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The African Worlds connection enables students to explore the range of interrelated cultures, histories, politics, art and intellectual contributions of African people living south of the Sahara. A combination of disciplinary perspectives is critical to understanding the contemporary challenges that face the continent. Common areas of concern explored in this connection include the precolonial legacy of African cultures and civilizations and how they interacted with other parts of the world system; the impact of European colonial overrule; the link between politics, art, performance and ritual; and the impact of African cultures on Europe and the Americas. This may be completed as a two- or threecourse connection; students completing only two courses should be sure that each course is in a different area. These courses may also be included in the African, African American, Diaspora Studies minor concentration. Connections: Anth 225 Peoples and Cultures of Africa and/or Eng 245 African Literature and/or Musc 212 World Music: Africa and the Americas and/or Hist 143 Africans on Africa: A Survey and/or Pols 203 African Politics and/or Arth 212 African Visual Cultures and/or Arth 312 Contemporary African Arts
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This two- or three-course connection links the First-Year Seminar "The Rituals of Dinner" or Anth210, which is required, to one or two courses in the sciences. The anthropology course covers such topics as how culture shapes taste and cuisine, how different forms of food production affect social structure and nutrition, and the political factors that cause famine and food shortage. Currently, the course has substantial units on eating disorders and the causes and consequences of malnutrition, as well as on food safety and the controversies around genetically modified food. It has several components that interface with and complement components of each of the science courses as well as an extensive service learning component. Bio 205 contains substantial units on weight control and eating disorders and on critical issues in nutrition, such as the world food supply and the influence of advertising. Biology students will gain in-depth perspectives on the cultural aspects of food availability, food choice and eating customs. Anthropology students will appreciate the biological parameters underlying the contribution of nutrients to health and disease. Bio 262 features a survey of the plant kingdom and a study of plant anatomy. Students learn the distinguishing features of each plant phylum and of selected families of flowering plants, the evolutionary features of each group, the ecology of each group, and how plants from these groups are utilized by human societies. The course looks especially at plants that are important in the lives of students, as sources of food, beverages, medicines and industrial products, and as objects of aesthetic beauty. Complementary to the service learning component of Anthropology 210, students enrolled in Plant Biology go out into the field of the supermarket, the Harvard Botanical Museum and the cranberry bog. Chem 109 will most clearly connect in two arenas: the function of micronutrients and the potential and problems of genetically modified foods. The Edible Chemicals course focuses specifically on the chemical components of food; the constituents of food, their chemical structures, functional properties and their interactions. A laboratory component of the course examines not only the chemical characteristics of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and micronutrients, but also their behavior together, in cooking and in digestion. A separate section of the course focuses on genetically modified foods, their potential and problems and the reality of their presence on our supermarket shelves. The connection must be completed with at least one course from the two areas: Social sciences (Fsem 101, Anth 210) and natural science. It may be either a two or three-course connection. Connections: Fsem Rituals of Dinner and/or Anth 210 Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food with Bio 205 Nutrition and/or Bio 262 Plant Biology and/or Chem 109 Edible Chemicals
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3.00 Credits
This is a two- or three-course connection that links courses from four different areas: the humanities, the arts, the social sciences and history. Students completing these courses will gain a multidisciplinary understanding of the sociopolitical and cultural phenomena that have shaped contemporary Latin America. Students who can take either Hisp 280 or Hisp 316 in their connection will derive the additional insight that can only be gained by reading texts on Latin America in the original language, from a distinctly Latin American perspective. Connections: Anth 235 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America or Pols 233 The Politics of Latin America and/or Hist 219 Norte y Sur: Modern Spanish America and/or Musc 220 Music in Latin American Culture and/or Hisp 280 The Hispanic World: Introduction to Latin American Culture or Hisp 316 Spanish American Literature II: Contemporary Literature
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3.00 Credits
