Academic Catalog 2017-2018 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Listing


Courses listed below are grouped together alphabetically by subject prefix.  To search for a specific course, please follow the instructions in the course filter box below and click on “Filter.”  

Departments and interdisciplinary programs are described in detail on the Majors, Minors, and Other Programs  page within this catalog.  Please refer to the detailed sections on each area of study for more information.  Requirements to fulfill a major or minor appear within each program or area of study.

All students must also complete the courses in the Common Curriculum (General Education), including Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) requirements and other requirements that pertain to the undergraduate degree. Courses are numbered as follows.

000-049 - Non-credit courses.

050-099 - Common Curriculum (General Education) courses and others that do NOT count toward the major.

100-199 - Introductory-level courses which count for the major.

200-299 - Sophomore/junior-level courses that often may be easily taken by non-majors. (Some departments may use 200-249 and 250-259 to delineate between sophomore and junior level offerings.)

300-399 - Upper-level courses intended primarily for majors - these are courses representing the depth component of the major.

400-499 - All advanced courses for seniors, including those used to fulfill WS (Senior Writing Experience requirement), small seminars, research, thesis, and independent studies.

Wherever possible, the departments have indicated the instructor and the term during which a course is given. Some courses are offered only occasionally and are so indicated. The College retains the right not to offer a course, especially if enrollment is insufficient.

A few courses are not valued at full course credit, and some carry double credit.

A full course unit may be equated to five quarter-credit hours, or three and one-third semester credit hours.

 

German

  
  • GER 101 - Basic German 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Ricci Bell) Continuation of GER 100   . Prerequisite(s): GER 100   or two years of secondary school German. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 102 - Basic German 3

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Ricci Bell) Continuation of GER 101   , with introduction of readings. Prerequisite(s): GER 101   or three years of secondary school German. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 200 - Intermediate German 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Nelson-Mukherjee) Intensive grammar review, emphasis on vocabulary building, idiomatic expressions, conversation, and composition based on cultural and literary texts. Prerequisite(s): GER 102   or equivalent. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 201 - Intermediate German 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Nelson-Mukherjee) Continuation of extensive grammar review, vocabulary building, conversation, and composition based on more advanced cultural and literary texts. Prerequisite(s): GER 200   or equivalent. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 202 - Advanced German

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Mastery of the spoken and written language, with an emphasis on the finer points of grammar, style, and colloquial expression. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or equivalent. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 204T - German Language and Culture Studies Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Nelson-Mukherjee) See International Programs. CC: HUM
  
  • GER 205T - German Language and Culture Studies Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Nelson-Mukherjee) See International Programs. CC: HUM
  
  • GER 206T - German Language and Culture Studies Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Nelson-Mukherjee) See International Programs. CC: HUM
  
  • GER 207T - German Language and Culture Studies Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Nelson-Mukherjee) See International Programs. CC: HUM
  
  • GER 250T - The German Language Studied Independently Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Staff) CC: HUM
  
  • GER 251T - The German Language Studied Independently Abroad

    Course Units: 1
    (Staff) CC: HUM
  
  • GER 300T - German Civilization

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Nelson-Mukherjee) See International Programs. An introduction to the cultural history of German speaking Europe. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM Note: Spring term in Freiburg/Berlin.
  
  • GER 301 - German Culture and the Professions

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Focus on business oriented linguistic competence (certification possible) and cultural sensitivity, combined with an introduction to the economic history of Germany 1945-present day. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 302 - German Prose: A Survey

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Selected works representing literature and society from the late eighteenth century to the present. Readings of works from each period to illustrate cultural, historical, and artistic trends. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 303 - German Drama: A Survey

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Theory and practice of German theater from the Enlightenment to the Present. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 304 - Once Upon a Time: German Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Fantasy

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Nelson-Mukherjee) Exploration of the genre and tradition of the German Fairy Tale, its reception within various cultural frameworks, and its influence on later literature of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special focus on identifying aesthetic, sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytical implications and gender issues. The Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (and their revisions in popular and literary culture) will provide a basis for discussing the fairy tale’s role in culture and its continued vitality within the different cultural frameworks of classical, romantic, and modern folklore and fantasy storytelling. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 306 - Twentieth Century German Literature

