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Foundation courses

HC 800 / Foundation Seminar - (view)
A basic survey of the history, methods, theory, and philosophy of historiography. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to historical research and writing, and they will learn how to assimilate and criticize bodies of scholarly literature. Required for all students in the History and Culture program. First semester annually.
HC 801 / Archives: History and Methods - (view)
A study of the theory and practice of archival management, arranging, describing, evaluating, and using primary source documents in the collections of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. Focuses on the place of archives in the history of institutions along with such issues as preservation and description.
HC 802 / Interdisciplinary Seminar - (view)
This seminar, team-taught by instructors from two different departments, will investigate a common theme from two disciplinary perspectives, comparing and synthesizing the methods used and the questions asked. Topics vary with instructor expertise. Required for all doctoral students in the History and Culture program, but open to other students as well. Offered in alternate years.
HC 803 / Seminar in Experimental History - (view)
This "history laboratory" will explore innovative approaches to historiography, usually drawn from the instructors own research. Topics vary with instructor expertise.

United States

HC 811 / Democracy in America - (view)
An examination of American democracy beginning with an extended reading of Alexis de Tocquevilles classic study. Using his analysis as a starting point, students will proceed to consider the development of democracy since Tocquevilles time, the various definitions of democracy that have emerged since then, and the present-day challenges democracy faces. Readings by Tocqueville, Dewey, Zakaria, Wolin, Elshtain, Dahl, and others.
HC 812 / American Intellectual History - (view)
An exploration of the intellectual currents and practices that have shaped America from the colonial period to the present day. Although emphases will vary from semester to semester, the seminar will mix readings from recognized intellectuals with those of lesser-known figures whose writings provide insight into the intellectual worlds of "ordinary" and marginalized peoples. The seminar aims to provide students with a firm grasp of the forms of intellectual discourse in American history, and the ways in which these discourses have shaped political, social, and cultural outcomes. Typical topics include the Puritan covenant, race theory, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, domestic ideology, the rise of the natural sciences, evolution, higher education, and pragmatism.
HC 813 / Eyes on America: Foreign Observations of the American Scene - (view)
America has fascinated writers from other lands since before its European settlement. And Americans are often fascinated and sometimes indignant at the "image in the mirror" these foreign observations offer. This seminar explores the long literature by foreign writers on America and its people beginning with the narratives of early explorers and ending with contemporary commentary on American life and institutions. Students will examine the language, themes, and preconceptions that guide these narratives, along with their American responses.
HC 814 / The West in Myth and History - (view)
The West had long been a mythic abode, where the realities of exploration, settlement, resource exploitation, federal control, and commercial development often clash with the image of the West as depicted in popular culture. This seminar explores the roots of the myth and its impact on political, social, and cultural outcomes, as well as the historical realities that have shaped the region. Course materials include both texts and film.
HC 815 / African-American Social and Intellectual History - (view)
A study of the intellectual arguments and social institutions that have empowered African-American leaders and the masses to assert and maintain their humanity within a world of oppression. Focuses on how gender, race, and class have created diverse ideas and opinions among African-Americans and the methods used by African-American intellectuals to analyze these ideas and opinions.
HC 816 / Major Problems in the History of American Society: Making Class, Race, and Gender - (view)
What are the origins of inequality in American history? What is the relationship between ideological, political, social, and economic developments? This graduate seminar explores these fundamental questions, focusing on a number of major problems for inquiry and debate in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century American society, with particular attention to how class, race, and gender have structured access to power and resources. Readings and discussions will expose students to important developments in the historiography and methodology of American history.
HC 817 / The United States and the World - (view)
This course will explore US foreign relations during the twentieth century. We will attempt to explain what has historically motivated the architects of US foreign policy and how US leaders have changed within a changing international context. The course will also examine US interaction with the world beyond the realm of traditional policy makers: we will explore the role of state as well non-state actors, private corporations, NGOs, missionaries, and the internationalization/impact of ideas through the writings of scholars, policymakers, and activists as well as historical documents.
HC 818 / Topics in American History - (view)
Topics vary with instructor expertise. Course may be repeated.

