Courses of Study 2017-2018 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

RUSSA—Russian Language

  
  • RUSSA 4491 - Reading Course: Russian Literature in the Original Language


         
    Fall, spring. 1 credit. Student option grading.

    Permission of instructor required. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible. The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    To be taken in conjunction with any Russian literature course at the advanced level. Students receive 1 credit for reading and discussing works in Russian in addition to their normal course work. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 6633 - Russian for Russian Specialists


         
    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible. The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Designed for students whose areas of study require advanced active control of the language. Fine points of translation, usage, and style are discussed and practiced. Syllabus varies from year to year. May be taken more than once. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.

  
  • RUSSA 6634 - Russian for Russian Specialists


         
    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or equivalent. Class meeting times will be chosen at the organizational meeting (usually the second or third day of the semester) so as to accommodate as many students as possible. May be taken more than once. The time and place of the organizational meeting will be announced at russian.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Designed for students whose areas of study require advanced active control of the language. Fine points of translation, usage, and style are discussed and practiced. Syllabus varies from year to year. Detailed description at russian.cornell.edu.


RUSSL—Russian Literature

  
  • RUSSL 2209 - [Readings in Russian Prose and Poetry]


    (HB) (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: for students with 2+ semesters of Russian language (RUSSA 1121 /RUSSA 1122  or equivalent). Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Short classics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Authors may include Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Blok, and Akhmatova. Assignments adjusted for native fluency. May be used as a prerequisite for RUSSL courses with reading in Russian.

  
  • RUSSL 3330 - America through Russian Eyes

    (crosslisted) AMST 3331 , COML 3330  
    (CA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    G. Shapiro.

    In this course, we shall look at Russia’s perception of America as reflected in the works of its writers for over a hundred-year period. What motivated these writers? Did they go to the United States with an open mind? Did they have a hidden agenda? How fair and balanced was their portrayal of America and of Americans? We shall attempt to answer these and other questions by examining the writings of such authors as Korolenko, Bunin, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Il’f and Petrov, and Nabokov as well as Aksyonov and Dovlatov. All texts are in English.

  
  • RUSSL 3331 - [Introduction to Russian Poetry]


    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    The nineteenth century was the first great age of Russian poetry – beginning with Pushkin’s predecessors, continuing through Lermontov, and ending with Tiutchev and Fet and anticipations of modernism.  In this course you’ll learn how to read short poems carefully, you’ll expand and deepen your understanding of the Russian language, and you’ll gain insight into one of the world’s major literary traditions. Satisfies the Russian Minor requirement for Russian literature with reading in the original. 

  
  • RUSSL 3333 - [Twentieth Century Russian Poetry]


    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Close reading of short poems by major twentieth-century Russian poets (Blok, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mandel’shtam, and others), with a focus on translation and on verse form.

  
  • RUSSL 3341 - Short Russian Fiction (The Nineteenth Century)


    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    N. Pollak.

    The nineteenth century Russian novel had its beginnings in a period of short fiction; it ended in another one.  When Tolstoy was preparing to write Anna Karenina, he reread Pushkin’s tales.  Dostoevsky’s characters have roots in Lermontov’s fiction.  The Russian novelists also wrote short works.  This course focuses on the stories and tales of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others.  It covers the nineteenth century and extends a decade or two in either direction, to the early years of modern Russian fiction in the late eighteenth century and to the final pre-revolutionary years in the early twentieth century.

  
  • RUSSL 3367 - [The Russian Novel]


    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Spring. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    N. Pollak.

    The rise of the Russian novel in the 19th century, with particular attention to the relation between earlier (Pushkin, Lermontov) and later (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) writers of prose fiction.

  
  • RUSSL 3385 - Reading Nabokov

    (crosslisted) COML 3815 , ENGL 3790  
    (LA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    In translation.

    G. Shapiro.

    This course offers an exciting trip to the intricate world of Nabokov’s fiction. After establishing himself in Europe as a distinguished Russian writer, Nabokov, at the outbreak of World War II, came to the United States where he reestablished himself, this time as an American writer of world renown. In our analysis of Nabokov’s fictional universe, we shall focus on his Russian corpus of works, from Mary (1926) to The Enchanter (writ. 1939), all in English translation, and then shall examine the two widely read novels which he wrote in English in Ithaca while teaching literature at Cornell: Lolita (1955) and Pnin (1957).

  
  • RUSSL 4432 - [Pushkin]


    (HB) (LA-AS)      
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Reading in Russian; discussion in English.

    N. Pollak.

    Selected verse by Pushkin: lyrics, narrative poems, dramatic works.

  
  • RUSSL 4492 - Supervised Reading in Russian Literature


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Students must find an advisor and submit a plan before signing up.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • RUSSL 6611 - Supervised Reading and Research


         
    Fall or spring. 2-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: proficiency in Russian or permission of instructor. Times TBA with instructor.

    Staff.

    Independent study.


SANSK—Sanskrit

  
  • SANSK 1131 - Elementary Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted) CLASS 1331 , LING 1131  
         
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    T. Clary.

    An introduction to the essentials of Sanskrit grammar. Designed to enable the student to read classical and epic Sanskrit as soon as possible.

  
  • SANSK 1132 - Elementary Sanskrit II

    (crosslisted) CLASS 1332 LING 1132  
         
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SANSK 1131  or permission of instructor.

    T. Clary.

    An introduction to the essentials of Sanskrit grammar. Designed to enable the student to read classical and epic Sanskrit as soon as possible.

  
  • SANSK 2251 - Intermediate Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted) CLASS 2351 , LING 2251  
    (GHB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SANSK 1132  or permission of instructor.

    L. McCrea.

    Review of grammar and reading of selections from Sanskrit epic poetry and narrative prose.

  
  • SANSK 2252 - Intermediate Sanskrit II

    (crosslisted) CLASS 2352 LING 2252  
    (GHB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: one year prior Sanskrit study or permission of instructor.

    L. McCrea.

    Review of grammar and reading of selections from Sanskrit epic poetry and narrative prose.

