American Studies

CAS AM 502 Special Topics in American Studies: The Short Fiction of Henry James A study of the late short stories, novellas, and other short fiction of Henry James. Titles to be read will include: The Sacred Fount, The Aspern Papers, In the Cage, The Papers, and a selection of James's stories. James was one of the greatest “stylists” in all of literature. One of the central questions we will explore is the function of style in altering the reader's consciousness and creating alternative realities, and the challenges stylistically inflected works present to ideological or sociological understandings of the function of art. Carney T, Th 12:30-2

GRS AM 735 Studies in American Culture Introduction to handling of primary materials from a number of disciplines in order to develop an American Studies perspective. Permission Required. Mizruchi M 12-3

GRS AM 751 Financing Historic Preservation Development 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. Finbury T 6-9pm

GRS AM 753 Documenting Historic Buildings Designed to train students in architectural research techniques through supervised reading, fieldwork, and writing. Course work introduces students to the skills needed to conduct research on both individual resources and groups of resources, clustered within an area or scattered throughout a community. Emphasizing efficiency and reliability in its consideration of sources and methods, discussion helps students develop reasonable research designs and carefully evaluate evidence. To test the approaches and sample the sources introduced during the semester, students in the seminar participate in a research project to document a particular building or group of buildings.   Also offered as GRS AH 764. Permission Required. Cross-listed with MET AM 753 Dempsey W 6-9

GRS AM 755 Colloquium in Preservation Planning  This course may be the finale of the master's program for those who intend to pursue a career in preservation planning. It is an opportunity to pull together the various planning tools available to identify, evaluate, and protect cultural resources. A group project exposes students to the various aspects of planning and allows them to accomplish a finite goal within the planning process. Past classes have developed preservation plans for communities or for specific resources. Readings and class discussion reach beyond the specific project to include the tools, the philosophy, and the purpose of preservation planning, how preservation becomes part of the overall planning process, and the role of preservation planning in growth management. This course is offered as necessary during the spring semester. Cross-listed with MET AM 755 Dray TBA

African American Studies

CAS AA 502 Topics in African American Literature

Two topics are offered in Spring 2006; 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.

A1 Boelcskevy T 12:30-3:30 B1 Breiner   M,W,F 12-1

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 W 1-4

CAS AA 588 Women, Power, and Culture in Africa

Understanding the role of women in African history. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, power, religion, the economy, resistance movements, health, the state, and kinship. Emphasis on the period before independence.

Heywood TH 2-5

GRS AA 885 Atlantic History

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 2-3:30

Archaeology

GRS AR 805 Archaeological Heritage Management

Introduction to the practice of public archaeology in the United States. Historical and legal background; state and federal programs; conducting archaeological investigations; archaeology as business; the public interest; controversies, problems, and prospects in archaeological heritage management.

Elia F 10-1

GRS AR 810 International Heritage Management

Investigations of issues in archeological heritage management at the international level. Approaches, challenges, and solutions to problems in the identification, evaluation, conservation, management, and interpretation of archaeological resources. Focus on specific topics (e.g. legislation) and/or geographical regions.

Mughal M 10-1

Art History

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. Prerequisite:   consent of instructor and stamped approval.

Sichel T 2-5

CAS AH 531 Modern Asian Art in a Global Context

Historical and theoretical perspectives on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art from 1850 to 1990. Explores movements in painting, calligraphy, ceramics, performance art, and film with attention to diasporal figures and issues including modernization, East-West

dialogue, and cultural identity and tradition. Prerequisite:   consent of instructor.

Tseng T 9-12

CAS AH 570 Early American Architecture

This course introduces students to early American architecture, focusing primarily on the regions along the Atlantic coast between 1607 and 1830. Students study both domestic architecture and public buildings, with a particular emphasis on houses, on churches and meetinghouses, and on buildings within their landscapes. Themes addressed include settlement and the establishment of regional patterns, period building practice, the social analysis of building use, the influence of consumption and gentility, and the interplay between local practice and metropolitan fashion. The course format combines slide-illustrated lectures with discussion, complemented by periodic fieldtrips to early buildings. Dempsey T 2-5

CAS AH 595 English Country House

For almost three centuries, the country house played a central role in English literary culture. Exploration of a variety of poetic and fictional texts, with attention to related issues of architecture and landscape design. Also offered as CAS EN 595 and UNI HU

595.