This two- or three-course connection allows students to explore gender from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: the humanities, social science courses in psychology or sociology and/or the scientific perspective of psychobiology. Twocourse connections must combine one course from each of two of the available areas. Three-course connections must include courses from at least two of the areas. This combination of courses will ask students to consider the intersections between gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class. Eng 240 examines the ways in which poetic genres encode gender. Psy 290 explores gender issues by studying the psychology of women. Soc 260 focuses on cultural norms and social structural aspects of gender. Psy 261 focuses on the biological basis of issues surrounding sex, gender and sexuality. The courses will also be linked by a shared writing component that focuses on the variety of conventions used in these different disciplines. Connections: Humanities, Eng 240 Gender, Genre and Poetry Fr 236 Introduction to Early French Literature and Social Science Psy 261 Psychobiology of Sex and Gender, Psy 290 Psychology of Women, Soc 260 Gender Inequality
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These seven connected courses focus on women in the United States, addressing the intersections of gender, race and class in U.S. history, in U.S. social structures, and in U.S. literature and literary theory. Students may combine them in a variety of ways to create two- or three-course connections with different emphases, exploring the history of women, the positioning of women in current society, or the representations of women in gendered discourse, past and present. Students might, for instance, trace African American women's resistance to the dominant culture in history and in literature. They could examine the relationship between women and industrialization in both economics and history. Or they might explore how theories of psychological development play out in literary representations. More specifically, students taking Eng 247, Psy 290 and Hist 234 will address body image in a novel by Toni Morrison, in psychological work on anorexia, and in discussions of beauty in the 1920s. Students taking Hist 233, Eng 377 and Econ 241 will discuss "woman's sphere" and the politics odomesticity in 19th-century novels, drawing on the domesticity engendered by household economies. Seven courses from three different areas (history, humanities, social science) may be combined to create two- or three-course connections. Any two-course connection must include one course from two of the three areas. Three-course connections will include courses in two or three of the areas (e.g., two social science courses and a history course; two humanities courses and a social science course; a history course, a social science course, and a humanities course). Two courses from the same area would not constitute a connection, however. Students may, if they wish, take more than the two or three courses required to complete a connection with this topic.
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What is sexuality What is its biological basis How does society constrain and construct it How is sexuality represented and, again, constructed in such discourses as literature, film and religion How does sexuality intersect with race How do sexuality and race circulate and clash in global contexts These are some of the questions that students taking courses in this connection will address. More specifically, for example, students in Eng 236 and Hist 341 will gain perspectives on the Victorian sexologists. Those in Anth 350 and Eng 272 may deepen their understanding of transgender, while those in Itas 235 will focus on gender violence. Psy 261 and Soc 310 provide perspectives on power and bodily pain; Soc 310 and Eng 272, on post-colonialism and representations of gender, sexualities and cultures. Students completing Soc 310, Eng 236, and Fr 331 will learn about Western (and imperialist) discourses on sexuality, nation and power. Other combinations will provide other perspectives and focuses on the general topic of sexuality. Altogether there are 13 courses from three different areas (history, humanities and social science) from which students may create two- or three-course connections. Students have considerable flexibility in creating these connections. Two-course connections must combine one course from each of two of the available areas. Three-course connections must include courses from at least two of the areas. Students interested in this topic may wish to take more than the two or three courses required to complete a connection. Connections: History Hist 341 Sex and Culture in the 19th-Century U.S. Humanities: Eng 236 Sex, Work and the Victorians, Eng 272 Romancing the Novel, Eng 348 Sexual Politics of Film Noir, Fr 331 Other Voices, Other Stories: Great Works by Women from France and the Francophone World, Itas 235 Italian Women Writers in Translation, Rel 142 Religion and Sexuality. Social Science: Anth 350 Gender and Social Organization, Educ 270 Issues of Adolescent Development, Psy 235 Human Sexuality, Psy 261 Psychobiology of Sex and Gender, Psy 270 Adolescent Development, Soc 310 Beyond Global Feminism, Wmst 312 Feminist Theory
