AFRS BC2004x (Section 01) Introduction to African Studies 3 pts. Interdisciplinary and thematic approach to the study of Africa, moving from pre-colonial through colonial and post-colonial periods to contemporary Africa. Focus will be on its history, societal relations, politics and the arts. The objective is to provide a critical survey of the history as well as the continuing debates in Africana studies.

AFRS BC2005x (Section 01) Caribbean Culture and Societies 3 pts. Multidisciplinary exploration of the Anglophone, Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean. Discusses theories about the development and character of Caribbean societies; profiles representative islands; and explores enduring and contemporary issues in Caribbean studies (race, color and class; politics and governance; political economy, the struggles for liberation; cultural and identity and migration.)

AFRS BC2006y Introduction to the African Diaspora 3 pts. Interdisciplinary and thematic approach to the African diaspora in the Americas: its motivations, dimensions, consequences, and the importance and stakes of its study. Beginning with the contacts between Africans and the Portuguese in the 15th century, this class will open up diverse paths of inquiry as students attempt to answer questions, clear up misconceptions, and challenge assumptions about the presence of Africans in the 'New World.'

AFRS BC2010y-BC2010y Colonialism in Africa 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None This course will prepare students to examine diplomatic interactions involving African and European polities during the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the role that military force played in helping European nations secure access to territory and control of resources on the African continent. Students will also examine the vast array of forensic evidence (the broad range of ritual compacts and treaties, the forms of proof and the legal debates) that European merchants and political representatives used to secure entitlements to land and resources.

AFRS BC2510x (Section 001) Ethnicity and Food 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None When people produce, consume or refuse food, choices that often seem "natural," unthinking and highly personal are in fact daily acts of identity and belonging that place individuals in the global circulation of goods, people and resources. This course examines representations of food and foodways as a way of understanding the politics of representation and the complex interplay of race, ethnicity and gender. The course's units on Ethnicity, Migration and Identity; Food & Globalization; Food and Power; and the Politics of Pork, will allow students to understand foodways as key expressions or embodiments of cultural affiliations and food choices as linked to questions of morality and values.

AFRS BC3020y Harlem Crossroads 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Studies Harlem in the context of African-American and African diaspora culture and society as well as American urbanization. Primarily focusing on Harlem of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the course offers students opportunities to discuss political economy, immigration, migration and the role of the city in social life.

AFRS BC3055x Slave Resistance in the United States from the Colonial Era to the Civil War 3 pts.

Analyzes the multifaceted nature of slave resistance, its portrayal and theorization by scholars. Critically examines the various pathways of resistance of enslaved Africans and African-Americans, both individually and collectively (e.g., running away, non-cooperation, theft, arson, as well as verbal and physical confrontation, revolts and insurrections). Considers how gender shaped acts of resistance.

AFRS BC3100x (Section 01) Medicine and Power in African History 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

Examines medical discourse and practice in Africa, emphasizing relationships between power and medical knowledge. Topics include: medicine and empire, tropical medicine, colonial public health and social control, labor, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS.

AFRS BC3110x (Section 01) Africana Colloquium: Critical Race Theory 4 pts. Prerequisites: Students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Priority will be given to Africana majors and CCIS students (Africana Studies, American Studies and Women's Studies majors; minors in Race and Ethnic Studies). General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC). Students will examine the origins and development of race-thinking in the Anglo‑American world with a particular focus on representation and reading practices. Our conversations will draw upon a number of articulations of race theory, including specific post-1980s Critical Race Theory. The course examines "race" narratives as well as critical readings on race from psychoanalytic, post‑colonial, feminist, and critical legal perspectives. These readings will be framed by several interlocking questions: how does representation both respond to and influence socioeconomic conditions? What is the relationship of race to color, ethnicity, and nation? How does race interact with other categories such as class, sexuality and gender? What cultural work is performed by racial definitions and categories such as hybridity and purity?

AFRS BC3110y (Section 02) Africana Colloquium: Diasporas of the Indian Ocean 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. The Indian Ocean has been called the cradle of globalization. We consider the Indian Ocean and east African diasporas and their aesthetic histories by engaging literary and other cultural exchanges (including film, visual arts, music, and dance). This course considers the overlapping transnational vectors that have characterized Indian Ocean history and we do so specifically through questions about the creation of diasporic public space and cultural memory, while also considering material cultures. We ask, for example, how the lived experience is recorded within those long histories of trade and imperialism. We engage with memoirs, epistles, newspapers, music and performance. We turn to archives, contemporary novels, memoir and song, dance and other visual arts to read how they chronicle and transmit cultural memory. We focus on: Durban (South Africa), Bombay (India), Zanzibar (Tanzania) and the Mascarenes (Port Louis in Mauritius and Saint Denis in La Reunion) and the Seychelles. This year, our course will be taught simultaneously between Barnard in New York and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Students from both campuses will be encouraged to interact electronically and to establish a blog and website. The course will also have live-streamed guest speakers from chosen sites around the Indian Ocean. Because of time zones, we have chosen the most practical times (Cape Town is six, then seven hours ahead of New York). How does this influence the course methodology? Come and find out.

AFRS BC3120y History of African-American Music 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Survey interrogates the cultural and aesthetic development of a variety of interconnected musical genres - such as blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk, R&B, hip-hop, classical and their ever changing same/names - viewed as complex human activities daringly danced at dangerous discourses inside and outside the American cultural mainstreams.

AFRS BC3121x Black Women in America 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then. Priority will be given to CCIS students (Africana Studies, American Studies and Women's Studies majors; minors in Race and Ethnic Studies). Enrollment limited to 20 students.
General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Examines the roles of black women in the U.S. as thinkers, activists and creators during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the intellectual work, social activism and cultural expression of African American women, we examine how they understood their lives, resisted oppression and struggled to change society. We will also discuss theoretical frameworks (such as "double jeopardy," or "intersectionality") developed for the study of black women. The seminar will encourage students to pay particular attention to the diversity of black women and critical issues facing Black women today. This course is the same as WMST BC3121.

AFRS BC3146x African American and African Writing and the Screen 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Focuses on the context and history of representations of African Americans and Africans in early American and other cinematographies; the simultaneous development of early film and the New Negro, Negritude and Pan African movements; and pioneer African American and African cinema.

AFRS BC3149y Literature of the Great Migration 3 pts.(Also ENGL BC 3148) Examination of fiction, poetry, essays and films about the Great Migration (1910-1950) of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, focusing on literary production in New York and Chicago. (This course satisfies the Harlem Requirement for the Africana Studies major).

AFRS BC3150y Race and Performance In The Caribbean 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Sophomore Standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students.

Analysis of the shifting place and perception of Afro-Caribbean performance in Caribbean societies. This course takes a cross-cultural approach that examines performance through the lens of ethnography, anthropology, music and literary criticism.

AFRS BC3517x (Section 001) African American Women and Music 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Examines the music making practices of African-American women in blues, gospel, jazz, and rock at different periods in the 20th century. Considers the content and context of these musical productions as well as artist biographies in order to understand the significance of music for these producers and their audiences.

AFEN BC3520y Atlantic Crossings 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Sign-up with the English Department required. Only registering for the course through eBear or SSOL will not ensure your enrollment. This course examines the literature of transatlantic travel from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 to Caryl Phillips's re-tracing of his mother's migration in The Atlantic Sound (2000) to recent re-imaginings of slavery and the Middle Passage by M. Nourbese Philip and Marlon James. Even before Columbus's first encounter, the "Indies" sparked English desires for riches and adventure. We will first investigate how English writers promoted an idea of the West Indies and then came to inhabit its heterogeneous spaces, filling them with longing and anxiety. The class will chart the emergence of modern race thinking from the rich interaction of peoples and goods in the early modern Caribbean. We will also question how ideals of freedom and "English-ness" co-existed with slavery, bondage and creole life. The class will then look at the ways later writers revisit the Caribbean's colonial origins and discuss how notions of the West Indies may haunt modern Atlantic travel.

AFEN BC3525y Atlantic Crossings: The West Indies and the Atlantic World 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor

This class charts the emergence of modern race thinking in the early modern English Caribbean. We will study literature of transatlantic travel from Columbus's first voyage to Caryl Phillip's The Atlantic Sound as well as recent re-imaginings of slavery and the Middle Passage by M. NourbeSe Philip and Marlon James.

AFRS BC3528x (Section 001) Harlem on My Mind: The Political Economy of Harlem 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Drawing on social histories, primary sources, fiction, and popular culture this course will explore the postwar history of Harlem. We will place Harlem in the broader context of New York City and explore how domestic and transnational migration patterns have shaped its history. Specific topics include: urbanization, migration and settlement patterns; racial liberalism and political incorporation; critical engagement with East Harlem as research cite for "culture of poverty" theorists; state criminalization of youth; underground, illegal and illicit economy from the 1960s to the 1990s; struggles over property and gentrification; and perhaps most importantly, exploring Harlem as cultural and political center of the Black World throughout the twentieth century.

