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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. American StudiesCAS 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 T 5:30pm-8:30pm GRS AM 736 The Literature of American Studies Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture. Required for first year AMNESP PhD students. Halter W 2pm-5pm GRS AM 751 Financing Historic Preservation This course will focus on how to determine the value and potential income of a property, produce a feasibility analysis, and secure financing for preservation projects. Prerequisites: GRS AM 546 or 746. Also offered as MET AM 751. Finbury W 6pm-9pm GRS AM 767 American Material Culture This course introduces the theory and practice of the study of material culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life. Material culture includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. We will read a wide range of contemporary scholarship on material culture from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, archeology, history, sociology, art and architectural history, and cultural studies. The course focuses particularly on American material culture and on material culture in the context of mass consumption but places it in a larger context of international studies in material culture in all times and places. Also offered as GRS AH 767. Sewell M 1pm-4pm
African American StudiesCAS AA 502 Literacy and African American Literature Focuses on the classic theme of literacy in African American literature, with an emphasis on stories of black physical and intellectual freedom, socio-cultural awareness, and political empowerment. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Audre Lorde. Also offered as CAS EN 587. Jarrett TR 2pm-3:30pm 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 9:30am-12:30pm 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. Boelcskevy R 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 1-4pm 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 F 11am-2pm CAS AA 569 African American Economic History Introduction to current research in African American economic history. Topics include slavery and its aftermath, the long-term evolution of racial economic differences, segregation, voting rights, and anti-discrimination legislation. Also offered as CAS EC 569. Margo R 3:30-6:30pm Prerequisite: EC101 or EC111 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 12pm-3pm 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. Heywood MWF 10-11am
AnthropologyGRS 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. White TR 9:30-11am 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 MWF 10-11am 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 TR 11am-12:30am
ArchaeologyGRS AR 701 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 W 10am-1pm GRS AR 771 New World Historical Archaeology: Postcolonial America Seminar of the archaeological study of America since the Revolution. Focus is on the archaeological and artifactual evidence for the development of plantation systems and slavery, induustrial and urban centers, ethnicity, and modern popular culture. Beaudry TR 9:30-11am, R 11am-12pm 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 TR 3:30pm-5pm
Art HistoryCAS 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 R 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 2-5pm GRS AH 786 Colloquium in Twentieth-Century American Painting (No description available.) Hills M 10am-12pm GRS AH 798 Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Architecture Meets with CAS AH GRS AH 891 Seminar on Documentary Photography A study of changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to the present. Topics will include urban photography, war imagery, topographical and survey landscapes, architectural records, social reform photography, New Deal imagery, and digital documents. We will concentrate on the rich archival resources available in the museums, university archives, and historical societies in the greater Boston area. Sichel F 10am-12pm
Communications: Film and TelevisionCOM 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 R 3:30pm-6:30pm 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. Permission required for non-COM students. Murray-Brown TR 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
EnglishCAS 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 MWF 12-1pm 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 MWF 2-3pm CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Mizruchi [A1] MWF 10-11am or Matthews [B1] M 3pm-5pm, W 3pm-4pm CAS EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction Syllabus varies from semester to semester but this course may be taken only once for credit. Fall 2007: Examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WW II. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison. Topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, “world-making,” and the fate of character. Spring 2008: Major American novels since 1980, by De Lillo, Morrison, O'Brien, Oates, Alexie, and others. Topics include conspiracy theory, multiculturalism, trauma and memory, postmodern spiritualities. Chodat TR 11am-12:30pm CAS EN 579 Studies in American Writers Topic for both Fall 2007 and Spring 2008: American Renaissance Poetry. Poetry by Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Poe, Melville, and others from 1820 to 1875. Van Anglen MWF 3-4pm CAS EN 587 Literacy and African American Literature Focuses on the classic theme of literacy in African American literature, with an emphasis on stories of black physical and intellectual freedom, socio-cultural awareness, and political empowerment. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Audre Lorde. Also offered as CAS AA 502. Jarrett TR 2pm-3:30pm 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 MWF 10am-11am GRS EN 665 Money and Marriage Marriage as literary plot, legal contract, market commodity, gendered constraint in the American novel 1796-1913. Readings in law, economics, history, criticism. Authors include Veblen, Gilman, Foster, Southworth, Howells, Norris, Wharton, James. Korobkin MWF 11am-12pm GRS EN 781 Native American & American Literature GRS EN 785 Queer Theory
HistoryCAS 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 12pm-3pm 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 1-4pm GRS HI 751 Recent American History: Politics and Popular Culture in 20th Century America GRS HI 763 American Intellectual History: Romantic to Modern in American Intellectual Culture Centers on the “long 19th century” origins of modernism in the US. Topics will include democratic culture, transatlantic Romanticism, Transcendentalism, environmentalism, liberal spirituality, realism, pragmatism, anti-modernism, bohemia, and “high” and vernacular modernism in the 1920s. Capper T 2-5pm 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 854 Religious Thought in America Surveys many of the strategies that American religious thinkers have adopted for interpreting the cosmos, the social order, and human experience and examines the interaction of those strategies with broader currents of American culture. Roberts MWF 2-3pm GRS HI 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 AA 871. Heywood MWF 10-11am 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 TR 9:30am-11am
Metropolitan CollegeMET 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. Maloney W 6pm-9pm MET EN 546 The Modern American Novel From 1900 to the present, including Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and selected contemporary novelists. Boots R 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. Delaney R 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. Smith T 6pm-9pm
ReligionGRS RN 615 Spiritual Autobiography American Spiritual Autobiographies. Explores the literary genre of spiritual autobiography as a window onto the varieties of American religious experience and the vagaries of the modern self. Attention to text and context, classic exemplars and contemporary American authors, and multiple religious traditions. Also offered as CAS 315 and STH TX 832. Freitas TR 12:30pm-2pm. GRS RN 727 Sexuality, Spirituality, and American Youth Culture Explores the shifting relationship between religious identity and sexual experience among American youth. Emphasis on Catholics and Protestants, especially evangelicals. Possible sources include popular teen dating/sex manuals, film, Catholic encyclicals, abstinence education literature, young adult novels. Freitas TR 3:30pm-5pm
SociologyCAS SO 534 Seminar: Modernity and Social Change Evaluation of globalization. Themes include historical bases of globalization in colonialism and imperialism; increasing global interconnectedness; work pattern shifts; power of transnational and financial institutions; social movements against globalization; possible replacement of globalization with the "new imperialism." Go F 2-5pm CAS SO 541 Modernity Seminar I These seminars look at the phenomenon of modernity from a multidisciplinary point of view. Discussed are the cultural foundations of modernity, specifically and primarily nationalism but also Romanticism, science, and major political ideologies. Also analyzed are modernization and development as studied by the social sciences, modernism, and postmodernism in literary and cultural studies; and the nature of man and society in the perspectives of modern philosophy. May be taken either or both semesters. Greenfeld M 4pm-7pm GRS SO 808 Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations Formation and position of ethnic minorities in the United States, including cross-group comparisons from England, Africa, and other parts of the world. Readings and field experience. Stone T 9am-12pm |
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