Lewis & Clark College
Albany Week
October 10 to 13, 2005 CHEM 110 GENERAL CHEMISTRY I
Content: Introduction to the general principles of chemistry required for students planning a professional career in chemistry, a related science, the health professions, or engineering. Stoichiometry, atomic structure, chemical bonding and geometry, thermochemistry, gases, types of chemical reactions, statistics. Weekly laboratory exercises emphasizing qualitative and quantitative techniques that complement the lecture material. Weekly discussion sessions focusing on homework assignments and lecture material. Lecture, discussion, laboratory.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 055 or equivalent. Previous high school chemistry not required.
CLAS 200 INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL STUDIES
Content: The course will be a survey of various aspects of the expression of primary Greek and/or Roman cultural values, as they are found in the history, religion, visual arts, literature, theatre, and philosophy of ancient Greece and/or Rome. Works will be read in translations. An introductory course intended for first- and second-year students.
Prerequisite: None.
COMM 326 COMMUNICATION AND GENDER
Content: Communication and the social construction of gender. Effects of historical prescriptions and contemporary expectations for women’s and men’s interpersonal and public communication. Stereotypes, images, and mediated portrayals of men’s and women’s communication. Contemporary research findings on similarities and differences in women’s and men’s same-sex and opposite-sex communication.
Prerequisite: Communication 100 or consent of instructor.
COMM 406 RHETORIC OF AMERICAN SOCIAL CONFLICTS
Content: Rhetorical analysis of American social conflicts such as civil rights protests, women’s movements, labor-management disputes, antiwar agitation.
Prerequisite: Communication 100 or consent of instructor. Communication 265 recommended.
CORE 110 INVENTING AMERICA I
Content: Exploration of the foundational ideas of citizenship, including the contrasting European philosophical traditions that were antecedents to America’s initial compact. Examination of conflict, compromise, and consensus in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Emphasis on the diverse cultural, artistic, and political expressions of those excluded from, as well as included in, the initial compact of citizenship in the emerging republic.
Prerequisite: None.
ECON 358 CORPORATE FINANCE
Content: The role of the financial officer in fulfilling the financial goals of the firm—subject to constraints imposed by technology, market forces, and society. Short-term financial planning, selection of capital investments, capital structure planning, cost of funds to the firm. Focus on financial concepts of valuation, investment decisions, financing decisions.
Prerequisite: Economics 103, 292.
ENG 100 TOPICS IN LITERATURE
Content: Emphasis on a particular theme or subgenre in literature to be chosen by the professor. Recents topics have included The Literature of Sport, Literature and the Environment, The Romance, and The Novella.
Prerequisite: None.
ENG 201 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY AND POETRY WRITING
Content: Elements of poetry such as imagery, rhythm, tone. Practice in the craft. Frequent references to earlier poets.
Prerequisite: None.
FREN 101, 102 BEGINNING FRENCH
Content: Basic vocabulary and structural patterns of the French language. Emphasis on developing speaking and writing skills. Practical conversations dealing with all aspects of traditional French and Francophone culture. Interactive learning center attendance required.
Prerequisite: None. Must be taken in sequence.
FREN 201, 202 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH
Content: Strengthening language skill foundation. Solid grammar review and vocabulary expansion. Emphasis on oral and written proficiency. Short compositions and group presentations based on selected literary and cultural readings, audio and video materials. Interactive learning center attendance required.
Prerequisite: French 102 or placement exam. Must be taken in sequence.
FREN 340 FRENCH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
Content: In-depth study of representative works of French poetry, short fiction, or drama from a particular historical period. Focus on a specific genre and/or theme. An examination of how literature provides aesthetic responses to political and sociocultural issues through innovative strategies of narration and interconnections between literature and the arts.
Prerequisite: French 301 or consent of instructor.
FREN 410 MAJOR PERIODS IN FRENCH LITERATURE
Content: Major trends in French literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Introduction to basic techniques of literary analysis. Class discussion, oral presentations, short papers, midterm, final.
Prerequisite: French 321 or consent of instructor.