Redford T, TH 11-12:30

GRS AH 804 Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary. Grad Prerequisite:   Consent of instructor.

Cambareri TH 2-4

GRS AH 834 Seminar: Art and Politics in the Roman Empire

The seminar will focus on the ways that emperors and private citizens alike used sculptures, paintings, buildings, and other art forms as tools to advertise achievements and mold public opinion. Sculptured and painted portraits, historical reliefs, triumphal arches, honorary columns, forums, amphitheaters, temples, tombs and funerary reliefs, coins and cameos will be studied in their political and social contexts.

Kleiner TH 9-11

GRS AH 863 Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture

Zell W 10-12

GRS AH 884 Seminar: Inside the Institution

This research seminar will examine the world of institutional architecture from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States. Throughout the term, students will conduct independent research developed in consultation with the professor. During the first half of the course, seminar participants will read and discuss a range of methodological responses to institutional design. Then the responsibility will pass to the students to present their independent research. For the purposes of this course, institutions will be considered residential/work communities of any kind, such as hospitals and insane asylums, almshouses and poor farms, prisons and penitentiaries, residential schools and colleges, convents and monasteries, etc. Recent scholarship on power relationships, gender ordering, spatial politics, the histories or science, medicine and religion, as well as writings from the period, will be examined to develop appropriate methods of questioning these building complexes. Utopian as well as other institutions will be considered. A major research paper will be the central product of the term.

Morgan W 1-2

GRS AH 888 Seminar: Twentieth-Century American Painting

Stebbins W 3-5

GRS AH 889 Seminar: 19th Century Art

Ribner TH 1:30-4:30

GRS AH 895 Seminar: Theories of the Avant-Garde since 1960

Since the early 1960s, critics and theorists have assessed the fate of the historical avant-gardes with a view to understanding the potential for contemporary neo-avant-gardes. In this seminar we will read a wide range of authors (e.g., Enzensberger, Poggioli, Bürger, Calinescu and Buchloh) and consider art movements (Situationism, Fluxus, Arte Povera, Conceptual art, institutional critique, and others)located at the center of debates regarding the promise or impossibility of reviving avant-garde practices after World War II.

Williams M 9-11

Communications: Film and Television

COM FT 533 American Independent Film

A survey of cinema from the past three decades originating outside of the studio system. Though the screening list changes from semester to semester, filmmakers to be dealt with include Elaine May, Barbara Loder, John Cassavetes, Robert Kramer, Mark Rappaport, and Charles Burnett, among others. Permission reqd

Carney T,Th 9-11:30

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 reqd

Murray-Brown T,Th 2-3:30 W 4-6

COM FT 712 Television, Culture, and Society

Issues of content, representation, regulation, effects, and ethics in television. Specific areas include children's programming, representation of women and ethnic groups, violence, educational, and prosocial aspects. Also covers methods of social inquiry, including students' own practical assignments. Permission reqd

Loman M 1-4

English

CAS EN 534 American Literature: 1855 to 1918

Idealism and realism in American literature. Poetry of Whitman and Dickinson. Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Henry Adams. Theory and practice of fiction in Twain, Henry James, and Stephen Crane. Permission Reqd

Korobkin M,W,F 1-2

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.

Costello T, TH 12:30-2

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 Reqd

Van Anglen T, TH 9:30-11

CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel

From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Permission Reqd

Van Anglen T, TH 3:30-5

CAS EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction

An examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WWII. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison; topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, "world-making," and the fate of character.

Chodat M,W, F 11-12

C AS EN 553 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

English drama from the Restoration (1660) to the Licensing Act (1737). Operas, rhymed plays, sex comedies, tragicomedies, ballad operas. Works by Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, Etherege, Otway, Shadwell, Southerne, Lee, Congreve, Farquhar, Addison, Gay, Fielding.

Winn T, TH 12:30-2

CAS EN 571 Studies in American Literary Movements

Topic for Spring 2006: Transcendental Poetics. Transcendental poetics takes on a set of challenges: How can one know reality, express it beautifully, and live better in the world? Emerson's epistemology and aesthetics engage such questions, as does the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, and lesser American Transcendentalists.

