Winter Study Courses 2004
WINTER STUDY PROGRAMREMINDERS ABOUT WSP REGISTRATIONAll students who will be on campus during the 2003-2004 academic year must register for WSP. Registration will take place in the early part of fall semester. If you are registered for a senior thesis in the fall which must be continued through Winter Study by departmental rules, you will be registered for your Winter Study Project automatically. In every other case, you must complete registration. First-year students are required to participate in a Winter Study that will take place on campus; they are not allowed to do 99's. Even if you plan to take a 99, or the instructor of your first choice accepts you during the registration period, there are many things that can happen between registration and the beginning of Winter Study to upset your first choice, so you must list five choices. You should try to make one of your choices a project with a larger enrollment, not that it will guarantee you a project, but it will increase your chances. If you think your time may be restricted in any way (ski meets, interviews, etc.), clear these restrictions with the instructor before signing up for his/her project. Remember, for cross-listed projects, you should sign up for the subject you want to appear on your record. For many beginning language courses, you are required to take the WSP Sustaining Program in addition to your regular project. You will be automatically enrolled in this Sustaining Program, so no one should list this as a choice. The grade of honors is reserved for outstanding or exceptional work. Individual instructors may specify minimum standards for the grade, but normally, fewer than one out of ten students will qualify. A grade of pass means the student has performed satisfactorily. A grade of perfunctory pass signifies that a student's work has been significantly lacking but is just adequate to deserve a pass. If you have any questions about a project, see the instructor before you register. Finally, all work for WSP must be completed and submitted to the instructor no later than Thursday, January 29th. Only the Dean can grant an extension beyond this date. WINTER STUDY 99'SSophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to propose "99's," independent projects arranged with faculty sponsors, conducted in lieu of regular Winter Study courses. Perhaps you have encountered an interesting idea in one of your courses which you would like to study in more depth, or you may have an interest not covered in the regular curriculum. In recent years students have undertaken in-depth studies of particular literary works, interned in government offices, assisted in foreign and domestic medical clinics, conducted field work in economics in developing countries, and given performances illustrating the history of American dance. Although some 99's involve travel away from campus, there are many opportunities to pursue intellectual or artistic goals here in Williamstown. 99 forms are available online: http://www.williams.edu/Registrar/winterstudy/99direct The deadline for submitting the proposals to faculty sponsors is Thursday, 25 September. Winter Study Course OfferingsAMST 010 "The Fatherland in Cleats:" Soccer and Identity in the Americas (Same as History 010) AMST 012 Why New Englanders Eat What They Eat (Same as Philosophy 011 and History 019) AMST 030 Senior Honors Project ANSO 011 Berkshire Farm Internship ANSO 012 Children and the Courts: Internship in the Crisis in Child Abuse ANTH 013 Deciphering Ancient Maya Civilization SOC 012 Organizational Communications ARTH 010 "Taking the Waters" Then & Now: A History of Spa Culture (Same as History of Science 010) ARTH 011 Breaking Ground: Women Architects in America (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 011) ARTH 013 Images of War CANCELLED! ARTH 016 Exploring Regional Museums: Nuts and Bolts and Behind the Scene Tours ARTS 023 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as Mathematics 016 and History 023) ARTH 025 Oriental Rugs: Art and Commerce (Same as Economics 025) CANCELLED! ARTH 026 Contemporary Art in Los Angeles ARTH 033 Honors Independent Study ARTS 010 CULTURES OF RHYTHM (Same as Theatre 013) ARTS 012 Japanese Traditional Art: Kusaki-Zome and Weaving (Same as Japanese 012) ARTS 013 Abstracting and Translating: Sculpture to Drawing ARTS 018 Dreams, Art, and the Personal Narrative ARTS 019 Meet the Right Side of Your Brain: Drawing as a Learnable Skill (Same as Physics 012) ARTS 033 Honors Independent Project CHIN 088 Sustaining Program for Chinese101-102 CHIN 011 Business Chinese: It is More Than Just a Chinese Business CHIN 012 Chinese Painting and Culture CHIN 013 Chinese Cinema: Transculturation and Modernity JAPN 088 Sustaining Program for Japanese 101-102 JAPN 012 Japanese Traditional Art: Kusaki-Zome and Weaving (Same as ArtS 012) ASTR 011 Image Processing in Science and Medicine BIOL 011 Envisioning a Sustainable Future (Same as Environmental Studies 011) BIOL 012 Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Healthcare in the U.S. BIOL 013 Life as an Algorithm (Same as Computer Science 013) BIOL 014 Orchids! (Same as Environmental Studies 014) BIOL 016 Molecular Medicine, from Bench to Bedside (Same as Chemistry 013) BIOL 017 The New England Forest (Same as Environmental Studies 017) BIOL 019 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Environmental Studies 018, and INTR 019) BIOL 020 The Green Revolution (Same as Economics 027 and Environmental Studies 027) BIOL 022 Introduction to Biological Research BIOL 025 History and Philosophy of Biology: The Galapagos Islands (Same as Philosophy 025) CHEM 011 Science for Kids (Same as Special 011) CHEM 012 Learning and Teaching Chemistry in Spanish (Same as Spanish 014) CHEM 013 Molecular Medicine, from Bench to Bedside (Same as Biology 016) CHEM 014 Emergency Medical Technician-Basic CHEM 015 Materials of the Artist: Uncovering Fakes and Forgeries (Same as ArtH 015 and ArtS 015) CHEM 016 Glass and Glassblowing CHEM 018 Introduction to Research in Biochemistry CHEM 019 Introduction to Research in Environmental Science (Same as ENVI 020) CHEM 020 Introduction to Research in Inorganic Chemistry CHEM 023 Introduction to Research in Organic Chemistry CHEM 024 Introduction to Research in Physical Chemistry CHEM 031 Senior Research and Thesis CLAS 011 Writing With Wedges II: Introduction to Sumerian COMP 011 Surrealist Photography COMP 012 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as French 012 and English 024) CSCI 010 C, UNIX and Software Tools CSCI 013 Life as an Algorithm (Same as Biology 013) ECON 010 East Asia: Miracle and Crisis ECON 012 Women and Development (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 017) ECON 018 For Richer or Poorer: A Multimedia View of Historical Economic Performance ECON 019 Finding the Right Neighborhood ECON 020 Globalization and Developing Countries ECON 022 Finance and Development ECON 025 Oriental Rugs: Art and Commerce (Same as ArtH 025) ECON 027 The Green Revolution (Same as Biology 020 and Environmental Studies 027) ENGL 011 Anxious Allegories: Horror and Sci-Fi Films ENGL 012 Looking at Contemporary Documentary Photography ENGL 013 Gender and Science Fiction (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 013) ENGL 015 The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway ENGL 018 David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ENGL 019 Artificial Preservatives ENGL 020 Henry James: The Golden Bowl ENGL 022 Environmental Journalism: The Payoffs and Perils (Same as Environmental Studies 013) ENGL 023 Charles Brockden Brown, "Father of the American Novel" ENGL 024 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as Comparative Literature 012 and French 012) ENGL 025 Contemporary Film: New Voices Above and Below the Radar ENGL 028 German Cinema (Same as German 010 and Philosophy 010) ENGL 029 Film as Radical Political Critique (Same as Political Science 010) ENGL 030 Honors Project: Specialization Route ENGL 031 Honors Project: Thesis ENGL 036 Writing from Where You Live (Same as Environmental Studies 012) ENGL 038 Fly Fishing in American Literature (Same as History 013) ENGL 039 Objective Journalism During Times of Conflict (Same as Political Science 014) ENGL 040 Humor Writing (Same as Mathematics 010) ENVI 010 Geology of the National Parks (Same as Geosciences 010) ENVI 011 Envisioning a Sustainable Future (Same as Biology 011) ENVI 012 Writing from Where You Live (Same as English 036) ENVI 013 Environmental Journalism: The Payoffs and Perils (Same as English 022) ENVI 014 Orchids! (Same as Biology 014) ENVI 015 Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility (Same as Leadership Studies 010) ENVI 016 The Lay of the Land-A Survey of the Business of Land Conservation ENVI 017 The New England Forest (Same as Biology 017) ENVI 018 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Biology 019, and INTR 019) ENVI 019 Landscape Photography (Same as Geoscience 012) ENVI 020 Introduction to Research in Environmental Science (Same as Chemistry 019) ENVI 025 Mapping a Caribbean Fringing Reef Complex (Same as Geosciences 025) ENVI 027 The Green Revolution (Same as Biology 020 and Economics 027) ENVI 028 Mapmaking and Ambiguity (Same as Geosceinces 014) ENVI 031 Senior Research and Thesis GEOS 010 Geology of the National Parks (Same as Environmental Studies 010) GEOS 012 Landscape Photography (Same as Environmental Studies 019) GEOS 014 Mapmaking and Ambiguity (Same as Environmental Studies 028) GEOS 025 Mapping a Caribbean Fringing Reef Complex (Same as Environmental Sudies 025) GERM 088 Sustaining Program for German 101-102 GERM 010 German Cinema (Same as English 028 and Philosophy 010) GERM 011 The Future of "Old Europe" HIST 011 Racism and the Colonial Legacy in Modern Europe HIST 013 Fly Fishing in American Literature (Same as English 038) HIST 018 Genre-Bending: Literature and Politics in the Modern Middle East HIST 019 Why New Englanders Eat What They Eat (Same as American Studies 012 and Philosophy 011) HIST 023 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as ArtS 023 and Mathematics 016 ) HSCI 010 "Taking the Waters" Then and Now: A History of Spa Culture (Same as ArtH 010) INTR 019 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Biology 019, and Environmental Studies 018) LEAD 010 Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility (Same as Environmental Studies 015) LEAD 018 Wilderness Leadership LEAD 019 Justice and Public Policy (Same as Political Science 019) LGST 010 Legal Realism and the Search for Law LGST 012 The Death Penalty and the Problem of Innocence LGST 013 The Second Amendment: Liberty and Gun Control (Same as Special 013) MATH 010 Humor Writing (Same as English 040) CANCELLED! MATH 012 Introductory Photography: People and Places MATH 013 Beginning Modern Dance (Same as Special 023) MATH 015 The Science of Deception (Same as Psychology 014) MATH 016 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as ArtS 023 and History 023) MATH 017 Onstage! (Same as Special 017) CANCELLED! MATH 018 Modern Dance-Muller Technique (Same as Special 020) MUS 010 Chamber Music Performance MUS 012 Ensembles in Classic American Musical Theatre (Same as Theatre 012) MUS 013 Theolonious Monk Ensemble MUS 014 Congolese Music and Dance MUS 015 The Contemporary Singer/Songwriter PHIL 010 German Cinema (Same as English 028 and German 010) PHIL 011 Why New Englanders Eat What They Eat (Same as American Studies 012 and History 019) PHIL 012 Ethics Bowl: Case-based Reasoning in Ethics PHIL 016 Civil Rights Law (Same as Political Science 016) PHIL 025 History and Philosophy of Biology: The Galapagos Islands (Same as Biology 025) PHYS 012 Meet the Right Side of Your Brain: Drawing as a Learnable Skill (Same as ArtS 019) PHYS 016 Teaching with Technology PHYS 022 Research Participation PSCI 010 Film as Radical Political Critique (Same as English 029) PSCI 012 Hollywood's Version of Politics PSCI 013 European Integration, Globalization and International Business PSCI 014 Objective Journalism During Times of Conflict (Same as English 039) PSCI 015 The Development of Inuit Art PSCI 016 Civil Rights Law (Same as Philosophy 016) PSCI 017 Film and Politics in Mexico PSCI 019 Justice and Public Policy (Same as Leadership Studies 019) PSCI 021 Power, Authority and Decisionmaking in the Public Sector PSYC 010 Mental Illness in Film CANCELLED! PSYC 012 Dreams, Problem-Solving and Self-Understanding PSYC 014 The Science of Deception (Same as Mathematics 015) PSYC 015 Principles of Psychotherapy PSYC 018 Institutional Placement REL 010 The Zen Monastic Experience (CANCELLED) REL 012 The Spirit and Practice of Yoga: Coming into Alignment REL025 Explorations in Solidarity: A Meeting of Minds and Hearts in Rural and Urban Nicaragua RLFR 088 Sustaining Program for French 101-102 RLFR 010 Asterix the Gaul: French Culture through the Prism of the Comic RLFR 012 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as Comparative Literature 012 and English 024) RLIT 088 Sustaining Program for Italian 101-102 RLSP 088 Sustaining Program for Spanish 101-102 RLSP 014 Learning and Teaching Chemistry in Spanish (Same as Chemistry 012) RUSS 088 Sustaining Program for Russian 101-102 RUSS 025 Williams in Georgia (Same as Special 025) THEA 012 Ensembles in Classic American Musical Theatre (Same as Music 012) WGST 011 Breaking Ground: Women Architects in America (Same as ArtH 011) WGST 012 Contemporary Mexican Women Film-Makers (Same as ArtS 017, English 035 and Spanish 012) WGST 013 Gender and Science Fiction (Same as English 013) WGST 014 Fictionalizing the Artist: Genius and Gender in Films about Artists (Same as ArtH 014) WGST 016 Preliminary Introduction to American Sign Language (Same as Special 016) SPEC 010 Quest for College: Early Awareness in Berkshire County Schools SPEC 011 Science for Kids (Same as Chemistry 011) SPEC 013 The Second Amendment: Liberty and Gun Control (Same as Legal Studies 013) SPEC 016 Preliminary Introduction to American Sign Language (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 016) SPEC 017 Onstage! (Same Mathematics 017) SPEC 018 Picturing Our Past (Same as Biology 019, Environmental Studies 018, and INTR 019) SPEC 019 Medical Apprenticeship SPEC 020 Modern Dance-Muller Technique (Same Mathematics 018) SPEC 023 Beginning Modern Dance (Same as Mathematics 013) SPEC 024 Eye Care and Culture in Caribbean Nicaragua SPEC 025 Williams in Georgia (Same as Russian 025) SPEC 027 Teaching and Writing at Theodore Roosevelt High School (CANCELLED) SPEC 028 Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan SPEC 029 Junior High School Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan SPEC 035 Making Pottery on the Potter's Wheel SPEC 036 Teaching Practicum: St. Aloysius School, Harlem SPEC 038 Giving It Away: How We Help Others SPEC 039 Composing A Life: Finding Success and Balance in Life After Williams AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIESTo be taken by candidates for honors by the thesis route in African and Middle Eastern Studies. AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIESTo be taken by students registered for Afro-American Studies 491 who are candidates for honors. AMERICAN STUDIESAMST 010 "The Fatherland in Cleats:" Soccer and Identity in the Americas (Same as History 010) (See under History for full description.) AMST 011 Violence, Testimony, and the Culture Wars: Speaking, Truth, and Power (Same as Political Science 011) (See under Political Science for full description.) AMST 012 Why New Englanders Eat
What They Eat (Same as Philosophy 011 and History 019) AMST 016 A Failure of Trust: American Indians Seek an Accounting from the U.S. Government (Same as History 016) (See under History for full description.) AMST 030 Senior Honors Project To be taken by students registered for American Studies 491 or 492. To be taken by candidates for honors by the thesis route in American Studies.
ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGYANSO 011 Berkshire Farm Internship A field placement at Berkshire Farm Center and Services
for Youth in Canaan, New York. Berkshire Farm Center is a residential
treatment facility for troubled, at-risk adolescent boys who have been
remanded to the Farm by the Family Court. These youths come primarily
from lower socio-economic strata, are very ethnically diverse, and hail
from both urban and rural areas throughout New York State. The problems
that they bring to Berkshire Farm are multiple. These include: the psychological
scars of dysfunctional families, including those of physical, emotional,
and sexual abuse; chemical dependency; juvenile delinquency; inability
to function in school settings; and various other issues. Residential
treatment is a multi-modal approach that includes anger-replacement training,
social skills training, and behavioral modification. LARI BRANDSTEIN (Instructor) Lari Brandstein is Director of Volunteer Services at Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth. ANSO 012 Children and the Courts: Internship in the Crisis in Child Abuse The incidence of reported child abuse and neglect has
reached epidemic proportions and shows no signs of decreasing. Preventive
and prophylactic social programs, court intervention, and legislative
mandates have not successfully addressed this crisis. This course allows
students to observe the Massachusetts Department of Social Services attorney
in courtroom proceedings related to the care and protection of children.
Students will have access to Department records for purposes of analysis
and will also work with social workers who will provide a clinical perspective
on the legal cases under study. The class will meet regularly to discuss
court proceedings, assigned readings, and the students' interactions with
local human services agencies. Access to an automobile is desirable but
not required; some transportation will be provided as part of the course. JUDITH LOCKE (Instructor) Judith Locke is Associate Justice of the Juvenile Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ANTHROPOLOGY ANTH 013 Deciphering Ancient Maya Civilization Ancient Maya civilization of the first millennium A.D.
was one of the most advanced and complex societies of pre-Hispanic Central
America. Its art, monuments, ruined cities and writing have fascinated
art historians, visitors and scholars alike. After a short introduction
to Maya civilization and archaeology, the course will focus on the Maya
hieroglyphic writing systems. We will then apply the principles of Maya
epigraphy to translate a variety of texts from stone monuments and from
elaborate and beautiful polychrome vases of important sites such as Tikal,
Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Yaxchilan, and Palenque. The final project will consist
of creating your own stela about your life using the Maya hieroglyphic
writing system. FOIAS ANTH 025 Archaeological Excavation at the Paleolithic Site of Attirampakkam, India (Same as Chemistry 025) (See under Chemistry for full description.) To be taken by students registered for Anthropology 493-494. SOCIOLOGY SOC 012 Organizational Communications Students will examine the central role communication
plays in a variety of organizations including business, government, education,
and non-profits. This discussion course will be taught using the case-based
approach and simulations to provide understanding of how theory translates
into practice. We will use cases developed by the Harvard Business School
and Harvard Negotiation Project. Cases will focus on interpersonal communication,
group dynamics, negotiation and conflict resolution, communicating change,
influence and persuasion, and ethics. Students will be responsible for
learning how to diagnose specific organizational communication problems
and developing appropriate responses for effectively managing organizational
communication. You will be expected to improve on how well you demonstrate
effective critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. JO PROCTER (Instructor) Jo Procter is the college's news director. She has an
M.S. in communications, has taught in Simmons College Graduate Program
in Communications, and was previously assistant director of Boston University's
Doctoral Program in Business Administration. The program will offer five internships in New York
City in key institutional/occupational arenas. These are still being arranged,
but they will include internships at a major newspaper, a policy institute,
and a museum. Students will live at the Williams Club. There will be a
weekly seminar where students will analyze their field experiences against
the backdrop of key readings. There will also be some joint field trips.
The Gaudino Fund will provide modest scholarships for the five students
selected for the program on the basis of a competition. These scholarships
will cover only part of the costs of the Winter Study and students are
expected to cover the rest. Financial aid students may apply to the College
for additional assistance. JACKALL To be taken by students registered for Sociology 493-494. ARTART HISTORY ARTH 010 "Taking the Waters" Then & Now: A History of Spa Culture (Same as History of Science 010) (See under History of Science for full description.) ARTH 011 Breaking Ground: Women Architects in America (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 011) The course would concern itself with the role of women
as architects in a traditionally male dominated field. It would begin
with the role of the wife in shaping the "look" of the house;
to the winning entry of Sophia Hayden's Woman's Building in the Chicago
Columbia Exposition in 1890; to the break through work of Julia Morgan
for William Randolph Hearst and ultimately to more modern and progressive
architects and urban designers of today. Guest lectures will be delivered
by architects in current practice, and a field trip will be scheduled.
