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Class Listings - Summer 2013

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Anthropology | Art & Art History |  Biology  | Economics | Educational Studies | English | Environmental Studies |  History | International Languages & Cultures | Mathematics  |  Museum Studies  |   Philosophy |  Political Science | Psychology | Summer Study Tours

Anthropology

ANTH 336
The Cultured Body
This course explores historical and cultural variations of the body and embodiment used to construct and contest identities that reflect ideas about the self, family, gender, nation, nature and the supernatural documented from a sample of cultures around the world.
Ford
4 credits
May 13-31
M, T,W,R 1:00-5:10 pm
Location: Kent 316

ANTH 352
The Anthropology of Stuff: Popular Culture and Consumption
In this seminar we will explore the power of material culture—human made objects and artifacts—to better understand our culture and our world. We will apply theoretical models to analyze objects that reflect identity, authenticity, and globalization, and reveal how we are shaped as much by material culture as we are by our social relationships. We will address the links between consumption, gender, ethnicity, and class, and explore the materiality of media. Finally, we will address the unprecedented scale of contemporary materialism and consumption: Do the things we make and own, make and own us? Is materialism destroying our families, eroding civic virtue, and undermining the collective good?  Why *do* we wear our bling on our sleeves?
Ford
4 credits
May 13-31
M, T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Location: Kent 312

ANTH 352
Museums and Their Visitors
This course will take students to the American Southwest to learn more about how visitors experience different types of museums and how those different types of museums strive to engage their visitors. As museums have struggled to stay both relevant and financially solvent in recent years, their relationship with visitors has evolved. Visitors expect more control over their experience. They want to be active participants, to feel connected to museum exhibits and programs, and they want to be entertained.  This study tour will introduce students to more than two dozen sites, including National Parks like the Grand Canyon and Zion, as well as science, history, and art museums of all shapes and sizes. The goal is to explore, first-hand, how different museums try to reach and satisfy visitors. Moreover, by exploring the institutions of the Southwest, the program will introduce students to museums engaging cultures and visitor populations very different from those on the East Coast. Readings and discussions will ask students to examine how the institutions handle issues such as Spanish-speaking visitors, remote location, and conservation of "collections" as enormous as the Grand Canyon, and as small as nuclear particles. In sum, then, the twelve-day tour promises to broaden the way students think about museum exhibits, museum-going, and museum jobs, all of which will help make them better informed consumers of interpreted material and better-positioned job applicants, if they choose to enter the field.  Also offered as MUST390. 

For more information, see the website: http://www.smcm.edu/museumstudies/studytours.html
Cofield
4 credits
May 13-25

ANTH 410
Historical Archaeology Field School
Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), in association with St. Mary’s College of Maryland, announces its 2013 field school in historical archaeology. The goal of this summer’s excavations is to better understand the yards and structures around the Calvert House. Built in the first decade of Maryland’s settlement by Leonard Calvert, the first Governor, it served as the statehouse of the Province until 1676. The program is an intensive, 10 week experience in Colonial archaeology. The first week includes lectures on history, archaeological methods and material culture studies. Students learn artifact identification by working with one of the best archaeological collections of Colonial material in the country.  During the following weeks, students participate in excavation, recording and analysis. Students have the rare opportunity to learn about and help sail the MARYLAND DOVE, a replica of a 17th‑century, square-rigged tobacco ship.  Admission by application only. For specific questions about the course, email: tbriordan@smcm.edu.
Riordan
8 credits
May 29-August 4
Field trip fee: $60
Cross-listed with HIST310
Location: HSMC

 

Art & Art History

ART 206
Introduction to Painting
An introduction to the fundamental issues, materials, and techniques of drawing. Drawing skills and visual awareness are addressed through formal exercises and creative projects. Emphasis is given to developing an understanding of the basic principles of two-dimensional design and the An introduction to the principles of painting and basic oil painting methods. Formal and expressive problems are explored through creative projects featuring a variety of techniques and subjects. Critiques and discussions of issues in art history and in contemporary art. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Arts.
Sanin
4 credits
May 13-31
M, T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Location: Montgomery 132

 