  Lee T, TH 2-3:30

CAS EN 580 Studies in American Writers

Two topics are offered in 2005/2006. Students may take either or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2005: Faulkner. Principal novels and short fiction, including The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet. Considerations of biographical, social, cultural contexts. Relations to regionalism, Southern Renaissance, modernism. Influence and status as world writer. Topic for Spring 2006: Wharton/Dreiser. Study of Dreiser's and Wharton's major fiction. Special attention to genre (American literary realism and naturalism), cultural issues in historical context (urbanism, sexuality, marriage, capitalism), influence of other discourses (anthropology, Darwinism), shifts in each author's critical reputation.

Korobkin M, W, F 11-12

CAS EN 588 Studies in African American Literature

Topic for Spring 2006: Caribbean Poetry. A study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry in English(es). Anthologies and major figures (Walcott, Brathwaite, Goodison, Roach). Consideration of the poet in a small society, creole vs. standard language, oral vs. literate norms, relations to diverse literary traditions. Also offered as CAS AA 538.

Breiner M, W, F 12-1

CAS EN 592 Literary Criticism II

  Survey of principal schools of literary criticism, late nineteenth century through present. Topics: Cultural Studies, Formalism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Marxism, Literary Psychoanalysis, Feminism, New Historicism, Gender Theory, Race and Ethnic Studies, Post-Colonial Studies.

Stauffer M,W, F 12-1

CAS EN 594 Studies in Literature and the Arts

Prereq: seniors and graduate students only. Requires stamped approval

Redford T,Th 11-12:30

GRS EN 606

Matthews T, TH 11-12:30

GRS EN 665 Critical Studies in Literature and Society

Topic for Spring 2006: Social 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?

Otten M,W,F 12-1

GRS EN 676 rst Lit&Gender

Murphy T, TH 9:30-11 or Mizruchi M, W, F 10-11

GRS EN 736 Subject of Literature

Wagenknecht F 12-2:30

GRS EN 782 Laughter and Literature

Riquelme T 3:30-6

GRS EN 796 Religion and Culture in Modern America

Explores role of American culture (20th-21st centuries), focusing on literature and film (Kushner's Angels, Gibson's Passion, Morrison's Beloved, etc.), drawing on social and cultural theory (Girard, Todorov, Smith) where religious meaning is a central concern.

Mizruchi M 12-2:30

GRS EN 798 American Tragedies

This seminar aims to develop new categories for understanding contemporary tragedy, categories that emerge out of the interaction between American theatre and mass media since 1945. Includes works by Miller, Williams, Shepard, Mamet, Smith, DeLillo, Parks, Goodman.

 Smith W 12-2:30

History

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.

Zelizer . M 1-4.

GRS HI 751. Recent American History. A research seminar in which students will complete an article-length essay based on original research in primary sources. Focused on the post-World War II period (1945-73), the course will include sessions at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the WGBH Archives.

Schulman . TH 5-8.

GRS HI 850. History of International Relations Since 1945. The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the non-aligned blocs, and inter- and intra-alliance conflicts. Keylor TH 2-3:30.

GRS HI 854. Religious Thought in America. This course 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 M,W,F 10-11.

GRS HI 863. Twentieth-Century United States, 1900-1945. Industrialization; progressivism; science; religion; expansion and World War I, immigration; the women's movement; Jim Crow; the Great Depression and New Deal; World War II, politics, culture, and diplomacy.

Schulman . TH 9:30-11.

GRS HI 865. United States Since 1968. Recent political, economic, social, and cultural history. Includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies; stagflation; Watergate; "Me Decade"; end of the Cold War.

Schulman . TH 12:30-2.

GRS HI 875. A History of Women in the United States. This course examines the ideas and experiences of women in the United States from the 1600s through the late twentieth century. The course considers the common factors that shaped women's lives as well as women's diverse class, ethnic, and regional experiences.

Silber . TH 11-12:30.

GRS HI 885 Atlantic History

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 2-3:30

Metropolitan College

MET AR 711 Capital Campaigns

This course is designed to broaden the student's understanding of capital campaign fundraising. Topics include: feasibility studies; strategic planning and budgeting; private and public phases; ethical responsibilities; staff, donor, volunteer, board, and trustee management; major gift solicitation; campaign communications; trend analysis; and evaluation. The course curriculum will include readings, case studies, guest speakers, and analysis of current capital campaign projects. (Stamped approval for non-arts administration students.)

Doorley M 6-9

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.