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Representative works by major writers, read as expressions of concern about their times. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 334 - Femme fatales? Women in 19th and 20th Century German Culture and Society

    Course Units: 1
    (Also MLT 234   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) An examination of female sexuality as one of the central controversies of modern German culture. In addition to analyzing cultural artifacts (plays, films, paintings), we will discuss such diverse social phenomena as the Women’s movement, morality crusades, psychoanalysis, and sexology. Prerequisite(s): GER 201    CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 335 - Voices from Abroad: German Exile Culture, 1933-1990

    Course Units: 1
    (Same as MLT 235   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course, taught in translation, is designed for both Germanists and other students of literature interested in exploring notions of exile and the particular cultural artifacts, including novels, films, essays and poetry, that bear witness to the struggle of artists exiled from WWII Germany and Austria. The class additionally examines texts by current emigres to Germany and incorporates theoretical assessments of exile, considering works by Said, Milosz and others. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 336 - The Thrill of Victory: Reading German Sports and Culture

    Course Units: 1
    (Also MLT 336   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course traces the ways that Sports have reflected and influenced German culture through the 20th century, analyzing links between athleticism and conceptions of gender, nationhood, individuality and race set out in literary texts, films, and visual arts. Exploring notions of victory, physical perfection, and spectatorship, we will consider works by some of Germany’s greatest authors and artists, including Kafka, Schnitzler, Brecht, Riefenstahl, Kirschner and Handke. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 337 - Flashy Erotics to Forbidden Laughter: German Cabaret through the 20th Century

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Ricci Bell) This course explores the German “Kabarett,” a dramatic form essential to German culture throughout the 20th Century. Very versatile, cabaret throughout Germany’s history was at times didactic, subversive, raunchy, witty, extravagant and sharply critical. We examine cabaret’s development in contexts ranging from Weimar and Vienna, to Nazi and Concentration Camp forms, to East and West German political cabaret, and contemporary forms, considering the institutions and figures that shaped cabaret over time. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 338 - Poetry, Performance, Protest & Power: A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 338   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course explores the legacy of 20th century German literature and cultural history through its poetic tradition of performance and protest, while analyzing the political, social, and cultural climate and the shifts in understandings of gender, race, class and generational relations during this critical century in contemporary German history. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 339 - The Shoah in Film: Cinematic Treatments of Holocaust Trauma and Memory

    Course Units: 1
    (Also MLT 339   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) The course examines cinematic representations of the Holocaust in the films of German, German-Jewish, and other European filmmakers. Comparing and contrasting a variety of film genres and cinematic techniques, we explore fundamental questions about the relationships between art and history, representation and experience and memory and responsibility. By considering theoretical and historical readings as well, we situate the films within significant intellectual and historical contexts. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCCG
  
  • GER 340 - Beyond Bedtime Stories: Retelling the Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Course Units: 1
    (Crossed with MLT 239   ) (Staff) This course Investigates the folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in literature and film, as well as in their cultural, historical, social and ideological contexts. Specific focus is on the “retelling” and ”rewriting” of these tales – both by the Brothers Grimm from older French and Italian tales and by Walt Disney and modern Hollywood – in order to study the similarities and differences in narrative structures, themes, and layers of meaning, as well as the implications such retellings have on social and familial relationships, class structure, race relations, the phenomenon of nation building, the performance of gender and sexuality, orientalism and consumerism. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor if student seeking GER credit. CC: HUL, HUM
  
  • GER 341 - Of Ghosts and Demons: Encountering the Uncanny in German Literature

    Course Units: 1
    (Also MLT 237   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) From ghost children, animated statues, ominous angels, and the walking dead to machine women, demons, and doppelgangers, German literature teems with things that go bump in the night. The course examines encounters with the supernatural as depicted throughout German literature, with special focus on Romanticism’s fascination with das Unheimliche (“the uncanny”), in order to sketch the history of this tradition of fantastic literature in German, trace its origins, and present its main authors and defining features. Readings include works by Goethe, Kleist, the Brothers Grimm, Hoffmann, Hauff, Schnitzler, Kafka, Rilke, and Bachmann, as well as films by Murnau, Lang, and von Sternberg. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 401 - Meeting the Other: Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Germany