AFRS BC3550y (Section 01) Harlem Seminar: Gay Harlem 4 pts. Prerequisites: This course is limited to 20 students. This course explores Harlem's role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem's history as a communal space for Italian, Puerto Rican, and more recent immigrants. Students will be encouraged to distinguish and connect contemporary sites of sexual culture in Harlem to the historical articulations of race and sexuality examined in the course.

AFRS BC3556y Ethnography of Black America 4 pts. This course critically examines ethnographic texts about Blacks in the United States, focusing as much on what they proffer about Black American culture as on the various socio-political contexts in which this body of scholarship has been produced. The goal is to advance an understanding of the larger social forces undergirding the production not only of formations of Black culture, but of knowledge about Black America. A further goal is to foster a critical understanding of the anthropological enterprise itself.

AFRS BC3560x (Section 01) Human Rights and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Examines the evolution of the ideas, institutions and practices associated with social justice in Africa and their relationship to contemporary international human rights movement and focuses on the role of human rights in social change. A number of themes will re-occur throughout the course, notably tensions between norms and reality, cultural diversity, economic and political asymmetries, the role of external actors, and women as rights providers. Countries of special interest include Liberia, Senegal, South African and Tanzania.

AFRS BC3570x Africana Issues: Diasporas of the Indian Ocean 4 pts. The Indian Ocean has been called the cradle of globalization, a claim bolstered by seasonal monsoon winds and the trade that these enabled. We will consider the aesthetic histories of such trade by engaging literary and other cultural exchanges (including film, visual arts, music, and dance). What did the Zulu prophet Isaiah Shembe learn from Gujarati poets? Other than a major slaving center and source of spices, what did role did Zanzibar play in the development of music and literary forms that look to Oman as well as the East Coast of Africa? We focus on four sites: Durban (South Africa), Bombay (India), Zanzibar (Tanzania) and Port Louis (Mauritius). This course will be taught simultaneously between Barnard in New York and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Students from both campuses will be encouraged to interact electronically and to establish a blog and website. The course will also have live-streamed guest speakers from chosen sites around the Indian Ocean.

AFRS BC3589y Black Feminisms 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor What is Black feminism? What is womanism? How do we define Black feminist and womanist thought and praxis? In what ways do Black feminists and womanists challenge European-American/Western feminist constructions and African-American nationalist ideologies? In this course we will utilize Patricia Hill Collins' seminal work, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism, as the core theoretical framework for our exploration and analysis of key dimensions of contemporary U.S. popular culture. We will specifically address how the work of African-American artists/scholars/activists critiques sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and ethnocentrism within the U.S. context. In addition, we will analyze how Black feminists/womanists frame and interrogate the politics of race, gender, socioeconomic status, and sexuality in the United States during the contemporary era. In order to examine Black feminism(s) and womanism(s) in popular culture from myriad perspectives, the required readings for this course reflect a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as a range of genres (e.g., essay, visual art, documentary, film, music video, and song). For this course, students will write 2 (5-7-page) essays and 1 (12-15-page) research paper. In addition to the written assignments and class participation, groups of students will co-lead selected class discussions.

AFRS BC3590x The Middle Passage 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Admission to this seminar is by application only. Applications will be made available on the Africana Studies website: www.barnard.edu/africana In addition to learning about the history of the Middle Passage, students will examine literary and political responses to this forced immigration out of Africa. Identifying responses to slave holding pasts, the seminar culminates in a visit to an historic site of importance in the Middle Passage.

AFRS BC3998x (Section 01) Senior Seminar 4 pts. A program of interdisciplinary research leading to the writing of the senior essay. Senior Seminar is not an independent study, but a structured seminar on methodology and criticism, which first results in an approved and substantial thesis proposal and annotated bibliography, and next produces the final thesis.

AHIS C3001x Introduction to Architecture 3 pts. Satisfies the architectural history/theory distribution requirement for majors, but is also open to students wanting a general humanistic approach to architecture and its history. Architecture analyzed through in-depth case studies of major monuments of sacred, public, and domestic space, from the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia to Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. Discussion Section Required.

AHIS BC3031y Imagery and Form In the Arts 4 pts. Please attend the first day of class if interested. No application required. The operation of imagery and form in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing; students are expected to do original work in one of these arts. Concepts in contemporary art will be explored.

AHIS V3201 (Section 001) Arts of China 3 pts. An introduction to the arts of China, from the Neolithic period to the present, stressing materials and processes of bronze casting, the development of representational art, principles of text illustration, calligraphy, landscape painting, imperial patronage, and the role of the visual arts in elite culture.

AHIS V3203y The Arts of Japan 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the 19th century. Discussion focuses on key monuments within their historical and cultural contexts.

AHIS W3205 Introduction to Japanese Painting 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the multifaceted forms of Japanese painting from antiquity through the early modern period. major themes to be considered include: painting as an expression of faith; the interplay indigenous and imported pictorial paradigms; narrative and decorative traditions; the emergence of individual artistic agency; the rise of woodblock prints and their impact on European painting in the nineteenth century.

AHIS W3208x The Arts of Africa 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Introduction to the arts of Africa, including masquerading, figural sculpture, reliquaries, power objects, textiles, painting, photography, and architecture. The course will establish a historical framework for study, but will also address how various African societies have responded to the process of modernity

AHIS W3230x Medieval Architecture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Developed collaboratively and taught digitally spanning one thousand years of architecture.

AHIS W3234 (Section 001) Medieval Art II: Romanesque and Gothic 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This lecture course is intended for students with little or no background in medieval art. It provides an introduction to a period of one thousand years (fourth to fourteenth centuries) employing a dialectical interaction between memories of the imperial past and the dynamic, forward-moving force of "Gothic." We will survey all aspects of artistic production, with especial emphasis upon architecture and monumental sculpture. In the last part of the term we will turn to some of the principal themes of medieval art, focusing upon objects accessible to the students in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters.

AHIS V3248x Greek Art and Architecture 3 pts. Introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek world during the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods (11th - 1st centuries B.C.E.). Discussion Section Required.

AHIS V3250y Roman Art and Architecture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Rome from the 2nd century B.C. to the end of the Empire in the West. Discussion Section Required.

AHIS H3320 Medieval Art and Architecture

AHUM V3340y Art In China, Japan, and Korea 3 pts. Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia. Discussion Section Required.

AHUM V3342x and y Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture 3 pts. Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern.

AHIS W3407x Early Italian Art 3 pts. An introduction to the origins and early development of Italian Renaissance painting as a mode of symbolic communication between 1300-1600. Artists include Giotto, Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Mantegna, and Leonardo da Vinci. Emphasis on centers of painting in Florence, Siena, Assisi, Venice and Rome.

AHIS H3545x Paris, Cultural Capital in the Middle Ages [in English] 3 pts.

AHIS H3550 French Architecture, 1750-1930 [In English]

AHIS W3600x Nineteenth-Century Art 3 pts. The course examines selected topics in the history of European painting from the 1780s to 1900. It will explore a range of aesthetic, cultural and social issues through the work of major figures from David, Goya, and Turner to Manet, Seurat and Cezanne. This is a no laptop, no e-device course. Discussion Section Required.

AHIS H3604 Seminar: Contemporary French Art

AHIS W3645y Twentieth Century Architecture and City Planning 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This undergraduate lecture course is an introduction to the crucial and peculiar topics in the history of modern (western) architecture of the twentieth century. The course does not systematically cover all the major events, ideas, protagonists, and buildings of the period. It is organized around thematic and sometimes monographic lectures, which are intended to represent the very essential character of modern architecture from its beginnings around 1900 until some more recent developments at the end of the century.

AHIS W3650y Twentieth-Century Art 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. The course will examine a variety of figures, movements, and practices within the entire range of 20th-century art-from Expressionism to Abstract Expressionism, Constructivism to Pop Art, Surrealism to Minimalism, and beyond-situating them within the social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they arose. The history of these artistic developments will be traced through the development and mutual interaction of two predominant strains of artistic culture: the modernist and the avant-garde, examining in particular their confrontation with and development of the particular vicissitudes of the century's ongoing modernization. Discussion section complement class lectures. Course is a prerequisite for certain upper-level art history courses. Discussion Section Required.

AHIS BC3673x History of Photography 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Focuses on the intersection of photography with traditional artistic practices in the 19th century, on the mass cultural functions of photography in propaganda and advertising from the 1920s onwards, and on the emergence of photography as the central medium in the production of postwar avant-garde art practices.

AHIS V3673x History of Photography 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Few media have shaped the course of modernity more powerfully than photography. Law, science, journalism, criminology, urban planning, and entertainment are but a handful of the fields remade by the introduction of photography. More ambivalent has been photography's relationship to art. Once relegated to the margins, photographic practices now occupy the center of much artistic production. This course will not attempt a comprehensive survey of the medium. Rather, we will trace central developments through a series of case studies from photography's nineteenth century birth to its current, digital afterlife. We will cover seminal movements and figures as well as more obscure practices and discourses. Particular attention will be paid to the theoretical and methodological questions concerning the medium.