Biology

BIOL 101
Contemporary Bioscience with Laboratory: Biology of Our Changing World
This course introduces fundamental biological concepts, with a focus on the biological and environmental challenges we are currently facing. Global changes from climate change, alterations in nutrient cycling and invasive species are accelerating the rate at which our world is changing. This poses a number of important challenges for ecosystems. This course will introduce some of the major challenges and teach students how scientists are studying them. Biological topics cover all scales of biological study from cells, individuals, populations, species, ecosystems through to global systems, with an applied focus on how we can respond to these changes. This course meets the requirements for the ENST minor (Contemporary Bioscience with an Environmental Focus) as well as the Core Curriculum requirement in Natural Sciences with Laboratory.
Rauschert
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 8:00 am – 12:10 pm
Lab: M,T,W,R 1:00  – 4:00 pm
Location: Schaefer 132 & 112

 

Economics

ECON 357
Money and Banking
An introduction to the history of money and banking institutions, and the development of monetary theory, with emphasis on current controversies. Analysis of the Federal Reserve System and its control of money and credit as part of its effort to influence economic stability and inflation.
Rhine
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Prerequisite: ECON 101 and ECON 251
Location: Kent 222

 

Educational Studies
Please note that all classes under Educational Studies include Friday field experience placements.

EDUC 206
The Child in America: Social Foundations of Education
A foundations course that is multidisciplinary in content and method, this course involves the examination of childhood and the world of children from the diverse perspectives of school, family, and societal influences, combining a historical overview with an investigation of the world and lived experiences of children from diverse backgrounds today. A required field experience component is built into this course, in addition to time spent in class. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Experiencing the Liberal Arts in the World. 
Johnson
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R,F 1:00 - 5:10 pm
Location: Goodpaster 230

EDSP 336
Exceptionality: An Introduction to Special Education
An examination of individuals with special needs such as intellectual disabilities, giftedness, physical disabilities, and behavioral disorders. The emphasis is on causation, psychological and biological aspects of the exceptionality, and current educational and therapeutic approaches. This course fulfills the Maryland certification requirement for a minimum of three credits in special education. A required field experience component is built into this course, in addition to time spent in class. This course is a pre-requisite for the MAT program. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Experiencing the Liberal Arts in the World.
Arnett
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R,F 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Location: Goodpaster 230

EDUC 368
Educational Psychology
This course explores the teaching/learning process.  Students analyze various factors that affect the process: developmental and learning theory, motivation, planning, content, methodology, and discipline. Attention is also given to human interaction in educational settings through a study of maturation, individual differences, self-concept, group processes, and socioeconomic stratification. Lecture and field experience.  This course is cross-listed as PSYC 368.  Students may receive credit for either course but not both. This course is a pre-requisite for the Masters of Arts in Teaching program. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Experiencing the Liberal Arts in the World.
Settle
4 credits
June 3-21
M,T,W,R,F 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Cross-listed with PSYC368
Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Location: Goodpaster 230

 

Environmental Studies

ENST 350
Saving the Bay: Environmental Science and Justice for the Chesapeake
This three-week summer course will examine the current health of the Chesapeake Bay as well as moral, social and political implications related to the impact of bay health on local communities. Students will learn about the types of environmental markers used to monitor the bay, including pollution levels, wildlife populations and climate cycles associated with bay ecology. Having established a framework for measuring of bay health, students will go on to explore how we should think about environmental value, what it means to work for environmental sustainability, and the moral considerability of the health of the bay and the resulting effects on current and future generations.  Though this course will focus on the Bay in particular, students will acquire conceptual tools which will enable them to think about and work for environmental justice in other contexts. 
For more information, please see the website: http://www.smcm.edu/summer/newleadches/index.html
Emerick & Rauschert
4 credits
Additional Course Fee: $70
June 3-21
M,T,W,R,F 8:00 am - 12:10 pm
Location: Schaefer 132 & Margaret Brent 109

 

English

ENGL 355
Studies in British Literature: "Summer Shakespeare: Billy's Kitchen"
"Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table."  —As You Like It, 2.7

