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Interdisciplinary and Non-
Departmental Courses
The following courses which do not fit the disciplinary focus of a single
department are available on a regular basis. The purpose of these
interdisciplinary, non-departmental courses is to enable students to
participate in the sharing of ideas which extend beyond the limits of a
single academic department and which emphasize the interdependence of
all academic disciplines.
In addition to the courses that follow, the College offers other
interdisciplinary courses, which are of a more experimental nature and
tend to be proposed and offered for one term only. This is especially true
of interdisciplinary courses designed for January Term. A list of these can
be found in the schedule of courses available at registration for each term.
Interdisciplinary Courses
310 Contemporary Issues Seminar (3 credits) The Contemporary
Issues Seminar, taken in the junior or senior year, is an opportunity for
students who are developing as liberally educated people and maturing in
an area of study to integrate what they have learned so far with one
another across academic divisions in the analysis, discussion and research
of issues or problems of common concern.
320 College Honors Seminar (3 credits) The seminar,
interdisciplinary in focus, provides honors students with the opportunity
to examine “an issue of significance” by interacting with faculty in a
setting that transcends the boundaries of a particular academic discipline
and encourages the nurturing of holistic patterns of thinking.
Non-Departmental Courses
166 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (3 credits) This
course introduces students to feminist scholarship and acquaints them
with the intellectual, ethical, social, political, historical and cultural forces
constructing gender. The class is interdisciplinary and grounded in
feminist pedagogy.
360 Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies (3 credits) This
seminar explores a broad range of classical and contemporary feminist
theory and contrasts it with existing, normative theoretical paradigms. A
feminist framework is used to focus on a specific academic field, i.e.,
history, literature, labor, science. Emphasis is placed on cultivating selfdevelopment
through student participation in pedagogical
experimentation, project creation and reading choices. Prerequisite: two
of the courses listed above or permission of the instructor.
410 Senior Seminar in Environmental Assessment (3 credits) A
number of studies in the 1960s suggested that the exploitation of natural
resources for the purpose of economic development and meeting the
demands of growing populations was having additional second and third
order effects that were detrimental to global ecological systems. In the
1970s many of the nations of the developed world attempted to regulate
the rate of development and protect the environment. During the past two
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