Britain and Ireland

HC 831 / Shakespeare - (view)
This course studies six major plays and the controversies surrounding them: The Taming of the Shrew (gender and marriage), The Merchant of Venice (anti-Semitism), Henry V (war, imperialism, monarchy), Twelfth Night (sexuality/crossdressing), Othello (racism), and The Tempest (post-colonialism). The readings will also include critical and historical studies.
HC 832 / A Disunited Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales c. 1800-2000 - (view)
When and why did the United Kingdom come into being? What were the steps which led to its conception? Was the creation of the United Kingdom a symptom of national coherence or of disunity between the countries that made up the Union after 1801? Did a new national identity come into being as a consequence, or did old allegiances and loyalties become more deeply embedded? Who were the beneficiaries of the Union? Was the United Kingdom ever really united? Is the eventual breakup of the reconstituted United Kingdom inevitable? These and other questions will be addressed in this course, which examines the interaction between the component parts of the United Kingdom between 1800 and 2000. A number of key topics will be explored through readings in literature and contemporary social observation, including the steps to political union, the role of economic change, religion and education, poverty and social welfare, the rise of political radicalism, and the changing face of national iden
HC 833 / Modern British and Imperial History - (view)
The world as we know it today was shaped very largely by Great Britain and its Empire. This course surveys the political, social, economic history of modern Britain and its relationship to the larger world. It will cover the rise and fall of British power, industrial society, popular culture, "Victorianism", social reform, "the English national character", the First and Second World Wars, the "Swinging Sixties," and the Thatcher Revolution.
HC 834 / Victorians and Moderns: British Intellectual and Cultural History - (view)
This survey of British thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century deals with the creators and critics of Victorian and modernist thought. It addresses such issues as responses to industrialism, liberalism, imperialism, socialism, aestheticism, education, the definition of "culture," feminism, the class system, the world wars, modernist culture, sexuality, and the theater of ideas. The reading list will include Mill, Arnold, Ruskin, Morris, the Fabian Socialists, the Bloomsbury Group, George Orwell, the "Angry Young Men," and Tom Stoppard.
HC 835 / Memory and Commemoration in Irish History - (view)
In Ireland, history, memory and commemoration have traditionally played a significant role in shaping contemporary political developments. But they have frequently been divisive, with popular (and even academic) memories of the past being constructed in such a way as to serve current ideological ends. Following an introduction to the key issues in Irish history, the course will focus on a number of major historical events, including the founding of the Orange Order in 1795, the republican uprising in 1798, the Great Hunger of 1845-50, and the Easter Uprising in 1916. These events will be explored in the context of how memory and commemoration have been utilized by different religious and political traditions. The involvement of the Irish diaspora in this process, particularly in the United States and Britain, will also be explored. The course will examine traditional and nontraditional sources such as songs, wall murals, and films. Where appropriate, the Irish experience will be co
HC 836 / Visual Representation in Irish History - (view)
Visual representations of Ireland have had a significant role in shaping views of the Irish in both positive and negative ways. They have also been divisive, with popular images and caricatures being used to serve particular ideological or social ends. Yet visual images have often been underused as a research tool by historians. This course will focus on a number of key events in Irish history, including the history of the Orange Order, the 1798 Uprising, the Great Hunger, Irish Emigration, the Easter Rising, and "the Troubles". Each topic will be explored by examining contemporary images, and by assessing how these representations have been utilized over time by different religious and political traditions. The representations of the Irish diapsora, in Britain and in the United States, will also be explored. Students will be encouraged to make use of non-traditional sources such as cartoons, photographs, statues, wall murals, postage stamps, flags, maps, films, and coins. Where ap
HC 837 / Women in Irish History: Poets, Patriots, Pirates, and Presidents - (view)
From St. Brigid in the fifth century to President Mary MacAleese in the twenty-first century, women have played pivotal roles in the development of Ireland. Moreover, the large number of emigrant Irish women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made their influence felt throughout the world. The remarkable contribution of women to the struggle for Irelands independence was recognized in the 1916 Proclamation, though the 1937 Constitution sought to reassert the primary role of women as wives and mothers. This course will examine and evaluate the contributions of women modern Ireland and ask why their involvement was ignored for so long by Irish historians. It will also assess the role of key figures in the making of Irish history, and will explore the place of women in Ireland today.
HC 838 / Northern Ireland: The Rocky Road to Peace - (view)
Following its inception in May 1921, politics within the Northern Ireland state was dominated by sectarianism and religious conflict. In order to maintain Protestant hegemony, the civil rights of the minority Catholic population were eroded, both overtly and covertly. Tensions came to a head in the 1960s, but his course will demonstrate how the seeds of violence were sown much earlier. Key events of the conflict such as Bloody Sunday, internment, the murder of Lord Mountbatten, the hunger strikes, the Enniskillen and Omagh bombings, and the steps to the Peace Process will be examined. There will be a special focus on various government enquiries and on accusations of police collusion that have accompanied these investigations. The course will make extensive use of primary evidence.
HC 839 / Topics in British and Irish History - (view)
Topics vary with instructor expertise.