AHIS H3715 Art In Paris, 1900-1965

AHIS W3770 Art, Media and the Avant-Garde 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. At the center of the avant-garde imagination-and the interwar period in Europe more broadly-were photography and film. Long relegated to the margins of art history and rarely studied together, photography and film were often the guiding lights and vehicles for mass dissemination of avant-garde images and techniques. This lecture course delves into interbellum art, photography, film, and critical writing as it surveys a range of avant-garde movements and national cinemas; seminal artists and theorists; and topics such as montage, abstraction, technological media, archives, advertising, sites and architectures of reception. Film screenings will take place most weeks.

AHIS W3813 (Section 001) Materiality in the Middle Ages 4 pts. This seminar will examine the significance of various materials and media in visual culture of the Mediterranean and Medieval Europe. From the sumptuous (gold, silver, ivory, gemstones, silk) to the sacred (earth, bones, blood, paint wood), we will address not only the symbolism of raw materials and the techniques of their manipulation, but their aesthetic, sensual, and cultural dimensions as well. How did particular materials shape the medieval viewer's optic/haptic encounters with objects? Did their use in different spheres, whether cultic, courtly, or diplomatic, impact meaning? In addition to these questions, we will attend to the intercultural appeal of certain media along with the reuse and spoliation of specific objects among cultures: for instance, Sassanian rock crystal carvings in European courtly life, Byzantine silks in European funerary contexts, or ivories from Islamic Spain repurposed as Christian reliquaries. This course will include visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, and The Hispanic Society of America Museum.

AHIS W3814 (Section 001) The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1750-1850 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770 - 1850 will open in Philadelphia in late 2013 and travel to several venues. Drawn entirely from Philadelphia Museum of Art's uniquely rich holdings of more than 8,000 prints by 800 German School painters and printmakers of this period, the exhibition will feature 125 works by leading Austrian, German, and Swiss artists working at home and abroad, including Josef Danhauser, Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Ferdinand Olivier, Johann Christian Reinhart, Ludwig Richter, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Philipp Otto Runge, and Adrian Zingg. Spanning eight decades, from the first stirrings of a Romantic sensibility among German-speaking writers and artists in the 1770s to the pan-European uprisings of 1848/49, the selected works mirror many of the sweeping social and political changes that occurred during these turbulent times, reflecting such significant new trends in the arts as the growing appreciation of late Gothic and early Renaissance art - especially Dürer and Raphael - and the widespread enthusiasm for recently rediscovered medieval sagas, age-old fairy tales, popular ballads, and folk songs. The prints of the period document important shifts in taste in contemporary art circles, including the rise to prominence of landscape, informal portraiture, and scenes of everyday life alongside the more highly-ranked academic art categories of history and religion. The exhibition and catalogue will also treat a number of important printmaking innovations, among them the introduction of new technology (lithography and steel engraving) and new methods of print distribution (print albums, illustrated books and almanacs, annual print club editions), all of which served a rapidly expanding world of print collectors made up of a newly flourishing segment of the population, the cultivated citizenry known as the Lesepublikum, or reading public.

AHIS W3816 (Section 001) Mapping Gothic England 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Some knowledge of medieval architecture. In this seminar we will apply the notion of "mapping," or spatial databasing to a corpus of English Gothic churches and cathedrals. We will, in addition, explore the notion of "Englishness" in architectural production of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

AHIS W3833 Architecture, 1750-1890 3 pts. Major theorists and designs of architecture, primarily European, from the Age of Enlightenment to the dawn of the art nouveau critique of historicism. Particular attention to changing conditions of architectural practice, professionalization, and the rise of new building types, with focus on major figures, including Soufflot, Adam, Boullee, Ledoux, Schinkel, Pugin, and Garnier.

AHIS W3885 Intellectuals, Gods, Kings & Fishermen 4 pts. During the Hellenistic period (330-30 BCE), themes that were considered uninteresting, even inappropriate for the viewer of Classical and Late Classical sculpture became extremely attractive: old people, hard working peasants, old drunken prostitutes, fishermen in the big harbours, or persons ethnically different from the Greek ideals became the subject of the Hellenistic sculpture in the round that also produced images of serene divinities and dynamic members of the elite in an entirely Classical tradition. Besides Athens, new cultural and artistic centres arose: Alexandria in Egypt, Antiocheia and Pergamon in Asia Minor, or Rhodes. Despite its importance as the birthplace of all arts, Athens did not dominate anymore the artistic language, so that an unprecedented variety of styles characterises the sculptural production of the Hellenistic period. The seminar will study the sculpture of the Hellenistic period as an extremely imaginative and dynamic artistic expression without the Classical bias. The styles of the various Hellenistic artistic centres will be individually analysed based on representative works and then compared to each other and to the sculptural traditions of the Classical period, so that Hellenistic sculpture can be understood both as a continuation of the Classical and especially Late Classical sculpture and as an artistic and intellectual revolt against the ideals of the past.

AHIS W3889 (Section 001) Approaches to Contemporary Art 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor, 20th Century Art recommended. This course examines the critical approaches to contemporary art from the 1970s to the present. It will address a range of historical and theoretical issues around the notion of "the contemporary" (e.g. globalization, participation, relational art, ambivalence, immaterial labor) as it has developed in the era after the postmodernism of the 1970s and 1980s.

AHIS W3894 (Section 001) The Floating World 4 pts. Prerequisites: ArtHum, Preference given to students with some background in Asian Art "Pictures of the Floating World" (Ukiyo-e) constitute one of the most significant developments in the history of Japanese art, and one that would have profound impact on the history of art in Europe and the west in the early modern period. These images were created on all pictorial formats, from scroll paintings and painted fans to woodblock prints, wooden posters, lanterns, and kites. Because these images pervaded so many different media, Ukiyo-e images offer a unique lens through which to examine the role art in early modern society as well as the very nature of that society. Our course will focus primarily on the woodblock print, a popular pictorial form that was accessible to broad sectors of society, and will focus on woodblock prints created in the city of Edo between 1700 and 1850. The course will be shaped around three approaches: brief weekly lectures to introduce prominent images and themes; discussion of readings that offer critical perspectives; and direct examination of works of art in the collections of Columbia University and other institutions and collections in New York.

AHIS W3895x and y Majors' Colloquium: the Literature and Methods of Art History 4 pts. Prerequisites: the department's permission. Students must sign-up in 826 Schermerhorn. Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.

AHIS W3897x Black West: African American Artists in the Western United States 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course considers the creative production of African Americans primarily in California in the 19th and 20th centuries. Themes pertinent to the course include: how are African American identities and cultural production imbricated with concepts of what is considered "western" or trends of west coast artmaking?; what can these artists tell us about notions of space, place, and migration in the African American imagination?

AHIS W3904y Aztec Art and Sacrifice 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar explores the issues of art and sacrfice in the Aztec empire from the points of view of the 16th century and modern times.

AHIS W3907 Construction of Andean Art 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Explores various ways in which the West has made sense of Andean Art from the 16th century to the present.

AHIS W3923x The Public Monument in the Ancient Near East 4-4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This seminar will focus on the invention of the public monument as a commemorative genre, and the related concepts of time, memory and history in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Public monuments will be studied in conjunction with readings from ancient texts (in translation), as well as historical criticism, archaeological and art historical theories.

AHIS C3948x Nineteenth-Century Criticism 4 pts. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and the instructor's permission. Selected readings in 19th-century philosophy, literature and art criticism with emphasis on problems of modernity and aesthetic experience. Texts include work by Diderot, Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Emerson, Flaubert, Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.

AHIS BC3949x The Art of Witness: Memorials and Historical Trauma 4 pts. Attendance at the first class is mandatory. Limited to 15 students. Instructor determines class roster on first day of class. Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center.

AHIS W3951x (Section 001) Expatriate, Emigre and Exile Artists, 1789-1830 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course explores the relation between the creative process and the respective conditions of expatriation, emigration and exile from the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 until the end of the Bourbon Restoration in 1830. While all three conditions involve distance from one's home, the personal and historical factors that define them varied significantly, with corresponding differences in the way that the creative process was approached. Examining the cases of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Jacques-Louis David and Francisco de Goya among others, this course focuses on the works artists produced while away from their native land, often by constraint rather than choice. Topics of discussion include: the Grand Tour and cosmopolitanism circa 1789; the category of the émigré(e)-artist; Revolution, gender and exile; uprooting and creative paralysis/creative fury; the refashioning of artistic identity; and the relation to history and the recent past.

AHIS W3961 (Section 001) Sacred Love in Italian Renaissance Art 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What is the nature of sacred love? How is it different from love experienced within romance, marriage, and friendship? How does one love God? What role does art play in conceptualizing divine love? How does it stimulate desire in the viewer's soul, mind, and body? Such questions structure this course's investigation of sacred love in Italian Renaissance art. The course examines religious art created between 1250-1550 within the cities of Florence, Venice, Rome, Siena, and Mantua, while simultaneously exploring the changing theological notions of love from the late medieval period through the Counter-Reformation. Topics covered within the course include the adoration of Jesus' body in the altarpiece; devotion in the context of Madonna and Child paintings; ecstatic transcendence in portrayals of saints like St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena; holy matrimony within the convent and monastery; as well as charity in the art of confraternities dedicated to amor dei and amor proximi.

AHIS H3962x Gothic and the Kings [in English] 4 pts.