PATRICIA BROWN GLENN `75 (Instructor) Patricia Brown Glenn `75 holds a Masters in Renaissance and Baroque Art from the University of Chicago. Glenn has taught art and architectural courses at all levels at the University of Missouri at Kansas City for the past 15 years. She has also authored two books for middle readers: the award winning Under Every Roof and Discover America's Favorite Architects. Currently, Glenn is working on a book about female architects for adult readers. This course will provide an introduction to European
master drawings, from the Italian and German Renaissance to the present
day, primarily through the study of actual works in the distinguished
collection of the Clark Art Institute. We will begin with the materials,
technique and function of drawing in the artist's working process. Then
we will discuss how these informal working sketches became desirable to
collectors, a subject of critical study, and eventually a key factor in
the practice of connoisseurship, a fundamental discipline in traditional
art history. We will also consider finished drawings produced for exhibition
and sale, the effect of the invention of photography in the nineteenth
century, and the changing role of drawing through the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Above all, we will consider the nature of style
in drawing and in the finished paintings or objects created through it
in relation to the personality of the individual artist and his development. MICHAEL MILLER (Instructor) Michael Miller has worked in the field of drawings as a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, an independent dealer, and a teacher at Oberlin College and New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics and an M.A. in Fine Arts from Harvard University and combines his interests in language, literature and art in his research and teaching. He has published articles on Pintoricchio, Raphael, Peruzzi, and Michelangelo, and others, as well as numerous reviews and contributions to exhibition catalogues. He is also active as a fine art photographer. CANCELLED! ARTH 014 Fictionalizing the Artist: Genius and Gender in Films about Artists (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 014) Films based on artists' lives have done a great deal
to shape our impressions of the creative individual. This course will
explore this issue, studying films about artists from the Renaissance
to the modern period including Michelangelo, Vincent Van Gogh, Camille
Claudel, Frida Kahlo, and Jackson Pollock. We will focus on the construction,
in these films, of a notion of artistic genius, paying particular attention
to the role played by gender. Our discussions will be based on the films
themselves as well as comparative material-biographical and art historical
readings on the various artists. SOLUM ARTH 015 Materials of the Artist: Uncovering Fakes and Forgeries (Same as Chemistry 015 and ArtS 015) (See under Chemistry for full description.) ARTH 016 Exploring Regional Museums: Nuts and Bolts and Behind the Scene Tours This course will introduce the holdings and operation
of selected regional museums through weekly museum excursions. All aspects
of museums will be discussed, though an emphasis will be on investigating
the preservation of museum objects, as well as how museums operate. The
class will begin with an introduction to museum work and a tour of the
Williams College Museum of Art. The class will continue with twice-weekly
museum excursions, short lectures and at least one tour of an art conservation
laboratory. Tours will include behind-the scenes views and meetings with
key personnel, as well as time looking at the exhibitions. The class will
visit MASS MoCA, the Chapin Library, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery, the Clark Art Institute, the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Albany
Institute of History and Art, and others. The class will also travel to
Boston or New York, (the museum selected will depend on the current exhibition
schedule). Evaluation will be based on participation in all museum visits
and lectures and one researched presentation or 10-page paper. LORI K. VAN HANDEL (Instructor) Lori van Handel is a conservation specialist who directs Heritage Conservation Services, a local conservation firm. From 1994 to 2000 she was Associate Conservator at the Williamstown Arts Conservation Center. (See under Special for full description.) ARTS 023 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as Mathematics 016 and History 023) (See under Mathematics for full description.) ARTH 025 Oriental Rugs: Art and Commerce (Same as Economics 025) (See under Economics for full description.) ARTH 026 Contemporary Art in Los Angeles CANCELLED! To be taken by students registered for ArtH 493, 494. ARTH 033 Honors Independent Study To be taken by candidates for honors by the independent study route. ART STUDIO ARTS 010 CULTURES OF RHYTHM (Same
as Theatre 013) This course is a studio seminar exploring various approaches
to and uses of the body. Students will investigate and interrogate issues
of nude/naked, subject/object, self/other, and a variety of themes, such
as gender/sex/sexuality, death, and power, as they relate to representing
the body. Drawing and collage techniques will be used in relationship
to twentieth century and contemporary developments, attitudes and styles.
KARIN STACK (Instructor) Karin Stack is an artist who works with prints, drawings, and photographs. She earned her B.A. from Wesleyan and her M.F.A. from Colorado State University. She taught at Amherst College for three years. ARTS 012 Japanese Traditional Art: Kusaki-Zome and Weaving (Same as Japanese 012) (See under Asian Studies-Japanese for full description.) ARTS 013 Abstracting and Translating: Sculpture to Drawing Can the constructed object or installation serve as
model, structure or source for drawing? This course will explore the relationship
between the sculpted object or installation and the drawing. By abstracting
from nature with non-traditional materials, students will develop a three
dimensional vocabulary of patterns, networks, or volumetric forms (less
than 2x2x2') that can be used as foundation for two-dimensional works.
The first part of the course will be an introduction to building sculptures
using simple means of attachment, such as hot glue, tape and wire. Students
will do research outside of class to find source material for the three
dimensional works (living organisms, books, the internet). The final project
"drawings" may refer to, originate from and/or incorporate sculptural
elements, but are not limited to these interpretations. There will be
a mandatory class trip to Mass MoCA. KRISTINE TAYLOR `01 (Instructor) Kristine Taylor is a painter/sculptor who works in North Adams, MA and received the Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Art after graduating from Williams College in 2001. In this course students will develop representational,
technical, and expressive skills through studies in drawing from live
models. We will inform our practice in drawing through the study of accomplished
figure drawings from the history of western art. Creating your own studies
"in the manner of" such drawings, you will learn to develop
methods suitable for varied approaches to the human figure. In addition
to working directly from the model during class meetings, you will also
be expected to develop drawings outside of class times, including anatomical
studies, self portraiture, and working up figure sketches into more elaborate
compositions. In addition to studio work we will allow some time for brief
slide lectures and for critique. LEVIN ARTS 015 Materials of the Artist: Uncovering Fakes and Forgeries (Same as Chemistry 015 and ArtH 015) (See under Chemistry for full description.) The term collage is from the French verb coller, meaning
"to glue." Throughout art, film and literature of the twentieth
century we regard the process of making collage an aggregate of ideas,
materials and textures; a work composed of both borrowed and primary material.
The assembled information produces a montage that permits meaning to slip
the metaphoric conventions of a unified surface and linear logic. This
studio examines several stations in which collage creates patterns that
address social, political, and psychological conditions. EPPING ARTS 017 Contemporary Mexican Women Film-Makers (Same as English 035, Spanish 012 and Women's and Gender Studies 012) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) ARTS 018 Dreams, Art, and the Personal Narrative This class is a laboratory in which one's artistic identity
(style, process, technique, inspiration, and visual language) will be
supplemented by the practice and tracking of dreams. How can we use the
unconscious to access a deeper, poetic site of creativity? The class will
be based on a mixture of art practices and dreaming techniques; creative
field studies and studio assignments, group dreamwork, and critique will
be grounded in lectures in the science and theory of dreams and slide
presentations. How have dreams inspired artists such as Remedios Varo,
Max Ernst, Matta, Maya Deren, Bill Viola, and Frederico Garcia Lorca?
We will also look at the role dreams play in the art of non-western cultures
such as Islam, India, indigenous America, and Aboriginal Australia. How
do dreams question our sense of self, our relationship to time, and ways
we construct meaning from non-linear fragments of information? What are
persistent themes that arise in both our art and dreams? A final group
exhibition will document our findings. The use of and exploration in any
artistic media is encouraged. Students are responsible for their own materials.
JENNIFER BRAMAN `95 (Instructor) Jennifer Braman `95 is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her drawings, sound installations, and performance work investigate the creative language of the unconscious. She received her MFA degree as well as a certificate in Dream Studies from John F. Kennedy University. She currently works as the program advisor for the University's Department of Arts and Consciousness. ARTS 019 Meet the Right Side of Your Brain: Drawing as a Learnable Skill (Same as Physics 012) (See under Physics for full description.) Anyone who has been involved in traditional photography
has at one point or another been fascinated by the mysteries of pinhole
photographs. This course will introduce the students to methods of making
pinhole cameras and making images from these cameras. It is also a darkroom
course. Students will learn how to process their film and print from both
paper and film negatives. The student will be required to make two different
types of cameras and be required to present a portfolio of 15 to 20 successful
pinhole images. There will be specific shooting assignments that will
teach them to recognize the special and very specific characteristics
of a pinhole image. ANTHONY SALAZAR (Instructor) Anthony Salazar received his MFA from Hunter College in 1998. He taught photography at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in the fall 2000. Anthony is currently a practicing photographer and the Photography Technician in the Art Department at Williams College. ARTS 033 Honors Independent Project Independent study to be taken by candidates for honors in Art Studio. ASIAN STUDIESTo be taken by all students who are candidates for honors in Asian Studies. CHINESE CHIN S.P. Sustaining Program for Chinese 101-102 Students registered for Chinese 101-102 are required
to attend and pass the Chinese Sustaining Program. LANGUAGE FELLOW CHIN 011 Business Chinese: It is More Than Just a Chinese Business This course is NOT an advanced-level Chinese language
course. Rather, it is designed to provide fundamental training in Chinese
language to people who are interested in doing business with China in
the future. In this course, we will learn the proper pronunciation of
Mandarin Chinese, the official language in China and Taiwan. You will
also gain basic understanding of the Chinese syntax and writing system,
which can also be the basis for future language learning when necessary.
In addition, a wide range of knowledge necessary for effective cross-cultural
communication in the business context, such as social etiquette, business
practices, and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal statements will
be covered. Local merchants with extensive experience in conducting business
with Chinese communities will be invited as guest speakers to share their
insights with the class. C. CHANG CHIN 012 Chinese Painting and Culture This course provides a wonderful opportunity to explore
Chinese art by fostering appreciation and understanding of the aesthetics
of Chinese painting. Students will gain a broad knowledge of Chinese art
as well as the basic skills to facilitate further practice. More specifically,
students will learn how to use gradations of black ink, one of the major
techniques in Chinese painting, on rice paper. Students will also learn
how to draw the "four gentlemen" series, which stands for the
four seasons of the year: plum blossom, mountain orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum.
Techniques used in Chinese landscape painting, such as drawing of mountains,
trees, and water, will also be covered. YINGLEI ZHANG (Instructor) Yinglei Zhang is a Chinese artist and teacher. She has a B.A. in Chinese language and literature, an advanced certificate in Chinese classical literature, and a M.A. in Art Education. She has taught Chinese at Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT. She has also been teaching Chinese Painting and Calligraphy and The Art of Chinese Tea at Frog Hollow, Middlebury College, Saint Michael's College, and many other institutions near Middlebury, VT, where she currently resides. CHIN 013 Chinese Cinema: Transculturation and Modernity This course is designed to explore visual forms of cultural
creativity with an eye on transculturation and modernity through the genre
of Chinese Cinema. Selected films are viewed outside of class. Topics
may range from love and romance, saga and human tragedy, cult, warriors
and martial arts, melodrama and allegory of life. In class, students are
required to participate in and to lead panel discussions in the forum.
Discussions involve cinematic motifs, symbolism in filmic narration, directorial
control and expression, and evidence of transculturation from solo Chinese
shadow plays to contemporary mass productions driven by today's transnational
market capitalism. Cost to student: $30 for course reading packet (course
website). DOMIZIO To be taken by all students who are candidates for honors in Chinese. JAPANESE JAPN S.P. Sustaining Program for Japanese 101-102 Students registered for Japanese 101-102 are required
to attend and pass the Japanese Sustaining Program. LANGUAGE FELLOW JAPN 011 Theatre of the Body: A Transcultural Model for Physical Theatre Performance (Same as Theatre 011) This course is designed for anyone that wishes to increase
their performative skills by engaging in exercises adapted from contemporary
and traditional Japanese arts. The course draws from butoh, noh,
and aikido to propose a training model for physical theatre performance.
Performance training may have profound value for people pursuing disciplines
both within and outside of the performing arts. JAPN 012 Japanese Traditional Art: Kusaki-Zome and Weaving (Same as ArtS 012) In this class, students will learn traditional Japanese
dyeing techniques using dyes from plants. After dyeing the threads, students
will make two tapestries. Each student's first project will be to make
a tapestry using a cardboard loom. Their second project will be to make
a wall tapestry using the "tie-dye" technique. Both tapestries
will be designed by the student. This class requires no previous artistic
training. The technical exercises in this class will be done through several
projects under the supervision of the instructor. KABASAWA Kyoko Kabasawa, a Japanese textile and dyeing artist, teaches at Asai Gakuen University in Hokkaido. In addition to a number of prizes awarded in Japan, she won an originality award in Hawaii's Hand weavers' Hui 45th Anniversary Biennial Exhibition in 1998, temari award in Hawaii's Hand weavers' Hui 46th Biennial Exhibition in 2000
TOM O'CONNOR (Instructor) Tom O'Connor has been an actor and movement artist for twenty years. Currently, as a visiting researcher with the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Chiba, Japan, he is studying training methods in contemporary and traditional Japanese arts. . To be taken by all students who are candidates for honors in Japanese. ASTRONOMYASTR 011 Image Processing in Science and Medicine Images have long been fundamental in the sciences such
as astronomy. With the discovery of x-rays this became true in medicine
as well. Digital imaging has become a staple throughout our society but
the nature and processing of a scientific image differs from that of an
image obtained for artistic or commercial purposes. This course will cover
the principles and practice of image processing as applied to the sciences
and medicine, particularly to astronomy and to magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI). We will discuss how images are acquired, including transformations
from raw data to meaningful images. We will cover images, their generalization
to dimensions other than two, and many fundamental operations that may
be applied to enhance features or extract particular kinds of information.
Students will obtain their own images using one or more of the following:
an MRI scanner, an astronomical telescope, or an electron microscope.
Students will learn to use one or more image processing software packages,
and will have the opportunity to create their own software. STEVEN SOUZA (Instructor) Steven Souza earned his Ph.D. in astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979, and is currently Observatory Supervisor and Instructor in Astronomy at Williams College. He spent 13 years at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY, where he did research in MRI for medical applications. To be taken by students registered for Astronomy 493, 494. ASTROPHYSICSTo be taken by students registered for Astrophysics 493, 494. BIOLOGYStudents will undertake an independent project to investigate
a topic of their choice using the transmission and scanning electron microscopes.
They will do their own sample preparation, operate the two electron microscopes,
and take micrographs of relevant structures. Class time will give a brief
overview of the theory and operation of the microscopes and microtomes.
In addition, students will learn how to develop and print their film from
the TEM, and learn how to manipulate the digital images from the SEM in
Adobe Photoshop. (Do you want your erythrocytes red or blue?) NANCY PIATCZYC (Instructor) Nancy Piatczyc received her B.S. in Biology from Tufts University. She attended the school of Electron Microscopy in Albany, NY. She is a trained electron microscopist who operates and maintains the electron microscope facility at Williams. BIOL 011 Envisioning a Sustainable Future (Same as Environmental Studies 011) If humanity is to survive the next century, a massive
movement towards ecological sustainability must occur. What is a sustainable
lifestyle like? Will we have to sacrifice? How do we get there from here?
In this course, we will first look at key technologies and resource management
issues required for (and also driving!) the movement towards sustainability,
including energy, water and agricultural practices. By considering the
ramifications of these issues, it will be possible to envision in some
detail what a sustainable lifestyle must be like. We will then consider
how the mindset and practices of the developed world must evolve to allow
the sustainability movement to truly take hold. Students will read several
short background papers before each class. SILVIO EBERHARDT (Instructor) Silvio Eberhardt holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biology from Lehigh University where he also pursued a minor in "Humanities perspectives in Technology") and a Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University. For the past 10 years he has taught computer engineering at Swarthmore College and Villanova University. During that time, he has avidly researched sustainable technologies for renewable energy systems, home construction (he participated in building a straw-bale/cob medical clinic near Ontario last summer), and food production (he has been running indoor hydroponic systems for the last 3 years). He plans to dedicate the rest of his career to sustainability. BIOL 012 Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Healthcare in the U.S. Does everyone in the United States have equal access
to healthcare? Many cultural and socioeconomic barriers can interfere
with effective care. This course is designed to expose the student to
a variety of situations in which healthcare delivery is difficult. Relying
on brief readings, guest speakers and experiential field trips, students
will explore the problems and potential solutions specific to some cultures
and conditions within American society, including poverty, migrant workers
and Native Americans, GBLT, and others. BARBARA ROSENTHAL, M.D. (Instructor) Dr. Rosenthal is a clinical instructor at UVM College of Medicine in Burlington. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell and her MD degree from Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. She is Board Certified in Family Practice and is licensed in Vermont, New York, Wisconsin, and Maine. BIOL 013 Life as an Algorithm (Same as Computer Science 013) (See under Computer Science for full description.) BIOL 014 Orchids! (Same as Environmental Studies 014) This course explores the world of orchids. First we
will consider the aesthetics of orchids and how this fueled both the exploration
for new species in the nineteenth century and the production of modern
hybrids. Next we will study the biology of orchids particularly the structural
and physiological adaptations that have permitted these plants to inhabit
sites as diverse as the treetops of tropical forests and the frozen meadows
of New England. The complex relationship between flower structure and
the behavior of pollinators is of special interest. The fascinating world
of the orchid hybridizer will be examined. How is it possible to combine
four genera to make one plant? The commercialization of orchids led to
the destruction of many natural populations. Is it possible to protect
and possibly reestablish endangered species through the cultivation and
propagation of orchids from seed? Orchid hybridization and the discovery
of methods for the tissue culture of rare plants have revolutionized the
commercial availability of orchids. Globalization has affected the orchid
industry. We will discuss these recent trends and what it means for those
hoping for a career with orchids. C.J. GILLIG (Instructor) C.J. Gillig, Technical Assistant in the Department of Psychology at Williams College, received his B.A. in Biology from St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas and his Ph.D. in Zoology from UMass, Amherst. Although he now works in the Department of Psychology he has remained interested in biology and specializes in orchids. He has a mixed collection representing numerous genera. He is a member of the American Orchid Society and the Amherst Orchid Society. BIOL 016 Molecular Medicine, from Bench to Bedside (Same as Chemistry 013) (See under Chemistry for full description.) BIOL 017 The New England Forest (Same as Environmental Studies 017) (See under Environmental Studies for full description.) BIOL 018 The Mind of a Poet: The Psycho-Biological Bases of Creativity (Same as Neuroscience 018 and Psychology 019) Recent advances in Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence,
Psychology and Behavioral Ecology have allowed us a glimpse onto the bases
of the creative process which supplements prior anecdotal and biographical
accounts from scientists and artists. This course will provide a survey
of the field with special emphasis on the commonalities between creativity
in art and science. We will explore the mechanisms underlying this seemingly
unique human characteristic by taking a look at creativity by artists,
scientists and individuals with specific psychopathologies such as manic
depression, as well as by other types of "minds" from animals
to machines. LUIS F. SCHETTINO (Instructor) Luis F. Schettino received his B.S. in biology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City, his M.S. in psychology from Rutgers-New Brunswick and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Rutgers-Newark. Besides his interest in cognition and creativity, he has also published two books of poetry translations into Spanish. BIOL 019 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Environmental Studies 018, and INTR 019) (See under Special for full description.) BIOL 020 The Green Revolution (Same as Economics 027 and Environmental Studies 027) (See under Economics for full description.) BIOL 022 Introduction to Biological Research An experimental research project will be carried out
under the supervision of the Biology Department. It is expected that the
student will spend 20 hours per week in the lab at a minimum, and a 10-page
written report is required. This experience is intended for, but not limited
to, first-year students and sophomores, and requires the permission of
the instructor. THE DEPARTMENT BIOL 025 History and Philosophy of Biology: The Galapagos Islands (Same as Philosophy 025) (See under Philosophy for full description.) To be taken by students registered for Biology 493, 494. CHEMISTRYCHEM 011 Science for Kids (Same as Special 011) Are you interested in teaching? Do you enjoy working
with kids? Do you like to experiment with new things? Here is a chance
for you to do all three! The aim of this Winter Study Project is to design
a series of hands-on science workshops for elementary school children
and their parents. Working in teams of 2-4, students spend the first two
and a half weeks of Winter Study planning the workshops. This involves
deciding on a focus for each workshop (based on the interests of the students
involved) followed by choosing and designing experiments and presentations
that will be suitable for fourth-grade children. On the third weekend
of Winter Study (January 24, 25) we bring elementary school kids with
their parents to Williams to participate in the workshops. You get a chance
to see what goes into planning classroom demonstrations as well as a sense
of what it's like to actually give a presentation. You find that kids
at this age are great fun to work with because they are interested in
just about everything and their enthusiasm is infectious. You also give
the kids and their parents a chance to actually do some fun hands-on science
experiments that they may not have seen before, and you are able to explain
simple scientific concepts to them in a manner that won't be intimidating.