Europe

HC 851 / The Renaissance Mind - (view)
This course attempts to build up, through readings in the creative writings of the period, a cumulative theory of the Renaissance. Writers covered include Poggio Bracciolini, Pico della Mirandola, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More, Francois Rabelais, Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster.
HC 852 / Abolition and Anti-Slavery in Europe, with special reference to Britain, France, & Ireland c. 1789-1865 - (view)
In the late nineteenth century, opposition to slavery was spreading in Europe, mostly due to the involvement of dissenters and radicals. French revolutionaries banned slavery within the French Empire after 1789, a decision reversed by Napoleon and then restored in 1848. The British parliament banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1833: both acts were supported by Irish MPs. After 1833, opponents of slavery in Europe (notably the Irish Catholic Daniel OConnell) increasingly turned their attention to Abolition in America. This course examines anti-slavery agitation in Europe and its connections with American Abolition.
HC 853 / The Tower and the Abyss: 19th Century European Intellectual and Cultural History - (view)
This course examines the major thinkers and analytic paradigms of the nineteenth century. It studies exemplary works of fiction, exploring the relationship between literature, philosophy, and social theory. A major theme is the cultural and political impact of the perceiveddecline, absence, or death of God, and the ways that ideology,history, science, and art came to occupy the space "vacated" byreligion. We will read texts by or about the Romantics, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Kierkegaard, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, and Nietzsche, among others.
HC 854 / Progress, Power, and Catastrophe: 20th Century European Intellectual and Cultural History - (view)
This course explores the rich intellectual life of the twentieth century, focusing on how key thinkers both contributed and responded to the enormous dislocations of European modernity. The class takes upthe radical challenges to the Enlightenment heritage; the promise and perils of politics as a means of redemption; the search for ethical commitment and moral order in the absence of absolutes; the critique of power as it operates in knowledge, institutions, and technology; and different visions of liberation. Individual units are devoted to psychoanalysis, western Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and post-structuralism; featured thinkers include Freud, Adorno, Horkheimer, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Marcuse, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Zizek, among others.
HC 855 / Topics in European History - (view)
Topics vary with instructor expertise.

Global

HC 871 / The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade & the Making of the Modern World - (view)
This world history course focuses on the global dynamics of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its impact on world history from the 16th to the 19th century and its repercussions today. The course raises a fundamental question, "What were the origins and dynamics of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and how has it shaped economic, political, religious, gender and racial identities in the modern world?" Through lectures, discussion, journal writing, book reviews and research in primary documents, students study the nature of global interactions between peoples and cultures through several humanities disciplines such as history, literature and religion. The seminar also focuses on the centrality of Christianity as (1) an incentive and rationale for slavery from the 16th to the 18th centuries; (2) the foundation for moral arguments against slavery in the 19th century; and (3) one of the central components behind cultural change and identity formation for over three centuries. The nature of g
HC 872 / The Springtime of the Peoples? - (view)
1848 marked a watershed in nineteenth-century European political history, despite the fact that many of the uprisings associated with this year were quickly put down. The repercussions of this short-lived revolutionary activity were felt as far away as Australia, Cape Town (South Africa) and in North and South America. This course examines the impact of the 1848 revolutions, placing these political upheavals in the context of other cultural, technological and ideological changes that were taking place, both in Europe and elsewhere.
HC 873 / Age of Revolutions c. 1688 to 1917 - (view)
This course examines the revolutionary continuum that swept the world in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It begins with Britains "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, examines Americas War of Independence (or was it a "Revolution"?), and continues through the global revolutionary year of 1848 and beyond. Throughout the course, the various revolutions examined will be placed in their wider social, cultural, scientific, and ideological contexts.
HC 874 / The Empire Strikes Back: The Struggles for Independence from the British Empire, with special reference to China, India, and Ireland - (view)
In 1921 the British Empire was the largest empire in history, including one-quarter of the world's population. Yet, starting with the loss of the American colonies in the eighteenth century, the history of the British Empire was also a history of multiple struggles to achieve independence by the colonised territories. But independence was often slow to come, and the outcome was sometimes partial and piecemeal, creating fresh problems for the new governments. With special attention to China, India, and Ireland, this course will examine the struggles to win independence from Britain. It will ask why limited Home Rule was granted in some British territories but not in others during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what steps were taken by the native populations to achieve political independence, how the British state responded to these challenges, what was the longer-term legacy of the British Empire, and what lessons can be drawn by imperial powers in the twenty-first
HC 875 / Here, There, and Everywhere: The 1960s as Global History - (view)
This class, organized around the tumultuous year 1968, looks at the 1960s in international perspective, exploring the connections between events, social movements, key figures, and forms of cultural expression in disparate regions. It focuses on the dramatic challenges to entrenched forms of political, economic, and military power, as well as to hierarchies of race, gender, and class. It explores the meaning of the 1960s as "living history," both by considering representations of the era within popular memory and by employing some of the experimental pedagogy of the 1960s. Key texts include works of history, memoirs, social theory, and literature, as well as films and popular music. Units will cover events in the United States, Europe, and Latin America; the international "language of dissent"; global countercultures; transformations of everyday life; and the question of legacies.
HC 876 / Topics in Global History - (view)
Topics vary with instructor expertise.
HC 877 / Modern Jewish Intellectual History 1650-1950 - (view)
This course will explore the impact on Jewish thought and religion of modernity, beginning with the radical critique of religion by Baruch Spinoza. The course analyzes the Haskalah, or Hebrew Enlightenment, from its inception by Moses Mendelssohn in late eighteenth century to the emergence of the Reform movement, as well as its various permutations in Eastern European Jewish thought, through to the emergence of Zionism. It will conclude with an overview of the post-Holocaust denominations of American Judaism with a particular focus on the theology of Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