MET AC 630 or accounting equivalent.   TBA   6-9

MET UA 751 Introduction to Urban Planning and Decision Theory

The role and process of planning in terms of theory and historical development. Tradition of rational/comprehensive and incremental decision theory: roles and functions, organization, participation, political relationships, and time and information use. Relationships between planning, ideology, ethics, social change, and implementation.

Silva W 6-9

MET UA 805 The Boston Urban Symposium

The Boston based Urban Symposium will be a thematic Spring symposium, required for students in the Urban Affairs and City Planning programs. The class meetings will weave together the interdisciplinary nature of the urban planning and city planning professions. While the symposium topics will change each spring, professionals and industry leaders will be invited to lecture on their experiences, contemporary challenges to the professions, and major problems confronting the public and private sectors. Recognizing the unique and diverse characteristics of the Boston urban environment, the symposium themes will be drawn from topical issues that involve the greater Boston metropolitan area. The course features a combination of guest speakers and academic case studies that emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of urban planning.

LeClair M 6-9

This course may be the finale of the master's program for those who intend to pursue a career in preservation planning. It is an opportunity to pull together the various planning tools available to identify, evaluate, and protect cultural resources. A group project exposes students to the various aspects of planning and allows them to accomplish a finite goal within the planning process. Past classes have developed preservation plans for communities or for specific resources. Readings and class discussion reach beyond the specific project to include the tools, the philosophy, and the purpose of preservation planning, how preservation becomes part of the overall planning process, and the role of preservation planning in growth management. This course is offered as necessary during the spring semester. Cross-listed with MET AM7 55

Dray TBA

Archaeology

GRS AR 805 Archaeological Heritage Management

Introduction to the practice of public archaeology in the United States. Historical and legal background; state and federal programs; conducting archaeological investigations; archaeology as business; the public interest; controversies, problems, and prospects in archaeological heritage management.

Elia F 10-1

GRS AR 810 International Heritage Management

Investigations of issues in archeological heritage management at the international level. Approaches, challenges, and solutions to problems in the identification, evaluation, conservation, management, and interpretation of archaeological resources. Focus on specific topics (e.g. legislation) and/or geographical regions.

Mughal M 10-1

Art History

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. Prerequisite:   consent of instructor and stamped approval.

Sichel T 2-5

CAS AH 531 Modern Asian Art in a Global Context

Historical and theoretical perspectives on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art from 1850 to 1990. Explores movements in painting, calligraphy, ceramics, performance art, and film with attention to diasporal figures and issues including modernization, East-West

dialogue, and cultural identity and tradition. Prerequisite:   consent of instructor.

Tseng T 9-12

CAS AH 570 Early American Architecture

This course introduces students to early American architecture, focusing primarily on the regions along the Atlantic coast between 1607 and 1830. Students study both domestic architecture and public buildings, with a particular emphasis on houses, on churches and meetinghouses, and on buildings within their landscapes. Themes addressed include settlement and the establishment of regional patterns, period building practice, the social analysis of building use, the influence of consumption and gentility, and the interplay between local practice and metropolitan fashion. The course format combines slide-illustrated lectures with discussion, complemented by periodic fieldtrips to early buildings. Dempsey T 2-5

CAS AH 595 English Country House

For almost three centuries, the country house played a central role in English literary culture. Exploration of a variety of poetic and fictional texts, with attention to related issues of architecture and landscape design. Also offered as CAS EN 595 and UNI HU

595.

Redford T, TH 11-12:30

GRS AH 804 Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary. Grad Prerequisite:   Consent of instructor.

Cambareri TH 2-4

GRS AH 834 Seminar: Art and Politics in the Roman Empire

The seminar will focus on the ways that emperors and private citizens alike used sculptures, paintings, buildings, and other art forms as tools to advertise achievements and mold public opinion. Sculptured and painted portraits, historical reliefs, triumphal arches, honorary columns, forums, amphitheaters, temples, tombs and funerary reliefs, coins and cameos will be studied in their political and social contexts.