GEO 150 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
Content: Introduction to major geological processes that impact human activity. Emphasis on regional issues. Plate tectonics, loci of seismic and volcanic activity, distribution of mountain ranges, and sediment sources. Floods, landslides, mudflows, tsunamis. Assessment of anthropogenic shifts in landscape functioning. Consequences of standard logging practices, dams, channel modification. Chronic versus catastrophic environmentally significant events. Lecture and laboratory. Weekly laboratory includes two required daylong field trips, held on weekends.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 055.
GERM 201, 202 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN
Content: Active language skills and grammar review. Reading of short stories for class discussion and writing compositions to implement new vocabulary and structure. Viewing and discussion of German film to improve listening comprehension and speaking proficiency and to develop understanding of German culture.
Prerequisite: German 102 or placement exam. Must be taken in sequence.
GERM 301 GERMAN COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION
Content: Oral expression, idiomatic usage, and creative and expository writing with grammar review and new grammatical material. Readings, discussions, and compositions based on selections from German literature and culture. Emphasis on developing proficiency in spoken and written German with correct syntax and style.
Prerequisite: German 202 or placement exam.
HIST 110 EARLY EAST ASIAN HISTORY
Content: Early histories of China and Japan from earliest origins to the 13th century. Prehistory; early cultural foundations; development of social, political, and economic institutions; art and literature. Readings from Asian texts in translation. The two cultures, covered as independent entities, compared to each other and to European patterns of development.
Prerequisite: None.
HIST 222 BRITAIN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1688-1815
Content: A history of Britain and its people from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic War. The end of absolutism and the rise of the constitutional monarchy; the Augustan Age: arts, letters, and religion; the Atlantic world and British overseas expansion; the Enlightenment and scientific revolution; the American Revolution and its aftermath; union with Scotland and Ireland and the creation of the British national identity; the revolution in France and the wars against Napoleon; the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended.
HIST 228 MIDDLE EAST IN MODERN TIMES
Content: The Middle East, its religious and cultural contributions, indigenous empires, and outside imperialists. The region's strategic significance as the connecting link to three continents. Effects on the region of the discovery of oil in the 20th century. The impact of nationalism on each nation's viability in the region, economic dilemmas, pressing national problems.
Prerequisite: None.
HIST 231A U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY, 1600-1980
Content: The diverse experiences of American women from the colonial era to the recent past. Changing ideologies from the colonial goodwife to the cult of true womanhood. Impact of Victorianism, sexuality and reproduction, the changing significance of women's work. Origins of the women's rights movement, battles and legacy of suffrage, history of 20th-century feminism, competing ideologies and experiences of difference.
Prerequisite: None.
HIST 316 POPULAR CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN JAPANESE HISTORY
Content: Popular culture as the site of social change and social control in Japan from the 18th to the 20th century. Religion and folk beliefs, work and gender roles, theatre and music, tourism, consumerism, citizens' movements, fashion, food, sports, sex, drugs, hygiene, and forms of mass media ranging from woodblock prints to modern comic books, film, television. Concepts as well as content of popular and mass culture.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 112 recommended.
HIST 331 AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY: 1880-1980
Content: Formation of modern culture from the late Victorian era to the "me decade." The influence of consumer culture, popular psychology, mass media, changing definitions of work and leisure in the development of a modern self. Origins and impact of the gender and race revolutions, relationship of "high" and "popular" culture. Readings in primary and secondary sources.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
HIST 335 HISTORY AND CULTURE OF AMERICAN INDIANS
Content: Purposes of archaeology and its contributions to the understanding of North American prehistory, the culture-area hypothesis, relations with tribes from colonial times to the present, Native American responses. Federal Indian policy and its evolution over the past 200 years.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
IA 100 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Content: An introduction to a conceptual, analytical, and historical understanding of international relations. Emphasis on the international system and the opportunities and constraints it places on state and nonstate behavior. Cooperation and conflict, sovereignty, the rich-poor gap, determinants of national power, interdependence, the process of globalization, international institutions, and the role of transnational phenomena. Designed for students who have no previous background in the study of international relations.
