2007-08
SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM CHANGES
(As of
A preliminary version of the
2007-08 curriculum is available on the CWIS at http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/CCI/proposed0708.html.
Faculty have the opportunity to review this preliminary version of the
curriculum in advance of the March 14 Academic Council Meeting when the
curriculum will be presented.
All departments and programs now include a paragraph describing their discipline or field of study.
New Courses:
AMST 212 Korean-American Literature and Culture
ANTH 233 Language and Culture
ANTH 305 Ethnographic Film
ARAB 301 Advanced Contemporary Media in Arabic
ARTH 227 Islamic Architecture in the Age of Caliphates
ARTH 254 Arts of
ARTH 258 African Spaces: Architecture and Installation
ARTH 268 Art, Architecture, and Pilgrimage in the Medieval World
ARTH 289 European Art and Architecture, 1700-1900: From Watteau to van Gogh
ARTH 332 Topics in Medieval Art: Topic for 2007-08: From
Constantinople to
ARTH 335 Seminar. Topics in Modern Art: Topic for 2007-08:
The 1960s (new topic) ARTH 339 Beyond Japonisme:
ARTH 363 African Cinema
ARTS 317 Seminar. Topics in the Visual Arts: Topic for 2007-08: The Model: Mock-ups, Maquettes, Miniatures, and More (new topic)
ASTR 301 Seminar. Topics in Multiwavelength Astronomy. Topic
for 2007-08: Astronomy with The National Virtual Observatory (new topic)
BISC 322 Designs for Life: The Biomechanics of Animals and Plants with Laboratory
CAMS 323 Seminar. Cinema and Painting
CHEM 317 Advanced Organic Chemistry
CHEM 329 Selected topics in Biochemistry – Biophysical Chemistry: Applications in Science, Industry and Medicine (new topic)
CHIN 244 Classical Chinese Theatre (in English)
CPLT 113/ENG 113 Studies in Fiction (newly cross listed in CPLT)
CPLT 220/ENG 220 Introduction to
Comparative Literature. Topic for 2007-08: Towers of Babel (previously listed
as CPLT 120 and newly cross listed with ENG)
CPLT 260 Detective Fiction and Psychoanalysis
CPLT 330 Seminar. Comparative Literature. Topic for 2007-08: Translation in Theory and Practice
CS 349 Advanced Topics in Computer Science. Topic for 2007-08: Web Search and Mining
ECON 301 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis
ECON 306 Economic Organizations in
ENG 113/CPLT 113 Studies in Fiction (newly cross listed with CPLT)
ENG 206/WRIT 225 Nonfiction Writing. Topic for 2007-08: Travel Writing (newly cross listed in ENG)
ENG 220/CPLT 220 Introduction to
Comparative Literature. Topic for 2007-08: Towers of Babel (newly cross listed
with CPLT)
ENG 266 American Literature from the Civil War to the 1930’s. Topics for 2007-08: Imagining a Self: Desire, Power, and Identity in the American Novel (new topic)
ENG 267 American Literature from the 1940’s to the Present. Special Topic for 2007-08 Tomboys, Queers, and Women Warriors: Gendered Autobiography in Twentieth-Century America (new topic)
ENG 335 Advanced Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Topic for 2007-08: The Comedy of Desire (new topic)
ENG 345 Advanced Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Topic for 2007-08: Love, Sex and Imagination in Romantic Poetry (new topic)
ENG 364 Race and Ethnicity in Literature. Topic A for 2007-08: Human Rights and the Image of Africa in the West (new topic) and Topic B for 2007-08: Gospel, Body, and Soul: Lyric Traditions in Black and White (new topic)
ENG 383 Women in Literature, Culture, and Society. Topic for 2007-08: The Myth of Elizabeth (new topic)
ENG 385 Advanced Studies in a Genre. Topic for 2007-08: The Victorian Novel, Inside and Out: A Research Seminar (new topic)
ENG 387 Authors. Topic for 2007-08: Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope: Romantic Comedy and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (new topic)
ES 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Methods and
Analysis
ES 102 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Issues and
Concepts
ES 203 Cultures of Environmentalism
EXP 105 The Nuclear Challenge
FREN 202 French Language, Literature, and Cultures (new separate listing for Wintersession course)
FREN 212 “In the Name of the Father”: Dutiful Sons and Wayward Daughters in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story
FREN 216 Mothers and Daughters
FREN 228 Wintersession in
GEOS 110 The Coastal Zone: Intersection of Land, Sea, and Humanity with Laboratory
GEOS 205 Vertebrate Palaeontology: “Revolutions in Evolution”
GEOS 206 Stuctural Geology (formerly 306)
GEOS 208 Oceanography (formerly 100)
GEOS 308 Wetlands Science with Laboratory
GER 105 German for Reading Knowledge (previously approved
for Summer School 2007)
GER 233
GRK 303 Advanced Greek: Aristotle
GRK 304 Greek Tragedy
HIST 120 The Great War
HIST 209 The
HIST 336 Seminar. The
HIST 383 Seminar. 1947: Partition in History and Memory in
