Scribner Seminar Program
2005-2006 Titles
Below is an alphabetical listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in 2005-2006. The
number to the left of the title is the section number of the course; during registration,
these numbers distinguish each seminar within the SSP 100 class listing.
Below you will find links to the descriptions for the seminars. Not all courses have descriptions.
- (021) Africa Through Its Changing Cinema
- (003) African Arts from the Old World to the New
- (026) American Taste
- (007) China and the West: The Myth of the Other
- (011) Cities of Dreadful Delight: The Latin American Urban Experience (& 036)
- (015) Coming of Age: Food, Drugs and Sex after the Biotech Revolution
- (046) Cycles of Marriage and Divorce
- (027) Dangerous Earth: Climatologic and Geologic Disasters
- (018) The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
- (002) Democracy Inaction
- (Lon) Detective Fictions, Dark Designs
- (043) Educating Citizens for the American Republic
- (012) Emerging Diseases
- (045) Environmental Problems. Economic Solutions?
- (030) The Ethics of Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising
- (031) Genes and Generation
- (017) The Good Life in Greek Literature and Philosophy
- (025) The Hudson River in American Life
- (013) The Human Body—From Science to Society
- (008) The Human Colonization of Space
- (xxx) Human Dilemmas
- (032) The Idea of Freedom
- (022) Ireland: Myth, Reality, Conflict, Identity
- (039) Italy, Fascism and Jews
- (019) Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher
- (038) The Mind's I
- (023) Minority Rights in a Majority Driven Democracy
- (044) The Music Between Us: The Culture of Musical Creation and Consumption
- (001) On the Stage and in Your Face: American Political and Activist Theater
- (029) The Painters' Canon: Landscape, Still Life, Figure
- (006) The Philosophic Basis of the American Founding
- (004) Psychological Theories of Social Justice
- (009) Robot Design
- (014) Saratoga: People & Place Past & Present
- (020) The Search for Pattern and Symmetry
- (041) Sexualities/Textualities
- (047) Reading & Seeing
- (037) The Virtual Republic: American Politics in the Media Age
- (005) War and Peace and Eugene Onegin in Literature and the Performing Arts