Prerequisite: None.
IA 211 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Content: The changing relationship between the United Nations and other selected international organizations and their environments. Purposes for which national governments try to use international organizations and consequences of their efforts. Politics of the U.N. and other international organizations, conflict management, economic and social issues facing the organizations.
Prerequisite: International Affairs 100.
IA 212 UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
Content: An overview of contemporary U.S. foreign policy from a historical and theoretical perspective. International, domestic, bureaucratic, and individual determinants of policy-making. New challenges and prospects for U.S. foreign policy in the post–Cold War era.
Prerequisite: International Affairs 100.
IA 229 AFRICAN POLITICS AND LITERATURE
Content: Comparative analysis of politics as reflected in literature (novels, short stories, plays, poetry) from sub-Saharan Africa. Themes vary from year to year and may include: traditional political systems, colonialism and its legacies, nationalist movements, changing roles of women, problems of southern Africa, postcolonial independent Africa. Authors vary from year to year and may include: early Swahili poets, Chinua Achebe, Sembene Ousmane, Wole Soyinka, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Buchi Emecheta, Ben Okri, Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, Nuruddin Farah, and others.
Prerequisite: None.
IA 234 JAPAN IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Content: Examination of Japan’s international history from prewar to present, searching for historic, ideological, geophysical, systemic, and strategic explanations for Japanese foreign policy behavior. Changing formulations of national purpose, responses to international change, perceptions and realities. Controversies related to contemporary foreign affairs include Japan’s prewar empire in Asia; wars with Russia, China, and the United States; and the postwar reconstitution of Japanese national power.
Prerequisite: None.
IA 290 MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
Content: Analysis and explanation of the historical forces that shaped the complexities of this region, placing the area in its proper setting and perspective.
Prerequisite: None.
MATH 132 CALCULUS II
Content: Further development of the definite integral including techniques of integration, applications of the definite integral, indeterminate forms, and improper integrals. Sequences, series of constants, power series, Taylor polynomials and series, introduction to elementary differential equations.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 131 or consent of instructor.
MUS 102 JAZZ APPRECIATION
Content: Developing listening skills, understanding musical concepts and the elements of music, examining the work of several major jazz figures. Styles from jazz roots through contemporary. For students with little or no background in music.
Prerequisite: None.
PHIL 101 LOGIC
Content: Informal and formal analyses of arguments. Aristotelian deductive logic, truth functional logic, propositional logic, other introductory topics.
Prerequisite: None.
PHIL 103 ETHICS
Content: Study of some fundamental issues in moral philosophy and their application to contemporary life.
Prerequisite: None.
PHIL 201 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Content: Issues in classical and contemporary philosophical examinations of religion such as arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, religious faith, the problem of evil.
Prerequisite: None.
POLS 103 U.S. GOVERNMENT: NATIONAL POLITICS
Content: The politics of the founding period; interactions within and among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; the federal division of institutionalized powers; public opinion, interest groups, and political parties; the policy process in areas such as defense, welfare, civil rights and liberties, international affairs.
Prerequisite: None.
POLS 201 RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Content: The scope and methods of political science. Application of terms such as hypothesis, theory, validity, crosstabs, chi-square, statistical significance, regression, and correlation with an eye toward understanding rather than producing statistics. Epistemological issues raised by the behaviorist approach. Help for students choosing senior thesis topics.
Prerequisite: Political Science 101 or 103. Normally taken during junior year.
POLS 290 The Senate: An Insider's Perspective
Content: An examination of what makes the U.S. Senate a unique legislative body. Topics include the legislative process, seniority, the party caucus, the evolving constitutional functions of the Senate, institutional and structural differences between the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and specific public policies that emanated from the Senate.
Prerequisite: None.
PSY 280 BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
Content: An examination of how the brain controls and regulates behavior. Basic properties of neurons, neurotransmitters, and the basic anatomy of the nervous system. Emphasis on the brain's role in such functions as sensation, emotion, language, learning and memory, sexual behavior, sleep, and motivation. The biological bases of abnormal conditions, such as affective disorders, amnesia, and learning disorders.