"Summer Shakespeare:  Billy's Kitchen" is a study tour designed to provide students an up-close-and-personal relationship with the Bard and his work within the literal and metaphoric context of consumption.  Amid many of the same buildings in which Shakespeare slept, read, wrote, dreamed, desired, hoped, argued, and loved—and, yes, also ate—students study and attend five or six major dramatic productions of Shakespeare's time, comparing their observations with those of world-renowned scholars and actors at the Shakespeare Centre and the Royal Shakespeare Company theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon, with an additional field trip to the Globe Theatre in London.  In addition, students consider how Shakespeare's plays as well as his name and image are "consumed," both in terms of food and food imagery and in terms of British culinary culture.  In the end, this tour affords students not only an intimate knowledge of the most famous writer in English but a clear understanding of Shakespeare's relevance to their own lives—including at their own tables.

Prerequisites:  a 200-level English class or permission of the instructor
This course counts towards the ELAW requirement of the Core Curriculum

For more information, please see the website (http://www.smcm.edu/summershakespeare/).

Cognard-Black, Jennifer
4 credits
June 13-July 1, with pre-trip meetings on campus June 10-12

ENGL 365
Studies in American Humor: Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote in one of his notebooks, "I am not an American.  I am the American."  (Although misattributed to him in context, it still fits our purposes here—I'll explain.)  This course will explore the life and literary works of Mark Twain and see if the quote fits.  Timing and talent allowed him to be bold in his self proclamations.  Twain stands unique among American authors, and there's likely never to be another like him.  He arrives at the end of the Age of Jackson and writes through and about the major events that shape his America and the one we live in now:  the Civil War, the end of formal slavery, the industrial revolution, and rising American imperialism.  America's identity in life and literature emerged during his lifetime, and he wrote about it.  We will read selectively from work that Twain produced from 1851 to 1910:  short sketches in the Southwest humorous vein, newspaper hoaxes and burlesques, letters, and two to three novels.  We will read a few short pieces by authors whose influence Twain felt; he either embraced or lampooned these influences. In doing so, we may come to understand not only "the American" claim, but also his lifelong literary and personal companion W. D. Howells' claim that Twain as "the Lincoln of our literature."  There will be two short papers and one celebration of your knowledge after the second week of class.  In short, this is a manageable upper-level course in terms of reading and course requirements. All pre-requisites can be waived with permission of the instructor. 
Click
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 1:00-5:10 pm
Location: Montgomery 103

 

History 

HIST 310
Historical Archaeology Field School
Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), in association with St. Mary’s College of Maryland, announces its 2013 field school in historical archaeology. The goal of this summer’s excavations is to better understand the yards and structures around the Calvert House. Built in the first decade of Maryland’s settlement by Leonard Calvert, the first Governor, it served as the statehouse of the Province until 1676. The program is an intensive, 10 week experience in Colonial archaeology. The first week includes lectures on history, archaeological methods and material culture studies. Students learn artifact identification by working with one of the best archaeological collections of Colonial material in the country.  During the following weeks, students participate in excavation, recording and analysis. Students have the rare opportunity to learn about and help sail the MARYLAND DOVE, a replica of a 17th‑century, square-rigged tobacco ship.  The course is for 8 credit hours and there is a $60 fee for the field trip.  To apply, email: tbriordan@smcm.edu.
Riordan
8 credits
May 29-August 4
Field trip fee: $60
Cross-listed with ANTH410
Location: HSMC

 

International Languages & Cultures

ILCL 101
Elementary Latin I
An introduction to the basic structures of the Latin language, with an emphasis on the acquisition of reading and translation skills. This course is for students who are beginning the study of Latin. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum International Language requirement.
Hall
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Location: Kent 213

ILCL 102
Elementary Latin II
A continuation of the study of basic grammar, with an increasing emphasis on the translation of ancient texts. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Cultural Perspectives if not used to satisfy the Core Curriculum International Language requirement.
Hall
4 credits
June 3-21
M,T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Prerequisite: ILCL 101 or equivalent as determined by the Foreign Language Proficiency Test.
Location: Kent 213

 

Mathematics

MATH 151
Calculus I
The differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable: limits and continuity, the derivative, curve sketching, applications of the derivative, indefinite integrals and differential equations, definite integrals and the fundamental theorem, integration methods, applications of the integral, the convergence of sequences and series, power series, Taylor's theorem and analytic functions, polar coordinates and parametric equations. MATH 151 satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Mathematics. Prerequisite: Familiarity with high school trigonometry is expected.
Kose
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R,F 1:00-4:20 pm
Location: Schaefer 161

