Interdisciplinary Courses Faculty Chair: Sharon Shafer, Professor of Music Description Interdisciplinary courses are designed to provide students with the opportunity to link disciplines within the liberal arts as they engage in the in-depth investigation and analysis of special topics. These courses are organized by the following structure: Interdisciplinary (INT) courses represent interdisciplinarity across divisional areas. Such courses challenge the student to engage in an in-depth analysis of seemingly diverse and separate disciplines such as art and science. Courses offered under the INT designation are often second-level courses for the Foundation for Leadership Curriculum and are offered in a seminar format. Listings follow and are also noted in various program sections. Humanities (HUM) courses are offered by the Division of Arts and Humanities. These courses include disciplines such as art, English, language and cultural studies, history, international studies, music, philosophy, theology, and women's studies. Natural Science and Math (NSM) courses are supported by the Division of Natural Science and Math. These courses are a combination of any of the following: biology, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics, and physics. Social Science (SSC) courses are offered by the Division of Social Science. These courses are a combination of the following disciplines: communication, economics, international studies, political science, public affairs, psychology, sociology, and women's studies, as well as business and education. Course Descriptions Interdisciplinary (INT) INT 100 Academic Success Seminar 2 cr Increases students success in college by assisting them in developing thinking about the academic and personal issues related to becoming a successful person. Topics include goal setting, learning styles, study skills, test taking, life management, health and wellness and other issues that college students face. INT 101 Strategies for Excelling in the Liberal Arts 2 cr Explores and improves the development and effective use of student's intellectual capacity. It conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication. It involves students taking knowledge apart, examining it, and putting it back together as their own knowledge. It emphasizes students figuring things out on their own, not simply memorizing facts from a book or believing something they see or hear from so called credible sources. INT 114 Introductory Seminar 3 cr Provides first-year students an opportunity to develop strategies to achieve academic success in college. Students complete assignments and activities that highlight issues that are critical to learning and prepare them to become competent learners. As part of this process, students explore the available resources at Trinity College that are designed to support them in their academic efforts and help them meet their professional goals. INT 115 First-Year Seminar 3 cr Offers students the opportunity to confront both old and new ideas and issues in a variety of formats and to analyze their meaning and impact on a student's life. Required of all first-year students. FLC, Seminar I INT 201 Instruciton in Effective Peer Tutoring 3 cr Introduces students to tutoring techniques, learning methodologies, and study strategies. It provides students with an opportunity to tutor their peers for five to ten hours per week while earning reasonable pay. INT 202 Social Inequality and Social Action 3 cr Approaches economic inequality from sociological and theoretical perspectives. A unique feature of this course is an experiential component that will integrate theoretical perspectives into grass roots social action. INT 300 TELL Seminar 3 cr Encourages students to reflect on life experiences that have expanded their knowledge, skills, and awareness. Students will identify, analyze, and develop writing skills to document experiences that equate to college-level learning and produce a portfolio that demonstrates personal experiences, learning outcomes, and application of their knowledge. INT 303 Understanding Immigrant Culture 3 cr Examines the realities and representation of the immigrant experience in recent American history. The course features analysis of literary voices and cultural actions. INT 340 Understanding AIDS: Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 cr Provides students with a multi-dimensional approach to understanding AIDS. The course examines AIDS as a social construct utilizing Writing Across the Curriculum and cooperative learning techniques to build an interdisciplinary knowledge of AIDS. FLC, Seminar II INT 342 Women and Work: An Economic and Theological Perspective 3 cr Examines the literature on economics and theology on topics crucial to women at work, including employment status, pay equity, childcare, job trends, work ethic, welfare, and international working conditions. INT 405 Model Assembly of Organization of American States 6 cr Prepares students for participation in the Organization of American States Model Assembly, a simulation of the proceedings and deliberations of the actual General Assembly addressing the most pointed issues affecting this hemisphere, and debating them according to diplomatic rules of procedure. Students will interact with other delegations while learning how to network with and provide information to key groups and individuals, as well as to appropriately use negotiation, persuasion, and authority in