Independent College Programs at Haverford College
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H135A011.0Introduction to Feminist Theory

NEW COURSE.This course introduces students to key texts and debates in feminist, queer, and transgender theory. We will consider the various theoretical backdrops-Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism-of feminist politics and thought, and focus on rifts that emerged along lines of class, color, and sexual and gender identity in the last decades of the 20th Century.
E.Bianchi
MW 12:30-2:00

HU III
Link 309
 
 
H224A011.0Seeing Class: An Exploration of Class in America and of Documentary Film Making
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
E.Lapsansky/L.Massiah
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU
OMA Center
 
 
H230A011.0Beauty, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Philosophy
Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Philosophy

NEW COURSE.This course will examine contemporary attempts to revitalize and reaffirm art's relation to beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and seduction. Readings will be drawn from the works of Plato, Longinus, Edmund Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, as well as the contemporary champions of beauty: Gilbert-Rolfe, Hickey, Scarry, Schjeldahl, and Steiner.
J.Muse
TTh 2:30-4:00

HU III
Stokes 102
 
 
H236A011.0Art, Politics, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe

NEW COURSE.This course explores European art in the context of political, social, and cultural developments in the period from the late eighteenth century to the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism are the artistic movements of this period. Artists discussed will include David, Goya, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, and Gericault among others. Course will include at least one visit to the Phila Museum of Art.
C.Solomon
MW 2:30-4:00

HU III
Hall 106
 
 
H244A011.0Quaker Social Witness
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
K.Edwards
TTh 10:00-11:30

SO
Shrp 412
 
 
H270A011.0Social Justice and the Courts
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
J.Keene
TTh 2:30-4:00

SO
Hall 112
 
 
H277A011.0Aristotle and Arthur Andersen: Ethical Behavior in the Professional and Corporate World
Sophomore standing or higher.
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
N.Grabell
M 1:30-4:00

SO I
Stokes 301
 
 
H290A011.0Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender
G.Stadler/S.Ullman
M 1:30-4:00

HU III
Wdsd
 
 
H301A011.0Human Rights: Development and International Activism
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
L.Dwyer
M 7:30-10:00pm

SO I
CPGC Cafe
 
 
H301A021.0Human Rights: Development and International Activism
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
L.Dwyer
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

SO I
Stokes 301
 
 
H302A011.0Bodies of Injustice:Health, Illness and Healing in Contexts of Inequality
Lottery priority to students returning from CPGC-sponsored internships.
Fulfills Social Justice
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
K.Edwards
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

SO I
CPGC Cafe
 
 
H365A011.0The Spirit and the Psyche: Spiritualism, Symbolism, Surrealism

Course can fulfill a requirement in the HART major at BM.
NEW COURSE.This course explores the relationship between visual art, the supernatural, & the psychological during three distinct cultural moments: Spiritualism in Engliand in the 1850's & 60's, Symbolism and the occult in France in the 1890's, and Surrealism in France in the 1920's & 30's. We will read a variety of period writings such as psychological treatises, artists' and writers' memoirs, and Surrealist manifestos.
R.Oberter
TTh 1:00-2:30

HU III
Stokes 102
 
 
H480A011.0Independent Study
K.Edwards
HTBA

SO I
 
 
 
H480A021.0Independent Study
G.Kannerstein
HTBA

SO
TBA