 

Museum Studies

MUST 390
Museums and Their Visitors
This course will take students to the American Southwest to learn more about how visitors experience different types of museums and how those different types of museums strive to engage their visitors. As museums have struggled to stay both relevant and financially solvent in recent years, their relationship with visitors has evolved. Visitors expect more control over their experience. They want to be active participants, to feel connected to museum exhibits and programs, and they want to be entertained.  This study tour will introduce students to more than two dozen sites, including National Parks like the Grand Canyon and Zion, as well as science, history, and art museums of all shapes and sizes. The goal is to explore, first-hand, how different museums try to reach and satisfy visitors. Moreover, by exploring the institutions of the Southwest, the program will introduce students to museums engaging cultures and visitor populations very different from those on the East Coast. Readings and discussions will ask students to examine how the institutions handle issues such as Spanish-speaking visitors, remote location, and conservation of "collections" as enormous as the Grand Canyon, and as small as nuclear particles. In sum, then, the twelve-day tour promises to broaden the way students think about museum exhibits, museum-going, and museum jobs, all of which will help make them better informed consumers of interpreted material and better-positioned job applicants, if they choose to enter the field. Also offered as ANTH352.

For more information, see the website: http://www.smcm.edu/museumstudies/studytours.html
Cofield
4 credits
May 13-25 

 

Philosophy

PHIL 120
Introduction to Ethics
A study of basic views on how we ought to live our lives. The following kinds of questions are examined: What is goodness? Can we, and if so how can we, justify our basic ethical principles? Can ethical statements be true (or false), or are they solely a matter of preference? This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Humanistic Foundations.
Hall
4 credits
June 3-21
M,T,W,R 1:00-5:10 pm
Location: Margaret Brent 109

 

Political Science

POSC 303
Law, Courts, and Judges
This course is designed to familiarize the student with central concepts in legal theory; with the structure and operation of trial and appellate courts in the United States, especially in terms of the role of the courts in the larger political process; and with basic legal terminology and research methods.
Grogan
4 credits
June 3-21
M,T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Location: Kent 212

POSC 385
Topics in Political Science: American Indian Politics
In this course we will look at the laws and policies regarding the Indian nations and Indian people in the United States.  We will also examine American Indian political activism, tribal governments and politics, and political issues that affect Indian people.  The history of relations between the United States and the indigenous nations within its borders will provide the context for looking at contemporary American Indian politics.
Grogan
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 8:00 am-12:10 pm
Location: Kent 212

POSC 450
The Washington Program
This program offers students the chance to combine rigorous academic study and internship experiences in Washington DC.  The program tour includes two weeks of intensive instruction.  The first week directly follows the end of the semester and consists of an overview of political actors and groups in Washington.  These daylong sessions cover policymaking in the U.S. government, the role of advocacy and pressure groups, policy analysis, and international relations.  In addition, this week will give students some analytical tools to prepare them for their internships, including experience with policy briefs and policy analysis.  The second week occurs directly before the start of the fall semester and offers the students a chance to reflect on their experiences in an academic setting. 

This program is open to any student with an interest in politics and policy, broadly defined, including the fields of history, sociology, environmental science, political science, economics, journalism, and foreign languages.  Working with faculty advisors, students will find internships in Washington that meet their specific interests.  Students participating in the program will be mentored by St. Mary's graduates working in Washington.  These mentors will assist the students in getting the most out of their internship experience. 
Fehrs & Shafqat
8-12 credits
May 13-17, August 26-30
M,T,W,R,F 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: Kent 317

 

Psychology

PSYC 314
Drugs, Brains, & Behavior
Examination of psychoactive drugs that act on the brain. Some of these drugs have medical uses, some are used recreationally, and others are used in both contexts. Topics include the biology of the drug’s effects on the brain; drug effects on behavior; and the use of psychoactive drugs in the treatment of psychopathology.
Bailey
4 credits
May 13-31
M,T,W,R 1:00 - 5:10 pm
Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or consent of the instructor.
Location: Goodpaster 117