  
  • SANSK 3301 - Advanced Sanskrit I

    (crosslisted) CLASS 3395  
    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: two years study of Sanskrit or equivalent.

    L. McCrea.

    Selected readings in Sanskrit literary and philosophical texts.

  
  • SANSK 3302 - Advanced Sanskrit II

    (crosslisted) CLASS 3396  
    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: two years of Sanskrit or equivalent.

    L. McCrea.

    Selected readings in Sanskrit literary and philosophical texts.

  
  • SANSK 3359 - [Seminar in Vedic Philology]

    (crosslisted) CLASS 3359 , LING 3359  
    (GHB) (HA-AS)      
    Spring. Next offered 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Prerequisite: two years of Sanskrit or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ASIAN 6659 /CLASS 7459 /LING 6659 .

    M. Weiss.

    For description, see LING 3359 .

  
  • SANSK 4431 - Directed Study


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for directed study, please complete the on-line independent study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Staff.

    Intended for advanced language study.

  
  • SANSK 4432 - Directed Study


    (CU-UGR)     
    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for directed study, please complete the on-line independent study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    Staff.

    Intended for advanced language study.


SEA—Sea Education Association

  
  • SEA 3620 - Maritime History and Culture


    (CA-AG, HA-AG) (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Explore impacts of European maritime ventures on the societies they contacted in the Atlantic or Pacific, with focus on the resulting social, political, economic, and cultural changes. Investigate responses documented in the post-Colonial literature of indigenous people.

    Outcome 1: Students will write an expository paper that takes them from a primary source through the research process, and make additional observations at port stops during the sea component.

  
  • SEA 3660 - Oceanography


    (OPHLS-AG)      
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Explore how interconnected ocean characteristics (bathymetry, seawater chemistry, biological diversity) and processes (plate tectonics, surface and deep-water circulation, biological production) shape global patterns across multiple scales. Discuss destination-specific environmental issues and hot topics in marine research.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete exams covering lecture material.

    Outcome 2: Students will review literature and create a written proposal for research to be conducted during the research cruise.

    Outcome 3: Students will participate in an oral presentation of their proposal.

  
  • SEA 3665 - The Ocean and Global Change


    (OPHLS-AG) (CU-ITL, CU-SBY)     
    Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Ocean ecosystem change in the anthropocene: warming, acidification, fisheries depletion, and pollution. Review principles of circulation, seawater chemistry, nutrient dynamics, and biological production to understand causes and consequences of change. Conduct field measurements for contribution to time-series data sets.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to search the scientific literature and, through critical review, identify seminal papers on various topics related to global ocean health.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to effectively moderate and contribute to discussions on potentially complex and controversial global ocean health topics.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to assess regional ocean health by applying the metrics of the Ocean Health Index to oceanographic data collected during the required research cruise.

  
  • SEA 3670 - Maritime Studies


    (OPHLS-AG) (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Relationship between humans and the sea. History, literature and art of our maritime heritage. Ships as agents of contact change. Political and economic challenges of contemporary marine affairs. Destination-specific focus.

    Outcome 1: Several readings and papers will give students an opportunity to develop a perspective of our changing relationship with the sea.

  
  • SEA 3680 - Nautical Science


    (OPHLS-AG)      
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Learn the fundamentals of sailing ship operation, in preparation for direct application at sea. Navigation (piloting, celestial and electronic), weather, engineering systems, safety, and sail theory. Participate as an active member of the ship’s crew on an offshore voyage.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete lab exercises and workshops to become proficient in skills of the mariner.

    Outcome 2: Students will complete exams covering lecture material.

  
  • SEA 3685 - Leadership in a Dynamic Environment


         
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Be an effective leader while leveraging the individual strengths of a team. Use leadership theory and case studies to understand how decisions affect outcomes. Participate as an active member of a ship’s crew, progressively assuming full leadership roles.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to select and create the most appropriate information display strategy (e.g., graphs, maps, infographics, matrices and/or multimedia pieces), accompanying text and formatting details for a given data objective and audience.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to effectively employ a broad range of visual communication techniques in publishable elements to support and enhance a field research project in the natural or social sciences.

  
  • SEA 3690 - Oceanographic Field Methods


    (OPHLS-AG)      
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: SEA 3700  is a co-requisite course that teaches students how to analyze and interpret data after it is collected. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Exposure to basic oceanographic sampling methods. Participate in shipboard laboratory operations to gain experience with deployment of modern oceanographic equipment and collection of scientific data at sea. Emphasis on practicing consistent methods and ensuring data fidelity.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to safely operate standard oceanographic equipment: hydrographic winch, Conductivity Temperature and Depth (CTD) probes, 12-Niskin bottle rosette water sampler, in situ Seapoint fluorometers to measure chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater, RD Instruments OceanSurveyor 75 KHz hull-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to measure upper-ocean currents, Knudsen 326 full ocean depth profiler for acoustic seafloor mapping, surface and subsurface nets for zooplankton sampling.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to practice accurate data recording.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to effectively participate and contribute as essential members of a working research laboratory.

  
  • SEA 3700 - Practical Oceanographic Research


    (OPHLS-AG)      
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Introduction to oceanographic research. Design a collaborative, hypothesis-driven project following the scientific process. Collect original data. Conduct analysis and interpretation, then prepare a written report and oral presentation.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to critically analyze and interpret authentic oceanographic data.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to generate clear visual representations of oceanographic data.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to participate and contribute as essential members of a research team.

  
  • SEA 3710 - Marine Environmental History


    (CA-AG, LA-AG) (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Employ methods and sources of historians and social scientists. Examine the role of human societies in coastal and open ocean environmental change. Issues include resource conservation, overfishing, pollution, invasive species, and climate change.

    Outcome 1: Students are guided to source materials for research on both the natural environment and human actions upon it; on the cruise we interact with local people, including government officials to discuss management strategies and points of view.