AHIS W3966 (Section 001) The Printed Image and the Invention of the Viewer 4 pts. By the third quarter of the fifteenth century, the mechanically reproduced image could offer a variety of visual experiences: occasions for devotional encounters, markers of scientific data, portraits substituting for real presence, moral commentaries, templates for designs, and performances of stylistic bravado. Some of these categories had never before been presented for ownership, nor in the format of a single sheet that could be bought, colored, cut, pasted, written upon, copied, or sent as a greeting card. In order to attune prospective buyers to the capabilities of this medium, artists developed different strategies for signaling how their images might be enjoyed, put to use, or interpreted. Structured around visits to work with originals in New York collections, this course aims to develop our skills at "reading" prints, to understand how they invited certain behaviors and practices and offered new kinds of pictorial experiences. Through close reading of texts and close analysis of images, we will discover how early modern prints created artistic conversations and trained the eyes and minds of their viewers.

AHIS W3967y Sacred Love in Italian Renaissance Art 4-4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What is the nature of sacred love? How is it different from love experienced within romance, marriage, and friendship? How does one love God? What role does art play in conceptualizing divine love? How does it stimulate desire in the viewer's soul, mind, and body? Such questions structure this course's investigation of sacred love in Italian Renaissance art. The course examines religious art created between 1250-1550 within the cities of Florence, Venice, Rome, Siena, and Mantua, while simultaneously exploring the changing theological notions of love from the late medieval period through the Counter-Reformation. Topics covered within the course include the adoration of Jesus' body in the altarpiece; devotion in the context of Madonna and Child paintings; ecstatic transcendence in portrayals of saints like St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena; holy matrimony within the convent and monastery; as well as charity in the art of confraternities dedicated to amor dei and amor proximi.

AHIS C3980x or y Supervised Independent Study 3 pts. Prerequisites: the permission of the departmental consultant or director of undergraduate studies and of the instructor. Independent research and the writing of an essay under supervision of a member of the Art History Department. Only one independent study may be counted toward the major.

AHIS BC3985y Introduction To Connoisseurship 4 pts. Prerequisites: Please see Barnard College Art History department Web site for instructions. Instructor permission required. Enrollment limited to 15. Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials; technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.

AHIS C3997 (Section 01) Senior Thesis 3 pts. Prerequisites: Must receive departmental approval. Required for all thesis writers.

AHIS G4084x Mesoamerican Art and Architecture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of the major pre-Hispanic cities of Mexico and Guatemala, including San Lorenzo, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Monte Alban, Uxmal, and Chichen Itza. Aesthetic, historical, and archaeological problems are discussed.

AHIS G4085y Andean Art and Architecture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Survey of the art of the Andes from earliest times until the Spanish conquest. Emphasis on the nature of Andean tradition and the relationship between art and society.

AHIS W4131x (Section 001) Medieval Art I: From Late Antiquity to the End of Byzantium 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of Early Christian and Byzantine art from its origins in the eastern provinces of the Late Roman Empire through the Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The course is first segment of a two-part survey of medieval monuments offered by the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

AHIS W4155y Mesopotamian Art & Architecture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Introduction to the art and architecture of Mesopotamia beginning with the establishment of the first cities in the fourth millennium B.C.E. through the fall of Babylon to Alexander of Macedon in the fourth century B.C.E. Focus on the distinctive concepts and uses of art in the Assyro-Babylonian tradition.

AHIS G4357 Gothic Architecture 3 pts. The course will combine synchronic with diachronic approaches. Under the former heading comes the historiographic exploration of the way in which the epithet "Gothic" came to be attached to this particular kind of architecture and the way in which a more precise definition of the phenomenon emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The exploration should embrace the range of approaches and methods appropriate to our own age with its passion for literary criticism. The diachronic approach will allow us to tell the story of Gothic, looking it as a phenomenon that exists over time and space. We will return frequently to the question of representation--the problems encountered when buildings and concepts of "style" are carried over into words and images.

AHIS G4385y Renaissance Architectural History & Theory 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. A survey of Renaissance Architecture in Italy through its buildings and its theory, from Brunelleschi to Palladio and the influence to other European country.

AHIS W4480 Art In the Age of Reformation 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Artistic production in Germany and the Netherlands in the 16th century and the transformation of the social function of art as a consequence of the development of reformed theories of art and the introduction of humanist culture: Albrecht Durer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht Altdorfer, Quentin Massys, Lucas van Leyden, Jan Gossaert, Jan van Hemessen, and Pieter Aertsen.

AHIS W4848x (Section 001) Neo-Dada and Pop Art 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. This course examines the avant-garde art of the fifties and sixties, including assemblage, happenings, pop art, Fluxus, and artists' forays into film. It will examine the historical precedents of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneemann and others in relation to their historical precedents, development, critical and political aspects.

AHIS W4850x Collecting 3 pts.

AMST BC3300x Topics in American Studies: Pedagogy of the Dispossessed 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

AMST BC3401x (Section 001) Colloquium in American Studies: Cultural Approaches to the American Past 4 pts. Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g., novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.

AMST BC3703x-BC3704y Senior Seminar 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior majors. Individual research on topic related to major thematic concentration and preparation of senior thesis.

AMST BC3999x and y Independent Research 3-4 pts.

AMST W1010y Introduction to American studies: Major Themes in the American Experience 3 pts. Required for American studies majors and concentratorsNot offered in 2013-2014. Inquiry into the values and cultural expressions of the people of the United States. Through an examination of literature, history, social thought, and the arts--with a special emphasis on film--we will explore how modern Americans have understood and argued about their country's promise and perils. Lecture, discussion sections, and weekly film screenings. Discussion Section Required.

AMST W3920x American Studies Senior Project Colloquium 1 pt. Required for American studies students who intend to do a senior research project in spring This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a "workshop" peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed 5-8 page prospectus and bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week at a convenient time for the participants, and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project.

AMST W3930x (Section 001) Topics in American Studies: Equity in American Higher Education 4 pts. Interview required. Please see American Studies website. In this seminar we examine the roles colleges and universities play in American society; the differential access high school students have to college based on family background and income, ethnicity, and other characteristics; the causes and consequences of this differential access; and some attempts to make access more equitable. Readings and class meetings cover the following subjects historically and in the 21st century: the variety of American institutions of higher education; admission and financial aid policies at selective and less selective, private and public, colleges; affirmative action and race-conscious admissions; what "merit" means in college admissions; and the role of the high school in helping students attend college. Students in the seminar are required to spend at least four hours each week as volunteers at the Double Discovery Center (DDC) in addition to completing assigned reading, participating in seminar discussions, and completing written assignments. DDC is an on-campus program that helps New York City high school students who lack many of the resources needed to succeed in college and to be successful in gaining admission and finding financial aid. The seminar integrates students' first-hand experiences with readings and class discussions.

AMST W3930x (Section 002) Museums, Memory, and Public Culture 4 pts. Attend first class for instructor permission. Americans are living through a boom in museum attendance and museum construction that recalls the creation of cultural institutions at the end of the nineteenth century. Believing that culture could enrich the nation's cities as it had the great European capitals, American civic leaders created museums that would soon rank among the best in the world. This seminar will explore the transformation of cultural institutions in the United States and consider the continuing contemporary debates on the practices and public role of museums. How do museums-both large and small-serve the needs of the local communities in which they are located and the private interests of their founders? How have history museums in particular shaped debates about public memory and national heritage? In addition to exploring the historical evolution of such institutions, we will examine the theory and practice of exhibitions and education in museums, with an emphasis on institutions in New York. The seminar will host conversations with speakers representing different aspects of public culture and feature a hands-on analysis of a current exhibition redesign plan at a local museum.

AMST W3930x (Section 003) Topics in American Studies: Freedom and Citizenship in the United States 4 pts. Application required. Please see American Studies website.Freedom and Citizenship in the United States will examine the historical development of ideas of freedom and citizenship in the American context. We will examine texts that treat of issues like the rights and responsibilities of membership in a political association, the nature and limits of the power of the collective over the individual, and the norms of exclusion and inclusion that define a body politic. The course will focus exclusively on primary texts, and the order of readings will be roughly chronological, emphasizing the historical development of the concepts of citizenship, nation, and American identity. The first weeks the course will be dedicated to reading and discussing major texts in Western political history that frame the 17th century founding of the American colonies. The rest of the course will situate the American case in this historical development, beginning with an examination of the Puritan migration to New England and the early communities they formed, and continuing with the study of major documents surrounding the Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the New Deal, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary debates about the meaning of American citizenship. In addition to the classroom requirements, students will be expected to volunteer a minimum of 4 hours a week with the Double Discovery Center (DDC), in connection to the Freedom and Citizenship Project which DDC conducts in partnership with the American Studies Program.

AMST W3930x (Section 004) The Supreme Court in American History 4 pts. Attend first class for instructor permission. As Tocqueville observed, "scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question." As a consequence, the Supreme Court of the United States has been at the center of many of the most significant developments in American history. It has played significant roles in, for example, (1) the creation of the young republic and the achievement of a balance between states and the federal government, (2) race relations including the institution of slavery, (3) the rights of workers, (4) civil rights, and (5) elections. This seminar will explore the Supreme Court's role in American society by examining its decisions on key issues throughout its history.