It is a rewarding experience for all involved. BINGEMANN and SCHOFIELD CHEM 012 Learning and Teaching Chemistry in Spanish (Same as Spanish 014) This course is designed for to students interested in
taking courses in chemistry or physical sciences in a Spanish speaking
country. Also, it targets students interested in teaching science in high
school with predominant Hispanic population. Depending on language fluency,
the class is divided into subgroups, and topics in chemistry are assigned.
After the first week, each group is responsible for short presentations
and short reports. During the last week, each group discusses a complete
chemistry unit. This course uses the Spanish translation of "Chemistry''
by Professor Raymond Chang and readings from Scientific American. The
course emphasizes on class planning, preparation and presentation as well
as the use of multimedia. PEACOCK-LÓPEZ CHEM 013 Molecular Medicine, from Bench to Bedside (Same as Biology 016) This course offers a novel opportunity for advanced
undergraduates (intent upon graduate study in molecular biology or medicine)
to engage thought leaders involved in the development of target-specific
monoclonal antibodies and clinicians utilizing anticytokine therapies
in the treatment of immune-mediated disease. Classroom review of new developments
in molecular medicine is followed by visits to corporations involved in
the design/manufacture of biologics (Biogen, Amgen, Abbott and Centocor
have been contacted). Opportunities for clinical observation (outpatient
infusion therapy for inflammatory polyarthritis) will be available in
the offices of Berkshire Rheumatology Associates. JONATHAN D. KRANT, M.D. (Instructor) Jonathan Krant is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, and runs the teaching program in rheumatology at Berkshire Medical Center. He is a board-certified rheumatologist, and performed post-graduate residency and fellowship training at Yale, Dartmouth and UCSF. Dr. Krant lives on a farm in South Williamstown. CHEM 014 Emergency Medical Technician-Basic A course designed to prepare students for the Massachusetts
EMT exam and to provide training to become certified as an Emergency Medical
Technician. The course teaches the new national standard curriculum which
makes reciprocity with many other states possible. This is a time-intensive
course involving approximately 130 hours of class time plus optional emergency
room observation and ambulance work. Students will learn, among other
skills, basic life support techniques, patient assessment techniques,
defibrillation, how to use an epi-pen, safe transportation and immobilization
skills, as well as the treatment of various medical emergencies including
shock, bleeding, soft-tissue injuries, and child birth. In order to reduce
the number of class meetings required during Winter Study Period, the
course will hold a few meetings beginning in the fall semester. These
class meetings, which are mandatory, with the following schedule: 1 November
(orientation), 2 November, 15 November, 16 November, and 30 November. KEVIN GARVEY (Instructor) Kevin Garvey is a Massachusetts state and nationally approved EMT-I (Intermediate) and an EMT-IC (Instructor/Coordinator). He had been involved with Emergency Medical Services for 15-20 years. Mr. Garvey currently works for Baystate Health Systems as an RN (registered nurse) and EMT-I and also works as an EMT-I for Village Ambulance in Williamstown. Mr. Garvey is also an EMT training instructor at Greenfield Community College. CHEM 015 Materials of the Artist: Uncovering Fakes and Forgeries (Same as ArtH 015 and ArtS 015) Many artists' materials (in the form of support, pigments,
coatings, and binding media) existed in very specific times throughout
history. Knowing this, we can create a timeline and begin to date art
objects by examining their material and how each object was manufactured.
In this class, we choose an object of questionable authenticity and immerse
ourselves in it. For example, a painting of questionable authenticity
will have the pigments analyzed, the media analyzed, an x-ray will be
taken, showing the paint strokes and method of application. In some cases,
a technique called an infrared reflectography will be utilized to view
the underdrawing-the artist (or forgers) original sketches. Visual examinations
combined with sophisticated analytical instrumentation will be used to
identify the materials of the object and its method of manufacture. Instruments
may include: x-ray fluorescence analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer,
x-ray diffraction, gas chromatography, and scanning electron microscope.
All classes will be held at either the Williamstown Conservation Center
under the direction of the analytical chemist and conservator, or in the
Bronfman Science Center. KATE DUFFY (Instructor) Kate Duffy is Department Head of Analytical Services at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. CHEM 016 Glass and Glassblowing This course provides an introduction to both a theoretical
consideration of the glassy state of matter and the practical manipulation
of glass. We do flameworking with hand torches for at least 12 hours per
week. While no previous experience is required, students with patience,
good hand-eye coordination, and creative imagination will find the course
most rewarding. The class is open to both artistically and scientifically
oriented students. THOMAN CHEM 018 Introduction to Research in Biochemistry An independent experimental project in biochemistry
is carried out in collaboration with a member of the Department with expertise
in biochemistry. Biochemistry is a branch of chemistry that deals with
the molecular details of living systems including the interaction of biologically
important molecules. In the Chemistry Department, studies are underway
to investigate the structure/function relationship of proteins, the interaction
between proteins and RNA and DNA, DNA structure and repair, and the molecular
basis of gene regulation. GEHRING, KAPLAN, and LOVETT CHEM 019 Introduction to Research in Environmental Science (Same as Environmental Studies 020) An independent experimental project in environmental
science is carried out in collaboration with a member of the Department
with expertise in environmental science. Current research projects include
studies of atmospheric chemistry related to global warming and acid deposition,
heavy metals in the local environment, and further development of laboratory
techniques for Environmental Studies 102 (Introduction to Environmental
Science). THOMAN CHEM 020 Introduction to Research in Inorganic Chemistry An independent experimental project in inorganic chemistry
is carried out in collaboration with a member of the Department with expertise
in inorganic chemistry. Opportunities for research in inorganic chemistry
at Williams include the study of transition metals in biological systems
(enzymes, proteins), and as building blocks for new materials with interesting
electronic (magnetic, conducting) and optical properties. Students working
in this area will gain expertise in the synthesis of new compounds and
their characterization by modern spectroscopic techniques. L. PARK and SCHOFIELD CHEM 023 Introduction to Research in Organic Chemistry An independent experimental project in organic chemistry
is carried out in collaboration with a member of the Department with expertise
in organic chemistry. One representative project involves isolation of
the bioactive constituents of Southeast Asian dart poisons from their
natural sources and the elucidation of their three-dimensional structures.
Another line of investigation probes new and efficient methods for the
creation of molecules of medicinal interest. Some targets include the
kavalactones-the active principles of the herbal extract KAVA KAVA which
is promoted as an alternative anti-anxiety remedy, and octalactin A-an
interesting 8-membered ring compound isolated from marine microorganisms
that has shown significant toxicity toward human cancer cells. MARKGRAF and T. SMITH CHEM 024 Introduction to Research in Physical Chemistry An independent experimental project in physical chemistry
is carried out in collaboration with a member of the Department with expertise
in physical chemistry. Current research projects in the Department include
computer modeling of non-linear, chaotic chemical and biochemical systems,
molecular modeling of water clusters, laser spectroscopy of chlorofluorocarbon
substitutes, and experimental studies of the oxidation of sulfur dioxide
on atmospheric aerosols. BINGEMANN, PEACOCK-LÓPEZ, and THOMAN CHEM 025 Archaeological Excavation at the Paleolithic Site of Attirampakkam, India (Same as Anthropology 025) This course will travel to Attirampakkan, a site in
Southern India that has so far yielded well-preserved cultural artifacts
of Lower, Middle and Upper Paleolithic deposits, including an Acheulian
living floor and animal footprints in association with artifacts. Excavations
at the site are sponsored by Earthwatch, which specializes in sending
talented and interested amateurs to help professional scientists. It is
one of relatively few opportunities for Williams students to participate
in professional archaeological research. The excavating season is January
and February, making it ideal for a Winter Study trip. ANNE SKINNER (Instructor) Dr. Skinner's research is in applications of chemistry to archaeology and paleoanthropology. Her primary interest is dating fossil material. She has previous excavation experience, as well as a research background in paleoanthropology. CHEM 031 Senior Research and Thesis To be taken by students registered for Chemistry 493, 494. CLASSICSCLAS 010 Sappho's Poetry in Greek: Eros the Sweet-Bitter (Same as Comparative Literature 013 and Women's and Gender Studies 010) Sappho of Lesbos (early 6th century bce) enjoys a privileged
status in almost any history of sexuality or history of love poetry. Although
only a small portion of her large poetic corpus has survived to us, we
have retrieved enough to appreciate why Plato called Sappho "the
tenth Muse" and why Solon, the great Athenian lawgiver who was himself
a poet, responded to one of Sappho's poems upon hearing it for the first
time: "Let me hear it again so that I may learn it and die."
Readers of English translations respond to Sappho's poetry with similar
enthusiasm, but no translation can fully capture the effects of her word
choice, word order, syntactic shifts, sounds and rhythms. No translation
can convey the passion, or the restraint, of her every poetic gesture
in Greek. This course is intended for students who do not know any ancient
Greek but who would like to read Sappho's poetry in Greek. We will not
pretend to "learn Greek" in a month. Rather, this course will
provide an introduction to Aeolic Greek, the dialect in which Sappho composed
her poems. Through a specially prepared set of lessons, students will
learn the Greek alphabet (really very easy) and just enough grammar, syntax,
and vocabulary to read closely a selection of Sappho's poetry in Greek
and to discuss problems of translation. (Sappho's syntax is unusually
straightforward, even simple, so students need not worry about having
to learn Greek's complex constructions.) We will also explore the dynamics
of eros in her poetry and consider questions that this poetry, and its
original occasions for performance, raise for the histories of not only
sexuality and love poetry but even the education of young women and men.
HOPPIN CLAS 011 Writing With Wedges II: Introduction to Sumerian The war with Iraq and the recent looting of the antiquities
museum in Baghdad make the study of ancient Mesopotamian culture all the
more pressing. This course will present an introduction to the Sumerian
language in the context of its ancient Mesopotamian culture, and to cuneiform,
the world's first writing system. Sumerian, which is not related to any
other language, ancient or modern, provides a unique opportunity to study
the way language works. The writing system, which was invented by Sumerian
speakers around 4000 BCE and later adapted to different languages, was
used for more than three millennia and is preserved on thousands of clay
tablets and stone monuments in museums around the world. In this course
we will learn the basics of the language and read original documents (including
some in the Williams Art Museum) and become familiar with the history
and the material culture of the region, which has long been known as the
"Cradle of Western Civilization." SALLY MOREN FREEDMAN (Instructor) Sally Moren Freedman received her Ph.D. in Assyriology in 1977 from the University of Pennsylvania and continued at the university as a research associate in the Babylonian section of the University Museum while lecturing in the Oriental Studies Department. She went on to teach Old Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. May be taken by students registered for Classics 493, 494. COMPARATIVE LITERATURECOMP 010 Living by Words: Surviving and Thriving in the Art and Sport of Rhetoric (Same as English 010, Leadership Studies 012, and Special 012) Whether dealing in the realms of public life, commerce,
or academe, the speaker who can clearly and cogently define or defend
a policy, product, or theoretical position is usually the most successful.
Depending on the venue and the aim of the speaker, the words might be
artful and poetic, cajoling and competitive, formally read from the page
or seemingly delivered impromptu. This course will briefly examine some
of the classic styles of oratory from Ancient Greece to Madison Avenue.
Students will make visits to a variety of venues that employ a special
style of professional discourse (TV and radio stations, the Albany and
Boston state houses) and learn a range of methods and techniques for practicing
the basics of effective spoken communication. The practical intent of
the course is for participants to develop confident, cogent, and dynamic
presentation styles, to reinforce tight organizational focus and relaxed,
natural delivery, and to develop creative approaches to speaking in front
of a group. The course will guide participants through the presentation
process from conception, outlining, and devising the message, to development
of visual aids, message delivery, and handling question and answer sessions.
Methods employed will include vigorous pursuit of improvisational theater
techniques and vocal training. Participants will deliver brief presentations
at each session and receive intensive personal coaching and a videotaped
record of their personal progress. The final project will be a presentation
at a public forum. PETER BUBRISKI (Instructor) Peter Bubriski has been coaching leaders in communication skills for twelve years. A founding partner of the Cambridge-based communications consulting firm of B&B Associates, where he has been designing and leading workshops in presentation skills since 1991, he also leads courses in Coaching, Mentoring, and Collaborative Communication at Pfizer, Inc., Morgan Stanley, and MIT. He has taught at The Boston Conservatory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Executive MBA Program, and he lectures regularly at Boston University's School of Management. He is also a professional actor with twenty years of credits in theater, film, and television ranging from ABC's All My Children and The King and I with Yul Brynner to independent films with Katharine Ross and Tyne Daly and documentary narration with PBS. COMP 011 Surrealist Photography
(Same as ArtH 017 and French 011) COMP 012 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as French 012 and English 024) This course will be dedicated to Marcel Proust's great
novel In Search of Lost Time, whose published English
title, Remembrance of Things Past, falsifies the sense of quest
that the French conveys. The novel is a search for the meaning of time
that has been wasted, or lost, in love and society. For Proust, erotic
life and society pose profound difficulties that he proposes find their
single solution in art. The extraordinary length of the work precludes
reading all of it, so we will read the first two major sections of Swann's
Way and Within a Budding Grove. In them, many of the great
themes and problematics of the novel are introduced which find their amplification,
intensification and finally even their resolution in the rest of the novel.
By becoming sensitive to them, students will be readied to approach reading
Proust on their own. Knowledge of French is not required; all class readings
will be in English. MARK DONEN (Instructor) Mark Donen is working on his Ph.D. at Boston University in comparative philosophy and literature. He has a Masters in philosophy from the New School for Social Research in New York City. Born in London, he has lived in Paris, and worked for Conde Nast magazines in New York and in documentary film production in France. He is married to Professor Soledad Fox in the department of Romance Languages. COMP 013 Sappho's Poetry in Greek: Eros the Sweet-Bitter (Same as Classics 010 and Women's and Gender Studies 010) (See under Classics for full description.) COMP 014 Jungle Fever: The Amazon in Literature and Film (Same as Spanish 011 and Environmental Studies 022) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) To be taken by students registered for Comparative Literature 493, 494. To be taken by students registered for Literary Studies 493, 494. COMPUTER SCIENCECSCI 010 C, UNIX and Software Tools This course serves as a guided tour of programming methods
in the UNIX operating system. The course is designed for individuals who
understand basic program development techniques as discussed in an introductory
programming course (Computer Science 134 or equivalent), but who wish
to become familiar with a broader variety of computer systems and programming
languages. Students in this course will work on UNIX workstations, available
in one of the Department's laboratories. By the end of the course, students
will have developed basic proficiency in the C programming language. MURTAGH CSCI 013 Life as an Algorithm (Same as Biology 013) Can computers reproduce? Can DNA compute? Can evolution
give us hints on solving big problems? Is life's blueprint inefficient?
This course looks at the way computers are shaped by biological thinking,
and the way that experimental biology makes use of computational theories.
Topics range from artificial life to identification of genes to the susceptibility
of machines to viruses. Lectures investigate new and novel ways of thinking
about computers and biology. Labs experiment with parameters of the evolving
problems shared between the two scientific disciplines. BAILEY and RAYMOND To be taken by students registered for Computer Science 493-494. CONTRACT MAJORTo be taken by students registered for Contract Major 493, 494. ECONOMICSECON 010 East Asia: Miracle and Crisis This course is intended to help CDE fellows integrate
the material they studied in the first semester by applying it to the
circumstances of a particular group of countries. During the 2004 Winter
Term session the course will focus on case studies of what are widely
perceived to be successful development experiences-those of the East and
Southeast Asian "miracle" economies. Among the issues to be
considered are the desirability of the economic transformations that took
place in these countries, the conditions that may have made such transformations
possible, the roles that specific policies may have played in bringing
them about, the causes of the recent economic crisis in the region and
its implications for future growth in the affected countries, as well
as the lessons that the East and Southeast Asian experience may hold for
other developing countries. MONTIEL In a world in which most of us are asked at one time
or another to say something to a group, public speaking is a skill which
everyone should learn. This course will help you become an organized and
persuasive public speaker. You will create your own public speaking style
that is comfortable, confident, and conversational. We will focus on organizational
techniques, handling visual aids effectively, eye contact and body language.
A supportive atmosphere will give each person an opportunity to receive
feedback. BRAINERD ECON 012 Women and Development (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 017) The processes of economic development in developing
countries have had a different impact on women than on men. This is because
of their differing social and economic roles - and perceptions thereof
- and their substantial exclusion from resources and decision-making.
