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.

American Studies

CAS AM 546 Historic Preservation This course covers key aspects of the history, theory, philosophy, and modern practice of historic preservation in America, with a special focus on New England. Part of the core curriculum for the Preservation Studies Program, it offers an introduction to the American preservation movement, current issues, and critical skills that can be further developed in other classes. It also introduces students to key figures in several preservation agencies and organizations in this region through class lectures and group discussion. This course is usually the first course taken in the Program and is offered annually during the fall semester.  Also offered as MET AM 546. Dempsey M 5:30pm-8:30pm

GRS AM 736 The Literature of American Studies Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture. Halter W 2pm-5pm

GRS AM 747 Building Conservation This course introduces students to the goals and methods of building conservation, that aspect within the broader field of preservation that focuses on efforts to extend the lives of historic structures. Much of the course focuses on a consideration of materials, their deterioration, and the various options available for their repair, including a series of lectures focused on particular building materials and technologies. Field trips provide hands-on experience with building inspection, fabric analysis in the field and in the lab, and case studies of conservation challenges. In addition, students consider the various types and degrees of intervention undertaken by conservators and debate their relative value.  Prerequisites: GRS AM 546 or 746.  Also offered as MET AM 747. Bitterman W 5:30pm-8:30pm

GRS AM 754 Planning and Preservation This class covers the role of historic preservation planning at the national, state, regional, and local level, putting preservation planning both in an historical context and in the context of the larger field of planning.  The course will provide a survey of the theories and tools available to historic preservation planners to protect cultural resources at all levels of government and in the private sector, whether the context be urban, suburban, or rural, and whether the resource be a component of the built environment or other cultural heritage resource.  Students will also examine local dynamics that affect the stability of neighborhoods, considering the effects of economic, planning, political, and social patterns.  Students will complete a neighborhood preservation plan, developing objectives based upon an identification of cultural resources, and an implementation strategy utilizing preservation and other land uses tools.  Prerequisites: GRS AM 546 or 746.  Also offered as MET AM 754. Dray T 6pm-9pm

GRS AM 765 Readings in American Vernacular Architecture This seminar provides an opportunity to examine influential interpretive frameworks employed in the study of American buildings and the historic landscape, examples of the approach known as vernacular architecture. This approach emphasizes social and cultural forces in the production, use, and understanding of the built environment and examines innovative and interdisciplinary studies that have resulted in a reinterpretation of the forms and meanings of the American landscape. Each semester the course focuses on recent scholarship to examine how a number of authors have contributed to changing definitions, methods, and theories. Dempsey Th 2pm-5pm

African American Studies

CAS AA 504 African American and Asian American Women Writers Cross-cultural comparison of African American and Asian American women writers. Explores and evaluates the cultural impact of their work, and looks at how these two groups bound together by "otherness" pursue the theme of conflicting cultures. Also offered as CAS EN 371. Boelcskevy T 11am-2pm

CAS AA 507 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural pride, and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Also offered as CAS EN 377.  Prereq: consent of instructor. Boelcskevy Th 11am-2pm

CAS AA 514 Comparative Slavery The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Also offered as CAS HI 584. Thornton W 1pm-4pm

CAS AA 559 Reckoning with the Past: Reparations and Justice in Comparative Perspective The debate about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation in the United States examined critically as conversation about, and movement for, retrospective justice. Includes discussion of war crimes tribunals and truth commissions. Also offered as CAS PO 559. Crawford T 9:30am-12:30pm

CAS AA 580 The History of Racial Thought Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Also offered as CAS HI 580. Richardson M 12:30pm-3:30pm

CAS AA 583 Black Radical Thought Black radical thought in America, Europe, and Africa since the eighteenth century through writings of abolitionists, leaders of revolutions and liberation movements, and Black socialists. Emphasizes the global nature of the "Black World" and its role in world history. Also offered as CAS HI 583. Blakely T 12:30pm-3:30pm

GRS AA 871 African American History The history of African Americans from African origins to the present; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as GRS HI 871.  Meets with CAS AA 371 and CAS HI 371. Heywood M, W, F 10am-11am

Anthropology

GRS AN 745 Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel The movement of people across national boundaries as a cultural, economic and political phenomenon. Examines voluntary border-crossing in its various cultural and historical meanings as well as in the representations of journals and contemporary accounts.  Meets with AN 345. White T, Th 9:30am-11am

