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Clusters are the heart of thenew curriculum. They exemplify the concept of connected learning:that students share an intellectual excitement when courses connectand are related to each other. Each cluster focuses on the multidisciplinarystudy of a particular topic, theme, problem, region, or period.A cluster is constituted by a convener and affiliated facultymembers.
The aim of clusters is to allowstudents to examine a general problem or issue from a varietyof different disciplinary perspectives. In an increasingly complexworld, no single discipline is adequate for examining the breadthand depth of most topics. Thus clusters offer students the uniqueopportunity of guided multidisciplinary inquiry and provide acenterpiece for a liberal arts education.
The clusters draw on the richnessand diversity of our nationally acclaimed research faculty. Clusterfaculty will meet and exchange syllabi regularly and may offerspecial multidisciplinary events, including speakers, colloquia,and other group activities to facilitate student-faculty interaction.
Every student entering afterthe fall of 1994 must complete one cluster prior to graduation.To accomplish this, students need to complete three courses, fromat least two schools, from those listed in the cluster. Transferstudents who enter Brandeis with 14 or more course credits areexempted from one cluster course--they must complete two coursesfrom at least two schools. Occasionally courses may be added toa cluster or new clusters added to the curriculum after a studenthas taken such courses. In such cases, students may petition acluster convener to count courses previously completed towardtheir cluster requirement. These petitions must be approved bythe cluster convener and the chair of the Clusters Program Committee.Under exceptional circumstances, (e.g., studying abroad, changein course offerings) when the cluster requirement cannot otherwisebe completed, students may petition to substitute a course inplace of one they were planning to take to complete the cluster.The course proposed for substitution must be related to the clustertheme and must be approved by the convener and the cluster committee.
Cluster courses may be takenany time during a student's undergraduate career, but studentsare advised to begin their cluster course work in their firstyear. While most courses in a cluster do not require prerequisites,some do. Cluster courses can fulfill other University requirements,as well. Students select courses within a cluster based on theirinterests and backgrounds.
Convener: Margie Lachman
The cluster addresses the biomedical,psychosocial, and ethical issues associated with growing olderin our society and in other cultures. The goal is to understandthe basic human developmental processes of aging (physical andpsychological) and to examine how they play out in the contextof society and culture.
How Muscles Contract and CellsMove
Biology of People
Human Memory
Advanced Topics in EpisodicMemory
Neuropsychology
Biomedical Ethics
The Psychology of Adult Developmentand Aging
Life Span Development: Adulthoodand Old Age
Seminar in Health Psychology
Aging in a Changing World
Sociology of Birth and Death
Aging in Society
Sociology of Disability
Convener: Lynette Bosch
Courses in this cluster shedlight on 17th-century developments in history, art, music, literature,and philosophy.
Restoration and Eighteenth-CenturyDrama and Performance
St. Peter's and the Vatican
Baroque in Italy and Spain
European Thought and Culture:Marlowe to Mill
The Music of Johann SebastianBach
Golden Age Drama and Society
Convener: Silvia Arrom
Africa, Asia, Latin America,and the Middle East have experienced centuries of control by imperialpowers. This cluster explores the impact of colonialism--and inindependent countries, of neo-colonialism--on the politics, society,economics, and cultures of Third World countries, as well as thereactions of the subject peoples. Courses provide perspectivesfrom anthropology, history, literature, politics, and sociology,and contrast the views of both colonized and colonizers.
Africa and the West
Third World Ideologies
The Literature of the Caribbean
Theories of Development andUnderdevelopment
African and Caribbean ComparativePolitical Systems
Development and the Third World
Topics in New World Studies:The Empire Writes Back
British Colonialism
Topics in Francophone Literatures
Latin American History, Pre-Conquestto 1870
Latin American History, 1870to the Present
The Legacy of 1898: U.S.-CaribbeanRelations since the Spanish-American War
East Asia in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries
The Rise and Decline of theOttoman Empire, 1300-1800
Latin American Politics I
Politics of Southeast Asia
Columbus: Encounters and Inventions
U.S.-Caribbean Relations
Convener: Eli Hirsch
Philosophy, anthropology, sociology,and literature have focused on conceptions of the person and ofthe self. This topic provides a pivot for discussion of the wayhuman beings conceive of themselves in relation to the naturaland social world, and the way these conceptions influence humanvalues.