  
  • SEA 3730 - Toward a Sustainable Ocean: Conservation and Management


    (CA-AG, OPGLS-AG) (CU-ITL, CU-SBY)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Comparative and issue-driven introduction to managing human uses and conserving coastal and ocean places and resources. Explore concepts of technology, governance, sector and ecosystem management, and marine protected areas through expert content lectures, topical seminars, and field trips.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to critically evaluate policy documents and communicate evaluations orally, visually, and in writing.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to identify and explain significant relationships between economic (market) forces, technology, and ecological sustainability.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to identify and assess direct and indirect ocean uses at local, national and global scales.

    Outcome 4: Students will be able to compare and contrast major concepts or approaches to coastal ocean management.

    Outcome 5: Students will be able to critically evaluate the successes or failures of individual Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

    Outcome 6: Students will be able to observe, record, and categorize offshore human uses of the marine environment.

  
  • SEA 3740 - Cultural Landscapes and Seascapes: A Sense of Place


    (CA-AG, HA-AG, OPGLS-AG) (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Field-intensive analysis and documentation of dynamic relationships between nature and culture in specific coastal, island, and ocean places. Apply cultural landscape and related interdisciplinary bio-cultural approaches to place-based environmental studies.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to identify, document, interpret, and prioritize environmental features and characteristics that shape individual maritime cultural landscapes.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to identify place-based human uses of coastal and marine environments and their major ecological and cultural impacts.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to place cultural products such as art, oral and written stories, architecture, and knowledge systems in larger coastal and marine cultural landscape contexts.

  
  • SEA 3780 - Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle


    (OPHLS-AG) (CU-ITL, CU-SBY)     
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or consent of the instructor. Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Ocean as carbon source and sink. Examine global-scale flux patterns and carbon storage mechanisms, from solubility/biological pumps to geo-engineering. Explore buffering capacity and mitigation strategies in the face of anthropogenic carbon cycle perturbations. Oral presentation and written research proposal required.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to interpret and discuss seminal papers from the primary literature on the oceans role in the global carbon cycle.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to search the scientific literature and identify appropriate supporting resources on a topic related to carbon cycling in the marine environment.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop and defend hypotheses for proposed authentic oceanographic research during a co-requisite research cruise.

  
  • SEA 3790 - Ocean Science and Public Policy


    (HA-AG) (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Culture, history, political systems and science can shape ocean policy. Practice current strategies to build, analyze, and communicate about diverse policy issues. Examine the power, use and limitations of science and the scientist’s voice in determining ocean policy.

    Outcome 1: Students will review literature addressing the scientific dimensions of ocean policy.

    Outcome 2: Will write a paper analyzing a contemporary public debate over science policy.

    Outcome 3: Students research and prepare a policy brief for addressing a contemporary coastal or ocean topic.

    Outcome 4: Students will make an oral presentation and defense of their policy brief in a mock public forum.

  
  • SEA 3800 - Advanced Oceanographic Field Methods


    (OPHLS-AG)      
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or permission of the instructor. Corequisites required. SEA 4990  is a co-requisite course that teaches students “how to deal with the data once it has been collected.” Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Tools and techniques of the oceanographer. Participate in shipboard laboratory operations to gain experience with deployment of modern oceanographic equipment and collection of scientific data at sea. Emphasis on sampling plan design, advanced laboratory sample processing methods, and robust data analysis.

    Outcome 1: Students will understand the purpose, capability and biases of a wide variety of oceanographic sampling instrumentation.

    Outcome 2: Students will be full and responsible participants in shipboard laboratory operations.

    Outcome 3: Students will be able to deploy and recover oceanographic equipment and properly collect and process samples.

  
  • SEA 3810 - Data Communication and Visualization


         
    Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Information visualization strategies and associated software, emphasizing communication to diverse audiences. Select between geospatial (GIS) and qualitative data foci. Develop graphics and/or multimedia products supporting research projects in concurrent courses. Compile iterative digital portfolio.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to select and create the most appropriate information display strategy (e.g., graphs, maps, infographics, matrices and/or multimedia pieces), accompanying text and formatting details for a given data objective and audience.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to effectively employ a broad range of visual communication techniques in publishable elements to support and enhance a field research project in the natural or social sciences.

  
  • SEA 4640 - Advanced Topics in Biological Oceanography


         
    Fall (not offered every year), spring, summer (not offered every year). 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or permission of the instructor. Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    In-depth treatment of a single topic. Extensive review of classical and contemporary literature. Introduction and practice of current laboratory techniques. Oral presentation and research paper required. Topics include but are not limited to: marine plankton ecology, biodiversity, satellite oceanography.

    Outcome 1: Students will complete lab exercises and workshops to become proficient in research skills related to the course topic.

    Outcome 2: Students will be required to participate in weekly discussions and complete a final examination covering lecture material.

  
  • SEA 4971 - Independent Study in Oceanography


         
    Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SEA Semester. Junior standing, proposal approval, and consent of instructor. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Intensive independent research project supervised by a faculty advisor. Full-time commitment (40 hrs per week) for a minimum of four weeks. Final product commensurate with standard methods of dissemination in the discipline.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to design and complete an authentic research project.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to work independently in a professional setting.

  
  • SEA 4972 - Independent Study in Environmental Policy


         
    Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SEA Semester. Junior standing, proposal approval, and consent of instructor. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Intensive independent research project supervised by a faculty advisor. Full-time commitment (40 hrs per week) for a minimum of four weeks. Final product commensurate with standard methods of dissemination in the discipline.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to design and complete an authentic research project.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to work independently in a professional setting.

  
  • SEA 4973 - Independent Study in Maritime Humanities


         
    Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: SEA Semester. Junior standing, proposal approval, and consent of instructor. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Intensive independent research project supervised by a faculty advisor. Full-time commitment (40 hrs per week) for a minimum of four weeks. Final product commensurate with standard methods of dissemination in the discipline.

    Outcome 1: Students will be able to design and complete an authentic research project.

    Outcome 2: Students will be able to work independently in a professional setting.

  
  • SEA 4990 - Directed Oceanographic Research


         
    Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: minimum of 3 lab science courses or permission of the instructor. Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Design and conduct original oceanographic research. Collect data and analyze samples. Compile results in peer-reviewed manuscript format and share during oral or poster presentation session. Emphasis on development of research skills and written/oral communication abilities.

