Club and Group Officers Weekend (CAGOW)

Classroom Visits

Friday, January 20, 2017

Visit a classroom! Listen to some of Dartmouth’s world renowned experts as they teach current students. Listed below are the class descriptions, times, and room locations. Please feel free to visit one of the classrooms either at 10:10am or 11:30am. Enjoy!

10:10 AM -11:15 AM:

ANTH 48: From Sacred to Salvation

John Watanabe

Class Period: 10 | Silsby Hall 113

This course examines religions as cultural systems that give shape and meaning to people's lives and provide them a means, in the form of rituals, to affect their worlds and themselves. The emphasis is on understanding non-Western religions, especially local traditions, through the interpretation of myth, ritual, and symbolism. The relationship of religion to political power and ideology is also explored.

Textbooks:

  • Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, abridged edition (Oxford University Press, 1976).
  • Roger M. Keesing, Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society (Columbia University Press, 1982).
  • Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Stephen Kalberg, tr. (Oxford University Press, 2011).

ARTH 63:Sacred Art and Architecture of Japan

Allen Hockley

Class Period: 10 | Carpenter Hall 201c

This course examines Shinto and Buddhist architectural, sculptural, painting and print traditions from the prehistoric to the modern era. The primary emphasis will be on the relationship of these arts to their doctrinal sources and the ritual, social, and political contexts in which they were created and utilized.

Textbooks: N/A

COLT 56.01/RUSS 38.08: SciFi under Socialism
Yuliya Komska
Class Period: 10| 103 Reed Hall

Cyborgs, intergalactic vistas, and overextended futurities ostensibly characterize western science fiction. Yet space age put cosmic agendas on writing and film-editing desks all over the former Socialist bloc as well. We will explore the East/West differences in generic conventions and investigate the uneasy fit between Socialist Realism—the state-sponsored style for picturing the real life of the “New Socialist Man”—and the questionable political orders and subversive desires unleashed by fictions of deregulated space travel.

ENG 7.02: Climate Change

Mary Albert

Class Period: 10 | Rhett’s Room, M201 Maclean Engineering Sciences Center

Climate change has occurred over the course of many time scales in the past, and is occurring now. This course explores the published scientific literature on the nature and causes of climate change, impacts on us and the larger world, and the implications for generation and use of energy. Through readings, class discussion, individual research, and writing, we will explore this complex issue. Student writing will synthesize results from the literature to further their understanding and to propose adaptation and mitigation responses. Reading will include a number of published papers and selections from books. Students will be required to actively participate in class by leading class discussions, actively engaging in small group activities, and doing peer review of written work. Students will write two short papers, develop an annotated bibliography, write a research paper based on the research completed for the annotated bibliography, and make an oral presentation of their findings.

Textbooks:

  • Introduction to Modern Climate Change, Andrew Dessler, 2016, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-09682-0. Amazon: $106.70
  • Style the Basics of Clarity and Grace, 4th edition, J. M. Williams and G.C. Colomb, 2010. Amazon: $12.47books:

PHIL09.02 01 Environmental Ethics
James Binkoski

Class Period: 10 | 108 Kemeny Hall

This course provides a general introduction to ethical problems concerning the environment. The course will cover some standard positions in the field, including biocentrism (the thesis that all living organisms have intrinsic moral worth) and ecocentrism (the thesis that entire natural systems have intrinsic moral worth). Topics considered may include: the ethics of food; the ethics of climate change; the moral status of non-human animals; population, consumption, and sustainability; GMOs and organic food; our duties to other persons, including future persons; and the difficulty of formulating comprehensive climate policy.

Textbooks: NA

11:30 AM -12:35 PM:

AAAS 81.06: African-American Music

Francesca Inglese

Class Period: 11 | Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hartman Rehearsal Hall

What is “African American music”? What is “black music”? What does African Americanmusic reveal about race, culture, and American society? And why has African Americanmusic, perhaps more than any other music, moved with such energy, crossing boundariesof nation, race, ethnicity, and been taken up with passion and commitment by people in somany parts of the world? We address these and other core questions as they emerge fromspecific historic and ethnographic case studies, examining music in an interdisciplinarycritical framework that attends to both its aesthetic, experiential, and political meanings.We investigate select African American musical genres in both the U.S. and in globalcontexts. The course is divided into four units on blues, jazz, rock and hip hop, focusing onthemes of text and intertextuality, improvisation and dialogue, technology and sampling. Inaddition, we address these genres as they are taken up in other parts of the world. Casestudies will include blues in the U.K. and Tibet, jazz in France and Japan, and hip hop inBurma and South Africa. Texts, performances, media, in-class workshops all form anintegral part of this course.