This course will offer a BRENDA MCSWEENEY and MANI (Instructors) Dr. Brenda McSweeney is the United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative-India. She leads the development cooperation with India, which is UNDP's largest single partnership in the world. This course will examine the theoretical and practical
aspects of financial accounting. Although the beginning of the course
will explore the mechanics of the information gathering and dissemination
process, the course will be oriented mainly towards users, rather than
preparers, of accounting information. The project will include discussion
of the principles involved in accounting for current assets, plant assets,
leases, intangible assets, current and long-term debt, stockholders' equity,
the income statement and the statement of cash flows. Students will be
expected to interpret and analyze actual financial statements. The nature
of, and career opportunities in, the field of accounting will also be
discussed. LEO McMENIMEN (Instructor) Leo McMenimen is returning to Williams this January from the School of Business, Montclair State University. The premise of this course is that car buyers get more
for their money if they are aware of the economic principles involved
at the time of purchase. At our first meeting, students will participate
in an auto purchase bargaining game; students will be paired off, one
playing the role of the "dealer" and the other the role of the
"purchaser." In subsequent meetings we will discuss various
issues including: the decision to buy a new or used car, foreign or domestic
car; supply side determinants of car prices such as optimal pricing strategies
of manufacturers and dealers, unit costs, options' pricing, rebates, special
interest rates, product quality, product safety, advertising, and the
roles of government, insurance companies and banks; demand side determinants
of car prices such as preferences, demographics, exchange rate fluctuations,
seasonal buying cycles, and business cycles; leasing. At the sixth meeting,
students will participate in a second auto purchase simulation. Although
the practical side of car purchasing is the focus, microeconomics is viewed
through the lens of the car buying process. HUSBANDS FEALING In this course, the class will carry out a real-time
forecast of the U.S. economy and explore its implications for the bond
and stock markets. The course will build upon principles of both macro
and micro-economics. It will provide an introduction to the work done
by business economists and the techniques they use. An economic database,
chart-generating software and a statistical analysis program will be available
to each student on the Jessup computers and, if necessary, on a disk for
IBM-compatible computers. THOMAS SYNNOTT `58 (Instructor) Thomas Synnott `58 is Chief Economist, Emeritus, U.S. Trust Company of New York ECON 018 For Richer or Poorer: A Multimedia View of Historical Economic Performance The world today is awash in inequality. In rich countries,
the majority of people take expensive vacations and purchase larger and
larger televisions and automobiles. On the other hand, in poor countries
people struggle for access to safe drinking water, basic health care,
and enough calories. Why is it that some countries are rich and others
so poor? Economists and other scholars have attempted to answer this question
from a number of different perspectives. In this class, we will examine
this question from a somewhat unique perspective. We will read and critique
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and David Landes' The
Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which offer different perspectives
on the historical development of economies. We will supplement the readings
by playing and analyzing Civilization II and/or Age of Empires II. The
objective of these games is to build the most successful society among
a group of players. We will specifically attempt to learn about the algorithms
the games use to determine successful societies. The we will compare and
contrast those strategies with the ideas of Diamond and Landes. DE BRAUW ECON 019 Finding the Right Neighborhood What do looking for an apartment, advising a client
on the best location for a new retail store, or trying to understand the
impacts of rent control and fair housing laws have in common? They all
involve trying to describe and understand the nature of neighborhoods.
How is finding the `right' neighborhood possible without the detailed
knowledge that comes from having lived in the area? This course will introduce
you to information sources that are available for describing, mapping,
and understanding characteristics of neighborhoods and for defining and
identifying local markets. At the end of the course you will be able to
produce maps and descriptions that will enable you or others to find the
`right' neighborhood. S. SHEPPARD ECON 020 Globalization and Developing Countries The turbulence surrounding the World Trade Organization
meetings in Seattle in 1999 illustrated both the far-reaching effects
of greater integration among nations as well as the depth of misinformation
about an array of issues termed "globalization". This course
will explore a number of issues in the globalization debate, with a particular
focus on developing countries. In order to accurately understand the opportunities
and challenges facing developing nations, we will also explore the domestic
social and economic conditions in these countries. We will make use of
lectures, videos, readings, discussions, and student presentations. KHAN ECON 022 Finance and Development This course will provide a banker's approach to international
financial dealings related to developing countries. The first half of
the course will introduce core concepts and require the demonstration
of particular skills. Subjects for these classes will include: the roles
of financial intermediaries in developed and developing countries, sources
of financial information, payment and settlement systems, making lending
decisions, managing a financial institution's balance sheet, the role
of capital markets, and the workings of specific markets (foreign exchange,
credit, and equity). In the second half of the course, the emphasis will
shift to current topics in international finance including: sovereign
debt restructuring, issuing new sovereign debt, sovereign ratings, project
finance, trade finance, and financial risk management. It is hoped that
the course will have guest speakers from different fields of expertise.
The course will be open to CDE students and to undergraduates with permission
of the instructor. TOM POWERS `81 (Instructor) Thomas Powers `81 is the Director of the Center for Development Economics at Williams. ECON 025 Oriental Rugs: Art and Commerce (Same as ArtH 025) People, primarily women, have been weaving rugs for
thousands of years, and rugs have played a central role in the culture
and commerce of many societies. This course will explore the world of
oriental rugs, with an emphasis on the aesthetics and economics of these
extraordinary weavings. The course will be divided between classes in
Williamstown for the first part of Winter Study and a trip to Turkey,
one of the great rug weaving centers of the world, for the second part.
We will discuss the origins and ethnography of oriental rug weaving and
designs, the methods by which rugs are made, and the tactile and visual
characteristics that separate "a rag from a rug," and a great
rug from a good rug. We'll discuss as well the economics of the "rug
trade," a world in which "caveat emptor" rules with a vengeance.
We'll examine what factors determine the cost of making new rugs; what
determines the value of "collectable rugs;" the role of "bargaining"
in the market for rugs; and the role of auction "bidding pools"
and the methods that rug dealers use to divide the gains when they collude
at auctions. NICHOLAS WRIGHT `57 (Instructor) Nicholas H. Wright'57 has been a dealer and collector of oriental rugs since 1968. ECON 027 The Green Revolution (Same as Biology 020 and Environmental Studies 027) Beginning in the 1950s, agriculture in developing countries
underwent a dramatic transformation, as modern scientific techniques of
plant breeding were applied to tropical and semi-tropical crops and agroecosystems.
This Green Revolution led to massive increases in the production of staple
foods within some developing countries. Growth of food production in turn
allowed for increases in average consumption, even in the face of historically
unprecedented increases in human population. But the expansion of food
production was not without costs - environmental, social, and economic.
And in the end, the Green Revolution did not "solve" problems
of hunger or rural poverty.This course will look in depth at the Green
Revolution. We will consider the underlying science, the institutions
involved, and the economic, social, and environmental impacts. We will
also talk about implications for the impending "Gene Revolution"
and its management. Most class meetings will consist of lectures and discussion.
We will also view a number of videos and perhaps explore cooking and eating
some of the foods we are considering! GOLLIN The "Specialization Route" to the degree with
Honors in Economics requires that each candidate take an Honors Winter
Study Project in January of their senior year. Students who wish to begin
their honors work in January should submit a detailed proposal. Decisions
on admission to the Honors WSP will be made in the fall. Information on
the procedures will be mailed to senior majors in economics early in the
fall semester. To be taken by students participating in year-long thesis research (ECON 493-W031-494). ENGLISHENGL 010 Living by Words: Surviving and Thriving in the Art and Sport of Rhetoric (Same as Comparative Literature 010, Leadership Studies 012, and Special 012) (See under Comparative Literature for full description.) ENGL 011 Anxious Allegories: Horror and Sci-Fi Films This film course will also be a casual tutorial on popular
American moods, both cultural and political, and it will seek to place
the films we study in the context of such trends as Fifties conformism,
dread of Communism, the post-Watergate mistrust of government, suspicion
of science and technology, and the entertaining of Biblical prophecies.
The class will examine the possibility that what unites these loose allegories
in not only their expression of once-popular fears, but also their campiness-their
impulse to subvert our solemnities, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
The films will include Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Jaws, Village
of the Damned, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Andromeda Strain, The
Seventh Sign, The Exorcist, Forth of July, Alien, ET, Starship Trooper,
and Minority Report. DEAN CRAWFORD (Instructor) Dean Crawford has written The Lay of the Land, a novel, as well as articles and stories. He teaches writing and literature at Vassar College but harbors an affection for ingenious science fiction and horror movies. ENGL 012 Looking at Contemporary Documentary Photography This course explores the evolution of modern documentary
photography. We will start with Robert Frank's The Americans,
and how Frank's singular vision deeply shaped the next generation of photographers
working the American streets and landscape. Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson,
Lee Freidlander, William Klein, Danny Lyon, Gary Winogrand are some of
the photographers whose work we will get to know well . Discussions will
include the new wave of independent and Magnum photojournalists (Phillip
Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudleka, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peress, James
Nachtwey, Alex Webb, Ron Haviv and Tyler Hicks) and the wars from Vietnam
to Bosnia to Iraq they cover as well as the personal visions they explore.
Insight into the diverse currents of documentary photography will be explored
through the work of Robert Adams, Bill Burke, Larry Clark, Lois Conner,
Linda Connor, Larry Fink, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen
Mark, Nicholas Nixon, and Abelardo Morell. Slide presentations will occupy
half of the first meetings and give way to discussion of issues in documentary
photography. Students will be encouraged to work on individual projects
of their own choice. Each student will be required to make a brief presentation
to the class on a documentary topic of their choice. A final paper expanding
on this documentary topic will be due at the end of the course. A field
trip to New York will let us see first hand works from the collections
at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and the International
Center of Photography and meet with curators of photography at these institutions. KEVIN BUBRISKI (Instructor) Kevin Bubriski has received photography fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His photographic prints are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. ENGL 013 Gender and Science Fiction (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 013) This course will focus on the development and current
range of science fiction, fantasy and utopian fiction-predominantly by
women-that is explicitly and centrally engaged with gender issues. We
will begin with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), a
utopian novel about an all-female world. Likely further readings include
work by Ursula LeGuin, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Sheri
Tepper, Octavia Butler, Melissa Scott, Rachel Pollock, Paul Park, and
others. Issues to be considered include the function and value of non-realist
fiction as a locus for theorizing or speculating about male and female
culture and identity, sexuality, the uses and dangers of technology, and
the role of violence in human culture. Students will have opportunities
to pursue particular authors or types of fiction that interest them, and
the course will also offer some opportunity to meet with some contemporary
writers in the field. CASE No state in the nation is more important to modern American
poetry than is New Jersey. Poems of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams,
LeRoi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, and Bruce Springsteen will take us to Camden
(where Whitman spent the last years of his life, "receiving many
buffets and some precious caresses"), Paterson (maniacal focus of
Williams's book-length poem), Newark (birthplace of Ginsberg and Jones)
and Asbury Park. Films by Kevin Smith will provide comic relief, of sorts.
These works variously create a state of mind rooted in a physical sense
of place-but this "place" never stays still, always amounts
somehow to less than the sum of its dreams. Using the resources of everyday
language these poets express longing, displacement, a love of mean streets
and angry rivers: Williams said, "in the very lay of the syllables
Paterson as Paterson would be discovered." Following Williams we'll
ask what it means for a piece of art to be "particular to its own
idiom." The course will include a mandatory trip (January 13, 14,
15) to places we've read about: including Whitman's grave in Harleigh
Cemetery and the site of his "shanty" at 328 Mickle Street;
the Passaic River and the Falls at Paterson; and the "City Secrets"
tour of Newark. CLEGHORN ENGL 015 The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway The Hours, a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham
and a 2003 film directed by Stephen Daldry (starring Meryl Streep, Nicole
Kidman, and Julianne Moore), weaves together scenes of Virginia Woolf
writing her ground-breaking modern novel, Mrs. Dalloway, a fifties
housewife who is reading the novel, seeing herself in Mrs. Dalloway, and
a woman who relives the novel in a highly contemporary way while planning
a party for a friend dying of aids in 2001. After discussing the film
of The Hours, we will spend a week exploring Virginia Woolf's
life, reading selections from her letters, diaries, memoirs, and biographies,
discussing her artistic innovation, the radical social experiments of
the Bloomsbury group, Woolf's mental illness, and suicide. In the second
week we will examine Mrs. Dalloway along with the 1999 film adaptation
(directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Vanessa Redgrave), discussing social
and artistic experimentation and convention, and the ways in which Woolf's
high modernist form is adapted to the cinema. In the final week, we will
return to The Hours, analyzing Cunningham's novel (along with
the film) as an innovative work of art which is at once an insightful
tribute to and a thoughtful interpretation of Woolf's life and work. I. BELL This course will mainly involve reading the four major
works (perhaps you could call them documentary novels) of the contemporary
German writer, W.G. Sebald. In a curious style (it combines photographs,
biographies of actual people, fictional biographies, odd topics, dreams),
Sebald considers the deepest issues of twentieth-century history. A lot
of critics think he may be the most important writer of the last decade.
We'll read his books, including The Emigrants, Rings of Saturn,
and Austerlitz, in translation. LIMON Much labor by many people goes into the making of a
feature film, yet it is the director who, by a possibly regrettable shorthand,
is normally regarded as the principal "author" of a film. In
this course we will try both to understand the nature of a director's
work, in relation to that of his or her colleagues (the screenwriter,
actors, cinematographer, editor, and so on), and to learn how to distinguish
in finished films the particular marks of the director's influence. We
will examine closely two films by each of a number of distinguished directors,
in order to pinpoint some of the essential devices and stylistic qualities
that characterize each director's work. We will pay especially close attention
to the way in which a director imagines and constructs an individual scene,
analyzing in depth for this purpose a film directed by Andrew Litvack,
Merci Docteur Rey. There will be screenings (normally one in advance of
each class) of films by such directors as Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble
in Paradise, To Be or Not To Be), Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion,
The Golden Coach), Luis Buñuel (Belle du Jour, The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie), Robert Altman (Nashville, The Long Goodbye),
and Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All
About My Mother). ANDREW LITVACK `87 and TIFFT Andrew Litvack is a 1987 graduate of Williams College. He has been involved in the film industries in France and the United States for a number of years, and is currently a filmmaker living in Paris. ENGL 018 David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest In 1996 David Foster Wallace published a brilliant,
hilarious, intricate novel, Infinite Jest, which won critical
acclaim and zealous readers. While the novel is vastly entertaining and
provocative, it is also vastly long and complicated. Winter Study Period
is an ideal time to read and discuss this remarkable work. This course
will explore, enjoy, and analyze Infinite Jest. R. BELL ENGL 019 Artificial Preservatives A course designed to explore the "mummification"
of contemporary culture: fantasies of virtuality, suspended animation,
and forensic revivification that aim to deny the necessity of loss and
ruin. We'll look at a variety of texts, from Toy Story II to
Paul Auster's City of Glass, but much of our time will be spent
considering the implicit logic of American museums. The course will combine
class discussions with field trips to museums and collections in Pittsfield,
the Hudson Valley, and New York City. Readings will include fiction, museum
histories, and works of cultural theory. Museums to be visited may include
the Berkshire Museum; Dia:Beacon; The Museum of Natural History; and the
Isabella Gardner. ROSENHEIM ENGL 020 Henry James: The Golden Bowl In this course we will closely analyze Henry James'
The Golden Bowl, which all consider to be his last, and many
his greatest, novel. This long, demanding and capacious book dramatizes
many of James' most powerful preoccupations. Centered on a wealthy American
collector living in England at the turn of the twentieth century, the
novel examines the personal and cultural costs of an American obsession
with amassing relics of a collapsing European empire, as well as the effects
of wealth and refined sensibility on tangled love relations. The novel's
ethical and perceptual subtlety is conveyed in an ingeniously complex
style that requires close concentration. SOKOLSKY ENGL 022 Environmental Journalism: The Payoffs and Perils (Same as Environmental Studies 013) (See under Environmental Studies for full description.) ENGL 023 Charles Brockden Brown, "Father of the American Novel" A half-crazed man kills a panther with his bare hands;
covered in blood and disoriented, he is shot at by settlers who mistake
him for an Indian. A man able to mimic voices uses his uncanny skill to
torment a brother and sister whose father has been struck dead by lightning
while at prayer. Such bizarre plots and disturbed characters characterize
the writing of Charles Brockden Brown, whose novels Wieland (1798),
Edgar Huntly (1799), and Arthur Mervyn (1799-1800) this
course examines. We will investigate Brown's technique of psychological
narration, which relates the characters' experiences of terror, fury,
and anticipation in breathless, suspenseful prose. We will also consider
how the focus on untrustworthy individual minds, driven by emotions rather
than reason, critiques the ideals of America at the end of the eighteenth-century.
The era's republican philosophy held that citizens discoursed rationally
about questions of rights and justice; in contrast, Brown's novels showed
individuals manically voicing the power of attraction, hatred, and greed.
Yet Brown also represented the attempts of reason to triumph amid entirely
surreal circumstances; he is finally torn between fealty to the ideal
of rational discourse (he sent his novels to Thomas Jefferson) and his
deep skepticism about its relationship to psychological reality. Although
he embraces the tormented reality of his characters, he presents that
reality as so untrustworthy and volatile that it seems to cry out for
some kind of external discipline. Brown's interest in the constant struggle
between the rational and the irrational, and between the conscious and
the subconscious, became a hallmark of American authors such as Poe and
Melville, making the novelist a crucial figure in American literary history.
DAVIS ENGL 024 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as Comparative Literature 012 and French 012) (See under Comparative Literature for full description.) ENGL 025 Contemporary Film: New Voices Above and Below the Radar A course in contemporary film with a significant travel
component. The course will spend its first and final week-and-a-half's
worth of class sessions in Williamstown, and its middle portion-an eight
day period extending from 1/15 to 1/22 -in New York City. The first week
and a half will be spent in classroom time considering recent trends and
developments in contemporary filmmaking; the final week and a half will
be spent in consideration of all that was absorbed in the course's middle
portion. As to that middle portion: the class will divide its time in
New York between the film festivals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and
Lincoln Center. The former-the BAM Cinématek at the BAM Rose Cinemas-features
first-run independent films, documentaries, and sneak previews of the
sort that will almost certainly never arrive in Williamstown, often including
question and answer sessions with the filmmakers, actors and screen writers.
The latter-run by the Film Society of Lincoln Center-is renowned for its
first-run series involving independent film from neglected traditions:
Mexican, Bulgarian, Tibetan. Students will stay at the Williams Club and
attend class at the Club on four of the eight days, as well as attend
multiple film showings: frequently twice a day. The rest of the time will
be the students'. J. SHEPARD This course gives students an opportunity to do research
on their favorite film directors and in an oral presentation share what
they have learned. The first half of the course will be devoted to developing
a filmography and an annotated bibliography of 10 items (e.g., reviews,
articles, books or chapters) on the director each student chooses. We
will be working with a librarian to facilitate this part of the course.