    Outcome 1: Students will review literature and create a written proposal for research to be conducted during the research cruise.

    Outcome 2: Students will participate in an oral defense of their proposal.

    Outcome 3: During the research cruise, students will deploy oceanographic equipment, collect samples, analyze data, interpret results, and produce a research manuscript.

    Outcome 4: Oral presentation of research results will be required.

  
  • SEA 4993 - Advanced Ocean Policy Research


    (CU-ITL, CU-SBY)     
    Fall (not offered every year), spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Corequisite: Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

    SEA faculty.

    Advanced policy research focusing on a topic of current importance (may include fisheries, biodiversity, marine spatial planning, and cultural heritage). Emphasis on theoretical concepts, research methods, and communication skills. Requires critical review paper, original research, final report and presentation.

    Outcome 1: Requires critical review paper, original research final report, and final oral presentation.


SHUM—Society for Humanities

  
  • SHUM 4613 - Theorizing the Local and the Global: Corruption and the Indian Novel in English

    (crosslisted) ASIAN 4463 , ENGL 4996 
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    A. Ben-Yishai.

    This course will survey the history of the novel in India in English over the past hundred years, from colonial rule, through the consolidation of the Indian nation, to the growing pressures of globalization. Focusing on realist fiction, we will address the ways that generic conventions change over time, and discuss the local and the global as formal concerns, modulating in relation to the world beyond India as well as in negotiation with its multiple locales, identities, languages, and cultures. Through this prism, we will focus our attention on the theme of corruption – of politics, of the nation, of language and literary form – that has been a constant (though often figured as crisis) in this literary tradition which simultaneously is and is not a national tradition.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4614 - Polluted Senses

    (crosslisted) ANTHR 4014  
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    C. Casey.

    Nothing is more essential to humans than everyday sensory experiencing. We feel the rain on our skin, or smell the stench of garbage, and decide what to do. Our senses clue us into possibilities and potential dangers. But are our sensory experiences universal? No. We have ample evidence that what people consider as their senses varies widely across societies, cultures, and national borders. Sensory experiencing also changes over time, with new technologies. This seminar engages the global diversity of sensory apprehension, honing in on multiple sensory forms of ‘pollution’ (aesthetic, political, ecological, religious, legal and cultural), and emerging conceptual and experiential approaches to “polluted senses.” Concepts and enactments of pollution affect what is communally sacred, social, and environmental, but also what is degenerative, contaminated, or corrupt such as health or moral crises and social, political conflicts.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4615 - Artivism: Electronic Civil Disobedience

    (crosslisted) VISST 4615  
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    R. Dominguez.

    The seminar will investigate the critical theories and practices by post-contemporary artivist and activist networks to corrupt the protocols of networks across the arcs of the planet by focusing on the history and manifestation of a single formation: Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD). By focusing on ECD as a specific practice the seminar will be able to open a politics of the question into the multiple trajectories and layers that are happening now under the sign of hacktivism.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4616 - Corrupting Environmental Media

    (crosslisted) COML 4614 , ​STS 4616  
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    R. Mukherjee.

    This course seeks to explore the intersections of corruption and environmental media. We will be analyzing films and other media (including artworks and literary texts) that deal with the environmental effects of governmental and corporate corruption. The course will investigate the epistemological and phenomenological dimensions of mediation and corruption through an eco-critical lens. We shall examine corruption as contagion at both biological (communicable diseases) and informational (glitches, computer viruses) levels.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4617 - Seeing Corruption in Mexico

    (crosslisted) LATA 4617 , ​VISST 4617  
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    L. Perez Leon.

    This seminar seeks to examine the relationships among three topics: (i) social vision (a form of collective intentionality), (ii) institutional corruption in Mexico, and (iii) artistic visual representations of institutional corruption in Mexico. Two questions will guide the seminar discussions: Can we see institutional corruption? And, are visual representations of institutional corruption a form of collective intentionality? To tackle them, our case study will be series of photographs, films, and documentaries depicting corruption within three institutional settings in Mexico: the government, the university, and the family.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4618 - Data Corruption’s Deep History

    (crosslisted) ARKEO 4618 , ​CLASS 4632 COML 4615 , ​MEDVL 4718 STS 4618  
         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    C. Roby.

    How can studying the deep past of information storage and transmission help us understand our current engagements with information and contemplate its future? In this course we will we will explore the materiality of information-bearing artifacts over the long history of semantic inscription. From cuneiform tablets to digital media (whose veneer of immateriality disguises the complexities of the material mechanisms of storage and transmission), we will study the shifting materialities of the matrices through which information is stored, transformed, shared, and obliterated: compilations and remixes, piracies and hacks, inscribed objects and their digital “surrogates.”

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4619 - Writing on Tape in the 1970s

    (crosslisted) AMST 4619 , ​ENGL 4619 MUSIC 4454  
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    J. Braddock.

    This course examines the way audiotape both corrupted and enabled the aesthetic and political culture of the 1970s. The possibilities of editing (via the cut, the loop, or the overdub) on one hand, and the seeming capacity for indiscriminate recording of sound on the other, revealed tape to be a medium with claims both for authentic documentation (and also surveillance), and wide aesthetic reference (but also mass deception). With one ear to the state and another to the music industry, this course will focus on the way politics and the arts responded to and incorporated the new technology. Authors include Andy Warhol, Alvin Lucier, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, The Last Poets, The Firesign Theatre, The Credibility Gap, Adrian Piper.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4620 - Undocumentation

    (crosslisted) AMST 4620 , COML 4616 , ​​FGSS 4620 LATA 4620 , ​LSP 4621 ROMS 4625 , ​VISST 4620  
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    A. Carroll.

    In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as “undocumentation.” Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices that corrupt the spreadsheet and the exposé; that reflect their makers’ commitments to portraying extreme labor situations in a period of greater Mexican neoliberal transition now synonymous with NAFTA, culture and drug wars, and border militarization and maquilization. Assigned texts will include artwork by the Border Art Workshop and Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock, and David Avalos; writing by Gloria Anzaldúa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Sara Uribe, and Sergio González Rodríguez; contributions to the Tijuana-San Diego installation festival inSITE; and “undocumentaries” like Alex Rivera’s Borders Trilogy, Sergio De La Torre and Vicki Funari’s Maquilapolis, and Natalia Almada’s El Velador.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4621 - Joyce and the Graveyard of Digital Empires

    (crosslisted) ​ENGL 4997 
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    E. Graham.