History of Science and Medicine

HC 881 / Experts, Intellectuals, and Scientists: History and the Socioloy of Knowledge - (view)
Conceptions of the role of the expert, the intellectual, and especially the scientist have shifted dramatically over the course of the twentieth century, resulting in radical changes in the image and authority of each. Starting with foundational texts in the history of the sociology of knowledge, this course seeks to treat "science" as a particular case study in the broader history of intellectual expertise. From early gentlemens agreements at the Royal Society to the all-out science wars of the 1990s, and from large macroscale concerns that attempted to relate science to democracy and Marxism (both of which treated science as a distinctive and objective form of knowledge) to later provocative microscale studies that challenged received notions of "truth", "fact" and "scientist" altogether, we will incorporate perspectives from classical sociology, anthropology, epistemology, and literary theory, along with critiques from gender studies and science studies, in an attempt to better un
HC 882 / Secrets of Life: The History of Genetics in the 20th Century - (view)
This course surveys the history of geneticsone of the paradigmatic life sciences of the twentieth centuryfrom experimental plant and animal breeding at the dawn of the twentieth century to the completion of the Human Genome Project by the century's end. We will follow a series of famous geneticists in their quest to understand and ultimately to control the hereditary substance, from the first coining of the word "gene" in 1909 to present-day attempts to manufacture life in the test tube. From the invention of hybrid corn and other new synthetic species during the emergence of classical genetics, to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the cracking of the genetic code, and the rise of biotechnology, geneticists have sought to use their knowledge to find solutions to humanity's many ills. They have alsosometimes deliberately, sometimes inadvertentlypromoted the social application of genetical principles in a field often described as "eugenics." Science, technology, society, and polit
HC 883 / Knowledge in Motion: Local Science, World Contexts - (view)
This course surveys the history of science from the dawn of agriculture to the present day, seeking to move beyond classic accounts of "the West and the rest" to examine the history of science in the global contextand in the process, to challenge our very notions of science itself. Topics to be explored include the history of ancient, Arabic, and medieval European science and mathematics; the "Scientific Revolution" and the new uses of mixed mathematics in astronomy and natural philosophy; and the integration of biological and other field sciences with larger colonialist and nationalist projects. We will broaden our understanding of the contributions of various world cultures to the history of science, and explore the ways in which particular local cultural realities make certain kinds of scientific developments possible. We will pay particular attention to places and practices of knowledge (school, laboratory, field, museum, journal); the relations of science/mathematics and religio
HC 884 / Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine in Modern Europe - (view)
Medicine has played a crucial role in the way we understand and experience gender and sexuality in the modern era. Recent years have seen the emergence of a growing body of historical literature that addresses these issues, concentrating on such themes as attempts to control sexual behavior, ideas of femininity and masculinity in clinical diagnoses, the "invention" of homosexuality, and the impact of gender on the production of medical knowledge. In this seminar we will explore some of these themes by examining several distinct settings in which modern medicine has helped shape and been shaped by ideas about gender and sexuality.
HC 885 / History of the Body - (view)
From eugenics to bodybuilding, tattooing to anorexia, cosmetic surgery to reproductive technology: in modern times the body has been the site of the most personal and the most political battles. Various experts and historical actors have sought to understand, discipline, and shape it to conform to a variety of agendas. Rather than remaining unchanged over time, the human body (and our experience of it) has evolved in response to such pressures. This seminar explores major themes in the history of the body in the modern Western world. We will probe the myth of the ideal body and explore historical attempts to construct a "normal" body. We will examine a wide range of practices through which individuals have attempted to shape their identities through the reshaping of their bodies. Finally, we will explore the medicalization of the body and the role of science as an authoritative discourse in this process.
HC 886 / Topics in the History of Science - (view)
Topics vary with instructor expertise.

