2005-2006 Titles
Below is an alphabetical listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in 2005-2006. Descriptions of the seminars are linked to the titles, and the number to the left is the section number of the course; during registration, these numbers distinguish each seminar within the SSP 100 class listing.
(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