One reading about each director or one of his/her films will be recommended
for reading by the whole class (this should be approximately 10-15 pages
long). During this time, we will also screen one film by each director
for the whole class to view. There will be oral presentations during the
second half of the course, and students should also turn in their filmographies,
bibliographies, and an outline of their oral presentation at the end of
Winter Study. Students may choose to augment their oral presentations
with video clips from the directors' films. BUNDTZEN ENGL 028 German Cinema (Same as German 010 and Philosophy 010) (See under Philosophy for full description.) ENGL 029 Film as Radical Political Critique (Same as Political Science 010) (See under Political Science for full description.) ENGL 030 Honors Project: Specialization Route Required during Winter Study of all seniors admitted to candidacy for honors via the specialization route. ENGL 031 Honors Project: Thesis Required during Winter Study of all seniors admitted to candidacy for honors via the thesis route. ENGL 034 Jungle Fever: The Amazon in Literature and Film (Same as Comparative Literature 014, Environmental Studies 022, and Spanish 011) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) ENGL 035 Contemporary Mexican Women Film-Makers (Same as ArtS 017, Spanish 012 and Women's and Gender Studies 012) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) ENGL 036 Writing from Where You Live (Same as Environmental Studies 012) (See under Environmental Studies for full description.) ENGL 037 Latina and Latino Migration Stories: Puerto Rico Women Write (Same as History 012 and Women's and Gender Studies 015) (See under History for full description.) ENGL 038 Fly Fishing in American Literature (Same as History 013) (See under History for full description.) ENGL 039 Objective Journalism During Times of Conflict (Same as Political Science 014) (See under Political Science for full description.) ENGL 040 Humor Writing (Same as Mathematics 010) (See under Mathematics for full description.) ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESENVI 010 Geology of the National Parks (Same as Geosciences 010) (See under Geosciences for full description.) ENVI 011 Envisioning a Sustainable Future (Same as Biology 011) (See under Biology for full description.) ENVI 012 Writing from Where You Live (Same as English 036) In an age of homogenized development and diminished
cultural and biological diversity, a strong hunger has arisen for writing
that celebrates the unique life and character of specific parts of the
country. Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge (Utah), Richard Nelson's
The Island Within (Alaska), and Annie Dillard's An American
Childhood (Pittsburgh, PA) are just some of the many books to emerge
in recent years that cultivate attentiveness to place. In this workshop,
we'll read and discuss selections of place-based literature from around
the world, but the primary focus will be on personal writing about places
each student knows well-his or her hometown, Williamstown, etc. We'll
begin with exercises designed to free one's creative writing energies
and hone skills of observation and description, and build toward each
student's completion of a 10- to 15-page piece of fiction, memoir, or
other nonfiction set in a familiar community. The course will encourage
students to consider local landscapes and species, but no special natural
history knowledge is required and writing from urban and suburban settings
is welcome. SARA ST. ANTOINE `88 (Instructor) Sara St. Antoine'88 is a senior writer for World Wildlife Fund and the editor of Stories from Where We Live, a series of literary anthologies devoted to North American ecoregions. She is the author of numerous works of fiction for young people. ENVI 013 Environmental Journalism: The Payoffs and Perils (Same as English 022) Environmental journalism is fundamentally journalism,
with all that implies about reporting, research, accuracy, understanding
the subjects and the audience, clarity, and style. In this course we will
read and critically analyze noteworthy recent examples of this special
genre. The point is to understand the techniques and elements of a successful
feature article on an environmental subject. Aspects of journalism we
will cover include: audiences, goals, research, sources (including the
internet), bias and objectivity, interviews, plus the nuts and bolts of
structuring your story, finding a fresh approach, writing a good lead,
handling quotations effectively, making deft transitions, and concluding
with a punch. MICHAEL W. ROBBINS (Instructor) Michael Robbins is an experienced writer of books (Woodswalk, The Hiking Companion, Birds: A Family Field Guide, High Country Trail: Along the Continental Divide, and Brooklyn: A State of Mind) and editor of magazines (Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, Museum News, Oceans Magazine, and Connections). Currently, he is a partner in the publications consulting firm of Palitz & Robbins. He resides in Brooklyn and Stephentown, NY. ENVI 014 Orchids! (Same as Biology 014) (See under Biology for full description.) ENVI 015 Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility (Same as Leadership Studies 010) (See under Leadership Studies for full description.) ENVI 016 The Lay of the Land-A Survey of the Business of Land Conservation Today, there are more than 1,300 local land trusts operating
throughout the country. There are numerous other regional or nationwide
organizations with missions pertaining to the conservation of land or
other natural resources. Miscellaneous agencies, at all levels of government,
regulate, fund, own and/or manage public lands. Ballot questions increasingly
include land-related measures. Issues pertaining to land in urban, suburban,
rural and wilderness areas are highlighted in the news on a daily basis.
Land and resource-related policy debates are, as much as any other issue,
a defining moment in the differentiation between candidates, and parties.
What is this all about? Why should I care? This course will be an energetic
hike across the field of land conservation today. Topics will include:
Who are the players? What are they doing and where are they doing it?
How does land conservation happen (what are the tools, the business-side
of the deals)? And, importantly, why does land conservation happen? As
a core component of the course, student groups will identify, research,
and present oral arguments on a potential local conservation project.
Class content will include extended group discussions based on readings,
handouts and presentations. It is anticipated that one or more outside
speakers will be arranged to discuss specific topics (community organizing,
public finance, stewardship, development trends, etc.). JERRY TONE `77 (Instructor) Jerry Tone graduated from Williams in 1977 with a degree in American Civilization, and a concentration in Environmental Studies. He holds an MBA degree from University of California-Berkeley. He has worked for non-profit organizations in the areas of environmental internships and the development of affordable housing, has been a commercial banker, and is currently a real estate investor and developer. For over 10 years he has served on the National Board of the Trust for Public Land, and in that capacity has served as Board Chair, and Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee. ENVI 017 The New England Forest (Same as Biology 017) This field-oriented course explores (first hand and
through readings and discussions) the ecology, natural history, utilization
and conservation of New England's most abundant natural resource: the
forest. A comparative approach to forest communities will be taken: we
will visit different forests across the New England landscape delving
into some of the reasons why they may vary. Specific topics will include
community dynamics, tree and shrub identification, adaptation, wildlife,
threats to the forest, forest management and conservation issues. There
will be three to four meetings per week, at least two of which will be
in the field (some field trips will require students to be engaged in
the class beyond normal WSP class hours). The course will culminate in
a two to three day trip to investigate a more distant forest region. Accordingly,
students should be prepared to spend many hours in the outdoors coping
with the elements. DREW JONES (Instructor) Drew Jones, Manager of the Hopkins Memorial Forest, has a Master of Forestry degree from Duke University. He has worked as a wildlife biologist and naturalist from the Southern Appalachians to the North Woods. ENVI 018 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Biology 019, and INTR 019) (See under Special for full description.) ENVI 019 Landscape Photography (Same as Geoscience 012) (See under Geosciences for full description.) ENVI 020 Introduction to Research in Environmental Science (Same as Chemistry 019) (See under Chemistry for full description.) ENVI 022 Jungle Fever: The Amazon in Literature and Film (Same as Comparative Literature 014, English 034, Spanish 011) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) ENVI 025 Mapping a Caribbean Fringing Reef Complex (Same as Geosciences 025) (See under Geosciences for full description.) ENVI 027 The Green Revolution (Same as Biology 020 and Economics 027) (See under Economics for full description.) ENVI 028 Mapmaking and Ambiguity (Same as Geosciences 014) (See under Geosciences for full description.) ENVI 031 Senior Research and Thesis To be taken by students registered for Environmental Studies 493-494. GEOSCIENCESGEOS 010 Geology of the National Parks (Same as Environmental Studies 010) A vicarious trip through selected national parks of
the U.S. and Canada with emphasis on the geological basis for their unique
scenery. Areas to be studied will be chosen in order to illustrate a wide
variety of geologic processes and products. Readings will include a paperback
text as well as short publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and of
various natural history associations. The second part of the month will
involve independent study of topics chosen by the students in preparation
for half-hour oral presentations during the last week. The oral reports
will be comprehensive, well illustrated explanations of the geology of
a particular national park or monument of the student's choice, using
maps, slides, and reference materials available within the department
and on the internet. A detailed outline and an accompanying bibliography
will be submitted at the time of the oral presentation. WOBUS GEOS 012 Landscape Photography (Same as Environmental Studies 019) This class will broaden students' appreciation for the
appearance and history of the landscape and teach the skills of making
a successful photograph. Williamstown, situated in a valley between the
Green and Taconic Mountains and bisected by the Green and Hoosic Rivers,
is a place of great natural beauty. The local landscape is a subject that
inspires both professional and amateur photographers alike. While Williamstown
will be the subject of most of our work, we will use it to learn principles
of universal application. Students will discover the importance of light
in making a photograph. They will also learn camera skills and the mechanics
of photography to make slides, which will be reviewed at biweekly class
meetings. In addition to photographing and critiquing slides, the class
will visit collections at the Clark Art Institute and WCMA to see original
work and examine and discuss books on reserve at Sawyer Library. An overview
of the history of landscape photography will be provided with an emphasis
on American workers such as Carlton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, Edward
Weston, Ansel Adams, and Alvin Langdon Cobern. We will also demonstrate
examples of different cameras such as medium format, view cameras, and
panorama cameras. Students will produce a body of successful photographs/slides
that will be projected at the Winter Study presentation day. NICHOLAS WHITMAN (Instructor) Nicholas Whitman is a professional photographer and the former Curator of Photography at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. A 1977 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, he has honed his craft to make landscape photographs of power and depth. See more at www.nwphoto.com. GEOS 014 Mapmaking and Ambiguity (Same as Environmental Studies 028) Including maps for the visual presentation of data is
often an effective means of getting your point across, but are the data
accurately represented?Students will learn the basics of mapping software,
how to find and import data sets, the elements of generating professional
looking maps and printing techniques. We will also study how maps are
used to encourage people to draw incorrect conclusions about data. Specific
topics will include: color use and perception; data classification; aggregation
of data; making the point. SHARRON MACKLIN (Instructor) Sharron Macklin is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Office for Information Technology at Williams College. GEOS 025 Mapping a Caribbean Fringing Reef Complex (Same as Environmental Sudies 025) Participants will spend two weeks camping and conducting
field work on St. John in the US Virgin Islands. In 1998 a group of Williams
students mapped the Mary Creek Reef Complex and documented that large-scale
sedimentologic and ecologic transformation had occurred since a previous
mapping in 1968, but we were not able to explain why these changes had
occurred. We will return in 2004 to remap the reef. Looking at any modifications
that have occurred in this six-year period will allow us to better understand
this reef complex and to put constraints on models for its recent evolution. COX To be taken by students registered for Geology 493-494. GERMANGERM S.P. Sustaining Program for German 101-102 Something new and different for students enrolled in
German 101-102. Practice in the use of German for everyday purposes; creation
and performance of short dramatic sketches through group collaboration;
games; songs; storytelling; reading. No homework. LANGUAGE FELLOW B. KIEFFER GERM 010 German Cinema (Same as English 028 and Philosophy 010) (See under Philosophy for full description) GERM 011 The Future of "Old Europe" From the banal to the world-historical, from rancor
over bananas to splits on Iraq, the signs are mounting that the leading
powers of continental Europe are not only chafing at their traditional
place in the American hegemony but itching to go their own way. Where
will it lead? Focusing on Germany and France, we'll consider four major
topics: overt anti-Americanism, the possibility and feasibility of a "United
States of Europe," social democracy as a European alternative, and
the increasingly divergent stances of Europe and the U.S. in relation
to the rest of the world. After undertaking a fast study of Europe's shapes,
systems, and vital statistics, we'll explore and discuss current issues
and viewpoints as reflected in the major American and European media.
All texts in English, but students with competence in German
and/or French will have the opportunity to work with materials in those
languages. B. KIEFFER Begin or continue study of the German language at the
Goethe Institute in Germany. The Goethe Institute program attracts students
from all over the world. A typical course meets for four weeks, 18 hours/week,
generally providing the equivalent of one semester course at Williams.
To earn a pass, the student must receive the Goethe Institute's Teilnahme-Bestätigung
which denotes regular attendance at classes, completion of homework, and
successful completion of a final test. Students wishing to apply must
fill out an application, obtainable in the office of the Center for Foreign
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in Weston,or online at www.goethe.de,
and return it to the Goethe Institute as soon as possible (admission is
on a first-come, first-served basis). B. KIEFFER To be taken by honors candidates following other than the normal thesis route. To be taken by students registered for German 493-494. HISTORYHIST 010 "The Fatherland in Cleats:" Soccer and Identity in the Americas (Same as American Studies 010) This course will examine the cultural meaning of futebol
in inter-American contexts. Across the Americas people have used
this often low-scoring sport to define themselves, their nations, and
even their civilizations. Looking on both the darker tendencies (especially
violence) and the aesthetically pleasing products (such as Brazilian "football-art"
or "the beautiful game" of soccer, we will discuss the boundaries
involved in such definitions-between Latin American countries, the United
States, and other regions of the world; between men and women; between
macho and non-macho men; between radical and ethnic groups. Among the
questions we will address are: What does soccer represent for players
and spectators in Boston and Buenos Aires? How and why do nations develop
distinct styles of play? Will the rise of women's teams challenge soccer
machoism? Students will also explore the themes of the course in a project
on a specific team, game, athlete, or league. KITTLESON HIST 011 Racism and the Colonial Legacy in Modern Europe Europe is in a tumultuous period of growth and change,
not least because of the strong and increasing presence of non-European
immigrants within its borders. Where do these immigrants come from? When
and why did they arrive in Europe? How have they been greeted in France,
England, and Germany? In this course, we will explore how Europeans today
are grappling with these immigrants. Film, newspapers, music, literature,
and historical works will give us insight into such diverse topics as
Afro-Caribbean culture in England, the European debate on multiculturalism,
radical Islamic fundamentalism, Rai music, and the affaire des foulards
(headscarves) in France and Germany. SINGHAM HIST 012 Latina and Latino Migration Stories: Puerto Rico Women Write (Same as English 037 and Women's and Gender Studies 015) Migration is often understood in the aggregate, as the
mass movement of people. Yet migration is also an intensely personal experience.
This course will explore how Latinas and Latinos have told their migration
stories. After a brief historical overview of a particular group's migration
history, we will read fictional and autobiographical accounts to address
what life was like in the home country, the experience of the journey,
and the challenges of adjusting to life in the United States. WHALEN HIST 013 Fly Fishing in American Literature (Same as English 028) It is a long and noble tradition to catch fish (especially
trout) on a fly. There has also developed a rich body of American literature
that uses fly fishing as a central theme. This course will examine how
American culture has been reflected in some of the classics of the genre
such as A River Runs Through It and The Big Two-Hearted River
as well as more recent writings by men and women who enjoy casting bits
of feathers and fur in search of trout. WONG HIST 015 How to Survive "Regime Change" and "Pre-Emptive Attacks" in Latin America, and be a Journalist at the Same Time Drawing on the instructor's own first-hand experience
as a correspondent in South America, the course will focus on the current
war in Iraq and how it compares with what has happened in Latin America
in the past, as well as on issues that arise from being a journalist abroad.
JANE MONAHAN (Instructor) A journalist with over twenty-five year's experience as a correspondent in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., reporting on economic and business issues for The Financial Times, the Economist, Business, and The Banker, Jane Monahan currently is based in Washington, D.C., where she writes for The Financial Times and The Banker. HIST 016 A Failure of Trust: American Indians Seek an Accounting from the U.S. Government (Same as American Studies 016) This Winter Study course examines the complex legal
and political issues regarding the Federal Government's management as
a trustee of extensive land holdings on behalf of tribes and individual
Indians. After examining the legislation that created the Government's
trusteeship long ago for the Indian beneficiaries, we will study why this
trusteeship has been so contentious, why individual Indians have sued
the Government, and why several high officials in both the Clinton and
Bush II administrations have been held in contempt by the U.S. District
Court in Washington, D.C. The course will also study related problems,
such as weak schools for the Indian population, devastating unemployment,
and issues of self-governance. TOM SLONAKER `57 (Instructor) A 1957 graduate of Williams College, Tom Slonaker later received an MBA from Harvard Business School. After retiring from the private sector, in 2000 he was appointed Special Trustee for American Indians, a position he held until 2002. Burgoyne Surrounded, Mexican Cross, Log Cabin, Texas
Star, Mariner's Compass, Storm at Sea, Drunkard's Path, Underground Railway
are just a few of the many quilt patterns designed by our American ancestors,
representing events, political or social, in this country in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. SYBIL SHERMAN (Instructor) Sybil Sherman has 29 years of experience as a quilter. She taught Fabric Palette, Quilt Canvas for the Williams College Art Department in January 2000 and 2001 and History in Pieces in January 2002 and 2003 for the History Department. HIST 018 Genre-Bending: Literature and Politics in the Modern Middle East Political and historical issues have often been embedded
within questions of literature in the modern Middle East. At times, the
very use of certain genres-including the novel and autobiography-has been
critiqued as a preference for the imported over the authentic. Yet writers
in the Middle East have used even "indigenous" forms to advance
larger political critiques. As both a site of contestation and a means
of communication, literature has played a prominent role in twentieth
century Middle Eastern political life. ANDREA STANTON `98 (Instructor) Andrea Stanton `98 is a doctoral student in Middle Eastern
History at Columbia University and a teaching fellow at Columbia College.
HIST 023 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as ArtS 023 and Mathematics 016) (See under Mathematics for full description.) To be taken by students registered for History 493-494. MUTONGI HISTORY OF SCIENCEHSCI 010 "Taking the Waters" Then and Now: A History of Spa Culture (Same as ArtH 010) Have you ever wondered why you desire a brand of sparkling
water the likes of Perrier or Poland Springs? Or why you enjoy soaking
in a hot tub or whirlpool after a workout on sweat-inducing machinery?
Or why you feel energized after a long, vigorous walk? Or why families
and individuals alike seek healthful destinations for their vacations?
The answers may be found in this course, an interdisciplinary study that
traces the historical development of the spa-from its origins in antiquity,
through its efflorescence around 1900, to our present time-as an architectural
ensemble within its unique therapeutic context. WANDA BUBRISKI (Instructor) Wanda Bubriski, `82 MA, has lectured and published on the Bohemian Spas. She was curator of "Salubrious Destinations," an exhibition on the history of health resorts at Yale's School of Medicine. She has taught at Williams (WSP "Vienna 1900: in World & Image") as well as Yale, Central European University (Prague campus), and in Washington D.C. Public Schools. INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY STUDIESINTR 019 Picturing Our Past (Same as Special 018, Biology 019, and Environmental Studies 018) (See under Special for full description.) LEADERSHIP STUDIESLEAD 010 Corporate Leadership and Social Responsibility (Same as Environmental Studies 015) This course considers the responsibilities of leadership
in corporate life through the perspectives of visiting alumni who hold
leadership positions in American corporations. It examines the social
obligations created by success in business, with special emphasis on the
social and environmental duties of contemporary business. We will also
explore the organizational, professional, social, and personal dilemmas
faced by leading figures in modern corporations and institutions. Readings
will include material from organizational sociology and economics, as
well as relevant biography and autobiography. K. LEE and JOHN CHANDLER, President emeritus LEAD 012 Living by Words: Surviving and Thriving in the Art and Sport of Rhetoric (Same as Comparative Literature 010, English 010, and Special 012) (See under Comparative Literature for full description.) LEAD 018 Wilderness Leadership This Winter Study project is for students who would
like to participate in an off-campus experiential education opportunity.
Students will be required to research an appropriate accredited program
i.e. National Outdoor Leadership School, Outward Bound etc., that will
provide a suitable learning environment and be at least 22 days in length.
