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This schedule is subject to change. For the most accurate information concerning other programs and departments, consult the University Class Schedule online, as well as each department’s own website. Graduate students may not take courses below the 500 level for credit.
CAS AM 502 Special Topics in American Studies: American Consumer Society
American Consumer Society and Its Discontents. Analysis of critiques of America as a consumer society. Readings in history, literature, economics, and social theory critically investigate political change and cultural values. Reflecting on such investigations, this course assesses the idea of America and the nature of its democracy.
Queen T, Th 9:30-11am
GRS AM 735 Studies in American Culture
Introduction to the handling of primary materials from a number of disciplines in order to develop an American Studies perspective. Required of AMNESP first year grad students. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Silber Th 2-5pm
GRS AM 753 Documenting Historic Buildings
Designed to train students in architectural research techniques through supervised reading, fieldwork, and writing. Also offered as MET AM 753.
Dempsey T 2-5pm
GRS AM 755 Preservation Planning Colloquium
A comprehensive preservation planning and advocacy course in which students in the Preservation Studies Program prepare a planning document under contract with a community.
Dray T 6-9pm
CAS AA 502 Topics in African American Literature
Two topics are offered in Spring 2007; students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: Twentieth-Century African American Novel. Major works from the Harlem Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement, and the contemporary period. Authors include Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, John Wideman, and Toni Morrison. Also offered as CAS EN 380. Section B1: African-American Poetry. Poetry from the United States and the Caribbean, with emphasis on the twentieth century: the Harlem Renaissance, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement. Attention to cultural context, multiple aesthetic traditions, and relations to music. Also offered as EN 588.
Boelcskevy T 12:30-3:30pm
CAS AA 505 Black Community and Social Change
Forces within the larger society that enhance and/or inhibit development of the black community. Assesses potential of the black community to initiate and implement changes affecting its own development locally and nationally. Also offered as CAS SO 510.
Teele W 9am-12pm
CAS AA 563 Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective
Surveys the economic history of African Americans within the context of the development of the American and global economies. Topics include the economics of slavery; race and industrialization; the Great Migration; anti-discrimination legislation; and the historical origins of contemporary racial inequalities. Also offered as CAS EC 563.
Margo M, W, F 11-12 pm
CAS AA 564 From Slavery to Freedom: Abolition in Comparative Perspective
How did legalized slavery, a world-wide practice for thousands of years, end? The process of abolition in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere is examined and compared to the later regulation of forced labor and to contemporary slavery. Also offered as CAS PO 564.
Crawford Th 11am-2pm
CAS AA 571 African American Art
Studies African American art and craft production from the early nineteenth century to the present against the background of the diaspora, reconstruction, and the modernist movements of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Seminar topic focuses on twentieth-century art by African Americans, including the Harlem Renaissance (1920s), the 1930s government projects, the Post-World War Two Era, the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and today. In the twentieth century debates within the African American artistic communities generated lively exchanges about modernism, black nationalism, the social responsibility of art, the relevance of African arts, the persistence of Africanist traditions from slave culture, the critique of Euro-American representations of race, and issues of voice and identity. There will be two field trips and one guest speaker. Oral reports and a research paper are required. Also offered as CAS AH 571.
Hills T 2-5pm
CAS AA 586 African Americans Abroad
Develops awareness of the global nature of the African American experience through
study of Black Americans' involvement in aspects of world development besides slavery
and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Focus on Europe and the Americas; some attention
to Africa and Asia. Also offered as CAS HI 586.
Blakely W 2-5pm
CAS AA 590 The World and the West
Explores relations between the West and the Third World from 1850, focusing on
national and cultural movements in the Third World, and places the African American
struggle for freedom in the United States in global and comparative perspective. Also
offered as CAS HI 590.
Richardson M 12:30-3:30pm
GRS AA 885 History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825
Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1400 and 1800. Begins by defining the political interaction, then emphasizes cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. Also offered as GRS HI 885.
Thornton T, Th 11am-12:30pm
GRS AN 704 Proseminar: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
Examination of major theoretical trends and debates in anthropological theory from the 1960s to present. Required of first-year graduate students in Anthropology and open to students in related disciplines with the consent of the instructor.