GRS AN 750 Asians in America A cultural history of Asian immigrants in the United States from the 1850's to the present, focusing on family structure, gender, generational differences, religion and education. The implications of the Asian experience for understanding mainstream American culture.  Meets with AN 350. Smith-Hefner M, W, F 10am-11am

GRS AN 840 Folk Songs as Social History Anglo-American folk songs and singing styles considered as expressions of personal, social, and cultural history. Topics include finding and using regional and thematic song collections; performance of traditional music; preparation and presentation of song materials in selected projects.  Meets with AN 340 & UNI HU 340.
Barrand T, Th 11am-12:30am

Archaeology

GRS AR 701 New The Intellectual History of Archaeology The historical development of archaeological methods and theory from the Renaissance to the present day, including comparison of major developments in Western Europe and the Americas with developments in other regions. Basic concepts in archaeological record and society. Hammond M 1pm-4pm

GRS AR 770 New World Historical Archaeology: Colonial America Seminar. Material culture of the people who colonized North America. Architecture, artifacts, and a variety of sites - domestic, military, commercial, sepulchral - are studied. Uses of archival evidence as factual and ethnographic documentation for archaeological interpretation are discussed.  Lecture meets with AR 370. Beaudry T, Th 11am-12:30pm (Lecture)  Beaudry Th 10am-11am (Discussion)

GRS AR 780 Archaeological Ethics and Law In this course students examine archaeology and professional ethics; archaeology as a public interest; legal organization of archaeology; international approaches to heritage management; looting, collecting, and the antiquities market; maritime law and underwater archaeology; cultural resource management in the United States.  Lecture meets with AR 480. Elia T, Th 2pm-3:30pm

Art History

CAS AH 520 The Museum and Historical Agency The history, present realities, and future possibilities of museums and historical agencies. Emphasis on the collection, preservation, and use of objects, as well as on the interaction of artists, dealers, collectors, donors, scholars, trustees, and museum professionals.  Grad Prereq: consent of the instructor and stamped approval. Hall Th 2pm-5pm

CAS AH 582 Historic Houses Studies the preservation of historic homes as museums, a phenomenon involving more that 26,000 houses throughout the U.S. since 1850. Considers Boston's excellent examples as works of architecture and design and as icons in debates about national and regional identities. Hall T 2pm-5pm

CAS AH 584 Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning Examines the buildings, development patterns, and open space planning of greater Boston, with particular emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Vernacular architecture and the growth of neighborhoods are addressed. Morgan W 9am-12pm

CAS AH 598 The Sister Arts Examination of how the linked activities of showing and telling, seeing and saying, have preoccupied Western culture since the time of Horace, whose influential comparison, ut pictura poesis, brought literature and painting into promising alignment. Explores the intimate relations between word and image by concentrating on such subjects as ekphrasis and spatial form. Also offered as CAS EN 598 and UNI HU 541.  Prereq: consent of instructor. Redford T, Th 9:30am-11am

GRS AH 779 Visual Culture in the 19th Century United States Explores the visual culture of the United States, from 1830 to 1910. Paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, and popular illustrations are studied as cultural forces within the context of expanding democracy, abolitionism, the Civil War, urbanism, immigration, and the women's movement.  Lecture meets with AH 379. Hills M, W, F 9am-10am (lecture)  Hills M 10am-12pm (discussion)

GRS AH 895 Seminar: 20th Century Art Ribner F 10am-12pm

Communications: Film and Television

COM FT 543 Television Comedy Examines the forms comedy has taken in television and determines critical methods for evaluating and judging this particular form of entertainment.  Permission required for non-COM Students. Loman M 11am-2pm

COM FT 553 A1 Special Topics: The Golden Age of TV Details are available from the Department of Film and Television. Permission required for non-COM Students. Loman Th 3:30pm-6:30pm

COM FT 553 B1 Special Topics: TV Myths, Icons and Stereotypes Details are available from the Department of Film and Television. Permission required for non-COM Students. Hallisey Th 9:30am-12:30pm

COM FT 553 D1 Special Topics: The Golden Age of TV Details are available from the Department of Film and Television. Permission required for non-COM Students. TBA Th 9am-11:30am

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.  Permission required for non-COM students. Murray-Brown T, Th 2pm-3:30pm, W 4pm-6pm

COM FT 722 American Masterworks Subjects vary with instructor. Directors include: D.W.Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, King Vidor, Frank Borzage, Victor Fleming, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, John Huston, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, and Woody Allen.  Permission required for non-COM students. Grundmann T 11:30am-4pm