Foundations of American Civilization
Sex and Sensibility in Pre-RevolutionaryEuropean Novels
The Body as Text: Castiglioneto Locke
Greek and Roman Ethics: FromPlato to the Stoics
Varieties of Liberty and Freedom
Libel and Defamation, Privacyand Publicity
Personal Identity
Personality
Existential Sociology
Convener: To Be Announced
This cluster focuses on thecreative impulse and process, the workings of the imagination,the makings of a creative environment, and the possibilities forcreativity in any field or arena. Opportunities are provided forthe exploration of creativity from varied points of view: theoretical,historical, scientific, and "hands on," or experiential.
The Brain: From Molecules toControl of Movement
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Greece
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Rome
Lives of the Artists
Lyric Poetry and Drawing
Images of the Cosmos
The Scientific Revolution
Semantics: The Structure ofConcepts
Introduction to Electro-AcousticMusic
Twentieth-Century Physics andIts Philosophical Implications
Modern Physics
Social Psychology of ConsciousnessI
Social Psychology of ConsciousnessII
Improvisation
Convener: Jacob Cohen
What human behaviors, in whatsituations, come to be called "crimes," and what mannerof human beings come to be called "criminals"? Whatare the causes of criminality and how can they be reduced (ifthey can be)? How are crimes detected and how should adjudgedcriminals be thought of and treated? Answers require the perspectivesof sociology, law, anthropology, history, philosophy, literature,biology, and forensic science.
Violence in American Life
Forensic Science: Col. Mustard,Candlestick, Billiard Room
Dickens and Dostoevsky
The Image of Crime: Realismand Victorian Detective Fiction
Social and Political Philosophy:Democracy and Disobedience
Philosophy of Law
Seminar in Political Philosophy:Justice
The Politics of Urban CriminalJustice
Issues in Law and Society
Convener: Sylvia Fishman
The relationship between womenand men has always been the subject of the media, usually froma male perspective. Painting, sculpture, music, film, literature,popular culture, journalism, and every other form of communicationhave portrayed, and thus created, gender. This cluster examineshow gender is portrayed in cultural objects.
Reporting on Gender, Race,and Culture
Feminist Theory in Literaryand Cultural Studies
The Woman of Letters, 1600-1800
Inventing Tradition: Womenas Artists, Women as Art
Women in American Jewish Literature
Seminar in American JewishFiction: Literary Readings: Roth and Ozick
The Heroine in Nineteenth-CenturyRussian Literature
Contemporary Hispanic Women'sFiction in Translation
Convener: John Wardle
This cluster provides a broadstudy of the physical and human universe. We explore the originsand workings of the universe, planet earth, humankind, the brain,and human perception. These themes and our perception of themare explored further in the history of cosmological thought, andthrough classical myth and literature.
Human Origins
The Brain: From Molecules toControl of Movement
Dinosaur Paleobiology
Ecology
The Planet as an Organism:Gaia Theory and the Human Prospect
Classical Mythology
Imagining How We Are: Eastand West I
Images of the Cosmos
Greek and Roman Ethics: FromPlato to the Stoics
Introductory Astronomy
Convener: Robert Greenberg
The European era that includesthe 18th century, known as the Enlightenment, consists of someof the greatest achievements of Western civilization. From philosophy,literature, and drama to music and art, the mind of Europe wasat its full flower. All this occurred during a period of greatsocial upheaval that culminated in the French Revolution. Thisis a cluster of study to engage the most inquiring minds.
Sex and Sensibility in Pre-RevolutionaryEuropean Novels
Rights: Theory and Rhetoric
Reason and Ridicule: The Literatureof Britain in the Enlightenment
The French Enlightenment
The French Revolution
European Thought and Culture:Marlowe to Mill
Mozart and Eros
Beethoven
Berkeley
Kant
Politics of the Enlightenment
Convener: Steven Burg
The contemporary analysis ofethnicity, race, and culture in comparative perspective providesthe basis for this cluster.
Comparative Race and EthnicRelations
Ethnicity and Race in the UnitedStates
Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
The Making of the AmericanJew
American Jewish Life
The Sociology of the AmericanJewish Community
American Jewish Culture
History and Culture of theJews in East-Central Europe to 1914
History and Culture of theJews in East-Central Europe, 1914 to the Present
Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
Convener: David Jacobson
This cluster focuses on thestructure of and processes in families and households at differenttimes and in different cultures. It provides an understandingof this most basic of social institutions as well as of the similaritiesand differences among the various disciplines that study it.