    A survey of digital media scholarship from 1970 to 2000 that takes as its focal point Joyce’s 1922 novel, Ulysses—one of the most influential literary works of the 20th century—this seminar investigates major theories of media and literature in relation to the emergence of electronic media technologies. Drawing upon critical theory, media history, and specific artistic and scholarly projects in old and new media, the course asks how and why Joyce came to be used as a defining figure of the “golden age” of hypertext theory: both an exemplary artist and an ultimate editorial challenge. Of special interest to the course is the fate of scholarly projects that took Joyce as their subject, for the challenges of sustainability that the first wave of digital scholarly projects encountered—challenges that reflect on more general problems of preservation in the digital environment, like data corruption, memory failures, and link rot—give rise to important questions about loss, failure, and memory in the history of the digital humanities. Themes that the course explores include hypertext theory, poststructuralist theory, electronic scholarly projects, histories of computing, histories of the book, concepts of the “social text,” and the history of predictions about the fate of traditional written forms in an electronic world. Authors and works include James Joyce, Marshall McLuhan, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, George Landow, Jay David Bolter, Hans Walter Gabler, Michael Groden, Jerome McGann, and interactive digital texts.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4622 - Thinking Through Transparency

    (crosslisted) COML 4618  
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    A. Parry.

    The course reads theoretical texts on liberalism, neoliberalism, and corruption in dialogue with science fiction/fantasy narratives, literary and visual. We will study how the aesthetic features of these genres are used to thematize corruption and scandal, and to imagine various forms of transparency, both interpersonal and political. Our goal is to understand how accounts of transparency and corruption in speculative fiction can engage the constitutive categories of liberal political thought, such as freedom, rights, property, progress, autonomy, and legality. Students are advised to read the Song of Ice and Fire series or watch Game of Thrones before class begins. In the last section, students will be asked to select a cultural text for their presentation, and assign part of it as a course reading.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

     

  
  • SHUM 4623 - Scandal, Corruption, and the Making of the British Empire in India

    (crosslisted) ASIAN 4465 HIST 4723 
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    R. Travers.

    As the English East India Company conquered vast Indian territories in the late 1700s, it was besieged with allegations of corruption against its leading officials. This course will examine the origins of modern imperialism through the lens of corruption, exploring how corruption scandals became sites for generating new ideas and practices of empire. As well as reading prominent figures of the European enlightenment, including Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Denis Diderot, we will also study major Indian writers on corruption, including the historian Ghulam Husain, and the liberal reformer, Ram Mohan Roy. Students will conduct primary research into eighteenth-century imperial corruption scandals, and consider the larger question of how modern ideas of political reform grew out of early modern theories of corruption.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4624 - The Politics of Imprisonment

    (crosslisted) HIST 4724 
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    R. Weil.

    Different polities incarcerate in different ways. This seminar puts prisons into their wider political contexts, considering them as sites for wider debates about rights, tyranny, corruption and slavery, race and empire. Why did the birth of the modern prison coincide so closely with the birth of the American (and French) republics? How did changing forms of imprisonment intersect with imperial ambitions? What do the new generation of activists and scholars mean by “the carceral state?” Why and when do politicians talk about prisons, how do prisons serve as models or anti-models for political society? In what sense can we call prisons political institutions, or speak of a “carceral state?” Readings cover Europe and the US from the 17th century to the present.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://sochum.as.cornell.edu/courses.html.

  
  • SHUM 4625 - [Deranged Authority: The Force of Culture in Climate Change]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    J. Carlson.

    How does climate denialism persist in the face of mounting evidence that global warming is real? Conversely, how do environmentalists come to believe specific actions are necessary to save the world? How can climate justice efforts include local forms of knowledge and expertise? As humans struggle to conceive of new ways to live—and create change—in a time of “derangement,” this seminar explores how forms of environmental in/action become authoritative in different social contexts. Here classical and critical theories of authority illuminate how environmental knowledge attains power in some settings but not others; additionally, ethnographies of ecoauthority reveal forms of resiliency that diverge from conventional models of climate remediation. Participants will write short discussion papers, co-lead one class meeting, and submit a final essay.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 4626 - [Author, Critic, Reader]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    J. Elam.

    What does it mean to have a relationship with a work of literature? This course explores three relationships between text and human: one of authorship and authority, one of critique and criticism, and one of consumption and reading. What are the social relationships imagined by each position? Thinkers and writers across the twentieth century have attempted to describe these positions under historical conditions ranging from authoritarianism and imperialism as well as from historical conditions of post-totalitarianism. Each section draws on essays, literary theory, and an exemplary novel to illuminate the stakes of these questions, for not only aesthetic theory but also political theory and history in the twentieth century.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 4627 - [Disobedience, Resistance, Refusal]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    A. Livingston.

    This seminar surveys contemporary political theories of disobedience and resistance. We will examine liberal, republican, and radical perspectives on the logic of political protest, its functions, justifications, and limits, as well as how transformations in law, economy, and technology are redefining dissent in the twenty-first century. Topics to be discussed will include the terms of political obligation, the relationship between law-breaking and law-making, conceptions of justice, resistance and popular sovereignty, the politics of civility, violence and self-defense, public space and privatization, the digitalization of protest, resistance in non-democratic regimes, as well as deviance and refusal as modes of dissent.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 4628 - [Authority and Anonymity: Historical Reflections on a Historically Variable Relationship]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    A. McKenzie-McHarg.

    Authority and authorship: the similarity of the words alone suggests a close connection. But what happens to the authority of a text when its author is unknown? The proposed seminar combines methods derived from the history of the book, literary studies, and cultural and social history in exploring this question. As one might expect, there is no singular answer. Cases will be examined in which authorial evasiveness or reticence undermine the authority of a text while other cases will illustrate how authority has been enhanced by anonymity or anonymous contributions (one thinks, for example, of blind peer review in an academic context). Furthermore, the course will also go beyond the domain of the text by examining authority and anonymity in non-textual contexts.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 4629 - [On Political Authority and the Power to Expose]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    D. Rojas.