English

CAS EN 533 American Literature: Beginnings to 1855 American literature from the beginning to the brink of the Civil War. Puritan origins, print culture, American poetic taste, entertainment, and the debate over slavery. Works by Bradstreet, Jefferson, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Jacobs, and Melville.  Permission Required. Otten M, W, F 2pm-3pm

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. Permission Required. Korobkin (A1)  M, W, F 1pm-2pm  or  Van Anglen (B1) M, W, F 2pm-3pm

CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Mizruchi M, W, F 1pm-2pm

CAS EN 574 Studies in Literary Genres: Film Noir Weekly screenings of classic and revisionist noirs (by Huston, Tourneur, Polanski, the Coen brothers) studied in conjunction with detective fiction (Poe, Conan Doyle, Hammett, Chandler, Thompson, Borges). Topics include gender divisions, fatal plots, the death drive, sex, and cigarettes.  Permission Required. Monk M, W 2pm-4:30pm

CAS EN 579 Studies in American Writers Two topics are offered in 2006/07. Students may take either or both for credit. (Note: Section A1 is offered in both Fall 2006 and Spring 2007). Section A1: 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. Section B1: Emerson. Close study of the major prose (essays, addresses, lectures, and sermons), poetry, and translations, paying special attention to Emerson’s evolving views on democracy, nationalism, culture, education, and the poet’s role in America.  Permission Required for both classes. Lee (A1) T, Th 2pm-3:30pm  or  Patterson (B1) T, Th 12:30pm-2pm

CAS EN 591 Studies in Literature and Society: American Literature of Slavery
Literature related to the United States slavery crisis, including works by Douglass, Stowe, Melville, Crafts, Jacobs, Poe, and Delany. Reading for context in primary historical and political documents. Lee T, Th 11am-12:30pm

GRS EN 604 History of Criticism 1 A survey of the most representative and influential trends in western literary criticism – from its classical foundation to the late nineteenth century–with special attention to the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped these responses.  Meets with EN 404. Patterson T, Th 3:30pm-5pm

GRS EN 665 Theories of the American Novel, 1789–1900 Origins of the American novel in the context of political and social theories of the developing nation, the influence of the British novel and recent critical approaches. How does the novel's form reflect and shape a social order?  Meets with EN 465. Otten M, W, F 12pm-1pm

GRS EN 676 Critical Studies in Literature and Gender: Writing Women Cross-cultural exploration of women’s aesthetic responses to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Poetic, novelistic, dramatic, critical accounts of events vast and intimate, from genocide and racism to maternity and depression. Readings include Mansfield’s Stories, Anne Frank’s Diary, Lahiri’s Namesake, Parks’s Red Letter Plays. Mizruchi M, W, F 11am-12pm

GRS EN 736 Modern Poetry and the Visual Arts The course will examine 20th-century poetry as it has emerged in relation to the visual arts, primarily painting, but also film, photography, and sculpture. Poets include Yeats, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Stein, O'Hara, Ashbery, and Graham. Costello Th 1pm-3:30pm

GRS EN 746 Sex, Money and Marriage in American Fiction 1797-1925 The "marriage market" and the development of the American novel: marriage as contract, commodity, seduction, perversion. Readings in law, economics, social history. Authors include Foster, Southworth, James, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, Fitzgerald. Korobkin W 4pm-6:30pm

History

CAS HI 580 The History of Racial Thought Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Also offered as CAS AA 580. Richardson M 12:30pm-3:30pm

CAS HI 583 Black Radical Thought Black radical thought in America, Europe, and Africa since the eighteenth century through writings of abolitionists, leaders of revolutions and liberation movements, Black nationalists, and Black socialists. Emphasizes the global nature of the "Black World" and its role in world history. Also offered as CAS AA 583. Blakely T 12:30pm-3:30pm

CAS HI 584 Comparative Slavery The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Also offered as CAS AA 514. Thornton W 1pm-4pm

GRS HI 749 United States History, 1850-1900
Silber M 12pm-3pm

GRS HI 750 Introduction to American History Examines the methodological and professional development of American historians since the 1880s, changes in the field since the founding period, and new directions in U.S. history. Required of all entering graduate students in history. Capper W 2pm-5pm

GRS HI 751 Recent American History
Schulman F 12pm-3pm

GRS HI 755 American Immigration History The experience of immigrants to the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include premigration cultures, theories of adaptation, perspectives on race, ethnicity, sojourner migrants, and the persistence of ethnic enclaves in the urban environment.
Halter T 12:30pm-3:30pm

