Academics
New Approved Courses
Fall 2013
The following new courses have been approved for the Fall 2013 semester.
| Department/Program | Course No. & Designator | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ANTH V3008 | Maximum Cinemas: Indian and Nigerian Film Cultures |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3106 | Post-Socialist China: State, Society, and Globalization |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3761 | Ethnographic Research: Methods and Concepts |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3762 | Native Meaning |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3831 | Cultures and Economies: Explorations in Economic Anthropology |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3872 | Social Studies of Energy |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3879 | The Medical Imaginary |
| Art History and Archaeology | AHIS W3813 | Materiality in the Middle Ages |
| Art History and Archaeology | AHIS W3894 | The Floating World |
| Art History and Archaeology | AHIS W3966 | The Printed Image and Invention of the Viewer |
| Astronomy | ASTR C3106 | The Science of Space Exploration |
| Astronomy & Astrophysics | ASTR C3996 | Current Research in Astrophysics |
| Biological Sciences | BIOL W4001 | Advanced Genetic Analysis |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | CSER W3915 | Native American and Indigenous Film |
| Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | CSER W3961 | Wealth and Poverty in America |
| Chemistry | CHEM G4071 | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Classics | CLCV V3101 | The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia |
| Classics | GREK V3015 | Philo of Alexandra: Historical Essays and the Contemplative Life |
| Classics | GRKM W4300 | Worlding C.P. Cavafy: Desire, Media, Translation |
| Comparative Literature and Society | CPLS W3722 | Narrative and Disability |
| EALAC | EAAS W3930 | Three Moments in Chinese Medical History |
| EALAC | HSEA W3936 | Media, Empire, and Information Management in the History of Chinese Writing, 1000 BCE-Present |
| EALAC | EAAS W3970 | Transnational Genre: Documentary Film |
| EALAC | EAAS G4025 | Development and Globalization: Lessons from East Asia and Latin America |
| Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | EEEB W4111 | Ecosystem Ecology and Global Change |
| Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | EEEB W4112 | Ichthyology |
| Economics | ECON W4230 | Economics of New York City |
| Economics | ECON W4700 | Financial Crises |
| English and Comparative Literature | CLEN W3927 | Seminar: Medieval Environments |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3256 | Country and City in the 19th-Century European Novel |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENTA W3786 | New York Theatre: Performance and the Arts |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3818 | Renaissance Epic and Romance in England |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3931 | Latina/o Countercultures |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3981 | Revolutions in Text and Technology |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W4210 | Writing Early Modern London |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W4607 | American Literature, 1865-1914 |
| English and Comparative Literature & Classics | ENCS W3806 | Classical Myth and English Poetry |
| English and Comparative Literature & French | ENFR W4512 | Proust |
| Film | FILM G4310 | Experimental Film and Media |
| History | HIST W3020 | Roman Imperialism |
| History | HIST W3309 | Victorian Worlds: British Society, 1837-1901 |
| History | HIST W3313 | The Modern Balkans from Empire to the European Union |
| History | HIST W3314 | Modern France and its Empire, 1789-Present |
| History | HIST W3315 | Reformation Europe in Global Perspective |
| History | HIST W3630 | American Jewish History |
| History | HIST W3673 | The History of Latin American Popular Culture |
| History | HIST W3701 | The Ottoman Empire |
| History | HIST W3904 | History of Finance, 1397-2008 |
| History | HIST W4065 | Urban Culture in the Dutch Golden Age |
| History | HIST W4206 | Power and Violence in Russian History |
| History | HIST W4677 | Latin American Growth and Wellbeing in Historical Perspective |
| History | HIST W4920 | Global Justice in Historical Perspective |
| History | HIST W4923 | Narratives of World War II |
| History | HIST W4859 | Asian Migrations to the Americas |
| History | HIST W4917 | Children of the Revolution: 20th Century Ex-Radicals in Perspective |
| Human Rights | HRTS W3220 | Tools of Human Rights Advocacy: Documentary Film and New Media |
| Human Rights | HRTS G4215 | International Human Rights Movement: Past, Present, Future |
| Human Rights | HRTS G4300 | Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Policy and Practice |
| Human Rights | HRTS G4320 | Human Rights and Foreign Policy |