American Love and Marriage
The Family in the United States
Families and Households
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Human Reproductive Biology
Love in the Middle Ages
The History of the Family
Women, Sexuality, and FamilyLife in Early Modern Europe
Americans at Home: Familiesand Domestic Environment, 1600 to the Present
Jewish Life Cycle
Jewish Family Dynamics
The Sociology of the AmericanJewish Community
Changing Roles of Women inAmerican Jewish Life
Tolstoy
Families
Convener: Karen Hansen
This cluster analyzes culturesaround the world and the ways in which they generate and sustainhierarchies based on gender, race, and class. It combines analysesof cultural practices, political systems, economies, and legalstructures to understand the maintenance of inequalities. Drawingon a variety of feminist perspectives, the cluster courses alsoexplore avenues for social transformation.
The Anthropology of Gender
Making Sex, Performing Gender
The Political Novel in theTwentieth Century
Race, Class, and Gender
Feminism, Law, and Social Policy
Lesbian, Gay, and BisexualJews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations
History of Jewish and ChristianWomen in the Roman Empire
Feminist Critiques of AmericanSociety
Global Apartheid and GlobalSocial Movements
Women Leaders and Transformationin Developing Countries
Women in Culture and Society:A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Convener: Thomas Doherty
The motion picture medium isa vivid reflection of and powerful influence on society. The clusteron film and society offers an interdisciplinary and cross-culturalperspective on film as an art to be appreciated and as a culturalforce to be reckoned with.
Images of the American Westin Film and Culture
American Film and Culture ofthe 1920s
Film Theory and Criticism
Feminism and Film
Topics in French Film
Introduction to the MovingImage
German Film in Cultural Context
Dreams and Nightmares: TheThird Reich on Film
Images of Jews on Film
Revisioning Jewish Life inFilm and Fiction
Aesthetics: Painting, Photography,and Film
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature,Art, Film, and Theater
Spanish Fictions and Filmsof Modern Life
American Musical Theater andFilm
Convener: Kenneth Hayes
Food is among the essentialsof life. What is food, how do our bodies use it, and what is theimpact of diet on the chronic diseases of humans? How has theworld's population obtained adequate food in the past? What policiesand programs have been developed to help promote adequate productionand equitable consumption of food in the world? How can thesepolicies be strengthened to end hunger and provide adequate foodfor the world's growing population? Students pursuing in thiscluster will have the opportunity to explore many of these questionsand to learn about food from a variety of perspectives.
Economics of Third World Hunger
Environmental Issues
The Development of Human FoodProduction
Nutrition: Principles, Issues,and Applications
Human Physiology
Diet and Health
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
Environmental Sociology
Convener: Joyce Antler
This cluster examines social,psychological, legal, political, and economic factors that shapethe work of women and men. Work is understood broadly to includethe professions, scholarly work, science, and art as well as industrialand service occupations and housework. The gendered meanings anddivisions of work are addressed critically. The primary focusis on contemporary United States, although some analyses of 18th-and 19th-century America as well as Europe will be included.
Gender and the Professions
Gender and Economics
The Woman of Letters, 1600-1800
American Women Poets
Inventing Tradition: Womenas Artists, Women as Art
Work, Individual and SocialDevelopment, and Social Welfare
Families, Work, and the ChangingEconomy
Sex Discrimination and theLaw
Science and Development
Seminar: The Politics of theModern Welfare State: Women, Workers, and Social Citizenship
Sociology of Work
Women and Intellectual Work
Convener: Robert Art
Environmental issues have takena prominent place in international politics ever since the 1972United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Thiscluster examines the full dimensions of environmental degradationon a global scale and the efforts to retard and reverse it.
Environmental Issues
The Development of Human FoodProduction
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Ecology
Topics in Ecology
The Planet as an Organism:Gaia Theory and the Human Prospect
Writing About the Environment
Environmental Law and Policy
Science and Development
Technology and the Managementof Public Risk
Seminar: International Relationsand the Global Environment
Environmental Cooperation:the Domestic and International Nexus
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
Convener: Leonard Muellner
This cluster contains basiccourses on aspects of the civilization of Ancient Greece and Rome,specifically, their art, archaeology, history, mythology, and,in the case of Greece, its philosophy. There are also basic coursesin comparable fields during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.The goal is to provide the student with a broad view of the cultureof classical antiquity and the creative and critical reinterpretationof it that took place in Europe before the modern era.
Survey of Greek History: BronzeAge to 323 B.C.E.
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Greece
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Rome
Topics in Greek and Roman Artand Archaeology
Survey of Latin Literaturein Translation
Classical Mythology
Art and the Origins of Europe
Art of the Early Renaissancein Italy
High and Late Renaissance inItaly
Roman History to 455 C.E.