Thematic Courses

HC 891 / The Classical Tradition in the 19th and 20th Centuries - (view)
Major landmarks in the history of ideas, both American and European, historical and literary, engaged with the past of Greece and Rome. How did major thinkers, and even the most radically innovative movements, use and change that tradition in order to move forward? Topics covered include the Renaissance, the American founders, the French Revolution, the modern humanistic university, Romantic philhellenism, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Frazer, Modernism, James Joyce, Leo Strauss, and current issues. No prior knowledge of classical antiquity is required.
HC 892 / Utopias and Utopian Thought - (view)
Since ancient times the perceived ills of the world as it isin short, of historyhave led people to imagine a perfect world. Utopian dreams can take the form of fiction (hopeful, satirical, or dystopian), religious movements, revolutionary programs, alternative communities, or symbolic enactments seen in festivals and Worlds Fairs. Can we radically change the conditions of human nature and society in the real world? Topics include Platos Republic,the Bible, Mores Utopia,the French Revolution, utopian socialists and Marx, Edward Bellamy and William Morri, We and twentieth-century dystopias, theorists, the World Wide Web, and the future of utopia.
HC 893 / The History of the Book - (view)
A global survey of the social, economic, and political history of print, and its use as a medium to disseminate ideas. Topics include the history of printing, literacy, publishing, reading, censorship, intellectual property, the profession of letters, academic literary studies, canon formation, lexicography, libraries, and journalism.

Crosslisted Theological School Courses

CHIST 250 / America: One Nation, One God? - (view)
Weaving historical insights and perspectives into current concerns about religion and national identity, this class focuses on major religious movements, personalities, and topics in the United States. It foregrounds the study of American Christian traditions, due to their historical influence, yet also gives some attention to non-Christian religions as well. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: CHIST 203 or its equivalent.
CHIST 255 / God, Sex, and the Making of American Families - (view)
This course examines how religious ideas and practices - particularly forms of Christianity - have influenced both private and public understandings of sex and family in the United States. Themes include the regulation of sex practices within and outside of marriage; the conflation of monogamous marriage with virtue and republican ideology; the meanings of domesticity; domesticity's shadows, including slavery and polygamy; and same-sex love and the emergence of modern sexual identities and practices. Prerequisite: CHIST 203 or equivalent. Same as: COMFE 255.
CHIST 268 / Race and American Christianity - (view)
An intensive consideration of the power of race in American Christian cultures, with an emphasis on recent critical theories of race. Same as: COMFE 268.
CHIST 269 / History of Missions from the Reform Era to the Twentieth Century - (view)
Beginning with the emergence of mission energy within Roman Catholic religious societies in the sixteenth century, this course will follow the spread of Christianity from Europe and then England and North America, finishing with the twentieth-century mission impulse from the "missionized" Christian world. Prerequisite: CHIST 203 or its equivalent.
CHIST 279 / Revivalism and American Christianity - (view)
This course will explore the ways in which scholars have understood the religious phenomenon known as "revival." Using both primary and secondary sources and moving from the early 18th century to the 20th, we will investigate this topic as a historiographical problem and look for new ways to talk about the elements of religious experience that have conventionally been marked as the framework for revivals.
CHIST 282 / Is God On Our Side? Religion and U.S. Politics - (view)
A study of the influences of religion, particularly Christian traditions, on political developments in the U.S from the early national period up to the present. Themes include the First Amendment and its litigation, Protestant projections of American manifest destiny, religious interventions in contested matters such as family life, the twentieth-century invention of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the continuing quest to create a Christian America. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: CHIST 203 or its equivalent.