AMST W3930x (Section 050) Topics in American Studies: Journalism, Democracy, and the Digital Revolution 4 pts. Attend first class for instructor permissionNot offered in 2013-2014. The American news media occupy a complex role in the life of the nation: at once a constitutionally protected feature of democracy and a product of free enterprise. With an eye to the 2012 presidential election, this class will explore the transformation of the media from the heyday of the great 20th century news organizations to the triumph of Twitter. How have the disruption of the mainstream media and the rise of radically decentralized sources of information affected the political discourse and the decisions Americans make? We'll look back at the Grey Lady, Walter Cronkite and Watergate, and into the future, where favored news purveyors are raw rather than mediated, hot rather than cool, personal rather than formal, targeted rather than broad, passionate rather than neutral. We'll have visits from media players and prognosticators, examine where journalistic standards are going, and assess the impact of news sources from Fox News to the latest hashtag.

AMST W3930x (Section 051) Topics in American Studies: Shakespeare in America 4 pts. Application required by email. See American Studies website.Not offered in 2013-2014. The seminar explores the reception and influence of Shakespeare from 1776 to the present. Readings include poems, stories, plays, and essays by a broad range of writers, including: Irving, Emerson, Maungwudaus, Aldridge, Bacon, Hawthorne, Lincoln, Melville, Lowell, Dickinson, Whitman, James, Twain, Booth, Addams, Keller, Hughes, Berryman, Thurber, Ransom, McCarthy, Plath, Mori, Ozick, and Smiley. Requirements include an in-class presentation and a term paper.

AMST W3930x (Section 052) Topics in American Studies: Gender History & American Film 4 pts. Attend first class for instructor permissionNot offered in 2013-2014. This seminar explores the history of American gender in the last one hundred years through American film. Motion pictures have played a unique role in shaping and reflecting new ideals and images of womanhood and manhood in the modern United States. Throughout the twentieth century, movies and their stars have born a complex relationship to transformations affecting the lives of American men and women. We will examine motion pictures and movie stars as primary sources that, when juxtaposed with other kinds of historical evidence, indicate changes in the gendering of work, leisure, sexuality, family life, and politics. Additionally, we will consider how the changing institutional history of American film production during the twentieth century connected to the gendered images it sold. For much of the period under review, Hollywood used specific genres to target particular audiences and movies were not afforded the protection of free speech. This made films and movie stars peculiarly reflective of, and vulnerable to, the nation's changing fantasies and fears regarding sexuality and gender roles. Students will write several short papers and complete a research project on a film of their choice.

AMST W3930x (Section 098) American Literature and Culture from 1850 to the Civil War 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. In this seminar we trace the growing crisis over slavery and disunion as the United States moved toward war against itself. Readings include fiction, poetry, memoirs, political discourse, and journalism by such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Jacobs, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln, and Herman Melville. We consider the perspectives of slaves and slavemasters, North and South, men and women, committed partisans and neutral observers-- in an effort to understand what was at stake in the rising discord during the decade that preceded Civil War.

AMST W3931y (Section 093) Post-wars: The Cultural Consequences of Modern American Wars 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Tra War is an engine of change like no other. This interdisciplinary seminar aims to take the measure of war's impact on American culture by examining the costs and consequences of its aftermath in particular historical moments, beginning with the Civil War and concluding with the "War on terror." The class will consider how cultural production reflects war's making and remaking of family structures and gender roles, racial categories, federal policies and public discourse about the constitution of national identity in the wake of conflicts involving deadly force.

AMST W3931y (Section 094) Topics in American Studies: Transmedia 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Transmedia, widely regarded as the future of entertainment, raises crucial questions about how an individual creator's role changes as the creative project grows. Translation from one medium to another becomes a more tightly controlled form of storytelling where creators must navigate between the desire to add excitement and the threat of diluting impact. In today's entertainment industry, properties like Batman become simultaneously films, cartoons, video games, online webisodes, and re-appear in multiple versions beyond their original expression (comics, in this example)-all with the aim of enlarging their commercial potential, and connecting with many audiences. Increasingly, writers and creators are being enlisted to build these variations even before the first incarnation of the project is released. This course will explore transmedia in the present, and speculate about its future. It will also explore its history as exemplified by such works as L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We will examine the tensions between creative and commercial goals, and between contradictory audiences. Guest speakers will include writers, artists, and people involved in projects ranging across the media, including Broadway adaptations. Readings and viewings will include primary sources (novels, graphic novels, films, etc.), criticism and theory, and intellectual property law. Students will be expected to compose 2 response papers and either give a presentation on a transmedia property of their choice or write a research paper.

AMST W3931y (Section 095) Topices in American Studies: The New York Intellectuals 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. From the 1930s through the 1970s, the group of writers known as the New York Intellectuals--many, though not all of them, first generation American Jews--created a new style of intellectual discourse in America: politically radical but independent of party dogmas, committed to experiment and complexity in literature, and highly personal even when dealing with abstract issues. In this seminar we will read the major works, in several genres, of the leading New York Intellectuals, including Hannah Arendt, Clement Greenberg, Richard Hofstadter, Irving Howe, Delmore Schwartz, Susan Sontag and Lionel Trilling; and discuss some of the central themes and debates that energized their work, including Communism and anti-Communism, the relation of the avant-garde to the mass audience, the promise of American liberalism, and the influence of Jewishness on the intellectual's vocation.

AMST W3931y (Section 096) Topics in American Studies: Disability, Embodiment, and Social Justice 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. What does it mean to be disabled in America? This course approaches disability less as a medical condition affecting individual bodies than as a social, environmental, and historical phenomenon. We will investigate the role of culture in shaping and reflecting on disability in contemporary American culture. How have philosophers, policy makers, authors and artists framed the political and ethical debates surrounding the status of disability? How have imaginative representations in literature, film, and the visual arts contributed to and/or challenged those understandings? Given that nearly every one of us will be disabled at some point in life, these questions could not be more important. This course seeks to address them by considering a broad array of texts, including philosophical debates about morality and ethics, history, and literary, filmic, and visual representations. In addition to our consideration of cultural representations, an experiential learning requirement will also give students the opportunity to work closely with an organization dedicated to serving the needs of people with disabilities.

AMST W3931y (Section 097) Topics in American Studies: Hispanic New York and the Latinoization of the United States. 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Of all the major cities in the United States, New York displays the widest spectrum of immigrants from all over Latin America and the Caribbean, including a large number of writers, artists, and other intellectuals. Because of this rich diversity, New York is both one of the leading Hispanic cities in the US and one of the pivotal points of Latin American culture. This seminar is a survey of the cultural heritage that sustains this diversity. We will explore the history and the demographic evolution of New York's Latino and Latin American population, its racial, ethnic, and religious make-up, and its longstanding tradition in arts, music, and literature; in this last regard, the readings include fiction, non-fiction, and poetry originally written both in English and Spanish (English translations will be provided for students who doesn't read Spanish). We will also analyze the connections between New York's Hispanic cultural tradition and the broader US culture, as well as its place in the Spanish-American intellectual world. Language note: Classes will be held in English; papers and other class written responses can be delivered in English or Spanish.

AMST W3931y (Section 1) Topics in American Studies: A Cultural History of Wall Street 4 pts. This course will examine the impact of Wall Street on American life from the time of the American Revolution through the dot.com boom of the 1990s, its collapse at the turn of the millennium, and the current financial meltdown. Class discussions and readings will range widely to explore the ways the Street has been integrated into the country's economic, political, and cultural affairs, and examine how Americans have handled their fundamental ambivalence about whether the Street has been a force for good or evil. We will focus on some of the principal iconic representations of the Street as they have appeared in cartoons, political tracts, movies, economic treatises, sermons, novels, histories, and other cultural artifacts.

AMST W3931y (Section 2) Topics in American Studies: The Languages of America 4 pts. The United States, often thought of as a nation where since its origins all foreign languages spoken by immigrants have withered away upon exposure to English, has actually always harbored a complex mixture of languages and dialects. This course will examine the history of language in America, including the robust role of German in colonial times and beyond (once as commonly heard in America as Spanish); creole languages such as Gullah, Louisiana Creole French and Hawaiian "Pidgin" English; Black English including its history and present; Native American languages and modern efforts to preserve them; and the history of Asian languages in modern America, including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Hmong. The course also serves, in ancillary fashion, as an introduction to the variety among languages of the world and to a scientific perspective on human language.

AMST W3931y (Section 3) Topics in American Studies: Race, Poverty, and American Criminal Justice 4 pts. This course will examine the influence of race and poverty in the American system of confronting the challenge of crime. Students will explore some history, including the various purposes of having an organized criminal justice system within a community; the principles behind the manner in which crimes are defined; and the utility of punishment. Our focus will be on the social, political and economic effects of the administration of our criminal justice system, with emphatic examination of the role of conscious and unconscious racism, as well as community biases against the poor. Students will examine the larger implications for a community and culture that are presented by these pernicious features. We will reflect on the fairness of our past and present American system of confronting crime, and consider the possibilities of future reform. Readings will include historical texts, analytical reports, some biography, and a few legal materials. We will also watch documentary films which illuminate the issues and problems.