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) (Offered in 2018-19) This course studies post-World War II German cultural and literary history through the lens of migration. How are memories of migration included (or excluded) in national histories? By analyzing recent cultural productions by minorities (literature, music and films) with respect to national, cultural, and sexual self-representations in the context of social and political developments, this course will contextualize controversies and relate specific events to broader questions of economic globalization, the recruitment of “guest workers,” refugees and border regimes, xenophobia and racism, citizenship legislation, education and national identity, religion and ritual, media and popular culture. Prerequisite(s): Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 402 - German Film Studies

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Decoding film-specific ‘narratives’ in German movies on the background of socio-political, economic, and cultural conditions of their production. Prerequisite(s): Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCCG
  
  • GER 403 - Shoah: Literary, Artistic and Filmic Representations of the Holocaust

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Comparing and contrasting works of German and German-Jewish writers. Prerequisite(s): Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCG, HUM
  
  • GER 489 - German Senior Writing Project

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter, Spring; Staff) CC: WS
  
  • GER 490 - German Independent Study 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Individual directed readings in German literature. Prerequisite(s): At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.
  
  • GER 491 - German Independent Study 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Individual directed readings in German literature. Prerequisite(s): At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.
  
  • GER 492 - German Independent Study 3

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Individual directed readings in German literature. Prerequisite(s): At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.
  
  • MLT 234 - Femmes fatales? Women in 19th- and 20th-Century German Culture and Society

    Course Units: 1
    (same as GER 334   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) An examination of female sexuality as one of the central controversies of modern German culture. In addition to analyzing cultural artifacts (plays, films, paintings), we will discuss such diverse social phenomena as the Women’s movement, morality crusades, psychoanalysis, and sexology. CC: HUL
  
  • MLT 235 - Voices from Abroad: German Exile Culture, 1933-1990

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 335   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course, taught in translation, is designed for both Germanists and other students of literature interested in exploring notions of exile and the particular cultural artifacts, including novels, films, essays and poetry, that bear witness to the struggle of artists exiled from WWII Germany and Austria. The class additionally examines texts by current emigres to Germany and incorporates theoretical assessments of exile, considering works by Said, Milosz and others. CC: HUL
  
  • MLT 236 - Poetry, Performance, Protest & Power: A History of Twentieth-Century Germany

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 338   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course explores the legacy of 20th century German literature and cultural history through its poetic tradition of performance and protest, while analyzing the political, social, and cultural climate and the shifts in understandings of gender, race, class and generational relations during this critical century in contemporary German history. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • MLT 237 - Of Ghosts and Demons: Encountering the Uncanny in German Literature

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 341   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) From ghost children, animated statues, ominous angels, and the walking dead to machine women, demons, and doppelgangers, German literature teems with things that go bump in the night. The course examines encounters with the supernatural as depicted throughout German literature, with special focus on Romanticism’s fascination with das Unheimliche (“the uncanny”), in order to sketch the history of this tradition of fantastic literature in German, trace its origins, and present its main authors and defining features. Readings include works by Goethe, Kleist, the Brothers Grimm, Hoffmann, Hauff, Schnitzler, Kafka, Rilke, and Bachmann, as well as films by Murnau, Lang, and von Sternberg. Prerequisite(s): GER 201   or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • MLT 336 - The Thrill of Victory: Reading German Sports (and) Culture

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 336   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course traces the ways that Sports have reflected and influenced German culture through the 20th century, analyzing links between athleticism and conceptions of gender, nationhood, individuality and race set out in literary texts, films, and visual arts. Exploring notions of victory, physical perfection, and spectatorship, we will consider works by some of Germany’s greatest authors and artists, including Kafka, Schnitzler, Brecht, Riefenstahl, Kirschner and Handke. CC: HUL
  
  • MLT 339 - The Shoah in Film: Cinematic Treatments of Holocaust Trauma and Memory