Hefner Th 4-7pm
GRS AN 708 Food, Culture, and Society
Study of foodways, culinary social history, diet and food ecology with special attention to Asian societies and Boston's food culture. Examines the use of food and cuisine as a focus for identity, national development, and social change.
White M, W, F 3-4pm
GRS AR 775 Oral History and Written Records in Archaeology
Comprehensive survey of use of oral and written documentary history by archaeologists. Specific topics, sources, techniques of recording and analysis. Special attention to archaeological applications of African and American oral history projects; case studies involving documentation in New World historical archaeology. Meets with AR 375.
Beaudry Th 10am-1pm and 2pm-3pm
CAS AH 504 Topics in Religion and the Visual Arts: Word and Image in American Biblical Religions In-depth discussion of special issues in the study of religion and art. Topic changes each year. May be repeated for credit. Topic for Spring 2007: Word and Image in American Biblical Religions. Investigates interaction of word and image in America's religious visual culture. Addresses how words and images operate, their claims to legitimacy, and the relationship between seeing and believing. Topics include graphic novels, quilts, paintings, illustrations, folk art. Also offered as CAS RN 504.
Schwain T, Th 11am-12:30pm
CAS AH 521 Curatorship: Exhibition Development
The theory and practice of producing an exhibition: developing concepts, defining the audience, and selecting the focus. Students assist in researching, writing, designing, and producing the catalog. Other areas of involvement include loans, insurance, installation, and visitor interpretation.
Cutshaw M 1-4pm
CAS AH 571 African American Art
Studies African American art and craft production from the early nineteenth century to the present against the background of the diaspora, reconstruction, and the modernist movements of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Seminar topic focus on twentieth-century art by African Americans, including the Harlem Renaissance (1920s), the 1930s government projects, the Post-World War Two Era, the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and today. In the twentieth century debates within the African American artistic communities generated lively exchanges about modernism, black nationalism, the social responsibility of art, the relevance of African arts, the persistence of Africanist traditions from slave culture, the critique of Euro-American representations of race, and issues of voice and identity. There will be two field trips and one guest speaker. Oral reports and a research paper are required. Also offered as CAS AA 571.
Hills T 2-5pm
GRS AH 782 Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century Architecture in Europe and America
Dilemma of style in nineteenth-century architecture; study of the relationship of architectural theory to the changing philosophy and aesthetic theory of the period. Development of functionalist theory. Meets with AH 382.
Morgan T 9-11am and T, R 12:30-2pm
GRS AH 891 Seminar: Photography
This seminar will explore the representation of Paris in a variety of media, from the Exposition Universelle in 1900 to the beginning of World War II. Although literature, universal expositions, painting, photography and film construct very different Paris images, certain common concerns will be studied throughout the semester. These include: the continuing importance of the “flâneur,” the effect of modernism on the city, the changing personality of the city as it is perceived in the different media, the effect of World War I, the methods by which Paris is made orderly and comprehensible through art forms, a growing fragmentation from the beginning of the century to 1940, the concept of mapping the city into a conceptual entity, the changing nature of the city’s “romance” or magic for both Parisians and foreigners, and the dream world of Paris. Topics will include nineteenth century albums and books.
Sichel T 2-4pm
GRS AH 895 Seminar: Contemporary Art and Poststructuralism/20th Century Art
Williams M 10am-12pm
COM FT 536 Film Theory and Criticism
An introduction to classical and contemporary film and media theory. Topics include montage theory, realism, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and cultural studies. The course includes screenings of films that have contributed to critical debate and those that challenge theoretical presuppositions.
Grundmann M, W 9-11:30am
COM FT 543 Television Comedy
An introduction to classical and contemporary film and media theory. Topics include montage theory, realism, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and cultural studies. The course includes screenings of films that have contributed to critical debate and those that challenge theoretical presuppositions.
Loman T 9:30am-12:30pm
COM FT 560 The Documentary
Surveys the history of the documentary and the changes brought about by the advent of television. Examines the outlook for the documentary idea in national and international markets. Periodic highlighting of special areas such as the portrayal of war, historical events, drama-documentary, and propaganda. Students develop critical and professional skills. Lectures, screenings, discussions.
Murray-Brown T, Th 2-3:30 pm, W 4-6pm
COM FT 561 Television Drama
Surveys the history of television drama from its "live" beginnings in the 1950s to contemporary taped and filmed series, mini-series, and specials. The critical evaluation of such forms as sitcoms, soap operas, and regularly scheduled dramatic series from the perspective of the producer, writer, and director. Lectures, screenings, writing reviews, and discussions.