dealing with others to achieve common goals for the 34 American nations. Course may be repeated for credit since the country assigned to the College changes each year and research topics also vary. Part of the credit from the course may be applied to the individual student's major, subject to approval from the academic program involved. (Also considered as Senior Seminar for language and cultural studies majors choosing Latin American studies as their area of preference.) In English. Prerequisites: SPA 372, 373A or 373B FLC, Area II and III, Level 2; Seminar II INT 407 Human Rights in the Americas – Special Topic for Spring 2001: Women and Children Rights 3 cr Focuses on domestic violence and its relationship to social violence, seeking to raise awareness and calling for leadership within families and communities as they constitute the cradle of respect for the rights of children and women and where the protection of those rights are born. Offers a basic multidisciplinary perspective from educators, economists, international organizations, legislators and policy-makers, as well as from popular writers of fiction. A program of guest speakers will be an integral part of the course. INT 412 Executive Women in Government 3 cr Examines social change strategies and the impact of women's organizations in bringing about societal change in an in-depth, independent study seminar. By analyzing archival documents of the Executive Women in Government, students will construct a case study of how one organization uses their knowledge of the public policy process and intervention strategies to break the "glass ceiling." Prerequisite: Junior standing INT 415 Seminar on Death and Dying 3 cr Explores the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural meaning and experience of death, including its religious and moral interpretation, as well as the technological and social dimensions of the experience. Students take a central role in conducting the seminar. FLC, Area II and Area IV, Level 2; Seminar II Core, IV INT 420 Philosophy and Public Policy 3 cr Surveys topics at the intersection of ethics and economics, focusing on the impact of economic and social factors on the formation of policy. Students take a central role in conducting the seminar. FLC, Seminar II INT 488 Internship 3 cr Humanities (HUM) HUM 200 Caribbean Texts 3 cr Studies the film, literature, and cultural traditions of the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on works from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as treatments of the immigrant experience. HUM 202E Portable Identities: Multicultural Literature 3 cr Explores the experience of cultural contact encountered by the diverse groups of people who have become part of the United States. The course will examine the ways that identity may be shaped by cultural history, family and tradition, gender, and values. HUM 205 Introduction to Classic Asian Indian Literature 3 cr Examines myth and narrative in the classical literature of the Asian Indian subcontinent. FLC, Area II, Level 1 HUM 300 Women in Love: Novel in Europe and the Americas 3 cr Analyzes the social construction of gender and gender roles in the contexts of marriage and heterosexual and lesbian relationships as explored in the 19th and 20th century novels drawn from canonical and non-canonical literature and film produced in Europe and the Americas. Representative readings may include such works as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Bombal's The Shrouded Woman, Minot's Evening, and Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate. FLC, Area II and III, Level 2; Seminar II HUM 303 Twentieth Century Music 3 cr Presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of classical music styles using the context of cultural, social, artistic and political changes. It explores revolution in music and other disciplines at the beginning of the century, continuing with the challenges to tradition and convention, and examines current trends that include a return to romanticism. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II Core, V HUM 304 The American Musical on Film: Song and Narrative 3 cr Examines the filmed versions of selected American musicals, paying particular attention to the interaction between story and song. Explores the transition from stage to screen during the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood musicals. Films to be studied include Grease, West Side Story, and The Wiz. FLC, Area III, Level 2 Core, V HUM 310 Freud's Influence: Conflict and Culture 3 cr Examines the dynamics of reputation by analyzing the ways in which Sigmund Freud's influence has risen and fallen. This course will focus on Freud's biography and introduce the key concepts of psychoanalytic theory, applying these concepts to the functioning of society and culture before examining Freud's contested legacies. Students take a central role in conducting the seminar. HUM 320 17th Century Theater in France and Spain 3 cr Compares the work of the major dramatists of the 17th century in France and Spain, using common themes such as the Don Juan figure. Works may be read in original languages or in English translation. Classroom instruction and discussion will be in English. A fourth credit is available to French and Spanish majors, who should consult the appropriate instructor. In English. Prerequisites: FRE 204, SPA 275 (if for major credit) FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II Core, V HUM 325 The Eternal City: Art and Music in Rome Through the Centuries 3 cr Explores the cultural evolution that Rome has experienced in its long history as reflected in the development of musical and artistic styles. Students focus on the works of visual and musical art created in this magnificent city from the days of the early Roman emperors to modern times. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II Core, V HUM 330 Cultural History and Literature: Ancient Near East and Greece 3 cr Introduces the student to the cultural life and history of the ancient Mediterranean, with a specific focus on ancient Greece. The period of study ranges from the seventh to the fourth century B.C. and will explore Greek drama, Homer's Iliad, Herodotus' account of the Greek and Persian wars, and works of modern scholarship regarding women during this ancient period. FLC, Area II and III, Level 2; Seminar II; Core, IV HUM 331 Cultural History and Literature: Rome and Early Christianity 3 cr Explores the cultural life and history of the ancient Mediterranean, with a specific focus on ancient Rome. The period of study ranges from the seventh century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. and will span the Roman Republic, the period during which Rome was founded and grew, through the Roman Empire, when Rome perfected the methods of vast governmental administration and cultural domination and eventually collapsed under its own affluence. HUM 350 Medieval Moment: Age of Cathedrals 3 cr Explores the period in which medieval culture reached its highest developmentthe 12th and 13th centuriesthrough an examination of texts drawn from a wide variety of disciplinary fields, including philosophy, literature, history, art, and theology. Topics include life in a medieval university, the scholastic mentality, the mystical vision, the iconography of Gothic sculpture and stained glass, relics and pilgrimage, the economics of cathedral-building, light metaphysics, developments in architectural technique, and the high medieval view of the natural world. FLC, Seminar II HUM 360 Philosophy and Literature 3 cr Examines the connection between emotion and belief and between belief and action as it is expressed in the literary form of the narrative. This exploration is intended to provide insight into a conception of human rationality not separable from human emotion but enhanced by giving intellectual priority to the perception of particular people and situations. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II; Core, IV HUM 381 Victorian Studies 3 cr Discusses the art, literature, history, politics, and society of Victorian England within the context of their own time, as well as their effect on future generations. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II    HUM 402 The Fantastic in Literature 3 cr Analyzes and compares the characteristics of fantastic literature in French, American, and Latin American authors. Themes include transformation of time and space, the emerging of the double and the invasion of the self. Readings include Todorov's theories, Freud's and Rank's psychoanalytical essays, and the works of writers such as Poe, Maupassant, Nerval, Borges, and García Márquez. Lectures, class discussions and films. In English. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II Core, I-L HUM 403 Women in Border Cultures 3 cr Deals with major aspects of the border cultures and how women are particularly affected when living in one. Through literature, cultural anthropology, ethnography, religion, the arts, community studies, and (im)migration studies, this course attempts to question different aspects of cultural politics, including the legacies of European imperialism. One of the practical goals of the course is to be able to communicate more effectively, and conceptually, the course allows us to make comparisons and gain cultural insight. FLC, Area II, Level 2; Seminar II Core, I-E HUM 410 Seminar: Cultural Identity 3 cr Examines the relationship between textsincluding literature, film, painting, song and danceand the ways in which human values are rooted in our emotions, allegiances and conjectures about the world. A varied range of narratives from different cultures and different times will be considered. In English. FLC, Seminar II HUM 431 Don Quixote Seminar 3 cr Fosters appreciation of a masterpiece widely regarded as pivotal in the development of Western narrative. While reading the text which investigates both the specific and the historical reality of its own time, and the constraints inherent in the human condition, students will consider the nature and role of art and of critical analysis. Considered as Senior Seminar for language and cultural studies majors choosing Hispanic Literature as their area study. In English. FLC, Area III, Level 2; Seminar II Core, I-E HUM 450 Seminar in Ethics 3 cr Examines current readings in ethical theory and applications. Students take a central role in conducting the seminar and each will undertake and present an independent research project. FLC, Seminar II HUM 455 Seminar in Existentialism 3 cr Investigates the historical and contemporary significance of the tensions characterizing human existence in the 20th century. The readings include French, Spanish, and other continental philosophers. Students take a central role in conducting the seminar and each will undertake and present an independent research project. FLC, Seminar II