of elections and voting behavior, and asks students to make their best forecast of the election. The second half of the course will examine why the models worked or didn't work. Students will learn how to interpret and analyze surveys and other data, to estimate models and make forecasts, and test arguments and models using predictions. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere James M. Snyder spring term Department of Government Government Government 1358 Presidential Power in the United States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analyzes the origins and evolution of presidential power in the United States. Studies the powers of the President and how those powers translate into power. Examines and evaluates the most prominent political science theories, scholarly debates, and public controversies about presidential power. Explores the strategic choices available to modern American presidents in their efforts to augment the power of the presidency and provide active leadership to the political system. N Carlos E. Diaz Rosillo fall term Department of Government Government Government 1362 Democratic Citizenship Public Opinion and Participation in the US Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course examines the nature of public opinion and political participation. Considers how people acquire, organize, and apply their political beliefs; historical and contemporary patterns of public opinion, with emphasis on conflicts of values and social groups; who votes and why; the role of the media and political campaigns in mobilization and in formation of public opinion; and linkage between opinion, participation, and policy, with attention to whether citizens can discharge the responsibilities of democratic citizenship. N Claudine Gay fall term Department of Government Government Government 1368 The Politics of American Education Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the politics of education in the United States. It considers the key institutions (e.g. school districts, mayors, states, Congress, and courts) and actors (e.g. elected officials, parents, teachers, interest groups, and the general public) shaping the American K-12 education system in order to understand recent reform efforts and their consequences for students. We will look closely at past conflicts over education governance, ongoing policy challenges, and the forces shaping current reform efforts. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP 447 (formerly HLE 347). N Paul E. Peterson spring term Department of Government Government Government 1372 Political Psychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the psychological mechanisms behind political behaviors and institutions. Topics covered will include voting behavior, campaigns and media, partisanship, political violence, and racial attitudes. For these and other topics we will not only ask what happens but examine how human psychology makes it happen. N Ryan D. Enos fall term Department of Government Government Government 1510 American Constitutional Law Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides an introduction to contemporary American constitutional law, with a principal focus on decisions by the Supreme Court of the US. Topics to be studied include freedom of speech and religion, guarantees of due process and equal protection, and the powers of Congress and the courts. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning N Richard Fallon fall term Department of Government Government Government 1511 The Constitution and the American Political System Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will examine American constitutions regarding both the normative and empirical assumptions they make about political life and the specific kinds of politics they help constitute through the institutions they establish. Although the United States Constitution will inevitably be the central focus, state constitutions will also be receive considerable attention, not least because they are often strikingly different from the national constitution and each other. Occasional attention will also be directed at foreign constitutions. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Sanford V. Levinson spring term Department of Government Government Government 1521 Bureaucratic Politics: Government, Economic, Social and Military Organizations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A theoretical and historical analysis of bureaucratic organizations in various domains of modern society, including military organizations, business corporations, non-profit organizations, regulatory agencies, executive departments, and religious organizations. Theories include institutional, transaction-cost, reputation-based, and cultural theories of formal organizations. Readings and cases will include the US Army and other militaries, the business corporation in industrializing America and today, the FDA and the Forest Service, the Catholic Church, and police and educational organizations. N Daniel Carpenter spring term Department of Government Government Government 1524 Agenda Setting in Congress Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is interested in understanding how and why Congress pays attention to certain issues rather than others. The intent is to provide a comprehensive look at the roles of institutional design, citizen participation, political entrepreneurism, and media coverage in placing issues onto the congressional agenda. Students will be encouraged to integrate knowledge from a variety of subfields in American politics to offer a broader view of how issues are placed onto the congressional agenda - and ultimately - shift public policy. N Matthew B. Platt fall term Department of Government Government Government 1540 The American Presidency Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course analyzes the development and modern practice of presidential leadership. Examines the institutional presidency, presidential selection, decision making, and the relationship of the presidency with the executive branch, Congress, courts, interest groups, the press and the public. Considers the political resources and constraints influencing the President's ability to provide leadership in the US political system. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI-115. Meets at FAS. N Roger B. Porter fall term Department of Government Government Government 1730 War and Politics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the organized use of violence for the purposes of the state, with particular attention paid to the question of strategy and the sources of victory. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Stephen P. Rosen spring term Department of Government Government Government 1732 The Origins of Modern Wars Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the causes of war. It examines the different theories that have been devised to explain organized violence between states (or groups seeking to control a state), and evaluates these competing theories by exploring several major conflicts of the past 100 years: World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the recent wars in the Persian Gulf. The course also considers the phenomenon of ethnic conflict, the implications of nuclear weapons and the question of whether large-scale war is becoming "obsolescent." This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Stephen M. Walt fall term Department of Government Government Government 1740 International Law Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to public international law for students of international relations. The primary purpose is to enhance students' understanding of the ways in which international law orders international politics. Emphasis is on the substantive rules of international law, the relationship between law and politics, and cases that illustrate the issues. Topics include international human rights law, international economic law and institutions, the use of force, war crimes, and terrorism. N Beth Ann Simmons fall term Department of Government Government Government 1760 International Relations of East Asia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 50 Introduction to the historical, military, political, economic, and cultural features of interstate relations in East Asia and the Pacific. The course also presents some theoretical and methodological tools for more systematic analysis of these issues. The goal is to understand changing levels of conflict and cooperation in the region. Y Alastair Iain Johnston spring term Department of Government Government Government 1780 International Political Economy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analyzes the interaction of politics and economics in the international arena. Focuses on international trade, investment, monetary, and financial relations. Includes discussion of developed, developing, and formerly centrally-planned nations. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Jeffry Frieden spring term Department of Government Government Government 1782 Domestic Politics and International Relations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will explore the ways domestic politics influence relations between countries, as well as the ways domestic political relationships are influenced by interstate relations. We will cover both security and economic policy areas and explore how they influence each other. The role of interest groups, domestic institutions, and the general public in determining foreign policy will all be studied with a primary emphasis on the United States. N Dustin Tingley spring term Department of Government Government Government 1790 American Foreign Policy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 130 Examines and explains the international actions of the US Government. Explanations drawn from history, international relations theory, and from the study of American political and bureaucratic institutions. Emphasis is placed on the recent rise of the US to a position of unprecedented military dominance, how this military power has been used, and how other states, non-state actors, or global governance institutions have responded. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Shawn Ling Ramirez fall term Department of Government Government Government 1796 Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 Using a series of case studies that jump off the front page, this course grapples with the hardest U.S. national security challenges of the decade ahead. They range from decisions about when to intervene in civil wars or participate in regime change, to preventing nuclear terrorism, the Arab Spring, preventing Iran from getting the bomb and pressuring North Korea to surrender its weapons. The course delves deeply into the problem of dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and coping with the rise of China-while the endless cycle of leaks and press analysis complicates the process of developing sound policy and strategy. Students will learn to devise strategies and write strategic options memos as part of the policymaking process, all while balancing the need to communicate to major constituencies to sustain public support, while coping with a world where a pervasive press makes secrecy a luxury of the past. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-211. Meets at the Kennedy School. Y Graham T. Allison Jr. David Sanger fall term Department of Government Government Government 1982 Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949-2007 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the descriptive history of China's international relations with special focus on different theoretical explanations for changes in foreign policy behavior (e.g. polarity, history, ideology, leadership, bureaucracy, among others). No prior background in China or international relations theory required. N Alastair Iain Johnston fall term Department of Government Government Government 2000 e Introduction to Quantitative Methods I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Essential elements of Gov. 2000. Meets with Gov 2000 and provides an introduction to statistical research in political science with a focus on applied linear regression. Some of the statistical computing from Gov 2000 will not be required. Permission of the instructor for anyone other than Government Department graduate students. Y Adam Glynn fall term Department of Government Government Government 2000 Introduction to Quantitative Methods I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate-level version of Government 1000. Meets with Government 1000, an introduction to statistical research in political science with a focus on applied linear regression. Will require extra homework and examination problems in addition to those for Government 1000. Permission of the instructor for anyone other than Government Department graduate students. Y Adam Glynn spring term Department of Government Government Government 2001 Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate-level version of Gov. 1002. Meets with Gov. 1002, introduces theories of inference underlying most statistical methods and how new approaches are developed. Examples include discrete choice, event counts, durations, missing data, ecological inference, time-series cross sectional analysis, compositional data, causal inference, and others. Will require extra homework and examination problems in addition to those for Gov. 1002. Government 2000 or the equivalent. N Gary King fall term Department of Government Government Government 2002 Topics in Quantitative Methods Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Will cover topics of general interest to political methodology: causal inference, graphical models, mixed methods, contest modeling, text-as-data, item response. Illustrates how ideas and methods from these areas can be applied to substantive questions. Government 2000 and Government 2001, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. N Arthur P Spirling Adam Glynn fall term Department of Government Government Government 2005 Formal Political Theory I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate seminar on microeconomic modeling, covering price theory, decision theory, social choice theory, and game theory. N Laurent Bouton spring term Department of Government Government Government 2006 Formal Models of Domestic Politics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An understanding of introductory game theory and basic mathematical tools is required. Topics covered include some combination of the following: electoral competition under certainty and uncertainty, special interest politics, veto players, coalitions, delegation, political agency, and regime change. Gov 2005 or permission of instructor N Scott Gehlbach spring term Department of Government Government Government 2007 Political Economics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers the basic analytical approaches to political economy and their application. N James Robinson spring term Department of Government Government Government 2008 Experimental Political Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Experimentation is increasingly used by political and other social scientists to help identify causal relationships. This class will cover arguments for and against the use of experiments, as well as a broad cross-section of foundational and cutting edge experiments in political science and allied fields. In particular, we will cover the use of survey experiments, field experiments, and lab experiments. Substantive applications will span the sub-fields as well as integrate work from experimental economics and psychology. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructors. N Ryan D. Enos Dustin Tingley spring term Department of Government Government Government 2009 Methods of Political Analysis Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers the issues and techniques central to designing and researching a good dissertation, whether quantitative or qualitative, including principles of research design, case selection, comparison, measurement, and causal relations, with many practical examples. Open to all doctoral students, regardless of year, and to advanced undergraduates. Y Peter A. Hall fall term Department of Government Government Government 2010 Strategies for Political Inquiry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research design for causal inference in qualitative and quantitative studies. Topics covered include measurement, conceptualization, case studies, the relationship between large-n and small-n studies, process-tracing, surveys, field experiments, and natural experiments, with examples of their use in political science. Primarily for graduate students; may also be taken by undergraduates preparing for senior thesis research. N Michael J. Hiscox Nahomi Ichino fall term Department of Government Government Government 2030 Political Concepts: Field Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of rival accounts of the basic concepts of political thinking. Y Dennis F. Thompson fall term Department of Government Government Government 2034 Ethics Economics, and Law Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation, immigration policy, military service, voting, health care, education, and criminal justice. The seminar will examine arguments for and against cost-benefit analysis, the monetary valuation of life and the risk of death, and the use of economic reasoning in public policy and law. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW - 93375A. Meets at the Law School. Open to GSAS students with permission of the instructor. Y Michael J. Sandel fall term Department of Government Government Government 2056 Political Thought of the English Revolution Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will survey the remarkable range of political responses to the English constitutional crisis of 1640 to 1660, from theories of divine right to the arguments of the Levellers. Readings will include Filmer, Harrington, Lilburne, Milton, Nedham, Parker, and Sidney. Special attention will be paid to the idiosyncratic perspective of Thomas Hobbes. N Eric Matthew Nelson spring term Department of Government Government Government 2077 Thomas Hobbes Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigates the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: his metaphysics, physics, ethics, and political theory. A wide range of his writings are studied, and placed in their historical context. N Richard Tuck fall term Department of Government Government Government 2080 Topics in Political Philosophy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Plato Open to qualified undergraduates. Y Harvey C. Mansfield fall term Department of Government Government Government 2088 Ethical Foundations of Political Thought Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This class will cover areas of contemporary moral philosophy (for instance, utilitarianism, freedom, the nature of value, consent, well-being and desert) that are of particular relevance to political theorists. N Michael Rosen Eric Beerbohm spring term Department of Government Government Government 2093 Cicero: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will study Cicero's moral and political ideas against the background of his political activity, and will also consider his influence on medieval and Renaissance writers. No Latin required. Qualified undergraduates may be admitted. N Richard Tuck spring term Department of Government Government Government 2094 Kant and Kantianism Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The main political, moral, legal and historical works of Kant (including the three Critiques), plus Kant-interpretations of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Rawls, Arendt, Korsgaard, Nora O'Neill, etc. N Patrick Riley fall term Department of Government Government Government 2096 Topics in Political Philosophy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Central questions in political philosophy, focusing on the scope, content and normative role of justice. Readings mainly from contemporary sources. N Michael Rosen Thomas Scanlon spring term Department of Government Government Government 2097 Justice as Love and Benevolence (from Plato, Cicero and Augustine to Shakespeare, Leibniz and Freud) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Patrick T. Riley Justice as 'ascent' from negative legal forbearance, from harm to doing positive good from 'wise love' and benevolence. Readings from Plato, Cicero, Augustine, Shakespeare (four plays), Leibniz, Wagner and Freud (Civilization and "Leonardo da Vinci".) Y Patrick Riley spring term Department of Government Government Government 2098 Moral Values in Political Science Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will introduce students of descriptive political science to the subject of normative theory, exploring the proper place of moral values in social inquiry and addressing a variety of major ethical-political debates. N Michael Frazer spring term Department of Government Government Government 2099 Locke Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Richard Tuck spring term Department of Government Government Government 2105 Comparative Politics: Field Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Surveys topics in comparative politics (both the developed and the developing world), including the rise of the modern state; institutions of government; interest mediation; democracy and authoritarianism; revolution; political parties; mass and elite political behavior; political economy. Preference given to FAS Government graduate students. Y Torben Iversen Robert H. Bates Nahomi Ichino spring term Department of Government Government Government 2122 Civil Wars: Theory and Policy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course introduces students to the theoretical and comparative study of civil wars. The course aims to provide students with solid analytical and historical foundations and highlight the policy dilemmas associated with civil wars. Open to junior and senior undergraduates with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-227. Meets at the Kennedy School. N Monica D. Toft spring term Department of Government Government Government 2126 Political Corruption (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Addresses the definition, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of political corruption, and its relationship to political and economic development. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. N James E. Alt Daniel Ziblatt fall term Department of Government Government Government 2131 Comparative Politics of Latin America Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics: historical paths, economic strategies, inflation and exchange rates, international explanations of domestic outcomes, authoritarian and democratic regimes, state institutions, the Roman Catholic Church, social movements, parties and party systems, and voters and voting behavior. N Jorge I. Dominguez Steven R. Levitsky fall term Department of Government Government Government 2136 Political Regimes and Regime Change Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This course examines theoretical approaches to democratization, evaluating them in light of historical and contemporary cases. We examine themes such as the relationship of free markets/democracy, the proliferation of hybrid regimes, and authoritarian persistence. Y Steven R. Levitsky Daniel Ziblatt fall term Department of Government Government Government 2148 Civil Society, West and East Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focusing in particular on European and Asian settings, the seminar examines debates over what civil society is, notions of public space and social capital, and the role of civil society in political transitions. N Susan J. Pharr Grzegorz Ekiert spring term Department of Government Government Government 2158 Political Institutions and Economic Policy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 We explore the role of political institutions in the formation, implementation, and regulation of economic policy. Theories from positive political theory and comparative and international political economy are examined and applied to substantive issue areas. Y Kenneth A. Shepsle Jeffry Frieden fall term Department of Government Government Government 2160 Politics and Economics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Covers the political economy of policymaking and institutional change. Readings include a mixture of foundational approaches and recent research, covering a variety of methodological perspectives. The topical emphasis is on democracy, accountability, inequality, redistribution, and growth. Y James E. Alt Torben Iversen fall term Department of Government Government Government 2176 Varieties of Capitalism and Social Inequality Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores economic and social inequality in the affluent democracies. How do institutional arrangements reconcile efficiency and equality and affect the dynamics of redistribution? How is institutional change best understood? Taught with Kathleen Thelen of MIT. Meets at MIT room E51-390. N Peter A. Hall spring term Department of Government Government Government 2213 Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A research seminar designed to define an agenda for the comparative analysis of political developments among post-socialist systems. Emphasis placed on the formation of research proposals, methods of analysis, theory-building, and the presentation of comparative empirical research. N Timothy J. Colton Grzegorz Ekiert spring term Department of Government Government Government 2218 Topics in Russian Politics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A research seminar on selected problems in the politics and government of post-Soviet Russia. Intended for students with some prior study of the subject. N Timothy J. Colton fall term Department of Government Government Government 2219 The Politics of Islam in the Former Communist World Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Examines desecularization and re-Islamization of state ideology and institutions, and rise of radical Islamism in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucusus, Balkans and China. Focuses on political theory of ideology, mobilization, social transformation, and the state. Y John Schoeberlein spring term Department of Government Government Government 2227 The Politics and Economics of Africa Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines social science research on the politics and political economy of Africa. N Robert H. Bates fall term Department of Government Government Government 2284 Chinese Authors on Chinese Politics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An examination of how PRC authors have analyzed the politics of their country and comparisons with relevant Western accounts. A good reading knowledge of Chinese and previous course work on Chinese politics. Open to qualified undergraduates. N Roderick MacFarquhar spring term Department of Government Government Government 2285 Political Science and China Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Th., 2-4 Elizabeth J. Perry This graduate seminar gives students control over the secondary literature on Chinese politics, with special attention to competing theoretical and methodological approaches. Requires background in contemporary Chinese history/politics. Y Elizabeth J. Perry fall term Department of Government Government Government 2305 American Government and Politics: Field Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Designed to acquaint PhD candidates in Government with a variety of approaches that have proved useful in examining important topics in the study of American government and politics. Y Jennifer L. Hochschild Ryan D. Enos spring term Department of Government Government Government 2310 Social Capital and Public Affairs: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics in the relationship between politics and civil society in the US. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI-360. Meets at the Kennedy School. Y Robert D. Putnam spring term Department of Government Government Government 2314 Topics in American Political Behavior Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Course surveys field of political behavior, emphasizing recent developments in literature. Topics include uncertainty; opinion change and learning; partisanship and ideology; salience of race and social identity; participation; links between public opinion, elections, and policy. Y Claudine Gay fall term Department of Government Government Government 2328 Electoral Politics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar examines the politics of US elections, with emphasis on theoretical models of electoral competition and empirical research of voting behavior and election outcomes. The first third of the seminar examines voter behavior, the second third of the seminar electoral competition among parties and candidates and aggregate election results, and the final third of the seminar examines electoral institutions and laws. Specific topics include party competition, incumbency advantages, electoral districts, campaign finance, issue and economic voting, and electoral accountability. Understanding of statistics strongly recommended. Understanding of statistics strongly recommended. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere fall term Department of Government Government Government 2340 a Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers effects of varied political activities on creating or reducing inequality in U.S., and at effects of inequality on political activity and policy choices. Examines electoral participation, social movements, lawmaking, etc. on policies like education, ERA, welfare. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP 921 N Torben Iversen Kathryn Edin spring term Department of Government Government Government 2340 b Social Policy lI Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers the effects of policies and institutions in creating or reducing inequality in the US and other advanced democracies, as well as the reciprocal effects of inequality on political activity and policy choices. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-922. Y Jennifer L. Hochschild Richard J. Murnane fall term Department of Government Government Government 2349 Institutional Design Theory and Public Law: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course In this seminar, we will read and discuss recent legal scholarship that seeks to apply ideas and insights from the social sciences (particularly political science and economics) to a range of questions concerning the optimal design of legal and political institutions. Topics will include the separation of powers, electoral institutions, judicial review, legislative procedure, and bureaucratic organization. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW 98051A. Y Matthew Caleb Stephenson fall term Department of Government Government Government 2356 Agenda Setting and Representation in Congress Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate level seminar approaches the Congressional literature with a focus on how to further research in two key areas: agenda setting and representation. Y Matthew B. Platt spring term Department of Government Government Government 2360 Obama's Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 Dissects political forces affecting the fate of Obama's priorities in health care, financial regulation, environment, immigration, higher education, tax/revenue reform, labor reform, and citizen engagement. Students are expected to develop and present their own research. Open, with permission of instructor, to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Y Theda R Skocpol spring term Department of Government Government Government 2453 Practical and Theoretical Regulation of Voting Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The course will focus on points of contact between legal scholarship on voting rights and election law and the political science literature on redistricting, voting behavior, and elections. Emphasis will be placed on how observed data can be, and should be, used as evidence. N Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere James M. Snyder fall term Department of Government Government Government 2473 Parties and Interest Groups in the U.S. Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course explores the role of political parties and interest groups in the U.S. political system. Open to undergraduate juniors or seniors with permission of instructor N James M. Snyder spring term Department of Government Government Government 2474 Approaches to the Study of the US Congress: Models and Methods Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course In this seminar we survey and critically evaluate various models of Congressional politics. Special emphasis is given quantitative and modeling approaches to legislative organization, legislative process, congressional elections, legislative parties, House-Senate comparisons, and inter-branch politics. Students are expected to participate actively each week, complete several small writing assignments, and produce a research paper. N Kenneth A. Shepsle James M. Snyder spring term Department of Government Government Government 2490 The Political Economy of the School Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examination of political and economic influences on education policy and governance. Government 1368, or permission of instructor. Limited enrollment. Background in statistics expected. Permission of instructor required for all students who are not graduate degree candidates in the FAS Department of Government. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as HLE-348. Meets at the Kennedy School. Y Paul E. Peterson spring term Department of Government Government Government 2576 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The course begins with the history and structure of the classic Black-White binary, then addresses ways in which it must be rethought to include other groups, mainly Asians and Latinos. Issues include racialization, immigrant incorporation, political coalitions and conflict, racial mixture, and links between race, class, gender, and ideology. Focuses on the United States but includes comparisons with Europe, Latin America, and South Africa. N Jennifer L. Hochschild Claudine Gay spring term Department of Government Government Government 2710 International Relations: Field Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the field. Limited to Government graduate students. Suitable for students preparing for general examinations. Y Muhammet Bas Beth Ann Simmons spring term Department of Government Government Government 2735 Empirical Models in International Relations Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines statistical issues relevant to the study of international politics. The purpose is to familiarize students with different models that have been employed in research on international conflict, IPE and international institutions. N Muhammet Bas Beth Ann Simmons fall term Department of Government Government Government 2755 International Political Economy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate-level introduction to the theoretical and empirical literature on the political economy of international trade, monetary, regulatory, and investment policies. N Jeffry Frieden Beth Ann Simmons spring term Department of Government Government Government 2782 State Failure and Civil War Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The study of modern works on civil wars, terrorism, and state failure. N Robert H. Bates fall term Department of Government Government Government 2791 Comparative Foreign and Security Policy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus is on the theory, methods, and data used in the empirical analysis of the foreign security policies of states. Examines the sources of state preferences, the structural and domestic constraints on state action, and foreign policy change. Prior training in international relations theory strongly recommended. N Alastair Iain Johnston fall term Department of Government Government Government 2881 Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course investigates whether, how, and to what extent the mass media and public opinion interact with each other and with political leaders in order to influence the conduct of foreign policy. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI-611. Meets at the Kennedy School. N Matthew Baum spring term Department of Government Government Government 2887 International Politics of the Post-Soviet Space Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Timothy J. Colton Examines trends in international relations and transnational processes among the fifteen post-Soviet states, with special attention to the role of Russia, intra-regional cooperation and conflict, the involvement of outside players, and domestic determinants. N Timothy J. Colton spring term Department of Government Government Government 2891 Research Seminar in Domestic Politics and International Relations Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Dustin Tingley The course will cover research on the relationship between domestic politics and international relations. Security and economic relations between states will be covered and a variety of methodological approaches discussed. Y Dustin Tingley fall term Department of Government Government Government 2900 US-Latin American Relations Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Studies US-Latin American political, military, and economic relations and Latin American international relations. Includes foreign policy decision making in the US and Latin America and alternative approaches to the study of the subject. N Jorge I. Dominguez fall term; repeated spring term Department of Government Government Government 3000 a Reading and Research Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Small seminar on special topics. May be arranged with faculty listed under Government 3000. Requires written work as does Government 3000, but also involves regular class meetings. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Government Government Government 3000 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Requires written work of sufficient quantity and quality so that the course is equivalent to a lecture course or a seminar. Students who want supervised reading without substantial written work should take TIME-C (catalog number 8899) instead. Y fall term Department of Government Government Government 3001 Approaches to the Study of Politics Workshop Graduate Course Half course Graduate Seminar designed to introduce research questions and frontiers across political science. Y Jeffry Frieden full year Department of Government Government Government 3004 Research Workshop in American Politics Thesis Research Graduate Course Full course A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress by graduate students (second year and above), faculty, and visiting scholars. Anyone working on contemporary American politics or on US political development welcome. Occasional presentations by invited speakers. Y Paul E. Peterson James M. Snyder Paul E. Peterson James M. Snyder full year Department of Government Government Government 3005 Research Workshop in International Relations Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course Research workshop for advanced graduate students working on dissertation proposals in international relations. Y Stephen P. Rosen Dustin Tingley Stephen P. Rosen Dustin Tingley full year Department of Government Government Government 3006 Research Workshop in Comparative Politics Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course The workshop offers advanced graduate students an opportunity to present their work-in-progress, benefit from critiques of it, and discuss theoretical and methodological issues. Doctoral students from other departments and faculties admitted if space permits. Y Daniel Ziblatt Prerna Singh Daniel Ziblatt Prerna Singh full year Department of Government Government Government 3007 Research Workshop in Political Economy Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course Intended for graduate students in the third year and above, this course welcomes scholarship of all types and on all aspects of political economy. Intended to provide a venue in which to develop and to debate work in progress. Y Beth Ann Simmons Dustin Tingley Kenneth A. Shepsle Beth Ann Simmons Dustin Tingley Kenneth A. Shepsle full year Department of Government Government Government 3008 Research Workshop in Political Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course Y Michael Frazer Nancy L. Rosenblum Michael Frazer Nancy L. Rosenblum full year Department of Government Government Government 3009 Research Workshop in Applied Statistics Thesis Research Graduate Course Full course A forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss work in progress. Features a tour of Harvard's statistical innovations and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines. Occasional presentations by invited speakers. Y full year Department of Government Government Government 3100 Safra Graduate Fellowship Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course This seminar examines how moral and political theories should be brought to bear on institutional and policymaking choices. Special attention will be given to the relation between ideal and nonideal theory. This full year course is not repeatable. Y Eric Beerbohm Eric Beerbohm full year Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 2000 Core Course in Health Policy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Topics include the financing and organization of health care, public health, political analysis, medical manpower, health law and ethics, technology assessment, prevention, mental health, long-term care, and quality of care. Required for doctoral candidates in Health Policy and open to others by permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as HCP-597 and HCP-598 and with the School of Public Health as HPM 246. N Joseph P. Newhouse Alan Zaslavsky Richard Frank Joseph P. Newhouse Alan Zaslavsky Richard Frank fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3000 Doctoral Dissertation Research Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Dissertation research. Y Joseph P. Newhouse Joseph P. Newhouse spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3002 Graduate Reading Course: Mental Health Policy Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Participants discuss research on the politics surrounding mental health policy and examine how to apply existing work and methodological approaches to their own work. Offered in alternate years. Y Haiden Huskamp fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3010 First-Year Graduate Reading Course: Ethics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Examines issues in ethics and health policy, including a basic account of justice and health; ethical critique of maximization methodologies, including cost-effectiveness analysis; individual and social responsibility for health; and other topics. Y Norman Daniels Norman Daniels fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3015 Second-Year Graduate Reading Course: Ethics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Student-led course reviews basic issues in ethics, political philosophy, and their bearing on health policy and is important preparation for the qualifying examinations. Y Norman Daniels Norman Daniels fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3020 Graduate Reading Course: Political Analysis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Participants present their own ongoing research on the politics surrounding health policy and discuss recent research drawn from various methodological approaches. Graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars are welcome to present research at all stages. Offered in alternate years. Y Robert J. Blendon Robert J. Blendon fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3030 Graduate Reading Course: Medical Sociology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Thomas McGuire Thomas McGuire full year Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3040 hf Research Seminar in Health Policy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Katherine Swartz Katherine Swartz full year Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3060 hf Research Seminar in Decision Sciences Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Explores key conceptual and methodological issues relevant to research in health decision sciences. Faculty members and invited speakers will assign readings and present examples of theoretical and applied work. Students are required to participate in class discussion and to present their own research work in progress. Y Joshua Salomon Joshua Salomon full year Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3080 hf Graduate Reading Course: Evaluative Science and Statistics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr John Michael McWilliams Stephen Soumerai Alan Zaslavsky Dr John Michael McWilliams Stephen Soumerai Alan Zaslavsky fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy Health Policy Health Policy 3090 Graduate Reading Course: Management Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Amy C. Edmondson Robert Steven Huckman Amy C. Edmondson Robert Steven Huckman fall term Department of History History History 70 c Topics in Natural History Reading and Research Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A reading seminar focused on literature relevant for a natural history of humankind from several million years ago to the present. Topics will include population diasporas; long-distance exchange; coevolution; family, sex, and marriage; food; communication; goods and things; technology; human contact with ecosystems; status; demography and scale; and cognitive studies. The course will introduce students to the rapidly growing field of big history or deep history. Y Daniel Lord Smail fall term Department of History History History 70 f Rule in Classical Antiquity Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An exploration of the ways in which political power was modeled in classical antiquity, with close attention to the most dynamic recent discussions within modern scholarship. Particular focus on the language, ideology and cultural expressions of tyranny, monarchy, democracy, the 'balanced' constitution of the Roman Republic, and imperial rule, and on the ways in which power was negotiated between rulers and ruled. Y Emma Dench spring term Department of History History History 70 h History and Memory Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Explores the interactions of "memory" and historical writing, reading both theoretical writings on collective memory (e.g. Halbwachs, Nora, Yerushalmi and some of their critics) and more practical examples of the historical study of communal memory drawn from different periods and geographical regions. Please note that in contrast to many reading seminars, this course introduces you not to a particular swath of history, but rather to a set of questions raised in various contexts. Y Rachel L. Greenblatt fall term Department of History History History 70 i Problems in Medieval History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An introduction to the major themes, sources, and issues in medieval history with an emphasis on influential works of modern scholarship and areas of current debate. Topics include: religion, identity, power, economics, intellectual life, popular culture, demography, and gender. Y Jeffrey Robert Webb fall term Department of History History History 71 b The European Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1650 Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A structured introduction to European Renaissance and Reformation Europe. Both classic and recent studies will be read and discussed. Attention is given to a variety of European lands and cultures. Recommended to undergraduates from all fields of study. This course is open to first and second year graduate students. Y Steven E. Ozment fall term Department of History History History 72 c French History through French Literature Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines 19th century French history through some of the masterpieces of the post-revolutionary French tradition. The emphasis will be on the definitions of individualism (male and female) in an age of revolution and high capitalism. Readings will include Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Constant, Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Zola, as well as corresponding texts on the history of the period such as Marx and Walter Benjamin. Y Patrice Higonnet spring term Department of History History History 72 e The Life and Reign of Catherine the Great Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines the private and public worlds of one of Russia's most famous rulers. Introduces students to the political, social, and cultural transformation of the eighteenth-century empire, as well as to longstanding debates about Catherine's reign and the conflicting images of the empress herself. Topics include gender and authority, the Russian Enlightenment, architecture and urban planning, cultural life, religious and ethnic diversity. Y Kelly A. O'Neill spring term Department of History History History 72 g Religion and Popular Culture in 19th-Century Europe Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Explores the relationship between social and political change and popular religious practice from the French Revolution to World War I. Considers methodological problems in the study of religion and popular culture; religious revivals and popular politics; pilgrimages and prophetic movements; the relationships between class, gender, and religious culture; the feminization of religion, and the origins and resistance to the secularization of state and society. Readings include primary documents and secondary texts. Y David Blackbourn fall term Department of History History History 72 h The Histories of France and the United States Compared Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Will compare the historical experience of France and the United States from the late 18th to the 20th century. The issues at stake will be the formation of national consciousness, revolution, and democratization, the development of industrial capitalism, immigration, imperialism, and war. Y Patrice Higonnet fall term Department of History History History 72 i Cities and the Making of Modern Russia Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduces students to how historians think and write about the modernization of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries by examining the history of urban landscapes. Explores the ways in which the built environment shaped social and cultural life. Topics include the rise of mass entertainment, politics of architecture, crime and disorder, infrastructure of public health, technology and the natural environment, urban spaces and nation-building. Y Kelly A. O'Neill fall term Department of History History History 72 k The Worlds of Joseph Conrad Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Anarchists, asylum-seekers, gun-runners, sea captains and corporate agents gone rogue: all these figures and more populated the world of Joseph Conrad, the greatest novelist to explore the working of modern imperialism. This course uses three major works - The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness - as windows onto empire and globalization c. 1900. Topics under consideration include informal imperialism, "going native," migration, seafaring, and technological change. Readings and assignments facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to history. Y Maya Jasanoff spring term Department of History History History 73 a Republics and Republicanism Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Surveys the history of republican political theory from antiquity to the modern era. Themes to be discussed include: the relationship between republicanism and liberalism; the roots of republicanism in Greek and Roman political thought; Italian civic humanism; and the ideological origins of the English and American Revolutions. Readings will be drawn from Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, More, Montesquieu, the Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, and others. Y Prof James Hankins Harvey C. Mansfield spring term Department of History History History 73 b Introduction to Intellectual History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduction to major themes, periods and authors in intellectual history, in the West and beyond, and to a variety of approaches to the field. Students will be guided through the stages of writing an essay on a topic of their choice. Designed for current and future history concentrators and open to those with similar interests, with instructor's consent. Y spring term Department of History History History 73 c The University and Society (with Michael Tworek) Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course will investigate the historical significance of the university from its origins in the medieval period to its ubiquitous presence across the globe today. Students will evaluate the reciprocal relationship between the university and society by engaging in historiographical debates and evaluating relevant primary and secondary sources. Topics include collegiate life, curriculum, student movements and politics, women and higher learning, religion and secularization, academia and tenure, study abroad, academic freedom, and university reforms. Instructor: Michael Tworek Y David R. Armitage fall term Department of History History History 74 a African Diaspora in the Americas Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 How can we best understand the diverse cultural practices of black people in the Americas, from where did those practices derive, and how are they related to each other? We explore a history of attempts to answer those questions, and examine ways that interpretations of the "African diaspora" have been conceived by scholars to better appreciate the complex histories of African-American cultural practices. Y spring term Department of History History History 74 c Bodily Functions: Histories of Bare Life and Bio-Power Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course will expose students to challenging and influential scholarship on the history of human being. The reading combines an emphasis on social theory - Marxism, Cultural Anthropology, Post-modernism, Feminism, etc. - and on historical topics of central importance - the history of the senses, labor, torture, starvation, racism, colonialism, sexuality, etc. The class will meet once a week for two hours. Students will be required to write weekly papers of one to three pages summarizing their response to the assigned reading, and to write a final paper of approximately fifteen pages on a historiographical issue of their own choosing. Y Walter Johnson spring term Department of History History History 74 e North American Borderlands History Reading Course Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This reading seminar will explore the major themes and historiographical approaches to the study of North American borderlands history. Drawing on scholarship from across the continent, we will study the interactions of peoples, nations, and empires on the boundaries of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Course topics include: imperial claims and competition, Native peoples' responses to conquest, state and nation-building, settlement and economic integration, and conflict and cooperation between different racial and ethnic groups. Y Rachel St. John fall term Department of History History History 74 f U.S. Environmental History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 This reading seminar will explore the major themes and debates in U.S. environmental history. The course will introduce students to the study of the historical relationships between people and the natural environment and chart how the field has evolved over the past forty years. Beginning with Europeans' arrival in North America and continuing to the present, we will study how people have used, transformed, and thought about nature and how their environments shaped their experience. Y Rachel St. John Joyce E. Chaplin spring term Department of History History History 74 l The New Deal and American Liberalism Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course studies the responses to the Great Depression that formed the New Deal. Particular attention will be paid to the connection of between policy development and the rise of American Liberalism. Major topics include Social Security, economic redistribution, Keynesianism, social planning, regulatory reform, conservative critiques of the New Deal and others. Y Brett Flehinger fall term Department of History History History 74 n U.S. History: Major Themes in the Twentieth Century Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The twentieth-century United States is a vibrant and flourishing field of historical study. The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to the central questions, problems and debates in the history of the "American century." Students will learn how the literature of history has developed through reading both older and newer approaches. Readings focus on questions of politics, political culture, the state and social life. The course is both thematic and chronological (as well as necessarily selective). Students are expected to prepare well for seminar and to participate actively in discussion. Each class will begin with a brief introduction to the readings (no more than five minutes) by a member of the seminar. The idea here is for one student to take special responsibility for leading discussion, raising questions and problems posed by the reading. Y Lisa M. McGirr spring term Department of History History History 74 o Colonial Lives Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 In the years between 1600-1820, thousands of otherwise obscure individuals seized the opportunity to tell their own stories-in pamphlets, petitions, spiritual autobiographies, captivity narratives, depositions, letters, interviews, and material objects of many kinds. This course explores these remarkable sources and recent works of scholarship based upon them. In the process it traces an unexpected history of colonialism as it reshaped Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Y Laurel Ulrich spring term Department of History History History 74 q Anti-War Movements in Modern U.S. History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Recent opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the continuing importance of anti-war movements in American politics. What motivated opponents of war? How did they mobilize? How effective were their efforts to influence foreign policy? In this reading seminar we examine such questions in key historiographical debates regarding anti-war movements in modern U.S. history, from the Spanish-American War to the present. Key topics include pacifism, anti-militarism, internationalism, anti-imperialism, women's activism, and conscientious objection. Y Ariane Mary Aphrodite Liazos spring term Department of History History History 74 t New York from 1900 to 9/11: Local Lives, Global City Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 By the end of the 20th century, New York was often described as a "global city" - a nodal point in worldwide economic, cultural, and human networks. But how new was that? How did New Yorkers define themselves and their city over the previous century? This reading seminar will examine New York at key moments - as turn-of-the-century melting pot, as a homefront during world wars, as an inspiration for the arts, as a constantly evolving built environment. Y Lizabeth Cohen fall term Department of History History History 74 u The American Republic: From Revolution to the "Age of Jackson" Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The 18th and early 19th centuries saw the flowering of new ideas and the creation of the United States of America. This seminar examines politics, law, and social life in the early American republic from the 1770s to 1828. We will discuss the lives and ideas of well-known members of the founding generation, slavery, the birth of the American party system, and the role of women and class status in the new country. Y Annette Gordon-Reed fall term Department of History History History 75 c Readings on Modern Latin American History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course serves as an introduction to Latin American historiography, covering the span between the 19th Century's processes of independence and the military dictatorships of the second half of the 20th Century. It includes readings on Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil. This course is not designed to provide an extensive review of Latin America; however, the readings have been selected to cover an ample spectrum of themes, sources, countries and historical periods. Y Sergio Silva Castaneda spring term Department of History History History 75 e Slavery in Brazil Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 We examine recent work on social and cultural history of slavery in Brazil, built around themes such as work, ethnicity, family, gender, biography, religion, resistance, freed people, and abolition. We will familiarize students with one of the most vibrant fields of the historiography in Brazil in the last three decades. Each student is required to introduce at least one weekly reading, write three review essays discussing weekly readings, and write a final 10 to 12 pages long paper. Y Joao Jose Reis fall term Department of History History History 76 a Japanese Imperialism and the East Asian Modern Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 M., 2-4 Ian J. Miller 5880 Explores the role of Japanese imperialism in the making of modern East Asia. By the 1940s Japan's empire stretched from the cold northern woods of Sakhalin Island to Taiwan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. We use the analysis of this world-historical force to examine the tensions between modernization and imperialism across the region. Readings will take us to Manchurian museums, Shanghai jazz clubs, and Burmese battlefields. No knowledge of Japanese language or history required. Y Ian Jared Miller fall term Department of History History History 76 c Major Themes in World History: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A general introduction to theories of imperialism, nationalism, and post-colonialism. Case studies to include Asia and Africa. Will combine the study of theory with examination of particular anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements. Y Hue-Tam Ho Tai spring term Department of History History History 76 e Law, Society, and Culture in Modern China and East Asia Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course takes law and legal reforms as a prism through which to trace developments in the politics, societies and cultures of China and East Asia from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Topics covered include legal modernization, judicial reform, constitutionalism, international law, extraterritoriality and law under wartime conditions. We will examine famous court trials, public opinion's impact on legal reform, and the media's role in bringing law to people's everyday lives. Y Jennifer Elisabeth Altehenger spring term Department of History History History 77 a Alcohol in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1850 to the Present Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines the uses and meanings of alcohol in precolonial and rural Africa, its place in European-African trading contacts, and its role in the process of colonization. The course ends with a review of alcohol in nationalist politics, the place of the alcohol industry in the economies of independent African states and addiction in contemporary Africa. Y Emmanuel Akyeampong fall term Department of History History History 78 a The Middle East during the First Wave of Modern Globalization, 1870-1925 Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines the place of the Middle East during the first wave of modern globalization including the role of formal and informal empire, government and greater economic integration. Explores different ways of writing such a history using case studies designed to illustrate different aspects of the various processes involved. Y Edward Roger Owen spring term Department of History History History 78 c Islam, Law, and the State: Historical and Global Comparisons (with Julia Stephens) Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course is a historical introduction to Islamic law and Islamic political thought covering the classical period to the present. The course examines the diverse ways in which states have incorporated Islam into their legal structures from early-modern empires to post-colonial states in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Particular emphasis will be given to debates in the nineteenth and twentieth century about the relationship between religion, politics, and the modern nation state. Instructor: Julia Stephens Y David R. Armitage spring term Department of History History History 79 a The United States in International History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An introduction to major themes and writings in U.S. international history. Topics include imperialism, internationalism, the Cold War, development, and globalization, with readings that combine classics with the cutting-edge. Y Erez Manela fall term Department of History History History 79 e Commodities in International History Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduces students to international history through the study of commodities ranging from oil, coal, and cotton to potatoes, rum, coffee, and sugar. Showcases historical writings that transcend geographic, cultural, and political boundaries between East and West, North and South, Atlantic and Pacific as well as methodological boundaries between cultural, economic, business, and environmental history, the history of food, of technology, and of ideas. Y Alison Frank fall term Department of History History History 79 f Empire and Nation in Russia and China Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Examines comparatively how imperial rule functioned in the Eurasian empires of Russia and China, and how the imperial heritage affected the transition to national and communist state forms. Theories of empire and nationalism based on European paradigms will be interrogated. Topics will include discourses of empire, the production of imperial knowledge, ethnicity, the frontier, colonization, Communism and national self-determination, Russification and Sinicization, religion, gender, and language. All readings will be in English. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. Y Terry Martin Mark C. Elliott fall term Department of History History History 79 i Breaking Headlines: The History of News (with Heidi Tworek) Reading Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This reading seminar introduces students to the major themes and approaches to the historical study of the media from the invention of modern newspapers in the seventeenth century to the multiplication of media today. We will examine how the meaning of news has emerged from a nexus of politics, economics, technology and society. Topics include journalism, propaganda, public opinion, news agencies, radio, television, and Twitter. Instructor: Heidi Tworek Y David R. Armitage spring term Department of History History History 80 a Roman Imperialism Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Whether regarded as a model for European empires or as a precursor of western colonialism and globalization, Roman imperial expansion has captured both popular and scholarly imaginations. We proceed thematically, analyzing a variety of textual and material evidence for the changing nature of Roman imperialism between the mid-Republican and early imperial periods, and its impact on the politics, culture, religion, and society of Roman and local communities alike. Y Emma Dench fall term Department of History History History 80 b Persons and Things in Medieval Europe Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will introduce students to innovative currents of research in medieval European history, focusing on the use of texts for the study of material culture. Through their own research in medieval sources (in translation), students will contribute to building a collective database of clothing fashions, luxurious objects, dowry goods, liturgical goods, weapons, color preferences, and many other components of medieval material culture. This database will serve as a major source and gateway for building an original research paper. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B. Y Daniel Lord Smail spring term Department of History History History 80 e From Gaul to France: The History, Archaeology and Science of the Fall of the Roman Empire Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What was the fall of the Roman Empire like in Gaul? We will use archaeology, ancient texts in translation, Roman material culture (coins, ceramic), natural scientific data and computers to try to answer this question and discover how Gaul ended and France began between about 200 and 500 A.D. Reading knowledge of French or German will expand the fun but is not necessary. Y Michael McCormick spring term Department of History History History 80 f Carolingian Civilization Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What were the distinctive features of Charlemagne's civilization in terms of its value systems, economic and environmental structures, and social and cultural features? Meetings will pair student critiques or original essays on each theme with close analysis or written, natural scientific, GIS and archaeological evidence, and teach students how to conduct a major research project, from finding a topic to a finished paper, via oral presentation. Y Michael McCormick fall term Department of History History History 81 a History in Early Modern Europe Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will examine the cultural significance of history as a discipline and as practice in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. We will consider the nature and purposes of different kinds of historical writing and the ways in which histories were read and used. Histories were written to justify disciplines, states and religions; at the same time historical research prompted the development of new scholarly methods and subdisciplines. Emphasis on reading from primary sources including Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Francis Bacon, Voltaire and Gibbon. Y Ann M. Blair spring term Department of History History History 81 c The English Revolution Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will fulfill the concentration requirement for a research course requiring the completion of an historical essay based on primary materials. It will explore the causes, course, and consequences of the English Revolution by focusing on selected topics covering the range of issues that dominated the period from the convening of the Lord Parliament to the execution of Charles I. Emphasis will be on research techniques and the use of seventeenth century sources. Y Mark Kishlansky fall term Department of History History History 81 f Women's Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Seeks out the voices of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women, with an emphasis on women's writings, and examines methods for uncovering information about women's lives when their own voices are absent from the historical record. Considers ideal images and the daily realities of both men's and women's gendered roles in such areas as life-cycle rituals, livelihood and spirituality. Y Rachel L. Greenblatt fall term Department of History History History 81 i Holland in the Age of Rembrandt Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This module serves as an introduction to seventeenth-century Dutch history. Although the main focus will be political history, we will discuss a wide range of other topics as well, including social stratification, women's history, religious strife and toleration, intellectual life, and, of course, Dutch art and culture. The purpose of the course is to make students familiar with a wide variety of primary materials, all in English translation, including the inventory of Rembrandt's house. Y Martine Julia Van Ittersum fall term Department of History History History 81 j What Was an Early Modern Author? Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course, designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, will examine forms of authorship in early modern Europe broadly defined and the contextual factors that help explain them. Topics include: authenticity and plagiarism, collaborations, compilations, anonymous and pseudonymous writing, women's authorship and the rise of the romantic author. Students will write a research paper on a topic of their choice. Y Ann M. Blair spring term Department of History History History 82 b Fin-de-Siecle Vienna Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores the history of the political, social, and cultural center of the largest continental European Empire in modern history, and one of the birthplaces of European modernism. From the 1880s through WWI and into the early years of the Republic of Austria, the course examines not only Vienna's intellectual vitality, but also the social and ideological divisions underlying the human catastrophes of World War and genocide in the twentieth century. Y Alison Frank fall term Department of History History History 82 c Vichy France Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 First, we cover the background of the Vichy years and the legacy of 1789 and the First World War; military affairs; Vichy's social policy; Vichy, the Germans, and the Jews; Vichy and Free France; and the legacy of the Vichy years. In the second half of the course, we move on to compare occupied France to other occupied countries of Europe. Students interested in this course should contact Professor Higonnet at higonnet@fas.harvard.edu. Films will be shown weekly. Y Patrice Higonnet spring term Department of History History History 82 d French Colonial Encounters: 1870's to Present Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores and compares three colonies in the French Empire: French West Africa, Algeria, and Indochina, considering how colonial rule was extended, how individuals responded, and what reverberations there were between colony and metropole. One language relevant to the regions studied (e.g. French, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc.) preferred but not required. An introduction to French history recommended. Y Mary D. Lewis spring term Department of History History History 82 f The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945) Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The Yalta Conference is analyzed in the context of the long-term geostrategic goals of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR. Special attention is paid to psychological and cultural aspects of the negotiating process. Y Serhii Plokhii fall term Department of History History History 82 l The French Revolution Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The history of Jacobinism during the French Revolution. Y Patrice Higonnet fall term Department of History History History 83 a The History of Economic Thought Since 1750 Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines the history of various kinds of economic thought, including 18th century laissez-faire political economy and late 19th century theories of economic and social reform. Will emphasize writings about long-distance or global connections, in different media from scientific theories to economic periodicals. Students will prepare individual research projects. Y Emma Rothschild fall term Department of History History History 83 b Historical Ontology Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This advanced seminar addresses the now-prevalent idea that reality is an historical construction, i.e., that what counts as objectivity or truth may depend upon conceptual schemes, discourses, or practices of world-making, such that the conditions for something being "an object" or being "true", in the natural or human sciences and in social experience, are subject to variation and structural transformation over time. Topics and authors include: Foucault, Heidegger, Latour, Sokal, Hacking, Poovey, Shapin, and Cervantes. One of the following: Modern European Intellectual History, Social Studies 10, French Social Thought, American Social Thought, or any philosophy course in Metaphysics or Epistemology. Y Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 83 c Care of the Soul Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The teachings of major philosophers in the Western tradition about how living a philosophical life can cure diseases of the soul and bring tranquility, harmony with nature, and a sense of moral worth. Y Prof James Hankins spring term Department of History History History 83 d Intellectuals and Auschwitz Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar for advanced undergraduates investigates a variety of philosophical debates and intellectual controversies concerning National Socialism and the Holocaust; focusing on disputes as to the significance of the Holocaust for social theory, the philosophy of history, theories of empathy and historical as well as aesthetic representation. Authors include: Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Celan, Derrida, Jaspers, Jonas, and Levi. One course in Intellectual History, Social Studies 10, Political Theory or Philosophy. Y Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 84 a Early American Slave Revolts Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Will analyze political dynamics of resistance and social control within the slave societies of the early Americas from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. Topics for consideration include maroon resistance, struggles over time, territory, status, and cultural practice within slavery, the organizing strategies of the enslaved, and competing visions of the future. Y spring term Department of History History History 84 c Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Working with museum collections as well as written documents, students will explore the interplay between particular objects and larger historical themes, such as colonialism, nationalism, scientific and ethnographic exploration, or expanding commerce. Employing a range of scholarly tools, emphasizing visual and material analysis and including archival research, students will help prepare materials for a future exhibit. Y Laurel Ulrich fall term Department of History History History 84 g Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Will explore the links between Harvard and slavery during the first 229 years of the university's history. Students will write original research papers on various aspects of the history of Harvard University and slavery, including how resources extracted from slave labor benefited the university, the ways Harvard administrators and faculty supported or struggled against the institution of slavery, and what kinds of links the university built to slaveholders. Y Sven Beckert fall term Department of History History History 84 h The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines the movement for racial equality outside the South from the 1940s and into the early 1970s, and will examine integrationist efforts, as well as competing ideologies of black power through weekly urban case studies. Y Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham fall term Department of History History History 84 i Secularization in Europe and the United States, c. 1780-2000 Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 It is commonly asserted that the United States is more religious and less secular than Europe. The purpose of this seminar is to test that claim by looking at the respective religious characteristics of these two large and diverse areas from the age of revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present. Among the topics to be considered in comparative religious perspective are industrialization and modernization, the rise of cities, the fate of established churches, the relationship between religion and popular culture, patterns of immigration, and trajectories of secularization. In the light of these comparisons, the course will address the complex issues at stake in the debates between those who make claims either for American or European exceptionalism. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2356. Y David Neil Hempton spring term Department of History History History 84 l The World of William James and Henry James Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the writings of William James and Henry James in relation to each other and to transformations in American and European culture from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Readings include Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and selected stories, prefaces, and essays by Henry James and selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, and selected essays by William James. Y James Kloppenberg Jeanne A Follansbee fall term Department of History History History 84 m The New Deal: The United States during the Roosevelt Years Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An exploration of the trajectory of New Deal reform and the broader social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the US in this period. Topics will include the First and Second New Deal, the rise of liberalism, the Roosevelt administration, the social movements of the Left and the Right during the 1930s, the coming of war, and the waning of the reform impulse. Y Lisa M. McGirr spring term Department of History History History 84 o Woodrow Wilson's America: The Emergence of the Modern United States, 1856-1924 Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was a lawyer, scholar, and statesman who experienced, studied, and shaped many defining moments in America's emergence as a unified nation-state and modern industrial society. In this research seminar, Wilson's responses to his changing nation prompt engagement with multiple narratives of epochal events in his lifetime, including: Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, imperialism, segregation, woman suffrage, progressivism, state centralization, scientific advance, religious fundamentalism, modernism, consumerism, and World War I. Y Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit fall term Department of History History History 84 q Histories of the Present Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will focus on creating oral histories of the current crisis. The 2009-10 topic will be the history of Allston and Cambridge and their relation with Harvard, including the history of Boston and of Harvard in Boston, and the practice of oral history. Students will obtain certification to work with human subjects, identify a topic, and contact sources. The goal will be to create an archive for the future, to better understand university/community relations, and to rework the relationship of "Harvard" to "Allston" and "Cambridge". Part of the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics and the activity-based-learning initiative. Y Walter Johnson spring term Department of History History History 84 t Trans-War America: Cultural and Political Origins of an Ambivalent Empire, 1914-1945 Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Hours to be arranged Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit 6066 This research seminar explores the cultural, political, and international origins of America's post-1945 ascendancy. How did socio-economic change, progressive reform, cultural cosmopolitanism, and geopolitics push America into the world-political limelight during World War I? How did conflicting isolationist and internationalist currents affect Americans' response to war's aftermath, and to a second global catastrophe? Do the answers illuminate-or challenge-America's current global role? Readings, discussions, and a final research paper tackle these and other questions. Y Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit spring term Department of History History History 84 v Japanese Internment in the United States and Beyond Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the broader history of the internment of Japanese immigrants during World War II, expanding our understanding across borders and from the 19th century to the present day. In addition to the experience of wartime internment in the United States, we will also consider internment's historical antecedents, Japanese internment programs outside of the United States, the internment of non-Japanese, and the enduring legal, personal, and political legacies of internment. Y Nikhil Paul Kapur spring term Department of History History History 84 w "So How Much for Manhattan?" Dutch New York in Fact and Fiction Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Dutch New York, which started with the 1626 purchase of Manhattan ("the best real estate deal in history"), has attracted the attention of novelists, painters, composers, journalists, filmmakers, and even the occasional scholarly historian. We will explore this rich vein of material, devoting attention to the seventeenth century, when the colony of New Netherland was under Dutch control, and the later centuries, in which Dutch colonial culture submerged in the American melting pot, only to resurface in various fictionalized forms. Y Jaap Jacobs spring term Department of History History History 85 d Society and Environment in Latin America Reading and Research Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course explores the relationship between environment and society in Latin American history. It covers the period from the first encounters between Native American societies and European explorers in the late 15th Century through current discussions about sustainable development. The goal is to introduce students to a relatively new field in Latin American historiography, to invite them to ask their own questions, and to have them engage in a relevant research project. Y Sergio Silva Castaneda spring term Department of History History History 86 a Christianity and Chinese Society Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines the history of Catholic and Protestant Christianity in China from the 16th century to the present. The focus is on non-elite Chinese believers and the ways in which Christianity affected their lives. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. Y Henrietta Harrison spring term Department of History History History 86 d The Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores the history of the Indian Ocean inter-regional arena in the comparative context of histories of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Pacific worlds from the 1490s to the 1990s. The changing meanings of sovereignty, religiously informed universalisms and the links forged by intermediary capital and migrant labor in the age of global empire. Y Sugata Bose spring term Department of History History History 86 e Nation, Reason and Religion in South Asia Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines the connections between nation, reason and religion in South Asian political thought and practice. Precolonial patriotisms, rational and religious reforms, colonial modernity and anti-colonial nationalisms, visions of nationhood and forms of state power, and post-colonial nationalisms for and against the state. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. Y Sugata Bose fall term Department of History History History 86 f Tagore and his Times Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An exploration of global cultural history through the life and literature of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), and his engagements with intellectuals worldwide. Y Sugata Bose spring term Department of History History History 86 g China Meets the West: The First British Embassy to China, 1793 Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course uses the abundant contemporary sources on Lord Macartney's Embassy to the Qianlong emperor to provide a way into the study of 18th century China, Britain and their connections. Students will discuss key issues, work together to interpret the documents, and write research papers on subjects such as the history of diplomacy, identity, translation, images of China, the China trade, ships and sea-faring, history of science, city life, women and family, or material culture. Y Henrietta Harrison fall term Department of History History History 87 a Health, Disease, and Ecology in African History Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines the history of disease and health in sub-Saharan Africa from the 19th century to recent times, exploring African and western concepts of health, disease and healing. Illustration through discussion of case studies of individual diseases, including malaria/sickle cell trait, trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism, AIDS, and onchocerciasis, and the public health policies affecting them. Senior level undergraduates. Y Emmanuel Akyeampong spring term Department of History History History 87 b Human Rights in Africa: An Historical Perspective Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An examination of the evolution of human rights in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century and its impact on states and societies throughout the region. The theoretical underpinnings of international human rights accords will be assessed alongside African conceptualizations of individual rights and community obligations. The tension between concepts of universal rights, civilization, and cultural relativism will be explored through an examination of specific case studies in the colonial and post-colonial periods. Y Caroline Elkins spring term Department of History History History 88 b Medieval History and Cinema Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course deals with the challenges of representing medieval history by focusing on selected films, which will be viewed at two levels at once, as films and as history. What are the uses of cinema as a vehicle for thinking about the past? What qualities, other than accuracy, make for good history in films? What are the advantages, if any, of cinematic representation of the premodern past with its different sense of intimacy with the supernatural? There will be a group viewing of selected films each week and a class meeting to discuss films and related readings. Y Cemal Kafadar spring term Department of History History History 89 a British Colonial Violence in the 20th Century Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Will explore Britain's deployment of various forms of violence in its 20th-century empire, and how this violence was understood, justified, and represented in the empire and at home. Imperial objectives and policies will be weighed alongside local factors such as race, settler presence, indigenous responses to colonial rule, and economic and strategic interests to assess the universality and particularity of British colonial violence. Y Caroline Elkins fall term; repeated spring term Department of History History History 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the DUS for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work as background for their project. Y Ann M. Blair Maya Jasanoff spring term Department of History History History 97 Sophomore Tutorial Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the ways in which historians recreate the past. Students will read prototypes of historical genres and write their own histories in alternating sessions. Discussion sections and small tutorials. Required of, and limited to, all History concentrators in the spring term of their sophomore year, as well as students pursuing a secondary field in History. Y Jill Lepore Serhii Plokhii Lisa M. McGirr full year Department of History History History 99 Senior Thesis Tutorial Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing the senior thesis in History. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, seniors completing the History concentration's thesis program. Permission must be obtained from the Tutorial Office. Y Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit spring term Department of History History History 1011 The World of the Roman Empire Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to Roman history from the mid third century BCE to the mid third century CE, with emphasis on the multiple cultures of the Roman empire and their diverse involvement in, and perspectives on, Roman conquest and rule. Challenging traditional narratives of Roman political history, we will seek a much more dynamic view of 'Roman' culture and society, based on both literary and archaeological evidence. N Emma Dench fall term Department of History History History 1012 Identity in Classical Antiquity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What did it mean to be Greek, Athenian, or Roman in classical antiquity? We explore the different ways in which such identities were articulated from the archaic Greek world to the world of the Roman Empire, considering textual and archaeological evidence. N Emma Dench spring term Department of History History History 1025 Overlapping Spheres: Jewish Life in Early Modern Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Participants in this course will use primary and secondary sources to examine multiple aspects of the ways Jews lived among their Christian neighbors during this exciting crossroads between traditional society and the beginnings of what we later called "modernity." We will look at the period from approximately 1500 to 1750, characterized by the advent of print, the Protestant challenge to Catholic hegemony, increasing use of the written vernacular, and the rise of capitalism, absolutism and toleration. N Rachel L. Greenblatt fall term Department of History History History 1040 The Fall of the Roman Empire Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Uses the latest results of archaeology, written sources, and the natural sciences to study the changes, violent or subtle, that transformed the Roman world to produce medieval civilization between ca. 300 and 700. Topics include Constantine's conversion, economic recovery and collapse, the barbarians, women and power, pandemic disease; emphasizes reading of ancient sources in translation. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Michael McCormick spring term Department of History History History 1041 Charlemagne and the Birth of Medieval Civilization Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For 200 years, the family of Charlemagne welded together the disparate fragments of a fallen Roman Empire and free Germania. The result was a new civilization, called Europe; a new cultural movement, called Renaissance. "Charlemagne" investigates how a new civilization arose in the countryside and in the conquests of the 8th and 9th centuries AD with consequences that endure down to our own time. But "Charlemagne" is also about historical analysis: the techniques by which today's historians wrest new data and insights from manuscripts, memorandums, and mud to rediscover the lives of the men and women who created the first European civilization. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Michael McCormick fall term Department of History History History 1044 Sacred and Secular Power in Medieval Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of Medieval Europe with an emphasis on the role of religion and the Church in society, ca. 500-1400. We will explore the major political and ideological struggles between the papacy and Europe's rulers in addition to topics such as monasticism, intellectual life, saints and their relics, and the Church's efforts to influence behavior and suppress thought deemed heretical. N Jeffrey Robert Webb spring term Department of History History History 1045 Crusade and Jihad in the Medieval Mediterranean Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In the long history of violence in the name of religion, the medieval crusades count among the most notorious episodes. We will explore the ideologies of holy war in Christianity and Islam as we examine the sources and cultures of Latin Christendom, the Byzantine empire, and the Islamic world, their conflicts, and their larger interactions in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. N Jeffrey Robert Webb spring term Department of History History History 1060 Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys an early phase of European expansion and colonial activity in areas including the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, the eastern Mediterranean, eastern Europe, the Baltic lands, Wales, and Ireland. A major goal of the course is to explore how a European identity emerged in the process of contact and conflict in the new borderlands. Readings will include primary and secondary sources. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Daniel Lord Smail spring term Department of History History History 1144 The Renaissance in Florence Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Renaissance has been described by historians as a revival of antiquity, as a revolt against the Middle Ages, and as the beginning of the modern world. This course examines these claims in the context of a detailed examination of the society and culture of Florence, the most important Renaissance center, from the time of Dante to the time of Machiavelli. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Historical Study B or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Prof James Hankins fall term Department of History History History 1151 Culture and Society in Early Modern France, 1500-1715 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to French history from Francis I through Louis XIV, with a special emphasis on topics in cultural history, including: Renaissance humanism and printing, Protestantism and wars of religion, political thought, court culture and the early Enlightenment. Assigned readings from Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Moliere, and Voltaire among the primary sources; from Fernand Braudel, Natalie Davis, and Robert Darnton among the secondary sources. All assignments in English. An optional extra French-language reading section will be arranged if there is interest, which can count toward the foreign language requirement in History and Literature; a graduate section will be arranged. N Ann M. Blair fall term Department of History History History 1166 Marriage, Sex, and Family in Western Europe, 1250-1750: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 History 1166 goes into the preindustrial household to discover first hand the rule of men, the rights of women, the bearing and rearing of children, and the opportunities of teenagers and young adults. Both contemporary sources and modern scholarship will be read and discussed. Highly recommended for beginning graduate students. N Steven E. Ozment spring term Department of History History History 1167 The Protestant Reformation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In the 16th century hundreds of thousands of people surrendered religious beliefs, practices, and institutions that had organized and given meaning to daily life for the greater part of a millennium. The Protestant Reformation attempts to explain why this happened and how it changed history. Lectures, art, and readings present the movers and shakers of the Reformation; its development in representative cities and lands; its theologies and social philosophies; its impact on contemporary society and culture; the Catholic response; and its legacy to the modern world. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Steven E. Ozment spring term Department of History History History 1206 France since 1870 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the history of France from the foundation of the Third Republic to the beginning of the 21st century. Topics include the advent of modern left-wing, right-wing, and anti-Semitic politics; imperial expansion and its consequences; the devastating impact of the First World War; the tumultuous interwar era; the Second World War and the politics of resistance, collaboration, and memory; decolonization; the May 1968 movement; immigration and identity politics since the 1970s. N Mary D. Lewis spring term Department of History History History 1213 The Evangelical Tradition, c. 1700-2000 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The purpose of the course is to investigate the Evangelical tradition from its origins in the religious revivals of the eighteenth century to its contemporary role in American culture and society. Notwithstanding its often stereotypical characterizations, the Evangelical tradition is surprisingly eclectic and complex. A central objective of the course, therefore, is to explore that complexity in relation to gender, ethnicity, social class, and political culture. The course will make use of primary and secondary materials to shed light on Evangelical theology, spirituality, and cultural expression throughout the North Atlantic region and beyond. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2358. N David Neil Hempton fall term Department of History History History 1214 Encountering of the Other: The Expansion of the Christian West, 1650-1830 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates themes in the History of Christian Expansion to new geographical spaces in the early modern period. Questions raised will include what was at stake in the multifaceted cultural encounters between European Christianity and native religious traditions as Christianity expanded into new social spaces, and what was the relationship between Protestant and Roman Catholic missionary movements and the rise of the European seaborne empires. Locations will include the Americas, Africa, India, and Asia. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2355. N David Neil Hempton fall term Department of History History History 1224 Britain since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Survey history of Great Britain from the reign of George III to the administration of Tony Blair. These centuries witnessed Britain's spectacular emergence as the world's leading industrial and imperial power; and its dramatic decline in influence after World War II. How did Britons experience domestic and global change? Themes include political reform, social class, national identity, popular culture, rise and fall of empire, relations with Europe. Extensive use of written and visual primary sources. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Maya Jasanoff fall term Department of History History History 1251 The History of France from 1715-1958 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course France from the death of Louis XIV to the French Revolution and its echoes in the Revolutions of 1830, 1848, 1871 and the collapse of the Third Republic in 1940. The rise and fall of France as an imperial power and as victor and loser of two world wars. Other themes include the history of Paris and cultural change in letters and the arts, with the move from Enlightenment to romanticism, realism, and surrealism. N Patrice Higonnet spring term Department of History History History 1252 Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Examines the art, literature, and history of the "capital of the 19th century." Subjects will include Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire; Delacroix, Manet, and Degas; the Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Patrice Higonnet fall term Department of History History History 1253 The French Revolution: Causes, Processes, and Consequences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The cultural, social, and political life of France before 1789; the rise of a public sphere; the Revolution in its development from the decentralized "consensus" of 1789 to Jacobin terrorism in 1793-94; the structures of Jacobin thought; the ideological, social, and administrative effects of the Revolution in France. The roles of Mirabeau, the Montagnards, the Girondins, Robespierre, Babeuf, and Napoleon are considered, as well as more general themes such as the effect of public opinion and the redefinition of gender roles. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Patrice Higonnet spring term Department of History History History 1257 History of European Capitalism: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course During the past 250 years, Europe's economies were revolutionized by the advent and spread of capitalism. Exploring the origins and economic, political, social and cultural consequences of this change, this course will deal with a wide range of issues from the transformation of the countryside in eighteenth century England, to the emergence of heavy industry in the Ruhr Valley a hundred years later, to the history of European labor movements. We will pay special attention to the connections between Europe and the rest of the world and the varieties of capitalism as they came to characterize the European continent. This course will be taught in Freiburg, Germany, as part of the Harvard College Europe Program, and will include excursions to important sites of European capitalism from the city of Liverpool to the steel works of the Ruhr. N Sven Beckert spring term Department of History History History 1266 Central Europe, 1789-1918: Empires, Nations, States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the development of nationalism and socialism as ideologies intended to shape group loyalties, public and private behavior, and political activities of subjects of the continental European empires in the long nineteenth century. Primary focus will be on the Habsburg Empire, with attention paid to other German-speaking lands and to the western territories of the Russian Empire (especially Poland). This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Alison Frank fall term Department of History History History 1270 Frontiers of Europe: Ukraine since 1500 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The history of Ukrainian territory and its people within a broad context of political, social and cultural changes in Eastern Europe in the course of the half of a millennium. Special emphasis on the role of Ukraine as a cultural frontier of Europe, positioned on the border between settled areas and Eurasian steppes, Christianity and Islam, Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as well as a battleground of major imperial and national projects of modern era. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Serhii Plokhii spring term Department of History History History 1275 Industrialization, Nature and Sustainability in Europe, ca 1750 - 2000 Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of how industrialization and the natural environment interacted in Europe over the last 250 years. It starts at the onset of industrialization with special emphasis to the concept of sustainability. The course asks what sustainability could have meant for pre-industrial societies, what sort of changes the transition to coal brought about, and whether these emerging industrial societies were sustainable. Of special interest will be different debates about limits to growth, changing perceptions of nature and impacts of industrialization. N Franz Josef Brueggemeier spring term Department of History History History 1280 History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the history of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to Gorbachev's failed reforms. Focus on the period 1928-53 when industrialization, nationalization and political terror created a distinct Soviet society and culture. Readings include novels, short stories, memoirs, Soviet propaganda, high policy deliberations, letters, journalism, songs, jokes, etc. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures or Historical Study A, but not both. N Terry Martin spring term Department of History History History 1281 The End of Communism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines how and why communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Places the events of 1989/1991, usually considered sudden and shocking, within the political, economic, social, and cultural context of the surrounding decades (1970-2000). Considers both international and domestic factors, including the Cold War and the arms race; ideology and dissent; consumption and culture; oil, economics and the environment; nationalism and civil war; gender and health. Investigates the role of structural conditions and contingency in history. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Terry Martin Alison Frank spring term Department of History History History 1282 The Russian Revolution: An International History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Terry D. Martin Analyzes the 1917 Russian Revolution as the central event in the revolutionary transformation of Eurasia from 1905 to1934. Considers the1905-1912 revolutions in Russia, Turkey, Persia, and China; the 1917-18 collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman empires and ensuing revolutions and civil war; ends with Stalin's Revolution from Above, Hitler's Nazi Revolution, and Mao's Long March. Themes includes revolution, civil war, state collapse, ideology, violence, and the transnational political contagion. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Terry Martin fall term Department of History History History 1285 Russia and the Great Eurasian Steppe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the history of Russian interactions with the peoples and states of the Eurasian steppe from the rise of Chinggis khan to the fall of the Romanovs. Topics include the legacy of Mongol conquest, the importance of trade, and the Russian-Ottoman struggle for dominance in the region. How did the experience of Russia's Muslim inhabitants change over time? Did Russia civilize the steppe? Emphasis on incorporating non-European voices into the narrative of Russian history. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Kelly A. O'Neill spring term Department of History History History 1290 The History of the Russian Empire Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The history of Russia from the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan in the sixteenth century to 1917. Topics include the struggle with "westernization", the nature of autocratic authority, the role of the Orthodox Church, the integration of non-Russian peoples, industrialization and modernization, and the inevitability of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Kelly A. O'Neill fall term Department of History History History 1300 Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of major themes in the intellectual history of the Greek and Roman World, with special attention to metaphysics, psychology, ethics and the philosophic life. Readings in the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B or Moral Reasoning, but not both. N Prof James Hankins spring term Department of History History History 1301 Western Intellectual History II: The Prehistory of Modern Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of major themes in medieval and early modern intellectual history. Readings in Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Prof James Hankins fall term Department of History History History 1304 Modern European Intellectual History Subject and Structure, Nietzsche to Postmodernism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to major landmarks in Continental philosophy and social theory in the modern period, beginning with Nietzsche. Focuses on the various challenges to traditional enlightenment notions of freedom and subjectivity in psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, existentialism, French structuralism, and post-structuralism. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 1322 Heidegger and Arendt Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course investigates the complex philosophical affiliation between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Will address how various themes of Heideggerian philosophy were borrowed, displaced, revised, and challenged in Arendt's political theory. The first half of the course addresses texts by Heidegger, esp. selections from Being and Time, and An Introduction to Metaphysics. The second half of the course addresses Arendt's major theoretical works, The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and On Revolution. N Peter E. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 1323 German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A philosophical and historical survey of major debates in modern German social theory over the span of a century, from Nietzsche's anti-foundationalist critique of morality and truth to Habermas's attempt to rebuild a pragmatic-transcendentalist theory for ethical and discursive reason after the collapse of metaphysics. Readings by Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Habermas. N Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 1324 French Social Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of major themes and debates in modern French social theory over the span of a century, from Durkheim's neo-Kantian theory of the social symbolic to Foucault's conception of the historical a priori, concluding with the recent emergence of neo-liberal conceptions of both history and society. Major readings by Durkheim, Mauss, Levi-Strauss, Canguilhem, Foucault, Lefort, Furet, and Gauchet. N Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 1325 Political Theology: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This advanced research seminar for undergraduates (and graduate students by permission) addresses the interrelation between religious ideas and political theory in the modern period. Readings by Schmitt, Strauss, Barth and Kantorowicz, alongside more recent theorists such as Assmann, Taubes, Badiou, and Agamben. Y Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of History History History 1326 The Frankfurt School and Religion: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course examines major thinkers and themes associated with the Frankfurt School - Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Habermas. We will focus primarily on their theoretical writings concerning the status of religion in political modernity and the significance of theological concepts for modern social theory. This course is open only to students of junior or senior standing, and to graduate students. N Peter E. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 1330 Social Thought in Modern America Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An inquiry into American ideas since 1870, examining developments in political and social theory, philosophy, and literature in the context of socioeconomic change. Topics include the breakdown of Victorian idealism and laissez-faire; the emergence of social science and progressivism; conflicts over gender, race, and ethnicity; interwar cultural ferment and political reform; post-World War II theories of consensus and 1960s radicalism; and the consequences for democracy of our contemporary culture of hyper-partisanship. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N James Kloppenberg fall term Department of History History History 1345 The Human Sciences in the Modern West Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores how the human sciences evolved from loosely organized discourses into academic disciplines in response to the sweeping transformations of the modern era. Students gain perspective on how universities such as Harvard became what they are today. Readings consist of short primary selections, from Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes in the seventeenth century to Homi Bhabha, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, Steven Pinker, and Francis Fukuyama in our own time. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Andrew Jewett spring term Department of History History History 1350 Theories of Secularization: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This advanced undergraduate course surveys various debates concerning the historical process and philosophical-political significance of secularization, especially the secularization of political norms. The course concentrates on the history of European thought since 1650, with special reference to the encounter between Western monotheistic religion and rationalist modes of criticism that first emerged with the scientific revolution. Readings from: Veyne, Febvre, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Lowith, Strauss, Blumenberg, and Taylor. N Peter E. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 1390 Understanding Democracy through History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the evolution of democracies in different nations over extended periods of time, and will focus on one fundamental issue: Under what circumstances or conditions have democracies (or political rights) expanded, and under what circumstances of conditions have they contracted? Readings will include historical studies as well as comparative theoretical works. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as DPI-703. This course may be lotteried. N Alex Keyssar spring term Department of History History History 1404 The American Revolution: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This hands-on research seminar will take you out of the classroom and into the archives. An intensive study of the political, cultural, literary, and social history of the American Revolution, with an emphasis on Boston from the Writs of Assistance, in 1761 to the British evacuation of the city, in 1776. The class includes field trips to Boston and Cambridge historic sites, archives, museums, and graveyards. N Jill Lepore fall term Department of History History History 1410 American Families, 1600-1900 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Family forms in the United States have varied widely over the centuries. This course will consider the radical innovations of 17th century Puritans, eighteenth-century Moravians, and nineteenth-century Mormons; the role of the family in debates over slavery, immigration, and the status of American Indians; and the impact of legal, economic, and social changes on mainstream ideals and practices. Students will work with a wide variety of family records as well as public documents and will have the option of writing about their own family history. N Laurel Ulrich fall term Department of History History History 1415 The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Examines the eighteenth century through some of the many lives of Benjamin Franklin. Students analyze in depth one of these lives, or identify and explore yet another, to better comprehend Franklin and the worlds in which he lived: colonial America, British empire, independent US, books, science, popular culture, politics, war, social reform, personal improvement, and many others. N Joyce E. Chaplin spring term Department of History History History 1433 American Populisms: Thomas Jefferson to Rush Limbaugh Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course studies the American Populist tradition that defines the common "people" as the centerpiece of American economic and political life and thrives on opposition between the people and "elite" interests. The class focuses on the formal Populist movement and the People's Party of the late nineteenth century, and places this history in broader context, from Jeffersonian tradition through the rise of anti-elitist and anti-government movements characterized by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and the rise of the Tea Party. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Brett Flehinger fall term Department of History History History 1434 American Public Life in the 20th Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course covering the major public and political events in America from the administration of Teddy Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. Focuses on both rising national unity and power, as well as persistent racial, gender, and economic division that conflicted with this unity. Topics include: the Progressive Era, New Deal, World Wars, and Civil Rights Movement, and Watergate. N Brett Flehinger spring term Department of History History History 1441 History of the US West Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture course will introduce students to the history of the place that we now know as the US West from before European expansion to the present. Lectures and readings will examine how both particular national boundaries and distinctive regional patterns have defined the West. Drawing on histories, memoirs, journals, films, and images, students will explore a variety of perspectives on the political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the American West. N Rachel St. John spring term Department of History History History 1445 Science and Religion in American Public Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture course explores the multivalent interactions of science and religion in the United States, with a particular focus on the influence of democratic politics. Circling outward from the Scopes trial of 1925, it reaches back to the "pan-Protestant establishment" and the Darwinian controversies of the nineteenth century, and forward to today's debates over abortion and bioengineering. Students read a wide range of primary sources and examine visual material. No previous coursework is required. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Andrew Jewett spring term Department of History History History 1457 History of American Capitalism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 100 Examines the development of the American economy from its beginnings to the present. Focuses on the nature of economic change during the past 400 years and the reasons for and effects of capitalist growth. Topics include Native-American economies, the industrial revolution, slavery, the rise of new business structures, labor relations, and technological change. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. Students who have taken Historical Study B-49 may not take this course for credit. N Sven Beckert spring term Department of History History History 1462 History of Sexuality in Modern West Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 45 Focusing mainly on the United States and secondarily on Europe, this course will examine changing sexual cultures and their relation to political economy as well as to gender norms from the 17th through 20th centuries. The emergence and ascendance of the concepts of sexuality, heterosexuality and homosexuality will be examined through intellectual and social history. N Nancy F. Cott fall term Department of History History History 1465 The United States in the World since 1900 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A wide-ranging overview of American interactions with the world from the Spanish-American War through 9/11 and beyond. We will consider the changing patterns of international politics, the causes and implications of imperialism and decolonization, the pivotal impact of the world wars and the Cold War, the significance of cultural interactions and social movements, the challenges of globalization, the complexities of international development, and the roots of current world (dis)orders. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for The United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Erez Manela fall term Department of History History History 1495 The US in the 1960s Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the main developments in American society, culture, and politics during the premiere liberal decade of the 20th century. Topics include the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the counter-culture, and the rise of populist conservatism. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Lisa M. McGirr spring term Department of History History History 1505 The History of Mexico 1810-2011 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is a survey of Mexican history since 1810 that focuses on the development, successes and failures of the Mexican state. This course seeks to use history as a tool to understand recent controversies about the viability of the Mexican state, and its relation with economic development, political mobilization and organization, social unrest, cultural developments, international relations, natural disasters, and public health. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Sergio Silva Castaneda spring term Department of History History History 1617 Mainland Southeast Asia: From Colonies to Independent Nations: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 The course covers the history of the countries of mainland Southeast Asia from the time Britain acquired control of Burma in 1824 to the Bandung Conference of 1955. Topics include the divergent approaches of Britain and France to colonial rule, the place of minorities (including overseas Chinese) in the societies and economies of the region, the impact of the Great Depression and the different movements for independence. // This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Hue-Tam Ho Tai spring term Department of History History History 1618 Telling Lives in Asia: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Using sources ranging from diaries and memoirs to biographies, autobiographies, records of interrogations, resumes and self-criticisms, this course will explore the ways in which individuals make sense of their lives and the lives of others in Asia. Through the examination of the themes and tropes deployed in stories of men and women both famous and ordinary, we will explore the relationship between self, nation, and narration. N Hue-Tam Ho Tai fall term Department of History History History 1619 Premodern Vietnam Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Vietnamese history from antiquity to the founding of the Nguyen dynasty in 1802 with emphasis on the period following independence from China in the 10th century. Topics include the Sinicization of Vietnam and the sources of Vietnamese national identity; tensions between aristocratic and bureaucratic rule; territorial expansion and national division; first contacts with the West; the changing status of women. N Hue-Tam Ho Tai fall term Department of History History History 1620 Modern Vietnam Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Survey of Vietnamese history from 1802 to the present. Covers the period of unified rule under the Nguyen dynasty, French colonial conquest, the struggle for independence, the Vietnam War, and the recent unification under Communism. Major topics include the relationship between the state, the village, and the individual; the transformation of Vietnamese society, culture, and politics under French rule; the rise of nationalism and Communism; the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Hue-Tam Ho Tai spring term Department of History History History 1623 20th-Century Japan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores Japan's emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. Examines politics, social movements, and culture of the imperial era; the experience of World War II and postwar occupation; the "economic miracle" and postwar political economy; social and cultural transformation. Concludes by considering historical context for issues of the present day ranging from economic crisis to tensions with Japan's Asian neighbors. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Andrew D. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 1627 China in the Wider World, 1600-2000 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines China's modern history from the point of view of its interconnections with the rest of the world. It provides a general overview of the history of modern China, and some standard theoretical frameworks for China's foreign relations, but also considers the many different ways in which China has shared in world history ranging from environmental history and the spread of global religions, to international trade and the development of modern nationalism. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Henrietta Harrison fall term Department of History History History 1700 The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Survey of sub-Saharan Africa to 1860, with attention to the range of methodologies used in writing early African history, including oral history, archaeology, and anthropology. Will address themes of the impact of climate change on migration and settlement, trade and commerce, state formation, slavery, and the impact of Islam and Christianity on the continent. Will provide a methodological and historiographical framework in which more specific historical processes and events may be placed and understood. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Emmanuel Akyeampong fall term Department of History History History 1701 West Africa from 1800 to the Present Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the internal dynamics of West African states from 1800, and West Africa's relations with the wider world. Examines African perspectives of colonialism, nationalism, and the transfer of political power. Concludes with the study of the continued struggle of independent West African states to achieve economic independence. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Emmanuel Akyeampong spring term Department of History History History 1702 Violence, Substances and Mental Illness: African Perspectives: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An introduction to African perspectives on mental illness, exploring the development and practice of psychiatry as a medical field in Africa, examining the grey areas within psychiatric knowledge, and engaging the ongoing debates about the interface between race, culture and psychiatry. Will review African therapeutic systems; witchcraft, causation and mental health; substance abuse; violence and mental illness; and more recent links between HIV/AIDS, loss and depression. N Emmanuel Akyeampong Arthur Kleinman spring term Department of History History History 1703 Africa and the Wider World since 1800: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The "African Story" is well known with diverse opinions today on Africa's persistent underdevelopment. Historical outcomes are less certain for historical actors going through periods of transformation. This course examines momentous events in African and world history from African perspectives, privileging primary sources and African scholarship. What were African perspectives on European partition of Africa; the World Wars and the Jewish Holocaust; independence, neo-colonialism and the Cold War; Africa's role in global drug trafficking? N Emmanuel Akyeampong spring term Department of History History History 1711 A History of Southern Africa Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the history of southern Africa from the settlement of the Bantu peoples to the present. Topics include early state formation, the rise of Shaka, and the Mfecane; impact of Dutch and British settlement; labor relations before and after the discovery of gold and diamonds; growth of ethnic and national consciousness; evolution of the apartheid state and African responses to racial segregation and oppression; Zimbabwean revolution; and liberation of Namibia from South African rule. N Caroline Elkins fall term Department of History History History 1877 a History of the Near East, 600-1055 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the history of the Near East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the Turkish ascendance in the mid-11th century. Includes Muhammad and his community, Arab conquests, Umayyads and Abbasids, sectarian movements, minority communities, government and religious institutions, and relations with Byzantium and the Latin West. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3594. N Roy Parviz Mottahedeh fall term Department of History History History 1877 b History of the Near East, 1055-1500: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Surveys history of the Near East from the coming of the steppe peoples to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. Includes Seljuks, Crusades, Mongols, and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, Mamluks, the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade, and the Timurids and their successors. History 1877a helpful, but not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3595. N Roy Parviz Mottahedeh fall term Department of History History History 1878 a Ottoman State and Society I (1300-1550) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys the emergence of the Ottoman state from a frontier principality into a world empire in its sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Topics include pre-Ottoman Anatolia; frontier society; methods of conquest; centralization of power; classical institutions of the land regime and of the central administration; urbanization; religion and literature. Relations with Byzantium, other Islamic states, and Europe are examined. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Historical Study B. N Cemal Kafadar spring term Department of History History History 1878 b Ottoman State and Society II (1550-1920) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys the transformations of the Ottoman order in the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the early modern era and in the long nineteenth century until the demise of the state. Topics include changes in the conduct of state; social and religious movements; the impact of the new world economy and new trade routes; relations with Europe; emergence of nationalism; the 'Eastern Question.' Ethnic structure, rural society, urban popular culture, guilds, gender and family life are also examined. The importance of this era for understanding today's Middle East is stressed. N Cemal Kafadar fall term Department of History History History 1891 Understanding the Middle East since 1945: The Basic Socio-Economic and Political Structures Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines recent political structures created in support of Arab presidents for life, including those with provisions for a president's sons to succeed him. Comparisons also made with somewhat similar systems to be found in the major Arab monarchies, as well as contrasts with the different ones to be found in the two Arab sectarian republics, Iraq and Lebanon, and the three non-Arab Middle Eastern states, Israeli, Iran and Turkey. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Edward Roger Owen spring term Department of History History History 1920 A Global History of Modern Times Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A history of world societies from the end of the 18th century until the present. Covers such transnational forces as demographic change, religious revivals, and technological and economic development; comparative political transformations, such as the impact of revolutionary ideologies on rural and urban life; and the interactions between different global regions, whether as a consequence of imperialism and war, economic trade and investment, or cultural diffusion. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Charles S. Maier spring term Department of History History History 1955 Humans and Germs in History: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Hours to be arranged Erez Manela Infectious disease has shaped human history since the dawn of time. We will explore the impact of disease on historical events such as the development of early societies and civilizations, the European conquest of the New World, the American Revolution, and imperial expansion in Africa. We will also cover the role of disease and efforts to control it in the rise of modern medicine, nation-states, and international society. N Erez Manela fall term Department of History History History 1963 America and Vietnam: 1945-1975 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines modern conflicts in Vietnam and their implications for the US from 1945-75, from both Vietnamese and American perspectives. Seeks to provide an understanding of the complexity of the war and the ethical dilemmas it raised by examining issues ranging from the power-politics assumptions of decision makers to the personal experiences of those caught in the war. Covers both background and consequences of the war, but the main focus is on the 30-year period during which the fortunes of America and Vietnam became intertwined. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Hue-Tam Ho Tai Brett Flehinger fall term Department of History History History 1964 International History: Empires and State systems, War, Peace and International Organizations: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 A comparative approach to the history of international society, including sources of conflict and efforts at peacemaking, imperial and hegemonic regimes, the protection of minorities and human rights and enforcement of transnational norms. Readings will include theoretical as well as historical texts. History 1964 and 1965 are designed particularly for advanced undergraduates in the international history track of the concentration and graduate students preparing a general examination field in the history of international relations, Seminar credit can be earned by completion of an appropriate research paper and presentation to graduate members of the class. Y Charles S. Maier spring term Department of History History History 1965 International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 International economic history and political economy, including strategies of economic development, international trade, migration, finance and monetary relations, based on both theoretical works and specific case studies, and focusing on the period from around 1700 to the present. History 1964 and 1965 are designed particularly for advanced undergraduates in the international history track of the concentration and graduate students preparing a general examination field in the history of international relations. Y Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson Charles S. Maier fall term Department of History History History 1967 An Introduction to the History of Economic Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course provides an introduction to the history of economic thought, from Aristotle to Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Paul Samuelson; and to economic concepts in historical perspective, from the state and the market to natural resources and financial crises. N Emma Rothschild spring term Department of History History History 1968 United Nations: A Global History: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Explores the history of international organizations, including programs concerned with economic crises, economic development, security, and environment. Taught in conjunction with the development of a new web-based curriculum on United Nations history. N Sugata Bose Emma Rothschild fall term Department of History History History 1970 Cold War Summits: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course introduces students to major topics in Cold War history by looking at meetings between leaders of the two Cold War superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the role that summits, including the meetings between Truman, Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam in 1945, Kennedy and Khrushchev at Vienna in 1961, and Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva in 1985, had on the origins and the outcome of the Cold War. N Serhii Plokhii spring term Department of History History History 1975 Global Environmental History: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will explore how different human societies have comprehended, used, adapted to and valued their natural environments and how these environments have shaped human behavior and the way their societies developed. The course will range from pre-historic times until the current debate about global warming. In doing so the course will also provide an introduction into the field of environmental history, its theories and methodologies and some of its most important works. N Franz Josef Brueggemeier fall term Department of History History History 2050 Medieval Societies and Cultures: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the study of medieval history, and to the literature basic to the examination field. Readings include both canonical works as well as recent studies. Though designed for specialists in medieval European history, the course welcomes all non-specialists interested in exploring large issues of comparative history and chronological depth. Reading knowledge of French and/or German. May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-year program. Y Daniel Lord Smail full year Department of History History History 2055 hf Early Medieval History: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Will meet in two concurrent phases: alternate Monday Seminars, with joint philological analysis of Latin texts culminating in a research paper, and Tuesday afternoon Workshops which will feature innovative research presentations by Harvard and visiting historians, archaeologists and scientists. Latin, with either German or French, is required. Normally History 2050 and or MS 101. N Michael McCormick Michael McCormick spring term Department of History History History 2060 Topics in Medieval and Early Global History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the sources and methodologies necessary to conduct research on medieval Europe. N Daniel Lord Smail spring term Department of History History History 2080 Medieval Law Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings focused alternately on the English legal tradition and on the Roman-canonical tradition. The topic for 2011-12 will be the English legal tradition. Short papers analyzing texts will be required but not a research paper. Some Latin required. Offered jointly with the Law School as Law 96710A-1/S N Charles Donahue fall term Department of History History History 2110 Problems in Late Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, and Early Modern Europe: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course History 2110 is designed for beginning graduate students and upper level undergraduates in search of a senior thesis, or pursuing a special interest. This course addresses both cutting edge historical debates and student presentations of topical readings chosen in consultation with Mr. Ozment. N Steven E. Ozment spring term Department of History History History 2111 Classical and Neo-Latin Literature in the Italian Renaissance: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 This course studies the reception and interpretation of classical literary and philosophical texts between 1350 and 1600. Topics include the revivals of the ancient philosophical schools, the reception of ancient literary texts, and the revival and development of the classical genres in Renaissance Latin literature. Reading knowledge of Latin and Italian. N Prof James Hankins fall term Department of History History History 2112 Latin Texts of the Italian Renaissance: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to methods and techniques of textual scholarship with reference to Renaissance Latin texts. Topics include finding and describing manuscript and printed sources; paleography and codicology; text editing; rhetorical analysis. Course includes a six-week paleography workshop held in Houghton Library. A reading knowledge of Latin, French, Italian, and German. Enrollment by permission of the instructor. May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-year program. Y Prof James Hankins fall term Department of History History History 2132 Early Modern England: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 Students will conduct primary research on topics of significance in the history of England, ca. 1563-1714. Permission of instructor required. Y Mark Kishlansky fall term Department of History History History 2133 Studies in Tudor and Stuart History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate colloquium designed for students preparing preliminary examinations in early modern history or interested in English historiography of the early modern period. Historiographical papers and reviews. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Mark Kishlansky fall term Department of History History History 2260 Central Europe: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Major themes include nationalism, communism, the `Polish question,' the `Jewish question,' the political and economic viability of the Habsburg Empire, cultural exchange and diplomatic relations between Austria, Germany and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union. Reading Knowledge of either German, Polish, Czech, or another Central European language. Y Alison Frank fall term Department of History History History 2261 Environmental History of Europe and the World: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Introduces graduate students to recent scholarship on environmental history, with an emphasis on Europe and Europeans' interactions with the rest of the world. Y Alison Frank fall term Department of History History History 2262 France as Empire: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Intensive introduction to the major historiographical debates regarding French imperialism/colonialism, covering its full geographic and temporal breadth (17th-20th c.). N Mary D. Lewis fall term Department of History History History 2265 Problems and Sources in Modern German History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 A research seminar that examines different ways of approaching German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We consider a variety of interpretations and methodologies. Particular attention is given to diverse source materials, including literary and visual sources. Reading knowledge of German not required. N David Blackbourn full year Department of History History History 2270 hf Informing Eurasia: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Year-long bi-weekly seminar on theories of information and their application to the history, culture, and politics of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Topics include surveillance, vertical and horizontal communication networks, identity construction, reading and writing strategies under censorship, autobiographical practices. Open to qualified undergraduates. Permission of the Instructors. Y Terry Martin Rawi E. Abdelal William Mills Todd III Terry Martin Rawi E. Abdelal William Mills Todd III fall term Department of History History History 2271 The Soviet Union: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to major debates in the historiography of the Soviet Union and late imperial Russia. N Terry Martin spring term Department of History History History 2272 The Soviet Union: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to archival and primary sources, as well as major historiographical debates. Primary focus on major research paper. Reading knowledge of Russian. N Terry Martin spring term Department of History History History 2285 Imperial Russia: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Intensive introduction to major themes and approaches to the history of imperial Russia. Prepares students for the general exam but all interested graduate students are welcome. N Kelly A. O'Neill spring term Department of History History History 2300 Methods in Intellectual History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Introduction to advanced research in intellectual history with special reference to philosophy and political thought. Readings will include primary and secondary materials drawn from East-Asian and Euro-American traditions. N David R. Armitage Peter K. Bol spring term Department of History History History 2315 Censorship: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 A graduate seminar on the nature of censorship and the way it actually operated in Stuart England, Bourbon France, the British Raj, Communist East Germany, and regimes vulnerable to the Internet. N Robert Darnton John Gorham Palfrey VII full year Department of History History History 2320 hf Foundations of Modern European Intellectual History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This graduate seminar provides a survey of major themes and controversies in modern European intellectual history from the Enlightenment to the post-war era. The seminar is intended primarily for graduate students who are preparing for the qualifying examination. The course is offered on a yearly basis, and it meets every other week throughout the academic year. Please consult with the instructor for further details. N Peter E. Gordon Peter E. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 2330 Ideas in Europe in the 18th Century: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 A graduate seminar which examines a number of 18th century writings (by Hume, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Condorcet) and ideas (enlightenment, religion, empire), and explores different ways of writing about the history of ideas. N Emma Rothschild fall term Department of History History History 2331 Adam Smith: Philosophy and Political Economy: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 The course examines Adam Smith's writings on philosophy, law and political economy, in historical perspective and in relation to the foundations of modern thought. Permission of the Instructors. Y Emma Rothschild Amartya Sen full year Department of History History History 2340 hf Readings in American Intellectual History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 This course examines classic texts in American intellectual history from 1630 to the present, both primary and secondary, and surveys recent developments in the field. It is intended for first- and second-year graduate students preparing for general exams in history and for other graduate students in fields such as American Civilization, Government, Law, Literature, Religion, and Education. Y James Kloppenberg James Kloppenberg full year Department of History History History 2341 hf American Intellectual History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 This course is intended for graduate students who wish to supplement the reading of primary and secondary sources in American intellectual history with the preparation of a research paper. Y James Kloppenberg James Kloppenberg spring term Department of History History History 2350 Research Seminar in the History of Education: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course offers students the opportunity to conduct original research in the history of education. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as S-508. N Julie A. Reuben spring term Department of History History History 2400 Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to scholarly literature on colonial and revolutionary America. Required for History Department graduate students specializing in US history. Open to those from other fields or programs. N fall term Department of History History History 2402 American Food: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 From the starving time at Jamestown to present-day concerns over obesity, food has been central to the American experience. But what (if anything) is American about American food? After acquiring background skills in food history, students will do independent research on that central question. N Joyce E. Chaplin fall term Department of History History History 2405 Politics, Social Life, and Law in Jeffersonian America: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 This seminar examines politics, law, and social life in the United States from 1776 to 1828, discussing well-known members of the founding generation while considering the role of women, enslaved people, and the working class. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Law School as LAW-98055A. N Annette Gordon-Reed fall term Department of History History History 2442 Readings in the History of the U.S. in the 19th Century: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The second in the sequence of three proseminars required of all graduate students in American history and open to graduate students in other history fields and other departments as space permits. N Rachel St. John spring term Department of History History History 2443 Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the 19th century United States: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Will illuminate the imperial dimensions of the history of the nineteenth-century US. N Walter Johnson spring term Department of History History History 2450 The History of Education in the United States: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines major issues in the development of schooling from the Colonial period to the present. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as A-418. N Julie A. Reuben fall term Department of History History History 2455 Forced to be Free: Americans as Occupiers (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This course will explore the history of American nation-building projects across the twentieth century--from the military occupations of the Philippines, to Japan and Germany, to Iraq--and the responses of occupied peoples. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. Y Andrew D. Gordon Erez Manela fall term Department of History History History 2457 History of Capitalism: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This graduate research seminar will focus on the global history of capitalism since 1750. After an introduction to some of the central debates in the economic, social and political history of capitalism, students will be guided to write a major research paper. N Sven Beckert fall term Department of History History History 2461 The US in the 20th Century: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Research on topics in 20th-century US history. Permission of instructor. Y Lizabeth Cohen spring term Department of History History History 2462 Readings in the U.S. in the 20th Century: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in recent monographs as well as older historiography, covering a wide range of 20th-century topics. This proseminar is required of all History graduate students focusing on the United States. N Andrew Jewett fall term Department of History History History 2463 Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 Covers key literature on themes and developments shaping the national experience of African Americans from Redemption to the emerging multi-racial Republic. N Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham full year Department of History History History 2466 hf The Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores the intersection of knowledge production with political thought and practice, focusing on key institutional sites in higher education and government. How has the authority, and possibly the content, of knowledge been shaped by these contexts? Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as A-452. N Andrew Jewett Julie A. Reuben Andrew Jewett Julie A. Reuben full year Department of History History History 2470 hf Workshop in 20th-Century US History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course For dissertation writers only. Permission of the instructor. Y Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen full year Department of History History History 2480 hf The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A year-long research and reading course on the history of capitalism during the past 300 years. Offered jointly with the Law School as 98060A-1FS. N Sven Beckert Christine Desan Sven Beckert Christine Desan fall term Department of History History History 2494 Power and Protest: The 1960s Globally (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The 'sixties' witnessed political and cultural upheaval in many parts of the world. This course examines the dynamics of global youth rebellion. Attention is paid to the importance of transnational networks and ideas as well as to the distinctive forms protest took in specific regional contexts (including the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. N Lisa M. McGirr spring term Department of History History History 2495 Twentieth-Century Politics and Social Movements: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar culminating in the production of an article length essay based on primary research. Students will conduct research into significant topics at the intersection of the state and civil society in the twentieth-century United States. N Lisa M. McGirr fall term Department of History History History 2623 Readings in Modern Chinese History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate colloquium designed for students preparing for general examinations in modern Chinese history or interested in the historiography of modern China. N Henrietta Harrison fall term Department of History History History 2624 a Research Methods in Late Imperial Chinese History I: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Training in the use of a wide array of sources, methods, and reference tools for research in the history of late imperial China, focusing upon the reading and analysis of different types of Qing-era documents, official and unofficial. Students will write a research paper using documents provided in class. Reading knowledge of modern and literary Chinese required. Chinese 106b or equivalent in foundation literary Chinese. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Mark C. Elliott Michael Szonyi spring term Department of History History History 2624 b Research Methods in Late Imperial Chinese History II: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Continued training in sources and methods for research in the history of late imperial China. Students will use original sources to write a research paper on a topic of their choosing. History 2624a or consent of instructor. N Mark C. Elliott Michael Szonyi spring term Department of History History History 2651 Japanese History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Students write research papers on topics of their own choosing drawing on sources in Japanese, and other languages as appropriate. Reading knowledge of Japanese. Y Andrew D. Gordon Ian Jared Miller fall term Department of History History History 2653 Historiography of Modern Japan: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A critical introduction to the historiography of modern Japan, with emphasis on English-language scholarship. N Andrew D. Gordon fall term Department of History History History 2692 Colonial and Post-Colonial Histories of South Asia: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Analyzes trends and debates in historical research and writing on colonial and post-colonial South Asia. N Sugata Bose fall term Department of History History History 2708 Sources, Methodology, and Themes in African History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Seminar to equip graduate students with the necessary tools for archival research and fieldwork, as well as to introduce them to recent approaches in the historiography. A graduate field on Africa. N Emmanuel Akyeampong spring term Department of History History History 2709 Themes in Modern Sub-Saharan African History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 14 An in-depth study of the major themes in sub-Saharan African history from the mid-19th century to the present, including the scholarship and debates on the changing relationship between Africa and the West. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Caroline Elkins fall term Department of History History History 2805 Gender and Sexuality: Comparative Historical Studies of Islamic Middle East, North Africa, South, and East Asia: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Informed by theories of gender and sexuality, this seminar investigates how historically notions of desire, body, sex, masculinity, femininity, gender and sexual subjectivities have formed and reformed in Islamicate cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and South and East Asia. N Afsaneh Najmabadi spring term Department of History History History 2884 Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. Reading knowledge of Turkish. N Cemal Kafadar fall term Department of History History History 2885 Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of archival collections related to Ottoman history. Introduction to the archives of the central government, pious endowments, provincial administrations, and court records. Reading knowledge of Turkish. N Cemal Kafadar fall term Department of History History History 2886 Topics in Islamic History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. N Roy Parviz Mottahedeh fall term Department of History History History 2887 b Debates in the Political and Ideological History of the Middle East: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Major questions and debates in modern Arab political and ideological writings including Orientalism, Arab and local nationalism, religious revival, power and authority, and the difficulties of establishing democratic institutions. N Edward Roger Owen fall term Department of History History History 2906 International History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This course explores new approaches to the international history of the twentieth century. We probe problems of scope, theme, narrative strategy, research method, and sources, among others. N Erez Manela fall term Department of History History History 2921 Western Ascendancy: Historiography and Pedagogy: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 The purpose of this graduate seminar is to get Teaching Fellows and other graduates to engage with the historiographical and pedagogical challenges of the General Education course, Societies of the World 19: Western Ascendancy. Courses in Western Civilization are nowadays widely seen as outmoded and excessively Eurocentric. The aim of SW 19 is to address questions of global economic and political divergence in a fresh way, taking advantage of more recent literature on economic history, for example. Y Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson spring term Department of History History History 2951 The Environmental Turn in History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 A critical exploration of history's "environmental turn." This course tracks the movement of environmental themes to the center of the discipline and the emergence of environmental history as an important new subfield. Readings will range from classics to cutting-edge new work. N Ian Jared Miller spring term Department of History History History 2965 The Scope of History: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Explores the historical method by considering the wide array of "levels" of analysis or foci that historians adopt, from local and national to transnational, comparative and global; considers the relationship between scope and problematic. Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Y Mary D. Lewis fall term Department of History History History 2968 History and Economics: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines approaches to the history of economic thought and economic history by the exploration of particular topics, including the political economy of empire, information, and financial crisis. Y Emma Rothschild fall term Department of History History History 2970 Gender History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in a wide range of historical works using gender analysis to reconsider such phenomena as citizenship, revolution, imperialism, nationalism, family, sexuality. Comparative U.S. and Europe, with selected readings about other areas. N Nancy F. Cott fall term; repeated spring term Department of History History History 3000 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of History History History 3010 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Instructors listed above under History 3010 supervise individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. Limited to candidates for the PhD who are in residence, who have been for a year in residence, and who are in good standing in the Graduate School. May ordinarily be taken only in preparation for a field (or fields) to be examined on the General Examination. May not be counted toward the AM degree except by permission of the Department. Y fall term Department of History History History 3900 Writing History: Approaches and Practices Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Required of and limited to first-year doctoral students in History, HMES, and those students in EALC who choose the History specialization. First year graduate students only. Y Rachel St. John David R. Armitage full year Department of History History History 3920 hf Colloquium on Teaching Practices Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Required of and open only to all third-year history department graduate students. Y Peter E. Gordon Peter E. Gordon fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ae Border Crossings: Remaking European Identities Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar explores changing concepts of "Europe" from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to contemporary debates about the European Union. Our approach will be comparative, focusing on materials drawn from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. We will examine different kinds of "borders," both literal and figurative: the shifting political boundaries between European nations, as well as the social borders that have been crossed by women, Muslims, and Jews who have sought to become equal citizens within European nations. Our primary texts will include literary works (Pushkin, George Eliot, Gunter Grass), political and philosophical treatises (Voltaire, Rousseau, J.S. Mill), historical documents, and recent films about Muslim immigrants in Europe. Y Sarah R. Cole fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ag Storied Structures: The Material and Cultural Life of the New England Home, 1600-1900 Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What, where, and how is home? With a focus on New England, Storied Structures will consider how conceptions of home changed from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. How does one acquire or create a home? What makes a house a home? Through the study of extant house museums and literary texts student will ask: Is home a place or an idea? Is it a structure or a story? What's the difference? Y Sarah Anne Carter fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ah A Clash of Civilizations? France and Islam on Both Sides of the Sahara Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course will explore the apparent "clash" of France and Islam in north and west Africa in the 20th century. Working comparatively across a range of literary, historical, legal, and other texts, films, and media, we will assess how the interaction between identifiably French and Muslim peoples on both sides of the Sahara might inform contemporary attempts to conceptualize, preserve, assimilate, harmonize, or vanquish distinct "civilizations." All materials in translation; no knowledge of Islam required. Y Hassanaly Ladha fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ai The American Civil War Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar investigates developments on the battlefield and the home front during the American Civil War. We will discuss the military and political dimensions of the war and also focus on the writing and photography of individuals who lived through and documented the conflict: Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, and Alexander Gardner. We will also consider various constructions of Civil War memory in mass media, including the national Sesquicentennial celebrations beginning in 2011. Y Megan Kate Nelson fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ak The Vietnam War in American Culture Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Considering a range of texts by and about soldiers and veterans, policy makers and protesters, reporters and refugees, the course explores Americans' contested and changing understandings of the experiences and meanings of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Texts include popular films, documentaries, journalism, fiction, letters, diaries, government documents, and war memorials. Y Jeanne A Follansbee Steven Biel fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 al Borderlands and Banana Republics: The Political Cultures of U.S. Empire, 1848-Present Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the political cultures of the U.S. by exploring the transnational spaces at its borders, and especially its southern borderlands and the "banana republics" of the Caribbean Basin. We consider the U.S. businesses, government agencies, activists, and everyday citizens who inhabited these imperial frontiers, and we will probe how ideas of race, class, nation, and gender undergirded their economies and cultures, especially in moments of structural change and political crisis. Y Eric D. Larson fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 am The Legacy of War in Modern Europe: Forgetting and Remembering after 1945 Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar addresses the history of European culture in the aftermath of the Second World War, studying how German, French and British societies adjusted to recovery from the war and its atrocities. In particular, the course explores how questions of guilt and responsibility emerged in each country, and how literature and film contributed to greater social awareness of the more shameful aspects of each country's history, unsettling and re-making popular national mythologies. Y Juliet Clare Wagner fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 an God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This seminar will explore female rulership in Europe from the late Roman empire to the age of Elizabeth I. Discussion of varied texts and images (most of them primary sources in translation) will reveal the role of queens within their societies, their relationship to broader social and cultural institutions such as the Christian Church, and the ways in which queens were celebrated, criticized, and imagined by writers and artists of their time. Y Sean J. Gilsdorf fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 ao Immigrant Narratives: Tracing the Histories and Literatures of Immigration in the United States and Postcolonial Contexts Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Explores immigration from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on immigration to the United States and the effects of postcolonial conditions on global migration patterns. Draws on theories of migration at work in history, sociology, anthropology and public policy in tandem with narrative theory and sources from literature and the visual arts. Topics include multiculturalism, multilingualism, border crossings, oral history, gender, labor, religious conflict, and host and immigrant community encounters. Y Teresa Villa-Ignacio fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 l Stories of Slavery and Freedom Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 In the last generation, scholars have revolutionized our understanding of slavery and freedom in the modern Atlantic world. This sea-change has been the result of a major methodological shift: to view this history through the eyes of slaves rather than the eyes of masters. This course will examine the history of the "black Atlantic" through a diverse range of cultural texts--poetry, pamphlets, court cases, petitions, autobiographies, novels, speeches, and sermons--produced by slaves, free blacks, and abolitionists from the Age of Revolution to emancipation. Y Timothy Patrick McCarthy fall term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 90 s Cloak and Swagger: Fashioning the Body in Early Modern Europe and the New World Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Using visual, historical, and literary sources, this course explores how clothing functioned in the construction of social status, gender, and race in early modern Europe and the New World. It will examine Judeo-Christian beliefs about clothing; how the elite manipulated clothing to increase their power and prestige; the importance of textiles, dyestuffs, and fur in New World exploration and trade; and how the cloth industry became a crucial site of revolt during eighteenth-century Independence movements. Y Nenita Ponce de Leon Elphick fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course History and Literature concentrators may arrange individually supervised reading and research courses; the permission of the Director of Studies is required for these courses. Y Jeanne A Follansbee Jeanne A Follansbee spring term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to interdisciplinary methods and to topics in students' chosen fields. Required of all concentrators. Open only to concentrators. Y Jeanne A Follansbee fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An individually supervised study of selected topics in the student's chosen field in History and Literature. Ordinarily taken as two half courses by juniors. Required of all concentrators. Y Jeanne A Follansbee Jeanne A Follansbee full year Committee on Degrees in History and Literature History and Literature History and Literature 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Research and writing of the senior thesis; preparation for the oral exam. Ordinarily taken by seniors as a full course. Required of all concentrators. Y Jeanne A Follansbee Jeanne A Follansbee fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization History of American Civilization American Civilization 200 Major Works in the History of American Civilization Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the field, with an emphasis on the range of interdisciplinary methods in the humanities, history, and social sciences. Required of first and second-year graduate students in American Civilization and open to others by permission of the instructor. Y Jennifer L. Roberts fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization History of American Civilization American Civilization 201 Themes in the History of American Civilization Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Interdisciplinary study of one or several topics. For fall 2011: utopias and dystopias. Required of first and second-year graduate students in American Civilization and open to others by permission of the instructor. Y John Stauffer Daniel P McKanan fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization History of American Civilization American Civilization 398 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization History of American Civilization American Civilization 399 Direction of Doctoral Dissertation Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 1 Landmarks of World Art & Architecture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines major works of world art and architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Members of the faculty will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, covering various media and drawing from such diverse cultures as modern Europe and United States, early modern Japan, Renaissance Europe, ancient Mesopotamia and China, and Precolumbian America. Sections will focus on significant issues in the analysis and interpretation of art and architecture. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Neil Levine fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 10 The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Concentrating on painting but with reference to other media, we examine art between the beginning of Modern Times around 1400 until the present. It is team taught and organized around specific topics each occupying one week. It is organized chronologically but does not attempt to be a comprehensive survey, but rather to highlight important issues, debates, innovations, specific works or artists. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Henri Zerner spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 11 Landmarks of World Architecture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines major works of world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, drawing from various periods and such diverse cultures as modern and contemporary Europe and America, early modern Japan, Mughal India, Renaissance and medieval Europe, and ancient Rome. Sections will develop thematically and focus on significant issues in the analysis and interpretation of architecture. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meet the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirements for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 13 x Introduction to Greek and Roman Sculpture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Greek sculpture has shaped the way we look at art. The course will introduce you to the central works of Greek and Roman sculpture (800 BC - 300 AD), both free-standing and architectural, and discuss different ways of analysis and interpretation. Key themes of the lectures are the 'invention' of the human body, portrait and individualism, presenting the divine, Greek and non-Greek, emotions, art and beholder, lifelikeness, but also questions of color and materiality. N Ruth Bielfeldt fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 18 p The Japanese Woodblock Print Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course provides an introduction to Japanese art and cultural history through a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid 17th century to the modern era. Technical developments, major genres, and master designers are explored within the context of Japan's pictorial traditions and evolving urban culture. Topics for consideration include aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, the construction of social identity, print culture, and the representation of war. N Yukio Lippit spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 51 p Renaissance Architecture and the Rise of Classicism Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Charts the rise and dissemination of classicism in Renaissance Europe. Lectures focus on the development of the style, its origin in the fascination with antiquity, its response to shifts in social and political life, its mechanisms of transmission (travel, book and print culture) as well as phenomena of exchange (with the East), colonial export, and resistance to this pan-European trend. N Alina A Payne fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 70 Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1700-1990s Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What is modernity, and what is the place of visual representation within modern culture? What conceptions of individuality, originality, and desire are at work in the idea of "the artist" in the modern period? Traversing different styles&#8212;Rococo, Neo-classicism, Impressionism, Abstraction&#8212;we discuss a range of modern media, from painting, sculpture, prints, and photography to video, installation, and performance art. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Ewa Lajer-Burcharth fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 91 r Directed Study in History of Art and Architecture Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Head Tutor for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Y Joseph Koerner Joseph Koerner fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 97 r Sophomore Tutorial Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of concentrators. Y Joseph Koerner Joseph Koerner fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 98 ar Advanced Tutorial Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of concentrators. Y Joseph Koerner Joseph Koerner fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 98 br Advanced Tutorial Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of concentrators. Y Joseph Koerner Joseph Koerner full year Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Intended for honors candidates in History of Art and Architecture. Permission of the Head Tutor required. Y Yukio Lippit Yukio Lippit spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 100 r Sophomore Excursion Course Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 17 This course introduces sophomore concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year: Rome, an architectural history. Excursion is optional; not a requirement. Y Joseph Connors Ioli Kalavrezou spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 101 The Making of Art and Artifacts: History, Material and Technique Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course will focus on issues related to the making of works of art, and to their physical alteration over time. Through lectures and readings; close observation of a broad range of works in the Harvard Art Museums; and experimentation with materials and techniques, we will consider artists' material choices, resources, constraints and innovations, as well as problems of description, dating, authenticity, aging, and conservation. Except for the introductory session, this course will be held at the Harvard Art Museums' Strauss Center for Conservation interim site in Somerville. Y Thomas B.F. Cummins spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 120 n Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Critical examination of the arts of the book, portable arts, and architecture sponsored by the Timurids (1370-1507), a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given to primary written sources in translation. N David J. Roxburgh fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 124 e Architecture of the Early Modern Islamic Empires : Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Between the 16th and 18th centuries, three great empires ruled the Islamic lands from the Balkans to Bengal. The Mediterranean-based Ottomans, Safavids in Iran, and Mughals in India, developed visual cultures with distinctive architectural and ornamental idioms, originating from a shared Timurid heritage. The cities, monuments, and modes of ornament created in each empire are studied from aesthetic and contextual perspectives, with respect to religious orientations, imperial ideologies, and theories of dynastic legitimacy. N Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 131 g Pergamon: A Hellenistic Royal Residence and its Roman Afterlife Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The marvelously preserved city of Pergamon is still the best example to study monarchic town planning in the Hellenistic world. The exertion of monarchic power on the urban texture of the newborn capital of the Pergamene kingdom: this explicitly political perspective will help us understand the extant archaeological remains, the urban layout, the hierarchically organized public space, the sanctuaries with their famous war memorials as well as the spaces of private life. N Ruth Bielfeldt spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 132 e The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Greek painted pottery provides a direct window onto ancient Greek society and how this society visually constructed its ideal self. Working with objects from the Harvard Art Museums, this course will look at Greek vases as material and aesthetic agents in social rituals, giving special attention to object use and strategies of design in the figure decoration. Images of banqueting, athletic and poetic performances, cult practice, domestic activities, war and death will be discussed. N Ruth Bielfeldt Susanne Ebbinghaus spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 137 p The Roman Dinner Party: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The banquet is the key event of Roman elite society. It involved not only luxurious and well staged food and wine, but proper behavior, a decent setting, luxury furniture, entertainment and enchantment. The seminar discusses visual, archaeological and literary evidence to explore the sensual culture of the Roman dinner party - oscillating between strict social rules, intellectual table talks, the theatrical orchestration of high cuisine, revelry, eroticism and bodily excess. N Ruth Bielfeldt fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 139 x Art and Life in Pompeii - Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Pompeii is more than the victim city of 79 A.D. The Seminar course focuses on the different cultural stages of Hellenistic and Roman Pompeii (600 BC-79 AD). We will study the most important spaces of public and domestic life- the Forum, the main sanctuaries, the necropoleis, the town houses - in a diachronic perspective and interpret them as indicators of changing cultural, political and social affiliation. N Ruth Bielfeldt fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 140 s Roman and Byzantine Silver Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course "The house is smiling with silver" - the course will follow Horace's dictum and concentrate on intricately decorated silver objects, artworks praised by Romans and Byzantines alike for their material splendor, artistic design and social value. Of special focus will be their use in the household, the banquet, the church, as well as their political function as objects of imperial propaganda. N Ioli Kalavrezou Ruth Bielfeldt fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 141 k Rome, Constantinople, Ravenna in the Light of Imperial Rule : Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 The seminar will focus on the imperial art and architecture in these cities and their impact, covering the period from Constantine I to Justinian I (4th - 6th c.). N Ioli Kalavrezou spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 143 r The Art of the Court of Constantinople : Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Concentrates on art and architecture created for the court of Constantinople from the 9th to the 12th century. Focuses on objects and monuments, exploring their role in political, religious, and personal events. N Ioli Kalavrezou spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 152 m Leonardo da Vinci Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on the main topics and development in Leonardo's art, science, and technology, contextualizing him in the artistic, cultural and political setting of Renaissance Italy around 1500, and including the history of interpretations from Vasari to Dan Brown. The interdependence of art and science, but also the internal tensions of this relationship, make Leonardo's work particularly relevant for the "iconic turn" in contemporary culture. N Frank Fehrenbach spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 152 Italian Renaissance Art Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on major concepts, works, and the contexts of Italian painting and sculpture between roughly 1300 and 1600. The course provides a framework of main artistic developments on the peninsula, and concentrates on key notions like classicism, art and science, style, competition of the arts, uniqueness and reproduction, portraiture, and mannerism. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Frank Fehrenbach spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 154 g Dutch Art of the Golden Age Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar will focus on the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals and many other Dutch masters who were active in the seventeenth century. Painting flourished like never before in the Dutch Republic, where a largely secular, mostly bourgeois, predominantly modern, new art emerged in cities like Amsterdam, Haarlem and Delft. We will study the most important artists and paintings. Course work includes frequent use of the collections at Harvard and in the Boston area. N Hugo Van der Velden fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 159 Image and Text in 16th Century France Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Will examine the relation between visual and textual expression during the Renaissance in France, with emphasis on emblem books, and their impact on other genres. N Henri Zerner Tom Conley spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 161 v Rome: An Architectural History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An architectural history of Rome from the empire through the early Christian and medieval city, the Renaissance revival of antiquity, Baroque planning, and early archeology to Fascism and modernism, including the imperial fora, aqueducts, fountains, medieval basilicas, the piazza, villas, gardens, St. Peter's and the Vatican complex. N Joseph Connors fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 163 p Piranesi Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Piranesi as architect, archeologist, and above all, printmaker of genius, from his Venetian origins through the vedute and the 'Prisons' to the reconstruction of ancient Rome, with forays into early Egyptology, the Graeco-Roman controversy, Piranesi's built and projected architecture, and his influence on Robert Adam and John Soane. First-hand examination of original prints and maps in Harvard Collections and an introduction to the technique of etching. N Joseph Connors fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 166 n Bernini and Borromini: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 The great creators and creations of 17th century Rome in sculpture, architecture, fountains, theater, gardens, urban planning, and ephemeral art. N Joseph Connors fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 170 r Topics in 19th c. Art : Ingres and Delacroix : Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Course topics will engage with the painting legacies of Ingres and Delacroix. Open to qualified undergraduates and graduates. N Henri Zerner spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 170 s Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb :Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This course examines the relatively unstudied area of Wright's designs for the modern metropolis as a lens through which to understand the history of twentieth-century city planning and urban design as a whole. Subjects will range from the creation of the modern suburb, to the problem for designing for the automobile, to new concepts for revitalizing the downtown. Issues of theory, context (both physical and cultural), politics, criticism, and historical relevance will all be addressed. N Neil Levine spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 170 v Vienna, City of Dreams Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 At around 1900, the city of Vienna experienced a cultural flowering. Studying achievements in art, design, architecture, and urban planning, as well as in literature, psychoanalysis, music, and philosophy, this course explores Vienna, an uncanny space where many of the dreams - and nightmares - of modernity first were dreamt. Individuals studied include Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Kubin, Loos, Wagner, Sitte, Schnitzler, Musil, Kafka, Freud, Hertzl, Schoenberg, and Wittgenstein. N Joseph Koerner fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 170 w Before the Crash: The City in the 1920's : Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Examines the architecture and urbanism of the United States and Europe during the Roaring Twenties, or "crazy years," between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression, when the modern city came under pressures for development unlike any before. Subjects to be investigated include the dominance and often extravagance of the skyscraper, impact of the automobile, problem of congestion, concept of regionalism, and growth of the suburb and sprawl. Y Neil Levine fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 171 x Exoticism & Orientalism Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Explores cultural and artistic engagement with the trope of the "other" in 18th and 19th century France. Different interpretive paradigms will be considered. Distinction between pre- and post-Napoleonic modes of curiosity emphasized. Artists will include: Watteau, Boucher, Liotard, Van Loo, Delacroix, Chasseriau, Gerome, Renoir. Y Ewa Lajer-Burcharth spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 172 k Photography and Labor in the 19th Century Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 A consideration of the relationship between photography and labor from the Daguerreotype and Calotype to the first Kodak cameras. We will discuss issues of skill, art, social class, gender, industrialization, magic, and representation. Y Robin Kelsey fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 172 w American Art and Modernity, 1865-1965 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to developments in American art between the Civil War and the Cold War. Thematically focused lectures concentrate on such issues as the shifting status of the art object within an environment of proliferating consumer products, the incorporation of scientific and industrial processes into artistic practice, the continually renegotiated relationship between nationalism and abstraction, and new methods of understanding history and subjectivity in the face of urbanization, mechanized reproduction, and the mass media. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Jennifer L. Roberts fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 173 m The Early Modern Artist Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Explores the emergence of artistic individuality in French 18th-century art and culture. What was modern about the 18th-century artist? What were the criteria of artistic self-definition? Among the issues addressed: the cultural myth of the artist; artist vs. critic; artistic identity and the philosophical notions of the self; subjectivity, sexuality, and gender; the artist's touch; authorship; melancholia; eccentricity; the artist's body; fashion. Artists include: Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, Vigee-Lebrun, David, Girodet. Museum trip(s). Y Ewa Lajer-Burcharth fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 173 v Locality and Identity in Australian Art, 1945-2011 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines Australian art after World War II, exploring the nexus between place and identity. Key themes include the beach, suburbs and Outback. Debates on the character of Australian art are traced through contrasting concepts: provincial and metropolitan culture, autonomy and subjection, originality and repetition, homogeneity and diversity. Australian experience is explored through Aboriginal art and the figures of the migrant, the expatriate and the cosmopolitan artist. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Chris McAuliffe spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 174 g European Modernism, 1895-1945 Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This survey examines the dynamic relationship between European modernism and various fundamental processes and phenomena of modernization, such as the advent of mass culture and spectacle, the rise of utopian thinking and radical politics, and the widespread interrogation (among artists) of the nature of signification (how form produces meaning). Movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, de Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Productivism, Bauhaus, New Objectivity, and Surrealism. Media: painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, photography, and prints. N Maria Elizabeth Gough fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 174 s Body Image in French Visual Culture: 18th and 19th Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Functions and meanings of the body as privileged visual signifier in French visual arts (painting, sculpture, printed imagery, photography). Body image seen as both instrument of different discourses of modernity and a site of resistance to them. Among the issues addressed: the king's body, republican corporeality; the problem of the nude, bodily spectacles; race; otherness; androgyny; monstrosity; pornography; representations of hysteria; images of desire; fetishism; body and/in space; body and the self. N Ewa Lajer-Burcharth spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 175 k American and European Art, 1945-1975 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will examine artistic production in the US and Europe between 1945 and 1975 to clarify some of the most crucial questions of this thirty year period: How did post war visual culture repress or acknowledge the recent 'caesura of civilization' brought about by World War II?; how did the neo-avantgarde position itself with regard to the legacies of the avantgardes of the 1920s?; how did artistic production situate itself in relation to the newly emerging apparatus of Mass Media culture? N Benjamin Buchloh spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 175 w Pop Art Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 The emergence of Pop art in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on its challenges to prevailing standards of painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as its multifaceted engagements with postwar spectacles of information and advertising. N Jennifer L. Roberts fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 175 y Visual Culture of Weimar Germany (1919-1937) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An account of the complex practices defining the avantgarde culture of Weimar Germany from the end of the empire to the beginning of fascism. Ranging from expressionism to Dadaism, from the Bauhaus to New Objectivity, particular emphasis will be given to the transition from painting to collage and photomontage, and to the new photographic culture in response to a rising mass media culture. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Benjamin Buchloh spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 176 m Berlin & Moscow, 1918/1933 : Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 A comparative examination of the two greatest cultural experiments of the early 20th century - Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union - and the extraordinary dialogue that took place between them. Major topoi include the proliferation and intersection of various dadas, constructivisms, and realisms; the concepts of estrangement and alienation; the rise of photomontage, photo-illustrated magazines, monumental photography, and new media technologies; theories of technological reproducibility and distribution; and the perennial question of the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Y Benjamin Buchloh Maria Elizabeth Gough spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 178 m Cold War Photography Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course will consider the intersection of photography and social history in the United States from 1945-1989 through an examination of key photographic practices, publications, exhibitions, and critical texts. N Robin Kelsey spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 179 z Sound & Vision: Art and Popular Music, 1960 - Present Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Explores the interaction of art and rock 'n' roll, primarily in Australian and American art. Examines a cross-cultural dialogue incorporating modernist mythology (the bohemian), avant-garde practice (performance, the Cageian tradition) and new forms of spectatorship (the fan). N Chris McAuliffe fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 181 z Chinese Art of the Ineffable Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Tumultuous historical changes elicit strong responses, often producing the state of the ineffable. Explores the ways in which ink-and-brush painting sublimates historical experiences in articulating the ineffable through orchestration of its formal properties. Y Eugene Yuejin Wang fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 186 p Post-Medium Art in Post-Socialist China Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 The course examines contemporary Chinese art in the throes of the post-medium condition since the 1980's. The eclipse of the Maoist utopian ideology and the rise of market economy in the age of globalization parallels the erosion of traditional medium purity (painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, etc.). Reorientation and repurposing visual mediums and the trans-media experimentations have created new platforms for staging contemporary Chinese experience and thinking outside the boxes, old and new. N Eugene Yuejin Wang fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 193 g Global Africa: Introduction to Art and Visual Culture Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 An introduction to key traditions of African art and design as seen both on the continent and in global perspective. In this survey of African sculpture, painting, ceramics, architecture, furniture, fashion, decorative arts, popular and performance arts, we also explore issues of identity, religion, politics and history as well as questions of colonial history, art collecting practices, and museum display. N Suzanne Blier fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 194 w Worlds Fairs Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar addresses questions of cultural display through the art and architecture of world fairs, mid-nineteenth century to present. Students are introduced to the seminal fair events beginning with the Crystal Palace in London, and extending to fairs in the U.S., France, Belgium, Spain, Japan and China. the history of fairs as artistic and social phenomenon is explored along with how these events shaped national identity, ethnicity, social class, race, imperialism, colonialism, and gender. N Suzanne Blier fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 197 gr Colonial Art Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Art and Architecture of the 16th/17th c. in the Spanish New World. The making, the mapping, and imaging of the colonial city. N Thomas B.F. Cummins fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 197 The Imperial Arts of the Inca and the Aztec Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course concentrates on the art and architecture of the two ancient American civilizations, surveying the forms of representation used to establish imperial presence within the accepted vernacular of Mesoamerican and Andean artistic traditions. Special attention is given to the role of art as a means of expressing imperial claims to mythic and historic precedents, upon which political and economic expansion could be realized. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B or Foreign Cultures, but not both. N Thomas B.F. Cummins spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 199 k The Study of Architectural History : Critical Issues and Methodologies : Seminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This course focuses on issues of method and ideology in the history, criticism, and theory of architecture through close readings of selected texts representing different periods and approaches to the subject. These include foundational works of the discipline as well as recent publications. Considering the various environmental, tectonic, spatial, interpretive, and professional dimensions of architecture, topics will range from theories of site, function, and meaning to means of representation, the client-architect relationship, and concepts of restoration. N Neil Levine Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 206 Science and the Practice of Art History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The course equips students with critical and informed approaches to the range, applications and ambiguities of instruments employed in the scientific, diagnostic investigation of artworks through lectures, discussions, and close examination of works from the Harvard Art Museums' collections Y Narayan Khandekar spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 222 m Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology, architectural practice, ornament, urban design, military, religious and domestic architecture. N Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 226 s Ottoman Architectural Culture and Urbanism in the Age of Sinan : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Architectural production during the tenure of Ottoman chief court architect Sinan (1539-88) studied from critical and new methodological perspectives. Topics include aesthetics and identity, institutionalization of court architects, building practice, patronage, codes of decorum, textual sources. N Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 229 p Word and Image in Persian Painting : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of inquiry. Y David J. Roxburgh spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 235 g The Roman House as Enlivened Space Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Seminar addresses the culture of enlivenment in the late Republican/Early Imperial Campanian House, manifest in the figural and floral decoration of furniture and household objects, in statuary, and illusionistic wall paintings of garden landscapes and animate architecture. N Ruth Bielfeldt fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 239 x Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 In Imperial Rome Greek Myths enter a new sphere: tombs. But the mythological narratives decorating the monumental relief sarcophagi are more than a simple traditionalist repeating of old stories: their visual language becomes a medium for expressing core experiences in life and death. Examines Roman sarcophagus imagery and interpret it in a contextual perspective, focusing on specific funerary contexts as well as the broader understanding of how death was conceptualized in Roman culture. Open to qualified undergraduates and graduates. N Ruth Bielfeldt spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 240 r Topics in Byzantine Art : Family and Daily Life in the Byzantine World Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 A focus on domestic life and environment in everyday Byzantine society. Examining private and public life from childhood to adult age, through artifacts from the household, and education, work and social contexts. Y Ioli Kalavrezou fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 241 n Image-Text-Context Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Topics in text and image in medieval manuscript illumination and the history of reading in Latin and vernaculars, making use of local collections (Houghton and Boston Public Library). Y Jeffrey F. Hamburger fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 242 Issues of Interpretation in Medieval Art : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 A wide-ranging introduction to critical approaches to the study of medieval art, with emphasis on systems of signification, mixing historiography and methodology in a workshop format in which students help set the agenda. Y Jeffrey F. Hamburger spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 245 x Jan van Eyck's Renaissance : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Themes include: historical styles, archaism, innovation, epigraphy, the Ghent altarpiece, the rise of painting, function, ritual, context, endowments, saints, land, landscape, court, competition, art theory, painter's practice, paragone, polyphony, reflection, gold, embroidery, splendor, and Art. N Hugo Van der Velden fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 249 n The Travel Narrative and Art History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Travel narratives of the medieval through early modern periods recorded by pilgrims, artists, ambassadors, among others, are examined for what they offer to art historical inquiry. Critical texts from Europe and Asia are studied. N Hugo Van der Velden David J. Roxburgh fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 251 v Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Drawing its focus from the eponymous exhibition at the Sackler Museum, this course investigates how print-makers contributed to, and expanded, knowledge in the culture. Special attention will be paid to the contributions of Albrecht Durer. N Joseph Koerner fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 253 s Art Theories of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Between 1430 and 1600, Italian art theorists provided the framework of the Western discourse on art. Each week, we will discuss one major treatise; readings will be based on the Italian texts. N Frank Fehrenbach spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 254 n The Art of Death: Italian Renaissance Tombs Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 We will focus on artistic development between Tino di Camaino and Michelangelo, the culture of memoria, images of the body, liturgy, typology, relationship to space and beholder, materials. Advanced undergraduates welcome. N Frank Fehrenbach spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 254 p The Invention of Portraiture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Major moments of an enigmatic genre, from 13th century tomb sculpture to late 16th century experiments, with a focus on Italian Renaissance portraiture. Key concepts include similitude versus animation, gender, materiality, agency. Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Y Frank Fehrenbach fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 255 Giorgio Vasari: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Examines Giorgio Vasari's oeuvre as critic, historian, artist and architect as it illuminates conceptions of style, progress, aesthetic quality, artistic personality and exchanges between the arts in Renaissance Italy. N Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 256 v Rembrandt Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Where to begin? Rembrandt's paintings, prints and drawings, primarily, but anything else that can help to find an angle on this tremendously and overwhelmingly complex artist will be given a fair chance. N Hugo Van der Velden fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 263 m Moving Statues, Breathing Images - Enlivening and animation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Enlivening was arguably the most famous topos in Early Modern art. We inquire of its implications in form, art theory, and history of science. Key terms include: movement, color, composition, opacity, gaze; Genesis, Pygmalion, Medusa, Narcissus. N Frank Fehrenbach spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 271 p Reading, Drawing, Printing Architecture : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The architectural book and its readers, authors, circulation and manufacture in the early modern period. N Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 271 v Marcel Duchamp: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The seminar explores Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre and the recent literature by art historians and philosophers on the subject, as well as the various phases of the Duchamp reception in the practices of major artists in Europe and the United States since the 1950's. N Benjamin Buchloh spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 271 x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Issues include: art and the public sphere; the birth of the critic; high & low; interiors and interiority; intimacy; artistic identity; sexuality, sexual difference, and gender; the discourse of race. Emphasis on new research and methodologies. Y Ewa Lajer-Burcharth spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 271 y Architecture and Literature : Writers and Architects Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Examines exchanges between literature and architecture in terms of content (subject matter, social critique, historical awareness), and form (narrative structures, vocabulary, tropes) from Vasari through Goethe to Borges, and from Alberti through Labrouste to Archigram. N Neil Levine Alina A Payne spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 272 e Painting and Its Discontents: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Explores painting as the privileged medium and institution of artistic modernity (from the late 17th c to the present). Issues: Color; Liveliness; Truth; Autonomy; Subjectivity; Touch; Blindness; the Ready-Made; the Post-Medium Condition. N Ewa Lajer-Burcharth spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 272 w Post WW II European Art: France, Italy, Germany Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Addresses the work of key figures of post-war European art, under the perspective of different, yet complementary conflicts: avantgarde and neo-avantgarde, artistic practices and spectacle culture, aesthetics of repression, trauma and commemoration. Y Benjamin Buchloh fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 272 z Post WW II European Art (Part II) : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This term: Great Britain, Scandinavia , Austria, and the Benelux countries. Addresses the artistic responses to the legacies of Surrealism, to American mass culture, and to the impact of Fascist domination. Y Benjamin Buchloh fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 273 v William Blake and His Times Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 The course will deal with William Blake primarily as an artist rather than a poet, and students will work directly with the Harvard Art Museum's and Boston MFA's great collections of original watercolours and prints. Y David Bindman fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 274 k Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 N Maria Elizabeth Gough spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 275 w The Thing Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 14 Investigates the conundrum of "thingness" in art history, introducing theoretical frameworks for interpreting everything from teapots to minimal sculpture. Interrogates forms of exchange - economic, libidinal, aesthetic, historical- that objects invite (or refuse). Y Jennifer L. Roberts spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 275 z Meyer Schapiro: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Meyer Schapiro's contributions go from early Christian art to the 20th century. This towering figure of art history explored a wide range of methodological issues. We will explore his intellectual journey and his relevance today. N Henri Zerner spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 277 k The Contemporary Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 14 Graduate seminar exploring the intersection of the field of art history with the globalized art world. What is "contemporary art" - in theory, in practice, and in history? Y Carrie Lambert-Beatty spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 277 s Circa 1970 Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Investigation of US artistic production and discourse from the early 1970s, with emphasis on the rubric of the "politicization of the avant-garde" and the periodization of the 60s and 70s. Comparative looks at Europe and Latin America. Y Carrie Lambert-Beatty fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 277 z 1960's Technical Reproductions: Prints, Photos, Books Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The 1960s saw a revival of printmaking among avant-garde artists; photographic images invaded painting itself (Hamilton, Warhol, Richter); 'reproductive' media assumed a central role in the production of art. Will examine the significance of these phenomena. N Henri Zerner Benjamin Buchloh spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 280 j Concepts in Japanese Architecture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This seminar explores new ways of conceptualizing Japanese architectural history, which is affiliated with the engineering sciences in Japan, as a subject in the humanities. Y Yukio Lippit spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 282 v Mortuary Arts of the Northern Zhou China Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 We will analyze tombs and their contents in light of interpretive theory, including mortuary, ritual, and identity construction in frontier areas. N Mandy Jui-Man Wu fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 283 m Four Topics in Chinese Art History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Seminar covers four topics in Chinese art history: early cosmography, Song Buddhist art, paintings during the Ming-Qing transition, and early-Republican art design. Presentations by participants in their own areas will anchor the discussion. N Eugene Yuejin Wang fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 286 s Japanese Sculptural Icon: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This seminar examines major works of Japanese sculpture in light of recent research on materiality, sculptural process, interred objects, ritual, architectural meaning, conservation, interregionalism, kami worship, the Buddhist sculptor, and comparative theories of the icon. N Yukio Lippit fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 288 s Ito Jakuchu and Japanese Nature Painting : Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This seminar explores the conditions of artistic production in early modern Japan through the life and remarkable bird-and-flower paintings of the Kyoto artist, Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). N Yukio Lippit spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 291 r Topics in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Topics to be determined in consideration of interests of students. Y Thomas B.F. Cummins fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 294 v Illustrated Peruvian Chronicles, 16th/17th Centuries: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 This course will examine the illustrated manuscripts of two contemporary, (16th/17th c. Indian and Spanish), authors in light of Andean indigenous cultural tradition, and the historiographic and artistic trends of the colonial period. N Juan Ossio fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings. Y fall term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 310 a Methods and Theory of Art History Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course 14 Limited to incoming graduate students. Y Robin Kelsey spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 310 b Works of Art: Materials, Forms, Histories Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course 14 A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture. Y Robin Kelsey fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture History of Art and Architecture 399 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Programs of directed reading and research to be conducted by a person approved by the Department. Y Anne Harrington Anne Harrington spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Sophomore tutorial is a hands-on course that introduces students to some of the most exciting and productive questions in the history of science, technology and medicine, while developing critical reading, presentation and discussion skills. Small groups of students will tackle different aspects of a larger theme each week and share discoveries in sessions led by the faculty instructor. The course will be further enhanced by a series of supervised individual projects. Required for undergraduate concentration in History and Science. Y Anne Harrington fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 98 Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This one-semester junior tutorial is a research-oriented tutorial taken in small groups. Focuses on enhancing research and writing skills through the completion of a directed research paper on subject matter of the student's interest. Usually taken during the fall semester. Y Maya Karin Peterson Maya Karin Peterson full year Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Faculty-led seminar and intensive work with an individual advisor, directed towards production of the senior honors thesis. Ordinarily taken by seniors as a full course. May be taken as a half course only if special permission is obtained. Students are expected to complete a thesis or submit a research paper or other approved project in order to receive course credit. Y Christopher James Phillips Christopher James Phillips fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 100 Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this class, we are concerned with the history of science from 1500 to the present, a period commonly thought of as being "modern," not only in matters of science but also in political, cultural, social, and economic matters. We ask what modern science is, how it came to be that way, and what relationships it has had with other parts of society. We discuss advancements as well as conflicts emerging from these relationships and ask how they have changed over time. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 101 Knowledge on the Move: Cultures of Science in the Medieval World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the development of scientific ideas and practices in the medieval Middle East and Western Europe, focusing on the circulation of texts, people, and objects. Special attention to religious, intellectual, social, and institutional contexts. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3340. N Katharine Park Ahmed Ragab fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 106 History of Ancient Science Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of key aspects and issues in the development of ancient science, focusing on natural philosophy from the Presocratics to Aristotle as well as its relation to early Greek medicine and mathematics. Some consideration will also be given to the historiography of natural philosophy within this period. N Mark Schiefsky fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 108 Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will examine the ways in which medical, religious, cultural, and political discourses and practices interacted in the medieval and early modern Middle East to create and reflect multiple understandings of human bodies and sexualities. Special attention to debates on health, sexuality, and gender and racial identities. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3587. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Ahmed Ragab fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 111 Two Scientific Revolutions: From the Classical Age of Islamic Sciences to the Scientific World of Early Modern Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the emergence and consolidation in the Islamic Middle East of a new science and philosophy constructed in part out of Persian and Greek materials; the consolidation and development of this science in an Islamic context; and its connections with novel developments in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century European science. Attention to cultural context, including imperial projects, societal transformation, and religious worldviews. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Ahmed Ragab spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 112 Health, Medicine and Healing in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of medical theory, organization, and practice in the broader context of healing, including magical and religious healing. Topics include the construction of medical authority and expertise, the play of sex and gender among healers and patients, the rise of hospitals, and responses to "new" diseases such as syphilis and plague. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Katharine Park fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 113 Crusades, Plagues and Hospitals: Medicine and Society in the Islamic Middle Ages Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys the recasting of Islamic medical practices, traditions, and institutions in response to the many health challenges of the turbulent Middle Ages, from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, including wars, invasions, and epidemics. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Ahmed Ragab fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 117 Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Consideration of how science and natural philosophy found itself both opposed to and used by Christian, Judaic, and Islamic religious traditions and, as a crucial test case, how these traditions handled the divide between creation and the eternal world. N Janet Browne spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 123 The Clockwork Universe Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course During the tumultuous period of the French Revolution scientists ironically found the universe to be stable and constant. But this stability soon gave way to an uncertain future. New theories predicted its end, its uncontrollable expansion, and even the need for God to keep it going. How have we thought about the Universe and its inhabitants (from Laplace to Einstein and from astronomy to physics) through classic scientific texts. N Jimena Canales spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 124 What is Really Real? From Subjective Experience to Experimental Subjectivity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course When philosopher Edmund Husserl insisted in 1936, "The original ark, earth, does not move," he did not mean to deny the legitimacy of the Copernican revolution. Rather, he emphasized that scientific truth may seem deeply contradictory to everyday experience. This course traces the history of this problem from its roots in the early modern "Scientific Revolution" into 20th-century psychophysics and philosophy to ask what counted as "really real," for whom, and why. N Daniela Katharina Helbig fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 126 The Matter of Fact: Physics in the Modern Age Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 What is a scientific fact? What is a physical law? How are scientific facts and laws discovered, established, and, sometimes, overturned? These questions will be addressed by exploring important episodes in the history of facts, ranging from the Apollo moon landings to DNA evidence in the courtroom, with a special focus on the hard facts and laws of physics: electrons, molecules, X-rays, and the laws of thermodynamics. N Jimena Canales spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 127 From Lab Rats to Venture Capitalists: The Making of a Scientist Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How does one become a scientist in the modern world? What are the conventions of scientific practice and how are they mastered? This course explores training in the sciences by combining an historical examination of key pedagogical sites and episodes with a study of Harvard's own undergraduate program of science education. By looking at the tools, theories, and practices involved in the formation of scientists, we explore the nature of the scientific enterprise and of the intellectual and moral shaping of the men and women who participate in it. N Christopher James Phillips spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 128 World Building: A History of Physics from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to CERN's Black Holes Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This introductory survey of the history of the physical sciences is structured around the question of how the world described by physicists relates to the world we live in. Starting with Galileo's idealizing assumption about frictionless free fall, we trace this history into the 20th century and the puzzles raised by the unintuitiveness of quantum and relativity physics and beyond. We will discuss theoretical arguments that seek to bridge the gap between these two worlds, including Boltzmann, Eddington, and Gamow; and we will encounter some of the material objects constructed for that same purpose in the department's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. N Daniela Katharina Helbig spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 134 Nature on Display: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This conference course is run as an advanced seminar for undergraduates. We explore the way that living beings were collected, displayed, and discussed, from the 18th century to today. This means we look carefully at the different places in which natural history could be encountered in the past, such as museums, zoos, botanical gardens, marine stations, parks, and reserves, circuses and shows. It offers an opportunity to engage with some current issues in historical research, notably popular science and the material culture and 'spaces' of science. The course hopes to enlarge your understanding of the complex relations between display, entertainment, and knowledge. A visit to the Museum of Comparative Zoology is an integral part of our studies. Y Janet Browne spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 136 History of Biotechnology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What becomes of life when researchers can materially manipulate and technically transform living things? This course historically investigates biotechnology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, paying attention to how efforts to engineer life are grounded in social, cultural, and political contexts. Topics include reproductive technologies, genetic engineering and cloning, synthetic biology and bioinformatics, stem cells, intellectual property, and biosafety and biosecurity. Students will explore themes of ownership, personhood, biocitizenship, and biocapital by reading and discussing historical and anthropological accounts of biotechnology, as well as primary scientific publications, science fiction, and legal cases. N Sophia Roosth spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 138 Sex, Gender, and Evolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Evolutionary theories of sex and gender and central controversies in human evolutionary biology from Darwin to the present. Topics include debates over the theory of sexual selection and the evolutionary basis of monogamy, sexual preference, physical attraction, rape, maternal instinct, and sex differences in cognition. Readings: primary texts and historical, philosophical, and feminist analyses. N Sarah S Richardson fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 139 The Postgenomic Moment Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Joining "postgenomic" assessments of the genome projects, this seminar examines the history and contemporary practice of genomics from a multidisciplinary perspective. Topics include the role of technology, government funding, private industry, and race, gender, and nationality in the historical development of genomics, the ways in which genomic research challenges traditional conceptions of biology and science, and the implications of emerging trends such as direct-to-consumer genomics and whole-genome sequencing. N Sarah S Richardson spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 140 Disease and Society Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 A consideration of changing conceptions of disease during the past two centuries. We will discuss general intellectual trends as well as relevant cultural and institutional variables by focusing in good measure on case studies of particular ills, ranging from cholera to sickle cell anemia to anorexia and alcoholism. Y Charles Rosenberg spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 141 The Social Life of Pharmaceuticals Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 The evolution of the modern pharmaceutical industry over the long twentieth century--from its early intersection with the image and later the structure of scientific research, to its dramatic post-WWII expansion and late-century saturation of medical and marketing media--is tightly intertwined with broader social, cultural, economic, and political developments. This seminar engages primary and secondary works in the history and anthropology of pharmaceuticals to situate the prescription drug as cultural artifact. Y Jeremy Alan Greene fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 145 Medicine and Deviance: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Sociologists and historians have described what they call the medicalization of deviance: explaining certain behaviors as the consequences of disease rather than culpable choice. I refer to a variety of behaviors ranging from homosexuality to substance abuse, from chronic fatigue syndrome to premenstrual syndrome. This course will focus on the interrelated legal, medical, policy, and professional history of such problematic "diseases" during the past century and a half. Y Charles Rosenberg fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 148 History of Global Health Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey course for undergraduates and graduate students exploring the interrelated histories of public health, international health, and global health from the 19th to the 21st centuries, with attention to the relationship between Western and non-Western forms of scientific practice and health systems. This course will trace the role of health and medicine in mediating the relationships between metropolis and colony, state and citizen, North and South, public welfare and private interest, research practices and human subjects, the commodification of health and the body, and human rights discourse. The course will be divided chronologically into four parts, tracing imperial health formations in the long 19th century, the nascent internationalism of the interwar period, the construction of bureaucracies of development in the postwar and postcolonial era, and configurations of public- and private-sector actors in late 20th and early 21st century global health practices. This course will meet twice weekly for lectures and once a week in small group sections; graduate students can enroll in a separate graduate seminar section. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Jeremy Alan Greene fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 150 History of the Human Sciences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examination of the growth and development of social sciences such as sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, psychology, political science, and economics from the Enlightenment to the present. Innovators devised these fields to provide new, scientific ways to gain insight into age-old philosophical and religious questions, such as, What is the nature of the "self" or the "soul"? What binds human beings to one another? What is free will? What are the limits of social control, behavioral engineering, and the possible reach of techniques for adjustment and manipulation? N Rebecca Lemov fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 151 Modern Pasts and Postmodern Futures Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course analyzes the modern age through three complementary perspectives. First, it offers a historical perspective focusing on landmark changes of the period, particularly focusing on science (Pasteur, Darwin, Charcot, Maxwell) and technology (steam engines, rail, telegraphy, photography). Second, it analyzes the work of important writers on modernity and civilization (focusing on Marx, Bergson, Freud). Third: it studies theorists of postmodernity (mainly Lyotard, Jameson, Habermas) who describe the benefits, dangers and/or alternatives to modernity. N Jimena Canales fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 152 Filming Science Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Examination of the theory and practice of capturing scientific practice on film. Topics will include fictional, documentary, informational, and instructional films and raise problems emerging from film theory, visual anthropology and science studies. Each student will make and edit short film(s) about laboratory, field, or theoretical scientific work. Y Peter Galison Robb Moss fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 153 History of Dietetics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 35 A survey of the relationships between medical expertise and human eating habits from Antiquity to the present, giving special attention to the links between practical and moral concerns and between expert knowledge and common sense. N Steven Shapin spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 154 Science and Business in Modern America Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 A survey of the relationships between the practice of science and the world of commerce in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century. Topics covered include the conduct and image of science in academia and industry, ideas about the connections between science and technology, and the development and understanding of entrepreneurial science. Y Steven Shapin spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 155 Science and Technology in Modern Life Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture course surveys what made the last century a distinctive period of history. We will examine the critical transformations in, and interconnections among, politics, culture, science, technology, the arts, and social life. How has society, culture, and politics developed and changed because of technical developments ranging from electricity to the automobile, the computer, survey research, biotechnology, or atomic weapons? How have new scientific conceptions of the environment, of race and gender, of the market, the "public", of rationality, and of modernity both shaped and been impacted by new meanings of citizenship, democracy, and the nation state? N Jamie Nace Cohen-Cole fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 156 How We Think About Science and Why Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From the history of ideas to history scientific practices. From focusing on books to studying labs. From thinking about theories to revaluating objects. How we think about science and why. N Jimena Canales fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 157 Sociology of Science Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to a series of sociological topics concerning the scientific role, the scientific community, and scientific knowledge that are of special interest to historians. What are the social conditions for the institutionalization of science and for the support of the scientific role? What are the possibilities for a historical sociology of scientific knowledge? What social pressures have historically been exerted on our overall understanding of science and its relations with society? N Steven Shapin spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 162 Science in the Enlightenment Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course W., 4-6 Adelheid Voskuhl What is the relationship between science and the period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment (ca. 1685-1815)? We will examine scientific theory, experimentation, and observation in the multiple contexts of social, philosophical, intellectual, and material cultures of the Enlightenment in Europe and North America. The course will explore the connections between Enlightenment science, technology, and engineering with the Industrial Revolution, Newtonianism, and the eventual reactions to Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality. N Adelheid Voskuhl fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 164 Sense and Scientific Sensibility: Beyond Vision, From the Scientific Revolution to Now Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Scientific inquiry is often considered an endeavor pursued using one?s sense of vision: scientists peer into microscopes and telescopes, and stare at graphs, diagrams, and computer screens. But on what other senses do scientists rely? Do they also gather data using senses of hearing, smell, taste, and touch? How are the senses technologically mediated, and how do researchers evaluate sensory evidence? To address such questions, this course combines readings in the history and anthropology of science with classic primary sources. N Sophia Roosth fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 165 Rethinking the Scientific Revolution Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Before the emergence of modern science, knowing about the natural world was generally the domain of people called natural philosophers. In early modern Europe, what it meant to engage in this activity, even what nature was understood to be, underwent so many radical transformations that historians and philosophers later named the era the Scientific Revolution. This seminar will examine the diverse ? even conflicting ? meanings that have been given to the Scientific Revolution over time. We will pay special attention to the role of media in scientific, political, and social revolution. Other topics will include the experimental method, the nature of belief, instruments, gender, natural history, classification, and the role of narrative in knowledge-making. Students will have several opportunities to study artifacts in the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and at Houghton Library. N Alex Csiszar spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 171 Narrative and Neurology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of the complex relationship between the making of brain science and the human stories/experiences of brain damaged people. Topics include iconic cases of brain damage like Phineas Gage and H.M (and who speaks for them), the emergence and historical function of neurological case histories, the study of brain-damaged soldiers in WWI, the "neurological novels" of Alexandr Luria, the popular writings of Oliver Sacks, the brain-injured patient as author, and internet-based writings celebrating "neurodiversity." Y Anne Harrington fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 173 The Abnormal Mind Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines how the abnormal mind has been understood from the origins of psychiatry and psychoanalysis to the development of psychopharmaceuticals. We will study classification of diseases and methods of treatment, the professional formation of psychiatry, changing definitions of normality, the interplay between social and mental norms, and ways that deviant or minority social groups have been explained through references to the character of their minds. N Jamie Nace Cohen-Cole fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 174 Critical Experiments in the Human Sciences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on high-impact experiments - among them, the Milgram "Obedience" experiments and the Stanford Prison Experiment - carried out in the twentieth-century human sciences by anthropologists, sociologists, social psychologists, and/or experimental psychologists. Many dreamed of a "technology of human behavior" and conducted experiments toward this end. What were the results, and how do they continue to affect our thinking and daily lives today? N Rebecca Lemov spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 175 Minds, Machines, and Computers Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How has what we know or believe about machines affected what we know and believe about the human mind? How have developments in the human sciences shaped the development of information technology? Topics covered in this course include Charles Babbage's analytical engine, the Turing Machine, cyberspace, distributed cognition, and the origins, development, and criticism of research in artificial intelligence. N Jamie Nace Cohen-Cole spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 176 Brainwashing and Modern Techniques of Mind Control Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the phenomenon of "brainwashing" as a modern set of techniques that can apparently force a subject radically to alter her beliefs against her will. The Cold War roots of 'brainwashing' - both the myth and the reality -- lie in the politics of twentieth-century anti-Communism and the deeper fear that people's most strongly held thoughts, ideas, and ideological commitments could be vulnerable to powerful infiltration. In order to understand the dynamics of this process we will examine case studies beginning with the Korean War-era emergence of the term 'brainwashing', the American interdisciplinary science of "coercive persuasion" that arose in response, and successive waves of technological, political, and sociocultural developments. We will also look at how brainwashing and analogous persuasive techniques may operate among larger groups, crowds, organizations, and mass societies. N Rebecca Lemov spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 178 Discovering the Mind Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the growth and development of scientific study of the mind since the nineteenth century and role of the mind sciences in shaping modern society, politics and culture. Topics include phrenology, the birth of experimental psychology, eugenics, personality testing, the SAT, behaviorism, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the use of mind science in politics, law, business, and education. N Jamie Nace Cohen-Cole spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 180 The History of Modern Science and Technology in East Asia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Do you know how China, Japan, and Korea have emerged as techno-scientific powers? Have traditional indigenous technologies contributed to this process? With these two key questions, this course explores why and how East Asian countries like China, Japan, and Korea - all with distinct cultural and historical backgrounds - appropriated and acculturated Western S&T in its intellectual and institutional forms. It also discusses how East Asian societies have reacted to and dealt with the huge environmental cost of industrialization, highlighted by the recent nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. A major focus will be on Japan, which, for better or worse, played a significant role in modern East Asian history, but we also look at modern Chinese and Korean S&T in regional and global socio-political contexts. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N Yoshiyuki Kikuchi fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 183 Democracy and Technology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What is the relationship between technology and politics in global democracies? This course explores various forms of technology, its artifacts and experts in relation to government and political decision-making. Does technology "rule" or "run" society, or, should it? How do democratic societies balance the need for specialized technological expertise with rule by elected representatives? Topics will include: industrial revolutions, factory production and consumer society, technological utopias, the Cold War, state policy, colonial and post-colonial rule, and engineers' political visions. N Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 186 Technology in the Social World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What role does technology play in the social world? This course explores a variety technological systems in social and historical contexts in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia between 1300 and 2010. Topics include warfare, agriculture, communication technologies, transportation, consumerism, urbanization, and colonization. Special emphasis on the interrelations between technological artifacts and other forms of "cultural production" such as government, commerce, philosophy, and art. N Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 190 Science Facts and Science Fictions Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course uses science fiction as a lens through which to view the history of science and technology. By reading sci-fi literature (including novels and short stories by Shelley, Wells, Verne, and Butler, as well as more recent works by Heinlein, Asimov, Le Guin, Gibson, and Atwood) and viewing sci-fi films, this course asks how science is fictionalized, and what such representations tell us about science as an enterprise that melds present contexts with futurism and fantasy. Topics include: time travel, utopias and dystopias, other worlds, artificial intelligence, robotics, alien life. N Sophia Roosth fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 191 Brave New World? Scientific and Technological Visions of Utopia and Dystopia in Russia and the Soviet Union Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on the role of scientific and technological developments in creating the kinds of social, economic and ecological change that have inspired utopian thinking, as well as the rise of utopia's counterpart, the dystopia, with a specific focus on Russia in the late-19th and 20th centuries. We will look at the way in which individuals and groups in Russia created and interpreted utopian visions based on scientific and technological innovations, and the extent to which imaginings of scientific utopias, or dystopias, projected in Russian and Soviet literature and the arts were reflected on the ground in the Soviet Union. Themes will include the relationship between science and the state, the evolving role of the scientist, the relationship between humans and machines, the influence of science on socialism and of socialist thought on Soviet science, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Course materials will include works of fiction and science fiction, poetry, memoirs, films, and secondary works. N Maya Karin Peterson fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 195 Taking Science to the People: Popularization of Scientific Knowledge in the Modern Arab World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, in what has come to be known as the Arab Nahda, or Awakening, a new, dynamic process of popularization of modern scientific knowledge was started, notably in Egypt and in the Levant. This course will follow the popularization of modern science in the context of different social, political and intellectual debates, including evolutionary theory, sex and gender and public health. This course intends to follow how modern science and scientific knowledge, with the positivist slant that clearly marked it, was popularized in this key period of the modern history of the Arabic-speaking Middle East and how this process stirred different debates on modernization and development. N Soha Bayoumi fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 200 Knowing the World: Studying the History of Science Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This is the graduate section to History of Science 100, Knowing the World: An Introduction to the History of Science. Y Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 206 r Geometry and Mechanics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar-course devoted to a philosophical and historical examination of appeals to motion and other "mechanical" notions in ancient geometry. We will read texts related to the three classical problems of Greek mathematics, the Mechanical Problems attributed to Aristotle, and the "mechanical method" of Archimedes, with examples and commentary drawn from early modern, and also contemporary, mathematics. Undergraduates and graduates welcome. Y Mark Schiefsky Barry C. Mazur fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 209 Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches and Controversies: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 4-6 Ahmed Ragab (Divinity School) A critical examination of the historiography of science and religion in the medieval and modern Middle East. Focus on the effects of religious laws and traditions on scientific theory and practice and the influence of science and technology on religious and theological discourse and practice. Comparison with relevant European developments. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3341. N Ahmed Ragab fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 212 The Sciences of Life, Medicine and the Body in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate colloquium for students preparing for general examinations in the fields covered by the course, as well as other students wishing to develop a comprehensive picture of the subject through extensive reading of secondary sources. N Katharine Park fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 215 r Science and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2010-11: Utopia in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. Explores the relations between new forms of scientific knowledge and the new literary genre of the utopian fiction in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, including works by More, Palissy, Brahe, Campanella, Bacon, Cavendish, and Fontenelle. Some familiarity with the history of early modern European art or science and reading knowledge of at least one European language in addition to English. N Katharine Park fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 223 History of the Exact Sciences: Trust, Skepticism, and Objectivity Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Mathematics is both a grounded cultural practice and a mechanism for creating seemingly timeless and place-less knowledge; over the last three centuries the discipline has become both highly esoteric and ubiquitous. This course explores these developments and tensions by examining the key moments in the history of the exact sciences. N Christopher James Phillips fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 238 Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Taking Charles Darwin as a well-documented case study, we will explore the historiography of evolutionary ideas from 1900 on, covering the political , social, and scientific commitments involved in the concept of a "Darwinian Revolution." N Janet Browne spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 239 Empire and Environment Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus is on the Russian and British Empires. Examines the way in which these empires encountered and altered natural environments through imperial expansion, as well as the way in which the production of scientific knowledge about colonial environments helped to shape British and Russian imperial rule from the 18th into the 20th centuries. N Maya Karin Peterson spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 240 The Body in Health and Disease: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course "Sickness" and "health," notions of inappropriate and appropriate behavior, are determined by conceptions of the body and its proper management. Discussion will focus first upon secondary studies and subsequently upon students' research. N Charles Rosenberg spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 241 Lives and Letters Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., 2-4 Janet Browne This graduate conference course centers on recent critical interest in life-writing and the image or 'identity' of a scientist (male and female) in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We explore the emergence of scientific biography as a genre and how it may have contributed to changing notions of science. We shall also cover the increasing emphasis on the personality of a scientist and in some cases the cult of celebrity. Sessions will include modern critical thinking about 'writing lives' in scientific history, self-representations through autobiography; biography as a historically contingent genre; group biographies; and pay some attention to the presentation of scientific lives in non-textual media such as film and portraiture. A key part of the course concerns the documents of a recorded life, especially letters as a resource for historical analysis. There will be opportunities to engage with major editorial projects underway at Harvard featuring the Victorian physicist John Tyndall and the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project. Assessed by participation in weekly workshops, assignments and a research project. N Janet Browne fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 243 The Making of Modern Medicine: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus on key works in the history of medicine, illustrating historiographical trends in the past half-century as well as the substantive aspects of the field that have attracted the historical concern. N Charles Rosenberg fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 247 Current Issues in the History of Medicine: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores new methods for understanding disease, medicine, and society, ranging from historical demography to cultural studies. Topics include patterns of health and disease, changes in medical science and clinical practice, the doctor-patient relationship, health care systems, alternative healing, and representations of the human body. The course will focus on historical problem-framing, research strategies, and writing. N Allan M. Brandt spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 248 Ethics and Judgment in the History of Science and Medicine Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the tensions felt by historians and physicians between historicizing past ethical behaviors and norms and wanting to pass judgment on past actors and actions. Topics include contested diseases, controversial therapies, and accusations of unethical research. N David Shumway Jones spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 249 Caregiving: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course In every time and place women and men have become ill and sought care. This course is organized around ethnographic and historical studies of caregiving, providing a framework for thinking comparatively about the illness experience in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. We will be examining the spectrum of care from local and family through highly bureaucratic and specialized settings. We will examine chronic as well as acute illness and disability and interrogate rationales for caregiving including the moral and emotional as well as the operational and instrumental. N Charles Rosenberg Arthur Kleinman spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 253 Bioethics, Law, and the Life Sciences Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Seeks to identify and explore salient ethical, legal, and policy issues - and possible solutions - associated with developments in biotechnology and the life sciences. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-515. May not be taken for credit by students who have already taken IGA-515 (KSG). Y Sheila Jasanoff fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 256 Culture, Personality, and Self Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the history of the culture and personality movement, considered narrowly and broadly, as well as technologies and techniques developed in the social and human sciences for measuring the self and its socialization processes. N Rebecca Lemov fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 259 The History of the History of Science Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A critical survey of conceptions of the history of science over the past hundred years or so and an interpretative engagement with why what's been said about science and its history have mattered so much. Y Steven Shapin fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 260 Readings on Science, Modernity, and the Long 20th Century Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings on the relationship of science and modernity. A thematic, chronological, and methodological examination of the ways in which science, from its intellectual content to its instruments, products, practices, and institutional forms have participated in the cultural, political, and social life of the last century. N Jamie Nace Cohen-Cole spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 265 Science in/as/of Culture Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar introduces students to Science and Technology Studies (STS), an interdisciplinary field seeking to understand the natural sciences as cultural and social practices. STS increasingly draws upon a diverse methodological and analytic toolkit: not only sociology, anthropology, and philosophy, but cultural studies, critical theory, gender, race, and postcolonial studies, and laboratory studies. Each unit in this course combines theories and methods in the social study of science with a series of cross-cutting themes including: proof, controversy, practice, actants and agency, post-humanism. Students will investigate the relation of STS to the History of Science and explore recent trends and theories in STS. N Sophia Roosth spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 270 Sciences of the Self Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course How social, human and behavioral scientists pursued a science of the self from French-revolution-era theories of the "bourgeois self" to Freud's insights about hysterics to mid-twentieth-century American theories of "personality" to biological and computational models of the late-twentieth century (e.g., the "quantified self" movement). What is the relationship of self to soul and self to society? Some attention to the historiography of the psychological and social sciences will also be given. N Rebecca Lemov fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 282 Communications Media in the Sciences Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar will investigate how and to what extent knowledge is shaped by the communication practices and media through which it has been produced, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The last decade has seen a convergence of concerns in book and media history with those in the history of science, including questions involving translation, standardization, intellectual property, technological determinism, and the materiality of knowledge. Participants will be encouraged to reconsider their own research interests in the light of these themes. Other topics will include the history of print genres and formats (books, letters, encyclopedias, journals, newspapers) in the sciences, information technologies, literary and rhetorical aspects of scientific argument, and scientific authors and readers. Secondary readings shall include Eisenstein, Johns, Latour, Daston, Bowker, Biagioli, Grafton, and Kittler. N Alex Csiszar fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 284 Technology and the Text: Machines and Discourse in Historical and Literary Inquiry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigates historically and theoretically the relationship between textuality and technology in recent works as well as in "classics" of the history of technology, cultural theory, and literary criticism. Readings include studies in media history and theory, and theories of technology and textuality; case studies in the history of technology and literature; and analyses of the mechanical reproduction of poetry and works of art from 19th- and 20th-c. German and French Social and Cultural Theory. N Adelheid Voskuhl fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 285 a Science, Power and Politics I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This is the fall term of a year-long seminar that introduces students to the major contributions of the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) to the understanding of politics and policymaking in democratic societies. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-953. May not be taken for credit by students who have already taken IGA-953 (KSG). Either 285a or 285b may be taken as a separate course, but only with permission of the instructor. Y Sheila Jasanoff spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 285 b Science, Power, and Politics II Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to major methodological approaches in the field of science and technology studies (S&TS), particularly focusing on the analysis of science politics and policymaking in democratic societies. //Either 285a or 285b may be taken as a separate course, but only with permission of the instructor. Y Sheila Jasanoff fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 286 History of Technology: Reformation to the Present Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Survey of history of technology during early modern and modern periods in Europe, North America, and Asia. Readings include social and cultural histories of technology, classics in the theory of technological modernity, and primary sources. N Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 288 History and Philosophy of Technology Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate-level seminar on classic and recent influential works in the history and philosophy of technology, covering the early modern, modern, and late modern periods; industrial-technological, information-technological, and bio-technological systems; as well as philosophical accounts from the analytical and the continental traditions. Literature covers authors such as Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas Hughes, Donna Haraway, Donald MacKenzie, David Landes, Hayden White, Emily Thompson, and Ken Alder. N Adelheid Voskuhl spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 289 Entangled Objects: Or the Stuff of Science, Culture, and Society Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This course focuses on things: from the Indian sari to the iPod. Its aim is to look at objects from a variety of angles (science, anthropology, art, cultural studies) and to investigate what makes them such powerful anchors--actors--of our daily lives. The readings and discussions will provide a strong theoretical background to the final assignment: designing and mounting a temporary exhibit. N Jean-Francois Gauvin spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 290 Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Examines recent writings on material culture and collecting as part of development of "Tangible Things": an exhibition drawing from the collections of Harvard museums. Seminar combines critical curatorial work with production of short films. N Peter Galison Jeffrey Schnapp spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 291 Science and Art (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course When perspective was invented in the 15th century, was it a scientific or an artistic discovery? Science and art sometimes meet, crash, and separate. This course will examine the shifting relations between art and science from the Early Modern period to the 20th century. Starting with canonical examples such as Vesalius's anatomical atlas, Da Vinci's work on human proportions, and Galileo's astronomical drawings, the course will include visual culture more broadly, studying the impact of new technologies across fields from medicine to physics. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. N Jimena Canales fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 292 Gravity's Rainbow: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course focuses on a single, extraordinary work of fiction, Thomas Pynchon's *Gravity's Rainbow*. By studying this work we explore Pynchon's vision of modernity, but also important themes in the history of science and in philosophy. We will grapple with the weaponization of science in the twentieth century and on the one hand, and with clashing accounts of explanation on the other. How does one explain the world of V2 rocket-bombs exploding around London in World War II? Do we learn about the location of future detonations from the ones that come earlier as Pavlov might have had it? Or is the world, at root, inextricably random, with events utterly independent one from the other as Poisson would say? Such reflections on the world--and they extend through identity, love, war, and materiality-- feed back into the very nature of writing itself, and in the final sessions of the seminar, we will turn to literary-philosophical questions such this: How, in the absence of causality and continuity, does narrative itself function? What might be a postcausal (postmodern) novel? Along with Pynchon's original text, we will read widely in the history of technology, warfare, science, literary theory, and philosophy. Y Peter Galison fall term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 294 Tools, Instruments, and Extended Cognition Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examination of the relation between external tools and cognition. Can the boundaries of a thinking agent extend beyond the skin? Perspectives from philosophy of mind and history of science, including Clark, Wilson, Galison and others. Y Peter Galison Peter Godfrey-Smith spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 296 The Digital Self Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 25 Social theory, philosophical texts, and historical works help situate understandings of the human "self"; how do these and other materials shed light on conceptions and experiences of the "self" enacted in new digital technologies including the internet, surveillance, multi-person virtual games, and virtual realities? With attention to the implications of these new experiences for freedom of expression, theft and other crimes, democratic participation, and consumption, the course will include materials from law, history of science, and political and social theory. Y Peter Galison Martha Minow fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 300 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Under special circumstances arrangements may be made for other instruction in guidance for doctoral dissertations. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 301 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 302 Guided Research Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Through regular meetings with faculty advisor, each student will focus on research and writing with the purpose of developing a publishable research paper. Y full year Department of the History of Science History of Science History of Science 310 hf History of Science Salon Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course What is history of science about as a discipline and profession? This half-course meets evenings throughout the academic year to introduce first-year graduate students to the range of debates, questions, and research practices currently shaping the field. The course is required for first year students in the PhD program and students in the AM program in the History of Science. For the purpose of degree requirements for these students, HS 310 fulfills the HS 201 requirement, as HS 201 has been withdrawn. Y Katharine Park Katharine Park spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:House Seminars House Seminars Leverett 74 Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis: Two Contrasting World Views House Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Focuses on "scientific" Weltanschauung (world view) of Freud as a key to his life and work. Examines the world view Freud attacks through readings from C. S. Lewis and letters between Freud and Oskar Pfister, Swiss psychoanalyst and theologian. Themes: source of morality and ethics, human sexuality, problem of pain and human suffering, definition of happiness and reason that unhappiness prevails, role of different categories of love in human relationships, and "the painful riddle of death." Y spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:House Seminars House Seminars Lowell 70 Perspectives about Undergraduate Learning House Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Perspectives about Undergraduate Learning is a House Seminar for students who participated in the freshman seminar, What is College? And What is it For?, that will explore in more details the recommendations from students in previous freshman seminar in order to identify specific recommendation for curricula change. Students will review the college proposals, identify two major issues that arise in the undergraduate educational experience. Further readings specific to these issues will be explored as well as sessions with faculty with relevant expertise. The class will meet a minimum of once a week and may require additional meetings to finalize the recommendations. N Paul Barreira fall term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:House Seminars House Seminars Mather 74 Memoirs and Memory in 20th Century Europe House Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 This seminar explores memoirs that highlight memories - and some "forgettings" - of public and private moments in twentieth-century Europe. Our approach considers memoirs at the intersection of literature and history. We will examine a number of historical events from different memoirs and commemorations, including the Russian Revolution, Jazz-age Paris, the London Blitz and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eyewitness accounts, historical studies, museum exhibits and fictional depictions are also considered. Y Laura Schlosberg spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:House Seminars House Seminars Pforzheimer 70 College Student Development Theory House Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Debates about the purpose of undergraduate education and the content of the curriculum are informed by beliefs and theories of college student learning and development. This course examines the cognitive, interpersonal, identity and psycho-social theories of human development that shape the college experience. A theoretical foundation in student development theory is valuable for students who wish to understand and their own learning experiences and for administrators and instructors who develop policies and teach undergraduate students. Y Lisa Boes spring term Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction:House Seminars House Seminars Winthrop 75 The Laws of War House Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 What are the "laws of war"? This seminar examines the historical development of two legal concepts: jus ad bellum, which judges the legitimacy of the use force in international relations; and jus in bello, which defines the duties of belligerents during an armed conflict. Drawing on this background in international and U.S. law, the seminar then explores how these laws have influenced the U.S. "War on Terror" and how they might shape future conflicts. Open to students from all Houses. N Gregg Andrew Peeples fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Special study of selected topics in human evolutionary biology, given on an individual basis and directly supervised by a member of the Human Evolutionary Biology Faculty. May be taken for a letter grade or Pass/Fail. Signature of faculty supervisor required. Y David Pilbeam David Pilbeam spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 97 Sophomore Tutorial in Human Evolutionary Biology Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the issues and methods of human evolutionary biology, focusing on evolutionary theory, the concept of adaptation, and their application to human evolution. Weekly readings and discussions, with biweekly writing assignments that integrate major course themes. Required of and limited to Human Evolutionary Biology concentrators. Y David Pilbeam fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 99 a Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Research and writing of the Senior Thesis. Limited to honors candidates. Signature of the faculty adviser required. Y David Pilbeam spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 99 b Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Hours to be arranged David Pilbeam Research and writing of the Senior Thesis. Limited to honors candidates. Signature of the faculty adviser required. Y David Pilbeam spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1210 Research in Comparative Biomechanics: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces students to experimental techniques used to investigate the structure and physiology of animals. Each instructor offers research projects that are undertaken in their laboratory (limit 5 students per instructor). Students meet to introduce their project, discuss their work and progress, and to present their final results. An extensive commitment of time in the laboratory is required. Grades are based on the work completed, the oral presentation, and a short research paper. Life Sciences 2 or OEB 102 or equivalent preferred. Laboratory safety session required. Y Andrew A Biewener Stacey A. Combes George V. Lauder Daniel E. Lieberman spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1310 Hormones and Behavior Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the interaction between hormones and behavior, emphasizing research in humans. The course has 4 units: Unit 1 covers the physiology of the endocrine system (endocrine communication, endocrine glands, hormone production and action); Unit 2 covers sex and gender (the effects of hormones on the brain and behavior in early development, the biology of gender and sex differences); Unit 3 covers reproductive and social behaviors (mating, attraction, parenting, affiliation and aggression), and in Unit 4, we explore the relationship between hormones and health (appetite, obesity, diabetes, stress). This course is a prerequisite for Human Evolutionary Biology 1418, Endocrinology and Behavior: Research Seminar, offered in the fall, and fulfills either the Biology or Behavior distribution requirement for Human Evolutionary Biology concentrator. When taken for a letter grade, this course meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Carole Kennedy Hooven spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1312 Human Sexuality: Research and Presentation Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An examination of human sexuality from a scientific perspective. Students will read and present primary scientific literature that highlights current research on a variety of topics including: sexual development, gender identity, sexual orientation, cross cultural variations in mating systems, promiscuity, the evolution of monogamy, sexual attraction, sexual communication, including an exploration of the existence of human pheromones, libido and sexual dysfunction. N Judith Flynn Chapman fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1313 Stress: Research and Presentation Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An examination of stress from a scientific perspective with a focus on stress research in mammals, especially primate and humans. A writing and speaking intensive seminar that will explore the basics of the stress response, physiological effects of the stress and factors that affect stress responsiveness, such as perinatal and early life effects, social support, outlets for frustration and coping skills. The relationship between stress and disease will also be explored. Scientific studies of the effectiveness of modalities of stress reduction will also be discussed. Students will present primary scientific literature that highlights current research on a variety of topics in the field. Y Judith Flynn Chapman spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1315 Ecology of Modern Hunter Gatherers Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on the variable ways that hunter-gatherers interface with their environment and make their living, and the implications of this subsistence strategy for their biology and behavior. During the first part of the course, key theoretical issues and debates that surround the study of modern hunter/gatherers will be discussed. Once this foundation is laid, the course will survey modern and historic hunter/gatherers from all the major geographic regions of the world. N Karen Kramer spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1318 BioDemography Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The distribution and density of people fundamentally shapes many aspects of the human condition. Biodemography is a multidisciplinary approach that integrates demographic, biological, life history and evolutionary perspectives on populations. The course covers the three major components of population change (fertility, mortality and migration) and the important demographic transitions from hunting and gathering to domestication and through modern postindustrial times. Students will read and discuss population change and sustainability from a variety of viewpoints. N Karen Kramer fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1322 Evolution of Human Nature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How does our evolutionary past shape who we are today? Why are humans so social? Why do human families emerge and marriage systems express such diversity? Are humans the only primate with a sexual division of labor and language? How do human male and female strategies differ from that of other animals? Why do children mature so slowly? This introductory course considers human behavior, sociality, sex differences, cognition, language and art in a broad evolutionary context using the concepts of natural and sexual selection, ecology and life history theory. Variation in human behavior is examined through the use of the fossil record, cross-cultural data on a variety of traditional human societies and experimental data in contemporary populations. N Karen Kramer fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1325 Evolution of Technology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 An important aspect of what makes us human is our unique reliance on diverse technologies. This class develops inferences about the evolution of technology from modern human traditional cultures, the archaeological record, hominin functional morphology, and comparisons with tool use in other primates. Readings, lectures, and discussions emphasize how technology is used for subsistence, shelter, physical protection, and other behaviors that helped ancestral hominins and contemporary humans occupy a range of variable environments. N Russell Dean Greaves fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1330 Primate Social Behavior Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A review of the behavioral interactions in natural primate populations, drawing on experimental, observational, and theoretical studies. Discussion of ecological, physiological, and developmental bases of primate social behavior, with special attention to the evolution of patterns of behavioral interactions among individuals of different age, sex, relatedness, and status. Topics include sexual conflict, sexual selection, and mating systems; care of offspring and other aid-giving; manipulative and cooperative aspects of communication; competition, dominance, and territoriality; and the evolution of social relationships. N Zarin Pearl Machanda Richard W. Wrangham fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1331 Comparison and Adaptation in Primate Evolutionary Biology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 8 Understanding human evolution requires us to reconstruct the past and identify the adaptive basis of primate traits. How can this be achieved for behavior, language, culture and other traits that lack a clear fossil record? This course is designed to teach quantitative methods via active learning in a small class setting. Through readings, lectures, and computer labs, students will gain hands-on experience with basic statistics and comparative methods to reconstruct ancestral states and study evolutionary change. Students will apply these skills in an independent project of their choice. Y Charles Lindsay Nunn fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1333 Primate Disease Ecology and Evolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Infectious disease plays a major role in the lives of humans, and the same is true of nonhuman primates. This course will explore infectious diseases in humans and nonhuman primates, including emerging infectious diseases. Through a combination of lecture, reading and discussion, we will consider similarities and differences in disease ecology in humans and nonhuman primates, and we will investigate the evolution of parasites, pathogens and primate behavior. N Charles Lindsay Nunn spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1335 Behavioral Ecology of Chimpanzees Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An advanced seminar on current topics in behavioral ecology research of chimpanzees and bonobos. Topics will include: foraging, dominance, cooperation, adolescence, reproductive strategies, culture, ranging, cognition, molecular ecology, and relationships. We will discuss behavioral flexibility of chimpanzees between different communities across Africa and learn how to collect and analyze behavioral data. We will compare the behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos with that of humans and examine how these species might serve as models for human evolution. Human Evolutionary Biology 1330 or Science B-29 or permission of instructor. N Zarin Pearl Machanda spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1371 Paternity, Fidelity and Parenting Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces human life history through the topic of male/female relationships, parenting, and family formation. Key issues covered include life history tradeoffs, reproductive strategies, division of labor, pair-bonding and cooperative breeding. Emphasis is placed on examining life history characteristics shared across primates, those particular to humans, and their variation cross-culturally. The course is designed for students studying anthropology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology and other disciplines interested in the relationship between human biology and behavior. Junior research seminar. Taught every other year, alternating with Human Evolutionary Biology 1315. N Karen Kramer fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1375 Testosterone and Human Behavior Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An exploration of current research in human behavior and testosterone, including the relationships between normal variation in testosterone and variation in traits such as cognition, aggression, personality traits, and sexual behavior within both males and females. Medical uses of testosterone, such as anabolic steroids, hormone replacement therapy, and reassignment, are explored. Preference given to Human Evolutionary Biology concentrators. Y Judith Flynn Chapman fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1377 Birth Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Birth, the passage from intra- to extra-uterine life, represents both an acute locus for the action of selection and a process with derived anatomical, endocrine, and social characteristics in humans. Topical foci of the course will include physiology: late pregnancy and fetal development, the endocrine profile of parturition, placental function; evolution: phylogenetic and comparative approaches to pelvic anatomy, bipedalism and compromise morphology, obligate midwifery; the interaction of social context and physiology: the doula effect, comparative physiology of ungulates with reverse contractions, cortisol and early miscarriages, C-sections and other interventions; and media perspectives and the culture of birth: critical examination of contemporary television, books, and popular journalism dealing with birth. N Meredith Wayden Reiches fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1385 Evolution of Human Cooperation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cooperation has played a central role in human evolution, with people often helping others at a cost to themselves. Yet "survival of the fittest" is a fundamentally selfish process - so how could natural selection favor altruistic behavior? In this course, we will address this question by exploring insights from evolutionary biology and game theory, together with empirical evidence of how people (and other primates) actually behave from psychology, economics and anthropology. We will see that typically it pays to be cooperative, and nice guys often finish first. N David Gertler Rand spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1388 The Adolescent Transition Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Puberty, the transition from juvenility to reproductive maturity, occurs in all sexually reproducing species; adolescence, however, is a human concept that encompasses not only physiological changes but also the full range of social, behavioral, and perceptual shifts comprising the human passage into adulthood. This course takes an anthropological, biological, and phylogenetic approach to questions about adolescence, including: What elements of growth and maturation define adolescence, and is it unique to humans? How do the body's priorities change, and what can we learn when we examine those changes in the context of ecological and cultural variation? Texts will include literature on human growth and development; comparative data from non-human primates; anthropological literature on the rites of passage; and literary dramatizations of coming of age. N Peter Ellison Meredith Wayden Reiches fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1405 The Biology of Aging Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 The course will focus on human aging by examining experimental models of aging, mechanisms involved in aging, the role of diet and infection in the aging process and the evolution of the human life span. Life Sciences 1b, Life Sciences 2 recommended. N Noreen Tuross spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1411 Evolution and Adaptation of the Human Diet Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Within and across cultures people adopt widely varying diets, yet as a species, our foods are characteristically human. In this course we ask what is the fundamental nature of the human diet, what constrains it, how people adapt to different diets, and how the human diet evolved from those of our primate ancestors. N Noreen Tuross Richard W. Wrangham fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1414 Evolution of Human Diet: Research Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of modern controversies in human nutrition from an evolutionary perspective, using primate and human dietary adaptations, digestive physiologies, feeding behavior and ecology. We will explore topics including: nutritional requirements, optimal foraging, maternal and infant nutrition, the nature of early hominid diets, the role of hunting and carnivory in human evolution, and finally, the nutritional impact of agriculture and technology on dietary composition and modern human diets. N Nancy Conklin-Brittain spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1416 The Neurobiology of Sociality: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Recent research has illuminated the neural mechanisms underpinning sociality and social behavior in humans and other animals. In this seminar we will discuss publications that address modifications to neural structure and function as a result of behavioral specializations among taxa in relation to their social complexity or among individuals within species as a function of their social condition. This course will emphasize the value of approaching neurobiology from an evolutionary perspective and understanding the selective pressures that have shaped our mind, brain, and behavior. Previous or concurrent registration in MCB 80 strongly recommended. Can be taken by Human Evolutionary Biology concentrators as a Junior Research Seminar. Open to graduate students. N Katherine Jane Hinde fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1418 Endocrinology and Behavior: Research Seminar Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 8 An introduction to laboratory techniques and research design in behavioral endocrinology. Students conduct pilot research projects. Human Evolutionary Biology 1310 or Life Sciences 2 or with permission of instructor. Preference given to Human Evolutionary Biology concentrators. Y Susan Lipson spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1420 Human Evolutionary Anatomy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., F., at 10 Tanya M. Smith How did the human body evolve, and how does it develop, grow and function? An integrative overview of human anatomy and evolution, with a focus on the musculo-skeletal system, and a comparative approach to the evolution of modern anatomy. Additional topics include: bone and tooth development, gross anatomy of the nervous and circulatory systems; comparative limb anatomy; craniofacial growth and development; and the human fossil record. Life Sciences 2 or Science of Living Systems 16 or with permission of instructor. N Tanya Smith fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1421 Teeth Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 6 Teeth are one of the best preserved and most commonly-recovered elements in fossil assemblages. This seminar will focus on ways in which dental remains may inform studies of primate growth and development, ecology, and social structure. Students will read and discuss current scientific literature, engage in histological studies in the Dental Hard Tissue Laboratory, and conduct pilot research projects. Preference given to Human Evolutionary Biology junior and senior concentrators. N Tanya Smith spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1435 Primate Ecology and Evolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will explore how primates have evolved and adapted to their environments with particular attention given to critical drivers of these adaptations such as food, predation and sexual selection. We will examine both living primates and their fossil ancestors and discuss the different temporal perspectives of "ecological time" and "paleontological time". Topics will include adaptations for food harvesting and processing, life history strategies, sexual dimorphism, locomotion, and grouping patterns. None, but Life Sciences 2, Science of Living Systems 16, Human Evolutionary Biology 1420, or Human Evolutionary Biology 1330 would be helpful. N John C. Barry David Pilbeam Zarin Pearl Machanda spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1455 Primate Genetics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 The last few years have witnessed a revolution in the study of primate biology thanks to newly available genetic data. This seminar integrates genetics with behavior and ecology to consider key topics in primate evolution. Major questions posed by this class include how DNA-based evolutionary relationships provide information about primate anatomy, physiology and behavior; the role of dispersal, paternity, and kinship in structuring primate societies; and the application of behavioral genetics to humans and primates. Life Sciences 1b. Human Evolutionary Biology 1330 and Human Evolutionary Biology 1463 helpful. N Amanda Swenson Lobell fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1463 Molecular Evolution of the Primates Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the primates, emphasizing their molecular evolutionary history and the forces that mold their genomes. Topics include the neutral theory of molecular evolution, molecular clock concept and its applications, evolution of multigene families, relationships between primate morphological and molecular evolution, molecular convergences, evidence for horizontal gene transfer in primate genomes, and evolution of simian and human immunodeficiency viruses, color vision genes. Life Sciences 1b. Y Maryellen Ruvolo spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1490 Primate Evolution Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A lecture/discussion course on primate evolution from a paleontological perspective. Following a survey of major primate groups as adaptive radiations, the hominoid fossil record will be reviewed within the context of the mammalian record, a particular focus being the relationship between adaptive, faunal, and climate change. Systems that can be inferred from the fossil record (for example, positional and foraging behaviors) will be discussed comparatively. Section meetings will focus primarily on the fossil record. No final exam; research paper required. Can be taken by Human Evolutionary Biology concentrators as a Junior Research Seminar. Introductory courses in paleoanthropology, evolution, genetics, or anatomy helpful. N David Pilbeam John C. Barry spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1500 Building Babies: Developmental Trajectories from Conception to Weaning Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Research on human and non-human primate developmental trajectories has grown exponentially among numerous disciplines including evolutionary anthropology, psychobiology, nutrition, behavioral biology, and neuroscience. The course will cover the mechanisms, function, and evolution of human and non-human primate development from conception through pregnancy and lactation. Areas of development to be included will be somatic growth, immunology, behavioral/social interactions, neurobiology/cognition/learning, and metabolic processes. N Katherine Jane Hinde fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1530 Hominid Paleontology and Evolution Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A lecture, discussion, and research course using cast and comparative collections, focusing on important issues in hominid paleobiology: ape ancestors, human ancestors, and early hominin radiations; earliest Homo; neandertals and modern humans; the role of environmental change. Can be taken as a research seminar. Life Sciences 2 or Science of Living Systems 16 or Human Evolutionary Biology 1420 or with permission of instructor. N David Pilbeam John C. Barry spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 1565 Theories of Sexual Coercion Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Where does interpersonal violence come from? Is it learned? Is it innate? Is it malleable? What are we to make of the gendered difference in the use of violence? What does the study of sexual violence in primates offer to our understanding of its prevalence among humans? In this course, we will examine evolutionary perspectives on male sexual coercion in primates and in humans to search for insights into sexual violence among humans. The review of this body of literature offers different analytical methods for questioning the use of sexual violence in our society, helping us identify new ways of preventing its occurrence. Offered jointly with Harvard Law School as LAW-2350. N Richard W. Wrangham Diane L. Rosenfeld fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 2205 Current Topics in Isotope Ecology and Energetics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of current literature in isotope uses in ecology and energetics. Open to graduate students. Y Noreen Tuross spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 2312 Current Topics in Human Evolutionary Genetics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course F., 9:30-11 Maryellen Ruvolo Critical reading of current literature on the genetics of living humans and discussion of evolutionary implications. Open to first and second year graduate students in Human Evolutionary Biology. Y Maryellen Ruvolo fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 2313 r Topics in Reproductive Ecology and Life History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate seminar focusing on different contemporary issues in human reproductive ecology and life history evolution. The topic for 2010 will be evolutionary approaches to adolescence. Y Peter Ellison spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 2430 Behavioral Biology Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of current research in the behavioral ecology of humans and nonhuman primates. Emphasis placed on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. Required of entering graduate students in Human Evolutionary Biology. Open to other graduate students. Limited to graduate students. N Karen Kramer spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 2460 Issues in Human Evolution Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A discussion course for first and second year graduate students in Human Evolutionary Biology. Topics will include origins of hominids, radiation of hominins, origins of the genus Homo, and origins of Homo sapiens. To be taken while auditing Science of Living Systems 16. N David Pilbeam fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3000 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Special reading in selected topics under the direction of members of the department. Consult the appropriate member of the department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3001 Reading for General Examination Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual reading in preparation for the general examination for the doctoral degree. Restricted to candidates for the doctoral degree and ordinarily to those who have completed at least one year in residence. Y fall term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3200 Graduate Seminar in Human Evolutionary Biology Reading Seminar Graduate Course Half course Proseminar for Human Evolutionary Biology graduate students. Discussion of adaptations and the process of adaptation using examples from various areas of human evolutionary biology. Open to graduate students in Human Evolutionary Biology. Y David Pilbeam Amanda Swenson Lobell fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3310 Experimental Methods Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3320 Advanced Laboratory and Dissertations Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3337 Advanced Laboratory Methods in Human Endocrinology Laboratory Research Graduate Course Half course Intended for graduate students engaged in laboratory research on human endocrinology. Y Susan Lipson Susan Lipson fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3350 Laboratory Methods in Primate and Human Nutrition Laboratory Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Independent laboratory study in the biochemical analysis of plant and animal foods, and of human and animal digestive physiology and feeding behavior. Y Richard W. Wrangham Richard W. Wrangham fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3400 Advanced Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Consult the appropriate member of the department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3500 Direction of the Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Consult the appropriate member of the department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3595 Laboratory Methods in Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory Research Graduate Course Half course Limited to graduate students conducting doctoral dissertation research. Y Maryellen Ruvolo Maryellen Ruvolo fall term; repeated spring term Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology Human Evolutionary Biology 3600 Current Issues in Human Evolutionary Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Weekly seminars in human evolutionary biology. Y fall term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 1 a An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What are the fundamental features of living systems? What are the molecules imparting them and how do their chemical properties explain their biological roles? The answers form a basis for understanding the molecules of life, the cell, diseases, and medicines. In contrast with traditional presentations of relevant scientific disciplines in separate courses, we take an integrated approach, presenting chemistry, molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology framed within central problems such as the biology of HIV and cancer. The lecture component of this course will be taught in two separate sessions, and by the same instructors. Students will sign up for one lecture session based on their scheduling needs, and will be required to attend only that session for the entire term. For more information about the assignment process, please see the course website in the fall. This course, in combination with Life Sciences 1b, constitutes an integrated introduction to the Life Sciences. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement in Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science A. N Robert A. Lue Daniel Kahne Erin K O'Shea Richard M. Losick spring term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 1 b An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How are observable characteristics of organisms influenced by genetics? How do genomes change over time to produce the differences we see among species? This course takes an integrated approach, showing how genetics and evolution are intimately related, together explaining the patterns of genetic variation we see in nature, and how genomics can be used to analyze variation. In covering Mendelian genetics, quantitative genetics, and population genetics, this course will emphasize developments involving our own species. This course, in combination with Life Sciences 1a, constitutes an integrated introduction to the Life Sciences. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement in Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Maryellen Ruvolo Hopi Hoekstra Andrew Berry fall term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 2 Evolutionary Human Physiology and Anatomy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 300 Why is the human body the way that it is? This course explores human anatomy and physiology from an integrated framework, combining functional, comparative, and evolutionary perspectives on how organisms work. Major topics, which follow a life-course framework, include embryogenesis, metabolism and energetics, growth and development, movement and locomotion, food and digestion, stress and disease, and reproduction. Also considered is the relevance of human biology to contemporary issues in human health and biology. This course replaces OEB 102. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement in Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Andrew A Biewener Peter Ellison Daniel E. Lieberman spring term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 60 Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Explores the moral, political, and scientific implications of new developments in biotechnology. Does science give us the power to alter human nature? If so, how should we exercise this power? The course examines the science and ethics of stem cell research, human cloning, sex selection, genetic engineering, eugenics, genetic discrimination, and human-animal hybrids. Readings will be drawn from literature in the areas of biology, philosophy, and public policy. May not be taken concurrently with Government 1093. May not be taken for credit if Government 1093 has already been taken. The course is open to both science and non-science concentrators. Ethical Reasoning 22 (Justice) is recommended as a background. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Douglas Melton Michael J. Sandel fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 100 r Experimental Research in the Life Sciences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 A laboratory course that immerses students in a dynamic project-based research environment. Participate in experimental projects directly linked with ongoing faculty research. Students select a project from the following research tracks: neurobiology, microbial sciences, cell biology, and synthetic biology. New projects, including some in other research fields, are offered every term. In a highly collaborative atmosphere, students form a fully-functional and diverse research group based on the sharing of ideas and progress reports between projects. New projects every term. Students collaborate to form a fully-functional and diverse research group based on the sharing of ideas and progress reports between projects. The spring microbiology project is part of the "genomes to Biomes" series. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a or permission of the instructor. Students interested in a neurobiology project will need MCB 80 or permission of the instructor. Location of the first meeting will be announced on the course website. Open to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, regardless of concentration, and suitable for students either with or without extensive laboratory experience. The course may only be repeated once and the second enrollment must be approved by the instructor. Y Alain Viel Alain Viel spring term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 110 A Microbial World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will cover the broad spectrum of microbial sciences from biodiversity to the crucial impact of microorganisms on geological history, the environment, climate, and world health. The course will be taught by an academically diverse team of three Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) faculty at a rigorous and fast-paced level appropriate for upper-level undergraduates. Topics include the origins and molecules of life, biogeochemical cycles, microbial diversity, and ecology. Ordinarily completion of Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a or higher, or Physical Sciences 1 or higher, or permission of the instructor. N Roberto Kolter Jon Clardy spring term Committee on Degrees in Life Sciences Life Sciences Life Sciences 120 Global Health Threats Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 50 The multidisciplinary application of epidemiology, molecular biology and genetics, pathogenesis, drug discovery, immunology and vaccine development, and economic analysis to understanding and combating major threats to human health in developing countries. Emphasis will be on critical readings and scientific writing. Grades will be based on papers in which students will propose the application of multidisciplinary approaches to global health threats not covered in lecture. Life Sciences 1a and 1b or LPSA and one additional course from the following: Chemistry 27, Engineering 53, Life Sciences 2, MCB 52, MCB54, OEB 10, OEB 53, or SCRB 10, or permission of the instructors. N Barry R. Bloom Richard M. Losick fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 83 Language, Structure, and Culture Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course What do the world's almost 7,000 languages have in common? Why do they show recurrent commonalities and principled differences? What do they reveal about the human ability for speaking and thinking? How do languages develop? How do they die? This course addresses these and related questions while introducing the languages of the world; their distribution, recurrent structural properties, and genetic classification; processes of language contact; and the relationship between language and the brain. N Maria Polinsky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Independent study with a faculty member. For students who wish to pursue a particular linguistic topic not covered in other course offerings. Students should consult the Head Tutor about having this course count towards the concentration. Y Jeremy Rau Jeremy Rau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 97 r Group Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Intensive study in a selected linguistic area such as phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, phonetics, morphology, semantics, psycholinguistics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, creole studies, or computational linguistics. Meets as two six-week small-group tutorials, in the spring term. Required of concentrators. Y Jeremy Rau Jeremy Rau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 98 a Group Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Meets as two six-week small-group tutorials, both held in the fall term, each covering one of the areas of linguistics listed under Linguistics 97r. Required of concentrators. Y Jeremy Rau Jeremy Rau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 98 b Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual tutorial with a faculty member. Required of concentrators. Y Jeremy Rau Jeremy Rau fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 99 a Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Group tutorial led by the Head Tutor with the participation of students' thesis advisors for research and writing of the Linguistics honors thesis. Graded Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. An honors student who expects not to complete the thesis should consult with the Head Tutor about completing other substantial work to receive credit for the course. Both Linguistics 99a and 99b are required of all senior honors concentrators. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Head Tutor. Y Jeremy Rau spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 99 b Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual tutorial with a faculty member for research and writing of the Linguistics honors thesis. Graded Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. An honors student who expects not to complete the thesis should consult with the Head Tutor about completing other substantial work to receive credit for the course. Both Linguistics 99a and 99b are required of all senior honors concentrators. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Head Tutor. Y Jeremy Rau fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 100 Second Language Acquisition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of second-language teaching and learning focused on theoretical models, learning objectives, developmental stages, materials design, and the use of new technology in teaching. The course explores the nature of second language acquisition, focused specifically on the needs of graduate students teaching a second language. N Wesley Mark Jacobsen spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 101 The Science of Language: An Introduction Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces components of study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It presents the view that knowledge of language is best characterized as an unconsciously internalized set of abstract rules and principles. Evidence is drawn from a variety of signed and spoken languages, language universals, child language acquisition, language change, language games, and language disorders. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Nina Radkevich spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 102 Sentence Structure Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What determines how the words in a sentence are put together in a given language? This course introduces the field of syntax, and the study of order and structure among words. Students will learn to construct and evaluate syntactic analyses and argumentation and will be exposed to variation and universals in the syntactic patterns found in natural languages. The course will also provide an introductory survey of syntactic phenomena, including question formation, the passive, anaphora, and agreement. N Nina Radkevich spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 104 Word Structure Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course investigates the nature and structure of words through the lens of contemporary morphological theory. What's in a word? Topics include the place of word formation in relation to phonological and syntactic phenomena, morphological processes, and the nature of the lexicon. Emphasis on the analysis of morphological phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages. N fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 105 Sounds of Language Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What are the sounds of the world languages, and how are they organized to make words and sentences? Why are some sounds hard to hear or make? Is there a `universal inventory' of sounds? This class introduces students to the sounds of the world's languages, and provides tools for studying them systematically. We will study the setup to transfer thoughts from one brain to another. N Kevin Ryan spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 106 Knowledge of Meaning Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introductory course on semantic interpretation in natural language. What does it mean to "know the meaning" of an utterance? This course provides the tools to characterize and study the meanings of sentences. Topics covered include the relation between form and meaning, ambiguity, reference, context dependency, and the role of logic vs. pragmatics in communication. N Gennaro Chierchia fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 108 Introduction to Historical Linguistics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Methods and goals of linguistic reconstruction. Topics include the regularity of sound change, types of linguistic change, the relationship between linguistic reconstruction and synchronic analysis, language contact and borrowing, and mechanisms of linguistic change, including recent theories. N Jeremy Rau fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 112 Syntactic Theory I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides an intensive introduction to generative syntactic theory. Emphasis on syntactic argumentation. Topics center on foundational problems in the theory of syntax, including phrase structure of nominals and clauses, varieties of movement, locality, argument structure, ellipsis case agreement, and the syntax-semantics interface. Linguistics 102, equivalent, or permission of the instructor. N C.-T. James Huang fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 114 Morphological Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides an intensive introduction to morphological theory. Students will be introduced to current research and areas of debate in morphology proper, in morpho-syntax, and in morpho-phonology. Ling 104, equivalent, or permission of the instructor. N Nina Radkevich fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 115 Phonological Theory I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This graduate level class is an intensive introduction to phonological theory and experimental work in phonology. This includes rule-based and constraint-based approaches, the typology of phonological processes (vowel and consonant harmony, assimilation and dissimilation, lenition and fortition, etc.), and phonological acquisition. Experimental approaches will deal with gradience, exceptionality, and productivity with an introduction to the quantitative methodologies that these phenomena require. Linguistics 105, equivalent, or permission of instructor. N Kevin Ryan fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 116 Semantic Theory I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introductory course on semantics in generative grammar. This course provides the formal tools to investigate the truth-conditional meanings of sentences. Topics covered include: compositionality, type theory and the fundamentals of clause structure, quantifier scope, and variable-binding. Linguistics 106, equivalent, or permission of the instructor. N Amy Rose Deal fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 117 r Linguistic Field Methods Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Instruction in the elicitation of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information from a native speaker of an unfamiliar language, with the object of developing a grammatical sketch of the language. Emphasis on methodology and problems of elicitation and grammatical description in the field. Participants work directly with the native speaker, both individually and as a group, with the assistance of the instructor. N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 118 Historical and Comparative Linguistics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to diachronic linguistics at the graduate level. Theory of language change: sound change and analogy, syntactic and semantic change, change in progress. The comparative method: proving genetic relationship, reconstruction, and subgrouping. N Jay H. Jasanoff spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 122 Introduction to Indo-European Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Jay Jasanoff An introduction to the historical study of the Indo-European languages, using the comparative method to arrive at a picture of the parent language of the family, Proto-Indo-European. N Jay H. Jasanoff spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 123 Intermediate Indo-European Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Designed as a sequel to Linguistics 122. A detailed overview of Indo-European comparative grammar, with emphasis on recent developments and discoveries. N Jay H. Jasanoff fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 130 Psycholinguistics: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of current psycholinguistics research for students in linguistics and related fields. Provides an overview of models of language comprehension and production from word to sentence level. Aims to expose students to models and methods used in the study of language acquisition, processing, disorders, and brain imaging. N Maria Polinsky fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 132 Psychosemantics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores issues at the interface of linguistic semantics, pragmatics and psychology. Introduces how the analysis of meaning has been pursued by linguists and psychologists. Focuses on topics that are both of central interest to theoretical linguistics and the target of experimental research. These include sentence structure, sentential connectives, quantification, numbers, mass-count distinction, adjectives and comparison, scales and modalities. A background in psychology or linguistics; some acquaintance with both helpful but not necessary. N Gennaro Chierchia Jesse Snedeker spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 146 Syntax and Processing Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Selected grammatical phenomena will be examined from a theoretical and experimental perspective, with a view toward answering questions like the following: What theoretical treatments are available? How do experimental studies distinguish among competing theoretical approaches? What kind of future experimental work is needed to resolve the outstanding issues? N Maria Polinsky spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 148 Language Universals Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides an introduction to the study of cross-linguistic variation and analyzes alternative approaches to language universals (functional explanations, processing explanations, explanations in terms of universal grammar). Topics to be studied include word order, case marking, agreement, lexical categories, subject-hood, and information structure. Sampling techniques and the use of hierarchies will also be covered. Linguistics 102 or permission of instructor. N Maria Polinsky spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 152 Prosody and Intonation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Prosody and intonation are intricately linked to many domains of language use and linguistic structure. We examine the phonetic form of prosodic contours and intonational grouping, the function of prosody in expressing semantic and pragmatic information and in disambiguation during sentence production and comprehension, and the use of "implicit" prosody even in silent reading. Linguistics 101 or permission of instructor. N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 158 r From Indo-European to Old Irish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Essentials of Celtic historical and comparative grammar. Some acquaintance with either Indo-European or Old Irish. N fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 162 Incomplete Acquisition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course analyzes the structure of incompletely acquired languages. Emphasis will be on incomplete acquirers (heritage speakers) whose acquisition was interrupted at an early age. Empirical data from several incompletely acquired languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Armenian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog) will be examined to show how incomplete acquisition leads to constraint-based grammars with systematic similarities. Other topics: testing and education of heritage speakers, comparison of heritage speakers with speakers of pidgin and creole languages. N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 168 Introduction to Germanic Linguistics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the comparative and historical linguistics of the Germanic family, with emphasis on Gothic and the early medieval languages. Elementary knowledge of German, or another Germanic language, or permission of instructor. N Jay H. Jasanoff fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 171 Structure of Chinese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the syntactic structure of Mandarin Chinese: the basic structure of clauses and nominal constituents; words, compounds, and phrases; word order and variations; selected special topics (passives, resultatives, ba-construction, topic and relativized structures, questions, anaphora, pro drop); syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. Linguistics 102 in previous or current term or permission of instructor. N C.-T. James Huang spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 173 Linguistic Issues in the Teaching of Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of selected phenomena in Japanese phonology, morphology, and syntax with special attention to difficulties encountered in the acquisition of Japanese by adult native English speakers. Japanese 120b or its equivalent. Familiarity with basic linguistics concepts desirable. N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 174 Tense and Aspect in Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examination of phenomena of tense and aspect in Japanese, with special attention to verbal semantics and the interaction of temporal categories with modality and transitivity. Knowledge of Japanese equivalent to Japanese 120b, or familiarity with the linguistic structure of a non-Indo-European language, or permission of instructor. N Wesley Mark Jacobsen spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 175 Structure of Japanese Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the syntactic structure of Modern Japanese: the structure of clauses and noun phrases and other constituents; selected special topics such as word order and scrambling, relative clauses and other sentence modifiers, passives and causatives, case marking, etc., as they pertain to linguistic theory. Linguistics 102 in previous or current term or permission of instructor. // N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 176 History of the Japanese Language Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of evidence from the comparative method, internal reconstruction, and written documents for reconstructing prehistoric stages of the Japanese language and an overview of major developments in Japanese phonology and grammar from the Nara period through the present day. Knowledge of Japanese equivalent to Japanese 120b, or familiarity with historical linguistics, or permission of the instructor. // N Wesley Mark Jacobsen fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 185 Austronesian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is an in-depth investigation into comparative Austronesian syntax. The Austronesian language family -- roughly 1,200 genetically-related languages dispersed over an area encompassing Madagascar, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and islands of the Pacific -- exhibits several unusual properties: verb-first word order, ergativity, wh-agreement, articulated voice systems, and cleft structures. The course examines these phenomena from the perspective of comparative Austronesian syntax. // N Maria Polinsky fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 200 Second Language Acquisition Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An overview of second-language teaching and learning focused on theoretical models, learning objectives, developmental stages, materials design, and the use of new technology in teaching. The course explores the nature of second language acquisition, focused specifically on the needs of graduate students teaching a second language. This course must be taken SAT/UNSAT. N Stacey Katz Bourns fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 204 r Topics in Syntax Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examination of current issues in syntactic theory with focus on topics of interest to the class. N C.-T. James Huang fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 205 r The Syntax-Semantics Interface Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An exploration of issues related to the architecture of the grammar, with emphasis on the structures that are interpreted at the semantic interface, and how they are derived. N Amy Rose Deal fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 206 r Syntactic Structure and Argument Structure Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course What is the relationship between a predicate's semantic content and its syntactic realization? What is the relationship between a predicate's event structure and its argument structure? Does a predicate's semantics determine the syntactic frames it occurs in, or might it be the other way around? N fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 207 r Topics in Semantics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Current issues in semantics. Topics to possibly include: Scope and anaphoric properties of indefinites, quantificational variability and generic uses, long distance indefinites. N Gennaro Chierchia spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 212 Syntactic Theory II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is designed to enable students to follow current research in syntax. Topics vary from year to year; may include head movement, case and agreement, anaphora, functional categories, ellipsis, argument structure, constraints on movement and derivations, and on form-meaning mappings. Linguistics 102, equivalent, or permission of instructor. N C.-T. James Huang spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 215 Phonological Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course addresses topics of current interest in phonological theory, potentially including competing constraint grammar frameworks, learnability, naturalness biases, prosody, quantitative approaches (experimental or corpus-driven), variation, gradience, and the morphological interface. Linguistics 115. N Kevin Ryan spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 216 Semantic Theory II (formerly 207r) Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Linguistics 116. Designed to enable students to follow current research in semantics. Topics covered include: intensional contexts, indexicals, modalities, event based semantics, presuppositions, and formal theories of implicatures. Linguistics 116, equivalent, or permission of the instructor. N Gennaro Chierchia spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 219 Advanced Phonology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An examination of why phonological phenomena exist at all, and the nature of phonological computation. Primarily exemplification from harmony, reduplication, and meter. Design conditions imposed by economy, perception, articulation, the learning path, and the lexicon. Linguistics 114 or permission of instructor. N fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 220 ar Advanced Indo-European Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics in Indo-European comparative grammar. Conducted as a seminar. N Jay H. Jasanoff spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 221 r Workshop in Indo-European Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The topic for the year will be arranged in consultation with interested students. Conducted as a seminar. N Jeremy Rau fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 225 a Introduction to Hittite Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Grammar and reading of texts in cuneiform and in transliteration; essentials of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages of Anatolia. N Jeremy Rau fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 226 r Advanced Hittite Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Grammar and text readings in Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luvian. Provisions will be made for any student who wishes to begin Hittite. N spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 241 r Practicum in Linguistics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Presentation of reports on current research or assigned topics. Required of second- and third-year Linguistics graduate students. N Kevin Ryan spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 247 Topics in Germanic Linguistics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Investigation of selected topics in Germanic historical linguistics. N fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 250 Old Church Slavonic Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course History of the first Slavic literary language, its role in Slavic civilization; phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of Old Church Slavonic; reading from canonical texts. N Michael S. Flier fall term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 251 Advanced Readings in Church Slavonic Texts Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings in canonical Old Church Slavonic texts and later Church Slavonic redactions. Linguistics 250. N Michael S. Flier spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 252 Comparative Slavic Linguistics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the historical phonology and morphology of the Slavic languages with special attention to relative chronology and linguistic geography. Linguistics 250 N Michael S. Flier spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 290 Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will present and analyze theoretical and experimental aspects of heritage language study. A heritage language is a minority language that an individual was exposed to in childhood but never learned to full competence because of the switch to another language. The course will identify critical linguistic generalizations applying to heritage languages. We will test the universal principles of language structure that are expected to stay unchanged in any language. The students will also learn crucial methodologies and tools for investigating heritage languages and their speakers in an experimental setting. Class discussions will reflect the current social and political discourse surrounding heritage populations. The work done in this class will lead to the development of experimental methodologies and tools for studying and testing heritage languages in the classroom. N fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 300 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics 301 Reading or Special Topics Course Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Ma Introduction to Functions and Calculus I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The study of functions and their rates of change. Fundamental ideas of calculus are introduced early and used to provide a framework for the study of mathematical modeling involving algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Thorough understanding of differential calculus promoted by year long reinforcement. Applications to biology and economics emphasized according to the interests of our students. Required first meeting: Wednesday, August 31, 8:30 am, Science Center D. Participation in two, one and a half hour workshops are required each week. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning. This course, when taken for a letter grade together with Mathematics Mb, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Robin Gottlieb spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mb Introduction to Functions and Calculus II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continued investigation of functions and differential calculus through modeling; an introduction to integration with applications; an introduction to differential equations. Solid preparation for Mathematics 1b. Mathematics Ma. Required first Meeting in spring: Monday, January 23, 8:30 am, Science Center D. Participation in two, one and a half hour workshops are required each week. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning. This course, when taken for a letter grade together with Mathematics Ma, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Jy-Ying Janet Chen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 1 a Introduction to Calculus Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The development of calculus by Newton and Leibniz ranks among the greatest achievements of the past millennium. This course will help you see why by introducing: how differential calculus treats rates of change; how integral calculus treats accumulation; and how the fundamental theorem of calculus links the two. These ideas will be applied to problems from many other disciplines. A solid background in precalculus. Required first meeting in fall: Thursday, September 1, 8:30 am, Science Center C. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Peter McKee Garfield Oliver R. Knill fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 1 b Calculus, Series, and Differential Equations Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Speaking the language of modern mathematics requires fluency with the topics of this course: infinite series, integration, and differential equations. Model practical situations using integrals and differential equations. Learn how to represent interesting functions using series and find qualitative, numerical, and analytic ways of studying differential equations. Develop both conceptual understanding and the ability to apply it. Mathematics 1a, or Ma and Mb, or equivalent. Required first meeting in fall: Wednesday, August 31, 8:30 am, Science Center C. Required first meeting in spring: Monday, January 23, 8:30 am, Science Center C. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Clifford Taubes Robin Gottlieb fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 19 a Modeling and Differential Equations for the Life Sciences Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Considers the construction and analysis of mathematical models that arise in the life sciences, ecology and environmental life science. Introduces mathematics that include multivariable calculus, differential equations in one or more variables, vectors, matrices, and linear and non-linear dynamical systems. Taught via examples from current literature (both good and bad). This course is recommended over Math 21a for those planning to concentrate in the life sciences, chemistry, or ESPP. Can be taken with or without Mathematics 21a,b. Students with interests in the social sciences and economics might consider Mathematics 20. This course can be taken before or after Mathematics 20. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N John T. Hall John T. Hall spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 19 b Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics for the Life Sciences Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Probability, statistics and linear algebra with applications to life sciences, chemistry, and environmental life sciences. Linear algebra includes matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, determinants, and applications to probability, statistics, dynamical systems. Basic probability and statistics are introduced, as are standard models, techniques, and their uses including the central limit theorem, Markov chains, curve fitting, regression, and pattern analysis. This course is recommended over Math 21b for those planning to concentrate in the life sciences, chemistry, or ESPP. Can be taken with Mathematics 21a. Students who have seen some multivariable calculus can take Math 19b before Math 19a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Peter McKee Garfield fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 20 Algebra and Multivariable Mathematics for Social Sciences Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to linear algebra, including vectors, matrices, and applications. Calculus of functions of several variables, including partial derivatives, constrained and unconstrained optimization, and applications. Covers the topics from Mathematics 21a,b which are most important in applications to economics, the social sciences, and some other fields. Mathematics 1b or equivalent, or an A or A- in Mathematics 1a, or a 5 on the AB or a 3 or higher on the BC Advanced Placement Examinations in Mathematics. Should not ordinarily be taken in addition to Mathematics 21a,b. Examples drawn primarily from economics and the social sciences though Mathematics 20 may be useful to students in certain natural sciences. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Rachel Louise Epstein fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 21 a Multivariable Calculus Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course To see how calculus applies in practical situations described by more than one variable, we study: Vectors, lines, planes, parameterization of curves and surfaces, partial derivatives, directional derivatives, and the gradient, optimization and critical point analysis, including constrained optimization and the Method of Lagrange Multipliers, integration over curves, surfaces, and solid regions using Cartesian, polar, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates, divergence and curl of vector fields, and the Green's, Stokes', and Divergence Theorems. Mathematics 1b or equivalent. Required first meeting in fall: Thursday, September 1, 8:30 am, Science Center B. Required first meeting in spring: Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 am, Science Center C. May not be taken for credit by students who have passed Applied Mathematics 21a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. Activities using computers to calculate and visualize applications of these ideas will not require previous programming experience. Special sections for students interested in physics are offered each term. N Oliver R. Knill Jameel Habeeb Al-Aidroos Peter McKee Garfield fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 21 b Linear Algebra and Differential Equations Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Matrices provide the algebraic structure for solving myriad problems across the sciences. We study matrices and related topics such as vectors, Euclidean spaces, linear transformations, determinants, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors. Of applications given, a regular section considers dynamical systems and both ordinary and partial differential equations plus an introduction to Fourier series. Mathematics lb or equivalent. Mathematics 21a is commonly taken before Mathematics 21b, but is not a prerequisite, although familiarity with partial derivatives is useful. Required first meeting in fall: Wednesday, August 31, 8:30 am, Science Center B. Required first meeting in spring: Monday, January 23, 8:30 am, Science Center B. May not be taken for credit by students who have passed Applied Mathematics 21b. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Jy-Ying Janet Chen John T. Hall fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 23 a Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous, integrated treatment of linear algebra and multivariable differential calculus, emphasizing topics that are relevant to fields such as physics and economics. Topics: fields, vector spaces and linear transformations, scalar and vector products, elementary topology of Euclidean space, limits, continuity, and differentiation in n dimensions, eigenvectors and eigenvalues, inverse and implicit functions, manifolds, and Lagrange multipliers. Students are expected to master twenty important proofs. Mathematics 1b or a grade of 4 or 5 on the Calculus BC Advanced Placement Examination, plus an interest both in proving mathematical results and in using them. Course content overlaps substantially with Mathematics 21a,b, 25a,b, so students should plan to continue in Mathematics 23b. See the description in the introductory paragraphs in the Mathematics section of the catalog about the differences between Mathematics 23 and Mathematics 25. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Paul Bamberg spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 23 b Linear Algebra and Real Analysis II Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous, integrated treatment of linear algebra and multivariable calculus. Topics: Riemann and Lebesgue integration, determinants, change of variables, volume of manifolds, differential forms, and exterior derivative. Stokes's theorem is presented both in the language of vector analysis (div, grad, and curl) and in the language of differential forms. Students are expected to master twenty important proofs. Mathematics 23a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Paul Bamberg fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 25 a Honors Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous treatment of linear algebra. Topics include: Construction of number systems; fields, vector spaces and linear transformations; eigenvalues and eigenvectors, determinants and inner products. Metric spaces, compactness and connectedness. 5 on the Calculus BC Advanced Placement Examination and some familiarity with writing proofs, or the equivalent as determined by the instructor. Only for students with a strong interest and background in mathematics. There will be a heavy workload. May not be taken for credit after Mathematics 23. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Sarah Colleen Koch spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 25 b Honors Linear Algebra and Real Analysis II Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous treatment of basic analysis. Topics include: convergence, continuity, differentiation, the Riemann integral, uniform convergence, the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, Fourier series, differentiation in several variables. Additional topics, including the classical results of vector calculus in two and three dimensions, as time allows. Mathematics 23a or 25a or 55a. There will be a heavy workload. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Sarah Colleen Koch fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 55 a Honors Abstract Algebra Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous treatment of abstract algebra including linear algebra and group theory. Mathematics 55a is an intensive course for students having significant experience with abstract mathematics. Instructor's permission required. Every effort will be made to accommodate students uncertain of whether the course is appropriate for them; in particular, Mathematics 55a and 25a will be closely coordinated for the first three weeks of instruction. Students can switch between the two courses during the first three weeks without penalty. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. Y Yum-Tong Siu spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 55 b Honors Real and Complex Analysis Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A rigorous treatment of real and complex analysis. Mathematics 55b is an intensive course for students having significant experience with abstract mathematics. Instructor's permission required. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Yum-Tong Siu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 60 r Reading Course for Senior Honors Candidates Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Advanced reading in topics not covered in courses. Limited to candidates for honors in Mathematics who obtain the permission of both the faculty member under whom they want to work and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. May not count for concentration in Mathematics without special permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Graded Sat/Unsat only. Y Peter Kronheimer Peter Kronheimer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Programs of directed study supervised by a person approved by the Department. May not ordinarily count for concentration in Mathematics. Y Peter Kronheimer Peter Kronheimer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 99 r Tutorial Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised small group tutorial. Topics to be arranged. May be repeated for course credit with permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Only one tutorial may count for concentration credit. Y Peter Kronheimer Peter Kronheimer fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 101 Sets, Groups and Topology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to rigorous mathematics, axioms, and proofs, via topics such as set theory, symmetry groups, and low-dimensional topology. An interest in mathematical reasoning. Familiarity with algebra, geometry and/or calculus is desirable. Students who have already taken Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b or 55a,b should not take this course for credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Rachel Louise Epstein spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 110 Vector Space Methods for Differential Equations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Develops the theory of inner product spaces, both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional, and applies it to a variety of ordinary and partial differential equations. Topics: existence and uniqueness theorems, Sturm-Liouville systems, orthogonal polynomials, Fourier series, Fourier and Laplace transforms, eigenvalue problems, and solutions of Laplace's equation and the wave equation in the various coordinate systems. Mathematics 23ab or 25 ab, or Mathematics 21ab plus any Mathematics course at the 100 level. N Paul Bamberg spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 112 Introductory Real Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to mathematical analysis and the theory behind calculus. An emphasis on learning to understand and construct proofs. Covers limits and continuity in metric spaces, uniform convergence and spaces of functions, the Riemann integral. Mathematics 21a,b and either an ability to write proofs or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 101. Should not ordinarily be taken in addition to Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b or 55a,b. N Jacob Alexander Lurie spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 113 Analysis I: Complex Function Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analytic functions of one complex variable: power series expansions, contour integrals, Cauchy's theorem, Laurent series and the residue theorem. Some applications to real analysis, including the evaluation of indefinite integrals. An introduction to some special functions. Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b, or 112. Not to be taken after Mathematics 55b. N Horng-Tzer Yau fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 114 Analysis II: Measure, Integration and Banach Spaces Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Lebesgue measure and integration; general topology; introduction to L p spaces, Banach and Hilbert spaces, and duality. Mathematics 23, 25, 55, or 112. N Peter Kronheimer fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 115 Methods of Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Complex functions; Fourier analysis; Hilbert spaces and operators; Laplace's equations; Bessel and Legendre functions; symmetries; Sturm-Liouville theory. Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b, 55a,b, or 112. Mathematics 115 is especially for students interested in physics. N Horng-Tzer Yau fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 116 Convexity and Optimization with Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Develops the theory of convex sets, normed infinite-dimensional vector spaces, and convex functionals and applies it as a unifying principle to a variety of optimization problems such as resource allocation, production planning, and optimal control. Topics include Hilbert space, dual spaces, the Hahn-Banach theorem, the Riesz representation theorem, calculus of variations, and Fenchel duality. Students will be expected to understand and invent proofs of theorems in real and functional analysis. Mathematics 23ab, 25ab, or 55ab, or Mathematics 21ab plus at least one other more advanced course in mathematics. N Paul Bamberg spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 117 Probability and Random Processes with Economic Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A self-contained treatment of the theory of probability and random processes. Topics: axioms for probability, conditional probability, Poisson and normal distributions, random walks, laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem, Markov processes, martingales, and Poisson and diffusion processes. Applications to games of chance, the design of minimum-variance portfolios, and the Black-Scholes theory of option pricing. While emphasis will be on careful analysis of models, occasional guest lectures will explore applicability to the real world. Familiarity with multivariable calculus and linear algebra, e.g. Mathematics 21ab or 23ab. Prior experience with elementary probability (e.g. AP Statistics or Statistics 104) is desirable. N Paul Bamberg fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 118 r Dynamical Systems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to dynamical systems theory with a view toward applications. Topics include existence and uniqueness theorems for flows, qualitative study of equilibria and attractors, iterated maps, and bifurcation theory. Mathematics 21a,b. N Paul Bourgade fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 121 Linear Algebra and Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Real and complex vector spaces, dual spaces, linear transformations and Jordan normal forms. Inner product spaces. Applications to differential equations, classical mechanics, and optimization theory. Emphasizes learning to understand and write proofs. Mathematics 21b or equivalent. Should not ordinarily be taken in addition to Mathematics 23a, 25a, or 55a. N Vaibhav Suresh Gadre fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 122 Algebra I: Theory of Groups and Vector Spaces Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Groups and group actions, vector spaces and their linear transformations, bilinear forms and linear representations of finite groups. Mathematics 23a, 25a, 121; or 101 with the instructor's permission. Should not be taken in addition to Mathematics 55a. N Nir David Avni spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 123 Algebra II: Theory of Rings and Fields Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Rings and modules. Polynomial rings. Field extensions and the basic theorems of Galois theory. Structure theorems for modules. Mathematics 122 or 55a. N Joseph D. Harris fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 124 Number Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Factorization and the primes; congruences; quadratic residues and reciprocity; continued fractions and approximations; Pell's equation; selected Diophantine equations; theory of integral quadratic forms. Mathematics 122 (which may be taken concurrently) or equivalent. N Barry C. Mazur spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 129 Number Fields Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Algebraic number theory: number fields, unique factorization of ideals, finiteness of class group, structure of unit group, Frobenius elements, local fields, ramification, weak approximation, adeles, and ideles. Mathematics 123. N Mark Kisin spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 130 Classical Geometry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Presents axioms for several geometries (affine, projective, Euclidean, spherical, hyperbolic). Develops models for these geometries using three-dimensional vector spaces over the reals, or over finite fields. Emphasis on reading and writing proofs. Mathematics 21a,b, 23a, 25a or 55a (may be taken concurrently). N Michael J. Hopkins fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 131 Topology I: Topological Spaces and the Fundamental Group Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Abstract topological spaces; compactness, connectedness, continuity. Homeomorphism and homotopy, fundamental groups, covering spaces. Introduction to combinatorial topology. Some acquaintance with metric space topology (Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b, 55a,b, 101, or 112) and with groups (Mathematics 101, 122 or 55a). N Kirsten Graham Wickelgren spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 132 Topology II: Smooth Manifolds Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Differential manifolds, smooth maps and transversality. Winding numbers, vector fields, index and degree. Differential forms, Stokes' theorem, introduction to cohomology. Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b, 55a,b or 112. N Clifford Taubes fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 136 Differential Geometry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The exterior differential calculus and its application to curves and surfaces in 3-space and to various notions of curvature. Introduction to Riemannian geometry in higher dimensions and to symplectic geometry. Advanced calculus and linear algebra. N Xinwen Zhu spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 137 Algebraic Geometry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Affine and projective spaces, plane curves, Bezout's theorem, singularities and genus of a plane curve, Riemann-Roch theorem. Mathematics 123. N Dennis Gaitsgory fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 141 Introduction to Mathematical Logic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to mathematical logic with applications to computer science and algebra. Formal languages. Completeness and compactness of first order logic. Definability and interpolation. Decidability. Unsolvable problems. Computable functions and Turing machines. Recursively enumerable sets. Transfinite induction. Any mathematics course at the level of Mathematics 21a,b or higher, or permission of instructor. N Gerald E. Sacks spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 143 Set Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Axioms of set theory. Godel's constructible universe. Consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis. Cohen's forcing method. Independence of the AC and GCH. Any mathematics course at the level of Mathematics 21a or higher, or permission of instructor. N Gerald E. Sacks fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 144 Model Theory and Algebra Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to model theory with applications to fields and groups. First order languages, structures, and definable sets. Compactness, completeness, and back-and-forth constructions. Quantifier elimination for algebraically closed, differentially closed, and real closed fields. Omitting types, prime extensions, existence and uniqueness of the differential closure, saturation, and homogeneity. Forking, independence, and rank. Mathematics 123 or the equivalent is suggested as a prerequisite, but not required. N Gerald E. Sacks fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 152 Discrete Mathematics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to finite groups, finite fields, finite geometry, discrete probability, and graph theory. A unifying theme of the course is the symmetry group of the regular icosahedron, whose elements can be realized as permutations, as linear transformations of vector spaces over finite fields, as collineations of a finite plane, or as vertices of a graph. Taught in a seminar format, and students will gain experience in presenting proofs at the blackboard. Mathematics 21b or equivalent. Students who have taken Mathematics 23a,b, 25a,b or 55a,b should not take this course for credit. N Juliana Victoria Belding fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 153 Mathematical Biology-Evolutionary Dynamics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces basic concepts of mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics: evolution of genomes, quasi-species, finite and infinite population dynamics, chaos, game dynamics, evolution of cooperation and language, spatial models, evolutionary graph theory, infection dynamics, somatic evolution of cancer. Mathematics 21a,b. N Prof Martin A. Nowak spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 154 Probability Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to probability theory. Discrete and continuous random variables; distribution and density functions for one and two random variables; conditional probability. Generating functions, weak and strong laws of large numbers, and the central limit theorem. Geometrical probability, random walks, and Markov processes. A previous mathematics course at the level of Mathematics 19ab, 21ab, or higher. For students from 19ab or 21ab, previous or concurrent enrollment in Math 101 or 112 may be helpful. Freshmen who did well in Math 23, 25 or 55 last term are also welcome to take the course. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning and the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Paul Bourgade fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 155 r Combinatorics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to counting techniques and other methods in finite mathematics. Possible topics include: the inclusion-exclusion principle and Mobius inversion, graph theory, generating functions, Ramsey's theorem and its variants, probabilistic methods. The ability to read and write mathematical proofs. Some familiarity with group theory (Math 122 or equivalent.) N Jacob Alexander Lurie fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 167 Introduction to Symplectic Geometry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The basics of symplectic geometry with applications to Hamiltonian mechanics and other areas of physics and geometry. Linear algebra and advanced calculus. N Shlomo Z. Sternberg fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 212 a Real Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces and functional analysis. Distributions, spectral theory and the Fourier transform. Mathematics 114 or equivalent. N Shlomo Z. Sternberg spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 212 br Advanced Real Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Mathematics 212ar. The spectral theorem for self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space. Applications to partial differential equations. Mathematics 212ar and 213a. N Antti Knowles fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 213 a Complex Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A second course in complex analysis: series, product and partial fraction expansions of holomorphic functions; Hadamard's theorem; conformal mapping and the Riemann mapping theorem; elliptic functions; Picard's theorem and Nevanlinna Theory. Mathematics 55b or 113. N Joseph D. Harris spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 213 br Advanced Complex Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamentals of Riemann surfaces. Topics may include sheaves and cohomology, potential theory, uniformization, and moduli. Mathematics 213a. N Yum-Tong Siu fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 221 Commutative Algebra Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A first course in commutative algebra: Noetherian rings and modules, Hilbert basis theorem, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, integral dependence, Noether normalization, the Nullstellensatz, localization, primary decomposition, discrete valuation rings, filtrations, completions and dimension theory. Mathematics 123. N spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 222 Lie Groups and Lie Algebras Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Lie theory, including the classification of semi-simple Lie algebras and/or compact Lie groups and their representations. Mathematics 114, 123 and 132. N Wilfried Schmid fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 223 a Algebraic Number Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A graduate introduction to algebraic number theory. Topics: the structure of ideal class groups, groups of units, a study of zeta functions and L-functions, local fields, Galois cohomology, local class field theory, and local duality. Mathematics 129. N spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 223 b Algebraic Number Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Mathematics 223a. Topics: adeles, global class field theory, duality, cyclotomic fields. Other topics may include: Tate's thesis or Euler systems. Mathematics 223a. N spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 224 Representations of Reductive Lie Groups Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Harish-Chandra modules, characters, the discrete series, classification of irreducible representations, Plancherel theorem. N spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 229 x Introduction to Analytic Number Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Fundamental methods, results, and problems of analytic number theory. Riemann zeta function and the Prime Number Theorem; Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions; lower bounds on discriminants from functional equations; sieve methods, analytic estimates on exponential sums, and their applications. Mathematics 113, 123 N Barry C. Mazur fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 230 a Differential Geometry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Elements of differential geometry: Lie groups, vector bundles, principle bundles, connections, curvature, Chern classes, geodesics, Riemannian curvature, introduction to complex and Kahler manifolds. Mathematics 132 or equivalent. N Hao Xu spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 230 br Advanced Differential Geometry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of Mathematics 230a. Topics in differential geometry: Analysis on manifolds. Laplacians. Hodge theory. Spin structures. Clifford algebras. Dirac operators. Index theorems. Applications. Mathematics 230a. N Shlomo Z. Sternberg fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 231 a Algebraic Topology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covering spaces and fibrations. Simplicial and CW complexes, Homology and cohomology, universal coefficients and Kunneth formulas. Hurewicz theorem. Manifolds and Poincare duality. Mathematics 131 and 132. N Michael J. Hopkins spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 231 br Advanced Algebraic Topology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Mathematics 231a. Vector bundles and characteristic classes. Bott periodicity. K-theory, cobordism and stable cohomotopy as examples of cohomology theories. Mathematics 231a. N Peter Kronheimer fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 232 a Introduction to Algebraic Geometry I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to complex algebraic curves, surfaces, and varieties. Mathematics 123 and 132. N Xinwen Zhu spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 232 br Introduction to Algebraic Geometry II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course will cover the classification of complex algebraic surfaces. Mathematics 232a. N Xinwen Zhu fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 233 a Theory of Schemes I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the theory and language of schemes. Textbooks: Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne and Geometry of Schemes by David Eisenbud and Joe Harris. Weekly homework will constitute an important part of the course. Mathematics 221 and 232a or permission of instructor. N Junecue Suh spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 233 br Theory of Schemes II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of Mathematics 233a. Will cover the theory of schemes, sheaves, and sheaf cohomology. Mathematics 233a. N Junecue Suh spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 243 Evolutionary Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced topics of evolutionary dynamics. Seminars and research projects. Experience with mathematical biology at the level of Mathematics 153. N Prof Martin A. Nowak spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 251 x Vanishing of Torsion in the Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The goal of this course is to understand the results of Lan and Suh on the vanishing torsion in the cohomology of certain Shimura varieties of PEL types. N Keerthi Shyam Madapusi Sampath fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 254 y Geometry with Valuations Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Possible topics: elimination of quantifiers in Henselian valued fields, motivic integration, stably dominated types, Berkovich spaces, tropicalization. N Nir David Avni spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 259 x Analytic Theory of Modular Forms Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to automorphic forms on GL(2) from a classical perspective and an explanation of their use in studying analytic problems such as Duke's theorem, Hilbert's eleventh problem, and subconvexity. N Noam D. Elkies fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 261 y von Neumann Algebras Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the theory of von Neumann algebras, emphasizing their applications to the study of topological field theories. N Jacob Alexander Lurie fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 262 y Perverse Sheaves in Representation Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to perverse sheaves with a view towards modular representation theory. Possible topics: the geometric Satake theorem, Springer theory and (modular) Deligne-Lusztig theory. N Carl Mautner fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 265 y Topics in the Moduli Theory of Sheaves Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the geometry of moduli spaces of stable sheaves on curves and surfaces. Topics may include Verlinde formula, Donaldson-Thomas invariants, etc. N Baosen Wu spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 266 x Categorical Homotopy Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of categorical tools for homotopy theory emphasizing the formal relationships among the following topics: weak factorization systems, model categories; enriched categories; Kan extensions, derived functors; homotopy colimits, the bar construction; infinity categories. N Emily Elizabeth Riehl fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 268 x Graph Limits Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the emerging field of relating large graphs to analytical objects. Topics may include: ultra-limit method and Szemeredi regularity, constant-time algorithms, Borel graphs and measurable equivalence relations, Gromov's sofic groups. N Gabor P. Lippner fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 270 Advanced Probability Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The axioms of Kolmogorov, convergence and limit theorems, random walks, martingales and Markov processes in discrete time, concentration of measure and large deviations. Basic measure theory; some elementary probability theory is recommended but not required. N Antti Knowles spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 271 y Probability Theory and Stochastic Process Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course We will cover the construction of Brownian motions and develop the Ito calculus. We will review discrete martingale and stopping time. A knowledge of measure theory and basic probability is required. N Horng-Tzer Yau spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 273 y Contact Geometry in 3 Dimensions Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to contact structures on 3-manifolds. Topics: the classification of overtwisted structures, symplectic fillings and tightness, convex surface theory and bypasses, Legendrian knots, open book decompositions and the Giroux correspondence. N Steven Sivek fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 285 x Representations of Reductive Groups over Local Non-Archimedian Fields Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A presentation of the theory of irreducible representations of split groups and reductive groups G over local non-archimedian fields. An explanation of parametrization of connected components of the space of irreducible representations of G and a description of the local behavior of characters of irreducible representations of G. N David Kazhdan fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 287 y Geometry of Algebraic Curves Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will survey the geometry of Riemann surfaces/algebraic curves, in the abstract and in projective space, with examples. N Joseph D. Harris spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 288 x The Kahler-Einstein Metrics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the existence problem of Kahler-Einstein metric on algebraic manifolds. N Hao Xu fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 289 x Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will cover the basics of equivariant stable homotopy theory and go through the solution of the Kervaire invariant problem. N Michael J. Hopkins fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 291 x Seminar on Geometric Representation Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of topics on geometric representation theory. N David Kazhdan spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 298 Random Matrices Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to random matrix theory. Topics: Wigner matrices, Gaussian and circular ensembles, Dyson's Brownian motion, determinantal processes, orthogonal polynomials, bulk and edge scaling limits, beta ensembles, continuum limits, and various recent applications. N Alexander Bloemendal fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 299 Graduate Tutorial in Number Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An advanced topics course in algebraic number theory. Material will be taken from research papers, both classical and contemporary, and the presentation will involve significant participation from the students. Enrollment limited, please contact the professor before registering. Y Mark Kisin Dennis Gaitsgory fall term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 300 Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Become an effective instructor. This course focuses on observation, practice, feedback, and reflection providing insight into teaching and learning. Involves iterated videotaped micro-teaching sessions, accompanied by individual consultations. Required of all mathematicsgraduate students. Y Robin Gottlieb fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 304 Topics in Algebraic Topology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael J. Hopkins Michael J. Hopkins fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 308 Topics in Number Theory and Modular Forms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Benedict H. Gross Benedict H. Gross fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 313 Topics in Geometrical Representation Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xinwen Zhu Xinwen Zhu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 314 Topics in Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Shlomo Z. Sternberg Shlomo Z. Sternberg fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 316 Topics in Algebraic Topology / Arithmetic Geometry Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Kirsten Graham Wickelgren Kirsten Graham Wickelgren fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 317 Topics in Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Joseph David Rabinoff Joseph David Rabinoff fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 318 Topics in Number Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Barry C. Mazur Barry C. Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 320 Topics in Deformation Theory Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Hao Xu Hao Xu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 321 Topics in Mathematical Physics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Arthur Jaffe Arthur Jaffe fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 327 Topics in Several Complex Variables Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yum-Tong Siu Yum-Tong Siu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 332 Topics in Algebraic Geometry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yu-jong Tzeng Yu-jong Tzeng fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 333 Topics in Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Curtis T. McMullen Curtis T. McMullen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 335 Topics in Differential Geometry and Analysis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Clifford Taubes Clifford Taubes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 336 Topics in Mathematical Logic Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Rachel Louise Epstein Rachel Louise Epstein fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 341 Topics in Number Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Keerthi Shyam Madapusi Sampath Keerthi Shyam Madapusi Sampath fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 345 Topics in Geometry and Topology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Kronheimer Peter Kronheimer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 346 y Topics in Analysis: Quantum Dynamics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Horng-Tzer Yau Horng-Tzer Yau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 350 Topics in Mathematical Logic Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald E. Sacks Gerald E. Sacks fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 351 Topics in Algebraic Number Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard L. Taylor Richard L. Taylor fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 352 Topics in Algebraic Number Theory Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Mark Kisin Mark Kisin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 355 Topics in Category Theory and Homotopy Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Emily Elizabeth Riehl Emily Elizabeth Riehl fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 356 Topics in Harmonic Analysis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wilfried Schmid Wilfried Schmid fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 358 Topics in Arithmetic Geometry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Junecue Suh Junecue Suh fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 365 Topics in Differential Geometry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 366 Topics in Probability and Analytic Number Theory Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Paul Bourgade Paul Bourgade fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 377 Topics in Number Theory Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Sophie Marguerite Morel Sophie Marguerite Morel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 381 Introduction to Geometric Representation Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dennis Gaitsgory Dennis Gaitsgory fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 382 Topics in Algebraic Geometry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joseph D. Harris Joseph D. Harris fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 388 Topics in Mathematics and Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Prof Martin A. Nowak Prof Martin A. Nowak fall term; repeated spring term Department of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics 389 Topics in Number Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Noam D. Elkies Noam D. Elkies fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BBS 301 Teaching Practicum Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Course for TAs currently teaching in an approved BBS Core Course. Goals of this course: to better prepare TAs for the course they are working on, and to teach skills in instruction and curriculum planning. Y David Van Vactor David Van Vactor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BBS 333 r Introduction to Research in Biological and Biomedical Sciences Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course BBS students register for lab rotations under this course number. Y David Van Vactor David Van Vactor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BBS 380 Reading and Research in Biological and Biomedical Sciences Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Van Vactor David Van Vactor fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 200 Molecular Biology Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course An advanced treatment of molecular biology's Central Dogma. Considers the molecular basis of information transfer from DNA to RNA to protein, using examples from eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems. Lectures, discussion groups, and research seminars. Intended primarily for graduate students familiar with basic molecular biology or with strong biology/chemistry background. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BP 723.0. N Dr Richard Ian Gregory spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 201 Proteins: Structure, Function and Catalysis Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Macromolecular structure with emphasis on biochemistry , interactions and catalysis in cellular processes and pathways. Links between theory and observation will emerge from discussion of fundamental principles, computational approaches and experimental methods. The course is intended for all Division of Medical Sciences (DMS) graduate students and is open to advanced undergraduates. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BP 714.0. N Dr Stephen C. Blacklow Dr Gaudenz Danuser Peter Sorger Stephen C. Harrison spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 207 Molecular Approaches to Drug Action, Discovery, and Design Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Application of molecular, systems, and structural biology, genetics, genomics, enzymology, and chemistry to drug action and development of new therapies. Analyzes molecular underpinnings of pharmacological principles. Examples drawn from diseases including cancer and AIDS. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BP 715.0. Primarily for graduate students. N Donald Coen Nathanael Schiander Gray spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 213 Behavioral Pharmacology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Introduction to CNS pharmacology and behavior in seminar format. Effects of psychomotor stimulants, antischizophrenics, opioid analgesics, and antianxiety agents on behavior. Emphasis on methodology and pharmacological analysis; attention to tolerance, drug dependence/addiction. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BP 719.0. Y Dr Jack Bergman Dr Carol Anne Paronis fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 218 Molecular Medicine Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 35 A seminar on various human diseases and their underlying genetic or biochemical bases. Primary scientific papers discussed. Lectures by faculty and seminars conducted by students, faculty supervision. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Faculty mentors will guide student-led discussions of the papers. Jointly offered with the Medical School as HT 140. Y Dr Irving Myer London David Cohen Dr George Quentin Daley fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 228 Macromolecular NMR Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory and practice of modern methods of macromolecular structure determination using multi-dimensional NMR. Given in alternate years. Offered jointly with the Medical School as BP 722.0. Classroom lectures on Mondays and Fridays. The course will include classroom lectures, practical training and hands-on problem solving. The latter includes basic aspects of spectrometer operation, computer-based assignment of protein NMR spectra and structure calculation. N Gerhard Wagner James Chou fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 230 Principles and Practice of Drug Development Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Critical assessment of the major issues and stages of developing a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical. Drug discovery, preclinical development, clinical investigation, manufacturing and regulatory issues considered for small and large molecules. Economic considerations of the drug development process. N Stan Neil Finkelstein Dr Robert Harold Rubin spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 234 Cellular Metabolism and Human Disease Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Cellular and organismal metabolism, with focus on interrelationships between key metabolic pathways and human disease states. Genetic and acquired metabolic diseases and functional consequences. Interactive lectures and critical reading conferences are integrated with clinical encounters. Knowledge of introductory biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology required (MCB 52 and 54 or equivalent); one year of organic chemistry. Also listed as MCB 234. Lectures for this class are transmitted live to and from electronic classrooms located at HMS and in Cambridge; the inter-campus video link permits real-time interactions between students and faculty at each site. Small conference sections are held on both campuses; weekly clinical encounters take place only at the HMS classroom. N Thomas Michel Alain Viel Robert A. Lue fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 235 Principles of Human Disease: Physiology and Pathology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers the normal physiology and pathophysiology of selected organs, through lectures, readings, tutorials based on clinical cases, and patient presentations. Human biology is emphasized, with some examples also drawn from model organisms. Knowledge of introductory biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology required (MCB52 and MCB54 or equivalent and one year of organic chemistry for undergraduates). N Connie Cepko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 300 Enzyme Mechanisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Christopher T. Walsh Christopher T. Walsh fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 301 qc Translational Pharmacology Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Intensive January course covering basic principles of pharmacology and how they are translated into the development of new drugs. Meets for 10 days in January. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Donald Coen David Golan Donald Coen David Golan fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 302 qc Molecular Movies: Introduction to 3D Visualization with Maya Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 8 Introduction to advanced scientific visualization techniques using leading 3D software packages and "Molecular Maya." Focus will be placed on adapting existing 3D modeling/animation tools for purposes of visualizing biological processes. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 303 qc Molecular Movies: Advanced 3D Visualization with Maya Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 18 Explore Maya's vast visualization toolset. Advanced techniques in each of the phases of the 3D production pipeline will be presented including dynamics systems like Hair, nCloth, nParticles and PaintFx. Introduction to Maya's Embedded Language (MEL). Molecular Movies: Introduction to 3D Visualization with Maya required. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 304 qc Stem Cells: Properties and Applications Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 20 Provides students with an understanding of the fundamental concepts and approaches of stem cell biology, including adult stem cells, pluripotent stem cells, and cancer stem cells. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Derrick J Rossi Dr Carla Kim spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 307 qc Approaches to Drug Action, Discovery, and Design Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Application of molecular, systems, and structural biology, genetics, genomics, enzymology, and chemistry to drug action and development of new therapies. Analyzes molecular underpinnings of pharmacological principles. Examples drawn from diseases including cancer and AIDS. Y Donald Coen Nathanael Schiander Gray fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 309 Regulation of Membrane Protein and Lipid Dynamics: Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Implications Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Golan David Golan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 310 Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Action Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Morris Francis White Jr Dr Morris Francis White Jr fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 311 Structure of Viruses, Viral Proteins, Receptors, Transcription Factors Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stephen C. Harrison Stephen C. Harrison fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 314 Protein NMR Spectroscopy of Membrane Protein Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James Chou James Chou fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 315 Growth Factor Structure and Function Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Michael Klagsbrun Dr Michael Klagsbrun fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 316 Signal Transduction and Phosphorylation in Heart Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Maria Irene Kontaridis Dr Maria Irene Kontaridis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 317 Signal Transduction and Related Molecular Pathophysiology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Steven E. Shoelson Dr Steven E. Shoelson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 319 Histone Variants and Chromosome Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kamran Ahmad Dr Kamran Ahmad fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 320 Systems and Synthetic Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Pamela A. Silver Pamela A. Silver fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 322 Thyroid Hormone Metabolism and Action Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Antonio C. Bianco Dr Antonio C. Bianco fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 324 Structure and Replication of DNA Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles C. Richardson Charles C. Richardson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 325 Genomic Instability and Cancer Susceptibility Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Alan David D'Andrea Dr Alan David D'Andrea fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 328 Computational Analysis of Sequence Variation and Divergence Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev Dr Shamil R. Sunyaev fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 329 Structure Biology of Cytoplasmic Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael Eck Michael Eck fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 332 Structural Neurology Thesis Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Peter Thomas Lansbury Dr Peter Thomas Lansbury fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 335 Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Eukaryotic Gene Expression Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stephen Buratowski Stephen Buratowski fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 337 Drosophila Molecular Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Welcome Bender Welcome Bender fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 338 Gene regulation in yeast and cancer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kevin Struhl Kevin Struhl fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 339 Regulation of the Cellular Uptake of Macromolecular Nutrients Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marianne Wessling-Resnick Marianne Wessling-Resnick fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 340 Biologically Active Small Molecules Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jon Clardy Jon Clardy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 343 Molecular Genetics of Herpes Viruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donald Coen Donald Coen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 344 Molecular Pharmacology of Excitable Membranes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Strichartz Gary Strichartz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 345 Transcription Factors in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Alan B. Cantor Dr Alan B. Cantor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 348 Chromatin and Cancer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Charles M. Roberts Dr Charles M. Roberts fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 349 Targeting Deregulated Apoptotic and Transcriptional Pathways in Cancer Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Loren David Walensky Dr Loren David Walensky fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 352 Chemical Mediators in Inflammation and Resolution Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles Nicholas Serhan Charles Nicholas Serhan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 353 Epigenomics and Chromatin Systems Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yujiang (Geno) Shi Yujiang (Geno) Shi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 355 Transcriptional Control of Hematopoiesis and Leukemia Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Hanno Reinhard Hock Dr Hanno Reinhard Hock fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 356 NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins and Metabolites Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerhard Wagner Gerhard Wagner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 358 Targeting Apoptosis Regulation in Cancer Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Anthony George Letai Dr Anthony George Letai fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 359 Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elaine Elion Elaine Elion fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 360 Regeneration of Cartilage and Skeletal Muscle Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Lassar Andrew Lassar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 361 X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Viruses and Proteins Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James M. Hogle James M. Hogle fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 362 Eukaryotic Survival Decisions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David E. Fisher David E. Fisher fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 363 The Mechanics and Regulation of Mitosis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Steven Pellman Dr David Steven Pellman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 366 Stem Cells in Disease and Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr George Quentin Daley Dr George Quentin Daley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 370 Advanced Topics in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 371 Maintenance of genome stability in S phase Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Johannes Walter Johannes Walter fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 374 Growth Factors and Signal Transduction Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Michael R. Freeman Dr Michael R. Freeman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 375 Biomolecular Nanotechnology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr William Shih Dr William Shih fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 376 Mechanisms of Action of Antibiotics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Kahne Daniel Kahne fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 377 Quantitative Proteomics of Cancer Progression Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jarrod Marto Dr Jarrod Marto fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 378 Mechanisms of Hepatic Cholesterol Elimination Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Cohen David Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 379 Biochemical and Molecular Regulation of Vascular Growth Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Marsha Moses Dr Marsha Moses fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 381 Functional Small Molecules for Biological Discovery Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nathanael Schiander Gray Nathanael Schiander Gray fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 382 Mechanisms of RNAi in Stem Cells Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Richard Ian Gregory Dr Richard Ian Gregory fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 384 Embryonic stem cells, Nuclear Transfer, Cancer, Reprogramming Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Konrad Hochedlinger Dr Konrad Hochedlinger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 385 Control of Gene Expression in Tumorgenesis and Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Thomas M. Roberts Thomas M. Roberts fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 386 Kinase Signaling in Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jean J. Zhao Dr Jean J. Zhao fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 388 Single-molecule studies of DNA repair Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Joseph John Loparo Dr Joseph John Loparo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 389 Chromatin and DNA Dynamics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Timur Yusufzai Dr Timur Yusufzai fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 390 Gene Regulation Studied with Small Molecules Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James Elliott Bradner James Elliott Bradner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 391 Redox biology, trace elements and aging Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Vadim Gladyshev Dr Vadim Gladyshev fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BCMP 392 Genomic and Epigenomic Susceptibility to Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Aditi Hazra Dr Aditi Hazra spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 201 Molecular Biology of the Cell Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Molecular basis of cellular compartmentalization, protein trafficking, cytoskeleton dynamics, mitosis, cell locomotion, cell cycle regulation, signal transduction, cell-cell interaction, cell death, and cellular/biochemical basis of diseases. Methodological focus on light microscopy as a research tool. Basic knowledge in biochemistry, genetics and cell biology. Offered jointly with the Medical School as CB 713.0. N Dr Sheila Thomas Joan V. Ruderman spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 207 Developmental Biology: Molecular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Development Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course 25 Analyzes the developmental programs of frog, chick, zebrafish, and mouse embryos, emphasizing experimental strategies for understanding the responsible molecular mechanisms that pattern the vertebrate embryo. Morphogenesis, organogenesis, stem cells and regeneration will also be discussed. Offered jointly with the Medical School as CB 710.0. Includes lectures and conference sessions in which original literature is discussed in depth. Short research proposals are required in lieu of exams. N Andrew Lassar spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 211 Molecular and Systems Level Cancer Cell Biology Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the molecular basis of cancer formation including alterations in signal transduction pathways, cell cycle machinery, cell metabolism and apoptosis. Describes novel systems biology proteomic approaches to study cancer cell interactomes. General knowledge of biochemistry, molecular genetics, and cell biology. Given alternate years with Cell Biology 212. Offered jointly with the Medical School as CB 704.0. N Piotr Sicinski Dr Jarrod Marto Dr Marc Vidal spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 212 Biology of the Cancer Cell Lecture with sections Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the molecular basis of human cancer, including lung, breast, prostate, melanoma and leukemia. Concepts including stem cells, senescence, genomic instability, angiogenesis, oncogenes, tumor suppressors and viruses in human cancer will be examined. Advanced biochemistry, molecular genetics, and cell biology. Given alternate years with Cell Biology 211. N Dr James A. DeCaprio spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 225 Hormonally Active Pollutants and Human Disease Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course surprising number of environmental pollutants can mimic or interfere with developmental and physiological effects of hormones. This course examines landmark discoveries and legislation, and emphasizes current work in this emerging area. Intended for interested students from all concentrations. N Joan V. Ruderman fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 226 Concepts in Development, Self-Renewal, and Repair Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Explores developmental mechanisms through the life cycle, contrasting pluripotency and cell fate restriction in embryos and adult tissues. In depth analysis of in vivo approaches, with emphasis on adult stem cells, tissue repair and self-renewal. Upper division cell biology or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Medical School as CB 721.0. For more information visit: <a href="http://www2.massgeneral.org/bbs/cb-226.htm">Massachusetts General</a>. N Dr Iain A. Drummond Dr Nadarajah N. Nanthakumar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 300 Advanced Topics in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 301 qc The Epidemiology and Molecular Pathology of Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course In-depth introduction to the epidemiology and molecular pathology of cancer. Explore multiple types of cancer: breast, colon, lung, prostate and brain, through a series of lectures and hands-on practice tutorials January 3 - 13, 2012. This is a January course. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Massimo Loda Lorelei Ann Mucci Dr Massimo Loda Lorelei Ann Mucci spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 302 qc Advanced Experimental Design for Biologists Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 24 Theory and practice of experimental design. Build on principles from experimental design boot camp. Conducted in workshop setting to apply those principles to current student projects. Emphasis placed on interpretation and strategic project planning. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Randy King spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 303 qc Hormonally Active Pollutants and Human Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Examine key experiments that led to the concept of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, look at current work in this emerging area, emphasis on molecular mechanisms, consider how this work impacts on the development of regulatory policy. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Joan V. Ruderman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 304 qc Introduction to Human Gross Anatomy Lecture and Lab Graduate Course Quarter course 10 Lectures, laboratory dissections, and prosections to explore the gross structure and function of the human body. Provide a foundation to acquire practical skills in recognizing, dissecting, and differentiating key anatomical structures. Open to graduate students only. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 304 Regulation of the Cell Cycle Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joan V. Ruderman Joan V. Ruderman fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 305 qc Intracellular transport Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course This course will provide a practical guide to understanding vesicular transport. Key elements of this process, and also interdisciplinary areas that exemplify physiologic roles played by this fundamental process, will be selected for discussion. Y Victor Hsu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 305 Bone Cells Differentiation, Function and Signaling Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Roland Baron Dr Roland Baron fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 306 qc Teaching 100: The Theory and Science of Teaching Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 15 We will explore the history of teaching theory through modern times and evaluate the available data for why and how theory translates into effective teaching with a particular focus on teaching in the natural sciences. Y David Van Vactor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 306 Chromatin Dynamics in metabolism and DNA repair Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Raul Mostoslavsky Dr Raul Mostoslavsky spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 307 qc Molecular Aspects of Chromatin Dynamics Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 25 Discuss chromatin dynamics in modulating cellular processes. Cover molecular mechanisms that regulate chromatin dynamics. How chromatin itself modulates biological processes, including mechanisms of inheritance. Discuss DNA methylation, histone modifications, nucleosome dynamics and novel epigenetic modulators. Y Dr Raul Mostoslavsky Dr Lee Zou Johnathan Whetstine Danesh Moazed fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 307 Cell-Cell Signaling in Neural Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John G. Flanagan John G. Flanagan spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 308 qc Introduction to Histology Lecture and Lab Graduate Course Quarter course 11 The study of structure and how structure relates to function, in cells and tissues. Y Adrian Salic Stephen Liberles fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 308 Membrane Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dennis A Ausiello Dennis A Ausiello fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 309 Coupled Interactions in Gene Expression Factories Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robin E. Reed Robin E. Reed fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 310 Mechanisms of Vertebrate Hedgehog Signaling Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Adrian Salic Adrian Salic fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 312 Molecular Mechanisms of Transcriptional Control Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Anders Naar Anders Naar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 313 Systems Biology of Mammalian Signal Transduction Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Sorger Peter Sorger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 314 Molecular Biology of Extracellular Matrix Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bjorn R. Olsen Bjorn R. Olsen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 316 Mechanism and Function of Intracellular Protein Turnover Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Alfred L. Goldberg Alfred L. Goldberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 317 Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Junying Yuan Junying Yuan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 318 Molecular Biology of Cell Growth Regulation and Transformation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Blenis John Blenis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 321 Neuronal Pathfinding and Synaptogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Van Vactor David Van Vactor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 324 Tissue-specific Leukocyte Trafficking in Health and Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jorge Rodrigo Mora Dr Jorge Rodrigo Mora fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 326 Signal Transduction During Early Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Malcolm Whitman Malcolm Whitman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 328 Single-molecule biology and visualization of cellular dynamics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tomas Kirchhausen Tomas Kirchhausen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 329 The Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Finley Daniel Finley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 331 Mechanochemical Regulation of Cytoskeleton Dynamics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Gaudenz Danuser Dr Gaudenz Danuser fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 332 Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Steven Gygi Steven Gygi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 333 Electron Microscopic Structure Determination Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Thomas Walz Thomas Walz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 335 Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lewis Cantley Lewis Cantley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 336 Signal Transduction in Normal and Transformed Cells Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joan S. Brugge Joan S. Brugge fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 339 Cell Morphogenesis and Regulation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marc Kirschner Marc Kirschner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 340 Dissection of Angiogenic Signaling in Zebrafish Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joanne Chan Dr Joanne Chan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 341 Centriole, Centrosome and Cilium: Biogenesis, Function and Evolution Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tomer Avidor-Reiss Tomer Avidor-Reiss fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 342 Cytoskeleton in Development and Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Sheila Thomas Dr Sheila Thomas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 343 Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Differentiation and Gene Expression Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bruce Spiegelman Bruce Spiegelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 344 Molecular Mechanism of Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xi He Xi He fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 345 Protein Transport Across the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tom Rapoport Tom Rapoport fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 346 Molecular Basis of Human Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Andrius Kazlauskas Dr Andrius Kazlauskas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 347 Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Insulin Action Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr C. Ronald Kahn Dr C. Ronald Kahn fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 349 Gene Silencing and Chromosome Structure Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Danesh Moazed Danesh Moazed fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 351 Cardiovascular Stem Cells in Development and Disease Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Kenneth Chien Dr Kenneth Chien fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 354 Basic and Applied Mechanisms of Intracellular Transport Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Victor Hsu Victor Hsu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 356 Cell Growth Regulation, Telomere Maintenance, Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kun Ping Lu Dr Kun Ping Lu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 358 Mechanisms of Tumor Metastasis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Bruce Robert Zetter Dr Bruce Robert Zetter fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 359 Intracellular Signaling Pathways in the Regulation of Cell Growth and Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Frank David Frank fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 362 Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Hypertension, Hypoxia, Inflammation, and Stem Cell Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Stella Kourembanas Dr Stella Kourembanas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 364 The Structure of the Nucleus and the Dynamics of Nuclear Transport Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frank McKeon Frank McKeon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 365 Mechanism and biology of ubiquitin-like protein conjugation cascades Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wade Harper Wade Harper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 366 Mitochondria in Aging and Metabolism Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Marcia C. Haigis Dr Marcia C. Haigis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 370 Mitotic Kinases, Chromatin and Chromosome Segregation Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Jonathan Higgins Jonathan Higgins fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 371 Nutrient Sensing and Metabolic Control Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Pere Puigserver Burguera Pere Puigserver Burguera fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 372 Cytoskeletal Dynamics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Timothy Mitchison Timothy Mitchison fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 373 Molecular Genetics of Cell Interaction in Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Spiro Artavanis-Tsakonas Spiro Artavanis-Tsakonas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 375 Cancer Genetics and DNA Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Marc Weinstock Dr David Marc Weinstock fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 377 Stem Cells, Islet Cell Function, Growth and Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Rohit Narayan Kulkarni Dr Rohit Narayan Kulkarni fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 378 Bacterial Toxin Entry and Immunoglobulin Transport in Mucosal Epithelial Cells Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Wayne Isaac Lencer Dr Wayne Isaac Lencer fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 379 BMP Signaling in Organogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Vicki Rosen Vicki Rosen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 380 Cytoskeletal Mechanics of Blood Platelet Production Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joseph E. Italiano Dr Joseph E. Italiano fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 384 Molecular Biology of Insulin and Leptin Receptor Signaling Systems in Obesity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Umut Ozcan Umut Ozcan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 389 Modeling ovarian cancer pathogenesis and early detection Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ronny I. Drapkin Dr Ronny I. Drapkin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 390 Membrane:cytoskeleton interface in morphogenesis and tumorigenesis/metastasis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Andrea Irene McClatchey Dr Andrea Irene McClatchey fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Cell Biology 399 Nanocourses Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Cardozo Spiro Artavanis-Tsakonas David Cardozo Spiro Artavanis-Tsakonas fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 301 qc Invertebrate Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Explore application of genetic tools in model systems for the analysis of developmental events. Focus on developmental genetics of Drosophila, C. elegans, and mouse to provide a background in methods of in vivo genetic analysis. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Norbert Perrimon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 310 Blood Stem Cell Development and Regeneration Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Trista Elizabeth North Dr Trista Elizabeth North fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 312 Epigenetic Modifications and Cellular Identity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Alexander Meissner Alexander Meissner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 313 Liver Development, Regeneration and Carcinogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Wolfram Goessling Dr Wolfram Goessling fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 314 Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paola Arlotta Paola Arlotta fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 315 Environmental Signaling, Plasticity and Fate Specification during Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Susan Mango Susan Mango fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 316 Stem Cells and Organ Size Control Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Fernando D. Camargo Fernando D. Camargo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 317 Stem cells, Cancer, and Hematological Disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Catherine T. Yan Dr Catherine T. Yan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 319 Adult mammalian regeneration Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Qiao Zhou Qiao Zhou fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 321 Stem Cells and Neurodegenerative Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lee Rubin Lee Rubin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 322 Regulation of tissue stem cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David T. Breault Dr David T. Breault fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 323 Myocardial regeneration, heart muscle cell proliferation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Bernhard Kuhn Dr Bernhard Kuhn fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Developmental & Regenerative Biology 330 Experimental Approaches to Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course 16 Provides a rapid survey of major topics and themes in developmental biology in parallel with hands-on exposure to a variety of experimental approaches, technologies and model systems (Drosophilia, C. elegans, Xenopus, chick & mouse). Open to all first-year BBS students; permission of the instructor required for all others. This course is not repeatable for credit. Y Amy Wagers David Van Vactor Amy Wagers David Van Vactor fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 201 Principles of Genetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An in-depth survey of genetics, beginning with basic principles and extending to modern approaches and special topics. We will draw on examples from various systems, including yeast, Drosophila, C. elegans, mouse, human and bacteria. Intended for first-year graduate students. Offered jointly with the Medical School as GN 701.0. N Fred Winston Dr Mitzi I. Kuroda Ann Hochschild spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 202 Principles of Genetic Analysis in Humans Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 30 Comprehensive examination of the principles of human inheritance, in the context of both normal human variation and disease. Topics include human genome structure, sequence variation, population genetics, complex traits, association studies, and pharmacogenetics. Genetics 201 (or permission of the instructor) and basic knowledge of probability and statistics. Familiarity with bioinformatics and computational tools will be useful, but tutorial assistance will be provided where necessary. N Dr Matthew L. Warman spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 216 Advanced Topics in Gene Expression Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers both biochemical and genetic studies in regulatory mechanisms. Small number of topics discussed in depth, using the primary literature. Topics range from prokaryotic transcription to eukaryotic development. BCMP 200 and Genetics 201. Offered jointly with the Medical School as GN 703.0. N Robert Kingston Fred Winston fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 219 Inheritance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus on patterns of inheritance, including those that were once considered extraordinary but are now recognized as paradigms spanning fungi to humans. Expectations: questions, ideas, conversation during class. No tests, problem sets, or papers. Primarily for first-year graduate students, but is open to medical students and advanced undergraduates. A basic understanding of genetics recommended. N Chao-Ting Wu Dr Steven A. McCarroll David Emil Reich Dr Kamran Ahmad fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 220 Molecular Biology and Genetics in Modern Medicine Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Scientific, clinical, and ethical aspects of modern human genetics and molecular biology as applied to medicine. Covers genetic approaches and molecular underpinnings of inherited diseases and somatic/genetic diseases are integrated with patient presentations, discussions. Offered jointly with the Medical School as HT 160. N Dr Anne B Skvorak Giersch spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 228 Genetics in Medicine - From Bench to Bedside Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focus on translational medicine: the application of basic genetic discoveries to human disease. Will discuss specific genetic disorders and the approaches currently used to speed the transfer of knowledge from the laboratory to the clinic. Genetics 201 or equivalent. Course will include clinical presentations and lectures by investigators known for their work in a specific disease area. Course will be held at MGH (transportation provided to MGH). Offered jointly with the Medical School as GN 711.0. For more information visit the <a href="http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/bbs">Massachusetts General Hospital</a>. N Dr Susan Ann Slaugenhaupt Christopher Holmes Newton-Cheh M.D. fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 229 Computational Statistics for Biomedical Sciences Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Practical introduction to analysis of biological and biomedical data. Basic statistical techniques covered, including descriptive statistics, elements of probability, hypothesis testing, nonparametric methods, correlation analysis, and linear regression. Emphasis on choosing appropriate statistical tests. Offered jointly with Medical School as BMI713.0. Y Peter J. Park fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 300 qc Advanced Topics in Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 300 Advanced Topics in Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 302 qc Teaching 101: Bringing Effective Teaching Practices to your Classroom Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 15 Survey basics of effective teaching practices, focusing on practical application and real-life examples. Topics include effective lecturing techniques, using goals and learning styles to inform lesson planning and design, assessing student understanding, and facilitating discussions. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Fred Winston fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 303 qc Understanding Common Complex Human Traits and Disease through Genome-Wide Association Studies Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 10 Introduction to the genetic basis of common human complex traits and disease as explored by genome-wide association studies in populations. Focus on concepts, techniques, and translational implications as illustrated by the recent literature. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Daniel Ian Chasman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 303 Molecular Biology of Pathogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederick M. Ausubel Frederick M. Ausubel fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 304 Molecular Genetics Basis of Human Disease, Particularly Cardiovascular Pathogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Christine Edry Seidman Christine Edry Seidman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 305 Centrosomes, Cilia, Cysts and Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jing Zhou Dr Jing Zhou fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 306 Inherited Human Disorders Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan Seidman Jonathan Seidman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 308 Molecular Biology of Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian Seed Brian Seed fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 309 Gene Expression in Yeast Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Fred Winston Fred Winston fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 310 Molecular Genetics of Neural Development and Gene Therapy to Prevent Blindness Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Connie Cepko Connie Cepko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 311 Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription Regulation in Mammals Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert Kingston Robert Kingston fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 312 Molecular Genetics of Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Ruvkun Gary Ruvkun fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 313 Genomic Approaches to Human Disease Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Matthew Altshuler Dr David Matthew Altshuler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 314 Structure and Activities of Ribozymes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jack Szostak Jack Szostak fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 315 Molecular Genetics of Inherited Disorders Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr James Francis Gusella Dr James Francis Gusella fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 316 Transcription Factors and DNA Regulatory Elements Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Martha Bulyk Martha Bulyk fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 317 Signaling Networks in Development and Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jordan Alexander Kreidberg Dr Jordan Alexander Kreidberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 318 Genome Structure Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y George Church George Church fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 319 Mouse Models of Human Disorders Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Randolph Beier Dr David Randolph Beier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 320 Genetics of Common Human Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Mark Joseph Daly Dr Mark Joseph Daly fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 321 Genetic Analysis of Growth and Homeostasis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Norbert Perrimon Norbert Perrimon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 322 Vertebrate Pattern Formation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Cliff Tabin Cliff Tabin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 323 Molecular Biology of V(D)J Recombination Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marjorie Oettinger Marjorie Oettinger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 326 Human Molecular and Cancer Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Joseph Kwiatkowski Dr David Joseph Kwiatkowski fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 328 Lymphocyte Differentiation, Recombination, DNA Repair, Cancer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederick W. Alt Frederick W. Alt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 329 Genetic Analysis of Synaptic Transmission Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joshua M. Kaplan Dr Joshua M. Kaplan spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 330 Critical Thinking and Research Proposal Writing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course 20 A small group tutorial systematically guiding students in the writing of original, hypothesis-driven research proposals from initial topic selection through completion of a final draft. Core course in genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, or biochemistry. Open to all BBS students; others need permission of the instructor. This course is not repeatable for credit. Y Monica P. Colaiacovo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 332 Combining Genetic and Biochemical Approaches to Dissect Tumor Suppressor Gene Function Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Karen Marie Cichowski Dr Karen Marie Cichowski fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 335 Epigenetics, Genetics, Gene Regulation, Ultraconserved Elements Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Chao-Ting Wu Chao-Ting Wu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 336 Developmental Biology of Hematopoiesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Leonard Ira Zon Leonard Ira Zon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 337 Human Molecular Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Stuart Holland Orkin Dr Stuart Holland Orkin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 341 Development and Homeostasis of the Skeleton Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Matthew L. Warman Dr Matthew L. Warman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 342 Genetic Analysis of Zebrafish Kidney Organogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Iain A. Drummond Dr Iain A. Drummond fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 344 Computational Genomics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter J. Park Peter J. Park fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 347 Ras signaling and colon cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kevin M Haigis Dr Kevin M Haigis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 350 Genetic Regulation of Organogenesis and Organ Regeneration Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard Maas Richard Maas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 352 Cardiovascular Development and Disease, Muscle Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Da-Zhi Wang Dr Da-Zhi Wang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 353 Genetics of Human Disease Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Susan Ann Slaugenhaupt Dr Susan Ann Slaugenhaupt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 354 Integrative genomics of cancer and autism Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Isaac Samuel Kohane Dr Isaac Samuel Kohane fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 355 Molecular Genetics of Human Neuromuscular Diseases Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Alan Hendrie Beggs Dr Alan Hendrie Beggs fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 356 Research in Molecular Cytogenetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Cynthia Casson Morton Dr Cynthia Casson Morton fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 357 Lung Stem Cell Biology and Cancer Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Carla Kim Dr Carla Kim fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 358 Developmental Neurobiology and Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Susan Dymecki Susan Dymecki fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 360 Microtubule Associated RNAs During Mitosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Michael Demian Blower Dr Michael Demian Blower fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 361 Mechanism of X-inactivation in Mammals Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jeannie T. Lee Dr Jeannie T. Lee fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 362 Molecular Biology and Genetics of Cancer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Morse Livingston Dr David Morse Livingston fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 364 Development Application of Mammalian Vectors Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard Mulligan Richard Mulligan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 366 Molecular Genetic Approaches to Human Disease Mechanisms Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Marcy Elizabeth MacDonald Dr Marcy Elizabeth MacDonald fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 368 Neurobiology of Alzheimer"s Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bruce A. Yankner Bruce A. Yankner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 370 Molecular Basis of Breast Cancer Initiation and Progression Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kornelia Polyak Dr Kornelia Polyak fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 371 Functional Genomics and Proteomics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Marc Vidal Dr Marc Vidal fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 372 Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age Related Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Sinclair David Sinclair fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 375 Genomics of Leukemia Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Scott A. Armstrong Dr Scott A. Armstrong fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 378 Aging, Stress Defenses, and Developmental Gene Regulation in C. elegans Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y T. Keith Blackwell T. Keith Blackwell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 379 Applying Population Genetics to Find Disease Genes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Emil Reich David Emil Reich fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 384 Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Heart Development. Cardiac Regeneration and Cardiac Stem Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr William T. Pu Dr William T. Pu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 385 Cell Cycle Proteins in Development and Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Piotr Sicinski Piotr Sicinski fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 386 Models of Cardiac Development and Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr John David Mably Dr John David Mably fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 387 Stem Cells and Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Chad Cowan Chad Cowan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 388 Genetics of Neuronal Morphogenesis and Connectivity in C. Elegans Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Maxwell G Heiman Dr Maxwell G Heiman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 389 Epigenomics of Allele-Specific Expression Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Alexander Gimelbrant Dr Alexander Gimelbrant fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 390 Experimental Approaches in Genetic Analysis Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course 8 A survey of major themes in genetics combined with exposure to various experimental techniques, technologies, and model systems. Combines lectures and hands-on laboratory activities emphasizing experimental methods, hypothesis generation and testing, and data analysis. Students must also enroll in, or have taken Genetics 201. Limited to 8 students. Priority will be given to first year graduate students. Students must first contact the faculty for enrollment approval prior to registration for the course. Meeting Dates/Times: Approximately 8:30 am-7:00 pm each day for 14 days in January. This course is not repeatable for credit. Y Fred Winston Fred Winston fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 393 Genetic basis of skeletal development and evolution Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Matthew Harris Dr Matthew Harris fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 394 How transcriptional networks rewire neuronal circuits Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jesse M. Gray Dr Jesse M. Gray fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 395 Global studies of transcription elongation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Stirling Churchman Dr Stirling Churchman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Genetics 397 Disease-oriented computational genomics and bioinformatics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Soumya Raychaudhuri Dr Soumya Raychaudhuri spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 200 Principles and Practice of Human Pathology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Comprehensive overview of human pathology with emphasis on mechanisms of disease and modern diagnostic technologies. Integrated lectures and labs, as well as student-driven term project leading to formal presentation on a medical, socioeconomic, or technological issue in human pathology. Jointly offered with HMS as HT035.0 N Connie Cepko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 300 Advanced Topics in Human Biology and Translational Medicine Thesis Research Graduate Course Quarter course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at TMEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 301 qc Case Studies in Human Biology and Translational Medicine Research Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course Three-week course that is required of and restricted to first-year LHB students. Each week of the course focuses on a different "case study" in translational medicine. Restricted to Leder students only. Y Caren Solomon Dr Mary Elizabeth Hamel Caren Solomon Dr Mary Elizabeth Hamel fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 302 qc Imaging and Microscopy Methods in Biology and Medicine Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 12 Introduce modern imaging modalities with emphasis on modalities frequently employed in cellular, molecular biology and medicine. Overview of noninvasive medical imaging techniques frequently used in scientific research: X-ray CT, MRI, ultrasound, PET/SPECT and optical imaging. Y Dr Lev T. Perelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 302 Molecular Cellular Pathophysiology of Ion Transport Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Seth Leo Alper Dr Seth Leo Alper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 306 Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Biomarkers, Women's Health Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jo Ann E. Manson Jo Ann E. Manson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 322 Cardiac Repair and Regeneration Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ronglih Liao Dr Ronglih Liao fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 326 Human Genetics of Neuroinflammatory and Neurodegenerative Disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Philip Lawrence De Jager Philip Lawrence De Jager fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 329 Developing Targeted Therapies for Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jeffrey Adam Engelman Dr Jeffrey Adam Engelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 330 Developmental Biology/Genetics (Congenital Anomalies, Cancer) Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Patricia Donahoe Dr Patricia Donahoe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 331 Tumor Microenvironment, Angiogenesis and Metastasis: from Bench-to-Bedside-to-Biomarkers Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Rakesh K. Jain Dr Rakesh K. Jain fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 340 (LHB). Disease-Centered Tutorial Clinics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jordan Alexander Kreidberg Dr Jordan Alexander Kreidberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 344 Biology of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Allan Williams Dr David Allan Williams fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 345 Tuberous Sclerosis and LAM: Pathogenic Mechanisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elizabeth Petri Henske Elizabeth Petri Henske fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 346 Bioimaging and Optical Spectroscopy: Detection of Early Disease with Light Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Lev T. Perelman Dr Lev T. Perelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Human Biology and Translational Medicine 348 Mechanisms by which diabetes promotes atherosclerosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Sudha Biddinger Dr Sudha Biddinger fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 201 Principles of Immunology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 50 Comprehensive core course in immunology. Topics include a broad but intensive examination of the cells and molecules of the immune system. Special attention given to the experimental approaches that led to general principles of immunology. A background in genetics and biochemistry strongly recommended. Intended for students who have had prior exposure to immunology on the undergraduate level. In the absence of such exposure, students must obtain the permission of the Course Director. Offered jointly with the Medical School as IM 702.0. Y Ulrich Von Andrian Dr Shannon J. Turley spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 202 Advanced Principles of Immunology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Continuation of Immunology 201 as an intensive core course in fundamentals of the immune system. Emphasis on systems of immunity. class sessions are taught to be experts in their own fields and involve critical reading of primary literature. Immunology 201 or its equivalent. Offered jointly with the Medical School as IM 712.0. N D Branch Moody Dr Martin Edward Hemler spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 204 Critical Readings for Immunology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Original research articles from fields including immunology, biochemistry, genetics, and cell and developmental biology will be critically analyzed in an intensive small group format. Grading will be based on class participation and oral presentations. Required for first-year immunology students, open to second-year immunology students. No auditors. Offered jointly with the Medical School as IM 703.0. N Dr Florian Winau spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 219 The Primary Immunodeficiencies Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course discusses the mechanisms that underlie the pathogenesis of genetically determined primary immunodeficiencies and selected autoimmune diseases. Evaluates the use of animal models for study and therapy of human disease states. Course in basic immunology. Offered jointly with the Medical School as IM 729.0. Y Dr Cornelis Pieter Terhorst Dr Raif Salim Geha Anthony Joseph Bonilla Dr Luigi D. Notarangelo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 300 Advanced Topics in Immunology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Reading and discussion seminars each running for a half term (7 weeks). Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Topics include the role of intracellular and transmembrane protein phosphates in signal transduction. Intended for first- and second-year Immunology graduate students. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Call 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 301 qc Autoimmunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course This course will focus on basic immunological mechanisms of autoimmune diseases, with an emphasis on recent advances in the field. At each session, we will focus on a particular topic and discuss three important publications. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Kai Wucherpfennig fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 301 Immunology Seminar Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course 20 Gives students exposure to research topics in Immunology. Students prepare for the weekly seminar through readings and occasional discussion with the seminar speakers. These discussions are facilitated by members of the Committee on Immunology. Intended for first- and second-year Immunology graduate students. Y Michael C Carroll Michael C Carroll spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 302 qc Clinical Sessions Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Exposure to patients with immunologically mediated diseases. What is known about human immunologic diseases what critical questions remain unanswered. Formulate grant proposals that address critical questions for understanding or treatment of human immunologic disease. Limited to Immunology students. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Rachael Ann Clark fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 302 Innate and Adaptive Immune Inflammation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y K Frank Austen K Frank Austen spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 303 qc The Warring Genomes: Innate Immunity and Host Defense Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Focus on basic cellular and molecular aspects of innate immunity, with an emphasis on recent advances in the field. Each class will cover a specific topic, and supporting literature will be provided by the instructor. Students are expected to have already taken IMM201. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Jonathan C. Kagan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 303 Immunity to Tuberculosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Samuel M Behar Samuel M Behar spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 304 qc Current Concepts in Mucosal Immunology Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms operating at mucosal surfaces and their interplay under normal and pathological conditions. Y Dr Jorge Rodrigo Mora Scott Snapper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 305 T Cell Immunology - tolerance, transplantation, autoimmunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Laurence A Turka Dr Laurence A Turka fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 309 Molecular Aspects of Lymphocyte Interactions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Cornelis Pieter Terhorst Dr Cornelis Pieter Terhorst fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 310 Responses mediated by innate and adaptive immune cells in cancer and other inflammatory disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Mikael J. Pittet Dr Mikael J. Pittet fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 312 Interplay Between the Innate Immune System and Gut Microbial Communities Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wendy Garrett Wendy Garrett fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 313 Human genetics to understand immune dysregulation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mr Robert M. Plenge Mr Robert M. Plenge fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 314 Rheumatic Diseases Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Peter Henry Schur Dr Peter Henry Schur fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 315 Immunoregulation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Martin E. Dorf Martin E. Dorf fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 316 Development and Function of T Cells, Their Subsets and Distinctive Markers Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Harvey Ira Cantor Dr Harvey Ira Cantor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 317 Molecular Biology of Receptor Transduction in the Immune System Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian Seed Brian Seed fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 318 Mechanisms of Antigen Presentation and Cellular Immunology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Florian Winau Dr Florian Winau fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 319 Molecular Basis of Cell Adhesion and Migration Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Timothy A. Springer Timothy A. Springer fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 320 Cell Adhesion in Vascular Biology and Innate Immunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Denisa D. Wagner Denisa D. Wagner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 321 Why functional memory T cells are formed, and why protective T cell immunity fails to develop against chronic viral infection and cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr William Nicholas Haining Dr William Nicholas Haining fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 322 Systems Approaches to Innate and Adaptive Immunity; Functional Genomics of Complex Disease Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ramnik Xavier Dr Ramnik Xavier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 323 Research in Molecular Immunology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Laurie Glimcher Laurie Glimcher fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 325 Immune Cell Interactions Controlling T Cell Effector Function Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Thorsten Mempel Thorsten Mempel fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 326 Human T-cell Antigen Receptor; Human Lymphocyte Differentiation Antigens; TCR; Thymic Development; Protective Immunity; HIV-I; T-cell Vaccines Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ellis Leonard Reinherz Dr Ellis Leonard Reinherz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 327 Chemical Cell Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stuart L. Schreiber Stuart L. Schreiber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 328 r Introduction to Research Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael C Carroll Michael C Carroll fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 329 Basic and Clinical Mechanisms of Autoimmunity Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Howard Lee Weiner Dr Howard Lee Weiner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 330 Molecular Aspects of Mast Cells-Mediated Immune Responses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard Stevens Richard Stevens fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 331 Lymphoid Organs Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joan Elaine Stein-Streilein Dr Joan Elaine Stein-Streilein fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 332 The Role of Cysteinyl Leukotrienes and their Receptors in Pulmonary Inflammation and Fibrosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Yoshihide Kanaoka Dr Yoshihide Kanaoka fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 333 Immunopathogenesis of Viral Diseases Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Norman Lee Letvin Dr Norman Lee Letvin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 334 Understanding the Mechanisms of Pathogen-sensing by the Innate Immune System Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Terry K. Means Dr Terry K. Means fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 336 Innate - Adaptive Immunity and Autoimmunity Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael B Brenner Michael B Brenner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 337 Development of Mucosal Immunologic Functions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y W. Allan Walker W. Allan Walker fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 338 Identification of Novel Molecular Circuits that Link Inflammation to Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Dimitrios Iliopoulos Dr Dimitrios Iliopoulos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 339 Function and Regulation of Cellular Adhesion Mechanisms Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Martin Edward Hemler Dr Martin Edward Hemler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 340 The Human Major Histocompatibility Complex, Immune Function, and Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Chester A. Alper Chester A. Alper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 341 Gene Regulation in Normal and Leukemic Stem Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Daniel Geoffrey Tenen Dr Daniel Geoffrey Tenen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 342 Immune Cell Signaling, Gene Transcription and Tissue Injury in Lupus. Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr George C. Tsokos Dr George C. Tsokos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 343 The Regulation of Eicosanoid Generation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan P Arm Jonathan P Arm fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 344 Genetic Analysis of Lymphocyte Development and Nuclear Oncogene Function Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederick W. Alt Frederick W. Alt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 345 Assembly and Function of pre-B Cell-fate and B Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Shiv Subramaniam Pillai Dr Shiv Subramaniam Pillai fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 346 The Role of Complement in the Immune Response Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael C Carroll Michael C Carroll fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 348 Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Immunology of Leukocyte-endothelial Adhesion Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Francis William Luscinskas Dr Francis William Luscinskas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 350 Regulation of Autoimmune T Cell Responses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Vijay Kumar Kuchroo Dr Vijay Kumar Kuchroo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 351 Investigating the Role of Lectin - Carbohydrate Interactions in T Cell Trafficking and Differentiation and in Tumor Immune Evasion Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Charles James Dimitroff Dr Charles James Dimitroff fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 352 Innate Immune Signaling Pathways of TLR and NLR Proteins Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Koichi S Kobayashi Dr Koichi S Kobayashi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 353 Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses in HIV-1 Infection Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Marcus Altfeld Dr Marcus Altfeld fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 354 Topics in Transplantation Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David H. Sachs Dr David H. Sachs fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 355 Molecular mechanisms of antigen presentation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Edda Fiebiger Edda Fiebiger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 356 Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Judy Lieberman Judy Lieberman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 357 Microbial-epithelial-immune Cell Interactions in Mucosal Tissues Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Richard Steven Blumberg Dr Richard Steven Blumberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 358 Self-renewal and Lineage Commitment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Koichi Akashi Dr Koichi Akashi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 359 Immunoregulatory Mechanisms at Mucosal Surfaces, Including the Lung and Gut, Affecting the Development of Inflammation, Allergy, Asthma or Peripheral Tolerance in Mice and Humans. Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Dale T. Umetsu Dr Dale T. Umetsu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 360 Hematopoietic Stem Cells and their Niche Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Thomas Scadden Dr David Thomas Scadden fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 361 Induction and Regulation of Antigen-specific T Cell Responses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Gilles A. Benichou Dr Gilles A. Benichou fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 362 Chemokine and Lipid Chemoattractants in Immune Cell Trafficking in Normal Physiology and Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Andrew David Luster Dr Andrew David Luster fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 363 Regulation of Immune and Inflammatory Responses by the Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Family Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Howard Katz Howard Katz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 364 T-cell Differentiation, Tolerance and Autoimmunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Diane J. Mathis Dr Diane J. Mathis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 366 Molecular Regulation of T Cell Cytokine Production and T Cell Interactions with the Blood Vessel Wall Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Andrew Harry Lichtman Dr Andrew Harry Lichtman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 367 Biology and Chemistry of Complement Problems Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Anne Nicholson-Weller Dr Anne Nicholson-Weller fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 368 RNA Granules Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Paul Joseph Anderson Dr Paul Joseph Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 369 Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Vicki Rubin Kelley Dr Vicki Rubin Kelley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 371 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Eosinophil and Other Leukocyte Involvement in Allergic Flammation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Peter Fahey Weller Dr Peter Fahey Weller fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 372 Immunopathogenesis & regulation of immune response in EAE Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Samia Joseph Khoury Dr Samia Joseph Khoury fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 373 Biology of Histocompatibility Systems in Man and Experimental Animals; Immunology of Aging Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Edmond J. Yunis Dr Edmond J. Yunis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 374 Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Gene Regulation in the Immunopathogenesis of AIDS and TB Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Anne Esther Goldfeld Dr Anne Esther Goldfeld fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 375 Biology and Function of Immunoreceptors Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jean-Pierre Kinet Dr Jean-Pierre Kinet fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 376 Molecular Basis of Immunodeficiencies; Immunological and Molecular Basis of Atopic Dermatitis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Raif Salim Geha Dr Raif Salim Geha fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 380 Control of Leukocyte Trafficking and the Immune Response By Chemokines and Other Cytokines Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Barrett Jon Rollins Dr Barrett Jon Rollins fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 381 Lymphocyte Development, Immunoregulation, Auto-Immunity, Tumor Suppressor miRNA Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Harald von Boehmer Dr Harald von Boehmer fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 382 AIDS Immunopathogenesis and Immune Reconstitution Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y R. Paul Johnson R. Paul Johnson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 383 Translational Approaches In Transplantation and Tumor Immunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Lee Marshall Nadler Dr Lee Marshall Nadler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 385 Regulation of T Lymphocyte Activation and Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y I-Cheng Ho I-Cheng Ho fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 386 Molecular and Signaling Pathways Regulating Productive T-cell Responses and T-cell Energy/ Tolerance Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Vassiliki A. Boussiotis Dr Vassiliki A. Boussiotis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 387 Microbial Pattern Recognition and Signaling in Innate Immunity Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Christine Kocks Dr Christine Kocks fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 389 Development of Cancer Vaccines Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Glenn Dranoff Dr Glenn Dranoff fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 390 The Role of NK Cells in Tissues Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Galit Alter Dr Galit Alter fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 391 Transcription Factors in Lymphocyte Commitment and Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Katia Georgopoulos Dr Katia Georgopoulos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 394 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms by which CD1 Proteins Present Lipid Antigens to T Cells Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y D Branch Moody D Branch Moody fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 395 NKT and Other Immune Cell Subsets in Anti-Tumor & Anti-Viral Immunity Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Mark Adrian Exley Dr Mark Adrian Exley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 396 Interested in Immune Tolerance, Particularly in Settings of Autoimmunity and Transplantation. Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Terry Barton Strom Dr Terry Barton Strom fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 397 Antigen Processing and Presentation by Dendritic Cells in Autoimmunity and Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Shannon J. Turley Dr Shannon J. Turley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Immunology 398 The Role of Notch Signaling in Lymphoid Neoplasia Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Jon Christopher Aster Dr Jon Christopher Aster fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Medical Sciences 250 ab Human Functional Anatomy Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Full course 52 Lectures, detailed laboratory dissections, and prosections provide a thorough exploration of the gross structure and function of the human body. Fundamental principles of embryology and bioengineering promote analytical approaches to understanding the body's design. Open to qualified graduate students with permission of the course director. Offered jointly with the Medical School as HT 010. The first meeting of this course is Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Y Lee Gehrke fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Medical Sciences 300 qc Conduct of Science Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Restricted to GSAS graduate students on the Longwood campus. Y Dr Raju Kucherlapati fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Medical Sciences 301 qc PATHS courses Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course A series of PATH courses and discussion seminars. Different topics are covered each term. Limited to the Division of Medical Sciences students. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Medical Sciences 310 Advanced Topics in Medical Sciences Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Medical Sciences 399 Topics in Medical Sciences Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Subject selected by students and faculty member. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 201 Molecular Biology of the Bacterial Cell Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course is devoted to bacterial structure, physiology, genetics, and regulatory mechanisms. The class consists of lectures and group discussions emphasizing methods, results, and interpretations of classic and contemporary literature. N David Rudner Simon Dove Dr Thomas G. Bernhardt Ann Hochschild fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 202 Molecular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Host Response Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Overview of classic paradigms in bacterial-host interactions. Discussions of pathogenic strategies and mechanisms used by representative bacterial pathogens during infection and innate and adaptive host immune defenses. Emphasis on the analysis of published work. N John J. Mekalanos fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 205 Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course 40 The mechanisms of bacterial, mycoplasmal, fungal, and viral pathogenesis are covered. Topics are selected for intrinsic interest and cover the spectrum of pathophysiologic mechanisms of the infectious process. Emphasis on pathogenesis at the molecular level. A background course in molecular biology is strongly encouraged. Offered jointly with the Medical School as HT 040. Y Dr Clyde S. Crumpacker II spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 210 Microbial Sciences: Chemistry, Ecology, and Evolution Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 30 This is an interdisciplinary graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level course in which students explore topics in molecular microbiology, microbial diversity, and microbially-mediated geochemistry in depth. This course will be taught by faculty from the Microbial Sciences Initiative. Topics include the origins of life, biogeochemical cycles, microbial diversity, and ecology. For advanced undergraduates, Life Sciences 1a and 1b are required, or permission of instructor. MCB 52 is recommended. Co-listed as Oraganismic and Evolutionary Biology 290 Y Dr Michael S. Gilmore spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 213 Social Issues in Biology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Readings, discussion of social/ethical aspects of biology: history, philosophy of science; evolution vs. creationism; genetics and race; women and science; genetic testing; stem cell research; science journalism; genetics and the law; scientists and social responsibility. Some background in genetics. Offered jointly with the Medical School as MG 722.0. Alternates yearly between the Longwood and the Cambridge Campuses. N Jonathan Beckwith Roberto Kolter fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 230 Analysis of the Biological Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Critical analysis of original research articles in intensive small group discussions. Analyze range of papers in biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, and cell and developmental biology in terms of context, hypotheses, methods, results and future experiments. This course is required for first year BBS students. Students who are not first year BBS are welcome to contact the course director to determine if space and receive course materials in advance of class. N Elaine Elion fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 300 qc Advanced Topics in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 300 Advanced Topics in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Dependent on seminar. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0605 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 301 qc Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 15 During infection, microbial pathogens employ sophisticated mechanisms to enhance infection or dissemination. This course will focus on the recent literature on molecular mechanisms involved in bacteria pathogenesis during host-pathogen interactions. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Marcia Goldberg Simon Dove fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 305 Molecular Determinants of Intracellular Bacterial Pathogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Darren Higgins Darren Higgins fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 307 Growth Factors and Signal Transduction Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles Stiles Charles Stiles fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 308 Bacterial/ Host Interactions in Symbiosis and Pathogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dennis Kasper Dennis Kasper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 310 Bacterial Genetics of Tuberculosis and Tularemia Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Rubin Eric Rubin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 311 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan Beckwith Jonathan Beckwith fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 312 Acquired and Innate Immunity to Pneumococci Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Richard Malley Dr Richard Malley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 313 T-Lymphocyte Responses to Bacterial Pathogens Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael Starnbach Michael Starnbach fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 315 Biochemical Mechanisms Controlling Cell Growth and Differentiation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael E. Greenberg Michael E. Greenberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 317 Molecular Mechanisms in Pathogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John J. Mekalanos John J. Mekalanos fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 318 RNA Structure, RNA-protein Interactions, and Translation-level Gene Regulation in RNA Viruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lee Gehrke Lee Gehrke fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 320 Molecular Biology of Herpes Viruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Knipe David Knipe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 321 Molecular Biology of Bacterial Interactions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roberto Kolter Roberto Kolter fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 322 Biochemistry of Bacterial Toxins Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y R. John Collier R. John Collier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 324 Bacterial Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald B. Pier Gerald B. Pier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 326 Biology and virulence of enteric pathogens Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Matthew K Waldor Dr Matthew K Waldor fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 327 Molecular Biology and Evolution of Retroviruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Welkin Johnson Welkin Johnson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 328 Molecular Biology of Epstein Barr Virus Infection and Transformation of B Lymphocytes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elliott Kieff Elliott Kieff fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 330 Molecular Mechanisms in Bacterial Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Rudner David Rudner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 332 Gene Regulation of Prokaryotes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ann Hochschild Ann Hochschild fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 334 Primate Lentiviral Immunology and Pathogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Evans David Evans fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 335 Molecular Biology of Parasites Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dyann F. Wirth Dyann F. Wirth fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 336 Pathogen-host Interactions Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Marcia Goldberg Marcia Goldberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 337 Mycobacterial Signal Transduction and Transcription Regulation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Robert Neil Husson Dr Robert Neil Husson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 339 Bacterial Cell Division and Cell Biology Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Thomas G. Bernhardt Dr Thomas G. Bernhardt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 343 Chemical Biology, Enzymology, Antibiotics, Glycosyltransferases, Inhibitors Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Suzanne Walker Suzanne Walker fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 345 Pathogenesis of HIV-1 Transmission Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Manish Sagar Dr Manish Sagar fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 346 Genetics of Bacterial Adhesion and Pathogenesis Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Paula Ivonne Watnick Dr Paula Ivonne Watnick fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 347 Chemical Genetics Approach to Bacterial Pathogenesis Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Deborah Hung Deborah Hung fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 349 Molecular Mechanisms of Leukocyte Trafficking Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ulrich Von Andrian Ulrich Von Andrian Ulrich Von Andrian fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 350 Regulation of T-cell Mediated Immune Response Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Arlene Sharpe Arlene Sharpe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 351 Viral Pathogenic and Transformation Mechanisms Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Peter M. Howley Peter M. Howley fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Microbiology 352 The Biology of microRNAs and their Dysregulation in Cancers Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Carl D Novina Dr Carl D Novina fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 200 Introduction to Neurobiology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 50 Modern neuroscience from molecular biology to perception and cognition. Includes cell biology of neurons and glia; ion channels and electrical signaling; synaptic transmission; brain anatomy and development; sensory systems; motor systems; higher cognitive function. Introductory cell and molecular biology or with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Medical School as HT 130. Follows the Medical School calendar. Nine hours of lecture or lab/conference weekly. N Dr Richard Harry Masland spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 204 Neurophysiology of Central Circuits Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course introduces major themes and fundamental concepts underlying current research in systems neuroscience. Each week covers a different theme, and draws on research from different sensorimotor modalities and model organisms. Neurobiology 200 or with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Medical School as NB 721.0. N Rachel Wilson spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 207 Developmental Neurobiology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Advanced topics in nervous system development, including cell fate determination, axon guidance, synapse development and critical periods. Focus on current areas of investigation, unresolved questions, and common experimental approaches. Neurobiology 200 or with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Medical School as NB 720.0. Students will read and discuss primary literature in the discussion sessions. Emphasis will be given to learning how to identify an important question and develop a feasible research plan, including a lecture on how to write a grant proposal and a mock study section. The final exam consists of a grant proposal; grades will also be determined by successful completion of homework assignments and class participation. N Lisa V Goodrich Dr Chenghua Gu Dr Michela Fagiolini Dr Beth Stevens spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 209 Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Monday sessions involve patient presentations and "core" lectures describing clinical progression, pathology, and basic science underlying a major disease or disorder. Wednesdays, students present material from original literature sources, and there is general discussion. Introductory neurobiology, biochemistry, and genetics/molecular biology recommended. Given in alternate years - expected to be offered spring 2012. Offered jointly with the Medical School as NB 713.0. For advanced undergraduate, graduate students, MD and MD/PhD students. N Edward A. Kravitz fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 220 Cellular Neurophysiology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the physiology of neurons, focusing on using electrophysiology and imaging to study function of ion channels, generation of action potentials, and physiology of synaptic transmission. Includes problem sets and reading of original papers. Introductory neurobiology. Offered jointly with the Medical School as NB 714.0. Y Bruce Bean Wade G. Regehr Gary Yellen Bernardo Sabatini spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 221 Molecular Neurobiology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Molecular biology and genetics of the nervous system. Emphasis on importance of ligand-receptor interactions and receptor regulation for the function of the nervous system and on the mechanisms of storage and release of neurotransmitters. Introductory neurobiology and molecular biology. Permission of the instructor required for undergraduates. Offered jointly with the Medical School as NB 715.0. N Sandeep Robert Datta fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 230 Visual Object Recognition Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines how neuronal circuits represent information and how they are implemented in artificial intelligence algorithms. Topics covered: architecture of visual cortex, neurophysiological experiments in humans and animals, visual consciousness, computational models of pattern recognition and computer vision. Life Sciences 1a (or Life and Physical Sciences A) and Life Sciences 1b (or equivalent). Recommended: Math (Maa/Mab, Math 1A,1B, Math 19 a or equivalent). Physical Sciences 1. MCB 80. N Dr Gabriel Kreiman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 300 qc Advanced Topics in Neurobiology Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 300 Advanced Topics in Neurobiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Topics cover areas at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels in both basic and clinical neuroscience. A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 301 qc Gene Therapy and Imaging for Nervous System Disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 12 Introduction to gene therapy, different techniques in molecular imaging to monitor gene transfer and response to therapy. Discuss trends in gene therapy: viral vectors, siRNA and cell-based therapy, clinical trials for central nervous system disorders. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Xandra Owens Breakefield Dr Bakhos A. Tannous spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 302 qc Acute and Chronic Pain: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms, Genetics, and Treatments Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 12 Neurobiology and pharmacology of acute and chronic pain. Classic and modern approaches to understanding pain mechanisms, from anatomy and neurophysiology of impulse generation and transmission to identification of the target molecules in neurons and glia. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Ru-Rong Ji Gary Strichartz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 302 Attention and Representation of Sensory Information in Cerebral Cortex Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr John Maunsell Dr John Maunsell spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 303 qc Tools for Statistical Inference in Experimental Science Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 35 Introduction to statistical treatment of experimental data, particular reference to problems in neuroscience. Basic topics in statistics, including probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, Bayes's Theorem, t tests, confidence intervals, and ANOVA and related tests More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Gary Yellen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 303 Development, Function, and Disease State of the Inner Ear Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Zheng-Yi Chen Dr Zheng-Yi Chen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 304 qc Regeneration and Repair in the Mammalian Nervous System: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course 18 Approaches toward mammalian neural regeneration, comparing and contrasting development with adult plasticity/repair. Overview lectures and discussion of primary literature, motivated by motor and sensory circuitry central to spinal cord injury, ALS, and peripheral nerve injury. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Jeffrey Macklis Zhigang He Larry Benowitz Dr Clifford Woolf Jeffrey Macklis Zhigang He Larry Benowitz Dr Clifford Woolf fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 304 Behavioral Genetic Studies of Aggression in Drosophila Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Edward A. Kravitz Edward A. Kravitz fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 305 qc Biochemistry and Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course 20 Biochemistry and biology are integrated to provide a broad perspective on major human neurodegenerative diseases. The biochemistry, enzymology, structural biology and pathology of disease-associated proteins and approaches to developing therapeutics will be examined. Y Dr Michael S. Wolfe Matthew C. Lavoie fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 305 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Epilepsy, Autism, and Postnatal Circuit Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Matthew Peter Anderson Dr Matthew Peter Anderson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 306 qc Quantitative Methods for Biologists Lecture with sections Graduate Course Quarter course 120 The goals of this course are to introduce students to programming in the MATLAB environment and to begin using this tool for analyzing data and for gaining intuition about the behavior of complex systems through the use of numerical simulations. Y Michael Springer Richard T. Born Michael Springer Richard T. Born fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 306 The Molecular Mechanisms of How Neural and Vascular Networks are Coordinately Developed Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Chenghua Gu Dr Chenghua Gu fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 308 Molecular Mechanisms of Catecholaminergic-specific Gene Regulation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kwang-Soo Kim Dr Kwang-Soo Kim fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 309 Neural Circuitry in Schizophrenia Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Francine Mary Benes Dr Francine Mary Benes fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 310 Neural Coding of Chemosensory Stimuli Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Rachel Wilson Rachel Wilson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 311 Cellular and Molecular Studies of Synapse Formation in the Vertebrate Nervous System Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joshua R. Sanes Joshua R. Sanes fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 312 The Study of Synaptic Competition by Visualizing Synaptic Rearrangements Directly in Living Animals Using Modern Optical Techniques Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jeff Lichtman Jeff Lichtman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 313 Molecular Biology of Mammalian Circadian Clocks Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles J. Weitz Charles J. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 315 Neurotrophic Factors in Development: Functions and Mechanisms of Action Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Rosalind A Segal Rosalind A Segal fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 317 Molecular Genetic Dissection of Auditory Circuit Assembly and Inner Ear Morphogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lisa V Goodrich Lisa V Goodrich fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 318 Molecular Genetics of Cerebral Cortical Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Christopher A Walsh Christopher A Walsh fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 319 Neurological Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael E. Greenberg Michael E. Greenberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 320 Neuroprotection and Neuronal Repair in Neurodegenerative Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ole Stefan Isacson Dr Ole Stefan Isacson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 321 Visual Perception, Object Recognition, Higher Cognitive Functions, Vision and Art Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Margaret Stratford Livingstone Margaret Stratford Livingstone fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 322 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Axon Guidance and Regeneration Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Zhigang He Zhigang He fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 323 Synaptic Plasticity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Florian Engert Florian Engert fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 324 Research in Neuropeptide Gene Regulation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Joseph Ahmad Majzoub Dr Joseph Ahmad Majzoub fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 325 Synaptic Transmissions and Dendritic Processing Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wade G. Regehr Wade G. Regehr fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 327 Rotations in Neurosciences Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard T. Born Richard T. Born fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 328 Mechanisms of Cell Death in Stroke and Trauma Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Eng H. Lo Dr Eng H. Lo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 329 Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinsons Diseases Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Dennis J. Selkoe Dr Dennis J. Selkoe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 330 Gene Expression in the Brain and Motivated Behavior Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr William A. Carlezon Dr William A. Carlezon fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 331 Neural Differentiation, Regeneration and Stem Cell Regulation in the Brain and Eye Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Dong Feng Chen Dr Dong Feng Chen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 332 Ligand-Gated Ion Channels: Structure and Function Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan Cohen Jonathan Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 333 Intercellular Communication Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David L. Paul David L. Paul fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 334 Hair Cells and Afferent Neurons of the Inner Ear Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Ruth Anne Eatock Dr Ruth Anne Eatock fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 336 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Focusing Primarily on Memory and Face Processing. Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Charles A. Nelson III Dr Charles A. Nelson III fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 337 Neurobiology of the Human Circadian Pacemaker Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Charles Andrew Czeisler Dr Charles Andrew Czeisler fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 338 Neural Circuitry of Primate Visual Cortex Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard T. Born Richard T. Born fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 339 Mechanisms of Central Synaptic Transmission Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Vadim Bolshakov Dr Vadim Bolshakov fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 340 Functional Organization of the Retina Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y John E. Dowling John E. Dowling fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 341 Cognition and Cognitive Disorders; the Role of Translational Regulation Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Raymond Joseph Kelleher Raymond Joseph Kelleher fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 342 Neurophysiology of Visual Cortex and LGN Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y R. Clay Reid R. Clay Reid fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 343 Neuronal Metabolism and Excitability; Molecular Physiology of Ion Channels Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Yellen Gary Yellen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 344 Neurobiology and protein biochemistry underlying Parkinson's disease. Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Matthew James Lavoie Dr Matthew James Lavoie fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 345 Molecular Basis of Neuron Glia Interactions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gabriel Corfas Gabriel Corfas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 346 Visual Processing in Primates Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Assad John Assad fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 347 Alzheimer's Disease Research Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Bradley Theodore Hyman Dr Bradley Theodore Hyman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 350 Molecular Genetics of Neuronal Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Connie Cepko Connie Cepko fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 351 Neurogenetics of Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Louis Martens Kunkel Dr Louis Martens Kunkel fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 352 Neural-glial Interaction for the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Ru-Rong Ji Dr Ru-Rong Ji fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 353 New Biology Through Physics: Molecular Discoveries with Light Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Clapham David Clapham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 354 Structural Biology of Signaling and Transport Through Biological Membranes Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Rachelle Gaudet Rachelle Gaudet fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 355 Regulation of physiology and behavior by light Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael Tri Hoang Do Michael Tri Hoang Do fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 356 Ion Channels in Neural Cell Membranes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Corey David Corey fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 357 Experience-Dependent Neuronal Circuit Maturation and Plasticity Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Michela Fagiolini Dr Michela Fagiolini fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 358 Neurogenetics of Human Disease Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Xandra Owens Breakefield Dr Xandra Owens Breakefield fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 360 Neural Signal Processing and Mechanisms of General Anesthesia Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Emery Neal Brown Dr Emery Neal Brown fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 361 Immunobiology of the Nervous System and its Tumors Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Lois A. Lampson Dr Lois A. Lampson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 362 Optical imaging in Alzheimer's disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Brian Bacskai Dr Brian Bacskai fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 363 Axonal Development and Reorganization Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Larry Benowitz Larry Benowitz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 364 hypothalamic circuitry controlling sleep and circadian rhythms Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Clifford Saper Clifford Saper fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 365 Behavioral Pharmacology of Stimulant Drugs and Brain Dopamine Systems as they relate to Psychiatric Disorders. Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Simon Barak Caine Dr Simon Barak Caine fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 366 Functional Organization of the Retina Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Richard Harry Masland Dr Richard Harry Masland fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 367 Neo-Cortical Development and Cellular Transplantation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jeffrey Macklis Jeffrey Macklis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 369 Function of Neural Circuits Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Markus Meister Markus Meister fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 370 Genetic and Molecular Studies of Neurodegenerative Diseases Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Rudolph Emile Tanzi Dr Rudolph Emile Tanzi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 371 Sensory Neuron Development and Sleep Using Genetics and Live Imaging in Zebrafish. Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Alexander F Schier Alexander F Schier fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 372 Neurotransmitter Control of Ion Channels Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bruce Bean Bruce Bean fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 373 Developmental Studies of the Murine Trigeminal Sensory System Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Qiufu Ma Dr Qiufu Ma fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 374 Molecular Basis of Alzheimer's Disease & Parkinson's Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Jie Shen Dr Jie Shen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 375 Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission & Plasticity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Murthy Venkatesh Murthy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 376 Genetics of Neuronal Cell Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Thomas Schwarz Thomas Schwarz fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 377 Physiological Studies of Phototransduction and Light Adaptation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Clint L. Makino Dr Clint L. Makino fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 378 Neuronal Mechanisms and Animal Behavior Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Naoshige Uchida Naoshige Uchida fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 379 Growth Factor Regulation of Neural Development and Oncogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Scott L. Pomeroy Scott L. Pomeroy fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 381 Glutamate Transporters, Cell Death, Sleep/Wake Regulation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paul Rosenberg Paul Rosenberg fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 384 Neuroscience of human emotions and emotional disorders Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Diego A Pizzagalli Diego A Pizzagalli fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 385 Mammalian Gap Junctions, Inhibitory Neuronal Networks, and Corticothalamic Processing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Carole Landisman Carole Landisman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 386 Changes in Sensory Neurons that Contribute to Pain Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Clifford Woolf Dr Clifford Woolf fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 389 Molecular Regulation of Neural Tube Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mary Rose Loeken Mary Rose Loeken fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 392 Synaptic Plasticity in the CNS Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Chinfei Chen Chinfei Chen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 395 Neuron-Glia Interactions During Development & Disease; Synapse Development & Plasticity; Neuro-Immune Interactions Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Beth Stevens Dr Beth Stevens fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 396 Critical Period Mechanisms of Experience-Dependent Brain Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Takao K Hensch Takao K Hensch fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 397 Nervous System Construction and Function Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sam Kunes Sam Kunes fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 398 HSV Vectors for Cancer Therapy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Samuel David Rabkin Dr Samuel David Rabkin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Neurobiology 399 Neurocircuits Thought to Regulate Metabolism and Behavior Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Bradford Barr Lowell Dr Bradford Barr Lowell fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 205 Molecular Biology of the Auditory System Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Advances in molecular biology of hearing. Transcriptional and post-translational regulation of inner ear development. Topics: exploration of genome identifying genes critical for inner ear function, inner ear stem cells and regenerative capacity in various species. Introductory courses in neurobiology and molecular biology are recommended. Given in alternate years. N Albert Edge fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 209 Tumor Pathophysiology and Transport Phenomena - A Systems Biology Approach Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Tumor pathophysiology plays a central role in the growth, metastasis, detection, and treatment of solid tumors. Principles of transport phenomena are applied to develop a quantitative understanding of tumor biology and treatment. Given in alternate years. Offered jointly with the Medical School as PA 712.0. Classes held at MIT. N Dr Rakesh K. Jain fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 300 Advanced Topics in Pathology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Dependent on seminar. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 301 qc The Molecular Bases of Eye Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Understanding of the molecular bases for diseases that target the eye. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Darlene Ann Dartt fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 307 Polarity and Trafficking of Membrane Proteins in Epithelial Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 310 Regulation of Vascular Development and Pathology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Patricia Ann D'Amore Dr Patricia Ann D'Amore fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 312 Research in Molecular Cytogenetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Cynthia Casson Morton Dr Cynthia Casson Morton fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 313 Research in Integrin Signaling, Cytoskeleton, and Control of Angiogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Donald Elliott Ingber Dr Donald Elliott Ingber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 317 Epithelial:stromal Interactions in the Formation and Progression of Carcinomas Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Antoine Karnoub Dr Antoine Karnoub fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 318 Self-Renewal and Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David M. Langenau David M. Langenau fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 321 Cell-Intrinsic Regulation of Neuronal Connectivity in Brain Development and Disease Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Azad Bonni Azad Bonni fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 325 Transcriptional Control in Differentiation/Development and Tumorigenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yang Shi Yang Shi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 327 Genetic Models of Leukemogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr A. Thomas Look Dr A. Thomas Look fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 329 Tissue-Specific Lymphocyte Homing and Diversity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr James J. Campbell Dr James J. Campbell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 332 Control of Cell Proliferation by RB/E2F Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Nicholas John Dyson Dr Nicholas John Dyson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 334 Characterization of Molecular Targets of Cancer Therapy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Daniel Arie Haber Dr Daniel Arie Haber fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 350 Topics in Vascular Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Michael Anthony Gimbrone Jr Dr Michael Anthony Gimbrone Jr fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 351 Membrane: Cytoskeleton Interface in Morphogenesis and Tumorigenesis/Metastasis Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Andrea Irene McClatchey Dr Andrea Irene McClatchey fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 354 Biochemistry of Transmembrane Receptors Interactions Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Stephen C. Blacklow Dr Stephen C. Blacklow fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 359 Signal Transduction Pathways Involved in Cellular Proliferation and Apoptosis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Roya Khosravi-Far Dr Roya Khosravi-Far fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 366 Phagocyte-endothelial Cell Responses in Inflammation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Tanya Mayadas Dr Tanya Mayadas fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 369 Molecular Recognition and Protein Engineering Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Keith Joung Keith Joung fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 371 Biology and Function of Tissue-Specific Stem Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Amy Wagers Amy Wagers fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 372 DNA Damage Responses and Genomic Stability Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Lee Zou Dr Lee Zou fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 373 Integration of Cellular Metabolism and Apoptosis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Nika Danial Dr Nika Danial fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 374 Cell signaling in innate immunity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Hongbo Luo Dr Hongbo Luo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 377 Epigenetic Mechanisms in Mammalian Development Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Bradley E Bernstein Bradley E Bernstein fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 378 Epigenetic Regulation in Development and Disease Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Laurie Lynne Jackson-Grusby Dr Laurie Lynne Jackson-Grusby fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 380 Modeling Ovarian Cancer Pathogenesis and Early Detection Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Ronny I. Drapkin Dr Ronny I. Drapkin fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 381 Ras Signaling and Colon Cancer Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Kevin M Haigis Dr Kevin M Haigis fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 382 Mechanisms of Acute and Chronic Allograft Rejection Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard N. Mitchell Richard N. Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 383 Cell Cycle, Ubiquitination and Protein Degradation, Cancer Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Wenyi Wei Dr Wenyi Wei fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Pathology 388 Impact of Epigenetics On Cellular Homeostasis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Johnathan Whetstine Johnathan Whetstine fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 200 Introduction to Virology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Introduction to virology. The lecture component reviews the basic principles of virology and introduces the major groups of human viruses. Weekly discussion groups critically analyze selected papers from the literature. There will be a final project consisting of a proposal based on laboratory rotations (for Virology, BBS, or Immunology Program students) or a final paper based on a topic from the literature. Offered jointly with the Medical School as MG 705.0. Y Elliott Kieff David Knipe Max Nibert Karl Munger spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 201 Virology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Literature based reading. Proposal writing. Course covers a broad range of topics: viral genetics, structure/replication, pathogenesis, evolution ("emerging viruses"), chronic infection, latency, innate and adaptive immunity, anti-viral drugs and vaccine strategies. Graduate standing and permission required. Offered jointly with the Medical School as MG 723.0. N Sean Whelan Dr James Morgan Cunningham Welkin Johnson David Evans fall term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 202 Animal Virology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Students will write, present, and evaluate research proposals in the areas of virus replication, viral pathogenesis and treatment and prevention of viral infections. General background in biochemistry and virology. Offered jointly with the Medical School as MG 724.0. N Michael Farzan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 300 r Introduction to Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Knipe David Knipe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 301 qc Advanced Topics in Virology Reading and Research Graduate Course Quarter course Critical evaluation of virology-related papers reporting a seminal contribution, strong methodological approaches or, in some cases, due to errors in methodology or author interpretation. Requirements include written critiques and class participation. January course. More details can be found by going to the Division of Medical Sciences website, then clicking Current Students and selecting Quarter Courses. Y Dr Alan N. Engelman Dr Alan N. Engelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 301 Herpes Virus Interaction with the Host Cell Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Knipe David Knipe fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 303 AIDS Pathogenesis Research in the Nonhuman Primate Model of SIV Infection with a Focus on Host Immune Responses in Natural Hosts of SIV, AIDS Vaccine Development, and Immunopathogenesis of CMV Infection Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Amitinder Kaur Dr Amitinder Kaur fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 304 Molecular Biology of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpes Virus Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kenneth Kaye Kenneth Kaye fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 305 Entry and Replication of Negative-Strand RNA Viruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sean Whelan Sean Whelan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 306 Structure and Function of Herpes virus DNA Polymerase and the HIV Reverse Transcriptase; Resistance to Antiviral Drugs in Clinical Viral Isolates and Mechanisms of Resistance and Pathogenesis Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Clyde S. Crumpacker II Dr Clyde S. Crumpacker II fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 307 Genetics and Biochemistry of Prokaryotic Transposable Elements and Yeast Meiotic Chromosome Metabolism Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nancy Kleckner Nancy Kleckner fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 308 Molecular Genetics of Herpes Virus Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donald Coen Donald Coen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 309 Human Oncogenic Viruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jack Strominger Jack Strominger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 310 Cellular Transformation by SV40 Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr James A. DeCaprio Dr James A. DeCaprio fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 311 Molecular Biology of Epstein-Barr Infection Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederick Wang Frederick Wang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 312 Molecular Biology of Epstein Barr Virus infection and Transformation of B Lymphocytes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elliott Kieff Elliott Kieff fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 313 Molecular Basis for Simian Virus Pathogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ronald C. Desrosiers Ronald C. Desrosiers fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 314 Viral Oncoproteins as Probes to Study the Regulation of Cell Growth and Differentiation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Karl Munger Karl Munger fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 315 Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression in Eukaryotic Cells Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yang Shi Yang Shi fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 317 Virology and Immunology of Human Retroviruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Myron Essex Myron Essex fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 319 Functional Analysis of Tumor Suppression Genes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr David Morse Livingston Dr David Morse Livingston fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 320 Pathogenesis of Human Retroviruses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joe Sodroski Joe Sodroski fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 321 Retroviral DNA Integration Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Alan N. Engelman Dr Alan N. Engelman fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 322 HIV Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Dana Helga Gabuzda Dr Dana Helga Gabuzda fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 324 Leukemogenic Retroviruses Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr James Morgan Cunningham Dr James Morgan Cunningham fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 327 Epstein-Barr virus nuclear proteins in lymphomagensis and the viral lifecycle Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Eric Christian Johannsen Dr Eric Christian Johannsen fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 328 Humoral Response to Retroviral Infections in Humans; Identification of Coding Sequence of Human Retroviruses and their Gene Products Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tun-Hou Lee Tun-Hou Lee fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 329 Cellular Immunology of Persistent Human Virus Infections Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Bruce David Walker Dr Bruce David Walker fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 330 Critical Readings in Virology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (seven weeks). Different topics are covered each term. Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Non-DMS students must get permission from the Division of Medical Sciences before registering for this course. Please contact us at 617-432-0162 or visit the DMS Office at T-MEC 435, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Y David Cardozo David Cardozo fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 332 Protein Phosphorylation and Gene Expression in Normal and Transformed Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Raymond L. Erikson Raymond L. Erikson fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 333 Antiretroviral Drug Resistance, and Drug Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Dr Daniel Robert Kuritzkes Dr Daniel Robert Kuritzkes fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 334 HIV-1 and Other Viruses Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael Farzan Michael Farzan fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 338 Metabolism and Survival Pathways of Epstein-Barr Virus Transformed Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ellen D. Cahir McFarland Ellen D. Cahir McFarland fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 339 Mechanisms of HIV protein degradation, epitope processing and presentation to virus-specific CD8 T cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sylvie Le Gall Sylvie Le Gall fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 347 Reovirus Structure, Assembly, and Particle Functions in Entry and RNA Synthesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Max Nibert Max Nibert fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 348 Immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 and the Development of HIV-1 Vaccine Strategies Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Dr Dan Hung Barouch Dr Dan Hung Barouch fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 349 Imaging Techniques to Study the Behavior of Individual Biological Molecules and Complexes in Vitro and in Live Cells Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang fall term; repeated spring term Division of Medical Sciences Medical Sciences Virology 350 Regulation of Host Innate Immunity Against Viral Infection Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michaela Gack Michaela Gack fall term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 107 Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between the impulse to originality and the authority of classical models in the search for new art forms. Emphasis on representative works considered in their totality (architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts) as experiential wholes; and on the plurality of geographical and cultural contexts (Italy, Germany, France, and Spain). Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4358. Meets at the Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Christine Smith spring term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 117 Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the ideas and events that shaped the structure of English law and governance from the Anglo-Saxon invasions to the Reformation Parliament. Topics include the formation of the kingdom of England, the emergence of institutions of royal governance, the relations between church and state, the development of Parliament, and the various institutional reactions to political conflict and social change. Offered concurrently, but with a separate section, at the Law School as Law 42200A-1. N Charles Donahue spring term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 119 Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the main outlines of continental European constitutional and legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the "Rise of absolutism" at the beginning of the 17th century. Focuses on the main expressions of European legal culture over this long period of time. In each period an effort is made to relate the types of law produced to the social, political, and religious history of the period. Offered concurrently, but with a separate section, at the Law School as Law 42100A-1. N Charles Donahue fall term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 201 The Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval History: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Familiarizes scholars in all areas of medieval studies with the research tools and techniques for advanced study of late antique and medieval evidence: Latin palaeography, codicology, hagiography, late Latin philology, late antique studies, numismatics, diplomatic. N Michael McCormick fall term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 202 Latin Palaeography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Introduction to Latin manuscripts, their production and use. Taught in collaboration with William P. Stoneman, Houghton Library. Practical initiation to Latin palaeography, work with manuscripts, practice in transcription, and discussion of problems in textual criticism. Note: Course has additional hour to be arranged. Completion of an intermediate Latin course or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2223/4330. Y Beverly Kienzle spring term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 205 Latin Writings by and about Penitent Women in Medieval and Renaissance Italy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Translation and analysis of Latin writings by and about penitent women in medieval and renaissance Italy, including Umiliana dei Cerchi, Angela of Foligno, Umilta of Faenza, Margherita of Cortona, Clare of Montefalco, and Catherine of Siena. Attention to related iconography, questions of gender, genre, voice, visionary authority, and imitation of the passion of Christ. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2205. Y Beverly Kienzle fall term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 223 Preaching and Sermon in the Middle Ages Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Literary and historical survey of preaching and sermons from the early to the late Middle Ages, as practiced by clergy, religious women, lay people, dissidents. Readings in Latin; discussion of current research and methodological issues. Completion of an intermediate Latin course or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2226. N Beverly Kienzle spring term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 225 Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Religious Identity in Medieval Christianity Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Heresy, orthodoxy, and religious identity from the early to the late Middle Ages. Focus on western European persons and movements that were deemed heretical. Readings in Latin; discussion of current research and methodological issues. Completion of an intermediate Latin course or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2216. N Beverly Kienzle fall term Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 227 Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading of Hildegard of Bingen's Expositiones evangeliorum with attention to genre, exegetical and homiletic tradition, intertextuality, questions of gender and authority. Scholarship on Hildegard's works, medieval exegesis, monastic culture, medieval religious women. Completion of an intermediate Latin course or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2224/4331. N Beverly Kienzle full year Committee on Medieval Studies Medieval Studies Medieval Studies 300 hf Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Focuses on dissertations in progress and other research topics of mutual concern. Enrollment is open to all graduate students. Y Jeffrey F. Hamburger Jeffrey F. Hamburger fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern Studies 299 b Master's Thesis Reading and Research Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervised reading, research and writing of master's thesis. Generally taken by master's students in the final semester of the AM program in Regional Studies - Middle East. Y Susan Kahn Susan Kahn fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 90 r Supervised Research: Topics in Mind/Brain/Behavior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised individual research leading to a tutorial paper. Application required; consult MBB website. Y Sean D Kelly Sean D Kelly spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 91 z Music, Mind, and Brain Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Survey of neuropsychology of music. Examines psychological and neural substrates of music perception and cognition (pitch and consonance, melody and harmony, timbre, rhythm and meter, Gestaltist grouping processes). Then considers affective psychology (emotion, meaning, pleasure), music therapy, music and language, and developmental, comparative, and evolutionary perspectives. Y Dr Peter Anthony Cariani spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 92 A Systems Neuroscience Approach to Conscious Perceptual Experience Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Join renowned neuroscientists from Harvard and elsewhere who will lead highly interactive seminars addressing core problems underlying the emergence of conscious visual experience. Topics include the requisite neuronal representations of the content of visual images, their localization within extrapersonal space and the sense of ownership of such images by a self. Subsidiary topics include selective attention, the binding problem, binocular rivalry, change blindness, recursive neuronal networks and distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness. Y Sean D Kelly fall term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 93 The Biology of Conscious States: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Focuses on waking, sleeping, and dreaming as examples of conscious states in both humans and animals. Original papers and books by Allan Hobson (The Dreaming Brain) and Antonio Damasio (The Feeling of What Happens) form the background for discussions of waking, sleeping, and dreaming from the perspectives of neurology, physiology, psychology, and cognitive neurosciences. Discusses various approaches to understanding the functions of sleep and wake (consciousness) and reviews several theories on the topic. Y Robert A. Stickgold spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 94 z The Self Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Gives a more integrative understanding to sense of self using philosophical theories, neuropsychological quantitative cognitive tests, and neurological conditions involving self disorders. Considers two primary dimensions for sense of self: the diachronic self as based on memory and the synchronic self grounded in the body. Topics include personal identity, mind/brain reduction, first vs. third person perspective, phenomenology of self, introspection, quantitative vs. qualitative methods. Provides appreciation of the advantage of bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives (neurological, philosophy, and psychology) and research methods (introspection, philosophical intuitions, psychometric tests, behavioral tests, empirical research, and clinical approach). Preference to juniors in MBB tracks or MBB secondary field. Y Sean D Kelly fall term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 95 Addiction, Choice, and Motivation Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Seeks to better understand addiction and uses it as vantage point to understand voluntary behavior. Drug use and addiction involve genetic factors, drug pharmacology, principles governing choice, and the culturally universal voluntary/involuntary distinction. Topics include characteristics of addiction, neuronal communication, brain plasticity, OCD, genetic influences on behavior and gene expression, motivation and reward, choice, popular and scientific understanding of voluntary behavior, and the role of cultural values in drug consumption and individual choice. Y Gene Heyman spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 96 The Science of Happiness Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Focuses on the science of happiness, integrating findings from positive psychology, psychiatry, behavioral genetics, neuroscience, and behavioral economics. Begins with a brief history of ideas on happiness from Aristotle to Kahneman. Considers the genetics of happiness including the notion of a biologically determined hedonic set point, the brain's pleasure circuitry, and the mind's power to frame events positively, a tool used in cognitive therapies. Questions whether pleasure and happiness are our purpose. Y Dr Nancy Lee Etcoff spring term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 97 z Interspecies Communication: Can We Really Talk to the Animals - and What Would It Mean? Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Teaching animals elements of human language was once considered cutting-edge science, but now receives little more than a chapter in comparative psychology textbooks. Considers rationale behind the original studies. Examines their successes and failures, and the political and scientific reasons most projects have ended. Would renewed interest in animal language re-energize studies on similarities and differences in human and nonhuman communicative behavior? What would we learn about the evolution of language? Y Irene M Pepperberg fall term Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior Mind, Brain, and Behavior 99 z Creativity Research: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines human creativity from three perspectives: a) empirical research sources, b) case studies of eminent creative achievers, and c) ourselves as creative subjects. Topics include the definition and measurement of creativity, the creative process, the neuroscience of creativity, the creative personality, the role of family life and culture in creativity, the relationship of creativity to IQ, gender differences, and the relationship of creativity to psychopathology. Y Florian Engert fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 52 Molecular Biology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An integrated and quantitative introduction to the principles of molecular biology with an emphasis on the experimental underpinning of key concepts. This course covers the biochemistry and structure of DNA; the Central Dogma of molecular biology (DNA replication and repair, transcription and RNA processing, and translation); and an overview of gene regulation and systems biology. The weekly section combines an investigative, discovery-based laboratory research project with a discussion emphasizing problem solving and the scientific method. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; or by permission of the instructor; Life Sciences 1b recommended. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Briana Burton Thomas Torello spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 54 Cell Biology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An integrated introduction to the structure, function, and interactions of cells. Topics covered include: membrane structure and transport, receptors and channels, protein targeting, cytoskeleton, cell cycle, signal transduction, cell migration, cell growth and death, cell adhesion, cell polarity, embryogenesis, organogenesis, and stem cells. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b recommended. Laboratory and discussion sessions focus on problem solving and evaluation of data. A series of linked laboratory exercises provides exposure to several techniques commonly used in cell biology and developmental biology. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Robert A. Lue Alexander F Schier spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 56 Physical Biochemistry: Understanding Macromolecular Machines Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course aims to develop fundamental concepts of biochemistry as they apply to macromolecules, including protein and nucleic acid structure, thermodynamics and kinetics, ligand interactions and chemical equilibria. The course will also emphasize how these concepts are used in studies of the structure and function of biological molecules. In the weekly section, students will undertake a discovery-based laboratory research project in which they will apply these concepts toward understanding the structure and function of the ATPase domain from the ABC transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP). Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; MCB 52; Chemistry 17/27 or Chemistry 20/30 (Chemistry 27 may be concurrent); Math 1b. Physics at the level of PS 2/3 is recommended but not required. N Andres Leschziner Sarah Beth Miller Victoria D'Souza fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 80 Neurobiology of Behavior Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the ways in which the brain controls mental activities. The course covers the cells and signals that process and transmit information, and the ways in which neurons form circuits that change with experience. Topics include the neurobiology of perception, learning, memory, language, emotion, and mental illness. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. The course is open to students with little formal training in biology. N Joshua R. Sanes Jeff Lichtman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 91 r Introduction to Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Laboratory research in topics related to the Molecular and Cellular Biology Concentration under the direction of, or approved by, members of the Board of Tutors. Limited to Molecular and Cellular Biology concentrators; written permission of both the tutor and laboratory sponsor must be submitted to the MCB Student Affairs Office prior to enrolling in the course. This introductory research course is intended to prepare students for MCB 99 and may ordinarily be repeated no more than once. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. A final paper must be submitted to the laboratory sponsor and to the MCB Student Affairs Office for review by the instructor and members of the Board of Tutors. Y Thomas Torello Thomas Torello full year Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 99 Laboratory Research for Honors Thesis Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For honors candidates writing a thesis in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. Indivisible for students enrolling in the fall term. Students intending to enroll in the fall are required to submit a written proposal to the instructor. Students may enter the course at midyear only with the permission of the instructor. The thesis proposal must be approved by the instructor and Head Tutor prior to enrolling in MCB 99. Y Thomas Torello Thomas Torello spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 105 Systems Neuroscience Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The neuronal basis of sensory processing and animal behavior will be explored in many different model systems as diverse as honeybees, weakly electric fish, and humans. Special emphasis is placed on the role of activity dependent modulation of neuronal connections in the context of learning, memory, and development of the nervous system. MCB 80. N Florian Engert spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 110 Introduction to Quantitative Tools for Cell Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class will introduce students to the physical and mathematical tools that have become essential to analyze and understand data in cell biology. We will review concepts initially developed in physics in order to discuss real examples borrowed from classic experiments in biology. Topics to be covered: Noise, stochastic processes, single molecules, single-cell biology, robustness and evolvability of intracellular networks, modularity in biology, chaos, cell-to-cell variability, cell fate variability, cell-to-cell communication. Knowledge of elementary statistical mechanics is helpful, but not necessary. N Philippe Cluzel spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 111 Mathematics in Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Develops the mathematics needed for quantitative understanding of biological phenomena including data analysis, simple models, and framing quantitative questions. Topics include probability, transforms and linear algebra, and dynamical systems, each motivated by current biological research. Mathematics 19 or higher. N Sharad Ramanathan fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 115 Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cellular processes involved in the function of neurons will be explored, with emphasis on biophysical and cell biological approaches. Topics include excitable membranes, intracellular membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptic transmission, dendritic integration, and synaptic plasticity. N Venkatesh Murthy fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 118 From Egg to Embryo to Organ Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will explore the molecular and cellular developmental mechanisms that regulate the progressive elaboration of a functional adult body plan through the study of vertebrate and invertebrate experimental model systems. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a (or equivalent); Life Sciences 1b or MCB 54 recommended. Y Andrew P. McMahon fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 121 Microbes in Disease and the Environment: Genetics, Cell Biology, and Physiology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This general microbiology course will focus on the genetics, cell biology, and physiology of microorganisms. The goal of this course is to give the students a broad overview of microbial physiology in the context of disease and environmental applications. The course will primarily consist of lectures with problem sets; we will also incorporate current and classical literature. N Karine Alexine Gibbs fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 122 The Biology of Cell Division and Cancer Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The molecular and cellular interfaces between normal cells and cancer cells will be covered in lectures and readings from the original literature. Topics will include conversion of extracellular signals to intracellular signals, protein kinase networks, mitosis, cell death, oncogenes, and suppressor genes. Recommended: MCB 52 and MCB 54. Y Raymond L. Erikson fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 129 Molecular Genetics of Neural Development and Behavior Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 A lecture and discussion course on the development of the nervous system and the relationship between genes, behavior and evolution. Topics include neural differentiation and cell identity, cell birth and death, axon guidance and synaptic specificity, behavioral genetics. Emphasis on critical evaluation of readings from the primary literature, experimental design and scientific writing. Permission of the instructor. Y Sam Kunes spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 131 Computational Neuroscience Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Follows trends in modern brain theory, focusing on local neuronal circuits as basic computational modules. Explores the relation between network architecture, dynamics, and function. Introduces tools from information theory, statistical inference, and the learning theory for the study of experience-dependent neural codes. Specific topics: computational principles of early sensory systems; adaptation and gain control in vision, dynamics of recurrent networks; feature selectivity in cortical circuits; memory; learning and synaptic plasticity; noise and chaos in neuronal systems. Basic knowledge of multivariate calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and elementary probability theory. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 141 Molecular Neurobiology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Molecular basis of sensory perception and formation of related neuronal networks during vertebrate development. Topics will include mechanisms of sensory discrimination at the level of receptor molecules and receptor cells, coding of sensory information by the brain, and establishment of appropriate connections in the developing brain. Molecular and genetic approaches to memory and behavior will be discussed. MCB 52 and MCB 80. N Catherine Dulac fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 142 Major Advances in Classical and Molecular Genetics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 MCB 142 aims to develop an understanding of the conceptual development of classical and molecular genetics, starting with Mendel and Darwin. Course work includes critical reading of selected papers on the chromosomal and molecular basis of heredity, student presentations, group discussion, and submission of written answers to problem sets. Participation in class discussion of readings is essential. A substantial essay on a mutually agreed topic is due at end of reading period. Life Sciences 1b or equivalent and permission of the instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. Y Matthew Meselson fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 145 Neurobiology of Perception and Decision Making Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course One of the current goals of neuroscience is to understand neuronal circuits underlying perception and behavior. Recent advances in neuroscience have allowed us to glimpse neuronal processes that link perception and decision making. How is sensory information processed in the brain? How does an animal chose its action? How does an animal learn from ever-changing environments and adjust their behavior? The course will examine neurophysiological studies in perception and decision-making. MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Y Naoshige Uchida spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 146 Experience-Based Brain Development: Causes and Consequences Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 2-3:30 Takao K. Hensch At no time in life does the surrounding environment so potently shape brain function as in infancy and early childhood. This course integrates molecular/cellular biology with systems neuroscience to explore biological mechanisms underlying critical periods in brain development. Understanding how neuronal circuits are sculpted by experience will motivate further consideration of the social impact on therapy, education, policy, and ethics. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Takao K Hensch spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 147 Brain Circuits Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What functions arise when many thousands of neurons combine in a densely connected circuit? Though the operations of neural circuits lie at the very heart of brain science, our textbooks have little to say on the topic. This course explores what is known, and how we will learn more. The emphasis is on experimental science, but theory and computation play important roles in interpreting data and formalizing predictions. MCB 80 or equivalent; some recent math experience. N Markus Meister spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 151 From the Gene to the Phenotype: A Genomics Perspective Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore how the information encoded in our genomes leads to both the shared phenotypic characteristics of a species as well as individual variation. Both the classical literature and the current state of the art will be discussed. Life Sciences 1b, or permission of the instructor. N William Gelbart fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 152 Genetic Analysis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An advanced course focusing on genetic analysis of fundamental cellular and developmental processes in model organisms. An emphasis is placed on reading and understanding the primary literature through introductory lectures, class discussions, and short written assignments. Students will learn how to design and interpret genetic experiments in a variety of model organisms. Life Sciences 1b, MCB 52, and MCB 54. N Craig P. Hunter spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 153 The Practice of Experimental Science: a Genetics Laboratory Course Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 M., 1-4 Craig P. Hunter Students will be exposed to theoretical and practical concepts in classical and modern genetic analysis through direct laboratory experience using the model genetic organism C. elegans. This will be accompanied by journal clubs, student presentations, and lecture. Life Sciences 1a, Life Sciences 1b; can be taken concurrently with MCB 52 , MCB 54. Laboratory will be open for after hours access as well. Y Craig P. Hunter spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 154 Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 3-4:30 Susan Mango This course will survey primary research papers describing topics in molecular and cellular biology. We will focus on areas of disagreement, reading pairs of papers that come to antithetical conclusions. Which is correct? Can both points of view be right? What experiments or controls would bolster the hypotheses of one or the other paper? Topics will focus on seminal findings in cell and developmental biology. Each week a different area will be covered through a combination of paper discussions, an introductory lecture and a quiz. Intended for advanced undergraduates who have taken MCB 52 and MCB 54. N Susan Mango spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 155 Bioregulatory Mechanisms Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An advanced course on the control of gene regulation. Topics include: mechanisms of gene regulation at the level of transcription, chromatin structure, DNA methylation, RNA processing, mRNA localization, and protein synthesis and degradation. The course is taught through weekly lectures and readings from the current literature. Topics covered in lectures and the reading assignments are discussed in sections. Students are required to critically evaluate and discuss recent papers in sections. Two exams. MCB 52 and MCB 54 (or equivalent), and permission of instructor. Y Nicole Francis Vladimir Denic spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 156 Structural Biology of the Flow of Information in the Cell Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 2-3:30 David Jeruzalmi A journey that follows the path taken by an extra-cellular signal as it reaches a cell, traverses the plasma membrane, navigates the cytoplasm, and finally manifests its effect upon the genome. Through the reading and discussion of primary research literature, the course highlights how structural biology has helped develop a detailed picture of each step in the pathway. The interplay between cellular and network biology and structural biology is also emphasized. Introductory molecular and cellular biology (MCB 52 and MCB 54 or equivalent). N David Jeruzalmi fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 169 Molecular and Cellular Immunology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The immune system is frontier at which molecular biology, cell biology, and genetics intersect with the pathogenesis of disease. The course examines in depth the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the development and function of the immune system and also analyzes the immunological basis of human disease including AIDS and other infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, allergic disorders, primary immunodeficiency syndromes, transplantation, and cancer. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a or equivalent. Genetics and cell biology strongly recommended. N Dr Shiv Subramaniam Pillai fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 173 Optical Imaging in the Biological Sciences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The optical microscope has undergone a radical transformation. Recent innovations in lasers, chemistry, molecular biology, detectors, computation and optics have propelled the microscope to the cutting edge of modern biology. These complex machines are now the tools of choice for revealing structure and function in biology. This course explores the principles and practice of the "new microscopy". Topics include the nature of light, fluorescence, image restoration, confocal, 2-photon, structured illumination and other new techniques. Permission of the instructor; MCB 80 recommended. Y Jeff Lichtman fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 176 Biochemistry of Membranes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course on the properties of biological membranes, essential elements for cell individuality, communication between cells, and energy transduction. Topics include: membrane structure; membrane protein synthesis, insertion in the bilayer and targeting; transporters, pumps and channels; electron transport, H+ gradients and ATP synthesis; membrane receptors, G proteins and signal transduction; membrane fusion. MCB 52 and MCB 54 are recommended but not required. N Guido Guidotti spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 178 Biochemistry of Protein Complexes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course on the properties of protein complexes that serve as supports, machines and motors. Topics include : hemoglobin, actin filaments, myosin function, microtubules, kinesin, metabolon, photosynthesis, rotary motors, nuclear pores and transport, proteasome. Lecture on Monday is followed by student presentations on Wednesday. The course involves reading two research papers per week, and writing a research proposal. Chemistry 27 and MCB 54 are recommended but not required. N Guido Guidotti spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 185 Human Disease Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will address both the molecular basis of human disease and the biological and chemical foundation of therapeutic intervention. The course will include lectures by prominent experts and analysis of the primary literature. Chemistry 20/30 or 17/27, MCB 52, or their equivalents. May not be taken concurrently with Chemistry 185. May not be taken for credit if Chemistry 185 or Chemistry 285 have already been taken. N Gregory Verdine fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 186 Circadian Biology: From Cellular Oscillators to Sleep Regulation Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Properties, mechanisms, and functional roles of circadian (daily) rhythms in organisms ranging from unicells to mammals. Cellular and molecular components, regulation of gene expression and physiological functions, genetic and biochemical analyses of circadian rhythms, and neurobiology of the mammalian circadian pacemaker. Mathematics and modeling of oscillatory systems and applications to circadian rhythms. Experimental studies of human rhythms, including the sleep-wake cycle and hormone rhythms, with applications to sleep disorders. Life Sciences 1b or equivalent, MCB 80 desirable. N Dr Charles Andrew Czeisler spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 188 Chromosomes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Chromosome morphogenesis in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Topics will include chromosome structure, interactions between chromosomes (sisters and homologs), DNA recombination and repair, topoisomerases, transposable elements and site-specific recombination, epigenetic inheritance. Genetic, cytological, and biochemical approaches will be integrated. Lecture, reading, and discussion of classical and current literature and consideration of future experimental directions. Life Sciences 1b or equivalent, MCB 52, and MCB 54. N Nancy Kleckner spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 192 Principles of Drug Discovery and Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 This interdisciplinary course will examine the process of drug discovery and development through disease-driven examples. Topics include: the efficacy/toxicity balance, the differences between drugs and inhibitors, the translation of cellular biochemistry to useful medicine. MCB 52 and one year of organic chemistry. MCB 54 is recommended. May not be taken concurrently with Chemistry 192. May not be taken for credit if Chemistry 192 has already been taken. N Vicki L. Sato Gregory Verdine spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 195 Foundations of Systems Biology and Biological Engineering Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course builds an understanding of design principles in biology. We will ask why biological circuits are built the way they are and answer using mathematical models. Topics: elementary circuits in biological networks, robustness, pattern-formation in embryos, error-correction, and evolutionary optimization. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, Life Sciences 1b and Mathematics 1a/1b and molecular cell biology at the level of MCB 52 and MCB 54. Familiarity with mathematics at the level of 19/20 is strongly recommended. Students from physics, engineering and other disciplines are also welcome. N Philippe Cluzel spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 198 Advanced Mathematical Techniques for Modern Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 How do we find biologically meaningful patterns in a large amount of data? How do animals learn to use patterns in the environment to infer information despite the ignorance of the underlying laws? The course will introduce Bayesian analysis, maximum entropy principles, hidden markov models and pattern theory in order to study DNA sequence, gene expression and neural spike train data. The relevant biological background will be covered in depth. A strong background in calculus, linear algebra, fourier analysis, complex analysis at the advanced undergraduate level and an introductory knowledge of probability theory is required. Knowledge of statistical mechanics and comfort with programming will be useful. N Sharad Ramanathan Venkatesh Murthy spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 199 Statistical Thermodynamics and Quantitative Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Course seeks to develop an understanding of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, with applications to quantitative problems in biology such as configurations of biopolymers, equilibrium states of matter, chemical reactions and protein transport, using the concepts of entropy, free energy, adsorption, chemical kinetics and molecular diffusion. Two terms of college calculus, a calculus-based physics course, and some exposure to molecular and cellular biology. Experience with statistics and differential equations not essential, but helpful. N David R. Nelson spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 206 Introduction to Connectomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focuses on how the tools of connectomics (nanoscale imaging, nanoscale and microscale cutting, fluorescent and electron-dense staining, image analysis algorithms) generate data about neural connectivity. Case studies: C. elegans, neuromuscular junction, retina, cortex. This course will be taught by Harvard and MIT faculty, alternating meeting locations on both the Harvard and MIT campuses. N Jeff Lichtman R. Clay Reid fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 208 Talking about Science Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 30 Teaches advanced students how to give a good research talk while exposing them to seminal scientific discoveries. Emphasis will be on speaking style, lecture organization, and use of video projection tools. In addition to lecture material from the instructor, students will present experiments from Nobel Prize-winning work. The presentations will be critiqued in class by the participants. Open to second year graduate students or with permission of the instructor. Y Jeff Lichtman Michael E. Greenberg spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 212 Topics in Biophysics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Motility and sensory transduction; chemotaxis in bacteria; flagellar motility; prokaryotic and eukaryotic motor molecules. Offered in alternate years. A term paper and seminar are required. N Howard C. Berg fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 225 Interesting Questions in Physical Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Physical biology can be defined as a discipline that seeks to understand biological processes through the lens of physics and engineering. Faculty and students will unite to review current research with the aim of identifying and pondering interesting emerging questions in this area. Intended primarily for first year graduate students in the EPB PhD track but available to other graduate students and advanced undergraduates as space permits. N Nancy Kleckner Mara Prentiss spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 234 Cellular Metabolism and Human Disease Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Cellular and organismal metabolism, with focus on interrelationships between key metabolic pathways and human disease states. Genetic and acquired metabolic diseases and functional consequences for specific organ systems. Lectures and conferences are integrated with clinical encounters with patients. Knowledge of introductory biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology required (MCB 52 and MCB 54 or equivalent); one year of organic chemistry. Students may attend lectures in either Cambridge or Boston since they will be transmitted live from HMS to Harvard College and vice-versa; the inter-campus link will allow real-time interactions between students and faculty at each site. May not be taken concurrently with BCMP 234. May not be taken for credit if BCMP 234 has already been taken. N Thomas Michel Cheryl D. Vaughan full year Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 290 hfr Current Topics in Molecular, Cellular and Organismal Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This class teaches students how to publicly present scientific papers to a diverse audience with emphasis on contextualizing the scientific problem under discussion, critically presenting the essential data, and using an engaging presentation style. Required for all first and second year graduate students in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms (MCO) Training Program; may be taken for SAT/UNS credit only. N Vladimir Denic Vladimir Denic fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 291 Genetics, Genomics and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers the fundamentals of classical genetics, molecular genetics, macro- and microevolution, phylogenetics, and developmental evolution. The emphasis is on major concepts and terminology, reading landmark primary literature, and acquainting students with research techniques. Required for first year graduate students in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms (MCO) Training Program. N Cassandra Extavour Andrew Murray fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 292 Cellular Biology, Neurobiology and Developmental Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 The biology of the individual cell lies at the heart of multi-cellular phenomena such as development and neural function. This course will emphasize critical evaluation of the primary literature, experimental design and scientific writing. Required for first year graduate students in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms (MCO) Training Program. N John E. Dowling Vladimir Denic Alexander F Schier Andrew Murray fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 293 Physical, Chemical and Molecular Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will introduce basic principles in general, organic and physical chemistry, including kinetics and thermodynamics, as well as macromolecular structure. Concepts will be illustrated with examples taken from the visual system. Required for first year graduate students in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms (MCO) Training Program. N Andres Leschziner Victoria D'Souza fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 300 Introduction to Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 301 Synapse Formation Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joshua R. Sanes Joshua R. Sanes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 303 Mechanisms of Epigenetic Inheritance by Polycomb Group Proteins Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nicole Francis Nicole Francis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 304 Experimental Biological Physics and Quantitative Cell Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel Needleman Daniel Needleman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 305 Signaling Processing and Systems Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sharad Ramanathan Sharad Ramanathan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 306 Biophysics and Physiology of Neurons Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Venkatesh Murthy Venkatesh Murthy fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 307 Developmental Genetics and Neurobiology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Alexander F Schier Alexander F Schier fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 308 Quantitative Analysis of Regulatory Networks Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Erin K O'Shea Erin K O'Shea fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 311 Biochemistry of Epigenetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nicole Francis Nicole Francis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 312 Military and Arms Control Applications of Biology and Chemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Matthew Meselson Matthew Meselson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 315 Structural Biology of Signaling and Transport Through Biological Membranes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Rachelle Gaudet Rachelle Gaudet fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 316 Structural Biology of Retroviral Replication Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Victoria D'Souza Victoria D'Souza fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 317 Structure and Function of the Biological Assemblies Involved in DNA Replication Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Jeruzalmi David Jeruzalmi fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 322 Genetics and Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Craig P. Hunter Craig P. Hunter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 326 Biochemical Virology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Raymond L. Erikson Raymond L. Erikson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 328 Neuronal Circuit Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Takao K Hensch Takao K Hensch fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 329 Structural Biology of ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andres Leschziner Andres Leschziner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 330 Mechanisms of DNA Transport Across Membranes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Briana Burton Briana Burton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 344 Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Catherine Dulac Catherine Dulac fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 359 Chromosomes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Nancy Kleckner Nancy Kleckner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 363 Invertebrate Development and Transcriptional Circuitry Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Susan Mango Susan Mango fall term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 364 Vertebrate Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew P. McMahon fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 365 Neurobiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John E. Dowling John E. Dowling fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 366 Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Networks Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Florian Engert Florian Engert fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 367 Structural Studies of Synapses Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jeff Lichtman Jeff Lichtman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 368 Neural Circuits for Sensation and Behavior Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Naoshige Uchida Naoshige Uchida fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 373 Cellular Biochemistry and Physiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y J. Woodland Hastings J. Woodland Hastings fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 374 Developmental Neurobiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sam Kunes Sam Kunes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 377 Genetics and Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y William Gelbart William Gelbart fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 378 Motile Behavior of Bacteria Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Howard C. Berg Howard C. Berg fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 379 Social Behaviors and Genetics of Bacteria Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Karine Alexine Gibbs Karine Alexine Gibbs fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 381 Microbial Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Richard M. Losick Richard M. Losick fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 386 Molecular Evolution Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Matthew Meselson Matthew Meselson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 390 Function of Neuronal Circuits Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Markus Meister Markus Meister fall term; repeated spring term Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB 391 Biochemistry Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Guido Guidotti Guido Guidotti full year Department of Music Music Music Bhf Exercises in Tonal Writing and Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Includes theory (level of Music 150) as well as keyboard and ear training. Required of all graduate students. This requirement must be met before admission to the General Examination. N Olaf Leon Post Olaf Leon Post fall term Department of Music Music Music 1 a Introduction to Western Music from the Middle Ages to Mozart Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Exploring about 1000 years of western music history (c.800-1800), this course will consider the musical styles of particular periods and specific composers including Machaut, Du Fay, Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, and Mozart. Music 1a can be taken independently of Music 1b. No prior knowledge of music is presumed. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. May not be taken for concentration credit. N Evan Angus MacCarthy spring term Department of Music Music Music 1 b Introduction to Western Music from Beethoven to the Present Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continues the survey started in Music 1a, beginning with the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. Explores the history of music in its stylistic and cultural contexts, including aspects of form, composition, social significance, and politics. Composers studied include Beethoven, Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, Berlioz, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Stravinsky, Debussy and later 20th c. figures. Music 1b can be taken independently of Music 1a. No prior knowledge of music presumed. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. May not be taken for concentration credit. N Ellen Elizabeth Exner fall term Department of Music Music Music 2 Foundations of Tonal Music I Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 100 Seeks to develop a greater understanding of musical language, the conceptual foundations of musical literature, and of how critical listening and analysis can be performed. We will study the organizing principles of tonal music, making use of traditional score analysis, musically specific writing, aural analysis and creative composition projects. While reading knowledge of simple musical notation is helpful, there will be at least one section for students with no previous experience. Open to all students. May not be counted for concentration credit. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Richard Beaudoin spring term Department of Music Music Music 3 Foundations of Tonal Music II Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 The first part of the course concentrates on increasing understanding and fluency in writing within the musical language of "common practice tonality". The second part of the course looks at 20th-century techniques for composing music. The final project is a short composition that will be performed during reading period. Teaching takes place in groups of 10-12, divided according to background, with full group lectures every week. Music 2 or permission of the instructor. May not be counted for concentration credit. N Andrew Gregory Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 4 Introduction to Composition Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Open to students with little or no prior experience in composition. Explores ways of thinking about and organizing basic compositional elements such as melody, harmony, rhythm and instrumental color, as well as developing skills of score preparation and analytical listening. The primary focus of the course is a series of short compositional exercises, culminating in a somewhat longer final project. Workshop performances of students' music take place throughout the term. Music 2 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. May not be counted for concentration credit. N Richard Beaudoin fall term Department of Music Music Music 51 a Theory I Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Musicianship, harmony and counterpoint. Course proceeds via frequent practical exercises (model composition, ear training, analytical exercises and keyboard harmony assignments). First semester concentrates on melodies, bass lines, and simple tonal counterpoint. Basic theory and ear training skills. Basic keyboard skills are useful. For this course a placement exam is required, which is offered the week before classes begin. Please contact the Music Department for further information. Music 51a or its equivalent is required of all concentrators. Students planning to concentrate in Music are encouraged to take the course in their freshman year. Concentrators should plan to meet this requirement by no later than the end of the sophomore year. Y Olaf Leon Post spring term Department of Music Music Music 51 b Theory 1 Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of the skills practiced in Music 51a. The second semester focuses on four-part writing and more advanced harmony/counterpoint, using a wide range of musical styles. Music 51a. Music 51b or its equivalent is required of all concentrators. Students planning to concentrate in Music are encouraged to take the course in their freshman year. Concentrators should plan to meet this requirement by no later than the end of the sophomore year. Y Olaf Leon Post fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to students wishing to pursue supervised study in an area not covered by the courses currently offered. Students must submit a study proposal to the faculty member with whom they wish to study and a signed proposal to the Head Tutor. May be counted for concentration only with the prior approval of the Department. Y Thomas Forrest Kelly Thomas Forrest Kelly spring term Department of Music Music Music 97 a Music History and Repertory: Medieval to Baroque Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An intensive survey of Western music from the middle ages to ca. 1750, providing methods of further study of music in historical and cultural contexts as well as knowledge of repertory. Music 51 (may be taken concurrently). Music 97 is required of all concentrators, preferably taken in the sophomore year, or earlier by permission. Each third of the course culminates in an examination testing students' knowledge of a large listening repertory. These examinations must be passed in order to receive credit for the course. Y Thomas Forrest Kelly fall term Department of Music Music Music 97 b Music History & Repertory: Classical to Contemporary Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An intensive survey of western music from the Classical to Contemporary periods. Course culminates in an examination testing students' knowledge of a large listening repertory. Music 51 may be taken concurrently. Music 97b is required of all music concentrators, preferably taken in the sophomore year, or earlier by permission. Y fall term Department of Music Music Music 97 c Music History and Repertory: Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An intensive introduction to selected world music repertories, as well as research methods and interpretive issues in the field of ethnomusicology. Explored are the musical, intellectual, and cultural challenges posed by the cross-cultural study of music. Music 51 may be taken concurrently. Note: Music 97 is required of all concentrators, preferably taken in the sophomore year, or earlier by permission. Each of the three semesters of the course culminates in an examination testing students' knowledge of a large listening repertory. These examinations must be passed in order to receive credit for the course. Y Richard Kent Wolf fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to junior candidates for honors in Music who have written permission to enroll from the instructor with whom they wish to work, and also from the Head Tutor in Music. With permission, may be taken for a second term. Y Thomas Forrest Kelly Thomas Forrest Kelly fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to senior candidates for honors in Music who have written permission to enroll from the instructor with whom they wish to work, and also from the Head Tutor in Music. May be counted toward concentration credit only by honors candidates. Y Thomas Forrest Kelly Thomas Forrest Kelly fall term Department of Music Music Music 101 r Dance Collaboration Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Choreography and Design of Partnership and Collaboration: Tools, Synthesis, Action. Ask a big enough question and you will need more than one discipline to answer it. Problem solving in today's world requires collaborative efforts on both an imaginative and concrete level. This course asserts that artistic practice, beautiful in its own right for making art, also provides a means for being active in the world. Students will learn movement-based art making tools at the beginning of the semester and later translate these actions into methods for inquiry based problem solving in the public arena. No previous dance training required, but an open mind and a willingness to commit to experimentation and personal research are essential. No art or dance background required. N Elizabeth Lerman spring term Department of Music Music Music 103 r Dance Masterwork Process: Forsythe Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 A comprehensive study of a William Forsythe master work with one of his closest collaborators culminating in a collaborative, original dance work. A unique, rigorous and interdisciplinary course of study that will expose students to all aspects of a master work by a preeminent American dance innovator. Previous dance experience required. Enrollment determined by interview during the first week of class. Y Jill Johnson fall term Department of Music Music Music 105 r Fundamentals of Improvisation and Composition Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Students will thoroughly investigate fundamental skills of improvisation and composition. The course will employ a series of specific physical tasks and systems, taught through intensive exercises and guided improvisations which generate and modify movement and link the mind and body to innovation. Previous dance experience required. Enrollment determined by interview during the first week of class. Y Jill Johnson fall term Department of Music Music Music 121 a Choral Conducting Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students conduct the class/choir to gain experience building and refining conducting technique. Through repertoire of various eras, students develop score reading and analysis skills, explore rehearsal methods, and consider the application of vocal pedagogy in ensemble singing. Choral or ensemble experience; ear training, keyboard, and theory background helpful. Individual sections will be scheduled. N Andrew Gregory Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 123 r Choral Literature of the 20th & 21st Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Passion Settings of the 20th & 21st Century: Survey & Performance. Three works will be analyzed and prepared for performance: Hugo Distler's Choral-Passion, op. 7, Arvo Part's Passio (1982), and the New England premiere of David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion, 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Students will examine settings by Penderecki, Golijov, Tan Dan, Ginastera, Saariaho, Glass, and others. Distinguished composers and conductors will offer guest lecturers and coachings. Y Andrew Gregory Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 127 r Advanced Conducting & Orchestral Repertory Analysis Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This semester's course will focus on music and art in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, concentrating on scores by Debussy, Stravinsky, DeFalla and Ravel. By audition only. Y Federico Cortese fall term Department of Music Music Music 128 r Workshop on Opera Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Verdi's Falstaff. The opera and score will be studied, as well as the concept of "late style": the new styles and artistic languages experimented by great composers/artists at the end of their lives (Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Titian, El Greco, Rembrandt). Guest speakers will be invited. Open to singers and conductors Y Federico Cortese fall term Department of Music Music Music 150 a Theory II Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continues the work of Music 51. The fall term focuses on the Classical style (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven). Topics include harmony, phrase structure, simple forms, and sonata-form procedures. Concepts are developed through analysis, model composition, keyboard harmony and ear-training exercises. Music 51 or equivalent. Required of all concentrators. Students who have taken Music 154 may not enroll in this course. N Suzannah Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 150 b Music Theory IIb Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores chromatic harmony in 19th century instrumental and vocal forms. Concepts are developed through analysis, model composition, keyboard harmony and ear-training exercises. Music 51 or equivalent. Required of all concentrators. Students who have taken Music 154 may not enroll in this course. N Richard Beaudoin spring term Department of Music Music Music 151 Tonal Analysis Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Th., 1-3 Suzannah Clark Tonality in Schubert. Detailed examination of tonal theory and analysis through the music of Franz Schubert. The repertoire will include representative works from Schubert's songs and song cycles, overtures, symphonies, and chamber music. Music 150 or permission of instructor. Open to graduate students. N Suzannah Clark fall term Department of Music Music Music 152 Post-Tonal Analysis Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intensive survey of compositional styles and techniques of the last 100 years. Traditional pitch-centered analysis, including set theory, as well as approaches focusing on rhythm, timbre, gesture, and other elements. Music 150 or permission of instructor. N fall term Department of Music Music Music 153 Jazz Harmony Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intensive survey of jazz harmony, from Tin Pan Alley and blues-based music of Jazz's Golden era to modern jazz styles. Strongly recommended for those planning to take Music 186r. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Daniel Artie Henderson spring term Department of Music Music Music 155 Modal Counterpoint Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Study of representative styles and genres of 16th-century polyphony. Detailed analytic work will be combined with compositional exercises. Music 150 or permission of instructor. N Christopher Hasty spring term Department of Music Music Music 156 Tonal Counterpoint: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Written work in the Bach style. Music 150 or permission of instructor N Christopher Hasty spring term Department of Music Music Music 157 r Theories of World Music Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Music 150 or permission of instructor. N Richard Kent Wolf fall term Department of Music Music Music 158 r Interpreting Musical Performance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analyzing Performance. Analysis of pieces aimed at discovering and evaluating possibilities for execution and perception. Repertory includes fully notated music and music that has no tradition of notation. Questions addressed are those of perception, notation, and adequacy of conventional analytic categories. Music 150 or permission of instructor. Open to graduate students. N Christopher Hasty fall term Department of Music Music Music 159 r Analysis: Repertory Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 Tu., 1-3 Ingrid Monson Musical Repertory Analysis: Monk, Coltrane, Davis. Featuring analysis, ear training, and performance to understand key compositions and the improvisational languages of these key figures in jazz history. Music 150 or permission of instructor N Ingrid Monson fall term Department of Music Music Music 160 r Composition: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Open to students prepared for individual work in composition. Focus on the string quartet, including contemporary repertoire survey, short exercises, and a final project of modest dimensions. Incorporates readings and final performance of students' work. Music 150 or permission of instructor. Y Richard Beaudoin spring term Department of Music Music Music 161 r Advanced Composition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced course in musical composition. Consists of a mixture of one-on-one and group meetings. Music 150 or equivalent. Y Chaya Czernowin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 167 r Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Composition/performance involving analog and digital electronic medium. Projects realized using recording gear and computers; study of relevant aspects of acoustic and electronic theory; compositions since 1948 of musique concrete, acousmatic and live-electronic music; synthesis, sampling, digital recording, and live performance techniques. One course in theory/composition or permission of instructor. Y Hans Tutschku Hans Tutschku spring term Department of Music Music Music 180 r Performance and Analysis: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Representative chamber music of the past and present is prepared for performance in class sessions and private coachings. Intensive class analysis as the basis of musical expression and interpretation. Open to singers and instrumentalists. By audition only, prior to the first meeting. Y Robert D. Levin Daniel Stepner spring term Department of Music Music Music 182 r 17th- and 18th-Century Performance Practice Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Articulation, ornamentation, improvisation, and other stylistic domains are considered from the perspectives of historical evidence and modern performance. Music 150 or permission of instructor. Y Robert D. Levin spring term Department of Music Music Music 183 r 19th-Century and 20th-Century Performance Practice Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Evolution of performance style from the Classical era to the present day. The decline in the creative role of the performer and rapid technological developments are explored. Examination of contemporary treatises and performance styles. A dialogue between scholarship and performance is encouraged. Music 150 or permission of instructor. N Robert D. Levin fall term Department of Music Music Music 185 r Classical Improvisation Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Course will indentify the contexts and theoretical concepts of 18th and early 19th century improvisation in vocal and instrumental music. Authentic written-out embellishments and cadenzas by composers and their contemporaries will be studied and used as a basis for both written and improvised work, to include decoration, cadenzas, preludes, modulating preludes, and free fantasies. Music 150 or the permission of instructor. By audition only, prior to the first class. Y Robert D. Levin spring term Department of Music Music Music 186 Jazz Improvisation Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Building upon Music 153, this course emphasizes rhythm, timbre, texture, signifying, blues aesthetics and other culturally valued aspects of jazz performances. Students will explore jazz's solo and group dynamics by improvising together. Music 153 or permission of instructor. By audition only, prior to the first class. N Daniel Artie Henderson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 187 r Chamber Music Performance Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 60 Instrumental chamber music is prepared in private coachings. Not for concentration credit. By audition prior to first class. Y Federico Cortese Daniel Stepner Federico Cortese spring term Department of Music Music Music 190 gw South Indian Music Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course South Indian Music. Analytical and contextual approach to the classical music of South India. Library or fieldwork project required. By permission of instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Richard Kent Wolf fall term Department of Music Music Music 190 r Topics in World Music: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., 2-4 David Leslie Kaminsky Music, Dance, Gender and Sexuality. This course will explore the network of relationships between music, dance, gender, and sexuality in lead-follow partner dancing. The semester project will be an ethnographic study of a couple dance tradition of the student's choice. For music concentrators or by permission of instructor. N David Leslie Kaminsky fall term Department of Music Music Music 191 r Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Proseminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Chant in Medieval Society and the role of chant (Gregorian and other) in ritual and liturgy. The seminar will examine sources of Gregorian chant in the Houghton Library. Students will be expected to sing, but no previous singing experience or knowledge of musical notation is required. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Thomas Forrest Kelly spring term Department of Music Music Music 191 rs Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Music in the Ancient World. Ancient Greece had a sophisticated musical culture that was quite different from our own. While we understand the notation many questions are left unanswered. Notation, theories, aesthetics, and cultural context will be studied. No Greek language skills required, no advanced music theory required, beyond scales and intervals. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Alexander Rehding fall term Department of Music Music Music 192 r Topics in Music from 1600-1800: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Dieterich Buxtehude and his north German contemporaries. Analytical and contextual approach to the music of Buxtehude, Reincken, Bruhns, and their contemporaries; emphasis will be given to keyboard and vocal works and musical influences on the generation of J.S. Bach. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Evan Angus MacCarthy fall term Department of Music Music Music 193 r Topics in Music from 1800 to the Present: Proseminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course German Art Song from Bach to Strauss. The history of German art song from the baroque era through the early 20th-century. Repertory will include music by C. P. E. Bach, Zelter, Loewe, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler and Richard Strauss. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Ellen Elizabeth Exner spring term Department of Music Music Music 193 rs Topics in Music from 1800 - Present Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Wagner and Debussy. Considers select repertory of Richard Wagner and Claude Debussy, alongside questions of influence, musical language, political affiliation, national contexts, and parallel movements in art and literature. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Sindhumathi Revuluri spring term Department of Music Music Music 194 gs Special Topics: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged ---------- N spring term Department of Music Music Music 195 r Topics in Music from 1900 - Present Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Music since 1945. A survey of different schools and styles of composition in European and American art music since the WW II, with consideration of the intellectual and historical context of the works studied. For music concentrators or with permission of instructor. N Anne C. Shreffler fall term Department of Music Music Music 201 a Current Methods in Historical Musicology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to musicological scholarship drawing upon theoretical frameworks, and working methods of historical musicology. Includes aspects of the history of the discipline of musicology, as well as newer methodologies. Students will read relevant theoretical texts from other disciplines and consider the possibilities of interdisciplinary projects within musicology. Graduate students only. May be taken independently by students from other departments with permission of instructor. N Sindhumathi Revuluri spring term Department of Music Music Music 201 b Current Methods in Ethnomusicology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Focuses on the introduction to scholarly study of music with emphasis on the history and methodologies of ethnomusicology. Theories of music in culture, field methods, analytical and notational strategies, and critical tools for scholarship. May be taken by students from other departments with permission of instructor. N Ingrid Monson spring term Department of Music Music Music 205 r Medieval Notation Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course "Notation in the Study of Musical Culture." This class explores the connectedness of the visual and the textual, to reach a broader understanding of the aesthetic goals that motivated notational decisions made by medieval composers. Parallels will be drawn with contemporary graphic scores. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Jane Alden fall term Department of Music Music Music 206 r Research Methods in Ethnomusicology: Musical Ethnography Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the theories and methods of ethnomusicological fieldwork, including changing conceptions of the research site, ethical concerns, interview techniques, the ethnography of musical performance, and data analysis and interpretation. Individual research project required. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Kay K. Shelemay fall term Department of Music Music Music 207 r Ethnomusicology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Music and Language. Methods of phonetics, social linguistics, and ethnomusicology are combined to examine music and speech, including epic storytelling and laments, instrumental speech surrogates, and poetry. Materials potentially drawn from any period or location. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Richard Kent Wolf spring term Department of Music Music Music 207 rs Ethnomusicology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Cross-Cultural Rhythm. Compares theories and practices of rhythm in South Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa. Issues include perception, "free rhythm," cyclicity, rhythmic multiplicity, and embodiment. Opportunity to interact with Indian drummer. N Richard Kent Wolf Christopher Hasty fall term Department of Music Music Music 208 r Ethnomusicology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N spring term Department of Music Music Music 209 r Ethnomusicology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N spring term Department of Music Music Music 212 r Chant: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Chant. The seminar will study the repertory and styles of Gregorian chant; particular attention will be given to the transmission of words and music in prosulae. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Thomas Forrest Kelly spring term Department of Music Music Music 213 r Topics in Medieval Polyphony Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Anne C. Shreffler spring term Department of Music Music Music 214 r Renaissance Music: Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Du Fay in Italy. Analytical discussions and source studies of selected works of Guillaume Du Fay; particular attention will be given to their reception and transmission on the Italian peninsula. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Evan Angus MacCarthy spring term Department of Music Music Music 216 r 18th-Century Music: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N fall term Department of Music Music Music 216 rs Topics in 18th Century Music Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N fall term Department of Music Music Music 217 r 19th-Century Music: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Music and national identification. Special reference to Italian opera during the early to mid-19th Century. A comparative investigation of different National identification processes and their consequences on the music scene. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Sergio Durante spring term Department of Music Music Music 218 r 20th-Century Music: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Music and Politics in the 20th Century. How has music been employed for political purposes during the 20th century? How do the political associations given to music change over time? Focus on musical works as well as text sources (journalism, letters, manifestos, etc.) Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Anne C. Shreffler spring term Department of Music Music Music 218 rs 20th-Century Music: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Graduate students only, with priority given to Music Department graduate students. N fall term Department of Music Music Music 219 r 19th- and 20th-Century Music Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Race and American Musical Theater, 1900-1950. Explores the rich history of African Americans in musical theater, including shows with all-black casts and creative teams (In Dahomey 1903; Shuffle Along 1921) and those with black casts and white creative teams (Porgy and Bess 1935). A parallel thread will explore the gradual racial integration of casts, beginning with Show Boat (1927). One segment of the seminar will focus on the revival and reconception of Porgy and Bess by ART. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Carol J. Oja spring term Department of Music Music Music 219 rs 19th and 20th Century Music Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Music and the Moving Image. The relationship between music and film over time, in national contexts, and its effect on other musical productions. Course considers how music functions alongside other moving images (dance, animation, sound art). Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Sindhumathi Revuluri fall term Department of Music Music Music 220 r History of Music Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Chinese Music in 18th-century Europe. The Enlightenment was fascinated by Chinese music - a completely different musical system from non-Western high culture. We will study reports, responses, theories, histories, and musical representations. An exhibition using the holdings of Isham Library will be organized. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Alexander Rehding spring term Department of Music Music Music 221 r Current Issues in Music Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores current trends and debates in music theory, covering developing music theories, approaches in analysis, and topics in the history of music theory. N Suzannah Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 222 r Schenkerian Analysis I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the theories and graphing techniques of Heinrich Schenker and his followers through the analysis of selected works. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Suzannah Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 223 r Neo-Riemannian Analysis Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Neo-Riemannian Analysis. Explores the new body of transformational analytical techniques usually grouped as "Neo-Riemannian Theory." Analysis of pertinent musical passages, discussion of key texts (Riemann, Lewin, Hyer, Cohn, Kopp), context and limits of these ideas. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Alexander Rehding fall term Department of Music Music Music 230 r Topics in Music Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theory and Analysis of Sonata Forms. Explores theories of sonata form(s) developed c. 1935, focusing on the turn away from the Formenlehre tradition in Schenker's model and the return to it in Caplin and Hepokoski & Darcy. Analysis of Haydn, Mozart, and early Beethoven. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. N Suzannah Clark spring term Department of Music Music Music 230 rs Sounds Studies Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Course examines central themes in the emerging field of sound studies as they intersect with topics in music theory. We explore a range of histories, theories, archeologies and ethnographies of sound and listening, along with topics in media theory, science and technology studies, performance studies, and music analysis. N full year Department of Music Music Music 250 hf Colloquium on Teaching Pedagogy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The Craft of Teaching. Devoted to the craft of teaching, the course considers all major facets of academic teaching practices (lectures, tutorials, discussion, syllabi, advising, grading, etc.) Required of all third year graduate students. This course must be taken for Sat/Unsat credit. N Carol J. Oja Carol J. Oja fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 261 r Composition: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course For first and second year graduate students prepared for work in original composition. N Chaya Czernowin Chaya Czernowin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 262 r Composition: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course For second year and advanced graduate students prepared for work in original composition. N fall term Department of Music Music Music 264 r Electronic Music Composition: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Collaboration with the Harvard Museums. Creation of an original composition in relation to one of the art works currently on display in the Sackler Museum. Previous knowledge of electronic music techniques, or permission of instructor. N Hans Tutschku spring term Department of Music Music Music 264 rs Electronic Music: Composition Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Multichannel electroacoustic composition. Multichannel electroacoustic composition using 8 and 16 channel loudspeaker arrays to convey real and virtual spaces. Each student will compose an electroacoustic piece for Hydra. Previous knowledge of Max/MSP. N Hans Tutschku spring term Department of Music Music Music 265 r Orchestration Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 8 Focuses on composing for orchestral instruments in large ensembles and orchestras. It alternates classroom meetings and practical sessions with instrumentalists. Open to composition graduate students or with permission of instructor. N Federico Cortese fall term Department of Music Music Music 270 r Special Topics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Anne C. Shreffler spring term Department of Music Music Music 271 r Fromm Seminar in Composition Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N fall term Department of Music Music Music 272 r Special Topics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Critical Analysis. N Chaya Czernowin spring term Department of Music Music Music 272 rs Special Topics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 300 Reading and Research for Advanced Students Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work on specific topics not included in the announced course offerings. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 301 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree. May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree. Y spring term Department of Music Music Music 309 Doctoral Colloquium Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Carol J. Oja fall term; repeated spring term Department of Music Music Music 310 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree. Y full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian A Beginning Babylonian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to the fundamentals of Babylonian (Akkadian) grammar and the most commonly encountered Neo-Assyrian cuneiform signs. N Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 120 Intermediate Babylonian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Akkadian grammar, basic vocabulary, knowledge of cuneiform script. N Piotr Steinkeller Piotr Steinkeller fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 141 r Akkadian Myths and Epics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examination of selected Assyrian and Babylonian myths and epics from the latter second and first millennia B.C. Akkadian grammar, basic vocabulary, knowledge of cuneiform script. N Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 144 Akkadian Divination Texts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Piotr Steinkeller fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 149 Akkadian Legal and Economic Texts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Akkadian grammar, basic vocabulary, knowledge of cuneiform script. N Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 153 Old Akkadian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in representative historical, epistolary, literary, and economic texts with emphasis on the grammar. Akkadian grammar, basic vocabulary, knowledge of cuneiform script. N Piotr Steinkeller spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 154 a Peripheral Akkadian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Two full courses in Akkadian. N Anne Lohnert spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 200 r Readings in Akkadian: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Piotr Steinkeller fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akkadian 300 Akkadian Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Piotr Steinkeller Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman Peter Machinist Piotr Steinkeller Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 100 History of the Ancient Near East: Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides an overview of the history of the ancient Near East, with a particular focus on ancient Mesopotamia. It begins with the advent of writing in the late fourth millennium B.C.E. and ends with the fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great, in 539 B.C.E. The course combines archaeological, art historical, and textual data to explore the extraordinarily rich history of this region. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1115. N Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 102 Introduction to Mesopotamian Religion Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the history and major concerns of ancient Mesopotamian religion from prehistoric times down to the reign of Alexander the Great. Among the topics treated are the key figures of the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon, the major mythological compositions (read in translation), personal religion, cosmogonies and theogonies, magic and divination, Mesopotamian temples, and cult and ritual. The course makes rich use of ancient iconography. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3661. N Piotr Steinkeller fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 104 Babylon Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the ancient city of Babylon, including both its history as a seat of political power and its legacy in the Western tradition. Topics include the physical layout of the city, daily life in Babylonian society, what we know about such landmarks as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel, and Babylonian contributions to literature, religion, law, and astronomy. Also covered are the city's use as a symbol of wickedness in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the future of the site, and the broader cultural heritage of ancient Iraq. The course integrates archaeological, art historical, and textual data from the Near East and beyond to explore these issues. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. N Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 109 r History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1822. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 111 Law in the World of the Bible Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of what law was and how it operated in ancient Israel through its primary expression in the Hebrew Bible. Attention to the wider contexts of law in the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia, in which Biblical law originated, and to the legacy of Biblical law in the subsequent traditions of early Judaism. Expected to be given in 2011-12. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1129. N Peter Machinist Andrew Teeter fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 117 Biblical Archaeology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Archaeology and texts, such as the Bible, used to reconstruct aspects of social, economic, and religious life (from courtier to commoner) in ancient Israel during the Iron Age. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1422. Includes a lab section. N Lawrence Stager fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 118 Syro-Palestinian Pottery Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A basic introduction to the pottery sequence of Palestine and Syria from Neolithic through Roman times, with emphasis on typological attributes having chronological significance. Conducted in the Harvard Semitic Museum laboratory. Includes a lab section. N Lawrence Stager fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 120 a Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical introduction to the literature and theology of the Hebrew Bible, considered in light of the historical contexts of its formation and the interpretive contexts of its reception within Judaism and Christianity. The course, the first part of a divisible, year-long sequence, will focus on the major biblical narrative traditions, the Pentateuch and Former Prophets. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1102. N Andrew Teeter spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 120 b Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical introduction to the literature and theology of the Hebrew Bible, considered in light of the historical contexts of its formation and the interpretive contexts of its reception within Judaism and Christianity. The course, the second part of a divisible, year-long sequence, will focus on the Latter Prophets and the Writings. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1103. N Andrew Teeter spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 124 Myth and Myth-Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of the nature and function of myth in the context of the ancient Near East. The course focuses on selected mythic texts from various Near Eastern cultures and consider them in the light of general approaches to myth developed in Western scholarship. Particular attention is given to the issue of myth in the Hebrew Bible. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1128. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 126 History of the Religion of Ancient Israel Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The study of ancient Israelite religion and culture in comparative historical context. Topics examined include conceptions of divinity, prophecy, law, kingship, and cult. Through such topics the aim is to see how Israel related to other cultures of the ancient Near East and, thus, of what value the study of the other cultures has in understanding the character of Israelite religion itself. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1110. N Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 127 Prophecy in Ancient Israel Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the phenomenon and history of Israelite prophecy, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible, in the light of prophecy elsewhere in the ancient Near East and in other cultures. Pertinent sociological, literary, and religious issues explored. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1125. N Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 131 Readings in the Septuagint Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course aims to increase facility with Septuagint Greek by reading representative prose portions of the Septuagint and studying the peculiarities of the grammar inductively. The fundamentals of Koine Greek will be reviewed as necessary. One year of Greek. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4215. N Richard James Saley spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 132 Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close critical reading and interpretation of works thought to derive from the Wisdom tradition of ancient Israel, through the Second Temple period. The workings of the world and the ways of God as they appear in works such as Proverbs, Job, Qohelet, Ben Sira, some Psalms, the Wisdom of Solomon, Fourth Maccabees, and Pseudo-Phocylides as well as narratives such as the Joseph story, Esther, and Daniel. Egyptian and Mesopotamian antecedents and parallels briefly considered. Emphasis on matters of worldview and literary form. Ancient Near East 120 or an equivalent introduction to the historical-critical study of the Hebrew Bible. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1416. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 134 Genesis: Narrative Artistry and Theological Meanings Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close critical reading in English of the book of Genesis with an eye both to the storytellers' techniques and to the moral and theological dimensions of the text. Emphasis will be given to literary and religious rather than historical and editorial issues. Ancient Near East 120 or an equivalent introduction to the historical-critical study of the Hebrew Bible. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1417. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 155 r Ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeology and Texts Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Ancient Mesopotamia was the world's first literate urban civilization. This class will examine the origins and evolution of cities, temples, and government from two complementary perspectives: the archaeological record and cuneiform inscriptions in translation. Activities will include visits to museum collections (Peabody, Semitic Museum, Boston MFA), hands-on experience with creating cuneiform tablets, and virtual tours of southern Iraq using satellite imagery. N Piotr Steinkeller Jason Alik Ur fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 165 The Chosen People Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A consideration of the concept of the biblical motif of divine choice of individuals and groups, with close reading of representative texts in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Knowledge of Hebrew not required. Introduction to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1120. N Michael David Coogan fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 210 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course focuses on the art of recovering the text of the Hebrew Bible using Hebrew and Greek manuscripts as well as other early textual witnesses. At least two years of Hebrew and one year of Greek; some knowledge of Aramaic, Latin, and Syriac is beneficial but not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1819. N Richard James Saley fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 215 r Problems in the Archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Levant: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Conducted in the Harvard Semitic Museum Laboratory. Y Lawrence Stager spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 222 History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: From the Renaissance to the Present: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Surveys Hebrew biblical scholarship since the Renaissance, focusing on particular scholars and their representative and seminal works. The central theme is the emergence of and reactions to a historical-critical understanding of the Bible. A background in the study of the Hebrew Bible. Also, Biblical Hebrew and at least one of the following: French, German, and Modern Hebrew. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1425. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 225 The Greek Bible in History and Theology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An exploration of social, historical, interpretive, and theological issues associated with the so-called Septuagint and its complex relationship to early Judaism and Christianity. Emphases include origins, eschatology, messianism, halakhah, NT backgrounds, and biblical theology. Basic reading knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1301. N Andrew Teeter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 310 Reading and Research in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lawrence Stager Lawrence Stager fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 320 Reading and Research in Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Piotr Steinkeller Peter Machinist Piotr Steinkeller Peter Machinist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ancient Near East 330 Reading and Research in Biblical Studies Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Lawrence Stager Jon D. Levenson Peter Machinist Lawrence Stager Jon D. Levenson Peter Machinist full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic A Elementary Arabic Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduces students to the phonology and script of classical/modern standard Arabic and covers the basic morphology and syntax of the written language. Emphasis on the development of the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing). Samples of modern (contemporary) and classical styles of writing introduced into basic syllabus, and audio-visual material from the contemporary Arabic media. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Cannot divide for credit. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4345. N Khaled Al-Masri Khaled Al-Masri fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic Ba Intermediate Arabic I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A thorough review and continuation of literary (classic and modern) Arabic grammar with emphasis on reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension. Course materials draw from both classical and modern Arabic literature and culture. Arabic A or equivalent. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4351. N William Granara spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic Bb Intermediate Arabic II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Arabic Ba. Arabic A or equivalent. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4361. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 130 a Upper-Level Classical Arabic I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Concentration on readings from classical Islamic texts, with emphasis on Qur'an, hadith, sira, and tafsir literature; directed readings and textual analysis; review of classical Arabic morphology and syntax. Arabic Ba or equivalent, or may be taken separately with permission of the instructor. Not open to auditors. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4353. N William Granara spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 130 b Upper-Level Classical Arabic II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Arabic 130a or may be taken separately with permission of the instructor. Readings from corpus of "Adab" (Belles-Lettres) literature, as well as various pieces of classical Arabic poetry. Arabic 130a or equivalent, or may be taken separately with permission of the instructor. Not open to auditors. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4354. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 131 a Upper-Level Modern Arabic l Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of selections from Arabic newspapers and journals on contemporary political, social, religious, and cultural issues in the Arab world. Emphasis on developing advanced reading and speaking skills, with some attention to writing and listening comprehension. Arabic Ba or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Nevenka Korcica-Sullivan spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 131 b Upper-Level Modern Arabic II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Arabic 131a or may be taken separately with permission of the instructor. Continued emphasis on advanced reading and speaking skills, and introduction to contemporary Arabic fiction, with emphasis on short stories and essays. Arabic 131a or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Nevenka Korcica-Sullivan fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 133 Upper-Level Spoken Modern Standard Arabic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course emphasizes the development of advanced speaking and listening skills by exposing students to the contemporary media and academia. Some reading and writing will be required, but classes will revolve around oral presentations and directed conversations. Two years of MSA or equivalent proficiency. Not open to auditors. N Feryal Hijazi spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 134 Colloquial Levantine Arabic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 M., W., 3-5 Khaled Al-Masri Introduces students to Colloquial Levantine Arabic of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine. The course emphasizes the development of speaking and listening skills through the reinforcement of grammar and vocabulary. Two years of Standard Arabic or the equivalent. Not open to auditors. Students who have completed Arabic 135 may not take this course for credit. N Khaled Al-Masri spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 135 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Introduces students to Egyptian Arabic, the most widely recognized dialect in the Arab world. The course emphasizes the development of speaking and listening skills through the reinforcement of grammar and vocabulary. Two years of Standard Arabic or the equivalent. Not open to auditors. Students who have completed Arabic 134 may not take this course for credit. N Nevenka Korcica-Sullivan spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 150 r History of Classical Arabic Literature: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Overview of Classical Arabic literature, including reading and discussion of selected texts. Knowledge of Arabic advantageous but not required. An additional hour may be set aside for reading in the originals. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 158 Modern Arabic Literature Seminar: Lebanese Civil War in Fiction Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the roots and issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and its enormous impact on modern Arabic fiction. The syllabus pairs realistic and romanticized representations of family, sectarian, and gender binaries against the destruction and fantasy of the urban landscape. Themes include nostalgia and memory, exile and return. Films and documentaries will also be viewed. Arabic helpful but not required. Open to both undergraduates and graduates. N William Granara spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 160 r Readings in Arabic Historians, Geographers, and Biographers Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Roy Parviz Mottahedeh fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 162 Introduction to the Modern Arab World I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of significant events and issues in the modern Arab world from the later years of the Ottoman Empire to the eve of WWI. Topics include the Arab renaissance, the challenges of modernity, reformist movements, colonialism, and the emergence of the modern nation states. No knowledge of Arabic required, but bilingual sectioning will be provided for students who select to read primary sources either in Arabic or English. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3623. N William Granara spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 170 Introduction to the Arab World II: Politics, Religion, and Culture from World War I to Present Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course examines the major intellectual, political and sociocultural trends in the Arab world, from the anti-colonial struggle to self-determination. Topics include Arab nationalism, political reform, cultural production, economic development, and the emergence of the Arabian Gulf. Bi-lingual sectioning will be provided for students who select to read primary sources either in Arabic or English. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3626. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 172 From Rahil to Rihla: Journey & Exploration in Classical & Modern Arabic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines travel and exploration as literary topoi in Arabic poetry from religious aesthetic and political perspectives. Themes include continuities and ruptures in the Arabic poetic tradition from Jahiliyya to contemporary free-verse poetry. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. N Maher Zuhair Jarrar spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 175 r Understanding Modern North Africa Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the history, politics, cultures, societies and economics of the modern Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya). Emphasis on the formation of evolving post-colonial identities within Islamic, Arabo-Berber, African, and Mediterranean contexts. Qualifies as a gateway course for secondary field in Islamic Studies. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 240 a Classical Arabic Philology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Arabic philology, including discussion of difficult grammatical problems and an introduction to manuscript and editorial work. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 240 b Classical Arabic Philology: The Religious Disciplines Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Arabic philology, including discussion of difficult grammatical problems and readings from the religious disciplines. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 241 ar Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Literature, and Culture I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This constitutes the final year of Modern Arabic track. Representative readings from contemporary literature and culture will form bases of discussions on major themes in contemporary Arab society. Advanced proficiency in Arabic. Conducted in Arabic. Not open to auditors. N Khaled Al-Masri spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 241 br Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Literature, and Culture II Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of Arabic 241ar. Conducted in Arabic. Not open to auditors. N Khaled Al-Masri fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 245 r Classical Arabic Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of belle-lettres, from the early proponents of the 'adab' movement to selected tales from Arabian Nights. Texts include manuals for kings and professionals, etiquette, and amorous, liaisions. Authors included: Ibn Hazm, Al-Jahiz, and al-Tawhidi, etc. Reading knowledge of Arabic. N Maher Zuhair Jarrar spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 246 r Andalus, Sicily, and the Maghrib in Literary and Cultural Texts: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Literary and historical texts of the Arabo-Islamic cultures of Spain (al-Andalus), Sicily, and North Africa. Examines the emergence of a "Maghribi" identity amidst cross-cultural relations with the Christian North and the Muslim East. Three years of Arabic, or permission from the instructor. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 248 a Medieval Arabic Writings on Grammar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the study of the medieval Arabic disciplines dealing with literature. Discussion of selected topics on the basis of text readings and recent secondary literature. Reading knowledge of Arabic. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 248 b Medieval Arabic Writings on Literary Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the study of the medieval Arabic disciplines dealing with literature. Discussion of selected topics on the basis of text readings and recent secondary literature. Reading knowledge of Arabic. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 249 r Arabic Philosophical Texts: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to Arabic Logic. Three years of Arabic or equivalent. N Khaled El-Rouayheb spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 250 r Arabic Theological Texts: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The Unity of Existence (Wahdat al-wujud): A Central Problem in Later Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism. Three years of Arabic or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3883. N Khaled El-Rouayheb fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 300 Reading and Research in Arabic Language and Civilization Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Arabic 320 Reading and Research in Modern Arabic Literature and Literary Criticism Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y William Granara William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Aramaic A Introduction to Ancient Aramaic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the ancient Aramaic dialects, including Biblical Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic from Egypt, and Palestinian Aramaic. two semesters of Biblical Hebrew. N spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Aramaic B Targumic and Related Aramaic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 11:30-1 Instructor to be determined Readings in Egyptian, Palestinian and targumic Aramaic, with special focus on the grammar, literary form and function of the Targumim. Aramaic A or the equivalent. N full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Aramaic C Introduction to Syriac Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Basic Syriac grammar and syntax, with selected readings from the Syriac Bible and other early texts. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4109. N Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Wolfhart P. Heinrichs spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Aramaic 120 Introduction to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud with readings from talmudic texts. Two semesters or the equivalent of Hebrew or one semester or the equivalent of ancient Aramaic. Jointly offered with the Divinity School as 4108. N Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Aramaic 300 Aramaic Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Shaye J.D. Cohen Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Shaye J.D. Cohen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian A Elementary Classical Armenian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to classical Armenian grammar and reading of selected texts. N James R. Russell full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian B Elementary Modern Eastern Armenian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to the spoken and literary language of the Republic of Armenia. N James R. Russell James R. Russell spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian 120 Armenian Magical Texts Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Armenian magical texts include codices, scrolls, and separately-printed saints' lives used for good or ill, containing magic squares and symbols, the latter mostly deriving from Islamic magic. The course will consider literary sources of magic texts (e.g., the prayer Havatov khostovanim, the meditations of Narek), parallel traditions (esp. Christian Ethiopia), and the consideration of the paintings in Armenian magical manuscripts from the standpoint of the genre of Outsider Art. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2200. N James R. Russell full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian 130 Advanced Classical Armenian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course The text of St. Grigor Narekats'i Matean olbergut'ean, with other mystical texts from Armenian and Eastern Christian traditions. Armenian A. N James R. Russell James R. Russell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian 300 Armenian Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Russell James R. Russell spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian Studies 100 Armenian Epic Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Reading in translation of The Wild Men of Sasun, with analysis of native historical and mythological sources, and thematic comparison to epic poetry of the neighboring Iranians (Ossetic Narts, Persian Shah-nameh, Kurdish epic songs), Turks (Dede Korkut), and Greeks (Digenes Akrites). N James R. Russell fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian Studies 102 Introduction to Armenian Civilization Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the history and culture of the Armenian people from earliest times to the Genocide and Soviet era. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N James R. Russell fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian Studies 105 Survey of 19th and 20th Century Armenian Poetry: From Romantics to Revolutionaries Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the great innovators and visionaries: Bedros Tourian, Misak Medzarents, Yeghia Demirjibashian, Daniel Varouzhan, Siamanto, Vahan Teryan, Yeghishe Charents, and their English, Russian, and French colleagues and translators. The course spans the fateful epoch from the mid-19th century to the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Knowledge of Armenian preferred but not required. N James R. Russell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Armenian Studies 300 Reading and Research in Armenian Studies Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James R. Russell James R. Russell full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew A Elementary Classical Hebrew Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course A thorough and rigorous introduction to biblical Hebrew, with emphasis on grammar in the first term, and translation of biblical prose in the second. Daily preparation and active class participation mandatory. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4010. N Peter Machinist Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew 120 a Intermediate Classical Hebrew I Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in prose books; review of grammar. Classical Hebrew A or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4020. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew 120 b Intermediate Classical Hebrew II Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in prose and poetic books; review of grammar. Classical Hebrew 120a or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4021. N Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew 130 ar Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Classical Hebrew A, 120a, and 120b, or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1625. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew 130 br Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew II Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Classical Hebrew 130a or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1626. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Classical Hebrew 138 Historical Grammar of Biblical Hebrew Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will trace the changes in Hebrew grammar in its ancient phases through the study of inscriptional, biblical, and extra-biblical texts. Classical Hebrew 130 or equivalent. N fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Egyptian Aa The Language of the Pharaohs: Introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphs I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This language course explores the fundamentals of Middle Egyptian, the classical stage of Egyptian hieroglyphs used throughout much of ancient Egyptian history. Lessons in the Egyptian writing system, grammar, and culture, with weekly vocabulary and exercises, will introduce the language and verbal system in a systematic fashion. By the end of the semester, students may begin to read selections from Egyptian classic stories and historical texts. Visits to the Semitic Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in order to read ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions on the original monuments, may also be included. Continues spring semester as Egyptian Ab. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4120. N Peter Der Manuelian spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Egyptian Ab The Language of the Pharaohs: Introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphs II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., 2-3:30 Peter Der Manuelian Continues Middle Egyptian I from the fall semester. Students will complete the introductory grammar book lessons, and move on to read a selection of basic stories, historical and biographical inscriptions, in the original hieroglyphs. Visits to the Egyptian galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in order to read some of the ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions on the original monuments, may also be included. Egyptian Aa, Middle Egyptian I or consent of instructor. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4121. N Peter Der Manuelian spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Egyptian 150 Voices from the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Literature in Translation Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Examines several literary genres, from the Pyramid Age through at least the New Kingdom (ca. 2500-1000 BCE), including royal decrees, autobiographies, the Pyramid Texts, legal documents, letters to the living (and dead), love stories and poetry, military texts, religious rituals, and tomb robber court trial transcripts. Special emphasis on classical tales of the Middle Kingdom ("The Shipwrecked Sailor," "The Story of Sinuhe," etc.). Lectures, class discussion; no prerequisites. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2131. Y Peter Der Manuelian fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Egyptian 300 Reading and Research in Egyptology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course This course must be taken for letter grade. Y Peter Der Manuelian Peter Der Manuelian spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Egyptian 310 Reading and Research in Egyptology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Der Manuelian fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 130 Scriptural Interpretation in Ancient Israel: Inner-Biblical Exegesis Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the forms, methods, and aims of scriptural interpretation within the Hebrew Bible itself. Sessions will combine consideration of recent scholarship on "inner-biblical exegesis" with close readings of biblical texts (narrative, legal, prophetic, apocalyptic, hymnic) in Hebrew. Note: Two years of Biblical Hebrew strongly recommended. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1308. Two years of Biblical Hebrew strongly recommended. N Andrew Teeter fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 135 Introduction to Rabbinic Hebrew Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Tannaitic and Amoraic Hebrew with readings from talmudic and midrashic literature. Two semesters or the equivalent of Hebrew, preferably biblical. Jointly offered with the Divinity school is 4036. N Eve Samara Feinstein fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 143 Deuteronomy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical and exegetical study of Deuteronomy, carried out through a close reading of the book in Hebrew. Special attention given to the literary form, hermeneutic aims, and theological profile of the work, considered in relation to other scriptural and non-scriptural traditions. Biblical Hebrew Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1306. N Andrew Teeter fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 200 r Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2011-12: TBD Primarily for doctoral students in Hebrew Bible. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1810. Y Peter Machinist Andrew Teeter Richard James Saley Lawrence Stager fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 208 r Literature of Israel: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2010-11: The book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). Good reading knowledge of Biblical Hebrew. Acquaintance with other relevant ancient and modern languages desirable. Jointly offered with the Divinity School as 1825. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 209 r Literature of Israel. Nahum & the Assyrian Tradition in Biblical Prophecy Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic: Nahum and the Assyrian Tradition in Biblical Prophecy. Good reading knowledge of biblical Hebrew. Acquaintance with other relevant ancient and modern languages desirable. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1824. N Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 217 The Medieval Torah Commentary: A Practical Introduction: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the use of medieval Jewish biblical commentaries as a resource for modern exegetes. Some comparison of the medieval hermeneutical presuppositions with those of the distinctively modern forms of biblical study. Three years of college-level Hebrew (any period). Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1836. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 218 Joseph and Esther: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A close critical reading of Genesis 37-50 and the Book of Esther in Hebrew. Emphasis on literary design and religious messages and on the influence of the story of Joseph upon the Book of Esther. Three years of Hebrew or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1802. N Jon D. Levenson fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 230 Midrash: The Figure of Abraham: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A close reading in Hebrew of some rabbinic midrashim centering on the figure of Abraham. Emphasis on the acquisition of the textual skills necessary for studying midrash and on the role of Abraham in rabbinic theology. Ample comparison with other primary sources about Abraham from Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament, presented in English. Sound reading knowledge of Hebrew (any period). Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1803. N Jon D. Levenson fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 235 The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An examination of Genesis 22 and its afterlife in ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and the Qur'an. Ample consideration of the interpretation and expansion of the story in modern theology and of critical responses to it. Three years of Hebrew or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1808. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 236 Song at the Sea: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A close reading of Exod 13:17-15:21 in two contexts, that of the Hebrew Bible (together with its ancient Near Eastern background) and that of rabbinic Judaism. Ample Hebrew readings in rabbinic midrash. An introductory course in the critical study of the Hebrew Bible and a solid command of Hebrew grammar (any period). Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1816. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 237 Jeremiah Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A close examination of the book of Jeremiah, with special attention to its historical context and textual and literary history. Knowledge of Hebrew not required. Introduction to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament or the equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1121. N Michael David Coogan fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 242 Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examination of the ancient Hebrew documents discovered in the Judean desert. Their authorship; the theological significance of the Scrolls; their relations to Ancient Judaism and early Christianity; the controversy over their release and publication. All readings in English translation. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1304. N Jonathan Klawans fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 300 Classical Hebrew Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Lawrence Stager Jon D. Levenson Shaye J.D. Cohen Peter Machinist Lawrence Stager Jon D. Levenson Shaye J.D. Cohen Peter Machinist fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Hebrew 350 Hebrew Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Jay M. Harris Bernard Septimus Jon D. Levenson Shaye J.D. Cohen Jay M. Harris Bernard Septimus Jon D. Levenson Shaye J.D. Cohen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Iranian Cbr Middle Persian II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Advanced Pahlavi. Elementary knowledge of Pahlavi. N P. Oktor Skjaervo fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Iranian 300 Reading and Research in Iranian Languages and Literatures Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y P. Oktor Skjaervo P. Oktor Skjaervo fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 100 Supervised Reading and Research in Islamic Studies Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course of supervised research in subjects related to the study of Islam and Muslim societies not treated in regular courses. N Ali Asani Ali Asani fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 103 Orientalism: Old and New Perspectives Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will look at the texts that inspired Said's perspective in his 1978 book "Orientalism", in particular Foucault's "Archeology of Knowledge" and "Discipline and Punish", and at the debates that have ensued within many disciplines such as history, sociology and cultural studies. Offered jointly with Divinity School as HDS 3358. N Malika Zeghal spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 105 Culture and Society in Contemporary Iran Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The purpose of this course is to introduce a wide spectrum of students to some of the most significant aspects of Iranian culture from the Constitutional Revolution through the three decades since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 , one of the paradigmatic shifts in twentieth-century global history. Using the modernist commitment of artists and intellectuals to social and political engagement as a unifying theme, the course will survey modern and contemporary Iranian culture through the analysis of various literary, artistic, cinematic, and intellectual forms. The impact of European culture; nationalism; the tensions between modernism, secularism, and religion; the emergence of women's voices, a cinematic avant-garde, and mass culture; the strains of cosmopolitan and provincial coexistence; the anti-Western critique of "occidentosis" are among the issues that will be addressed. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Chad Kia fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 145 Introduction to Islamic Philosophy and Theology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introductory survey of the development of Islamic theology and philosophy. We will examine and discuss some of the central problems that were much debated through the centuries, such as: the relationship between philosophy and faith; whether humans possess free will; how to understand apparently anthropomorphic expressions in Scripture; whether acts are good because God commands them or God commands them because they are good; and proofs for the existence of God. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3602. N Khaled El-Rouayheb fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 146 al-Ghazali: Theologian and Mystic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Al-Ghazali (d.1111) is generally recognized to be one of the most influential of all Muslim religious thinkers. A prominent theologian and jurist, he experienced a spiritual crisis at the height of his career, and as a consequence explored mysticism (Sufism) and worked out a powerful synthesis between respect for the externals of the Islamic religion and the mystics' stress on the interior life. In this course, we will look in particular at his account of his spiritual crisis; his critical engagement with the Islamic Philosophers; and some of the more mystical works that he wrote toward the end of his life, including his theodicy, his meditations on the Qur'anic dictum that "God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth", and select chapters from his great summa "The Revival of the Religious Sciences". All readings will be in English. No knowledge of Arabic required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3599. N Khaled El-Rouayheb fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 180 Contemporary Islam: Texts and Contexts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will examine ten important works in the social sciences and humanities on contemporary Islam published from the 1960s to the present day. We will pay attention to the contexts in which they were published and will analyze the conceptual assumptions that are at the foundation of these works. N Malika Zeghal spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 183 Reform and Revival in Modern Islam, 19th -20th centuries Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will shed light on the historical transformation of the internal religious reforms of Islam in the 18th and 19th century into politicized and/or fundamentalist versions of Islam in the 20th century. Offered jointly with Divinity School as HDS 3362. N Malika Zeghal spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 185 Ulama, Religious Institutions, and Islamic Education in the Middle East Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class deals with the recent history and sociology of religious education and religious scholars ('ulama) in the Muslim world. (19th-20th centuries) N Malika Zeghal fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 205 ar The Satanic Verses Problem in History I Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Wide-ranging introduction to the Islamic intellectual tradition through primary source readings from the debate over the Satanic verses incident conducted in the discourses of sirah-maghazi, tafsir, Hadith, `ilm al-kalam, usul al-fiqh, Sufism, inter-sectarian polemic, inter-religious polemic, etc, from the 7th century to today. Advanced Reading Proficiency in Arabic. Not open to auditors. Course may not be taken pass-fail. Jointly offered with the Divinity School as 3596. N Shahab Ahmed spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 205 br The Satanic Verses Problem in History II Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Wide-ranging introduction to the Islamic intellectual tradition through primary source readings from the debate over the Satanic verses incident conducted in the discourses of sirah-maghazi, tafsir, Hadith, `ilm al-kalam, usul al-fiqh, Sufism, inter-sectarian polemic, inter-religious polemic, etc, from the 7th century to today. Advanced Reading Proficiency in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations 205a Not open to auditors. Course may not be taken pass-fail. Jointly offered with the Divinity School as 3597. N Shahab Ahmed fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 210 Introduction to Islamic Law Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course ["Introduction to Islamic Law"] introduces beginners to the history of the fiqh, a system conceived of as the legal and ethical interpretation of the revealed texts of the shari'a. It will provide a description of the institutional background of this system's diffusion throughout the Muslim World and of the historical formation of its content and methodology. The course will focus on the methods and decisions by which change was introduced and rendered licit in the fiqh during the different periods of its development. It will, in particular, discuss the changes the system underwent from the 19th to the 21st century and try to find an answer to the question: what is Islamic Law in the 21st century? Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3621. N Baber Johansen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 212 12th Century Maliki usul al-fiqh Texts Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The debate about the functions assigned to the discipline of "the roots of the law" (usul al-fiqh) dates back to the 12th century c.e. Was this discipline meant to be the theoretical foundation of the discipline on applied legal norms? Or was it rather thought of as an Organon for all religious disciplines linking them to a general theory of knowledge? In this course, Maliki usul al-fiqh texts will be read in order to answer this question. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3581. N Baber Johansen full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 216 Ibn Taymiyyah Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Study of the life, thought and historical influence of Ibn Taymiyyah through biographies, and through his writings about tafsir, Hadith, kalam, fiqh, Sufism, philosophy, Shi`ism, political theory, popular religious practice, inter-religious polemic, etc. Advanced Reading Proficiency in Arabic. No auditors. Y Shahab Ahmed Shahab Ahmed spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 219 Arabic Family Law from 1984-2005 Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 The period between 1984 and 2005 sees important changes in the family law of Arab states from Morocco to the United Arab Emirates. The course gives an overview of these changes and discusses in some detail the codes of 1984 (Kuwait, Algeria, the project of the Arab League) as swell as the major reforms in Egypt (1985, 2001; Morocco 2004, and Algeria 2005). Strategies of reform will constitute one of the main objects of this course. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3591. N Baber Johansen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 230 Islamic Modernism (I): The Criticism of the Jurists' Doctrines by the Mystical Reform Movements of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 10 This seminar will focus on the 18th and 19th-century mystical critique of legal reasoning. Reform mystics claimed direct access to Koran and Sunna, a position that enabled them to formulate a mystical modernism. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3963. Y Baber Johansen spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 233 Islamic Modernism III: 1970-2011 Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The seminar will discuss three developments; a.) The growing identification of Islam with political institutions and political modes of action (the Iranian revolution of 1979; the political doctrines of the Muslim Brethren from 1954 to 2011; Al-Qa'ida and terror in the name of Islam); b.) the identification of Islam with legislative principles of constitutional ranking (in many of the Arab constitutions since the 1970s); c.) the formation of a hermeneutics that critically reflects on the politicization of Islam. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3965. N Baber Johansen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 241 r Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia. Introductory coursework on Islam, Religion 1820 or equivalent. Open to undergraduates with a background in Islamic or South Asian studies. Y Ali Asani fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Islamic Civilizations 300 Reading and Research in Islamic Civilizations Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 65 The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A study of the political, social, and cultural history of the Hispano-Jewish community from the seventh-century Visigothic regime and the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the Jews from Christian Spain in 1492. Emphasis on literary and intellectual developments and on the complex relationship of the Jews to Iberian Christendom and Islam, especially during the "Golden Age" (ca. 950-1150). N Marc Saperstein spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 80 American Jews and the Television Age Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines the involvement of Jews in American mass entertainment, especially television, during the twentieth century. At a time when Jews were active in both the business and creative ends of the new media that came to dominate fields as seemingly diverse as popular culture and political discourse, Jewish leading characters were largely absent from prime time network television. Are there relationships among Jewish involvement in mass entertainment, the simultaneous absence of Jewish characters onscreen, and the role of television in American culture? N Rachel L. Greenblatt spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 103 Jewish Cultures in the Middle East Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the cultural history of Jewish life in the Middle East. Provides an overview of the changing administrative contexts that historically governed the lives of minority populations in the Mamluk, Ottoman and Modern periods, and examines historical modes of Jewish community-building, strategies of survival, and cultural production in these settings. Finally, the course focuses on the diverse fates Middle Eastern Jewish communities in the 20th century. Readings will focus primarily on historical and anthropological accounts, though literary, cinematic and biographical sources will also be included. N Susan Kahn spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 108 Amerike! Amerika. America! : Jewish Encounters with the United States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Jewish immigration 1881-1914 was proportionally greater and more durable than any other minority's, given that there was as yet no other established Jewish homeland. Studies points of intersection between Jewish and local "Gentile" culture including in religion, politics, literature, entertainment, and other branches of culture. Uses Yiddish and Hebrew sources in translation as well as English authors Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick. Course assumes no knowledge of Yiddish or Hebrew. Readings will be in English. There will be an extra section for Yiddish readers. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 109 The Yiddish Novel Under Tsars and Stripes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies the emergence of the Yiddish novel as a major literary form in Russia, Poland, and the US. Begins with the pioneer of modern Yiddish and Hebrew prose, Mendele Mocher Sforim, includes Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, David Bergelson, Der Nister, and the family Singer: Israel Joshua, Isaac Bashevis, and Esther Kreitman. Highly compressed development of the genre reflects great artistic, ideological, and thematic variety. All works available in English translation. There will be an extra section for Yiddish readers. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 111 Modern Jewish Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of significant Jewish thinkers in the modern period and their reflections on the past and present meaning of Judaism. All thinkers studied against the background of premodern Jewish thought and the challenges posed by modern Western philosophical systems. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3682. N Jay M. Harris spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 129 Josephus Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the works of Flavius Josephus, and of modern Josephan scholarship. Knowledge of Greek is desirable but not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1468. N Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 136 Jews and Greeks, Judaism and Hellenism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Shaye J.D. Cohen A study of the encounter between Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, from the Hasmonean revolt until the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism. The course will focus on the land of Israel but some attention, for purposes of contrast, will also be paid to the diaspora. Themes: definitions of "Judaism" and "Hellenism," religious and philosophical resistance and accommodation, knowledge of Greek, literary forms, the "common culture" of Hellenistic near east, art and architecture. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1461. N Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 137 The Sermon as Source for Jewish History and Culture Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Medieval and modern Jewish sermons as specimens of Jewish literature and as sources for communal history. Special attention will be given to topical sermons responding to dramatic events of the day and to comparison with contemporary Christian preaching. Open to undergraduates and graduate students. No pre-requisites. All texts read in translation. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1401. N Marc Saperstein spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 139 Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of Jewish history in antiquity from the Persian period (5th century BCE) to the Byzantine period (5th century CE). Topics include: political accommodation and resistance, Hellenism, the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great, the effects of Roman rule, Pharisees, Qumran, Christians, unity and diversity, the destruction of the temple and its aftermath, the emergence of rabbinic Judaism, homeland and diaspora. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1462. N Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 147 Introduction to Pentateuch Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical introduction to the first five books of the Jewish and Christian Bible - the Pentateuch or Torah - with attention to essential literary, thematic, historical, and theological features, and with a view toward the continuing interpretive afterlife of these texts in Judaism and Christianity. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1303. N Andrew Teeter spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 149 Topics in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exegesis at Qumran Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the diverse functions of scripture within the literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls, focusing in particular on the forms and methods of interpretation attested, considered in light of other varieties of interpretation in early Judaism. Sessions will be devoted to reading, translation and discussion of primary sources in Hebrew, as well as to discussion of relevant secondary literature. Two years of Biblical Hebrew strongly recommended. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1309. N Andrew Teeter fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 150 The Bible in Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Bible continues to be one of the major sources of inspiration in Western literature. Its primal themes, probing meditations, and problematic characters reappear in constantly changing but recognizable forms in the pages of countless novels and poems. In this course we will take a look at a sampling of Biblical characters in both famous and lesser-known works, analyzing how writers use their works as guides to reading and interpreting the Bible, and how their readings of the Bible shed light on their own understanding of the world. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1405. N Jordan David Finkin fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 200 r Guided Readings in Jewish History Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2010-11: Boundaries and Identities. Readings of Jewish texts, ancient to modern, that deal with the question of the Other and the Self: what is the boundary between Jews and non-Jews, and between Judaism and non-Judaism? Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3709. Required of all entering graduate students in Jewish Studies; open to others with the permission of the instructor. Y Shaye J.D. Cohen spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 206 The Origins of Mishnaic Law Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of the emergence of Jewish law in antiquity. Ability to read Qumranic and Mishnaic texts in the original. Open to undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3935. N Shaye J.D. Cohen fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 207 Rewriting Scripture in Jewish Antiquity: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 A study of the exegetical literature of so-called rewritten Bible texts from the Second Temple period, considered in relation to the received Hebrew Bible and its later interpretive traditions. Examination of exegetical techniques, aims, and presuppositions, with attention to higher level compositional strategies, underlying conceptions of scripture/scriptural authority, and the dynamics of canon formation. Primary sources will include, among others: the book of Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, Reworked Pentateuch, the Genesis Apocryphon, as well as selected prophetic and hymnic exemplars. Ability to read (unpointed) Hebrew. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1302. N Andrew Teeter spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 215 Jewish Law from Qumran to the Mishnah: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The development of Jewish law in the period between the Bible and the Mishnah, with special attention to the Qumran scrolls. Topics include: the role of Scripture and the exegesis of Scripture; the "Oral Torah" and tradition; "common Judaism" and sectarianism; the Temple and the Temple calendar. No prerequisites; all texts read in translation. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3718. N Shaye J.D. Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Jewish Studies 300 Reading and Research in Jewish Studies Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jay M. Harris Bernard Septimus Ruth Wisse Shaye J.D. Cohen Jay M. Harris Bernard Septimus Ruth Wisse Shaye J.D. Cohen full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew B Elementary Modern Hebrew Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course The course introduces students to the phonology and script as well as the fundamentals of morphology and syntax of Modern Hebrew. Emphasis is placed on developing reading, speaking, comprehension and writing skills, while introducing students to various aspects of contemporary Israeli society and culture. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4015. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Cannot divide for credit. N Irit Aharony Irit Aharony fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 120 a Intermediate Modern Hebrew I Lecture taught in sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course reinforces and expands knowledge of linguistic and grammatical structures, with emphasis on further developing the four skills. Readings include selections from contemporary Israeli literature, print media, and internet publications. Readings and class discussions cover various facets of Israeli high and popular culture. Modern Hebrew B or passing of special departmental placement test. Conducted primarily in Hebrew. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4040. N Irit Aharony spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 120 b Intermediate Modern Hebrew II Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Hebrew 120a. Modern Hebrew 120a. Conducted primarily in Hebrew. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4041. N Irit Aharony fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 130 a Advanced Modern Hebrew I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course constitutes the third year of the Modern Hebrew language sequence. The course emphasizes the development of advanced proficiency in all skills. Readings include texts of linguistic and cultural complexity that cover contemporary Israeli literature and culture. Modern Hebrew 120a, 120b, or equivalent level of proficiency. Conducted in Hebrew. Not open to auditors. N Irit Aharony spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 130 b Advanced Modern Hebrew II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a continuation of Hebrew 130. Texts, films, and other materials expose students to the richness and complexity of the contemporary sociolinguistics of Israeli society. Modern Hebrew 130a, or equivalent level of proficiency. Conducted in Hebrew. Not open to auditors. For meeting information contact the instructor, Irit Aharony, at 617-630-5616 or email aharony@fas.harvard.edu. N Irit Aharony spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 158 Milestones in Modern Hebrew Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course There has been poetry written in Hebrew since the pre-Biblical period. With the modernization of many Eastern European Jewish communities at the end of the 18th century, the use of Hebrew expanded into new social and cultural arenas, including secular literature. Poetry was a form in which some of the most exceptional talents in Hebrew literature poured their energies. This course will explore some of the more important, influential, or exceptional examples of this poetry from the end of the Jewish Enlightenment to the establishment of the State of Israel. Reading knowledge of modern Hebrew required. Lectures and discussion in English. N Jordan David Finkin fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Modern Hebrew 241 br Advanced Seminar in Modern Hebrew: Israeli Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course constitutes the final level of Modern Hebrew language studies. The course offers representative readings and screenings from contemporary Israeli literature and cinema, and it forms bases of discussion on major cultural and linguistic themes through academic readings. Modern Hebrew 130b or equivalent. Discussions, papers, movies and texts presented only in Hebrew. Not open to auditors. N Irit Aharony fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research in subjects not treated in regular courses. Y Peter Machinist Peter Machinist spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 97 r Group Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the cultures and literatures of the Near East in ancient, classical, and modern times, emphasizing major themes and problems that cut across individual cultures and historical periods. Y James R. Russell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Designed for juniors concentrating in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Y Peter Machinist Peter Machinist full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Designed for seniors concentrating in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Y Peter Machinist Peter Machinist fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 100 Approaches to Middle Eastern Studies Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Interdisciplinary seminar serves as an introduction to the major disciplines constituting Middle Eastern Studies, including history, political science, anthropology, literature and Islamic Studies. Faculty affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies serve as guest lecturers. A required course primarily for undergraduates pursuing a secondary field in modern Middle Eastern Studies. N Susan Kahn fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 200 a Approaches to Middle Eastern Studies: Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Interdisciplinary seminar serves as an introduction to the major disciplines constituting Middle Eastern Studies, including history, political science, anthropology, literature and Islamic Studies. Faculty affiliated with Center for Middle Eastern Studies serve as guest lecturers. Required for students pursuing the AM in Middle Eastern Studies. Primarily for first-term students in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program, although open to Graduate students in related fields. N Susan Kahn spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 200 b Middle Eastern Studies Research Project: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course introduces students to a range of research methods and scholarly sources in preparation for writing a proposal for the masters thesis in Middle Eastern Studies (students from other areas are welcome). Students are expected to formulate a research question, identify methods appropriate to their inquiry, compile a literature review, and write a thesis proposal. Successful completion of the course depends on the student's ability to secure the commitment of a thesis advisor by the end of the semester. Required for students who have elected to write a masters thesis in Middle Eastern Studies; open to graduate students in related fields. N Susan Kahn fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 300 Direction of Master's Thesis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Wolfhart P. Heinrichs fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Near Eastern Civilizations 390 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian A Elementary Persian Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to the grammar of modern literary and spoken Persian. Selected readings from contemporary and classical Persian literature. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Cannot divide for credit. N Dalia Yasharpour Dalia Yasharpour fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian Ba Intermediate Persian I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in modern prose literature. Introduction to classical metrics and prosody. Readings in classical prose and poetry. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. N Dalia Yasharpour spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian Bb Intermediate Persian II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Persian Ba. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. N Dalia Yasharpour spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 131 r Advanced Modern Persian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings from modern Persian prose and poetry and discussion of Iranian movies and documentaries inspired by them. Persian 120b or equivalent. Not open to auditors. May not be taken pass/fail. N Chad Kia spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 132 r Advanced Classical Persian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces students to styles and genres of Classic Persian literary heritage, including a systematic review of classical grammar. Readings include historiographical, geographical and biographical texts, as well as readings from "Adab" (Belles-Lettres) literature. Persian 120b or equivalent. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. N Dalia Yasharpour spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 150 r Readings in Persian Historians, Geographers and Biographers Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Roy Parviz Mottahedeh fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 151 Sufi traditions in Persian Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in classical Persian literature from Rudaki and Attar to Rumi and Hafez, with emphasis on fundamental themes of the Sufi tradition. Practice in grammar and composition at an advanced level will develop the student's ability to read high literary texts, both in prose and poetry. At least two years of Persian or equivalent. Offered jointly by the Divinity School as 4070. N Chad Kia fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 152 Literary and Visual Narrative in the Persian Epic Tradition Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Both poetry and the art of painting in medieval Persianate cultures developed to a high level of artistic excellence in the context of court patronage.This advanced Persian reading course examines that development through the epic tradition in classical Persian poetry including long narratives in heroic, romance and ethical genres composed in the masnavi (double-rhymed verse) form, and considers the parallel art of manuscript illustration as a visual dimension of that narrative. Beginning with the heroic epic of Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, this survey of long narrative poetry in masnavi form will include the epic romances of Nizami and didactic epics by Sa`di and others and will consider the interaction of this poetry with Persian painting and manuscript illustration. Two years of Persian or equivalent. N Chad Kia fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 160 r Readings in Indo-Persian Classical Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Ali Asani Ali Asani fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Persian 300 Persian Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Roy Parviz Mottahedeh Roy Parviz Mottahedeh spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 130 Diglossia in Semitic Languages Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Diglossia describes a situation in which two (or more) languages coexist, or two varieties of one language, within one speech community. In this course we will examine various aspects of such a linguistic situation from different theoretical points of view, considering this fascinating phenomenon in the history of the Semitic languages. N Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 151 Introduction to Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in Hebrew, Phoenician and other Northwest Semitic inscriptions with an introduction to methods and techniques of Northwest Semitic palaeography, and attention to problems of historical grammar. Good working knowledge of Classical (biblical) Hebrew. N John Lee Ellison fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 152 Introduction to Ugaritic Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Ugaritic grammar, with readings in mythological, epistolary, and administrative texts. Good working knowledge of Classical (biblical) Hebrew. N John Lee Ellison spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 200 r Comparative Semitic Grammar: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2011-12: To be determined. Semitic Philology 152 N P. Oktor Skjaervo spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 220 r Northwest Semitic Epigraphy: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2011-12: Advanced discussion of Northwest Semitic Epigraphy. Semitic Philology 151. N John Lee Ellison fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Semitic Philology 300 Semitic and Afroasiatic Languages and Literatures Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Interested students may visit the <a href="http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k85492&login=yes"> course iSite.</a> Y Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Wolfhart P. Heinrichs full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian A Elementary Sumerian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to the Sumerian language with emphasis on grammatical structure. N Piotr Steinkeller Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman Piotr Steinkeller full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 120 Intermediate Sumerian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Knowledge of basic Sumerian grammar, vocabulary, and cuneiform script. N Piotr Steinkeller Piotr Steinkeller fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 141 Sumerian Myths and Epics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Piotr Steinkeller fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 146 Sumerian Religious Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Anne Lohnert spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 149 Sumerian Legal and Economic Texts Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Benjamin John Studevent-Hickman spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 200 r Readings in Sumerian: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Piotr Steinkeller fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sumerian 300 Sumerian Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Piotr Steinkeller Piotr Steinkeller full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish A Elementary Modern Turkish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Emphasis on all aspects of Turkish grammar toward developing a solid foundation for speaking, listening, reading, writing, and vocabulary skills. Not open to auditors. Cannot be taken pass/fail. Cannot divide for credit. N Himmet Taskomur Himmet Taskomur fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 120 a Intermediate Modern Turkish I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Emphasis on complex sentence structure and building communicative competence in describing events and expressing ideas through exercises in reading, writing, and speaking. Turkish A or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 120 b Intermediate Modern Turkish II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies in argumentative and literary prose. Turkish 120a or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 121 Elementary Uzbek Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to conversational and literary Uzbek. Overview of the grammar, intensive practice of the spoken language, and reading of contemporary texts. Some knowledge of Modern Turkish or other Turkic language helpful but not required. For information on Uzbek instruction at other levels, please contact the Student Programs Officer at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, reeca@fas.harvard.edu. N William Granara William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 125 a Intermediate Uzbek I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Elementary Uzbek with an emphasis on further development of both conversational and literary Uzbek. Turkish 121b or equivalent. //For information on Uzbek instruction at other levels, please contact the Student Programs Officer at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, reeca@fas.harvard.edu. N William Granara spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 125 b Intermediate Uzbek II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Turkish 125a. Turkish 125a or equivalent. N William Granara fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 140 a Introduction to Ottoman Turkish I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to basic orthographic conventions and grammatical characteristics of Ottoman Turkish through readings in printed selections from the 19th and 20th centuries, and exercises on techniques. Turkish A or equivalent; one year of Arabic or Persian desirable. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 140 b Introduction to Ottoman Turkish II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Turkish 140a. Exercises on specialized orthographic conventions and grammatical characteristics of Ottoman Turkish through readings in printed selections from the 19th and 20th centuries. Turkish 140a or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 145 Readings in Ottoman Language and Culture: Early Modern Travel Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theme: "Early Modern Travel Literature". The course introduces students to various genres of travel writing by focusing on selected themes, including language registers, styles of travelogues. Advance reading proficiency in Ottoman Turkish. N Himmet Taskomur fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 150 a Advanced Ottoman Turkish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Turkish 140 or equivalent; one year of Arabic or Persian desirable. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 150 br Advanced Ottoman Turkish: Readings in Intellectual History at the Time of Katip Celebi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Turkish 140 or equivalent; one year of Arabic or Persian desirable. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 160 r History of Modern Turkey through Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course surveys the history of modern Turkey and culture through Turkish literature in translation. Main focus is on topics of cultural revolution, nationalism, identity, gender, and migration. Primary readings are translations of novels, short stories, drama and poetry. Knowledge of Turkish not required. Not open to auditors. N Himmet Taskomur fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Turkish 300 Turkish Languages and Literatures Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y William Granara Cemal Kafadar Himmet Taskomur William Granara Cemal Kafadar Himmet Taskomur full year Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish A Elementary Yiddish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Introduction to the Yiddish language, as written and spoken in Eastern Europe, the Americas, Israel, and around the world, and to the culture of Ashkenazic Jews. Development of reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension skills. Course materials include rich selections from Jewish humor, Yiddish songs, and films of Jewish life past and present. For students with little or no knowledge of Yiddish. Additional sections at different times may be added as needed. N Ruth Wisse Ruth Wisse fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish Ba Intermediate Yiddish I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Further development of reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension skills. Introduction to features of the main Yiddish dialects: Polish/Galician, Ukrainian/Volhynian, and Lithuanian/Belorussian. Course materials include selections from modern Yiddish fiction, poetry, songs, the press, and private letters, as well as pre-WWII and contemporary Yiddish films. Occasional visits from native Yiddish speakers. Yiddish A or equivalent. Additional sections at different times may be added as needed. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish Bb Intermediate Yiddish II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Yiddish Ba. Yiddish Ba or permission of the instructor. N Ruth Wisse fall term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish Ca Advanced Yiddish I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Emphasis on building advanced vocabulary from the three main lexical components, Germanic, Hebrew-Aramaic, and Slavic, and further development of writing, reading, and speech. Continued exploration of the main Yiddish dialects. Introduction to various styles of Yiddish literature, journalism, theater, film, and song, particularly from the nineteenth century to the present, including contemporary sources from both secular Yiddish culture and the Yiddish-speaking "ultra-orthodox" communities of New York, Jerusalem, and elsewhere. Yiddish Bb or permission of the instructor. Additional sections at different times may be added as needed. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish Cb Advanced Yiddish II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Yiddish Ca. Yiddish Ca or permission of the instructor. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish 110 Yiddish Drama on Stage and Screen Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the development of Yiddish drama from the mid- 19th century to the present. Features major plays from the repertoire, stage and screen adaptations, theatrical innovations; competing aesthetic, political, and cultural trends. New translations make it possible to offer this course in English. An extra section will be added for students who can read works in the original Yiddish. N Ruth Wisse spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish 200 r Modern Yiddish Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading knowledge of Yiddish required. See Jewish Studies 105 and 109. N Ruth Wisse fall term; repeated spring term Department of Near Eastern Languages Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yiddish 300 Yiddish Language and Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Ruth Wisse Ruth Wisse full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfd Novel Therapeutics in the Central Nervous System Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Recent advances have elucidated new non-traditional molecular signaling pathways involved in many disorders and injury paradigms in the CNS. This seminar will focus on examining novel targets and 'outside the box' approaches to treat CNS disorders such as Alzheimer's, Spinal Cord Injury, and Multiple Sclerosis. To do this we will examine primary and clinical literature and explore drug design strategies. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfe Synaptic Plasticity: How the Brain Learns, Remembers and Adjusts to Its Environment Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Come explore how individual neurons store information and change their synaptic strength. We will investigate the mechanisms of short- and long-term plasticity, starting with the early discoveries of long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) through recent discoveries of the effects of endocannabinoids on short-term plasticity. Learn how synaptic plasticity plays a role in everything from perception to memory, in brain regions from the retina to the hippocampus. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Carole Landisman Carole Landisman full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfg More than Glue: Glial Cells in Health and Neurological Disease Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Glial cells have long been considered passive, supporting cells of the brain. Recently, the notion of glia as inert bystanders is being revised. In this course, we will address the physiological roles for glial cells in the normal nervous system (e. g. synaptic transmition, action potential propagation, brain wiring, etc.). In addition, we will investigate how glia play distinct and prominent roles during neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and mental illness. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfh Dopamine Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A Parkinson's victim regains control of her body with l-dopa. A schizophrenic man paralyzed by fear & hallucinations is freed from a mental institution by clozapine. A meth addict lies, cheats & steals, ending up emaciated & dead. Miracles and monstrosities, all related to a single molecule - dopamine. Three phases: (1) lectures & discussion led by Barak Caine; (2) Reading of 17 basic research articles and reviews with Socratic debate; (3) Presentations by students. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfj The Sleeping Brain Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This seminar will begin broadly, including discussion of the nature of conscious states, the theoretical concept of sleep, and rhythms of the brain. We will then zoom in on systems of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology pertinent to understanding the brain dynamics across the wake-sleep continuum. Particular emphasis will be placed on human electrophysiology. Rigorous scientific thinking will be given priority over fact memorization. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Jeffrey Michael Ellenbogen Jeffrey Michael Ellenbogen full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfm The Hijacked Brain: Neurobiology of Addiction Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How do substances like cocaine, heroin, and alcohol hijack our brains' reward systems and change us into addicts with no control over drug taking? Are we all susceptible? Is there any chance for recovery? We will explore the neurobiological underpinnings of addiction, including neuroplasticity, genetic predeterminants, and treatment approaches. As a group we will explore this fascinating brain disease, troubleshoot current treatment shortcomings and discuss where addiction research should go from here. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfs Sensation and Perception: Mapping the Touch, Sight, and Sound of Things Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Our perceptions of the feel, sight, and sound of things relies upon how the external world is organized within the brain. This course will cover the neural basis of sensation and perception, focusing on how the outer world is mapped onto the cerebral cortex. We will examine how our behavior can influence sensory maps. We will also discuss disease, tricks (perceptual illusions), and "different" senses. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80, and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfu Building a Brain Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Neuronal connectivity underlies brain function. This tutorial focuses on discussing and debating research related to how synaptic connections are influenced by genes, the environment, and chance to generate functional circuits and accommodate learning. In particular we will discuss molecular mechanisms, activity patterns (spontaneous and experience-evoked), and organizational rules implicated in synaptic formation and refinement in the context of many regions within the nervous system (retina, olfactory bulb, cortex, autonomic, and neuromuscular system). Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft full year Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 hfx The Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Ever wondered why animals are attracted to the opposite sex, why they attack other animals, or how they decide with whom to mate or to fight? We will study how genetic and neural pathways direct males and females to act the way they do. Topics covered include fighting flies, testosterone-promoted male behavior, same-sex sexual partners, and more. We will also discuss the way sex research is covered by the media and its social implications. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft fall term Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 l Neuropharmacology: Principles and Future Prospects Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Pharmacology is a cornerstone of treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the molecular targets of existing antidepressant, anxiolytic, and antipsychotic drugs date from the mid-20th century and yield treatments of limited efficacy. In this seminar we will examine what is known about the mechanism of action of important drug classes and the diseases they treat. We will ask how modern neurobiology and genetics might accelerate much needed progress. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80 and permission of the instructor. Y Steven E. Hyman spring term Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 95 p Designer Neurons: How cell types are generated in the nervous system and the lab Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 The derivation of stem cells from a human embryo ten years ago ignited an explosion of scientific and public interest. This tutorial will explore the current understanding of neural stem cells as it relates to their role in physiological and pathological states in developing and adult animals. We will also explore the generation, characterization, and manipulation of neural stem cells in current research. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, MCB 80and permission of the instructor. Y Laura M. Magnotti fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 98 r Laboratory Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is ordinarily taken to obtain credit for independent research leading to a senior thesis. Work should be directed by a member of the Neurobiology concentration standing committee. Other research sponsors must be approved by the Head Tutor and require an appropriate co-sponsor. All students must submit registration materials for Neurobiology 98r at the time of enrollment. Laboratory safety session required. This course can be taken twice for concentration credit. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 99 Honors Thesis Tutorial Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For honors candidates writing a thesis in Neurobiology. This course is ordinarily taken in the last semester of enrollment. The Head Tutor must approve a thesis proposal prior to enrolling in Neurobiology 99. Laboratory safety session required. Y Ryan Wesley Draft Ryan Wesley Draft fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Neurobiology Neurobiology Neurobiology 359 Functional Characterization of Neural Circuits Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Sandeep Robert Datta Sandeep Robert Datta fall term; repeated spring term No Department No Department Generic Expos10 Generic Expos 10 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Used as a placeholder course only N fall term; repeated spring term No Department No Department Generic Expos20 Generic Expos 20 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Used as a placeholder course only N fall term; repeated spring term No Department No Department Generic FRSEMR Generic Freshman Seminar Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Used as a placeholder course only N fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 10 Foundations of Biological Diversity Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An integrated approach to the diversity of life, emphasizing how chemical, physical, genetic, ecological and geologic processes contribute to the origin and maintenance of biological diversity. Topics to be covered include the evolution of metabolic pathways, multicellularity and structural complexity; causes and consequences of differences in diversity over space and time; the role of species interactions (including symbioses) as an evolutionary force; and the evolution of humans and their impact on the environment. Knowledge of introductory molecular, cellular biology, and genetics is recommended. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core requirement for Science B. N Noel Michele Holbrook David Haig spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 51 Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Introduction to invertebrate diversity, will cover the development, adult anatomy, biology and evolutionary relationships of the main animal phyla including sponges, mollusks, annelids and arthropods among others. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the broad diversity of animal forms and their adaptations to different ecosystems and how these phenomena shape animal evolution. Lectures will be complemented with a mandatory weekly lab and a field trip to different areas of outstanding marine diversity in the Caribbean. LS1b, OEB 10, OEB 53 or permission of instructor required. Field trip to the Caribbean for research during spring break. N Cassandra Extavour Gonzalo Giribet spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 52 Biology of Plants Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the structure, diversity, and physiology of plants with an emphasis on evolutionary relationships and adaptations to life on land. Topics include growth, resource acquisition, interactions with other organisms (i.e., fungi, bacteria, insects), reproduction, and survival in extreme environments. Laboratory sessions provide an overview of plant and diversity and an introduction to basic physiological processes. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Elena M. Kramer Pamela Diggle Noel Michele Holbrook spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 53 Evolutionary Biology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course covers micro- and macro-evolution, ranging in its focus from population genetics through molecular evolution to the grand patterns of the fossil record. Topics emphasized include both natural and sexual selection, the ecological context of adaptation, genomic and developmental mechanisms of evolutionary innovation, speciation, phylogenetics, and evolutionary approaches to human problems. Life Sciences 1b or permission of instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Science B. N Andrew Berry Hopi Hoekstra fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 54 Biology of the Fungi Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course explores the fascinating diversity of the kingdom fungi, including evolution, ecology and morphology. All of the major groups of fungi, from smuts to molds, will be included. Students use a variety of techniques to learn about these organisms and their activities. Life Sciences 1a and 1b or permission of instructor. There is a weekly laboratory, and several afternoon field trips are required (dates to be announced). This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Donald H. Pfister Anne Pringle spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 55 Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Relationships of organisms to their environment at the individual, population, and community level. Topics in pure and applied ecology including adaptations to physical environment, competition, population dynamics, predator-prey interactions, herbivore effects, community ecology, ecosystem structure, stability and function, and resource management. Mathematics 1b. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Science B. N Jim Mallet spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 57 Animal Behavior Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A review of the behavior of animals under natural conditions, with emphasis on both mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. Topics include classical ethology; behavioral endocrinology; behavioral genetics; learning and memory; communication; orientation, migration and biological rhythms; optimal foraging; evolutionary stable strategies; sexual selection; parental investment and mating systems; selfishness, altruism, and reciprocity; and sociality in vertebrates and invertebrates. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Naomi E. Pierce Bence Patrik Olveczky fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 59 Plants and Human Affairs Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the uses of plants by humans. Topics include the form, structure and genetics of plants related to their use as sources of food, shelter, fiber, flavors, beverages, drugs, and medicines. Plant structure and reproduction are studied in lecture and laboratory with a particular focus on relationships between the plant's structural, chemical, or physiological attributes and the utility plant. OEB 10 or permission of the instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Science B. N Donald H. Pfister Charles Davis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 91 r Supervised Reading Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading on topics not covered by regular courses. For OEB concentrators, work may be supervised by faculty in other departments, provided it is co-sponsored by an OEB faculty member. For non-concentrators, work must be directed by an OEB faculty member. Students must submit a registration request to the OEB Undergraduate Office before enrollment. Students cannot take OEB 91r and 99r simultaneously with the same director. N David Haig David Haig fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 99 r Supervised Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Course taken in one or more semesters to obtain credit for independent research, including research toward a senior thesis. Work should be directed by an OEB faculty member or have an OEB faculty sponsor. All students must submit registration materials for OEB 99r at the time of enrollment. Laboratory safety session required. Y David Haig David Haig spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 100 Evolution in Action Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 In this project based laboratory course students will conduct research utilizing experimental evolution of microbial populations. The research will address questions that synthesize knowledge of genetics, biochemistry, systems biology, microbiology, evolution and ecology. Life Sciences 1a and 1b or permission of the instructor required. Open to students from any concentration N Christopher J Marx spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 103 Plant Systematics and Evolution Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the diversity and evolution of vascular plants. The course focuses mainly on flowering plants because of their dominant role on the earth, but lycophytes, ferns, and gymnosperms are studied as well. A phylogeny of vascular plants provides the framework for their evolution and diversification. Related subjects, including plant habitats, biogeography, phylogenetics, herbaria, nomenclature, and pollination biology are also presented in lecture and laboratory. OEB 10 or permission of instructor. There are two midterms, a final, and frequent lab quizzes. N Charles Davis fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 105 Neurobiology of Motor Control Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores the functional organization and anatomy of motor circuits in the brain and how they control movements, including simple reflex movements, rhythmic movements, and more complex sequences of learned movements. MCB 80 or equivalent or permission of instructor. N Bence Patrik Olveczky fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 106 Plant Development and Differentiation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A comprehensive lecture course on the developmental biology of plants from fertilization through all phases of vegetative and reproductive growth. Material includes both morphological and genetic studies. Although the main focus of the course is angiosperms, examples are drawn from other lineages of land plants as well. Additional topics include control of cell division and elongation, signal transduction, and hormone response. Life Sciences 1b and OEB 52 (formerly OEB 124) or permission of the instructor. N Elena M. Kramer fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 107 Evolution of Plant Life in Geologic Time Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Origin, evolution, dispersal, paleoecology, and geologic history of the major groups of the plant kingdom. Laboratory study of representative groups, living and fossil. OEB 10 or permission of instructor. N Andrew Knoll spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 108 Genetics of Plants Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., F., at 4 Kirsten Bomblies An understanding of genetics provides a cornerstone for virtually all areas of biology. This course will cover essential genetic concepts, building on what students learned in LS1B. We will focus on plants, but the concepts learned will apply to all systems. We will discuss topics such as genetic mapping, inheritance, segregation, recombination, gene regulation, the causes and consequences of genome architecture, and the application of genetics to understanding basic biological processes, and in breeding and conservation. Life Sciences 1b Y Kirsten Bomblies fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 111 Plants and Environmental Sensing Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 The exquisite capacity of plants for fine-tuning their growth and development to environmental cues provides evidence of the systems they use for monitoring their environments. This course covers the systems used to sense and respond to light (quality, quantity, direction, periodicity), gravity, temperature, neighboring vegetation, mutualistic partners, pathogens, parasites, herbivores, and abiotic stressors. OEB 10, OEB 52, or permission of instructor. N Sarah Mathews spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 114 Vertebrate Viviparity Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Viviparity has evolved many times in vertebrate phylogeny. The course reviews the diversity of parental care in vertebrates and explores the selective forces that have favored the evolution of live-bearing. The evidence for intergenerational conflicts is considered. Life Sciences 1b or permission of instructor. N David Haig fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 115 Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Animals Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A lecture course in evolutionary developmental biology. Main principles and mechanisms of development as illustrated on both invertebrate and vertebrate animal model systems. In this course we will discuss how animal embryos develop adult body plans on cellular and molecular level. Particular emphasis will be placed on how knowledge of developmental biology helps us understand major evolutionary transitions and the origin of innovation in animal evolution. Life Sciences 1a (or LPS A) and 1b, or permission of instructor. OEB 10, MCB 52, and MCB 54 are recommended but not required. Open to students from any concentration. N Arkhat Abzhanov fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 117 The Mathematics of Evolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The quantitative basis of evolutionary theory: models of natural selection, mutations, and genetic drift at a single locus; multilocus problems in evolutionary dynamics including topics such as Muller's ratchet, hitchhiking, quasi-linkage equilibrium and strong linkage approximations; evolution of recombination and mutation rates and other modifiers of evolvability; an introduction to genealogical approaches; inference in population genetics; evolution in structured populations; and interactions between ecology, epidemiology, and evolution. Mathematics through calculus and familiarity with differential equations and probability. N Michael M Desai spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 118 Biological Oceanography Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The ocean as an ecological system, with focus on environmental-organismal interactions that regulate plankton production and transfer to higher trophic levels. Specific topics include bloom events, the limits to fish harvest, and the effects of climate change on ocean systems. Plankton demonstrations and optional coastal research vessel day trip. OEB 10, Physical Sciences 1 or permission of instructor. For biology and other natural science concentrators. N James J. McCarthy fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 119 Deep Sea Biology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The oceans contain 97% of Earth's water, and host the most disparate ecosystems on the planet. This course provides an introduction to deep ocean habitats, macrofauna and microorganisms. Emphasis is placed on the physiological adaptations of organisms to their environment, as well the role of microbes in mediating oceanic biogeochemical cycles. N Peter Girguis spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 121 a Research in Comparative Biomechanics: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces students to experimental techniques used to investigate the structure and physiology of animals. Each instructor offers research projects that are undertaken in their laboratory (limit 5 students per instructor). Students meet to introduce their project, discuss their work and progress, and to present their final results. An extensive commitment of time in the laboratory is required. Grades are based on the work completed, the oral presentation, and a short research paper. Life Sciences 2 or OEB 102 or equivalent preferred. Laboratory safety session required. Y Andrew A Biewener Stacey A. Combes George V. Lauder Daniel E. Lieberman fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 121 b Research in Comparative Biomechanics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students may extend the initial project undertaken in OEB 121a into a thesis research project. OEB 121a and permission of instructor. Laboratory safety session required. Y Andrew A Biewener Stacey A. Combes George V. Lauder Daniel E. Lieberman spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 123 Biology of Symbiosis Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the major aspects of microbial endosymbiosis with emphasis on mutualisms, although some parasitic interactions are covered. Topics include origins of the eukaryotic cell, specificity and recognition of partners, distribution and diversity of associations, and coevolution of host and symbiont. The course covers symbiotic interactions among bacteria and archaea with protists, fungi, plants, and animals, including the human microbiome. Life Sciences 1b, OEB 10, and MCB 52 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. N Colleen Cavanaugh spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 125 Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of theory and applications of DNA technologies to the study of evolutionary, ecological and behavioral processes in natural populations. Topics to be covered will span a variety of hierarchical levels, timescales, and taxonomic groups, and will include the evolution of genes, genomes and proteins; the neutral theory of molecular evolution and molecular clocks; population genomics and phylogenetic principles of speciation and phylogeography; metagenomics of microbial communities; relatedness and behavioral ecology; molecular ecology of infectious disease; and conservation genetics. Life Sciences 1b, OEB 10, OEB 53 or MCB 52. Weekly computer laboratories will introduce the use of the internet and computational software in DNA sequence alignment and phylogenetic and population genetic analysis. N Scott V. Edwards spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 130 Biology of Fishes Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Fishes inhabit diverse aquatic environments including deep seas, intertidal zones, coral reefs, polar waters, the vast Amazonian basin, and great East African lakes. A single fish species may occupy diverse environments through extraordinary long distance horizontal and vertical migrations. To explore this unparalleled diversity, the course emphasizes bridging traditional academic boundaries with integrative analyses of the biology underlying rapid evolutionary radiations and stasis. N George V. Lauder spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 132 Tropical Plant Ecophysiology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the ecology and physiology of South America ecosystems, with an emphasis on how physiological processes contribute to plant diversity and ecosystem functioning. Lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions will explore how rainforest, cerrado, caatinga, seasonally dry forests, mangroves, paramo, cold and warm desert plants obtain the water, nutrients and CO2< needed for them to carry out photosynthesis. The course will cover basic physiological processes, as well as environmental conditions of the major South American biomes and ecosystems. One half course in OEB or permission of the instructor. Course meets on alternate weeks at the Arnold Arboretum. N Noel Michele Holbrook Guillermo Goldstein fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 139 Evolution of the Vertebrates Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the origination and evolution of the major groups of vertebrates, with emphasis on the anatomical and physiological transformations that occurred during the transitions to diverse lineages of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The structures and functions exhibited in extant taxa are explored with perspectives from the fossil record. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Farish A. Jenkins Jr. spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 141 Biogeography Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Biogeography aims to explain distributions of organisms through historical and ecological factors. This course will focus on the history of biogeographic research, developments in the area of historical biogeography, and on ecological processes that affect distributions of whole clades. Topics include plate tectonics and earth history, vicariance and dispersal, areas of endemism, phylogenetic niche conservatism, latitudinal gradients in species richness, and the theory of island biogeography. Software for biogeographical analysis will be discussed and evaluated. Two following courses: Life Sciences 1b, OEB 10, OEB 51, OEB 52, OEB 53, OEB 54, OEB 55, OEB 181, or permission of the instructor. N Gonzalo Giribet fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 145 Genes and Behaviors Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Behaviors are inheritable and regulated by genes. This lecture course is focused on the genetic underpinnings of behaviors in both invertebrates and vertebrate animals. The goal is to provide mechanistic understandings of how gene products control and influence behavioral outputs. The course covers important findings as well as major research methods in the field. The behaviors that will be lectured on include: olfaction, mechanosensation, adaptation, feeding, circadian rhythm, aggression, courtship, social recognition, addition, etc. Life Science 1a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Yun Zhang fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 150 Vertebrate Evolution and Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the evolution and development of major groups of vertebrates, integrating the paleontological record of the origin of chordates, diverse fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals with current understanding of the genetic, cellular and developmental mechanisms that underlie these transformations. Not open to students who have taken OEB 139. N Arkhat Abzhanov Farish A. Jenkins Jr. fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 153 Statistics for Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to probability and statistical distributions, and the principle and practice of statistical inference, with a focus on genetical and other biological applications; in other words, how to defend your claims and not be fooled by quantitative arguments. Mathematics through Calculus. This course is offered every other year. N John Wakeley fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 155 r Biology of Insects Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An introduction to the major groups of insects. The life history, morphology, physiology, and ecology of the main taxa are examined through a combination of lecture, lab, and field exercises. Topics include the phylogeny of terrestrial arthropods with a review of the extant orders, an analysis of abiotic and biotic factors regulating populations, including water balance, temperature, migration, parasitism, mutualism, sociality, insect/plant interactions, medical entomology, and the use of insects in biological control. With permission of instructor. N Naomi E. Pierce Michael Ross Canfield spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 157 Global Change Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines natural and anthropogenic changes in the earth system and their impact on the structure and functioning of terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. Topics include earth system history, fossil fuel emissions, changing water chemistry, ozone, species extinctions and invasions, and human exploitation of natural resources. OEB 10 or OEB 53 and Mathematics 1a required. OEB 55 (formerly BS 55) recommended. N Paul R Moorcroft James J. McCarthy spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 167 Herpetology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the biology of amphibians and reptiles. Lectures and laboratories examine the morphology, systematics, natural history, behavior, ecology, evolutionary relationships, and biogeography of all major taxa. The course is planning an optional week-long field trip during spring break. N James Hanken Jonathan Losos spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 168 r Sociobotany Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the diversity and evolution of plant life cycles, with an emphasis on interactions between the generations. The course will focus on bryophytes. Permission of instructor. N David Haig spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 173 Comparative Biomechanics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of how animals and plants contend with their physical environment, considering their biomaterial properties, structural form, and mechanical interaction with the environment. Through lectures, seminar discussions, and student presentations based on readings, students are introduced to topics related to biomechanical performance. Mathematics 1b, Physical Science 2 or Physics 11a; Mathematics 21a recommended, or permission of instructor. N Andrew A Biewener Stacey A. Combes Jacques Dumais spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 174 r Topics in Behavioral Ecology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Current issues in neuroethology, behavior, and behavioral ecology are examined, with topics that change each year. Topics in previous years have included: evolution of sex, evolution of cooperation, evolution of communication, and learning and Memory. The topic this year will focus on comparative methods in studying the evolution of behavior. The course involves invited speakers and discussion of the primary literature. OEB 57 or MCB 80 or Science B-29 or permission of instructor. N Naomi E. Pierce fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 181 Systematics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theory and practice of systematics, emphasizing issues associated with homology statements and alignments, methods of tree reconstruction, and hypothesis evaluation. The course combines theoretical considerations, paying special attention to algorithmic aspects of phylogenetics, with the use of different computer programs for conducting evolutionary and phylogenetic analyses. OEB 53, LS1b or permission of instructor required. Familiarity with computers, especially PC platforms. N Gonzalo Giribet spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 185 Genetic Conflict Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Some genes cheat random inheritance to gain disproportionate representation in progeny. The results for organisms range from beneficial to strongly detrimental; some may even cause extinction. The evolution of selfish elements and their suppressors is a rich drama that unfolds in genomes with important implications for evolution, speciation, human and animal health, and agriculture. This course will explore the mechanisms by which genes or chromosomes cheat, and counterstrategies that evolve to thwart them. N Kirsten Bomblies fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 189 Cell Growth and Form Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course on the physical principles behind the growth and form of cells. We will explore the role of surface tension, self-assembly, biomineralization, cytoskeletal forces, and turgor in shaping a wide range of cells including bacteria, diatoms, yeasts, ciliates, pollen, neurons, and red blood cells. The emphasis is on bridging the gap between the molecular components of the cell and overall cell morphogenesis. Special laboratories will introduce the students to the organisms studied in class. Life Science 1a and Math 21a, or their equivalents, are recommended, but not required. N Jacques Dumais spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 190 Biology and Diversity of Birds Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 An introduction to the biology of birds. Covers the fossil record and theories for avian origins, physiology and anatomy, higher-level systematics and field characters of the ~27 orders, speciation processes, nesting and courtship behavior, vocalizations, mating systems and sexual selection, cooperative breeding, demography and conservation. Optional field trip during spring break. Laboratories will consist of gross anatomy, bird watching excursions in the Cambridge area, field techniques and specimen preparation, and systematic study of avian groups using the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. OEB 10 or OEB 53 or permission of the instructor. N Scott V. Edwards fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 191 Physiological and Biochemical Adaptation Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines how microbes and animals have evolved to maintain function throughout the wide range of extant habitats. Emphasis is on physiological/biochemical evolution in response to environmental conditions, including climate change and life in extreme environments. As the first course in the "genomes to biomes" series, we will examine new approaches to interrogating organismal physiology in nature. Those interested can continue the "genomes to biomes" program via LS 100r. OEB 10 or CHEM 27 or permission of the instructor. One lab per week. N Peter Girguis Alain Viel Stacey A. Combes fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 192 Microbial Evolution Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the evolution of microbes through an integration of lectures and discussion of primary literature. We will focus on a series of broad questions for which we will draw upon knowledge from both lab-based study of experimental microcosms and comparative studies of natural populations. Notably, students will conduct their own experimental evolution projects using 'digital organisms'. Life Sciences 1a and Life Sciences 1b or equivalent required. N Christopher J Marx spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 194 Laboratory Techniques in Ecological Physiology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to laboratory techniques in experimental physiology, this course will utilize a variety of equipment and several model organisms to empirically investigate foundational concepts in physiological and biochemical adaptation. Labs will complement and extend topics discussed in the companion class, OEB191. After demonstrating proficiency with core techniques, students will design independent research projects to explore novel questions in ecological physiology. Concurrent or previous enrollment in OEB 191, or instructor approval. N Peter Girguis Stacey A. Combes spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 202 Individuality and Form in Biology Reading Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged ---------- Seminar on conceptual problems in organismal and evolutionary biology. Main topics will be the concept of an individual and the concept of homology. Readings will include historical, biological, and philosophical material. N spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 209 Oxygen and Life Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course In this seminar, we will explore the molecular and physiological interactions between organisms and oxygen, and use these to shed light on the role of oxygen in modulating evolutionary change through Earth history. One of the following: OEB 191, EPS 181, EPS 186; or permission of instructors N Andrew Knoll Peter Girguis spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 212 r Advanced Topics in Plant Physiology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A critical discussion of current research in plant physiology including measurement techniques, modeling, and experimental approaches. OEB 120 , OEB 52 or permission of instructor. N Noel Michele Holbrook spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 214 Biology of Acoustic Communities Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Four principal animal groups (insects, frogs, birds and mammals) sing and call in habitats around the world. We discuss the ecology, evolution and characteristics of such acoustic communities and the hypothesis that their members compete for "bandwidth". We discuss readings on acoustic ecology and evolution, and listen to (and watch, via spectrum analysis) soundscapes from selected tropical and temperate habitats. The capstone will be a fieldtrip to record natural soundscapes. OEB 10 or permission of the instructor. Y Brian D. Farrell fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 215 Topics in Ecophysiology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A discussion based course exploring the physiological processes involved in an organism's interactions with its environment. Readings will focus on adaptation to environmental variability, with an emphasis on responses to climate change and habitat alteration. OEB 191 or permission of instructor N Stacey A. Combes fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 220 Writing fellowship and grant proposals for the biological sciences Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will prepare graduate students to write NSF-style proposals through in-class exercises, group analysis of writing samples, talks by former NSF panel members, and writing assignments geared towards meeting November proposal deadlines. Y Stacey A. Combes spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 221 Microbial Diversity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the remarkable diversity of prokaryotes. Physiological, genetic, ecological, and evolutionary characteristics of Bacteria and Archaea divisions are discussed, as well as the relation of phenotype to phylogeny. Life Sciences 1b (formerly BS 50) and OEB 10 or BS 51, and MCB 52 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. N Colleen Cavanaugh spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 223 Topics in Neurogenetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Review of current literature related to genetic effects on neural functions including: (1) genetic contributions to mental illness; (2) current understanding of underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases; (3) genes and behaviors; (4) modulations of neuronal functions by environment and experiences. The course is primarily planned for new graduate students, but it is also open to interested senior undergraduates who have taken OEB 57 (formerly BS 57) or MCB 80 and obtained permission from the instructor. N Yun Zhang spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 227 Molecular Approaches to Environmental Microbiology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Critical review and discussion of current advances in our understanding of biodiversity, community structure, and metabolic activities in Bacteria and Archaea resulting from the application of cellular and molecular approaches in diverse environments Earth and Planetary Sciences 30 or permission of instructor. N Colleen Cavanaugh fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 230 Speciation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This discussion based course covers the latest advances in speciation with a focus on controversial issues and new approaches. The course combines readings from Speciation chapters and the recent primary literature with guest lecturers and discussion from experts in the field. Permission of instructor. Y Hopi Hoekstra spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 231 Adaptation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This discussion-based course covers the latest advances in the study of adaptation with a focus on controversial issues and integrative approaches. The course combines readings from recent primary literature with discussion with experts via video conferencing. Y Hopi Hoekstra spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 233 Evolution of the Niche Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Evolutionary diversification relates directly to how ecological niches change through time. This seminar will discuss what niches are and how they evolve, and will include hands-on application of current techniques. OEB 53 or equivalent Y Jonathan Losos spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 234 Topics in Marine Biology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Human impacts on marine life and ecosystems of the sea. Weekly class meeting including lectures, class presentations, several laboratories, and one field trip through the course of term. Y Robert M. Woollacott spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 242 Population Genetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Mathematical theory, experimental data, and history of ideas in the field, including analytical methods to study genetic variation with applications to evolution, demographic history, agriculture, health and disease. Includes lectures, problem sets, and student presentations. LS1b or permission of the instructor. N Daniel L. Hartl Pardis Christine Sabeti Michael M Desai fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 251 Introduction to Vertebrate Surgery Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 16 Teaches the basic principles of aseptic surgery with emphasis on practicality. Students learn basic "open" surgery as well as newer high-tech videoscopic minimally invasive technique, obtaining hands-on experience in scrubbing, gowning, and sterile technique while serving as anesthetist and surgeon. Comparative anatomy, Life Sciences 2 (or OEB 102), or equivalent course. Intended for the student interested in the application of surgical technique in higher studies in biology and related disciplines. Y Arthur L. Lage fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 252 Coalescent Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The mathematics and computation of ancestral inference in population genetics. Theory relates observable genetic data to factors of evolution such as mutation, genetic drift, migration, natural selection, and population structure. OEB 152 or permission of instructor: calculus and statistics or probability. N John Wakeley spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 253 r Evolutionary Genetics Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings and discussion of primary literature in population and evolutionary genetics. OEB 152 or permission of instructor. N John Wakeley fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 255 Nature and Regulation of Marine Ecosystems Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A presentation of topics that are of current interest in marine ecosystems. Emphasis on identification and quantification of biological and environmental factors important in the regulation of community structure. OEB 118 or OEB 157. N James J. McCarthy spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 261 r Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This lecture-seminar course will consider how mechanisms of animal developmental genetics help to explain the scope and patterns of animal diversity. Particular emphasis is placed on major evolutionary transitions and the origin of innovations. LS 1A and LS 1B or by permission of the instructor. N Arkhat Abzhanov fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 264 Sustainability Science: Interactions between Human and Environmental Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A research seminar on how core theories of sustainability science provide a framework for improving the well-being of present and future generations in ways that conserve the planet's life support systems. The seminar will engage in a critical discussion of the underlying theory of the field and evaluate case studies of efforts to manage particular coupled human-environment systems. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as IGA-944. N William C. Clark Noel Michele Holbrook fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 268 r Topics in Plant Developmental Genetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This lecture/laboratory covers plant anatomy and development, including the structure and function of cells, tissues, and organs and their developmental origin at the shoot apical meristem. Techniques of histology and microscopy also are covered. OEB 106 and Life Sciences 1b or BS 50, or MCB 52 or permission of instructor. N Pamela Diggle fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 275 r Phylogeography and Geographic Variation in the Era of Genomics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the changing landscape of molecular systematics brought on by the power of modern genomics. Emphasis will be on the challenges of combining DNA sequence data from many genes and the rise of species trees as a paradigm in systematics. Lectures and journal paper readings will be supplemented by occasional laboratories illustrating new multilocus phylogenetics methods. OEB 53, OEB 181 or equivalent. N Scott V. Edwards spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 276 Models of Development Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A lecture and discussion course on the modeling of animal and plant development. Topics will include analysis of gene networks, positional signaling, reaction-diffusion systems, mechano-chemistry and tissue mechanics and remodeling. Emphasis will be on models of development that are mechanistic and well supported experimentally. Math 1a and b; Math 21a and b recommended, or permission of instructor. Y Jacques Dumais spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 277 In Sickness and in Health: Topics in Symbiosis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Critical review and discussion of current issues in symbiosis. Emphasis is on microbe-eukaryote symbioses ranging from mutualistic to pathogenic associations. In 2011 the course will focus on the human microbiome and topics selected by faculty and students. Life Sciences 1a, 1b or equivalent, microbial science, or permission of instructor. Y Colleen Cavanaugh fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 282 Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Infectious diseases rapidly evolve to evade our immune systems, drugs, and vaccines, to remain agents of great morbidity and mortality. We will investigate the genome evolution of these pathogens and our intervention strategies for them past and present, with case examples from avian flu, malaria, TB, lassa fever and more. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. N Pardis Christine Sabeti spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 290 Microbial Sciences: Chemistry, Ecology and Evolution Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 30 This is an interdisciplinary graduate-level and advanced undergraduate-level course in which students explore topics in molecular microbiology, microbial diversity, and microbially-mediated geochemistry in depth. This course will be taught by faculty from the Microbial Sciences Initiative. Topics include the origins of life, biogeochemical cycles, microbial diversity, and ecology. For advanced undergraduates, Life Sciences 1a and 1b are required, or permission of instructor. MCB 52 is recommended. Co-listed as Microbiology 210 Y Dr Michael S. Gilmore fall term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 296 Conservation History, Values, and Law Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Designed for students in ecology and evolution. Through readings and discussion we examine the history of the conservation/preservationist movements. We focus on how various constituencies value nature, and the legal system for protecting nature. Y Jonathan Losos David R. Foster fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 299 r Forest Practice and Research Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Field and laboratory research into the history, biology, ecology, culture, and economic problems of local, regional, and world forests. Individual research projects. Seminars, conferences, field, and laboratory work at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts. Y David R. Foster David R. Foster fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 303 Theoretical Population Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Wakeley John Wakeley fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 304 Mycology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Donald H. Pfister Donald H. Pfister fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 305 The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Haig David Haig fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 307 Biomechanics, Physiology and Musculoskeletal Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew A Biewener Andrew A Biewener fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 308 Evolution of Floral Developmental Mechanisms Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elena M. Kramer Elena M. Kramer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 310 Metazoan Systematics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gonzalo Giribet Gonzalo Giribet fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 311 Ecosystem Ecology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paul R Moorcroft Paul R Moorcroft fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 320 Biomechanics and Evolution of Vertebrates Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y George V. Lauder George V. Lauder fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 323 Advanced Vertebrate Anatomy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Farish A. Jenkins Jr. Farish A. Jenkins Jr. fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 324 Molecular Evolution Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Daniel L. Hartl Daniel L. Hartl fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 325 Marine Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert M. Woollacott Robert M. Woollacott fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 334 Behavioral Ecology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Naomi E. Pierce Naomi E. Pierce fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 335 Ichthyology and Functional Anatomy of Fishes Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew A Biewener Andrew A Biewener fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 339 Whole-Plant Physiology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Noel Michele Holbrook Noel Michele Holbrook fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 341 Coevolution Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Brian D. Farrell Brian D. Farrell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 343 Microbial Ecology and Symbiosis Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Colleen Cavanaugh Colleen Cavanaugh fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 345 Biological Oceanography Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 355 Evolutionary Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y James Hanken James Hanken fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 357 Population Biology and Mathematical Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y William H. Bossert William H. Bossert fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 359 Paleobotany Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Knoll Andrew Knoll fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 360 Plant Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jacques Dumais Jacques Dumais fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 361 Somatic Evolution of Cancer Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Prof Martin A. Nowak Prof Martin A. Nowak fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 362 Research in Molecular Evolution Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Scott V. Edwards Scott V. Edwards fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 363 Plant Diversity and Evolution Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles Davis Charles Davis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 364 Ecological Physiology of Microbes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Girguis Peter Girguis fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 365 Evolution of Microbes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Christopher J Marx Christopher J Marx fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 366 Evolution, Ecology, and Fungi Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Anne Pringle Anne Pringle fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 367 Evolutionary and Ecological Diversity Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jonathan Losos Jonathan Losos fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 368 Oral Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Arkhat Abzhanov Arkhat Abzhanov fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 369 Molecular Genetics of Neuroscience Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yun Zhang Yun Zhang fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 370 Mammalian Evolutionary Genetics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Hopi Hoekstra Hopi Hoekstra fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 371 Comparative and Evolutionary Invertebrate Developmental Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Cassandra Extavour Cassandra Extavour fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 372 Neural Basis of Learned Motor Behaviors Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bence Patrik Olveczky Bence Patrik Olveczky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 373 Plant Population Biology Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Kirsten Bomblies Kirsten Bomblies fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 375 Evolutionary Dynamics and Population Genetics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Michael M Desai Michael M Desai fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 376 Insect Biomechanics and Behavioral Ecology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Stacey A. Combes Stacey A. Combes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 378 Terrestrial Ecology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Richardson Andrew Richardson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 385 Natural Selection in Humans and Pathogens Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Pardis Christine Sabeti Pardis Christine Sabeti fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 386 Organismic and Evolutionary Plant Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y William Friedman William Friedman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Organismic and Evolutionary Biology OEB 399 Topics in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Presents the research interests and experiences of scientists in organismic and evolutionary biology. Specific topics treated vary from year to year. Required of all first-year graduate students in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Y Colleen Cavanaugh Colleen Cavanaugh fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 3 Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the discipline of philosophy, and to the distinctive skills and methods of philosophical thinking, focusing on three topics of perennial philosophical interest: the relation between mind and body, the possibility of free will, and the way in which human consciousness relates to time. Readings from classical and contemporary sources. N Matthew Boyle fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 7 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A survey of ancient philosophy, with an emphasis on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and some attention to pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers. Attention will be given to the major ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical theories of the classical period, as well as the development of philosophical methodology. The aim of the course is twofold: to acquaint you with some of the interesting and influential theories of the period and to evaluate their philosophical plausibility. N Russell Edward Jones spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 8 Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A survey of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy with a focus on the major metaphysical and epistemological writings of Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant. Topics include the natures of mind and body, the existence of God, the existence of the external world, the nature and limits of human knowledge, and the changing relationship between science and philosophy. N Alison Simmons spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 12 Introduction to the Philosophy of Law Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Crime, punishment and responsibility: some questions concerning the criminal law. (i) How, if at all, can criminal punishment be justified? (ii) By what principles or criteria should the criminal law hold people responsible? (iii) What sorts of conduct may the state rightly make criminal? This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Douglas Lavin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Independent Study Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Graded independent study under faculty supervision. Interested students need approval of head tutor for their topic and must propose a detailed syllabus before the beginning of term. Y Edward J Hall Edward J Hall fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 97 Tutorial - I Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of all sophomore concentrators, and for the secondary field in philosophy. Y Cheryl Chen Edward J Hall full year Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 98 hf Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of all junior concentrators. Y Edward J Hall Edward J Hall fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Y Edward J Hall Edward J Hall spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 101 Plato Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Russell Edward Jones A broad survey of Plato's philosophical views. Our primary task is to understand the theories expressed in Plato's dialogues. A secondary task is to examine issues of interpretive methodology that arise given that Plato wrote dialogues which predominantly feature a historical figure (Socrates) and which may or may not express a consistent set of views. Readings will be from, among others, Apology, Charmides, Gorgias, Laches, Meno, Parmenides, Protagoras, Republic, and Theaetetus. N Russell Edward Jones fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 104 Plato and Aristotle on Love and Friendship: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will investigate Plato's and Aristotle's theories of desire and friendship from primary texts and later scholarship. We will read from a variety of works by Plato and Aristotle, but the central texts will be Plato's Lysis and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Books VIII and IX. Y Russell Edward Jones fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 117 Medieval Philosophy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of central topics in the works of Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham, with primary emphasis on their contributions to metaphysics and epistemology. Likely topics to include: Augustine on skepticism, language, knowledge, and freedom; Aquinas on metaphysics, epistemology, divine nature, human nature, and human cognition; Ockham on logic of terms, mental language, critique of realism, and conceptualism. N Jeffrey K. McDonough fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 120 The Rationalists Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of some central topics in the works of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with primary emphasis on their contributions to metaphysics and epistemology. N Jeffrey K. McDonough fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 122 British Empiricism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the central works of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume with primary emphasis on their contributions to metaphysics and epistemology. N Alison Simmons fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 123 Spinoza's Ethics: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close examination of Baruch Spinoza's philosophical masterpiece The Ethics. Topics will include the nature of God, necessitarianism, human nature, the will, the passions, freedom, virtue, eternity, and blessedness. Y Jeffrey K. McDonough spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 129 Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., (F.), at 11 Farid Masrour Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. Our goal is to understand its central doctrines and their significance. Kant's views on human knowledge; the role of mind in the production of experience; space and time; self-knowledge and its role in experience; causation; freedom of the will; the persistence of the soul after death; the status of metaphysics; and the relationship between appearance and reality. N Farid Masrour fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 132 Marx and Marxism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces the political philosophy and social theory of Karl Marx. Through primary texts we study his theory of history, his account of human self-alienation, his theory of ideology, his attempt to establish that capitalism is exploitative, his critique of liberalism, and his conception of freedom. Discussion also of some contemporary philosophical writings in the Marxist tradition. N Tommie Shelby spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 137 The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, focusing on its treatments of the topics of meaning, reference, rule-following, cognition, perception, "the private mental realm," knowledge, scepticism, and the nature of philosophy. Attention to Wittgenstein's philosophical methodology, with its claim to dissolve philosophical problems rather than propose solutions to them. N Richard Moran fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 141 Frege, Russell, and the Early Wittgenstein Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the beginnings of analytic philosophy, with primary interest in the reformulation of traditional philosophical problems by these three authors and the analytic and logical methods they introduced to treat them. N Warren Goldfarb fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 143 r Topics in Logic: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigation of the philosophical and mathematical aspects of the independence results in mathematics. We shall concentrate on the work of the major experts in the field, who will be visiting us. Y Peter Koellner Peter Koellner spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 144 Logic and Philosophy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Three philosophically important results of modern logic: Godel's incompleteness theorems; Turing's definition of mechanical computability; Tarski's theory of truth for formalized languages. Discusses both mathematical content and philosophical significance of these results. Some knowledge of deductive logic. N Warren Goldfarb spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 147 Philosophy of Language Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Mark Richard An introduction to recent philosophical thought about language. Topics to include: relations between meaning and truth; the extent to which meaning is determinate and the extent to which it is shared; conceptions of language use as performative or expressive; the idea that there is a gulf between factual and evaluative language. N Mark Richard fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 149 x Philosophy and the Exact Sciences: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is the first in a two-part series of courses dealing with the history of the relationship between philosophy and the exact sciences. We shall begin with a brief tour of philosophy and science from Aristotle to Copernicus. Our focus will then be on the major achievements of the seventeenth century. The principal figures will be Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, and Newton. Y Peter Koellner spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 151 z Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A crowning achievement of 20th century science, quantum mechanics is also bizarre enough to lead intelligent people to claim that the universe perpetually splits into many copies of itself, that conscious minds can make physical systems "jump" unpredictably, that classical logic must be revised, that there is no objective reality, and much, much more. We will separate the wheat of genuine mystery from the chaff of philosophical confusion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics required. //This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Edward J Hall fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 156 Philosophy of Mind Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will investigate the following question: what is the philosophical problem that conscious experience poses? In order to explore the answer, we will read four influential books by John Austin, David Chalmers, John McDowell and Wilfrid Sellars. The course is recommended to students who are interested in consciousness, the history of twentieth-century philosophy, and the interconnections between philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. N Farid Masrour spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 157 x Modularity: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of modularity theses in cognitive science, and their relationship to philosophical theories of perception and belief. Topics may include: challenges to the idea of central cognition, cognitive dissonance theory, and the distinction between rationally assessable and a-rational processes. When taken for credit, counts as an MBB track course. Y Susanna Siegel Ned Block spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 159 x Subjectivism: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of philosophical attempts to separate those perceptions and beliefs that represent the world as it is independently of us from those that are "merely subjective." Topics will include the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, subjectivist theories of color, and the tenseless theory of time. Y Cheryl Chen fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 159 Epistemology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the theory of knowledge. Topics include the problem of induction, external world skepticism and the problem of other minds. N Cheryl Chen spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 164 Metaphysics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Do numbers exist? Are statements that attribute moral properties to actions, e.g., 'stealing is wrong' strictly speaking false? Are colors mind-independent properties of objects? Realists and anti-realists give different answers. This course focuses on the realism/anti-realism debate. Our aim is two-fold: to learn more about the status of the debate in fields as diverse as philosophy of mathematics and meta-ethics, and to see if there is a pattern that unifies the various realist/anti-realist positions. N Farid Masrour spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 168 Kant's Ethical Theory Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of Kant's moral philosophy, based primarily on the Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Mr David G. Sussman fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 172 x Topics in Moral Philosophy: Theories of the Good: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Recent work on theories of the good, including both theories of individual well being and of value more generally. Y Thomas Scanlon fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 172 The History of Modern Moral Philosophy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the development of modern moral philosophy from its origins in the natural law theories of Hobbes and Pufendorf to the emergence of the two most influential theories of the modern period, utilitarianism and Kantianism, in the works of Bentham and Kant. Selections from the works of Hobbes, Clarke, Butler, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Price, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement of Moral Reasoning. N Christine M. Korsgaard fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 173 Metaethics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A close examination of three metaethical views that take a deflationary approach toward the moral domain: nihilism, relativism, and expressivism. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Selim Berker spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 174 Recent Ethical Theory Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of some major recent philosophical theories of ethics, chosen from among the works of Blackburn, Darwall, Gibbard, Korsgaard, Nagel, Scanlon, Thompson, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement of Moral Reasoning. N Christine M. Korsgaard spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 176 q Moral Psychology: Proseminar Proseminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An investigation of central topics in moral psychology with an emphasis on relations of recognition -- love, hatred, pride, shame, envy, forgiveness, gratitude, and others. Historical and contemporary readings. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. Y Douglas Lavin spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 178 q Equality and Liberty Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Arguments for equality, conceptions of liberty, and the relations between the two. N Thomas Scanlon spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 178 Equality and Democracy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course When is economic inequality morally objectionable, and why? What kind of equality is required by just political institutions? A critical examination of some answers to these questions offered by contemporary philosophers, with special attention to the work of John Rawls. This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Thomas Scanlon fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 179 Race and Social Justice Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Critically examines recent philosophical work on questions of racial justice: What is racism? What makes racial discrimination wrong? Are reparations owed for past racial injustices? Is racial profiling ever justified? Under what conditions should we regard racial disparities (e.g., in wealth or employment) as unjust? Should government foster racial integration in schools and neighborhoods? Is affirmative action unfair? Is a just society a "color-blind" society? This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Ethical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Moral Reasoning. N Tommie Shelby spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 187 Aesthetics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of some texts of philosophical aesthetics from the 18th and 19th centuries, texts which either represent or anticipate the Romantic period. Themes include the role of emotion in art, the nature of expression and its relation to the will, problems of sincerity, and art or poetry as sources of knowledge. Readings will include some, but probably not all, of the following authors: Diderot, Schiller, Burke, Kant, Hume, Hegel, Lessing, Rousseau. N Richard Moran spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 188 Philosophy and Literature: Proust Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A philosophical reading of Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, in English. Themes will include the problem of other minds, memory and the constitution of the self over time; love, dependence, and autonomy; self-knowledge and self-deception. N Richard Moran spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 201 Plato on the Value of Knowledge: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Plato raises a variety of puzzles concerning the value of knowledge. We will seek a coherent account of his work on this issue in Meno, Hippias Minor, Republic, Charmides, Euthydemus, and Phaedo. Y Russell Edward Jones fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 223 Cartesian Man: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of Descartes' philosophical treatment of the human being. Topics include: mind-body dualism, union, and interaction; sense perception, bodily awareness, and the emotions. Y Alison Simmons fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 225 Heidegger and Kant: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A close reading of some of Heidegger's central writings on Kant's First Critique. Relation to Heidegger's other work of the period, to the historical Kant, and also to contemporary Kant interpretation, will be explored throughout. Y Sean D Kelly Matthew Boyle Peter E. Gordon spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 241 Wittgenstein's Tractatus: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Warren Goldfarb spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 247 Philosophy of Language: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The nature of linguistic and mental content. Topics may include: propositional versus property ('de se') accounts of content; relativistic content; the unity of the proposition; structured and unstructured content; ascriptions of content to mental states. Y Mark Richard spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 271 Normativity, Ethics, and Meta-Ethics: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Questions about reasons, ethics, and meta-ethics, some to be chosen by those attending. This course will meet only for the second half of the term, with the first session to be held on Tuesday, March 6. Y Derek Antony Parfit fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 274 Philosophy of Action: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of some contemporary work in the philosophy of action. Topics include: the nature of action and action explanation, practical knowledge, skill and practical reasoning. Y Douglas Lavin spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 275 The Moral Sentiments: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines the nature of disgust, shame, and guilt, with particular attention to what place, if any, these emotions still deserve in our moral lives. Y Mr David G. Sussman spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 278 Nonconsequentialist Ethical Theory: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Harming and benefiting people. Possible topics include: the permissibility of redirecting threats; torture; harming some as a means of helping others; ways to allocate aid; whether creating people harms or benefits them. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School of Government as DPI-209. Y Frances Kamm fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 279 z Punishment and Social Justice: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The seminar will examine theories of punishment in the larger context of social justice questions. Some consideration will be given to recent empirical research on the relationship between crime, inequality, and incarceration in the United States. Y Thomas Scanlon Tommie Shelby full year Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 299 hf Individual Supervision Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Required of candidates for the AM or PhD in Philosophy. Consult the Department's Supplement to the General Announcement for details. Y Christine M. Korsgaard Christine M. Korsgaard fall term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 300 a Colloquium Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course An intensive study-in small, informal seminars-of selected problems in contemporary philosophy. Limited to first-year graduate students in the Department. Y Mark Richard Susanna Siegel spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 300 b Colloquium Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Continuation of Philosophy 300a. Y Selim Berker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 303 Colloquium: Dissertation Presentations Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Susanna Siegel Susanna Siegel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 305 Individual Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 310 Research Seminars Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Small seminars on specialized topics, arranged by members of the Department in consultation with suitably prepared graduate students. Seminars will be listed individually with numbers from 311 through 398. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 311 Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in moral and political philosophy. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors. Y Selim Berker Douglas Lavin Christine M. Korsgaard Thomas Scanlon fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 312 Workshop in Metaphysics and Epistemology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in metaphysics and epistemology. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors. Y Mark Richard Susanna Siegel Richard Moran Cheryl Chen full year Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 315 hf Instructional Styles in Philosophy Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Course is required for graduate students in their first year of teaching; optional for students in their second year of teaching. Y Edward J Hall Alison Simmons Edward J Hall Alison Simmons spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 320 Philosophy in Translation: Latin Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A close reading of philosophical texts in their original Latin language with the aim of developing reading and translation skills. Y Jeffrey K. McDonough spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 322 Philosophy in Translation: Greek Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Readings from the Greek texts of major figures of classical philosophy. Y Russell Edward Jones fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 333 Preparation for the Topical Examination Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Required in both fall and spring terms of all third-year graduate students in the Department. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy 399 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Committee on Concentration in Physical Sciences Physical Sciences Physical Sciences 2 Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to classical mechanics, with special emphasis on the motion of organisms in fluids. Topics covered include: kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, oscillations, elasticity, random walks, diffusion, and fluids. Examples and problem set questions will be drawn from the life sciences and medicine. Physical Sciences 1 (or Chemistry 7), Mathematics 1b, or the equivalent. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Logan Stewart McCarty Melissa Franklin spring term Committee on Concentration in Physical Sciences Physical Sciences Physical Sciences 3 Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, Optics, and Imaging Lecture and Lab Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is an introduction to electromagnetism, digital information, waves, optics and sound. Topics covered include: electric and magnetic fields, electrical potential, circuits, simple digital circuits, wave propagation in various media, microscopy, sound and hearing. The course will draw upon a variety of applications to the biological sciences and will use real-world examples to illustrate many of the physical principles described. There are six laboratories. Physical Sciences 2 (or Physics 1a or 11a), Mathematics 1b, or equivalent. This course is part of an integrated introduction to the physical sciences intended for students who plan to pursue a concentration in the life sciences and/or satisfy pre-medical requirements in Physics. May not ordinarily be taken for credit in addition to Physics 1b, 11b, or 15b. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Logan Stewart McCarty fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 11 a Mechanics Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Physics 11a is the first half of a one-year physics sequence. It introduces classical mechanics, including the laws of conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum; translational motion of particles, rigid bodies, and fluids; rotational motion of rigid bodies; and description of waves. Physics 11a may be taken by students who have taken or who are concurrently taking Math 1b. Calculus is used routinely but the emphasis is placed on the basic concepts. Physics 11a may not be taken for credit by students who have passed Physics 15a or 16. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Joao Guimaraes da Costa spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 11 b Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Physics 11b is the second half of a one-year physics sequence. It covers the basic phenomena of electricity and magnetism, elements of circuits with selected applications, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, and optics. Physics 11a; Mathematics 1b. Additionally, some elementary ideas from multivariable calculus will be used and students are encouraged to take Mathematics 19a, 21a or Applied Mathematics 21a concurrently. May not be taken for credit by students who have passed Physics 15b or Physics 15c. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Masahiro Morii fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 15 a Introductory Mechanics and Relativity Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Newtonian mechanics and special relativity. Topics include vectors; kinematics in three dimensions; Newton's laws; force, work, power; conservative forces, potential energy; momentum, collisions; rotational motion, angular momentum, torque; static equilibrium, oscillations, simple harmonic motions; gravitation, planetary motion; fluids; special relativity. Mathematics preparation at least at the level of Mathematics 1b concurrently is required. However, some elementary ideas from multivariable calculus may be used and students are encouraged to take Mathematics 21a concurrently. Laboratory sessions may be arranged. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Aravinthan Samuel Melissa Franklin Amir Yacoby C. Vafa Robert M. Westervelt fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 15 b Introductory Electromagnetism Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Electricity and magnetism. Topics include electrostatics, electric currents, magnetic field, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation, and electric and magnetic fields in materials. Physics 15a, Physics 16, or written permission of the Head Tutor in Physics. Mathematics preparation at least at the level of Mathematics 21a taken concurrently is required. Vector calculus, (div, grad and curl) are used extensively--in principle, this is taught in the course. Students taking Mathematics 21a concurrently will likely find that some concepts are introduced in Physics 15b before they have seen them in Mathematics 21a. Some students may wish to postpone Physics 15b until they have completed Mathematics 21a. Four laboratory experiments, plus one introductory laboratory session, support the material presented in the lectures and the text. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N David Morin Mara Prentiss David Morin Amir Yacoby fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 15 c Wave Phenomena Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Forced oscillation and resonance; coupled oscillators and normal modes; Fourier series; Electromagnetic waves, radiation, longitudinal oscillations, sound; traveling waves; signals, wave packets and group velocity; two- and three-dimensional waves; polarization; geometrical and physical optics; interference and diffraction. Optional topics: Water waves, holography, x-ray crystallography, and solitons. Physics 15a, Physics 15b, or written permission of the Head Tutor in Physics. Mathematics preparation at least at the level of Mathematics 21b taken concurrently is required. Some prior knowledge of complex numbers (for example as taught in Mathematics 1b) is helpful. Linear algebra and differential equations are used extensively. Students taking Mathematics 21b concurrently will likely find that some concepts are introduced in Physics 15c before they have seen them in Mathematics 21b. Some students may wish to postpone Physics 15c until they have completed Mathematics 21b. The Laboratory section of the course will be taught at the Science Center. The labs will be carried out in 3-hour sessions once a week for up to 8 weeks during the semester. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Jenny Hoffman Markus Greiner Jenny Hoffman Vinothan N Manoharan fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 16 Mechanics and Special Relativity Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Newtonian mechanics and special relativity for students with good preparation in physics and mathematics at the level of the advanced placement curriculum. Topics include oscillators damped and driven and resonance (how to rock your car out of a snow bank or use a swing), an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics and optimization, symmetries and Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor (dynamic balance), gravitation, planetary motion, and a quantitative introduction to some of the mind-bending ideas of modern cosmology like inflation and dark energy. Score of 5 on the mechanics section of the Physics C Advanced Placement exam, or equivalent. Mathematics preparation at least at the level of Mathematics 21a taken concurrently is required. Thorough knowledge of calculus of one variable and vectors plus some mathematical sophistication. The mathematical level will be significantly higher than that of Physics 15a. Laboratory sessions may be arranged. Emphasis is placed on collaborative teaching and learning. Many class materials are Mathematics notebooks. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science A. N Howard Georgi fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 90 r Supervised Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Primarily for selected concentrators in Physics, or in Chemistry and Physics, who have obtained honor grades in Physics 15 and a number of intermediate-level courses. The student must be accepted by some member of the faculty doing research in the student's field of interest. The form of the research depends on the student's interest and experience, the nature of the particular field of physics, and facilities and support available. Students wishing to write a senior thesis can do so by arranging for a sponsor and enrolling in this course. A list of possible faculty sponsors and their fields is available in Lyman 238 and on the Physics Department Web page. Course enrollment forms may be obtained from Lyman 238. Y David Morin David Morin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 91 r Supervised Reading Course for Undergraduates Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to selected concentrators in Physics, Chemistry and Physics, and other fields who wish to do supervised reading and studying of special topics in physics. Ordinarily such topics do not include those covered in a regular course of the Department. Honor grades in Physics 15 and a number of intermediate-level courses are ordinarily required. The student must be accepted by a member of the faculty. A list of possible faculty sponsors and their fields is available in Lyman 238 and on the Physics Department's website. Course enrollment forms may be obtained from Lyman 238. Y David Morin David Morin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 95 Topics in Current Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The goal of this tutorial is twofold. First, students will learn about a range of modern physics research topics from experts at Harvard as well as from one another. Every Wednesday evening a faculty member speaks on his/her area of research, preceded by assigned reading and a student presentation designed to introduce the basic physics, as well as important developments and burning problems at the frontiers of that particular research area. Second, the tutorial provides structured activities to help students develop practical skills for their future careers, expanding knowledge on unfamiliar subjects, participating in discussions, presenting and writing clearly about complex topics, and engaging in self and peer evaluation. Primarily for junior and senior concentrators. First class meeting M 2:30-4. Monday class time to be rescheduled to fit everyone's schedule. Y Isaac F. Silvera fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 123 Laboratory Electronics Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A lab-intensive introduction to electronic circuit design. Develops circuit intuition and debugging skills through daily hands-on lab exercises, each preceded by class discussion, with minimal use of mathematics and physics. Moves quickly from passive circuits, to discrete transistors, then concentrates on operational amplifiers, used to make a variety of circuits including integrators, oscillators, regulators, and filters. The digital half of the course treats analog-digital interfacing, emphasizes the use of microcontrollers and programmable logic devices (PLDs). All students must attend first course meeting of their preferred section (September 1 or September 2, 2011 or January 24, 2012) at 1:30 in Science Center 206. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N Thomas C. Hayes Masahiro Morii Thomas C. Hayes spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 125 Widely Applied Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Applies elementary physics to real things and practical situations. Emphasis is on developing physical intuition and the ability to do order-of-magnitude calculations. New physical concepts are introduced as necessary. Example topics: the Big Bang, stars, nuclear reactions, and searches for extra-solar planets; aerodynamics, rockets and spacecraft; materials properties; transistors and electronics; electronic noise, lasers, and the global positioning system; magnetic resonance imaging, physiology of major organs, and health risks; energy use and production; climate and global change. Physics 15a, b, c, and mathematics at the level of Mathematics 21a (which may be taken concurrently). Physics 143a and 181 helpful, but not required. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of the Physical Universe or the Core area requirement for Science A. N Mara Prentiss spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 129 Energy Science Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 11:30-1 Lene V. Hau Non-fossil energy sources and energy storage are important for our future. We cover four main subjects to which students with a background in physics and physical chemistry could make paradigm changing contributions: photovoltaic cells, nuclear power, batteries, and photosynthesis. Fundamentals of electrodynamics, statistical/thermal physics, and quantum mechanics are taught as needed to give students an understanding of the topics covered. Physics 15a (or 16), 15b,c or 11a,b. Pre/co-requisite Physics 143a or Chemistry 160 or equivalent. N Lene V. Hau fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 136 Physics of Medical Imaging Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course presents the underlying physics of modern medical diagnostic imaging techniques. We will explore the physics of diagnostic imaging from a unified electromagnetics' viewpoint ranging from a simple mapping of radiation attenuation coefficients in X-ray, to resonance absorption in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) induced inhomogeneously broadened RF absorber. The bulk of the course will focus on the powerful technique of NMR imaging. Flexibility exists to vary the depth of each area depending on background and experience of the students. Physics 15b or 11b and mathematics preparation at least to the level of Mathematics 21b taken concurrently. Physics 143a and b are recommended but not essential. N Andrew J.M. Kiruluta spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 140 Physical Biology and Biological Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will discuss how theoretical and experimental tools derived from physics--in particular, statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, optics and imaging--have been used to gain insight into molecular and cellular biology. We will also discuss a few cases where the study of biological materials (e.g. polymers and membranes) has inspired new developments in physics. In all cases, the relevant topics in physics and biology will be taught from first principles. Physics 15a.b. Given in alternate years. Lectures, problem sets, discussions. May not be taken for credit by students who have taken MCB 140. N Aravinthan Samuel fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 141 The Physics of Sensory Systems in Biology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Living organisms use sensory systems to inform themselves of the sights, sounds, and smells of their surrounding environments. Sensory systems are physical measuring devices, and are therefore subject to certain limits imposed by physics. Here we will consider the physics of sensory measurement and perception, and study ways that biological systems have solved their underlying physical problems. We will discuss specific cases in vision, olfaction, and hearing from a physicist's point of view. Physics 11a,b or 15 a,b,c required. Physics 181 recommended, but not required. N Aravinthan Samuel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 143 a Quantum Mechanics I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: uncertainty relations; Schrodinger equation; Dirac notation; matrix mechanics; one-dimensional problems including particle in box, tunneling, and harmonic oscillator; angular momentum, hydrogen atom, spin, Pauli principle; time-independent perturbation theory; scattering. Linear algebra including matrix diagonalization; Physics 15c or written permission of the Head Tutor. N Gerald Gabrielse John Doyle fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 143 b Quantum Mechanics II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Time dependent perturbation theory, resonance, spin-1/2 systems, harmonic excitation; identical particles; emission and absorption of radiation; scattering, partial wave analysis, the Born approximation, scattering length; other topics as time permits including density matrix, entanglement, quantum computing, decoherence, tensor operators. Physics 143a. N Subir Sachdev spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 145 Elementary Particle Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to elementary particle physics. Emphasis is on concepts and phenomenology rather than on a detailed calculational development of theories. Starts with the discovery of the electron in 1897, ends with the theoretical motivation for the Higg's boson, and attempts to cover everything important in between. Taught partly in seminar mode, with each student presenting a classic paper of the field. Physics 143a. Physics 143b or equivalent is useful. N Masahiro Morii fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 151 Mechanics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Fundamental ideas of classical mechanics including contact with modern work and applications. Topics include Lagrange's equations, the role of variational principles, symmetry and conservation laws, Hamilton's equations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory and phase space dynamics. Applications to celestial mechanics, quantum mechanics, the theory of small oscillations and classical fields, and nonlinear oscillations, including chaotic systems presented. Physics 15a, 15b or written permission of the Head Tutor; Mathematics 21a, b or equivalent. N Arthur Jaffe spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 153 Electrodynamics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Aimed at advanced undergraduates. Emphasis on the properties and sources of the electromagnetic fields and on the wave aspects of the fields. Course starts with electrostatics and subsequently develops the Maxwell equations. Topics: electrostatics, dielectrics, magnetostatics, electrodynamics, radiation, wave propagation in various media, wave optics, diffraction and interference. A number of applications of electrodynamics and optics in modern physics are discussed. Physics 15a, b, and c, or written permission of the Head Tutor; Mathematics 21a, b or equivalent. N Gary Feldman fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 165 Modern Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Includes the use of coherent electromagnetic radiation to probe and control atomic systems, use of traps to isolate atoms, molecules, and elementary particles for studies of ultracold quantum degenerate matter and precision tests of the standard model; resonance methods. Goals of course include acquainting student with these and other modern research topics while providing the foundations of modern atomic, molecular and optical physics research. Physics 143a and 143b. N John Doyle fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 167 Condensed Matter Physics of Modern Technologies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore how recent developments in condensed matter physics are expanding the frontiers of modern technologies. We will review semiconducting, magneto- and optoelectronic devices, magnetoresistive materials, carbon nanotubes, and high temperature superconductors. Technologies in the earliest stages of their development, such as nanotechnology, quantum computations and communication, will also be discussed. Quantum mechanics (Physics 143a). N spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 175 Laser Physics and Modern Optical Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to laser physics and modern optical physics aimed at advanced undergraduates. Review of electromagnetic theory and relevant aspects of quantum mechanics. Wave nature of light. Physics of basic optical elements. Propagation of focused beams, optical resonators, dielectric waveguides. Interaction of light with matter, introduction to quantum optics. Lasers. Physics of specific laser systems. Introduction to nonlinear optics. Modern applications. Physics 15b, 15c, 143a, or permission of the instructor. N Markus Greiner spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 181 Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to thermal physics: basic concepts of thermodynamics (energy, heat, work, temperature, and entropy), classical and quantum ensembles and partition functions. Applications include theory of solids (Debye and Einstein); black body radiation (Planck); classical and quantum gases and liquids; magnetism and phase transitions; biological molecules and signals. Physics 143a or equivalent. May not be taken for credit in addition to Engineering Sciences 181. N Erel Levine fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 191 r Advanced Laboratory Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students carry out three experimental projects selected from those available representing condensed matter, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. Included are nuclear magnetic resonance, microwave spectroscopy, optical pumping, scattering of laser light, neutron activation of radioactive isotopes, Compton scattering of gamma rays, the relativistic mass of the electron, recoil free gamma-ray resonance, the lifetime of the muon, studies of superfluid helium, positron annihilation superconducting transitions, the quantum Hall effect, and properties of semiconductors. The facilities of the laboratory include several computer controlled experiments as well as computers for analysis. Physics 15a or 16, 15b, 15c. Physics 143a is highly recommended. A substantial amount of outside reading is expected. Y Peter S. Pershan Robert M. Westervelt Isaac F. Silvera Ronald L. Walsworth Mikhail Lukin spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 195 Introduction to Solid State Physics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Fundamental physical properties of crystalline solids discussed in terms of the basic principles of classical and quantum physics. Crystal structure, lattice vibrations, specific heat, energy band theory of metals and semiconductors and insulators, electrical transport in metals and semiconductors, optical and magnetic properties, and superconductivity. Designed as a first course in solid state physics for students with knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics (Physics 143a). Some knowledge of statistical physics (Physics 181) is also helpful, but not a formal prerequisite. Students who propose to take Applied Physics 295a in the spring term, and who have not previously taken a formal course in solid state physics, are strongly advised to take this course first. It is suggested that students may wish to take Applied Physics 195 when this course is bracketed. N Melissa Franklin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 210 General Theory of Relativity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to general relativity: Riemannian geometry, the Principle of Equivalence,Einstein's field equation, the Schwarzchild solution, the Newtonian limit, experimental tests, black holes. Physics 151 and 153, and Mathematics 21 or equivalents. N Andrew Strominger spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 211 r Black Holes from A to Z Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of black holes focusing on the deep puzzles they present concerning the relations between general relativity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. This is the second semester of a two semester sequence and will primarily concern quantum aspects of black holes. Topics include: the information puzzle, the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy/area law, microstate counting, asymptotic symmetries, holography, Kerr/CFT and applications to condensed matter and fluid dynamics. Parallel issues arising in cosmologies with event horizons will also be covered. General relativity at level of Physics 210 or equivalent. Physics 253a helpful, but not required. N Andrew Strominger fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 215 Biological Dynamics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Develops theoretical basis for modeling and quantitative analysis of biological problems. Emphasis on contemporary research topics, including molecular, cellular and tissue dynamics; development and differentiation; signal- and mechano-transduction; individuals, populations and environments. Knowledge of differential equations and statistical mechanics at undergraduate level. It is suggested that students may wish to take AP215 when this course is bracketed. May not be taken for credit in addition to AP215. Y Erel Levine spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 216 Mathematics of Modern Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to functional analytic methods relevant for problems in quantum and statistical physics. Properties of linear transformations on Hilbert space. Generators of continuous groups and semigroups. Properties of Green's functions and matrices. Uniqueness and non-uniqueness of ground states and equilibrium states. Heat kernel methods. Index theory, invariants, and related algebraic structure. The KMS condition and its consequences. Familiarity with quantum theory at an undergraduate level. N Arthur Jaffe spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 232 Advanced Classical Electromagnetism Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course M., W., F., at 10 Jacob Aaron Barandes Maxwell's equations in free space and in macroscopic media; conservation laws; time-dependent solutions and radiation; scattering and diffraction. Additional topics may include Lorentz transformations and radiation from rapidly moving accelerating charges; waves in a dispersive medium; wave guides. Physics 153 and Applied Math 105a, 105b, or equivalent. N Jacob Barandes spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 245 Particle Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider may significantly change our understanding of elementary particle physics. An introduction to particle physics with focus on collider physics aimed at first-year graduate students who want to understand or work in LHC physics. Topics include electroweak interactions and electroweak symmetry breaking, quantum chromodynamics, parton distribution functions, and heavy quark production and decay. Theoretical and experimental aspects will be interwoven. Depending on the size of the class, the course will be taught partly in seminar mode, with students presenting an in-depth study into relevant topics. Course complementary to a quantum field theory course. Prerequisite: Physics 143b or equivalent undergraduate full year quantum mechanics course. Physics 145 recommended or undergraduate particle physics course at the level of Griffiths, but not required. N Joao Guimaraes da Costa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 247 r Laboratory Course in Contemporary Physics Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Three experimental projects are selected representing condensed matter, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. Examples: experiments on NMR, microwave spectroscopy, optical pumping, scattering of laser light, neutron activation, Compton scattering of gamma rays, relativistic mass of the electron, recoil-free gamma ray resonance, lifetime of the muon, superfluid helium, superconducting transitions, and properties of semiconductors. A substantial amount of outside reading may be required. Y Peter S. Pershan Robert M. Westervelt Isaac F. Silvera Ronald L. Walsworth Mikhail Lukin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 248 Phenomena of Elementary Particle Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics in the phenomena of elementary particle physics, including weak interactions, QCD, deep inelastic scattering and nucleon structure functions, and heavy quark production and decay. Physics 145 or equivalent, i.e. a course at the level of Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles. N fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 251 a Advanced Quantum Mechanics I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic course in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Review of wave functions and the Schrodinger Equation; Hilbert space; the WKB approximation; central forces and angular momentum; scattering; electron spin; measurement theory; the density matrix; time-independent perturbation theory. Physics 143a, b or equivalent, or permission of instructor. N Bertrand I. Halperin spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 251 b Advanced Quantum Mechanics II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Heisenberg picture; time-dependent perturbations; inelastic scattering; degenerate harmonic oscillators; electrons in a uniform magnetic field; quantized radiation field; absorption and emission of radiation; identical particles and second quantization; symmetry principles; Feynman Path integrals. Physics 251a. N Bertrand I. Halperin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 253 a Quantum Field Theory I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to relativistic quantum field theory. This course covers quantum electrodynamics. Topics include canonical quantization, Feynman diagrams, spinors, gauge invariance, path integrals, ultraviolet and infrared divergences, renormalization and applications to the quantum theory of the weak and gravitational forces. Physics 143a,b or equivalents. N Matthew D Schwartz spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 253 b Quantum Field Theory II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of Physics 253a. spontaneous symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons, chiral anomalies, effective field theory, non-Abelian gauge theories, the Higgs mechanism, and an introduction to the standard model, quantum chromodynamics and grand unification. Other possible subjects include solitons, quantum gravity, conformal field theory, supersymmetry and applications to condensed matter physics. Physics 253a. N Xi Yin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 253 c Quantum Field Theory III Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course explores advanced topics in quantum field theory. Possible topics include semi-classical methods, tunneling in flat and curved spaces, topological defects, lattice gauge theories, conformal field theories in diverse dimensions, large N and string description of gauge theory, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions. Physics 253b. N Lisa Randall fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 262 Statistical Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic principles of statistical physics and thermodynamics, with applications including: the equilibrium properties of classical and quantum gases, phase transitions and critical phenomena, as illustrated by the liquid-gas transition and simple magnetic models. Our treatment will include Bose-Einstein condensation and degenerate Fermi gases. Physics 143a and Physics 181 or Engineering Sciences 181. Students may wish to take Applied Physics 284 when this course is bracketed. N David R. Nelson spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 268 r Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics. Quantum Many- Body Systems Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Field theory methods and Green's function approach to quantum many-body systems. Subjects discussed will include interacting electron and phonon systems, magnetism and superconductivity, systems with disorder, low dimensional systems, systems of ultracold atoms, nonequilibrium phenomena. Applied Physics 295a or equivalent. N Eugene Demler spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 269 r Topics in Statistical Physics and Physical Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to strongly interacting soft condensed matter and biophysical systems. We begin with the physics of cells and related single molecule experiments on bio-polymers such as DNA, RNA and proteins. A major part of the course will then focus on genetic engineering, and the non-equilibrium statistical dynamics of genetic circuits and neural networks. Physics 262, Applied Physics 284 or equivalent. N David R. Nelson spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 270 Mesoscopic Physics and Quantum Information Processing Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduces the subject of quantum effects in electronic systems, including conductance fluctuations, localization, electron interference, and many-body effects such as the Kondo effect. This year, we will also focus on solid state implementations of quantum information processing systems. Basic familiarity with quantum mechanics and solid state physics at the level of undergraduate courses. The reading list focuses primarily on the experimental literature, augmented by recent texts and reviews. The format of the course is a combination of lectures and journal-club-style presentations. A term paper on a topic within mesoscopic condensed matter physics or quantum information will allow for deeper exploration. Given in alternate years. N Charles M. Marcus fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 271 Topics in the Physics of Quantum Information Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to physics of quantum information, with emphasis on ideas and experiments ranging from quantum optics to condensed matter physics. Background and theoretical tools will be introduced. The format is a combination of lectures and class presentations. Quantum mechanics at the level of introductory graduate courses. N Mikhail Lukin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 283 b Beyond the Standard Model Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers current advances in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Topics could include supersymmetry, the physics of extra dimensions, experimental searches, including for T violation, and connections between particle physics and cosmology. N fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 284 Strongly Correlated Systems in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores an emerging interface involving strongly correlated systems in atomic and condensed matter physics. Topics include bosonic and fermionic Hubbard models, strongly interacting systems near Feshbach resonances, magnetism of ultracold atoms, quantum spin systems, low dimenstional systems, non-equilibrium coherent dynamics. Graduate quantum mechanics or permission of instructor. N Eugene Demler spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 285 a Modern Atomic and Optical Physics I Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to modern atomic physics. The fundamental concepts and modern experimental techniques will be introduced. Topics will include two-state systems, magnetic resonance, interaction of radiation with atoms, transition probabilities, spontaneous and stimulated emission, dressed atoms, trapping, laser cooling of "two-level" atoms, structure of simple atoms, fundamental symmetries, two-photon excitation, light scattering and selected experiments. The first of a two-term subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research. One course in quantum mechanics (143a and b, or equivalent). N Gerald Gabrielse fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 285 b Modern Atomic and Optical Physics II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to quantum optics and modern atomic physics. The basic concepts and theoretical tools will be introduced. Topics will include coherence phenomena, non-classical states of light and matter, atom cooling and trapping and atom optics. The second of a two-term subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research. A course in electromagnetic theory (Physics 232a or equivalent); one half-course in intermediate or advanced quantum mechanics. N Mikhail Lukin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 287 a Introduction to String Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the perturbative formulation of string theories and dualities. Quantization of bosonic and superstrings, perturbative aspects of scattering amplitudes, supergravity, D-branes, T-duality and mirror symmetry. Also a brief overview of recent developments in string theory. Physics 253a, b or equivalent. N Xi Yin fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 287 br Topics in String Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A selection of topics from current areas of research on string theory. Physics 287a. N Xi Yin spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 289 r Euclidean Random Fields, Relativistic Quantum Fields and Positive Temperature Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The course will give the reconstruction of relativistic quantum fields from Euclidean fields as well as the relation between representations of the Poincare group to those of Euclidean group. Related topics are reflection positivity and Osterwalder-Schrader quantization, and supersymmetry, some of which will be covered. Physics 253a N Arthur Jaffe spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 295 a Introduction to Quantum Theory of Solids Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Properties of solids, electrical, optical, thermal, magnetic, mechanical, are treated based on an atomic scale picture and using the single electron approximation. Metals, semiconductors, and insulators are covered. including special topics such as superconductivity. Applied Physics 195 or equivalent, and one full quantum mechanics graduate level course similar to Physics 251a. Physics 251b may be taken concurrently. N Efthimios Kaxiras fall term Department of Physics Physics Physics 295 b Quantum Theory of Solids Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Theoretical description of solids focusing on the effects of interactions between electrons, including dielectric response, magnetism, and superconductivity. Also, subjects from the physics of strongly correlated systems, such as quantum antiferromagnetism and high temperature superconductors. Applied Physics 295a, Physics 251a, 251b, or permission of instructor. N fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 301 a Experimental Atomic and Elementary Particle Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald Gabrielse Gerald Gabrielse fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 301 b Experimental Atomic and Elementary Particle Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald Gabrielse Gerald Gabrielse spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 302 Teaching and Communicating Physics Lecture Graduate Course Half course 30 Hands-on, experienced-based course for graduate students on teaching and communicating physics, conducted through practice, observation, feedback, and discussion. Departmental rules for teaching fellows, section and laboratory teaching, office hours, assignments, grading, and difficult classroom situations. Cannot be used as credit for the AM degree. For Wednesdays, select Jacob Barandes, and for Thursdays, select Rachael Lancor. Y Jacob Barandes Rachael Lancor fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 303 a Sensory and Behavioral Neuroscience Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Aravinthan Samuel Aravinthan Samuel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 303 b Sensory and Behavioral Neuroscience Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Aravinthan Samuel Aravinthan Samuel fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 305 a Experimental High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y John Huth John Huth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 305 b Experimental High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Huth John Huth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 307 a Atomic/Bio-physics, Quantum Optics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Lene V. Hau Lene V. Hau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 307 b Atomic/Bio-physics, Quantum Optics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lene V. Hau Lene V. Hau fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 309 a Topics in Elementary Particle Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y C. Vafa C. Vafa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 309 b Topics in Elementary Particle Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y C. Vafa C. Vafa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 311 a Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Low-Energy Particle Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y John Doyle John Doyle fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 311 b Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Low-Energy Particle Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y John Doyle John Doyle fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 313 a Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Amir Yacoby Amir Yacoby fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 313 b Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Amir Yacoby Amir Yacoby fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 315 a Topics in Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Eric J. Heller Eric J. Heller fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 315 b Topics in Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric J. Heller Eric J. Heller fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 317 a Topics in Biophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 317 b Topics in Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 319 a Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Melissa Franklin Melissa Franklin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 319 b Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Melissa Franklin Melissa Franklin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 321 a Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Weitz David A. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 321 b Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David A. Weitz David A. Weitz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 323 a Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Charles M. Marcus Charles M. Marcus fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 323 b Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Charles M. Marcus Charles M. Marcus fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 327 a Topics in Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y David R. Nelson David R. Nelson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 327 b Topics in Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y David R. Nelson David R. Nelson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 329 a Condensed Matter and Statistical Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Bertrand I. Halperin Bertrand I. Halperin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 329 b Condensed Matter and Statistical Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Bertrand I. Halperin Bertrand I. Halperin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 331 b Topics in String Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xi Yin Xi Yin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 333 a Experimental Atomic Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Mara Prentiss Mara Prentiss fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 333 b Experimental Atomic Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mara Prentiss Mara Prentiss fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 335 a Topics in the History and Philosophy of Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald Holton Gerald Holton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 335 b Topics in the History and Philosophy of Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gerald Holton Gerald Holton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 337 a Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Masahiro Morii Masahiro Morii fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 337 b Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Masahiro Morii Masahiro Morii fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 339 a Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Subir Sachdev Subir Sachdev fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 339 b Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Subir Sachdev Subir Sachdev fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 341 a Topics in Experimental Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Markus Greiner Markus Greiner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 341 b Topics in Experimental Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Markus Greiner Markus Greiner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 343 a Observational Cosmology and Experimental Gravitation Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Christopher William Stubbs Christopher William Stubbs fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 343 b Observational Cosmology and Experimental Gravitation Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Christopher William Stubbs Christopher William Stubbs fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 345 a Experimental Gravitation: Radio and Radar Astronomy Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Irwin I. Shapiro Irwin I. Shapiro fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 345 b Experimental Gravitation: Radio and Radar Astronomy Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Irwin I. Shapiro Irwin I. Shapiro fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 347 a Topics in Quantum Optics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 347 b Topics in Quantum Optics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 349 b Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics Thesis Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Matthew D Schwartz Matthew D Schwartz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 351 a Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Vinothan N Manoharan Vinothan N Manoharan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 351 b Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Vinothan N Manoharan Vinothan N Manoharan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 353 a Topics in Statistical Physics and Quantitative Molecular Biology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Erel Levine Erel Levine fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 353 b Topics in Statistical Physics and Quantitative Molecular Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Erel Levine Erel Levine fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 355 a Theory of Elementary Particles Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Roy J. Glauber Roy J. Glauber fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 355 b Theory of Elementary Particles Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Roy J. Glauber Roy J. Glauber fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 357 a Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Robert M. Westervelt Robert M. Westervelt fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 357 b Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Robert M. Westervelt Robert M. Westervelt fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 359 a Topics in Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Eugene Demler Eugene Demler fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 359 b Topics in Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eugene Demler Eugene Demler fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 361 a Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Joao Guimaraes da Costa Joao Guimaraes da Costa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 361 b Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Joao Guimaraes da Costa Joao Guimaraes da Costa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 363 a Topics in Condensed Matter Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Efthimios Kaxiras Efthimios Kaxiras fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 363 b Topics in Condensed Matter Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Efthimios Kaxiras Efthimios Kaxiras fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 365 a Topics in Mathematical Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Arthur Jaffe Arthur Jaffe fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 365 b Topics in Mathematical Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Arthur Jaffe Arthur Jaffe fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 367 a Experimental Astrophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Paul Horowitz Paul Horowitz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 367 b Experimental Astrophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Paul Horowitz Paul Horowitz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 369 a Experimental Condensed Matter: Synchrotron Radiation Studies Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Peter S. Pershan Peter S. Pershan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 369 b Experimental Condensed Matter: Synchrotron Radiation Studies Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter S. Pershan Peter S. Pershan fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 371 a Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Feldman Gary Feldman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 371 b Topics in Experimental High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Gary Feldman Gary Feldman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 373 a Historical and Philosophical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Galison Peter Galison fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 373 b Historical and Philosophical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Peter Galison Peter Galison fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 375 a Topics in Theoretical High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Frederik Denef Frederik Denef fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 375 b Topics in Theoretical High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Frederik Denef Frederik Denef fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 377 a Theoretical High Energy Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Tai T. Wu Tai T. Wu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 377 b Theoretical High Energy Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tai T. Wu Tai T. Wu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 379 a Topics in Elementary Particle Research and String Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Strominger Andrew Strominger fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 379 b Topics in Elementary Particle Research and String Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew Strominger Andrew Strominger fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 381 b Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jenny Hoffman Jenny Hoffman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 383 a Low Temperature Physics of Quantum Fluids and Solids; Ultra High Pressure Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Isaac F. Silvera Isaac F. Silvera fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 383 b Low Temperature Physics of Quantum Fluids and Solids; Ultra High Pressure Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Isaac F. Silvera Isaac F. Silvera fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 385 a Topics in Biophysics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Howard C. Berg Howard C. Berg fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 385 b Topics in Biophysics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Howard C. Berg Howard C. Berg fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 387 a Applied Photonics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Mazur Eric Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 387 b Applied Photonics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Mazur Eric Mazur fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 389 a Topics in Field Theory: The Standard Model and Beyond Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Lisa Randall Lisa Randall fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 389 b Topics in Field Theory: The Standard Model and Beyond Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Lisa Randall Lisa Randall fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 391 a Experimental Atomic Physics, Biophysics, and Soft Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Ronald L. Walsworth Ronald L. Walsworth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 391 b Experimental Atomic Physics, Biophysics, and Soft Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ronald L. Walsworth Ronald L. Walsworth fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 393 a Topics in Elementary Particle Theory Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Howard Georgi Howard Georgi fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 393 b Topics in Elementary Particle Theory Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Howard Georgi Howard Georgi fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 397 a Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Jene A. Golovchenko Jene A. Golovchenko fall term; repeated spring term Department of Physics Physics Physics 397 b Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jene A. Golovchenko Jene A. Golovchenko fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 13 Cognitive Psychology Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to the study of human cognition. Topics include perception, attention, memory, categorization, language, and consciousness. We will consider how human thought processes are organized, how they affect our everyday behavior, and the biological mechanisms that underlie them. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, or permission of instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. This course meets the Psychology foundational requirement. N Jennifer Wagner spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 14 Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., 1-2:30 Alfonso Caramazza How do our brains give rise to our minds? Specifically, how are mental processes related to neural activity? This course will explore these questions, as well as the methods by which cognitive neuroscience seeks to answer them. We will focus on processes within perception, attention, memory, language, action, emotion, and social cognition, and methods including neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and electrophysiology. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors. This course meets foundational requirements and should be taken before courses at the 1000 level or higher. N Alfonso Caramazza spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 15 Social Psychology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to social psychological research and theory regarding everyday behavior. Topics include: social influence, attitude change, and obedience to authority; stereotyping and prejudice; social cognition; social interaction and group processes; interpersonal attraction; prosocial behavior; and everyday human judgment. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. This course meets foundational requirements and should be taken before courses at the 1000 level or higher. N Joshua D. Greene fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 16 Developmental Psychology: Psychology of Early Childhood Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to theories and findings in the psychology of early childhood, roughly the period from 18 months to 6 years. The course will cover attachment; pretense and imagination; theory of mind/autism; moral development; memory development; emotion and understanding emotion; vocabulary growth; cross-cultural variation; brain development; learning through dialogue; and children's religious concepts. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors. This course has been replaced by SLS-15 Origins of Knowledge, which will meet the foundational requirement. Y spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 18 Abnormal Psychology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the study of psychopathology. Focuses on theoretical models of abnormal behavior as they relate to the definition, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders. Diagnostic classification, behavioral, and biological features of the major syndromes of psychopathology emphasized. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. This course meets foundational requirements and should be taken before courses at the 1000 level or higher. N Joshua William Buckholtz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 910 r Supervised Research Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Independent empirical research (laboratory or field) conducted under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. Research report or equivalent paper required. May be taken up to three times for College credit; limits on research courses for concentration credit apply. An <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/psych/ug/deadlines/index.html">Application</a> is required for admission; due to the Psychology Undergraduate Office the day before Study Cards are due. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 950 Psychology Live Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 25 Faculty will each lecture about their main area of research: its history, methods, and discoveries, focusing on contemporary research topics including perception, memory, cognitive development, animal cognition, social cognition, moral decision-making, consciousness, language, and psychopathology. Includes a view of methods to study the mind, brain and behavior involving neuroscientific techniques, evolutionary psychology, web-based experimentation, traditional laboratory experiments, and field studies. Emphasis is primarily human, as well as nonhuman primates. Science of Living System 20, Psychology 1, or Science B-62. Y Jamil O Zaki fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 971 Contemporary Issues in Psychology: Intensive Cross-level Analyses Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines selected issues and phenomena in contemporary psychological research. Special attention to examining topics from a variety of perspectives, to reading primary sources in the field, and to developing thinking, writing, research, and discussion skills. This tutorial, or Psychology 975, is required of concentrators upon entering the concentration, normally in the sophomore year. Letter graded. Science of Living Systems 20 (or equivalent) or concurrent enrollment. This course is taught entirely in sections, so a required first meeting of this course will be held the first day of classes; see Registrar's first meeting list for time and location. Students may take this course before formally declaring Psychology as their concentration. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 975 Contemporary Issues in Psychology: Intensive Cross-level Analyses for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines selected issues of relevance to social and cognitive neuroscience addressed in contemporary psychological research, and is normally required for students in the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience track of Psychology. Special attention to examining topics from a variety of perspectives, to reading primary sources in the field, and to developing thinking, writing, research, and discussion skills. This tutorial, or Psychology 971, is required of concentrators upon entering the concentration, normally in the sophomore year. Letter-graded. Science of Living Systems 20 (or equivalent) or concurrent enrollment. This course is taught entirely in sections, so a required first meeting of this course will be held the first day of classes; see Registrar's first meeting list for time and location. Students may take this course before formally declaring Psychology as their concentration. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 f Animal Cognition Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This course is an introduction to the study of animal cognition and thought processes. Topics include categorization, memory, number concepts, insight, and language-like behavior. The course requires reading and critiquing original journal articles. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Not open to students who have taken PSY 1351. Y Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 g Developmental Neuroscience Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 25 Tu., Th., 1-2:30 Daniel L. Schacter and members of the Department. Theories and findings in the psychology and neuropsychology of infancy, childhood and adolescence, with reference to lifespan development. Topics addressed include language, executive function, moral reasoning and memory. Studies of abnormal development, including dyslexia and ADHD, will illuminate the nature of brain development across dispersed neural networks. Implications of modern understanding of neurocognitive development on policy and education will be considered. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Typically meant for Junior and Senior Psychology concentrators. Y Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 i Psychology of Education and Pedagogy Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Tu., 1-3 Daniel L. Schacter and members of the Department In this seminar we will discuss modern psychological research into learning and teaching and how such evidence can inform pedagogy, educational policy, and our understanding of the mind. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Typically meant for Junior and Senior Psychology concentrators. Y Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 j Psychology of Religion Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This seminar will explore scientific theory and research on the psychology of religious beliefs and practices, integrating cognitive, developmental, evolutionary, neuroscientific and social levels of analysis. Topics addressed include dualism, afterlives, agency perception & anthropomorphism, creationism & teleofunctional reasoning, magic & taboos, ritualistic behavior & prayer, cooperation, and debates concerning religion as adaptation vs. by-product. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Typically meant for Junior and Senior Psychology concentrators. First meeting will be on September 8, 2010. Y Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 k Growing Up and Growing Old: Cognitive Changes in Childhood and Aging Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 This seminar will focus on the profound cognitive changes of early childhood and old age. We will be especially interested in what such changes tell us about how the adult mind -- perched between childhood and old age -- is organized. Topics include: theories of development and theories of aging, changes in the neural substrate; the rise and fall of executive functions; conceptual gain and conceptual loss; expertise and wisdom; healthy aging and dementias. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Y Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 l Language and Thought Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Can we think without language? Do the particular language(s) we know shape our thoughts? This course will explore language and thought through case studies in various populations and domains (e.g., color, space, number) and consider whether language is a merely a communicative tool, or whether it influences how we think. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and one foundational course. Y Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 n Nonverbal Communication Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 What can we learn about another person by observing her nonverbal behavior? What do our physical actions convey about us? Can we control the messages our bodies send? In this course, we will learn about various aspects of nonverbal communication and situations in which nonverbal behavior is influential. As we examine evidence, we will be able to look back and explore more nuanced complexities as to how nonverbal behavior acts as a communication channel. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course Y Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 980 o Perception and Imagination Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 16 Perception is required to have a mind like yours. How does perceiving work? How are streams of sensory input processed into rich and useful models of the world around you? This course will converge on the 5 senses from many informative angles, explaining how perception tracks and shapes reality, then gives rise to imagination. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and one foundational course. Y Daniel Schacter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 985 Junior Tutorial: Honors Thesis Preparation Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading and research with a faculty supervisor normally resulting in a thesis prospectus. Required, supplemental group meetings to discuss topic and supervisor selection, study methodology, prospectus writing, and the prospectus meeting. Graded SAT/UNS. Full prospectus or term paper required. Psychology 1901 or concurrent enrollment. Normally limited to junior psychology concentrators. Admission to course by way of <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/psych/ug/deadlines/index.html">application</a>. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter full year Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 990 Senior Tutorial: Honors Thesis in Psychology Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Individual supervised thesis research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit. Approved thesis application and Psychology 1901. Required of and limited to senior psychology concentrators in the general psychology Honors-eligible thesis track. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter full year Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 992 Senior Tutorial: Honors Thesis (Mind/Brain/Behavior) Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Individual supervised thesis research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit. Approved thesis application and Psychology 1901. Required of and limited to senior psychology concentrators in the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience thesis track, who will take this course in lieu of Psychology 990. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter full year Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 993 Senior Tutorial: Honors Thesis (Social and Cognitive Neuroscience) Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Individual supervised research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit. Approved thesis application and Psychology 1901. Required of and limited to senior honors psychology concentrators in the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience track, who will take this course in lieu of Psychology 990. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1005 Health Psychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will examine psychological and physical health and the relationship between them. Research from mindfulness theory, mind/body studies, and positive psychology will be discussed along with research on stress, medical decision-making, behavioral medicine and social psychological theories that are pertinent to health. SLS-20 or equivalent and any foundational course. N Ellen J. Langer fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1006 Psychology of Morality Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class will survey the recent history and evolution of research in moral psychology, emphasizing the function of moral thought in the regulation of intra-psychic processes and the shaping of social judgment and interaction. Students will be expected to engage in interactive discussion as well as participate in experimental research. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 13 or Psychology 15. N spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1051 MATLAB: Introduction to Programming for Behavioral Research Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course will introduce students to the basics of the MATLAB user interface and programming language, for the purpose of using MATLAB to conduct behavioral research. In the first half of the course, you will learn about MATLAB syntax, general programming concepts such as functions, loops, and conditional statements, and how to analyze and visualize data in MATLAB. In the second half of the course, you will learn to program psychology experiments with the Psychophysics toolbox (a set of MATLAB functions), including displaying stimuli (visual and auditory), and collecting responses from participants. All students are required to bring a laptop computer to class. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with permission of instructor. Y George Angelo Alvarez fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1052 The application of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience research Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the most widely used methods in cognitive neuroscience research. In this course, students will learn the basics of fMRI research and gain hands-on experience in conducting fMRI experiments. In the first part of the course, students will have an overview of the fMRI methods, including how fMRI works, basic designs of fMRI experiments, fMRI data collection, analysis and interpretation, and current applications of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience research. In the second part of the course, students will design and conduct fMRI experiments and analyze fMRI data. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Yaoda Xu fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1201 Your Brain on Drugs: Psychopharmacology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to how drugs affect mood, sensation, consciousness, and other psychological and behavioral functions in both healthy and disease states. Introduces concepts in neuroscience and pharmacology to understand how drugs are used to treat drug abuse, psychiatric disorders and why individuals use recreational drugs. Covers all CNS drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, alcohol, and both licit and illicit drugs of abuse. Debates controversial topics such as research with psychiatric populations, diagnosing ADHD, teenage suicide, marijuana legalization, and needle exchange programs. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and either Psychology 13, Psychology 18, or MCB 80. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Science B. N Dr Scott E. Lukas fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1304 Cognitive Neuropsychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the patterns of perceptual, motor, cognitive, and linguistic impairments resulting from brain damage. The focus is on the implications of the various types of neuropsychological deficits (such as visual neglect, dyslexia, and aphasia) for theories of the mind and the functional organization of the brain. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 13 or MCB 80. Y Alfonso Caramazza spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1307 Brain Genomics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Genetics provides a powerful approach for exploring human behavioral variation and learning how dysfunction in neural circuits influences cognition. This course will cover the basics of genetic inheritance and genomic sequencing to understand brain function. Topics include autistic disorders, schizophrenia, and normal cognitive variation. The goals of the class will be (1) to debate the potential of bridging genomics and human neuroscience, and (2) to survey recent successes in brain genomics. Life Science 1A; MCB 80 or Science of Living Systems 20 desirable. N Randy Lee Buckner fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1352 Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience Research Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Intended for undergraduates or those with limited background in cognitive neuroscience. Students will attend and participate in laboratory research and in a seminar that includes discussion of active scientific projects, recent important journal articles, and didactic lecture on technical aspects of methods central to cognitive neuroscience research. Readings will be assigned that survey basic principles of system neuroscience, cognitive science, and methods including functional MRI, MEG, and single unit physiology. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors or MCB 80, or permission of instructor. For graduate students, permission of instructor. Limited to students involved in research. Y Randy Lee Buckner spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1357 Puzzles of the Mind: Humans, Animals, Robots: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 An interdisciplinary comparative study of human, animal, and robot minds. Particular emphasis on philosophical questions that frame the problems, and recent work in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience that attempt to tackle them empirically. Relation between consciousness and cognition, language and thought, conscious versus unconscious information processing, Manifestations of mental capacities in different underlying substrates: the human brain, nervous systems of non-human animals, and silicon-based computational systems. Additional readings from cognitive ethology and artificial intelligence. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and one from Psychology 13, 15, 16, or 18, or Molecular and Cellular Biology 80, or coursework in philosophy. Y Guven Guzeldere fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1358 The Representation of Object Knowledge Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Knowledge of objects encompasses their physical appearance and how they can be manipulated as well as information about their function, social value and other properties that are not reducible to simple sensory-motor experiences. In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between sensory-motor processes and the organization and representation of conceptual knowledge through a review of recent behavioral, neuroimaging and neuropsychological research. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus Psychology 13 or Psychology 14 or MCB 80, or permission of instructor. Y Alfonso Caramazza spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1430 Human Memory and Amnesia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Surveys current data and theory concerning human memory and amnesia from cognitive, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological perspectives. Topics considered include short-term memory, encoding and retrieval processes, forgetting, memory distortion, implicit memory, drug effects on memory, amnesic syndromes, and aging memory. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus either Psychology 13, 15, 16, 18, Science B 29 or MCB 80. N Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1452 The Human Face Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 Face recognition and face processing have strong biological substrates and have wide application to many sub-fields of psychology. Among the topics to be examined are face recognition, facial emotion, and facial attractiveness. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. Y Ken Nakayama fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1501 Social Psychology of Organizations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 45 Surveys interpersonal and group processes in organizational settings. Includes how groups and organizations affect individual members and vice versa; interpersonal and group processes; work team behavior and performance; power dynamics in organizations; intergroup relations; the leadership of groups and organizations. Group project required. Science of Living Systems 20 and at least one additional course with substantial psychological content, or special permission of the instructor. Y Richard Hackman fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1502 Cultural Psychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 How do beliefs associated with social class, race, and religion change psychological tendencies? This course will explore the sticky question of how all (hu)men are not created equal, and the specific ways one's cultural background shapes your sense of self, emotions, motivation, judgments, and relationships. We will discuss how Madonna influences the way you like your coffee, whether it is wrong to eat your dog, and when thinking about God changes what you do with your money. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and one foundational course. Y Daniel Schacter fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1503 Psychology of Close Relationships Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 75 This course is an in-depth exploration of close relationships. Examples of topics to be covered include the biological bases of attraction; relationship formation; the end of relationships through break-up, divorce, or death; relationship satisfaction; deception; gender roles; same-sex relationships; loneliness; relationships and well-being; and public perceptions about relationships. You will have an opportunity to explore these topics primarily through critical examination of the empirical literature as well as through popular press. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and one foundational course. Y Holly Ann Parker spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1505 Social Cognition: The Psychology of Thinking about Other People Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 This course will examine how one person infers the thoughts and feelings of others, predicts what they will do in certain situations, forms impressions of others' personalities, and manages to engage in culturally-appropriate social behavior. In doing so, we will examine a range of topics, including research on stereotypes and prejudice, knowledge about the self, the development of social skills in children, social deficits in autism and related disorders, and the underlying neural basis of these abilities. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and either Psychology 13, Psychology 14, or Psychology 15. Y Jason Paul Mitchell spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1507 Group Decision Making Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 4-5:30 Nicholas Peter Aramovich This course seeks to understand collective decision making and problem solving by small groups. This includes understanding the interpersonal processes and relationships that occur between group members as they work together (e.g., conformity, minority influence, information sharing, and leadership), the effect of group participation on their members (e.g., learning, satisfaction, commitment) and methods for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of group performance. Past and present empirical research and theory will be examined. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and any foundational course. N Nicholas Peter Aramovich spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1510 Social Function of Emotion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 1-2:30 Piercarlo Valdesolo Rationalist models of decision making have typically relegated the experience of emotions to, at best, an obstacle to be overcome in social judgment, and at worst a necessarily biasing and corrupting force. By adopting a functionalist perspective, this course will seek to identify the conditions under which emotions can actually promote adaptive social functioning across varied domains such as close relationships, negotiation, intergroup relations and risk-taking. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and any foundational course. Y Piercarlo Valdesolo fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1512 Changing Minds: Persuasion and Communication Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 50 Have you ever tried to influence a friend's stance on a political issue or finagled relatives into supporting a charity walk/run you were participating in? If so, you've engaged in persuasion. After a background review of attitudes, including their measurement and relation to behavior, we will explore psychological theories of persuasion. We will also examine applied examples of persuasive communication in such areas as advertising/consumer behavior, politics/voting, and social change (e.g., health behaviors and prejudice). Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors, and any foundational course. Y Nicole E. Noll fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1556 r Research Seminar in Implicit Social Cognition Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to research on implicit social cognition, with special focus on attitudes, beliefs, and identity and in some cases its applications to law, business, medicine, and government. Students will be paired with individual researchers to work on ongoing projects that can turn into more independent projects. In addition to weekly work in the laboratory, students are expected to attend biweekly discussion groups focusing on current issues and directions in the laboratory as a whole. Y Mahzarin R. Banaji Mahzarin R. Banaji spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1601 Developmental Disabilities Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to developmental disorders through theory, research, and practice. In this course we will focus on the most frequently identified developmental difficulties in areas such as language, math, and executive functions. The approach will be integrative by considering each topic through the lens of cognitive neuroscience, clinical presentation, and theoretical frameworks. For undergraduates, Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and one foundational course. This course is jointly offered with the Graduate School of Education as H109. N Joanna A. Christodoulou fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1604 Social Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do we develop as social beings from infancy to adulthood? What is social competence, and how can social development go awry? In exploring these and other questions, this course will take a developmental approach to topics that include: attachment; early-emerging social behavior; cooperation and competition; trust; theory of mind; social categorization; in/out-group dynamics; friendship; distinct forms of aggression and victimization; social and moral reasoning; and parental, peer, and cultural influences on social behavior. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus either PSY 15 or PSY 16. N Craig Elliott Smith fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1607 a Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain: Theory and Practice Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Provides an integrative, interactive, and collaborative introduction to Mind, Brain, and Education. Students will draw upon knowledge from Cognitive Psychology, Biology, and Education to explore the theoretical foundations, methods, and applications of MBE. The course will connect diverse theoretical orientations including Piaget, Vygotsky, cognitive/affective science, neuroscience, dynamic skill theory, and universal design for learning. Guest lecturers will include leading scholars in the field. Students will complete a research or design project in the course. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as HT 100A. Not open to students who have previously taken PSY 1607. Y Kurt W. Fischer spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1607 b Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain: Mind, Brain, and Education Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Kurt W. Fischer (Education School) Second part of a survey of the field of Mind, Brain and Education. Draws upon findings and theory from Cognitive Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, and Education to explore: Language and Literacy, Numeracy, Conceptual Change, and Emotion and Motivation. Uses case materials, research findings, and practitioner expertise to construct questions, analyze policy, and build knowledge on issues in the field. Leading scholars in the field will participate. Students will complete a research or design project in the course. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. Enrollment in Psychology 1607a is recommended, but not required. Not open to students who have previously taken PSY 1607. Offered jointly with the School of Education as H100b. Y Kurt W. Fischer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1651 r Language Development: Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Research Seminar Laboratory Research For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students participate in research on language acquisition, language comprehension, and language production. Each student has responsibility for a project. Weekly meeting to discuss student projects and readings that are relevant to them. Ten hours a week commitment (includes lab meeting). Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus either Psychology 13 or Psychology 16. For undergraduates seeking research experience, especially in preparation for undergraduate theses. Y Jesse Snedeker Jesse Snedeker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1652 r Laboratory in Early Cognitive Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is a laboratory methods course that provides students with hands-on experience in a cognitive development lab. The aim of the course is for students to engage in all aspects of the scientific process - from experimental design to data collection and interpretation - by working in a lab, and by participating in weekly meetings where key questions and findings in the field are discussed. Interested students may contact Lab Coordinator Ellyn Schmidt, ellyn.schmidt@gmail.com. Y Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth Spelke fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1654 Topics in Cognitive Development: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This seminar considers the origins and nature of human knowledge, by focusing on the development of knowledge in four broad domains: knowledge of objects and their mechanical relationships, knowledge of number and mathematics, knowledge of geometry and spatial layout, and knowledge of other people and their social relationships. Students will write short papers in response to weekly readings, as well as a longer paper at the end of the term. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors or its equivalent plus a foundational course. Y Elizabeth Spelke fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1655 r Conceptual Development: Undergraduate Laboratory Course Research Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students participate in research on conceptual development and language acquisition. Each student has responsibility for a project. Weekly lab meeting to discuss student projects and readings relevant to them. Ten hours a week commitment (includes lab meeting). Open to undergraduates seeking research experience, especially in preparation for undergraduate theses. Y Susan Carey Susan Carey spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1701 Personality Psychology Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to personality psychology. Reviews the major developments and debates in the area of personality. Covers a variety of approaches to understanding individual differences, including temperament, traits (factor analytic models), cognitive models, behavioral genetics, neurobiological processes, and person situation interaction. Science of Living Systems 20 or its prerequisites, and any foundational course. N spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1703 Human Sexuality Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the development and expression of sexual behavior as a complex psychological, socio-cultural, and biological phenomenon. Students explore topics including: historical perspectives on sexuality; sexology research methods; biological bases of sexual behavior; sexual arousal and response; gender identity and gender roles; sexual orientation; romantic attraction and love; sexual dysfunctions and sex therapy; safer sex and STD prevention; typical and atypical sexual behaviors; and pornography and prostitution. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. N Justin J. Lehmiller fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1750 Free Will, Responsibility, and Law Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Examines the issues of free will and responsibility from philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives, with special attention paid to potential legal applications. For undergraduates: Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors; plus Psychology 13, 15, 16, or 18. Y Joshua D. Greene spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1801 Anxiety Disorders Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Concerns current theory and research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders (e.g., panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder). Cognitive, behavioral, and biological approaches are emphasized. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 18. N Richard J. McNally fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1802 Childhood Trauma Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will survey literature on the impact of traumatic stress on psychological development, with a special focus on cognitive aspects. Traumatic events, such natural and manmade disasters, maltreatment, community and school violence, war, terrorism, refugee trauma, traumatic loss, medical illness, and accidents, will be discussed. We will attend to questions about the nature of traumatic stress, posttraumatic stress symptoms, cultural aspects, potential risk and protective factors, psychological interventions, and posttraumatic growth following traumatic events. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 16 or Psychology 18. N spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1851 Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Extends the material covered in Psychology 18 in a more clinical direction. Provides students with an opportunity to approach issues in clinical psychology from a scientist-practitioner perspective. Focuses on how research-based approaches to the study and treatment of psychopathology can translate into high quality ethical care for patients with major psychiatric problems. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors; Psychology 18; and at least one other course in psychopathology strictly required. Y Jill M. Hooley fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1853 Self-Destructive Behaviors Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Why do some individuals intentionally engage in behaviors that cause themselves direct bodily harm, such as suicide and self-mutilation? We explore past and current models for understanding self-harm behaviors. We consider the classification, etiology, assessment, and treatment of self-harm behaviors from psychological, developmental, contextual, and biological perspectives. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 18. Y Matthew K. Nock spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1854 Schizophrenia: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Examines schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders from biological, psychological, and psychosocial perspectives. Focuses on early (e.g., Kraepelin) and modern (e.g., DSM-IV) perspectives, clinical case descriptions of the disorder, and recent theoretical and empirical developments in understanding etiology, phenomenology, and treatment. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 18. N Jill M. Hooley fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1861 Developmental Psychopathology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 An overview of psychological problems and mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. Topics include internalizing conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression), externalizing conditions (e.g., conduct disorder and ADHD), eating disorders, autism, and child responses to maltreatment and other forms of trauma. Theoretical perspectives, diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment approaches are examined. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and Psychology 18. Y Dr John R Weisz spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1900 Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides a conceptual and practical introduction to statistics used in psychology and other behavioral sciences. Covers basic topics in statistics including: measures of central tendency and variability; probability and distributions, correlations and regression, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests. Includes a lab section with instruction in statistical analysis using a computer program. Open to freshmen with permission of instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Matthew K. Nock fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1901 a Methods of Behavioral Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating psychological research. Topics include experimental design, hypothesis generation and testing, experimental artifacts, and analysis of published research. One of: Psychology 1900, Statistics 100, 101, 102, 104, or the equivalent. Y Justin J. Lehmiller fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1901 b Methods of Behavioral Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating psychological research. Topics include experimental design, hypothesis generation and testing, experimental artifacts, and analysis of published research. One of: Psychology 1900, Statistics 100, 101, 102, 104, or the equivalent. Y Nicholas Peter Aramovich spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1901 c Methods of Behavioral Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 M., at 11, and a weekly lab T., 7-9:30 or Th., 2:30-5 Christine Ma-Kellams Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating psychological research. Topics include experimental design, hypothesis generation and testing, experimental artifacts, and analysis of published research. One of: Psychology 1900, Statistics 100, 101, 102, 104, or the equivalent. Y Christine Ma spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1901 d Methods of Behavioral Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Tu., at 2, and a weekly lab W., 1:30-4 or W., 7-9:30 pm Felix Warneken Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating psychological research. Topics include experimental design, hypothesis generation and testing, experimental artifacts, and analysis of published research. One of: Psychology 1900, Statistics 100, 101, 102, 104, or the equivalent. Y Felix Warneken fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1950 Intermediate Statistical Analysis in Psychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course offers intense, foundational exposure to psychological statistics, focusing heavily on analysis of variance (one-way, factorial, repeated-measures, mixed-model). Other topics include: exploratory data analysis, sampling distributions, null hypothesis significance testing, t-tests, fixed versus random effects, post hoc and planned comparisons, correlation, simple regression, the general linear model, chi-square tests, nonparametric statistics, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis. Psychology 1900 or the equivalent, and passing score on screening examination (email instructor for scheduling). Required of doctoral students in Psychology. Y Delphine Sophie Courvoisier spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 1952 Multivariate Analysis in Psychology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces the empirical measurement of abstract constructs and multivariate analysis. Topics include: reliability and validity, multiple regression, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, discriminant function analysis and structural equation modeling. Psychology 1900. Y James Sidanius fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2010 Contemporary Topics in Psychological Research Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced survey of research topics in cognition/brain/behavior, development, experimental psychopathology, clinical and social psychology. Required of, and limited to, first-year doctoral students in the department of Psychology. Y Susan Carey spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2020 ab Cognition, Brain, and Behavior: Proseminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Advanced survey of research topics in cognition, brain, and behavior. Limited to first-year doctoral students in Psychology. Y Steven Pinker spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2040 Contemporary Topics in Psychopathology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced survey of current topics in experimental psychopathology. Required of first- or second-year graduate students in clinical. Doctoral students in clinical psychology only. Y Jill M. Hooley spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2050 History of Psychology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers major issues, theories, schools of thought, and controversies integral to the development of psychology from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Readings include classic articles exemplifying these themes. For undergraduates: SLS-20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Richard J. McNally spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2100 Research Methodology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course How to conduct empirical research, primarily with human participants. Topics include formulating problems, design strategies, developing and validating concepts, designing and assessing measures and manipulations; issues in data collection, analysis, and interpretation; and publishing findings. Limited to doctoral students. Offered alternate years. Y Richard Hackman spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2110 Emotion in Development and Learning: Usable Knowledge, Variability, Context Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Explores the connections between biology, emotions, relationships, and culture. Reviews classic work such as Darwin and psychodynamics as well as modern emotion research about attribution, development, culture, and neuroscience. Format combines discussion, debate, and lecture. Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and any foundational course. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Education as H137. Y Gabrielle Rappolt Schlichtmann spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2130 Core Knowledge and Cognitive Development Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This MIT-Harvard seminar focuses on the nature and development of human concepts by considering both infants' representations (e.g. of objects, actions, social partners) and children's inferential abilities. Discussion centers on research in human cognitive development, in relation to work in cognitive psychology, animal cognition, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, and philosophy. Questions include: Do humans possess innate abstract concepts of cause, agent, or belief? How do children learn new concepts, both independently and from others? The course is held every other week at MIT. Y Elizabeth Spelke spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2145 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course uses neuroscience methods to study the cognitive development of human infants and children. Case studies draw from research on face recognition, language, executive function, representations of objects, number and theory of mind. Y Susan Carey fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2150 r Social Cognitive Development: Research Seminar Laboratory Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Year long lab course on children's social-cognitive development and the study of cooperation. Students develop and pilot experiments with children or participate in ongoing projects. In addition, students read and discuss papers on social cognition, understanding of norms, and cooperation from developmental and evolutionary psychology. For undergraduates: Psychology 1 or Science B 62 plus a foundational course. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. First meeting will be on September 8, 2010. Y Felix Warneken Felix Warneken fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2170 Developmental Proseminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Proseminar in conceptual development and language acquisition. Open to all graduate students in the department and counts as one of the required two major survey courses. Open to others by permission of the instructor. Y Jesse Snedeker fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2185 Unconscious Processing in Vision and Action Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Events that don't reach consciousness activate a smaller set of brain structures than events that do. We review psychophysical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging research that may reveal the major brain circuits and pathways involved in unconscious processing. Psychology 1 or Science B-62 and a PSY 13 or MCB 80. Expected to be given in 2011-12. Undergraduate enrollment encouraged with permission of instructor. Y Alfonso Caramazza spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2190 Topics in Language Acquisition Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Seminar examining alternate theories of language acquisition and assessing their empirical validity. Focuses on speech perception, word learning, semantic and early syntactic development, interactions between language acquisition and cognitive development, and children's online language comprehension. Expected to be given in 2011-12. Open to graduate students only. Y Jesse Snedeker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2335 r Concepts, Actions, Objects (CAOs): Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Discussion of current research on the organization of conceptual and lexical knowledge. We will also discuss ongoing research by participants in the seminar. Open to graduate and undergraduate students involved in research in language. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Alfonso Caramazza Alfonso Caramazza fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2352 r Laboratory for Social Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides instruction and experience in conducting research on social cognition via the methods of cognitive neuroscience. Special focus on issues of mental state inference, stereotyping, and the self. Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor's laboratory. Y Jason Paul Mitchell Jason Paul Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2354 r Advanced Laboratory in Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Students work directly on a research project and get hands-on experience with neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience techniques, including functional MRI. MRI laboratory training consists of safety, instruction on running the scanner, and paradigm design. In addition to laboratory work, students attend a weekly research seminar where ongoing and proposed research projects are discusses. Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor's laboratory. Y Randy Lee Buckner Randy Lee Buckner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2356 r Visual Cognition: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Discussion of current research on visual cognition (how we perceive, attend to, and remember visual information). We will also discuss ongoing research by participants in the seminar. Open to graduate and undergraduates. Y Yaoda Xu George Angelo Alvarez fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2358 r Memory: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. Limited to students involved in research. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2400 Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Research and theory on the application of cognitive psychology methods applied to the understanding of anxiety and mood disorders. Limited to graduate students. Y Richard J. McNally fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2410 r Laboratory Research on Emotional Disorders Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Involves readings, seminar discussion, and research on emotional disorders conducted in the instructor's laboratory (e.g., social anxiety disorder, complicated grief, obsessive-compulsive disorder). Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor's laboratory. N Richard J. McNally Richard J. McNally fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2420 Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Psychological Disorders Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers current cognitive-behavioral approaches to the treatment of common psychological disorders in adults. Emphasis is on the practical aspects of treatment, and on treatment outcome research. Includes theoretical underpinnings of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Limited to Harvard graduate students in clinical psychology. Y Jill M. Hooley fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2430 Cultural and Individual Diversity Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines cultural, racial, ethnic, and other individual differences in human behavior which affect the practice of psychology. Reviews current science examining the relations between these factors and human behavior, psychopathology, and provision of psychological services. Limited to Harvard doctoral students in clinical psychology. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2436 r Social Neuroscience and Psychopathology Laboratory Research Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides instruction and experience in conducting research on social cognitive processes as they relate to psychopathology. Cognitive neuroscience methods, such as fMRI, are emphasized. Psychology 18 Y Christine Hooker Christine Hooker spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2445 Psychological Treatment Research Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Review theories of behavior change, methods of studying such change (single-case research designs, randomized clinical trials, etc.), and current evidence-based approaches to assessing and treating psychopathology. Examines historical, ethical, and cultural issues. SLS-20 or its predecessors and Psychology 18. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Matthew K. Nock fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2446 r Clinical Research Laboratory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides instruction and experience conducting clinical research in laboratory and clinical settings, with a special focus on severe psychopathology. Topics will include: Self-Injurious behaviors, depression, and adult attachment patterns in close relationships. Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor's laboratory. N Jill M. Hooley Jill M. Hooley fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2450 Affective and Social Neuroscience Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Reviews two emerging fields in neuroscience, affective and social neuroscience. Through integration of human and animal data, the course focuses on mapping affect, motivation, and social cognition to brain function. SLS-20 or its predecessors plus any foundational course. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Christine Hooker fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2460 Diagnostic Interviewing Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Students develop clinical interviewing and diagnostic skills using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R and other instruments. Examines issues in diagnosis and assessment; provides exposure to psychopathology syndromes via tapes and clinical interviews. Psychology 2040. Graduate students only. Y Jill M. Hooley fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2461 r Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Provides instruction and experience in conducting clinical research in laboratory and clinical settings, with a special focus on developmental psychopathology. Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor's laboratory. N Matthew K. Nock Matthew K. Nock spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2464 r Research Methods in Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychology Lecture and Lab Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced laboratory methods seminar on designing and conducting research on child and adolescent mental health problems and interventions, especially in school and mental health care settings. Problem areas include depression, anxiety, and disruptive conduct. For undergraduates: Science of Living Systems 20 (or equivalent) and PSY 18 plus a statistics course. The class will be conducted at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. Y Dr John R Weisz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2475 r Laboratory for the Systems Neuroscience of Psychopathology Research Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Research seminar examines the neurobiology of disinhibitory psychopathology (aggression, antisocial behavior, substance abuse). Students participate first-hand in personality/behavioral testing and brain imaging, and in weekly discussions of the genetics and cellular/systems/cognitive neuroscience of disinhibitory psychopathology. Y Joshua William Buckholtz Joshua William Buckholtz fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2480 Human Neuropsychology/Neuroanatomy: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Introduction to the anatomical structure of the human brain. Emphasis on neuropsychological correlates and cortical representation of higher cognitive functions. Gross brain dissection laboratory and discussions of descriptive and theoretical aspects of clinical neuropsychological phenomena. For undergraduates: Science of Living Systems 20 or its equivalent and any foundational course. MCB 80 is recommended but not required. Preference given to graduate students who have completed Psychology 2010; if space is available, qualified undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor. Y William Milberg fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2500 Advanced Social Psychology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced survey of classic and current research and theory in social psychology, including self, social cognition, attitudes, social influence, altruism and aggression, prejudice and discrimination, close relationships, and group dynamics. For doctoral students only. Y Daniel M. Wegner Jason Paul Mitchell fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2530 r Mental Control: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar provides research experience in mental control, including topics of mind perception and consciousness. For undergraduates: Science of Living Systems 20 (or equivalent) plus any one of Psychology 13, 15, 16, 18, or MCB 80. Limited to graduate students and undergraduates involved in research in the instructor's laboratory. Y Daniel M. Wegner Daniel M. Wegner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2553 r Decision Making and Negotiation: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar provides lab experience in behavioral approaches to decision making and negotiation. Open to students working on research in the instructor's laboratory. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4425. Y Francesca Gino Francesca Gino fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2554 r Moral Cognition: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Year long lab course for students engaged in research on moral cognition. Y Joshua D. Greene Joshua D. Greene fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2555 r Emotion and Decision Making: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Includes 10-12 hours of lab work per week. Lab methods course to consider connections among theories of judgment and decision making and data. Students may design and conduct an experiment. A 10-page final research paper is required. Admitted students required to participate for two consecutive semesters, which may include a summer session if desired. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as MLD-311 in fall term or MLD-312 in spring term. Y Jennifer S. Lerner Jennifer S. Lerner fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2570 r Intergroup Relations: Research Seminar Research Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course The seminar provides students with research experience concerning different forms of intergroup conflict, including the social psychology of interracial and interethnic conflict, and the social psychology of war and aggression. Y James Sidanius James Sidanius fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2580 r Affective Forecasting: Research Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. Open to students working on research in the instructor's laboratory. Y Daniel Gilbert Daniel Gilbert fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2630 Social Behavior in Organizations: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topics include how groups and organizations affect individual members and vice versa; interpersonal and group processes; work team effectiveness; power, political, and intergroup dynamics; group and organizational leadership. Limited to doctoral students. Students are expected to attend the lectures of Psychology 1501. Y Richard Hackman fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2640 r The Understand Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. Open to graduate students involved in research in the instructor's laboratory, and to select juniors and seniors. Y Mahzarin R. Banaji Mahzarin R. Banaji fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2650 Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making and Negotiation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research overview of behavioral decision making and decision analytic perspectives to negotiation. Explores bounded rationality, decision biases, human decision making. Develops a behavioral decision perspective to negotiation, and examines how the field is currently evolving. Offered jointly with the Business School as 4420. Open to juniors and seniors in psychology and economics who are writing, or plan to write, a senior thesis. Y Francesca Gino Amy J. C. Cuddy fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2651 Social Cognition from a Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Includes the representation of agency, intentions, and others' minds in children and nonhuman primates, the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of empathy, cooperative behaviors and norms. Emphasizes new research bridging psychology, anthropology, and behavioral economics. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. Y Felix Warneken fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2660 r Research Seminar in Mindfulness Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Mindlessness/mindfulness theory is compared/contrasted to relevant theories in social psychology, psychopathology, and cognitive psychology. Y Ellen J. Langer Ellen J. Langer fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2670 a Decision Making and the Psychology of Possibility Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Topics in decision making such as rationality, risk-taking, helplessness, and health are examined through the lens of mindfulness theory. Special emphasis given to the psychology of possibility in applied settings. An introductory psychology course and a foundational course. Open to qualified undergraduates. Y Ellen J. Langer spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 2670 b Decision Making and the Psychology of Possibility II Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A deeper exploration into the theoretical and experimental issues pertaining to decision making and the psychology of possibility, raised in Psychology 2670a. Psychology 2670a. Open to qualified undergraduates. Y Ellen J. Langer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3010 Special Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3020 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3050 Clinical Practicum Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Students work in clinical settings locally and, under supervision, are directly involved in the treatment and clinical care of patients. Limited to Harvard doctoral students in clinical psychology. Y Richard J. McNally Richard J. McNally fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3070 Clinical Assessment and Treatment Practicum Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Faculty interview psychiatric inpatients to demonstrate establishing treatment alliances, gathering histories, and initial assessment. Group discussion will consider how theoretical principles are applied to clinical work. Limited to graduate students in clinical psychology. Y Richard J. McNally Richard J. McNally fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3200 Research Seminar in Clinical Science Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Provides a forum for presenting and discussing current research in experimental psychopathology/clinical psychology. Presenters include graduate students, faculty, and outside speakers. Y Christine Hooker Christine Hooker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3220 Developmental Studies: Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Research seminar open to graduate students conducting research in cognitive development. Y Susan Carey Elizabeth Spelke fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3240 Research Seminar in Cognitive Development Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth Spelke spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3250 Psychological Testing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course This weekly seminar for graduate students in clinical psychology is designed to provide basic skills in administering and interpreting standardized tests in the areas of intellectual assessment and personality assessment. Open to Harvard doctoral students in clinical psychology. Y Christine Hooker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3260 Conceptual Development: Research Seminar Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers research methods for the study of conceptual development throughout the life span. All students must be currently engaged in experimental research. Y Susan Carey Susan Carey fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3270 Language Acquisition: Research Seminar Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers research methods for language acquisition and language comprehension throughout the life span. All students must be currently engaged in experimental research. Y Jesse Snedeker Jesse Snedeker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3340 Research Seminar in Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Researchers in CBB, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty, present and discuss current research in cognitive science. Topics include memory, language, vision, mental imagery, concepts, animal and infant cognition, and related areas. Y Yaoda Xu George Angelo Alvarez Yaoda Xu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3360 Current Topics in Vision and Sensory Processes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Yaoda Xu Ken Nakayama George Angelo Alvarez Ken Nakayama Yaoda Xu fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3420 Research Workshop in Social Psychology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Provides a forum for the presentation, discussion, and critique of current research in social psychology. Presenters include graduate students and faculty in social psychology plus visitors. Y Jason Paul Mitchell Jason Paul Mitchell spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3490 Advanced Statistical Methods Workshop Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Discussion and presentation of design and statistical analysis problems by students. Based on the problems presented, advanced statistical techniques will be discussed, such as Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Structural Equation Modeling, time series, among others. Y Delphine Sophie Courvoisier spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3500 Psychological Science: Talking Points Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A graduate companion course to "Psychological Science," which explores the theories and controversies in greater depth. Topics include genetics, evolution, cognitive neuroscience, perception, development, consciousness, social psychology, personality, psychopathology, violence, sex, and morality. Enrollment is limited to teaching fellows for "The Human Mind" and graduate students who have obtained the permission of the instructor. Y Steven Pinker fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3550 Teaching Psychology Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Limited to and required of Sophomore Tutors. Y Daniel Schacter Daniel Schacter fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3555 Instructional Styles in Psychology Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Normally required of and limited to department graduate students who are first-time teaching fellows. Y Jesse Snedeker James Sidanius fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3600 The Origins of Knowledge: Talking Points Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Graduate companion course to Origins of Knowledge, which explores the theories and controversies in greater depth. Topics include the evolutionary, cultural, and ontogenetic origins of representational capacities, including space, number, objects, agents, language, and intuitive theories. Limited to students in the Psychology Department or to those who have obtained permission of the instructor. Y Susan Carey Elizabeth Spelke fall term; repeated spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3610 Leadership and Group Behavior: Research Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Workshop on theory and methods that are relevant to the conduct of empirical research on purposive groups. Participation is restricted to students who are conducting such research. Y Richard Hackman Richard Hackman fall term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3800 Psychometric Theory Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Covers basic psychometric theory and methods essential for reliable and valid measurement. Also covers conceptual issues in the assessment of individual differences (e.g., intelligence, personality). Limited to Harvard graduate students in clinical psychology. Y Richard J. McNally spring term Department of Psychology Psychology Psychology 3900 Professional Ethics Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Examines ethical principles and legal issues involved in the practice of psychology, with an emphasis on clinical psychology. Covers ethical principles and code of conduct; uses case examples to highlight the application of these principles. Limited to graduate students. Y Jill M. Hooley fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies - East Asia Regional Studies - East Asia Regional Studies _ East Asia 399 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Candidates for the A.M. degree in Regional Studies-East Asia may undertake reading and research in an approved area of their choice under the direction of a member of the Faculty. Permission of the faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies of the RSEA program required. Only one course graded SAT/UNSAT may be used to fulfill the RSEA course requirement. Y fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Catalan Ba Introduction to Catalan Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introductory course in spoken and written Catalan, the language of approximately ten million people in Spain, France, Italy, and Andorra, and the most widely used of minoritized languages in Europe today. Native Catalan speakers include Antonio Gaudi, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Merce Rodoreda, and Pau Casals. Emphasizing oral communication, reading, and writing, offers students contact with contemporary Catalan culture. Conducted in Catalan. Knowledge of another Romance language is useful but not essential. May be taken Pass/Fail by undergraduates or Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. N Brad Epps spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Catalan 20 Catalan Language and Culture: a Multimedia Approach Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., 3-4:30 Bradley S. Epps and members of the Department Intermediate course introducing students to Catalan culture and boosting their oral and written skills through a wide range of resources, such as Internet, television, radio, and press. Students will get a taste of various aspects of Catalan culture: art, cinema, music, literature, traditions, cuisine, history, and more. Catalan Ba, basic knowledge of Catalan, or permission of course head. Conducted in Catalan. May be taken Pass/Fail by undergraduates or Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. N Brad Epps fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Catalan 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses. May be used for further language study after Catalan Ax or Ba. Y Brad Epps Brad Epps fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French Aa Beginning French I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This elementary French course provides an introduction to French with emphasis on interpersonal communication and the interpretation and production of language in written and oral forms. Students engage in interactive communicative activities, both online and in the classroom, that provide rich exposure to the French and francophone language and culture. The course addresses the theme of identity through engagement in the discussion and interpretation of various French and francophone texts, images, films, and songs. French Aa is an elementary French course for students with little or no knowledge of French. French Aa may count toward the language requirement. Open to students who have not previously studied French or who have scored below 300 on the Harvard placement exam. Students who have studied French for two years or more in secondary school must begin at French Ab or higher. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Graduate students at GSAS may take the course Sat/Unsat with permission of course head. Section on-line on the French Aa iSite. N Nicole Mills Nicole Mills fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French Ab Beginning French II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course As the second course in the Elementary French sequence, students will engage in an online simulation of life in Paris while exploring Parisian cultural identity through the interpretation and analysis of French texts, images, film, paintings, articles, and songs. Students will actively engage in oral and written communication in the past, present, and future and learn to make suggestions, express emotions, express opinions, extend invitations, give advice, and express hypothetical situations. Completion of French Aa, or a score no lower than 301 and no higher than 450 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test. French Ab may count towards the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Graduate students at the GSAS may take the course Sat/Unsat with the permission of course head. Section on-line on the French Ab iSite. N Nicole Mills Nicole Mills fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French Acd Intensive Beginning French: Special Course Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course This intensive Beginning French course provides an accelerated introduction to Beginning French with intensive work on interpersonal communication and interpreting and producing language in written and oral forms. Students explore diverse facets of Parisian identity through the interpretation of various texts, films, and images. Students learn to speak and write in the past, present, and future, make descriptions, ask questions, make comparisons, accept and refuse invitations, give advice, and express hypothetical situations, emotions, and opinions. An advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language but no previous study of French. May not be used to fulfill the language requirement and may not be taken Pass/Fail or Sat/Unsat. Limited enrollment. Students must participate in an individual interview with the French Acd course head and receive permission to enroll in the course. The on-line request form is available on the French Acd iSite and must be submitted by August 24, 2011 (Fall Term) and December 1, 2011 (Spring Term). Y Nicole Mills Nicole Mills fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French Ax Reading Modern French Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to reading and translating modern French texts for students who require only a basic knowledge of French for research purposes. French Ax presents the principle structures of French grammar in a systematic and coherent manner and, at the same time, makes reading and translation assignments as discipline-specific as possible for each student's needs. Some previous study of a Romance language helpful but not necessary. Fluency in English required. Conducted in English. Not open to students with a score of 500 or above on the Harvard Placement Test or the SAT II French test, to those with more than one year of undergraduate French, or to auditors. May not be used to fulfill the language requirement and may not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. See details and section on-line on the French Ax website. N Stacey Katz Bourns Stacey Katz Bourns fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French C Intermediate French Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course French C is an intermediate language course that emphasizes speaking, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and a full grammar review. Students also become familiar with contemporary France and francophone culture and literature through a variety of texts, films, and multimedia resources. A score no lower than 451 and no higher than 600 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement Test; 3 years of French in high school; French A, Ab, Acd, or Bab; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. May count toward the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the French C website. N Carole Bergin Carole Bergin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 30 Advanced Language Review Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Comprehensive review of French grammar and intensive vocabulary building combined with a focus on French and francophone literature and culture. Students will also fine-tune their oral language skills through a more advanced study of pronunciation, grammar and discourse strategies, while discussing and debating topics of current interest. A score no lower than 601 and no higher than 680 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; French C, Ca, Cb; or 25; or permission of course head Conducted in French. May not be audited or taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. See details and section on-line on the French 30 website. N Carole Bergin Carole Bergin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 40 Upper-level French I: Language and Culture Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced French language and culture course designed to enhance all language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) through the use of authentic materials and a focus on French-speaking cultures. The course also includes grammar review and vocabulary building. Consult course website for current semester topics. French 30, 681-720 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the French 40 website. N Marat Sanatullov Marat Sanatullov fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 50 Upper-level French II: Language and Culture Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A continuation of French 40. This course will build on the reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills acquired in French 40 and further students' understanding of French-speaking cultures through the use of a variety of authentic materials. The course also includes grammar review and vocabulary building. Consult course website for current semester topics. French 40; a score of 721-750 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. Students may take no more than two courses numbered in the 50s. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the French 50 website. N Marat Sanatullov Marat Sanatullov spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 55 Business French Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Designed for students working or traveling for business in French-speaking countries. Through audiovisual materials, the Internet, and the French press, students become familiar with the current business and economic climate in France and find out about practices, customs, and "intangibles" that make French businesses different from their American counterparts. Those enrolled may take the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry exams and obtain an official diploma attesting to their proficiency in French. A score of 721-750 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; French 40 or 50; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. May not be audited or taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Students may take no more than two courses numbered in the 50s. See details and section on-line on the French 55 website. N Carole Bergin fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 59 French and the Community Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced French language course, where students will explore Haitian culture in the classroom and in the community: in class through a variety of texts and media, in their community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and better cultural understanding. Students will be placed with community organizations within the Greater Boston area to teach French to Haitian-American children. Introduces students to some methodology for teaching a foreign language. French 40 or 50; a placement score of 721-750 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Interested students must apply in writing no later than August 29, 2011 to Carole Bergin. More information can be found on the French 59 website. Students may take no more than two courses numbered in the 50s. N Carole Bergin fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 61 a Classicism and Modernity: An Introduction to Performance Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Is classical theater the "other" of modern drama? What links our expectations as spectators today to the heroes, plots, and audience of the past? We focus on famous French playwrights of both the 17th (Moliere, Corneille, Racine) and the 20th-21st centuries (Sartre, Badiou, Largarce, N'Diaye) to consider the relationships between modernity and classicism. Special emphasis paid to the ideological power of images through theatrical workshops. The final project consists of an excerpt to be performed. French 50 or another French course at the 50 level; 751-780 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted entirely in French. May not be taken for credit by students who have previously taken French 48b. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Interested students are required to apply in writing to Professor Guyot no later than August 29, 2011. Students may take no more than two courses at the 60-level in French. Y Sylvaine Guyot fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 61 d Argumentation: Language and Debate Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course is designed to improve students' reading, writing, speaking, listening, and analytical skills. It focuses on different modes of proposing, furthering, and refuting points of view. To this end, it concentrates on both theoretical and practical approaches to argumentation. It will also focus on developing students' linguistic and grammatical skills while applying this knowledge to discussions and debates about important contemporary French issues. French 50 or another French course at the 50-level; 751-780 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test; or permission of the course head. Conducted entirely in French. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Students may take no more than two courses at the 60-level (not including French 60). Y Stacey Katz Bourns spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 61 h Being French: Historical and Societal Considerations Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 This course examines the concept of a "French identity" from the principles of the Enlightenment to the contemporary debates and political controversies about national identity. Through the exploration of historical, literary, sociological and philosophical texts, as well as film and multimedia resources, we will focus on individuals, symbolic places, ideological discourses and narratives that have contributed to the formation and questioning of a French national identity. French 50 or another French course at the 50 level; 751-780 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted entirely in French. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Students may take no more than two courses at the 60-level in French. Y Stacey Katz Bourns spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 61 m Modern Stories about Paris Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course examines contemporary narratives set in Paris. Students explore writers' and filmmakers' perceptions of Paris and analyze the different ways in which the Parisian experience is presented. By reading and viewing stories about Paris, students gain insights into methods of narration and integrate various techniques into their own writing and speaking. They also develop a sophisticated understanding of how the French language is evolving, especially in its spoken form. French 50 or another French course at the 50 level; 751-780 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Students may take no more than two courses at the 60 level (not including French 60). Not open to students who have already taken French 51. Y Stacey Katz Bourns spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 70 a Introduction to French Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Modernity Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Readings and discussion of texts of various genres representative of central trends in French literature from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Emphasis on developing analytical skills by tracing the transformations of ethical, literary, philosophical and social currents. A 50- or 60-level course in French; a score above 780 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; equivalent preparation; or permission of course head. Conducted in French. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Sylvaine Guyot fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 70 b Introduction to French Literature II. 19th and 20th Centuries: Moving and Shaking Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Significant texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examined in the light of close reading and analysis, with a focus on the significant role played by mobility in the modern world: the wanderer, the emigre, the exile, the hysteric, the itinerant actress, in addition to more socially acceptable travelers: explorers and bourgeois tourists. We'll discuss the evolution, fragmentation, and reinvention of literary forms to correspond to a rapidly modernizing world. A 50- or 60-level course in French; a score above 780 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test, equivalent preparation, or permission of course head. Conducted in French; third hour devoted to discussion of texts studied. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Janet L. Beizer spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 70 c Introduction to French Literature III: The Francophone World Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Studies literature and film from the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the French West Indies. Focuses on politics and aesthetics in relation to colonization, diaspora, cultural identities and metissage as well as the creation of new existential and political spaces. A 50- or 60-level course in French; a score above 780 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test, equivalent preparation, or permission of course head. Conducted in French. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Verena Conley fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 90 f Beyond France: Transnational Francophone Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 Examines networks of transnational movement and exchange outside the French "center" in recent francophone works from Algeria, Haiti, Lebanon, Quebec, and Vietnam. We will investigate questions of identity and difference, language and translation, community and conflict, displacement and homecoming. A French course at the 60- or 70-level, 800 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test, or permission of course head. Conducted entirely in French. Y Francois Proulx fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in French for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Y Sylvaine Guyot Sylvaine Guyot spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 97 Tutorial-Sophomore Year: The Politics of Poetics: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tu., Th., at 12 Alice Jardine An introduction to literary and cultural interpretation as it has evolved in French Studies since WWII. Our conversations will be structured around rigorous analysis of key literary works in relation to literary theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and politics. Required of concentrators in French and Francophone Studies in their sophomore year. May also be taken as the Sophomore Tutorial by concentrators in Romance Studies. Open to non-concentrators with permission of course head. Y Alice Jardine fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in French and Francophone Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in French. Successful completion of one term of French 98 or equivalent is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in French and Francophone Studies. Y Sylvaine Guyot Sylvaine Guyot full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Weekly individual instruction for students writing a senior thesis. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of French 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who do not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Sylvaine Guyot Sylvaine Guyot fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 114 Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus: French Arthurian Texts from the 12th to the 16th Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We study the evolution of French Arthurian romance, from the first 12th-century texts featuring Arthur and his court (Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Beroul), to the huge 13th-century prose cycles linking classical Arthurian themes to the Holy Grail motif, to various 14th and 15th-century rewritings, such as the "prequel" Perceforest, and ultimately to Rabelais and the last Arthurian fireworks of the 16th century (Sala, Maugin, and reprints of "old books"). Conducted in French. N Anne Berthelot spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 132 b 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What are some alternatives to (or subversions of) realism in fiction? We will examine four major experimental currents or movements in 20th-century imaginative writing: Surrealism, the nouveau roman, the Oulipo, and ecriture feminine, as well as some more recent writing. Discussion of works by Breton, Bataille, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Queneau, Perec, Duras, Wittig, Cixous, Houellebecq, and others, as well as selected critical essays. Conducted in French. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Susan R. Suleiman spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 143 Vision and Violence in 17th Century France Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores early modern ways of depicting and showing violence (physical, political, domestic, supernatural). The spectacle of violence represents a site of cultural conflict during the 17th century, since it implies both the pleasure taken by the viewer and the risk of imitation. Readings include plays, tragic histories, utopian and travel literature, historical and theoretical texts (Foucault, Ranciere, Marin, Elias, Lyotard), and the analysis of images (paintings, frontispieces). Conducted entirely in French. N Sylvaine Guyot spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 157 The Hermaphroditic Imagination Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course While official scientific and social positions in the nineteenth century uphold rigid distinctions between women and men, the imaginary life of the period is haunted by the hermaphrodite and other figures that play on the margins of sexual division, challenging the separation of the spheres. We'll read and discuss hermaphroditic fictions chosen from Balzac, George Sand, Gautier, Flaubert, Zola, and Rachilde. Conducted in French. N Janet L. Beizer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 167 Parisian Cityscapes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the rapid urbanization of Paris from World War II to the present by means of fiction, films and critical essays. Investigates how the Americanization of France, decolonization, immigration, globalization and the European Union continue to restructure the city with repercussions on its social, political, and artistic life. Readings and viewings include: Assayas, Allouache, Barthes, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Cantet, Godard, Kassovitz, Kechiche, Maspero, Perec, Rochefort, Ross, Truffaut, Varda, Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. Conducted in French. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Verena Conley fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 180 "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Motherhood, romantic love, independence, sexuality, citizenship, fantasy, death: these are just some of the themes explored in women's novels, written in French, in the twentieth century. We will read eight novels together, exploring how they have finally become classics, even given what they say about life and what it means for women to write about it. N Alice Jardine spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 184 Cinema and the auteur Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies development of auteur theory in French film and criticism. Readings include Cahiers du cinema, Bazin, Deleuze, Godard, and Foucault. Viewings include Renoir, American and Italian auteurs, and post-new wave cinemas. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Tom Conley spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 188 They Write in French from Egypt, Lebanon, and the Maghreb: Feminine Voices Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the multifaceted and polyphonic presence on the literary landscape of French expression, of women writers from North Africa, Egypt and Lebanon, whose writings are a continued dialogue between feminist and gender theory, western feminine literature, the defense of the cultural particularities of their regions, and transnationalism. Works by Assia Djebar, Zahia Rahmani, Maissa Bey, Leila Marouane, Venus Khoury-Gata, Andree Chedid, Soumya Ammar Khodja, Evelyne Accad, Therese Aouad-Basbous. Conducted in French. N Mylene Priam spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 190 Albert Camus Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of Camus's writings as a journalist, playwright, novelist and political thinker, and of the controversies in which he was involved (the fate of Algeria, the occupation and liberation of France, relations with Catholics, Camus's anticommunism, the Camus-Sartre clash). The tension between his art and his commitments, as well as his influence during and after his life will be examined. Conducted in French. N Stanley Hoffmann fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 200 Language, Literature, Style Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Includes readings of modern (e.g. Jakobson, Benveniste, Ducros, Austin) and pre-modern (e.g. Aristotle, Augustine, Abelard, Dante) criticism, and analyses of passages from French literary texts from the ninth century to the present. Conducted in French. Required of all graduate students in French. N Virginie Greene fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 225 How to Read Theater. History of Drama/Theories of Representation Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines French drama from the early-modern stage to post-dramatic theater from literary, theoretical, historical, and visual culture perspectives. We read dramatic texts (16th-21st century), theories of performance, visual sources, treatises on acting. Conducted in French. N Sylvaine Guyot spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 242 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course On the tercentenary anniversary of Rousseau's birth, what are the significance and importance of his work today (community, freedom, peace)? Readings include the Second Discourse, the Social Contract, Emile, Nouvelle Heloise, and the Confessions. An excellent reading knowledge of French. The language of class discussion will be determined. N Christie McDonald Stanley Hoffmann spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 252 Sounds of Silence: Balzac and Sand Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Silence, feared and revered by literature as its ambiguous dark double (mirror of potential textual dissolution or self-transcendence), is never far from the text. We'll explore silence as it haunts the most loquacious nineteenth-century texts. Conducted in French. N Janet L. Beizer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 257 Houses of Fiction: Zola Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course How does naturalism produce domestic space? Zola's physical and psychological enclosures include the home, but also houses (of prostitution, commerce, worship, prison houses, madhouses...) that subvert the sanctity of bourgeois home and hearth. Conducted in French. N Janet L. Beizer spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 271 Legacies of Post-structuralism: Politics and Aesthetics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focuses on French post-structural thinkers writing today: Nancy, Ranciere, Balibar, Badiou. Examines how post-structuralism has evolved to deal with current issues such as cosmopolitanism, migrations, technologies, others. Uses theoretical inquiries, literary texts, film. N Verena Conley fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 320 French Literature: Supervised Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Janet L. Beizer Janet L. Beizer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures French 330 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian Aa Beginning Italian I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with little or no knowledge of Italian. Aims at achieving basic communication skills and vocabulary. Emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension. The cultural component examines everyday life in comparative perspective. Course materials include workbook, audio-lab, and video. Conducted in Italian. Students whose placement score does not entitle them to enter a more advanced course are assigned to Italian Aa. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Italian Aa website. N Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian Ab Beginning Italian II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Italian Aa, second semester beginning level. Increasing emphasis on reading and writing. The cultural component presents capsules on the history of Italy from the founding of Rome to Italy today, through select readings and a feature-length film. Course materials include workbook, audio-lab and video. Italian Aa, or a score of 450 or less on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test, or a score of 3 or less on the AP Italian exam, or two years of high school Italian, or permission of course head. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Italian Ab website. N Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian Acd Intensive Beginning Italian: Special Course Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course 15 A complete first-year course in one term for students with no knowledge of Italian, focused on developing all four communicative skills. Students are introduced to contemporary Italian culture through a variety of websites, films and cultural readings that present capsules on the history of Italy from the founding of Rome to Italy today. An advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language, preferably a modern Romance language, but no previous study of Italian. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Students who have not placed out of the language requirement must take one full year of a language. Italian Acd taken alone may not be used to fulfill the language requirement. However, there are ways to combine Italian Acd with another course in order to fulfill the language requirement. Consult Dr. Elvira Di Fabio or the Undergraduate Adviser in Italian for details. Conducted in Italian. Section on-line on the Italian Acd website. Y Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian Ax Reading Italian Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students (both undergraduate and graduate) with little or no knowledge of Italian. Aims at the rapid development of reading skills as a tool for research. Selections of materials in accordance with the needs of the participants. Some previous study of a Romance language helpful but not necessary. Fluency in English required. Not open to auditors. May not be used to fulfill the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Italian Ax website. N Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian C Intermediate Italian Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Revisiting structures and building reading skills. A structured review of grammar, intertwined with an introduction to popular Italian literature from comics to romance to detective stories. Course materials include multi-media projects that build on language proficiency and cultural awareness. A score of 451-600 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; Italian Ab, Acd, or Bab; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. May count toward the language requirement. May not be taken by students who have previously taken Italian Ca, Cb or Dab. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Italian C website. N Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 30 Upper-Level Italian Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Revisiting structures and refining speaking and writing skills through an arts interface. Students will work closely with the collection at the Harvard Art Museum for assignments that build on receptive and productive communicative skills. Course materials may include films, popular music, operatic libretti and literary texts. Consult course website for current semester topics. Italian C, Ca, Cb, or Dab; a score of 601-680 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. May not be taken by students who have previously taken Italian 35 or 36. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. See details and section on-line on the Italian 30 website. N Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 40 Advanced Oral Expression. Ciak, si parla! Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students develop oral expression and communication skills through the close reading of texts that are meant for performance, such as plays, film scripts, poetry, music. Variation in diction and presentation techniques culminates in the adaptation and production of one or more of these texts for a public performance at the end of the term. Consult course website for current semester topics. A score of 681-720 on the SAT II or the Harvard Placement Test; Italian 30, 35 or 36; equivalent preparation; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Appropriate for concentrators electing the Italian Studies or Romance Studies track. Section on-line on the Italian 40 website. N Elvira G. DiFabio Elvira G. DiFabio spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 50 Advanced Written Expression. Italia scritta e descritta Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A theme-based course designed to develop advanced competence in written expression through guided examination of stylistics and pragmatics. The course includes readings from a variety of literary genres, films, workshops, and a series of guest lectures by our faculty on design, women and society, cinema, fiction, and other subjects. Consult the course website for current semester topics. A score between 721-750 on the SAT II or on the Harvard Placement Test; Italian 40; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. Appropriate for concentrators electing the Italian Studies or Romance Studies track. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Italian 50 website. N Maria Grazia Lolla fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in Italian for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Y Giuliana Minghelli Giuliana Minghelli spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 96 r Italian and the Community: Italy. Academic Internships in Italian Language and Culture Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An opportunity to engage in the practical applications of Italian language and culture in an immersion environment. Internships may include placement in a variety of sectors, including public education, the media and the arts. Consent of course head. Though academic internships may be arranged in the Greater Boston area, this course can be proposed as integral to a study abroad program in Italy, the details of which are to be coordinated in consultation with the course head and the Office of International Programs. Students are expected to produce substantial research papers based on relevant class work and field placements. The student, under the guidance of faculty and study abroad advisers, is responsible for arranging the terms of the internship. Hours may be subject to change to accommodate scheduling conflicts. Y Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in Italian Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in Italian. Successful completion of one term of Italian 98 (or equivalent) is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in Italian Studies. Y Giuliana Minghelli Giuliana Minghelli full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Weekly individual instruction for students writing a senior thesis in Italian. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of Italian 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who do not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Giuliana Minghelli Giuliana Minghelli fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 102 Italian Pop: Comics, Mass Media, Folk Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Italian popular culture through songs, TV shows, comics, popular films and fiction. We will discover and analyze competing inscriptions of "Italianness" and the ongoing creation of their meaning over the past half-century. We will read texts in the socio-historical context of the miracolo economico of the early sixties, the political upheaval of the late sixties and seventies, the riflusso of the eighties, the political glasnost of the nineties, up to contemporary times. Italian 50; a score above 750 on the SAT II test or the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. Appropriate for concentrators in the Italian Studies and Romance Studies tracks, as well as for students pursuing a secondary field in Italian. N Giuliana Minghelli spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 103 Italian Travels Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An exploration of the identities of Italy through travel, including that of Italians living abroad and non-Italians in contemporary Italy. Students will investigate these issues from a wide variety of sources, including literary and historical voyages, sociological texts, news reports and feature films. Frequent oral and written assignments. Italian 50; a score above 750 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement test; or permission of course head. Conducted in Italian. Appropriate for concentrators in the Italian Studies and Romance Studies tracks, as well as for students pursuing a secondary field in Italian. N Elvira G. DiFabio spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 116 Visions of the Renaissance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the one hundred years that changed the world. Each week the analysis of a visual image introduces the class to a text and a concept. Readings include Machiavelli, Castiglione, Michelangelo, Vasari, Galileo. Conducted in English and Italian. N Francesco Erspamer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 131 The Cosmos of the Comedy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture course provides an in-depth introduction to Dante Alighieri's 14th-century masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, from the standpoint of its sustained dialogue with some of the most influential epic poems from Roman antiquity: Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Statius's Thebaid, and Lucan's Pharsalia. One of the course's highlights is a multimedia web-based competition in which all enrolled students compete for the annual Bedeviled Harvard prize. Conducted in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Jeffrey Schnapp spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 136 Cultural Migrations Between Africa and Italy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From the novels of Emilio Salgari, written at the height of the Italian colonial adventure, to the comics of Hugo Pratt and postmodern films of Pasolini and Antonioni, this course will investigate the representation of Africa in Italian culture. And reversing the gaze, what is the image of Italy in the texts of recent African immigrant writers? Reading knowledge of Italian. Conducted in Italian or English, depending on class composition. N Giuliana Minghelli fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 151 Women of Modern Italy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Women in Italy during the Risorgimento and Fascism. The course will look at how women were represented in melodrama, literature, the figurative arts, the social sciences, manuals of conduct, and legal texts, as well as how women imagined and shaped their world as writers, artists, workers, entrepreneurs, cultural agents, and political activists. Conducted in Italian. N Maria Grazia Lolla spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 155 Boccaccio and/on Authority (Latin to Vernacular, Vernacular to Latin) Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course provides an in-depth survey of Giovanni Boccaccio's experiments in a range of genres from epic to elegy, narrative to allegory, geography to mythography. It emphasizes the question of the relation between vernacular and Latin models of authorship and Boccaccio's engagement with both ancient and contemporary sources. Conducted in Italian or English, depending on class composition. Readings available in the original Italian and Latin or in English translation. N Jeffrey Schnapp fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 161 Italy in Motion: Cinema, History and National Identity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What is the relation between cinema and nationhood? How do the communities imagined on the screen actively fashion a national identity? The tensions, distortions, and conflicts between the history of Italy-the Risorgimento, the experience of emigration, the First World War, the Resistance and il miracolo economico-and "historical" films like Cabiria, Senso, Rome Open City, The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers, and 1900 will open a space of critical debate concerning our notion of Italy. Conducted in English. N Giuliana Minghelli spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 166 Italian Modernisms Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In what sense can we speak of an Italian Modernism? Starting with the impact of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud, the course will examine the Italian position within the Modernist project through key disruptive texts, from Svevo and Pirandello to Futurism and De Chirico. Topics discussed will include: the questioning of artistic categories; the relation between high and low culture; the emergence of a contaminated/gendered subject; the impact of technology on perception and writing. Conducted in Italian. N Giuliana Minghelli spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 182 The Fantastic: Marvelous, Magic, and Uncanny in Italian Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Starting with Dante's descent to hell on the back of Gerione and with Ariosto's ascent to the moon on the hippogryph, we explore the notion of the fantastic in Italian culture. The Gothic short story, the uncanny worlds of Buzzati and Landolfi, Calvino's postmodern knights, and Benni's science fiction show how fantastic literature defamiliarizes and questions the "laws" of verisimilitude, mapping new territories between utopia and dystopia, suspended at the border of the unconscious. Conducted in Italian or English, depending on class composition. N Giuliana Minghelli spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 201 r Italian Studies Colloquium Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Current scholars in the field of Italian Studies present their most recent works on literature, art and architecture, history, and the social sciences. Conducted in Italian and English. N Francesco Erspamer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 320 Italian Literature: Supervised Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Italian 330 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Studies 70 Modernity, Culture and Politics in Latin America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduces students to central debates and problems that have shaped Latin American culture. We address questions of cultural identity, gender, race, politics, and aesthetics by looking at historical and literary texts, films, visual arts and urban development from an interdisciplinary perspective. We analyze colonial encounters; revolutions from Mexico to Cuba; US-Latin American relations; popular cultures from tango and samba to football and carnaval; Latin American cities and slums; and memory, trauma and traces of dictatorships. Conducted in Spanish. Readings in Spanish and English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. N Mariano Siskind fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Studies 90 b Gender, Writing, and Subalternity in the Americas Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Hours to be arranged Jose Rabasa This course will explore the relationship between gender and writing in the context of the Americas. We read testimonials by women from seven different regions: Bolivia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, Argentina, and US Latinas. Conducted in English or Spanish N Jose Rabasa fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. N Doris Sommer Doris Sommer fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Studies 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in Latin American Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in either Spanish or Portuguese. Successful completion of one term of Latin American Studies 98 (or equivalent) is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in Latin American Studies in their junior year. Y Doris Sommer Doris Sommer full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Studies 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Weekly individual instruction for honors seniors writing a thesis. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of Latin American Studies 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Doris Sommer Doris Sommer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese Aa Beginning Portuguese I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introductory course designed to introduce the student with little or no knowledge of the language to the Portuguese-speaking world. Focuses on fundamental communication skills -- listening, speaking, reading, and writing -- and, at the same time, provides exposure to Portuguese-speaking cultures through media broadcasts, literature, films, music, and videos. Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line on the Portuguese Aa website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese Ab Beginning Portuguese II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is a continuation of Portuguese Aa. By the end of the course, students should be able to communicate with native speakers about a wide range of topics, and they should have acquired insights into basic elements of Luso-Brazilian culture. Portuguese Aa or permission of course head. Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken SAT/UNSAT by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line on the Portuguese Ab website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese Ac Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introductory language course designed for Spanish-speakers. Along with the fundamental communication skills-understanding, speaking, reading and writing-the course will focus on those features of Portuguese which are most difficult for Spanish speakers: pronunciation, idioms and grammatical structures particular to Portuguese. Students will be introduced to the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world through readings and authentic materials, including films, music, and videotapes. 750 on the Spanish SAT II or the Harvard Placement test; 5 on the Spanish AP test; or a 40s level Spanish course. Conducted in Portuguese. Requires a solid knowledge of but not necessarily native proficiency in Spanish. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line on the Portuguese Ac website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese Ad Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A continuation of Portuguese Ac. By the end of the second term, students should be able to communicate easily with native speakers and be acquainted with basic elements of Luso-Brazilian culture. Portuguese Ac or permission of course head. Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line on the Portuguese Ad website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese Ba Introduction to Portuguese Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A basic introductory course for students who can devote only one term to the study of Portuguese. Teaches fundamental communication skills-understanding, speaking, reading and writing-but does not offer a complete study of grammar. Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line on the Portuguese Ba website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese C Intermediate Portuguese Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An intermediate course for students interested in expanding and strengthening their Portuguese language skills. Reading, writing, and conversational competency is emphasized through the study of the Luso-African-Brazilian cultures. The course aims to promote cross-cultural understanding through the use of authentic materials such as literary texts, multimedia, film, music, and videos. Portuguese Ab, Ad, or permission of course head. Conducted in Portuguese. Recommended for students who wish to improve their ability to speak and write Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Section on-line on the Portuguese Ca website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 37 Brasil hoje: Contemporary Brazilian Culture through Media Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Engages in systematic grammar review, along with practice in writing and vocabulary enrichment, while examining contemporary Brazil as presented in Portuguese-language press, television, literature, and film. Analyzes the ways Brazilians and non-Brazilians construct different and conflicting images of Brazil and "Brazilianness." Issues of race relations, national identity, ethnicity, and gender addressed. Discussions based on historical and literary texts, advertisements, films, videotapes of Brazilian television, and current issues of newspapers and magazines. Portuguese C, S-Dx, or permission of course head. Conducted in Portuguese. Not open to auditors. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 44 Images of Brazil: Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines major Brazilian films in their historical, political, and social context. Class discussion also focuses on documentaries, reviews, and critical articles. In-depth textual and grammatical analysis, vocabulary building, reflections on the similarities and differences of the oral and written Portuguese will lead students to achieve a high level of competency. Portuguese C, 37, or permission of course head. Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Portuguese 44 website. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 59 Portuguese and the Community Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced language course examining the Luso-African-Brazilian experience in the US. Promotes community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Students will be placed with Boston-area community organizations and agencies. Class work focuses on readings and films by and about Luso-African-Brazilians and specific uses of Portuguese language from these communities. Authors include D. Macedo, Braga Martes, Margolis, Sales, Albues, and Villas Boas. Portuguese 37, 44 or a score of 100 on the Harvard Placement Test. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 61 The Portuguese-Speaking World via the Performing Arts: The Interspaces of Language and Culture in Brazil and Beyond Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course uses the performing arts as a point of departure for cultural and linguistic development. It includes lectures by scholars who present Lusophone cultures through visual media, plays, poetry, and interviews. Class discussions and student presentations serve as a basis for journal entries, essay writing, and performance. Grammar review and stylistic analysis are included throughout the course. Portuguese 37, 44, or permission of course head. N Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not covered in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Y Clemence M Jouet-Pastre Clemence M Jouet-Pastre spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 97 Tutorial-Sophomore Year: Brazilian Poetry and the Making of the Literary Canon Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The course will introduce students to the discussion of what constitutes a literary canon and how this discussion unfolded in Brazil. We will examine both the major works that belong to the official canon and the ones that were rejected including key literary pieces by Afro-Brazilians. Our discussions will be structured both around the rigorous analysis of classical pieces by literary critics that established the canon, and close readings of literary texts. Conducted in Portuguese. Successful completion of Portuguese 97 is required of all concentrators in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in their sophomore year. May also be taken as the Sophomore Tutorial by concentrators in Latin American Studies and Romance Studies. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Y Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in Portuguese. Successful completion of Portuguese 98 (or equivalent) is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in Portuguese-Brazilian Studies. To enroll see course head. Y Clemence M Jouet-Pastre Clemence M Jouet-Pastre full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of one term of Portuguese 99 is required of all honors concentrators. To enroll, see course head. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of Portuguese 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who do not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Clemence M Jouet-Pastre Clemence M Jouet-Pastre fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 142 Introduction to Eca de Queiroz Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Portugal's most distinguished novelist, Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900), known as Eca de Queiroz, was equally remarkable as a short story writer, memoirist, literary critic, journalist, and epistolographer. This course is an introduction to representative examples of Eca's accomplishments in each of these genres and features a close reading of his masterpiece novel published in 1888, Os Maias. Conducted in Portuguese. N Joaquim F. Coelho spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 145 Transatlantic Africa and Brazil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the transatlantic enterprise between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. We will scrutinize the historical and imaginative encounters with Africa and Brazil from the Middle Ages to Brazilian Romanticism. Topics include oceanic empire, monsters, shipwreck, cannibalism, the Atlantic slave trade, and debates on the African and Brazilian/New World indigene. Authors include Aristotle, Pliny, Zurara, Alvaro Velho, Caminha, Las Casas, Camoes, and Castro Alves, as well as contemporary critics. Conducted in English. A reading knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish helpful but not required. N Josiah Blackmore spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 179 Forms of Disbelonging: Contemporary Brazilian Aesthetics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Literary explorations that juxtapose fiction and photography, images, memories, autobiographies, blogs, chats and email texts, as well as essay and documentary texts bearing witness to a new testimonial condition, are now everywhere. By analyzing recent Brazilian aesthetic practices in dialogue with other Latin American works, we will explore the numerous transgressions, expansions and crossovers in contemporary Latin American aesthetics. We will read and analyze works by Ramos, Carvalho, Noll, Azevedo, Bellatin, and Eltit, among others. Conducted in Portuguese N Florencia Garramuno fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 219 Famous Poems of the Portuguese Language Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Continues the study of the major lyrical texts of the Portuguese language, from medieval times to the present, began in Portuguese 218. Emphasis on poetry written in Portugal and Brazil after 1900. Conducted in Portuguese. N Joaquim F. Coelho spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 228 Books and Borders Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A study of cultural and literary orthodoxies and their transgression in manuscript and print book cultures from the medieval era to colonial Latin America, including the role of censorship and the Inquisition. Conducted in Portuguese. N Josiah Blackmore fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 261 Questions of the National, the Transnational and the Post-National in Brazilian Literature and Culture Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Focusing on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, the course will analyze the successive waves of technological transformation which impacted the Brazilian economy, society, and culture, engulfing it in the ongoing streams of globalization. N Nicolau Sevcenko spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 320 Supervised Reading and Research in Iberian Literature Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Subject and hours to be determined and arranged with students. Y Joaquim F. Coelho fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 321 Literature of Brazil: Supervised Reading and Research Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Joaquim F. Coelho Nicolau Sevcenko Nicolau Sevcenko fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Portuguese 330 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 79 Romance Languages and Cultures in Comparative Perspective Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Highlights of the similarities and differences among the Romance languages, beginning with an overview of the historical development of the Romance languages from Latin, and moving on to the comparison of linguistic identifiers of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; may also include a discussion of Catalan. Topics will cover comparative phonology, morphology, and syntax, as well as some cross-cultural experiences such as immigration and translation. Advanced proficiency in one of the Romance Languages, or permission of the course head. Conducted in English; texts in original and in translation. May not be taken by RLL graduate students to fulfill the history of the language requirement. N Elvira G. DiFabio fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research in subjects not treated in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in Romance Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Y Brad Epps Brad Epps fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in Romance Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in a Romance language. Successful completion of one term of Romance Studies 98 (or equivalent) is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in Romance Studies in their junior year. Y Brad Epps Brad Epps full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Weekly individual instruction for students writing a senior thesis in Romance Studies. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of Romance Studies 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who do not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Brad Epps Brad Epps spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 109 The Global Game: Soccer, Politics, and Popular Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Soccer is not only the sport of the world, but a most socially significant practice. In Latin America and Europe it is a staple feature of popular culture, closely connected with national politics. The course will make use of filmic, visual, literary, theoretical, and historical materials to analyze the relationship of soccer to social movements, colonialism, violence, gender, architecture, music, and the star system (Pele, Maradona, Zidane, Totti, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi). An excellent reading knowledge of at least one Romance language. Conducted in English. N Francesco Erspamer Mariano Siskind fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 157 Italian Futurism and European Avant-Gardes, 1900-1945 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course addresses Italian avant-garde in the European context from 1900-1945. It offers an introduction to Italian Futurism, De Chirico's metaphysical paintings, Bontempelli's magic realism, and Italian art and literature under the fascist regime. We reflect upon issues such as the interpretation of art and literature, canon formation, national tradition, cultural identity, and the links between culture and politics. Conducted in English. N Beatrice Sica spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 191 Crowds Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This digital humanities seminar explores the place of multitudes in the Western cultural and socio-political imagination between 1789 and the present, whether from the standpoint of theorizations of the collectivity (Lombroso, Tarde, Le Bon, Sighele, Freud, Ortega, Canetti, Negri) or from that of visual or literary imaginings (Guys, Ensor, Carra, Rodchenko, Sironi, Krueger; Baudelaire, Valera, Manzoni, Zola, D'Annunzio, Marinetti). Assignments include writing semantic histories and curatorial oversight over a digital gallery. Open to graduate students and to advanced undergraduates. Conducted in English. N Jeffrey Schnapp fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 201 Approaches to Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Department specialists address major topics in literary/cultural theory: formalism; semiotics; structuralism; post-structuralism; Marxism; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; cultural, post-colonial, feminist, and queer studies. Emphasis on theoretical canons, disciplinary controversies, and intersections among the disciplines. Conducted in English. Required of all graduate students in Romance Languages and Literatures. N Christie McDonald fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 205 Aesthetics and Innovation Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Art doesn't simply mean beauty: it is a necessary tool for innovation and social change. Coordinated with Cultural Agents, this seminar shows the uses of aesthetics and art-making in medicine, law, business, policy, management. Conducted in English. Students are required to attend the lectures of Aesthetics and Interpretive Understanding 13 (Cultural Agents). N Doris Sommer Francesco Erspamer spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Studies 219 Digital Humanities 2.0: a metaLAB(at)Harvard seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar and workshop for the development of semester-long projects, the course provides an introduction to new scholarly models in the arts and humanities via readings, case studies and conversations with expert practitioners. Conducted in English. Not open to students currently enrolled in Literature 110. Y Jeffrey Schnapp fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish Aa Beginning Spanish I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A basic beginning semester course for students with no previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, while developing all four language skills. Hispanic culture will be introduced throughout and computer, video and film materials will be used. Conducted in Spanish. Open to students who have not previously studied Spanish or who have scored below 300 on the Harvard placement test. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish Aa website. Students who have studied Spanish for two years or more in secondary school must begin at Spanish Ab or higher. N Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish Ab Beginning Spanish II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with the equivalent of one semester previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, reading and writing while including Hispanic culture through contemporary texts and using computer, video and film materials. After Spanish Aa and Ab, students should be able to engage in everyday conversation with native speakers, and read straightforward texts, both fiction and non-fiction, with relative ease. A score between 301-450 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, Spanish Aa, or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish Ab website. Students who have studied Spanish for two years or more in secondary school must begin at Spanish Ab or higher. Upon the recommendation of the course head, students who have performed at a superior level in this course may enroll in any course for which they are linguistically prepared. N Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish Acd Intensive Beginning Spanish: Special Course Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For students with no previous formal training in Spanish but with competence in at least one foreign language. Emphasis on communication skills. Language instruction supplemented by cultural and literary readings and film. Not open to auditors. May not be used to fulfill the language requirement. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Interested students should contact Dr. Liander by e-mail no later than August 24, 2011 for fall term enrollment and no later than December 15, 2011 for spring term enrollment. Upon the recommendation of the course head, students who have performed at a superior level in this course may enroll in any course for which they are linguistically prepared. Y Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish Ax Reading Spanish Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to reading and translating modern Spanish texts for students who require only a basic knowledge of Spanish for research purposes. Spanish Ax presents the principal structures of Spanish grammar in a systematic and coherent manner and, at the same time, makes reading and translation assignments as discipline-specific as possible for each student's needs. Conducted in English. Not open to students with a score of 500 or above on the Harvard Placement Test or on the SAT II Spanish test, to those with more than one year of undergraduate Spanish, or to auditors. May not be used to fulfill the language requirement and may not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. N Adriana Gutierrez fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish C Intermediate Spanish Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An intermediate language and culture class that aims to consolidate and expand the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish. Includes a comprehensive review of the grammar and reinforces linguistic acquisition through texts, movies, art and multi-media projects to acquaint students with cultural issues relevant to the Spanish-speaking world. Spanish Ab, Acd, 451-600 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish C website. Upon the recommendation of the course head, students who have performed at a superior level in this course may enroll in any course for which they are linguistically prepared. N Adriana Gutierrez Adriana Gutierrez fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 30 Advanced Language Review through Literature and Culture, I Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continues to reinforce the practice of oral and written communication in Spanish through topics in contemporary cultural materials from Spain and Latin America. Students will focus on improving accuracy, refining pronunciation and developing vocabulary. In addition to in-class discussions, course work involves grammar review and practice in writing. Consult course website for current semester topics. A score between 601-680 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, Spanish C, or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish 30 website. Upon the recommendation of the course head, students who have performed at a superior level in this course may enroll in any course for which they are linguistically prepared. N Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 40 Advanced Language Review through Literature and Culture, II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced language and culture class that further develops linguistic competence using a region or regions of the Hispanic world as a focus for class discussion, grammar review, and an introduction to Hispanic social contexts and texts. Course materials may also include films, interviews, painting, photography, music, selections from the press, as well as literary or historical readings. Frequent written and oral assignments, and a thorough review of grammar. Consult course website for current semester topics. A score between 681-720 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, AP 5, Spanish 30, or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish 40 website. Upon the recommendation of the course head, students who have performed at a superior level in this course may enroll in any course for which they are linguistically prepared. N Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 50 Writing and Performance Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced language course designed to strengthen and develop competence in written expression. Close reading of texts in literary and non-literary genres will help students refine personal style. The performance of short excerpts of plays, combined with advanced work on oral expression and phonetics, will help students increase their fluency and ease of expression. A score between 721-750 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, Spanish 40, or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. Recommended for concentrators. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Spanish 50 website. N Adriana Gutierrez Adriana Gutierrez fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 59 Spanish and the Community Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An advanced language course which examines the richness and complexity of the Latino experience in the US while promoting community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Students are placed with community organizations within the Boston area and volunteer for four hours a week. Class work focuses on expanding Spanish oral and written proficiency through discussions and analysis of readings and films by and about Latinos in the US. A score between 721-750 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test, Spanish 40 or permission of course head. Interested students must apply in writing to Dr. Parra no later than August 18, 2011 for fall term enrollment and no later than January 15, 2012 for spring term enrollment. Y Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 61 a Pre-Textos: Las artes interpretan Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Texts become prompts for art-making in this class. By inspiring painting, dance, play, music, sculpture, costumes, texts lead to deep and daring interpretations. Latin American classics that might otherwise seem difficult become raw material for creativity as students stretch their command of Spanish. They learn that arts interpret and explore meanings and that theory is a user-friendly afterthought. This training prepares facilitation of Pre-Texts workshops in Boston and abroad. A score above 750 on the SAT II test or Harvard Placement test. Conducted in Spanish. Students are allowed to take a maximum of two courses at the 60-level in Spanish, not including Spanish 60. N Doris Sommer spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 61 n Advanced Spanish Language and Culture: The Ethics of Business Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An advanced language and culture class that examines literature and films portraying the political, sociological, financial and environmental impact of multinational companies doing business in Latin America. Students' linguistic competency is developed through discussion of the ethics of business, grammar reviews, and weekly writing assignments. Students will also choose a specific project for a business in Latin America and research its possible outcome and social, political, and environmental consequences. A score between 751 and 780 on the SAT II test or Harvard Placement test, a Spanish 50-level course, or permission of course head. Students are allowed to take a maximum of two courses at the 60-level in Spanish, not including Spanish 60. Interested students must apply in writing to Dr. Gutierrez no later than January 15, 2012. Y Adriana Gutierrez fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 62 Crossing Cultures: Advanced Spanish Through Translation and Creative Writing Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 15 An advanced language course designed to increase understanding of language through close readings and translations that center on Spanish 20th-century history, culture, and society. Students refine personal style and reinforce linguistic competence through discussion, creative writing exercises, and grammar reviews. Course materials include texts in literary and non-literary genres such as short stories, poems, newspaper articles, graphic novels, memoirs, travel journals, historical essays, documentaries, music lyrics, and movie scripts. A score between 751 and 780 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement test, a Spanish 50-level course, or permission of course head. Students are allowed to take a maximum of two courses at the 60-level in Spanish, not including Spanish 60. Limited Enrollment. Conducted in Spanish. Recommended for concentrators. Interested students should contact Dr. Daniel Aguirre Oteiza no later than August 26, 2011. Y Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 65 Bilingual Arts Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For heritage speakers and advanced language students, Latino literature, in the forms of poetry, narrative, theater, and film, will be the focus of an in-depth review of grammar and style in Spanish, as well as the uses of Spanish alongside English language arts. A range of artists from Latin American origins will be featured, including those with ties to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. A score no lower than 750 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement Test; Spanish 40, 50, or 59; or permission of course head. Students may take no more than two courses at the 60-level (not including Spanish 60). Conducted in Spanish. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Doris Sommer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 70 a Heroes, Rogues, and Significant Others: Voices from Medieval and Early Modern Spain Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Who are "el Cid", Celestina, Don Quixote, Don Juan? We know these mythic characters and cultural types like the love-struck priest, the picaro, the sentimental Moor, the conquistador, through representations of their spoken words in now-classic works of early Spanish literature. As we explore the texts and historical contexts that produced them, we bring their voices to life once again through dramatic reading and performance. A score above 780 on the SAT II or the Harvard Placement test; a 40-, 50-, or 60-level course in Spanish; or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. This course includes student art-making as part of the Harvard Arts Initiative. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N Mary Gaylord fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 70 c Documenting Spanish Modernity: A Survey of Spanish Literature and Culture from 1700 Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course From philosophical essays to newspaper articles, from romantic tragedy to turn-of-the-century films, from early autobiography to dirty realism, from academic landscape painting to comic strips, this course will present a provocatively diverse set of documents that will help understand Spain's equivocal and frequently contested Modernity. A score above 780 on the SAT II or the Harvard Placement test; a 50- or 60-level course in Spanish; or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Luis Fernandez Cifuentes spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 71 a Continuity and Discontinuity in Colonial Latin America Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An overview of literary and cultural production in the Americas before and after the Spanish invasion. Topics include pre-Columbian visual and verbal expressions; discovery, invention, conquest, and resistance; the historiography of the New World; native depictions of the colonial world. A score above 780 on the SAT II or the Harvard Placement test; a 50- or 60-level course in Spanish; or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. Required for concentrators in the Hispanic Studies track (as an alternative to Spanish 71b), and for all concentrators in Latin American Studies. The Friday class is devoted to section discussion. N Jose Rabasa fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 71 b Introduction to Modern Latin American Literature Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course is a survey of Latin American Literature from the last decades of the 19th century to the present. It offers an overview of the most salient moments in modern Latin American cultural history, placing emphasis on the ways in which specific literary works relate to the social and political developments that have shaped the region since the late 19th century. Readings by Dario, Marti, Huidobro, Borges, Rulfo, and Vargas Llosa, among others. A score above 780 on the SAT II or on the Harvard Placement test; a 40-, 50-, or 60-level course in Spanish; or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. Third hour devoted to discussion of texts studied. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Sergio Delgado spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 90 gc You Will Win, But You Won't Convince: Discussing the Spanish Civil War Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) as a key event for understanding the "causes" that have shaped 20th- and 21st-century Spanish culture and society within the context of recent Western history. Focus on the relation between memory, history, and representation in cultural works ranging from the years prior to the conflict up to the present (narrative, poetry, testimonies, memoirs, film, visual arts, comic books, etc.). A previous course in Spanish at the 60- or 70-level; 800 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement test; or permission of the course head. Conducted in Spanish. Y Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 90 lw The Spanish Novela: Telling Stories of Love and War in Early Modern Spain Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course We explore the flourishing the novella (novela, nouvelle) tradition in early modern Spain, which includes stories of love, violence, adventure, and exotic worlds. We will read works by authors including Boccaccio, Chaucer, de Navarre, Diego de San Pedro, Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Maria de Zayas, as well as modern works by authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazan, Antonio Munoz Molina, or Cesar Aira. A previous course in Spanish at the 60- or 70-level; 800 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard placement test; or permission of the course head. Conducted in Spanish N Eli Cohen fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 90 mx The Mexican Revolution in Literature and Art Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A wide-ranging exploration of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 through novels, poems, paintings, photographs, films, cartoons, etc. We analyze social types (the caudillo, the soldadera) as well as cultural icons (Zapata, Villa) forged and reconfigured during and after the armed conflict. Attention is placed on national and international (particularly US) perspectives on the conflict, and the challenges of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of historical events. Texts by Posadas, Azuela, Vasconcelos, Campobello, Fuentes, Paz. A previous course in Spanish at the 60- or 70-level; 800 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard placement test; or permission of the course head. N Sergio Delgado spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 90 n Border Flux and Border Subjects: Cultural Practices of the US-Mexico Border Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Hours to be arranged Sergio Delgado This course is structured around a set of art and literary works that engage the US-Mexico border. It seeks to understand the fluid nature of the border region along with its recurring themes and dynamics, focusing on the complex links between literary texts, artistic practices, and the increasingly pressing social and political issues of the region. Materials discussed include works by Vasconcelos, Paz, Fuentes, Monsivais, Poniatowska, Bolano, Anzaldua, Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez. N Sergio Delgado fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 90 t Breaking the Rules: Transgressors and Transgressions in Early Modern Spain Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The early modern period in Spain is marked by the dual experiences of the construction and transgression of political borders, legal boundaries, and linguistic and cultural norms. We will explore the central and formative role played by the figure of the rule-breaker in early modern Spanish discourse through readings of medieval epic and lyric poetry, the Moorish novel, the cronicas of discovery, Golden Age theater, and testimony from trial proceedings of the Inquistion. A previous course in Spanish at the 60- or 70-level; 800 on the SAT II test or on the Harvard Placement test; or permission of the course head. Conducted in Spanish. N Eli Cohen fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work in the area as background for their project. May not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Y Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 97 Tutorial-Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Theory in Praxis: Students will be exposed to different modes of analysis of poetry, narrative prose and cinema - from stylistics and semiotics to psychoanalysis and deconstruction - as they have been practiced by a variety of prominent scholars, from Yuri Lotman to Barbara Johnson. Students will in turn practice those modes of analysis on a number of Spanish and Latin American texts and films. 800 on the Harvard Placement test; a 50-, 60-, or 70-level course in Spanish; or permission of course head. Conducted in Spanish. Requirements include short weekly papers and regular participation in class discussions. Required for all concentrators in Hispanic Studies in their sophomore year, but open to others. May also be taken as the Sophomore tutorial for concentrators in Latin American Studies and Romance Studies. Y Luis Fernandez Cifuentes fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 98 Tutorial-Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Weekly individual instruction for juniors pursuing a thesis honors track in Hispanic Studies, culminating in the writing of a 20-25 page research paper in Spanish. Letter-graded. Successful completion of one term of Spanish 98 (or equivalent) is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators in Hispanic Studies in their junior year. Y Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander full year Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 99 Tutorial-Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Weekly individual instruction for honors seniors writing a thesis. Completion of two terms of Spanish 99 is required of all seniors pursuing a thesis honors track. Satisfactory completion of a junior tutorial and faculty approval of proposed thesis topic. For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of two terms of Spanish 99 is required of all thesis-track honors concentrators. Students who do not complete a thesis are required to submit a substantial paper in order to receive either half course or full course credit. Y Johanna D. Liander Johanna D. Liander spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 110 Hispanic Literature: The Middle Ages Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Old Spanish literature from its origins through the 15th century. Close reading of representative works in historical context: Cantar de Mio Cid, Milagros de Nuestra Senora, Libro de buen amor, Conde Lucanor, Laberinto de Fortuna, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, Carcel de amor, Romancero selections and La Celestina. Selective attention to critical approaches and overarching themes in the comparative study of medieval Iberian literatures. Conducted in Spanish. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. Additional readings and alternate requirements for graduate students seeking to fulfill their General Exam in Medieval Spanish for Non-Specialists. N Luis M. Giron Negron fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 124 Don Quixote and the Art of Reading Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In the beginning was the book. From his library the hidalgo, bent on writing himself into History, sallies forth into a world of actors, storytellers, and readers. How do books come by their power to shape individuals and their world? We read Cervantes' masterpiece alongside seminal Renaissance works his characters and readers knew (Erasmus, Vives, More, Castiglione), and modern studies of reading and print culture. Coursework in Spanish at the 70-, 90-, or 100-level, or permission of the instructor. Conducted in Spanish. There will be class visits to the Houghton Library of Rare Books and screenings of film versions of the novel. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Recommended for concentrators in Hispanic Studies or Romance Studies. N Mary Gaylord spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 134 Nahuatl (Aztec) Language and Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Offers an introduction to reading classical Nahuatl language through James Lockhart's Nahuatl as Written. Readings include paradigmatic examples of the Mesoamerican worldview drawn from poetry, history, and myth. Examines the interrelation between alphabetical writing, pictography, and orality. Conducted in English or Spanish. N Jose Rabasa fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 149 Filming the Text Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will explore the complex process that takes place when certain literary texts (novels like Unamuno's La tia Tula; short stories like Aldecoa's Los pajaros de Badem-Badem or Garcia Morales's El Sur; and, especially, plays like Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre or Valle-Inclan's Divinas palabras) are transformed into films by such prominent directors as Luis Bunuel, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, and Mario Camus. Previous coursework in Spanish at the 90- or 100-level; or the permission of the course head. Conducted in Spanish. N Luis Fernandez Cifuentes spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 177 Tricksters, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Picaros and the Picaresque Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The figure of the picaro (the original rebel without a cause) remains an attractive one in contemporary culture, yet its origins lie in 16th-century Spain. This course will examine a wide range of representations of the picaro in order to understand the nature of this social figure and its hold on artistic and popular imagination. Readings will include the Lazarillo de Tormes, works by Mateo Aleman, Quevedo, Cervantes, Defoe, and Camilo Jose Cela, among others. A previous course in Spanish at the 70-, 90-, or 100-level; 800 on the SAT II or on the Harvard Placement Test; or the permission of the course head. Conducted in Spanish. N Eli Cohen fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 186 Tobacco and Sugar Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Fernando Ortiz 1940) will guide explorations of aesthetic and historical tensions throughout the Spanish Caribbean. Different crops produced different political/cultural responses. Along with musical forms, plastic arts, and politics, we concentrate on literary works including abolitionist Cecilia Valdes, El reino de este mundo, the Dominican Over, Puerto Rico's La charca, Jamaica's Wide Saragasso Sea, writings by Hostos, Bono, Mintz, Klein, among others. Conducted in Spanish and English. N Doris Sommer spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 188 Cosmopolitanism and the Latin American Avant-Garde Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course What is an avant-garde? What does it mean to be on the forefront of cultural and political trends? What are the specific modalities of the Latin American avant-gardes? We study poems, paintings, films, and manifestos from Latin America and beyond. Focus on political expediency of eccentric art practices, from Dada and Futurism to Indianismo, Antropofagia and Zapatismo. The Friday class will be devoted to section discussion. N Jose Rabasa Sergio Delgado fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 195 "Aztec" Shamanism, Ritual, and Myth Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will read pictographic and alphabetical texts in Nahuatl (Aztec) mythology, ritual, and shamanism. Texts will include contemporary as well as "classic" texts from the colonial era. This course offers an introduction to reading Nahuatl through James Lockhart's Nahuatl as Written. Conducted in Spanish or English, to be determined by class composition. Open also to students who have already taken Spanish 134. N Jose Rabasa fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 201 Historia de la lengua espanola Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduccion a la historia de la lengua espanola desde sus origenes hasta el presente. Escarceos en linguistica historica en el marco de la historia literaria y el estudio comparado de las lenguas romanicas. Acercamiento interdisciplinario. Conducted in Spanish. N Luis M. Giron Negron spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 243 Foundational Fiction and Film Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Through novels that helped to consolidate nation-states in Latin America, explores modernity as personal and public lessons in laissez-faire. Sequels in film, telenovelas, performances show tenacity of genre. Links between creativity and citizenship. Theorists include Anderson, Foucault, Arendt, Lukacs, Flaubert. Conducted in Spanish. N Doris Sommer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 246 Cosmopolitanism and the Latin American Avant-Gardes: Analytic, Interpretative, and Pedagogical Inquiry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Comprehensive study of avant-gardes with a view towards development of an undergraduate course. Traditional and experimental course components (syllabi, exercises, workshops, digital tools) will be explored collectively alongside theory and praxis of the avant-garde. Y Jose Rabasa Sergio Delgado spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 263 Rhetorics of Travel and Displacement in Latin American Literature (1850-2010) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course From travel narratives that explore the world of modernity to travel as a fictional trope that works through the experience of displacement. From Sarmiento, Dario, Groussac, Gomez Carrillo, to Aira, Saer, Noll, Bellatin, Molloy, Bolano, Caparros. Conducted in Spanish. N Mariano Siskind spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 269 Body Matters and Market Forces in Latin American Literature and Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Traces and analyzes social and symbolic dynamics of urban commodity capitalism. Emphasis on the body and perception as contested sites of coercion and critical agency. Readings by Benjamin, Arlt, Adorno, Siqueiros, Merleau-Ponty, Paz, Eltit. N Sergio Delgado spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 277 Africa in the Modern Hispanic Imaginary Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the variegated relations between Spain and its "forgotten" colonial endeavors in Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea as represented in novels, political essays, film. Attention to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and to the "third root" of Latin American culture will also be critical. Conducted in Spanish. N Brad Epps fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 281 r Poetry and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course We will study Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Gongora, Calderon and other lyrical and dramatic poets of the 17th century in their relation to the visual arts. Drawing on published and manuscript sources, this course examines poets who write about painters, and painters who collect, study and realize the work of poets. N Christopher H. Maurer fall term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 285 cr Spanish Literature: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Current topic: Mostly Galdos. We read ten acknowledged masterpieces of Spanish and Catalan realism-naturalism (mostly by Galdos; also by Pardo Bazan, Clarin, Oller) in light of the economic intricacies of 19th-century metropolitan life. Conducted in Spanish. N Luis Fernandez Cifuentes spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 287 r Spanish Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The Ethics of Representation: Modern Spanish Narrative and Film. Examines the relations between aesthetic autonomy and social responsibility, national identity and colonial power, in Baroja, Valle-Inclan, Catala, Garcia Lorca, Cela, Sanchez Ferlosio, Martin Santos, Rodoreda, Martin Gaite, Goytisolo, Benet, Millas, and Ndongo as well as a number of "representative" films. Conducted entirely in Spanish. N Brad Epps fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 320 Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature: Supervised Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish 330 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies - East Asia Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Regional Studies _ Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 298 Master's Thesis Reading and Research Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course Supervised reading and research to fulfill the thesis requirement in the master's degree program in Regional Studies-Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Master's degree candidates are required to complete both *RSRA 298 and 299. Normally, these courses are taken during the second year of graduate studies. Y Terry Martin Terry Martin fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies - East Asia Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Regional Studies _ Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 299 Master's Thesis Development and Writing Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course A continuation of RSRA 299a, culminating in the final master's thesis. Master's degree candidates are required to complete both *RSRA 298 and *299. Normally, these courses are taken during the second year of graduate studies. Y Terry Martin Terry Martin full year Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic A Beginning Russian Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Introduction to the essentials of the Russian language, designed for students without previous knowledge of Russian. Intensive speaking practice in essential grammar and vocabulary using naturally occurring conversational patterns. Introduction to the speech etiquette of social exchanges. Regular use of online video for comprehension practice, grammar, and vocabulary building. Reading and discussion of stories, biography, and poetry. See sectioning note above. N Natalia Alexandrovna Reed Natalia Georgievna Chirkov Natalia Alexandrovna Reed Natalia Georgievna Chirkov fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Aab Beginning Russian (Intensive) Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Covers the same material as Slavic A but in one term. See sectioning note above. N Natalia Georgievna Chirkov Natalia Alexandrovna Reed Natalia Georgievna Chirkov Natalia Alexandrovna Reed spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Ac Grammar and Vocabulary Review for Heritage Speakers Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For students with Russian family background. The course covers all of the cases of Russian verb conjugation, aspect, and other essential grammar topics. Emphasis on reading, writing, spelling, and word formation. N Patricia Chaput Natalia Alexandrovna Reed full year Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic B Intermediate Russian Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Major emphasis on the development of vocabulary and oral expression with continuing work on difficult grammar topics. Vocabulary thematically organized to include such topics as self and family, education, work, human relationships, politics, and national attitudes. Includes practice in the etiquette of common social situations. Vocabulary reinforced through film and the reading of classical and contemporary fiction and history. Computer exercises on selected topics. Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level. Familiarity with fundamentals of Russian grammar, particularly case endings of the noun, pronoun, and adjective. One year's practice in spoken Russian. See sectioning note above. N Natalia Alexandrovna Reed Natalia Alexandrovna Reed spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Bab Intermediate Russian (Intensive) Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Covers essentially the same material as Slavic B, but in one term. Readings may vary. Slavic A, Aab, Ac, or placement at the intermediate level. See sectioning note above. Class hours may be changed by agreement. N Patricia Chaput Natalia Georgievna Chirkov fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Ca Beginning Czech I Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introductory course in modern Czech for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on the development of oral proficiency as well as on reading and listening comprehension skills. Written work for practice and reinforcement. Reading of simple poetry and prose. N Nora Hampl spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Cb Beginning Czech II Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of modern Czech grammar and the further development of reading, writing, and oral skills. Reading and discussion of simple literary texts by Hasek, Capek, Havel, and Kundera. N Nora Hampl fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Cc Intermediate Czech I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intermediate language and culture study combines further development of vocabulary and oral expression with a comprehensive review of Czech grammar. Vocabulary topics are thematically organized and reinforced through visual media to include cultural perceptions of the self, family, society, and broader ethical and political attitudes prevalent in Czech culture. Selected short texts, movies, and multi-media will familiarize students with contemporary cultural issues and historical and political developments. Slavic Ca and Cb or placement at this level. N Nora Hampl spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Cd Intermediate Czech II Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Second-semester intermediate study consolidates and expands grammar/lexicon, reading, writing and speaking skills in Czech. Grammar review is combined with intensive vocabulary building around literary and film masterpieces. Original literature to include Capek, Havel, Kundera and others, as well as newspaper articles and newscasts, with the objective of further interpreting cultural categories encoded in the language. Slavic Ca, Cb, Cc, or placement at this level. N Nora Hampl fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Cr Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Czech Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial. Department application required. No applications accepted after the third day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources. Y Nora Hampl Nora Hampl fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Da Beginning Polish I Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the fundamentals of Polish designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on oral practice of essential grammar structures in naturally occurring conversational patterns. Reading and discussion of simple prose and/or poetry. N Anna Baranczak spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Db Beginning Polish II Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Slavic Da. Continued work on Polish grammar with increasing emphasis on reading. Continued oral work and writing for practice and reinforcement. N Anna Baranczak fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Dc Intermediate Polish I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Emphasis on vocabulary building, writing, speaking and listening skills with comprehensive review of Polish grammar concentrating on difficult topics. Introduction to Polish literature through fiction and poetry, history and contemporary events. Slavic Da and Db or placement at this level. N Anna Baranczak spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Dd Intermediate Polish II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intensive development of vocabulary and oral skills. Readings from literary masterpieces from Polish literature from the era of Renaissance to our times including Jan Kochanowski, Wislawa Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz and others. Film clips and newspaper articles will introduce students to a variety of styles of contemporary Polish. Slavic Dc or placement at this level. N Anna Baranczak fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Dr Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Polish Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial. Department application required. No applications accepted after the third day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources. Y Anna Baranczak Anna Baranczak fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Ga Beginning Ukrainian I Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to the fundamentals of Ukrainian designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis on oral practice of essential grammar structures in naturally occurring conversational patterns. Reading and discussion of simple prose and/or poetry. Writing for practice and reinforcement. N Volodymyr Dibrova spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Gb Beginning Ukrainian II Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Slavic Ga. Continued work on Ukrainian grammar with further development of vocabulary, oral expression and comprehension. Readings of short stories and poems with discussion of texts in Ukrainian. N Volodymyr Dibrova fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Gr Supervised Readings in Intermediate/Advanced Ukrainian Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Emphasis on reading with some practice in speaking and writing. Conducted as a tutorial. Department application required. No applications accepted after the third day of classes. Interested students should submit on-line applications to staff assistant Stuart Robbins-Butcher, preferably by the second day of classes. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources. Y Volodymyr Dibrova Volodymyr Dibrova fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A graded course. Permission must be obtained from the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the instructor under whom the student wishes to study. Y Jonathan Hughes Bolton Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An interdisciplinary introduction to major authors and themes of Slavic history and literature, focusing on relationships between literature, power, history, and myth. Theories of literary interpretation (including Russian Formalism and semiotics) as well as different approaches to placing literature in its social and political contexts. Readings introduce students to major figures in the Slavic literary traditions, including Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Platonov, Kundera, Hrabal, and others. For concentrators in Slavic Literatures and Cultures. Open to non-concentrators provided they contact the instructor before the beginning of the semester. Y Jonathan Hughes Bolton full year Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 98 Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Fall term introduces students to classic short works of Russian literature, read in the original, and explores a range of interpretive approaches. Spring term is devoted to a single topic and provides concentrators with a more intensive reading experience. This year's focus is on Pushkin's novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin, a truly seminal work that we will read in the original. Required of junior concentrators in Slavic Literatures and Cultures. Other students may enroll for one or both terms. Students who wish to concentrate on a different Slavic language may arrange a separate tutorial. Y Svetlana Rukhelman Julie Buckler fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 99 a Tutorial--Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students work with a faculty advisor on a senior thesis or capstone project. Required for senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Honors students must also complete Slavic 99b. Y Jonathan Hughes Bolton Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 99 b Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Students work with a faculty adviser on a senior thesis. Slavic 99a. For senior concentrators in Slavic Literature and Culture. Students who wish to enroll must obtain the signature of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Jonathan Hughes Bolton fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 101 Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuing development of speaking and reading proficiency. Vocabulary work emphasizes verbs and verb government as essential to effective communication. Work on word formation to increase reading vocabulary. Texts for reading and discussion include works in prose, poetry, and film. Readings include a satirical tale by Shvartz, poetry of Akhmatova, and a film (Bykov's Scarecrow). Slavic B, Bab, Bb, or placement at this level. See sectioning note above. N Vladimir Y. Gitin fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 102 r Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of History and the Media Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the language of Russian newspapers, journals, and historical writing. Basic vocabulary for such areas as current events, including politics, history, economics, military issues, society, and the environment. Intended for students who desire a professional level of reading proficiency in the social sciences. Intensive work on morphology and supplementary work on oral comprehension. Slavic 101 or permission of instructor. See sectioning note above. Conducted largely in English. N Patricia Chaput spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 103 Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuing work on vocabulary and grammar centering on verbs and verb government. Readings include works by Chekhov and Dostoevsky, poetry, and film. Slavic 101 or placement at the 103 level. See sectioning note above. Strongly recommended for students who plan to continue in Russian. N Natalia Pokrovsky fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 111 Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of topics in the areas of history, economics, politics, and current events. Continued work on grammar and vocabulary with written exercises and compositions. TV viewing for comprehension development. Slavic 101 and 102, Slavic 103, or placement at the level of Slavic 111/113. See sectioning note above. Y Natalia Pokrovsky spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 112 Advanced Russian: Russian Press and Television Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For students who already have experience reading Russian periodicals. Readings in and analysis of current topics and their presentation in the Russian press. Examination of the history of selected periodicals. Viewing of Russian news programs and analysis of language and content. Class conducted largely in Russian. Slavic 102 and an additional course at the level of Slavic 101 or above, or Slavic 111 with permission of the instructor. See sectioning note above. Y Natalia Pokrovsky fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 113 Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of classic and contemporary Russian literature. Continued work on vocabulary expansion and composition. Written exercises for reinforcement. Readings from authors such as Gogol, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Brodsky, and Bitov. Slavic 103, 115 or placement at this level or above. See sectioning note above. N Natalia Pokrovsky spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 115 Advanced Russian: Russian Cultural Self-Images and National "Mentality" Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., F., at 11 Natalia Pokrovsky Through readings and film, we explore Russian cultural attitudes and self-images as socio-cultural context. Topics include cultural perceptions of self as nation and as cultural "mentality," the collective vs. the individual, attitudes toward friendship, the family and women, law, crime, prestige and success, and ethnic difference. Concentrates on vocabulary and phrasing, and includes extensive writing practice. Slavic 103, 113, or permission of instructor. N Natalia Pokrovsky fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 120 r Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intended for students who have already taken other department offerings. Reading, discussion, and writing on special topics not addressed in other courses. Conducted as a tutorial. Requires a course proposal to apply; acceptance is not automatic. Applications may be found on the department website under Resources. See sectioning note above. No applications accepted after the third day of classes. Y Patricia Chaput Patricia Chaput spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 125 Modern Russian in Historical Perspective Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Analysis of apparent exceptions and oddities in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Russian through the prism of historical changes and developments. Slavic B, Bab, or placement at the third-year level. N Michael S. Flier spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 126 a Structure of Modern Russian: Phonology and Morphology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Russian phonetics, phonemics, morphophonemics, and inflectional and derivational morphology. Course goal is to give a deeper understanding and appreciation of the regularities and complexities of Russian through a close study of its sounds and words. Slavic B, Bab or placement at the third-year level. No knowledge of linguistics required. N Michael S. Flier fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 137 Prague Between Two Empires: Czech Culture from 1914 to 1948 Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Czech culture (literature, journalism, film) between the world wars, focusing on the interwar renaissance and Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945. Examines how writers negotiated between the demands of aesthetics and politics, articulating a Czechoslovak identity while participating in the main currents of European modernism, from dadaism and expressionism through surrealism and existentialism. Readings include Kafka, Hasek, Capek, Olbracht, Seifert, Nezval, Jiri Langer, and others. All readings in English. No prior knowledge of Czech literature or history necessary. Students who wish to read Czech texts in the original may arrange a special section with the instructor. N Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 142 Engineering the Mind in Soviet Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines cultural, political, social and scientific perceptions of human psychology in the Soviet period. Topics include representations and manifestations of the New Soviet Man; the interaction of literature and psychology; and strategies of control, resistance and self-definition. Works by Mandelshtam, Vygotsky, Bulgakov, Pavlov, Platonov, Sinyavsky, Brodsky, Tarkovsky, Erofeev and others. All readings in English. Students who wish to read Russian texts in the original may arrange a special section with the instructor. N Rebecca Zohar Reich spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 143 Russian Formalism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Considers works of Russian formalist theory by Bakhtin, Eikenbaum, Jakobson, Shklovsky, Tynianov, and others and their relationship to Russian literature, film, and psychology. Also evaluates more broadly the role of formalist influences in contemporary literary theory. All readings in English. N Justin M. Weir fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 145 Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th-Century Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of major works of fiction from Pushkin through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Key themes include Russia's encounter with East and West; urban and rural life; the writer and the state; generational conflict and continuity; religion and science; reform and radicalism; and the collapse of empire. Primary materials are supplemented by readings in cultural and intellectual history. All readings in English. N Svetlana Rukhelman spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 146 Dystopia, Science Fiction, and Satire in 20th-Century Russia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines masterpieces of satire, dystopian fiction, and science fiction from the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. We ask: why are science fiction and dystopian narrative such powerful tools for pointing out the flaws in a real-life political regime or social order? How have these Western genres been adapted for the Russian context? What makes the satire we read humorous, and why is the combination of dark humor and fantastical elements so appealing? Texts by Bulgakov, Kharms, Platonov, Zoschenko, Zamyatin, Il'f and Petrov, Solzhenitsyn, Pelevin, and Tolstaya; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Loban. All readings in English. N Svetlana Rukhelman spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 147 Soviet Film After Stalin Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Considers the intersection of film and politics during the "thaw" years after Stalin's death, as well as themes of sexuality, gender, and violence in Russian culture of the 60's and 70's. Examines several films by Kalatozov, Tarkovsky, Paradjanov, and Shepitko which are well known for their innovation in form and narrative. N Justin M. Weir spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 148 Strange Russian Writers Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies Russia's rebels, deviants, martyrs, loners, and losers as emblems of national identity. Stories, films and poems that project Russia's distinctive obsessions with history and religion. Includes Gogol, Tolstoy, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov, Sinyavsky, Petrushevskaya, Prigov; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Muratova, Lungin, Sokurov. All readings in English. Separate additional section for those able to read texts in Russian. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Stephanie Sandler spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 149 Performance, Theater, Culture, Nation, Self: Russia and Its Others Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates performance and theatricality in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet contexts, in both art and life, through broad exploration of theoretical underpinnings (classical dramatic theory to contemporary performance studies) and case studies from drama, opera, ballet, film, musicals, performance art, religious ritual and folk festival, monarchy and court, mass spectacles, Cold War competitions and diplomacy, subcultures, and contemporary assertions of new orders. Reading knowledge of Russian desirable, but not required. An additional weekly session will be conducted for those who wish to consider texts in the original. Open to reasonably advanced undergraduates and graduates. N Julie Buckler spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 151 Experiments in Reading: Chekhov and Nabokov Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Literary close reading of Chekhov and Nabokov with special attention to narrative experimentation as well as to the cultural and historical contexts. The main reading is Nabokov's Drugie berega/Speak Memory, a text that combines fiction and autobiography, literature and criticism, English and Russian. Reading knowledge of Russian. Readings in Russian (with English double-texts). Alternative to Slavic 98. Tutorial--Junior Year. N Svetlana Boym spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 152 Pushkin Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the lyrics, narrative poems, fiction, and critical prose of Russia's "national poet." Close reading of the texts; attention to contemporary cultural issues. Lecture and discussion. Good reading knowledge of Russian. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. N William Mills Todd III fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 154 Introduction to Russian Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the major genres of Russian verse from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Primary emphasis on close reading of lyrics. First Meeting Wednesday, September 9. Readings in Russian; discussion in English. N John E. Malmstad fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 155 Dostoevsky Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Reading of Dostoevsky's major works, with a view to showing how the problems they contain (social, psychological, political, metaphysical) are inseparable not only from his time but from the distinctive novelistic form he created. No knowledge of Russian required. N William Mills Todd III fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 166 Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the 19th Century: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines Russian-Ukrainian literary relations from 1798 to 1905, with special focus on canon formation, ethnic, national and imperial identity, and the interrelation of literature, society, and ideology. Topics include Decembrist historicism, Romantic poetics and folklore, Slavophilism and populism, literature as subversion (kotljarevshchyna), the uses of translation, the reception of major writers (Gogol, Shevchenko, and others), and the imperial attempt to suppress "Ukrainophilism." Reading knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 169 20th-Century Ukraine: Literature, Arts, and Society Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines main currents in Ukrainian intellectual and cultural expression from the eve of the Russian Revolution, through the formation and dissolution of the USSR, to the "Orange Revolution" (2004). Topics include populism vs. modernism, nationalism vs. socialism, Literary Discussion of the 1920s, Stalinism, Glasnost, linguistic, and national identity. Focus on literature, film (Dovzhenko, Paradzhanov, Illienko), and theater (Kurbas); guest lectures on music and art. Readings in English. Films subtitled. N George Grabowicz Halyna Hryn spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 171 Writing Women in Post-1989 Poland Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Post-communist Polish literature has been dominated by female writers engaging in examinations and reconfigurations of female identity in a culture searching for self-definition. Their representations of gender and sexuality in Polish-style patriarchy offer an important test case of "glocalization"--or the adaptation of Western theory for local needs. From the cult novels of Maslowska to the groundbreaking essays of Brach-Czajna to the controversial poetry of Keff, this course investigates women writers' shifting self-portraits. Reading knowledge of Polish. N Joanna Nizynska fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 173 Polish Romanticism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Overview of the major artistic and intellectual trends and close reading of key works by the major writers: Malczewski, Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Krasinski, and others. Focus also on the central role of Romanticism in Polish culture. Reading knowledge of Polish. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 176 Between Avant-Garde and Catastrophism: The Interwar Period in Polish Literature Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This survey of the varied manifestations of modernism in independent Poland between the wars also investigates the artistic and ideological tension between the international and the local in the activities (including visual arts) of the First and Second Vanguard, Futurism, Skamander, and other movements. Readings include prose, poetry, drama by Gombrowicz, Schulz, Witkacy, Tuwim, Przybos,and others. All readings in English. N Joanna Nizynska fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 177 Polish Literature After 1989: the Arrival of the Others Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course With the fall of Communism, Polish communal identity suffered a traumatic breakdown. This course investigates the emergence and treatment of otherness in Polish literature from 1989 to the present, discussing the forms of nostalgia and aggression that arise when a culture responds to new forms of otherness: ethnic (e.g, Jewish and German), gender and sexuality (feminism and queer), social and generational groups (e.g., the post-communist "McDonalds generation"). Readings from Chwin, Huelle, Maslowska, Stasiuk, Tryzna, Tulli. All readings in English. N Joanna Nizynska spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 178 Trauma and Postmemory: Collective Identity and Unexperienced Loss: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do literature and film convey traumatic experiences long after they have occurred? How does posttraumatic syndrome affect the formation of personal and collective memory? What is postmemory in a cultural sense, and how does it compensate for historical loss? Using contemporary Polish literature and film as case studies (e.g., Chwin, Huelle, Kieslowski, Polanski, Szczypiorski), we will discuss the transposition of traumatic memory into postmemorial narratives, and the transgenerational transmission of the traumatic. All readings in English translation. All films subtitled. Additional weekly session available for students reading Polish. N Joanna Nizynska spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 179 Bialoszewski: The Art of Private Life Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do traumatic experiences affect literary modes for representing the everyday? What critical approaches are most productive for approaching such works? Explore the unique aesthetic strategies of Miron Bialoszewski, whose attention to insignificant quotidian events makes him the most "private" writer in historically and politically oriented postwar Polish literature. Theoretical readings frame discussions on the everyday, trauma, and queer studies. Reading knowledge of Polish. Readings from Bialoszewski in Polish, discussions in English. N Joanna Nizynska fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 180 Russian Symbolist Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the history of the Symbolist movement in Russia with emphasis on close reading of poetry by its major figures. Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor. N John E. Malmstad fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 181 Russian Poetry of the 19th Century Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The major themes and modes of Russian poetry from pre-Romanticism to "pure art." Selections from Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Baratynsky, Yazykov, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, and others. Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to instructor. N John E. Malmstad fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 182 Problems in 20th-Century Poetry: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the poetry and poetics of three writers-Annensky, Kuzmin, and Khodasevich-whose works raise questions about the validity and usefulness of the ways in which scholarship categorizes early 20th-century poetry in terms of "isms" like Symbolism and Acmeism. Slavic 101 or an equivalent acceptable to the instructor. N John E. Malmstad spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 186 Poetry after Brodsky: How Russian Is It? Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Studies poetic practice since 1970. Includes Brodsky, Aygi, Dragomoshchenko, Eremin, Fanailova, Gronas, Mnatsakanova, Prigov, Sedakova, Shvarts, and others. Studies border crossings (in language and geography), connections to other art forms, and the changing representations of emotion and mind in contemporary poetry. Open to qualified undergraduates with good reading knowledge of Russian. N Stephanie Sandler spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 192 Literature as Institutions: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 A study of literary production, dissemination, and reception in selected periods of Russian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Readings in social theory, cultural studies, literary criticism, and imaginative literature. Open to advanced undergraduates and graduates. Students must pick up a syllabus in Barker 374 before the term begins, as there will be a brief assignment for the first class meeting. N William Mills Todd III spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 195 Myths of Central Europe after World War II: Conference Course Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course For Milan Kundera, Central Europe was the kidnapped conscience of the West; for Gyorgy Konrad it was "a subversive dream," for Josef Kroutvor a "melancholy grotesque." Considers major authors (Kundera, Havel, Hrabal, Kis, Milosz, Herling-Grudzinski, Marai, Albahari) and key motifs and situations (occupation, resistance, and collaboration; interrogation, censorship, and dissent; emigration and exile; "anti-politics") that have defined a "Central European" literature and identity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia since World War II. All readings in English. N Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 198 Encounters of Memory and History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do historical events such as invasion, war, and revolution distort the shape of people's life-stories? What narrative forms do authors use to project a private life against a historical backdrop? How can memoirs and diaries sustain a sense of agency against the public interventions of politics and History? Readings from narrative and autobiographical theory, as well as memoirs and first-person novels by Milosz, Herling-Grudzinski, Hrabal, Sebald, Perec, Bolano, Kis, Hemon, Philip Roth and others. All readings in English. N Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 201 Introduction to East Slavic Languages Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 1-4 Michael S. Flier Introduction to the structure and history of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. Linguistics 250. N Michael S. Flier spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 222 20th-Century Ukrainian Poetry Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the major poets and movements: Tychyna, the neo-classicists, Bazhan, the futurists, the Prague group, Antonych, Svidzins'kyj, emigre poetry, the New York group, late Soviet and post-Soviet poetry. Reading knowledge of Ukrainian. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 223 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the major poets: Kotljarevs'kyj, Hulak and the pre-Romantics, Shevchenko, Kulish, Rudans'kyj, Franko, and Lesja Ukrajinka. Reading knowledge of Ukrainian. N George Grabowicz spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 224 r Ukrainian Literature Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2011-12: Taras Shevchenko: poetry, prose and reception. Reading knowledge of Ukrainian. N George Grabowicz fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 231 Czech Literary Culture, 1900-1945 Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Close reading of major works of poetry and prose in the original Czech, with attention to the larger cultural currents of Central European modernism. Authors include Vancura, Olbracht, Halas, Blatny, Orten, Capek, Hasek, and others. Good reading knowledge of Czech. N Jonathan Hughes Bolton spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 240 Soviet Cinema and the Bolshevik Revolution: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers cinematic anticipations and responses to the Bolshevik Revolution in the films of Kuleshov, Dovzhenko, Vertov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin and others. Pays special attention to montage theory, the role of documentary, Russian Formalist film theory, and repression of filmmakers during Stalinism. All course materials available in English translation. Advanced undergraduates may be admitted with permission of instructor. N Justin M. Weir fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 251 Reading Anna Karenina Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Close reading of Anna Karenina in original Russian with exploration of cultural context, artistic biography, tradition of nineteenth-century psychological novel, reception and interpretive paradigms, potential for new ways of reading. Reading will be done primarily in the original Russian. Advanced undergraduates may be admitted with permission of instructor. N Julie Buckler spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 280 r Slavic Culture: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic for 2009-10: The Culture of Medieval Rus': Art, Architecture, Ritual, Literature. N Michael S. Flier fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 282 Literature, Film, and Visual Art in Contemporary Russia Conference Course Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines Russian culture from socialist realism to postcommunism. Topics: Socialist realist film, literature of the Gulag, writers' trials, non-confirmist art and rethinking of history, utopia and kitsch. Works by Shalamov, Nabokov, Sinyavsky-Tertz, and others. Reading knowledge of Russian. Most materials also available in English. Open to qualified undergraduates. N Svetlana Boym spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 289 Elegy: The Art of Losing Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Poems, films, visual artifacts, and music alongside theories of loss. Focuses on non-narrative forms, with examples from Pushkin, Baratynsky, Fet, Brodsky, Shvarts; Tarkovsky, Shemiakin, Sokurov; Silvestrov, Sebald. Reading knowledge of Russian. Open to qualified undergraduates. N Stephanie Sandler fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 290 19th-Century Ukrainian Prose: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A survey of the major writers: Kvitka, Kulish, Marko Vovchok, Svydnyc'kyj, Nechuj-Levyc'kyj, Panas Myrnyj, Franko and Kociubyns'kyj. Reading knowledge of Ukrainian. N George Grabowicz fall term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 299 Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to graduate study in Slavic. Selected topics in literary analysis, history, and theory. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of the instructor. Y Stephanie Sandler fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 300 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic 301 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Social Policy Social Policy Social Policy 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Social Policy Social Policy Social Policy 301 Research and Social Policy Seminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Presentation of dissertation prospectus or chapters-in-progress. Required of advanced doctoral candidates in Social Policy. Y Kathryn Edin Kathryn Edin fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Social Policy Social Policy Social Policy 302 Doctoral Dissertation Research Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Social Policy Social Policy Social Policy 303 Introduction to Social Policy Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Required of and limited to first-year PhD students in Social Policy. Explores current issues in Social Policy research based on the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series. Limited to first-year PhD students in Social Policy. Y Kathryn Edin Kathryn Edin fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 10 a Introduction to Social Studies Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course offers an introduction to the classic texts of social theory of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Our focus will be on the rise of democratic, capitalist societies and the concomitant development of modern moral, political, and economic ideas. Authors we will examine include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. This course is limited to sophomores and Social Studies concentrators. This course is a prerequisite for sophomores applying to Social Studies. Students planning to take this class must attend the first lecture to be admitted. Y Richard Tuck Andrew Jewett spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 10 b Introduction to Social Studies Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This class continues the introduction to the classic texts of social theory begun in Social Studies 10a through the twentieth century. Authors include Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Michel Foucault. This course is limited to Social Studies concentrators who have taken Social Studies 10a. Y Richard Tuck Andrew Jewett spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 40 Philosophy and Methods of the Social Sciences Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course integrates research methods with an investigation of the philosophical foundations of the social sciences. Topics covered include causal explanation, interpretation, rational choice and irrationality, relativism, collective action, and social choice. N Eric Beerbohm fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual work in Social Studies on a topic not covered by regular courses of instruction. Permission of the Director of Studies required. Y Anya Bernstein Anya Bernstein fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 ax Development and Modernization: A Critical Perspective Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 What assumptions about human beings underlie the conviction that development and modernization constitute progress, that the developed West points the way for the rest of the world? Does economic growth involve a package that necessarily changes the society, the polity, and the culture along with the economy? This tutorial provides a framework for thinking about these questions, both in the context of the West, and in the context of the Third World. This course will be lotteried. Y Stephen A. Marglin spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 cl Law and American Society Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Examines law as a defining force in American culture and society in four dimensions-as it establishes individual rights, liberties, and limits of toleration; as it attempts to resolve differences among competing constituencies; as it sets out terms of punishment and social control, and as a source of informing images and ideological consistency. A prison trip is planned, subject to approval. This course will be lotteried. Y Terry Aladjem fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 eo Culture and Society Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 The course explores various approaches to the study of culture, drawing on studies in anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology, literature, and photography. Among the questions addressed are: How is historical memory constructed, and what are the competing forces that shape it? How do advertisements, photography, and film document cultural change? How is culture tied to power, domination, and resistance? This course will be lotteried. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. Y Kiku Adatto fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 fu Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Community, Power Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Making democracy work requires an "organized" citizenry with power to assert its interests effectively. Yet US political participation declines, growing more unequal, as new democracies struggle to make citizen participation possible. Students learn to address public problems by organizing: developing leadership, building community, and mobilizing power. Our pedagogy links sociological, political science, and social psychology theory with democratic practice. Ten hours per week of field work required. This course will be lotteried. Y Marshall Louis Ganz spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 gf Modernity and Social Change in East Asia Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Examines the interconnections between modernity and social change in contemporary China, Japan, and Korea. Explores how modernity is conceptualized by both state and society actors and how these visions fuel change at local and national levels. Particular attention will be paid to issues of social protest, migration, consumption, gender, ethnicity, and family life in both rural and urban locations. Readings focus on ethnographic case studies and the effects of modernity on everyday life experience. This course will be lotteried. Y Nicole Dejong Newendorp spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 ji French Political Thought Since 1930 Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will explore the ideas of Raymond Aron, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone Weil, and Michel Foucault. This course will be lotteried. Y Stanley Hoffmann spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 jl Global Social Movements Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Social movements are often considered a driving force behind political, social, and cultural change. This course explores the major theoretical and empirical approaches used in the social sciences to understand the emergence, endurance, and outcomes of social movement activism. The course will examine a range of case studies including movements dealing with environmental justice, health, citizenship, and racial inclusion taken from a range of national (including the U.S.) and transnational contexts. This course will be lotteried. Y Jennifer Rene Darrah fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 kb Gender in Developing Nations Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course examines the history of development in the colonial and postcolonial world from a gendered perspective. We examine how the idea of development attained international influence amidst movements of nationalism and decolonization. We trace how gendered concerns have become central to the developmental agendas of state and non-state actors over the past half-century, even as these actors disagreed over women's rights. Ultimately, we consider how developmental ideologies and institutions might yet enable women's empowerment. This course will be lotteried. Y Meghan Elisabeth Healy spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 kg The Political Economy of Health in the Developing World Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course places the politics of health care in the context of economic development. Although health care and social programs are often considered secondary to economic growth, they have come to play an increasingly central role in development policy. This course explores the interaction between development and health through a survey of different theoretical approaches to development, combined with empirical research on public health, AIDS, family planning, and development programs. This course will be lotteried. Y Nara Dillon fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 lf Globalization and the Nation State Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Despite globalization, the nation is still a major actor in today's world. This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples' identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nationalism. Examples from the United States, Western Europe, Latin America, India, and the Middle East. This course will be lotteried. Y Nicolas Prevelakis fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 lh Education and American Society Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Explores how education has been and continues to be a central institution of American society, reflecting social ideals and ideologies while also directly shaping the contours and structures of society in both productive and detrimental ways. Examines different philosophical foundations of formal learning and how those theories have become manifested across time in various educational practices. Investigates how schools currently operate, specific issues the American educational system faces, and the implications of various schooling practices for structuring American society. This course will be lotteried. Y Chiwen Bao fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 li Ethnic and Religious Conflict in East and South Asia Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 The course will examine cultural, social, and political manifestations of difference and its contexts in confrontation by examining cases of ethnic and religious conflict from East, Southeast, and South Asia. We will examine dominant understandings of difference in these regions, and then read appropriate ethnographic work from the region. This will bring our attention to recent issues of ethno-religious discord in Sri Lankan civil war; communal violence in India and Pakistan; ethnic wars in Burma (Myanmar); discord among the Muslim, Tibetan, and Han Chinese; ethnoreligious violence in Indonesia; and Muslim "insurgency" in southern Thailand. The course will bring critical attention to bear on the issues of ethnicity, religion, and conflict in a trajectory from imperial/colonial to national settings across Asia. This course will be lotteried. Y Kevin N. Caffrey Kevin N. Caffrey fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 mb Violence and Culture Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 W., 1-3 Rebecca B. Galemba This tutorial explores the cultural meanings and experiences of violence. We examine how everyday people experience violence and the strategies they take to understand, challenge, or even perpetuate it. While contextualizing violence in socioeconomic realities, we explore the discourses and practices by which violence becomes considered legitimate, abhorrent, worthy of human rights attention, or even state-sanctioned. We consider how scholars represent violence that is simultaneously collective, political, and social while also subjective, emotional, and personal. This course will be lotteried. Y Rebecca B Galemba spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 md Struggles for Democracy in the Middle East and Beyond Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 W., 2-4 Christopher Stephen Meckstroth This course situates recent democratic uprisings in countries like Egypt and Libya in historical context and compares them to previous waves of democratization in Europe and Latin America. We ask what an understanding of past democratic revolutions both can and cannot tell us about current and future ones. As we critically examine the literature on democratization, students also learn about the strengths and limits of diverse empirical methods and how to justify the sort of methodological choices they will need to make in writing their senior theses. This course will be lotteried. Y Christopher Meckstroth fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 me Human Rights and International Law Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course introduces students to a diverse body of literature-in anthropology, history, international law, philosophy, politics, legal studies, and geography-that engages critically with the problems of human rights and international law. Particularly concerned with the politics of universalism, the course also explores the intimate relation between empire, violence, international law, and the project of human rights. This course will be lotteried. Y Ayca Cubukcu spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 mf Liberalism and Its Critics Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 M., 4-6 Carla Yumatle This course provides a critical examination of key debates around liberalism. The first part analyzes both the classical accounts of liberalism and the relation between the latter and democracy. The second part focuses on contemporary variants of liberalism including egalitarianism, libertarianism, multiculturalism, and the political and pluralist versions of liberal thinking. In this part we study the relative importance that equality and freedom, culture, individual and group rights, value pluralism, toleration, and state neutrality play in the foundations of a liberal order. The third part examines various criticisms leveled against liberalism including the utilitarian, communitarian, feminist, radical and neo-republican critiques. This course will be lotteried. Y Carla Yumatle fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 mg Global Distributive Justice Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course examines how concerns about socio-economic justice apply beyond the limits of the domestic state. Do we have reason to care about equality at the international level? If so, should we care about the relative standing of individuals, or of nation-states? Who, if anyone, is responsible for addressing global inequalities? Topics covered include the moral relevance of borders, natural resource distribution, immigration policy, climate change, the international status of women, and global institutional design. This course will be lotteried. Y Katie Gallagher fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 mi Migration in Theory and Practice Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 In this course, we will examine how and why people migrate from one location to another, focusing both on the theoretical paradigms scholars use to explain migration processes as well as on the individual experiences of migrants. Topics include transnationalism, diaspora, identity formation, integration and assimilation, citizenship claims, and the feminization of migration. Ethnographic readings focus primarily on migration to the US, but also include cases from other world areas, most notably Asia. This course will be lotteried. Y Nicole Dejong Newendorp spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 na The American Ghetto Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 The ghetto is among the most complex and troubling of all American institutions. This course analyzes the American ghetto in historical and contemporary perspective, exploring topics such as racial segregation, urban poverty, inner-city schools, the underground economy, and the prison boom. Along with engaging with several classic and contemporary texts, we will carry out ethnographic fieldwork in some of Boston's low-income neighborhoods. This course will be lotteried. Y Matthew Stephen Desmond fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 nb Social Mobility in America Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course examines social class mobility in the United States. We will study the emergence of the "American dream" in history and culture, and consider social mobility in the contemporary era of widening economic, political, and social inequality. We will debate the merits of using educational and legal tools to increase social mobility. This course will be lotteried. Y Anya Bernstein spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 nc The Economics of Education Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course examines economic aspects of education issues, using quantitative research. We will explore the private and societal returns to schooling and how they have changed over time. We will also discuss several of the major proposed strategies for improving schools including increasing school resources, enhancing school accountability, improving teacher selection and training, and creating school choice through vouchers and charter schools. This course will be lotteried. Y Amanda D. Pallais spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 nd Mass Violence, Memory, and Justice/Reconciliation Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This tutorial examines the problem of national reconciliation after mass violence. How does a nation sundered by genocide, civil war, or political repression reestablish the social trust and civic consciousness required of individual and collective healing? What makes some reconciliations successful, others less so? The course will engage these and other questions from historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring the legacy of mass violence going back centuries, while comparing reconciliation projects across cultures, countries, and continents. This course will be lotteried. Y Jonathan M. Hansen spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 ne Nation, Race, and Migration in Modern Europe Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course examines the nexus of migration and nation-state formation in Europe since the late nineteenth century. Population movements within and across European borders have both shaped, and been shaped by, changing conceptions of race, nationality, and citizenship. These changes will be addressed through topics including urbanization, overseas emigration, forced population transfers, decolonization, guest worker programs, globalization, and migration in a unifying Europe. Readings will combine interdisciplinary historical study with contemporary debates. This course will be lotteried. Y Brendan Jeffrey Karch spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 nf Economic Development in Latin America:1870-2010 Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course explores strategies of economic development in Latin America, from its rise as the first emerging market in the late 19th century to the current "commodity boom." It compares periods of economic policy (export-led growth, import substitution, neoliberalism) and a variety of national cases in order to identify the sources of historical backwardness and ephemeral bonanzas in the region, as well as the contemporary potential for sustained prosperity. This course will be lotteried. Y Sebastian Lucas Mazzuca fall term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 ng Heidegger and Social Thought Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Martin Heidegger was the most important and influential philosopher in the continental tradition in the 20th century, yet the source of his influence has not been fully explored. To that end, we shall trace the development of his thought from his recently published lectures on Aristotle to Being and Time (1927). Thus, we shall rediscover Heidegger as he appeared to young undergraduates in the early 1920s who would go on to develop some of the most powerful currents of contemporary social thought. This course will be lotteried. Y Rodrigo Chacon spring term Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 98 ni Global Financial Crisis Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will seek to outline the conditions of possibility--philosophical, historical, economic, social, and cultural--for a near cataclysmic and almost certainly epochal crisis. Its central methodological premise will be to treat markets as socio-historical institutions, as artifacts whose construction is the very medium of political and economic competition. Thus setting the crisis against a broader backdrop than the received narrative, the course will conclude by outlining how these structures continue to shape the present global conjuncture. This course will be lotteried. Y Anush Kapadia full year Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Writing of senior honors essay. Required for concentrators. Y Anya Bernstein Anya Bernstein fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 10 Introduction to Sociology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduces students to the main objects and goals of Sociology-both for sociology concentrators and curious non-concentrators. Explores the theories of classical authors in the history of sociology (such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and beyond). Examines major topics in sociological research (including but not limited to social problems, deviance, inequality, social change, culture, education, social interaction). May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded. N Mary C. Brinton spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 24 Introduction to Social Inequality Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Examines individual and structural explanations for the generation and maintenance of inequality in the US with comparisons to other societies. The consequences of inequality for individuals and groups are studied. May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Social Analysis. N Jason Beckfield spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 25 Introduction to the Sociology of Organizations Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduces the sociological study of formal organizations. Surveys basic concepts, emphases, and approaches. Attention given to processes within organizations, as well as to relationships between organizations and their environments. Topics include bureaucracy, leadership and power in organizations, interorganizational networks, and coordination among organizations. May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Weihua An spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 43 Social Interaction Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Examines social interactions in public and semi-public spaces as well as small-group dynamics. We will analyze everyday activities like conversations and parties as well as more extreme forms like demonstrations and riots. Emphasizes outside observation of various kinds and components of social interaction. The University's residence halls, classrooms, activity groups and final clubs will serve as our laboratory. Students will record their observations and analyses in journal entries. May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis N Timothy Nelson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual work in sociology under the supervision of teaching staff in the department. A graded supervised course of reading and research on a topic not covered by regular courses of instruction. Students negotiate topics on their own. A final paper must be filed in the Sociology undergraduate office. Y David Laurence Ager David Laurence Ager spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 95 Research for Nonprofits Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supports students in carrying out a research project for a nonprofit or volunteer organization of their own choice. Examines theories and practices of the nonprofit sector and research methods. Course combines guest speakers, case work, discussion, and student project presentations. Required first meeting. Both concentrators and non-concentrators are welcome to apply. Y Alison Denton Jones spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 96 r Community Based Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course One of the few courses at Harvard that integrates students' participation in activities outside the University with course work. Course integrates readings with hands-on research projects in the Boston area. Topics vary; refer to course website for details. Previous topics have included: immigration, marginalization, adolescents, civic activity. Both concentrators and non-concentrators are welcome to apply. Required first meeting. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 97 Tutorial in Sociological Theory Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides a critical understanding of selected classical and contemporary theorists, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Parsons, Coleman, Collins, Bourdieu, and an up-to-date selection of avant-garde theory. Required of concentrators, ordinarily sophomores, and secondary concentrators. Required first organizational meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 4-5pm, for the fall semester. Required first organizational meeting on Monday, January 23, 2012, 4-5pm, for the spring semester. N David Laurence Ager David Laurence Ager spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 B Race and Crime Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 New research on how and why criminal justice policy in the US has such a powerfully differential negative impact on African American communities. Sociology 97. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. Y spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Bc The Logic of Cultural Comparison Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 In the context of recent theoretical advances in cultural sociology, the course considers how culture can be systematically compared across populations. While carrying out independent empirical studies, students will navigate the central problems associated with comparative cultural research: defining and measuring cultural phenomena, identifying appropriate units of cultural variation, understanding between- and within-unit heterogeneity, and demonstrating culture's causal effects. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Tutorials are by assignment only. N Bart Bonikowski spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Bd Inequality at Work Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 The American workplace has become much more diverse over the past 30 years, with women and minorities moving into greater positions of authority. But significant inequalities remain. Why? In this course we will consider what issues are similar or different when we look at gender and race inequalities, and we will look at how sociologists try to untangle the reasons for inequalities in the workplace using statistical methods, experimental studies, and ethnographic research. The course will also explore why gender inequality at work persists throughout the postindustrial world, and what the differences seem to be between gender inequality in the U.S. and other countries. Sociology 97 Y Mary C. Brinton fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Ga Understanding Mexican Migration Flows to the US Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This tutorial guides students through the preparation of an empirical research paper that explores the labor migration of workers from Mexico to the United States using quantitative data and methods. Sociology 97. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Y Filiz Garip spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 H Immigration, Politics, and Movements Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Examines immigrant integration in the political sphere. Explores immigrant mobilization and participation in electoral and non-electoral politics. Sociology 97. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. Y spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Ha Sociology of Health Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Examines how culture, politics, and finance "matters" in health care through an exploration of the diverse community health centers and major medical centers throughout greater Boston. Students will enhance their qualitative research skills through ethnographic observation, mapping, and historical and documentary analysis of the services provided and populations served in various clinical settings. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. N Seth Donal Hannah spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Ja Religious Worlds of Boston Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Explore the religious landscape of Boston while honing your qualitative research skills. Examines themes in urban religion like immigration/transnationalism, organizational ecologies, and religious meaning-making. Students conduct in-depth field research projects on religious communities of their choice. Sociology 97. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. Y spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 K Big Bird Goes to China: Organizations, Culture, and Globalization Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Examines how different kinds of organizations and institutions work internationally and develop relationships with international partners and counterparts. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Y Tamara Kay fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 L Racism and Anti-Racism in Comparative Perspective Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Students will familiarize themselves with the literatures on racism and anti-racism, as well as racial identity and boundaries and design their own qualitative research project. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology junior concentrators. Y Michele Lamont spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 M Social Class in the United States: Identity, Culture, and Consciousness Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will review a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives on social class in the United States with a focus on class-based identities and class consciousness. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. Y spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 S Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, the transition to adulthood has become increasingly delayed, disorderly, and reversible. This course explores the social, economic, and cultural forces that have made traditional markers of adulthood both unattainable and undesirable. This course will guide students in conducting qualitative research with a population of their choosing with the goal of uncovering the changing meanings and practices of twenty-first century adulthood. N Jennifer Silva spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Sa The Politics and Culture of Food Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will examine how politics and culture intersect in food and eating practices. Through an exploration of literature on food, students will learn some of the key theoretical concepts in cultural sociology, as well as various analytical and methodological approaches. They will carry out an independent or group research project. N Kyoko Sato spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 W The Changing Dynamics of Black Family Life in America Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Explores sociological research on the African American family over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries focusing on central debates in the field including changing family structures and class dynamics. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. Y Jessica S. Welburn fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Wb Race, Poverty, and Family Justice Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course meets inside Framingham prison and surveys some of the key topics in urban sociology, focusing on major social problems in American cities. With particular attention to factors associated with crime, such as poverty, race, education, gender and employment, the course draws from different academic, media and narrative sources. Our focus on urban communities of concentrated poverty is intended to challenge students to think about policy solutions to complex problems. How do we respond to under-resourced schools, violence, joblessness, drug addiction and incarceration? The last three weeks of the semester will be reserved for students to present research proposals designed to address the problems discussed in class. Questions for consideration: In what ways do various political, economic and religious ideologies shape our understandings of race? What kinds of practices lead us out of poverty? How do we understand family justice? Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. First meeting 8/31/2011, 12 pm. Y Kaia Stern fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 98 Wc Sports and Society Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will examine sports through a sociological lens. We will examine processes of stratification in sports including class, race and gender, as well as sports as a business, the media and sports, and sports and health. Students will do an in depth independent or team based research project on the topic. Sociology 97 Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators. Spring Junior Tutorials are by assignment only. N Mary C. Waters full year Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 99 Senior Tutorial Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Supervision of theses or other honors projects. Sociology 98. Limited to concentrators, ordinarily seniors. In addition, students of Sociology 99 may also participate in a fall term only, optional, regularly scheduled weekly group seminar for consultation and discussion about choice of problems, possible data, and research procedures. Y David Laurence Ager David Laurence Ager fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 107 The American Family Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The American family is often thought to be changing in ways considered unfortunate for children and society. At the same time, the family continues to occupy a central place in people's lives. We examine how and why American families have changed and explore the consequences of these changes. Aspects of family life considered include premarital sex, mate choice, marriage relations, work and family, gender roles, childrearing, family violence, divorce, and intergenerational relations. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Historical Study A. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Martin K. Whyte fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 109 Leadership and Organizations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 80 Focus on the sociological study of leadership emphasizing leadership in organizational settings. Topics covered: how leadership, power, influence, and social capital are interrelated; organizations as complex social systems; politics and personalities in organizational life; organization design and culture; leadership of organizational change and transformation; and creating sustainable organizations. Open to students in all fields. Course relies heavily on the case study method for learning similar to the approach used at the Harvard Law and Business Schools. Enrollment by lottery. N David Laurence Ager fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 121 Religion in a Globalizing World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Far from disappearing as the world modernized, religion today is found everywhere from the public to private spheres. We will explore the places of religion around the globe, from the rise of religious nationalism to transnational immigration networks. N Alison Denton Jones fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 128 Models of Social Science Research Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces the methods and logic social scientists use to study the empirical world. Topics include the scientific method, hypothesis testing, measurement of variables, survey research design and sampling, qualitative interviewing, ethnography, experiments, content analysis, GIS, demography, and the ethics of research. Required of concentrators, ordinarily sophomores, and secondary concentrators. N Mary C. Waters spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 129 Education and Society Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 Examines the key role played by the educational system in reproducing and transforming modern society. Considers the purposes served by an educational system, the distinctiveness of the American educational system in comparison to other countries, the ways that education connects to the labor market in the U.S. and other societies, and why educational attainment is related to social class and ethnicity. N Mary C. Brinton spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 131 Economy, Society, and Change in East Asia Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Rapid economic development, with its consequent social change, has been a feature of modern East Asia, starting with the Japanese economic miracle, followed by Korea and Taiwan, and now China. While considering how the sudden development came about in these regions, the course will focus on the social issues that have arisen with the development process, and the relation of both economic patterns and social issues to particular national cultures, events, and traditions. N Eun Mi Mun spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 134 Theories of Power and Postcommunist Societies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course on contemporary social theory has a thematic focus on the concept of power (broadly defined), and an empirical focus on communist and post-communist societies including the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Cuba. Each week will pair readings from a particular school or theorist (Marx, Bourdieu, Foucault, etc.) with readings by authors who employ that theoretical perspective in their research on societies with a legacy of state socialism. Topics covered will include class, colonialism, culture, gender, and resistance. Some background in either social theory or communist societies is recommended. N Laura Adams fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 135 Labor, Power, and the Professions Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on the labor process, including its cultural and subjective aspects. It treats both the structure and experience of work, with an emphasis on the professions and on "flexible" labor. N Rachel Meyer spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 137 Money, Work, and Social Life Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 80 Examining different sectors of the economy from corporations and finance to households, immigrants, welfare, and illegal markets, we explore how in all areas of economic life people are creating, maintaining, symbolizing, and transforming meaningful social relations. Economic life, from this perspective, is as social as religion, family, or education. N Filiz Garip spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 138 Political Sociology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Who has power and authority in society? How did they get it? How do they keep it? And how do others wrest it away? These are the fundamental concerns of political sociology. In this course we will consider major theories of power and authority and ho they help explain politics and political institutions. The course will regularly examine contemporary political figures, institutions, groups, and issues to illustrate and interrogate core concepts. N fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 145 Urban Social Problems Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines first the process by which social phenomenon come to be identified as social problems, then turns to how sociologists have studied social problems from the beginning of the 20th century and onward. We conclude with a discussion of contemporary social problems in US cities (poverty, family structure, neighborhoods, labor markets, crime, and education), how they are framed, and policy solutions. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Daniyal Mohammad Zuberi spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 147 The Shareholder Value Management Revolution Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 Since the late 1970s, the American style of management has been revolutionized. This course reviews the history of American management strategies, focusing on the origins and effects of the shareholder value approach that now prevails among leading firms. Shareholder value traces its roots to America's lackluster performance in the global economy during the 1970s, and the prescriptions offered by agency theorists in the field of financial economics. We explore how the shareholder value approach was promoted in American firms. We look at how the approach has changed core corporate strategy, how it has affected corporate performance, and how it has shaped labor markets, income inequality, and global trade. Y Frank Dobbin fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 148 We Shall Overcome: Organizing Movements for Social Change Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the origins, dynamics, and effects of social movements using a sociological perspective. Examines when and why movements occur, the nature of leadership, strategy and decisionmaking, and the factors that affect the fate of movements. Also focuses on the organizing tradition and how activists mobilize others to create fundamental social change. N spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 153 Media and the American Mind Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores American society through the lens of its various media, including but not restricted to television, art, music and the internet. Topics include the production of reality television, advertising, identity and cultural consumption, hip hop culture, and social networking. Designed to be both fun and informative. Appropriate for sociology concentrators and non-concentrators alike. N fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 155 Class and Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines the intersection of social class and culture--both popular culture and "culture" in the anthropological sense. Focus on different class cultures as well as the cultural views of the class system, how social class is embedded in various high and popular cultural products such as art, music books, movies and material goods, and finally the question of how class is reproduced through culture. There will be several short research/analysis projects. N Timothy Nelson spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 156 Quantitative Methods in Sociology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces quantitative analysis in social research, including principles of research design and the use of empirical evidence, particularly from social surveys. Descriptive and inferential statistics, contingency table analysis, and regression analysis. Emphasis on analysis of data and presentation of results in research reports. Required of and limited to Sociology concentrators, ordinarily sophomores. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement in Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. Y Bruce Western spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 159 Social Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 70 Focuses on the efforts of private citizens, nonprofit, and for-profit initiatives, to respond to social needs through creative solutions. Topics covered: defining social good, assessing market, philanthropy, and government responses; developing an organizational mission; recognizing specific opportunities for social improvement; forming an enterprise that responds to those opportunities; developing organizational funding strategies; evaluating performance; leading the enterprise; and creating positive and sustainable social value. Enrollment by application and with permission of the instructor. Y Gordon Bloom spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 160 Medicine, Health Policy and Bioethics in Comparative and Global Perspective: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Complements Sociology 162. Examines the culture and political economy of biomedicine and health care institutions in the US and internationally. Analysis of current debates on medical education and the new professionalism; clinical narratives, the medical imaginary and the biotechnical embrace; cultural diversity, disparities and inequalities in medical and mental health care; medical error and quality of care; just use of societal resources; and bioethical dilemmas in clinical practice, medical missions and interventions, and international research and health policies. N Mary Jo DelVecchio Good spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 161 Globalization Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on the development of global capitalism and the relationship between markets, the state, and civil society. The course will pay particular attention to power and inequality, and to various forms of resistance against globalization. N Rachel Meyer spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 164 Successful Societies: Markers and Pathways Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 Analyzes the markers of societal success and the social conditions that sustain it. Discusses various indicators ranging from the standard economic measures to the human development index, inequality, resilience to shocks, educational, child development and health measures. Considers the role of cultural and institutional buffers (how cultural repertoires and myths feed strong collective identities, cultural and institutional supports for coping with stigma, models of citizenship and immigration, and multi-level governance and their impact on welfare and poverty). Similarly addresses factors that present major challenges, or 'wicked problems', like concentrated urban poverty, well-being of indigenous and other racialized groups and some of the solutions attempted. Particular attention will be put on the United States, Canada, and other advanced industrial societies and to the role of space, institutions, and culture in shaping the conditions for successful societies. Public policy implications will also be discussed. N Michele Lamont fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 165 Inequalities in Health Care Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Asks why certain social groups are at greater risk for more severe health problems (e.g., infant mortality, HIV/AIDS, cancer) and yet receive unequal health care in the US. Examines what best practices foster adequate delivery of healthcare services, mutual respect between patient and provider, and healthy living. Considers the role of government, the private sector, family and community. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Mary Ruggie spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 166 Sociology of Poverty Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 35 Examines sociological research on poverty and inequality and engages current debates about the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and other advanced industrialized countries. Explores policy approaches to reducing poverty and inequality. N Daniyal Mohammad Zuberi fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 167 Visualizing Human Rights and Social Change in Documentary Photography and Film Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 35 Explores role of documentary photography and film in promoting rights and advocating social change, particularly in the realm of human rights. Examines history of documentary film and photography in relationship to politics and the development of concerns in sociology with inequality and social justice. Looks at how individual documentarians, non-profit organizations and social movements use film and photography to further their goals and causes. A variety of documentary film and photography genres such as historical, biographical, ethnographic, satire, and political expose will be examined and compared to processes by which filmmakers and photographers engage in social documentation. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. Y Tamara Kay fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 171 Sociology of Crime and Punishment Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The US penal population now numbers more than 2.2 million people and nearly a third of all African American men will be sentenced to prison at some time in their lives. This course studies these and other crime and criminal justice trends, analyzing them from a sociological perspective. From this perspective crime and state responses to crime are historically variable and often rooted in conflicts over the status of marginal social groups. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as CCJ-202. N Bruce Western spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 172 Crime, Media, Law and Society Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Examines why crime stories have been consistently compelling to societies and citizens. Explores how crime narratives have been harnessed to advance various (and often overlapping) objectives, including political, ideological, journalistic, artistic and commercial aims. Analyzes the role and impact of crime narratives in contemporary society, and the responsibilities (if any) of the creators and consumers of these narratives. N Cory Way fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 175 Sociology of Immigration Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides an overview of important concepts and trends in US immigration studies. The course examines social, cultural, economic, and political trends. Answers such questions as: How are new immigrants and their children being incorporated into the US? How is American society changing as a result of immigration? And, what are the political and social responses of the American public toward immigration? N fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 178 Social Network Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Interests in social network analysis have exploded in the past few years. Aimed to examine social relationships and interactions from a structural perspective, social network analysis has become an essential tool for us to understand and address a variety of social issues, including friendship formation, peer influence, career mobility, socioeconomic inequality, organizational alliance and competition, economic development, international trade, diffusion of innovations, political mobilization, crime proliferation, spreading of diseases, etc. This course covers the basic concepts and theory in social network analysis, and major approaches and methods to collect, represent, visualize and analyze social network data. Students will also have the opportunity to learn using the mainstream software in social network analysis to conduct their own research on social networks. N Weihua An fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 179 Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Explores the causes and consequences of crime in society. Critically examines the role of key players in the American criminal justice system, including police, politicians, judges, lawyers, offenders, victims and the media. Considers historical, political and sociological dimensions of controversial issues in criminal justice practice and policy. N Cory Way fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 183 Race and Ethnic Relations Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on ethno-racial distinctions as they have played out in the US, particularly in the period from post-World War II to the present. The specific topics covered include the concept of race itself, sociological theories of racial and ethnic stratification, processes of assimilation, new and changing ethno-racial identities, and racial attitudes. In the process of addressing these large and cross-cutting topics we will also take up a host of related issues dealing with such matters as income and wealth differentials, schooling and its outcomes, crime and incarceration, families, interracial marriages, and racism and antiracism. N Seth Donal Hannah spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 190 Life and Death in the US: Medicine and Disease in Social Context Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores how biological and social factors jointly conspire to determine the health of individuals and populations. Examines how medical care, social networks, and socioeconomic inequality influence illness, recovery, and death. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for United States in the World or the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Nicholas Christakis spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 202 Intermediate Quantitative Research Methods Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Research designs and measurement techniques used in quantitative sociological research. Regression methods for continuous and binary response variables, including categorical predictors, nonlinearity interactions, diagnostics, and criticism. Emphasis on applications and implementation. Familiarity with basic statistics. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, first-year graduate students in Sociology Y Jason Beckfield fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 203 a Advanced Quantitative Research Methods Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Matrix approach to regression analysis with an emphasis on the assumptions behind OLS. Instrumental variables, generalized least squares, probit and logit models, survival analysis, hierarchical linear models, and systems of equations are studied. Sociology 202 or basic course in regression analysis. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, second-year graduate students in Sociology. Y Christopher Winship fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 204 Classical Social Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the formative ideas and socio-intellectual contexts of 19th and early 20th century sociological theory. Course will explore social thought from the perspective provided by the problem of social order - and the roles different thinkers attributed to such factors as solidarity, power, and meaning as solutions to this problem. Consideration of the continuing significance of these ideas for contemporary social thought. Required of and limited to first-year graduate students in Sociology. N Adam B. Seligman fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 205 Sociological Research Design Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course covers the fundamentals of social science research design. Emphasis is placed on principles that are applicable in all kinds of research, including surveys, participant observation, comparative historical study, and demographic analysis. The course also delves into current methodological controversies in several arenas. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, first-year graduate students in Sociology. Y Frank Dobbin spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 206 The Sociology of Development: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., 1-3 Martin K. Whyte Examines debates surrounding the nature of the process of economic development. Major attention is devoted to rival theories of where and why development occurs and to a variety of social consequences of economic development. N Martin K. Whyte fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 208 Contemporary Theory and Research: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Covers the development of sociology as a discipline in the US and the rise of distinct schools of sociological theory. Assesses the role of mechanisms in sociological theory and explores the use of theory in empirical research. Required of and limited to second-year graduate students in Sociology. Y Mary C. Brinton spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 209 Qualitative Social Analysis: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 10-12 Michele Lamont Examines approaches to non-numerical data used by social scientists to obtain valid, reliable, and meaningful insight into the social world through the analysis of ethnographic field notes, interview transcripts, and archival and other interpretative data. Required of and limited to first-year graduate students in Sociology. Y Michele Lamont spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 210 Issues in the Interpretation of Empirical Evidence: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Special problems occur in the interpretation of either qualitative or quantitative results based on non-experimental data--whether from surveys, historical research, or field work. These issues differ from those that can be resolved through statistical solutions. Y Stanley Lieberson fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 217 Sociology of Families and Kinship: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines research on family patterns, combining a focus on how family patterns vary and change over time and how individuals differ in their experience of life course transitions, such as marriage, divorce, and retirement. Y Martin K. Whyte fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 221 Immigration, Identity and Assimilation: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the experiences of recent immigrants and their children - the second generation. Review of economic, political, and social assimilation, and ethnic identity formation. Discussion of recent theories and research on the link between identity and economic assimilation. Y Mary C. Waters spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 224 Organizational Analysis: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Reviews classical and contemporary theories of organizations, including ecological, institutional, resource dependence, transaction-cost, agency theory, networks and social movements. Examines phenomena at multiple levels from the establishment to the organizational network or field. Offered jointly with the Business School as HBS 4880. This course will meet until spring break. Y Christopher G Marquis fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 226 The Sociology of Culture Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Y Orlando Patterson spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 231 Neighborhood Effects and Community-Level Social Processes Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines contemporary research on the role of neighborhoods in modern city life. Topics include segregation and neighborhood social isolation; social networks and trust; spatial forms of racial inequality; and the role of institutions in generating collective action. N Robert J. Sampson spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 234 Ethnographic Fieldwork Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar is about the practice, politics, and poetics of ethnographic fieldwork--the method of immersing oneself into people's daily routines and systematically recording social processes as they unfold in real time. Along with engaging with several classic and contemporary texts, participants will collect, analyze, and argue with ethnographic data. N Matthew Stephen Desmond spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 236 Selected Topics in Culture and Inequality Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to cultural sociology, particularly as it intersects with the study of inequality. Topics: Symbolic boundaries, cultural capital, cultural consumption, identity, race and class cultures, anti-racism, cultural repertoires, explanation, interpretation, and comparative research strategies. Y Michele Lamont fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 237 Contemporary Chinese Society: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A seminar devoted to the intensive analysis of a particular aspect of contemporary Chinese society. This year the focus will be on trends in inequality and stratification in China. N Martin K. Whyte spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 239 Just Institutions (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the normative, psychological, and sociological underpinnings needed to develop and maintain social institutions that are considered "just". The seminar will design and develop a General Education course for undergraduates. N Christopher Winship fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 243 Economic Sociology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to economic sociology at the graduate level. Surveys economic inequality and the ways that economic behavior and outcomes are shaped by social institutions such as markets, networks, organizations, family, and culture. Y Frank Dobbin spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 248 Race, Politics, and Social Inequality: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines intersection of race, public will, and policy-making. Reviews theories of race-making and racial inequality, dynamics of public opinion, and effects of a racialized public sphere on social policy. Focuses on the welfare state, the criminal justice system, and the dynamics of a multiethnic society. N Lawrence Bobo spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 254 Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The purpose of this course is to critically examine current writings and debates on how social structure and culture affect the social outcomes of the African Americans and immigrants in the US. The relevance of these works for public and social policy will also be discussed. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-207 (Formerly AAAS 211) N William Julius Wilson fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 255 Social Stratification: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Tu., 3-5 Clemens Ludwig Noelke This graduate level seminar surveys contemporary research in the field of social stratification. We will discuss competing explanations of and empirical scholarship on the emergence, historical evolution and cross-national variation of social inequalities. Our focus will be especially on inequalities in the education system and on the labor market. Y Clemens Noelke spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 263 Historical Sociology: Cultural and Institutional Perspectives Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The seminar examines selected major problems in the origins, development and consequences of capitalism both in and out of the West. Among the topics explored are: merchant capital in the late medieval and renaissance periods; institutional factors in the rise of Western capitalism; honorific individualism in the making of modern Japanese culture; colonialism and the institutional origins of development and underdevelopment; the role of religion, slavery and freedom; civility, aesthetic publics and emergent modernities; gender, sexuality and familial change. Our readings and discussions will be guided by the recurring theoretical problems of causality, origins, continuity and change in institutional and cultural processes. N Orlando Patterson fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 267 Political Sociology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course examines power relations between (and within) society and the state. We will focus on nation-state formation, revolutions, social movements, ideology and political attitudes, welfare state policies, and globalization, while interrogating the major theoretical traditions that have shaped the sociological study of politics. N Bart Bonikowski fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 275 Social Network Analysis: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Concepts and methods for studying social structure using social networks. Approaches to collecting network data; data quality; graph-theoretic, statistical, and visual approaches to analyzing network data, including blockmodels and multidimensional scaling. Y Peter V. Marsden fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 296 a Proseminar on Inequality & Social Policy I Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers the effects of policies and institutions in creating or reducing inequality in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, we well as the reciprocal effects of inequality on political activity and policy choices. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-921. Y Kathryn Edin Jeffrey B. Liebman full year Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 300 hf Workshop on Race: Black Youth Culture Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course A venue for graduate students and advanced scholars working on all aspects of minority-majority relations, the condition of Afro-Americans and other disadvantaged ethnic groups, and the evaluation of related public policies and programs. Y Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 301 Special Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 302 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 303 a Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Examines current methodological scholarship in the social sciences with an eye to assessing its quality and potential for advancing quantitative methods. Recently published and unpublished work by local scholars examined. Y Christopher Winship Christopher Winship fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 304 Culture and Social Analysis Workshop Reading Course Graduate Course Half course A venue for those working on topics such as meaning-making, identity, collective memory, symbolic boundaries, cultural capital, class cultures, popular culture, media, disciplinary cultures, and the impact of culture on inequality. Y Michele Lamont Michele Lamont fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 305 Teaching Practicum Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Required of and limited to graduate students in Sociology. Attendance at first meeting is required. Y David Laurence Ager fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 307 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy III Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Students develop previously completed papers from Sociology 296a or 296b into professional presentations and publishable articles, critique peer papers across disciplines, and discuss presentations of national experts. Sociology 296a and Gov 2340b (or SUP-921 and 922 at the Kennedy School) Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-923. Y Bruce Western fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 308 Workshop on Economic Sociology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Presentations and discussions of new research by members of the community and visiting scholars. Students are exposed to the major paradigms in the field, and see how research articles are developed and refined. Y Frank Dobbin Frank Dobbin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 309 Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Bi-weekly colloquium for graduate students that examines international migration and the incorporation of migrants into host societies. Students participate in meetings and present original work in progress. Y Mary C. Waters Mary C. Waters spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 310 a Qualifying Paper A Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Guides students through the process of producing an original research paper of high quality. Readings and discussion cover the identification of appropriate research problems, the nature of causal reasoning, and data analysis and write-up. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, second-year graduate students while writing the qualifying paper. Prerequisite to 310b, to be offered fall term. Y Filiz Garip fall term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 310 b Qualifying Paper B Research Workshop Graduate Course Half course Guides students through the process of producing an original research paper of high quality. Readings and discussion cover the identification of appropriate research problems, the nature of causal reasoning, and data analysis and write-up. 310a. Required of, and ordinarily limited to, third-year graduate students while writing the qualifying paper. Y Robert J. Sampson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 312 Workshop on Social Networks and Social Capital: Advanced Models and Empirical Applications Workshop Graduate Course Half course The workshop brings together quantitative sociologists working with advanced descriptive, computational, causal or network models to empirically analyze issues broadly related to social networks and social capital. Class meets bi-weekly. First class, September 8, 2011. Y Filiz Garip Filiz Garip fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 314 Workshop on Urban Social Processes Workshop Graduate Course Half course Forum for discussion of analytic sociological research on city and community. Covering a range of topics with a focus on social mechanisms, processes, and structures. The workshop aims to support the presentation of graduate student research but will also include discussion sessions on selected readings and work-in-progress by faculty at Harvard and colleagues around the country. First class, September 15, 2011. Y Robert J. Sampson Robert J. Sampson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 315 Inequality and Social Policy: Seminar Proseminar Graduate Course Half course Y Bruce Western Bruce Western fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 317 Culture, History and Society Workshop Primarily for Graduates Half course Class meets bi-weekly. First class September 9, 2011. Y Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson fall term; repeated spring term Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 320 Workshop on Sociology of Education Workshop Graduate Course Half course A forum for students and faculty across the university interested in the sociology of education, primarily for the discussion of research in progress. Domestic and comparative topics welcome. Meets bi-weekly, Fall and Spring. First class meeting is September 13, 2011. Y Mary C. Brinton Mary C. Brinton full year Department of Sociology Sociology Sociology 390 Health and Social Structure Reading and Research Graduate Course Full course Considers advanced topics in how supra-individual factors, such as social networks, neighborhoods, and health care organizations, contribute to individual health and longevity. Students develop and present original research plans and research. Course meets at Harvard Medical School. Y Nicholas Christakis Nicholas Christakis fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 101 a Introductory Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 101 b Introductory Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 102 a Intermediate Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 102 b Intermediate Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Michael Witzel and members of the Department This course is designed to provide students with a more sophisticated knowledge of Nepali grammar. Students will also have an opportunity to use Nepali language for communication purposes and will be able to analyze more complex sentence types than the ones taught in the introductory course. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 103 a Advanced Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A reading course in Modern Nepali Literature, suitable for students who have at least three years of Nepali learning.This course is designed to help students understand some of the complexLiterary materials composed in modern Nepali language. The students will have an opportunity to read a wide variety of selected texts, understand the linguistic systems operative in those writings, and come up with their own informed understanding of them. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 103 b Advanced Nepali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A reading course in Modern Nepali Literature, suitable for students who have at least three years of Nepali learning.This course is designed to help students understand some of the complexLiterary materials composed in modern Nepali language. The students will have an opportunity to read a wide variety of selected texts, understand the linguistic systems operative in those writings, and come up with their own informed understanding of them. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 104 a Readings in Modern Nepali Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A reading course in Modern Nepali Literature, suitable for students who have at least three years of Nepali learning. This course is designed to help students understand some of the complexLiterary materials composed in modern Nepali language. The students will have an opportunity to read a wide variety of selected texts, understand the linguistic systems operative in those writings, and come up with their own informed understanding of them N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 104 b Readings in Modern Nepali Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Michael Witzel and members of the Department A reading course in Modern Nepali Literature, suitable for students who have at least three years of Nepali learning. This course is designed to help students understand some of the complexLiterary materials composed in modern Nepali language. The students will have an opportunity to read a wide variety of selected texts, understand the linguistic systems operative in those writings, and come up with their own informed understanding of them. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 105 a Development of Nepali Language and Literature: Contributions of Local Languages Research Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates the impact of the various non-Nepali speaking groups (janajati)on Nepali literature, as well as their linguistic contributions. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Nepali 105 b Development of Nepali Language and Literature: Contributions of Local Languages Research Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates the impact of the various non-Nepali speaking groups (janajati)on Nepali literature, as well as their linguistic contributions. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Pali 101 a Introductory Pali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Considered sacred by the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia, as it was held to convey the actual "words of the Buddha", Pali came to be used as an authoritative, cosmopolitan language throughout the Theravada world. Pali texts display a rich variety of genres, including some of the earliest extant Indian poetry. The course is geared toward allowing the student to read Pali texts as quickly as possible. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Pali 102 a Intermediate Pali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Developing the skills gained in Introduction to Pali, the student reads texts of greater linguistic complexity in a wide variety of genres. The choice of text can be influenced by the students' particular interests. Where applicable, we will use the Pali commentarial tradition as a tool to understanding the texts, thus providing the student with access to this illuminating but challenging body of material. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Pali 102 b Intermediate Pali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Pali 102a. Pali 102a or equivalent. Y Michael Witzel fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Pali 103 r Readings in Pali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Michael Witzel Michael Witzel spring term Committee on South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Pali 101 b Introductory Pali Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Pali 101a. N Michael Witzel fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading leading to a long term paper in a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. A graded course. Offered at the discretion of the individual instructors. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of concentrators in the South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures option. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil full year Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Required of concentrators in the South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures option. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 100 r South Asian Language Tutorials Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individualized study of a South Asian language; emphasis on written expression, reading comprehension and oral fluency. Languages currently offered include Bengali and Thai though others may be approved upon petition to the Director of Undergraduate Studies/Director of Graduate Studies. Not open to auditors. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 101 a Elementary Sanskrit Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to Classical Sanskrit, the translocal language of intellectual life in South Asia for much of the last two millennia. This course provides the essential grammar and reading proficiency necessary to take up the language's many rich literary traditions: scripture (Upanisad), epic (Ramayana and Mahabbarata), poetry, Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, etc. After completing the textbook, we will read a narrative ( Hitopadesa) drawn from one of the most popular literary works in the pre-modern world. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 101 b Elementary Sanskrit Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Sanskrit 101a. N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 102 a Intermediate Sanskrit I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A reading course designed to give students the tools necessary for advanced study in Classical Sanskrit. Readings in epic (itihasa) or narrative (katha), poetry (kavya) or systematic thought (sastra) will introduce students to a variety of important genres and their distinctive conventions. A focus upon the Sanskrit tradition's categories of analysis - grammatical, commentarial and prosodic - will enable students to begin to make sense of original Sanskrit texts as generations of the tradition's own readers have. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 102 b Intermediate Sanskrit II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Sanskrit 102a. N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 200 ar Advanced Poetic Sanskrit Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Selected readings from inscriptions and documents. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 200 br Advanced Literary Sanskrit Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 201 ar Advanced Philosophical Sanskrit Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 201 br Advanced Philosophical Sanskrit Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic to be announced. N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 202 r Paninian Grammar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course offers a systematic introduction to the ingenious description of Sanskrit grammar, composed by Panini (c.350 BCE). This enduring tradition forms the basis of indigenous Sanskrit learning until today. Some subsequent texts of his school will also be read. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 204 ar Introduction to Vedic Sanskrit and Literature Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to Vedic grammar. Selection of texts from the Atharvaveda. At least one year of Sanskrit. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 205 br Readings from the Rgveda II Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings and discussions of the oldest Indian text. Reading knowledge of Sanskrit. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 206 r Readings in Sanskrit Narrative Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A reading course in genres of Sanskrit narrative literature, suitable for second-year students and above. Cross-listed as HDS 3782 N Anne E. Monius spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 214 Ritual Sutras Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading and discussion of Sutras and Paddhatis. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 215 Advanced Skt: Medieval Inscriptions Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Treatment of a neglected topic of Sanskrit studies. To be read are inscriptions in Sanskrit (and some in Prakrit), concentrating on the hyperbolic poetical style of the introductory verses and the technical language detailing the actual grants or proclamation. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 216 Advanced Skt: Kashmir drama/Prahasana texts Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Reading of classical Sanskrit texts with a regional, Kashmiri flavor.Concentrates on comedy texts in early drama and verse compositions by Ksemendra. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 217 Introduction to Vedic Studies: language and texts - (New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Presents a history of Vedic texts and religion. Reading of pertinent texts from the period, 1200-500 BCE. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 218 Advanced Skt: Upanisads - (New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Reading and interpretation of the earliest philosophical texts against their Vedic background found in the Brahmana texts. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 219 Atharvaveda - (New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Readings from the second-oldest Indian text, focusing on sorcery stanzas, speculative hymns and those devoted to public and private rituals. N Michael Witzel fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 301 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 310 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Sanskrit 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading of texts in Sanskrit not covered by regular courses of instruction. A graded course. Offered at the discretion of the individual instructors. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading leading to a long term paper in a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. A graded course. Offered at the discretion of the individual instructors. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Required of concentrators in the South Asian Studies option. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil full year Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 99 r Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Required of concentrators in the South Asian Studies option. Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 123 Bollywood and Beyond: Commercial Cinema, Language and Culture in South Asia. Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 This course examines concepts of personhood, community and culture in South Asia as expressed in contemporary film and literature. Works in Hindi-Urdu and in translation will be examined with emphasis on language as an index of cultural difference and of broad social shifts, notably the transformation of audiences from citizens to culture-consumers. Knowledge of Hindi-Urdu is not required. However, there will be a section for students with intermediate proficiency utilizing language materials. Students who enroll in the language section of this course may count it towards a citation in Urdu-Hindi. Y Richard Somers Delacy spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 124 Introduction to World Mythology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course discusses current and past approaches to comparative mythology and explores the new field of historical comparative mythology. Close interdisciplinary attention is given to genetics, linguistics and archaeology, and an outline of the development of mythologies from the late Stone Age until the rise of current world religions is presented. N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 205 r South Asia as Understood by its Regions Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Topic: Tamilnadu This seminar examines the cultural, economic, and political history of the Tamil-speaking region of southern India and the place of that region in broader understandings of South Asian history and culture. previous and substantial coursework in South Asian Studies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as HDS 3418 N Anne E. Monius fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 218 Special Topics in Indian Philosophy Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 220 Brahmanas: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The Brahmana-style texts are the earliest Sanskrit and some of the earliest Indo-European prose texts. They discuss the Srauta ritual, employing an 'identification' technique correlating ritual, Macrocosm and Microcosm. They frequently employ mythological and aitiological tales. This technique will be discussed while reading a selections from the earliest texts (Maitrayani Samhita, c. 1000 BCE) to the latest (Upanisads). N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 221 Manuscripts, Palaeography and Text Editing Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 223 Indian History up to 1200 CE Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Outline of the major cultural, religious and political developments, from the first human settlement around 65,000 CE. Concentrates on Indus civilization, the Vedic age, the pan-Indian Maurya empire, the interregnum up to the Guptas empire, the regional power centers of the Middle Ages. N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 224 Rebirth and Karma -(New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Discusses the origin and development of the seminal Indian concepts of Rebirth and Karma as well as their eventual combination in the Upanishadic period. Follows some of their developments in the subsequent texts and beliefs of the past 2500 years N Michael Witzel fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 225 South Asia through its Regions: Comparison of the Himalayan region with Tamil Nadu -(New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course N Michael Witzel spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 226 Indian Rites, Customs, and Beliefs (new course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Focuses on little studied aspects of personal beliefs, customs followed in various parts of the subcontinent, and rites connected with them. Comparisons of Hindu and Muslim aspects, leading up to a picture of South Asian life style. N Michael Witzel fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies South Asian Studies 302 Reading and Research Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Parimal G. Patil Michael Witzel Ali Asani Diana L. Eck Parimal G. Patil Michael Witzel Ali Asani Diana L. Eck fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 101 a Elementary Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course is an introductory course to the oldest of the Dravidian languages of South India. Tamil has a rich and well-developed literary tradition that ranges from ancient classical poetry and medieval devotional compositions and epics to the present-day where the modern novel, short story and drama coexist with vibrant traditions of folk poetry and folk drama. Students will be introduced to the Tamil script and to reading, writing, and speaking the Tamil language and to basic elements of grammar. Materials from popular culture and the folk tradition will supplement modern teaching materials. N Richard A. Frasca spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 101 b Elementary Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Tamil 101a. N Richard A. Frasca fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 102 a Intermediate Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is a course in Second Year Tamil that will focus on reading, writing, and speaking the Tamil language at an Intermediate Level. Students will read Tamil essays, short stories, and published literature as well as materials from the Tamil folk tradition. There will also be a significant emphasis on using spoken and written Tamil. Tamil cinema and audiovisual materials presenting contemporary and traditional Tamil culture will be used as supplementary class material. N Richard A. Frasca spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 102 b Intermediate Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Tamil 102a. N Richard A. Frasca fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 103 a Advanced Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This is a course in Third Year Tamil that will focus on reading, writing, and speaking the Tamil language at an Advanced Level. Students will begin the course with the reading of published short stories and essays and then move on to more advanced materials from journalistic, academic, and literary writing. Audiovisual materials from Tamil cinema, popular culture and the folk tradition will supplement modern teaching materials. N Richard A. Frasca spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tamil 103 b Advanced Tamil Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Tamil 103a. N Richard A. Frasca fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 101 a Introductory Thai I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Given in alternate years. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 101 b Introductory Thai II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Given in alternate years. N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 102 a Intermediate Thai I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A two-term continuation of the study of Thai at the intermediate level. Students build on acquired proficiency at the elementary level (or its equivalent) towards achieving more fluency in reading, speaking, writing, and listening comprehension of standard Thai, as well as in cultural-social skills. Introduces new vocabulary and grammar through communicative tasks and text readings, mainly using the situational-communicative methodology. Successful completion of Elementary Thai (or equivalent) is required. Continuing students who did not take Introductory Thai, as well as new students, are encouraged to talk to the instructor prior to registration. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 102 b Intermediate Thai II Tutorial For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Thai 102a. N Parimal G. Patil fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 103 ar Readings in Thai I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Parimal G. Patil spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 103 br Readings in Thai II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Thai 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Parimal G. Patil Parimal G. Patil fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading of texts in Tibetan not covered by regular courses of instruction. N Leonard van der Kuijp Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 101 a Elementary Classical Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 101 b Elementary Classical Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tibetan 101a. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 102 a Intermediate Classical Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An intermediate classical Tibetan course emphasizing reading and translation of various Tibetan texts covering different genres, such as religious history, biography of Tibetan masters and folk literature writings. Please check the course website for the most updated information. Tibetan 101a and 101b or equivalent courses. N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 102 b Intermediate Classical Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of 102a. 101a, 101b or equivalent courses. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 104 ar Elementary Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 104 br Elementary Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp and members of the Department Continuation of Tibetan 104ar. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 105 ar Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 105 br Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 106 ar Advanced Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tibetan 101 and 102, or equivalent. N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 106 br Advanced Colloquial Tibetan Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tibetan 101 and 102, or equivalent. N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 202 r Readings in Advanced Philosophical Tibetan Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp Focuses on the analyses of conceptual knowledge in early Tibetan philosophical texts (1100-1250). N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 203 Readings in Madhyamaka/Dbu ma Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 219 Tibetan Religious Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course The readings will be drawn from works on the moral life and the condition of auspiciousness, by Rong-zom Chos-bzang (11th century); Sa-skya Pandita (1182-1251); and Taranatha (1575-1634). At least one previous year of classical Tibetan is required. An intermediate to advanced reading class on Tibetan religious literature. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3831. N Janet Gyatso spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 223 b The Life and Times of Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1292-1361), Part Two Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 227 History of Tibetology: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 230 Readings in the Life of the Kashmirian Scholar Shakyashribhadra: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Various Tibetan biographies of the life of this influencial scholar will be examined and special problem areas will be analyzed in full detail. Reading knowledge of Tibetan. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 231 Introduction to Tibetan Historiography Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings will be excerpted from different Tibetan chronicles Tibetan 101 or equivalent. N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 232 Readings in Eighteenth Century Biographies Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 233 a The Life and Times of Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1292-1361), Part One Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 233 b The Life and Times of Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1292-1361), Part Two Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 234 Readings in the Letters and Instructions of Spyan snga Grags pa byung gnas (1175-1255), abbot of Bri gung and Gdan sa mthil -(New Course) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 235 Introduction in traditional Tibetan government documents (gzhung yig) Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Leonard van der Kuijp fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Leonard van der Kuijp Leonard van der Kuijp fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Tibetan 302 Direction of AM Theses Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Leonard van der Kuijp Leonard van der Kuijp fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 91 r Urdu-Hindi Supervised Readings Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Instruction in Urdu Hindi in topics not covered in the regular curriculum. Offered at the discretion of the instructors. Not open to auditors. Y Ali Asani Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines Ali Asani Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines full year Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 101 Introductory Urdu-Hindi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course An introduction to the lingua franca of the subcontinent in its "Hindustani" form. Students are introduced to both the Perso-Arabic and the Devanagari script systems. Conventional teaching materials are supplemented by popular songs and video clips from Bollywood. Not open to auditors. N Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines full year Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 102 Intermediate Urdu-Hindi Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Full course Continuation of Urdu 101. Emphasis on written expression and texts in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari script systems. Students are introduced to Urdu/Hindi fables, short stories, and various other genres of literature, including poetry. Urdu 101 or equivalent. Not open to auditors. N Richard Somers Delacy Richard Somers Delacy fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 103 a Advanced Urdu-Hindi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Urdu 102; covers topics in advanced grammar; designed to improve proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Urdu 102 or equivalent. N Naseem A. Hines spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 103 b Advanced Urdu-Hindi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Continuation of Urdu 103a. N Naseem A. Hines fall term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 104 The Classical Urdu Ghazal and Its Symbolism: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of the popular literary genre including selections from poets such as Wali Dakkani, Siraj Aurangabadi, Mir Dard, Haidar Ali Atish, Mirza Ghalib, and others. Special attention to religious and mystical symbolism. Urdu 102 or equivalent. N Naseem A. Hines fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 105 r Topics in Urdu-Hindi Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Individual reading course. A course for students with native or near-native proficiency with readings in a variety of genres from Urdu and/or Hindi literature based on student interest. N Ali Asani Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines Ali Asani Richard Somers Delacy Naseem A. Hines fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 106 r Advanced Oral Proficiency in Urdu-Hindi Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A course intended to raise levels of oral proficiency for advanced students and consolidate command over complex grammatical structures. By the end of the term, students will be expected to converse in a clearly participatory fashion, initiate, sustain and bring closure to a wide variety of communicative tasks using diverse strategies. Urdu 103 or Instructor's permission. N Naseem A. Hines Naseem A. Hines fall term; repeated spring term Department of South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Urdu 300 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Ali Asani Ali Asani fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Special Concentrations Special Concentrations Special Concentrations 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to Special Concentrations concentrators who wish to pursue supervised study for graded credit in an area not covered by courses currently offered by regular Departments and Committees. Students must secure the written approval of the faculty member with whom they wish to study and the signature of the Faculty Adviser and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Special Concentrations. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Special Concentrations Special Concentrations Special Concentrations 96 r Senior Projects Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Designed for seniors in their final term completing their senior project to meet the Basic (rather than Honors) requirements for concentration. May be repeated with the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Faculty Adviser. Students must secure the written approval of the faculty member with whom they wish to study and the signature of the Faculty Adviser and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Special Concentrations. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Special Concentrations Special Concentrations Special Concentrations 97 r Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Ordinarily taken by honors sophomores. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Special Concentrations Special Concentrations Special Concentrations 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Successful completion two terms of *Special Concentrations 98r are ordinarily required of all honors concentrators in their junior year. Exceptions to this can only be granted with the consent of the Faculty Adviser and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Special Concentrations. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster full year Committee on Special Concentrations Special Concentrations Special Concentrations 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Ordinarily taken by honors seniors as a full course. Either half year may be taken as a half course only with the consent of the Faculty Adviser and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Special Concentrations. Graded Sat/Unsat. Y Deborah Foster Deborah Foster fall term; repeated spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Supervised reading and research in an area of statistics agreed upon by the student and a faculty adviser. Normally may not be taken more than twice; may be counted once for concentration credit in Statistics, if taken for a letter grade; may be taken in either term; for further information, consult Co-Directors of Undergraduate Studies. Y Joseph K. Blitzstein David Harrington David Harrington Joseph K. Blitzstein spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 98 Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to reading, writing, presenting, and research in statistics. Students will learn to formulate and approach a research question, critically review papers that make use of statistics, and clearly communicate statistical ideas and arguments orally and in writing. Limited to junior concentrators in statistics. Y David Harrington Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak full year Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 99 hf Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The systematic application of statistical ideas to a problem area. Y David Harrington Joseph K. Blitzstein David Harrington Joseph K. Blitzstein fall term; repeated spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 100 Introduction to Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences and Humanities Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to key ideas underlying statistical and quantitative reasoning. Topics covered: methods for organizing, summarizing and displaying data; elements of sample surveys, experimental design and observational studies; methods of parameter estimation and hypothesis testing in one- and two-sample problems; regression with one or more predictors; correlation; and analysis of variance. Explores applications in a wide range of fields, including the social and political sciences, medical research, and business and economics. Only one of the following courses may be taken for credit: Statistics 100, 101, 104. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Mark Glickman David Harrington fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 101 Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Similar to Statistics 100, but emphasizes concepts and practice of statistics used in psychology and other social and behavioral sciences. Topics covered: describing center and variability; probability and sampling distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing for comparing means and comparing proportions; contingency tables; correlation and regression; multiple regression; analysis of variance. Emphasis on translation of research questions into statistically testable hypotheses and models, and interpretation of results in context. Only one of the following courses may be taken for credit: Statistics 100, 101, 104. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Lindsay Coleman Page fall term; repeated spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 104 Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Similar to Statistics 100, but emphasizes applications in fields including, but not limited to, economics, health sciences and policy analysis. Topics covered: descriptive and summary statistics for both measured and counted variables; elements of experimental and survey design; probability; and statistical inference including estimation and tests of hypotheses as applied to one- and two-sample problems, multiple regression, correlation, and analysis of variance. Taught at a slightly higher level than Statistics 100 and 101. Only one of the following courses may be taken for credit: Statistics 100, 101, 104. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning or the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Michael Isaac Parzen Michael Isaac Parzen spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 107 Introduction to Business and Financial Statistics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Michael Isaac Parzen This course introduces the technical skills required for data-driven analysis of business and financial data. Emphasis is placed on applying statistical methods to summarize and make inferences from complex data and to develop quantitative models to assist business decision making. The software packages Excel and R will be used to obtain quantitative solutions to financial problems. Topics include: understanding the concept of risk, portfolio construction and analysis, valuing options, testing trading systems, and simulation techniques. Statistics 100, 101, 104 or equivalent N Michael Isaac Parzen fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 110 Introduction to Probability Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A comprehensive introduction to probability. Basics: sample spaces and events, conditional probability, and Bayes' Theorem. Univariate distributions: density functions, expectation and variance, Normal, t, Binomial, Negative Binomial, Poisson, Beta, and Gamma distributions. Multivariate distributions: joint and conditional distributions, independence, transformations, and Multivariate Normal. Limit laws: law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Markov chains: transition probabilities, stationary distributions, convergence. Mathematics 19a, 20, 21a, or above. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Quantitative Reasoning. N Joseph K. Blitzstein spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 111 Introduction to Theoretical Statistics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Basic concepts of statistical inference from frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. Topics include maximum likelihood methods, confidence and Bayesian interval estimation, hypothesis testing, least squares methods and categorical data analysis. Mathematics 19a and 19b or equivalent and Statistics 110. N Edoardo Maria Airoldi spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 115 Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will cover basic technology platforms, data analysis problems and algorithms in computational biology. Topics include sequence alignment and search, high throughput experiments for gene expression, transcription factor binding and epigenetic profiling, motif finding, RNA/protein structure prediction, proteomics and genome-wide association studies. Computational algorithms covered include hidden Markov model, Gibbs sampler, clustering and classification methods. Good quantitative skills, strong interest in biology, willingness and diligence to learn programming. N Xiaole (Shirley) Liu Jun Liu spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 123 Applied Quantitative Finance on Wall Street Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to modern financial derivative markets and the probabilistic and statistical techniques used to navigate them. Methodology will largely be motivated by real problems from the financial industry. Topics include: interest-rates; forward and futures contracts; option markets and probabilistic valuation methods; interest-rate derivatives and structured notes; electronic trading and performance evaluation. Designed for those seeking an understanding of the quantitative challenges on Wall Street and the probabilistic tool-kit developed to address them. Statistics 110 or equivalent. N Stephen Blyth fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 131 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to time series models and associated methods of data analysis and inference. Auto regressive (AR), moving average (MA), ARMA, and ARIMA processes, stationary and non-stationary processes, seasonal processes, auto-correlation and partial auto-correlation functions, identification of models, estimation of parameters, diagnostic checking of fitted models, forecasting, spectral analysis, and transfer function models. Statistics 111 and 139 or equivalent. N Tirthankar Dasgupta fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 135 Statistical Computing Software Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 An introduction to major statistics packages used in academics and industry (SAS and R). Will discuss data entry and manipulation, implementing standard analyses and graphics, exploratory data analysis, simulation-based methods, and new programming methods. Statistics 110 and 139 (may be taken concurrently) or with permission of instructor. N Steven R. Finch fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 139 Statistical Sleuthing Through Linear Models Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A serious introduction to statistical inference with linear models and related methods. Topics include t-tools and permutation-based alternatives, multiple-group comparisons, analysis of variance, linear regression, model checking and refinement, and causation versus correlation. Emphasis on thinking statistically, evaluating assumptions, and developing tools for real-life applications. Statistics 100 or equivalent and Mathematics 19a and 19b or equivalent. N Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 140 Design of Experiments Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Statistical designs for efficient experimentation in physical, chemical, biological, social and management sciences and in engineering. A systematic approach to explore input-output relationships by deliberately manipulating input variables. Topics include analysis of variance, completely randomized and randomized block designs, Latin square designs, balanced incomplete block designs, factorial designs, confounding in blocks, fractional replications, orthogonal arrays, and response surface designs. Each topic is motivated by a real-life example. Statistics 100 or equivalent and Mathematics 19a and 19b. N Tirthankar Dasgupta Donald B. Rubin spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 149 Statistical Sleuthing through Generalized Linear Models Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A sequel to Statistics 139, emphasizing common methods for analyzing categorical data. Topics include mixed effects model, contingency tables, log-linear models, logistic, Probit and Poisson regression, model selection, and model checking. Examples will be drawn from several fields, particularly from biology and social sciences. Statistics 139 or with permission of instructor. N Natesh S Pillai fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 160 Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Methods for design and analysis of sample surveys. The toolkit of sample design features and their use in optimal design strategies. Sampling weights and variance estimation methods, including resampling methods. Brief overview of nonstatistical aspects of survey methodology such as survey administration and questionnaire design and validation (quantitative and qualitative). Additional topics: calibration estimators, variance estimation for complex surveys and estimators, nonresponse, missing data, hierarchical models, and small-area estimation. Statistics 111 or 139 or with permission of instructor. N Alan Zaslavsky spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 170 Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Finance Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces stochastic analysis tools to be used as a basis for developing continuous-time asset pricing theory. Various quantitative methods widely used in the financial industry for valuing derivative products will be presented: binomial-tree valuation methods, extensions of the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, numerical techniques for solving partial differential equations, and Monte Carlo simulations. Statistics 110 and 111 or equivalent. N spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 171 Introduction to Stochastic Processes Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introductory course in stochastic processes. Topics include Markov chains, branching processes, Poisson processes, birth and death processes, Brownian motion, martingales, introduction to stochastic integrals, and their applications. Statistics 110 or equivalent. N Samuel Kou fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 210 Probability Theory Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Random variables, measure theory, reasoning by representation. Families of distributions: Multivariate Normal, conjugate, marginals, mixtures. Conditional distributions and expectation. Convergence, laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, and martingales. Statistics 110 or equivalent required; Statistics 111 or equivalent recommended. N Joseph K. Blitzstein spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 211 Statistical Inference Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Inference: frequency, Bayes, decision analysis, foundations. Likelihood, sufficiency, and information measures. Models: Normal, exponential families, multilevel, and non-parametric. Point, interval and set estimation; hypothesis tests. Computational strategies, large and moderate sample approximations. Statistics 111 and 210 or equivalent. N Carl N. Morris Joseph K. Blitzstein fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 212 Advanced Stochastic Processes Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Brownian motion, Martingales, Central limit theorems and Stein's method, Poisson random measures, Approximations (Delta method, Edgeworth, etc.), Inequalities, Elements of Stochastic integrals. Statistics 210 or Statistics 211 or with permission of instructor. N Natesh S Pillai spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 215 Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Meets with Statistics 115, but graduate students are required to do more coding, complete a research project and submit a written report during reading period in addition to completing all work assigned for Statistics 115. Good quantitative skills, strong interest in biology, good programming skills in C/C++, Java, Perl or Python. N Xiaole (Shirley) Liu Jun Liu fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 220 Bayesian Data Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Basic Bayesian models, followed by more complicated hierarchical and mixture models with nonstandard solutions. Includes methods for monitoring adequacy of models and examining sensitivity of models. Statistics 110 and 111. Emphasis throughout term on drawing inferences via computer simulation rather than mathematical analysis. N Jun Liu spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 221 Statistical Computing and Learning Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Computational methods commonly used in statistics: random number generation, optimization methods, numerical integration, Monte Carlo methods including Metropolis-Hastings and Gibbs samplers, approximate inference techniques including Expectation-Maximization algorithms, Laplace approximation and variational methods, data augmentation strategies. Linear algebra, Statistics 111, and knowledge of a computer programming language (R or Matlab) required; Statistics 220 recommended. Computer programming exercises will apply the methods discussed in class. N fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 230 Multivariate Statistical Analysis Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Multivariate inference and data analysis. Advanced matrix theory and distributions, including Multivariate Normal, Wishart, and multilevel models. Supervised learning: multivariate regression, classification, and discriminant analysis. Unsupervised learning: dimension reduction, principal components, clustering, and factor analysis. Statistics 110 and 111. N Samuel Kou fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 231 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Meets with Statistics 131, but graduate students will be exposed to a more rigorous treatment of time series analysis. Statistics 111 and 139 or equivalent. N Tirthankar Dasgupta spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 232 Topics in Missing Data Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course N Donald B. Rubin fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 240 Matched Sampling and Study Design Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course provides an accessible introduction to the study of matched sampling and other design techniques in any field (e.g., economics, education, epidemiology, medicine, political science, etc.) conducting empirical research to evaluate the causal effects of interventions. Statistics 110, Statistics 111, and Statistics 139. N Donald B. Rubin Tirthankar Dasgupta fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 244 Linear and Generalized Linear Models Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course The theory and application of generalized linear models, including models for binary and multinomial data, models for count data, overdispersion and quasi likelihood methods, and models and methods for clustered (e.g., repeated measurement) data. Strong statistics background required (at the second-year graduate level), Statistics 210 may be taken concurrently, Statistics 211 desirable. Y Alan Agresti spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 245 Statistics and Litigation Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Students work in teams with law students to analyze data, prepare expert reports, and give testimony. Course teaches how to analyze data, present results to untrained but intelligent users, and defend conclusions. A graduate course in data analysis, such as Statistics 220, Government 2001, or Economics 2120. N Daniel James Greiner II fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 260 Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Meets with Statistics 160, but graduate students will have an extended class period and complete additional assignments for a more theoretical, in-depth treatment of topics. Statistics 110, 111, and 139 or with permission of instructor. N Alan Zaslavsky spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 265 Statistical Mathematics (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Students will help develop a course which interweaves calculus, probability, and statistics. Statistical thinking will be used to illuminate calculus concepts, e.g., by connecting integration to expectation, differentiation to estimation, and Taylor series to regression. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. Y Xiao-Li Meng Joseph K. Blitzstein spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 270 Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Finance Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Meets with Statistics 170, but graduate students will be exposed to a more rigorous treatment of stochastic calculus. Statistics 110 and 171 or equivalent. N spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 285 r Statistical Machine Learning Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 20 Hands-on introduction to network statistics, with applications to social, biological and communication networks. Topics in sampling designs and inference. Modeling network evolution. Processes on networks. Critical literature review, in class-presentations, and final projects. Familiarity with estimation and inference techniques, and knowledge of a computer programming language (R or Matlab) required; Statistics 220 or 221 recommended. Computer programming exercises will apply the methods discussed in class. Y Edoardo Maria Airoldi fall term; repeated spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 301 Special Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 302 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y full year Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 303 hf The Art and Practice of Teaching Statistics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Required of all first-year doctoral students in Statistics. Y Xiao-Li Meng Xiao-Li Meng Edoardo Maria Airoldi full year Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 310 hfr Topics in Astrostatistics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Xiao-Li Meng Xiao-Li Meng fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 311 Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Statistics 220 or equivalent. Y Jun Liu spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 312 Estimation Problems for Stochastic Processes Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Focusing on inference problems for stochastic processes and statistical modeling, we will discuss key papers chosen from different fields. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own research problems in this active area of research. Y Natesh S Pillai spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 321 Stochastic Modeling and Bayesian Inference Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Stochastic processes and their applications in biological, chemical and financial modeling. Bayesian inference about stochastic models based on the Monte Carlo sampling approach. Y Samuel Kou spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 324 r Parametric Statistical Inference and Modeling Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Theory of multi-level parametric models, including hidden Markov models, and applications likely to include biostatistics, health services, education, and sports. Y Carl N. Morris spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 340 Random Network Models Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Random graph models for biological, social, and information networks, including fixed degree, exponential, power law, small world, and geometric random graphs. Estimation and sampling methods for network data. Y Joseph K. Blitzstein spring term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 341 Advanced Topics in Experimental Design Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Tirthankar Dasgupta fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 365 Reading Fisher Seminar Graduate Course Half course Exploration of the statistical contributions of R.A. Fisher through study of his writings. Both deeply influential and deeply controversial ideas will be discussed; topics include sufficiency, information, ancillarity, randomization, experimental design, likelihood, and fiducial inference. Y Xiao-Li Meng Joseph K. Blitzstein fall term Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 392 Research Topics in Missing Data, Matching and Causality Research Seminar Graduate Course Half course Students will make at least one presentation on current research in applied or theoretical statistics. All registered students are expected to participate by offering commentary/suggestions during presentations. This is a requirement to obtain credit. Y Donald B. Rubin full year Department of Statistics Statistics Statistics 399 hf Problem Solving in Statistics Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Aimed at helping Statistics PhD students transition through the qualifying exams and into research. Y Carl N. Morris Carl N. Morris fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 10 Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Fundamental concepts in developmental biology will be presented within the framework of the developing and regenerating mammal. Where possible, lectures will focus on humans. Concurrent enrollment in Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Science of Living Systems or the Core area requirement for Science B. N Douglas Melton Kevin Eggan Andrew P. McMahon spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 90 Classic Experiments in Developmental Biology Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Tu., 7-9 p.m. Douglas A. Melton This course will introduce students to classic experiments in developmental biology. We will explore the historical background, experimental design, and results of a handful of experiments that have defined the field of developmental biology and changed our understanding of the discipline. Students will read primary literature and, in turn, present the conclusions in written and oral formats. SCRB 10 or permission of the instructor. Y Douglas Melton fall term; repeated spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 91 r Introduction to Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Laboratory research in topics related to the Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology Concentration under the direction of, or approved by, members of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Principal Faculty of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, or others with permission. A paper must be submitted to the laboratory sponsor and to the HDRB Concentration Office for review by the Course Director and Head Tutors. Limited to Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology Concentrators; written permission of the laboratory sponsor must be submitted to the HDRB Concentration Office prior to enrolling in the course. This introductory research course is intended to prepare students for SCRB 99 and may ordinarily be repeated no more than once. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. Laboratory safety session required. Y William J. Anderson William J. Anderson full year Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 99 Laboratory Research for Honors Thesis Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For honors candidates writing a thesis in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology. Students intending to enroll in the fall are required to submit a written proposal to the Course Director. Students may enter the course at midyear only with the permission of the Course Director. The thesis proposal must be approved by the Course Director and Head Tutors prior to enrolling in SCRB 99. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course. Laboratory safety session required. Y William J. Anderson William J. Anderson spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 125 Nuclear Reprogramming and Developmental Plasticity Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will focus on the biology of organismal cloning, cellular reprogramming, and developmental plasticity. The roll that stem cells play in these processes and the genetic and molecular circuitry that underlie developmental potency and reprogramming will be discussed. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54, or permission of the instructor. N Dr Konrad Hochedlinger Dr David Thomas Scadden William J. Anderson fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 130 Biomedical Entrepreneuring: Turning Ideas into Medicine Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Medicines and other therapeutics have revolutionized the treatment of many diseases. Few of us pause to consider how these products are developed from an initial discovery in the lab to the treatment of patients. This course will consider this journey by incorporating scientific, biotechnology, intellectual property, venture capital, and business perspectives. In addition to lectures, students will work on group projects to chart a strategy toward bringing a novel biomedical idea to the clinic. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 52, or permission of the instructor. Y Dr Derrick J Rossi spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 140 Developmental and Molecular Basis of Growth and Regeneration Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will focus on the biology of organ growth and regeneration from a developmental perspective. How is the size and symmetry of our organs set? How does a regenerating animal sense that something is missing and eventually stop the regenerative process when tissues reform? We will learn about conserved developmental pathways that are necessary for adult regeneration and discuss how the aberrant activation of these pathways can lead to overgrowth disorders such as cancer. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54, or permission of the instructor. N Fernando D. Camargo fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 150 Human Genetics: Mining Our Genomes for an Understanding of Human Variation and Disease Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The sequencing of the human genome has revealed the full extent of genetic variation that exists within us as a species. This genetic diversity underlies much of our physical variation as well as our differences in responsiveness to disease stimuli and their treatments. We will explore these and other ramifications of human genetic diversity by applying classical and contemporary genetic tools to the identification of specific genes and pathways that functionally underlie our variable biology. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b (or equivalent); SCRB 10 or MCB 52. N Kevin Eggan Dr Kiran Musunuru spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 155 Epigenetic Regulation in Stem Cells and Development Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cloning of Dolly the sheep suggests that all of our cells have exactly the same genes as a fertilized egg. If this is true, then how is it that each of our cells reads out those genes differently? This course will explain the developmental events that regulate the expression of genes, as well as how this developmental expression is established and maintained. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; MCB 52; SCRB 10 or permission of the instructor. N Alexander Meissner spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 157 The RNA World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will introduce classic experiments and examples of functional RNA genes that comprise the ever-emerging "RNA world." We will explore diverse classes of RNA genes and their biochemical mechanisms including overviews of relevant technologies leading to these principal findings. Lecture topics will be followed by students reading and presenting related primary literature. Collectively this course will provide an opportunity to explore the wide spectrum of cellular processes involving RNA molecules. Life Sciences 1a or equivalent; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10; MCB 52 or permission of the instructor. N Dr John L Rinn fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 160 Experimental Embryology: From Stem Cells to Tissues and Back Again Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 This advanced laboratory course will apply experimental approaches and surgical techniques to illustrate critical developmental events during mouse embryogenesis. Particular emphasis will be placed on experiments covering the following topics: fertilization and pre-implantation embryology; reprogramming of adult somatic cells into embryonic stem cells; early organ development; and surgical manipulation of late stage mouse embryos in utero. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 118 or MCB 54. Y Paola Arlotta spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 162 Experimental Regenerative Biology Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This laboratory course will allow advanced undergraduate students to explore classical and modern experimental models of regeneration, and through experimentation, understand the important concepts and key challenges of the regenerative biology field. We will focus in particular on the regeneration of complex tissues and entire organ systems using both invertebrate and vertebrate models, including the planarian worm, the salamander, and the mouse. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54, or permission of the instructor. Y Qiao Zhou spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 165 Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells Lecture and Lab For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 24 This practical laboratory course will investigate the fundamental biology of human embryonic stem cells and their remarkable capacity to differentiate into all cells of the body. The underlying developmental pathways that guide embryonic stem cell development into these differentiated cell types will be explored. A chemical biology approach will also be used to probe properties of normal and disease model cells derived from embryonic stem cells. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a, or permission of instructor. Y Chad Cowan spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 167 Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Pathobiology and Treatment of Human Disease Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Stem cells are the basis for tissue maintenance and repair, thus, are essential elements of normal organ and tissue physiology. Stem cells are also targets for disease processes and through transplantation are important therapeutic agents. This course will allow advanced undergraduates to explore how stem cells and tissue regeneration impact human disease pathogenesis and how stem cells might be exploited to advance new therapies for disease. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10; MCB 52 or MCB 54. Y Dr George Quentin Daley fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 170 Heart Stem Cell Therapeutics: A Case Study for Regenerative Medicine Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Heart stem cell therapeutics is a paradigm for regenerative medicine. Multipotent "master" heart progenitors are revolutionizing our understanding of human cardiogenesis and its relationship to disease. Issues such as delivery, grafting, survival, rejection, scalability, tissue engineering, unwanted side effects, and imaging have all arisen when considering cell transplantation therapies. This course will examine the prospects and problems of heart stem cell therapeutics from multiple perspectives, e.g., scientific, medical, philanthropic, drug discovery/safety, governmental, ethical, and financial. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54, or permission of the instructor. N Dr Kenneth Chien fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 175 Glucose: From Molecule to Society Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We will explore the biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology that make glucose our main source of energy. How did humans depend on and crave this molecule? What consequences does it hold for normal metabolism and disease? Students will integrate evolution, endocrinology, biostatistics, bioengineering, and regenerative biology approaches in considering sugar and all its consequences. Finally, we will evaluate legal and business issues necessary to move scientific and technical innovations from the laboratory to the patient. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54; MCB 52 or permission of the instructor. N Dr Richard Theodore Lee Douglas Melton spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 178 Molecular Immunology: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 One session each week is a lecture on current topics in immunology. At the second session, three papers are read from the current literature on that topic (including topics in hematopoietic stem cells, immune cell differentiation, autoimmunity, HIV, cancer, and transplantation), each presented by a student in 30-45 minutes. Course work: reading of papers, seminar presentations, and class participation. MCB 169 or permission of instructor required for undergraduates only. Y Jack Strominger fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 180 Repair and Regeneration in the Mammalian Brain Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will discuss cellular and molecular mechanisms of regeneration and repair in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). We will: compare and contrast aspects of neural development with adult neural plasticity; discuss limitations to neuronal regeneration in the mature mammalian CNS following degeneration or injury; examine CNS regeneration approaches directed at overcoming intrinsic limitations; and explore developmental controls and gene manipulation to promote neurogenesis, axonal regeneration, and directed differentiation in the diseased adult brain. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; MCB 80 or permission of the instructor. N Jeffrey Macklis fall term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 190 Understanding Aging: Degeneration, Regeneration, and the Scientific Search for the Fountain of Youth Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This lecture and discussion course will explore the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern organismal aging and contemporary strategies to delay or reverse this process. Life and Physical Sciences A or Life Sciences 1a; Life Sciences 1b; SCRB 10 or MCB 54. N Amy Wagers Lee Rubin spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 300 Current Research in Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Lecture Graduate Course Half course This survey course provides contemporary approaches to the study of stem cell and regenerative biology. Y Lee Rubin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 302 Mechanisms of Epigenetic Reprogramming Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y Kevin Eggan Kevin Eggan spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 364 Vertebrate Development Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Andrew P. McMahon fall term; repeated spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 382 Molecular Immunology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Jack Strominger Jack Strominger fall term; repeated spring term Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology SCRB 399 Vertebrate Developmental Biology Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course Y Douglas Melton Douglas Melton fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The study of selected topics in studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Y Caroline Light Caroline Light spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 96 -ABL Off the Page and Into the World: Feminist Praxis in the Community Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 This course will involve students in experiential learning in community agencies that serve women, girls, and/or gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. The course will require students to apply feminist theory to the challenges of organized social change. Internship placements of 8 hours a week in a community agency or non-profit organization must be approved by the instructors, in projects that advance students' knowledge of the intersection of identities, feminist ideologies, and feminist praxis. Interested students are strongly encouraged to attend an information session in December detailing the requirements for the course (contact the WGS office for meeting details). Student enrollment in this course is contingent upon placement at one of the approved internship sites. The placement process will begin during the first week of the course. Y Susan B. Marine spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 97 Tutorial-Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to foundational concepts and analytical tools in the study of gender and sexuality. Focus on the ways in which diverse people have understood gender, sexuality, race, and nationhood as categories of knowledge. Case studies of activists and theorists forging complex alliances across unstable differences. Readings include Gloria Anzaldua, Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Inderpal Grewal, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, Alison Bechdel, and Michel Foucault. Required of, and limited to, Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrators in their first year in the concentration. Y Linda Schlossberg fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Ordinarily taken by concentrators for one term in the second term of the junior year. Concentrators planning to study abroad in the second term should take WGS 98r in the first term of the junior year. Y Caroline Light Caroline Light fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 99 a Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Both WGS 99a and 99b are required of all honors concentrators in their senior year. Y Linda Schlossberg fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 99 b Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Both WGS 99a and 99b are required of all honors concentrators in their senior year. Y Linda Schlossberg Linda Schlossberg spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1125 Gender and Health Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Based on theoretical debates between feminism and science and different understandings of health, illness, and healing, we explore the role of women, the medical profession, and various social institutions in constructing knowledge about gender and health. Among the issues we discuss are health behaviors, reproductive health, STDs, mental health, cancer, and aging. Throughout, we identify differences among women and men of different class, race, and ethnic groups. N Mary Ruggie spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1154 I Like Ike, But I Love Lucy: Women, Popular Culture, and the 1950s Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 A diagnosis and analysis of this formative decade for the US babyboomer. Taught from a cultural studies perspective, the course focuses on gender politics in print media, film, television, and rock of the early cold war era. Topics include: the bomb and TV, the Rosenberg trial, early civil rights movement, beat generation, Hollywood dreams of true love, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Jack Kerouac, Joe McCarthy, Rosa Parks, and others. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. N Alice Jardine spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1168 Education, Race, and Gender in the United States Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Education in the United States often appears as democratizing and a means of upward mobility, an idea complicated by issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, all of which shape students' and teachers' experiences. This class examines theoretical and empirical studies on various schooling spaces and practices and explores how intersecting constructs of identity - such as girl, boy, black, Latino/a, Asian, white - become meaningful in schools and bear implications for individuals and society. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis. N Chiwen Bao fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1200 fh Our Mothers, Ourselves: Postwar American Feminist Thought Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 The classics of American postwar, mainstream feminist thought are sometimes assumed, sometimes reviled, but rarely re-read. In this seminar, we will read critically across four decades of widely-read, influential feminist books, keeping constantly in view the philosophical and political, psychological and historical, legal and ethical questions at the heart of women, gender, and sexuality studies today. Y Alice Jardine spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1210 ft Theory as Critique Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Course examines feminist critical engagements with other theories and practices (Marxism, psychoanalysis, Foucault, deconstruction), as well as the debates and discussions within feminism, including intersections of feminist theory with other theories (queer theory, sexualities studies, post-colonial studies, science studies, transgender studies). Course closely examines relationships between feminism, theory, and politics. Research focuses on critical revisiting of one question central to the development of feminist theory and activism. Spring 2012 focus is "Governance Feminism." Y Afsaneh Najmabadi spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1210 qt Queer Theory Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Examines the possibilities and pitfalls of a specifically "queer" understanding of gender, sexuality, culture, history, and politics. Special attention will be given to the international sweep and limits of queerness as conceptual category and identity (and anti-identity) formation in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, nationality, and class as well as artistic production and activism. Works by Butler, Sedgwick, Foucault, Rubin, Halperin, Warner, Wittig, Bersani, Cohen, Lorde, Halberstam, Califia, Stryker, Quiroga, Najmabadi, and many others. Y Brad Epps spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1226 Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and U.S. Latino Culture Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on 20th-century narrative fiction, testimony, and film by or about women and non-heteronormative men from a variety of linguistic cultures (French, Spanish, Creole, Maya-Quiche, English, Portuguese), paying special attention the ties and tensions between feminism, queer theory, and post-colonialism. Other topics include gender and genre; sexuality and the state; social engagement and artistic autonomy; nationality, nationalism, and internationalism; class conflict and the global market; family formations and kinship; ritual and religion; homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism; authoritarianism and democracy Course will be taught in English, with one section taught in Spanish. May count for Spanish Language Citation. N Brad Epps spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1231 American Social Bodies Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course M., W., at 11, and a one hour section to be arranged. Keridwen Luis This course explores the ways in which the body is shaped in American culture. What social and cultural meanings do we attach to certain bodies? How do social systems of inequality, such as racism, sexism, ableism and classism influence how we see bodies? Topics to include dieting and fitness, body image and "the beauty myth," body modification, and the moralization of health. N Keridwen Luis fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1232 Postcolonial Women's Writing Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Rejecting what Anne McClintock calls "bogus universals" like "the postcolonial woman," this course will examine how postcolonial women's writing represents and resists local and imperial power, developing a more complex understanding of agency. But our readings of literary and critical texts will also ask us to scrutinize the very suitability of the term "postcolonial." Our authors will include Michelle Cliff, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jessica Hagedorn, and Arundhati Roy, among others. This course, when taken for a latter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts A. Y Katherine Stanton spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1233 Gender, Sexual Violence, and Empire Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Making the case for what Deepika Bahri identifies as the "prominent and constitutive" role of gender-and sexuality-in colonial formations, this course will examine how gendered and sexed ideas and practices were critical to signifying racial difference, naturalizing exploitation, symbolizing the colonial mission, and managing colonial economies. We will ask, with Ann Laura Stoler, was sexual domination a metaphor for colonial power, or the very "substance" of imperial policy? Y Katherine Stanton fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1238 Consuming Passions Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Course explores how sexuality and desire frame experiences of consumption historically, and how unequal distributions of global power influence the relationship between producers of globally marketed goods and services and those who consume them. Topics include sex tourism, migrant domestic labor, international adoption and surrogacy, and the commercialization of same-sex desire. Y Caroline Light spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1242 Masculinities Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From politics, to professional sports, to action films, ideas of "what makes a man" are ever-present. This course introduces students to ideas of masculinity in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability, socio-economic class, and religion. Questions include: Why are certain mannerisms, activities, professions, and even objects considered masculine? How have ideas of masculinity changed over time and in relation to various debates around health, morality, and the family? N Cameron Elliot Partridge fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1245 Virgins, Vamps, and Camp: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Hollywood Cinema Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course From the 1930s-1960s, the Hollywood studio system dominated cinema worldwide and with it images of sex, gender, and sexuality. Through critical analysis of classics such as Gilda, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, It Happened One Night, Mildred Pierce, Pillow Talk, and Vertigo, we will investigate Hollywood's role in constructing, negotiating, and occasionally transgressing norms of identity, behavior, and desire. Taught from a cinema/cultural studies perspective, and incorporating topics and texts integral to feminist and queer film theory. Film screenings scheduled for Tuesdays 8-10 pm. N Maria San Filippo fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1258 Friends with Benefits? Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In Friends, friendships are continuously reconfigured through sexual relationships. In Sex and the City, four friendships are lived through episodes of sexual experiences. What could we make about the meanings and inter-relationship of friendship and sex, in contemporary American culture? We ask similar questions about other times and places and consider what Facebook and other social virtual worlds are doing to/for friends. Readings include Plato, Jewish and Islamic philosophy and ethics, Montaigne, Bacon, Bray, Marcus, Foucault, Derrida. N Afsaneh Najmabadi fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1260 Sex Work: Key Debates Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Seminar examines key debates about sex work: How have modern states regulated sexual commerce? What assumptions around gender and sexuality shape the regulation of paid sex? How do local and international feminist movements and human rights organizations shape these regulations in various regions of the world? We pay specific attention to the ways in which female, male, and transgender sex workers define their work, make meaning of paid sexual transactions, and mobilize for their rights. Y Chaitanya Lakkimsetti spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1265 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Seminar examines political and social movements related to issues of gender and sexuality in the subcontinent, as well as the responses of state and legal institutions to the demands raised by these movements. Topics include: colonialism, nationalism, family, violence against women, caste & gender, development, population and health policies, human rights, and migration. Y Chaitanya Lakkimsetti spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1266 Gender and Sports Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course explores the relationship between gender and sports in the U.S. We will consider the ways in which deeply held beliefs about masculinity and femininity, as well as sexuality and race, affect the practice of sports, as well as how sports shape identity. While we will situate our exploration within its historical context, our focus will be on the contemporary scene, including youth, collegiate, and professional sports. Y Laura K. Johnson fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1300 Approaches to Research and Writing in WGS Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 The objective of the course is to provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge, engage feminist epistemologies, and employ feminist methodologies in working on a research project over the course of the semester in each student's area of interest. Required of all full and primary concentrators. Strongly recommended for joint concentrators with WGS as the allied field. Y Sarah S Richardson spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1407 Harlots, Dandies, Bluestockings: Sexuality, Gender, and Feminism in the 18th and 19th Centuries Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 How did social forces in the 18th and 19th centuries shape (and contest) new theories of womanhood, sexuality, and political equality? Readings from a variety of literary and political sources, including "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," "Moll Flanders," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." Areas of inquiry: prostitution, the suffrage movement, motherhood, property rights, psychology, manliness, sexology, Victorian pornography. Y Linda Schlossberg spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1409 Transsexuality, Transgenderism, and the Rest Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course will cover narrative, anthropological, historical, scientific, and theoretical texts (including films) about transexuality and transgenderism. The course will begin with transexuality before and beyond identity politics and its transformation in the light/shadow of identity politics and theories of gender; it will consider these issues initially in a Euro-American context, but also move onto other socio-cultural formations and consider how trans-subjectivities as well as histories and politics of transexuality and transgenderism have been formed transnationally. Please see syllabus for prerequisite reading. Permission of instructor required. Y Afsaneh Najmabadi fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1411 Sex, Gender Roles, and Sexuality in Native America Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course examines issues of gender, sex, and sexuality in various Native American cultures in a historical, anthropological, and political context, using a variety of scholarly, fictional, and personal texts. We will explore sex roles, marriage and the family, and gender variant identities, as well as the massive impact of colonialization, racism, and missionarism on gendered understandings in present-day American cultures. Y Keridwen Luis spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1421 Medical Management of the Female Body Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Th., 1-3, and a one-hour section to be arranged. Sarah S. Richardson This course examines how Western medical knowledge, practices, and institutions define female health and normality and manage diseased and gender-variant female bodies. How, for instance, does medicine conceive of the female body as a medical problem or mystery and how do race, class, and sexuality inflect these conceptions? Topics include: "female maladies," medicalization of childbirth and the pregnant body, medical management of transgender and intersexed bodies, ideals of fitness, cosmetic surgery, disability, and pharmaceutical marketing. Y Sarah S Richardson spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1422 Literatures of Perversion in the Modern West Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 We examine the development, complication, and critique of the concept and category "perversion" as articulated in literary and filmic texts from the "dark side" of the Enlightenment through romanticism, naturalism, decadence, and the avant-garde to the present. Subjects may include sadism, masochism, fetishism, paraphilia, necrophilia, coprophilia, pedophilia, incest, onanism, transvestism, gender bending and queering. Authors may include Sade, Sacher-Masoch, Rachilde, Huysmans, Bataille, Dali, Djuna Barnes, Mann, Musil, Genet, Nabokov, Gombrowicz, Pasolini, Goytisolo, Angela Carter, Wittig. Y Brad Epps fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1433 Topics in Advanced Performance Studies: Gender and Sexuality Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 In this seminar, we will listen to and participate in current conversations in Performance Studies about gender and sexuality, especially as both these categories intersect with race. Topics include affect, time, and material culture; reading includes works by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, E. Patrick Johnson, Judith Halberstam, Jose Esteban Munoz, Heather Love, Elizabeth Freeman, Susan Leigh Foster, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. This is an advanced course intended for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Prerequisite for undergraduates: "Gender and Performance" (General Education/Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 26), WGS sophomore tutorial, or permission of the instructor. Y Robin Bernstein fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1436 Body Image Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This seminar examines body image issues from a variety of historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives. Topics include the historical emergence of anorexia and other eating disorders, the influence of the popular media, feminist critiques of the diet industry, body image activism, and hunger as metaphor. Not open to students previously enrolled in WGS 1136. Y Linda Schlossberg spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1500 The Senior Capstone Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Th., 1-3 Karen P. Flood This course allows advanced students to synthesize previous semesters of study in WGS in an intensive research-oriented seminar. Students will complete independent projects while also building collective knowledge around a topic in gender and sexuality studies. The likely focus for 2012 is sex, gender and work. Possible areas of study include the sex-typing of occupations, care work, gender and LGBT discrimination and harassment in the workplace, sex work, labor activism, and the politics of welfare. Intended for WGS seniors on capstone track, but open by permission of instructor to other advanced students with experience in women, gender, and sexuality studies. Y Karen P. Flood fall term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 2000 Introduction to WGS: Graduate Proseminar Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 An overview of major questions raised by the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, and sexuality and the challenges thus raised to traditional divisions of knowledge. We will privilege dialogue and process while assessing trends in the often tense, but overlapping, areas of feminist, lgbt and queer inquiry. Special attention given to intersectional and international issues across a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, sexology, critical theory, economics, law, cultural studies, literature, art, and film. Will count as the Graduate Proseminar for the PhD secondary field requirement in WGS. Y Brad Epps spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 2010 Science, Nature, and Gender (Graduate Seminar in General Education) Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 A survey of central texts, theories, and methods in scholarship on gender and science. Science has helped to construct and enforce cultural gender norms. Gender also valences scientific language, inflects science's status as an authoritative social institution, and stratifies scientific communities. This seminar examines historical, philosophical, and social dimensions of science through the lens of gender. Students will pursue independent research and explore methods in interdisciplinary and feminist pedagogy. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates. Y Sarah S Richardson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 3000 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Open only by petition. Applicants for admission should first confer with the Director of Graduate Studies. Y Brad Epps Brad Epps fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 200 Dynamic and Stochastic Processes in Cells Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Rigorous introduction to (i) dynamical systems theory as a tool to understand molecular and cellular biology (ii) stochastic processes in single cells, using tools from statistical physics and information theory. College-level calculus. Students planning to take both quarter courses (SB303 and 304) must enroll in this as a half course on their study card as SysBio200 for now and in the future. Students who take one half of this quarter can NOT ever take the other half for credit. N Johan Paulsson Jeremy Gunawardena spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 201 Principles of Animal Development from a Systems Perspective Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Intensive and critical analysis of systems approaches to circuits and principles controlling pattern formation and morphogenesis in animals. Students develop their own ideas and present them through mentored "chalk talks" and other interactive activities. For more information, contact Leah Van Vaerenewyck at 617-432-7089. N Sean Megason Marc Kirschner Dr Angela DePace fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 202 Modeling and Measurement in Cell Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This course introduces rigorous experimental, statistical and computational approaches to the biochemistry of signal transduction and force-generating processes in mammalian cells with application to human disease and mechanisms of drug action. College-level calculus; simultaneous enrollment in SB200 is recommended. N Peter Sorger Dr Gaudenz Danuser fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 204 Biomolecular Engineering and Synthetic Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A course focusing on the rational design, construction, and applications of nucleic acid- and protein-based synthetic molecular and cellular machinery and systems. Students are mentored to produce substantial term projects. See http://sb204.net for details N Dr Peng Yin Pamela A. Silver Dr William Shih spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 205 Synthetic Biology Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course A course covering the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits, construction of novel genomes and the chemical basis for building self-replicating systems. Weekly lectures with discussion sections and outside speakers. N Pamela A. Silver Jack Szostak full year Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 300 hf Introduction to Systems Biology Research Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Introductory lectures introduce the research areas of current program faculty in systems biology. Y Timothy Mitchison Timothy Mitchison spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 301 qc Studying Evolution through Models and Experiments Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course Intensive January course covering theoretical foundations in population genetics, genetic drift versus selection, identifying selection in genomes, advances in laboratory evolution experiments, with applications to key questions in systems biology and evolution. January 9, 2012- January 20, 2012. For more information, please visit the <a href="http://isites.harvard.edu/k83913">course website</a>. For additional information, please contact Leah M. Van Vaerenewyck at 617-432-7089. Y Roy Kishony spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 302 qc Quantitative Human Physiology Seminar Graduate Course Quarter course Critical discussion of research literature focusing on quantitative approaches to human disease, physiology, and therapeutics. Topics include cellular energetics and metabolism, red blood cell homeostasis and anemia, cell growth and cancer, and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Y Vamsi Mootha Timothy Mitchison John Matthew Higgins fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 303 qc Dynamic and Stochastic Processes in Cells Part 1 Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course We will examine how the some of the key requirements of living systems are implemented at the molecular level and how quantitative experimental methods and mathematical analysis can help us understand them. College-level calculus. September 1, 2011 - October 11, 2011 Students enrolled in SystBio303qc can never enroll in SystBio304qc. Y Jeremy Gunawardena fall term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 304 qc Dynamic & Stochastic Processes in Cells Part 2 Lecture Graduate Course Quarter course College-level calculus. October 13, 2011 - December 2, 2011. Students enrolled in SystBio304qc. can never enroll in SystBio303qc. Y Johan Paulsson fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 350 Systems Biology Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Upper level Systems Biology students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI. Y Timothy Mitchison Timothy Mitchison fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 370 Advanced Topics in Systems Biology: Reading Seminar Reading and Research Primarily for Graduates Half course A series of reading and discussion seminars, each running for a half term (7 weeks). Two seminars, which can be taken in different terms, are required for credit. Y Timothy Mitchison Timothy Mitchison fall term; repeated spring term Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology Systems Biology Systems Biology 399 Introduction to Systems Biology: Rotations Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course The course will introduce the research areas of faculty performing research in systems biology. Intended for Systems Biology lab rotations. Y Timothy Mitchison Timothy Mitchison fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 97 a Greek Culture and Civilization Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course, comprising the Greek half of the Sophomore Tutorial, will comprehensively cover the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean palace civilizations to the Roman conquest of the East Mediterranean. Attention will be paid to the major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations. Students will be exposed to the wide variety of textual sources (in translation) and archaeological evidence out of which historians seek to understand ancient Greece. Concentrators are required to take either one or two semesters of Classical Studies 97, depending on their concentration track. Y Paul Joseph Kosmin spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 97 b Roman Culture and Civilization Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course has three components: a chronological survey of Roman history from the beginnings to Constantine; exploration of key features of Roman culture (e.g., economy, education, housing, slavery); and an introduction to the tools and methods available for research on ancient Rome. Students are taught how to work with the Roman collections at Harvard (brick-stamps, coins, manuscripts, maps, papyri, pottery, sculpture, etc.). Each student receives guidance in the planning and execution of a research paper. Concentrators are required to take either one or two semesters of Classical Studies 97, depending on their concentration track. N Kathleen M. Coleman fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 110 The Literature of the Age of Augustus Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will examine in translation Latin literature during the reign of the Emperor Augustus. Authors studied will include Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. Close attention will be paid to the political contexts of the literature of the period. N Justin Anthony Stover fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 121 Writing Religion in the Fourth Century CE: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Hellenic Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the reception and adaptation of Classical culture in the Eastern Empire, specifically through the writings of the three Cappadocian Fathers (Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, and Gregory of Nyssa) and contemporaries. Emphasis will be placed on a close reading of primary source texts in translation; exploration of various literary genres in their late-antique adaptations; and the study of the role of literature in the emergence of the young Christian Empire. N Sarah Elizabeth Insley spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 156 Flavian Dynasty Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Flavian era (694-96 CE) is one of the best documented and most significant periods of Roman history: Jerusalem was destroyed, Vesuvius erupted, the Colosseum was built, Britain became Romanized, the first Christian communities spread across the Mediterranean, and simultaneously the emperor increasingly claimed the status of a divinely ordained ruler. By careful study of inscriptions, monuments, literature, and works of art, this course seeks to define what was distinctive about the Flavian dynasty. N Kathleen M. Coleman spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 157 Animal and Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The practice and theory of ritual killings and blood offerings in Greek culture from the archaic to the imperial period in the light of literary texts, cult inscriptions, visual representations, and the scholarship of the last 100 years. N Albert M. Henrichs spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Studies 165 Ancient Medicine Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Theories and practices of health and healing in the ancient Greco-Roman world, with special emphasis on the relationship of learned medicine to philosophy and other healing traditions. N Mark Schiefsky fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 156 Roman Public Monuments Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces political monuments of the Roman empire from the reign of Augustus to the 3rd century AD, with particular focus on state reliefs-triumphal arches, victory monuments, temple reliefs, monumental altars and bases-as media of the visual display and enforcement of imperial propaganda. N Adrian Staehli spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 157 The Roman Villa Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In their villas, members of the Roman aristocracy indulged in a lifestyle of leisure and luxury, cultivated their passions for art, literature, scholarship or fish breeding, and refrained deliberately from business and political activities. The course explores the archaeological remains and artefacts-architecture, wall paintings, collections of sculpture, precious silver and gold ware-related to this particular Roman phenomenon of the so-called villeggiatura. N Adrian Staehli spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 220 Coins and History of Ancient Sicily: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction to the coinages and history of Sicily from the sixth to the second century BC. Presents the development of coinage in the major mints of Selinous, Himera, Akragas, Gela, Syracuse, and others. Main focus is on the fifth century, the highly artistic period of the signing engravers. Students will work hands-on with the Harvard collection on a specific mint and learn numismatic methodology and how to interpret coins as artworks and historical documents. N Carmen Arnold-Biucchi spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 247 The Trojan War: A Case Study on the Relationship of Image and Text in Ancient Art Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course M., 3-5 Adrian Staehli Mythological scenes in ancient art were often considered as illustrations of literary narratives and even used to reconstruct lost texts. However, images with scenes from the Trojan War provide good evidence that painters and sculptors did not depend on authoritative texts but rather developed their own visual narratives of mythological tales. Open to undergraduates by permission of the instructor. N Adrian Staehli spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 248 Travelling with Pausanias: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Pausanias' Periegesis (2nd century AD) is the only comprehensive description of Greece to have survived from antiquity. The seminar will follow the traces of Pausanias through selected Greek sites, explore their archaeological remains, and focus particularly on the author's selective perception of contemporary Greece as a memorial landscape of classical Greek culture. N Adrian Staehli fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Archaeology 251 Greek Athletics Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar explores Greek athletics as a cultural and social practice in all aspects, but with particular focus on the archaeological evidence (sanctuaries, gymnasia, dedications of victors, visual representations). N Adrian Staehli fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 214 The Greek Novel Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An introduction to the most popular genre of Greek prose fiction and its cultural role in the late Hellenistic and early imperial era, with emphasis on genre, chronology and authorship. Selections from several extant novels as well as fragments of new novels on papyrus are read in Greek; the rest in translation. N Albert M. Henrichs fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 227 Latin Lexicography: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Introduction into the history and the workings of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in the broader context of lexicography and semantics. We will begin by studying TLL articles with an eye to their structure, abbreviations, and symbols, and then compare the variant lexicographical approaches of the early, middle, and later volumes. Participants will subsequently undertake lexicographical work on selected passages and will thereby be involved in the writing of articles. Upon successful completion of the course participants may apply for a summer fellowship at the TLL in Munich. N Christopher Krebs spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 249 The Greek Dialects: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A systematic introduction to the Greek dialects and their historical and comparative grammar. Reading knowledge of Greek required. N Jeremy Rau spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 275 The Text of Horace's Odes: An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Discussion of selected textual problems in Horace's Odes. The course aims to provide an introduction to the issues and methods involved in editing classical texts. N R.J. Tarrant fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 276 Aesthetics in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Theories of the aesthetic from Plato to Kant and beyond, with practical enquiry on Callimachus, Apollonius, Theocritus; Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid. Emphasis on philology, metrics, intertextuality, with exploration of aesthetic aspects of reception, including translation. N Richard F. Thomas fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 291 Epicureanism: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Close study of key Greek and Latin sources on ancient Epicureanism, with class presentations on special topics. N Mark Schiefsky spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classical Philology 292 Hellenism in the East-Colonialism, Assimilation, and Revolt: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will discuss the modes of ethnic, religious, and political encounters generated by Alexander the Great's successor kingdoms, addressing the cultural choices open to both Graeco-Macedonian colonizers and their Babylonian, Iranian, Egyptian, and Jewish subjects. N Paul Joseph Kosmin fall term; repeated spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 93 r Advanced Tutorial for Credit Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Tutorial instruction for course credit open to candidates for honors who are qualified to do special reading projects in Greek and/or Latin. May be counted for concentration. Y Kathleen M. Coleman Kathleen M. Coleman fall term; repeated spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 98 Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Close study of a topic in Greco-Roman civilization and/or literature, culminating in the preparation of a substantial research paper (ca. 20 pages). Required of all concentrators in the junior year. N Kathleen M. Coleman Kathleen M. Coleman full year Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Tutorial instruction for course credit (in addition to ordinary tutorial instruction) is open only to candidates for honors writing a thesis in their senior year whose applications for such instruction have been approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. May be counted for concentration. Divisible only with permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Kathleen M. Coleman Kathleen M. Coleman fall term; repeated spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 300 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 301 Reading or Topics Course Reading Course Graduate Course Half course For graduate students whose individual needs are not met by the formal courses offered. Y fall term; repeated spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 302 Special Examinations Direction Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Classics 350 Classical Philology: Proseminar Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Designed to introduce graduate students in Classical Philology to the essential fields, tools, and methodologies of the discipline. For first-year students working toward the PhD in Classical Philology. Open to other students by permission of instructor. Y Richard F. Thomas fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Aa Beginning Greek Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with very little or no previous instruction in Greek. Introduction to Greek grammar and reading of sentences and short passages. No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Greek during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Aab Beginning Greek (Intensive) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For students with little or no previous instruction in Greek who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Greek Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Greek Ba or Bb. No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Greek during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Ab Beginning Greek Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Greek Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages. Greek Aa or equivalent. No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Ac Review and Reading Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with more than one year of formal training in Greek who do not place into Greek Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Greek Bb or Ba. No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Ba Introduction to Attic Prose Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A bridge between the study of Greek grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles. Greek Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Bb Selections from Homer's Iliad Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to Homeric poetry: language, meter, formulae, and type scenes. Greek Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek Bbm Introduction to Late Antique and Medieval/Byzantine Poetry Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Greek poetry from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Readings will correspond to interests of participants. Review of grammar, syntax, and linguistic developments in post-classical Greek. Greek Ba, Ac, or permission of the instructor. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek H Introductory Greek Prose Composition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Practice in the translation of sentences and connected prose passages into Attic Greek; review of forms and syntax; readings of selections from prose authors. Greek Ba or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek K Advanced Greek Prose Composition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Composition in the prose style of various authors and genres, with selected readings representing the development of Greek prose and its analysis by scholars, ancient and modern. Greek H or equivalent. N spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 104 Herodotus Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The Histories of Herodotus will be analyzed not only as historiography but also as literature, including scientific and philosophical literature. The shared readings in the original Greek cover the following: Herodotus: I 1-130, III 1-16, 30-87, VIII 18-99. Students will be encouraged to work on other selections as well, in accordance with their chosen research topics. N Gregory Nagy fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 112 a History of Greek Literature I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of early Greek poetry and prose, with readings from Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, lyric poetry, and Herodotus. Discussions of genre in relation to performance, historical contexts, thematic (dis)continuities, oral tradition. N spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 112 b History of Greek Literature II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of Greek literature of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Reading of extended selections from Attic drama, historiography, philosophical writers, and Hellenistic poets, with discussion of social context, literary history, and interpretive issues. N David Franklin Elmer spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 116 r Greek Lyric Poetry Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Selections from elegiac, iambic, and lyric poets with attention to issues of performance, social and political context, genre, and poetic technique. N David Franklin Elmer fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 124 The Greek Novel Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the most popular genre of Greek prose fiction and its cultural role in the late Hellenistic and early imperial era, with emphasis on genre, chronology and authorship. Selections from several extant novels as well as fragments of new novels on papyrus are read in Greek; the rest in translation. May be taken for graduate credit with permission of the instructor; this will require an extra weekly session and additional coursework. N Albert M. Henrichs fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 134 The Language of Homer Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Essentials of Greek comparative and historical grammar, and a close reading of Iliad 1 and 3. Diachronic aspects of Homeric grammar and diction. N Jeremy Rau spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Greek 201 Reading Greek Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings of Greek prose and poetry ranging from archaic to imperial, with emphasis on quick comprehension of syntactic, stylistic, and generic features. Intended for graduate students in Classical Philology as preparation for the general examinations. Texts to be selected from the reading list by participants. Y Albert M. Henrichs fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Aa Beginning Latin Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with very little or no previous instruction in Latin. Introduction to Latin grammar and reading of sentences and short passages. No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Latin during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Aab Beginning Latin (Intensive) Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For students with little or no previous instruction in Latin who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Latin Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Latin Ba, Bb, Bam, or Bbm. No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Latin during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling. This course will only be offered in the fall term. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Ab Beginning Latin Lecture taught in sections Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Continuation of Latin Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages. Latin Aa or equivalent. No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Ac Review and Reading Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course For students with more than one year of formal training in Latin who do not place into Latin Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Latin Ba or Bb. No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Ba Latin Prose Selections (Classical) Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course A bridge between the study of Latin grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles. The readings are short selections from a variety of genres by authors such as Cicero, Pliny, Nepos, Sallust, and Petronius. Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Bam Latin Prose Selections (Late Antique and Medieval) Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Provides a bridge between study of grammar and reading of prose. After review of fundamentals, studies short selections of post-classical texts and authors such as Vulgate Bible, Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Abelard, and Dante. Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Jan M. Ziolkowski spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Bb Introduction to Latin Poetry (Classical) Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Reading of selections of Latin poetry and introduction to meter. Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin Bbm Introduction to Latin Poetry (Late Antique and Medieval) Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Reading of selections of Medieval Latin poetry and introduction to quantitative meter and rhythmical poetry. Aims to facilitate the reading through study of short selections of post-classical poetry from authors such as Ambrose, Alcuin, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and Aquinas. Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent. N Jan M. Ziolkowski fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin H Introductory Latin Prose Composition Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course M., W., F., at 9 Ivy Livingston and assistant Practice in the translation of sentences and connected prose passages from English into Latin, with review of Latin syntax. Latin Ba or equivalent. N Ivy Livingston spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin K Advanced Latin Prose Composition: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Exercise in the prose style of different authors and periods, working within various subject areas and genres. As a guide to composition, we will read and analyze illustrative passages from major authors, including Cato, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Tacitus, as well as some distinctive styles in lesser-known authors. N Christopher Krebs fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 102 a Catullus and Horace Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This class will concentrate on the work of two great Roman lyricists, Catullus and Horace. In addition to covering lexical, metrical, and stylistic concerns, we shall look at the literary and social context and consider issues of interpretation and the question of genre. N Andreas Thomas Zanker spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 104 Ovid's Metamorphoses Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Ovid's witty, exuberant, and learned epic of change and mortality encompasses the history of the world from its creation to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. This course examines the work's shaping of narrative and myth, its generic multiformity (embracing tragic, elegiac, comic, and pastoral motifs, as well as epic), and its equally complex vision of human existence. N R.J. Tarrant spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 106 a Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course focuses on Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics. We aim to read and interpret those texts, and to place them in literary and historical context. N Richard F. Thomas fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 112 a History of Latin Literature I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The literature of the Republic and early Augustan period. Reading of extensive selections from the major authors, with lectures and discussion on the evolution and development of Latin prose and poetry. The course focuses on a variety of issues: Latin individuality through manipulation of inherited Greek forms, metrical and stylistic developments, evolving poetics, intertextuality and genre renewal, dynamic effects of social and political contexts. N fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 112 b History of Latin Literature II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The literature of the late Republic and Principate. We shall read extensive selections from major authors across a range of genres, considering their form and content against their historical contexts. Class will consist of a mixture of prepared translation from Latin and introductory lectures. N Andreas Thomas Zanker fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 123 Apuleius' Metamorphoses Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Intensive study of Apuleius' exuberant masterpiece The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses). Close reading of extended selections in Latin will be complemented by discussion of the work as a whole from a variety of standpoints, including: narratology, the second sophistic, Apuleius' supposed 'Africanisms,' intertextuality, ancient mystery religions. N David Franklin Elmer fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 129 Latin Epigraphy Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions from across the Empire in all media, chiefly stone, but also clay, glass, metal, mosaic, plaster, and wood. Texts to studied range from official documents (senatorial decrees, colonial charters, market-timetables) to personal records (epitaphs, "lost and found" notices, amatory graffiti), from the late Republic to the early Christian period. Students learn how to transcribe, supplement, and translate these texts, and interpret them within their social and cultural context. // N Kathleen M. Coleman spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 134 Archaic Latin Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Essentials of Latin comparative and historical grammar, with readings of early Latin inscriptions, legal texts, and selections from Livius Andronicus, Plautus, Ennius, and Cato. N Jeremy Rau fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Latin 201 Reading Latin Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Readings of Latin prose and poetry ranging from archaic to imperial, with emphasis on variety, quantity, and quick comprehension of syntactic, stylistic, and generic features. Intended for graduate students in Classical Philology as preparation for the general examinations. Y Christopher Krebs fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Medieval Greek 115 ar Introduction to Byzantine Greek Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduces students to medieval Greek language and literature and, through selected readings, to important elements of Byzantine culture and society. Texts will be selected to provide a diachronic survey of a variety of literary genres, to reflect the diversity of Byzantine life and letters. Topics will include: biography/hagiography, historiography, sacred and secular poetry, letters, the novel, homilies and rhetorical texts. Choice of texts will correspond in part to the specific needs and interests of participants. Greek A and B or equivalent. N Sarah Elizabeth Insley fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Medieval Latin 104 Boethius Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Explores the life, writings, and influence of the Roman philosopher Boethius (ca. 480-525). Often called "the last of the Romans, the first of the scholastics," Boethius stands at the intersection of classical culture and the Latin Middle Ages. Students will read in Latin substantial portions of all of Boethius' works, including his Consolation of Philosophy. We will also investigate his influence on Latin and vernacular authors through the Renaissance. Prerequisites: Latin Ba, Bb, or equivalent. N Justin Anthony Stover spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Medieval Latin 204 The Latin Bible: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course This seminar will explore the history and interpretation of the Latin translation(s) of the Christian Bible from the pre-Jerome Vetus Latina to the Clementine Vulgate. Portions from each of the major divisions of the Bible will be read in Latin and students will be introduced to some of the most important works of exegesis from Augustine's commentaries on the Psalms to the Glossa ordinaria and beyond. Students should have a strong reading knowledge of Latin, but no previous experience with Medieval Latin is required. N Justin Anthony Stover full year Department of the Classics The Classics Modern Greek A Elementary Modern Greek Lecture with sections Primarily for Undergraduates Full course For students with no knowledge of modern Greek. Basic oral expression, listening comprehension, grammar, reading, and writing. Language instruction is supplemented by reading of simple literary passages and other texts, as well as by online instruction. N Vassiliki Rapti Vassiliki Rapti full year Department of the Classics The Classics Modern Greek B Intermediate Modern Greek: Language and Civilization Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Full course Aims at further development of skills in speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. Selected readings in prose (literary and journalistic), poetry, folksongs, modern music, and theater serve as an introduction to aspects of modern Greek literature and culture. The course is conducted in Greek and focuses on topics selected by the instructor and the students in the first term. Grammar is reviewed in the context of readings. Instruction is supplemented by online instruction. An elementary knowledge of modern Greek (equivalent to that of Modern Greek A). N Vassiliki Rapti Vassiliki Rapti fall term Department of the Classics The Classics Modern Greek 100 Advanced Modern Greek: Introduction to Modern Greek Literature Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Literary, sociocultural, and linguistic analysis of selected readings in prose, poetry, plays, orally transmitted songs, and folktales. Modern Greek B or equivalent and permission of instructor. Conducted in Greek. Y Vassiliki Rapti spring term Department of the Classics The Classics Modern Greek 224 History and Literature: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Examines the interaction of literary and historiographical discursive modes in Greek tradition (12th c. to modernity). Special emphasis will be placed on the genre of historical novel. N Panagiotis Roilos spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 11 World Religions Today: Diaspora, Diversity, and Dialogue Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to five of the world's religious traditions --Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim-- through the voices of modern adherents and interpreters of the tradition. Readings from Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Emil Fackenheim, Pope John Paul II, Tariq Ramadan, and others. How do people in each tradition articulate their faith in the context of globalization, pluralism, and the issues of today? What are the tensions within traditions? What are the dialogues between traditions? Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3220. N Diana L. Eck spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 12 Critical Issues in the Comparative Study of Religion Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course The aim of this course is to introduce students to key categories in the study of religion, both within a comparative context and with significant attention to theoretical and methodological issues in the field. The specific topic of the course will vary from year to year. Topic examples include: scripture, ethics, ritual, body and practice, art, violence, gender and sexuality. Topic for 2012: This course examines the ways in which religion (broadly construed to include beliefs, texts, institutions) mediates the relationship between the individual and the state in both productive and problematic ways. Reading works of fiction (novels, poetry, plays) together with theoretical materials (scripture, philosophy) the course will engage traditions including Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and traditional African religions comparatively across time and space. Texts will include: Monkey, Things Fall Apart and The Gods Will Have Blood. N Bronwyn Conwell Roantree fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 20 Ethnographies of Religion, Texts and Contexts Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 The course will present ethnographic works on Religion in the humanities and social sciences and will introduce students to the concept and practice of ethnography. N Malika Zeghal spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 40 Incarnation and Desire: An Introduction to Christianity Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to Christianity focused on conceptions of the human in relation to the divine, with particular attention to the categories of desire, freedom, the body, incarnation and grace. Texts will include selections from the Gospels, as well as the writings of Paul, Augustine, Abelard and Heloise, Gregory of Nyssa, Julian of Norwich, Luther, and Calvin, as well as several 20th century and contemporary authors. N Courtney Bickel Lamberth fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 91 r Supervised Reading and Research Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Study of special topics in the history and comparative study of religion on an individual or small-group basis. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Normally open only to concentrators. Permission by Director of Undergraduate Studies required. Y Courtney Bickel Lamberth Courtney Bickel Lamberth spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 97 Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Introduction to methods and theories in the study of religion, including major themes and arguments that have defined the field. Course emphasizes critical thinking and writing skills. Required of concentrators. Y Marla Frederick fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 98 a Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Part of the sequence of small seminars focused on critical thinking and writing skills for concentrators, this course provides in-depth study of selected themes, texts, traditions or time periods. Required of concentrators. Y Courtney Bickel Lamberth Courtney Bickel Lamberth fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 98 b Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Part of the sequence of small seminars focused on critical thinking and writing skills for concentrators, this course provides in-depth study of selected themes, texts, traditions or time periods. Required of concentrators. Y Courtney Bickel Lamberth Courtney Bickel Lamberth full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 99 Tutorial - Senior Year Senior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course A required component of the senior year tutorial is a biweekly seminar, led by the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. Covers research methods and strategies in thesis writing. Required of concentrators writing a thesis. Y Courtney Bickel Lamberth Courtney Bickel Lamberth fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 110 Religion and International Politics Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Rather than slowly disappearing from the world stage as advocates of the secularization thesis predicted, religious actors and arguments are a vital - and often unpredictable - force the world over. This course grounds an investigation into thematic questions such as the relationship between religion and regime, religion and human rights and religion and the politics of identity in a series of case studies drawn from Africa, Europe, the United States and the Middle East. N Bronwyn Conwell Roantree fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1005 World Religions in Boston: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Investigates religious traditions of the world in the dynamic urban context of today, focusing on the presence of these traditions in the increasingly complex and diverse religious life of the Boston area. A review of the religious histories of greater Boston. Visits to Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, and Buddhist centers. Consideration of the interfaith encounters, connections, and tensions with Christian and Jewish communities. Each student undertakes research on a particular community or issue in the Boston cosmopolis. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3901. N Diana L. Eck fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1006 Religion and Literature: An Introduction Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course introduces students to the cross-cultural study of religion and literature, considering both the literary dimensions of religious texts and the ways in which literature shapes its readers religiously, spiritually, and morally. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3162. N Anne E. Monius Stephanie Paulsell spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1008 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course, required of all first-year MDiv students but open to all, serves as an introduction to various approaches to the academic study of religion, from the anthropological and sociological to the philosophical and theological. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4515. N Kimberley Patton David Carrasco fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1015 Angels: Messengers of God Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The concept of divine intermediaries is widespread. The figure of the "messenger" often refracts crucial doctrinal tenets or executes divine will, as well as providing a spectacular focus for the religious imagination. Angels have a crucial theological and anthropological role in a range of religious genres. Using textual and iconographic evidence, this course explores the history, symbolism, and theological importance of angels and the development of angelology in three related monotheistic religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3651. N Kimberley Patton spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1016 The Shock of the Old: Conference Course Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 This course is about the impact of the past on the 'present' of historical time. Through the disciplinary lenses of anthropology and archaeology, we will explore how different peoples have encountered, imagined, and appropriated earlier times - historical, prehistorical, mythical, ancestral, biographical, material and ideological. Key topics include social time, memory, human temporality, the status of the dead, eternal recurrence, practices of transformation and rebirth, and the modern West's relationship to the classical world. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3253. Application for enrollment must be completed at first class meeting. N Kimberley Patton Michael D. Jackson fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1026 Introduction to Justice and Rights Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course seeks to give an introduction to contemporary discussions about justice, human rights, and religion. It will survey the conceptions of rights within political theology and within contemporary theories of justice. Special attention will be give to the work of Rawls, Habermas, Nussbaum, Sen, Walzer, Sandel, Motlmann, Woltersdorf, and Schmitt. It will seek to show how a conception of human rights relates to religion with the framework of a discourse ethics. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2801. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1031 Foucault and Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore Foucault's relations to religions and the religious in some of the texts that explicitly treat those topics and many others that contend with them ironically or silently or even wistfully. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2620. N Mark D. Jordan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1032 Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This comparative seminar interrogates the meaning of "doubling" a living being, and how this can be culturally, religiously, and/or mythically expressed. The birth of two children instead of one often presents anomaly, causing anxiety that can only be ritually resolved, or creating opportunity. Twins link worlds that single children cannot, or embody signs, auspicious or suspicious. How are "real" twins related to those of religion and myth, if they are at all? Offered jointly with the Divinity School 3310. Y Kimberley Patton spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1040 Theology in an Interreligious Perspective Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines the processes by which theologians study theologies across religious boundaries, bringing this learning into dialogue with home traditions, by careful comparison, dialogical reflection, and, ideally, a well-informed theological understanding of what it means to belong to one tradition and learn from another. Readings include (by way of example) Hindu primary texts and texts from the Roman Catholic traditions, but students are encouraged to bring their knowledge of and interest in other traditions to the discussions. Prior knowledge of either tradition, though desirable, is not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3101. N Francis X Clooney fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1042 Religious Tourism Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar will explore the relationship between "religion" and "tourisms." This engagement will juxtapose conceptions of "religion" encompassed broadly within ritual, spiritual, diasporic and esoteric practices-as-tours. We will read ethnographies of religious tourisms in different trans-local sites, exploring the engagement with issues of commodification and religion, religion and the state, religion and nationalisms, and the inciting of touristic desires. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3105. N Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesus fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1043 The Self Writing the Self: Autobiography and Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 40 This course explores selfhood, religion, and the writing of autobiography. What do autobiographies tell us about the relationship of subjectivity to religious truth? To whom are autobiographers telling their self-stories, and why? What constitutes conversion, enlightenment, or self-consciousness? Autobiographies studied include those by Augustine, Teresa of Avila, a Tibetan hermitess, a Chinese-American novelist, a Venetian Rabbi, an American freed slave, and James Joyce. Students will also keep autobiographical journals. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3721. N Janet Gyatso fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1059 God, Hindu and Christian Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course reflects on God in historical, theological, and spiritual terms, attending to classical Christian and Hindu traditions. Issues include: the definition of "God;" proof's for God's existence; God's relationship to the world, humans; divine embodiment; grace, revelation, way of knowing God. Treated also is the reflexive question: how might comparative study change our understanding of God? Paired with Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary, this course does not specifically treat gender-related issues. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3751. N Francis X Clooney spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1063 South Asian Religious Aesthetics: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This seminar offers an intensive examination of South Asian theories of aesthetics and their relevance for understanding Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain discourses of ethics, literature, and theology. Prior coursework in South Asian religions. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3925. N Anne E. Monius fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1082 Writing Lives: Women Writing Religion Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 An exploratory seminar on issues of writing, gender and religion. We will read a variety of texts -narrative, fictional, autobiographical, and theoretical - and explore issues of gender, genres, the construction of knowledge and visibility/invisibility of women's experience. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3900. N Leila Ahmed fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1097 Secularism Beyond the West Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This reading course examines the implications of recent studies of the secular, secularism, and secularization for the non-Western world, with particular emphasis on the works of Talal Asad and Charles Taylor. This course first provides an opportunity to read Asad and Taylor and those who have commented on them. We then investigate whether, how, and in what sense their ideas conform with secularism outside the West through readings of selected case studies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3011. N Helen Hardacre fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1212 a Judaism: The Liturgical Year Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An introduction to the Jewish tradition through an examination of its liturgical calendar. The ancient Near Eastern affinities and biblical forms of the Jewish holidays; the observance of the holidays in rabbinic law, their characteristic themes as developed in rabbinic non-legal literature, their special biblical readings, the evolution of the holidays over the centuries, contemporary theological reflection upon them. Emphasis on classic texts, focus on theological and literary issues. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1667a. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1212 b Judaism: The Liturgical Year Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A continuation of Religion 1212a. Religion 1212a. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1667b. N Jon D. Levenson spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1400 Introduction to the New Testament: History and Interpretation Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The texts of the New Testament emerged in the diverse social and complex political context of the Roman Empire. This course examines historical-critical approaches that set New Testament texts within their first and second-century contexts, pays special attention to archaeological materials which aid our understanding of the world from which these texts emerged, and considers how and why these particular texts came to be a canon. Students will also consider the vibrant and controversial contemporary contexts in which they and others interpret the New Testament. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1202. N Laura Salah Nasrallah spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1402 Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This introductory course will focus on the major Latin authors of the late antique Christian West (second through ninth centuries). Authors will include Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Cassian, Gregory the Great, Boethius, and John Scottus Eriugena. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1750. N Charles Marshall Stang fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1404 Early Christianity in the Roman Empire Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course We shall read New Testament and early Christian literature to explore topics such as Paul and empire, early Christian apologetics, and martyrdom. These will in turn be explored in relation to the literature and especially the art and archaeology of the Roman Empire. Special focus will be given to materials of the first and second centuries CE. Key themes will include gender, colonialism, violence, spectacle, the body, justice, and ancient definitions of religion and piety. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1518. N Laura Salah Nasrallah spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1408 Martyrdom: Bodies, Death and Life in Ancient Christianity Conference Course For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 What difference does it make how people face suffering and death, how Christians conceived of God and their communities, how they narrated the foundational story of their "remembered" past? What were the challenges and the controversies among ancient Christians? What is the legacy of that violence and the responses to it? This course will consider newly discovered works, as well as engage critical readings of well known sources, around such topics as the politics of martyrdom, performance and ritual, gender, and intra-Christian controversies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1501. N Karen L. King fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1409 The New Testament, Biblical Studies, and Empire: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Focuses on the intersection of the New Testament and postcolonial criticisms, addressing both the Roman imperial context of early Christian texts and nineteenth- and twentieth-century approaches to the Bible, and investigating connections between Orientalism and the formation of biblical studies. Topics include biblical archaeology, art history and renditions of the "Holy Land", and quests for the historical Jesus. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1887. N Laura Salah Nasrallah spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1412 The Song of Songs and Its Interpreters Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Beginning with a careful reading of the Song of Songs in translation, the course will go on to explore the history of its interpretation from Origen to Madame Guyon. Attention will be paid to contemporary historical, literary, and theological engagements with the Song. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1770. N Stephanie Paulsell Amy Hollywood fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1413 The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This introductory course focuses on 1) the Pauline epistles in their first-century sociopolitical context, and their earliest interpretations; 2) what "work" Paul's letters do today in debates regarding homosexuality, women's leadership, Jewish-Christian relations, and ideas of universalism (i.e., how has Paul become a new hero for some European philosophers, such as Badiou and Zizek?). Special attention will be given to what the Pauline letters say about women and slaves, ethnicity in antiquity (Romans, Greeks, Jews, those "in Christ"), as well as their arguments about ethics and the formation of the self, especially in view of the impending eschaton. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1544. Former course title: Paul's Letters and Their Interpreters: Ethnicity, Empire, the Body, and the End of the World. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Laura Salah Nasrallah spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1414 Gospel Stories of Wo/men Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will introduce a critical feminist rhetorical reading of "gospel" stories about wo/men in order to assess whether they are "good news" for wo/men. Special attention will be given to the significance of social locations, critical methods, and historical imagination for the interpretation and significance of these stories about Jewish wo/men for contemporary religious self-understandings and ministerial praxis. Lectures, group discussions, and group projects seek to foster a participatory, democratic style of learning. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1503. N Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1416 Feminist Biblical Interpretation Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is an introduction to the emerging field of feminist biblical studies. We will discuss different biblical texts, hermeneutical approaches, methods of interpretation, and theoretical perspectives. Special attention will be given to the ethics of interpretation, and the significance of feminist hermeneutics for contemporary theological reflection and religious leadership. Lectures, group discussions, and presentations seek to foster a participatory, democratic style of learning. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1504. N Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1422 History of the Exegesis and the Reception of the Gospel of Luke Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 A study of the exegesis and reception of the Gospel of Luke in history, stressing the interpretation of the Gospel in the period ca. 200-1600. After studying Luke in its original context, the seminar will turn to commentaries, sermons, and artistic representations of all or parts of the Gospel, as well as to hermeneutical theory from the ancient world. A major research language (Latin, Greek, or Syriac) helpful, but not required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1872. Y Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1429 Augustine and His Heretics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course will survey Augustine of Hippo's theological career through the lens of his encounters with three heretical communities of Roman North Africa: Manichaeism, Donatism, and Pelagianism. Particular attention will be paid to following themes: evil, freedom, the will, and selfhood. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1752. N Charles Marshall Stang fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1434 History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Church and society in western Europe from the fourth through the twelfth century. Early and high medieval Christianity in social and cultural context, with attention to popular religious belief and behavior as well as to the institutional church and its leaders. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2230. N Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1437 History of Western Christianity: 1100-1500 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Church and society in western Europe during the high and late Middle Ages. Particular attention will be paid to theological and institutional change and continuity and to popular religious movements. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2250. N Kevin J. Madigan fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1438 The Friars and Their World, ca. 1100-1325 Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Focus on secondary texts in English pertaining to origins and development of Franciscan Order in high Middle Ages. Examination of these studies as a way into social and religious worlds of thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Central themes: issues surrounding poverty, the burgeoning split between the "spiritual" and "conventual" wings of the order, heresy and inquisition, apocalyptic thought and the evolution of papal attitudes towards the order. Concludes by considering literary and filmic representations of selected themes. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2252. Y Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1441 Greek Exegesis of 1 Corinthians Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 The course is devoted to close reading and interpretation of 1 Corinthians. Discussion of the Greek text of 1 Corinthians will focus on literary style, use of rhetoric, philology, and the social and theological issues of the text. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1551. Y Laura Salah Nasrallah fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1450 History of Christian Thought: The Medieval West Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will survey the main features of Christian theology from the 11th through the 15th centuries. We will focus on the particular genres, modes of argumentation, questions, and goals attendant on theology as it emerges in multiple contexts within the medieval West. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2629. N Amy Hollywood spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1453 Theology and the Everyday Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An inquiry into the construction of the everyday as a site for constructive theological construction. Readings in Luther, Certeau, Lefebrve, Norris, Orsi, and Taylor as well as viewing of films relevant to the course topics. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2530. N Ronald F. Thiemann fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1454 History of Ancient Christianity Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Christian history from the beginnings to the end of the fourth century in its political and cultural context. The course will discuss Jesus and Paul and the diversity of Christian beginnings, the process of institutionalization, establishment of offices and of the canon of the Holy Scriptures, orthodoxy and heresy, Montanism and Gnosticism, philosophy and the theology of the Church Fathers, persecutions and martyrdoms, and the controversies and ecumenical councils of the fourth century. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1545. N Helmut Koester fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1463 Evangelical Conversion and Disenchantment Narratives Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This seminar will concentrate on processes and discourses of religious conversion and disenchantment within the Evangelical tradition from the early eighteenth to the later twentieth centuries. Questions addressed will include what was the appeal of Evangelical religion and spirituality to different social groups, how were religious conversions understood and expressed, and what factors promoted subsequent disenchantment? We will examine conversion narratives, various expressions of disenchantment (in art and literature), and some examples of reconversion. By exploring these categories, the course hopes to shed light on wider themes such as the emergence of a concept of self in the early modern period, and possible causes of secularization in later periods. //Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2357. Y David Neil Hempton fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1464 The Rise of the Holiness Traditions: Pietism, Methodism, and Pentecostalism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course examines one of the most dynamic traditions of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. The course will investigate the rise of Pietism and Methodism in Europe and the North Atlantic world in the early modern period, and the growth of Pentecostalism in the United States and beyond in the twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to the social, economic, and political environments that facilitated growth as well as to the most important personalities and theological characteristics of these fast-growing movements. //Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2359. N David Neil Hempton spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1466 The Q Riddle Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Hours to be arranged Giovanni Battista Bazzana (Divinity School) The hypothetical source called "Q" has generated in the last 100 years of New Testament research hot debates and exciting confrontations. The course will focus on the historical inquiry that produced the Q hypothesis and will analyze what role this hypothesis has played in cultural and theological discussions in the academic world and outside of it. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1550. N Giovanni Battista Bazzana spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1468 Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Encompassing both "mainstream" and insurgent, "popular" or "new" forms of religion (e.g., the Society of Friends, Mormonism, African-American Protestantism), this survey course deals with the history of Christian thought; changing patterns of religious practice; and religion and society in the context of the regulating and/or liberating "reform" movements of the 19th century. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2303. N David D. Hall fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1471 Christian Ethics, Persuasion, and Power I Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Early Christians wrote their ethical teaching not only in response to existing religious law or rite, but in competition with philosophical programs for soul-shaping. The religious traditions and the philosophic schools alike wanted to discipline bodily actions and passions, but even more to elicit certain roles or characters. This course reads some ancient philosophical examples of ethical persuasion before turning to Christian texts that want to surpass them in power to shape lives. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2393. N Mark D. Jordan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1472 The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A study of the life, thought, and actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. An ethical analysis of his primary concepts, ideas, and strategies based upon a reading and discussion of his writings and their sources. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2721. N Preston Williams fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1473 Christian Sexual Ethics Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 What accounts for the prominence of sexual issues in contemporary Christian debates? Is this something new in church history? Is it peculiar to Christian thinking or does it arise from other cultural forces? Is it helpful for Christian ethics to talk so much about sex? This course will take up these questions first in some historical constructions of sexual topics, then in the rapid changes of the last hundred years. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2710. N Mark D. Jordan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1474 Christian Ethics, Persuasion, and Power II Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Whatever else it might be, European `modernity' is a transformation in Christian projects for ethics. Settled forms of ethical teaching change under the pressures of polemic, skepticism, and specialization or reduction. The course will trace some of the transformation and the reactions to it in a series of primary texts from Luther to Nietzsche. Expected to be given in subsequent spring semesters of odd-numbered years. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2394. N Mark D. Jordan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1493 Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of contemporary Roman Catholic theology that discusses issues in the interpretations of God, Jesus, and the church with reference to theological method. The broad spectrum of present-day Roman Catholic theology will be covered through an analysis of diverse theologians and approaches: existential, transcendental, liberationist, feminist, analytical, and hermeneutical. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2479. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1514 Reading Derrida: Performance, Politics, and Apophatic Theology Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The course will focus on selected essays by philosopher Jacques Derrida, read against the background of the philosophical, theological, and literary texts with which he is engaged. Readings will likely include work by J. L. Austin, Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Kant, and Meister Eckhart, as well as by Derrida. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2614. N Amy Hollywood fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1520 Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course General introduction to hermeneutical theory. A survey of the development from classical to modern and contemporary hermeneutics. Attends to the influence of nineteenth and twentieth century theories of interpretation upon sacred texts, the diverse approaches to theology, and key theological categories such as revelation, experience, method, foundations, classics, community, and practice. Introduces some of the modern debates about the importance of interpretation for religious and theological studies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2410. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1529 The Holocaust and the Churches, 1933-45 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 F., 2-4 Kevin J. Madigan (Divinity School) This course will be an historical study of the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime during the Second World War.It will also be an historical study of what the Protestant and Catholic churches and individual Christians did and did not do--how they stood by, collaborated with or resisted the Nazis during the emigration, expropriation, persecution, ghettoization, deportation and annihilation of their Jewish neighbors. It will close with a brief study of some of the philosophical and religious implications of the Holocaust. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2293. Y Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1535 Theology and Power: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Hours to be arranged Francis Fiorenza (Divinity School) An exploration of the diverse understandings of power within classical and recent social and theological thought. Transitions in the understanding of power with contemporary critical theory, feminist theology, and post-colonial theory will be discussed. Among the authors described: Weber, Lukes, Dahl, Foucault, Arendt, Habermas, Tillich, Rahner, Boff, West, Cobb, Butler, and Young. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2633. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1536 Theology and Culture: Seminar Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This course explores some of the recent literature on the relation between religion, theology, and culture. Specific attention will be given to issues of method, tradition, and the intersection of theology and culture, and the relation between faith and critical inquiry. Authors to be considered include: Niebuhr, Tanner, Geertz, Rorty, Stout, Benhabib, and Fraser. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2403. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1537 Introduction to Political Theology Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore contemporary issues within political theology, its relation to diverse theories of justice, and the significance of human rights. It deals with the relation between political theology and the foundations of social ethics, justice, rights, and theology, as well as the relation between ethical and religious reflection and the social construction of reality. Special emphasis to the work of Rawls, Scanlon, Nussbaum, and Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action, modernity, and discourse ethics. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2632. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1538 Liberal and Liberation Theologies in Dialogue Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore the possibilities for fruitful interchange between classic liberal theologies and contemporary theologies of liberation. We will begin with major texts of American liberal theology (Channing, Emerson, Bushnell, Rauschenbusch), then turn to the defining liberationist texts (Gutierrez, Cone, Daly), and conclude with several attempts to integrate the traditions. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2415. N Daniel P McKanan fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1543 19th-Century Religious Thought: Theology and the Critique of Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The 19th-century formulated many of the questions and frameworks that continue to dominate theology and religious reflection in the West. We consider the developing interplay between modern Christian theology (primarily continental) and the principal philosophical and social critiques of religion in the 19th-century. Topics include human nature, religion, the divine-human relationship, religious knowledge, the social, and historicity. Readings from Lessing, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Harnack, and Troeltsch. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2431. N David Lamberth spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1544 Unitarian and Universalist Thought in the Nineteenth Century Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar will explore the intellectual shapers of the Unitarian and Universalist traditions in the nineteenth century, with special attention to the founders and formative theologians of each tradition, the challenges of Transcendentalism and Spiritualism, and the interactions of Unitarianism and Universalism with broader currents of religious liberalism in the United States. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2770. N Daniel P McKanan fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1550 Religion and American Public Life Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An overview of the issues that arise within American democracy concerning the public role of religion. This course will cover issues in public theology, religion and democratic political theory, and constitutional law, including church/state relations. It will conclude with a case study in public policy, considering such issues as religion and gay/lesbian marriage, religion and welfare, and/or religion and welfare policy. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2524. N Ronald F. Thiemann spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1555 The History of Local Congregations Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course will explore the role of local congregations--of all faith traditions--in the United States. Each student will complete a significant research project on a congregation of her or his choosing. Intended for students preparing for congregational ministry and for those who hope to hone their archival research skills. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2794. N Daniel P McKanan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1556 Classical Pragmatism and Religion Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course considers the classical American pragmatic tradition, seeking both to understand the genesis and claims of "pragmatism" and its relation to and implications for religion. We begin with Charles Sanders Pierce, but give particular attention to the writings of William James and John Dewey, along with Josiah Royce. Topics include belief, experience, truth, action, ethics, rationality, and the nature and role, socially and individually, of religion. Prior work in theology or philosophy recommended. This is a new version of Religion 1546, therefore, students who have taken 1546 may not repeat this course for credit. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2671. N David Lamberth fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1557 Unitarian and Universalist History in the United States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This survey course will trace the history of both Unitarianism and Universalism from their eighteenth-century origins to the present. Focusing especially on the experiences of local congregations, we will explore the diverse starting points of liberal religion in the United States; the challenges of Transcendentalism, spiritualism, and humanism; the interplay between liberal religion and social reform; and the experience of consolidation in the twentieth century. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2776. N Daniel P McKanan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1559 Unitarian and Universalist Thought in the Twentieth Century Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar will explore the major shapers of the Unitarian and Universalist traditions in the twentieth century, with special attention to the influence of the social gospel, religious humanism, process thought, and liberation theology. Featured writers will include Francis Greenwood Peabody, Clarence Skinner, John Jaynes Holmes, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Curtis Reese, Frederick May Eliot, James Luther Adams, Sophia Fahs, Henry Nelson Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, A. Powell Davies, Kenneth Patton, William R. Jones, and Rebecca Parker. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2772. N Daniel P McKanan fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1562 Esoteric and Metaphysical Religions in the United States Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course surveys new religious movements--and revitalizations of ancient traditions--that have been labeled as "metaphysical," "esoteric," "occult," or "harmonial." Beginning with colonial practices of astrology, alchemy, and spirit possession, we will consider Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought, and their myriad descendents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2360. N Daniel P McKanan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1565 Religion and the Left in US History Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course surveys religious and spiritual movements for social transformation in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. We will consider such movements as abolitionism, pacifism, feminism, socialism, the social gospel, and civil rights, paying special attention to the theological and denominational diversity of religious activism, external and internal criticisms of religious leftists, and the interplay between religious radicalism and other religious and cultural traditions. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2773. N Daniel P McKanan fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1567 Religion and the Public Intellectual Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An inquiry into the role of the public intellectual in contemporary culture. The course will review the critical literature on the public intellectual focusing on the question of religion. Special attention will be given to the social and cultural conditions that enable religiously based social criticism and to the various genres (poetry, the essay, the novel) through which that criticism is communicated. Readings in Baldwin, Camus, Day, Hansberry, Hughes, Niebuhr, Orwell, and others. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2528. N Ronald F. Thiemann fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1569 Theology and the Literary Arts Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An exploration of literature (primarily poetry and the novel) as vehicles for the expression of public theology. We will look at literary theory as well as literature in order to assess the efficacy of the literary arts as a vehicle of religious sentiments. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2546. Y Ronald F. Thiemann fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1570 Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indigenous Critic of American Religion and Politics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 An exploration of the work of Native American intellectual Vine Deloria, Jr. From his landmark 1972 critique of the impact of Christianity in American history in "God is Red" through his later work on evolution and creationism, the course grapples with Deloria's challenge to take tribal knowledge seriously in both social criticism and academic inquiry. Deloria's diverse disciplinary interventions, including those in theology, law, politics, anthropology and the natural sciences, provide access to his multifaceted support for indigenous sovereignty. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3156. N Ann Braude fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1576 Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 This seminar-style course is organized around close and critical readings of recent work in the philosophy of religion, broadly construed. Although there are no specific pre-requisites, previous course work in philosophy will be assumed. N Parimal G. Patil spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1625 Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An examination of the religious traditions and communities of South Asia through the stories they tell. This semester's focus will be the epics - the Mahabharata and the Ramayana - in their numerous textual, regional, sectarian, and performative tellings. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3405. N Anne E. Monius spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1627 Hindu Ethics: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 An intensive exploration of the place of ethics and moral reasoning in Hindu thought and practice. Materials to be examined will be drawn from a wide range of sources, from classical Sanskrit dharmashastra to epic narrative, devotional poetry, and modern ethnography, but emphasis will be placed throughout upon the particularity of different Hindu visions of the ideal human life. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3923. N Anne E. Monius spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1635 Reading Pre-Modern Hindu Narrative Literature: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focusing on the genres of itihasa, purana, and katha, this seminar explores the relevance of both classical Indic and contemporary Euro-American literary theories for the understanding of pre-modern South Asian narrative. Although all primary source readings will be in English translation, previous study of South Asian religions is required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3926. N Anne E. Monius fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1655 Gandhi, Then and Now: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Readings in the life, religious thought, and social activism of M.K. Gandhi, considering Gandhi in his own time and historical context as well as his connections to those who took inspiration from his approach to issues of non-violent change and social justice. We will consider biographies and studies of Gandhi, his own autobiographical writings, his writings on non-violence, self-reliance, religion, and social transformation. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3421. N Diana L. Eck spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1661 Spiritual Exercises: The Yoga Sutras in a Comparative Perspective Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This seminar is for students interested in the study of primary Indian/Hindu texts, read in translation and in the context of a comparative dynamic of reading across the boundaries of traditions. The Yoga Sutras and their commentaries will be read along with excerpts from Christian parallels (e.g., the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola). No language or course prerequisites, but students who know Sanskrit will be encouraged to make use of their expertise. It is not necessary to have taken prior courses in this series. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3931. N Francis X Clooney fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1705 Tibetan Buddhism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Distinctive traditions of Tibetan Buddhism in their historical contexts. Topics include: the ethics of compassion, visionary meditations; tantric yoga and physiologies; death and reincarnation practices; magic and state rituals; the creation of sacred landscape; religious authority and discipline; and cultures of writing, learning and painting. Throughout the course we will consider the relation of these religious practices to the historical development of Tibetan cultures, Buddhist institutions, and state formations. Expected to be given again in 2011-12. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3563. N Janet Gyatso fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1706 South Asian Buddhism: Dharmas, Emptiness, and Idealism Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A very close and contextual reading (in translation) of Buddhist "doctrinal" and "philosophical" texts. We will select chapters from Vasubandhu's Treasury of Metaphysics, Nagarjuna's Basis of the Middle Way, and Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses and attempt to understand these texts on their own terms and in their South Asian contexts, while also inquiring into their significance for the study of Buddhism and religion in South Asia. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3536. N spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1707 Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and their Critical Interpretations Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 30 An introduction to the study of Buddhist commentaries, their textual and hermeneutic services, as well as their history and their places in Buddhist scholastic cultures. Examples of Buddhist commentaries will be drawn from across the Buddhist world. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3779. N Charles S. Hallisey spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1722 Buddhist Ethics Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 A systematic exploration of Buddhist views of moral anthropology and the place of moral reflection in Buddhist thought and practice. The scope of the course is wide, with examples drawn from the whole Buddhist world, but the emphasis will be given to the particularity of different Buddhist visions of human flourishing. Attention will also be given to the challenges and promises of describing Buddhist ethics in a comparative perspective. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3576. N Charles S. Hallisey fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1730 Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course explores two interrelated subjects: Buddhist conceptions and practices relating to sex and gender; and the lives and subjectivities of historical women across the Buddhist world. It studies writings on monastic discipline, tantric sexual practices, and gender, as well as premodern and modern autobiographies of celibate and lay women. These Buddhist materials are considered in conjunction with the writings of Western feminist thinkers, including Judith Butler and Joan Scott. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3559. N Janet Gyatso spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1742 Introduction to Buddhist Narrative and Story Literature Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 An introduction to the study of narrative and story literature in the Buddhist world. A primary focus will be on the narrative and story literature found in Buddhist scriptures and commentaries, but there will also be consideration of examples of narrative and story literature that circulated independently. Examples will be drawn from across the Buddhist world. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3776. N Charles S. Hallisey fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1802 Introduction to Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Tradition Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introductory survey of Sufism, focusing on its fundamental concepts, ritual practices, institutions, and its impact on literary and sociopolitical life in different Muslim societies. An introductory course in Islam or equivalent helpful but not essential. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3620. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts C, but not both. N Ali Asani fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1806 The Vocabulary of Islam Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Provides students with knowledge of a broad range of key concepts, technical terms, seminal questions, and cultural motifs internal to the Islamic tradition. These constitute a vocabulary related to Quran and exegesis, Hadith, law, theology, political thought, philosophy, Sufism, ritual, literature, art, and architecture, that has permeated Islamic discourses, practices, and identities down to the modern period, and that is central to an informed understanding and further study of Islam as religion and civilizational complex. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3978. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. N Shahab Ahmed spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1808 Quranic Exegeses Through History: Themes, Questions and Controversies Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course is a survey of Quranic text and exegeses. In comparing and analyzing various exegeses representing various periods in Islamic history from the Middle Ages to modernity and expressing various doctrinal, intellectual, theological and philosophical positions, we will investigate how the nature, meaning and understanding of the Muslim scripture changed through history and what effect it exerted on the epistemic and socio-cognitive formation of the Islamic society. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3598. N Ahmed Ragab spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1816 Ismaili History and Thought Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 A seminar surveying the development and evolution of Ismaili interpretations of Islam in various historical and cultural settings. Prior study of Islam or permission by instructor required. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3939. Y Ali Asani fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1820 Muslim Societies in South Asia: Religion, Culture, and Identity Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course South Asia is home to the largest concentration of Muslims in the world. This course surveys the development of Muslim communities in the region focusing on an exploration of their identities in diverse contexts. Issues and themes will be considered within religious and socio-political contexts, as well as the broader framework of South Asian cultures as expressed in language, literature, and the arts. The course also examines various ways in which the terms "Islamic" and "Muslim" are understood in pre-modern and modern discourses as well as the lived experiences of being Muslim in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Introductory course in Islam or equivalent. Offered jointly with Divinity School as 3625. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Culture and Belief or Societies of the World, but not both. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures. Y Ali Asani fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1825 Themes in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 This course follows out the history of feminist themes and debates in Islam from their first emergence in the Middle East in the late 19th century to their ongoing development in America in the 21st century. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3604. N Leila Ahmed spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1828 Islam in the West Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course concentrates on the origins and establishment of Muslim communities in the United States and Europe, and its consequences on Muslim communities themselves as well as on religious life in the west. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3360. N Malika Zeghal spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1829 Readings in Islam and the History of Islam in the U.S. and Europe Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 We will read works in the history of Islam in the U.S. and Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3582. Y Leila Ahmed fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1832 Political Islam in the 20th and 21st Centuries Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., Th., 10-11:30 Malika Zeghal This course reviews the literature produced by social scientist and historians on the origins, ideologies, and political practices of 20th century Islamist movements as well as on their evolution in the early 21st century. N Malika Zeghal spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 1842 Religion, Gender, Identity - Readings in 20th Century Arab Autobiographies - Muslim, Christian, Jewish Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 25 We will read autobiographical works mainly by contemporary Arab and/or Muslim writers, paying particular attention to issues of identity, religion, and gender, and exploring how these are at play in the text and in authorial constructions of self. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3616. N Leila Ahmed fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2001 The History of the Study of Religion Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An examination of the study of religion from early modernity to the present, with attention to key thinkers, methods, and theories. Limited to first-year doctoral students. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4599. Y Kimberley Patton William A. Graham spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2002 Contemporary Conversations in the Study of Religion: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course An engagement with the theoretical and methodological issues that scholars of religion deem to be the most urgent and compelling in the discipline today, across the various research areas. Limited to second-year doctoral students in the Study of Religion. Y Parimal G. Patil fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2030 Thinking About History in South Asia: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This seminar offers an intensive examination of Euro-American and South Asian approaches to time and history and considers their importance for the study of South Asian religions. Limited to doctoral students and advanced masters-level students. Offered jointly with Divinity School as 3930. N Anne E. Monius spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2055 Religion and Democratic Theory: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Examines relationship between religious reflection and democratic theories of various types. Topics: liberal political theory and theological critique, religious practice and radical democratic theory, cultural/religious diversity and religious truth-claims, religion and public life, and feminist theory and democratic practice. Consideration of religion and democratic theory in cross-cultural perspective. Authors: Seyla Benhabib, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Tariq Ramadan. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2538. Y Ronald F. Thiemann spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2348 ab Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course 12 The first half of the course introduces students to archaeological data from the Graeco-Roman world (inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins). The second half consists of seminars in Greece and Turkey during May and on-site meetings with archaeologists. Greek and French or German; two half courses in the study of ancient Christianity and/or Greco-Roman religion, history, and archaeology. Undergraduates and graduate students welcome. Permission of the instructor required. Course may be divided with permission of instructor. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1870. N Laura Salah Nasrallah fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2435 High Medieval Christianity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced historical investigation, topics include: the papacy and reform, new religious orders, medieval thought and growth of universities, piety and devotion, Christianization on periphery of Europe, Rome and Constantinople, the Friars, heresy and its repression, Christianity and the other (Judaism, Islam, etc). Religion 1434/HDS 2230 and Religion 1437/HDS 2250 or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2294. N Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2440 Late Medieval Christianity Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course Advanced investigation, topics include: papacy at Avignon, the Great Schism, the observantine reform of several medieval religious orders, late medieval thought, mysticism, late-medieval heresy and, especially, analysis of recent literature investigating question of continuity and discontinuity with sixteenth-century Christianity. Religion 1434/HDS 2230 and Religion 1437/HDS 2250 or equivalent. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2295. N Kevin J. Madigan spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2464 Radical Religion in England and America, 1550-1750: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 The history of the Puritan movement in the context of the Reformation and the Reformed tradition; mainstream and radical movements, including Quakerism. A reading and research seminar using primary materials and the major historiography. Expected to be given again in 2013-14. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2270. N David D. Hall fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2465 John Calvin at the Beginning of Reformed Theology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 An in depth analysis of the theology of John Calvin with attention to the scope and context of his theological vision. The course will closely read the final edition of the Institutes, as well as consider Calvin in relation to early reformed confessions. Prior work in theology expected. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2260. N David Lamberth fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2477 God Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 An analysis of select theologians in their approach to the knowledge and the nature of God. Special attention will be paid to their theological method and philosophical presuppositions. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2634. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2480 Karl Barth: Seminar Lecture Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 An intensive reading and research course on the work of Karl Barth. Attention will be given to the theological and political development throughout his work, including his involvement in the German Church Struggle. Close reading of the Church Dogmatics during the second half of the seminar. At least one course in modern theology. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2535. Y Ronald F. Thiemann spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2485 Faith: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 An inquiry into faith as a general human orientation and a particular Christian commitment. Topics: faith as ultimate concern, faith and reason, faith and suffering, faith and history. Readings: Luther, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Lewis, Wolterstorff, Dostoevsky, Tillich, Niebuhr, Robinson, Morrison. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2549. Y Ronald F. Thiemann fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2490 Diversity and Domination in Theory, Scripture and Society: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Topic: Diversity and domination in terms of an intersectional analytic. Focus: not only on theoretical questions with respect to diversity and/or domination but also how they are negotiated in religious/theological studies, society, and religious communities. Seminar participants will be able to choose either as their method of inquiry critical race, feminist, postcolonial or queer theory or as their area of inquiry scripture, public discourse, education, or religious leadership and ministry. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2752. N Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2525 Rationality, Relativism, and Theology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 An analysis of the debates about relativism, pluralism, and rationality within current philosophy and theology. Selected contemporary authors will be discussed. offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2644. N Francis Schussler Fiorenza fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2536 The Pantheism Controversy and the Rise of Modern Theology Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 The pantheism controversy roiled Germany in the late 18th century, ushering in the shift from deism to pantheistic monism, enlightenment to romanticism, and traditional to modern theology. This course begins with the controversy between Mendelssohn and Jacobi over Lessing, then tracks back to Spinoza, forward to Herder and Heine, before concluding with Fichte, Schleiermacher and Hegel. Topics include the nature of God, the world, faith, reason, and experience. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2758. Y David Lamberth spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2539 The Thought of John Dewey: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 An in depth analysis of the thought of John Dewey, with particular focus on the relevance of his ideas to religion and theology. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2715. N David Lamberth fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2542 Kant: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 A close reading of major works of Kant relevant to theology and philosophy of religion. The seminar focuses on issues such as the nature and limits of reason, the concepts of freedom, morality and faith, and the idea of God. Advanced work in theology or philosophy of religion. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2674. N David Lamberth spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2543 Circumscribing a Discipline: Theology and the Philosophy of Religion Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Under what conditions did philosophy of religion emerge in Western thought? How is it separate from theology? Participants conduct research and present in the second half of the term. Advanced work in the field. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2672. N David Lamberth fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2550 Women and Religion in Contemporary America: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Surveys contemporary developments in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities. Topics include religion and women's political mobilization, including evangelical and Mormon movements; the modernization of orthodoxies, including Judaism and Catholicism; and the body as a site of conflict, exploration, and expression of the intersecting categories of religion, gender, and American identity. The course approaches persistent issues of modesty, dress, sexuality, food, menstruation, healing, and ordination. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2328. N Ann Braude full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2555 hf Readings in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Readings will vary each year. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2759. First class meeting will be September 7, 2011. Y Amy Hollywood Amy Hollywood spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2620 Dead But Not Forgotten: Early Scholars of South Asian Religions and Their Enduring Influence Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 This seminar examines early Euro-American scholarly understandings of South Asian religions and their enduring influence in shaping of the academic study of South Asia into the twenty-first century. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3413. Y Anne E. Monius fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2630 Introduction to Mimamsa Ritual Theory Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 15 Introduction to Hindu ritual theory by study of key texts of the classical Mimamsa ("Scriptural/Ritual Analysis") tradition of Vedic textual and ritual interpretation, using the fundamental Sutras of Jaimini, old commentaries, later manuals, modern secondary studies.Some attention to concomitant philosophical issues, other Indic models of ritual, and Western assessments of Mimamsa. Readings primarily in English, Sanskrit extra hour for those interested; intermediate level of Sanskrit desired but not required. Some background in Hindu or Vedic studies recommended. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3745. N Francis X Clooney spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2800 Sources and Methods for Research in Islamic Studies Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course A hands-on introduction to the source material necessary for research in Islamic studies. Advanced reading competence in Arabic. Y Shahab Ahmed fall term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 2970 Topics in Modern Japanese Religions Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This graduate seminar examines significant topics shaping Japanese religious life from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. Each year's offering will focus on reading and discussion of relevant primary texts and secondary literature. May be repeated for credit. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3961. N Helen Hardacre fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3000 Direction of Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course May also be taken with other instructors, when authorized by the Chair. Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3001 Reading and Research Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course May also be taken with other instructors, when authorized by the Chair. Y fall term; repeated spring term Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3002 Foreign Language Certification Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Reading and research conducted in a specific foreign language, normally French or German, to satisfy the modern language reading proficiency requirement for PhD students in the Study of Religion. Limited to PhD candidates who receive written permission from the Committee's Director of PhD Studies. Y full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3005 hf Doctoral Colloquium in Religion, Gender, and Culture Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course The colloquium will explore key-topics and works in women's/gender/feminist studies in religion. Required for doctoral students in Religion, Gender, and Culture. Interested ThM, MTS, and MDiv students please contact the instructor. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2698. May be taken on a Sat/Unsat basis only. The first meeting will be Wednesday, August 31. Please take a look at the special issue of differences 21: 1 Spring 2010 available online before the first session, especially the essay by Elizabeth Castelli. If you aren't able to come on the first day, please be in touch with the instructor as soon as possible. Y Amy Hollywood Amy Hollywood full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3420 hf Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course 12 Topic for 2011-12: Authors, Books, Religion: Ancient Christianity. Intermediate competency in at least one of the following ancient languages is required: Greek, Latin, Coptic. A course available to ThM, ThD, and PhD candidates, and qualified MTS and MDiv students with permission of the instructor. Required for ThM candidates in the field and for ThD and PhD candidates until the term following successful completion of general exams. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1980. Y Karen L. King Karen L. King full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3425 hf New Testament Seminar for Doctoral Dissertations Direction of the Doctoral Dissertation Graduate Course Half course Biweekly presentation of research projects. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1995. Y Karen L. King Karen L. King full year Committee on the Study of Religion The Study of Religion Religion 3505 hfr Colloquium in American Religious History Thesis Research Graduate Course Half course 20 Presentation and discussion of the research of doctoral candidates in American religious history. Open, with instructor's permission, to doctoral students in other fields of religious studies or American studies. Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2390. Y David Neil Hempton David Neil Hempton full year Committee on Ukrainian Studies Ukrainian Studies Ukrainian 200 Ukrainian Studies: Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Full course Interdisciplinary seminar in Ukrainian studies with broad regional and comparative perspective. Faculty and invited scholars discuss a variety of topics in the humanities and social sciences. Background readings and follow-up discussions help students put the specific lectures in broader context. Students also conduct an individually tailored reading and research project under the guidance of a faculty advisor and in consultation with other resident specialists. Y Michael S. Flier Serhii Plokhii George Grabowicz Michael S. Flier Serhii Plokhii George Grabowicz fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 10 a Drawing 1 Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A studio course to build the skills of drawing incrementally and expand students' visual vocabulary. Drawings will be made from life, photographs and invention. Emphasis will be placed on enhancing our observational sensibilities, focusing on all aspects of technical development, particularly the importance of line. Assignments will delve into the development of abstract and conceptual principles, and introduce specialized systems of rendering and notation. The aim is to expand drawing skills with intention and purpose. This class is for beginners or anyone furthering their skill level. Y Katarina Burin Katarina Burin fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 10 br Drawing 2 Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 An intermediate studio course to build upon basic skills, while exploring various methods and modes of drawing. Emphasis will be placed on individual projects and developing a body of work. This course considers drawing as both an immediate and mediated form, with distanced and nuanced potential. Exploring drawing as an expanded field, as process and installation, students can use various transfer techniques and incorporate found imagery--combining traditional skills and contemporary practice. At least one VES studio half-course or permission of the instructor. This course may be taken as continuation of Drawing 1 or as a stand-alone course. Y Katarina Burin spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 15 ar Silkscreen: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 For the student who is interested in the manipulation of found and original imagery. Students will create monotypes on paper and other surfaces utilizing the silkscreen process. Through slide presentations, the class will be introduced to the work of artists such as Rauschenberg and Warhol, as well as others who use the silkscreen process. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Annette Lemieux spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 19 Graphic Novels: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 From the history to the mechanics, this course will explore the origins of graphic novels and how to apply this medium in literary and artistic ways. Classes will include presentations and lectures on important historical and current work as well as practical assignments. For students interested in acquiring an understanding of cartooning history as well as those interested in developing their own work for publication, this course will provide a strong foundation. Y Peter Alan Kuper fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 21 s New Grounds: Painting Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 What role does a studio "foundation" play in a technologically and ideologically diverse moment? This will be a painting foundations course, with an emphasis on building skills and exposure to different materials and methods; yet, we also aim to question what the grounds for a painting practice could be, with consideration of conceptual and personal motivation, technical proficiency, and openness to process and experimentation. Open to beginners, while also appropriate for more advanced students. Y Matthew Richard Saunders fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 22 Subtle Skills: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 In this beginning-level studio course, students get acquainted with a variety of painting and drawing media. Students paint and draw during and outside class, working to find their own painterly practice. The course aims to put skill into perspective while unassumingly practicing and studying some of the tools used for image making. Critiques, readings, and exhibition visits are integral to the course. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Gerda Birgitta Sophie Tottie spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 24 Painting, Smoking, Eating Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Titled after Phillip Guston, this course has two agendas: technical assignments that improve your ability to move paint around, and laying conceptual groundwork for personal projects. One task of an artist is to have a relationship with a world. We will discuss the social role of artists and the boundaries between interior and exterior discourse, with an emphasis on artists' writing, both critical and self-reflexive, treating self-expression as well as abnegation: auteurs, flaneurs, ventriloquists. Y Matthew Richard Saunders spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 25 x Making Material Mean: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 In this painting and mixed media course, we will study all supports to underline their expressive qualities. We will examine traditional and alternate materials that can be used as expressions in themselves in our work. Students work with their own images independently, but are guided regularly in individual studio talks. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Gerda Birgitta Sophie Tottie spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 32 Reconstruction: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A studio course, for making things out of other things, attending to the realms of demolition, waste, surplus, and detritus. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Helen Mirra spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 34 r Environmental Art Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A course in which to undertake individual and collaborative projects, while considering site-specificity, ecology, ephemerality, and sustainability. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Helen Mirra fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 36 Making as Thinking: Sculpture Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 A studio course in which to experiment with simultaneous making and thinking, with simple yet unbounded materials and methods. No studio experience necessary. Y Helen Mirra spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 37 Lay of the Land: Studio Course Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 The pursuit of and response to the horizontal in art will be the focus of this studio class. To cite a few examples, abstract expressionist painting, cartography, earthworks, landscape photography, 19th century German Romantic landscape painting, and Rayograms will provide models of the horizontal that will be points of departure for studio projects, the forms of which will be determined by what the investigation provides. Students will shift medium from project to project. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Stephen Prina spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 38 Baggage: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Engaging personal and public notions of authorship, veracity, legibility, history and value, this class focuses on exploration and performance in collecting. Students will examine possibilities and patterns to understand choice, advice, intuition and peculiarity with the goal of better communication. Sources include information distribution models, history, exhibitions in and out of art contexts and a focus on comfort. This will aid students in investigations into personal and collaborative projects employing a variety of media, methods and modes. No previous studio experience necessary. Students from other disciplines are highly encouraged to take the course. Y Andrew B Witkin fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 40 a Introduction to Still Photography: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 20 Introduction to still photography through individual and group exercises, with an emphasis on the medium as a vehicle for expression, documentation, and personal vision. Covers necessary technical, historical, and aesthetic aspects of the medium. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Jeff Sheng Chris Killip fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 41 a Introduction to Still Photography: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Introduction to still photography with an emphasis on the medium as a vehicle for expression and personal vision. Covers technical, historical, and aesthetic aspects of the medium. Class is organized around slide lectures, individual meetings, group critiques, and readings. No previous studio experience necessary. Y David Hilliard Amber Davis Tourlentes fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 41 br Photographic Inquiry: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Class emphasis will be on developing visual ideas for a self-directed photographic project. Class will be structured around regular critiques, individual meetings, readings, class discussions and museum visits. Students will create a group of photographs for a final project that are the result of a sustained, self-directed creative process. At least one half-course in photography or permission of the instructor. Y Sharon C. Harper fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 42 a Introduction to Still Photography: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Introduction to still photography through individual and group exercises, with an emphasis on the medium as a vehicle for expression, documentation, and personal vision. Covers necessary technical, historical, and aesthetic aspects of the medium. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Carlin Elinore Wing spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 45 The New Photographers Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 The Web and mobile technologies have opened up countless options for photographers to create and publish work, but they also demand new strategies in conceptualizing and producing projects. Students will create original content for web and mobile platforms utilizing crowd-sourcing, interactivity, nonlinear narratives, and place-based storytelling. Students will learn the basics of HTML and multimedia production during class workshops. Projects will take into account current practices while looking to the future of the medium. VES 40 or equivalent, or portfolio presentation. Y Sue Marie Johnson full year Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 50 Fundamentals of Filmmaking: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Full course 20 Introductory exercises in live-action filmmaking culminating in the production of a nonfiction film as a group project in the spring term. Y Alfred Guzzetti Robb Moss Alfred Guzzetti Robb Moss spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 51 a Fundamentals of Video: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A series of nonfiction projects, both individual and collaborative, designed to introduce and explore the range of expressive possibilities in digital video. Y Ross McElwee fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 51 br Nonfiction Video Projects: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Working from a proposal approved in advance by the instructor, each student plans, shoots, and edits a documentary video of his or her design. Shooting should take place over the summer and editing during the fall term. Readings and screenings augment individual work. At least one VES half-course in live-action film or video. In exceptional cases, a student will be permitted to take the course without having filmed over the summer, but the student must have a specific proposal for a documentary that can be both shot and edited during the term. An interview with the instructor is required for admission. Y Ross McElwee fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 52 a Introduction to Video Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course is organized to give students an immersive experience in non-fiction video production. Utilizing political and personal filmmaking assignments, weekly film screenings, and regular technical workshops, students will produce a series of short video tapes designed to explore digital filmmaking's expressive possibilities. Admission is by interview with the instructor. Y Robb Moss spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 52 r Video Workshop Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Individual and collaborative exercises in nonfiction video designed to explore the range of possibilities from the conventional to the experimental, leading to a final project of the student's design. Open to those who have taken one or more courses in video production or filmmaking as well as to those who have not. This course can serve as an introductory class in video production. The first meeting will be in Sever 415 on Tuesday, Jan 24th from 1-2pm. Students who have an idea for a final project should bring a paragraph describing it to the first meeting, but this is not required. Y Alfred Guzzetti fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 53 ar Fundamentals of Animation: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 An introduction to the possibilities of animation. Using a mixture of traditional and 2D digital tools, students will complete practical exercises which will familiarize them with basic skills and techniques. Screenings and discussions will help develop the specialized thinking needed to understand the discipline. Drawing skills are optional, though helpful. Y Terah L. Maher spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 54 s Animating Science Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This hands-on class will investigate the cross-overs between science and animation. How can animation communicate abstract ideas? How can science inspire the artist? Students will acquire some fundamental animation skills, and will work on individual and group projects. This class will be suitable for students with an interest either in science or visual art, or both. Y Ruth Stella Lingford Alain Viel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 56 s Animation/Studio Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Assailing animation, from the studio. Topics include the animated potential of the still image, both to reflect continuum, and in modes of repetition, including series, sequence and seriality. In discussions of the moving image, "Animation" will be treated broadly as a strategy of synthetic filmmaking. Assignments include painting and drawing - with an emphasis on expanding materials and harnessing styles - as well as collage, montage, slide works, and short videos/animations. Y Matthew Richard Saunders fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 57 r Maya and Multi Media Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course will offer a basic introduction to 3D Computer animation, and explore hybrid forms of animation and the new thinking they enable. Y Allen Sayegh spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 59 x Exercises in Narrative Film with Space and Music Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 We will analyze films in hindsight of their use of space, architecture and landscape to create emotions and dramatic effects, as well as analyzing how music affects narration in movies. Students will select a scene and film two short scenes on video in different locations, edit them, and compare the effects. Experience in video filmmaking required. Y Jan Schuette spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 60 x Trials in Narrative Filmmaking Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Hours to be arranged Instructor to be determined Students must have taken at least one half-course in filmmaking or videomaking. Y spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 61 m Sound in Time, Sound in Space: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 Students will produce short works exploring contemporary currents in sound installation, so-called "sound art," and related extra-musical sonic forms. Techniques include sound diffusion, localization, amplification, composition, repetition, performance and capture. No previous studio or music experience necessary. Permission of instructor required. Y Marina Rosenfeld fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 62 Film Fatale: Sculpture, Performance and Video Essay Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A studio art course on the avant-garde film and performance work of women artists and filmmakers including Babette Mangolte, Yvonne Rainer, Valie Export, Helke Sander, Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Mary Kelly, Adrian Piper, Nancy Graves, Hannah Wilke, Martha Rosler and Marina Abramovic. We will study the interaction between sculpture, performance and cinema, as well as the "essay film" that shudders on the edge of fiction, documentary and performance. Appropriate for students of art history, film studies, visual art and video as well as the curious and committed. Priority will be given to students who have completed at least one VES course in photography, film or video, but no previous video experience is required. Y Amie Siegel spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 65 Tactics-Art, Politics and Performance: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 An introductory video course that asks what makes a work of art political? Through student creation of individual and collective works, as well as reading, discussion, performance, critique and viewing, we examine (and enact) approaches to the social sphere. Over the arc of the semester, students will focus on various tactics of radical art and disturbance, participating in workshops on performance, artist collectives, appropriation and cultural critique, from which may spring forth manifestoes, actions, insertions. Special focus on video as research instrument, inscription of occurrence, performance mirror, subjective essay, and mixing turntable for heterogeneous materials. One half-course in film, video or performance useful but not required. Y Amie Siegel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 68 a Delirious Montage 1: Still Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 How do images shift when juxtaposed with one another? In this studio course, we use photography, archival images, and appropriated or "found" images and material in the production of our own art works. Participants explore collage, photomontage, pastiche and slide projection, working with still images in multiple forms to consider shifts of meaning. We will take in artists' various approaches to image juxtaposition, including those who engage via narrative, association, chance, serial, rebus and photo-roman. Useful for beginning students in visual art and film/video as well as more advanced practitioners. Y Amie Siegel spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 68 b Delirious Montage 2: Moving Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 How do rhythm, pacing, and structure function in cinema? This studio course continues concerns of image juxtaposition from the fall semester, yet gives in-depth focus to working--as an artist, a filmmaker, an editor--with moving images. From shot-reverse-shot to the "soft montage" of video installation, we consider various approaches to editing in fiction films, documentaries, and moving image installations. Course participants work on multiple projects, refining their relationship to film and video materials. Useful for beginning students in visual art and film/video as well as more advanced practitioners. Y Amie Siegel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 69 Film-Video-Sound Installation Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 A studio course in which to consider time-based art in the gallery. We will investigate multi-channel challenges, editing for a viewer that can come and go, instantaneity, bandwidth and boredom. The class will include presentations and screenings of contemporary work and some reading, but the emphasis will be on developing individual projects. Priority given to students with some experience in film, video or sound. Permission of instructor required. Y Carolyn Katrina Tribe fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 70 The Art of Film Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course An introduction to film style and aesthetics with a focus on developing critical and formal analytical skills. Through readings and screenings of a broad range of films, the class examines the primary visual, aural, and narrative conventions by which motion pictures create and comment upon significant social experience. Issues of mise-en-scene, framing, image composition, photographic space, editing, sound, narrative structure, and point of view will be discussed as components of cinematic style and meaning. No background in film history or theory necessary. Required for all students concentrating in Film Studies. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Rebecca Anne Sheehan spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 71 Silent Cinema Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course This course will survey the development of the film medium and the film industry from the beginnings in the 1890s up to the conversion to sound in the late 1920s, covering key textual and institutional transformations and tying these together with the broader cultural and social context in which films were made, exhibited, and understood. We will discuss the main national schools and international trends of filmmaking. No background in film history or theory necessary. Required for all students concentrating in Film Studies. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Rebecca Anne Sheehan spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 72 Sound Cinema Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course How does sound change what we see? What new stories become possible? How does the space of cinema change between 1930 and 1960? What happens when we throw color and widescreen into the mix? We'll seek answers to these questions while investigating the political and industrial contexts of international masters of the medium. Films and filmmakers include: The Blue Angel, Citizen Kane, Rashomon, The Red Shoes; Busby Berkeley, Hitchcock, Satyajit Ray, Ozu, and Antonioni. No background in film history or theory necessary. Required for all students concentrating in Film Studies. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Rebecca Anne Sheehan fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 80 Loitering: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 You will hang out in the vicinity of culture and make things in response to it. This class is not thematic or linked to any particular discipline. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Stephen Prina fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 81 Post-studio Studio Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Nomadic, laptop-based methods of producing and exhibiting art have rendered the traditional studio increasingly marginal to many art practices. How do artists function in, and address, this expanded field for both the production and reception of art? A production-based course that will take place in and around the studio. Media will shift by project but some drawing and scheming will be constant. Y Mungo Thomson fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 90 c Art and Historical Memory, 1980-the present Seminar Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 What is it about the present that is making so many artists interested in the past? How do personal and public memory take form in art, now? This art history/criticism seminar will discuss practices that range from re-staging recent riots to reciting historical speeches, modifying museums to inventing historical figures, as we explore art's current contribution to our understanding of the past. Y Carrie Lambert-Beatty fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 91 r Special Projects Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Open to a limited number of students who wish to carry out a special project under supervision. Students wishing to enroll in VES 91r must find a member of the faculty to advise the project and submit an application to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Letter-graded only. Special Project tutorials are led by individual faculty members; however study cards should be signed by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Ruth Stella Lingford Ruth Stella Lingford spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 92 Contemporary Art Lecture Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Art of the last fifty years, with an eye to issues facing artists working today. Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Installation, and New Media: in surveying these and other developments in recent art, lecture-based class will address such topics as modernism/postmodernism; changing models of artistic work and artists' identity; and globalization and the artworld. Recommended for VES concentrators. N Carrie Lambert-Beatty spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 96 mr Art and Projects Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 12 Th. 1-4, and weekly lab to be arranged. Helen Mirra Students will undertake projects individually or collaboratively, which may be multi-week or semester long endeavors. This is a context in which to work through ideas materially and conceptually, with a focus on process and experiential learning. The course title is in reference to the Dutch exhibition space and publication ART & PROJECT that existed from 1968-1989. For work in any media. Particularly recommended for VES concentrators. Y Helen Mirra fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 96 r Directed Research: Studio Course Studio Primarily for Undergraduates Half course 10 This course is intended for students who have developed the beginnings of a practice they are prepared to pursue. The motive is to assemble a group of disparate artists who come together to exchange thoughts across disciplines: painting next to photography next to writing next to filmmaking, and so on. Recommended for concentrators in Visual and Environmental Studies in their junior and senior year but also open to others with permission of the instructor. Y Stephen Prina Stephen Prina fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 97 r Tutorial - Sophomore Year Sophomore Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. Concentrators wishing to take a tutorial in their sophomore year must find a member of the faculty to advise the project and submit an application to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Optional for sophomore concentrators. Letter-graded only. Tutorials are led by individual faculty members; however study cards should be signed by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Ruth Stella Lingford Ruth Stella Lingford fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 98 r Tutorial - Junior Year Junior Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Half course Individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. Concentrators wishing to take a tutorial in their junior year must find a member of the faculty to advise the project and submit an application to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Optional for junior concentrators. Letter-graded only. Tutorials are led by individual faculty members; however study cards should be signed by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Ruth Stella Lingford Ruth Stella Lingford full year Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 99 Tutorial - Senior Year (Thesis/Senior Project) Tutorial Primarily for Undergraduates Full course All students wishing to undertake a VES 99 project must have permission of the project adviser before being considered. The Director of Undergraduate Studies must approve all VES 99 projects and all theses must be approved by the VES Honors Board in advance. Optional for senior concentrators. Letter-graded only. Students must be enrolled in VES 99 to do a thesis. Students should arrange regular tutorial meetings with their project adviser. Senior theses and projects are led by individual faculty members; however study cards should be signed by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Y Ruth Stella Lingford Ruth Stella Lingford fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 104 Culture Jam: Art and Activism since 1989: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 We are living through a period of remarkable creativity in political expression: from anti-consumerism TV ads to imposter websites; "billboard liberation" to faux corporations, digital hijacking to lifestyle performance. Sometimes labeled art, sometimes not, these activities have sources in both political and art history. In this history/theory seminar we will ask: Where is the line between art and activism today? And how are we to evaluate the efficacy, ethics, and aesthetics of the new hybrids? Primarily intended for junior and senior concentrators in Visual and Environmental Studies, but others admitted with permission of the instructor. Y Carrie Lambert-Beatty fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 107 Studies of the Built North American Environment since 1580 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs, and as depicted in fiction, poetry, cartography, television, cinema, and advertising and cybernetic simulation. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4105. Y John R. Stilgoe spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 109 s Dark Matter: Art, Politics, and Resistance in an Age of Enterprise Culture: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This seminar surveys structures of visibility and invisibility, marginalization and resistance revealing thirty years of alternative cooperative networks, tactical media activism, and participatory public art colliding with mainstream cultural economy like its missing mass. Students research groups such as The Yes Men, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Group Material, and Temporary Services while debating critical theories of Adorno, Brecht, de Certeau, Mouff, Ranciere, Enwezor, Kester, among other critics of engaged art. N Gregory Sholette fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 115 Printed Matters: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Accounts of 20th Century Painting often describe a "crisis" set off by the intervention of photography, yet the medium's productive antagonism and association with the technologies of reproduction has deeper history and wider implications. We take as our models the 19th and 21st Centuries, considering the analogue (intaglio printing, especially etching and aquatint; also block, book and commerical printing) and digital as worthy collaborators in a painting practice. Workshops in technique will support independent projects. At least one VES studio half-course or permission of instructor. Y Matthew Richard Saunders spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 123 r Post Brush: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 M., 1-5 and 6-8 Annette Lemieux Using the silkscreen printing process, students will create paintings and objects that incorporate images and text found in popular culture. Through slides, videos and informal discussions, students will be introduced to the Pop artists of the 20th century as well as other contemporary artists. At least one VES studio half-course or permission of the instructor. Y Annette Lemieux fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 124 x The Painted Room: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This painting course emphasizes paintings and drawings in relation to the rooms in which they exist. Students create images for on-site projects while learning to build a simple scale model in which they will test their own projects. The computer will be used as a tool to help in our exploration of translating and organizing scale. We will look at older murals and contemporary artists' use of painting and drawing in relation to the site. At least one VES studio half-course or portfolio presentation. Y Gerda Birgitta Sophie Tottie spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 125 s Postcards from Volcanoes: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This is an intermediate painting class grounded in individual projects and group critique. Not limited to conventional forms, we will think broadly about the edge between inchoate material and inscribed meaning. Studio work will be coupled with abundant reading and discussion. At least one VES studio half-course or permission of instructor. Y Matthew Richard Saunders spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 125 Surface Tensions Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course "Surface" considered as formal quality and useful tool. Whether taken to mean literal materials, the chain of ideas cohering a body of work, or painting's Teflon-like durability as cultural tradition, we'll pursue strategies to engage surface: seriality, alternative supports, facture/blur; mechanical tools, casualness and formality. Of particular interest are the challenges posed by seamlessness both in photographic sources and in conversations surrounding abstraction. Emphasis on painting, but other disciplines are welcome. At least one VES half-course in studio, or permission of the instructor. Y Matthew Richard Saunders spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 128 The "Motor" of the Artist: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This painting and mixed media course looks at the works of different artists to explore the motivation and driving forces of making art. Over the semester students should develop a project around motivation. This class is about practically pursuing passions, doubts, questioning. Individual and group critiques inform independent studio time where students experiment with finding their own reason in making images. Exhibition visits, lectures by invited artists and student presentations are important components of the course. At least one VES studio half-course or portfolio presentation. Y Gerda Birgitta Sophie Tottie fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 130 br Sculpture as Analog: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 With a general focus on making sculpture, this course explores issues of visuality and textuality, content and form, analogy and abstraction, objectivity and subjectivity. Projects will build on intellectual work already begun by the student outside of VES. At least one VES half-course or permission of the instructor. Y Helen Mirra spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 134 r Experiments in Art and Labor: Studio Course Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 A course in which to develop modes of art practice which include forms of labor not generally associated with artmaking. For example, working collaboratively, students may research and undertake urban gardening, as a model of ingenious and perhaps pirate activity. At least one VES half-course or permission of the instructor. Y Helen Mirra fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 137 x Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments Department of Architecture Seminar Workshop Workshop For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 16 This workshop-seminar is based on development of artistic and design projects supported by readings, discussions and reviews as well as responses and input from guest consultants and critics. Media experiments and artistic interventions engaging existing public statues and monuments are a critical part of the course as it focuses on the ways in which designers and artists can help the "entrenched in the past" monuments to become relevant, meaningful, and critically useful in the present. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 2483. Please follow the class admission policy as instructed by the Graduate School of Design. Members of the VES department cannot sign undergraduate study cards for this course. Y Krzysztof Wodiczko spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 138 m Walking Workshop Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 Walking as a way to somewhere and a way from somewhere, as a way to find materials or as a material itself. Projects may be developed in any media. At least one VES studio half-course or permission of the instructor. Y Helen Mirra spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 139 Artist Research Group: Investigative Practices Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 This studio course considers how artists make use of documentation, research inquiries and archive materials in their work. Taking Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center--history, controversy, use--as a topic, we will further consider building as projection of self, architecture as reflection of time, the document as "fact" versus fiction. Students work in diverse mediums, focusing on how research documentation relates to video and installation practices, and drawing: mark-making to generate knowledge, presentation and visual diagram. This course is open to undergraduates who have taken a prior course in VES studio; film/video; film studies or art history, as well as graduate students in related fields, or by permission of the instructors. Cross-disciplinary concerns are encouraged. Y Amie Siegel Katarina Burin spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 141 r Time, Space, Motion and Still Photography Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 A response to the place where motion and still photography approach one another will be the focus of this studio class. A phenomenological approach to image making will be emphasized to upend ideas of time, space and motion. Artists who raise these issues including Robin Rhodes, Michael Wesley, Tacita Dean, Bill Viola and Hiroshi Sugimoto will provide grounding for experimental student-directed projects. At least one half course in photography or the permission of the instructor. Y Sharon C. Harper spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 143 r The Photographer as Auteur: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Tu., Th., 1-4 David Hilliard Explores the way in which some photographic practitioners have questioned accepted photographic conventions and are rejecting the historical orthodoxy in favor of a more subjective statement. Each student is expected to complete a major photographic project that reveals his or her own personal photographic style and preoccupations while still retaining a direct and discernible relationship to the subject. At least one half-course in photography or permission of the instructor. Y David Hilliard fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 145 r Photographies, Places, Politics: Seminar/Workshop Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Using multidisciplinary approaches, we will explore how photographic practices are critical to marketing, naming and producing social space. Course structured as a seminar comprising an active practice component where students present original research and visual projects that illuminate issues raised in readings and discussions VES 40a or VES 40b or equivalent preparation (portfolio presentation). Y Deborah Bright spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 146 r The Photographic Portrait: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 An examination of the practical, sociological, historical, and aesthetic issues surrounding portrait photography in parallel with the active participation of each student in his/her own photographic project. VES 40a or VES 40b or equivalent preparation (portfolio presentation). Y Chris Killip fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 149 r Investigations in Photo-Based Art Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This class will investigate inherent photographic concepts, such as appropriation, decontextualization, multiple production, the use of systems, and the idea of the archive, as tools for generating personally relevant photo-based work. Tangential assignments, critiques, readings, and slide presentations will serve to broaden the students' range of working methods with the aim towards the development of a project-driven body of work. At least one half-course in photography or permission of the instructor. Y Pennie C. Umbrico fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 150 ar Intermediate Film Production: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Class will focus on narrative fiction film. Students will explore the technical and artistic possibilities of narrative fiction film by writing, directing and editing several short exercises as well as developing a script for a spring term project. The work will be discussed extensively in class. Students will also learn the techniques of lighting, sound recording and editing. VES 50. Interview with instructor required for admission. Y Michael Almereyda spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 150 br Intermediate Film Production: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Students will prepare, shoot and edit a short fiction film based on a script developed in the fall term. Students will be required to be involved in shooting, sound recording and editing on other student films. The work will be discussed extensively in class. VES 150ar. Students seeking to enroll should come to the first class meeting with a fully developed short narrative fiction screenplay. Y Michael Almereyda fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 151 n Life of an Urban Neighborhood: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Using two channels of video and multiple channels of sound, students in the course will work collaboratively to create an installation documenting the life of a nearby urban neighborhood, including its people, activities, public and private spaces, and institutions. Prior experience in sound composition or video recommended but not required. This course can serve as an introductory class in video production. Y Alfred Guzzetti spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 152 r Intermediate Video Workshop: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 An extended nonfiction or experimental video project of the student's design, supplemented by brief exercises aimed at exploring the capabilities of the medium. One VES half-course in video production. Students seeking to enroll should come to the first class meeting with a proposal for a video project to be completed in the course. Y Alfred Guzzetti spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 153 ar Intermediate Animation: Making an Animated Film: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Each student will design and produce a single short animation project based on an original idea, or a literary, mythic, or folkloric source of their choice. We will explore the possibilities and problems matching form and content in animated films, and develop conceptual tools each student can employ in the creation of individual project work. This course will accept both introduction level and intermediate level students. Y Daniel A Sousa spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 153 br Intermediate Animation Workshop: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course offers a chance to extend and deepen skills and understanding of animation and to make a more substantial piece of work. In this course, students plan and produce a single animation project. Additional exercises encourage students to challenge themselves and explore a range of creative possibilities. This course welcomes both introductory level and intermediate level students. Y Terah L. Maher fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 154 br Animation Workshop: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course allows each student to make a short animated film, taking it through all the stages from idea to post-production. Open to beginners and experienced animators. The first meeting of this class will be Wednesday, September 1 at 1 pm. Y Daniel A Sousa fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 155 p Combining Animation and Live Action: An Exploration of the Many Ways to Make a Composite Film: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This intermediate level animation class will explore creative potentials, and technical challenges, of combining live action and animation within a single film. Each student will create an individual short film project. At each stage, from early concepts to final grading, we will address the particular possibilities of such fabricated filmic worlds: developing aesthetic approaches, techniques, and a workflow tailored to such projects. At least one VES half-course in animation or permission of the instructor. Y fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 157 t Electro-acoustic Music and Video in Dialogue: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 This course will enable artists and composers to create together. Students will not only work in their own medium, but learn to work in the other: composers will realize video and video artists will compose. Final projects will be presented in concert. Music 167 or Music 264 or one VES half-course in video production. Y Alfred Guzzetti Hans Tutschku spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 158 ar Image, Sound, Culture: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students use video, sound, and/or hypermedia to produce short works about embodied experience, culture, and nature, and are introduced to current issues in aesthetics and ethnography. No previous studio experience necessary. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Verena Paravel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 158 br Living Documentary: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students produce a substantial work of ethnographically informed nonfiction using video. Principal recording should take place prior to enrolling in the course. An ideal follow-up course to VES 158ar, but students may enroll independently. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Ernst Karel spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 160 Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035 Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Tu., Th., 10-11:30 John R. Stilgoe Modernization of the US visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing, photography, feminism, status symbolism, and futurist manipulation as illustrated in print-media and other advertising enterprise. VES 107 or permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4303. Y John R. Stilgoe fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 161 r Media Anthropology: Technology, Technique, Techne: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students receive hands-on training, in the Lab and in the field, with digital video and audio production and post-production technology. Emphasis is on both mastering the technology and developing a technique consonant with one's relationship to one's subject. VES 58r or 158r. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Lucien Castaing-Taylor fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 162 Media Archaeology of Place Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films, maps, sound recordings, and other media artifacts are treated as archaeological objects and are re-interpreted for exhibition. At least one VES studio half-course, preferably in film, video or photography. An interview with the instructor is required for admission. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Ernst Karel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 163 t The Art of Forgetting Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 A studio course on representing the ephemeral domain of memory and its corollary, forgetting. We will look at strategic reenactments, cinematic re-writes, experimental documentaries and other efforts to stave off amnesia in addition to seeking clues from other disciplines (cognitive science, literature, psychoanalysis). Appropriate for but not limited to students of film studies, visual art and video. Priority will be given to students who have completed at least one VES studio half-course in photography, film or video, but no previous experience is required. Y Carolyn Katrina Tribe fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 163 Soft and Hard: Studio Jean-Luc Godard: Studio Course Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Students explore Godard's films while producing work as studio artists. We will look at genre, pictorial flatness vs. depth, text and image, camera movement, still images, color, asynchrony, and Brechtian tropes in Godard's cinema of reversed time, perverse interviews, critical politics, and gender. Participants try out processes of inspiration, derivation, and notation in relation to Godard's ouevre to enrich their cinematic vocabulary and investigate filmic practices within their own work (video, film, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance). At least one VES studio half-course or permission of the instructor. Y Amie Siegel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 165 Moving Image: Film and Video Installation Studio For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 10 Where are the boundaries between art gallery and film set, theatrical stage or production studio? All have been appropriated and/or re-staged in installations by contemporary artists. Participants in this studio course, through the creation of their own works, will explore various strategies using cinema, video, and photography as material or metaphor in art. Students will work with materials of 16mm film, slides, film projectors and video projection. We will consider various approaches to video installation, sound and cinematic spectacle with regard to space, staging, production and demands on viewer experience as well as gestures of genre and excess. At least one VES studio half-course, preferably in film, video or photography, or permission of the instructor. Y Amie Siegel fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 166 North American Seacoasts and Landscapes, Discovery to Present: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as artistic subject; the shape of coastal landscape for conflicting uses over time; and the perception of the seashore as marginal zone in literature, photography, film, television, and advertising. VES 107 and VES 160, or permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4304. Y John R. Stilgoe spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 167 Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., 1-3 John R. Stilgoe Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts, and post-1937 fantasy writing as integrated into contemporary photography, advertising, video, computer-generated simulation, and designed life forms. VES 107, VES 160, and VES 166, or permission of the instructor. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4305. Y John R. Stilgoe fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 171 s Snake in the Garden Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This seminar is an exploration of international films sharing a basic plot: a community is destabilized by the arrival of an outsider, a stranger who undermines conventional notions of order, morality and wellbeing. Students will assess how various cinematic strategies contribute to the portrayal of disrupted values, upended ideals, and unhinged emotions in movies by Hitchcock, Pasolini, Renoir, Herzog, Lubitsch, Roeg, Ray, Godard, and Malick (among others). N Michael Almereyda spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 172 a Film and Photography, Image and Narration Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A survey of debates on photography and film carried out in the contexts of semiotics, structuralism, and narratology from the end of World War II until the early 1980s. In what ways can the image be considered a sign and how do images come to have meaning? Readings will include work by Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, Jean Mitry, Noel Burch, Raymond Bellour, Umberto Eco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, David Bordwell, and Gilles Deleuze. Literature and Arts B-11 or permission of the instructor. N David Rodowick fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 172 b Contemporary Film Theory Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical and historical survey of the major questions, concepts, and trends in film theory since 1968. Weekly readings and discussion will examine how the study of film and spectatorship have been influenced by semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and gay and lesbian criticism, as well as multiculturalism. VES 70 or permission of the instructor. N David Rodowick fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 175 s Carving Space in Time: Film and Sculpture Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 Examining the relationship between film and sculpture from the early silent period's fascination with Pygmalion to more recent incursions of spatial art into the moving image, we will explore how film's encounter with sculpture makes us rethink theoretical topics from the embodied spectator, realism, film and the historical (the role of the sculptural monument), medium specificity, movement and temporality. Filmmakers include Georges Melies, Sergei Eisenstein, Leni Riefenstahl, Maya Deren, Chris Marker and Andrei Tarkovsky. Y Rebecca Anne Sheehan spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 176 n Facing Reality: A History of Documentary Cinema Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course The history of cinema as representation and interpretation of "reality," focusing on masterworks of nonfiction film and video from a variety of periods and geographic locales. Emphasis on the ways in which nonfiction films can subvert viewers' conventional expectations and their personal security. Forms to be discussed include the city symphony, ethnographic documentary, propaganda, the nature film, direct cinema, cinema verite, the compilation film and personal documentary. N spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 177 e Critical Cinema: The Poetics of the Moving Image--Avant Garde Film and Its Influences Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course This course considers the emergence of American avant-garde film from the influences of European avant-garde filmmaking and literary modernists (like Pound, Stein, Beckett, Olson and Creeley). We will look at the aesthetics of avant-garde film as an alternative to mainstream film and to narrative film, focusing on aesthetics and philosophies that influenced the films and theories of filmmakers like Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Hollis Frampton, Maya Deren and Marie Menken. Film screenings are incorporated into the seminar class meetings. N Rebecca Anne Sheehan spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 177 s Noise! Art and Aesthetics of Sound Cinema Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Our consideration of sound cinema will be much broader, however emphasis will be placed upon developments within Avant Garde film and recent digital media. In many cases, this will include close sound-image analysis of either extended sections or entire works. Our aim will be a richer appreciation of specific works, of sound cinema in general, and of the audio-visual world all around us. Y Ernie Gehr spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 178 Documents of Childhood Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 How well do nonfiction films represent children and childhood? What factors have shaped our views of children? The course will explore these questions from a variety of perspectives, including those of filmmakers, social scientists, television journalists, parents, and children themselves. Y David Cooke MacDougall spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 179 g Phantasmagoria! Magic and the Moving Image Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 Reflections upon the history and phenomenology of the moving image from the age of shadow plays to the age of digital media as well as the interplay over the last one hundred years between contemporary media and the aesthetics and practices of Modernism. Y Ernie Gehr fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 180 Film, Modernity and Visual Culture Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Cinema has changed the way we see and think. Modern visual culture develops with the art of film. Course considers this major 20th century shift in visual perception. We look at "motion" pictures as a product of modernity, born of scientific motion studies, aesthetic and cultural mobility. We relate film to the moving experience of urban space. Key writings and films engage sites of modern movement: home(land) and city, voyage and transport, gender and body. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4131. N Giuliana Bruno spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 181 Frames of Mind: Film Theory Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century scientific motion studies to emotion studies of Hugo Munsterberg, to the virtual movements of our new millennium. Considers Eisenstein's theory of montage, cultural history of the cinematic apparatus, and the body of physical existence from Kracauer to gender studies. Different theoretical positions open our understanding of films and guide us in reading them. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4132. N Giuliana Bruno fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 182 Film Architectures: Seminar Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 12 What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering the relation of these two arts of space, we look at how film and architecture are linked in history on the "screen" of the modern age. Highlighting the interaction of modernity, urban culture and cinema, we explore the architecture of film in relation to the architectures of transit and the culture of travel. Emphasis on readings and case study analysis to pursue research projects and conduct presentations. A course in film studies or the equivalent course in cultural studies. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4351. Expected to be offered 2012-13. Y Giuliana Bruno fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 183 f Cinema: Contingency and Control Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course In this seminar, we will discuss ways in which fiction films have been influenced by the creative strategies of documentary films. These strategies include location shooting with non-professional actors, the creative use of chance, contingency and improvisation, the implementation or real-time or hidden cameras, and combining different styles and recording technologies, such as camcorders, web cams, news reporting, or video diaries. Filmmakers to be discussed include Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Claire Denis, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Philippe Grandieux, Mike Figgis, and Brian de Palma. N Harun Faroqhi fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 184 Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting. Topics to be mapped out include: cities and modernity, metrophilia and metrophobia, the museum and cultural archaeology, the ruin and construction site, interior space and public sphere, technology and virtual cities. We will focus on the European city, as we travel through Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Naples and Rome. Cannot be taken for credit if Literature 184 has been taken. Cannot be taken concurrently with Literature 184. Also offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4353. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Giuliana Bruno Svetlana Boym fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 187 x From Postwar to Postwall German Cinema Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course West German filmmakers gained world-wide acclaim in the 1970s for interventions marked by subversive narrative strategies and unique formal approaches. We will examine representative features by Fassbinder, Herzog, Kluge, Schlondorf, von Trotta, and Wenders, probing these films' aesthetic shapes as well as their socio-political implications. We will also frame our discussion by looking at important films that both precede and come after the so-called New German Cinema. No knowledge of German required. Readings, films, and discussions in English. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts B, but not both. N Eric Rentschler fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 188 s Soviet and Russian Film and Film Theory Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course A critical and historical survey of the major issues and trends in Soviet film theory and aesthetics from the time of the 1917 revolution through the end of WWII. Weekly readings and discussion will examine the major directors--Lev Kuleshov, Vselovod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Andrei Tarkovsky--through their films and writings as well as the film theories of important critics such as Boris Eikhenbaum and Jurij Lotman. N David Rodowick Justin M. Weir spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 189 m Reading Ethnographic Film: The Construction of Visual Knowledge Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 This course will examine the concept of 'visual knowledge' as it was regarded in 19th century photography and as it has been construed since in ethnographic and documentary cinema. How does the knowledge conveyed by films differ from that in written texts? What are the implications of this for ethnographic filmmaking and film viewing? Y David Cooke MacDougall fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 189 Exploring Culture Through Film Lecture For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Introduction to the history and theory of documentary and ethnographic film. A wide variety of works from 1895 to today will be screened and discussed. Different cinematic styles which have been used to depict human existence and the relationships between individuals and the wider cultural and political contexts of their lives will be compared. N Lucien Castaing-Taylor spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 190 n French New Wave Cinema Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 15 This course is meant to help situate French New Wave cinema historically, both generally within the contexts of French social and political attitudes, and more specifically, within the realms of film history and theory. Structuring our analysis around the question, "What was so new about the French New Wave?" this course explores the ways in which the movement both broke from established filmic conventions, and importantly, participated within them. No knowledge of French required; readings, films and discussions in English. Y spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 191 b Luis Bunuel --Art Cinema, National Cinema and the Surrealist Imagination Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 20 This seminar explores a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives to critically engage the films and career of visionary Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983). Using a range of primary and secondary resources (including 35mm screenings of key Bunuel films), Bunuel's work and legacy will be closely examined in relation to the emergence of post-WW2 art film, changing ideas of national cinema and the Surrealist movement's complexly ambitious artistic and philosophical agenda. Y Haden Guest spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 192 Cinema and French Culture from 1896 to the Present Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Focuses on relations of cinema to French culture from the silent era to the age of video. Explores film in dialogue with cultural and historical events, development of a national style and signature, a history of criticism. Correlates study of cinema to cultural analysis. Takes up Renoir and poetic realism, unrest in 1930s, France and other filmic idioms (Italy, Hollywood, Russia), new wave directors, feminist and minoritarian cinema after 1980. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for either Foreign Cultures or Literature and Arts B, but not both. N Tom Conley spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 194 w World Cinema Today Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course An in-depth study of works by some of contemporary world cinema's most significant filmmakers in pertinent artistic, historical, and theoretical contexts. Provides close consideration of representative features by Wong Kar-Wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnes Varda, David Cronenberg, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jim Jarmusch, and others. No background in film studies necessary. N Dominique Bluher fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 196 Women's Film and Video in France: Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman and Claire Denis Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman and Claire Denis are undoubtedly three of the most significant contemporary film directors working in France today. Having started making films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, respectively, this class examines some of their landmark works in historical, cinematic and theoretical contexts. No knowledge of French required. Readings, films and discussions in English. Previous coursework in Film Studies or related fields helpful, but not required. N Dominique Bluher spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 197 The Cinema According to Alfred Hitchcock Lecture with sections For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course Tu., 11:30&#8211;1; Weekly film screenings M., 4&#8211;6:30, and a weekly section to be arranged. Haden R. Guest This class explores the films, career and legacy of Alfred Hitchcock, one of the legends of the American cinema and arguably among the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Using a range of diverse critical approaches to closely study key examples of Hitchcock's intricate and obsessive tales of murder and suspense, this course also traces a history of the classical Hollywood studio system that Hitchcock's remarkably successful career helped define. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B. N Haden Guest spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 198 American Film Noir Seminar For Undergraduates and Graduates Half course 18 This seminar offers a critical survey of American film noir, the cycle of dark, fatalistic crime films that flourished in Hollywood during the period between 1940 and 1960 and remains deeply influential today. Focusing on the close study of key films, the seminar will explore the dominant iconography, tropes and patterns within them in the specific socio-cultural contexts of post-war America and deeper changes at work within the Hollywood studio system and American popular culture. Y Haden Guest fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 230 Style and Structure in Documentary Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course This course will examine the various ways that non-fiction films order and narrativize their materials. Drawing on examples from the history of documentary filmmaking, we will consider questions of commentary, voice, narration, and visual structure with special attention to stylistic strategies that draw upon specifically cinematic means. Filmmakers to be discussed include Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Walter Ruttman, Chris Marker, and James Benning; we will also discuss films from the Direct Cinema movement. Y Harun Faroqhi spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 270 Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: History Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course Considers film history and the relations between film and history as well as pertinent theoretical approaches to historiography. Critical readings of exemplary film historical studies and careful scrutiny of films both in and as history. Required of all graduate students intending to declare a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies. Y Eric Rentschler fall term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 271 Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: Theory Proseminar Primarily for Graduates Half course W., 2&#8211;4 Giuliana Bruno An advanced survey of current debates on the place of the moving image in contemporary visual culture and art practice with respect to concepts of space, time, movement, and affect. Required of all graduate students intending to declare a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies. Y Giuliana Bruno spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 275 a Framing the I: Autobiography and Film Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 This course explores the forms of self-representation in film and video in the framework of modern philosophical, psychoanalytical, and socio-cultural conceptions of the self, as well as recent theoretical and artistic developments in the visual arts and literature. A course in Film Studies or equivalent course in related fields. Y Dominique Bluher spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 285 x Visual Fabrics: Art, Media, Materiality Seminar Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 What is the place of materiality in our virtual world? How do film and fashion communicate as objects of material culture? As powerful image makers, film and fashion share a role with architecture and contemporary art. We explore their common language in "fashioning" material visual expression. Readings in contemporary visual theory and film screenings explore the haptic as part of our cultural "fabric". Extensive text(ur)al analysis of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood For Love. A course in film studies or the equivalent course in cultural studies. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4354. Open to undergraduates with instructor's permission. Y Giuliana Bruno spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 292 r Philosophy and Film: Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell Seminar Primarily for Graduates Half course 12 Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell are two contemporary philosophers with distinctly original conceptions of the specificity of philosophy and of philosophical expression in relation to film. Through key texts and related screenings, in this seminar we will read these two philosophers together to deepen and clarify their original contributions to our understanding of film and of contemporary philosophical problems of ontology and ethics, and interpretation and evaluation. Y David Rodowick fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 301 Film Studies Workshop Reading Course Graduate Course Half course Y Eric Rentschler Eric Rentschler fall term; repeated spring term Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 320 Directed Study Reading and Research Graduate Course Half course Y David Rodowick David Rodowick full year Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies Visual and Environmental Studies 350 hf Critical Media Practice: Non Fiction Filmmaking Workshop Studio Graduate Course Half course 10 A graduate workshop for Film Study Center non-fiction film and video projects. Y Lucien Castaing-Taylor Lucien Castaing-Taylor