PSYC 368
Educational Psychology
This course explores the teaching/learning process.  Students analyze various factors that affect the process: developmental and learning theory, motivation, planning, content, methodology, and discipline. Attention is also given to human interaction in educational settings through a study of maturation, individual differences, self-concept, group processes, and socioeconomic stratification. Lecture and field experience.  This course is cross-listed as EDUC 368.  Students may receive credit for either course but not both. This course is a pre-requisite for the Masters of Arts in Teaching. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Experiencing the Liberal Arts in the World.
Settle
4 credits
June 3-21
M,T,W,R 8:00 am - 12:10 pm
Cross-listed with EDUC 368
Prerequisite: PSYC 101
Location: Goodpaster 230

 

 

Summer Study Tours

 INTL 325
Andean Studies Study Tour
This study tour is intended to immerse students in Andean culture in a way that reflects the cross-disciplinary nature of Latin American Studies. Therefore, the itinerary and coursework introduce students to the Andean region through multiple disciplinary lenses, including art history, history, environmental studies, political science, anthropology, archaeology and literature.  The general itinerary explores a variety of locations from the ancient cities of the Inca, to the city of Cusco, to contemporary villages in Chincero and Pisac.  Considered as a whole, the study tour provides students with an overview of Andean culture in relation to both natural and built environments, as well as meaningful interaction with the history and people of the Andes from its ancient roots through the Colonial period and into the present.

For more details on the tour, please see the website: (http://www.smcm.edu/history/peru/index.html).

Brodsky, Cash, & Phillips
4 credits
May 14-29
 

ANTH 352/MUST 390
Museums and Their Visitors
This course will take students to the American Southwest to learn more about how visitors experience different types of museums and how those different types of museums strive to engage their visitors. As museums have struggled to stay both relevant and financially solvent in recent years, their relationship with visitors has evolved. Visitors expect more control over their experience. They want to be active participants, to feel connected to museum exhibits and programs, and they want to be entertained.  This study tour will introduce students to more than two dozen sites, including National Parks like the Grand Canyon and Zion, as well as science, history, and art museums of all shapes and sizes. The goal is to explore, first-hand, how different museums try to reach and satisfy visitors. Moreover, by exploring the institutions of the Southwest, the program will introduce students to museums engaging cultures and visitor populations very different from those on the East Coast. Readings and discussions will ask students to examine how the institutions handle issues such as Spanish-speaking visitors, remote location, and conservation of "collections" as enormous as the Grand Canyon, and as small as nuclear particles. In sum, then, the twelve-day tour promises to broaden the way students think about museum exhibits, museum-going, and museum jobs, all of which will help make them better informed consumers of interpreted material and better-positioned job applicants, if they choose to enter the field. 

For more information, see the website: http://www.smcm.edu/museumstudies/studytours.html

Cofield
4 credits
May 13-25

ENGL 355
Studies in British Literature: "Summer Shakespeare: Billy's Kitchen"
"Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table."  —As You Like It, 2.7

"Summer Shakespeare:  Billy's Kitchen" is a study tour designed to provide students an up-close-and-personal relationship with the Bard and his work within the literal and metaphoric context of consumption.  Amid many of the same buildings in which Shakespeare slept, read, wrote, dreamed, desired, hoped, argued, and loved—and, yes, also ate—students study and attend five or six major dramatic productions of Shakespeare's time, comparing their observations with those of world-renowned scholars and actors at the Shakespeare Centre and the Royal Shakespeare Company theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon, with an additional field trip to the Globe Theatre in London.  In addition, students consider how Shakespeare's plays as well as his name and image are "consumed," both in terms of food and food imagery and in terms of British culinary culture.  In the end, this tour affords students not only an intimate knowledge of the most famous writer in English but a clear understanding of Shakespeare's relevance to their own lives—including at their own tables.

Prerequisites:  a 200-level English class or permission of the instructor

This course counts towards the ELAW requirement of the Core Curriculum

For more information, please see the website (http://www.smcm.edu/summershakespeare/).

Cognard-Black
4 credits
June 13-July 1, with pre-trip meetings on campus June 10-12