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12. Native Americans and Their Environments. The course will ... investigate the interrelationships of Native American ethnic groups with ... their various environments. How do people of ... these cultures think about their environments? Are patterns of ... environmentally determined? How does the physical environment affect a groups ... social system, politics, art, religion? What impact do these cultural factors have ... on a groups utilization of its environment? We will examine these ... and readings, including autobiographies of Native Americans.We will consider ... several regions of North America in our cross-cultural ... study of such groups as the Inuit, Kwakiutl, Cahuilla, Hopi, Navajo ... Nepal program, see Anthropology 112.) Offered annually. Staff. 21.The World Since ...

42eBK. Girl-Worlds: Female Coming of Age Literature.Through fiction, ... , film, popular culture and feminist theory this course examines representations of ... young women of diverse color/class/sexual identities ... in coming of age narratives of a post-WWII United States context. In ... exploring the intersections of ethnicity/race, class, sexuality, ... , and intellectual/creative agency in the narratives we examine how the author/ ... revise and resist prescriptive notions of female coming of age. L. Harris. 117BK ... . Novel and Cinema in Africa and the West Indies. Examination of works by ... from French-speaking countries of Africa (Senegal, Cameroon, and Van ... Burkina Faso) and the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, and ... emphasis will be placed on questions of identity, the impact of colonialism, ...

FRENCH STUDIES 172. Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic. A study of the ... poetic theories and practices of Baudelaire and the principal symbolist ... poets.This course will examine the origins, goals, realizations, and ... paradoxes of the symbolist movement as it distinguishes ... them from realist traditions and modernist ... , Mallarme,Verlaine, Rimbaud, and the minor symbolists will frame the ... movements central themes and illuminate the function of language in art and thought ... Exotisme. A search for a new definition of the poetic function, the expression of ... the quest for the reality of Self through the experience of the ... Other characterizes the renewal of the traditional theme of the journey as ...

102 SCRIPPS COLLEGE THE HUMANITIES The course begins with the 18th-century ... basic to a modern understanding of knowledge and the self. However, ... been excluded from modern conceptions of what it is to be a human subject. ... Throughout the course we will examine the ways in which women, minorities, and ... people outside the West have all questioned the sense of ... that many ideas derived from the Enlightenment hold. If we are far less ... than we once were and far more aware of the ways particular certainties have ... been used as instruments of power, it is due in large part to this ... tradition of critique.The second part of the course will look at some key ... components of the contemporary challenges to ...

103 THE HUMANITIES SCRIPPS COLLEGE The Nature of Evil. How does an individual ... come to commit evil acts from the everyday cruelty of racism, sexism, and ... homophobia to the almost unimaginable evil of genocide? ... This course will examine the nature of evil from the perspective of psychology ... , and Lifton. R. Burwick, J. LeMaster. What is Postmodernism? This course picks up ... where Core I leaves off by examining in more depth the ... postmodern challenge to the Enlightenment project. Postmodern ... theorists, writers, and artists have argued that ... categories, concepts, and principles are no longer adequate to make sense of the ... changing structure of our contemporary world.We will examine ... key modernist concepts (such as the self, truth, knowledge, history, or art ...

arenas as diverse as government and commercial ... to represent ourselves as a nation of family farmers.What benefits do we gain ... from that image of ourselves? And what are the costs of trying to maintain that ... self-image in the face of a rapidly changing society and economy ... be a collaborative attempt to answer these questions using the modes of inquiry ... . Particular focus will be placed on the very different patterns of agriculture ... . K. Odell. Self and Society in the Renaissance. It is a commonplace of ... 1300 and 1600, first in Italy and then throughout the rest of the continent, ... celebrated the rediscovery of antiquity which was itself part of that ... cultures reevaluation of selfhood.Although Renaissance humanists ...

RELIGIOUS STUDIES 147. Perspectives on the American Dream: Philosophical, Literary ... , Religious, Political. An examination of American society in light of the ... proposition that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by ... their Creator with certain inalienable Rights ... , that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ... Happiness. The interdisciplinary approach of the ... , Morison, and other interpreters of the American Dream. J. Roth. 151. Spirit ... Matters: In Search of a Personal Ecology. An exploration of ... religious and scientific ways of knowing. How do they diverge and/or ... converge? How do their characteristic assumptions, metaphors, ... traditional religious concepts of money, work, and consumption.With a ...