The Director of the Williams Outing Club will assist students in their
search if necessary. Upon choosing a program and being accepted, students
will meet with the Director in a pre-program meeting in December to create
a framework for observing group dynamics and studying a variety of leadership
styles. There will also be a follow up class to debrief the experience
in the last week of February. All programs must meet with the approval
of the Outing Club Director. SCOTT LEWIS, WOC Director LEAD 019 Justice and Public Policy (Same as Political Science 019) The course will examine four or five significant public
policy matters which have been resolved by the court system. These might
include abortion, affirmative action, death penalty, election laws, free
speech/obscenity. The focus of the course will be on the process involved
in resolving the issues in the courts, the competing interests involved,
the public impact of the decisions and, in most cases, the difficulty
of resolution. Students will spend two-three days in Boston where they
will have the opportunity to witness activities at the Middlesex County
District Attorneys Office and meet with representatives of the federal
and state judiciary. MICHAEL B. KEATING `62 and MARTHA COAKLEY `75 The course will be taught by Michael B. Keating `62, a trial lawyer with the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag & Elliot, LLP, and Martha Coakley `75, District Attorney for Middlesex County. LEGAL STUDIESLGST 010 Legal Realism and the Search for Law From the 1920s-1940s, a movement called Legal Realism
assailed the notion of an objective and impartial legal system. According
to the Realists, the outcomes of legal disputes depend on the values,
backgrounds, and idiosyncrasies of decision-makers(usually judges and
juries). In the most extreme formulation, what a judge eats for breakfast
has a greater effect on the outcome of a case than the rules or laws that
ostensibly govern the case. Modern-day descendents of the Legal Realism
proclaim that "law is politics." Is this radical skepticism
on the mark? Insightful but exaggerated? Fundamentally flawed? This course
will probe the Realist perspective in the context of major legal controversies,
including Roe vs. Wade, Bush vs. Gore, the O.J. Simpson trial, the impeachment
of Bill Clinton, and the fight over the Supreme Court nominations of Robert
Bork and Clarence Thomas. ALAN HIRSCH (Instructor) Alan Hirsch received a J.D. from Yale Law school and has written extensively on the law. LGST 012 The Death Penalty and the Problem of Innocence During the past decade, more than one hundred people
convicted of murder and sentenced to death have been subsequently proven
innocent and freed. The most recent study has shown that more than half
of all trials that result in a death sentence are tainted by serious legal
and procedural errors. These statistics become even more shocking when
we realize that only a tiny fraction of people on death row are ever afforded
the counsel and resources needed to prove their innocence. This course
will explore the legal and systemic tensions which have made the death
penalty so difficult to administer in a just manner. Among the subjects
we will address are: the failure of the assigned counsel system, the impact
of habeas corpus reform, problems with eyewitness identification and human
memory, and the persistent problem of prosecutorial misconduct. IRA MICKENBERG '72 (Instructor) Ira Mickeberg '72 is an appellate defense lawyer who has represented indigent defendents in the United States Supreme Court and elsewhere. He has taught at several law schools. LGST 013 The Second Amendment: Liberty and Gun Control (Same as Special 013) (See under Special for full description.)) MATHEMATICS and STATISTICSMATH 010 Humor Writing (Same as English 040) CANCELLED! Go is probably the oldest board game in the world, originating
in China more than 4,000 years ago, and played today by millions of people.
Unlike (Western) Chess, which focuses on hierarchical society and strictly
defined and limited powers, and unlike (Middle Eastern) Backgammon, which
is preoccupied with fate, chance and a wave of luck, Go has an Eastern
spirit, where every piece is of equal value and can be played anywhere
on the board. The aim is not to destroy but to build territory, where
single stones become groups, and groups become organic structures. Two
players alternate in placing black and white stones on a 19 - 19 ruled
board with the aim of surrounding territory. The stones are left as they
stand throughout the game, so that the game itself takes shape as a visible
record of the thinking that went into it. The result is an amazing aesthetic
and intuitive movement with deep complexity. Although easy to learn, no
computer program exists which can beat a strong amateur player (even with
a $5 million reward incentive). We look at how Go helped shape Asian culture,
namely in Japan, and how this game is a reflection of Asian values. Strategic
topics include: Joseki (openings), Tesuji (tactical magic), life and death,
territory and influence, endgame, and handicap strategy. We will analyze
famous games, discuss problems, as well as moderate a tournament among
students and computer programs. DEVADOSS MATH 012 Introductory Photography: People and Places This will be an introductory course in photography,
with an emphasis on color photography. The main themes will be portraiture
and the landscape. No previous knowledge is assumed, but students are
expected to have access to a 35 mm camera, preferably with manual override
or aperture priority. The use of a digital camera may be possible, after
consultation with the instructor. The topics covered will include composition,
exposure, camera use and properties of film, direction and properties
of light, and digital imaging (scanning and printing). Students will develop
their eye through the study of the work of well-known photographers and
the critical analysis of their own work. We will discuss the work of contemporary
photographers such as Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Constantine Manos,
and Eugene Richards. Students will be expected to spend a considerable
amount of time practicing their own photography outside of class (using
35mm color slide film). There will be one required local half-day field
trip. Students will also be introduced to the program Photoshop used to
manipulate images digitally, and will work on their own pictures with
this program. The film used will be color slide film, but students will
learn to scan their slides and produce prints using a digital printer. C. SILVA MATH 013 Beginning Modern Dance (Same as Special 023) This course is an introduction to modern dance for those
who have never taken a modern dance or ballet class, but who want to give
it a try. (Those with more experience might consider Math 018 -Modern
Dance: Muller Technique). The technique for the course is based on a combination
of styles from the companies that Dick De Veaux worked with while he toured
as a professional dancer. The course includes both flexibility and strength
training as well as dance instruction. We will work on the basics of movement
through space and the different efforts and shapes that are used to propel
us. R. DEVEAUX MATH 015 The Science of Deception (Same as Psychology 014) This course is designed by Charles Baschnagel `05 and
provides an introduction to the basic strategies behind bluffing in real
world situations and techniques of detecting a bluff. Professor Stewart
Johnson of the Mathematics/Statistics department will lecture on the game
theoretic aspects of bluffing using simplified poker models of Borel and
Von Neumann. Professor Steve Fein of the Psychology department will lecture
on interpersonal perception and the detection of lies. Students will practice
techniques and strategies in lab periods run by Mr. Baschnagel in which
various card games will be played. S. JOHNSON and FEIN MATH 016 The Art and History of Knitting (Same as ArtS 023 and History 023) Creating fabric out of interlocking loops can be traced
back to the Neolithic period, and knitted artifacts 1600 to over 2000
years old have been found in Egypt, Peru, and Sweden. Knitting requires
little machinery and can be done almost anywhere - walking, riding, even
in poor light- yet requires a significant amount of learned skill. Knitting
techniques have been handed down through generations, shared in small
groups, and transferred between cultures as trade routes emerged. The
social history of knitting is a rich reflection of the history of culture. M. JOHNSON (Instructor) Mary Johnson, M.Ed., an experienced knitter who has worked professionally for the NYC design firm Knit Wits, and is currently a project knitter for Storey Communications. MATH 017 Onstage! (Same as Special 017) CANCELLED! MATH 018 Modern Dance-Muller Technique (Same as Special 020) This dance class will be based on the modern dance technique
developed by Jennifer Muller, with whom the instructor danced professionally
for 5 years in New York City and in Europe. Jennifer Muller was a soloist
in the dance company of José Limòn before she started her own company
in 1974. She has added her own style of movement to the Limòn technique,
creating an expansive, free-flowing dance that is wonderful to do and
to watch. SYLVIA LOGAN (Instructor) Sylvia Logan received her B.A. in Slavic Literature from Stanford University. She danced professionally with the Jennifer Muller Dance Company, a modern company based in New York, for five years. To be taken by candidates for honors in Mathematics other than by thesis route. To be taken by students registered for Mathematics 493-494. MUSICMUS 010 Chamber Music Performance A project offering focused rehearsal and performance
of chamber music for string and piano players (a few wind players might
be accommodated). The repertoire might include, but is not limited to,
string trios, quartets, quintets; piano trios, quartets, quintets; string
quartets or quintets with one wind instrument; and piano plus one string
instrument sonatas. Ensembles will explore various works from the repertoire
at the beginning of the course and select a program for performance. Small
ensembles may combine to perform works for larger ensembles. Small ensembles
will rehearse daily, and large ensembles three times a week. Students
are expected to maintain a regular schedule of individual practice. Performances
of all ensembles will be scheduled during the final week of Winter Study. RONALD FELDMAN MUS 012 Ensembles in Classic American Musical Theatre (Same as Theatre 012) This Winter Study will give participants an opportunity
to study and perform numbers for more than one singer in great American
musicals. You have sung a solo, you have sung in chorus-now practice the
exacting art of singing an ensemble on stage. Music from the recently
revived Mitch Leigh/Joe Darion show Man of La Mancha will be
the central focus. The course will culminate with a public performance
of ensembles from the show including the finale. Other ensembles from
Bernstein's West Side Story, or from European light opera models
such as Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow may also be included. Singers,
actors, and pianists are all welcome to participate. KEITH KIBLER (Instructor) Keith Kibler has performed under some of the finest directors currently working including David Alden, Peter Sellars, Galina Vishnevskaya. He sang a major role in Kurt Weill's "Die Kleine Mahagonny" under Alvin Epstein with the American Repertory Theatre. He has been a featured soloist with the Boston Pops in American theater music. Keith Kibler is an adjunct teacher of singing at Williams College. He can be reached at kibler@sover.net MUS 013 Theolonious Monk Ensemble This is an ensemble course primarily devoted to studying
and playing the music of Thelonious Monk. Musicians needed include: voices,
horns, piano, bass, guitar, drums. In addition to performing the music,
the course will give students an in-depth look at the life of Thelonious
Monk as a composer and pianist. Each composition will be explored in-depth
as to its structure and improvisational concepts. Straight No Chaser,
a video by filmmaker Charlotte Zwerin, will be shown and discussed. Students
will be required to read: Straight No Chaser: The Life and Genius
of Thelonious Monk by Leslie Gourse. TERI ROIGER, Adjunct Teacher of Jazz Voice (Instructor) Teri Roiger is an Adjunct Teacher of Jazz Voice at Williams College, and a professional singer, pianist and lyricist. For more info go to her WebSite at www.teriroiger.com American jazz vocalist, pianist and lyricist Teri Roiger has succeeded in keeping the music of Theolnious Monk alive since his death in 1982. Teri Roiger and John Menegon's latest CD, MISTERIOSO, featuring jazz legends Jack DeJohnette and Kenny Burrell, is titled after Monk's much-loved composition, now given lyrics by Roiger, with the rarely-given permission of Monk's family, and retitled Listen to Your Soul. MUS 014 Congolese Music and Dance This course will provide students with the opportunity
to learn to perform selected music and dance forms from the Republic of
the Congo (Brazzaville) and will culminate in a concert. Students will
work closely with guest artists, Titos and Biza Sompa, both renowned masters
of Congolese music and dance, as well as with Williams faculty. Students
will have the opportunity to drum, dance, sing, and play marimba. In addition
to acquiring performance skills, students will study the history and cultural
context of the music and dance forms that they learn to perform. This
course is open to students at a beginning as well as an advanced level
in either music or dance. Each student's performance level will be assessed
at the beginning and at the end of the course. TITOS and BIZ SOMPA, AGYAPON, E. BROWN, and S. BURTON MUS 015 The Contemporary Singer/Songwriter This course will focus on learning how to write and
perform songs in a contemporary style. Topics addressed will include song
structure, how to create a lyric that communicates, vocal and instrument
presentation, performing techniques, publicity for events, and today's
music industry. This class will culminate in a public performance of material
written during the course. BERNICE LEWIS (Instructor) Bernice Lewis is an accomplished singer and songwriter who has performed her work throughout the country. She lives in Williamstown and has released five recordings of original material. MUS 021 Individual Vocal and Instrumental Instruction Can only be taken IN ADDITION to a regular WSP course.
CONTACT THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT ABOUT SIGNING UP FOR THIS COURSE!!! STAFF To be taken by students registered for Music 493, 494. NEUROSCIENCENSCI 018 The Mind of a Poet: The Psycho-Biological Bases of Creativity (Same as Biology 018 and Psychology 019) (See under Biology for full description.) To be taken by students registered for Neuroscience 493-494. PHILOSOPHYPHIL 010 German Cinema (Same as English 028 and German 010) This course will take a broad look at German cinema. We will begin with an intensive study of the `golden age' of German film -Weimar cinema, a period which includes such classic films as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and M, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu and Faust, Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Josef von Sternberg's Das Blaue Engel, and many, many more. In addition to viewing many of these films, we will look at some of the classic literature on the period, including the now notorious readings offered by Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner. The class will pay particular attention to the various genres that span the length of German cinema including Berg- and Heimatfilme, Strassenfilme, Problemfilme, and Trümmerfilme. This study of genres will propel to class forward chronologically to explore other periods including National Socialist films (e.g., Riefenstahl) and New German Cinema (e.g., Fassbinder, Herzog, Schloendorff). All films will be in German with English subtitles. All reading and discussion will be in English. WILBERDING PHIL 011 Why New Englanders Eat What They Eat (Same as American Studies 012 and History 019) Have you ever wondered why the food of New England is
sugary and bland: is it the people, the land, the economy? Do New Englanders
like their diets or are they forced into them? This course will investigate
these kinds of questions by looking at the political, economic, cultural,
and climatic factors that have shaped the diet and culture of New Englanders. ROBIN LENZ MACDONALD (Instructor) Robin MacDonald received her B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley. She has written several articles about "food and its history" and has extensive experience in her field. PHIL 012 Ethics Bowl: Case-based
Reasoning in Ethics PHIL 016 Civil Rights Law (Same as Political Science 016) This course will examine contemporary civil rights law
including application of constitutional and statutory law to modern civil
liberties issues. J.MICHAEL MCGUINNESS (Instructor) J. Michael McGuinness is a practicing civil rights lawyer and has lectured and published heavily in the civil rights field. Mr. McGuinness has litigated a broad variety of civil rights cases before trial and appellate courts including the U.S. Supreme Court. PHIL 025 History and Philosophy of Biology: The Galapagos Islands (Same as Biology 025) "If there is the slightest foundation for evolution,
the zoology of the Galapagos will be well worth examining..." Charles
Darwin MLADENOVIC To be taken by students registered for Philosophy 493-494. PHYSICSThis course will examine the art and science of holography.
It will introduce modern optics at a level appropriate for a non-science
major, giving the necessary theoretical background in lectures and discussion.
Demonstrations will be presented and students will make several kinds
of holograms in the lab. Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation,
we have 7 well-equipped holography darkrooms available for student use.
BOLTON and FORKEY PHYS 012 Meet the Right Side of Your Brain: Drawing as a Learnable Skill (Same as ArtS 019) Representational drawing is not merely a gift of birth
or a magical ability granted by angels, but a learnable skill. If you
ever wanted to draw, but doubted you had the ability or believed you could
not learn, then this course is for you. This intensive course utilizes
discoveries in brain research to teach representational drawing. By using
simple techniques and extensive exercises you will discover and develop
the perceptual shift from your symbol based left hemisphere to your visually
based right hemisphere. This cognitive shift enables you to accurately
see and realistically represent the physical world. You will learn to
draw a convincing portrait, self-portrait, and still life. This course
is designed to develop your powers of observation and enhance your innate
creative problem solving abilities, which are applicable in any field. STELLA EHRICH (Instructor) Stella Ehrich holds an MFA in painting from Bennington College. She teaches drawing at Bennington and other local colleges. She has had solo exhibits from Rutland, VT to Dallas, Texas to Mobile, Alabama. The purpose of this course will be to provide an understanding
of the basic function of the major components of the modern automobile.
Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experience, individuals
will learn basic maintenance of an automobile. In addition, students will
be expected to study in depth one of the major automotive systems which
include carburetor or fuel-injection systems, the lubrication and cooling
stem, the electrical system, the steering, brake and suspension system,
and the power train for both manual and automatic transmissions. MICHAEL FRANCO (Instructor) Michael Franco is the owner of Flamingo Motors in Williamstown Electronic instruments are an indispensable part of
modern laboratory work throughout the sciences. This course will cover
the basics of analog electronic circuits, including transistors and operational
amplifiers, and will briefly introduce digital circuits. Students will
build and test a variety of circuits chosen to illustrate the kinds of
electronic devices and design problems a scientist is apt to encounter.
This course will be a mixture of lab, lecture, and discussion, providing
ample opportunity for hands-on experience. In the last week, students
will design and build a final project, or will write a 10-page paper. STRAIT PHYS 016 Teaching with Technology Explore the use of technology in the classroom using
a variety of multimedia including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, iMovie, Flash,
presentation software, multimedia hardware, and data projection to communicate
and teach ideas and concepts effectively. Other topics include copyright
issues in education, project planning, and developing alternative presentation
plans in case of hardware failure. This course will include practical
hands on workshops, assignments, and readings, leading to the development
of a professional electronic portfolio. Supervised lab sessions and group
critiques will provide feedback on student work. The final products will
be publicly presented at the end of the course. TREVOR MURPHY and MIKA HIRAI (Instructors) Trevor Murphy and Mika Hirai are Instructional Technology Specialists for the Office for Information Technology at Williams College. Trevor Murphy has a MS in Scientific and Technical Communication from Oregon State University. Mika Hirai has an MA in Japanese Pedagogy and also in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Iowa. Together they have 12 years of teaching experience. PHYS 022 Research Participation Several members of the department will have student
projects available dealing with their own research or that of current
senior thesis students. Approximately 35 hours per week of study and actual
research participation will be expected from each student. T. MAJUMDER and members of the department To be taken by students registered for Physics 493, 494. POLITICAL ECONOMYTo be taken by students registered for Political Economy 493. POLITICAL SCIENCEPSCI 010 Film as Radical Political Critique (Same as English 029) Films has long been used as a medium for conveying political
views and ideologies, and for exploring social injustice and political
scandal. In this course, we'll screen a wide range of early and more recent
films and documentaries whose primary object is to convey a particular
political viewpoint or to offer a pointed critique of prevailing social,
political, or economic arrangements. Special attention will be paid to
the ways in which film has been used to shift prevailing opinions and
beliefs about particular political systems. Some of the films we may view
include Eisenstein's The Battleship Potempkin (1925) and October,
or 10 Days that Shook the World (1928), Chaplin's Modern
Times (1936), Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Frankenheimer's
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Pontecorro's Battle of Algiers
(1965), Sembene Ousmane's Black Girl (1965), Palcy's Surgarcane
Alley (1983), Gilliam's Brazil (1985), Kusurica's Time
of the Gypsies (1989), Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern (1992),
Schepisi's Six Degrees of Separation (1992), and Nair's Salaam
Bombay (1989). M. DEVEAUX PSCI 011 Violence, Testimony, and the Culture Wars: Speaking, Truth, and Power (Same as American Studies 011) This course is about how the experience of genocide
and other forms of state-sponsored mass murder is given narrative form
by those who survive it, and about the expectations or demands that shape
readers', and in particular American readers', responses to such testimony.
We will consider some accounts by survivors of the Shoah or Holocaust.
