Courses

• GRS AH 891: Seminar: Photography
  Historical, archival, and theoretical examinations of photography, with emphasis on its role both as document and as art. Topic for Fall 2013: The Photographic Book. This seminar examines the photographic book throughout the years from 1839 to the present.
• GRS AH 895: Seminar: Twentieth-Century Art
  Topic for Spring 2013: Art and Critical Theory. This seminar explores how critical theorists associated with the Frankfurt School and French post-structuralism have influenced historians and critics of modern and contemporary art. Key figures include Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva and Lacan.
• GRS AL 902: Directed Study in Applied Linguistics
  Directed study in applied linguistics.
• GRS AM 699: Teaching College American Studies
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in American Studies. General teaching and learning issues. Required of all American Studies teaching fellows.
• 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. Required of all American Studies PhD students.
• GRS AM 736: The Literature of American Studies
  Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture. Required of all American Studies PhD students.
• GRS AM 747: Historic Building Conservation
  Theory and practicalities involved in conservation of historic buildings. This course will cover the history and theory of building conservation architectural investigations of building, including documentary, constructional, and finish materials to materials for conservation.
• GRS AM 754: Planning and Preservation
  Considers the methods employed to protect and plan for the historic landscape. Topics include the history of preservation planning and the broader planning profession, and a review of case law, legislation, and the protection strategies of current preservation practice.
• 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.
• GRS AM 867: Material Culture
  Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Explore contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AH 867.
• GRS AM 901: Directed Study in American and New England Studies
  
• GRS AM 902: Directed Study in American and New England Studies
  
• GRS AM 903: Directed Study in Historic Preservation
  A directed study in historic preservation. Topic varies with student's interest.
• GRS AN 699: Teaching College Anthropology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in anthropology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AN 703: Proseminar: Ethnography and the History of Social Theory in Anthropology
  Intensive introduction focusing on classic works of ethnography, social theory, and the history of the discipline from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Required of first-year graduate students and open to students in related disciplines with the consent of the instructor.
• GRS AN 704: Proseminar: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
  Examination of major theoretical trends and debates in anthropological theory from the 1960s to present.
• GRS AN 705: Graduate Proseminar in Anthropology: the Biological and Historical Past
  Examination of major contributions and debates in biological anthropology focusing on humanity's place in the natural world. Topics include evolutionary theory, fossil and living primates, human evolution, historical demography, human life histories, and the relationship between biology and culture.
• GRS AN 707: Turkey & Middle East Perspective (Area)
  Social and cultural diversity of the modern Middle East with particular attention to Turkey. Focus on the interplay of traditions and socio-economic changes that have occurred during the 20th century and their implications for the future.
• 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.
• GRS AN 710: Studies in North American Ethnography
  A survey including an appreciation of the traditional background and heritage of native North Americans, an analysis of the history and contact with Europeans and governmental policies, and an examination and evaluation of the contemporary situation.

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