GRS HI 781 Readings in Food History Survey of food history: how food influences, and is influenced by, politics, economics, climate, geography, technology, and culture. Considers the ways food history interconnects with other disciplines and raises important issues for an era of globalized food production, processing, and consumption. Glick W 6pm-9pm

GRS HI 868 Science and American Culture History of the interaction between science and American culture from the colonial period to the present. Course will include such topics as the American reception of Copernicus and Newton, scientific exploration, the interaction of science and religion, the impact of science on social theory, the rise of "big science," and the contemporary "science wars." Roberts/Glick M, W, F 2pm-3pm

GRS HI 871 African American History The history of African-Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Heywood. M, W, F 10am-11am

GRS HI 873 Intellectual History of the United States, 1776 to 1900 Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history from the Revolution to 1900. Topics include Revolutionary republicanism, evangelical theology and democratic theory, Transcendentalism and Romantic culture, antislavery and nationality, Victorian realism, liberal Protestantism and Darwinism, and evolutionary social science. Capper T, Th 9:30am-11am

Metropolitan College

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 Administration students contact the Arts Admin Dept, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Ranalli/Maloney W 6pm-9pm

MET AR 720 Marketing and Audience Development for the Arts This course is designed to provide fundamental background in the theory and principles of arts marketing and audience development used by nonprofit performing and visual arts organizations. Case analysis will be employed to review strategies and practices currently used in the cultural sector. Students will be expected to develop their own marketing plans for an arts organization.  Grad Prereq: MET AR 690. Bailey Th 6pm-9pm

MET AR 722 Education in Cultural Institutions Course will review the history, theory, and practice of educational programming and outreach in both museums and performing arts organizations. Emphasis will be on analysis of program design, implementation, and evaluation; teacher training and youth programs. Sutherland T 6pm-9pm

MET AR 740 Arts and the Internet Explores topics relating to cultural institutions, the Internet, and digital technology. Special attention is given to critical examination of the virtual museum, performing arts organizations and Web site development, strategy, design and tools.
Olschafskie M 6pm-9pm

MET AR 750 Financial Management for Nonprofits Analyzes issues of accounting, finance, and economics in the context of the not-for-profit organization. Stresses understanding financial statements, budget planning and control, cash flow analysis, and long term planning.  Grad Prereq: MET AC 630 or accounting equivalent. Orlinoff M 6pm-9pm

MET AR 779 Public Art Program Administration An overview of public art programs in the United States and of related management issues. Includes government-sponsored funds for art and other funding systems; and working with federal, state, and local governments; artists; architects; and community groups. Barreto T 6pm-9pm

MET UA 508 Real Estate Development Various factors affecting location, construction, financing, and marketing of real estate in metropolitan areas. Studies the relationship of public policy to the activities of the private sector, market analysis techniques, evaluation of development projects, and problems of real estate investment.  Non-MET Students, See UA Dept., 808 Comm. Ave. Smith W 6pm-9pm

MET UA 509 Urban and Public Finance and Budgeting Economic, social, and political aspects of state and local government finances. Theory of public finance; revenues, expenditures, and survey of budgetary processes. Planning techniques in capital budgeting and other finance activities. Selected issues: debt, user fees, property taxes, and incentives. Staff M 6pm-9pm

MET UA 515 Urban Planning History, concepts, and methods of contemporary urban and regional planning practice. Governmental, nonprofit, and private settings of professional planning; plans, research, and policy development; uses and implementation of planning. Political analysis of planning issues, such as comprehensiveness, public interest, advocacy, negotiation, and future orientation. Case materials drawn from redevelopment, growth management, land use conflicts, and service delivery.  Non-MET Students, See UA Dept., 808 Comm. Ave. Silva M 6pm-9pm

MET UA 611 Community Development Examination of community development challenges in several areas, including housing, economic development, community policing, and resident activism. Analysis of past and present strategies for strengthening communities through case studies, actual government and community programs, guest lectures, and related readings.  Non-MET Students, See UA Dept., 808 Comm. Ave. McCluskey W 6pm-9pm

MET UA 704 Urban Economic Issues and Analysis Basic economic concepts and techniques of analysis necessary for urban public policy development. Analysis of the economic bases of selected current urban problems and evaluation of several policy solutions to common urban problems.  Non-MET Students, See UA Dept., 808 Comm. Ave. Staff Th 6pm-9p

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