Scribner Seminar Program
Seminar Titles 2008-09

Below is an alphabetical listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in Fall 2008. 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. 

Please keep in mind that some Scribner Seminars may have a class time or 4th credit hour session in the late afternoon or early evening.  The link below will list those courses that may pose conflicts for you during those times.  Please be sure and discuss your choices with your summer advisor if you feel there may be a conflict with something else in your schedule.

List of Scribner Seminars which meet
later in the day or early evening.

* links will be activated when the course has been approved


(001)Africa in Stereotypes
Instructor: Sonia Silva
W/F 12:20p-1:40p & M 9:05a-10:00a 
(026) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Roy Rotheim
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(002)  American Liberty
Instructor: Beau Breslin
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(027) Human Origins
Instructor: Bernie Possidente
TU/TH 3:40p-5:00p & TH 5:00p-6:00p
(003)  American Memories
Instructor: Greg Pfitzer
M/W/F 9:05a-10:00a
(028) Human Origins
Instructor: Phyllis Roth
TU/TH 3:40p-5:00p & TH 5:00p-6:00p
(004) American Founding
Instructor: Timothy Burns
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(029) Images of Work
Instructor: Caroline D'Abate
TU/TH 9:10a-11:00a
(005)  The Broadway Musical
Instructor: Charles M. Joseph
TU/TH 9:10a-10:30a & M 9:05a-10:00a
(030) Imagine That!
Instructor: Mary Ann Foley
M/W 4:00p-5:50p
(006)  Can Machines Think?
Instructor: Tom O'Connell
M/W 4:00p-5:50p
(031) Industry & Innovation
Instructor: Tim Harper
M/W 4:00p-5:50p
(007) Children's Lit Revisited
Instructor: Catherine Golden
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(032) Italian Cinema
Instructor: Giuseppe Faustini
TU/TH 3:40p-5:00p & W 4:00p-6:30p
(008) China and the West
Instructor: Mao Chen
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p & W 5:10p-6:05p
(033)  Latin American Cities CANCELLED
Instructor: Jordana Dym
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p & M 5:00p-6:00p
(009) Cycles of Marriage
Instructor: Susan Walzer
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p & M 11:15a-12:10p
(034) Leather, Paper, Lead
Instructor: Kate Leavitt
W/F 10:10a-11:30a
(010)  Den of Antiquities
Instructor: Leslie Mechem
M/W 2:30p-3:50p & TH 7:00p-8:00p
(035) The Mind's I
Instructor: Linda Simon
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a & W 5:00p-6:00p
(011) Diversity: Why Care?
Instructor: Lenora de la Luna
TU/TH 3:40p-5:00p & TH 5:00p-6:00p
(036) Perception & Reality
Instructor: Hugh Foley
TU/TH 9:10a-11:00a
(012) Drug Discovery
Instructor: Raj Nagarajan
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(037) Radical Children's Writers
Instructor: Susan Lehr
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p & TU 5:00p-6:00p
(013) Earth System Evolution
Instructor: Richard Lindemann
W/F 8:40a-10:00a & M 9:05a-10:00a
(038) Rich, Free, and Miserable
Instructor: John Brueggeman
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(014) Educating Citizens
Instructor: Natalie Taylor
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(039) Ring of the Nibelungs
Instructor: Tom Denny
M/W 4:00p-5:50p & TH 6:00p-8:00p
(015)  European Integration
Instructor: Joerg Bibow
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p & TU 5:00p-6:00p
(040) River Goddesses of India
Instructor: Joel Smith
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p
(016) African Arts
Instructor: Lisa Aronson
W/F 12:20p-2:10p
(041) Social Justice
Instructor: Virginia Murphy-Berman
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p
(017) How Do Women Look?
Instructor: Katie Hauser
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a
(042) Shakespeare was Jewish?
Instructor: Lary Opitz
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p
(018) The Human Body
Instructor: Patricia Fehling
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p & M 12:20p-1:15p

(019) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Jennifer Delton
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(044) 20th Cent Apparel in US
Instructor: Betty Balevic
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p & M 11:15a-12:10p
(020) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Sarah Goodwin
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a & M 1:25p-2:20p
(045) The Virtual Republic
Instructor: Ronald Seyb
M/W/F 10:10a-11:05a
(021) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Pat Hilleren
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(046) Why We Eat What We Eat
Instructor: Una Bray
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p & W 5:30p-7:30p
(022) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Karen Kellogg
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(047) Without Bound?
Instructor: Rachel Roe-Dale
M/W/F 9:05-10:00 & M 1:25-2:20
(023) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Crystal Moore
W/F 10:10a-11:30a & M 1:25p-2:20p
(048) Word and Image
Instructor: Marc-André Wiesmann
W/F 10:10a-11:30a & M 11:15a-12:10a
(024) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Iona Park
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p & M 1:25p-2:20p
(049)  Writing America
Instructor: Linda Hall
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a & M 9:05a-10:00a
(025) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Lewis Rosengarten
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p & M 1:25p-2:20p
 

London

The Nature of Comedy
Kate Greenspan

Where are We?
Mark Hofmann