Greek and Roman Ethics: FromPlato to the Stoics
Medieval Philosophy
Plato
Aristotle
Convener: Judith Herzfeld
This century has seen unprecedentedglobal changes in human numbers, numbers that will be dwarfedby the changes that will occur in the coming decades. To put thesechanges into perspective, this cluster explores various aspectsof human demographics, including growth, migration, and declinein various times and places. The cluster draws on the vantagepoints of disciplines in the social sciences, natural sciences,and humanities.
U.S. Immigration History, Policy,and Law
Human Origins
The Development of Human FoodProduction
The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Ecology
Human Reproductive Biology
The Planet as an Organism:Gaia Theory and the Human Prospect
Convener: Richard Alterman
This cluster deals with someimmensely complicated cognitive capacities that underlie intelligentbehavior--capacities that we acquire naturally and easily andtake for granted. Different approaches to this topic are presented.These include psychological experimentation, efforts to programlanguage processing and problem-solving skills into computers,studies of how cognitive capacities are neurologically organizedand of how they relate to cultural systems, and a considerationof how theorizing in these various domains of inquiry reflectsand is illuminated by philosophical ideas.
Fundamentals of ArtificialIntelligence
Topics in Computational CognitiveScience
Human Computer Interaction
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Consciousness
Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Processes
Cognitive Modeling
Introductory Neuroscience
Human Memory
Neuropsychology
Philosophy of Mind
Topics in the Philosophy ofPsychology
Convener: James Kloppenberg
The question of justice hasalways been central to political theory and moral philosophy.Students in this cluster will confront various perspectives onjustice emerging from different traditions of thought in differenthistorical periods; they will also examine conceptions of individualresponsibility as well as political ideals and institutions.
Justice Brandeis and ProgressiveJurisprudence
Rights: Theory and Rhetoric
The Political Novel in theTwentieth Century
From Liberal Democracy to SocialDemocracy
Red Flags/Black Flags: Marxismvs. Anarchism, 1845-1968
Romantic and ExistentialistPolitical Thought
Greek and Roman Ethics: FromPlato to the Stoics
Varieties of Liberty and Freedom
Social and Political Philosophy:Democracy and Disobedience
Topics in Ethical Theory
Seminar in Political Philosophy:Justice
Seminar: Liberty and Equalityin American Politics
Dostoevsky
Political Sociology and DemocraticEmpowerment
Convener: David Wong
Is truth independent of ourmodes of justification and basic assumptions about the world?Is moral truth independent of culture and convention? Or is truthperspectival and "constructed" by social forms and individualsubjectivity? These central questions are approached through abroad range of courses in the humanities and the sciences.
The Idea of Conspiracy in AmericanCulture
Crosscultural Inquiry in SocialScience
Feminist Theory in Literaryand Cultural Studies
Contemporary Literary Theory
European Thought and Culture:Marlowe to Mill
European Thought and CultureSince Darwin
Greek and Roman Ethics: FromPlato to the Stoics
Topics in Ethical Theory
Metaphysics
The Subjective Point of View
Twentieth-Century Physics andIts Philosophical Implications
Politics of the Enlightenment
Existential Sociology
Convener: Joan Tucker
Health and health care areamong the dominant concerns of any society. In modern society,health care has become so technologically sophisticated and organizationallycomplex that a single discipline is no longer adequate for understandingits dimensions. This cluster examines the scientific basis, socialand legal organization, and psychological and ethical issues surroundinghealth and medical care.
Drug Discovery and Development
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Heredity
Recombinant DNA
Nutrition: Principles, Issues,and Applications
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Human Physiology
Diet and Health
Immunology
American Health Care: A Systemin Crisis
American Health Care: Law andPolicy
Medical Malpractice on Trial
Biomedical Ethics
Seminar in Health Psychology
Sociology of Body and Health
On the Caring of the MedicalCare System
Convener: Stephen Gendzier
This set of courses will introducestudents to a variety of cross-disciplinary orientations towardthe study of French art, music, history, literature, politics,and social thought.
Nineteenth-Century EuropeanPainting and Sculpture
Impressionism: Avant-GardeRebellion in Context
Duchamp to Deconstruction
Topics in French Film
History of French Culture
Contemporary French Civilization
French Literature and Painting
Topics in Francophone Literature
The French Revolution
European Thought and Culture:Marlowe to Mill
European Thought and Culturesince Darwin
Introduction to Modern France
Community and Alienation: SocialTheory from Hegel to Freud
Romantic and ExistentialistPolitical Thought
Romanticism and Music
Music and Culture: From Romanticismto the Modern Era
Existential Sociology
Convener: Silvia Arrom
This cluster brings the insightsof five disciplines to bear on understanding South America, Mexico,Central America, and the Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries.It shows how social, economic, political, and intellectual developmentsare interrelated and encourages students to consider Latin America'sstrengths and problems from a Latin American perspective.