Crosslisted Undergraduate Courses

ANTH 102 / Ethnographic Research Methods - (view)
A graduated course offering an introduction to qualitative work in cultural anthropology-participant-observation, ethnographic interviewing, and the roles of surveys and questionnaires. Writing a research proposal and conducting in-situ work on the Drew campus form the core of assignments. Prerequisite: ANTH 4 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester.
ANTH 131 / Gender and Culture - (view)
A study of the construction of gender across cultures. The course considers how culture influences and shapes gender roles in varying human domains, such as religion, creative traditions, work, scholarship and research, and popular culture. Prerequisite: ANTH 4 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined. Same as: WMST 131.
ENGL 125 / Approaches to Literature: Biographical - (view)
How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer's life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author's life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A and 20B and ENGL 21A and 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
GERM 130 / German Literature in English - (view)
A study of a topic related to German literature. Topics vary but include The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The Faust Tradition, Humor in German Literature, and German-Jewish Literature and Culture. Readings and discussions in English. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offering to be determined.
GERM 134 / German Film in English - (view)
An examination of a theme or period in German cinema. Topics vary but include Film of the Weimar Era, World War II through the Lens of Film, and new German Cinema. Readings and discussions in English. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
GERM 138 / German Studies in English - (view)
No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated.
MUS 101 / Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Eras - (view)
An overview of Western art music from ancient Greece to the music of Bach and Handel. We will study a core repertoire of music in its historical contexts and explore debates of what these pieces may have sounded like when they were first performed. Students will also learn about the field of music history and the tools available for music research at Drew. At least one class trip to a performance of music before 1750 will be required. Enrollment priority: Limited to those with junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: MUS 3. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: LITST 731.
MUS 103 / Music of the Classic and Romantic Eras - (view)
An in-depth study of Western art music from the Enlightenment to Late Romanticism. We will study representative works in historical contexts ranging from the emergence of modern concert life in the mid-1700s to nineteenth-century Romanticism, nationalism, and exoticism. Students will apply the knowledge gained from coursework to the understanding of recent musicological scholarship. At least one class trip to a performance of music studied in class will be required." Enrollment priority: Limited to those with junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: MUS 3. Offered spring semester in alternate years.
MUS 111 / Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - (view)
An exploration of the revolutionary changes in music composition, performance, and reception since 1900. Topics include the challenges of modernism and modernity, political upheaval, technological innovation, globalization, and the rising importance of popular music and jazz. Emphasis on learning effective communication of opinions about challenging musical repertoire through written assignments and oral presentations. At least one class trip to a performance of music studied in class will be required. Enrollment priority: Limited to those with junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: MUS 3. Offered fall semester in alternate years.
MUS 141 / Topics in Music History - (view)
An in-depth study of a topic, viewpoint, or methodology in music history. Topic will vary according to faculty expertise and student interest. May be repeated as topic changes. Enrollment priority: Limited to those with junior or senior standing. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: MUS 3. Offered spring semester in alternate years.
PHIL 113 / Analytic Philosophy - (view)
A seminar on influential work of 20th-century philosophers who developed and practiced methods of analysis. Discussions center on problems in the philosophy of language and on problems of epistemology concerning the grounds for our knowledge of the external world, of the past, and of ourselves and others. Readings are drawn from the works of Russell, Moore, Ayer, Ryle, Strawson, and Quine. Offered fall semester in even-numbered years. Same as: HISTG 111.
PHIL 114 / Existentialism - (view)
A study of the classics of, and major influences upon, existentialist thought. Authors emphasized are Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, and Sartre. Some attention is given to Husserl's phenomenology and its influence outside philosophy proper. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years. Same as: HISTG 110.
PHIL 117 / History of 19th-Century Philosophy - (view)
A study of post-Kantian Continental philosophical systems from Hegel through Nietzsche. Other major figures studied are Fichte, Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, and Marx. Offered alternate years. Same as: HISTG 117.
PHIL 153 / Seminar in the History of Philosophy - (view)
A seminar centered on the study of a major historical figure, such as Plato, Aristotle, or Kant, or an influential movement, such as pragmatism, logical positivism, or process philosophy. Topic determined each year. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered annually. Same as: HISTG 153.