    Course Units: 1
    (Also GER 339   ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) The course examines cinematic representations of the Holocaust in the films of German, German-Jewish, and other European filmmakers. Comparing and contrasting a variety of film genres and cinematic techniques, we explore fundamental questions about the relationships between art and history, representation and experience and memory and responsibility. By considering theoretical and historical readings as well, we situate the films within significant intellectual and historical contexts. CC: HUM, LCC

Greek

  
  • GRK 101 - Beginning Ancient Greek 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Mueller) Study of elementary Greek grammar with selected readings from classical authors. CC: HUM
  
  • GRK 102 - Beginning Ancient Greek 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Mueller) Continuation of GRK 101   . Prerequisite(s): GRK 101   or one year of secondary school Greek. CC: LCCK, HUM
  
  • GRK 103 - Greek Reading

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Gazzarri) Selected readings from the works of a variety of Greek authors. Prerequisite(s): GRK 102   or equivalent. CC: LCCK, HUM
  
  • GRK 230 - Homer: The Iliad

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings in the Iliad, with relevant secondary readings on Greek epic, its place in the development of Greek literature, and its influence. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM
  
  • GRK 231 - Homer: The Odyssey

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Toher) A study of several books of the Odyssey, with relevant secondary readings on Greek epic, its place in the development of Greek literature, and its influence. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM
  
  • GRK 235 - Plato

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) A study of several of the early dialogues in the original together with readings of others in translation. May be repeated with change in texts. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM
  
  • GRK 243 - New Testament Greek

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Bedford) The foundational text of Christianity, the New Testament also represents a fascinating social and historical document, and, as such, offers an unparalleled glimpse into provincial life under the early Roman empire. A survey of the gospels, Acts, and the letters of Paul in light of these contexts. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 320 - Attic Prose

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings from the major prose authors of Athens. May be repeated with change in author. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 331 - Herodotus and Thucydides

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) A study of several books of Herodotus and Thucydides with relevant secondary readings. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 333 - Greek Tragedy

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Tragedies chosen from the works of the three great tragic poets of Athens, with relevant secondary readings. May be repeated with change in author or texts. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 337 - Greek Oratory

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings of various Athenian orators, with secondary reading on Greek legal practice and rhetorical style. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 338 - Greek Lyric and Elegiac Poetry

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings from Sappho, Archilochus, Solon, Pindar, and others. The traditions, evolution of the genre, social context and role of the poet will be considered. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 339 - Greek Comedy

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings in the plays of Aristophanes. The criticism and theory, history, and social context of the comedies will be studied. Prerequisite(s): GRK 103   or equivalent. CC: HUL, LCC
  
  • GRK 490 - Greek Independent Study 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Advanced individual study of a special author or subject, or of Greek prose composition. Prerequisite(s): Six courses in Greek or the equivalent.
  
  • GRK 491 - Greek Independent Study 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Advanced individual study of a special author or subject, or of Greek prose composition. Prerequisite(s): Six courses in Greek or the equivalent.
  
  • GRK 492 - Greek Independent Study 3

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Advanced individual study of a special author or subject, or of Greek prose composition. Prerequisite(s): Six courses in Greek or the equivalent.
  
  • GRK 498 - Greek Senior Thesis 1

    Course Units: 0
    (Fall-Winter or Winter-Spring; Staff) Independent reading and thesis in the field of Greek language and/or literature. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the chair.
  
  • GRK 499 - Greek Senior Thesis 2

    Course Units: 2
    (Fall-Winter or Winter-Spring; Staff) Independent reading and thesis in the field of Greek language and/or literature. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the chair. CC: WS

Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies

  
  • GSW 100 - (WGS-100) Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Foroughi, Winter; Van Wilt) This course serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to the findings of feminist scholarship on gender, women, and sexuality. The course is broad in scope and covers topics in feminist theory, the social construction of gender, and issues affecting women’s, men’s, and others’ lives throughout the world. CC: HUM, SOCS
  
  • GSW 479 - Internship in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

    Course Units: 1
    (Staff) An internship experience in local agencies, social services, law and media centers, women’s advocacy groups, childcare centers, gay and lesbian organizations, with health care providers, and others. The goal is to develop students’ knowledge of and ability to analyze organizations that work on issues related to gender and sexuality in the Capital Region. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and permission of the director.
  
