Interdisciplinary

This course is required of all students majoring and minoring in American Studies. The course is also open to all students who wish a general survey of American intellectual history. The purpose of the course is to develop an integrated understanding of our American historical, literary, and political experience from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The readings are extensive in both primary and secondary works.

This course is designed to combine classroom presentations, when appropriate, with a study tour to a foreign country or countries where a firsthand experience of the people and their culture will be studied.

Intended for Students & RA's. Offered Fall Interim

This seminar examines the historical, literary, philosophical, theological and scientific perspectives that animate liberal education from its inception in classical Greece to its modern American manifestations. As such the course integrates a variety of disciplines while exploring selected texts, practices and institutions associated with liberal education. The readings are extensive, and lectures and discussions take up historically important primary works as well as scholarly studies of the subject. The purpose of the course is to develop an integrative understanding of liberal education, its seminal texts and modes of thinking (both about specific disciplines and itself), and to explore the possibilities for perpetuating the liberal arts in contemporary education.

A comparative literature course which will examine complete versions of French and German masterpieces in English translation. This course will NOT satisfy the French or German major/minor requirements.

Students seeking an interdisciplinary field of concentration (see page 201) shall prepare a senior thesis in their final year under the direction of a qualified advisor. Creative options are available in some fields of concentration.

This course provides working experience with a business firm in a foreign country for the student majoring in international studies in business and foreign language. Prerequisites include completion or near completion of the field of concentration and the permission of the Department of Economics and Business Administration and the Department of French, German or Spanish. Students who take this course do not have to take IDS 575, Senior Thesis. If a suitable internship cannot be arranged in a foreign country, an internship with a company in this country may be substituted, provided the student is placed in work dealing with international business. Such decisions will be made jointly by the chairman of the Economics and Business Administration Department and the chairman of the French, German or Spanish Department in consultation with the student and considering the student's particular abilities and preparation.

An honors seminar requiring extensive reading and the preparation of extended papers in an area of interest that spans one or more of the humanities.

An independent study course designed for work in a special area or on a project or problem requiring an interdisciplinary approach. Application should be made to the deans of the divisions in which the study is to be made.