We will engage related, but more philosophical work on the problems of
testifying about suffering and violence. Our central case study, however,
will be of Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and author Rigoberta Menchú,
whose narrative of life and struggle in Guatemala, I, Rigoberta Menchú,
has been celebrated by some as a classic account of indigenous resistance
to oppression and challenged by others as systematically distorted and
fundamentally dishonest. In exploring this case, we will learn something
about both the civil war in Guatemala of which Menchú writes and the Latin
American testimonio tradition on which she draws, and we will make sense
of how and why this particular book and author came to play such a prominent
role in the "culture wars" that marked U.S. intellectual and
political life in the nineties. Though we concentrate especially on one
particular battle in those conflicts, the goal is to come to understand
broader problems of speaking, truth, and power in the Americas. REINHARDT PSCI 012 Hollywood's Version of Politics This course will include the showing of several movies
based on important aspects of political life in America. Each movie will
also be followed by a class discussion of the political theme depicted
and its relevancy to political events today. The movies shown will be:
Inherit the Wind (based on the Scopes trial) and its relevancy
to the politics of today's Christian right, Advise and Consent (a
story of congressional machinations over presidential appointments) and
today's congressional handling of such appointments, The Candidate
(a satirical depiction of the hypocrisy and complicity in the American
political world), and today's political world, The Last Hurrah
(loosely based on Boston's past, great political machines) and what constitutes
political machines today. And if time permits either or both All the
President's Men (the story of politics and the press) or Wag
the Dog (the story of a fabricated war as a cover for a presidential
sex scandal). ROBERT JAKUBOWICZ (Instructor) Robert Jakubowicz served in the Massachusetts legislature. His political experience also includes 10 years as a local and county elected official and participation in national political campaigns. His political commentaries appear bi-monthly in the Berkshire Eagle. His columns have also appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, the New England Bedford Standard Times, and the Cape Cod Times. PSCI 013 European Integration, Globalization and International Business The intent of this course is to increase appreciation
of the course of European integration. The continuing effort of western
European countries to develop an ever-closer economic and political union
represents the most advanced case of globalization and international cooperation.
The European Union (EU), founded in 1956 to foster economic development
as well as avoid a third World War, has in the last few decades formed
a common market, expanded to 15 members (and is set to increase to 25),
and introduced a common currency. Its convention has already submitted
a set of recommendations that will lead to further political as well as
economic integration. These efforts have been spurred by instant communication,
rapid transportation, and increased competition. What opportunities and
challenges does the emergence of the EU present to Europe-and the United
States? SAMUEL HUMES '52 (Instructor) Mr. Humes '52 is a former Professor and Director of Boston University in Brussels, Belgium and a Partner, Management Development International (MDI), Belgium. Formerly associated with Centre for European Studies (1988-1999), he has published numerous books and articles. PSCI 014 Objective Journalism During Times of Conflict (Same as English 029) Can a newspaper editor or reporter from a nation fighting
terror separate their patriotism and be members of a medium whose goal
it is to reveal the truth, report objectively and let the reader judge
for him or herself? This class will follow personal experiences of two
Israeli journalists, Aviva Lori and Shlomo Papirblat, through major recent
events in the Middle East such as the current Intifada, the war in Lebanon,
military reserve duty and many other current topics. Students will examine
actual journalistic dilemmas of the instructors and discuss their perspective
vis-à-vis the reality of the situation. Topics for discussion include
whether a governing body can require journalists, during times of national
peril, to favor national interest and potentially compromise their journalistic
integrity. Can a true democracy restrict and regulate press coverage during
times of emergency? What is the influence of the international media on
the political developments in a contiguous region? And how much should
political leaders consider the influence of the media on the success or
failure of their planned political strategy? A central question will be
whether journalism is just another profession or is a journalist an intermediary
between the public and the decision-makers and thus partake in the evolution
of national events? In addition, the course will address the foreign press
coverage of events and will question whether a foreign correspondent,
who is not familiar with the local language and culture and the complexities
of the local realities, can report in a manner that conveys the whole
picture. AVIVA LORI and SHLOMO PAPIRBLAT (Instructors) Aviva Lori is a senior journalist at Haaretz daily newspaper. Shlomo Papirblat is the International News Editor-In-chief at the daily Yediot Acharonot newspaper. PSCI 015 The Development of Inuit Art Inuit art (which includes the following genre of art:
sculpture, graphic arts, as well as jewelry, wall hangings, pottery and
other modes) is a very modern development. It can be dated very precisely
to the early 1950s. Since that beginning it has gained world-wide attention.
There are galleries of Inuit art not only through out Canada and the United
States but also Europe and Asia. Inuit art is included in the collections
of major museums throughout the world. The production of Inuit art developed
in response to the sudden change in Inuit life from nomadic subsistence
in the norther arctic regions of Canada to fixed settlements on Baffin
Island and areas around Hudson Bay and the consequent need to create a
cash based economy. The course will cover the development of Inuit art
focusing on the major centers (Cape Dorset, Baker Lake, Arviat, etc.),
the major artists (Kenojuak, Oonark, George Arlook, Latcholassie, Parr,
Pauta, etc.) and the major forms of sculpture and print making. The changing
character of Inuit life and governance (the Canadian government recently
completed a major reconsitution granting much of the people of the arctic
north autonomy as a self-governing region called Nunavut. In addition
to the technical development of the art, its history and the biography
of the major artists, we will be exploring the cultural context of Inuit
art to the Inuit as well as to the international market. MARCUS PSCI 016 Civil Rights Law (Same as Philosophy 016) (See under Philosophy for full description.) PSCI 017 Film and Politics in Mexico With the international success of movies such as The
Crime of Padre Amaro and Amores Perros, Mexican films are
getting notice again. The story of this industry is actually longer and
more politically complicated than it may seem today. This course offers
a history of Mexican post-Revolutionary politics through film, with special
attention to the "golden age" of the late 1940's and early 1950's,
the figure of Cantínflas, the economics and politics of the different
genres of film in Mexico, and the recent resurgence of high-quality feature-length
movies that combine MAHON PSCI 019 Justice and Public Policy (Same as Leadership Studies 019) (See under Leadership Studies for full description.) PSCI 021 Power, Authority and Decisionmaking in the Public Sector This course is an internship experience in which students
both work in and analyze governmental and related nongovernmental organizations.
The goal of this course is to develop the ability to analyze power, authority
and decisionmaking in public organizations; in short, to better understand
leadership. Students may have internships in government and nonprofit
organizations. They may have internships in for-profit organizations if
the internship involves significant involvement with public issues. Examples
include: town government offices; state or federal administrative offices
such as environmental agencies or housing authorities; interest groups
that lobby government such as the Chamber of Commerce or the ACLU; and
nonprofit organizations such as think tanks or service providers. The
instructor will work with each student to arrange an internship, and such
arrangements must be made in advance of the Winter Term. Students are
expected to spend the better part of the day, five days a week, with the
organization. Each student's internship mentor shall send a confirmation
letter to the instructor verifying the internship and describing the nature
of the work to be performed by the intern. All students will read a few
short articles and engage in on-line discussion with other students about
the issues raised in these articles in relation to their internship. All
students are expected to maintain weekly contact with the instructor.
A group meeting of all students will occur after winter study to discuss
experiences. C. JOHNSON To be taken by students registered for Political Science 491 or 492. To be taken by students registered for Political Science 493-494. To be taken by students registered for Political Science 495 or 496. PSYCHOLOGYPSYC 010 Mental Illness in Film CANCELLED! Behaviorism is a school of psychological thought founded
on the idea that the expression of a particular behavior is the consequence
of stimulus-response experiences. For example, the behaviorist might argue
that people engage in particular behaviors because doing so has been associated
with reinforcement in the past. Over the course of Winter Study, we will
read classic writings from the founders of Behaviorism (e.g., John Watson,
B.F. Skinner) and we will consider ways in which these principles apply
to our everyday lives. Students will use behaviorist principles to modify
human behavior. We will also use these principles to train rats to perform
amazing feats. The course will culminate in a "Rat Olympics"
in which the success of the conditioning efforts will be assessed in head-to-head
competition of conditioned animals. N. SANDSTROM PSYC 012 Dreams, Problem-Solving and Self-Understanding In this course, students will learn how paying attention
to nighttime dreams can help solve daytime problems and lead to increased
self-understanding, in support of living a more satisfying and creative
life. These benefits of working with dreams will be illustrated through
assigned readings, then brought to life in class, where students will
discuss the readings, as well as share and work with their own dreams.
A variety of skills for understanding dreams will be taught and practiced,
covering the perspectives of many schools of thought in the history of
dream interpretation. NANCY GRACE (Instructor) Nancy Grace, M.A., has been teaching about dreams for over 10 years. She has done research and published articles with sleep and dream researcher Ernest Hartmann, M.D., and has trained extensively in the group dreamwork process with Jeremy Taylor, D.Min., and also with Montague Ullman, M.D. She is on the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and on the faculty of the New England Dreamwork Institute. PSYC 014 The Science of Deception (Same as Mathematics 015) (See under Mathematics for full description.) PSYC 015 Principles of Psychotherapy Outlining the principles underlying the "talking
cure", this course represents the kind of overview of psychotherapy
the instructor wishes he had received as an undergraduate. Topics covered
will include the particular arrangements for therapy, how they differ
from other social situations, the initiation of therapy, and principles
of transference, counter-transference, personal history investigation
and interpretation. Of particular interest will be to describe how, during
psychotherapy, persons change. By using both imagined therapy dialogues
and published student autobiographies, efforts will be made at each stage
to illustrate ways in which the general principles work out in practice.
For the course paper, students will be asked to describe an issue of concern
in the student's own experience and to imagine how a therapist might collaborate
in working on that issue. At the end of the course the instructor will
discuss each paper individually with each student. RICHARD Q. FORD (Instructor) Richard Q. Ford received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Chicago in 1970. He was, for twelve years, on the medical staff on the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; for the past eighteen years he has been in the private practice of psychotherapy in Williamstown. He is co-author with Sidney J. Blatt of Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective. "The unexamined life is not worth living."
This ancient maxim gains contemporary meaning in the context of the burgeoning
field of behavioral health with its emphasis on the integral role of self-awareness
to physical and psychological well-being. This course takes off from this
premise and invites students on a journey of self-discovery and increased
self-awareness. Through a variety of readings and presentations, the course
will introduce central concepts of behavioral health such as mindfulness,
learned optimism, and confronting vs. inhibition (our theoretical mentors
being J. Kabat-Zinn, M. Seligman, and J.W. Pennebaker). The primary focus
of the course, however, will be practical application rather than theoretical
mastery and to facilitate an experiential engagement with these concepts
in students' lives. A variety of in-class demonstrations and experiential
exercises (e.g., expressive art work, guided visualization, meditation
practice) will be used to foster students' personal integration of course
content. A required field trip to the Kripalu Center will provide another
kind of entry into the observation of mindfulness. The experiential process
of self-discovery will include the subjective "lens" of working
with dreams and personal journal activities augmented by the objective
"lens" of self-administered instruments (e.g., Myers-Briggs,
the Coping Style Inventory, and others) providing formalized information
on one's personality and coping style, career interests, and aptitudes.
At the end of this course, a student will know more about her/himself,
the value of examined living in decreasing stress and increasing psychological
health, and an array of ways to continue the journey of self-discovery. JOHN MINER, MARGARET WOOD, and LUCILLE LARNEY John Miner, M.D., is currently Co-Director of the Psychological
Counseling Service at Williams College. He received his M.D. from the
University of Minnesota in 1975 and then trained in Family Practice in
Duluth, Minnesota. He then worked as an Emergency Room physician in Rapid
City, South Dakota, from 1977 -1982. He then did his Psychiatry Residency
at Yale and came to the Berkshires in 1985 when he did a fellowship at
the Austen Riggs Center, where he remained on the full time staff until
1994. He has been working at Williams for the past 5 years. He and the
staff at the Psychological Counseling Service are very interested in promoting
wellness and stress reduction within the campus community. Students interested in teaching may submit applications
for a Winter Study assignment as a teacher's aide at Mt. Greylock Regional
High School or at the Williamstown Elementary School. Those accepted will
work under the supervision of a regular member of the teaching staff and
submit a report on their work at the end of the Winter Study Period. This
project involves a four-week commitment to full-time affiliation with
the school. Interested students should consult before winter study registration
with Professor Zaki, Bronfman 326. She will assist in arranging placements
and monitor students' progress during the four-week period. ZAKI PSYC 018 Institutional Placement Students interested in a full time January placement
in a mental health, social service or applied psychology (e.g., advertising,
law) setting may consult with members of the Psychology Department to
make appropriate arrangements. Students should first make their own contacts
with an institution or agency. They should also arrange to obtain a letter
from a sponsor at the institution who will outline and supervise the student's
duties during January. The student must agree to keep a journal and to
submit a final paper summarizing and reflecting upon the experiences outlined
in the journal. ZAKI PSYC 019 The Mind of a Poet: The Psycho-biological Bases of Creativity (Same as Biology 018 and Neuroscience 018) (See under Biology for full description.) To be taken by students registered for Psychology 493-494. RELIGIONREL 010 The Zen Monastic Experience THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED! REL 012 The Spirit and Practice of Yoga: Coming into Alignment This class provides an orientation to yoga and builds
a foundation for an effective and rewarding personal yoga practice. Each
class begins with centering and discussion of selected readings on Patanjali's
Yoga Sutras,providing a historical, cultural, and philosophical background
for yoga. The second part of each class is an extended yoga practicum
where students will learn and refine yoga poses including standing poses,
vinyasa (flow), inversions, abdominals, hip-openers, backbends, twists,
forward bends, and restoratives. In this way the class develops lung capacity
and builds strength, flexibility, and awareness. Students receive individualized
attention on how to work with principles of alignment in their particular
bodies, express poses with balanced energy, and embody heart qualities.
Yoga training is complementary to sports, athletics, and dance, aids in
classroom and study, gives tools for handling stress, and cultivates a
sense of well-being and balance. NATASHA JUDSON (Instructor) Natasha Judson, M.Ed. R.Y.T., has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and meditation for fifteen. She trained in Iyengar and Anusara yoga and is an affiliated Anusara yoga teacher. She practices meditation in Thai and Tibetan traditions and completed an internship in Mindfulness Bases Stress Reduction at UMASS Medical School. She began teaching yoga in 1999 and currently offers classes through her business Sunflower Yoga in Williamstown, and at Frog Lotus Yoga, Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union school district, and Southwestern Vermont Health Care Women's and Children's Services. REL 025 Explorations in Solidarity: A Meeting of Minds and Hearts in Rural and Urban Nicaragua This course will explore the lived realities of the
hemisphere's second most impoverished nation, and the relevance of faith
and religious community to the struggle for social justice. Students will
reflect on these realities and struggles in the company of subsistence
farmers, urban factory workers, and those working for progressive social
change. The effects of an increasingly globalized economy, a series of
natural disasters (most notably hurricane Mitch), and the changeable attentions
of the developed world will be explored through conversations with ordinary
people, using some of the methods of popular education and oral history.
Significant attention will also be given to the efficacy of liberation
theology and the base Christian community movement, as well as other influences,
Christian, Marxist and neo-Liberal - on the material and spiritual well-being
of Nicaraguan people. The experience of the course will include approximately
one week of living (with minimal amenities) in a subsistence farming community;
students will also attend a number of Christian religious services. (The
course is open to students of any religious background or no affiliation.)
Travels and encounters in Nicaragua will be facilitated by Elena Hendrick
and Luis Aguirre of the Asociacion Kairos para la Formacion, an organization
that links Christian communities north and south through solidarity toward
the goal of transformed relationships. Throughout, students will be invited
to enter as deeply as possible the story of Nicaraguans, and to reflect
on their own stories as North Americans and the sometimes-volatile interaction
between these stories. The goal is to begin to reflect on the relevance
of religious community to the possibilities for restorative justice, and
to discover what it would mean to shape a relationship with the people
of Nicaragua according to a paradigm of solidarity - contrasted with the
more familiar paradigms of national self-interest, on the macro level,
and charity on the micro level. RICHARD SPALDING (Instructor) Rev. Richard Spalding is the Chaplain of the College. To be taken by students registered for Religion 493 or 494. ROMANCE LANGUAGESFRENCHRLFR S.P. Sustaining Program for French 101-102 Students registered for 101-102 are required to attend
and pass the sustaining program during the Winter Study period. There
are three 50-minute meetings per week. SPAAK and ARGIMON (Teaching Associates) RLFR 010 Asterix the Gaul: French Culture through the Prism of the Comic The longevity and popularity of the Asterix comic strip
series over successive generations of French (and foreign) readers can
be explained, in part, by its subtle and incisive rendering of Europeanism
through caricature. This course will examine some of the most enduring
texts in the Asterix saga as interpretations, first, of French culture
and the way the French view themselves with respect to the rest of Europe
and, second, of the way they view Europe in dialogue with French cultural
norms. Such issues as "la patrie" (homeland), linguistic characteristics,
the idea of France, French provincial distinctiveness, France's view of
homogeneous national character seen through its own cultural diversity,
and the relationship of France to other specific regional cultures will
be studied as a way not only of defining the nation's historic legacy,
but of coming to terms with the way it sees its place within the vision
of the European Union. Among the texts to be studied will be Asterix the
Gaul, Asterix and the Banquet, Asterix and the Normans, Asterix in Corsica
, Asterix in Britain, Asterix and the Goths, Asterix in Belgium, Asterix
in Switzerland. Analysis of the primary texts will be complemented by
secondary cultural readings by prominent interpreters in French culture.
Readings will be in English, but those students who wish to read the texts
in the original French should make arrangements in advance with the instructor.
Conducted in English. NORTON RLFR 012 Proust: In Search of Lost Time (Same as Comparative Literature 012 and English 024) (See under Comparative Literature for full description.) To be taken by candidates for honors other than by thesis route. To be taken by students registered for French 493-494. ITALIANRLIT S.P. Sustaining Program for Italian 101-102 Students registered for 101-102 are required to attend
and pass the sustaining program during the Winter Study Period. Three
50-minute meetings per week. NICASTRO SPANISHRLSP S.P. Sustaining Program for Spanish 101-102 Students registered for 101-102 are required to attend
and pass the sustaining program during the Winter Study Period. Three
50-minute meetings per week. RIOBÓO, BRAVO, and SERRALLER (Teaching Associates) RLSP 011 Jungle Fever: The Amazon in Literature and Film (Same as Comparative Literature 014, English 034 and Environmental Studies 022) Lost Eden? Green Hell? Imperiled eco-system? Cultural
discourse on the Amazon jungle ranges from one extreme to the other, but
it is almost always impassioned and imaginative. This course will examine
modern mythologies of the Amazon in literature and film from Latin America,
Europe and the US. We will explore representations of the Amazon in three
major categories-tales of colonial adventure, the Spanish American "romance
of the jungle" and contemporary environmental discourse-considering
their differences and often surprising similarities. Guided by readings
from eco-critics including Lawrence Buell and Candace Slater, we will
probe the difficult relationship between representation and reality: why
is it, for instance, that some of the most widely-held beliefs about Amazonia
sharply diverge from the reality of the region? And perhaps more importantly,
how do the words and images we use to describe the Amazon influence policy
decisions that directly affect the people who live there? J. FRENCH RLSP 012 Contemporary Mexican Women Film-Makers (Same as Arts 017, English 035 and Women's and Gender Studies 012) Students in this course will have the opportunity to
view and discuss a variety of films directed in Mexico during the last
two decades, by prominent contemporary Mexican women film-makers such
as María Novaro, Maryse Sistach, Alejandra Moya, Sabina Berman, Busi Cortes,
Dana Rotberg, Guita Schyfer, Ma. Del Carmen Lara and others. This class
will focus on how these women directors re-conceptualize women's roles
in Mexican society, propose multidimensional feminine characters, and
articulate a new female/national identity. The widely varying accepted
gender roles between cultures will be explored, and differences uncovered
as to why this difference in expectations exists across the border between
Mexico and the United States. PAULINA SALAS-SCHOOFIELD (Instructor) Paulina Salas-Schoofield is resident of Oaxaca, Mexico. During the past 8 years she has taught courses on Mexican Culture and Spanish Language at the Language Center of the Benito Juarez University, the Canadian International College and the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. Paulina Salas-Schoofield studied art history at the Instituto de Cultura Superior in Mexico City, and film studies at Edinburgh University. RLSP 014 Learning and Teaching Chemistry in Spanish (Same as Chemistry 012) (See under Chemistry for full description.) To be taken by candidates for honors other than by thesis route. To be taken by students registered for Spanish 493-494. RUSSIANRUSS S.P. Sustaining Program for Russian 101-102 Required of all students enrolled in Russian 101-102.
