This is a full-year course.

This course explores the similarities and differences in the cultural patterning of human experience, compares economic, political, religious and family structures in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania and analyzes the impact of the modern world on traditional societies. Several ethnographic films are viewed in coordination with descriptive case studies. Limited to first-year students and sophomores. Total enrollment of each section limited to 25. Offered both semesters each year.

"Freedom" has long been a defining ideal of U.S. life, passionately desired and intensely contested. This course investigates freedom in its cultural and social aspects. How did the ideals of freedom become so intimately associated with "America," and specifically with the United States of America? How have various dispossessed peoples-slaves, immigrants, women, racial and ethnic minorities, colonized populations-looked to the ideals and practices of U.S. freedom to sustain their hopes and inform their actions?

Tutorial supervision by Smithsonian staff members. Given in Washington, D.C.

Exhibiting Culture: An Introduction to Museum Studies in America. This seminar examines the history, functions and meanings of museums in society, focusing primarily on the art museum in the United States. Drawing on the ever-growing literature on museology, we look critically at the ways that museums-through their policies, programs, architecture and exhibitions-can define regional or national values, shape cultural attitudes and identities, and influence public opinion about both current and historical events.

Individual supervision by a Smithsonian staff member. Given in Washington, D.C.

Admission by permission of the instructor and the director. This is a full-year course.

Admission by permission of the department. Proposals must be submitted in writing to the project director by the end of the first week of classes.

Introduction to a block-structured, object-oriented high-level programming language. Covering language syntax and use the language to teach program design, coding, debugging, testing and documentation. Procedural and data abstraction are introduced. Enrollment limited to 48; 24 per lab section.

Spanning the period from the 1950s to today, we investigate the shifting notions of national and cultural identity in East, West, and reunified Germany. We study both the history of migration as well as debates on German citizenship, nationhood and belonging to the society. The seminar combines philosophical texts, newspaper articles, literary materials, and films with public discussions and personal reflections on the topics of the seminar.