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A Supplementary Catalogue listing all permanent changes to the curriculum made since the publication of the 2006-2007 Catalogue. This version of deTERMinations is for the 2007-2008 academic year. Course descriptions for topics courses being offered this year and information on courses being offered off-campus are also available on this site. Updated April 10, 2008
Off-Campus Courses These courses usually involve additional costs and require advance planning. Consult the course descriptions below and the course instructor for a description of the course, the prerequisites, deadlines, and cost. See under "Course Descriptions" (below) for more information and links.
Course Information: Parallel Courses: ART 67-103/67-202. Drawing I and Ceramics I (in Mexico). Taken over terms 6 and 7 in Mexico. (Fine Arts) HANSON Prerequisite Changes: Philosophy: All 300-level courses now require both PHI 111 and Sophomore Standing. ANTHROPOLOGY ART 2-274. Topics in Art History: The Ancient Greco-Roman World. The course examines sculpture, painting, pottery, and architecture from the ancient Mediterranean with a focus on comparing works from Greek and Roman cultures. A basic knowledge of classical mythology is encouraged. (Humanities) McOMBER [AH] 4-276. Topic: Art of 9-277. Topic: The Duchamp Effect. A concise look at the artistic career of Marcel Duchamp and his influence on later artistic movements. Class topics will include Duchamp's life and work in 1-278. Topic: Beauty and the Beast (Gender and Power in African Masquerade). Course functions as an introduction to African art traditions with a focus on masks and masquerade traditions throughout the continent. We will address how various communities within 8-378. Advanced Topic: Early Women, Power, and the Royal Court (same as ENG 8-374). This team-taught interdisciplinary seminar focuses on queens and court ladies as objects of representation and contributors to the visual arts and the literature of the early modern era (1400-1800 CE). We will study how women, like Catherine and Marie de Medici of France, Elizabeth I of England, and Christina of Sweden, negotiated power and shaped contemporary categories of gender, how their power was buttressed and propagated, but also challenged and discredited through art and literature. The course may count for English or Art credit. Prerequisites: a writing-designated course (W) and at least one of the following: ART 256, ART 257, ART 361, ENG 321, ENG 322, ENG 323, ENG 324, ENG 325, ENG 326, ENG 327, or permission of the instructor. (Humanities) McOMBER/STAVREVA [AH] BIOLOGY 8-108. Topic: E. coli: Sex, Drugs, and Biotechnology. This course will focus on the bacterium, E. coli. While E. coli is a common resident of the mammalian gut, it is much more. This microbe shares so much biology with higher organisms that it has come to be used as a model organism in scientific research and dubbed the “workhorse” of molecular biology. Through E. coli, we will explore the discovery of sex in bacteria and the birth of bacterial genetics. We will discuss the role of E. coli in health and disease, antibiotic drugs and resistances, and the utility of such a simple organism in the world of genetic engineering and biotechnology. Same topic offered in term 9. (Science) GRAHAM 3-282. Topic: Introduction to Neuroscience (same course as PSY 3-260). This course examines the dynamic interplay between behavior and the brain. The foundation for this exploration will be built on the structural components of the brain and cells as well as the neurochemical communicative processes within and between nerve cells. This groundwork will provide the basis for our investigation of the reciprocal relationship between the brain and the natural and social environments that surround it. Topics may include: vision, perception, learning, memory, cognition, aggression, language, stress, and mental disorders. Prerequisite: PSY 161. (Laboratory Science) CHRISTIE-POPE/DRAGON 9-381. Advanced Topic: Molecular Evolution. Genes, genomes, and proteins are products of evolution: how do they evolve? Understanding the evolution of molecules is critically important to fields of medicine, agriculture, and conservation and to the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of all organisms. Prerequisite: BIO 205; BIO 211 or familiarity with population genetics and phylogenetic methods are strongly recommended. This course can be used to satisfy the “cell” distribution requirement for both BIO and BMB majors. CONDON CHEMISTRY Cancelled COMPUTER SCIENCE 2-355. Advanced Topic: Bioinformatics. Exploration of the intersection between computer science and molecular biology, focusing on current problems in genomics and emphasizing discovery of the most effective methods for solving these problems. The course begins with an introduction to the relevant concepts in molecular biology for computer science students, and the relevant concepts in computer science for biology students. Topics may include DNA sequence assembly, probe/primer design, protein sequence comparison, motif/signal detection, hybridization array analysis, linkage analysis, RNA and protein folding, phylogenic trees, and DNA computers. Prerequisite: CSC 213 or BIO 205 or