Latin America's Economy
Twentieth-Century and ContemporaryLatin American Art
Latin American History, 1870to the Present
The Making and Unmaking ofthe Mexican Revolution
Latin American Politics I
Latin American Politics II
U.S.-Caribbean Relations
Modern Latin American Fiction
Studies in Latin American Literature
Latin American Fiction in Translation
Contemporary Hispanic Women'sFiction in Translation
Convener: Gregory Freeze
The extraordinary experienceof modern Russia--encompassing czarist autocracy, communist totalitarianism,and the current turmoil of transition to a more liberal socialsystem--is examined from the perspectives of the social sciencesand of the literature of the period.
Transition and InstitutionalEconomics
Comparative Economic Systems
Russia Since 1861
Soviet History: Major Issues,New Approaches
East European Politics
Politics in Russia and Ukraine
Nineteenth-Century RussianLiterature
The Short Story in Russia
History of Russian and SovietFilm
A Survey of Russian Theaterfrom 1719-1917
A Survey of Twentieth-CenturyRussian Theater: Chekhov to the Present
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature,Art, Film, and Theater
Nabokov
Convener: James Kloppenberg
The culture of modernism sprangfrom the unsettling but liberating experience of uncertainty inEurope and America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Artists, writers, and philosophers deliberately discarded traditionand experimented with radically new ideas and forms of expression.Students will examine the sensibility of modernism through coursesdrawn from a variety of disciplines dealing with European andAmerican culture.
European Cultural Studies:The Proseminar
Modern Poetry
Paris/New York: Revolutionsof Modernism
Modern Art and Modern Culture
Topics in French Film
French Literature and Painting
German Modernism and the FascistBacklash
European Thought and Culturesince Darwin
Thought and Culture in ModernAmerica
Foundations of American Pragmatism
Convener: Robert Art
With the Cold War's end, thedestructive forces of nationalism have appeared with full forcein central Europe and the former Soviet Union. But nationalismis a force as old as the nation-state and is global in its manifestations.This cluster examines the origins and effects of nationalism inworld politics and the international attempts to cope with it.
Comparative Race and EthnicRelations
Topics in New World Studies:The Empire Writes Back
British Colonialism
The Political Novel in theTwentieth Century
Dreams and Nightmares: TheThird Reich on Film
East Asia in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries
Nineteenth-Century Europe:Nationalism, Imperialism, Socialism (1850-1919)
Nationalism and Islam in theModern Middle East
The Making of the Modern MiddleEast
The Rise and Decline of theOttoman Empire, 1300-1800
Politics and the Culture ofthe Contemporary Middle East
Introduction to InternationalRelations
Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
Politics of Southeast Asia
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
Seminar: International CrisisManagement, Intervention, and Peacekeeping
Convener: Peter Conrad
The question of the contributionsof biology and the social environment to human behavior and humannature has been debated for more than two centuries. This debatehas increased salience with the emergence of the new geneticsand neuroscience. This cluster examines the issues of nature andnurture from a variety of social and biological perspectives.
The Nature of Human Nature
Biology of Neurological andMental Illness
Heredity
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Human Genetics
Sex and Sensibility in Pre-RevolutionaryEuropean Novels
Language and Human Nature
Innate Knowledge
Developmental Psychology
Seminar on Sex Differences
Nature, Nurture, and PublicPolicy
Convener: Karen Klein
This cluster provides multipleperspectives on the uses and abuses of power by states, politicalsystems, and individuals and an investigation of the relationof class, gender, and race to the structures of power. The perspectivesrange across political theory and philosophy, studies of politicalstructures from diverse Western and non-Western societies, andexamples of political movements and fictional narratives thatilluminate and critique political realities.
The Political Novel in theTwentieth Century
European Thought and Culture:Marlowe to Mill
European Thought and CultureSince Darwin
Varieties of Liberty and Freedom
Human Rights
Social and Political Philosophy:Democracy and Disobedience
The Politics of Revolution:State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
Utopia and Power in ModernPolitical Thought
The Spanish Civil War
Global Apartheid and GlobalSocial Movements
War and Possibilities of Peace
Society, State, and Power:The Problem of Democracy
Convener: Richard Lansing
The courses in this clusterwill provide a forum for the study of the art, literature, music,history, and culture of the Renaissance from its inception inItaly in the late 15th century to the closing of the theatersin England in 1642.