Hallisey M 2-5pm
CAS EN 534 American Literature: 1855 to 1918
American literature from the Civil War to WWI. Realism and naturalism; race, class, and urbanization; marriage and the new woman. Alger, Twain, James, Harper, Howells, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, Dickinson, Frost.
Korobkin T, Th 3:30-5pm
CAS EN 536 Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Study of five or six poets from the following: Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Ammons, Ashbery, Plath, Ginsberg, Merrill.
Fogel M, W, F 10-11am
CAS EN 545 The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
From beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works by Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and others.
Van Anglen T, Th 11am-12:30pm
CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel
From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others.
Patterson M, W, F 1-2pm
CAS EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction
Syllabus varies from semester to semester, but this course may be taken only once for credit. Spring 2007: Study of major American novels since 1980, by DeLillo, Morrison, O'Brien, Oates, Alexie, and others. Topics include conspiracy theory, multiculturalism, trauma and memory, postmodern spiritualities.
Mizruchi T, Th 9:30-11am
CAS EN 579 Studies in American Writers
American Renaissance Poetry. Study of major poets of the period (Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Poe, and Melville) within broader social and aesthetic contexts, including poetic theories and popular verse of the mid-nineteenth century.
Van Anglen T, Th 3:30-5pm
CAS EN 596 Studies in Literary Topics
Two topics are offered Spring 2007. Students may take either or both for credit. Section A1: Coming of Age in Fiction and Film. The theme of coming-of-age in fiction by Austen, Balzac, James, Joyce, Lawrence, Bellow, and Ozick and in films directed by Richardson, Ray, Cacoyannis, Olmi, Wyler, Schlesinger, and others. Section B1: Polanski. The films of Roman Polanski studied in conjunction with literature, including adapted works (Macbeth, Oliver Twist, Tess) and various genres (Gothic, horror, detective fiction). Topics: Black humor, corrupted innocence, forms of evil. Weekly screenings.
A1 Brown T, Th 11am-12:30pm
B1 Monk M, W 2-4:30pm
GRS EN 606 History of Criticism II
Survey of literary critical perspectives and trends in humanistic theory relevant to literary interpretation from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, gender studies, new historicism, and post-colonial studies. Frequent writing assignments of varying lengths. Meets with EN 406.
Riquelme M, W, F 11am-12pm
GRS EN 676 Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
Gender and American Culture. Focuses on gender roles, as represented in American literature, film, comics. Topics include slavery as metaphor and experience, rites of passage in a culture of consumption, art as ideology and utopia. Authors range from Hawthorne to Phoebe Gloeckner. Meets with EN 476.
Mizruchi T, Th 12:30-2pm
GRS EN 695 Critical Studies in Literary Topics
Topic for Spring 2007: Aestheticism. Is aestheticism a profound philosophy of creativity, a commodification of the artwork, the liberation of alternative sexualities, or the emergence of a new kind of elitism? Emphasis on American writers (Poe, James, Wharton) and the transatlantic nature of the movement (Ruskin, Pater, Wilde). Meets with EN 495.
Otten T, Th 12:30-2pm
GRS EN 776 Nineteenth-Century American Skepticism
The relationship between literary practices and philosophical doubts in nineteenth-century America. Areas of focus include romanticism, sentimentality, and pragmatism. Figures include Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, Whitman, James, and Crane.
Lee M 3-5:30pm
GRS EN 784 Issues in Gender and Sexuality
This course explores the recent history of literary critical approaches to gender and sexuality, organized around a special topic. Readings include classic and recent theoretical works, and literary texts from a range of historical periods.
Murphy W 12-2:30pm
GRS EN 788 Literature and Transculturation
Cross-cultural and trans-national influences on the rise of American modernism, focusing first on transatlantic connections, and then on developments in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. Readings by James, Stein, Eliot, Baldwin, Césaire, Walcott, and others.
Patterson W 3-5:30pm
CAS HI 586 African Americans Abroad
Develops awareness of the global nature of the African American experience through
study of Black Americans' involvement in aspects of world development besides slavery
and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Focus on Europe and the Americas; some attention
to Africa and Asia. Also offered as CAS AA 586.
