Greek Art
56:606:502:01 (#50391)
Cross-listed with 50:082:342:01
Professor Jones
Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-10:50 a.m.

This courses explores the art of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. The focus is on the art of the sixth and fifth centuries BC-the golden age of Greece.

This course will focus on basic camera operation and photographic techniques for portraiture, landscape, and wildlife photography. Students are required to attend pre and post trip seminars to be scheduled in early spring. Locations in South Africa include Johannesburg , Cape Town , Soweto , and open-air wildlife preserves. Contact instructor or the International Studies Office for a full itinerary.

Grade credit can be earned through participation in the group photography project "Messages to America ," which investigates societal issues and international perceptions through portraiture and sociological data collection. Student-proposed projects must be approved by the appropriate academic department and the instructor.

No pre-requisite or prior photographic knowledge is required. Students must supply their own camera equipment.

Estimated price: $2995; $1000 deposit by December 8, additional $1000 by January 15, balance by February 24

In this class, we will discuss how culture influences development and mental health.  We will consider the traditional perspective of developmental psychology and consider how understanding culture helps us better account for cultural variability in psychological processes.  As we think about these processes, we will discuss how they relate to psychological symptoms and disordersboth how they are experienced and how they are viewed and treated around the world.  The class will consist of six 2 1/2 hour seminars (meeting on Friday afternoons before spring break), a trip to Japan during spring break, and a project to be completed independently by each student following the trip.  During the six weeks of class meetings, reading and writing assignments will be fairly intensive to accommodate the fact that all group academic work for the semester must take place during that period.
Course website: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~seduffy/Japan2007/

In this course we will read work by some of the most accomplished writers in the English language, all of whom live (or lived) in South Africa . The history of South Africa is a violent one, but in recent years, with the end of the racist apartheid state, a new multiracial democratic society has emerged and the process of healing and reparation has begun. The literature—short stories, novels, poetry, and plays—we read will take account of this remarkable history and the diverse ethnic population of the country, which includes (as a result of European colonization and forced enslavement) British, Dutch, and Southeast Asian peoples, in addition to native Africans. The course will focus on literature of the last thirty or forty years and will include two Nobel Prize winners, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, as well as Athol Fugard, Richard Rive, Nelson Mandela, Njabulo Ndebele, Zakes Mda, Jeremy Cronin, Zoe Wicomb, Ahmed Essop, and Agnes Sam, among others. We will also watch several films of the post-apartheid era, including Tsotsi and Red Dust.

The course lasts eight weeks and culminates in a trip during Spring Break to South Africa, where we will experience first-hand some of the places we have read about, visiting world-class wineries, reading on the beach by the Indian Ocean, and going on safari in Kruger National Park. We will also tour several museums, meet with practicing writers, and go to a play or two in Johannesburg . (NB: In early January, over Winter Break, the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia will be staging a play by Fugard that we will make plans to see together.)

International Study
( with trip to Paris and Loire Val May 2007)
56:606:613 (#49469)
Professor Rosenberg

This course considers various thoughtful and provocative analyses of American society and American politics, including a range of authors with distinctive and often incompatible views on freedom, equality, human nature, historical dynamics, and the prospects of American society. All assigned readings in the course are from primary sources. The course beings with a discussion of theoretical underpinnings of the American republic, focusing on the thought of Thomas Jefferson and of The Federalist Papers. It next examines nineteenth-century understandings of American society and politics, emphasizing de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and the thought of Abraham Lincoln. It then turns to challenges to the American consensus through an examination of African-American political thought (Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X) and radical political thought (Emma Goldman). It concludes with a consideration of twentieth-century liberalism (Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and conservatism (Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman).

If for some reason, you cannot register for courses in Spring 2006, you should register for Matriculation Continued. You pay only a $57 fee, which allows you to remain a member in good standing of the Liberal Studies Program and saves you from the trouble of being re-admitted in the following semester.