PSCI 197 / Education Policy and Politics - (view)
This course will analyze both the politics and the policy of schooling in the United States. On the political side, we will explore the debate over the purposes of public education and the use of education as an electoral issue, as well as the individuals, groups, and institutions that compete to control schools, and how and where they seek to advance their different interests and values. On the policy side, we will analyze the impact of democratic control, federalism, and checks and balances on the provision of education in the U.S. and how and why school governance has evolved over time. The course will also examine the debates over specific school reforms such as: standards and testing, equalization of school finance, school choice, and the No Child Left Behind Act, as well as the unique challenges facing urban schools. Offered annually.
PSCI 198 / Race and Politics - (view)
This course will examine the role of race in American politics and its contemporary significance to the nation's citizens, politicians, and governmental institutions. Questions will include: What are the primary intra- and inter-group dynamics that shape contemporary minority politics? How do the politics of race intersect with the politics of class and gender? What opportunities and challenges exist in mobilizing the members of minority groups for political action in the U.S.? What role have racial issues and attitudes played in the electoral strategies of political parties and candidates and in the electoral choices of voters? How do the structures and processes of American political institutions affect the efforts of minority groups to secure political influence? How has the rise to power of minority politicians-particularly in many urban areas-affected policymaking? How successful have minority groups been in their quest to use government to expand economic and educational opportunity? How are demographic forces likely to reshape the politics of race and -American politics more generally- in the 21st century? Offered annually.
REL 146 / Ethics of Just War - (view)
Moral and religious issues in warfare, including classical and contemporary views. The course will cover but not be limited to the following: Christian just war doctrine, moral realism and war, the rules of war, war crimes, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, nuclear weapons, spying and espionage, and war in Jewish and Islamic thought. Offered spring semester in even-numbered years.
SOC 110 / Sociology of Mass Communications - (view)
An overview of how the mass media and American cultural, political and economic institutions mutually affect each other. Systems of mass communication examined include books, the Internet, magazines, movies, newspapers, and television. Two topics to be emphasized are: 1) the production, control, and consumption of various forms of information in the mass media; 2) comparative analyses of the uses of mass media in different countries. Prerequisite: SOC 1 or permission of instructor. Offered fall semester. Same as: BKHIS 810.
SOC 115 / Political Sociology - (view)
A presentation of the main themes and the dominant theoretical perspectives involved in the study of political processes and political institutions. Topics include politics, elections, nation building, national elites and public policy making, parties, and social movements. Prerequisite: SOC 1 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester. Same as: RLSOC 115.
SOC 125 / Classical Sociological Theory - (view)
An examination of classical sociological theory, including the works of such theorists as Addams, DuBois, Durkheim, Martineau, Marx, Simmel, and Weber. Objectives include (1) assessment of how social and intellectual forces influenced the development of these theories; (2) examination of the construction and testing of specific theories; and (3) demonstration of how classical theory has contributed to the development of contemporary sociological theory. Prerequisite: SOC 1. Offered fall semester. Same as: HISTG 125. Same as: HISTG 125.
SOC 131 / Contemporary Issues in Sociology - (view)
An examination of contemporary issues and topics in sociology. The particular issue or topic changes from time to time. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: SOC 1 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined.
WMST 111 / History of Feminist Thought - (view)
An interdisciplinary course that explores the development of feminist theories principally in the United States and Europe from Mary Wollstonecraft through "the Second Wave. The course examines the work of such theorists as Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Church Terrell, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, as well as feminism's evolving conversations with liberalism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis and its dialogues with the anti-slavery/civil rights movements and the gay/lesbian rights movements. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: WMSTG 711S WMSTG 711 WGST 111.
WMST 112 / Contemporary Feminist Theory and Methodology - (view)
An interdisciplinary course focused on contemporary feminist theory. The objectives of the course are first, to explore the broad range of theories that make up the body of contemporary scholarship referred to as "feminist theory"; second, to examine feminist critiques and innovations in methodologies in many fields; and third, to consider some of the fundamental questions these theories raise about the origins of gender difference, the nature and origins of patriarchy, the intersections between gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality as categories of analysis and bases of oppression or empowerment. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: HISTG 112 WMSTG 710 WGST 112.