Madness and Folly in RenaissanceLiterature
The Renaissance
Shakespeare
Renaissance Poetry
Spenser and Milton
Art of the Early Renaissancein Italy
Renaissance Art in NorthernEurope
High and Late Renaissance inItaly
The Renaissance
Early Music Ensembles
Music and the Idea of Renaissance
The Authenticity Question:Applying Historical Performance Practices
Golden Age Drama and Society
Don Quijote
Convener: Hugh Pendleton
The emergence of scientificdeterminism during the Enlightenment guided the Western imageof the universe for over 200 years, but has recently come underattack on scientific, philosophical, and political grounds. Thiscluster examines the content and principles of scientific determinismand its impact on philosophy and culture in general, as well ascontemporary challenges to this world view.
Chaos
Images of the Cosmos
Order and Chaos
Introduction to Probabilityand Statistics
Philosophy of Science
Introductory Astronomy
Twentieth-Century Physics andIts Philosophical Implications
Convener: Robert Lange
There are no easy answers toreducing human poverty and to managing, rather than damaging,the environment. Environmental degradation, human poverty, scarcityof resources, and ineffective institutions handicap developmentefforts. This cluster introduces students to a variety of differentapproaches to sustainable development. The designated coursesin the social sciences and the sciences give particular attentionto problems in the lower income countries of Africa, Asia, andLatin America.
Development and the Third World
Ecology
Chemicals and Toxicity
Introduction to the Economicsof Development
Environmental Law and Policy
Science and Development
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
Seminar: Politics and Hunger
Convener: Ann Koloski-Ostrow
This cluster explores the cityin time and space from several perspectives in order to addressa number of questions. What is a city? What functions does itperform? What are its origins and composition in the ancient world(Athens, Rome, Pompeii), and how do these relate to modern cities?Is there a city yet to be built that will enrich and further humandevelopment?
Urban Anthropology
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Greece
The Art and Archaeology ofAncient Rome
Topics in Greek and Roman Artand Archaeology
Dickens and Dostoevsky
Domains of Seventeenth-CenturyPerformance
When Tokyo was called Edo:Japanese Art from Edo to Meiji
History of Boston Architecture
St. Peter's and the Vatican
Vienna at the Turn of the Century
German Modernism and the FascistBacklash
Thought and Culture in ModernAmerica
Merchants, Moneylenders, andGhetti of Venice
The Monument and the City
A History of the Jews in Warsaw,Lodz, Vilna, and Odessa
Convener: Olga Davidson
Throughout history, scientificdiscoveries and their technological applications have changedthe contours of our lives. This cluster explores the differentialimpact of scientific advances and cognition on politics, socialvalues, religious beliefs, and the arts. Courses from biochemistry,computer science, history, politics, sociology, Near Eastern studies,and comparative literature emphasize the interdisciplinary dimensionsof science in our world.
Biotechnology: Its Origins,Scientific Basis, and Impact
Introduction to Computers
Science and Technology in theTwentieth Century
Science and Religion in ModernEurope
Law, Technology, and Innovation
The Woman's Voice in the MuslimWorld
Technology and the Managementof Public Risk
Community and Alienation: SocialTheory from Hegel to Freud
Modern Society in Transition
Technology and Society
Convener: Susan Moeller
Courses in the visual literacycluster allow students to explore the power of images. In spiteof Americans' growing sophistication at the end of the 20th century,we continue to be moved--consciously and unconsciously--by thepictures we see in print, on television, in movies, and even inmuseums. Visual literacy courses examine the role of images inour society by investigating images much as written texts havealways been analyzed. These courses trace an image-conscious sensibilityin literature, art, popular culture, politics, and even the sciences.
Film Theory and Criticism
The History and Principlesof Photojournalism
Chemistry and Art
The Body as Text: Castiglioneto Locke
Inventing Tradition: Womanas Artists, Women as Art
High Art/Low Art: Modern Artand Popular Culture
Duchamp to Deconstruction
Introduction to the MovingImage
Sensory Processes
Aesthetics: Painting, Photography,and Film
Perception
Convener: Julie Nelson
This cluster explores the experienceof women in the United States from colonial times to the present.Looking at gender roles from a variety of perspectives, and listeningto women's voices as represented in sources ranging from socialpolicy to poetry, painting, biography, and history, the clusterwill investigate the gendered dimensions of female experiencein America as well as the divisions among American women.