AMST W3931y (Section 4) Hollywood´s Countercultural Cinema: Movies of the 1970s 4 pts. Dominated by outcasts and anti-heroes, movies of the 1970s freshly engaged the conversation about what American society is and should be. A new generation of maverick American auteurs (including Coppola, Altman, Kubrick, Ashby, Lumet, Pakula and Scorcese) saved Hollywood from financial collapse by channeling and giving voice to the frenetic activities of the previous decade -while also speaking directly into the moment. They tackled previously taboo subjects; challenged traditional narrative expectations; revised Classic Hollywood film genres, and engaged race and gender in new ways. Originally considered a "lost generation," the filmmakers of the 1970s are now recognized as having produced a turning point in American filmmaking. Through close-readings of some of the decade´s greatest works, and through readings in film, cultural and social theory, this course will examine the role of movies in American discourse. What do movies do for and to us? What prisms cloud the windows they offer on a by-gone era? What does the current viewer "hear" in film from the past that wasn´t heard then? Can we speak of different "styles of heroism" in film eras? Do current movies (and HBO series) pursue different strategies for engaging the present? How has the viewer changed, and how is the context of viewing different today?

AMST W3931y (Section 54) Immigrant New York 4 pts. SEE HISTORY 4462Not offered in 2013-2014. For the past century and a half, New York City has been the first home of millions of immigrants to the United States. This course will compare immigrants' encounter with New York at the dawn of the twentieth century with contemporary issues, organizations, and debates shaping immigrant life in New York City. This is a service learning course. Each student will be required to work 2-4 hours/week in the Riverside Language Center or in programs for immigrants run by Community Impact.

AMST W3931y (Section 55) Topics in American Studies: Food and American Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are," wrote the nineteenth-century French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. While this may seem like a straightforward equation, it is anything but. This course investigates Brillat-Savarin´s dictum by examining the varied ways food is produced, prepared, and consumed in the United States. Beginning with what seem to be highly individualized and embodied questions of taste, we will expand outward to consider how food shapes personal, regional, national, and global identities. We will treat cookbooks and recipes, diet guides, works of art, and food television as cultural texts that can provide insight into the meaning of food and eating. We will also study issues of hunger, poverty, and food justice, the gendering of food preparation and consumption, questions of eating and body image, and restaurant culture. In addition to reading and writing assignments, this course will also include an experiential component, which will give students opportunities to volunteer in a soup kitchen or food pantry, work on an urban farm, and enjoy some of the culinary delights of New York City.

AMST W3990y Senior Research Seminar 4 pts. Open to American Studies seniors doing research project Prerequisites: AMST W3920 A seminar devoted to the research and writing, under the instructor's supervision, of a substantial paper on a topic in American studies. Class discussions of issues in research, interpretation, and writing.

AMST W3997x Supervised Individual Research 1-4 pts. For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal program offerings, or for senior American Studies majors working on the Senior Honors Project independent of 3990y. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy of this plan should be submitted to the program director.

AMST W3998y Supervised Individual Research 1-4 pts. For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal program offerings, or for senior American Studies majors working on the Senior Honors Project independent of 3990y. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy of this plan should be submitted to the program director.

ANCS V3995x Senior Seminar in Ancient Studies 3 pts. Topic for 2006: Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

ANCS V3997x and y Directed Readings in Ancient Studies 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. Program of readings in some aspect of Ancient Studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering Ancient Studies courses. Testing by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

ANCS V3998x and y Directed Research in Ancient Studies 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the departmental representative required. Program of research in Ancient Studies. Research paper required. The topic must be submitted to the department representative and the appropriate adviser decided upon by April 1 of the semester preceding that in which the student will be enrolled in the course. The student and the departmental representative will request supervision of the research paper from an appropriate faculty member in a department offering Ancient Studies courses.

ANCS V3999y Directed Research in Ancient Studies 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of departmental representative required. Program of research in Ancient Studies. Research paper required. The topic must be submitted to the departmental representative and the appropriate adviser decided upon by November 15 of the semester preceding that in which the student will be enrolled in the course. The student and the departmental representative wil request supervision of the research paper from an appropriate faculty member in a department offering Ancient Studies courses.

ANCS V3995x Senior Seminar In Ancient Studies 3 pts. Required for all Ancient Studies majors, but also open to advanced undergraduates in classics, history, art history and archaeology, and other related disciplines. Topic: The Greek Household. This seminar explores the composition of the classical Greek household and the relationships of its members, examining the different factors affecting the position of an individual within his or her family and the degree to which a household was defined by the status, role and profession of its members. Although concentrating on classical Athens, we will pay attention to other states, notably Sparta. Investigation of general trends will be complemented by analysis of particular circumstances, including certain historical puzzles such as the union of Pericles and Aspasia (harlot-concubine or legal wife?) and that of Stephanos of Neaira (did they really break Athenian family law?).

Readings will include a variety of primary sources in translation, from documents to Athenian drama, as well as a selection of important scholarly works on the subject. Archeological material will play an important part in our investigation, and some sessions will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.

ANCS V3997x and y Directed Readings In Ancient Studies 3 pts. Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

ANCS V3998x and y Directed Research In Ancient Studies 3 pts. Program of research in ancient studies under the direction of an advisor associated with the program, resulting in a research paper. Required for all Ancient Studies majors. Outline and bibliography must be approved by the director of undergraduate studies before credit will be awarded for ANCS V3995.

ANTH V1002x and y The Interpretation of Culture 3 pts. The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using case studies from ethnography, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.

ANTH V1007x The Origins of Human Society 3 pts. Examines the grand sweep of human development from our first bipedal steps some six million years ago, to the earliest evidence of art and symbolism, and on to the emergence of the first agricultural villages. Given the immensity of time under consideration, emphasis is placed on those heightened periods of change commonly described as "revolutions". Participants will become familiar with the fossil and/or archaeological records or those revolutions and the competing theories of why they occurred.

ANTH V1008y The Rise of Civilization 3 pts. Rise of major civilizations in prehistory and protohistory throughout the world, from the initial appearance of sedentism, agriculture, and social stratification through the emergence of the archaic empires. Description and analysis of a range of regions that were centers of significant cultural development: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, China, North America, Mesoamerica, and Andean South America.

ANTH V1009x (Section 01) Introduction to Language and Culture 3 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 70 students. Introduction to the study of the production, interpretation, and reproduction of social meanings as expressed through language. In exploring language in relation to culture and society, the focus is on how communication informs and transforms the sociocultural environment.

EEEB V1010x (Section 001) The Human Species: Its Place in Nature 3 pts. Prerequisites: No prerequisites, no enrollment cap Lab fee: $25. Designed to acquaint students with a variety of scientific disciplines through the investigation of human evolution, specifically Darwin's theory of evolution; Mendel's principles of inheritance, major patterns of evolution; primate behavioral morphology and evolution; and the fossil remains and evolutionary trends in human evolution. [Taught every fall.] Lab Required.

ANTH V2004x Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory 3 pts. Introduces students to theoretical works and ideas that have formed the modern field of anthropology. These include classic 19th century social theories (e.g., those of Durkheim, Weber, Marx), 20th century interpretive approaches (for example, structuralism), and contemporary modes of sociocultural analysis.

ANTH V2005y Ethnographic Imagination 3 pts. Introduction to the theory and practice of "ethnography"-the intensive study of peoples' lives as shaped by social relations, cultural images, and historical forces. Considers through critical reading of various kinds of texts (classic ethnographies, histories, journalism, novels, films) the ways in which understanding, interpreting, and representing the lived words of people-at home or abroad, in one place or transnationally, in the past or the present-can be accomplished.

ANTH V2010x Major Debates in the Study of Africa 3 pts.

ANTH V2100x Muslim Societies 3 pts. Examination of religion and society not limited to the Middle East. A series of Muslim societies of various types and locations will be approached historically and contextually to understand their family resemblances and their differences, their distinctive mechanisms of coherence and their patterns of contestation.

ANTH V2102y Muslims in the West 3 pts.

ANTH V3004y Introduction to Environmental Anthropology 3 pts. Introduces the main theoretical approaches of environmental anthropology beginning with cultural ecology and covering eco-systematic models, environmental history, political ecology, and new approaches deriving from contemporary anthropological theory. Ethnographic material from Melanesia, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East illustrates the theoretical material introduced.

ANTH V3005y Africa: Culture & Society 3 pts.

Exploration of the social orders and cultural sensibilities that form contemporary Africa. Examining the rise of urban cultures, religious movements, informal economies, crime and corruption, this class explores the structures of African life, the sensibilities they engender and the forms of life they give rise to.

ANTH V3014x East Asian Societies and Cultures 3 pts. Introduction to the contemporary societies of China, Japan, and Korea, with special attention to social institutions and cultural patterns that shape hierarchy, egalitarianism, and inequality as reflected in family patterns, community life, religion, and economic behavior of social change.

ANTH V3015y Chinese Society 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Social organization and social change in China from late imperial times to the present. Major topics include family, kinship, community, stratification, and the relationships between the state and local society.