Kleiner TH 9-11

GRS AH 863 Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture

Zell W 10-12

GRS AH 884 Seminar: Inside the Institution

This research seminar will examine the world of institutional architecture from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States. Throughout the term, students will conduct independent research developed in consultation with the professor. During the first half of the course, seminar participants will read and discuss a range of methodological responses to institutional design. Then the responsibility will pass to the students to present their independent research. For the purposes of this course, institutions will be considered residential/work communities of any kind, such as hospitals and insane asylums, almshouses and poor farms, prisons and penitentiaries, residential schools and colleges, convents and monasteries, etc. Recent scholarship on power relationships, gender ordering, spatial politics, the histories or science, medicine and religion, as well as writings from the period, will be examined to develop appropriate methods of questioning these building complexes. Utopian as well as other institutions will be considered. A major research paper will be the central product of the term.

Morgan W 1-2

GRS AH 888 Seminar: Twentieth-Century American Painting

Stebbins W 3-5

GRS AH 889 Seminar: 19th Century Art

Ribner TH 1:30-4:30

GRS AH 895 Seminar: Theories of the Avant-Garde since 1960

Since the early 1960s, critics and theorists have assessed the fate of the historical avant-gardes with a view to understanding the potential for contemporary neo-avant-gardes. In this seminar we will read a wide range of authors (e.g., Enzensberger, Poggioli, Bürger, Calinescu and Buchloh) and consider art movements (Situationism, Fluxus, Arte Povera, Conceptual art, institutional critique, and others)located at the center of debates regarding the promise or impossibility of reviving avant-garde practices after World War II.

Williams M 9-11

Communications: Film and Television

COM FT 533 American Independent Film

A survey of cinema from the past three decades originating outside of the studio system. Though the screening list changes from semester to semester, filmmakers to be dealt with include Elaine May, Barbara Loder, John Cassavetes, Robert Kramer, Mark Rappaport, and Charles Burnett, among others. Permission reqd

Carney T,Th 9-11:30

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 reqd

Murray-Brown T,Th 2-3:30 W 4-6

COM FT 712 Television, Culture, and Society

Issues of content, representation, regulation, effects, and ethics in television. Specific areas include children's programming, representation of women and ethnic groups, violence, educational, and prosocial aspects. Also covers methods of social inquiry, including students' own practical assignments. Permission reqd

Loman M 1-4

English

CAS EN 534 American Literature: 1855 to 1918

Idealism and realism in American literature. Poetry of Whitman and Dickinson. Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Henry Adams. Theory and practice of fiction in Twain, Henry James, and Stephen Crane. Permission Reqd

Korobkin M,W,F 1-2

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.

Costello T, TH 12:30-2

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 Reqd

Van Anglen T, TH 9:30-11

CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel

From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others. Permission Reqd

Van Anglen T, TH 3:30-5

CAS EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction

An examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WWII. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison; topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, "world-making," and the fate of character.

Chodat M,W, F 11-12

C AS EN 553 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

English drama from the Restoration (1660) to the Licensing Act (1737). Operas, rhymed plays, sex comedies, tragicomedies, ballad operas. Works by Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, Etherege, Otway, Shadwell, Southerne, Lee, Congreve, Farquhar, Addison, Gay, Fielding.

Winn T, TH 12:30-2

CAS EN 571 Studies in American Literary Movements

Topic for Spring 2006: Transcendental Poetics. Transcendental poetics takes on a set of challenges: How can one know reality, express it beautifully, and live better in the world? Emerson's epistemology and aesthetics engage such questions, as does the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, and lesser American Transcendentalists.

  Lee T, TH 2-3:30

CAS EN 580 Studies in American Writers

Two topics are offered in 2005/2006. Students may take either or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2005: Faulkner. Principal novels and short fiction, including The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet. Considerations of biographical, social, cultural contexts. Relations to regionalism, Southern Renaissance, modernism. Influence and status as world writer. Topic for Spring 2006: Wharton/Dreiser. Study of Dreiser's and Wharton's major fiction. Special attention to genre (American literary realism and naturalism), cultural issues in historical context (urbanism, sexuality, marriage, capitalism), influence of other discourses (anthropology, Darwinism), shifts in each author's critical reputation.

Korobkin M, W, F 11-12

CAS EN 588 Studies in African American Literature

Topic for Spring 2006: Caribbean Poetry. A study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry in English(es). Anthologies and major figures (Walcott, Brathwaite, Goodison, Roach). Consideration of the poet in a small society, creole vs. standard language, oral vs. literate norms, relations to diverse literary traditions. Also offered as CAS AA 538.