ITAS 274 Women in Love: Portraits of Female Desire in Italian Culture
JWST 210 Jewish Fiction Around the Globe: Homeland and the Diaspora (in English) (previously listed as HEBR 210)
KOR 309 Advanced Korean through Contemporary Texts and Multimedia
LAT 314 Pliny’s Letters
LING 319 The Spoken and Written Word: Effects on Cognition and Culture (previously taught as seminar topic for CLSC 300)
MATH 349 Selected Topics. Topic for 2007-08: Matrix Groups: Introduction to Lie Groups (new topic)
MUS 101 Music of the Sphere
MUS 235/335 Topics in Instrumental Music. Topic for 2007-08: The Symphony (new topic)
MUS 300 Seminar. Studies in History, Theory, Analysis, Ethnomusicology Topic A: Modern Outsiders: “Uptown”/Atonal (new topic) and Topic B: Modern Outsiders: “Out”/Jazz (new topic) and Topic D: The Third “B” (new topic)
PEAC 259/PHIL 259 Peace and Conflict Resolution. Topic for 2007-08: Politics By Other Means: Clausewitz, War and Philosophy (new topic and newly cross listed with PHIL)
PHIL 245 Agency and Motivation
PHIL 259/PEAC 259 Peace and Conflict Resolution. Topic for 2007-08: Politics By Other Means: Clausewitz, War and Philosophy (newly cross listed in PHIL)
PHIL 300 Seminar in Modern Philosophy. Topic for 2007-08: Morality, Nature, and Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (new topic)
PHIL 310 Seminar. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Topic for
2007-08: The Psyche in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
PHIL 323 Seminar. Continental Philosophy. Topic for 2007-08: Nietzsche: The Wanderer and his Shadow (new topic)
PHIL 340 Seminar. Contemporary Ethical Theory. Topic for 2007-08: The Ethical and Political Philosophy of John Rawls (new topic)
PHIL 345 Seminar. Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Psychology and Social Science. Topic for 2007-08: Innate Knowledge (new topic)
POL 108 State and Society in Contemporary
PSYC 304R Research Methods in Evolution and Human Behavior
REL 109 Religions of the
REL 246 Jewish Civilization (formerly REL 140)
REL 259 Christianity in
REL 290
RUSS 302 Advanced Russian II: Topic for 2007-08: Children
and Laughter in
SAS 302 Traditional Narratives of
SOC 277 Masculinities
SPAN 324 Seminar. Topics in Spanish Modernity Topic for 2007-08: García Lorca (new topic)
WOST 221 Women’s Reproduction in Historical Perspective
WRIT 225/ENG 206 Nonfiction Writing. Topic for 2007-08: Travel Writing (newly cross listed in ENG)
Temporarily Removed Courses:
AFR 209 Topics in West African Art (no longer cross listed with ARTH 209)
AFR 224 A History of Jazz (no longer cross listed with MUS 209)
AFR 315 History of African American Education
AFR 316 Contemporary African Exhibitions (no longer cross listed with ARTH 316)
AFR 322 Seminar. Memory and Identity in Contemporary Visual Art of the African Diaspora (no longer cross listed with ARTH 322)
AFR 341 Topics in African Social Science, Topic B “Race Relations”
ANTH 308 Seminar for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (at MIT)
ARTH 223 Arts of
ARTH 233 Domestic Architecture and Daily Life
ARTH 257 Modern American Architecture and Urbanism after World War II
ARTH 348 Seminar. Topics in Architecture
ARTH 349 Seminar. Visual Culture of Modern
BISC 204 Ecology of New England Seascapes with Laboratory (Summer School course)
BISC 208 Ethnobotany
BISC 303 Bioinformatics (will be taught as CS 303 only)
BISC 318 From Genes to Population: Evolution on
BISC 321 Designs for Life: The Biomechanics of Animals and Plants
CHEM 308/ES 308 Green Chemistry
CHEM 349 Topics in Inorganic Chemistry
CHIN 303 Advanced Chinese Conversation
CHIN 317 The Art of Translation
CHIN 349 Mind, Place, and Landscape in Traditional
CLCV 240/REL 240 Roman, Jews, and Christians in the
CS 100 Introduction to Internet Research and Resources
(Pathways course)
CS 199 Simulation: An Interdisciplinary Tool
CS 210 The Dynamic Web
CS 331 Parallel Machines and Their Algorithms
CS 341 Operating Systems
ECON 303 Advanced Econometrics
EDUC 301 Theory and Practice of Early Childhood Care and Education
EDUC 315/AFR 315 History of African American Education
ENG 263 American Literature and Social Justice
ES 225 Race, Identity and the Environment
ES 308/CHEM 308 Green Chemistry
GER 268 Richard Wagner, Nietzche, Mann: The Composer and his Critics (in English)
GER 274 Postwar German Culture
GER 368 Richard Wagner, Nietzche, Mann: The Composer and his Critics
HIST 255 American Cultural History
HIST 257 History of Women in Gender and
HIST 285 Nationalism to Islamism (Summer School course)
LAT 308 Imperial Latin Literature
PHYS 106X Fundamentals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics with Laboratory
PHYS 265 Thinking Physics: Developing a Physicist’s Habits of Mind
POL3 321S The United States in World Politics
REL 240/CLCV 240 Roman, Jews, and Christians in the