  • GSW 490 - (WGS-490) Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Independent Study

    Course Units: 1
    (Staff) Note: Faculty permission required.
  
  • GSW 495 - (WGS-495) Capstone Course on Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Women

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Mitchell, Spring; Marso) A required interdisciplinary course designed as the culmination of the major or minor. This course reinforces and provides a coherent perspective on the major issues in gender studies and affords an opportunity to reflect upon the importance of the chosen major and/or minor focus in light of these issues. The topic of the capstone course varies from year to year; this year’s will be Women’s Rights in the United States in the fall and Feminist Film in the spring, cross-listed as EGL 304   and PSC 339   , respectively. Prerequisite(s): GSW 100 (WGS-100)  
  
  • GSW 498 - (WGS-498) Gender Sexuality & Women’s Studies Senior Thesis 1

    Course Units: 0
    (Staff) A student directed two-term project culminating in a thesis representing the depth and breadth of knowledge attained in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies interdisciplinary course work. Student theses in GSWS are usually advised by the current director, but can be advised by any faculty member in GSWS in consultation with the director.
  
  • GSW 499 - (WGS-499) Gender Sexuality & Women’s Senior Thesis 2

    Course Units: 2
    (Staff) A student directed two-term project culminating in a thesis representing the depth and breadth of knowledge attained in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies interdisciplinary course work. Student theses in GSWS are usually advised by the current director, but can be advised by any faculty member in GSWS in consultation with the director.

Biblical Hebrew

  
  • HBR 111 - Biblical Hebrew 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Bedford) Study of elementary Biblical Hebrew grammar with selected readings from the Hebrew Bible. Note: CC: HUM
  
  • HBR 112 - Biblical Hebrew 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Bedford) Continuing study of elementary Biblical Hebrew grammar with selected readings from the Hebrew Bible. CC: LCCB
  
  • HBR 113 - Biblical Hebrew 3

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Bedford) Completion of the study of elementary Biblical Hebrew grammar with selected readings from the Hebrew Bible. CC: LCCB
  
  • HBR 490 - Biblical Hebrew Independent Study 1

    Course Units: 0
    (Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Independent reading and thesis in the field of Greek language and/or literature. Prerequisite(s): HBR 113    or the equivalent.

Health Care Management

  
  • HC 500 - (LIM-500) Introduction to Health Systems

    Course Units: 1
    (Staff)

Hebrew

  
  • HEB 100 - Basic Hebrew 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Staff) The beginning of a year-long sequence of three courses designed to introduce students to the Hebrew language and to familiarize students with linguistic aspects that will prepare them to function with more advanced skills. Emphasis on learners’ ability to use the Hebrew language in all four skill areas, listening, reading, writing, and speaking, with particular attention given to mastering conversation in Hebrew. CC: HUM
  
  • HEB 101 - Basic Hebrew 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Staff) Continuation of HEB 100   . CC: LCCH
  
  • HEB 102 - Basic Hebrew 3

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Staff) Continuation of HEB 101   . CC: LCCH

History

  
  • HST 101 - History of the United States to the Civil War

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Political, economic, and social developments in the colonial and early national periods.
  
  • HST 102 - History of the United States Since the Civil War

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Political, economic, and social developments: continuity and change in modern America.
  
  • HST 105 - Comparative Global History to 1800

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Sargent) Provides a “bird’s-eye” view of human history from the emergence of human “civilization” in the Fertile Crescent to the European conquest of the Americas. Surveys the comparative development of the world’s continents, regions, and empires and investigates how expansion of the “human web” facilitated both cooperation and conflict among the world’s peoples. Pays particular attention to environmental and ecological determinism, the influence of technology on economic growth, the rise of “portable” religions, and the interaction of culture and politics.
  