EEEB W3030x or y (Section 001) The Biology, Systematics, and Evolutionary History of the 'Apes' 3 pts. Prerequisites: Open to undergraduates who have taken EEEB V1010, EEEB V1011 or the
equivalent. Other students who are interested should speak with the
instructor. Enrollment limited to 25. This course focuses on our closest relatives, the extant apes of Africa and Asia. We will explore the nature and extent of the morphological, genetic, and behavioral variability within and among these forms. Using this framework, we will then analyze questions of systematics and trace the evolutionary development of the hominiods during the Miocene, the epoch that saw the last common ancestor of today's gibbons, orang utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Maximum enrollment 25. [Taught every other year.]

EEEB W3030x or y (Section 001) The Biology, Systematics, and Evolutionary History of the 'Apes' 3 pts. Prerequisites: Open to undergraduates who have had V1010, V1011 or the equivalent. Other students who are interested should speak with the instructor. This course focuses on our closest relatives, the extant apes of Africa and Asia. We will explore the nature and extent of the morphological, genetic, and behavioral variability within and among these forms. Using this framework, we will then analyze questions of systematics and trace the evolutionary development of the hominiods during the Miocene, the epoch that saw the last common ancestor of today's gibbons, orang utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Maximum enrollment 25. [Taught every other year.]

Timing note: The course meets for 2 hours twice a week. Films are screened during the last 30 minute of each class and students must be able to stay for the entire time if they want to take the class.

ANTH V3040x Anthropological Theory I 4 pts. Prerequisites: Required of all Barnard Anthropology majors; open to other students with instructor's permission only. Enrollment limited to 40 students. * To be taken in conjunction with ANTH V3041, preferably in sequence. First of a two semester sequence intended to introduce departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current intellectual debates within the discipline.

ANTH V3041y Anthropological Theory II 4 pts. Prerequisites: Required of all Barnard Anthropology majors; open to other students with instructor's permission only. Enrollment limited to 40 students. Second of a two semester sequence intended to introduce departmental majors to key readings in social theory that have been constitutive of the rise and contemporary practice of modern anthropology. The goal is to understand historical and current intellectual debates within the discipline. To be taken in conjunction with ANTH V3040, preferably in sequence.

ANTH V3043x The Anthropology of Religion and Society 3 pts.

ANTH V3044x Symbolic Anthropology 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Exploration of the manner in which various anthropologists have constructed "culture" as being constituted of a set of conventional signs called "symbols" and the consequences of such a construal. Among the authors read are the anthropologists Valentine Daniel, Mary Douglas, Clifford Geertz, Claude Levi-Strauss, Sherry Ortner, David Schneider, Margaret Trawick, and Victor Turner; the social theorists Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber; the semioticians Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce; and the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

ANTH V3055x Strategy of Archaeology 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3160x The Body and Society 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 40. Introduction to medical anthropology, whose purpose is to explore health, affliction, and healing cross-culturally. Theory and methods from other fields will be drawn on to address critiques of biomedical, epidemiological, and other models of disease; the roles of healers in different societies; and different conceptions of the body and health.

ANTH W3201y Introductory Survey of Biological Anthropology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

EEEB W3204y (Section 001) Dynamics of Human Evolution 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: When taught by Shapiro, prerequisite of V1010 (Human Species) or ANTH V1007 (Origins of Human Society) or the equivalent Seminar focusing on recent advances in the study of human evolution. Topics include changing views of human evolution with respect to early hominin behavior, morphology, culture and evolution. [Enrollment limited to 13, priority given to EBHS majors/concentrators.] [Taught every other year.]

EEEB W3204y (Section 001) Dynamics of Human Evolution 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: When taught by Shapiro, prerequisite of V1010 (Human Species) or ANTH V1007 (Origins of Human Society) or the equivalent. Seminar focusing on recent advances in the study of human evolution. Topics include changing views of human evolution with respect to early hominin behavior, morphology, culture and evolution. [Enrollment limited to 13, priority given to EBHS majors/concentrators.] [Taught every other year.]

EEEB W3208y Explorations in Primate Anatomy 3 pts. Prerequisites: EEEB V1010 or V1011 or instructor approval Introductory laboratory course in primate skeletal anatomy. From tarsiers to talapoins, guenons to gibbons, through hands-on expertise students explore the amazing range and diversity of the living members of this order. Enrollment limited to 14. [Taught every other year.]

EEEB W3215 (Section 001) Forensic Osteology 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: No prior experience with skeletal anatomy required though students must contact instructor for permission to register. Not appropriate for students who have already taken either G4147 or G4148. An exploration of the hidden clues in your skeleton. Students learn the techniques of aging, sexing, assessing ancestry, and the effects of disease, trauma and culture on human bone. Enrollment limited to 15. Priority given to EBHS majors/concentrators. [Taught every other year.]

ANTH V3300x Pre-Columbian Histories of Native America 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Corequisites: Enrollment limited to 40 students. Explores 10,000 years of the North American archaeological record, bringing to light the unwritten histories of Native Americans prior to European contact. Detailed consideration of major pre-Columbian sites is interwoven with the insight of contemporary native peoples to provide both a scientific and humanist reconstruction of the past.

ANTH V3465x Women and Gender in the Muslim World 3 pts. Practices like veiling that are central to Western images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in the Muslim world, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

ANTH V3525x Introduction to South Asian History and Culture 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Looks at four major aspects of contemporary South Asian societies: nationalism, religious reform, gender, and caste. The object is to provide a critical survey of the history as well as the continuing debates over these crucial themes of society, politics, and culture in South Asia. Readings include primary texts that were part of the original debates as well as secondary sources that represent the current scholarly assessment on these subjects.

ANTH BC3556y The Anthropology of Black America 4 pts. Prerequisites: Limited to 20 students, not open to first years. This course critically examines ethnographic texts about Blacks in the United States, focusing as much on what they proffer about Black American culture as on the various socio-political contexts in which this body of scholarship has been produced. The goal is to advance an understanding of the larger social forces undergirding the production not only of formations of Black culture, but of knowledge about Black America. A further goal is to foster a critical understanding of the anthropological enterprise itself.

ANTH V3660y Gender, Culture, and Human Rights 3 pts.

ANTH V3700x Colloquium: Anthropological Research Problems in Complex Societies 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3810 Madagascar 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Instructor's permission required. Anthropology, African Studies, and Francophone Studies students encouraged to enroll. Critiques the many ways the great Red Island has been described and imagined by explorers, colonists, social scientists, and historians-as and Asian-African amalgamation, and ecological paradise, and a microcosm of the Indian Ocean. Religious diasporas, mercantilism, colonization, enslavement, and race and nation define key categories of comparative analysis.

ANTH V3820x Theory and Method in Archaeology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3824y Fantasy, Film, and Fiction in Archaeology 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3829y (Section 01) Absent Bodies 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15, instructor's permission required. Human experience is replete across cultural and historic contexts with examples where the traces of bodies-and associated persons-are absent, invisible, and erased, yet where knowledge or memories of their presence prove inescapable, too. An overarching theme that guides this class is the inextricable relationship between presence and absence. We will track the significance of absent bodies under a range of circumstances, including their ghostly presence in memorial contexts, their involvement in such shadow economies as birth surrogacy and organ donation, their surgical realignment, and longstanding industrial efforts to replace bodies with robots and other machinery. Readings are interdisciplinary, including selections from anthropology, war and labor histories, and dystopic science fiction.

ANTH V3853 Moving Truths: The Anthropology of Transnational Advocacy Networks 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Transnational advocacy is an increasingly important dimension of contemporary globalizations, reconfiguring relations of knowledge, power, and possibility across cultures and societies. As sites for enacting expertise, activism, and legality, transnational advocacy networks are crucial for not only making claims and causes mobile across locales, but for making hem moving within locales -- affective and effective. While transnational advocacy networks are often studied by political scientists, this course focuses on a growing body of anthropological and ethnographic research.

ANTH BC3868y Ethnographic Field Research in New York City 4 pts. Prerequisites: Recommended for majors prior to the senior year. Open to non-majors by permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. A seminar-practicum on field research in New York City. Exploration of anthropological field research methods followed by supervised individual field research on selected topics in urban settings.

ANTH V3883x Cultural, Biological, and Linguistic Diversity 4 pts. Today localities with high incidences of genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity more often than not map directly onto localities with high incidences of human cultural and linguistic diversity. These localities are generally in parts of the world that have been, until quite recently, at the frontiers of resource extraction, human migration and resettlement, and capital expansion. Extraction, migration, and economic expansion tend to result in a decrease in both biological and cultural diversity. People living in these diverse areas often fall into the lowest categories of indicators for poverty and are often desirous of economic development. Equally often they are targeted for economic development interventions by expansionist states and resource-hungry businesses. Conservation organizations often target these localities for protection because of the various forms of diversity found in them and because they also often have high numbers of species with restricted ranges.

ANTH V3899 Food, Ecology, Globalization 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: permission of instructors. Examines the social, ecological, and political-economic roles of what and how we eat from a global perspective. Explores these intersections through significant major changes in food through human history and across cultures as well as through key food commodities such as specific grains, pluses, and fruit.