permission of instructor. WILDENBERG 7-356. Advanced Topic: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Students will gain a deeper understanding of principles of design through practice solving problems in a variety of domains, including image processing, data compression, symbolic algebra and differentiation, and simulation of digital circuits. By building an interpreter, students will gain insight into the design of the languages they use to program computers. Using the Scheme language (a dialect of Lisp) students will explore functional, logical, and object-oriented programming disciplines. This fast-paced course is an adaptation of a highly influential course developed at MIT. Prerequisites: CSC 140 and 151. TABAK ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS 2-258. Economics of Sports. There is a strong possibility the course will include a three-day trip to Memphis, TN to meet with selected executives and professional staff of the Memphis Grizzlies (NBA). The trip is tentatively scheduled for October 21 (Sunday) through October 23 (Tuesday) and will be a required component of the course. Please note that plans are tentative at this point in time and therefore are subject to change. Additional fees may be required. Prerequisites: ECB 102 and INT 201 or MAT 348 and instructor's permission. (Social Science) SAVITSKY 3-272. Topic: Capital Markets. An examination of the institutions involved in pricing and trading long-term financial securities. Included is a review of national and international bond and stock markets, the basics of securities trading, securities pricing theories, risk versus return in securities pricing, mutual funds, and the efficient market hypothesis. Prerequisite: ECB 101 or 102. (Social Science) KLEIN 5-273. Topics in Finance. Selected topics of current interest in finance. Prerequisites: ECB 151 and ECB 101 or 102. (Social Science) KLEIN EDUCATION ENGLISH 2-111-A. Topic: Virginia Woolf and London: Mrs. Dalloway and Beyond. This course provides an introduction to college writing through the analysis of an experimental novel and essays by Virginia Woolf that explore the compelling cityscape and mindscape of London in the 1920s. We will read and study Woolf’s modernist novel from 1925, Mrs. Dalloway, and using a facsimile of a 1924 guidebook to London, we will focus on the London of the 1920s, a postwar city haunted by the ghosts of WWI, and alive with cultural adventures such as the London Film Society, and the highbrow, high-fashion British Vogue. We will study Woolf’s essays, “The Cinema,” “Street Haunting,” and other London essays. And we will view some experimental films shown by the London Film Society. Throughout the course, students will draft and redraft writings, from in class writing to critical essays to research-informed critical projects. Students will learn how to search for literary and cultural scholarship, using library resources such as search engines and data bases—as well as the Virginia Woolf CD-ROM. Challenging writing assignments will help develop critical thinking and critical writing skills. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) HANKINS 2-111-B. Topic: Fairy Tales, Walt Disney, and Cultural Criticism. The Disney Corporation's influence on American culture is pervasive, but until recently, it has been largely unexamined. This course will focus on critical perspectives and readings of Disney films, and other elements of the Disney Corporation—such as Disney World, Disney Cruise Lines, and Disney's residential community Celebration. How do Disney films affect and challenge our understandings of gender and race? What does Disney World's popularity reflect about American culture? Emphasis on critical reading and academic writing. Requirements include three papers, writing workshops, and revisions. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) MOUTON 3-111. Topic: Virginia Woolf and London: Mrs. Dalloway and Beyond. See term 2 for description. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) HANKINS 4-111-A. Topic: "Knowledge," "Culture," and the Liberal Arts (linked with EDU 3-205). How is an academic field defined? Are such divisions “natural” or do they reflect cultural biases? How is knowledge generated and developed? This course will examine the ways in which the liberal arts intersect with, and shape, cultural formations. We will use the idea of art in general, and literature more specifically, as a lens to explore the nature of the liberal arts as a whole. We will read literary, aesthetic, cultural, and political theory in an attempt to answer for ourselves what a college education is for. What is higher education’s role in a democratic society? How should it serve both individuals and society? This course is linked to Professor Mackler’s EDU 3-205, The Foundations of Education, which will give an historical overview of the liberal arts. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) G. FREEMAN 4-111-B. Topic: The Problems of “Passing”. A slave dresses as her white owner, and her husband poses as her slave; together they escape to freedom. A slave mother switches her own child with her owner’s child, and her son is raised as heir of the house. How do these passers succeed in crossing such rigid social boundaries? What do passing narratives teach us about identity, the legibility of bodies, and social conceptions of race and gender? We will interrogate the reasons for and conditions of passing, the anxieties surrounding passing, and the consequences when it is exposed and “corrected.” This course will emphasize critical thinking, reading, and writing skills and will introduce students to conventions of academic research. Students will be fully immersed in the writing and revision process through multiple writing assignments and frequent workshops. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) ENTEL 5-111. Topic: Sexualities in Modern Literature and Culture: Identifications and Manifestations. Together we will examine texts (and I here include television and music as well) that provide us with a sense of the myriad identifications and manifestations of sexual identities and practices represented in American culture during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In order to understand the present, we will look to the past, and will strive to see the relationship between the construction of sexual identities and their representations in literature and culture over time. Why, for instance, was Lolita such an inflammatory book in one period and then used (successfully!) as a career ploy by Britney Spears and other pop-tweenies? Unlike the film versions of Lolita, American Beauty won both critical and popular acclaim...for revisiting the same material as the novel. What are the undercurrents that allowed for such sea change? Has the glut of seemingly endless sexualized imagery on television and popular culture actually made for a more sophisticated attitude toward sexual identity and practice? This and other questions will be asked. Together we will work to turn your considered opinions into compelling writing. Texts and authors may include: Tennessee Williams; Nabokov’s Lolita, Candace Bushnell (both written and televised), Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, Gore Vidal, Lee Child, David Morrell, short stories by Dorothy Allison, third-wave feminist criticism, masculinity studies, essays on Camp, queer theory, and popular culture. Television will doubtlessly include some combination of the following: Sex and the City, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The L Word, Nip/Tuck, American Beauty, Boys Don’t Cry. In addition to intensive readings, there will be daily writing assignments and in-class workshops to provide ample opportunity for reflection, revision, and polishing. The object of this course is to introduce students to critical reading, writing, and thinking, and focus will linger on the properties of ‘academic writing.’ Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) ALTER 6-111-A. Topic: "Knowledge," "Culture," and the Liberal Arts. How is an academic field defined? Are such divisions “natural” or do they reflect cultural biases? How is knowledge generated and developed? This course will examine the ways in which the liberal arts intersect with, and shape, cultural formations. We will use the idea of art in general, and literature more specifically, as a lens to explore the nature of the liberal arts as a whole. We will read literary, aesthetic, cultural, and political theory in an attempt to answer for ourselves what a college education is for. What is higher education’s role in a democratic society? How should it serve both individuals and society? This course should give students the background and the critical eye to question and to make use of their experiences at Cornell. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) G. FREEMAN 6-111-B. Topic: From Esther to Elizabeth I: Queens in Sacred Writings, Literature, and Film. Savvy political power brokers and symbols of patriarchal power or male political alliances, sexualized entrancesses and skillful negotiators, she-wolves and saintly wives to the nation, defenders of their honor, their love, their nation, their faith: from the ancient Hebrews to today's cinematic audiences, queens have captured the imagination of story-tellers, writers, and visual artists. In this introductory writing course, we will study the representations of historical and mythologized women rulers in the Hebrew Bible, Renaissance and Romantic literature, and contemporary film--women such as Esther and Vashti, Isabella and Elizabeth I of England, the two Marguerites of Navarre (aunt and niece), and Catherine de Medici. Through writing and class discussions of chapters from the Hebrew Bible, Renaissance drama and narrative fiction, Romantic novel, and contemporary historical film, you will hone your analytical and critical reading skills. A research assignment will introduce you to the library resources and to research techniques in the field of literary and cultural studies. The course will involve daily writing and will give you multiple opportunities to reflect on the writing process and engage in writing revision. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) STAVREVA 7-111. Topic: The Problems of “Passing”. See Term 4 for description. Not open to students who have previously completed ENG 111. (Humanities, Writing Requirement) ENTEL 8-111. Topic: Fairy Tales, Walt Disney, and Cultural Criticism. 