SPECIAL STUDIES
This is a full-year course.
INTRO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The exploration of similarities and differences in the cultural patterning of human experience. The comparative analysis of economic, political, religious and family structures, with examples from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. 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.
SEM:AMERICAN SOCIETY & CULTURE
?Freedom? has long been a defining ideal of U.S. life, passionately desired and intensely contested. This course will investigate 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?
RESEARCH PROJECT-SMITHSONIAN
Tutorial supervision by Smithsonian staff members. Given in Washington, D.C.
SEM:AMER CULT: COPY IN MUSEUM
Exhibiting Culture: An Introduction to Museum Studies in America.
TUTORIAL:RES METH SMITHSONIAN
Individual supervision by a Smithsonian staff member. Given in Washington, D.C.
SPECIAL STUDIES
Admission by permission of the instructor and the director. This is a full-year course.
ADV WORK, SPEC PROBS IN GEOSCI
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.
INTRO COMP SCI TH PROGRAMMING
Introduction to a block-structured, object-oriented high-level programming language. Will cover 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.
Advanced Methods Mol Biology
This course is intended for Div III and advanced Div II students who are committed to proposing, developing, or carrying-through research projects involving techniques commonly used in a molecular biology lab. Students will integrate advanced approaches, protocols, and strategies for molecular biology.