  • HST 106 - Comparative Global History from 1800

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the broad themes in world history from the 19th century onwards, beginning with the rise of the nation-state and the expansion of European and subsequently Japanese imperialism. It looks at the indigenous and global response to colonialism, the impulse of nationalism and the quest for modernity, as well as how race and gender came to be rethought and reconfigured going into the 20th century. We will examine the impact of the two world wars. the process of decolonization. the Cold War and the rise of globalization in the late 20th century.
  
  • HST 107 - Africa to 1800

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course explores the history of Africa from the beginnings of humanity through the period of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In it, we will examine political, social, economic and cultural changes in Africa, with particular focus on the relationships between local communities and the political elites who sought to rule them. This perspective will enable us to focus on the social dynamics of African communities and the daily activities of ordinary Africans, as well as on the political intrigues and roles of kings, chiefs, and merchants. CC: LCC
  
  • HST 108 - Africa since 1800

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Peterson) This course is a survey of the African continent from 1800 to present. In this course, we will examine the political, social, economic and cultural changes in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focus will be on key themes that span much of African history during this period including: slavery and the slave trade, European conquest and African resistance, the expansion of world religions (Islam and Christianity) in Africa, colonialism, the growth of nationalism, decolonization and the emergence of independent postcolonial states, and the challenges facing contemporary African states related to political instability and economic development. Given the enormous breadth and diversity of Africa, this course explores these themes by focusing on certain case study regions and countries, such as Francophone West Africa, Nigeria, the Congo region (Zaire), the East African coast and Arabic-speaking North Africa. CC: LCC
  
  • HST 113 - The Origins of American Society

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) The evolution of American society from its 17th-century origins through the aftermath of the Revolution.
  
  • HST 114 - The American Revolution

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) The causes and consequences of the American Revolution (1763-1815).
  
  • HST 116 - Age of Jackson

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Brennan) An examination of the United States in the turbulent period from 1815-1845, surveying the second party system, various utopian and reform movements, the cult of domesticity, and other wrenching transformations instigated by the market revolution.
  
  • HST 118 - Civil War and Reconstruction

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Foroughi) An examination of the causes of the deepening sectional crisis; the political, economic, and social reasons for Southern secession; the move toward emancipation as a Northern war aim; the impact of the war on women and men, with special attention to geographic location, race, and class; and the experience of Reconstruction in the South.
  
  • HST 120 - The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1918

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Morris) The impact of urbanization and industrialization on the creation of the modern United States, 1890-1920.
  
  • HST 121 - The Depression and New Deal

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) The years between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II witnessed not only a dramatic contrast between the prosperity of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s, but also a fundamental reordering of America’s political system forged during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. This course will examine the crisis and transformation of the American economy and political system during the 1920s and 1930s, and their impact on Americans of all walks of life.
  
  • HST 123 - Postwar America and the Origins of the Cold War

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Morris) The stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union permeated the politics and culture of the United States from the end of the Second World War through the early 1960s. This course will explore the origins of the Cold War, the terms on which it was fought, and the degree to which it imposed a political and cultural “consensus” on the United States.
  
  • HST 124 - (224) Monuments, Museums, and Movies: Introduction to Public History

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Lawson) This course will provide an overview of public history, defined as the presentation of history to a general public audience. Students will learn the theory, methods, and practice of public history in its various dimensions, including museums, monuments, historic sites, and films; they will explore the controversies that emerge in public history settings, including the battle over the Enola Gay, the Holocaust Museum, and commemorations of September 11th; and they will engage in a public history project in the Schenectady area.
  
  • HST 125 - Coming Apart?: America in the Sixties

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Feffer) A study of the breakdown of political and cultural consensus between 1956 and 1974. We will examine the degree to which counter-cultural and racial politics of the period successfully challenged the dominant political culture on issues of war, race, and gender.
  
  • HST 126 - Since Yesterday: United States History, 1974-2000

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Feffer) If the United States “came apart” in the 1960s, did it come back together in the 1970s and 1980s, or something else? This course looks at the emergence of new social movements (e.g., the women’s and environmentalist movements), the rise of the “new right,” the Reagan “revolution” in domestic policy, and American foreign policy from the fall of Saigon to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.
  