| Institute of Comparative Literature and Society | CPLS G4334 | Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Social Action: From Individual Consciousness to Collective Liberation |
| IRWAG | WMST V3137 | Feminist Sexual Politics in Historical Perspective |
| IRWAG | WMST V3140 | Race and Sexuality: Black Queers |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | SPAN W3680 | Excavating the Visual Present Tense: Pre-Hispanic Imagery in the Post-1992 Latin American Art World |
| Latin American and Iberian Cultures | SPAN W3685 | Mapping Early Modern Empire |
| MESAAS | MDES W3250 | The Colonial Encounter |
| MESAAS | MDES W3445 | Societies and Cultures Across the Indian Ocean |
| MESAAS | MDES W4055 | Crisis Works |
| MESAAS | MDES G4144 | Africa: Modernity and the Post Colonial Experience |
| MESAAS | MDES G4256 | Palestinians in Israel, 1948-2013 |
| Music | MUSI W4461 | Silence |
| Music | MUSI G4467 | Post-1965 Jazz |
| Philosophy | PHIL W3552 | Philosophical Problems of Climate Change |
| Political Science | POLS W4205 | Politics, Crime and Punishment |
| Psychology | PSYC W3690 | The Self in Social Context |
| Psychology | PSYC G4275 | Contemporary Topics in Language and Communication |
| Psychology | PSYC G4475 | The Neurobiology of Social Behavior |
| Religion | RELI W4509 | Crime and Punishment in Jewish Culture |
| Religion | RELI W4815 | Technology, Religion, Future |
| Slavic Languages | CLRS V3302 | Fairy Tales Reloaded: Witches, Werewolves, Fools and Post-Modern Fiction |
| Slavic Languages | CLSL W4004 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century Central European Fiction |
| Slavic Languages | LING W4444 | Philosophy of Language: From Rousseau to Derrida |
| Slavic Languages | RUSS V3228 | Russian Literature and Culture in the New Millenium |
| Slavic Languages | RUSS W4350 | Moving to Advanced-Plus and Beyond: Language, Culture, Society in Russia Today |
| Sociology | SOCI W3020 | Social Statistics |
| Sociology | SOCI W3322 | Sociology of Emotions |
| Sociology | SOCI W3980 | Immigrant New York: The Changing American City |
| Sociology | SOCI G4138 | Ethno-Religious Identity and Politics in the Middle East and South Asia |
| Statistics | STAT W4242 | Introduction to Data Science |
Spring 2014
The following new courses have been approved for the Spring 2014 semester.
| Department/Program | Course No. & Designator | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ANTH V2006 | Corruption in Critical Perspective |
| Anthropology | ANTH V3120 | Historical Rituals in Latin America |
| Art History and Archaeology | AHIS W3892 | The Arts of Korea: Sources and Methods |
| EALAC | EAAS W3932 | Chinese Culture in the Century of Revolutions |
| EALAC | EAAS G4160 | Cultures of Colonial Korea |
| Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology | EEEB W3924 | Natural History of African Mammals |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3274 | American Fiction as American History |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3713 | Sentimentalism and its Afterlife: American Literature 1850-1950 |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3731 | Paranoid Postmodernism |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3924 | The Apocalypse in Medieval Literature |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3926 | Medieval Dream Poetry |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3928 | Questioning Gender in the Middle Ages |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3947 | Henry Fielding |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3948 | Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3951 | Rhyme and Reason in the 18th Century |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3952 | The Brontes |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3954 | The Bildungsroman in Europe |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3960 | Nineteenth-Century Thrillers |
| English and Comparative Literature | ENGL W3983 | Sexuality and the Arts |
| English and Comparative Literature & Classics | ENCS W4009 | Ancient Narrative |
| English and Comparative Literature & Theatre | ENTA W3941 | American Theatre and Radical Politics after 1989 |
| History | HIST W3405 | America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 |
| IRWAG | WMST W4301 | Advanced Topics: Gender, Culture, and Rights |
| Music | MUSI V3400 | Topics in Music and Society |
| Music | MUSI V4332 | Computational Theories of Music and Music Cognition |
| Music | MUSI G4122 | Songs of the Troubadours |
| Philosophy | PHIL C3953 | Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Themes in Shakespeare |
| Religion | RELI V3705 | Literature, Technology, Religion |
| Religion | RELI W4035 | Buddhist Contemplative Sciences |
| Religion | RELI W4325 | Sufism |
| Sociology | SOCI W3214 | Immigration and the Transformation of American Society |
| Sociology | SOCI W3909 | Deviance and Social Control |
| Sociology | SOCI W3965 | Topics in American Studies: Elites in America |
| Sociology | SOCI G4270 | Seminar in Social Demography |