Blakely W 2-5pm
CAS HI 590 The World and the West
Explores relations between the West and the Third World from 1850, focusing on
national and cultural movements in the Third World, and places the African American
struggle for freedom in the United States in global and comparative perspective. Also
offered as CAS AA 590.
Richardson M 12:30-3:30pm
GRS HI 757 Topics in American Cultural History
Readings seminar focusing on American culture, broadly defined, in various periods of
American history. Readings consist of both primary documents and secondary sources
relevant to the specific topic.
Blower T 3:30-6:30pm
GRS HI 763 American Intellectual History
Romantic to Modern in American Intellectual Culture: the nineteenth-century intellectual origins of "modernism" in the United States. Topics will include artistic and literary Romanticism, Transcendentalism, perfectionist reform, liberal Protestantism, pragmatism, realism, aestheticism, antimodernism, and "high" and vernacular modernism in the 1920s.
Capper W 2-5pm
GRS HI 869 Science and Christianity
Examines the relationship between science and the Christian tradition in Europe and North America since 1500. Considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of both science and Christian thought as they have evolved over time. Also offered as GRS RN 669. Meets with HI 369.
Roberts M, W, F 10-11am
GRS HI 874 Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present
Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history since 1900. Topics include pragmatism and progressivism; ethnic and cultural pluralism; Marxism and liberalism; Cold War ideology and neoconservatism; artistic modernism; psychoanalysis and modernization theory; the New Left, multiculturalism, and postmodernism.
Capper M, W, F 10-11am
GRS HI 885 History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825
Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1400 and 1800. Begins by defining the political interaction, then emphasizes cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. Also offered as GRS AA 885.
Thornton T, Th 11am-12:30pm
MET AR 690 The Art World
An examination of the arts institutions, issues, and forces that shape the contemporary art world. Topics include government, cultural policy, National Endowment for the Arts, museums, symphonies, curators, critics, artists' rights, public art, corporate support, censorship, and feminism and multiculturalism. Usually taken as a first course. Non-Arts Admininstration students contact the Arts Admin Dept, 808 Commonwealth Ave.
Ranalli W 6-9pm
MET UA 503 Housing and Community Development
Surveys the factors affecting supply and price of urban housing. Examines federal, state, and municipal programs, as well as future policy options, from the standpoint of housing quality and community development goals. Analysis of selected international comparative experience.
McCluskey T 6-9pm
MET UA 505 Urban Management
Examination of selected cases in municipal and public management. Organization, financial management, personnel relations, program planning and budgeting, and issues of public and private sector relations. The administration of municipal functions, including health, police, schools, and housing. Graduate prerequisite: MET UA 301 or MET UA 701, or consent of instructor.
Staff Th 6-9pm
MET UA 510 Special Topics in Urban Affairs: Urban Design
Two Sections offered: A1- Urban Design. D1-Urban Disasters and Resilient Cities. This special topics course focuses on the social and policy aspects of natural and man-made urban disasters. Particular attention will be given to public and private sector responses to disasters, including considerations on disaster planning. The course will examine a variety of urban disasters and the responses to them and will focus most closely on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires, the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995, the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. In addition to examining the causes and consequences of urban disasters, the course will look at how cities recover from disasters and what factors help them to become ‘resilient cities.’ This course can be seen as investigating the political economy of disasters, so we will examine the political, economic, and social ramifications of urban disasters. We will also look for common aspects of urban disasters as well as the ways in which they differ from each other. There is a burgeoning, but still not highly developed scholarship in this area and we will consult some of it. Prereq: MET UA 301, UA 701, or consent of instructor. Grad Prereq: (METUA301 & METUA701) or consent of instructor.
A1: Staff M 6-9pm D1: Carroll Th 6-9pm
MET UA 619 Metropolitan Transporation-Theory and Practice
This course will provide students with a broad introduction to important concepts and policy issues in transportation, principally at an urban and metropolitan level. In addition, the course will explore methods planning practitioners can use to analyze transportation problems and propose solutions. The course will use specific examples of planning initiatives (both operations and capital) from transportation agencies within the Boston Metropolitan region. Guest speakers from local, regional, and state transportation agencies within the Greater Boston Metropolitan area will supplement the instructor’s lectures and assigned readings.
Hassol T 6-9 pm
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