    This course focuses on the “exterior” as a political problem in critical theory, architectural theory, and cultural anthropology. The texts we will examine and elaborate on a political distinction between a human “interior” of “culture” or “reason” and a non-human “exterior” made of “natural” processes that are indifferent to human life. We will examine theoretical critiques of the old political notion that the authority of rulers should be like that of architects: leaders are recognized by their capacity to build interior spaces that nourish human modes of living. We will consider a range of cases in which political projects designed to build all-encompassing interiors have exposed humans and non-humans alike to the possibility of outright destruction. In some cases, authorities are recognized as such due to their perceived capacity to expose themselves and their followers to the possibility of annihilation.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 4630 - [Recognition, Abjection, and State Ideology]


         


    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

    K. Yamamoto-Hammering.

    “Recognition, Abjection, and State Ideology” introduces seminal theories of modern state ideology with reference to ethnographic texts that focus both on the formation of national identity and social exclusion. While the course examines relations between the economy and the effectiveness of state rhetoric, it also addresses how state ideologies today require the expulsion of certain groups from general society, and how these groups maintain their own socialities.

    For longer description and instructor bio please visit http://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/courses.

  
  • SHUM 6308 - Expanded Practice Seminar


         


    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: Fellows receive a $1,500 stipend and a funded, week-long travel program during the semester.  Participation in the trip is required. Co-meets with ARCH 6308 .

    Staff.

    Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced by national or ethnic divisions; the increasingly leaky taxonomy of the terra firma in areas where land/water boundaries are rapidly changing; and the inadequacy of static zoning models that fail to capture dynamic, urban economics and performance. The intent of the Expanded Practice Seminar is to study complex urban conditions using theoretical and analytic tools derived in equal part from the design disciplines and humanist studies. The Expanded Practice Seminar includes a site visit to experience the conditions under study and meet with local experts, designers, and authorities.  Expanded Practice Seminars are offered under the auspices of Cornell University’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities grant.

    For current special topic seminar description and application instructions, visit: urbanismeseminars.cornell.edu/courses/.

    Topic for 2017-2018:

    Fall Migration and Discrimination E. Akcan, I. Dadi.

     

  
  • SHUM 6819 - Urban Representation

    (crosslisted) AMST 6819 , ENGL 6919 , LSP 6819  
         


    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: fellowship recipients, who receive a $1500 stipend.

    Staff.

    Urban Representation Labs are intended to bring students and faculty into direct contact with complex urban representations spanning a wide media spectrum and evoking a broad set of humanist discourses. Students will leverage archival materials at Cornell to launch new observations and explore unanticipated approaches to urban culture that derive from previously understudied archival materials. The goal is twofold: to demystify the representational technologies involved in presenting the city, and to unpack the political, cultural, and aesthetic values and priorities embedded in every form of presentation. Urban Representation Labs are offered under the auspices of Cornell University’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities grant. For current special topic seminar description and application instructions, visit: urbanismeseminars.cornell.edu/courses/.

    Topic for 2017-2018:

    Spring              Mapping Urban Memory in an Ahistorical Age E. Diaz.

     


SINHA—Sinhalese

  
  • SINHA 1100 - Elements of Sinhala Language and Culture


         
    Fall, spring. 1 credit. Letter grades only (no audit).

    The credit hour of this course does not count towards the Arts College language requirement.

    B. Herath.

    This course will introduce the basic Sinhala language elements and elements of Sri Lankan culture for those who are interested in the field of language and culture. Also for those planning to travel to Sri Lanka, heritage students, etc.

  
  • SINHA 1121 - Elementary Sinhala I


         
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    B. Herath.

    Semi-intensive introduction to colloquial Sinhala, intended for beginners. A thorough grounding is given in all the language skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

  
  • SINHA 1122 - Elementary Sinhala II


         
    Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SINHA 1121  or equivalent.

    B. Herath.

    Semi-intensive introduction to colloquial Sinhala, intended for beginners. A thorough grounding is given in all the language skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

  
  • SINHA 2201 - Intermediate Sinhala I


    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SINHA 1122 . Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    This course further develops student competence in colloquial Sinhala, attending to all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, this course prepares students for the transition to literary Sinhala.

  
  • SINHA 2202 - Intermediate Sinhala II


    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SINHA 2201  or equivalent. Permission of instructor required.

    B. Herath.

    This course further develops student competence in colloquial Sinhala, attending to all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, this course prepares students for the transition to literary Sinhala.

  
  • SINHA 3301 - Literary Sinhala I


    (GB) Satisfies Option 1.      
    Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SINHA 2201 , SINHA 2202  or permission of instructor.

    B. Herath.

    This one-semester course provides an introduction to the distinctive grammatical forms and vocabulary used in Literary Sinhala. While focused particularly on the development of reading skills, the course also introduces students to Literary Sinhala composition, and builds students’ listening comprehension of semi-literary Sinhala forms (such as those used in radio and TV news).

  
  • SINHA 4400 - Literary Sinhala II


    Satisfies Option 1 (when taken for 3 or 4 credits).      
    Fall, spring. 2-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Prerequisite: SINHA 3301  or permission of instructor.

    B. Herath.

    This one-semester course further develops students’ comprehension of written Literary Sinhala, using sample materials from a variety of genres prepared by the instructor, as well as excerpts from texts relevant to graduate student research (when appropriate).

  
  • SINHA 4431 - Directed Study


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for directed study, please complete the on-line independent study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    B. Herath.

    Intended for advanced language study.

  
  • SINHA 4432 - Directed Study


    (CU-UGR)     
    Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only (no audit).

    Permission of instructor required. To apply for directed study, please complete the on-line independent study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

    B. Herath.

    Intended for advanced language study.


SOC—Sociology

  
  • SOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both SOC 1101 and DSOC 1101 .
    Fall, F. Garip; spring, A. Haskins; summer, staff.

