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| activities. The Center promotes an intercultural
exchange of ideas and traditions among students, faculty, and staff that leads to a greater understanding of
ones citizenship in a global community.
Leadership Activities: The Leadership Activities
Office provides advising and training to students who
serve in various leadership capacities in the Student
Government Association (SGA) and in student clubs
and organizations. The staff coordinates a Friday and
Saturday late-night entertainment program and helps
students plan and implement major cocurricular activities, entertainment, class events, and theme weekends.
In addition, the office sponsors a number of leadership
skills-development programs for current and aspiring
leaders. Special attention is given to the overall quality
and diversity of the co-curricular life program and to
the development of program initiatives that promote
school spirit, healthy social interaction, and social
responsibility.
Multicultural Stude
| The financial aid application deadline is January 15
(prior to the academic year for which assistance is
requested) for prospective first-year students; the
financial aid application deadline is April 1 for current
students and prospective transfer students. Prospective
candidates receive consideration for financial assistance
if all required financial information is at the college at
the time funds for aid awards are allocated. Since funds
may not be sufficient to meet the needs of all admitted
students who demonstrate financial need, aid is offered
to as many well qualified applicants as possible, with
preference given to those students with demonstrated
financial need whom the Admissions Committee
determines to be the strongest applicants among those
admitted to Skidmore.
Students must reapply for aid each year, and the
amount of the award will reflect yearly changes in
Skidmore costs as well as in a familys financial circumstances. Returning students who have recei
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AM 233.
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE
AMERICAN PAST IN FILM
4
An examination of how Hollywood filmmakers have
represented the American past, with special attention
to the implications of movies for the construction of
American cultural identity. Students will analyze films
as historical documents that reflect (and sometimes
reproduce) the ethos or cultural politics of the period
in which they were made and first viewed. Through
the use of popular culture theories, students will consider the ways in which films inform (and sometimes
obfuscate and subvert) historical understanding.
(Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
D. Nathan
AM 234.
AMERICAN SPORTS/AMERICAN
CULTURE
3
A historical examination of 300 years of sport in
America as an important expression of culture, conflict, and meaning. Special attention is devoted to the
ways in which contemporary sports provide a window
into politics, economics, racial and ethnic relations,
class formation, and gender identity
| CH 303.
MODERN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
5
This course describes modern analytical chemistry
techniques for the separation, identification, and
quantitation of chemical entities with an emphasis on
instrumental methods. Sampling techniques and statistical treatment of data are also discussed.
Prerequisites: CH221. Three hours of lecture-discussion and four hours of lab a week.
D. Weis
CH 313.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
3
A study of the modern theories of atomic structure
and chemical bonding as they pertain to inorganic
systems. Topics include symmetry and group theory,
bonding in ionic, covalent, and metallic substances,
acid-base concepts, and coordination chemistry.
Prerequisites: CH330 or 332 or permission of the
instructor.
S. Frey
CH 314.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY WITH LAB
5
A study of the modern theories of atomic structure
and chemical bonding as they pertain to inorganic
systems. Topics include symmetry and group theory,
bonding in ionic, covalent, and metallic substa
| Exercise Science
Chair of the Department of Exercise Science:
Denise Smith
Professors: P. Timothy Brown, Jeffrey
Segrave, Denise Smith
Associate Professors: Patricia Fehling, Paul
Arciero
Teaching Associates: Jennifer Plourde, Ron
Plourde, Christine Jenkins, Michael Garcia
Laboratory Instructor: Karen Arciero
THE MAJOR IN EXERCISE SCIENCE:
Exercise science comprises the study and
expansion of knowledge concerning the relationship between physical activity and human
health. Course work and research emphasize
an understanding of the effects of acute and
chronic exercise on human function and
health, and the physiological and biochemical
mechanisms that underlie the response and
adaptations to exercise. Underlying the curriculum is a commitment to physical fitness,
health promotion, and disease prevention.
The bachelor of science degree in exercise
science is designed to prepare students for
graduate study and careers in exercise science and allied health fields. The
| HI 329.
THE AMERICAN CENTURY
3
A seminar that examines the intersection of domestic
politics and foreign relations since 1945. Time-Life
Corporations Henry Luce coined the term American
Century in 1941 to describe what he hoped would be
Americas new global dominance. But what did he
really mean? Was it an expression of American idealism or a refutation of it? Were there alternative
visions of American world leadership? How did
domestic concerns both further and constrain
American power? How did events like the Vietnam
War, the Civil Rights Movement, and September 11
changed our understanding of American Power in the
world?
J. Delton
HI 330.
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN
LATIN AMERICA
3
A consideration of the important aspects of Latin
American politics, economy, society, and culture in
historical context, focusing on a specific geographical
region. From the encounters of Indian, African, and
Spaniard in the fifteenth century through the turning
over of the Panama Ca
| Mathematics
Chair of the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science: Pierre von Kaenel
Professors: *Robert DeSieno, Mark Hofmann,
R. Daniel Hurwitz, Mark E. Huibregtse, Alice
M. Dean, Gove W. Effinger, Pierre von Kaenel
Associate Professors: Una Bray, David C.
Vella
Assistant Professor: Thomas OConnell
THE MATHEMATICS MAJOR: Students majoring in mathematics fulfill the departmental
requirements by completing eight courses in
mathematics or computer science at the 200
level or above, to include MA200, 202, MA215
or MC215, MA303, 319, 376, and two additional courses, at least one of which is at the 300
level. Under exceptional circumstances, and
only with the consent of the department,
MA371, 372, 381, or 382 may be counted as
the additional 300-level course. CS318 may
not be counted toward the major. Courses
counting toward the major may not be taken
satisfactory/unsatisfactory.
HONORS: Students wishing to qualify for
departmental honors in the mathematics majo
| Detective Fictions, Dark Designs (London)
An introduction to the interdisciplinary study of crime
fiction. Students will examine crime fictions history
and evolution, particularly with regard to the genres
status as popular literature. Simultaneously, we will
study its sociological dimension, which makes of
detective fiction the morally ambiguous site for the
representation of criminals and of behavioral taboos.
Finally, we will experience its cross-cultural dimension, with London and Los Angeles serving as geographical counterpoints for comparing British and
American examples of the genre. Beginning with the
invention of the armchair detective in several tales by
Edgar Allen Poe, we will study sleuths and gumshoes
in writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine
Tey, Dorothy Sayers, Raymond Chandler, and
Michael Connelly; and in films such as Chinatown,
L.A. Confidential, and The Usual Suspects.
J. Anzalone, Foreign Languages and Literatures,
and R. Copans, College L
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ROY H. GINSBERG
Professor of Government
B.A., Bradley University;
M.A., Ph.D., George Washington University
BENJAMIN M. GIVAN
Assistant Professor of Music
B.A., Brown University;
M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
MARIE GLOTZBACH
Lecturer in Theater
CATHERINE GOLDEN
Professor of English
A.B., Brown University;
Ed.D., Harvard University;
Ph.D., University of Michigan
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ
Associate Professor of Philosophy;
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
B.A., Northern Illinois University;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto
SARAH WEBSTER GOODWIN
Professor of English;
Associate Dean of the Faculty
A.B., Harvard University;
M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
KATHERINE E. GRANEY
Associate Professor of Government
B.A., College of the Holy Cross;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
CHARLENE GRANT
Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures
B.A., M.A., University of Minnesota;
M.B.A., Eastern Washington University
JANE S. GRAVES
Associate
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