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Athletics
Women, Sport and Film: a series that explores
the role of women and sport as seen through documentaries and popular film.
- Women, Sport and Film, Fall 2005
- Women, Sport and Film, Spring 2005
- Women, Sport and Film, Fall 2004
- Women, Sport and Film, Spring
2004
- Women,
Sport and Film, 2003
- Women,
Sport and Film, 2002
Biology
Biology
103: a one-semester introductory biology course.
- Biology 103, 2009
- Biology 103, 2007
- Biology 103, 2006
- Biology 103, 2005
- Biology 103, 2003
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Biology
103, 2002
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Biology
103, 2001
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Biology
103, 2000
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Biology
103, 1998
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Biology 103, 1997
Biology
202: an introduction to the prospects and problems of trying to understand
behavior in terms of nervous system function
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- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2010
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2009
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2008
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2007
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2006
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2005
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2004
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2003
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2002
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2001
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2000
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1999
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1998
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1997
- Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1996
Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2009
Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2007
Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2005
Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring
the Significance of Diversity, 2004 - This course experiments with two interrelated
and reciprocal inquiries: whether the biological concept of evolution is a useful
one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in particular: the generation
of new stories), and whether literature contributes to a deeper understanding
of evolution.
Biology 245: Mental Health and the Brain, 2008 - A seminar course exploring implications of past and ongoing research on the brain for thinking about the nature of mental health and about the value of various therapeutic and institutional approaches to mental health problems.
Senior Seminar: Biology 396 / Psychology 396, Neural and Behavioral Sciences, 2010
Senior Seminar: Neural and Behavrioral Sciences, 2008 - This course explores some of the opportunities and risks being opened up by past, ongoing,
and anticipated research in the neural and behavioral sciences, in ways that
make such explorations accessible to broader and continuing engagement by the
public at large.
Senior
Seminar: Nature, Nurture and Evolution, 2002 - a discussion of the
significance of genetics and evolution for understanding human behavior.
Senior
Seminar: Exploring the Consciousness Problem, 1999 - a resource base
for examining what is consciousness? can it be productively explored scientifically?
what are the best routes for such exploration?
Biology 361: Emergence, 2009
Biology 361: Emergence, 2006 - Crosslisted as Computer Science 361
Biology 390: Biodiversity
Biology 398: Biology in Society
Chemistry
Chemistry 100: The
Stuff of Art: a one semester course on art and chemistry, 2010
Chemistry 100: The
Stuff of Art: a one semester course on art and chemistry, 2004-2006
College Seminar Courses
In Class/OutClassed: On the Uses of a Liberal Education, 2011 - This course is an invitation to reflect on the assumptions that shape education in the U.S., as well as on the habits of thought and action it encourages.
Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009
Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2008 - This College Seminar was designed by a biologist and a literary critic to explore how we--as “free thinkers” with “open-ended human appetites”--might learn to make thoughtful decisions in a world that we may experience alternatively as both too-constrained and too-bountiful. We will draw on disciplines ranging from statistics to food studies--including anthropology, neurobiology, philosophy, psychology and literary interpretation.
Beauty, a Conversation between Chemistry
and Culture, 2005
Memory and Imagination: The Self
in Story and Society, 2004 - How do our human memories and imaginations
give rise to the stories we tell and to the selves that we are becoming? In
this course we consider the nature of memory and its relationship to imagination,
both in the evolving life of the individual and in the development of the larger
group or culture.
The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of
Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2004 - This course experiments
with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries: whether the biological concept
of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in
particular: the generation of new stories), and whether literature contributes
to a deeper understanding of evolution.
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Story Telling as Inquiry, 2007
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry, 2006
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry, 2005
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling
and Re-Telling Stories About Ourselves in the World, 2004
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and
Re-Telling Stories About Ourselves in the World, 2003
Questions,
Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories about Ourselves in the
World, 2002 - co-designed by teachers of Biology, English and Folklore
to explore the variety of ways in which we are all continually reaching for
new understandings.
Questions,
Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories about Ourselves in the
World, 2001 - co-designed by members of the Biology and English faculty
to explore the variety of ways in which we are all continually reaching for
new understandings.
The
Nature of Inquiry: Story Telling and Re-Telling in the Sciences and the Humanities,
2000 - co-designed by faculty from the Departments of Anthropology,
Biology, and English, explores the processes involved in telling and retelling
stories, an activity in which all humans engage and one which is fundamental
to intellectual and academic activities of every kind.
Human
Understanding and Aspiration in a Material World, 1997 : a consideration
of the similarities, complementarities , and differences between scientific
and literary perspectives on the human condition, with a focus on such questions
as the nature of truth and reality, and the relation between physical reality
and the pictures of it generated by the human brain.
Computer Science
Computer Science 361: Emergence, 2006 - Crosslisted as Biology 361
Education
Education 225: Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching
Education 225: Empowering Learners:
Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching
English
English 207: Big Books of American Literature, 2006 -"Alchemies of Mind": The Emotional Landscape of Classical Nineteenth-Century Texts
English
207: Big Books of American Literature, 2003 - a (re-?) turn to the grand
old mid-19th-century American literature narratives, (re-?) reading them through
the lenses of contemporary theory and contemporary culture.
English 209: Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, From Blogs to...?, 2010
English 209: Emerging Genres: Form and Transformation, From Novels to Blogs, 2008 - This course will look at the ways new genres evolve, and ask what aesthetic,
cultural and political purposes those transformations may serve. The class will
take as its point of departure a longstanding reliance on the Darwinian theory
of evolution as the model for the development of literary forms.
English
212: Thinking Sex: Representing Desire and Difference, 2003
English
212: Thinking Sex: Representing Desire and Difference, 2002 - examining
our ability to put sexual experience into language, and whether doing so is
an expression of sexual (or some other kind of?) agency.
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2009
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2007
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2005
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2004 - This
course experiments with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries: whether the
biological concept of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena
of literature (in particular: the generation of new stories), and whether literature
contributes to a deeper understanding of evolution.
English 271: “House of Wits”: The Intersecting Wor(l)ds of Alice, Henry and William James, 2010 - This course is conceptualized as an extended visit with one of America’s most interesting and influential families: the unruly, expansive children of Henry James, Sr. We will focus on the remarkable writings of three of them: the diarist Alice, who became a feminist icon; the great novelist Henry; and the groundbreaking psychologist and philosopher William.
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction, 2008
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction, 2007
Gender and Sexuality Program
Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential ... Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2011 - a junior seminar in the Gender and Sexuality Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
GASWorks: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender And Sexuality
Gender and
Science: Re-envisioning and Revising the Relation, 2007
Playing with Categories: Re-doing the Politics of Sex and Gender, 2005 - a junior seminar in the Gender and Sexuality Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Knowing the Body: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2004 - the core course for the Feminist
and Gender Studies Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
General Studies
Mental
Health A BioPsychoSocial Perspective, 2002 - provide participants
an opportunity to examine the concept "mental health" from a variety
of perspectives (biological, psychological, and social/cultural/political),
and to gain first hand experience with mental health services via a field placement
in a community-based health, mental health, or social service agency.
Philosophy
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2008
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2006
Philosophy
310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2005
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects,
2003 - examining aims of scientific explanation, the realist/anti-realist
controversy in the philosphy of science and the idea of growth of scientific
knowledge.
Psychology
Senior Seminar: Biology 396 / Psychology 396, Neural and Behavioral Sciences, 2010
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