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Fall 2008 Course Offerings
Courses Offered -
Fall 2008
Curriculum
| Senior
Honors Projects
| Course
Archive
Honors College English Composition
| Comp
103, Section 01 |
Instructor: Levy |
M&Th 4 |
Index:
15841 |
CON-448 |
| Comp
103, Section 02 |
Instructor: Bowman |
T&Th 3 |
Index:
15501 |
ENG-215 |
| Comp
103, Section 03 |
Instructor: Benson |
M&W 2 |
Index:
15503 |
HIL-209 |
Freshman
Colloquia (Click
HERE for special note on
colloquia)
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Science and Religion |
Morrison |
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21:525:100:01, Index:
06639;
M&W (10:00-11:20AM) |
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Location:
HIL-217 |
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In this course we will
read and discuss published accounts by people who
have committed crimes in which they discuss the
criminal acts they have committed and the
circumstances and motivations associated with their
crimes. We will use these accounts to introduce,
discuss, and criticize basic concepts in the field
of criminal justice. |
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Organized Crime |
Finckenauer |
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21:525:100:02, Index:
07140; M (2:30-3:50PM) & W (1:00-2:20PM) |
Criminal Justice |
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Location: CON-452 |
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This course will be taught as a
seminar, with the expectation both that students
will attend and that they will be prepared from the
readings to discuss the topic of the day. These
topics range across the full spectrum of issues
concerning organized crime. They include just what
is organized crime; what explains its existence and
continuation; the many faces of organized crime
(street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, prison
gangs, mafias, etc.); transnational organized crime;
illicit businesses such as human trafficking; the
role of popular culture in portraying the mafia and
organized crime; and methods and policies for
combating the problem. |
Literature Courses
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Modern Drama |
Miller |
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21:350:345, Index
14369; T&Th (11:30-12:50PM) |
English |
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Location: HIL-104 |
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Dramatic literature
beginning with the advent of realism in the Dramatic
literature beginning with the advent of realism in
the 1860s; European, English, Irish, and American
plays studied, with attention to major movements and
the philosophical and artistic forces which produced
them. Authors covered: Ibsen, Chekhov,
Strindberg, Wilde, Shaw, and O'Neill. |
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The English Novel |
Lynch |
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21:350:349, Index
14458; W&F (11:30-12:50PM) |
English |
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Location: HIL-104 |
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Beginnings and
development through the 19th century. Authors
covered: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne,
Godwin, and Lewis. |
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The Novel in America |
Bartkowski |
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21:352:364, Index
14381; T&Th (10:00-11:20 AM) |
English |
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Location: CON-319 |
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Novels of the 20th and
21st centuries. A diverse range of American
novels by both canonical and noncanonical writers;
emphasis on the social and historical contexts of
fictional conventions. |
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Spanish Literature in English Translation |
Diaz |
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21:940:311, Index
14237; M,W4:00-5:20PM |
Classical & Modern Languages |
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Location: CON-454 |
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A chronological survey
of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the
Conquest to the 20th century, with emphasis on
literary traditions and cultures. |
History Courses
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History of
Imperialism: Cities of Empire |
Freundschuh
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21:510:333, Index
14061; T&Th (4:00-5:20 PM) |
History |
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Location: CON-348 |
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Description: TBA |
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20th Century Europe |
Giloi |
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21:510:358, Index
14063; T&TH (2:30-3:50 PM) |
History |
Location: CON-348
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Europe since 1914.
Topics include origins, nature, and consequences of
World War I, Russian Revolution; interwar culture
and society; the Great depression; Fascism and
Nazis; the Spanish Civil War; the origins, nature,
and consequences of World War II; the Holocaust; the
Marshall Plan and the Cold War; origins and
development of European Union; East European
communism; West European welfare states and
consumerism; women's movements; postwar culture and
leisure; youth movements of the 1960s; fall of
communism. |
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American Affairs I |
Carruthers
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21:512:397, Index
14068; M&Th (1:00-2:20 PM) |
History |
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Location: CON-402 |
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Analysis of American
foreign policy from the colonial period to the
present; emphasis on power politics, geopolitics,
world trade, public opinion, and the interrelation
between domestic and foreign affairs. |
Topic
Seminars (Open to HC Students with Junior Standing)
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African-American
Women's History |
Feldstein |
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21:525:252, Index
14156; T (2:30-5:20 PM) |
History |
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Location: SMT-103 |
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This interdisciplinary Honors College
seminar will explore the history of women of African
descent in the U.S. from slavery to the present.
Topics include slavery, family life and slave
resistance; work, leisure, and religion after the
Civil War; labor activism; women in the Harlem
Renaissance; women and the civil rights movement;
and sexuality, race and feminism. Throughout, we
will focus on how African American women have been
represented—both by others and by
themselves—in fiction, history, film, music, and
more. Required texts may include: Harriet Jacobs,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Mamie
Garvin Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A
Carolina Memoir, Nella Larsen, Passing;
Anne Moody, Coming of Age
in Mississippi. |
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Newark and Urban
America |
Diner and Ruffin |
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21:525:254, Index
07141; M (6:00-8:40 PM) |
Law and Justice |
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Location: Provost
Conference Room |
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This seminar will examine issues
confronting Newark in the general context of urban
America. We will look briefly at Newark’s history,
its economic, social and cultural role in New Jersey
and the nation, and examine in detail the years of
decline and revitalization from 1970 to the present.
Topics will include: Demographic change and the
civil disturbances of 1967; Economic development &
downtown revitalization; Housing; Crime & Public
Safety; Health; K-12 Education; Community
Development & Nonprofit organizations; City
Government & Public Policy; Immigration & Other
Recent Demographic Trends; Higher Education & the
Arts; Newark’s Image: Perceptions & Realities; and
Newark in Global Context. Guest speakers active in
Newark today will join most class sessions. Students
will be expected to write a research paper on some
aspect of contemporary Newark and to present their
findings to the class. Students will also be
expected to participate actively in class
discussions of assigned readings and with guest
speakers, and to synthesize major themes in a
take-home final exam. |
Capstone Course
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Democracy,
Inequality, and Empowerment |
Swarts |
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21:525:497:02, Index
06640; T&TH (11:30-12:50 PM) |
Political Science |
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Location: CON-319 |
We believe as an
article of faith that we live in a democracy. But
what does that really mean? Most of us believe that
in a democracy, citizens should enjoy political
equality; but does that have any relationship to
economic equality, or not? What does it mean
and how does it feel to be vitally involved in
democracy? How does politics relate to policy?
This capstone senior seminar will address these
questions through both theory and practice. Class
members will explore the most influential ideas
about democracy and politics-at the same time as
they get their hands dirty in one of the most
important national election campaigns in recent
memory. Students will participate in the campaign of
their choosing and reflect on what they experience
in the light of theory and values. We will study
public policy issues in the context of the growing
inequality among American citizens. Diverse
political views are honored. |
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*All students starting
senior projects in Fall 2008 are required to contact
Dr. Gunkel before moving forward with registration.
He can be reached via email at
jgunkel@newark.rutgers.edu.
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