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FYS 071: Race and Class
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Are race and class inseparable Does a consideration of either term inevitably lead to a discussion of the other How do these arguably overlapping categories determine the way that people think of and define themselves These questions are addressed in discussions of race and class in literature, popular culture, current events, and daily life. Washington
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FYS 072: Power,Principle,and Personality in American Leadership
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This seminar explores, through biographies, the roles of political principle and public personality in the rise to power and use of power by presidents, governors, and mayors, such as Washington, Lincoln, Nixon, and others. Of special interest is the interactions of image and substance in the exercise of democratic power. Students write a biography of a living leader through personal interviews and documentary research based on insights from the bio- graphical readings. Kincaid
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FYS 073: Technology and the City:Chicago and New York
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This course examines the role that industiral technology played in the rise of the two great American cities--Chicago and New York. It centers on Chicago and uses New York further to illuminate technology's influence on the city building process and the role that cities played in making America a technological wonder and the greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. The course will be taught from an interdisciplinary perspective and with the aim of relating history to our own day and to our own lives. D. Miller
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FYS 074: Questers of Extremes
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
After considering a tradition in classical Greek and Roman thought that extolled the value of moderation in thought and behavior, this seminar examines a set of texts by or concerning questers of extremes-figures who distinguished themselves through their pursuit of immoderate, transcendent ends. Particular questers include, but are not limited to, an ancient conqueror (Alexander the Great), a medieval saint (Joan of Arc), a modern novelist (Yukio Mishima), and a contemporary young adventurer (Chris McCandless). Ziolkowski
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FYS 076: Land of Mystery:The Language and Culture of Modern China
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Though China is the world's most populous nation, a military superpower, and an increasingly dominant presence in international commerce, Westerners often view the Chinese and their rich heritage as inscrutable. In this seminar, cultural practices and values of modern China are examined through the eyes of traditional society and the "ancient Chinese proverbs." As an integral part of this experience, students learn the rudiments of Chinese pronunciation and acquire a basic Chinese vocabulary. Yu
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FYS 079: The Cactus Throne:The Changing Image of Mexico and Its People
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Recent events, such as the adoption of NAFTA and political turmoil in Chiapas, have refocused U.S. attention on Mexico. This course explores the internal and external influences that have shaped the character of the Mexican nation and its people. Topics explored include Mexico's evolving global image, its alternating successes and failures at self-government, its cultural achievements, and its multidimensional interactions with its giant northern neighbor. Shupp
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FYS 080: The Economic and Social Consequences of Globalization
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Globalization is the integration of world economies and cultures. Over the past decade, this process of integration has accelerated. Does increased globalization mean greater economic efficiency and increased material wealth or does it mean a growing gap between rich nations and poor nations and increased environmental damage This course looks at the evolution of globalization and its consequences for economic welfare, culture, and the environment. Gamber
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FYS 081: Highs and Lows:Reading Culture
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Why do you know you should read Shakespeare, but you prefer watching Seinfeld What is taste What is judgment What is quality This seminar begins by trying to define the differences (if, indeed, there are any) between high culture and popular culture. Students look at culture as a historical construct, examining how different societies have determined the value and prestige of artifacts and ideas, as well as examining how they, as contemporary Americans, classify written and visual texts as "high" or "low.?onahue, Westfall
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FYS 082: Reason and Folly
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Throughout the history of Western culture, folly has been represented as a challenge to the cognitive capacities of rational thinking. As such, it has been the object of fear, fascination, mockery, praise, and ultimately institutional confinement. This course examines the religious, moral, medical, and aesthetic assumptions that underlie such contrasting attitudes and viewpoints, as well as the rhetorical strategies used to articulate them. Duhl
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FYS 085: The Arts and the Environment
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This seminar combines poetry, music, architecture, the visual arts, and landscape theory with environmental engineering, geology, environmental law, and public policy. Core readings include classic works on environmental reflection-Thoreau, Emerson, the Romantic poets, the creative writings of Asia (particularly Haiku)-as well as contemporary writings, Wendell Berry and Wallace Stegner essays, John McPhee's account of the earth histories one can "read" by walking through the Delaware Water Gap, and Suzuki's writings on zen and the Japanese arFinger
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