    This course is a broad introduction to the field of sociology.  Course materials are designed to illustrate the distinctive features of the sociological perspective and to start you thinking sociologically about yourself and the broader social world.  To think sociologically is to recognize that being embedded in the world constrains behavior, and that individuals are both social actors and social products.  To think sociologically is also to recognize that our contemporary world, with its enduring cultural, political, and economic institutions, is as much a social product as we are.  We will begin by covering theoretical and methodological foundations of the sociological perspective.  We will go on to explore the concept of social stratification and will survey primary axes of social difference.  In the second half of the course we will look more closely at how individuals relate to each other, how social inequality is enacted and reinforced in everyday life, and at the way in which the organization of social life shapes individuals and groups, such as through social networks, residential neighborhoods, schooling, families, and on-line communication.

  
  • SOC 1104 - Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Social Constructs, Real World Consequences

    (crosslisted) AMST 1104 , LSP 1105 
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Alvarado.

    This course will examine race and ethnic relations between Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in the United States. The goal of this course is for students to understand how the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. affects opportunity structures in, for example, education, employment, housing, and health. Through this course students will gain a better understanding of how race and ethnicity stratifies the lives of individuals in the U.S.

  
  • SOC 1170 - FWS: Modern Romance: Dating and Relationships Among Young Adults


         
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    L. Griffin.

      Have hookups fundamentally changed the dating scene on college campuses? Should we be concerned about the rise of cohabitation and the retreat from marriage? This course will explore romantic relationships among young adults using a sociological perspective. We will draft and revise papers on topics such as dating, hookups, virginity, online dating, pornography, birth control, nonmarital childbearing, marriage, cohabitation, and singlehood. Through writing and discussion, we will critically examine the role of race, class, gender, and sexuality in intimate relationship dynamics. Course readings will draw on research articles, book excerpts, and recent news articles. This course will equip you with the skills to analyze social scientific research, write compelling evidence-based papers, and craft informed responses to arguments in the popular media about families and relationships.

  
  • SOC 1290 - American Society through Film

    (crosslisted) AMST 1290  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    D. Strang.

    Introduces students to the sociological analysis of American society through the lens of film. Major themes involve race, class, and gender; upward and downward mobility; incorporation and exclusion; small town vs the big city; and cultural conflicts over individualism, achievement, and community. We match a range of movies like American Graffiti (Lucas), Ace in the Hole (Wilder), The Asphalt Jungle (Houston), Do the Right Thing (Lee), The Heiress (Wyler), High Noon (Zinnemann), Mean Streets (Scorsese), Nashville (Altman), The Philadelphia Story (Cukor), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan). Each film is paired with social scientific research that examines parallel topics, such as analyses of who goes to college, the production of news, deviant careers, urban riots, the gendered presentation of self, and the prisoner’s dilemma.

  
  • SOC 1900 - Discussions of Justice

    (crosslisted) GOVT 1901 , PHIL 1901  
         
    Fall, spring. 1-2 credits, variable (may be repeated for credit). Student option grading.

    Variable credit available: 1 credit S/U for regular participation; 2 credits, S/U or letter, for two short papers.

    R. Miller, Staff.

    For description, see PHIL 1901 .

  
  • SOC 2070 - Social Problems in the United States

    (crosslisted) PAM 2250  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall, spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    P. Rich.

    For description and outcomes, see PAM 2250  

  
  
  • SOC 2100 - What Is Science? An Introduction to the Social Studies of Science and Technology

    (crosslisted) STS 2011  
    (CA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    R. Slayton.

    For description, see STS 2011 .

  
  • SOC 2190 - Introduction to Economic Sociology


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    V. Nee.

    What is the driving force behind economic growth? How do people find jobs? Does culture matter for economic action? What exactly is a market? Why is there a concentration of high-tech firms in Silicon Valley? Why has entrepreneurial capitalism emerged in China? These are some of the questions that this course will explore through the theoretical lens of economic sociology. Economic sociology has sought to understand the beliefs, norms, and institutions that shape and drive the global economy. It has sought to extend the sociological approach to the study of economic life by studying the interactions between social structure and economic action. The systematic application of sociological reasoning to explain economic action involves analysis of the ways in which social networks, norms, and institutions matter in economic transactions. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to economic sociology as an approach and research program to understand and explain the relationship between economy and society in the modern era.

  
  • SOC 2202 - Population Dynamics

    (crosslisted) DSOC 2010  
    (CA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    ALS students must enroll in DSOC 2010 .

    A. Basu.

    For description and learning outcomes, see DSOC 2010 .

  
  • SOC 2206 - International Development

    (crosslisted) DSOC 2050 
    (HA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 3-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    P. McMichael.

    For description and learning outcomes, see DSOC 2050 .

  
  • SOC 2208 - Social Inequality

    (crosslisted) DSOC 2090 , PAM 2208  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring, summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Alvarado.

    This course reviews contemporary approaches to understanding social inequality and the processes by which it comes to be seen as legitimate, natural, or desirable.  We address questions of the following kind:  What are the major forms of stratification in human history?  Are inequality and poverty inevitable?  How many social classes are there in advanced industrialism societies?  Is there a “ruling class?”  Are lifestyles, attitudes, and personalities shaped fundamentally by class membership?  Can individuals born into poverty readily escape their class origins and move upward in the class structure?  Are social contacts and “luck” important forces in matching individuals to jobs and class positions?  What types of social processes serve to maintain and alter racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination in labor markets?  Is there an “underclass?”  These and other questions are addressed in light of classical and contemporary theory and research.

  
  • SOC 2220 - Controversies About Inequality

    (crosslisted) AMST 2225 , DSOC 2220 , GOVT 2225 , ILROB 2220 , PAM 2220 , PHIL 1950  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    A. Haskins.