1-350. American Nature Writers. (Wilderness Field Station, Minnesota). When Europeans first arrived on the shores of North America, the continent was seen as a “New Eden,” a vast, bountiful wilderness of endless riches inhabited by wild, savage primitives. Even as the wilderness has been tamed (or erased?), images of wilderness have remained a defining element of the American ethos, serving as a spiritual, religious, and aesthetic metaphor for the American character. Wilderness is at the heart of the American mythology. At the same time, America has had a long, troubled relationship with its wilderness as environmental concerns clash inevitably with economic/political concerns. In the terms of a predominant Judeo-Christian heritage, what does it mean to have “dominion” over the wilderness and its inhabitants? This course will trace both a historical/political and a literary relationship with “nature.” We will read influential writers such as Aldo Leopold, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, and Pattiann Rogers. We will also explore a Native literary/environmental tradition, looking especially at works by people indigenous to the area, the Anishinaabe. We will read creation myths, tales of the great trickster Nanaboozhoo, and contemporary poems. We will be fortunate to engage in this study in the midst of one of America’s most important wilderness areas, The Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. As we study an historical tradition, then, we will be offered a unique opportunity to examine and write about our own relationship with nature and wilderness. We will learn about canoeing, portaging, and surviving in the wilderness, and the class will spend several days canoeing into the heart of the BWCWA which will allow us to encounter nature in a way that the contemporary world with its electronic “conveniences” all too frequently neglects. We will read, we will write, we will listen, we will swim and play, and we will experience our selves and our world in a new and challenging way. Whether you are an avid outdoorsperson or a neophyte, this course will offer you room to challenge yourself and to grow. Registration entails additional costs. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) G. FREEMAN 8-372. Film and Film Criticism: International and Avant-Garde Films of the 1920s. In this engagement with film history, the class will screen and analyze an array of influential silent films from the 1920s, from classics of early Soviet cinema and German Expressionism, to short films by the French avant-garde, to quirky British films and a brief glance at mainstream American film. However, the main adventure will be to explore a wealth of avant-garde films that have come out of the archives recently in dazzling restored collections: treasures of early American cinema and of the European avant-garde. We will study historical accounts of the 1920s in film history, including accounts of the London Film Society and early film critics, such as Iris Barry. The course will focus on film history, but will also introduce students to other areas of film studies through a film textbook that covers film analysis and theory. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) HANKINS 6-373. Advanced Topic: Introduction to Journalism. This course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of professional journalism, a grounding in writing and reporting skills and an introduction to journalistic practices and principles. We will explore current challenges facing the field, as well as the fast-changing nature of journalism on the Internet. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) EASTBURN 8-374. Advanced Topic: Early Women, Power, and the Royal Court (same as ART 8-378). This team-taught interdisciplinary seminar focuses on queens and court ladies as objects of representation and contributors to the visual arts and the literature of the early modern era (1400-1800 CE). We will study how women, like Catherine and Marie de Medici of France, Elizabeth I of England, and Christina of Sweden, negotiated power and shaped contemporary categories of gender, how their power was buttressed and propagated, but also challenged and discredited through art and literature. The course may count for English or Art credit. Prerequisites: a writing-designated course (W) and at least one of the following: ART 256, ART 257, ART 361, ENG 321, ENG 322, ENG 323, ENG 324, ENG 325, ENG 326, ENG 327, or permission of the instructor. (Humanities) McOMBER/STAVREVA 1-411. Senior Seminar: A Critical History of the Novel. Advanced, theoretically informed engagement with literary studies, broadly defined, including reflection on what the English major brings to intellectual and creative life beyond the undergraduate years. The scholarly focus will be on the origins and early history of the novel. We will read narrative theory in addition to several nineteenth-century novels. What influenced the origins of the novel form, and how did its development correspond to social and economic changes? What forms of the novel continue to be significant today? Students will initiate research projects, and will reflect on the place of the novel in life beyond the English major. Prerequisites: English major and senior standing. (Humanities) MOUTON 