Same as AAS 245. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movement in African-American history. This class will focus on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers and subjects will include: Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.

Same as ENG 282.
A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movements in Afican-American history. This class will focus on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers will include: Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen among others.

Same as AAS 175.
A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 170, Survey of Afro-American Literature 1746 to 1900. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

Same as ENG 236. A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 113, Survey of Afro-American Literature 1746 to 1900. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

An introduction to formal analysis and tonal harmony, and a study of pieces in the standard repertory. Regular exercises in harmony. Prerequisite: ability to read standard pitch and rhythmic notation in treble and bass clefs, major and minor key signatures, time signatures, and to name intervals. (A placement test is given before the fall semester for incoming students). One fifty-minute ear training section required per week, in addition to classroom meetings. Sections are limited to 20.

Topics course. This course surveys the history and cultures of Spain through its visual arts. We will examine specific works, most of which are owned by the Smith College Museum of Art, in order to discuss the role of visual arts in religion, politics, and the construction of a national identity. Major styles and artists covered are: medieval miniatures and manuscripts, Andalusi architecture and textiles, El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Sorolla, Barcelona Modernism (Gaudi), Picasso, Dali and Miro.

Topics course. This is a hinge course between beginning-intermediate and advanced-intermediate courses. Students will read and practice creative writing (essays and pieces of fiction) with the aid of fictional and biographical pieces written by Spanish women from the 12th century to our day. Its goal is to develop: students? competence and self-confidence in the analysis of short and longer fiction in Spanish; knowledge of the history of women?s writing in Spain; and acquisition of linguistic and cultural literacy in Spanish through playful fiction writing. Enrollment limited to 19.

By permission of the department, normally for senior majors.

Topics course. This intermediate language course will serve as a grammar review and will help students develop greater facility in oral expression, reading and writing, through work with a variety of digital, broadcast, and print media. Class discussions and assignments will consider key issues and trends in contemporary Brazilian society and culture as expressed through a selection of media forms and texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, websites, television and radio programs, advertisements, graphic novels, and films. Conducted in Portuguese.

The field of various "wellbeing practices," including alternative and complementary medicines, has grown considerably over the past decades. This seminar considers what is at stake in the rise of the wellbeing arena. Why are increasing numbers of people turning to non-biomedical practices? How can we understand the significance of the wellbeing sphere for those engaging in different alternative and complementary health practices? What do alternative and complementary medicines treat and what kinds of ideas of health and healing do these practices entail?