The American Jewish Woman:1890-1990s
Women in American History:1865 to the Present
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Human Reproductive Biology
Gender and Economics
American Women Poets
Georgia O'Keeffe and StieglitzCircle
Americans at Home: Familiesand Domestic Environment, 1600 to the Present
Women in American History:A Survey, 1600-1865
Problems in American Women'sHistory
Family Policy
American Jewish Life
Changing Roles of Women inAmerican Jewish Life
Women's Biography and Society
Convener: To Be Announced
The aim of this cluster isto provide an examination of women in pre-modern and non-Westerncultures. Sub-areas considered by courses in the cluster includeartistic and literary creation, family life, and religious ideasfrom historical and comparative perspectives.
The Anthropology of Gender
The History of the Family
Women in American History:A Survey, 1600-1865
Women and the Bible
History of Jewish and ChristianWomen in the Roman Empire
The Woman's Voice in the MuslimWorld
Science and Development
The Heroine in Nineteenth-CenturyRussian Literature
Women Leaders and Transformationin Developing Countries
Studies in Latin American Literature
Contemporary Hispanic Women'sFiction in Translation
Convener: Avigdor Levy
The purpose of this clusteris to introduce the student to some of the important culturesof the non-Western world. It accomplishes this by offering a choiceof introductory courses designed to provide a broad acquaintancewith a variety of traditions.
Introduction to African History
The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
Latin American History, Pre-Conquestto 1870
Introduction to East AsianCivilization
Islam: Civilization and Institutions
Ancient Near Eastern Historyand Culture I
Explorations in Islamic LiteratureII: The Persian World
Politics of Southeast Asia
Convener: Charles McClendon
Western Europe first emergedas a cultural force following the fall of the Roman Empire whena patchwork of barbarian tribes gave rise to a network of kingdomsthat foreshadowed today's national states. Basic features of Europeancivilization, from its language to its religious and educationalinstitutions, were formed during this period. Students explorethis creative process from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Love in the Middle Ages
The Medieval World
Chaucer I
Arthurian Literature
Art and the Origins of Europe
The Age of Cathedrals
The Art of Medieval England
The French Middle Ages
The Civilization of the EarlyMiddle Ages
The Civilization of the Highand Late Middle Ages
English Medieval History
Dante's Divine Comedy
Music and the Idea of Renaissance
Medieval Philosophy
Convener: Seyom Brown and GordonFellman
A system of interdependentdecision-makers has the potential for symbiotic cooperation ormutual detriment: war or peace, ecological balance or catastrophe,strength in numbers or recrimination. What factors shape the outcome?Does cooperation require the suspension of self-interest or itsenlightenment? How do self-organizing dynamic systems evolve?
Ecology
Evolution
International Law, Organizations,and Conflict Resolution
Conflict Analysis and Intervention
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Introduction to Ethics
Topics in Ethical Theory
Introduction to InternationalRelations
Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
Seminar: Human Rights and InternationalRelations
Seminar: International Relationsand the Global Environment
War and Possibilities of Peace
Group Process
Group Solidarity
Convener: John Schrecker
This cluster provides an introductionto East Asian civilization through comprehensive study of Chinaand Japan.
The Economy of Japan
Chinese Landscape Painting
The Art of Japan
The Art of China
The Persistence of Tradition:An Introduction to Japanese Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Film
Introduction to East AsianCivilization
East Asia in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries
The Emergence of Modern Japan
Seminar on Traditional ChineseThought
Chinese Philosophy
The Government and Politicsof China
Seminar: Contemporary ChinesePolitics
Convener: John Bush Jones
To quote an old song, "It'snot what you do, it's the way you do it." What gives theaterits special quality? What makes a reader of a play or a spectatorin an audience see, feel, or understand things about life? Somecourses in this cluster explore not just what happens ina play but how it happens: in other words, how the playwright,the actors, the director, and the designers structure the contentsto make their work say what they want it to say. Other coursesexamine performance in life--the ways in which we and our relationshipsto others are perceived, not just by who we are but byhow the forms of our behavior reveal ourselves.
History as Theater
Symbol, Myth, and Ritual
Domains of Seventeenth-CenturyPerformance
The Body as Text: Castiglioneto Locke
Making Sex, Performing Gender
Center Stage: Women in ContemporaryAmerican Art
Storytelling: Narrative Aspectsof Acting
Playwriting I
The Avant-Gardes
Movement and Dance TheaterComposition
Dramatic Structure: Analysisand Application
Convener: John Burt
Romanticism in European andAmerican literature, philosophy, religion, art, and politics,along with its historical context, its relationship to earliercultural movement, and its consequences down to modern times.
Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth,and Coleridge
Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley,and Keats
American Romanticism
Romanticism
Nineteenth-Century EuropeanPainting and Sculpture
The French Revolution
Romantic and ExistentialistPolitical Thought
Romanticism and Music
Kant
Community and Alienation: SocialTheory from Hegel to Freud
Conveners: Richard Gaskinsand R. Shep Melnick
The rights and responsibilitiesof modern democratic life are defined through legal and politicalprocesses, supported by the framework of social values. Thesecourses explore changing concepts of individual welfare and socialcitizenship; examine the comparative strengths of courts, legislatures,and bureaucracies in shaping the public interest; and ask howmodern welfare states should evolve in the coming decades.
The Legal Boundaries of Publicand Private Life
Rights: Theory and Rhetoric
American Realism and Naturalism,1865-1900
Seminar: Governance
Varieties of Liberty and Freedom
American Jobs and Wages: TheParadox of Wealth and Poverty
American Health Care: Law andPolicy
Law and Social Welfare: CitizenRights and Government Responsibilities
Foundations of American Pragmatism
Philosophy and Public Policy
Technology and the Managementof Public Risk
National Government of theUnited States
Seminar: The Politics of theModern Welfare State: Women, Workers, and Social Citizenship
Convener: Bernadette Brooten
Religion shapes the world valuesto a far greater extent than generally recognized. Within thiscluster, students can explore comparatively several world religionsand learn theoretical frameworks for understanding them. Theycan examine foundational texts, such as the Jewish and ChristianBibles; major religious art works, institutions, and practices;as well as religious conflict, such as that between religion andscience.
Selected Topics in ComparativeReligion: Seminal Works in the Study of Religion
The Age of Cathedrals
St. Peter's and the Vatican
Science and Religion in ModernEurope
The Hebrew Bible
The New Testament: A HistoricalIntroduction
Jesus of Nazareth and the ChristianFaith
Paul among Jews and Gentiles
Hasidism as a Religious andSocial Movement
American Judaism
The Woman's Voice in the MuslimWorld
Convener: Thomas King
Although we tend to believethat our sexualities express universal and unchanging truths aboutourselves, various societies and historical periods reveal markedlydifferent organizations of sex. This cluster explores sexualityas the set of beliefs, representations, and ethics surroundingindividuals' relations to their bodies. How has the sexed bodyand its pleasures been made socially meaningful?
The Anthropology of Gender
Human Reproduction, PopulationExplosion, Global Consequences
Love in the Middle Ages
Sex and Sensibility in Pre-RevolutionaryEuropean Novels
AIDS, Activism, and Representation
Lesbian and Gay Studies: Desire,Identity, and Representation
Making Sex, Performing Gender
Women, Gender, and Family
Sex Discrimination and theLaw
AIDS, Health Care, and theLaw
Lesbian, Gay, and BisexualJews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations
Feminist Critiques of AmericanSociety
Issues in Sexuality
Convener: Joan Press
The presence of disease isa significant and constant element in human history. This clusteranalyzes the biological bases of diseases, of infectious and ofnon-infectious origin, and the new biomedical technologies developedto treat disease. It also examines society's past and presentreactions to disease, including medical, philosophical, legal,political, and cultural responses.
Medicine, Body, and Culture
AIDS in the Third World
Biology of Neurological andMental Illness
Viruses and Human Disease
Immunity and Disease
Immunology
General Microbiology
Cancer
AIDS, Activism, and Representation
AIDS, Health Care, and theLaw
Seminar in Health Psychology
Health, Community, and Society
Convener: Luis Yglesias
This cluster enables studentsto understand how different cultures have made sense of humanexperience in relation to the spiritual: the realm of the divine,the realm of animal spirits, and the supernatural. In other words,"whatever is grave and constant in human experience."
World Religions
Symbol, Myth, and Ritual
Night, Death, and the Devil:The Fantastic and the Grotesque
Classical Mythology
Topics in Myth, Literature,and Folklore
Arthurian Literature
Buddhist Art
Mysticism and the Moral Life:Abraham Heschel, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton
Biblical Ritual and Cult
Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
The Jewish Liturgy
Dealing with Evil in AncientBabylon and Beyond: Magic and Witchcraft in Antiquity
Ancient Near Eastern Religionand Mythology
Sociology of Birth and Death