Three meetings per week, 50 minutes per session. Practice in speaking
and comprehension based on material already covered as well as some new
vocabulary and constructions. Designed to maintain and enhance what was
acquired during fall semester, using new approaches in a relaxed atmosphere.
No homework. LANGUAGE FELLOW RUSS 025 Williams in Georgia (Same as Special 025) Williams has a unique program in the Republic of Georgia,
which offers students the opportunity to engage in three-week-long internships
in any field. Our students have worked in the Georgian Parliament, helped
in humanitarian relief organizations like Save the Children, interned
in journalism at The Georgian Times, taught unemployed women computer
skills at The Rustavi Project, documented wildlife, studied with a Georgian
sculptor, done rounds at the Institute of Cardiology, and learned about
transitional economies at the Georgian National Bank. In addition to working
in their chosen fields, students experience Georgian culture through museum
visits, concerts, lectures, meetings with Georgian students, and excursions.
Visit the sacred eleventh-century Cathedral of Sveti-tskhoveli and the
twentieth-century Stalin Museum, take the ancient Georgian Military Highway
to ski in the Caucasus Range, see the birthplace of the wine grape in
Kakheti and the region where Jason sought the Golden Fleece. Participants
are housed in pairs with English-speaking families in Tbilisi, Georgia's
capital city. At the end of the course students will write a 10-page paper
assessing their internship experience. CASSIDAY May be taken by candidates for honors other than by thesis route. To be taken by students registered for Russian 493-494. SOCIOLOGY-See under ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGYTHEATREIn this course we will create a giant puppet play based
on a medieval source, the Roman de Fauvel. Derived from a 1310 manuscript
by Gerard de Bus, the Roman de Fauvel was one of history's first "multimedia"
productions, combining colorful artwork, poetry and abstract musical works
into one carefully produced book. Fauvel is a strongly satirical work,
and one of the artistic monuments of the late Middle Ages. The goal of
this course is to transpose some of the varied and fascinating elements
of the Fauvel illuminated manuscript into an original multimedia work
involving music, spoken words, and large scale puppets, which we will
present at the end of Winter Study Period. DOUGLAS PAISLEY (Instructor) Doug Paisley impedes his work as a muralist and miniature painter (and studio art assistant at Williams) with a constant stream of immensely diverting musical and theater activities. He was Artistic Director of Williamstown's annual midwinter revels, Wassail, from 1992-2001, and is a co-founding member of the Early Muses, an ensemble devoted to the exploration and performance of Medieval and Renaissance music. THEA 011 Theatre of the Body: A Transcultural Model for Physical Theatre Performance (Same as Japanese 011) (See under Asian Studies-Japanese for full description.) THEA 012 Ensembles in Classic American Musical Theatre (Same as Music 012) (See under Music for full description.) May be taken by students registered for Theatre 491, 492 but is not required. May be taken by students registered for Theatre 493, 494 but is not required. WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIESWGST 010 Sappho's Poetry in Greek: Eros the Sweet-Bitter (Same as Classics 010 and Comparative Literature 013) (See under Classics for full description.) WGST 011 Breaking Ground: Women Architects in America (Same as ArtH 011) (See under Art for full description.) WGST 012 Contemporary Mexican Women Film-Makers (Same as ArtS 017, English 035 and Spanish 012) (See under Romance Languages-Spanish for full description.) WGST 013 Gender and Science Fiction (Same as English 013) (See under English for full description.)WGST 014 Fictionalizing the Artist: Genius and Gender in Films about Artists (Same as ArtH 014) (See under Art for full description.) WGST 015 Latina and Latino Migration Stories: Puerto Rico Women Write (Same as English 037 and History 012) (See under History for full description.) WGST 016 Preliminary Introduction to American Sign Language (Same as Special 016) (See under Special for full description.) WGST 017 Women and Development (Same as Economics 012) (See under Economics for full description.) To be taken by candidates for honors other than by thesis route. SPECIALSSPEC 010 Quest for College: Early Awareness in Berkshire County Schools Today's extremely competitive higher education market
places significant pressure on students nationwide to start planning for
college at an increasingly early age while simultaneously demanding ever-higher
standards of excellence for admission to top schools. "Early Awareness"
initiatives aim to educate middle school students as to what lies ahead
on the college horizon, empowering them to make sound academic and extracurricular
choices that will keep open a maximum of options. The first week of this
course will be spent in the classroom, exploring and discussing problems
and issues germane to the national trends towards greater (and earlier)
college-related pressures. Students will respond to a series of readings
dealing with such issues as tracking, paid test preparation and untimed
testing, early decision, parental and peer pressures, special interests,
misrepresentation of information, independent counseling, and others.
Class time will also be devoted to familiarizing students with both the
nuances of the college admission process and the administration of the
early awareness game, Quest for College. Students will spend the next
two weeks visiting 10-12 Berkshire County middle schools, administering
the game and inviting students to the culminating College Day. All 8 students
will then work together to plan and run College Day activities for students
and their parents. This day will include a) campus tours, b) general higher
education info sessions, and c) financial aid/scholarship info for the
parents. If student and community interest is sufficient, the course may
culminate in a public presentation and open forum early second semester.
GINA COLEMAN `90 and MATTHEW SWANSON `97 (Instructors) Gina Coleman `90, is Associate Director of Admission, Director of Multicultural Recruitment, and in her fifth year as women's rugby coach. Coleman, who holds an MA in education from MCLA, designed the game, Quest for College. Matthew Swanson `97 is in his third year as Assistant Director of Admission. Swanson has spent the past seven summers teaching/leading in various educational environments. Both Gina and Matthew have been involved with Early Awareness initiatives in Berkshire County schools. SPEC 011 Science for Kids (Same as Chemistry 011) (See under Chemistry for full description.) SPEC 012 Living by Words: Surviving and Thriving in the Art and Sport of Rhetoric (Same as Comparative Literature010, English 010, and Leadership Studies 012) (See under Comparative Literature for full description.) SPEC 013 The Second Amendment: Liberty and Gun Control (Same as Legal Studies 013) To some, the Second Amendment is an embarrassing anachronism
that stands in the way of common sense gun regulation. To others, it is
our most fundamental right, the backbone of American constitutional liberties.
Yet despite the importance of these issues it is difficult to find any
civil liberties issue on which people are more poorly informed. The first
part of this course will be an examination of the history, meaning, intent,
and judicial interpretation of the Second Amendment. Does the Second Amendment
mean that gun ownership by individual citizens cannot be restricted? Or
does it mean that only agents of the state, such as National Guards, have
a right to bear arms? To address these questions we will read and discuss
original documents pertaining to the framing of the Constitution, US Supreme
Court rulings, and historical analyses of these texts. In the second part
of the course we will focus on current gun control issues. Does gun ownership
increase violence, decrease crime, or both? What sorts of gun regulations
are effective, and which, if any, overstep the bounds of the Second Amendment?
Rather than approach these questions from uninformed intuition, as is
typically done, we will focus on trying to understand the implications
of the historical texts and the empirical data bearing on these issues. K. KIRBY SPEC 016 Preliminary Introduction to American Sign Language (Same as Women's and Gender 016) This course introduces students to basic knowledge about
American Sign Language and deaf people. Emphasis in this preliminary introduction
to ASL is on developing rudimentary receptive, expressive and interactive
skills through an intensive immersion in ASL. Students will also be introduced
to deaf history, culture and politics. This course is designed to help
nonsigners develop rudimentary skills, to introduce them to the complexity
of ASL, and to cultivate interest in further study of the language. LAURIE BENJAMIN (Instructor) Laurie Benjamin is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in multicultural and international education. Ms. Benjamin has taught deaf students at the secondary level. She is a nationally certified ASL interpreter with extensive experience in a wide range of interpreter settings including mental health, legal, and performance interpreting. In addition to working as a free-lance interpreter for the deaf, she is currently teaching ASL to students at Williamstown Elementary School. SPEC 017 Onstage! (Same Mathematics 017) (See under Mathematics for full description.) SPEC 018 Picturing Our Past (Same as Biology 019, Environmental Studies 018, and INTR 019) Images help us to imagine the past and preserve our
collective history. A significant amount of the cultural history of Williamstown
and Williams College lies hidden, and often deteriorating in shoe boxes
and closets of members of our community. As a culmination of the 250th
year anniversary of the Town of Williamstown, residents will be given
an opportunity to bring in pre-1975 images to be scanned for incorporation
into a digital database. The owner of the image will provide data along
with an audio caption for inclusion in the database. Once complete, the
image database will reside in the Williamstown House of Local History
and the Williams College Archives.Students participating in the course
will learn how to use Photoshop software to digitally restore the images.
At the end of the course we will print many of the images and install
a community-wide exhibition. We will also produce a catalog for the exhibit.
The exhibition will cover historical topics such as schools, churches,
farms, mills, commerce, families, and neighborhoods, and will take place
at a variety of venues on campus and around Williamstown. H. ART SPEC 019 Medical Apprenticeship A student is assigned to a local physician, dentist,
or veterinarian to observe closely his or her practice in the office and/or
at the North Adams Regional Hospital, Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield,
MA), or Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (Bennington, VT). It is expected
that a student will spend the better part of the day, five days a week,
with the physician or a period mutually agreed upon by the student and
the physician as being educationally significant. The program has proven
to be extremely successful in giving interested students a clear picture
of the practice of medicine in a non-urban area. An effort is made to
expose the student to a range of medical specialties.
CHARLEY STEVENSON SPEC 020 Modern Dance-Muller Technique (Same Mathematics 018) (See under Mathematics for full description.) SPEC 023 Beginning Modern Dance (Same as Mathematics 013) (See under Mathematics for full description.) SPEC 024 Eye Care and Culture in Caribbean Nicaragua Following up on the very successful Winter Study trip
to the South Atlantic coast of Nicaragua in January 2003, where approximately
2000 people were fitted with distance and reading glasses, the trip this
January will visit the North Atlantic coast to again deliver eye care
to the indigenous population of the region. ROBERT PECK, LYNN HOOD, and MELVIN KRANT (Instructors)
Dr. Robert Peck is a 23-year volunteer and traveler to the Atlantic Coast and retired Director of Athletics at Williams (1971-2001). Lynn Hood, a painting major at Bennington College, was the former Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at her alma mater before her work at the Williamstown Council on Aging. Dr. Melvin Krant is a former professor at Brandeis and lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of medicine at UMass and Tufts Medical Schools. SPEC 025 Williams in Georgia (Same as Russian 025) (See under Russian for full description.) SPEC 027 Teaching and Writing at Theodore Roosevelt High School SPEC 028 Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan Participating sophomores, juniors and seniors will be
expected to pursue a full day's program of observing, teaching, tutoring,
and mentoring at Christopher Columbus HS in the Bronx or at A. Philip
Randolph HS in Manhattan. Each of the schools will provide a resident
supervisor for the Williams teaching interns who will meet regularly to
assist with questions and to monitor individual schedules. P. SMITH SPEC 029 Junior High School Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan Participating sophomores, juniors, and seniors will
be expected to pursue a full day's program of observing, teaching, tutoring
and mentoring at PS 45 in the Bronx (a feeder school to Roosevelt HS)
or at Roberto Clemente Junior High School in Manhattan (a feeder school
to A. Philip Randolph HS). Each of the schools will provide a resident
supervisor for the Williams teaching interns who will meet regularly to
assist with questions and to arrange individual schedules. P. SMITH SPEC 035 Making Pottery on the Potter's Wheel Each class will begin with a lecture-demonstration,
followed by practice on the potter's wheel. Each student will have the
use of a potter's wheel for each class. We will work on mugs, bowls, pitchers,
plates, jars, lids, vases, and bottles, and will finish these shapes as
required by trimming and adding handles, lugs, lids, spouts, and knobs.
We will also work on several different handbuilding projects. After the
tenth class session, all class work will be biscuit-fired. The eleventh
class will be devoted to glazing the biscuited pieces. Glazing techniques
will include pouring, dipping, layering, brushing, and stamping, and using
wax resist and other masking techniques to develop pattern and design.
The completed work will then be glaze-fired. The last meeting will be
devoted to a "final exam" gallery show of your best work. Woven
into lecture-demonstrations will be presentations on various topics relating
to the science and history of pottery making. RAY BUB (Instructor) Ray Bub is a ceramic artist and teacher at Oak Bluffs Cottage Pottery in Pownal, Vermont, 10 minutes north of the Williams College campus. SPEC 036 Teaching Practicum: St. Aloysius School, Harlem An opportunity for up to five sophomore, junior or senior
students to observe, tutor, teach and mentor at St Aloysius School in
Harlem under the direction of Principal Laurel Senger. An orientation
session and a visit to the school in December will be arranged prior to
Winter Study. P. SMITH I have been increasingly gnawing on an uncomfortable
feeling. It began a decade ago with my work to train medical students
to recognize the therapeutic elements of the patient-physician relationship,
continued in the painful months following the 9/11 attacks and has persisted
through all the build-up and conduct of the war in Iraq. The feeling?
We don't know how to suffer. We know how to avoid suffering. And, many
people have learned to survive suffering. But I would suggest that if
you don't know how to suffer, your ability to help those who are suffering
is limited. For those whose job is to face suffering day after day - the
physician, the activist, the war journalist, the minister, the social
worker, the daughter of a dying parent - the most common responses include
forms of detachment, distortion, or immediate efforts to problem-solve,
few of them effective. How can we change this?My experience as a Zen priest
is that the capacity to face suffering is a physical ability. It can be
built through hard physical training that focuses on the breath and posture,
and that takes long years of effort. In a month we can only begin that
work but we can also begin looking at other traditions of training as
well. GORDON GREENE (Instructor) Gordon Greene, Ph.D. is a Zen priest and medical educator, training students and residents at the medical school at the University of Hawaii. He has trained in Zen and martial arts for 25 years and has taught or co-taught four previous Williams WSPs. (Unlike last year's WSP held in Hawaii, this course won't be conducted 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.) SPEC 038 Giving It Away: How We Help Others Old-fashioned charity used to provide support for "the
less fortunate among us." Today, sharing our good fortune with others
is a far more complicated matter. There are mixed motives, from guilt
to taxes to prestige. There are new organizations, with some 800,000 501(c)
3 organizations seeking funds for health and human services, education,
and the arts. There are new standards of accountability, measuring outcomes
and change rather than the mere volume of money or clients. So-called
venture philanthropy focuses resources on specific results, with active
direction from those who are footing the bill. Foundations have moved
from long-term support to short-term projects, and traditional charities
look more and more to government support, with consequences for all concerned,
even as they continue mass appeals for public support. From the moment
a Williams graduate begins to get a paycheck, an overwhelming number of
interests will be asking for part of it, and for time and service as well.
This course will consider the economics, history, philosophy and sociology
of how we give it away, with guest speakers from today's changing and
challenged non-profit world. PAUL NEELY '68 (Instructor) Paul Neely '68, the former editor and publisher of The Chattanooga Times, has broad experience with non-profit organizations. He is currently board chair of the United Way in Chattanooga and a Williams Trustee. SPEC 039 "Composing A Life:" Finding Success and Balance in Life After Williams To be at Williams you have learned to be a successful
student, but how do you learn to be successful in life? How will you define
success in both your career and in your personal life? How will you resolve
the inevitable tradeoffs and achieve balance between the two? In short,
what will constitute the "good life" for you? We borrow the
concept of "composing a life," from a book by Mary Catherine
Bateson, as a very apt metaphor for the ongoing process of defining success
and balance in life. This course is designed: (1)To offer college students,
on the threshold of entering adulthood, an opportunity to examine and
define their beliefs, values, and assumptions about their future personal
and professional lives, and to consider how they might achieve a successful
balance; (2) To encourage students to gain a better understanding of how
culture, ideology, and opportunity affect their life choices; 3) To provide
an opportunity for students to consider different models of success and
balance through an emphasis on case studies and "living cases"
(in the form of guests from various professions who have made different
life choices); and (4) To aid students in contemplating their career options
through individual advising and introducing various career and life planning
resources. Through the use of selected readings, cases, guest speakers
and field interviews, we will explore both the public context of the workplace
as well as the private context of individuals and their personal relationships
in determining life choices. MICHELE MOELLER CHANDLER `73 and CHIP CHANDLER `72
(Instructors) Michele Moeller Chandler ('73) and Chip Chandler ('72)
have taught this Winter Study course for the past seven years. They have
been both personally and professionally engaged in the course topic. Michele's
career has been in college administration, and she has an M.A. from Columbia,
and a Ph.D. from Northwestern. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused upon the
career/family decisionmaking of professional women who altered their careers
because of family obligations. Chip is a senior partner with McKinsey
& Company, an international management consulting firm, and he has
an MBA from Harvard. WILLIAMS PROGRAM IN TEACHINGStudents interested in exploring one or more of the following courses related to teaching and/or working with children and adolescents should contact Susan Engel, Director of Education Programs, who will be able to help you choose one that best suits your educational goals. ANSO 011 Berkshire Farm Internship (See under Anthropology/Sociology for full description.) ANSO 012 Children and the Courts: Internship in the Crisis in Child Abuse CHEM 011 Science for Kids (Same as Special 011) (See under Chemistry for full description.) CHEM 012 Learning and Teaching Chemistry in Spanish (Same as Spanish 014) (See under Chemistry for full description.) PHYS 016 Teaching with Technology (See under Physics for full description.) (See under Psychology for full description.) SPEC 016 Preliminary Introduction to American Sign Language (Same as Women's and Gender 016) (See under Special for full description.) SPEC 027 Teaching and Writing at Theodore Roosevelt High School (See under Special for full description.) SPEC 028 Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan (See under Special for full description.) SPEC 029 Junior High School Teaching Practicum, the Bronx and Manhattan (See under Special for full description.) SPEC 036 Teaching Practicum: St. Aloysius School, Harlem (See under Special for full description.) WILLIAMS-MYSTIC PROGRAM IN AMERICAN MARITIME STUDIESAn interdisciplinary one-semester program co-sponsored by Williams College and Mystic Seaport which includes credit for one winter study. Classes in maritime history, literature of the sea, marine ecology, oceanography, and marine policy are supplemented by field seminars: offshore sailing, Pacific Coast and Nantucket Island. For details, see "Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program" or our website: www.williamsmystic.org. |