Breiner M, W, F 12-1

CAS EN 592 Literary Criticism II

  Survey of principal schools of literary criticism, late nineteenth century through present. Topics: Cultural Studies, Formalism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Marxism, Literary Psychoanalysis, Feminism, New Historicism, Gender Theory, Race and Ethnic Studies, Post-Colonial Studies.

Stauffer M,W, F 12-1

CAS EN 594 Studies in Literature and the Arts

Prereq: seniors and graduate students only. Requires stamped approval

Redford T,Th 11-12:30

GRS EN 606

Matthews T, TH 11-12:30

GRS EN 665 Critical Studies in Literature and Society

Topic for Spring 2006: Social 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?

Otten M,W,F 12-1

GRS EN 676 rst Lit&Gender

Murphy T, TH 9:30-11 or Mizruchi M, W, F 10-11

GRS EN 736 Subject of Literature

Wagenknecht F 12-2:30

GRS EN 782 Laughter and Literature

Riquelme T 3:30-6

GRS EN 796 Religion and Culture in Modern America

Explores role of American culture (20th-21st centuries), focusing on literature and film (Kushner's Angels, Gibson's Passion, Morrison's Beloved, etc.), drawing on social and cultural theory (Girard, Todorov, Smith) where religious meaning is a central concern.

Mizruchi M 12-2:30

GRS EN 798 American Tragedies

This seminar aims to develop new categories for understanding contemporary tragedy, categories that emerge out of the interaction between American theatre and mass media since 1945. Includes works by Miller, Williams, Shepard, Mamet, Smith, DeLillo, Parks, Goodman.

 Smith W 12-2:30

History

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.

Zelizer . M 1-4.

GRS HI 751. Recent American History. A research seminar in which students will complete an article-length essay based on original research in primary sources. Focused on the post-World War II period (1945-73), the course will include sessions at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the WGBH Archives.

Schulman . TH 5-8.

GRS HI 850. History of International Relations Since 1945. The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the non-aligned blocs, and inter- and intra-alliance conflicts. Keylor TH 2-3:30.

GRS HI 854. Religious Thought in America. This course 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 M,W,F 10-11.

GRS HI 863. Twentieth-Century United States, 1900-1945. Industrialization; progressivism; science; religion; expansion and World War I, immigration; the women's movement; Jim Crow; the Great Depression and New Deal; World War II, politics, culture, and diplomacy.

Schulman . TH 9:30-11.

GRS HI 865. United States Since 1968. Recent political, economic, social, and cultural history. Includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies; stagflation; Watergate; "Me Decade"; end of the Cold War.

Schulman . TH 12:30-2.

GRS HI 875. A History of Women in the United States. This course examines the ideas and experiences of women in the United States from the 1600s through the late twentieth century. The course considers the common factors that shaped women's lives as well as women's diverse class, ethnic, and regional experiences.

Silber . TH 11-12:30.

GRS HI 885 Atlantic History

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 2-3:30

Metropolitan College

MET AR 711 Capital Campaigns

This course is designed to broaden the student's understanding of capital campaign fundraising. Topics include: feasibility studies; strategic planning and budgeting; private and public phases; ethical responsibilities; staff, donor, volunteer, board, and trustee management; major gift solicitation; campaign communications; trend analysis; and evaluation. The course curriculum will include readings, case studies, guest speakers, and analysis of current capital campaign projects. (Stamped approval for non-arts administration students.)

Doorley M 6-9

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.

MET AC 630 or accounting equivalent.   TBA   6-9

MET UA 751 Introduction to Urban Planning and Decision Theory

The role and process of planning in terms of theory and historical development. Tradition of rational/comprehensive and incremental decision theory: roles and functions, organization, participation, political relationships, and time and information use. Relationships between planning, ideology, ethics, social change, and implementation.

Silva W 6-9

MET UA 805 The Boston Urban Symposium

The Boston based Urban Symposium will be a thematic Spring symposium, required for students in the Urban Affairs and City Planning programs. The class meetings will weave together the interdisciplinary nature of the urban planning and city planning professions. While the symposium topics will change each spring, professionals and industry leaders will be invited to lecture on their experiences, contemporary challenges to the professions, and major problems confronting the public and private sectors. Recognizing the unique and diverse characteristics of the Boston urban environment, the symposium themes will be drawn from topical issues that involve the greater Boston metropolitan area. The course features a combination of guest speakers and academic case studies that emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of urban planning.

LeClair M 6-9