Textbooks: N/A

ANTH 21: The Aztecs

Deborah Nichols

Class Period: 11| Berry Lower Level, Carson L01

Mexico City once the capital of New Spain overlies the remains of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire. This course examines the development of the Aztec empire, the organization of Aztec society and religion, and the Spanish conquest of the Aztec. It ends with an introduction to Nahua society in the first century after conquest. We will also consider the varied perspectives of Aztec history offered by Nahua texts, archaeology, history, and art history.

Textbooks:

  • Brumfiel Elizabeth, and Gary M. Feinman, 2008. The Aztec World. Abrahms F1219.76R57 ISBN 780810972980 $5.78
  • Hassig, Ross, 2006 Mexico and the Spanish Conquest F1230 .H37 ISBN 978-0806137933 $18.36
  • Leon Portilla, Miguel, The Broken Spears. Beacon F1230 L383 ISBN 978-0807055007 $19.00
  • Berdan, Frances R. Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory F1219.73 B458 2014 ISBN 978-0-521-70756-5 ($29.69)

ENGL 29: American Fiction to 1900

Colleen Boggs

Class Period: 11 | Thornton Hall 107

A survey of the first century of U.S. fiction, this course focuses on historical contexts as well as social and material conditions of the production of narrative as cultural myth. The course is designed to provide an overview of the literary history of the United States novel from the National Period to the threshold of the Modern (1845-1900). To do justice to the range of works under discussion, the lectures will call attention to the heterogeneous cultural contexts out of which these works have emerged as well as the formal and structural components of the different works under discussion. In keeping with this intention, the lectures include the so-called classic texts in American literature,The Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, andThe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, but also the newly canonized Uncle Tom's Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Life in the Iron Mills, andHope Leslie. The configuration of these works will result in an understanding of the remarkable complexity of United States literary culture.

Textbooks:

  • The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Signet Classics (October 3, 2006)
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (Author), Hershel Parker (Editor) , Harrison Hayford (Editor), W. W. Norton & Company; Second Edition (July 27, 1999)
  • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Leland S. Person (Editor), W. W. Norton & Company; 4th revised edition (December 17, 2004)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author), Dover Publications (August 1, 2005)
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass. W.W. Norton Paperback. December 1996.
  • Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Addison Wesley; Revised edition (July 28, 2009)
  • Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott (Author), Gregory Eiselein (Editor), Anne K Phillips (Editor), W. W. Norton & Company (December 5, 2003)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Author), American Adventure Series (January 21, 2014)
  • The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction, Henry James (Author), Bantam Classics (September 1, 1981)
  • The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (Author), Stanley Appelbaum (Editor), Dover Publications, July 1, 1990
  • Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted, Dover Publications, 2 Rei Una edition (November 24, 2010)
ENVS 65: Global Environmental Politics
D.G. Webster
Class Period: 11 | 101 Fairchild
This course will examine the global politics associated with environmental issues such as desertification, wildlife management, biodiversity conservation, oceans and fisheries, shared water resources, and climate change. Specifically, we will engage these topics using theories from international relations and comparative politics. A major goal of the course is to give students a firm understanding of the linkages between the policy preferences of governments and the outcomes of international negotiations regarding the global environment.
Textbooks:
  • Global Environmental Politics: Dilemmas in World Politics (Paperback) Seventh Edition
    By Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, Janet Welsh Brown
THEA 7.01 Theater for Social Change
Mara Sabinson
Class Period: 11 | Baker Library 234
This course will trace particular developments in American and Western European Theater from the First World War through the present. Artists and theater groups under consideration will be those whose work has focused on contemporary social conditions and the potential of performance to effect social change. In addition, students will experiment with developing scripts and performances based on current events. Readings will include selections from the writings of Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, The Federal Theatre Project, Harold Pinter, Augusto Boal, etc. as well as newspapers, news magazines, and other media sources. In addition to creative and critical writing, students will be assigned one major research project. Emphasis will be on class participation.
Textbooks: N/A

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