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The courses in this connection connect the tradition of African American music to important aspects of American history and culture as studied from the perspectives of history and/or sociology. Students will learn to contextualize material across courses in these disciplines. History and sociology address issues of race and ethnicity, resistance, the church, community building, and the historical, political and economic backgrounds of these issues. Music explores the intangible reservoir of creativity and spiritual energy that helped an oppressed community not only to survive, but to flourish artistically. This connection encourages students to synthesize history and sociology with artistic and theological issues through music. This may be completed as a two- or threecourse connection. All connections must include at least one of the music courses; two-course connections must be constructed with courses from different departments. Connections: Musc 272 African American Originals I: Spirituals, Blues and All That Jazz and/or Musc 273 African American Originals II: Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Contemporary Jazz with Hist 209 African American History to 1877 and/or Hist 210 African American History: 1877 to the Present and/or Soc 230 Race and Ethnicity and/or Wmst 315 Black Feminist Theory
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The First-Year Seminar section forming the basis of this connection examines different ways of seeing Italy and the complex nature of Italian life reflected in the concept of la dolce vita. Course materials, in English and Italian, include films, fiction, history and personal accounts of life in Italy today. The centrality of language to the historical disunity and eventual unification of Italy is a theme that runs throughout the seminar, and the politics of art and the ways in which language reflects cultural values emerge as important themes in the course. These themes mean that either or both of the other two courses provide stimulating interdisciplinary intersections of culture, art and language. Combining these courses will also provide a strong foundation for students who wish to study or travel in Italy. Great Works II is a continuation of Art History 101, covering architecture, sculpture and painting in Western art from the early Renaissance to the present. Among the periods covered in this course are Italian art of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, including Sienese, Florentine and Venetian paintings, Renaissance architecture, Italian Baroque art and architecture, as well as modern periods of art that originated in Italy, such as Futurism. Readings in Contemporary Italian Literature is designed to improve students' oral and written abilities to communicate abstract and sophisticated ideas in Italian. The course also introduces them to contemporary Italian writers and thus broadens their understanding of the Italian world through poetry, short stories and other textual production such as advertising and film. Italian 200 is normally a fourth-semester Italian course with Italian 101,102 and 150 as prerequisites, but there are also usually a number of first-year students in the course. Connections: Fsem La dolce vita with Arth 102 Great Works II orArth 202 Great Works II (Enhanced) and/or Itas 200 Advanced Intermediate Italian
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The courses in this connection investigate our relationship with the natural world from different perspectives. They will offer multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the environment and our human interaction with it, to addressing such issues as climate change, population growth and endangered species, and to assessing the impacts-positive and negative-of technology onthe environment and human society. Students will take one of the three science courses, each of which provides a basic understanding of the underlying physical, chemical and biological processes controlling the natural world. They will learn how science can inform policy decisions and how social and economic concerns can shape the environment. In Soc 315 they will have the opportunity to consider the cultural, social and environmental impacts of contemporary Western civilization and its technologies. In Rel 242 they may explore the religious roots of the current environmental crisis by examining the spiritual origins of our ideas about nature. This may be completed as a two- or threecourse connection, but only one of the science courses may be used in the three-course combination. None of the courses need be taken concurrently or consecutively. Connections: Bio 201 Environmental Science or Chem 103 Chemistry and Your Environment or Chem 303 Current Problems in Environmental Chemistry with Soc 315 Society, Technology and the Environment and/or Rel 242 Religion and Ecology
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Black Aesthetics examines African American contributions to the visual arts, music and literature of the United States. Placing African American creativity within historical, sociological and political contexts, students may explore how black artists forged a creative culture that both illustrated their unique experience and identity and transformed the arts of the dominant culture within which they worked. May be completed as a two- or three-course connection; at least two of the four areas (Humanities, Creative Arts, History, Social Science) must be represented. Connections: Arth 263 African American Art or Eng 209 African American Literature and Culture or Musc 272 African American Originals I: Spirituals, Blues and All That Jazz or Musc 273 African American Originals II: Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Contemporary Jazz with Hist 209 African American History to 1877 or Hist 210 African American History: 1877 to the Present or Soc 230 Race and Ethnicity or Pols 327 Black Political Thought or Pols 271 or Pols 371 African American Politics
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