    In recent years, poverty and inequality have become increasingly common topics of public debate, as academics, journalists, and politicians attempt to come to terms with growing income inequality, with the increasing visibility of inter-country differences in wealth and income, and with the persistence of racial, ethnic, and gender stratification. This course introduces students to ongoing social scientific debates about the sources and consequences of inequality, as well as the types of public policy that might appropriately be pursued to reduce (or increase) inequality. These topics will be addressed in related units, some of which include guest lectures by faculty from other universities (funded by the Center for the Study of Inequality). Each unit culminates with a highly spirited class discussion and debate.

  
  • SOC 2250 - [Schooling and Society]


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    K. Bischoff.

    The primary goal of this course is to understand the relationship between education and society, with an emphasis on exploring educational inequality. To accomplish this, we will ask questions such as: What is the purpose and product of schools? How do schools reproduce social class, racial, and gender inequality? What is the relationship between education and future success? How are schools structured? What factors increase educational success? To answer these, and related questions, we will use classical and contemporary sociological theory and research. The course culminates in a research project of each student’s own choosing.

  
  • SOC 2320 - Social Identities and Interaction in Everyday Life


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     


    4 credits. Letter grades only.

    M. Pirkey.

    How do we develop and manage our identities in an increasingly complex world? How are our identities formed through interactions with other people, the groups to which we belong, and the groups from which we may be excluded? How has social media changed the way that we that develop our l identities and present them to others? Why do some identities become stigmatized, and what are some ways that people who have stigmatized identities manage that stigma in interactions with others? We will address these, and related, questions about l identity and interaction using the insights of the theoretical, experimental, survey-based, and qualitative sociological literatures.


     

  
  • SOC 2390 - Modern Romance: Sex, Love, and Union Formation in the Internet Age

    (crosslisted) PAM 2390  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Sassler.

    For description and learning outcomes, see PAM 2390 .

  
  • SOC 2460 - Drugs and Society


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    D. Heckathorn.

    The course focuses on drug use and abuse as a social rather than as a medical or psychopathological phenomenon. Specifically, the course deals with the history of drug use and regulatory attempts in the United States and around the world; the relationship between drug use and racism/class conflict; pharmacology and use patterns related to specific drugs; perspectives on the etiology of drug use/abuse; AIDS prevention and harm reduction interventions; drug-using subcultures; drug policy, drug legislation, and drug enforcement; and the promotion and condemnation of drug activities in the mass media.

  
  
  • SOC 2520 - Obama and the Meaning of Race

    (crosslisted) AMST 2504 , ASRC 2504 , GOVT 2604  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

    T. Gosa.

    For description, see ASRC 2504 .

  
  • SOC 2560 - [Sociology of Law]


    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring, summer. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    E. Y. Cornwell.

    This course provides an introduction to the sociological perspective of law and legal institutions in modern society. A key question is the extent to which the law creates and maintains social order. And, what is its role in social change? We will review theoretical perspectives on the reciprocal relationship between law and society, and consider how this relationship is reflected in contemporary legal issues. Empirical research covered in this course will examine social interactions among actors within legal institutions (including the criminal courts, law school classrooms, and the jury room), and how individuals experience and utilize the law in everyday life.

  
  • SOC 2580 - Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science

    (crosslisted) COMM 2580 HD 2580 , ILRLR 2580  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    S. Ceci, M. Macy.

    For description, see HD 2580 .

  
  • SOC 2610 - [Orange is the New Black]

    (crosslisted) AMST 2615 , PAM 2610 
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    C. Wildeman.

    For description, see PAM 2610 .

  
  • SOC 2650 - Latinos in the United States

    (crosslisted) AMST 2655 , DSOC 2650 , LSP 2010  
    (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 3-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.

    H. Velez.

    Exploration and analysis of the Hispanic experience in the United States. Examines the sociohistorical background and economic, psychological, and political factors that converge to shape a Latino group identity in the United States. Perspectives are suggested and developed for understanding Hispanic migrations, the plight of Latinos in urban and rural areas, and the unique problems faced by the diverse Latino groups. Groups studied include Mexican Americans, Dominicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans.

  
  
  • SOC 2760 - [Governing Everyday Life]

    (crosslisted) STS 2761  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    M. Ziewitz.

    For description, see STS 2761 .

  
  • SOC 2840 - [Capitalism in China]

    (crosslisted) ASIAN 2284 , CAPS 2840 , GOVT 2284  
    (GB) (SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

    V. Nee.

    Modern capitalism as a transformative economic order emerged in the West. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Joseph Schumpeter all contributed to understanding its dynamics, by highlighting self-interest and profit seeking, promethean bursts of innovations, creative destruction, cyclical economic growth and rising social inequalities. The course examines the emergence and growth of capitalism in China. Why didn’t modern capitalism emerge earlier in China’s modern history? What was it about the failures and successes of Maoist era state socialism that opened the way for capitalist emergence? The course examines competing approaches and arguments in the quest to understand capitalism in China. What are the cultural and social foundations of Chinese capitalism? Are the drivers of capitalist development in China similar or different from the Western experience? What are the social and environmental costs of capitalist economic development?

  
  • SOC 3010 - Statistics for Sociological Research


    (MQR-AS) (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

    Forbidden Overlap: Students may receive credit for only one course in the following group: AEM 2100 BTRY 3010 BTRY 6010 , ENGRD 2700 HADM 2010 , ILRST 2100 ILRST 6100 , MATH 1710 , PAM 2100 PAM 2101 , PSYCH 3500 , SOC 3010, STSCI 2100 , STSCI 2150 STSCI 2200 .
    Enrollment limited to: students in the college of Arts and Sciences. Co-meets with SOC 6010  

    V. Maralani.

    This course will introduce students to the theory and mathematics of statistical analysis. Many decisions made by ourselves and others around us are based on statistics, yet few people have a solid grip on the strengths and limitations of these techniques. This course will provide a firm foundation for statistical reasoning and logical inference using probability. While there is math in this course, it is not a math class per se, as a considerable amount of attention is devoted to interpreting statistics as well as calculating them.

  
  • SOC 3040 - Immigration and Public Policy

    (crosslisted) PAM 3040 , DSOC 3040  
    (SBA-AS)      
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: PAM 2100  or equivalent.

    M. Hall.

    For description and learning outcomes, see PAM 3040 .

 

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