7-411. Senior Seminar: Modernism(s) and the Cinema and Beyond. Advanced, theoretically informed engagement with literary studies, broadly defined, including reflection on what the English major brings to intellectual and creative life beyond the undergraduate years. The scholarly focus will be on the topic of Modernism(s) and the cinema. We will screen films and peruse anthologies of Modernism and recent scholarly publications on cinema and modernism and students will initiate research projects as potential contributions to the topic. The course will also leap into the present, and the future, engaging students in an interrogation of what it means to be an English major for life, as we attend readings at Prairie Lights, write reflective creative and critical journals, and compile reading lists for the next decade of post-Cornell lives. Prerequisites: English major and senior standing. (Humanities) HANKINS FRENCH HISTORY 3-260. Topic: Public Memory and Public History. The American public has an insatiable appetite for representations of the nation's past, as demonstrated by the popularity of historic sites, museums, historical re-enactments, televised historical documentaries on PBS and the History Channel, and Hollywood films. Yet, despite the growing audience for history as a form of popular and mass culture, the practice of history seems to be in a state of crisis. Political debates which emerged in the 1990s over controversial exhibits of the nation’s past, such as the proposed “Enola Gay” exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, engendered a public furor over how American history is being taught and remembered. This course will examine the often contentious relationship between popular presentations of America's past for the general public, and professional historians' scholarly understandings of key events in the nation's history. In order to gain some practical knowledge of the range of careers in Public History, all students will participate in the “hands-on” experience of a mini-internship at local historical societies and museums. (Humanities) STEWART 7-336. Advanced Topic: Medieval Romantic Love. This course will examine the rise of Romantic Love, from its beginning in the central Middle Ages through its full development in the Early Renaissance. Using primary documents, students will explore the historical, cultural, and intellectual aspects of this important phenomena. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. (Humanities) MILLER 358. Work and Leisure in Modern America. Examines the relationship between Americans' working lives and their pursuit of leisure in the transformation from the Industrial to the Post-Industrial Era (1880s-1980s). Topics will include women's changing role in the workforce; the impact of popular and mass culture (such as film, radio, and television) upon the separation of work and leisure; the decline of public culture and the rise of privatized forms of leisure; the disappearance of industrial jobs in the emerging service-information economy; and the rise of corporate cultures, such as Disney, in the global context of the current economic revolution. We will explore how the forces of urbanization, immigration, production and consumption, technological innovation, and class stratification, contributed to the bifurcation of culture into "high" and "low" as well as engendering the evolution of popular to commercial to mass culture. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Offered every third year (starting in 2008-2009). (Humanities) STEWART 8-369. Chicago: The Transformation of America's Second City, 1880-1940 (at Newberry Library in Chicago). This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of Chicago and complete an original research project based upon a first-hand exploration of the city and the holdings of the Newberry Library. The seminar will examine the crucial years in Chicago's evolution from regional center to metropolis by looking at the related themes of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. All of these developments are richly documented in the Newberry's collections, which include archival materials pertaining to urban planning and architecture, immigrant life, African American communities, industrial growth and labor relations, political development, and diverse civic and commercial cultures. Drawing upon the Library's collections, students will discover how the spatial formation of contemporary Chicago still reflects its historical origins, and will have the opportunity to use these rare materials in crafting their individual research papers. Registration entails additional fees. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (Humanities) STEWART KINESIOLOGY 5-259. Topic: Ancient Greek Athletics. Study of the origins and functions of competitive athletics in ancient POLITICS 2-282. Public Policy. Introduction to the policy-making process, to the basics of public policy analysis, and to the substance of selected policy debates. (Social Science) STAFF 5-357. Seminar: U.S. Health Policy. Review of the historic development of health policy in the United States and factors that affect future health policy initiatives. The basic elements underlying financing, organization, and delivery of healthcare services including Medicare, Medicaid, access to healthcare, and the relationship between the public and private sectors on health policy. Examination of how policy affects the development of health care legislation, and the process of political compromise and real world limitations upon the implementation of legislation. Prerequisite: POL 262 or 282. (Social Science) BENTZ PSYCHOLOGY 7-360. Advanced Topic: Human Services Practicum and Seminar. Supervised full-time internship in a human service context and bi-weekly seminar. Group discussions of current issues in the field such as cultural and gender diversity, ethics, professional practice challenges, and the role of research in practice. Students must provide their own transportation. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing with declared major in Psychology, 3 courses in Psychology, and permission of instructor. (CR) JANSSENS-RUD RELIGION 9-370. Advanced Topic: Religions of Mongolia (in Mongolia). This course introduces the philosophy of religious traditions within Mongolia; emphasis will be placed on Buddhism as the predominant tradition, but the course will also place Mongolian Buddhism within the context of other religious and political traditions in the region, such as the influence of communism upon the religious landscape, Islam and “Shamanistic” traditions. Students will combine study of the historic, literary, and cultural components of Mongolian religion in course lectures with various modes of observation and participation in religions of Mongolia – including interviews with local informants, visits to prominent monasteries and temples, and travel to minority groups and regions of interest. Note: Registration entails an additional cost of approximately $4,000. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. (Humanities) SACKS [CM] SOCIOLOGY 4-351. Advanced Topic: Sociology of the Body. This course addresses social, cultural and political perspectives on the body, with a focus on body modification. As both material and symbolic, the human body is influenced by, and influences, our understandings of gender, sexuality, class, race and ethnicity, among other factors. Further, the practices of body modification concretely illustrate the negotiation of the self within various social conditions, contexts, and ideologies. We will explore the construction of ‘normal’ bodies (linked to medicine, technology, nationalism, and other institutions) as well as the construction of ‘deviant’ or ‘transgressive’ bodies, and think through body modifications as social practices. Prerequisite: SOC 101. (Social Science) DAVIS [Small Group] 4-352. Advanced Topic: Wealth, Power, and Inequality. Emphasizes the importance of social class by exploring the meaning and measurement of social class, how social classes are formed, and how they change. Investigates the relationship between various forms of inequality (i.e. social class, race-ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality) and contemplates the role of culture and social institutions, (e.g.; work, the health care system, schools, families, the political systems, etc.) in perpetuating, legitimizing, and sometimes challenging social inequality. Prerequisite: SOC 101. (Social Science) BARNES-BRUS [Hierarchy] 6-353. Advanced Topic: Cultural Sociology. Investigates the connections between culture, structure, and society as a whole; specifically focuses on the ways that symbols, language, and other forms of knowledge work to create meanings, constitute power, and form the basis for understanding social life including relationships, politics, sexuality, and work. Considers the creation and reception of culture; the relationship between culture and inequality; issues of domination and resistance, and the connections between culture and social/historical change. Prerequisite: SOC 101. (Social Science) BARNES-BRUS [Organizations] SPANISH THEATRE 3-265. Topic: Fundamentals of Design. Introduction and exploration of theatrical stage design, including sound, scenic, costume, and lighting design. Theatre experience helpful but not necessary. (Fine Arts) OLINGER 8-319. Advanced Topic: The Art of Auditioning. An intensive workshop class consisting of monologue work, cold readings, improv, audition protocol and professional survival skills. Ideal for the student considering a professional acting career. Prerequisite: THE 115. VAN VALEN 8-371. Advanced Topic: Contemporary Drama. This course in contemporary playwriting focuses on selected playtexts written after the mid 20th century. It is intended to survey the range of contemporary dramaturgy, emphasizing plays acclaimed for their quality and influential impact on other writers. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) HUNTER 9-372. Advanced Topic: Master Works of Dramatic Literature. This course in dramatic literature examines a select group of playtexts that are acknowledged masterpieces and which have been especially influential in theatre history. Plays studied may include ancient Greek, early modern, Elizabethan, and Restoration comedy texts, as well as an assortment of 19th and early 20th century classics. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) LEWIS WOMEN'S STUDIES
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