Prerequisite: Psychology 100. Not open to students with previous credit in Psychology 350.
RELS 222 OLD TESTAMENT
Content: Literature of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and the historical, cultural, and political situation from which it came. Modern historical-critical methods used for a deeper appreciation of the Bible’s history and its impact on Western heritage. Issues arising from the biblical tradition including feminism, religion and politics, and use of the Bible in religious communities.
Prerequisite: None.
RELS 271 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM
Content: Introduction to the beliefs, practices, and history of Muslim peoples throughout the world. The life of the prophet Muhammad, the Qur’an, Islamic law, the Sufi mystical tradition, Shiite Islam, ritual practices, the role of women, and Islam in the modern world, including America. Emphasis on primary texts, including historical, theological, legal, and literary sources, as well as religious architecture. Themes include unity and diversity of the Islamic community, the encounter between Islam and the West.
Prerequisite: None.
SOAN 110 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Content: The concept of culture and its use in exploring systems of meanings and values through which people orient and interpret their experience. The nature of ethnographic writing and interpretation.
Prerequisite: None.
SOAN 350 GLOBAL INEQUALITY
Content: Issues in the relationships between First World and Third World societies, including colonialism and transnational corporations, food and hunger, women’s roles in development. Approaches to overcoming problems of global inequality.
Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, one 200-level course, or junior standing.
SPAN 201, 202 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
Content: Study of grammar, vocabulary, culture, and civilization. Drills and activities to develop conversational skills. Short compositions and group presentations based on selected cultural readings. Interactive learning center for student practice.
Prerequisite for 201: Spanish 102, 112 or equivalent, or placement exam. Must be taken in sequence.
Prerequisite for 202: Spanish 201, 201A or equivalent, or placement exam. Must be taken in sequence.
SPAN 301 SPANISH COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION
Content: Oral expression, idiomatic usage, and creative and expository writing with advanced grammar review. Readings, discussions, and compositions based on selections from Hispanic culture and literature, magazines, videos, materials from the Internet. Emphasis on developing proficiency in spoken and written Spanish.
Prerequisite: Spanish 202 or equivalent, or placement exam.
TH 113 ACTING I, FUNDAMENTALS
Content: The fundamentals of acting, including physicalization, text analysis, objectives and actions, and rehearsal techniques. Development of skills through class exercises and the rehearsal and performance of short projects and two-character scenes. Writing assignments including script analyses, character biographies, peer reviews, performance reviews, observation exercises, and journals.
Prerequisite: None.
TH 382 AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA: 19TH CENTURY TO PRESENT
Content: A study of the American theatre’s dramatic literature and performance styles. Origins of modern American theatre from the English theatre tradition, the theatres of immigrant communities, and the popular entertainments of the 19th-century stage. An examination of the development of realism in the first half of the 20th-century and further developments from the 1960s onward, including the expanding range of voices represented and issues of race and gender. The evolution of theatrical forms and themes in relation to historical and social change.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and either Theatre 281, 282, or 283, or sophomore standing and a literature course offered by the departments of English or Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Schedule of Activities
Tuesday, October 11, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Smith Hall
Career Advising Panel
Come share your perspectives with current Lewis & Clark students and alumni of all ages in a panel discussion. This panel is a joint venture between the Albany Society and the Office of Career Advising. Refreshments will be provided, and all interested parties are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, October 12, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Albany Quadrangle, Room 218
Brownbag Lunch Talk
Meet with students, faculty, and whoever else might drop in over lunch in Albany 218. Discussion will focus on how to use your education in the world of work, regardless of your major or your intended career. Bring a sandwich and make yourself comfortable.
Thursday, October 13, 7 p.m.
Location TBD
Reception
Also open to all participants, this reception will celebrate the successful culmination of Albany Week. For more information about the Albany Society, contact Alumni and Parent Programs
Lewis & Clark College
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219
Erin Ogle
503.768.7941
eogle@lclark.edu
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