REL 362 Seminar. Religion and State in the Islamic World
SOC 215 Sociology of Popular Culture
SOC 246 Immigration
SOC 250 Research or Individual Study
SOC 250H Research or Individual Study (0.5 unit course)
SOC 313 Indian Cinema – Image, Text, and Context
SOC 332 Sociology of Film
WOST 280 Gender and Writing in
WOST 281 Gender and South Asian Cinema
Permanently Withdrawn Courses:
CLCV 218 Prehistoric Aegean Archaeology
CLCV 225 Empires of the Ancient World
CPLT 120 Introduction to Comparative Literature
CS 301 Compiler Design and Implementation
EDUC 218 Race and Education
EDUC 319 Reforming Public Schools
ES 100 Humans and Nature
EXTD 350 Research or Individual Study
GEOS 100 Oceanography
GEOS 204 Catastrophes and Extinctions
GEOS 305 Paleontology with Laboratory
GEOS 306 Structural Geology with Laboratory
GER 231 Advanced Studies in Culture and Literature
HIST 259 The History of Popular Culture in the
LAT 319 Selected Topics
MATH 216 Mathematics for the Sciences II (no longer cross-listed with PHYS 216)
MUS 100 The Culture of Classical Music
MUS 105 Introduction to Musics of the World
MUS 220 Theory, Analysis, and Performance
PHIL 311 Plato
PHIL 312 Aristotle
PHYS 215 Mathematics for the Sciences I (no longer cross-listed with MATH 215)
POL1 352S Civil Liberties in the
POL2 380 Science and Politics in Environmental Policymaking
PSYC 315 Seminar. Animal Cognition
PSYC 336 Seminar. Autobiographical Memory: A Window to the Self
PSYC 343 Motivation and Self-Determination: Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness
RUSS 302 Advanced Russian:
RUSS 320 Children and Laughter in
WOST 200 Introduction to Reproductive Issues
WOST 202 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Abortion
WOST 203 Ethical and Social Issues in Genetics
WOST 204 Women and Motherhood
Reinstated Courses:
AFR 150 First- and Second-year Student Colloquia Topic for
2007-08: Black Autobiographies
AFR 318 Seminar. African Women, Social Transformation, and
Empowerment
ARTH 305 Seminar. History of Prints: New Media of the Renaissance (previously called The Graphic Arts)
ARTH 320 Seminar. Topics in American Architecture. Topic for 2007-08: The Modern House (with new topic)
ARTH 322 Seminar. Memory and Identity in Contemporary Visual Art of the African Diaspora (with new topic)
ARTH 323 Seminar. Topics in the Decorative Arts: Topic for 2007-08: Josephine and the Arts of the Empire
ARTH 340 Seminar. Topics in American Art. Topic for 2007-08:
American Pilgrimage Sites (with new topic)
FREN 305 Advanced Studies in the Nineteenth Century. Topic for 2007-08: Artistic and Political Revolutions From 1789-1851: The Rise and Fall of Romanticism
GER 241 Themes of Childhood, Youth, and Adolescence in German Literature
GER 280 Film in
HIST 274
MUS 224/REL 224 Hildegard of Bingen
MUS 276 Cylinders to CDs to Cyberspace: Recording Technology and Twentieth-Century American Music
MUS 300 Seminar. Studies in History, Theory, Analysis,
Ethnomusicology Topic C: Mozart’s Don Giovanni and
The Magic Flute
REL 224/MUS 224 Hildegard of Bingen
REL 228 Fundamentalisms: A Comparative Approach
RUSS 377 Tolstoy’s Short Stories
Changed:
MUS 240 Opera Workshop changed from 0.5 to 1.0 credit and may only be taken 2x for credit towards the major or minor
Changed Directions for Election:
Astrophysics – Honors
program modified to allow 1 semester thesis, summer internship or a 350 project
to fulfill the research component of a project culminating in a paper and oral
exam.
Cinema and Media Studies – Dropped social science and art course requirement; replaced with a “production-oriented” course in video production, photography, screenwriting, or another course in one of the creative disciplines related to film.
Economics – Require
all majors entering fall of 2007 and later to take one semester of Math at
Wellesley at the level of 115 or above for all sections of ECON 201, 202 and
203.
Environmental Studies – Restructured major such that there are no separate tracks. Greater number of required courses designed to strengthen major with more direct content and building from one level to the next. 3 core courses, 3 courses designed to build breadth and 4 electives, 2 of which must be at the 300-level. Also created new 5-course minor.
Geosciences – Restricted
entry to major through 2 100-level courses and added required course at 300-level such that 3-300-level courses
are required.
Latin American
Studies – Students must elect courses in at least three disciplines.
Mathematics – Increased by 1.0 unit the number of 200-300 level courses required for the 10-unit major
Media Arts and Sciences – Removed ARTS 219 and 220 from list of core courses and replaced with ARTS 308 and 365 to support program change in specifying courses that have a significant digital component
Physics – Added MATH 215 explicitly as course required for major/minor