  • HST 128 - The American Jewish Experience

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Jews arrived in Britain’s American colonies in 1654. In the space of 350 years their numbers increased dramatically and they made significant contributions to a plethora of areas in American society. Jews and Judaism also experienced significant changes through the encounter with the United States. But for all the gains in status and achievement, there are those who speak of a problematic future for American Jewry.
  
  • HST 129 - History of Sports in America

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Fields of battle (military, political, economic, and social) generally characterize the teaching of American history. Throughout times of conflict, however, it has often been the fields of American sport which have provided distraction, respite, and relief from these struggles. Meanwhile during times of peace, the fields of sport have contributed more than leisure and entertainment; they have reflected the American people’s lives, hopes and dreams. Sport, in other words, has been and continues to be an active mediator in America’s life, and a lens through which we can examine the broader contexts of American history.
  
  • HST 131 - African-American History 1

    Course Units: 1
    (Fall; Aslakson) The purpose of this course is to help you better understand both the role of race and slavery in early American history and the contributions of African-Americans to society and culture in America before 1877. The course will examine the lives of black Americans, enslaved and free, from the arrival of the first Africans in the New World through Reconstruction. It will also address more abstract ideas about cultural and “racial” differences. Throughout this course, you will be asked to consider the question “which came first, racism or slavery?” CC: LCC
  
  • HST 132 - African-American History 2

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Aslakson) This course covers the Black experience in America from the end of the Civil War until the present day. It will generally proceed chronologically, but there may be some overlap as it tries to cover certain themes, such as culture, oppression, resistance, and identity. Throughout the course students will be asked to consider the question to what extent is the African-American experience unique and to what extent is it representative of the “American” experience. CC: LCC
  
  • HST 135 - Latinos(as) in US History

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) The Spanish exploration of the Southwest and West; the changes in all areas of the U.S. through major waves of immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. CC: LCC
  
  • HST 138 - Big History

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) An exploration of the past from the big bang to the present, dividing the history of the universe, earth, life, and humanity into periods using very large scales of time.
  
  • HST 141 - Medieval Europe

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) The emergence of western European civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire. The period 300-1350 is surveyed with special attention to factors that influenced later European civilization.
  
  • HST 142 - Renaissance and Reformation Europe

    Course Units: 1
    (Winter; Sargent) The beginnings of modern Europe in the period 1350-1650 with emphasis on Italian humanism, Renaissance Florence, the Protestant Reformation, and the rise and fall of Spain.
  
  • HST 143 - Entrepreneurship in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Examines the meaning and impact of entrepreneurship during the 500 years (or so) prior to the rise of modern capitalism in the early modern era. Takes a broad view of entrepreneurship as the ability to perceive opportunities that others cannot see and to exploit those opportunities by combining resources and expertise to achieve a particular end. Economic entrepreneurs get most, but not all, of the attention.
  
  • HST 145 - Early Modern Europe

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) European society from the seventeenth century through the Enlightenment, stressing social, economic, institutional, and intellectual developments.
  
  • HST 147 - Revolutionary History

    Course Units: 1
    (Spring; Berk) This course will survey major themes in modern European history, including: the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution; the French Revolution; the Russian Revolution and Soviet Communism; and the National Socialist Revolution, World War II, and the Holocaust.
  
  • HST 148 - Europe Between Two Wars

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) An analysis of major socio-economic and political developments in western Europe from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War.
  
  • HST 149 - The Second World War Era

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) Authoritarian movements in Europe and Asia during the Depression decade, the origins of World War II, the alliance against the Axis, the consequences of the war, and the emergence of new social and political structures during the postwar era.
  
  • HST 152 - The Great War

    Course Units: 1
    (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will cover World War I, at the time called the “Great War,” beginning before 1914 with the run-up to war and ending after the war, including the postwar settlement, the early period of the Russian Revolution, and the origins of fascism in Italy and Germany. This is an international history, including the conflict on the western and eastern fronts as well as conditions on the home fronts of the various countries. The course lectures and readings will be accompanied by several films.
 

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