ANTH V3903y The Ethnoarchaeology of Cities 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Consideration of cities from several points of view: a developmental and comparative perspective, looking at urban origins. Focus on New York City from its inception to the present, examining its spatial defined subunits ("neighborhoods"), structured by class and ethnicity.

ANTH V3906y Functional Linguistics 4 pts. Prerequisites: ANTH V1009 Language and Culture, or permission of the instructor. Introduction to functional linguistics: describing, classifying and explaining the relation between linguistic form and linguistic function; and language typology: describing and comparing the forms and functions of the world's languages in order to uncover, classify and explain cross-linguistic patterns.

ANTH V3907y Posthumanism 4 pts. Explores what a post-human anthropology might look like. Readings draw from anthropology, actor-network theory, science studies, media studies, and science fiction.

ANTH V3908y Global Economy in Anthropological Perspective 4 pts.

ANTH V3912y Ethnographic China 4 pts.

ANTH V3913x Reading Ethnography: Mainland Southeast Asia 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Intended to satisfy the requirements for the major.

ANTH V3917x Social Theory and Radical Critique in Ethnic Studies 4 pts.

ANTH V3920x Economy and Society in Prehistory 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Introduction to Archeology or permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students.

ANTH V3921x Anti-Colonialism 4 pts.

ANTH V3922x Colloquium: The Emergence of Human Society 4 pts.

ANTH V3928y Religion and Mediation 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Sophomore standing.

Reading theories of media and of religion we will examine how transformations in media technology shift the way in which religion is encoded into semiotic forms, how these forms are realized in performative contexts and how these affect the constitution of religious subjects and religious authority. Topics included word, print, image and sound in relations to Islam, Pentecostalism, Buddhism and animist religions.

ANTH V3939y Millennial Futures: Mass Culture and Japan 4 pts. Addresses mass culture and its relationship with Japan at the end of the century, as it anticipates the continuation of millennial anxieties and fantasies into the 21st century. With one of the most developed, mass-mediated formations in the world, Japan becomes a compelling instance of late modernity, non-western, yet not. With ethnographic sensibilities, approaches such thematic domains as everyday orderliness, criminality and terror, gender and sexuality, and money and consumption through the media of print, video, film, sound recordings, and photography. Theoretical works in mass cultural criticism and Japan-specific readings are paired with weekly seminar discussions.

ANTH V3940y Ethnographies of the Mid East 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Previous enrollment in an Anthropology course. Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Explores the themes that have shaped ethnographic literature of the Middle East. These include topics such as colonialism, gender, Islam, nationalism and the nation-state.

ANTH V3943y Youth and Identity Politics in Africa 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Examines ways in which African youth inevitably occupy two extremes in academic writings and the mass media: as victims of violence, or as instigators of social chaos. Considers youth as generating new cultural forms, as historically relevant actors, and informed social and/or political critics. At the core of such critiques lie possibilities for the agentive power of youth in Africa.

ANTH V3946y African Popular Culture 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students.

ANTH V3947x Text, Magic, and Performance 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Examination of text and performance, as informed by magic and related articulations of power. Topics explored include: prophetic writing, historical inscription; divine kingship, cosmology, divination; colonial fiction, nationalist figuration; spirit possession, ritual sacrifice; mask performance, music, shadow theatre. Draws principally on Southeast Asian sources. Key concerns are subjectivity and repetition.

ANTH V3949y Sorcery and Magic 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students.

ANTH V3950y Anthropology of Consumption 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Examines theories and ethnographies of consumption as well as the political economy of production and consumption. Compares historic and current consumptive practices, compares exchange based economies with post-Fordist economies. Engages the work of Mauss, Marx, Godelier, Baudrillard, Appadurai, and Douglas among others.

ANTH V3951y Pirates, Boys, and Capitalism 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Detailed analysis of the history and figure of the pirate in the Western imagination. Asks why the pirate exerts such appeal through the ages and aims at introducing key problems in anthropological and cultural theory concerning colonialism, violence, homosexuality, rebellion, and the importance of the child's imagination of the above.

ANTH V3952y Taboo and Transgression 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Transgression of taboos is the basis of crime, sex, and religion in any society. As "the labor of the negative", transgression is also a critical element in thought itself. Working through anthropology of sacrifice and obscenity, as well as relevant work by Bataille, Foucault, and Freud, this course aims at understanding why taboos exist and why they must be broken.

ANTH V3954x Bodies and Machines 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Examines how bodies become mechanized and machines embodied. Studies shifts in the status of the human under conditions of capitalist commodification and mass mediation. Readings consist of works on the fetish, repetition and automaticity, reification, and late modern techno prosthesis.

ANTH V3960y The Culture of Public Art and Display in NYC 4 pts. A field course and seminar considering the aesthetic, political, and sociocultural aspects of selected city museums, public spaces, and window displays.

ANTH V3961y Subsequent Performances 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Priority given to upper class anthropology and music majors; students must attend operas outside of class. Explores the dynamic interaction between operatic compositions (especially Mozart�s Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro) and their subsequent performances, with particular emphasis on the cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape both the original composition and the following reproductions. Critical apparatus includes Abbate and Butler.

ANTH V3962y History and Memory 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3966y Culture, Mental Health and Clinical Practice 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Junior standing or completion of introductory course(s) in Psychology and/or Anthropology. Considers mental disturbance and its relief by examining historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic and psychiatric notions of self, suffering, and cure. After exploring the ways in which conceptions of mental suffering and abnormality are produced, we look at specific kinds of psychic disturbances and at various methods for their alleviation.

ANTH V3969x Specters of Culture 4 pts. Pursues the spectral effects of culture in the modern. Through a consideration of anthropologically significant, primarily non-western sites and various domains of social creation�performance, ritual practice, narrative production, technological invention�traces the ghostly remainders of cultural machineries, circuitries of voice, and representational forms crucial to modern discourse networks.

ANTH V3970x Biological Basis of Human Variation 4 pts. Prerequisites: ANTH V1010. Permission of instructor required. Examination of the biological data for modern human diversity at the molecular, phenotypical, and behavioral levels, as distributed geographically.

ANTH V3971x Environment and Cultural Behavior 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Examines human understandings and transformations of nature, drawing on theories of the relationship between nature and culture and the social production and construction of nature. Analyzes contemporary environmental use, conservation projects, and environmentally focused ethnographic writing. Demonstrates the relationship between nature ideologies and productions, and the social, economic, and environmental politics they engender.

ANTH V3974x Lost Worlds, Secret Spaces: Modernity and the Child 4 pts.

ANTH V3975y (Section 001) Anthropology of Media 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.

ANTH V3976x Anthropology of Science 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Examines debates in the social studies of science, beginning with a focus on questions of epistemology and analyzing the significance of social interests, laboratory and social practices, and "culture(s)" in the making of scientific knowledge. The course then turns to consider the role of the sciences in fashioning larger social worlds.

ANTH V3977y Trauma 3 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Examines trauma as an individual, collective, and international political phenomena. Topics include the history and physiology of trauma, trauma and psychoanalysis, trauma and politics, and trauma after 9-11.

ANTH V3978y Dialogic Imagination 4 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Draws on the perspectives of Bakhtin and other theorists to analyze the logic of five opera performances the class will attend this semester. Productions scrutinized in terms of the forms of communication utilized; the class, status, and gender perspective mobilized; and the specified mechanisms used to engage or distance the audience from them. Performance rather than musicological angle emphasized.

ANTH V3979x Fluent Bodies 4 pts. The recent proliferation of writings on the social significations of the human body have brought to the fore the epistemological, disciplinary, and ideological structures that have participated in creating a dimension of the human body that goes beyond its physical consideration. The course, within the context of anthropology, has two considerations, a historical one and a contemporary one. If anthropology can be construed as the study of human society and culture, then, following Marcel Mauss, this study must be considered the actual, physical bodies that constitute the social and the cultural.

ANTH V3980x Nationalism: History and Theory 4 pts. Covers the basic readings in the contemporary debate over nationalism and different disciplinary approaches and looks at recent studies of nationalism in the formerly colonial world as well as in the industrial West. The readings offer a mix of both theoretical and empirical studies, including the following: Eric Hobsbawn: Nationalism since 1700; Ernest Gillner: Nations and Nationalism; Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities; Antony Smith: The Ethic Origins of Nations; Linda Coley: Britons; Peter Sahlins: Boundaries; and Partha Chatterjee: The Nation and Its Fragments.

ANTH V3983y Ideas and Societies in the Carribean 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3988x Race and Sexuality in Scientific and Social Practice 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3989x Urban Anthropology 4 pts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students.

ANTH V3993y World Archaeology in Global Perspectives 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH V3994x Anthropology of Extremity: War 4 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014.

ANTH W4001x The Ancient Empires 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: ANTH V1002 or permission of the instructor.

ANTH W4002y Controversial Topics in Human Evolution 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and introductory biological/physical anthropology course.

ANTH W4011x Critical Social Theory 3 pts.Not offered in 2013-2014. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Enrollment limited to 30 students.