ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

A program is a course of study designed by faculty members to focus on a particular area of knowledge or a particular approach to an area. Each program establishes requirements for Moderation, course work, and Senior projects; each selects from the courses offered at the College those courses it considers required, recommended, and related to its particular focus. Every student is required to declare a major in a program by the end of his or her sophomore year in order to moderate from the Lower College to the Upper College and to become a candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

1. Division of the Arts

Art History
Dance
Film and Electronic Media
History of Photography
Integrated Arts
Music
Photography
Studio Art
Theater
 

2. Division of Languages & Literature

Literature (works written in English and world literature in translation)
Writing: Fiction and Poetry
Foreign Languages:

Classical Languages:
Greek
Latin

3. Division of Natural Sciences & Math

Biochemistry
Chemistry
Computer Science
Ecology and Organismal Biology
Environmental Science
Mathematics
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Physics

4. Division of Social Studies

Anthropology
Economics
History
Philosophy
Political Studies
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
Theology

5. Interdivisional Programs

AADS (African and African Diaspora Studies)
American Studies
Asian Studies
Classical Studies
CRES (Community, Regional, and Environmental Studies)
French Studies
Gender Studies
German Studies
History and Philosophy of Science
Irish and Celtic Studies
Italian Studies
Jewish Studies
LAIS (Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Linguistics
Medieval Studies
MES (Multiethnic Studies)
Philosophy and the Arts
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Victorian Studies

6. Multidisciplinary Studies

Programs initiated and designed by students to integrate material from different programs and Divisions.

COURSES APPROPRIATE TO INTERDIVISIONAL PROGRAMS

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES (AADS)

ARTH 102 Perspectives in World Art II
ARTH 273 Religious Imagery in Latin America
HIST 2115 Black Experience in America
HIST 299 Visual Griots: Africa thru Film
HIST 306 Hidden Ideas:Intellectual Traditions
LIT 238 Modern African Fiction
MUS 212 Jazz in Literature
MUS 332 Jazz: Freedom Principle
SST 310 Blackness in Diaspora

Related interest:

ARTH 101 Perspectives in World Art II
ECON 235 Topics in Labor Economics
PS 182 Contested Ideals in American Political Thought

AMERICAN STUDIES

LIT 258 Literature of the US II
ANTH 212 Intro to Historical Archaeology
ARTH 255 Edith Wharton & Architecture
ECON 235 Topics in Labor Economics
HIST 2115 Black Experience in America
HIST 237 The Sixties
HIST 326 Early National Period in Hudson Valley
MUS 212 Jazz in Literature II
MUS 332 Jazz: The Freedom Principle II
PS 182 Contested Ideals in American Political Thought
PS 210 Gender and Public Policy
PS 214 US-Latin American Relations
PS 295 Dreams of Perfectibility, Part II
PS 328 States and Markets
SOC 243 Readings in Social Demography
SST 232 Luminous Creatures
THTR 101B Intro to Acting - American Method

ASIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under CHINESE, JAPANESE and
CLAS 325 Aristotle & Hsun Tzu
ECON 219 China in Transition:Political Economic Analysis
HIST 2481 Mao's China and Beyond
REL 237 Tibetan Civilization
REL 238 Approaches to Zen Buddhism
REL 262 Religion and Music in North India
REL 331 Technologies of the Spirit in South Asis

 

COMMUNITY, REGIONAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (CRES)

ANTH 212 Intro to Historical Archaeology
ANTH 336 Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights
ECON 102 Intro to Microeconomics
HIST 280B American Environmental History II
PSY 204 Research Methods in Psychology
REL 265 Religion and Ecology
 
 

FRENCH STUDIES

All courses listed under FRENCH and
ARTH 226 Ideal Bodies: The Modern Nude
ARTH 351 Manet's Olympia
LIT 204C Comp Lit III: Romanticism to Modernism
LIT 264 Nineteenth-Century Continental Novel

Related interest:

LIT 238 Modern African Fiction

GENDER STUDIES

ANTH 247 Theories of Personhood in Melanesia
ARTH 226 Ideal Bodies: The Modern Nude
ARTH 351 Manet's Olympia
ECON 235 Topics in Labor Economics
HIST 306 Hidden Ideas:Intellectual Traditions of Afro-American Women
LIT 2138 Women and Culture
LIT 3390 Feminist Theory
PHIL 257 Feminist Perspectives
PHOT 317 Photography and Performance
PS 182 Contested Ideals in American Political Thought
PS 210 Gender and Public Policy

GERMAN STUDIES

All courses listed under GERMAN and
LIT 204C Comp Lit III: Romanticism to Modernism
LIT 2125 Three Novels of Thomas Mann
LIT 264 Nineteenth Century Continental Novel
PHIL 259 Religious and Anti-Religious Philosophers

PHIL 387 Freud and Philosophy

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

NSCI 225 Einstein

INTEGRATED ARTS

ART 200 Cybergraphics
CLAS 101 Rise and Fall of Athens
FILM 267 History of Video Art
LIT 3305 Writing the Contemporary
LIT 3742 Gertrude Stein & The Arts of Composing
MUS 216 Arithmetic of Listening
MUS WKSH F Integrated Music & Art
PHIL 393 Philosophy & the Arts
PHOT 317 Photography and Performance
THTR 310 C Survey of Drama:Performance Studies
THTR 318 Visual Imagination for the Modern Stage

IRISH & CELTIC STUDIES

LIT 272 Irish Renaissance

ITALIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under ITALIAN and
ARTH 345 Michelangelo: Man, Masterpieces & the Myth
ARTH 330 Artists, Patrons & Ideas: Ital Sculpture
LIT 204A Comp. Lit I: Medieval to Renaissance
LIT 2148 Literature in the City
LIT 3301 Renaissance Ferrara

JEWISH STUDIES

HEB 102 Intro to Hebrew II
REL 112 Practice of Judaism
REL 263 Comp Rel:Judaism & Islam

LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN STUDIES (LAIS)

All course listed under SPANISH and
ARTH 102 Perspectives in World Art II
ARTH 273 Religious Imagery in Latin America
ARTH 374 Museum and Latin American Art
PS 214 US-Latin American Relations
PS 317 Latin American Political Economy

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

ARTH 222 The Medieval Manuscript
JS 110 Medieval Jewish Experience
LIT 204A Comp. Lit I: Medieval to Renaissance
LIT 2144 Medieval Dream Visions
LIT 234 Literature of the Crusades
LIT 250 English Literature I
LIT 290 History of the English Language
REL 232 Cairo as Microcosm of the Islamic World

MULTI-ETHNIC STUDIES (MES)

ANTH 253 Cultural Politics of the Raj
ANTH 336 Intellectual and Cultural Property Tights
ARTH 273 Religious Imagery in Latin America
ARTH 374 The Museum and Latin American Art
HIST 2115 Black Experience in America
HIST 299 Visual Griots: Africa thru Film
HIST 340 Politics of History
HIST 306 Hidden Ideas: Intellectual Traditions
LIT 238 Modern African Fiction
LIT 250A English Literature I
LIT 2144 Medieval Dream Visions
LIT 290 History of the English Language

LIT 3204 Literature and Politics
MUS 212 Jazz in Literature II
MUS 332 Jazz: The Freedom Principle II
PS 333 Nations, States, & Nationalism
PSY 392 Perspectives on Racial Identity
REL 122 Catholicism & American Society
SOC 208 Sociology of Whiteness
SPAN 220 Hispanic Presence in the US
SPAN 333 Jungle Books
SST 232 Luminous Creatures
SST 310 Major Conference: Blackness in Diaspora

Related interest:

PS 182 Contested Ideals in American Political Thought

 

RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under RUSSIAN and
HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to present
HIST 241 Czarist Russia
LIT 264 Nineteenth Century Continental Novel
LIT 2702 Russia on the Opera Stage

VICTORIAN STUDIES

ANTH 253 Cultural Politics of the Raj
LIT 215 Victorian Essays and Detectives
HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to present
PHOT 317 Photography and Performance